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Opinion: 2026 World Cup goes from shiny object to fiscal nightmare for B.C.

In principle, you do not buy what you cannot afford. But when it comes to shiny objects and public finances, well, you just figure out a payment plan....

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Kirk LaPointe: Mining magnate Ross Beaty will never relent on reclaiming B.C.'s biodiversity

It is more dramatic and momentous in telling a story to look for an epiphany that changed someone’s purpose – a sensational event, a striking...

29.04.2024 20

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Kirk LaPointe: Federal budget focuses on taxing investment, not spurring it

Time was, a federal budget was a breathlessly-anticipated, market-jolting, ultra-secretive, capital-E Event. Journalists were typically dared for...

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Kirk LaPointe: Can Canada finally fix its shameful school-food gap?

When you want to feed hungry children in this country, you realize Canada isn’t built well for it. We will find out how in the next months. For five...

15.04.2024 10

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Kirk LaPointe: Three key details about North Shore sewage plant mess

When Metro Vancouver officials finally revealed last month that the North Shore wastewater treatment plant’s price tag had reached $3.86 billion,...

10.04.2024 8

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Opinion: What can B.C. businesses do about human trafficking?

A community’s identity is defined in no small measure by the ambitions of its business leadership in using its power to tackle fundamental social...

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Kirk LaPointe: The economy is sicker than you think

The Canadian and British Columbian economies are in distress, but you could be forgiven for not noticing. At a surface level, much appears in shape....

01.04.2024 8

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Kirk LaPointe: BC NDP’s enduring popularity a puzzler for opponents

If anything can rival the surprising status of the Vancouver Canucks, it must be that of the BC NDP. A half-year from an election, the script wasn’t...

25.03.2024 20

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Kirk LaPointe: Housing crisis at heart of potential Poilievre-Eby alliance

At first blush, B.C. Premier David Eby and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre have little in common other than being carbon-based forms of...

18.03.2024 5

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. housing strategy will not put affordable homes within reach

In its first half-dozen years, the provincial gestures on housing have been what the Texas ranchers refer to all hat and no cattle. In any other...

15.11.2023 10

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Kirk LaPointe: Ottawa’s plans to tax the rich will wind up taxing charities, too

Far be it from me to defend the plight of the high-net-worth Canadian. I recognize it’s a national sport to caricaturize rich folks. It’s not...

15.11.2023 6

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Happier times here for Vancouver’s sports franchises

It isn’t often – in fact, can anyone remember a time? – that Vancouver has had four ascendant sports franchises.  In fact, can anyone not...

07.11.2023 10

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. is training to win an EV race nobody’s in and no one asked for

Ashamed to admit it, I somehow missed the news about the global competition to be the first jurisdiction to enshrine in law the requirement to only...

31.10.2023 3

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. is training to win an EV race nobody’s in and no one asked for

Ashamed to admit it, I somehow missed the news about the global competition to be the first jurisdiction to enshrine in law the requirement to only...

31.10.2023 5

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Kirk LaPointe: The constancy of casual theft is a concern that can’t be ignored

A conversation a couple of weeks ago with a seatmate on a plane returning to Vancouver shed light on the delicate protocol he faces with shoplifters...

24.10.2023 8

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Kirk LaPointe: Inflation stability delivering sighs of relief for British Columbians … and politicians

For homeowners, if not quite for consumers, there deserve to be sighs of relief with Tuesday’s Consumer Price Index data. Finally, it appears,...

17.10.2023 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Homelessness is complex but that can’t hold us back from taking action

It is a grand pretension that a city, a province, even a federal government can solve homelessness on any scale. They approach this from the...

17.10.2023 5

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Kirk LaPointe: We need a regional government to address Metro Vancouver issues

I am writing to argue for more government, and no, I do not believe I have lost my mind. Hear me out. The time has come to plot a path to dismantle...

10.10.2023 6

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Kirk LaPointe: Trudeau’s head-scratching apology sought absolution, not accountability

I know only too well from personal experience the power of a political apology. Nine years ago, a blanket mea culpa from the Vancouver mayor for going...

29.09.2023 30

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Kirk LaPointe: Trudeau’s accusations against India show poor leadership

While we depend on our leaders to deliver us difficult news, we also depend on them to keep important secrets from us at the right time. We may not...

22.09.2023 3

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Kirk LaPointe: We have fallen into an era of ennui – about COVID, and work

Field notes on the fall: Labour Day, in my view, is the start of the New Year.  We pack away the flip-flops, stop wearing the white pants...

12.09.2023 6

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Kirk LaPointe: Vancouver’s urban planning might need the touch of an urban ‘economist’

Alain Bertaud chose the perfect week for his first visit to Vancouver. The renowned French urban planner arrives for a raft of speaking engagements...

11.09.2023 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Vancouver’s urban planning might need the touch of an urban ‘economist’

Alain Bertaud chose the perfect week for his first visit to Vancouver. The renowned French urban planner arrives for a raft of speaking engagements...

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