Opinion

No one chooses to be an addict, to say “I’m going to throw everything away and live on the street.”

Premier David Eby surprised many on Sunday when he announced a government directive to Crown prosecutors to do more, where possible, on “the risk that repeat violent offenders pose to public safety in British Columbia.

Over the past two years, British Columbians developed a love-hate relationship with the possibility of Vancouver hosting the Winter Olympics for the second time.

Nobody wants to expose themselves to that kind of scrutiny and public disdain. Or worse.

Most commemorative benches, picnic tables and other pieces of public furniture are dedicated to people only after they’re gone. Most are in loving memory of the dearly departed, not the happily here.

If you look it up today, you will find that Tamara Vrooman became CEO at YVR on Canada Day in 2020. But it wasn’t the YVR we knew. And she couldn’t be the CEO we knew, even the CEO that she knew.

For most new premiers, their swearing-in day is a leisurely victory lap. Typically, they pose for the cameras, introduce their new cabinet and pat themselves on the back for winning an election or leadership race.

Holocaust survivor and witness Elie Wiesel said, “In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest.”

More on economic development and less on administration was the most popular choice from respondents.

Nearly half of respondents want rules preventing price gouging.