Since the Feb. 1 closure of London Drugs at Woodward’s in the Downtown Eastside, or DTES, there is a 27,000-square-foot retail hole in the Vancouver neighbourhood. Mayor Ken Sim is suggesting it be filled with a police training centre. ...
What happened in Tumbler Ridge is a tragedy. Lives were lost. Families were shattered. A small community is now carrying a soul-crushing grief that will live long after the headlines fade. That is where our attention should begin, and where it should remain. ...
There are moments when words are inadequate. ...
The world must, as Prime Minister Mark Carney recently noted, accept the current climate as it is, rather than looking to the past. ...
John Rustad was accused of fearmongering and spreading misinformation about Indigenous land rights at a town hall-style event he hosted in Smithers last weekend along with two fellow Conservative MLAs. ...
A conservative Canadian broadcast news network is incorporating propaganda from U.S. dark-money-funded think tanks directly into its regular programming. The decision by federal regulators to boost its reach looks increasingly dubious as Canadian institutions — and by extension our sovereignty — are being undermined by other ...
A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests. ...
Over the course of a two-hour-long conference call in August, two leaders of Canadian groups that experts have described as white nationalist and eager audience members bantered about deporting 10 million people, decried the existence of mixed-race marriages and children and said they would “be happy to march millions of ...
Former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe recently criticized B.C.’s drug policies, saying the province’s approach to the ongoing toxic drug crisis is not evidence based. ...
A BC human rights inquiry also found that the police board ‘abdicated its legal responsibility’ when investigating complaints. ...
The campaign by Alberta’s United Conservative Party to remake the province’s health-care system has created chaos with patients dying in overcrowded hospital emergency rooms. ...
Authorities have long struggled to estimate the prevalence of labour trafficking. Data from Statistics Canada and non-profit groups usually identify only a few dozen cases each year. ...
A forest advisory council has recommended shifting B.C.’s forest regime towards more local decision-making. ...
B.C. has halted work on a strategy aimed at ensuring taxpayers don’t bear the massive cleanup costs arising from abandoned industrial sites and disasters like the Mount Polley mine breach. ...
