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Category: Economy

Delegates vote at the 2025 UBCM convention.
Economy
  • Economy
7 MIN READ

B.C.’s resource debate is becoming a capacity debate

UBCM resolutions reveal a growing concern about whether B.C. can still deliver the conditions for growth.
In 1969 the City of Vancouver was granted a coat of arms. A logger and a fisherman hold up the shield. A ship crowns it. The sea runs through the middle. Image by Jack Ryan Morris - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Economy
  • Economy
26 MIN READ

The resource economy you can’t see

How Metro Vancouver became the head office, the trading floor and the export gateway of a resource economy it has stopped recognising—and
Gavin Dew, MLA for Kelowna - Mission
Economy
  • Economy
4 MIN READ

Getting our mojo back

Gavin Dew says British Columbia must rebuild confidence, back its resource strengths and give young people reasons to stay
Claire Rattée, MLA for Skeena
Economy
  • Economy
5 MIN READ

‘Nobody knows exactly what rules they’re playing by’: A northwestern B.C. MLA on why investment is stalling

Claire Rattée says communities from Terrace to Kitimat are ready to grow — but unclear policies and permitting delays are getting in
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks from a lectern beside a Canadian National Railways locomotive at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, during an announcement on the Canada Strong Fund, Canada's first sovereign wealth fund in Ottawa on Monday, April 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Economy
  • Economy
7 MIN READ

The sovereign wealth fund Canada finally got – and the one it still needs

Prime Minister Carney’s Canada Strong Fund is a long overdue step but its success hinges on Indigenous economic participation and ironclad discipline
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Dawn Farrell, CEO of the Major Projects Office (Photo by David Bloom/Postmedia)
Economy
  • Economy
5 MIN READ

MPO: Major Projects Obscuration?

Ottawa’s Major Projects Office silent on progress
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld.
Economy
  • Economy
6 MIN READ

Major project delays show talk about resources only gets you so far

The deferral of the Jackpine oilsands expansion shows just how far we still have to go on development.
An Atlantic salmon is seen during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans fish health audit at the Okisollo fish farm near Campbell River, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Members of the DFO routinely visit farms surrounding British Columbia to make sure that the health of the salmon populations in fish farms is up to standard. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Jonathan Hayward
Economy
  • Economy
4 MIN READ

Rising imports highlight the high cost of Canada’s stalled salmon production

While global competitors scale up to meet rising demand, Canadian production has flatlined as the country increasingly relies on expensive imports to
Minister of National Defence David McGuinty rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Economy
  • Economy
7 MIN READ

Are we really going to get serious about the economy?

We have ignored the warning signs for long enough.