Flattening the curve of environmental degradation

One of the core lessons from the coronavirus experience is the need to respect the complexity of organisms and ecological systems that keep this...

Here come the campers

Pandemic, climate crises unmasking inequalities

A chorus of world leaders has declared we’re all in the same COVID-19 boat. In response, U.K. writer Damian Barr tweeted: “We are not all in the...

Mindlessness is toxic to our democracy

Not to rush to a generalized conclusion, but the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn a clear line between both the concepts and practices of “mindfulness”...

Government’s evolving role in the coronavirus ...

It appears the COVID-19 outbreak is receding, at least for now. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported on May 21 that “most regions have...

We have a chance to reorder the world. Will we take ...

We’ve heard a lot about a post-pandemic New World Order in the past few months. The response to COVID-19 has shut down industries, taxed public...

How the U.S. lost touch with its founders

Several years ago two American economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton — the latter a Nobel Prize winner — made a startling observation: The...

Are we as unbiased as we think?

I’ve spent a lot of time researching Indigenous employee recruitment and retention, and bias is something that continually comes up. A common...

Many questions about the province’s handling of COVID-19 ...

A commentary by a former deputy minister in 10 ministries under five premiers, who also ran his own small business for 20 years. In my commentary...

Struggling to mourn after a friend’s death

Dave Obee: Struggling to mourn after a friend’s death “It is always difficult to experience loss; it is extremely difficult in these...

After pandemic, we should keep option of seeing doctor by ...

Several readers have noted how much easier it is to get medical advice now that doctors are doing consults by phone. The cause, of course, is the...