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Bold decision-making and a long career: Is Joy MacPhail the most powerful woman in B.C.?

Douglas Todd

Bold decision-making and a long career: Is Joy MacPhail the most powerful woman in B.C.? Douglas Todd: The well-connected former NDP cabinet minister has been chair of ICBC and B.C. Ferries, and a giant development company

Douglas Todd

The strange silence over slaughtered Nigerian Christians is ending

The strange silence over slaughtered Nigerian Christians is ending

28.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

The strange silence over slaughtered Nigerian Christians is ending Douglas Todd: More people in the West are overcoming fear, ignorance or indifference to learn about the atrocities being visited upon many church members in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, even while the actual death and abduction tolls are disputed.

28.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Why Canadian bosses love hiring foreign workers

Why Canadian bosses love hiring foreign workers

26.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Why Canadian bosses love hiring foreign workers Douglas Todd: Low-skill guest workers toil longer hours, with fewer absences, for less pay than Canadian domestic workers, which means wages go down for everyone, says a peer-reviewed study.

26.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

New Granville Street Bridge bike and walking lanes are stark, underwhelming. But we can hope

New Granville Street Bridge bike and walking lanes are stark, underwhelming. But we can hope

20.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

New Granville Street Bridge bike and walking lanes are stark, underwhelming. But we can hope Douglas Todd: The almost-too-wide new pathways seem cold and spartan and exposed. And it’s not as if there are many walkers or riders on them yet.

Douglas Todd

Pushback grows against B.C. NDP's stealthy housing deregulation manoeuvre

Pushback grows against B.C. NDP's stealthy housing deregulation manoeuvre

14.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Pushback grows against B.C. NDP's stealthy housing deregulation manoeuvre Douglas Todd: Questions are arising about why a radical piece of legislation that threatens construction standards wasn't introduced by the minister of housing. Instead, it was quietly sponsored by an NDP backbencher.

14.11.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Is this Chinese 'billionaire' rich enough to buy up much of the Hudson’s Bay?

Douglas Todd

Parking peril: The growing 'disconnect' between policy and reality in B.C. (Part 1)

Douglas Todd

B.C.'s push against parking comes with unintended consequences (Part 2)

Douglas Todd

Is a 'B.C. billionaire' rich enough to buy up much of the Hudson’s Bay? Douglas Todd: Weihong Liu's B.C. holdings are not as extensive as they first appear, according to court and land title documents.

Douglas Todd

Parking peril: The growing 'disconnect' between policy and reality in B.C.

Douglas Todd

B.C.'s push against parking comes with unexpected consequences (Part 2)

22.10.2025 10

Douglas Todd

B.C.'s push against parking comes with unexpected consequences (Part 2)

Douglas Todd

B.C.'s push against parking comes with unexpected consequences (Part 2) Douglas Todd: Five things to know about the hidden costs of B.C.'s new parking policy - with their unexpected consequences on everything from selling condos to those on lower-income

18.10.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Parking peril: The growing 'disconnect' between policy and reality in B.C.

16.10.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Parking peril: The growing 'disconnect' between policy and reality in B.C. Douglas Todd: In B.C., governments are allowing, even encouraging, developers to avoid providing on-site parking

16.10.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Is a 'B.C. billionaire' rich enough to buy up much of the Hudson’s Bay?

Douglas Todd

Is a 'B.C. billionaire' rich enough to buy up much of the Hudson’s Bay? Douglas Todd: Weihong Liu's B.C. holdings are not as extensive as they first appear, according to court and land title documents.

Douglas Todd

Don't envy the winner of the federal NDP's leadership contest

04.10.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Vancouver’s latest international ranking — 36 on a list of 48 cities — is a red flag

Douglas Todd

Vancouver’s latest international ranking — 36 on a list of 48 cities — is a red flag Douglas Todd: Instead of being “world-class,” new evidence suggests Vancouver is seriously falling behind other major urban regions around the world.

Douglas Todd

Canada is failing to count how many overstay their visas

Douglas Todd

Canada is failing to count how many overstay their visas Douglas Todd: How can decision-makers plan for housing, jobs, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units and social services when a significant number of people who were supposed to leave the country aren't being tracked?

Douglas Todd

Can the left learn anything from Denmark's Social Democrats' migration policy?

24.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Can the left learn anything from Denmark's Social Democrats' migration policy? Douglas Todd: Those who pay the highest price for high migration levels, says Denmark’s social democratic PM Mette Frederiksen, are the working class. “It's not the elite people.”

24.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

How can the owner of three B.C. malls and a mansion not be 'a resident of Canada for tax purposes'?

19.09.2025 20

Douglas Todd

How can the owner of three B.C. malls and a mansion not be 'a resident of Canada for tax purposes'? Douglas Todd: Billionaire Weihong Liu, who is trying to buy up much of the troubled Hudson's Bay Company, says she is a citizen of China. And that's where she lists her current address

19.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

TODD: Terry Fox asked me, what do you believe happens after death?

Douglas Todd

TODD: Terry Fox asked me, what do you believe happens after death?

12.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Terry Fox: What do you believe happens after death?

Douglas Todd

Terry Fox: What do you believe happens after death?

11.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Vancouver accelerating demolitions of lowrise rentals, says former chief planner

Douglas Todd

Vancouver accelerating demolitions of lowrise rentals, says former chief planner Douglas Todd: The city intends to prezone vast swaths of the Broadway and Cambie corridors to make it profitable to build highrises. But specialists say "don't displace" what's already relatively affordable.

Douglas Todd

'The Canadian promise has been broken for all younger people,' says B.C.’s Don Wright

03.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

'The Canadian promise has been broken for all younger people,' says B.C.’s Don Wright Douglas Todd: The former head of B.C.’s civil service under John Horgan says younger people's pessimism about the future due to out-of-reach housing prices and stagnant wages is 'the real existential threat facing Canada.'

03.09.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Vancouver’s suburbs are not sprawling. They’re growing up

Douglas Todd

Vancouver’s suburbs are not sprawling. They’re growing up Douglas Todd: Less than one per cent of recent housing construction in Metro Vancouver's suburbs is sprawl, according to a StatCan report. Time to temper the hand-wringing and focus on building more great communities.

Douglas Todd

Townhouses now almost impossible to build in Vancouver, says developer

26.08.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Townhouses now almost impossible to build in Vancouver, says developer Douglas Todd: Ground-oriented townhouse clusters are now extremely difficult to get underway in Vancouver, said James Evans, because of sweeping upzoning promoting multiplexes on single lots.

Douglas Todd

The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire Douglas Todd: Vancouver entrepreneur owns the fourth most expensive house in the country, as well as a post-secondary school business that boasts more than 4,000 employees, 40 campuses and 30,000 students.

22.08.2025 20

Douglas Todd

The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire

22.08.2025 50

Douglas Todd

Canada’s housing crisis stirs revealing flights of fiction and fantasy Douglas Todd: The country’s housing emergency is so powerful, distorted and puzzling that many are prone to say, “You couldn’t make this up.” But some B.C. writers are doing just that, through intrepid works of fiction.

Douglas Todd

Canada’s housing crisis stirs revealing flights of fiction and fantasy

19.08.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Canada’s suburbs are looking better all the time Douglas Todd: In both Canada and the U.S., suburbs are growing faster than city centres. Less hectic and more open, they offer much more than "sprawl".

14.08.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Canada’s suburbs are looking better all the time

14.08.2025 10

Douglas Todd

Last week's duelling letters on B.C. housing crisis put 5 major issues in spotlight

06.08.2025 10

Douglas Todd