Kirk LaPointe

Ottawa was dripping good news early, saving up for a tax-hike invoice later

Federal, provincial tussling should not get in the way of a national school food program

Low unemployment is masking a job-quality crisis in Canada and B.C.

Long health-care wait times, housing woes and a giant deficit haven't proven fatal for provincial government

Housing may bridge ideological divide between B.C. NDP premier, federal Conservative leader

Alex Clark, the new Athabasca University president, discusses a national survey on the future of work. He is in conversation with BIV publisher and executive editor Kirk LaPointe.

News flash to new municipal councils: Life in British Columbia is expensive enough. We don’t need you to pile on. Fact: Your constituents are dealing with household costs rising faster than at any time in the last four decades.

We are seeing more of the nature of our new premier. He is one-part eager beaver, one-part lone wolf. David Eby was the premier-in-waiting for many years.

I have found a new authority on political and economic challenges. Let me introduce you. Let me say, though, that my dialogue with my new, resourceful friend is different than most I conduct.

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