What role do financial institutions play in shaping the community we call home?

John Horgan, the leader of the BC NDP, is reaching the one year anniversary of his rise to the party's leadership.

Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu is stepping down from the lead role with the Vancouver Police. He says, "Policing has changed a lot from the early 80s" when he first signed on. "You didn't have the massive number of drug addicts; you didn't have the mentally ill."

One in four people suffers from chronic pain. That is according to Dr. Brenda Lau, who specializes in pain management.

BC has the opportunity to become the go to place for post secondary education in Canada. That is what Andrew Petter, the President of Simon Fraser University, believes.

"Climate change is one the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced." That is the claim from environmentalist and writer Dr. Tzeporah Berman.

"Computer models never predicted an 18 year temperature pause." That is the claim from Dr. Ken Green, author of "Global Warming: Understanding the Debate" and the Senior Director at the Centre for Natural Resources at the Fraser Institute.

Computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it. That is according to physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Voter turnout, particularly with younger voters is dropping. The unintended consequence is older people are becoming more powerful. That is according to Dr. Gerald Baier of UBC's Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

We all need to recognize that we’ve undermined our fiscal capacity to pay for the things that we need to pay for.

Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham thinks the "no" is likely to win in the Vancouver transit referendum. Well, maybe – well, maybe not.

Jordan Bateman thinks you should vote "no" in the Vancouver transit referendum.

Michael Geller thinks you should vote yes in the Vancouver transit referendum.

The world needs natural resources. That is according to Cody Battershill of Canada Action. He says as stewards of the environment, no other exporting country can match Canada’s protection standards.

Bill Gallagher, the author of Resource Rulers, has been watching and counting the impressive number of Court Decisions that side with First Nations.

2015 is the year genomics gets real. That is according to Dr. Corey Nislow. From his lab at UBC, he is working on a pilot project with the BC Pharmacy Association and Genome BC that moves us one step closer in the promise of personalized medicine.

Since the restructuring of the commercial fishing industry in the 90’s communities up and down the coast have been disenfranchised from the sector that was their lifeblood.

Gary Herman of the Industry Training Authority says British Columbia is on the cusp of a serious job crunch.

We need to monitor British Columbia's resources, including the water needed for hydraulic fracturing. That is according to Robin Archdekin of Geoscience BC. He says Geoscience BC provides an invaluable resource to people who want and need unbiased information about the state of natural resources in the province.

David Keane, the President of the BC LNG Alliance, says the LNG industry in BC is alive and well.