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Overhaul needed to give BC municipalities a transit voice: report
VANCOUVER -- Municipalities pay the majority of costs for BC Transit but get none of the credit and little input into how the system operates, an independent review of the Crown agency has found. Read more…
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Alberta's Redford calls for premiers to work together for Canada
VANCOUVER - Alberta's Premier Alison Redford made a plea for Canada's leaders to work together, while at the same time she took a poke at British Columbia's premier. Read more…
Groups urge BC premier to launch public inquiry on Integrated Case Management system
B.C.'s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association and other non-profit groups and privacy advocates have written a letter to Premier Christy Clark urging she create a public inquiry into the flawed computer system that is putting children at risk according to the province's independent Representative for Children and Youth. Read more…
B.C. First Nation taking fight against fish farms to country's highest court
VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation is taking its fight against open-net fish farms to Canada's highest court. Read more…
Harper says panel not politics will decide pipeline fate
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says science, not politics, will decide the fate of a controversial pipeline project between Alberta and B.C. Read more…
BC will ask 'tough' questions at pipeline review: environment minister
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government has released what it calls the tough questions it will ask the panel reviewing the proposed Northern Gateway panel. Read more…
First Call critiques 'alleged' BC poverty strategy
First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition says the B.C. government's localized poverty strategy won't work without money and new policies for reducing and preventing poverty. Read more…
Patients inject support into BC doctor's battle against extra billing
VANCOUVER -- A B.C. doctor has fired the latest salvo in a battle over what the provincial government calls extra billing, but what he calls unacceptable delays for health care. Read more…
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BC Hydro charging too much for FOI request, says union
The Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union (COPE) says BC Hydro is charging too money much to process a Freedom of Information request.
The public utility estimated it would cost $18, 875 to process a request related to spillage from its reservoirs. Read more…
Premier Clark derails bid to forge national energy strategy
HALIFAX - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said Friday that she couldn't sign onto a national energy strategy before resolving a dispute over the Northern Gateway pipeline. Read more…
BC legislature keeps 'messy' financial statements: auditor general
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Speaker of the House has accepted blame after the auditor general panned the legislature Thursday for keeping "messy" financial records full of "substantial irregularities." Read more…
Alberta won't share pipeline royalties with BC: Redford
Alberta Premier Alison Redford told reporters her province would not share Northern Gateway pipeline royalties with British Columbia.
Her remarks, delivered at an annual pancake breakfast at the Alberta legislature, came on the heels of B.C. Premier Christy Clarks statement yesterday that her government would not support the project without additional cash. Read more…
BC Liberal government unveils its position on heavy oil pipelines
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's environment minister has outlined what the province needs to support the controversial Enbridge pipeline, saying answers to questions about Northern Gateway have so far been "insufficient." Read more…
Audit all private clinics in BC urges public health care advocate
A provincial government audit that found illegal billing practices at two B.C. private clinics is reason to examine the books at every private clinic in the province, says a public health advocacy group. Read more…
Provincial tracking system puts vulnerable children at risk, says watchdog
The province's new computerized system for keeping track of children and their families could put vulnerable minors under the government's care in harm's way, says the province's children and youth watchdog. Read more…
Alternatives to Gateway pipeline 'might make more sense': Danielle Smith
Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal may not be the best way to get Alberta's bitumen to the west coast, said Danielle Smith, the libertarian-leaning leader of Alberta's official opposition. Read more…
BC health clinic slapped for private billing vows to continue legal challenge
VANCOUVER - Several B.C. health clinics are continuing a legal fight to guarantee access to private care, in the face of a ruling this week that ordered two facilities to stop illegally billing patients. Read more…
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- BC Politics
Clark in war of words with her old home, CKNW
At a South Surrey "beans and jeans" BC Liberal fundraiser over the weekend, B.C. Premier Christy Clark took swipes at the Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer and her former employer CKNW, implying neither will give her government a fair shake. Today CKNW's Gord MacDonald issued a blistering editorial that signals a level of hostility rarely vented by a major B.C. media outlet towards a politician -- particularly one leading the pro-business party in power. Read more…
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BC premier calls Enbridge's US oil pipeline spill disgraceful
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark says if Enbridge Inc. plans to operate its planned pipeline in B.C. the way it did in Michigan where millions of litres of oil spilled, the company can "forget it." Read more…
Members of Sliammon First Nation approve treaty by vote of 318-235
VANCOUVER - Members of a B.C. First Nation have approved a treaty with the federal and provincial governments. Read more…
