Economy, Law & Politics

The province lost 1,900 jobs overall, according to Statistics Canada

B.C. retail spending slipped in March in advance of the province’s “circuit breaker” to control the spread of the pandemic’s third wave. Spending fell 1.1% from February to $8.16 billion but rose 18% year over year. Nationally, sales surged 3.

A BC Supreme Court judge signaled Thursday that his ruling in a conflict-of-interest case involving Vancouver city councillor Michael Wiebe won’t consider the political ties of the legal action brought against the Green Party member.

Two more people die from COVID-19 in B.C., raising province's death toll to 1,709

NACI unveiled new recommendations earlier in the week on vaccine interchangeability

Bylaw change would no longer protect trees with 20-centimetre diameter

Four COVID-19-related deaths raise B.C.'s death toll from the pandemic to 1,707

Friends of Bear Creek Park petition of 6,845 signatures left off corporate report

Make access to information a political issue, prof says

Michael Wiebe in court over votes on city’s temporary patio program