Opinion

BC’s tourism industry could be fully recovered in 2023. To make it so, the government must act today. It’s no surprise that BC’s 2020 tourism industry is in the tank. One estimate is a 69 per cent decline in tourism revenues from 2019.

The provincial government of BC should expeditiously draft the Compassion And Respect Everyone (CARE) Act, which mandates that all able-bodied individuals inhabiting indoor public gathering spaces are required to don a face covering.

The provincial government last week stripped away your resident priority boarding status on Route 3. But if you were listening to their spin, you would think you gave it up to help people who need it much more than you do.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began back in March, we have learned to manage the risk the virus has brought into our lives.

The time for B.C’s “education wars” is over, at least temporarily.

The multi-billion-dollar Site C dam project on the Peace River is now officially in condition red, with significant cost overruns and delays due to the pandemic and a geological problem on the river bank. B.C.

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It’s hard to square the NDP government’s backtracking on the idea of temporarily detaining young people in the midst of drug overdoses for their own good with B.C.

In response to your OpEd [“ Editorial: Time to mask up? ”] in the July 24 Powell River Peak on the subject of extending the use of face masks, emphatically, no! There is no good evidence that masks have a significant effect on reducing transmission o