Right now, in British Columbia, we are seeing a renewed commitment to democracy as regular people stand up to fight against [Read more]
BC Finance Minister Colin Hansen spoke in a March 30, 2010 news release, about the introduction of the Consumption Tax Rebate [Read more]
Budgets are about making tough choices, but what ‘tough choices’ did the BC Liberals make? We all know that budgeting [Read more]
Did you know that there are over 100 rebates programs in British Columbia to help those in the affordable homes sector make [Read more]
Columbia Basin Trust has launched its 2010 Summer Works Program with $390,000 toward wage subsidies for student summer [Read more]
March 18 webcast – All across British Columbia, people are talking about the HST. They are angry and frustrated [Read more]
by Tatiana Chabeaux-Smith. Bill lives alone. He likes people and they like him. One day, he had a knock at his door. He opened [Read more]
29 per cent BC Hydro rate increase a hidden tax on consumers: Macdonald. Tuesday’s BC Liberal budget contains an unfair [Read more]
Stats for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are mind-boggling, what with medal counts, visitor counts, etc. as people from [Read more]
Anger about the BC Budget has exploded from the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association. CFRA Western Canada Vice [Read more]
Where is your MLA when you need one? The BC Federation of Labor says that the minimum wage in BC is a national embarrassment. [Read more]
Apr 6-8, Chase – The Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) is joining with educators and researchers from Thompson [Read more]
We British Columbians do our fair share of grumbling about this and that but there are some pretty great reasons to celebrate [Read more]
March is, apparently, Canadian Fraud Prevention Month. Typically, we see on the evening news, a law enforcement person explaining [Read more]
BC Hydro has announced it has selected the first group of 19 projects to be awarded electricity purchase agreements under [Read more]
HST report: giant leap forward for investment, jobs. Ministry of Finance. Sales tax harmonization and corporate tax cuts [Read more]
Meet Robbie Gallipeau, a 19-year-old Malakwa resident with an infectious smile and a ton of enthusiasm for life, learning, [Read more]
by Tatiana Chabeaux-Smith. Twenty-two year old Tanya loved her mother Bessie enormously. Theirs was a close relationship [Read more]
It would seem that at least two people are happy with Colin Hansen’s ‘stay the course’ budget – Mr. Hansen himself [Read more]
While BC Government Finance Minister is smiling about his ministry’s commitment to health care, the Health Sciences Association [Read more]
- Vehicle impoundment as a penalty
- Environmental stewardship of BC parks lacking
- Water conservation urged in Southern Interior
- Campfires permitted across the Kamloops Fire Centre
- Former mayors join BC Conservative strategy group
- Careless smokers
- Economist says HST is a tax increase
- Crown-land hemp crops destroyed by police
- Drowning in Alba Falls pools
- Anti-HST bill goes to committee
- HST raised consumer prices in July
- Shelter Bay drowning
- Danzo resigns, says BC government should be ‘more consultative’
- Cyclists passing on the right
- ‘Barefooting’ on his first try!
- 2 killed after car hits Sicamous bridge (2 updates)
- BC Conservative Party leader, board members resign
- Revelstoke accident on Trans-Canada kills 3 (updated)
- Magna Bay speedboat lands in houseboat (2 updates)
- Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival
- Drowning in Alba Falls pools
- Cornstock Festival, Chase
- Shelter Bay drowning
- Magna Bay - man on boat passes out, drowns
- All open fires banned
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The summer 2010 boating season is well underway across British Columbia, and indeed across the country, and the new Pleasure Craft Boating Card is now [Read more]
Although with all the rain we have been experiencing across British Columbia this month it is difficult to imagine, the annual summer fire season is [Read more]
On February 16, 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was incorporated to link Canada’s populated centers with the vast potential of the relatively [Read more]
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