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 ...

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 ...

It was the first look the media, and the premier, have gotten of the new site since construction started in 2021. The new ...

Over the last three years, McLeod Lake Indian Band Chief Harley Chingee has claimed more than $370,000 in expenses, far more ...

United Steelworkers’ Jeff Bromley says efforts on trade and EI are welcome but hundreds of workers are still falling through ...

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 ...

Frontenac Active Club is a part of a growing phenomenon in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Active clubs are groups of white nationalist extremists who gather in person to work out and practice smacking ...

Over the last three years, McLeod Lake Indian Band Chief Harley Chingee has claimed more than $370,000 in expenses, far more than any other BC Chief for whom spending figures are available. Photo via ...

“This emergency is much bigger than any of us can imagine — mass death on this scale is incomprehensible,” Karen Ward told The Tyee. Ward is a tireless community advocate who tracks how government ...

The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, embedded in Bill C-27, was supposed to be Canada’s answer to AI regulation. The ...