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Rob Shaw: Eby tosses TNT at utility commission’s independence with latest ICBC rebates

Premier David Eby began his announcement of an ICBC rebate this week by blasting AC/DC’s “Back in Black” on the loudspeakers at his press...

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Rob Shaw

Comment: B.C. embeds mental health stigma and discrimination in legal regulation

A commentary by the first vice‑president of the Law Society of B.C. There are innumerable reasons to oppose the B.C. government’s proposed...

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Brook Greenberg

Rob Shaw: Feds wash hands of drug decriminalization, leaving BC NDP to face fallout

B.C.’s 16-month experiment with decriminalizing small amounts of drugs officially ended in failure Tuesday, after Ottawa announced it had agreed...

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Rob Shaw

Bryan Yu: B.C. retail sales outperform national average as visitor numbers rise

Consumer weakness looks to have extended through the first quarter, with retail spending in Canada declining for a second consecutive month in...

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Bryan Yu

Canadians want more regulations around smoking, according to poll

Across the country, just over one in five Canadians (21 per cent) say they smoked tobacco over the course of the past year. Alberta and Quebec are...

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Mario Canseco

Opinion: 2026 World Cup goes from shiny object to fiscal nightmare for B.C.

In principle, you do not buy what you cannot afford. But when it comes to shiny objects and public finances, well, you just figure out a payment...

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Kirk Lapointe

Rob Shaw: Finance minister quick to deflect questions over troubled Surrey police transition

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,...

06.05.2024 20

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Rob Shaw

Baldrey: Let's put Vancouver's 2026 FIFA World Cup spending into context

Come on now, did anyone really believe the original cost estimate for co-hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026? I mean really, did the original...

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Keith Baldrey

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