The struggle to preserve agricultural land in British Columbia can be traced back to a fundamental flaw in the BC Land Commission Act and the establishment of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).
This should be clear when one observes that many of the people who are lobbying hardest to get their land out of the ALR [...]

The most egregious legacy of successive federal and provincial governments is the failure to properly protect and expand Canada’s agricultural land base and with it, a viable and expanding primary and value-added food production industry.
For me, the most disturbing part of this failure is the complacency shown by so many British Columbians who at best [...]

The development of a comprehensive energy policy, at all levels of government, is steeped in the rhetoric of the “green” economy and carefully articulated to mask the real agenda. What is really going in British Columbia is the dismantling of public utilities such as BC Hydro in favour of “independent” power producers.
Instead of getting into [...]

Chapter 14
The tray crashed to the floor. Food and drink spilled in every direction. Agnes clutched her chest and stumbled backwards.
“It’s good to see you.” I said, not trying to mask my irritation at the situation I found myself in.
“Mary, Mother of God!” Agnes seemed unable to recover her breath, and for a moment I [...]

All British Columbians, politically engaged or not, should be very concerned about the wrong-headed approach that the Campbell government has taken in the recent provincial budget.
What we are witnessing is not a partisan “right-wing” agenda as some on the left might suggest. We are witnessing a fundamental departure from our long-standing commitment to managing crown [...]