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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. needs political backbone to fix Metro Vancouver governance

Over 52 pages that took a swift four months to produce, the Deloitte Canada management consultancy has confirmed comprehensively what we have seen and...

24.05.2025 2

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New federal cabinet

Few prime ministers have arrived needing a great cabinet quite like Mark Carney. What became evident Tuesday was that, despite a towering résumé and...

18.05.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Carney’s Cabinet is built to stabilize, not to soar

Few prime ministers have arrived needing a great cabinet quite like Mark Carney. What became evident Tuesday was that, despite a towering résumé and...

14.05.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Carney’s Cabinet is built to stabilize, not to soar

Few prime ministers have arrived needing a great cabinet quite like Mark Carney. What became evident Tuesday was that, despite a towering résumé and...

14.05.2025 5

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Kirk LaPointe: Whitecaps surging, Canucks fans sulking

If the world seems upside down right now, it isn’t because you’re a forlorn Pierre Poilievre supporter or distressed Donald Trump romantic. You...

09.05.2025 3

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Not strongest political hand

Same song, probably a different dance partner. We went to bed Monday sending Mark Carney into the lion’s den as an elected Liberal prime minister to...

03.05.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Canada flinches at giving Carney the mandate he was hoping for

Same song, probably a different dance partner. We went to bed Monday sending Mark Carney into the lion’s den as an elected Liberal prime minister to...

30.04.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Vancouver tragedy demands more than quick fixes on mental health

The extraordinary tragedy we absorbed over the weekend—the 11 to die and the dozens injured from an SUV plowing through a celebratory Filipino block...

29.04.2025 5

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Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre’s pen packs a punch, Carney’s signature keeps things calibrated

As a child, I had a hobby of graphology, the inexact science (to be kind to it) of analyzing handwriting. It was useful as a parlour game. As a...

26.04.2025 10

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Trump's tariffs aimed at all

Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they...

05.04.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shot off the bow more like a shot in the foot for trade

Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they...

04.04.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shot off the bow more like a shot in the foot for trade

Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they...

04.04.2025 20

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What's at stake in election

It is a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get wrong....

29.03.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Canada at a crossroads as Carney, Poilievre clash

It will be a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get...

25.03.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Canada at a crossroads as Carney, Poilievre clash

It will be a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get...

25.03.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Our democratic leaders are suddenly too eager to test our democratic limits

Anti-democracy is all of a sudden in style. Ain’t it grand? All around, far and near, we are witnessing the rise of Triple-A governments:...

22.03.2025 10

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Canada's new PM

There aren’t many among us today in Canada who can thank U.S. President Donald Trump for an improvement in their station in life but new Liberal...

12.03.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shadow looms large over Carney's path forward

There aren’t terribly many among us today in Canada who can thank Donald Trump for an improvement in our station in life. Mark Carney is one.  His...

11.03.2025 6

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shadow looms large over Carney's path forward

There aren’t terribly many among us today in Canada who can thank Donald Trump for an improvement in our station in life. Mark Carney is one.  His...

11.03.2025 10

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. budget can't dodge economic beating as tariffs land heavy punches

Well, woe is us, eh? We went to war, of sorts, overnight. And with our best customer, no less, because its best customer, us, was being treated like a...

06.03.2025 5

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. budget can't dodge economic beating as tariffs land heavy punches

Well, woe is us, eh? We went to war, of sorts, overnight. And with our best customer, no less, because its best customer, us, was being treated like a...

06.03.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Rustad's biggest test will be proving he's premier material

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad was supposed to bathe Saturday in the success that comes from reviving a party barely breathing two years ago to...

05.03.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Rustad's biggest test will be proving he's premier material

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad was supposed to bathe Saturday in the success that comes from reviving a party barely breathing two years ago to...

05.03.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. throne speech charts rough economic waters with a wary eye on Trump

Children were conceived and born since the British Columbia legislature last convened. Last time MLAs met, BC United was in opposition, the BC...

20.02.2025 6

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. throne speech charts rough economic waters with a wary eye on Trump

Children were conceived and born since the British Columbia legislature last convened. Last time MLAs met, BC United was in opposition, the BC...

20.02.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Sorry, Poilievre—Carney's our next prime minister

Mark Carney is our next prime minister. I’ll take bets on it today. Any amount. I’m playing a trick, of course – all he has to do is win the...

15.02.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. risks losing billions with Columbia River Treaty left in limbo

Last July, in what many of us thought to be the nick of time, painstaking negotiations between Canada and the United States produced a modernized,...

07.02.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre's potential polling panic isn't just noise

For a couple of weeks now I’ve wrestled with what to do about the unique data coming from Frank Graves, one of the country’s most prominent...

31.01.2025 8

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Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre's potential polling panic isn't just noise

For a couple of weeks now I’ve wrestled with what to do about the unique data coming from Frank Graves, one of the country’s most prominent...

31.01.2025 8

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Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver mayors must fix their side-hustle dilemma

What’s a politician worth? If you’ll stop laughing for a moment, let’s reframe the question. We’ve veered into an unhealthy debate on this...

24.01.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Christy Clark's Liberal leadership bid faceplants on a fact check

Of the things about which I am confident, I can safely state that my weekend and yours was a lot better than Christy Clark’s. Now, as she awoke...

15.01.2025 6

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Kirk LaPointe: Christy Clark's Liberal leadership bid faceplants on a fact check

Of the things about which I am confident, I can safely state that my weekend and yours was a lot better than Christy Clark’s. Now, as she awoke...

15.01.2025 9

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Kirk LaPointe: Winter's cold grasp claims another Trudeau's time in power

Four decades ago, his father took his famous walk in the snow to decide to leave the country’s highest office. In recent days, the son took to the...

07.01.2025 10

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Kirk LaPointe: Winter's cold grasp claims another Trudeau's time in power

Four decades ago, his father took his famous walk in the snow to decide to leave the country’s highest office. In recent days, the son took to the...

07.01.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Improving democracy should be a New Year's resolution for us all

Instead of resolving to fix some of ourselves at New Year’s, what if we resolve to fix some of our political institutions? Voter turnout, voter...

05.01.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Improving democracy should be a New Year's resolution for us all

Instead of resolving to fix some of ourselves at New Year’s, what if we resolve to fix some of our political institutions? Voter turnout, voter...

04.01.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Freeland’s poison pen letter might be the final blow to Trudeau

The old saying is that a week is a long time in politics. Try a day. A finance minister quits hours, yes hours, before she was going to have to...

18.12.2024 10

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Kirk LaPointe: Freeland’s poison pen letter might be the final blow to Trudeau

The old saying is that a week is a long time in politics. Try a day. A finance minister quits hours, yes hours, before she was going to have to...

18.12.2024 4

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Kirk LaPointe: BC Conservatives feast on themselves as voters starve for attention

Not long ago it was a government-in-waiting. Now it’s an opposition-in-weakening. It should surprise few that it has taken mere weeks for the rifts...

13.12.2024 5

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Kirk LaPointe: BC Conservatives feast on themselves as voters starve for attention

Not long ago it was a government-in-waiting. Now it’s an opposition-in-weakening. It should surprise few that it has taken mere weeks for the rifts...

13.12.2024 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Surrey directors sound alarm over Metro Vancouver governance

Deep concerns raised by Surrey board directors about Metro Vancouver paint a troubling portrait of an organization that lacks expertise, fails to...

05.12.2024 20

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Kirk LaPointe: Alberta's 'get things done' edge leaves B.C. behind in investment race

Dow wanted to expand its Path2Zero zero-emission project from outside Fort Saskatchewan with a significant investment, but didn’t think the...

27.11.2024 3

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Kirk LaPointe: John Horgan made his mark mixing fiscal competence with social prescription

I’d be surprised if anyone could show me many pictures in which John Horgan wasn’t at least somehow modestly beaming. I’ve gone through the file...

13.11.2024 5

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Kirk LaPointe: John Horgan made his mark mixing fiscal competence with social prescription

I’d be surprised if anyone could show me many pictures in which John Horgan wasn’t at least somehow modestly beaming. I’ve gone through the file...

13.11.2024 5

Times Colonist

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Opinion: Trump 2.0 will be a test of Canada's resolve

There is no longer a Trump Tower in British Columbia. But there will be a Trump towering over us. Setting aside how it happened – how a fraudster...

06.11.2024 3

Times Colonist

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Opinion: Trump 2.0 will be a test of Canada's resolve

There is no longer a Trump Tower in British Columbia. But there will be a Trump towering over us. Setting aside how it happened – how a fraudster...

06.11.2024 2

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Opinion: Time to tackle the scourge of online anonymity and political intimidation

On Halloween night when no one could see, a coward, and maybe more than one, sprayed graffiti on the garage doors of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s...

04.11.2024 3

Times Colonist

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Opinion: Time to tackle the scourge of online anonymity and political intimidation

On Halloween night when no one could see, a coward, and maybe more than one, sprayed graffiti on the garage doors of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s...

04.11.2024 4

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Opinion: Rebuilding trust in journalism starts with busting misconceptions

This ought to be a great time for journalists, particularly political journalists. We have just finished a provincial election, an American one is...

31.10.2024 3

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Opinion: Rebuilding trust in journalism starts with busting misconceptions

This ought to be a great time for journalists, particularly political journalists. We have just finished a provincial election, an American one is...

31.10.2024 6

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