Second, Smith’s use of referendums is motivated not by an altruistic commitment to direct democracy. Rather, it is strategic and highly politicized — designed to hold her party’s divergent factions ...

One recent example occurred in Fort Nelson First Nation’s 2022 election, in which just five votes separated the three candidates who received the fifth-, sixth- and seventh-most votes from the ...

Providence Health Care CEO Fiona Dalton says the new St. Paul’s Hospital may or may not get an overdose prevention site. I was surprised by that because last summer the Health Ministry was talking ...

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 ...

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 ...