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The B.C. legislature was thrashing out final consideration this week of allowing MLAs to participate remotely. Taking part via video has been...
Five months into former premier John Horgan’s term as Canada’s ambassador to Germany, British Columbians are still adapting to referring to “His...
Five months into former premier John Horgan’s term as Canada’s ambassador to Germany, British Columbians are still adapting to referring to “His...
Mayor Dean Murdock’s instructions from Saanich council are to write a “strong compelling” letter to the Greater Victoria School Board telling...
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth on Monday discounted warnings from RCMP officers about drugs from the province’s safe-supply program being...
Calling for a “full independent inquiry” is a tired move used by critics whenever a government gets in trouble. The phrase routinely rolls...
Calling for a “full independent inquiry” is a tired move used by critics whenever a government gets in trouble. The phrase routinely rolls...
B.C.’s Housing Ministry was only too happy to trumpet its involvement in the Vivid condo building in downtown Victoria when it was finished in 2021....
There may or may not be parades and jubilation when the “electricity affordability credit” starts showing up seven months before the October...
One word jumps out from the Greater Victoria School Board’s vague response to Victoria Police Chief Del Manak’s appeal to drop the ban on police...
When B.C. human rights commissioner Kasari Govender strongly urged all B.C. school trustees to shut down school police-liaison programs, she...
Victoria Police Chief Del Manak is taking another run at resurrecting the school police liaison program. It’s a wonder he’d bother, given the...
Horror gripped the beating heart of Canada (a.k.a. Toronto) this week after the shocking revelation that cost estimates for the 2026 FIFA World Cup...
Horror gripped the beating heart of Canada (a.k.a. Toronto) this week after the shocking revelation that cost estimates for the 2026 FIFA World Cup...
You have to go back more than 30 years to find the origin story for a flipping tax, and at the start it was a non-starter. A tax on real estate...
You have to go back more than 30 years to find the origin story for a flipping tax, and at the start it was a non-starter. A tax on real estate...
Slumped over my keyboard, still overwhelmed by the suffocating amount of government data stuffed in my face during this week’s budget lockup, I...
Slumped over my keyboard, still overwhelmed by the suffocating amount of government data that were stuffed in my face during this week’s budget...
Even with a historic deficit looming, the NDP government has discovered there’s enough money lying around to bestow two one-time-only direct gifts...
Even with a historic deficit looming, the NDP government has discovered there’s enough money lying around to bestow two one-time-only direct gifts...
It’s not often a government opens the first full day of a legislative session with an angry capitulation. On Tuesday, the NDP government confidently...
It’s not often a government opens the first full day of a legislative session with an angry capitulation. On Tuesday, the NDP government confidently...
Premier David (I’m a people person) Eby set out the NDP government’s itinerary to get from where they are now (top of the polls) to where they...
Premier David (I’m a people person) Eby set out the NDP government’s itinerary to get from where they are now (top of the polls) to where they...
The only safe prediction for 2024 in B.C. politics is that, at some point, you’ll be able to pass judgment on it all in a voting booth. There will...
The only safe prediction for 2024 in B.C. politics is that, at some point, you’ll be able to pass judgment on it all in a voting booth. There...
Seventy years after about 200 children were snatched from their homes and confined for several years in a remote institution in the Kootenays, the...
Seventy years after about 200 children were snatched from their homes and confined for several years in a remote institution in the Kootenays, the...
While the fall legislative session was consumed with housing, there was a novelty act playing in the wings. For the first time in 50 years, the...
While the fall legislative session was consumed with housing, there was a novelty act playing in the wings. For the first time in 50 years, the...
After the NDP government set the stage for the biggest residential construction boom since the end of the Second World War, what is the B.C. Finance...
After the NDP government set the stage for the biggest residential construction boom since the end of the Second World War, what is the B.C. Finance...
It started three weeks ago as a relatively innocuous little legal definition that would set a province-wide standard for dealing with homeless...
“Labour Market Outlook Offers Exciting Look Into the Future,” was the government’s teaser headline on a Friday news release. The big news was...
“Labour Market Outlook Offers Exciting Look Into the Future,” was the government’s teaser headline on a Friday news release. The big news was...
The BC United Opposition has been pushing its chips in for the past few weeks on a bet that will either make them a viable contender in next year’s...
The BC United Opposition has been pushing its chips in for the past few weeks on a bet that will either make them a viable contender in next year’s...
At the same time Premier David Eby is asking the federal government to go easy on recovering some COVID-19 benefits, his own government is clawing...
At the same time Premier David Eby is asking the federal government to go easy on recovering some COVID-19 benefits, his own government is clawing...
Premier David Eby’s account of the precarious lives many British Columbians are living — delivered to the NDP’s weekend convention in Victoria...
Premier David Eby has a new tougher outlook on issues, a big new mandate as leader of the NDP — and a new baby on the way. His wife, Dr. Cailey...
Premier David Eby has a new tougher outlook on issues, a big new mandate as leader of the NDP — and a new baby on the way. His wife, Dr. Cailey...
Premier David Eby’s attempt when he was attorney general to change how bail hearings are dealt with violated a labour agreement with B.C.’s...
The town of View Royal is billing a meeting later this month as “The Last Public Hearing.” It’s a cheeky reference to the B.C. government’s...
There was an alternative move available to Premier David Eby two weeks ago when the issue of government-backed safe-supply advocacy groups who were...
There was an alternative move available to Premier David Eby two weeks ago when the issue of government-backed safe-supply advocacy groups who were...
In a legislature that is currently consumed with the housing crisis, obviously the sweeping big-picture measures get most of the attention. In just...
In a legislature that is currently consumed with the housing crisis, obviously the sweeping big-picture measures get most of the attention. In just...
There’s a lodge owner in northern B.C. with an electric-vehicle charging station. So far, so good. He’s climate-change conscious, going out of his...
There’s a lodge owner in northern B.C. with an electric-vehicle charging station. So far, so good. He’s climate-change conscious, going out of his...