This morning Margaret MacDiarmid, British Columbia's health minister, said she could confirm there's been another firing in her ministry but she remains limited in what she could say about the ongoing investigation. Read more…

Falling natural gas revenues have blown a hole in British Columbia's budget, a problem the NDP's finance critic says should have been foreseen. Read more…

VANCOUVER -- Environmentalists are organizing what they're calling the "largest act of peaceful civil disobedience" in Canada to protest the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast. Read more…

Researchers with the Therapeutics Initiative need to have their access to data restored as soon as possible, says Jim Wright, the managing director of the University of B.C. pharmaceutical research group. Read more…

Locked out Rocky Mountaineer on-board attendants are finally going back to work, after almost 15 months on the picket line. Read more…

The B.C. government has hired a former attorney general to oversee the province's grilling of Enbridge on its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project. Read more…

More than 27,000 government workers are walking off the job this morning, forcing offices that oversee everything from marriage and driver's licences to forestry permits and government liquor sales to shut their doors for the day. Read more…

Most Canadians think of Labour Day as the last long weekend opportunity of the summer, a chance for a final swim in the lake or family picnic. Some of us, who consider ourselves political sophisticates, may know that the holiday honoring working people was viewed during the Cold War as a more sanitized and less radical alternative to the socialist celebrations on May 1. What few know is that the Labour Day tradition actually first emerged in Canada. Read more…

On Labour Day, while most people across the province enjoy a long weekend and a family picnic, workers at six locations will be on the picket line. One of the active disputes supported by the B.C. Federation of Labour has been under way for over a decade, and at another, workers have been locked out by their employers for over a year. Read more…

On September 5, two days after Labour Day, B.C. unions that represent directly employed civil servants across the province will mount a day-long work stoppage. The B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU), Professional Employees Association (PEA) and Canadian Office & Professional Employees Union (COPE) Local 378 will join forces to take approximately 27,000 public service workers out on strike at 1,785 government work sites in 153 communities. For one of the involved unions, this will be the first strike in its 38-year history. Read more…

The B.C. Nurses' Union will meet on Monday with the Health Employers' Association of B.C. and a chief medical officer to discuss a new requirement that all health care workers get a flu shot or wear a mask when dealing with patients. Read more…

Plumping up the Canadian mining and oil and gas sectors to feed resource-hungry countries the world over has become a singular focus of the Harper government. The prime minister refashioned that priority Monday as one belonging to all Canadians. Read more…

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the fate of Enbridge's proposed pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to tankers on the British Columbia coast will be based on science and not politics, documents show some of that science isn't forthcoming. Read more…

The long-simmering debate about asbestos exports from Quebec to Third World countries took a new turn last week during the provincial election campaign. Read more…

OTTAWA - The Conservative government's decision to abolish the CSIS inspector general's office is a "huge loss" to the important task of keeping an eye on Canada's spy service, says the woman who held the job for the last eight years. Read more…

VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation is taking its fight against open-net fish farms to Canada's highest court. Read more…

The president of one of B.C.'s largest unions today warned that its dispute with the provincial government might need to be escalated to larger and more militant action. Read more…

Union job sites across the province will see strike action on August 7, as the union representing provincial employees, the BC Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU), takes 180 of its 65,000 members out onto the picket lines in Surrey, Campbell River, 100 Mile House and Kelowna. Read more…

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…

TORONTO - Growing weariness in Canada's labour movement coupled with the federal government's "assault on labour rights" have made it necessary for two of the country's largest private sector unions to merge, the key players said Wednesday. Read more…