Kirk LaPointe
Contributor at Freelance
Glacier Media, The Hub Columnist; UBC Journalism Adjunct Professor; Board Chair KidSafe Project Society, Board Director Vancouver Opera. Goalie, runner/jogger.
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1 week ago |
castanet.net | Sylvain Charlebois |Tegan Hill |Austin Thompson |Kirk LaPointe
Canada’s bread price-fixing scandal stands as one of the most damaging and far-reaching corporate breaches of trust in the country’s food retail history. The recent approval of a $500-million class-action settlement by an Ontario court marks a significant, if partial, step toward accountability. But the story is far from over. The scheme, which ran from 2001 to 2015, involved deliberate coordination between retailers and suppliers to raise the price of packaged bread — a basic household staple.
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1 week ago |
biv.com | Stefan Labbe |Kirk LaPointe |Jami Makan
Red tape and high living costs are driving Vancouver’s tech workforce to look elsewhere, according to industry execs speaking at the global Web Summit that has drawn thousands to the city’s downtown this past week. “Having [built] companies in this city for 25 years, I can say we’ve always struggled with [having] enough talent,” Tanis Jorge said at a Web Summit press conference on Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
biv.com | Kirk LaPointe
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 Speech from the Throne was quite the spectacle. But before we get carried away with our future selves, we need to focus on the here and now of Canadians being carried off by indebtedness. The federal government may be mapping out plans to lead the G7 in prosperity, but here in British Columbia, many households are struggling to stay upright.
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2 weeks ago |
biv.com | Kirk LaPointe
Over 52 pages that took a swift four months to produce, the Deloitte Canada management consultancy has confirmed comprehensively what we have seen and heard far too often in recent years: that the board of the Metro Vancouver Regional District is a hot mess. Unwieldy and overrun by the region’s growth requirements. Inadequately experienced because of the high turnover rate of the board’s municipal officials at election time.
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2 weeks ago |
castanet.net | Tegan Hill |Austin Thompson |Sylvain Charlebois |Kirk LaPointe
Housing in Metro Vancouver remains among the least affordable in the world. Today, a typical household in the region must spend nearly 100 per cent of its pre-tax income on mortgage payments, property taxes and utilities for a typical home, which costs an estimated $1.51 million. And the problem has spread to other previously affordable municipalities across the province.
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Only rarely, and usually only preceding third reading, has a legislative speaker cast a tie-breaking vote in favour of the government's effort to pass a law. The so-called Denison's Rule generally guides a speaker to maintain the status quo and extend debate on proposed laws when
My latest for @TheHubCanada, the second item in this Need To Know feature, is on the @bcndp government's, and leader #DavidEby's, use of @DonaldTrump as a convenient foil to pass excessive legislation and deflect attention from economic malaise in the province.
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