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Surrey tax-agency workers given relocation notices

OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency has sent relocation notices to 391 employees at the Surrey tax centre, inviting them to consider moving to communities as remote as Jonquiere — a small and largely...

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Onus on B.C. to prove state of emergency needed on overdose crisis: Ottawa

OTTAWA — Health Minister Jane Philpott, while calling the latest B.C. drug overdose death toll devastating, said the onus is on the provincial government to make the case that the federal Emergencies...

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Mayors tell Trudeau to fund housing in bid to help tackle overdose crisis

OTTAWA — Mayors of Canada’s biggest cities, pushing since last autumn to wrest $12.6 billion over the next decade from the Trudeau government for affordable housing, used the opioid crisis as an...

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Justin Trudeau's Senate reform 'dangerous' for B.C.: experts

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a self-styled “grandson of British Columbia,” has hurt the province with a Senate reform initiative that appears to have empowered the unelected upper chamber,...

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B.C. government says Ottawa's cuts left fish habitat unprotected

OTTAWA — Spending cuts since 2012 have left B.C. with “almost no” federal oversight of activities by corporations, municipalities and individuals that could damage or destroy sensitive fisheries...

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Tiny Vancouver Island First Nation want court to end 'dictatorship'

OTTAWA — Dissident members of a tiny Vancouver Island First Nation, frustrated by the federal government’s refusal to end a 30-year family “dictatorship,” are heading to court to fight for their...

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Trudeau headed to B.C. this weekend to 'face the music'

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend Lunar New Year events in Vancouver Sunday as he continues an election-style national tour intended to rekindle his connection with ordinary Canadians....

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Donald Trump's 'scary' border ban rattles Yemen-born Vancouver resident

Wyle Baoween has made a career and a company out of trying to eliminate bias and discrimination in the hiring process. Now, the chief executive officer of HRx Technology, which has been called one of...

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B.C. MP triggers emergency debate on Donald Trump's travel ban

OTTAWA — The House of Commons, in response to a request from B.C.’s New Democratic Party MP Jenny Kwan, will hold an emergency debate Tuesday on the implications of President Donald Trump’s...

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Declare emergency now on opioid crisis, Ottawa told

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has to stop foot-dragging on the opioid overdose crisis and immediately enact emergency powers to reduce the death toll, opposition MPs said Tuesday. B.C. New Democrat...

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