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Carson Binda: Life in Canada, B.C. will get more expensive in 2023 thanks to tax hikes

Carson Binda: Life in Canada, B.C. will get more expensive in 2023 thanks to tax hikes

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.
Survey: More second thoughts about Canada’s chamber of ‘sober second thought’

Survey: More second thoughts about Canada’s chamber of ‘sober second thought’

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.
Jack Knox: Unshovelled sidewalks and the lessons of a turkey lunch

Jack Knox: Unshovelled sidewalks and the lessons of a turkey lunch

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.
Rob Shaw: Eby is walking back two of his top leadership promises

Rob Shaw: Eby is walking back two of his top leadership promises

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.
Jack Knox: Going Three Stooges for our fellow Canuckleheads

Jack Knox: Going Three Stooges for our fellow Canuckleheads

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?
Bob Kronbauer: The real snow heroes are your neighbours

Bob Kronbauer: The real snow heroes are your neighbours

Thank you!
Jack Knox: Grant helps charity help out-of-sight seniors at Christmas

Jack Knox: Grant helps charity help out-of-sight seniors at Christmas

Christmas packages for seniors are being assembled in a corner of the Soap for Hope Canada warehouse in Vic West.
Bob Kronbauer: We have definitive proof that sturgeons live in Okanagan Lake

Bob Kronbauer: We have definitive proof that sturgeons live in Okanagan Lake

There it is
Rob Shaw: Five people got $1.3 million in severance when Eby became premier

Rob Shaw: Five people got $1.3 million in severance when Eby became premier

The difference in this case is that the governing party didn’t change, only the leaders. And yet it still cost taxpayers $1.3 million to fire five people.
Survey: Canadians predict a merrier Christmas, happier holidays this year

Survey: Canadians predict a merrier Christmas, happier holidays this year

While “Merry Christmas” is far from the all-time high of 74 per cent it enjoyed in 2018 it continues to outrank “Happy Holidays” by a 3-1 margin.