Children were conceived and born since the British Columbia legislature last convened.

Last time MLAs met, BC United was in opposition, the BC Conservatives were a duo, Joe Biden was confident of re-election, and Canucks’ JT Miller and Elias Pettersson were on acceptable speaking terms.

Makes sense, then, that Tuesday’s Speech from the Throne was a reflection replete with beginnings: new Lt.-Gov. Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia in the legislative house, with a new opposition party of the BC Conservatives, and a BC NDP government facing new, rather profound challenges we expect it to answer. (In case you wondered, BC United is gone, as is Miller, and Biden’s U.S. presidential successor is really what the ceremonial speech was about.)

None of us may have voted for U.S. President Donald Trump, but he is in our minds like an earworm and soon in our economy like a tapeworm. B.C. Premier David Eby, who couldn’t be much different than Trump unless he was one of Elon Musk’s foundlings on Mars, has a task on his hands that will either sink or sail his ship.

It has not helped that, even without Trump, Eby has captained........

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