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B.C.’s forestry sector put aside its growing frustration with the NDP provincial government on Tuesday to unite behind the premier on a common call:...
The B.C. government wants to merge all its many digital services into a new entity, with the goal of giving people a single place to access everything...
Are young drivers really safer behind the wheel if they get fewer driving tests? B.C. politicians wrestled with that issue this week, as part of...
It didn’t take Premier David Eby long to realize he was facing a hostile crowd during his recent appearance at the Urban Development Institute....
It’s not often political leaders look to the combative environment of the B.C. legislature for safety. But given the alternatives facing Premier...
After a fake membership scandal, a tepid leadership review and the ouster of his top MLA, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad found himself in the...
When the B.C. government announced the appointment of yet another Downtown Eastside advisor this week, it was careful to make sure he was surrounded...
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the latest politician to wade into the precedent-setting Cowichan Nation court ruling, appealing to...
As policy proposals go, it would be charitable to call BC Conservative Leader John Rustad’s plan to scrap Metro Vancouver half-baked. There’s no...
The B.C. government is not ready to announce when or how it will balance the budget, says the finance minister, despite a damning presentation Tuesday...
When BC Conservative Leader John Rustad convinced Elenore Sturko to defect from the BC United party last year, he insisted she was joining a “big...
Mayors and councillors from across B.C. head to Victoria this week to try and squeeze help for health care, crime, street disorder and infrastructure...
Will the B.C. NDP government ever balance the budget? It’s a question Premier David Eby and his finance minister both delicately danced around this...
Will the B.C. NDP government ever balance the budget? It’s a question Premier David Eby and his finance minister both delicately danced around this...
Finance Minister Brenda Bailey deployed smoke and mirrors to try and hide the true size of the NDP government’s growing deficit in her latest update...
The B.C. government scored a big win on Thursday with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new list of “nation-building” projects. Not only did the...
Shouldn’t somebody have some sort of independent oversight into how political parties elect their leaders? It’s a question on the minds of more...
Foreigners are filling up our homeless shelters, emptying our food banks and taking our kids’ jobs. It’s not something many people expected to...
When the BC NDP government decided to embrace the mining industry late last year, Premier David Eby leaned heavily on the importance of critical...
Foreigners are filling up our homeless shelters, emptying our food banks and taking our kids’ jobs. It’s not something many people expected to...
B.C.’s Green party is scrambling to verify whether thousands of new members who signed up to vote in its leadership race are actually real people,...
The first strike day by government workers wasn’t defined by the location or size of its picket lines on Tuesday, but by the political muscle that...
As B.C. government workers launch their first day of strike action, a different kind of labour dispute affecting provincial services is playing out in...
Divide and conquer. The BC NDP unveiled a new strategy in public sector bargaining on Thursday, pitting one union against another on the eve of a...
There were always supposed to be two parts to B.C.’s municipal housing strategy: the carrot and the stick. The stick has been in wide use since...
Canada’s top court needs to quickly decide whether Aboriginal title overrides private property rights, or risk freezing British Columbia’s economy...
The third of three columns on the candidates in the BC Green leadership race: Jonathan Kerr, Emily Lowan and Adam Bremner-Akins. Party members vote on...
There were always supposed to be two parts to B.C.’s municipal housing strategy: the carrot and the stick. The stick has been in wide use since...
Ask the BC NDP government, and it will tell you it’s always eager to hear from local residents concerned about its housing and drug programs. But...
Protest groups that flood election ballots with hundreds of paper candidates in an attempt to confuse voters should not be allowed to hijack...
The B.C. government waded into the Air Canada strike prior to Tuesday’s tentative deal, siding with the flight attendants and using the chance to...
The second of three columns on the candidates in the BC Green leadership race: Jonathan Kerr, Emily Lowan and Adam Bremner-Akins. Party members...
Emily Lowan began the BC Green leadership race as political unknown, a youth climate activist with what she freely admits was an “audacious” goal...
B.C. must defend the province’s longstanding system of private land ownership, and cannot allow for the uncertainty left by a new BC Supreme Court...
It will take time to fully understand the implications of a landmark court ruling that appears to place Aboriginal title in British Columbia above...
The largest shipyard in Canada is criticizing BC Ferries for a flawed procurement process it says was tilted from the start to award new ship...
It will take time to fully understand the implications of a landmark court ruling that appears to place Aboriginal title in British Columbia above...
There was precious little to brag about in the province’s year-end financials Thursday, not that it stopped the NDP government from trying. “It's...
Federal politicians convened in Ottawa Friday for what was supposed to be a reckoning over BC Ferries’ $1-billion China shipbuilding deal. But...
The B.C. government has offered tentative praise to Ottawa’s new forest sector aid package, while also putting down an early marker that it expects...
Federal politicians convened in Ottawa Friday for what was supposed to be a reckoning over BC Ferries’ $1-billion China shipbuilding deal. But...
One week after taking a victory lap on safer streets, the B.C. government is getting yanked back into reality by municipal councils and police...
Premier David Eby is pledging to reform the rare drug approval system his government spent months defending as it denied life-extending medication to...
Two new reproductive health programs in B.C. are not just popular, they’re positioning the province as a national leader in access and innovation....
Premier David Eby is pledging to reform the rare drug approval system his government spent months defending as it denied life-extending medication to...
B.C.’s forestry sector would have been brought to its knees Friday by new American duties on Canadian softwood lumber, if it wasn’t already flat...
Health care and public safety are two of the top issues on the minds of British Columbians, but new statistics this week paint differing views of...
The B.C. NDP government is facing the spectre of a late summer strike by the province’s largest public sector union, after negotiations crumbled....
There’s still another month before the B.C. government’s next budget update, but new data indicates it could be a fiscal bloodbath for the NDP...
The B.C. NDP government is facing the spectre of a late summer strike by the province’s largest public sector union, after negotiations crumbled....