David Eby is not the type of guy who backs away from a political fight or cowers at the idea of confrontation. In fact, he wrote the book on such things. Literally. Back in 2010, Eby wrote a training manual for “legal observers” at the Winter Olympics held that year...

Instead of listening to the concerns of his own constituents, Vancouver-Point Grey MLA David Eby cancelled his public townhall yesterday – for the second time. He’s a career activist with a long history of supporting demonstrations, protests and uprisings, yet...

It’s always cringe-inducing to hear Premier John Horgan plead with the federal government to do something about soaring Metro Vancouver gas prices, the highest in North America. Horgan was at it again Monday, blaming the feds for a lack of fuel-refining capacity in...

As Premier John Horgan turns to B.C.’s highest court in his battle against the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, his government is taking aim at the toxic stuff that flows through the pipe: Diluted bitumen. Bitumen is the thick, heavy crude extracted from Alberta’s...

When the New Democrats recruited four academics to vet the public consultations on electoral reform, they asked them to take a vow of silence about the government’s methods, process and findings. “You are one of four academics invited to provide advice and would be...

In an April 5 opinion piece published in this paper, SFU assistant professor Josh Gordon argued that the NDP government’s revised Speculation Tax was “essential for housing affordability” in B.C.’s main urban centres. He went on to write: “If critics of the...

A year after the New Democrats vowed to change the electoral system and six months after they launched the enabling legislation to do so, the B.C. Liberals this week sought key details about the fall referendum. They got no answers, only pushback from Attorney General...

BC assumes most of the risks but gets few of the benefits. That’s been the main argument against the $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in B.C. from the beginning – an argument that was used even by the former BC Liberal government, before it...

On Sunday, Kinder Morgan announced it was suspending non-essential work and spending on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. It’s a decision with potentially serious consequences for hard-working British Columbians, from our tourism to trucking sectors. Our...

Traditionally, finance ministers buy new shoes before a budget. Carole James ordered army boots. The first boot was called the “speculation tax.” Wrong words. It is a frontal attack on private property, hitting foreigners and Canadians equally. There is so much dust...