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Les Leyne: School board digs in with inane stance on police liaison officers

“My family has been through absolute hell,” the letter begins. It recounts how a teenager got enticed by quick money and wound up in serious gang...

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Les Leyne: Lawyers gearing up for fight over Legal Professions Act

With no fewer than nine experts listed as validating and supporting a bill revamping the oversight of lawyers the day it dropped, it looked like the...

16.04.2024 4

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Les Leyne: Lawyers gearing up for fight over Legal Professions Act

With no fewer than nine experts listed as validating and supporting a bill revamping the oversight of lawyers the day it dropped, it looked like the...

16.04.2024 9

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Les Leyne: An up-close look at drug safe-supply diversion

In the cabinet offices, the executive suites of the public health sector and the senior ranks of the RCMP there is a mantra they chant to themselves...

13.04.2024 6

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Les Leyne: An up-close look at drug safe-supply diversion

In the cabinet offices, the executive suites of the public health sector and the senior ranks of the RCMP there is a mantra they chant to themselves...

13.04.2024 8

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Les Leyne: Transit-oriented developments loom large in Victoria's future

Picture living a few years from now in a brand-new condo with a gorgeous view of Juan de Fuca Strait and the Sooke Hills, a credit-card flip away from...

11.04.2024 10

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Les Leyne: Kickback probe could shape carbon-tax fight

Energy Minister Josie Osborne may or may not survive the controversy over allegations about a kickback scheme in the independently-managed CleanBC...

10.04.2024 8

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Les Leyne: Kickback probe could shape carbon-tax fight

Energy Minister Josie Osborne may or may not survive the controversy over allegations about a kickback scheme in the independently-managed CleanBC...

10.04.2024 7

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Les Leyne: NDP flips, launches dual probes after accusation of kickback in handling of green grants

Maybe the suspicions that a small B.C. company’s innovation is being shunned by the government due to an alleged conflict of interest will prove to...

09.04.2024 10

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Les Leyne: NDP flips, launches dual probes after accusation of kickback in handling of green grants

Maybe the suspicions that a small B.C. company’s innovation is being shunned by the government due to an alleged conflict of interest will prove to...

09.04.2024 8

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Les Leyne: She was terrified of police officers, until she met one

The steady barrage of objections to the Greater Victoria School Board’s decision to bar police liaison officers from schools has been piling up for...

06.04.2024 8

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Les Leyne: Eby adviser deeply involved in online media world

Premier David Eby made national news several weeks ago with some harsh criticism of an established Canadian news giant, Bell Media. After it announced...

05.04.2024 4

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Les Leyne: Eby adviser deeply involved in online media world

Premier David Eby made national news several weeks ago with some harsh criticism of an established Canadian news giant, Bell Media. After it announced...

05.04.2024 4

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Les Leyne: Harwinder Sandhu jumped from MLA to mom to life-saver — in seconds

The B.C. legislature was ­thrashing out final consideration this week of allowing MLAs to participate remotely. Taking part via video has been...

16.03.2024 7

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Les Leyne: U.S. ambassador talks protocol, treaties and softwood lumber

Five months into former premier John Horgan’s term as Canada’s ambassador to Germany, British Columbians are still adapting to referring to “His...

15.03.2024 7

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Les Leyne: U.S. ambassador talks protocol, treaties and softwood lumber

Five months into former premier John Horgan’s term as Canada’s ambassador to Germany, British Columbians are still adapting to referring to “His...

15.03.2024 10

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Les Leyne: Saanich motion increases pressure on school board to reverse police stance

Mayor Dean Murdock’s instructions from Saanich council are to write a “strong compelling” letter to the Greater Victoria School Board telling...

14.03.2024 7

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Les Leyne: Is safe-supply diversion 'widespread'? Depends how you define it

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth on Monday discounted warnings from RCMP officers about drugs from the province’s safe-supply program being...

12.03.2024 5

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Les Leyne: Eby can't call the shots on antisemitism response

Calling for a “full ­independent inquiry” is a tired move used by critics whenever a ­government gets in trouble. The phrase ­routinely rolls...

09.03.2024 9

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Les Leyne: Eby can't call the shots on antisemitism response

Calling for a “full ­independent inquiry” is a tired move used by critics whenever a ­government gets in trouble. The phrase ­routinely rolls...

09.03.2024 10

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Les Leyne: Vivid housing lawsuits embarrass NDP

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....

07.03.2024 8

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Les Leyne: We're nearing the bottom of B.C. Hydro's bag of tricks to keep rates low

There may or may not be parades and jubilation when the “electricity affordability credit” starts showing up seven months before the October...

06.03.2024 8

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Les Leyne: Police chief and school board remain at loggerheads on officers in schools

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...

05.03.2024 6

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Les Leyne: Evidence is in: Bring back school police-liaison programs

When B.C. human rights ­commissioner Kasari Govender strongly urged all B.C. school trustees to shut down school police-liaison programs, she...

02.03.2024 10

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Les Leyne: School board and teachers' flip-flop on police isn't a good look

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...

29.02.2024 7

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Les Leyne: Will B.C.’s World Cup costs go up? Of course they will

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...

28.02.2024 9

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Les Leyne: Will B.C.’s World Cup costs go up? Of course they will

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...

28.02.2024 8

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Les Leyne: Flipping tax long time coming, late arriving

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...

27.02.2024 8

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Les Leyne: Flipping tax long time coming, late arriving

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...

27.02.2024 7

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Les Leyne: How was my budget experience? So glad you asked

Slumped over my keyboard, still overwhelmed by the suffocating amount of government data stuffed in my face ­during this week’s budget lockup, I...

24.02.2024 9

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Les Leyne: How was my budget experience? So glad you asked

Slumped over my keyboard, still overwhelmed by the suffocating amount of government data that were stuffed in my face during this week’s budget...

24.02.2024 10

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Les Leyne: One-time goodies designed to smooth path to fall vote

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...

23.02.2024 6

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Les Leyne: One-time goodies designed to smooth path to fall vote

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...

23.02.2024 6

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Les Leyne: NDP retreats on Land Act, blames 'dog whistle politics'

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...

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Les Leyne: NDP retreats on Land Act, blames 'dog whistle politics'

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...

22.02.2024 7

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Les Leyne: Throne speech has people programs to help NDP stay atop polls

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...

21.02.2024 20

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Les Leyne: Throne speech has people programs to help NDP stay atop polls

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...

21.02.2024 10

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Les Leyne: No crystal ball needed to predict 2024 will be a year of electioneering in B.C.

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...

03.01.2024 8

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Les Leyne: No crystal ball needed to predict 2024 will be a year of electioneering in B.C.

  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...

03.01.2024 10

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Les Leyne: Doukhobor children's lifelong wait for apology continues after 'screw up'

Seventy years after about 200 children were snatched from their homes and confined for several years in a remote ­institution in the Kootenays, the...

02.12.2023 8

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Les Leyne: Doukhobor children's lifelong wait for apology continues after 'screw up'

Seventy years after about 200 children were snatched from their homes and confined for several years in a remote ­institution in the Kootenays, the...

02.12.2023 8

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Les Leyne: Conservative duo heats up debate with talk of chickens, pots and edible insects

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...

01.12.2023 5

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Les Leyne: Conservative duo heats up debate with talk of chickens, pots and edible insects

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...

01.12.2023 20

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Les Leyne: Finance Ministry lowballs housing start forecast

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...

29.11.2023 6

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Les Leyne: Finance Ministry lowballs housing start forecast

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...

29.11.2023 7

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Les Leyne: Attempt at 'clarity and guidance' on shelters fails on both counts

It started three weeks ago as a relatively innocuous little legal definition that would set a province-wide standard for dealing with homeless...

28.11.2023 6

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Les Leyne: Housing push has to meet labour needs

“Labour Market Outlook Offers Exciting Look Into the Future,” was the government’s teaser headline on a Friday news release. The big news was...

25.11.2023 7

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Les Leyne: Housing push has to meet labour needs

“Labour Market Outlook Offers Exciting Look Into the Future,” was the government’s teaser headline on a Friday news release. The big news was...

25.11.2023 9

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Les Leyne: Underplayed CleanBC costs under fire

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...

23.11.2023 5

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Les Leyne: Underplayed CleanBC costs under fire

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...

23.11.2023 5

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