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Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver skirts transparency by pausing probe into sewage plant

There are times politicians do their best to not get to the bottom of things. Like when it might be embarrassing or impede their careers. To wit: the...

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Eby crafts a double standard

It is a sign of true political mismanagement when a government can offend and alienate even its base of support. But David Eby’s BC NDP...

26.07.2025 1

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Kirk LaPointe: Fiscal restraint a 'one-way street' for Eby government

It is a sign of true political mismanagement when a government can offend and alienate even its base of support. But David Eby’s BC NDP...

26.07.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump’s tariff tactics rely more on psychology than economics

Much has been written, spoken and thought about U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to trade with our country—specifically, what the hell to...

19.07.2025 3

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Threat to journalism

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this column. Not sure how you found it, because a new threat arising from artificial intelligence’s...

16.07.2025 1

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Kirk LaPointe: Google’s AI is delivering a blow to the newsrooms it's built on

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this column. Not sure how you found it, because a new threat arising from artificial intelligence’s...

12.07.2025 4

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A tale of two party leaders

The tale of the two main national political leaders requires a seasonal update of the file. Metaphors are in order, data comes in handy. First, it is...

08.07.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Carney resonating with Canadians as Poilievre retools for relevance

The tale of the two main national political leaders requires a seasonal update of the file. Metaphors are in order, data comes in handy. First, it is...

05.07.2025 4

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World Cup cost rising

The world is full of surprises. The least of them is that the FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver will cost more than anticipated even months ago. Such...

01.07.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: World Cup windfall fades into fantasy as costs keep climbing

The world is full of surprises. The least of them is that the FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver will cost more than anticipated even months ago. Such...

28.06.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Carney and Eby push speed over scrutiny in power-grab legislation

Speed in government is a virtue — until it becomes a vice. It has been disheartening to see Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier...

24.06.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Carney and Eby push speed over scrutiny in power-grab legislation

Speed in government is a virtue—until it becomes a vice. It has been disheartening to see Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier...

21.06.2025 3

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Ferries to be built in China

Principles. Policies. Timing. Context. Optics. They all matter in politics. Into this bouillabaisse we present to you today the curious case of the...

15.06.2025 5

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Kirk LaPointe: BC Ferries deal with China torpedoes government's own messaging

Principles. Policies. Timing. Context. Optics. They all matter in politics. Into this bouillabaisse we present to you today the curious case of the...

13.06.2025 6

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Pay more or expect less

We live in a country with Scandinavian tastes and a North American tax code. And in case you haven’t noticed, the cost of everything is rising, our...

08.06.2025 9

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Kirk LaPointe: The big tax reckoning is coming for Canada

We live in a country with Scandinavian tastes and a North American tax code. And in case you haven’t noticed, the cost of everything is rising, our...

07.06.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. is drowning in debt and no one’s throwing a rope

The grand plan by Prime Minister Mark Carney is to make Canada’s economy the best in the G7. King Charles said so; his delivery of Tuesday’s...

30.05.2025 7

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. is drowning in debt and no one’s throwing a rope

The grand plan by Prime Minister Mark Carney is to make Canada’s economy the best in the G7. King Charles said so; his delivery of Tuesday’s...

30.05.2025 4

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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 5

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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...

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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 4

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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 7

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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...

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