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“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Energy Minister Josie Osborne may or may not survive the controversy over allegations about a kickback scheme in the independently-managed CleanBC...
Energy Minister Josie Osborne may or may not survive the controversy over allegations about a kickback scheme in the independently-managed CleanBC...
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...
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...
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...
Premier David Eby made national news several weeks ago with some harsh criticism of an established Canadian news giant, Bell Media. After it announced...
Premier David Eby made national news several weeks ago with some harsh criticism of an established Canadian news giant, Bell Media. After it announced...
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...