Opinion

Evaluations show predominantly positive outcomes of SAFER supply, but more data are needed to both improve programming and avoid unwanted outcomes.

Politicians offer up flavour-of-the-month, appeasing initiatives, which are bound to fizzle and fail because their requirement is not rooted in law.

Taxes and/or government debt continue to rise to historic levels due to massive spending by all three levels of government in areas they are not constitutionally responsible for, the Port Coquitlam letter writer states.

NDP's BC Builds program is more sizzle than steak ahead of the election season

"The cost of inaction will result in the loss of journalism jobs, the shuttering of local media outlets, and a less informed and less engaged citizenry."

Systematic evaluation of potential unintended consequences needed to make sure program is not doing more harm than good

In January 2021 I made a freedom of information request, seeking disclosure of the polling questions that the NDP government authorized at taxpayer expense.