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...
View ArticleOnus 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...
View ArticleMayors 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...
View ArticleJustin 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,...
View ArticleB.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...
View ArticleTiny 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...
View ArticleTrudeau 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....
View ArticleDonald 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...
View ArticleB.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...
View ArticleDeclare 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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