Building B.C. – The BC Place Story

Building B.C. – The BC Place Story

by | Mar 8, 2026

March 8, 2026 IF YOU STOOD AT THE TIP of False Creek in 1981 and looked out over the water, the sight would be nearly unrecognizable compared to today. Downtown would still be there, but key pieces of today’s iconic skyline would be missing — chief among them, a...

UNDERGROUND: The real impact of the underground economy in B.C.

by | Feb 6, 2026

February 6, 2026 ON A DRIZZLY WINTER MORNING in 2005, Raul Aguilar balanced on the edge of a high-rise, a suction cup gripped to the pane of glass he was lowering into place. He was 19 years old and a recent immigrant from the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. New to the...

The fight to build ferries in B.C.

by | Dec 9, 2025

December 9, 2025 WHEN PHIL VENOIT FIRST SET FOOT in a shipyard, he was barely out of high school. At just 18 years old, Venoit’s work experience had been as a manager of a McDonald’s. “I’m not going to call it a rude awakening. It was simply an awakening to an...