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Rob Shaw is the CHEK News legislative correspondent and political columnist/commentator for CBC, Glacier Media, Northern Beat and Political Capital. He is co-author of A Matter of Confidence.

Politics not science driving moose hunt changes, say critics

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
Posted

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…

The BC Museum debacle… No, not that one!

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
Posted

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…

Premier pivots on holding youths after overdose; grieving parents struggle with “broken”…

News Feature

Written By Rob Shaw
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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…

NDP Majority Year One – Crystal clear turns to a parade of…

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
Posted

Premier John Horgan was crystal clear about why B.C. needed a strong majority New Democrat government when he called an early election just over a year ago. “I cannot imagine…