Commentary

Next year, everything will feel more expensive as tax hikes will take a bigger chunk out of your paycheque. Both the Trudeau and Eby governments plan to hike taxes in 2023.

Get ready for a spending spree by the B.C. government. Premier David Eby says it’s his intention to spend the almost $6 billion surplus his government is currently sitting on, rather than let it expire in March and automatically go to debt repayment.

As we begin to say goodbye to 2022 and ring in 2023, it is important to reflect on both the challenges and opportunities we face here in British Columbia.

Traditionally, the relationship between government and the business community has been understood to be relatively simple: Government stay out of the way, and let businesses get on with growing the economy.

Premier David Eby is walking back two key promises from his leadership campaign – a new provincial mental health facility, and a proposal to involuntarily detain people who overdose for treatment.

When Amber Hockin announced she was leaving her job as deputy chief of staff to the premier last month, she made it sound to her colleagues like she was choosing to resign.

For the past five years, Research Co. and Glacier Media have taken a look at the mental state of Canadians as we approach the holiday season. In 2018, 57 per cent of Canadians told us that they expected more fun than stress.

Premier David Eby took great pains this week to try and blame the worsening problems of homelessness in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on his government’s greatest villain and most-frequent scapegoat: The previous BC Liberal administration.

A few months ago, Vancouver-based Nexii Building Solutions Inc. eclipsed a $2 billion valuation.

Discussions about COVID-19 are no longer monopolizing our lives. We are months removed from the restrictions and mandates that tested the resolve of all levels of government.