Provincial Politics

Rob Shaw: If history repeats, the province will resist the early preventative efforts seen elsewhere, and insist the situation here is entirely different. Until it isn’t. At which point it will be too late to implement the measures anyway.

Rob Shaw: BC businesses shut down by pandemic orders spent two anxious days waiting to hear about aid.

Through the first eleven months of 2021, the Vancouver Region has surpassed its previous whole-year record for MLS sales. With inventory levels continuing to sag to new record lows, sellers’ market conditions are deepening.

Interim (and outgoing) BC Liberal leader Shirley Bond looks back not just at 2021, but serving as Leader of the Opposition.

Rob Shaw: One extraordinary and sobering pandemic press conference showed BC is headed on a worrisome direction – and increasingly swimming against the tide on several fronts.

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Rob Shaw: Despite the government’s doublespeak, 1 out of 206 First Nations signed onto the NDP’s proposals – and even that came with an asterisk.

Maclean Kay: For BC Green leader Sonia Furstenau, 2021 was about standing tall in the face of angry mobs, and an arrogant government.

Roslyn Kunin: Drug users are going to keep on using. A more immediate route to saving lives is to ensure the drugs are clean and safe

Rob Shaw: BC’s decision to reject Uber in Kelowna and Victoria has succeeded in pleasing exactly one stakeholder group – and nobody else.