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Government & Policy
What if British Columbia’s elementary and high-school students — young children and teenagers — could also help choose the next provincial government? A province-wide student vote — an educational exercise that helps enc...
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While Vancouver Greens’ Pete Fry is now the mayor-elect of Vancouver and Conservative Lorne Doerskon is the premier-elect of B.C., another political party scored big in B.C.’s elections this past month: COPE Vancouver. V...
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Green Party of British Columbia leader Emily Lowan marked her election to the B.C. legislature with a highly combative speech attacking both the incoming majority Conservative provincial government, led by premier-elect...
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On the last day before the provincial election, David Eby made a final attempt to earn votes that he now desperately needs to win the election he called just weeks ago. At a media availability outside the Surrey Fleetwoo...
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We’re just a few days away from the final voting day in the B.C. provincial election, and there are still some pretty lofty promises coming out from political parties, including one today from the BC Greens. Andrew Apple...
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Three days after election night on Saturday, Vancouver mayor-elect Pete Fry is already preparing to take the reins at City Hall, where he will lead a largely new Vancouver City Council facing a very steep learning curve...
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As the results started trickling in for the Surrey election over the weekend, one thing became clear very quickly: Doug McCallum had more than a fighting chance to win. Then, without warning, Brenda Locke took the stage...
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Over the past few weeks of campaigning, the BC NDP has released a flurry of campaign promises ahead of the snap provincial election, including saving the average driver $20 per tank on gas, a tax on unsold condos, lower...
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Chief economist Mathieu Laberge says slowing construction could reverse recent affordability gains, while urging changes to how Canada builds and finances housing.
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Both Langley Township and Langley City both have had a shakeup in their politics, with fresh faces winning against the incumbents in each municipality. In Langley City, Delaney Mack is now the mayor-elect, winning with 3...
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To no one’s surprise, Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West has been re-elected to the position he has held since 2018. West, a popular figure in Port Coquitlam, hasn’t had much competition in previous elections, and in the las...
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After running uncontested in the previous municipal election four years ago, two well-known Metro Vancouver mayors now have challengers. Brad West, who has been the mayor of Port Coquitlam since 2018 and served three ter...
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Housing affordability is a defining issue ahead of the October 26 municipal election across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond. In the latest episode of TRREB’s Ready to Real Estate podcast, Chief Information Offi...
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On Tuesday, British Columbia’s three major provincial political party leaders offered sharply different plans to improve the provincial economy to a business community increasingly very concerned about the direction of t...
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It has been a record-breaking turnout for the Vancouver civic election so far, and final voting day is nigh, with a plethora of council candidates to choose from. For voters who haven’t yet cast a ballot and who are stil...
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Pete Fry is running to be Vancouver’s next mayor — and he said he has a vision of the city achieving its “very best.” Fry, mayoral candidate for the Green Party of Vancouver, has a platform that addresses housing, transp...
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More than 50 people are vying to lead Toronto for the next four years, but polls suggest it will be a tight race between incumbent Olivia Chow and councillor Brad Bradford.
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‘Tis the season of election promises, and now David Eby and the BC NDP have unveiled a big one, freezing insurance rates for another three years for drivers with basic rates in B.C. In a campaign announcement on Thursday...
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The Conservative Party of British Columbia is promising to reduce provincial income taxes by about $1,000 annually for eligible British Columbians through a major increase in the amount people can earn before paying prov...
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With Ontario’s municipal election on Monday, October 26, voters across the GTA and Simcoe are hearing increasingly detailed debates about housing affordability, property taxes, infrastructure, development charges, and ho...
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We are less than two weeks away from the final voting day in the upcoming Vancouver election and municipal elections taking place around B.C., and Rebecca Bligh believes she’s the right choice for the city. Daily Hive Ur...
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Vancouver’s five leading mayoral candidates offered sharply different plans for reducing public disorder, controlling the escalating cost pressures of the City of Vancouver, and getting residential and commercial develop...
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Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver is proposing new construction incentives, new rental homes on City of Vancouver-owned land, and tougher consequences for supportive housing operators with persistent safety problems — all pa...
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B.C. voters are beginning to “lock in,” according to a recent survey from the Angus Reid Institute. Angus Reid conducted an online survey between Oct. 1 and 3 to assess British Columbians’ voting intent in the upcoming p...
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