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B.C.’s 16-month experiment with decriminalizing small amounts of drugs officially ended in failure Tuesday, after Ottawa announced it had agreed to...
The BC NDP government insists its decision to force Surrey to leave the RCMP and create a new municipal police force is 100 per cent, ironclad,...
If you launch a highly controversial new program, collect sparse data about its performance and then radically alter the parameters more than...
Before their working relationship devolved into a bitter war of words, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth spent almost 40...
The first hint that there may be more to Kevin Falcon than his political stereotype comes when you pull up to his North Vancouver home — a...
When John Horgan reversed course on the Royal BC Museum in 2022, he understood that a successful political pivot has to begin with one thing: An...
Secretly snapped photos, hand-scribbled notes and gossipy observations — the court case between the City of Surrey and the BC NDP government over...
Premier David Eby said Tuesday he’s “very hopeful” that he can convince the world’s largest multi-trillion-dollar social media tech companies...
Once a sleeper issue confined to the bottom of the ballot in B.C. politics, climate change has roared back onto the political agenda in response to...
B.C. New Democrats would never admit it out loud, but at this point they’d be secretly thrilled if the federal Liberal government stepped in and put...
Just how many voters are the BC NDP willing to lose over the issue of drug decriminalization? It’s a question New Democrats are currently asking...
The company at the centre of a conflict of interest probe over CleanBC grants also helped award government grants to companies it represents in the...
There’s no new deal in the long-running policing dispute between the City of Surrey and the B.C. government, but Tuesday’s latest round of...
There are many remarkable things about how the kickback scandal over clean energy grants played out at the legislature on Monday — the speed at...
When health-care staff at St. Paul’s Hospital saw the recent uproar over a leaked memo outlining drug use and weapons inside northern B.C....
B.C.’s three opposition parties united this week to demand the auditor general probe a so-called “kickback scheme” involving one of the...
He’s younger, hipper and has a fresher mandate from voters, so maybe it’s not surprising that Manitoba’s NDP premier, Wab Kinew, can see what...
There’s a compelling case to be made in defence of the landmark agreement signed recently between the B.C. government and the Haida Nation, which...
The BC Conservative party continues its dangerous flirtation with conspiracy theorists, ejecting two candidates recently whose views about health care...
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre brings the fight over the carbon tax into Premier David Eby’s backyard next week, with a series of...
There’s a classic Simpsons episode where Homer discovers he’s so good at getting punched in the face that he can win any boxing match just by...
It’s a clash of political titans over the carbon tax — Canada’s most popular party leader and the man likely to become the country’s next...
British Columbia vaulted to a national leadership position Thursday with new legislation to allow it to sue a wide variety of companies — including...
B.C. small businesses who were rejected for financial aid under the province’s bureaucratic, onerous and poorly designed vandalism grant program are...
Premier David Eby says a humbling failure of his own leadership led former cabinet minister Selina Robinson to quit the B.C. NDP with a scathing...
Ousted cabinet minister Selina Robinson spent the weekend writing her bombshell resignation letter from the B.C. NDP caucus, but sat on it after...
B.C. firefighters put their lives on the line every day responding to hazardous calls, and the last thing they should be worried about is their...
To truly make Premier David Eby’s new housing flipping tax relevant in British Columbia you’ll need three critical ingredients that were missing...
Despite cash-strapped parents desperate for new $10-a-day child care sites, the B.C. government’s roll-out of the system is so troubled that it...
Given the tsunami of deficit and debt in the BC NDP government’s latest budget, you might be surprised to hear there’s a critical program being...
Either the BC NDP thinks it's already won the election, or it’s planning one humdinger of a platform this fall, but it’s hard to imagine the...
When reality begins to fracture in a Hollywood movie, it’s usually called the multiverse — but when it happens in B.C. politics apparently it’s...
B.C.’s legislature resumes this week with a throne speech full of promises and a budget full of numbers — neither of which it would be wise to put...
Is the solution to the middle-class housing squeeze new government-built rental apartments, or a rent-to-own program that partners with the private...
For a plan that’s been almost a year and a half in the making, Premier David Eby’s marquee public housing program, BC Builds, landed with an...
If you wanted to craft the worst possible government aid program, it would go something like this: A provincial fund that offers a paltry amount of...
It takes a lot for Gordon Campbell to come out of retirement and wade into B.C. politics, but a new candidate from BC United — the latest in a...
By the time Premier David Eby removed Selina Robinson from his cabinet Monday, his embattled post-secondary minister was facing criticism from...
For a plan that’s been almost a year and a half in the making, Premier David Eby’s marquee public housing program, BC Builds, landed with an...
If you wanted to craft the worst possible government aid program, it would go something like this: A provincial fund that offers a paltry amount of...
It takes a lot for Gordon Campbell to come out of retirement and wade into B.C. politics, but a new candidate from BC United — the latest in a...
By the time Premier David Eby removed Selina Robinson from his cabinet Monday, his embattled post-secondary minister was facing criticism from...
When MLA Elenore Sturko first raised concerns eight months ago that some of B.C.’s safe supply drugs were being diverted for resale onto the street,...
There’s very little enthusiasm within B.C.’s NDP government for a new report by the provincial health officer that calls for an expansion of...
B.C.’s troubled decriminalization pilot project hits its one-year anniversary this week, but you’re unlikely to hear the word “success” out of...
There’s a bit of a magic to politics on the rare occasions you can get the right person at the right time, to do the right thing for the right...
The B.C. government is appealing a Supreme Court ruling that temporarily struck down its law to restrict drug use in public places — a surprise move...
Selina Robinson is suddenly the most popular kid on the post-secondary school block, as she grapples with what to do with a pile of highly coveted...
B.C. is preparing its own crackdown on international students in shady colleges and universities, in a bid to mitigate new caps from the federal...
British Columbia has been caught off guard by Ottawa’s abrupt proposal to limit the number of international students, and is urging the federal...