British Columbia Today Archives
Cherry Smiley enters BC NDP race hoping to provide a ‘different perspective’
With a challenge for the leadership of the NDP, women’s rights activist and scholar Cherry Smiley is hoping to bring awareness to struggles facing women, seniors, and people suffering from drug addiction in B.C.
Read MoreRebuilding trust: Appadurai wants to give NDP back to the grassroots
Anjali Appadurai wants to give the NDP a jolt in the leadership race David Eby hoped would be a coronation.
Read MoreWind should play a bigger role in B.C.’s energy mix, experts say
A proposed 164-turbine onshore wind farm poised to generate up to one gigawatt of power has B.C. experts looking east for inspiration to tackle a potential shortage of green energy that will be needed to power the province's grid.
Read MoreDon’t call him an activist: Eby vows more public cash for housing
David Eby is not the “activist” some of his most ardent supporters and detractors alike believe him to be.
Read More‘What’s happening now is not working’: Some consensus, lots of tension on addiction treatment in B.C.
When she appeared before the Select Standing Committee on Health earlier this month, Susan Hogarth painted a bleak picture of B.C.’s toxic drug crisis.
Read MoreAdvocates slam lack of surgical abortion services in Fraser Health hospitals
Abortion-rights advocates say that hospitals in one of B.C.’s largest urban centres do not currently provide surgical abortions.
Read MoreB.C. can afford to up public sector wages by five per cent: CCPA
The province should cough up the cash to give public sector workers “a fair deal,” according to Alex Hemingway, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Read More‘A failure of will’: Cullen commission finds fault but no evidence of corruption
Cabinet ministers, high-level bureaucrats and law enforcement officials were aware B.C. had a problem with dirty money for nearly a decade, but not nearly enough was done to turn the tide until 2018.
Read MoreB.C. business groups tell finance committee they want lower taxes
The Surrey Board of Trade and the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade want the province to conduct “a comprehensive tax review” as businesses find themselves “buried in provincial debt, rising inflation and an even higher cost of living” in the wake of the pandemic.
Read MoreRecommended B.C. legislature reforms still lacking after three years
In the wake of the 2018 legislature spending scandal, “significant changes” to the Legislative Assembly’s operations were made to ensure the fraud and breach of trust committed by ex-clerk Craig James “never happen again,” according to government house leader Mike Farnworth.
Read More