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B.C. budget surplus projection continues to shrink

November 26, 2019 admin b.c. budget 2019, BC government, icbc, politics

Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:28:50 +0000

B.C.’s projected budget surplus has shrunk again as the province grapples with a collapsing forestry sector, a retail sales drop and losses at ICBC.

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Rob Shaw: B.C. preps its priority requests for the new federal cabinet

November 24, 2019 admin BC government, child care, climate change, Government of Canada, housing, John Horgan, Justin Trudeau, politics

Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:01:34 +0000

New federal cabinet ministers will soon be getting calls from their B.C. counterparts with a long list of priority provincial requests.

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Exclusive: B.C. jail guard accused of sexually abusing 200 young inmates

November 22, 2019 admin b.c. corrections, b.c. supreme court, bc corrections, BC government, local news, oakalla

Credit to Author: Lori Culbert| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:19:47 +0000

We examined 100s of pages of court documents to tell a story that begins in 1976, about the alleged abuse of young inmates over two decades, and the continued fallout today. The four-part series next looks at who was impacted, how the system responded, and what is happening now.

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B.C. government backtracks from legal fight with children's rep

November 21, 2019 admin BC government, child, david eby, local news, politics

Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:50:01 +0000

B.C.’s government is looking at ways to avoid fights in the courts in the future.

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B.C. plans to legislate overturned limits on court experts in ICBC cases

November 20, 2019 admin BC government, david eby, icbc, local news, politics

Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 01:49:46 +0000

Attorney-general says he plans reinstate limits on medical expert reports that the B.C. Supreme Court ruled were unconstitutional.

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B.C. redesigns funding program that targets racism and hate

November 20, 2019 admin BC government, multiculturalism, politics, RACISM

Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:20:52 +0000

The B.C. government is redesigning the programs it uses to fight racism and intolerance, unveiling a new structure on Wednesday.

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B.C. stokes public outrage on cellphone bills, but must defer to Ottawa

November 19, 2019 admin BC government, BC NDP, politics

Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:04:49 +0000

VICTORIA — B.C.’s New Democrat government continues to stoke public outrage over expensive cellphone bills, appointing a point person on the issue while admitting that Ottawa, not the province, controls action on mobile phone companies. Premier John Horgan named backbench Maple Ridge—Mission MLA Bob D’Eith as “the federal lead on telecommunications” with a mandate to […]

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