British Columbia

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British Columbia: Canada’s western economic frontier — where housing, resources, and innovation collide. From Vancouver’s tech corridors to northern ports, BC reflects the country’s productivity paradox and cost pressures in microcosm.

Economics

The Two Economies of British Columbia: Housing Wealth vs. Productive Growth

British Columbia’s record housing wealth hides stagnant productivity. Behind Vancouver’s skyline lies an economy built on real estate, not efficiency—its prosperity engineered through land values, not labour, and now facing the limits of that illusion.

Editor

07 Nov 2025

budget

Modernizing the Mirage:

Canada’s prosperity is increasingly built on illusion—asset inflation, cheap credit, and public spending masking weak productivity. Modernizing the Mirage examines how Western economies sustain confidence without reform, and what happens when the illusion breaks.

Editor

03 Nov 2025