Opinion

'Perhaps I’ll get lucky, the stars and weather will align, and you’ll see me on the mountain this winter.'

There was a time not so long ago that it was hard to muster any sympathy for cannabis retailers. I would argue – and probably with some of you, I would have to do so quite strenuously – that the time has come.

Winter is coming and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is punishing Canadians for heating their homes. The carbon tax hits the essential needs of our daily lives hard.

The past few days have provided a glimpse of what some provincial governments in Canada have chosen to focus on.

'A man who is trying to emotionally take care of himself? Now that’s someone to celebrate.'

'Reflecting with compassion on why this may be happening — vandals not feeling connected to their community, powerless or frustrated with how their life is going — may be a better path to reducing it.'

The VPD summary concludes that $1.1 million is being spent a day on “charitable investments into non-profit organizations based in the Downtown Eastside” while poverty and crime get worse.

Pierre Poilievre and David Eby have a lot in common in their plans to address British Columbia’s housing market. It’s just that neither of them wants to actually say that out loud.

"Why would a company offer jobs to all of these people who have no accommodation in a town experiencing an extreme housing crisis?"

Kathleen Booth’s work was so significant that when the 100-year-old died this fall, her passing merited major media coverage in her native Britain. So why didn’t we all know that she had spent the past 44 years living in Sooke?