Opinion

You can see a euthanasia assessor in Vancouver sooner than a family doctor.

David Eby has hit the ground running as premier, but what’s also running right alongside him is the financial tab accompanying his many promises.

B.C. Liberal critics said the full story was suppressed and minimized under Eby’s watch.

Eby has noted a few times that a lot of work has gone into the announcements he used to launch his premiership.

“That is not what this bill is about. This bill is about building that framework so we never get to that place," says Premier David Eby

Premier David Eby surprised many on Sunday when he announced a government directive to Crown prosecutors to do more, where possible, on “the risk that repeat violent offenders pose to public safety in British Columbia.

Over the past two years, British Columbians developed a love-hate relationship with the possibility of Vancouver hosting the Winter Olympics for the second time.

Most commemorative benches, picnic tables and other pieces of public furniture are dedicated to people only after they’re gone. Most are in loving memory of the dearly departed, not the happily here.

If you look it up today, you will find that Tamara Vrooman became CEO at YVR on Canada Day in 2020. But it wasn’t the YVR we knew. And she couldn’t be the CEO we knew, even the CEO that she knew.

For most new premiers, their swearing-in day is a leisurely victory lap. Typically, they pose for the cameras, introduce their new cabinet and pat themselves on the back for winning an election or leadership race.