Premier John Horgan and his government limped out of the spring legislative session this week in an unfamiliar position: On the defensive, with criticism on a number of controversies starting to stick. The family doctor crisis, health care wait times, emergency room closures, crime, housing affordability, gas prices, inflation and rising cost-of-living all conspired to […]
B.C.’s hunting and wildlife community says politics, not science, is driving the province’s changes to caribou and moose hunting regulations in the Peace Region. The government announced last week it was scrapping open season on moose hunting in the Peace – traditionally from Aug. 15 to Oct. 31 – and implementing limited entry hunting rules that would […]
B.C.’s largest dinosaur museum operates in an old elementary school gymnasium in Tumbler Ridge, where local governments, volunteers and others are constantly fundraising to keep the doors open and palaeontologists on staff. The provincial government hasn’t provided a cent in operating funding, despite multiple requests over several years. So when Premier John Horgan abruptly announced […]
When Rachel Staples found her 16-year-old son Elliot Eurchuk dead from a drug overdose in the bedroom of their Victoria home in 2018, she channelled her trauma and grief into becoming an outspoken advocate for change to B.C.’s addictions treatment system. Staples took her son’s story public to call for more youth treatment resources, as […]
