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Paul Willcocks
Publishing · On our record since 2010
Where this writer stands
Fiscal policy1 piece
Higher taxes and public spendingLower taxes and tighter spending
“The government has dug itself into a hole, and has no apparent plan to find a way out.” Read the piece
Public safety1 piece
Prevention and restraintEnforcement and sentencing
“Reasonable people can disagree on whether police should have a role in schools, and what that role should be. The decision should be evidence-based.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- The North Coast Tanker Ban Is Under Attack AgainNews · The Tyee · Oct 28, 2026
- What’s Next for the Parties. And the PublicOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 25, 2026
- Doerkson Stumbles into First Campaign Crisis with Secret ICBC PromisesOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 8, 2026
- Which Side Are You On? Eby’s Election MomentOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 7, 2026
- This Is Not the Election David Eby WantedOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 5, 2026
- After Findlay, What Comes Next? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 21, 2026
- Under Findlay, the BC Conservatives Are Headed for the Rocks | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 26, 2026
- Here’s the Latest Attack on BC Government Accountability | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 20, 2026
- Milobar’s Defection Confirms the Worst for BC Conservatives | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 17, 2026
- BC’s Big Budget Problem | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 13, 2026
- Kerry-Lynne Findlay Is Off to a Weirdly Bad Start | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 9, 2026
- Findlay Steers BC Conservatives Hard Right to Her Party’s Peril | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 17, 2026
- Is Hosting the FIFA World Cup Worth It? A Tyee Debate | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 4, 2026
- Firing Victoria’s School Board Was an Abuse of Power | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · May 28, 2026
- The BC Conservative Leadership Race Ends Under a Cloud | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · May 26, 2026
- Scandals and Divisions Define the BC Conservative Leadership Race | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Apr 13, 2026
- The BC Conservatives Set Out on Mission Impossible | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jan 22, 2026
- Expect Things to Get Even Worse for the BC Conservatives | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Dec 4, 2025
- Why John Rustad Isn’t Going Away | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 30, 2025
- All Parties Play a Part in BC’s Political Gong Show | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 19, 2025
- Rustad Survives as the BC Conservatives Implode | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 23, 2025
- BC Public Sector Negotiations Get Messy as Unions Split | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 1, 2025
- Charleigh’s Case Shows Why Politicians Shouldn’t Play Doctor | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 21, 2025
- BC Gets It Wrong on Human Trafficking | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 7, 2025
- OneBC’s Big Hiring Mistake | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 24, 2025
- The Case for Building BC Ferries in China | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 22, 2025
- Watching as BC’s Political Right Implodes | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 18, 2025
- Which Side Is John Rustad On? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Feb 27, 2025
- Are the BC Conservatives Pro-Trump, or Pro-Canada? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Feb 3, 2025
- Super-polarized BC | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 20, 2024
- Incompetence or Worse? The Case of the Conservatives’ Education Platform | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 15, 2024
- John Rustad Has Shown He’s Not a Serious Person | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 10, 2024
- Sorry, BC Conservatives. The Tyee Isn’t the Story | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 10, 2024
- The Right’s War on Media Comes to BC | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 4, 2024
- Why Kevin Falcon’s Defection Is a Threat to Democracy | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 2, 2024
- Falcon’s Promised Tax Cut Would Sink Services in BC | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 22, 2024
- What Is Wrong with Canada’s Conservatives? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jul 14, 2024
- A Look Inside the Secret, Sordid Side of Lobbying | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jul 11, 2024
- Inside the Campaign to Kill a Step Toward Tax Fairness | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 6, 2024
- Falcon Stumbles, Again, in Doomed Talks with Conservatives | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · May 27, 2024
- The Earthquake Shaking BC Politics | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Apr 16, 2024
- The Strange Story of Vancouver’s Subsidy for One Small Private School | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Mar 11, 2024
- Why MCFD Minister Mitzi Dean Needs to Resign | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 29, 2023
- BC Greens Send a Star Candidate on Mission Impossible | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 10, 2023
- Marshall Smith and the Recovery Success That Wasn’t | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 9, 2023
- Why Is BC Ferries Cancelling Sailings? Bad Jobs | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jul 12, 2023
- Can Kevin Falcon Survive BC United’s Byelection Failures? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 26, 2023
- BC Conservatives Reveal Their Ugly Approach to Democracy | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jun 19, 2023
- John Rustad Likely Won’t Win Seats. But He Will Hurt the BC Liberals | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Apr 4, 2023
- Appadurai’s Insurgent Challenge | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 14, 2022
- How Did Postmedia and CBC Fall for This Bit of Bitcoin Hype? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 18, 2021
- The BC Liberals’ Budget Misfire | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Feb 19, 2020
- Why Would the BC Liberals Revive Their Own Patronage Controversy? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jan 2, 2020
- Scheer’s Gone, but the Conservatives’ Troubles Are Just Beginning | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Dec 11, 2019
- Why Andrew Wilkinson Should Be Scared by Vancouver’s NPA Turmoil | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Dec 8, 2019
- The Symbol of Our Society’s Collapse? The SUV | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Nov 3, 2019
- Five Lessons from a ‘It Could Have Been Worse’ Election | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Oct 22, 2019
- Scheer Wants You to Think Abortion Access Would Be Protected If He Wins. It Wouldn’t | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 10, 2019
- The Increasing Crappiness of Jobs Should Be a Key Election Issue | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 1, 2019
- The Sad Reality of Liberal Partisans’ Response to Trudeau’s Scandal | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 14, 2019