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National ceremony in Ottawa will mark Truth and Reconciliation Day
OTTAWA - A National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony is planned in Ottawa this afternoon to honour the survivors of Canada's residential school system and the children who never returned home...
James Peters Sep 30, 2024

Eby says more than 90 per cent of British Columbians to benefit from tax cut promise
SURREY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby says he's making a tax relief election promise that will benefit more than 90 per cent of people in British Columbia. He says the NDP would implement an an...
James Peters Sep 29, 2024

Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback
British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out stand...
James Peters Sep 29, 2024

Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback
British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out stand...
James Peters Sep 29, 2024

B.C.'s NDP, Conservatives nominate full slates of candidates for Oct. 19 election
VICTORIA - Elections BC says the New Democrats and Conservatives have nominated full slates of candidates for the upcoming Oct. 19 provincial election. Elections BC says in a statement the two main pa...
James Peters Sep 28, 2024

NDP uses BC United research to mount attacks on 'crackpot' B.C. Conservatives
VICTORIA - Almost 200 pages of research on the B.C. Conservative Party, which sources within BC United confirm were compiled before the party dropped out of the British Columbia election campaign to s...
James Peters Sep 28, 2024

Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization in B.C. election campaign
VANCOUVER - When NDP Leader David Eby announced this month that the province would open "secure facilities" to provide involuntary care for people with severe drug addiction or mental health problems,...
James Peters Sep 28, 2024

First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders say work lays ahead on road to reconciliation
OTTAWA - The Liberal party of today is not quite the same as the one elected in 2015 promising to foster new paths and nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples, the leaders of the three ...
James Peters Sep 28, 2024

B.C. Conservatives, NDP have full candidate slates. But it's about more than votes
VANCOUVER - In the last provincial election, the B.C. Conservatives fielded just 19 candidates - and received less than 2 per cent of the vote. Now the party's website lists a full slate of 93 candida...
James Peters Sep 27, 2024

B.C. NDP adds fast-tracking pre-fabricated homes to housing plans ahead of election
CUMBERLAND, B.C. - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his government would fast-track factory-built homes as part of its strategy to ease the province's housing crisis. At an election campaign...
James Peters Sep 27, 2024

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