Economy, Law & Politics

The BC Liberals are on track to beat their 2021 fundraising total and the NDP is lagging behind last year’s pace. The second quarter figures released Aug. 5 by Elections BC show the opposition party, now led by Kevin Falcon, raised $667,866.

Premier John Horgan’s legacy when he steps down this fall will include his record as a job creator in his own office, where millions of dollars have been spent on new hires. In the 2021 budget, the Office of the Premier was allotted $14.

Commission panel significantly lowers freeze orders of Bridgemark Group by not factoring in lucrative consulting contracts

The David Suzuki Foundation and World Wildlife Fund Canada are taking the federal government and two oil companies to court, claiming the minister of Natural Resources Canada has been wrongfully rubber-stamping extensions of offshore oil and gas perm

NPA vice-president of the board: ‘I truly just think he looked at the lay of the land and what was happening out there’

OTTAWA — The federal government plans to fast-track a ban on the import of handguns into the country without the approval of Parliament using a regulatory measure that comes into effect in two weeks, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced F

Canadian court has issued a decision against terminal operator GCT Canada Ltd. in its accusations that the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) showed a conflict of interest in prioritizing its own expansion project over a rival GCT one.

Unemployment rate ticks slightly upward compared with a month earlier

More than two months after overspending to win the BC Liberal leadership, Kevin Falcon ran a balanced by-election campaign in Vancouver-Quilchena. North Vancouver-resident Falcon handily won the April 30 by-election by a 3,610-vote margin.

Most pandemic data metrics have been relatively flat in past month