Wes Regan – Wes Regan: urban sustainability, public policy + CED

May 25, 2020 wesregan

In defence of the city and of public transit during (and after) the COVID-19 pandemic

British Museum Underground Station, London, 1937 The entire world has been rattled by the coronavirus pandemic (aka COVID-19) making it

May 20, 2020 wesregan

If we are to have true self-government, we cannot elect billionaires

Working in public policy for the past several years I’ve come to appreciate that it’s common for those of us

April 21, 2020 wesregan

Seven questions for the post-pandemic economic recovery

(Left) A modern multinational corporation requests more quantitative easing and government stimulus as a novel coronavirus ravages austerity crippled healthcare systems around the globe.

July 7, 2019 wesregan

Mild mannered bureaucrat by day, recording artist by night: Wes Regan album release party July 26th at Fox Cabaret

When I moved to Vancouver twenty years ago to pursue a career in music and the performing arts I never

April 5, 2020 wesregan

There’s no going back to the pre-pandemic economy

Everything is under the microscope now. Not just the virus that causes COVID-19 but the society we created for ourselves, and it.

February 28, 2020 wesregan

Will a new generation of leadership emerge in the Green Party?

The Green Party is a party that began with relatively radical ideas put forward by relatively privileged people. It needs to put equity, diversity and inclusion at the centre of its growth efforts.

February 16, 2019 wesregan

Price Talks Ep21: Working in Vancouver’s ‘Liminal Space’ of the DTES & Community Economic Development

As a guest on Price Talks I talk about my experience over the last 10 years working at the intersections of public health, poverty, economic development and planning on the Price Talks podcast with editor Colin Stein (Formerly of the Vancouver Economic Commission and Downtown Kingston BIA).

March 17, 2018 wesregan

Notley’s threats to BC remind us of Enron and the California energy crisis

It would be great to see a healthier dialogue between Alberta and BC regarding Canadian energy and our future development. Sadly, the bar just gets dragged lower and lower. It’s March 2018 and despite opposition from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, populist prairie politicians are voicing support for Alberta strangling British Columbia’s supply of domestic oil and gas.

March 14, 2018 wesregan

Threats, insults, and bullying a winning formula to gain BC support for Kinder Morgan pipeline

“Shitheads” that’s how Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous described British Columbians this week at a meeting of Albertan Municipal leaders. The same week that Alberta’s Speech from the Throne floated the idea of punishing BC by turning off the supply of oil and gas to the province, a sensible way to demonstrate just how much communities in BC need Bitumen to be shipped to China for motorists there.

February 14, 2018 wesregan

Putting together B.C. and Alberta’s shared prosperity puzzle

British Columbia and Alberta are perfectly poised to lead Canada’s transition to a more sustainable form of energy security and prosperity. Instead they have created a level of hostility and resentment I don’t think we’ve ever seen between the two provinces. It’s all fire and fury as threats of lawsuits are tossed over the Rockies into B.C., along with a boycott of B.C. wine and swearing off vacations here. All this for the B.C. government raising concerns over what could happen if a pipeline or tanker transporting hazardous materials ruptures and threatens thousands of jobs and entire industries.