Provincial Politics

Rob Shaw: A new passport system to enter non-essential events and services is the province’s way of trying to nudge along COVID-19 vaccine holdouts.

Rob Shaw: Never fans of the Massey Tunnel replacement project, the BC NDP are trying to take advantage of election promise-making season and snag a promise that Ottawa will chip in.

Daniel Marshall’s three-day flurry into the fire-stricken lands of the BC Interior.

Week One, or weak one? Depends on the question.

Rob Shaw: Even though the data says they’re not the issue, politicians keep blaming foreign buyers of real estate, because it’s what voters (apparently) want to hear.

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Drex: The first job of leadership is showing up, telling people the latest, and how you have their backs. But as much of BC burns, unfortunately John Horgan hasn’t shown up.

Don’t overthink this: the reason we’re having an early federal election is because the Liberals think a majority is within their grasp. That’s it.

Maclean Kay: After prosecutors declined to charge former Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz, it’s increasingly clear the legislature spending scandal was about exactly that – spending – and not something more exotic.