Opinion

Premier David Eby surprised many on Sunday when he announced a government directive to Crown prosecutors to do more, where possible, on “the risk that repeat violent offenders pose to public safety in British Columbia.

Over the past two years, British Columbians developed a love-hate relationship with the possibility of Vancouver hosting the Winter Olympics for the second time.

Most commemorative benches, picnic tables and other pieces of public furniture are dedicated to people only after they’re gone. Most are in loving memory of the dearly departed, not the happily here.

'That is to say, where I usually see variety and abundance of fungi equivalent to marine life in the Great Barrier Reef, I can count on one hand the varieties I’ve spotted to mid-November.'

If you look it up today, you will find that Tamara Vrooman became CEO at YVR on Canada Day in 2020. But it wasn’t the YVR we knew. And she couldn’t be the CEO we knew, even the CEO that she knew.

For most new premiers, their swearing-in day is a leisurely victory lap. Typically, they pose for the cameras, introduce their new cabinet and pat themselves on the back for winning an election or leadership race.

'Both wallets contained all our credit cards, DLs and identification. It was a quiet but quick drive back to Halfmoon Bay, both in deep thought of how we would manage. Our eyes began searching every foot of the four-kilometre gravel road when Simone’s phone rang.'

'Let’s illuminate the Coast’s real “water hog leak”… beyond the pipe leaks in the local campgrounds, recently causing entire RV communities to be cut off running water, me included.'

As David Eby prepares to be sworn in as premier, it’s worth looking at the political landscape he will inherit in B.C. compared to only one year ago.