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Les Leyne: Proposal to allow secret meetings with First Nations needs a hard look

Les Leyne: Proposal to allow secret meetings with First Nations needs a hard look

The specific reasons why local governments can legally hold secret meetings are being broadened under a bill introduced this week to include dealings...

12.10.2025 5

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Pipeline politics

Pipeline politics

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s accusation Tuesday that B.C. Premier David Eby is being “un-Canadian” in dismissing her oil pipeline idea is...

11.10.2025 3

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Les Leyne: Three sets of B.C. and Alberta premiers clash over pipelines

Les Leyne: Three sets of B.C. and Alberta premiers clash over pipelines

B.C. and Alberta have been fighting off and on over pipelines for more than a decade now, but the latest intensifying spat looks to be the most...

10.10.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Three sets of B.C. and Alberta premiers clash over pipelines

Les Leyne: Three sets of B.C. and Alberta premiers clash over pipelines

B.C. and Alberta have been fighting off and on over pipelines for more than a decade now, but the latest intensifying spat looks to be the most...

10.10.2025 2

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Les Leyne: Pipeline argument looms over legislature agenda

Les Leyne: Pipeline argument looms over legislature agenda

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s accusation Tuesday that Premier David Eby is being “un-Canadian” in dismissing her oil pipeline idea is dead...

09.10.2025 2

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Les Leyne: Pipeline argument looms over legislature agenda

Les Leyne: Pipeline argument looms over legislature agenda

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s accusation Tuesday that Premier David Eby is being “un-Canadian” in dismissing her oil pipeline idea is dead...

09.10.2025 20

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Les Leyne: Legislature should unite for Xavier's Law

Les Leyne: Legislature should unite for Xavier's Law

There’s one specific move politicians resuming the legislative session this week could make that would make B.C. a much safer place. The days will...

08.10.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Legislature should unite for Xavier's Law

Les Leyne: Legislature should unite for Xavier's Law

There’s one specific move politicians resuming the legislative session this week could make that would make B.C. a much safer place. The days will...

08.10.2025 3

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Les Leyne: Ferry system over-stressed, underfunded, says CEO

Les Leyne: Ferry system over-stressed, underfunded, says CEO

Nobody wants to sail in a boat built in some autocratic country with a poor human rights record that cheats and lies, started a trade war with us and...

28.09.2025 10

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Les Leyne: Deficit warning flags fly for finance minister

Les Leyne: Deficit warning flags fly for finance minister

Standing in front of hundreds of public officials who are legally prohibited from operating in the red and fretting about how tough it is to reduce...

27.09.2025 3

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Les Leyne: Deficit warning flags fly for finance minister

Les Leyne: Deficit warning flags fly for finance minister

Standing in front of hundreds of public officials who are legally prohibited from operating in the red and fretting about how tough it is to reduce...

27.09.2025 3

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Les Leyne: B.C. Conservatives' soap opera story arc could go anywhere

Les Leyne: B.C. Conservatives' soap opera story arc could go anywhere

Here’s a synopsis of the latest instalment of my favourite soap opera: As the (B.C. Conservative) World Burns. This week’s episode was pretty...

26.09.2025 3

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Les Leyne: B.C. Conservatives' soap opera story arc could go anywhere

Les Leyne: B.C. Conservatives' soap opera story arc could go anywhere

Here’s a synopsis of the latest instalment of my favourite soap opera: As the (B.C. Conservative) World Burns. This week’s episode was pretty...

26.09.2025 2

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Les Leyne: 'Anything goes' attitude leads to downtown decay

Les Leyne: 'Anything goes' attitude leads to downtown decay

B.C. has slid into an attitude of “endless accommodation” of antisocial behaviour by desperately ill people on downtown streets, says the man at...

25.09.2025 3

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'Disordered' downtowns

'Disordered' downtowns

There will never be a Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention where a crisis of one sort or another is not on the agenda. The very design...

25.09.2025 20

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Les Leyne: UBCM resolutions show downtown distress is B.C.-wide

There will never be a Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention where a crisis of one sort or another is not on the agenda. The very design...

24.09.2025 20

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Les Leyne: UBCM resolutions show downtown distress is B.C.-wide

There will never be a Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention where a crisis of one sort or another is not on the agenda. The very design...

24.09.2025 2

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Les Leyne: Electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future

That sleek little electric, carbon fibre hydrofoil vessel zipping quietly back and forth off the breakwater Monday morning? That could be the future....

19.06.2025 20

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Les Leyne: Province offers $5M fund to battle shoplifting

There’s a new $5-million pool of provincial money being made available to B.C. police for use in fighting non-violent crime like shoplifting. In the...

01.06.2025 10

Times Colonist

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Les Leyne: Premier heads west to give investors a 'big hug'

Premier David Eby’s lacklustre four-month legislature session just wrapping up this week created more problems than it solved. Maybe a change of...

30.05.2025 5

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Les Leyne: Eby's mining vision is confounding

B.C. premiers have a history of magnificent dreams involving either untold riches or epic public works — or both — in northern B.C. W.A.C. Bennett...

29.05.2025 20

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Les Leyne: Eby's mining vision is confounding

B.C. premiers have a history of magnificent dreams involving either untold riches or epic public works — or both — in northern B.C. W.A.C. Bennett...

29.05.2025 3

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Les Leyne: Infrastructure minister admits error, but NDP will press on

Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma took a refreshingly novel approach when it came to defending the NDP’s power grab in the legislature earlier this...

28.05.2025 3

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Les Leyne: Infrastructure minister admits error, but NDP will press on

Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma took a refreshingly novel approach when it came to defending the NDP’s power grab in the legislature earlier this...

28.05.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Skimpy legislative package blamed on rookie MLAs and too much talking

Considering all the problems, it’s strange — as the legislature takes a one-week break before the sitting draws to a close — how little the NDP...

21.05.2025 5

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Les Leyne: Skimpy legislative package blamed on rookie MLAs and too much talking

Considering all the problems, it’s strange — as the legislature takes a one-week break before the sitting draws to a close — how little the NDP...

21.05.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Premier backs opposition critic, for good reason

Premier David Eby is on the correct side of a controversy involving a government attempt to get the RCMP to probe an embarrassing leak. But it took a...

16.05.2025 30

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Les Leyne: Premier backs opposition critic, for good reason

Premier David Eby is on the correct side of a controversy involving a government attempt to get the RCMP to probe an embarrassing leak. But it took a...

16.05.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Fumbled hiring of Eby adviser is under fire

Esquimalt boy Michael Bryant, intensely political since his toddler days, found himself in the middle of a political controversy Tuesday that has more...

15.05.2025 7

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Les Leyne: Fumbled hiring of Eby adviser is under fire

Esquimalt boy Michael Bryant, intensely political since his toddler days, found himself in the middle of a political controversy Tuesday that has more...

15.05.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Eby puts political torque on U.S. nurse poaching effort

Premier David Eby put a lot of political torque on B.C.’s effort to poach U.S. nurses from Pacific coast states while delivering an update on the...

14.05.2025 40

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Les Leyne: Eby puts political torque on U.S. nurse poaching effort

Premier David Eby put a lot of political torque on B.C.’s effort to poach U.S. nurses from Pacific coast states while delivering an update on the...

14.05.2025 10

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Les Leyne: See the beautiful Peace River oil... No wait, don't

Peace River South MLA Larry Neufeld’s enthusiasm for oil and gas is so infectious and captivating it almost makes you want to buy a big diesel...

12.05.2025 10

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Les Leyne: B.C. Premier David Eby damps down rage in Fox News bit

“Are Canadians offended by Trump?… Do you guys like us?” Those were the two most heavily-loaded questions asked of Premier David Eby during his...

09.05.2025 4

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Les Leyne: B.C. Premier David Eby damps down rage in Fox News bit

“Are Canadians offended by Trump?… Do you guys like us?” Those were the two most heavily-loaded questions asked of Premier David Eby during his...

09.05.2025 4

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Les Leyne: Minister comes up short on mental health police calls

Two ex-Mounties squared off in the legislature this week over the mental health crisis that looks to be at the heart of the Vancouver street festival...

08.05.2025 5

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Les Leyne: Minister comes up short on mental health police calls

Two ex-Mounties squared off in the legislature this week over the mental health crisis that looks to be at the heart of the Vancouver street festival...

08.05.2025 8

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Les Leyne: U.S. threats prompt some B.C. energy anxiety

In an energy announcement at Clover Point Monday morning that was brimming with ebullient confidence, there was one factor that was downplayed. It was...

07.05.2025 10

Times Colonist

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Les Leyne: U.S. threats prompt some B.C. energy anxiety

In an energy announcement at Clover Point Monday morning that was brimming with ebullient confidence, there was one factor that was downplayed. It was...

07.05.2025 3

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Les Leyne: Instant town at Site C likely headed for the dump

The B.C. government for years has been preoccupied with the need for more housing and faster, cheaper construction of schools and health facilities....

04.05.2025 9

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Les Leyne: Festival mass killing probes face long, uncertain road

Premier David Eby’s scramble to react to the Lapu Lapu horror in Vancouver is leading the government into complicated territory. One day after...

02.05.2025 7

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Les Leyne: Festival mass killing probes face long, uncertain road

Premier David Eby’s scramble to react to the Lapu Lapu horror in Vancouver is leading the government into complicated territory. One day after...

02.05.2025 6

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Les Leyne: Lapu Lapu massacre could break pattern for responding to mental-health horror stories

Maybe this time it will be different. All the other mental-health horror stories that make their way to the legislature involving deranged people...

01.05.2025 20

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Les Leyne: Lapu Lapu massacre could break pattern for responding to mental-health horror stories

Maybe this time it will be different. All the other mental-health horror stories that make their way to the legislature involving deranged people...

01.05.2025 4

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Les Leyne: Voters judged Carney best leader to take on Trump

Fourteen minutes before he was legally obligated to sit down and shut up Sunday at the stroke of 12, Prime Minister Mark Carney reached the campaign...

30.04.2025 10

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Canadians boycotting U.S.

Premier David Eby and California Governor Gavin Newsom each gave breezy summaries of their brief video chat Monday that left the impression it was a...

19.04.2025 2

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Les Leyne: Refusal to explain de Jong dismissal says a lot about Conservatives' attitude to B.C.

The federal Conservative Party’s incomprehensible decision to reject 30-year MLA Mike de Jong as a candidate looks like it is going to haunt them....

18.04.2025 9

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Les Leyne: Refusal to explain de Jong dismissal says a lot about Conservatives' attitude to B.C.

The federal Conservative Party’s incomprehensible decision to reject 30-year MLA Mike de Jong as a candidate looks like it is going to haunt them....

18.04.2025 3

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Les Leyne: It will take more than 'lots of sunshine' to lure Canadians to California

Premier David Eby and California Governor Gavin Newsom each gave breezy summaries of their brief video chat Monday that left the impression it was a...

17.04.2025 10

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Les Leyne: It will take more than 'lots of sunshine' to lure Canadians to California

Premier David Eby and California Governor Gavin Newsom each gave breezy summaries of their brief video chat Monday that left the impression it was a...

17.04.2025 5

Vancouver Is Awesome

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