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Don’t call him an activist: Eby vows more public cash for housing

David Eby is not the “activist” some of his most ardent supporters and detractors alike believe him to be.

Williams Lake First Nation wants federal probe into RCMP after member’s death

‘What’s happening now is not working’: Some consensus, lots of tension on addiction treatment in B.C. 

When she appeared before the Select Standing Committee on Health earlier this month, Susan Hogarth painted a bleak picture of B.C.’s toxic drug crisis.

Danielle Smith seeking redemption, but not NDP voters

UCP leadership candidate Danielle Smith says the suggestion she is a polarizing candidate is “funny.” She sees herself as a unifier within the conservative movement.

Province rushes IESO to find more electricity generation ahead of Pickering nuclear plant decommissioning

Distinct characteristics separate Alberta separatists, autonomists and federalists: survey

Advocates slam lack of surgical abortion services in Fraser Health hospitals

Abortion-rights advocates say that hospitals in one of B.C.’s largest urban centres do not currently provide surgical abortions.

B.C. can afford to up public sector wages by five per cent: CCPA

The province should cough up the cash to give public sector workers “a fair deal,” according to Alex Hemingway, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

First Nations chiefs call on Ford government to withdraw recognition of Métis communities

The province has landed in the middle of a conflict over territorial rights between First Nations and the Métis Nation of Ontario, with the former calling on the government to withdraw its recognition of Métis communities as rights-holding Indigenous groups.

‘A failure of will’: Cullen commission finds fault but no evidence of corruption

Cabinet ministers, high-level bureaucrats and law enforcement officials were aware B.C. had a problem with dirty money for nearly a decade, but not nearly enough was done to turn the tide until 2018.