“This is where every First Nation in the country would love to be.” Crystal Smith In the Haisla Nation off B.C.’s north coast, there are three kinds of natural resource projects: Those imposed upon the nation without a say, those that invited Indigenous leaders to the table to talk, and — newly — those designed […]
The new oil and gas emissions cap is a foreboding sign for the sector, says Rob Shaw. How do you get a polluting natural resource project through the environmentally-minded government of Premier David Eby? The answer, it turns out, is by appealing to the only thing the Eby administration considers more important than climate change: […]
“There’s no safety net for them.” Arthur Renwick A billion dollars doesn’t go as far as it used to. When a story broke that the B.C. government had submitted a last-minute, billion-dollar addiction and mental health package for Treasury Board approval, it sounded conspicuously similar to the treatment and recovery platform released by the BC Liberal’s a […]
