David Eby’s new housing plan is the most ambitious attempt at tackling the housing affordability crisis in B.C. in the last two decades — though what parts of the province will actually benefit remains an open question. Some of Eby’s planks focus exclusively on urban B.C., including a proposal to automatically up-zone all single family […]
Oil and gas companies are increasingly leaving northeastern B.C. as the government struggles to manage enormous permitting delays and other real-world consequences of a landmark First Nations court decision, says the region’s MLA. Mike Bernier said he’s regularly fielding complaints from residents, farmers and corporations caught up in the uncertainty of a provincial pause on […]
Rural mayors concerned about the crumbling state of healthcare in their communities finally got a chance to plead their case to Health Minister Adrian Dix this week. It did not go well. Dix showed up to a public panel with mayors at the Union of BC Municipalities on Sept. 13 already on the defensive. Apparently, he’d been […]
