Provincial Politics

Rob Shaw: Green MLA and Tsartlip First Nation member Adam Olsen’s speech about the discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children will be studied for a long time. Ironically, last year the NDP focused a lot of effort and resources into unseating him.

Rob Shaw: Many of the old-growth trees felled on Vancouver Island have been made into acoustic guitars.

BC is starting again - and so are the protests.

Dene Moore: The Fairy Creek protests have many recalling the ‘War in the Woods’ of the ‘90s. Hopefully this time it won’t take as long to find a solution.

John Horgan is watching more and more civil disobedience in his own riding – but there’s little sign it actually concerns him, says Rob Shaw.

BC’s forestry minister has made her Twitter account private. Maclean Kay on what this says about women in politics, online abuse, and the nature of public officials’ social media accounts.

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

Outlier demand-side activity in the Vancouver Region’s housing market is making it challenging to separate fact from fiction. It seems clear that supply remains constrained against the backdrop of another record month for sales--for now.

Welcome to Ellected – the podcast about women in politics, by women in politics, and for anyone who supports women in politics.

Russell Hixson: The Lower Mainland poised for massive population growth, but housing is desperately needed