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Government & Policy
Prime Minister Mark Carney has opened the door to potentially changing or abolishing the Indian Act, committing to work with First Nations on moving beyond the 150-year-old law that gives the Government of Canada extensi...
Government & Policy
Hullo Ferries has hired P&O Ferries executive Louisa Bell as its next permanent CEO, with her leadership role beginning in January 2027. Vancouver Island Ferry Company (VIFC), the company behind the privately-owned and o...
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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The Conservatives have pledged to reduce construction charges, speed approvals and give municipalities greater control over where housing density is added.
Government & Policy
At a press conference on Sunday afternoon, just hours after his election-night victory, Premier-elect Lorne Doerkson said his incoming Conservative majority administration would begin with an independent review of the Go...
Government & Policy
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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BC Greens leader Emily Lowan has won the riding of Saanich North and the Islands. Lowan, 26, was running against Kala Bryson of the NDP, Ryan Windsor of the Conservatives, and CentreBC’s Richard Smith. According to preli...
Government & Policy
Seven final public opinion surveys conducted and released in the closing days of the British Columbia’s provincial general election campaign and on election morning put Lorne Doerkson’s Conservatives ahead of David Eby’s...
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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...
Government & Policy
From the Newton SkyTrain extension to building Surrey’s third hospital, the BC NDP and the Conservative Party of British Columbia have directed a steady stream of major platform promises at Surrey in the provincial elect...
Government & Policy
Over 891,000 people cast ballots during the entire advance voting period for British Columbia’s October 2026 provincial election, down by about 11 per cent from the record set almost exactly two years ago during the Octo...
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The Green Party of British Columbia is promising to limit rising fees and give residents with long-term leasehold contracts a more affordable way to challenge their building owners. Earlier this week, party leader Emily...
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Election-time platform promises earlier this week by both the Conservative Party of British Columbia and the BC NDP to extend SkyTrain’s Expo Line from Surrey City Centre to Newton are drawing support from public transit...
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We are now just a couple of days out from the B.C. provincial election, and if the polls are correct, it will be a tight race between the BC NDP and the BC Conservatives — particularly in some key ridings. According to a...
Government & Policy
Vancouver elected a new mayor over the weekend. Pete Fry will formally take over from Ken Sim on Nov. 2, leaving sports fans to wonder how this will affect a pair of important files. Let’s begin with the Vancouver Whitec...
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Vancouver voters have backed Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver party’s proposal for stronger laws against the public use of hard drugs and a proposal to seek a secure medical treatment facility, voting “Yes” to both question...
Government & Policy
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...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by local realtor Nick Baronian. ---------------------------------------- British Columbia has spent years talking about one central problem in housing: we do not have enough of it. Howeve...
Government & Policy
A 118-year-old railway bridge in east Edmonton is getting some major upgrades. The Clover Bar Railway Bridge, which crosses the North Saskatchewan River parallel to Yellowhead Trail in the city’s east end, is undergoing...
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While mayor-elect Pete Fry and the Vancouver Greens ultimately swept to victory in Saturday night’s municipal election, the party faced plenty of doubt throughout its campaign about whether it could pull it off. Khadoni...
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B.C. food bank visits have gone up by 100 per cent since 2019. Food Banks Canada just released Canada’s 2026 HungerCount, revealing that monthly food bank visits in B.C. went up by 14 per cent between 2025 and 2026. In 2...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
BC Greens leader Emily Lowan will get a boost on the campaign trail from Vancouver’s new mayor-elect, Pete Fry. This past weekend, Fry secured a stunning victory, kicking Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim (for a couple more weeks)...
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