The B.C. government is trying to weaken access to information with a bill that’s now before the legislature, say opposition parties and advocates. Citizens’ Services Minister Diana Gibson says the ...

Chief Harley Chingee speaks at a 2023 press conference in Victoria alongside BC cabinet ministers Murray Rankin and Josie Osborne, a month before Chingee stood for re-election. Photo by Dirk Meissner, ...

Referendums, like the ones Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced in a February televised speech, ‘are the epitome of populist policymaking.’ Screenshot via YouTube. Premier Danielle Smith has been ...

Decisions about offering overdose prevention services at hospitals are ‘made locally by the hospital that knows what’s going on within their facility,’ says Dr. Bonnie Henry. Photo via BC government.

In practical terms, this means much of Vancouver’s future land-use debate is being relocated from hundreds of individual hearings to a single city-wide framework. Yet cities rarely emerge from a ...