Opinion

Opinion: If you eat, you're paying the carbon tax

To reduce or avoid the carbon tax on our food, we would need to challenge the big producers and retailers and their ridiculous supply chains.

Nov 23, 2023 4:45 AM Read more >

Opinion: Prince George needs short-term home rentals

Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, families visiting hospitalized loved ones, etc., rely on the short-term rental industry.

Nov 23, 2023 4:30 AM Read more >

Opinion: B.C.'s proposed bill on 'alternative shelter' risks doing serious harm to unhoused people

If passed, B.C.‘s Bill 45 will trample over the constitutional rights of unhoused people by ignoring shelter barriers, Indigenous rights and the need for daytime shelter.

Nov 22, 2023 8:00 PM Read more >

Rob Shaw: ‘Born at the right time.’ Could B.C. housing legislation entrench intergenerational poverty?

BC Green MLA asks some uncomfortable questions about allowing multiplexes on single-family lots

Nov 22, 2023 7:45 AM Read more >

Opinion: Prince George should stand up to Victoria over housing

City council should direct staff to prepare a report on whether the new rules on short-term rentals will actually improve housing availability and affordability in Prince George

Nov 22, 2023 4:45 AM Read more >

Les Leyne: Ombudsman finds COVID benefits clawback unfair

He released a report on how midstream changes to the B.C. Emergency Benefit mean thousands of people are being asked to return $1,000 grants.

Nov 22, 2023 4:35 AM Read more >

Opinion: B.C. Hydro rebate offer a joke

My electrical consumption has gone down by at least 10% a long time ago with no help from the BC government or BC Hydro.

Nov 22, 2023 4:30 AM Read more >

Opinion: Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it's ever been. Here's how we can solve it

The persistence of food insecurity in Canada is a policy choice. By not doing more to improve the adequacy and stability of household income, governments are choosing to let food insecurity fester.

Nov 21, 2023 8:00 PM Read more >

Les Leyne: Convention speech shows Eby prefers to play offence

Premier David Eby’s speech to NDP delegates shows he’s more interested in staying in attack mode than explaining why the NDP is still playing catch-up in dealing with many of the problems he acknowledges

Nov 21, 2023 4:55 AM Read more >

Opinion: Home prices have gone up much faster than inflation

House prices have gone through the roof and wages have not kept up.

Nov 21, 2023 4:45 AM Read more >