Commentary

Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung: Kennedy Stewart’s urgent homelessness motion had nothing to do with relief for the Strathcona encampment. Here’s why.

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. This week, Jody Vance and Sarah Kirby-Yung unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

Dene Moore: The milk is spilled; we’re having an unscheduled election. The pandemic and decline of local media will force parties to find new ways to engage with voters – especially young ones.

Looks like we may be heading for a second COVID-19 wave. If that’s the case, we should keep calm and grocery shop in this new normal.

Karen Ogen-Toews: The Road to Reconciliation begins when Indigenous people can stand on their own two feet financially, and when their quality of life increases.

Jody Vance: Of course Elections BC will make voting as safe as possible. But that doesn’t make forcing a by-definition unnecessary election healthy.

Warren Kinsella: The former prime minister steadfastly believed the people are always right - even if and when they disagreed with him.

There's a real economic and reputational opportunity for the taking.

In search of stability - or because someone amended a bill - or because the pull of the polls was like a supermassive black hole - we're really doing a pandemic election.

BC's tourism and travel sectors are bearing the full brunt of pandemic economic fallout. Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock look at the numbers - and some ideas to alleviate the pain.