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Federal budget analysis

Federal budget analysis

Mark Carney was elected as a leader with a mix of elbows and answers. In this age of instant gratification and incessant distraction, he gets one...

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Kirk Lapointe

Kirk LaPointe: A budget vision looking for delivery

Kirk LaPointe: A budget vision looking for delivery

Mark Carney was elected as a leader with a mix of elbows and answers. In this age of instant gratification and incessant distraction, he gets one...

06.11.2025 2

Vancouver Is Awesome

Kirk Lapointe

Kirk LaPointe: A budget vision looking for delivery

Kirk LaPointe: A budget vision looking for delivery

Mark Carney was elected as a leader with a mix of elbows and answers. In this age of instant gratification and incessant distraction, he gets one...

06.11.2025 1

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

Kirk LaPointe: A breakup by broadcast

Kirk LaPointe: A breakup by broadcast

When a television commercial can prompt the world’s most powerful man to throw a tariff-triggering hissy fit, you know as a country you have a...

01.11.2025 2

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

Breakup by broadcast

Breakup by broadcast

When a television commercial can prompt the world’s most powerful man to throw a tariff-triggering hissy fit, you know as a country you have a...

01.11.2025 2

Castanet

Kirk Lapointe

Kirk LaPointe: A breakup by broadcast

Kirk LaPointe: A breakup by broadcast

When a television commercial can prompt the world’s most powerful man to throw a tariff-triggering hissy fit, you know as a country you have a...

01.11.2025 3

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Kirk LaPointe: Why Carney's budget needs rules, not just rhetoric

Kirk LaPointe: Why Carney's budget needs rules, not just rhetoric

The vows sound grand. Mark Carney is promising a Nov. 4 budget like none other to unleash “unprecedented” private investment, double non-U.S....

25.10.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Mark Carney must re-corral the provinces before Washington does it for him

We remember the warmth in the room as the federation walked down the aisle last spring. It was love on the rebound: Ottawa and the premiers, bruised...

18.10.2025 20

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Kirk LaPointe: Mark Carney must re-corral the provinces before Washington does it for him

We remember the warmth in the room as the federation walked down the aisle last spring. It was love on the rebound: Ottawa and the premiers, bruised...

18.10.2025 3

Times Colonist

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Trouble for BC Tories

Here’s the uncomfortable truth for conservatives in B.C.—in fact, for anyone who doesn’t support the BC NDP government: the easiest way to make...

12.10.2025 1

Castanet

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Kirk LaPointe: Is it time for Rustad to pass the baton?

Here’s the uncomfortable truth for conservatives in B.C.—in fact, for anyone who doesn’t support the BC NDP government: the easiest way to make...

11.10.2025 3

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Is it time for Rustad to pass the baton?

Here’s the uncomfortable truth for conservatives in B.C.—in fact, for anyone who doesn’t support the BC NDP government: the easiest way to make...

11.10.2025 2

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Government records closed

For more than 40 years, we have had a federal law on Access to Information to permit the public to ask for government records. It’s hardly cause for...

04.10.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Access to information in Canada remains access denied

For more than 40 years, we have had a federal law on Access to Information (ATI) to permit the public to ask for government records. Hardly cause for...

03.10.2025 2

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Access to information in Canada remains access denied

For more than 40 years, we have had a federal law on Access to Information (ATI) to permit the public to ask for government records. Hardly cause for...

03.10.2025 3

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Upcoming federal budget

If you were hoping for a soothing macro-economic reset this autumn to settle our nerves, the Bank of Canada just told you not to bother. Governor Tiff...

28.09.2025 3

Castanet

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Kirk LaPointe: Canada's next budget must meet three conditions to succeed

If you were hoping for a soothing macro-economic reset this autumn to settle our nerves, the Bank of Canada just told you not to bother. Governor Tiff...

27.09.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Affordability crisis deeper than any Bank of Canada rate cut

The governor—the Bank of Canada governor—has given us a reprieve. Survival isn’t assured. The 25 basis-point reduction this week to drive the...

20.09.2025 8

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Kirk LaPointe: Lessons from John Horgan still echo after his passing

I feel as though I have finally had that beer I wanted to have with John Horgan. Maybe two or three. It has taken a posthumous book — one long...

15.09.2025 10

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver taxpayers left in the dark over ballooning sewage plant costs

Let me pretend to withhold judgment—to play the polite columnist—while every nerve in me is screaming. And, if I may be frank at the outset, let...

12.09.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Lessons from John Horgan still echo after his passing

I feel as though I have finally had that beer I wanted to have with John Horgan. Maybe two or three. It has taken a posthumous book—one long series...

05.09.2025 7

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Kirk LaPointe: Integrity commissioner slams Vancouver mayor and council for breaking open meeting law

Vancouver just received the kind of report no city should be proud of. Its Integrity Commissioner has found that Mayor Ken Sim and (what were then)...

26.08.2025 5

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Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre is back in Ottawa but his second chance won’t be easy

Nail-biter it was not. The midnight oil need not have burned to learn late Monday that Pierre Poilievre would banish the 213 candidates running...

21.08.2025 5

Vancouver Is Awesome

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German soccer star signed

Performance in sports humbles predictions. This year I have been wrong on the misfortunes of the Vancouver Canucks and BC Lions and good fortunes of...

17.08.2025 6

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Kirk LaPointe: Müller signing redefines the frugal Whitecaps

Performance in sports humbles predictions. This year I have been wrong on the misfortunes of the Vancouver Canucks and BC Lions and good fortunes of...

16.08.2025 2

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Call to fix long-term care

Lost in recent days amid the swirl of shock and uncertainty here and abroad was a report in our own backyard with revelations about long-term elderly...

14.08.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C.’s long-term elderly care crisis is the cost of political procrastination

Lost in recent days amid the swirl of shock and uncertainty here and abroad was a report in our own backyard with revelations about long-term elderly...

09.08.2025 5

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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...

30.07.2025 5

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 7

Castanet

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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 6

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 8

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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 5

Castanet

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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

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 5

Castanet

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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

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 5

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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 4

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 4

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

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 7

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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

Castanet

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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

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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

Castanet

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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 6

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

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 5

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 4

Castanet

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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

Times Colonist

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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

Vancouver Is Awesome

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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 5

Vancouver Is Awesome

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