Opinion

For the past couple of years, social media users have shared pictures of the “suggested tip amounts” they have encountered when the bill is brought to them at a restaurant or when they try to pay for a meal using a credit card.

Winter storms cancel flights and disrupt airport operations. Everyone knows that. Yet, when Metro Vancouver’s forecast delivered on its promise, the one entity required to trigger an adequate crisis response froze.

13 per cent of British Columbians provided the poorest grade available to the province’s justice system

From the Saanich shootout to picklebrawl, this was the year post-pandemic life got moving again, in good ways and bad.

Next year, everything will feel more expensive as tax hikes will take a bigger chunk out of your paycheque. Both the Trudeau and Eby governments plan to hike taxes in 2023.

About one in four Canadians believe Canada does not need a Senate and want all legislation to be reviewed and authorized by the House of Commons.

As you may have noticed, compliance with municipal bylaws requiring residents and business owners to clear the walks adjoining their properties is pretty hit and miss.

Premier David Eby is walking back two key promises from his leadership campaign – a new provincial mental health facility, and a proposal to involuntarily detain people who overdose for treatment.

What better time than the solstice to offer the rest of the country the spectacle of Victorians wringing their hands at the kind of weather people in Calgary equate with the August long weekend?

Thank you!