British Columbia

11/12/20
Author: 
Vancouver Island Water Watch Coalition
10th December 2020
New Blockade to Halt Road-Building New or Updated
 
Rain4est Flying Squad Deploys New Blockade to Halt Road-Building into the Last Ancient Forests of Bugaboo Creek

rain4est flyingsquad Dec 8

11/12/20
Author: 
Theresa McManus
New Westminster city council has voted four to three in support of asking the New Westminster police board to submit a budget with a 0% increase for 2021. Record/File

Dec 8, 2020

Global calls for defunding the police have made their way to New Westminster.

At a budget workshop on Monday afternoon, council considered draft capital and operating budgets, which proposed a 4.9% property tax increase in 2021. But instead of directing the finance department to prepare a financial plan that incorporated that increase, council voted four to three in support of Coun. Nadine Nakagawa’s motion to send the police budget back to the police board and ask it to submit a budget with a 0% increase for 2021.

11/12/20
Author: 
Theresa McManus
Wesgroup is hoping to build a 34-storey rental building, which includes 423 units - including 96 that are at less-than-market rates - at 100 Braid St. Contributed

Dec. 9, 2020

Tower grows in height and switches from strata to rental units

Wesgroup Properties has received the green light to build a 34-storey tower in Sapperton – provided it contains rental units.

11/12/20
Author: 
Carol Linnitt
With the approval of LNG Canada, there is expected to be an explosion of hydraulic fracturing operations in northeastern B.C., like this one near Farmington, B.C. Photo: Garth Lenz / The Narwhal

Dec 8, 2020

The CleanBC plan, released two years ago, still doesn’t lay out a credible pathway to meet emissions targets. A look at fracking and LNG helps explain why

When B.C. unveiled its signature CleanBC plan in 2018, onlookers noticed something suspicious: it was full of holes.

11/12/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
The federal government says it is not its intention to maintain ownership of the Trans Mountain pipeline system for longer than it takes to complete the expansion project. Photo by TMX / Facebook

December 9th 2020

Canada’s parliamentary budget officer has provoked a fresh round of suspicion about the long-term profitability of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline and expansion project.

07/12/20
Author: 
Stephanie Smith, BCGEU President

John Horgan’s new majority government was sworn in last week, as a second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across B.C. [1]

With new outbreaks in long-term care announced almost daily, Vancouver-Kensington MLA Mable Elmore is stepping into an important role as Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors Services and Long Term Care.

07/12/20
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
The City of Vancouver now owns the Regent and Balmoral hotels in the Downtown Eastside. Photo by Christopher Cheung.

Dec. 4, 2020

The buildings were neglected for years. The city had been trying to expropriate them, and records show it’s now the owner.

The City of Vancouver now owns the Regent and Balmoral hotels, Downtown Eastside buildings the city had been trying to expropriate after years of neglect and decay, The Tyee has learned.

Land title records list the city as the current owner of 159 E. Hastings — the Balmoral — and 160 E. Hastings — the Regent.

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