Opinion

The crown jewel of B.C. utilities is such a money machine that it can allow extravagant practices and still deliver some of the cheapest, cleanest, most stable energy in North America.

B.C.’s job market held steady in July, with unemployment at 7.3 per cent. The latest Statistics Canada job data were released as global financial markets teetered on the edge of another recession.

B.C. Green Party leader Jane Sterk clarifies her party's position on smart meters, and how it has changed in the past two years.

The election of Elizabeth May as Canada’s first-ever Green Party MP was supposed to be a breakthrough for environmental issues. Too bad she blew it.

When word came through the pipeline that J. Louise was leaving on the Arrow Lakes News on short notice, there was a lot of juggling to do – not only would a new reporter need to be found but there was no one to cover the Nakusp Music Festival. I was given the assignment to drive down from Revelstoke where I work as a reporter at the Revelstoke Times Review. I’d never been to Nakusp and there’s much worse ways to earn a living.

The B.C. government has released its audited public accounts for what Bill Vander Zalm enthusiasts strain to depict as Year One of the Harmonized Sales Tax Apocalypse.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth, has served a central role in advocating for some of the most vulnerable children and youth in our province. In her first five-year term as Representative, she has drawn a critical lens to child protection issues involving poverty, abuse, neglect and domestic violence.

Premier Christy Clark is to be commended for supporting a province-wide ban on lawn and garden pesticides. Not only will this legislation be hugely popular, it will also have a very positive effect on the health of B.C.’s people, environment, and economy. How can we be sure? Because we’ve seen what happens when pesticide regulations are passed in other provinces.

My summer road trip to the B.C. Interior began as soon as the Trans-Canada Highway reopened at Chilliwack. The crew had worked through the night to clear a mudslide studded with rocks the size of Smart cars, along with a couple of actual cars.

There were high hopes and harsh words in 2000 when the provincial and federal governments signed Canada’s first modern-day treaty with the Nisga’a people of northwestern B.C.