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Added a Follow the Money accountability article after senior B.C. finance and energy officials said four human-caused administrative errors drove a $1.46-billion natural-gas royalty overstatement.
Added a DRIPA / Public Lands accountability article after a PLUS-commissioned Abacus Data survey reported that 86% of B.C. adults surveyed want public approval before major public-land governance changes take effect.
Added a Healthcare / Public Safety accountability article after Kelowna council asked Health Canada to deny the 2027 renewal for the downtown supervised-consumption site, citing years of safety concerns and unresolved requests to the province and Interior Health.
Added a Follow the Money / Education accountability article after new reporting counted a roughly $300-million annual post-secondary shortfall, 180-plus program cuts, 1,300-plus affected faculty and staff, and unreleased government-commissioned reports.
B.C. institutions face a reported $300-million annual shortfall, 180-plus program cuts and 1,300-plus affected staff while key taxpayer-funded reports remain unreleased.
Read the record →Kelowna council is asking Health Canada to deny the 2027 renewal for a downtown supervised-consumption site after years of city complaints about public-safety impacts.
Read the record →A PLUS-commissioned Abacus Data survey says 86% of B.C. adults surveyed want public approval before major changes to public-land governance authority take effect.
Read the record →B.C. officials now say four administrative mistakes overstated natural-gas royalty revenue by $1.46 billion over five years. The public deserves the working papers.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Crown Land accountability article after Okanagan Forest Task Force concerns over illegal Crown-land camps, dumped waste, wildfire risk and unanswered letters to the province.
Okanagan backcountry volunteers say Crown-land camps are creating wildfire, dumping and safety risks while letters to the province go unanswered.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Ferries accountability article after the Build Them Here coalition of 17 unions demanded that future BC Ferries vessels be built in B.C., while BC Ferries records show the current four-vessel order went to China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyard Co. Ltd.
A new Build Them Here union coalition is demanding a B.C. ferry-building plan after BC Ferries awarded four major vessels to a Chinese shipyard.
Read the record →Added a Wildfire / Emergency Management accountability article after the B.C. government said the provincial state of emergency ended August 27 while wildfire risk remained elevated and no emergency orders had been issued under the declaration.
B.C. ended its wildfire state of emergency while saying emergency powers were not used and wildfire risk remained elevated in many parts of the province.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Politics accountability article after CityNews reported Áʼa:líya Warbus left the BC Conservative caucus, while Elections BC confirms the Abbotsford-Mission by-election calendar and The Tyee reports OneBC’s pledge not to run a candidate there.
CityNews reports Áʼa:líya Warbus is the seventh MLA to leave the BC Conservative caucus since Kerry-Lynne Findlay became leader, while OneBC signals it will not split the Abbotsford-Mission by-election vote.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare / Rural ERs accountability article after Castanet and Interior Health reported Nicola Valley Hospital’s emergency department will be unavailable from Monday morning to Tuesday morning, with Merritt patients directed toward Kamloops.
Interior Health says Nicola Valley Hospital’s emergency department will be unavailable from Monday morning to Tuesday morning, sending Merritt patients toward Kamloops again.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare / Public Safety accountability article after BC Coroners Service preliminary data showed 138 suspected unregulated-drug toxicity deaths in June 2026, with northern local reporting underscoring high regional death rates.
BC Coroners Service data show 138 suspected unregulated-drug toxicity deaths in June 2026. The NDP owes British Columbians measurable results, not another month of grim data.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Ferries accountability article after CBC reported Queen of Surrey propeller-shaft trouble disrupted the Horseshoe Bay–Langdale route and BC Ferries’ own records warned aging vessels bring more unpredictable breakdowns.
After the Queen of Surrey needed tug assistance and Sunshine Coast sailings were cancelled, BC Ferries’ own warnings about aging vessels read less like background and more like a bill coming due.
Read the record →Added a Workers / Safety accountability article after CBC, Canadian HR Reporter and WorkSafeBC records showed B.C. still relies on heat-stress guidance rather than one clear enforceable temperature threshold.
Added a Healthcare / Rural ERs accountability article after Fraser Health listed repeated overnight Mission Memorial Hospital emergency department interruptions because of physician staffing challenges, with dates continuing into mid-September.
Added a Follow the Money / Small Business accountability article after Global BC reported Glowbal Group owner Emad Yacoub is opening his next restaurant in Toronto while criticizing Vancouver and provincial red tape.
Added a Healthcare / Rural ERs accountability article after CJDC reported Tumbler Ridge residents were without local emergency department services for a third consecutive day, with the latest closure expected to run from Friday afternoon until Monday morning because of staffing shortages.
Workers and unions say B.C.’s heat-stress rules leave too much room for interpretation while WorkSafeBC still avoids one clear enforceable threshold.
Read the record →Fraser Health’s own Mission Memorial schedule lists repeated overnight emergency department interruptions through mid-September because of physician staffing challenges.
Read the record →CJDC reports Tumbler Ridge residents were left without local emergency department services through the weekend because of staffing shortages.
Read the record →Global BC reports Glowbal Group owner Emad Yacoub is opening his next restaurant in Toronto while criticizing Vancouver and B.C. red tape. Victoria should show the receipt.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / public-safety accountability article after Global News reported Ladysmith is again asking the province for emergency watershed action after human-caused fires and repeated damage to access controls.
After human-caused fires and repeated gate damage near a drinking-water watershed, Ladysmith says it still lacks a provincial answer to its June emergency request.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money / Resource Royalties accountability article after Business in Vancouver reporting carried by Castanet said B.C. acknowledged a nearly $1.5-billion natural-gas royalty forecasting error, with a September correction expected.
After a BIV investigation carried by Castanet, B.C. acknowledged a nearly $1.5-billion natural-gas royalty forecasting error while already projecting deep deficits.
Read the record →Added a DRIPA accountability article after Elections BC approved in principle an initiative petition to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, setting an October 26, 2026 to January 25, 2027 signature calendar.
Elections BC has approved in principle a DRIPA repeal initiative petition, forcing a province-wide accountability clock on a law the NDP still has not explained clearly enough.
Read the record →Statistics Canada and Global News report a modest international visitor bump from the FIFA World Cup, after B.C. promoted a $1 billion GDP case and major public costs.
Read the record →Added a Housing / Affordability accountability article after BC Housing’s July 2026 New Homes Registry Report showed B.C. new-home registrations fell 43.5% from July 2025, including a 56.6% drop in purpose-built rental registrations.
BC Housing’s latest registry report says B.C. new-home registrations fell 43.5% from July 2025, with purpose-built rental registrations down 56.6%.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare / Public Safety accountability article after Global News, Daily Hive and Canadian Press reported B.C. cancelled the planned 900 Helmcken overdose-prevention site following months of backlash from Vancouver residents, businesses and city hall.
B.C. has cancelled the planned overdose-prevention site at 900 Helmcken Street after months of backlash from Vancouver residents, businesses and city hall.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money / Economy accountability article after Canadian Press reported B.C. business groups called for lower business costs, fewer internal trade barriers and stronger trade-enabling infrastructure as tariffs bite.
Canadian Press reports B.C. business groups want lower provincial burdens and fewer internal barriers as U.S. tariffs hit jobs, investment and growth.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare / Rural ERs accountability article after Castanet reported 100 Mile District General Hospital’s emergency department reached its 38th temporary closure of 2026, weeks after Global News documented wildfire-season diversion concerns.
Castanet reports 100 Mile District General Hospital’s emergency department has reached its 38th temporary closure of 2026, after earlier warnings about wildfire-season hospital diversions.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability article after Western Standard reported an activist-led recall effort targeting NDP MLA Bowinn Ma, while Elections BC’s recall rules set a more-than-40% signature threshold for successful petitions.
A recall effort aimed at NDP MLA Bowinn Ma turns parent-policy anger in North Vancouver-Lonsdale into a hard accountability test under B.C.’s recall rules.
Read the record →Added a DRIPA accountability article after Canadian Press reported that Yukon First Nations Wildfire said trained, certified crews were ready to help B.C. fires but had not been called while international crews were brought in.
Added a Public Safety accountability article after CJDC reported Dawson Creek RCMP say a repeat violent offender was arrested after officers allegedly found a loaded handgun during an August 17 traffic stop.
Added a Healthcare accountability article after Research Co. polling showed B.C. respondents still rank doctor and nurse shortages and long wait times as the province’s leading health-care problems.
Research Co. polling shows B.C. respondents still name doctor and nurse shortages and long waits as the biggest health-care problems, despite B.C.’s recruitment and primary-care claims.
Read the record →CJDC reports Dawson Creek RCMP say a repeat violent offender was arrested after officers allegedly found a loaded handgun during an August 17 traffic stop.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare accountability article after CJDC reported Hudson’s Hope Health Centre’s emergency department was temporarily closed again while Northern Health says the community is served by one part-time physician.
CJDC reports Hudson’s Hope Health Centre’s emergency department was temporarily closed again while Northern Health says the community is served by one part-time physician.
Read the record →Canadian Press reports Yukon First Nations Wildfire says trained, certified crews were ready to help B.C. fires but had not been called while international crews arrived.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability article after Castanet/BIV reported that Wineglass Cattle Co. filed a civil claim alleging B.C. land-management approvals helped trigger the 2024 Chilcotin landslide flood. The allegations have not been tested in court.
A Wineglass Ranch lawsuit alleges B.C. approvals helped set the stage for the 2024 Chilcotin landslide flood. The allegations are untested, but the cumulative-effects question belongs in public view.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability article after Canadian Press reported that a Deaf Summerland evacuee encountered missed alerts, no interpreter at registration, in-person aid barriers and wildfire briefings without ASL interpretation.
A Deaf Summerland evacuee’s account exposes the gap between B.C.’s disability-inclusive emergency promises and what people met during the Bald Range wildfire evacuation.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability article after B.C. extended the state of provincial emergency to Aug. 29 while officials said no emergency orders had been issued since the Aug. 8 declaration.
B.C. extended its wildfire state of emergency to Aug. 29 while saying no emergency orders had been issued. That makes a public emergency ledger essential.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability article after Canada suspended U.S. trade talks, new 50% tariffs took effect, and David Eby backed a dollar-for-dollar response while B.C. workers await a provincial ledger.
Retaliation may be necessary. But if B.C. is joining a dollar-for-dollar trade fight, workers deserve the sector-by-sector plan and the cost ledger.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability article after Canadian Press reporting said Ottawa asked provinces to restore U.S. alcohol access during Canada-U.S. tariff talks, after Premier David Eby’s “not a chance in hell” pledge.
The tough line got the headline. Now British Columbians deserve a plain answer on whether B.C. is still blocking U.S. alcohol or folding it into Ottawa’s tariff bargain.
Read the record →Added a Housing / Affordability accountability article after CBC reported Vancouver housing starts fell 42% from last July, with CMHC and market experts warning about stalled project economics.
Added a Follow the Money accountability article after Rob Shaw reported senior B.C. executives and political staff received performance-based raises amid the province’s record deficit and spending restraint.
Added a Public Safety / Health Care accountability article after Daily Hive reported Premier David Eby questioned Vancouver’s public-safety plebiscite while saying B.C. already supports secure care capacity in the city.
Daily Hive reports Eby questioned Vancouver’s public-safety plebiscite while saying the province already supports secure care capacity in the city.
Read the record →Rob Shaw reports senior B.C. executives and political staff received performance-based raises during a year of record red ink and spending restraint.
Read the record →CBC reports Vancouver housing starts are down 42% from last July. Announcements are not homes; concrete in the ground is the test.
Read the record →Added a Public Safety / Wildlife accountability article after the Vancouver Sun reported B.C.’s Bear Smart program is not processing new applications or audits, with CBC/Canadian Press reporting another Metro Vancouver bear attack in Anmore.
A prevention program cannot protect people or bears if Victoria leaves applications, audits and staffing tangled in red tape.
Read the record →Added a Forestry / Jobs accountability article after CBC reported Domtar will indefinitely idle Howe Sound Pulp and Paper and Bayview Fibre, affecting approximately 400 employees.
Domtar’s Howe Sound shutdown notice puts about 400 jobs in the blast radius while Victoria reaches again for supports and a working group.
Read the record →Added a DRIPA / Forestry accountability article after The Tyee reported B.C. is considering three forest-use zones and UBCIC said its member First Nations had no advance notice.
A government that says it respects consultation should not let a major forest-land plan surface first through an internal email.
Read the record →Added a Resource Economy / Spending accountability article after The Tyee reported Site C’s fish-passage workaround now includes a $47.2-million facility and truck transport for bull trout and other fish around the dam.
Site C did not just change the Peace River. It left ratepayers funding an elaborate truck-around workaround for fish that used to migrate past the dam site.
Read the record →Added a Food Security / Land Use accountability article after CBC reported farmer concerns over B.C.’s proposed ALR food-processing changes and the province confirmed a 5% B.C.-product threshold for certain lower-quality ALR lands.
If farmland is scarce, why should access to certain ALR land for food processing turn on a 5% B.C.-product threshold?
Read the record →Added an Affordability / NDP Watch article after CBC reported that B.C. cities are the priciest in a new CCPA national child-care fee study, with median infant fees ranging from $28 a day in Kelowna to $52 a day in Richmond.
The $10-a-day promise meets B.C.’s market-fee maze: median infant fees of $28 to $52 a day in surveyed B.C. cities.
Read the record →Added a Housing / Spending accountability article after Global News reported the province’s approximately $55-million Howard Johnson/Luugat SRO purchase and neighbouring site are now assessed at roughly $27.5 million.
Global News reports BC Housing paid about $55 million for the Howard Johnson/Luugat SRO and neighbouring site, now assessed at roughly $27.5 million.
Read the record →Added a DRIPA / Property Rights article after Research Co. reported that 61% of British Columbians think Aboriginal title negotiations should be paused until the Cowichan Tribes case is settled.
A new Research Co. poll says 61% of British Columbians want Aboriginal title negotiations paused until the Cowichan case is settled. Eby should answer the process question plainly.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Resource Economy article after The Tyee reported cabinet divisions around LNG and B.C. government records documented the Tilbury marine jetty certificate and the Canada-B.C. Cooperative Prosperity Agreement.
The Tilbury LNG fight exposes a basic accountability problem for David Eby: cabinet wants the credit for energy jobs while some ministers distance themselves from the decision.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare article after CTV News reported a 16-year-old B.C. scoliosis patient waited roughly two and a half years, received an October surgery date, and then had the procedure pushed into 2027.
CTV reports a 16-year-old B.C. scoliosis patient waited roughly two and a half years, received an October surgery date, then was pushed into 2027.
Read the record →Added a Transparency / NDP Watch article after Global News reported B.C. is ending public access to its government directory, while the official directory page now says public access to employee and organizational directory information requires a B.C. government credential.
B.C. says cybersecurity and privacy require closing the government directory to the public. Fine — then show British Columbians the replacement accountability system.
Read the record →Added a Polling / Accountability story after Research Co. reported the BC NDP ahead among decided voters while housing, jobs and health care remained British Columbians’ top issue concerns.
Research Co. puts the BC NDP at 44% among decided voters, but the same poll shows housing, jobs and health care still dominating British Columbians’ issue list.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Environment story after The Tyee reported B.C. spent $1.55 million in 2026 to shoot 301 wolves for caribou recovery while the province considers whether to extend the program.
The Tyee reports B.C. spent $1.55 million in 2026 to shoot 301 wolves for caribou recovery. Before any five-year extension, Victoria owes the public a cost table, habitat plan and exit test.
Read the record →Added a Housing / Downtown Eastside story after The Tyee reported nine SRO hotels are in foreclosure, receivership or foreclosure processes, representing 483 low-income rooms, while the province says it is monitoring the situation.
The Tyee reports nine Downtown Eastside SRO hotels are in foreclosure, receivership or foreclosure processes, putting 483 low-income rooms at risk while B.C. says it is monitoring the situation.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Public Safety story after CBC reported the IIO found required prisoner-care safeguards were not followed before an Indigenous man died in Smithers RCMP custody.
CBC reports the IIO found required prisoner-care safeguards were not followed before an Indigenous man died in Smithers RCMP custody. Safeguards on paper are not safeguards in a cell.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Disaster Prevention story after the Vancouver Sun reported Canada is moving slowly on wildfire and flood risk reduction, while B.C.’s flood strategy faces no new funding because of the province’s tight fiscal position.
Canada’s adaptation progress report says risk-reduction work must accelerate, while the Vancouver Sun reports B.C.’s flood strategy was told there would be no new funding because of the province’s tight fiscal position.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money / Small Business story after Business in Vancouver flagged red-tape risk in the premiers’ alcohol deal and Wine Growers BC warned implementation could still bring fees, markups, registration, reporting and remittance rules.
A new interprovincial alcohol agreement could help B.C. wineries — or bury them in fees, markups, registration and remittance rules. Victoria should choose real direct-to-consumer access.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare / Rural ERs story after Global News and local reports described Merritt Mayor Michael Goetz asking Ottawa to step in over recurring Nicola Valley Hospital emergency-room closures.
Merritt’s mayor is asking Ottawa to intervene after recurring Nicola Valley Hospital emergency-room closures. During wildfire season, rural B.C. cannot treat emergency care like optional coverage.
Read the record →Added an Affordability / Debt story after Global News reported B.C. insolvencies reached a 16-year high and official federal OSB data showed B.C. total BIA insolvencies rose 17.2% year over year in June 2026.
Official federal insolvency statistics show B.C. BIA insolvencies rose 17.2% year over year in June 2026, with consumer filings up 17.4%. Global News says B.C. has reached a 16-year high.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Wildfire accountability story after CBC reported experts are calling for FireSmart principles to become mandatory in high-risk areas while UBCM records show the FireSmart grant stream shifted because funding was running short.
CBC reports experts want FireSmart principles mandatory in high-risk areas, while UBCM says B.C.’s FireSmart funding intake was changed because money was running short.
Read the record →Added an Affordability / Taxes story after CBC reported an all-party finance committee that includes three NDP MLAs recommended repealing B.C.’s PST expansion.
Added an NDP Watch / Infrastructure story after the B.C. Conservative Caucus alleged a two-year Highway 5 heavy-haul restriction while provincial CVSE materials confirm the extraordinary-load thresholds at issue.
The B.C. Conservative Caucus says Highway 5 heavy-haul restrictions will last two years. Official CVSE rules show why the permit bottleneck matters.
Read the record →An all-party finance committee that includes three NDP MLAs recommended repealing B.C.’s PST expansion. Brenda Bailey says the government is not backing down.
Read the record →Added a Jobs / Emergency Management story after Vancouver Sun reported roughly two dozen Summerland-area wineries were closed during peak tourism season following the Bald Range wildfire evacuation.
After the Bald Range wildfire evacuation hit Summerland wineries during peak season, B.C. needs a clear recovery plan for tourism, farm access, workers and repairs.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Forestry accountability story after B.C. opened public feedback on the Williams Lake timber supply review, covering a nearly five-million-hectare Cariboo land base and a nearly three-million-cubic-metre allowable annual cut.
B.C.’s Williams Lake timber supply review covers nearly five million hectares, a nearly three-million-cubic-metre AAC and input from 28 Nations. Rural communities deserve the jobs math before the decision.
Read the record →Added a Health / Emergency Management story after B.C. announced free N95 masks for wildfire smoke through a limited, supply-dependent list of pickup locations.
B.C. says wildfire smoke can cause short- and long-term health harm, but its free N95 mask rollout relies on limited pickup sites, weekday desks and local clean-air spaces.
Read the record →Added a Public Safety / Accountability story after CBC reported downtown Nanaimo businesses say vandalism continues despite increased police enforcement, while B.C. identifies Nanaimo as a chronic-property-offending pilot community.
CBC reports some downtown Nanaimo businesses say vandalism continues despite increased police enforcement. That matters because B.C. has identified Nanaimo as a pilot community in its chronic-property-offending initiative.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch / Transit accountability story after Unifor locals in Metro Vancouver and Victoria served strike notices and planned a low-disruption uniform ban for Monday, August 17.
Unifor transit workers in Metro Vancouver and Victoria have served strike notices and plan a Monday uniform ban. Service is expected to continue, but B.C.’s transit labour warning light is flashing.
Read the record →Added a Housing / Affordability accountability story after Research Co. found fewer than half of British Columbians believe provincial actions will make housing more affordable.
Research Co. finds only 46% of British Columbians believe provincial housing actions will make homes more affordable, while majorities see the condo-conversion plan as a bailout risk.
Read the record →Added a Transparency / Public Safety accountability story after Global News reported newly released Tumbler Ridge court documents still leave major redactions around firearms, records and agency decisions.
Newly released Tumbler Ridge court documents answer some questions but leave major redactions around firearms, records and agency decisions. B.C. should demand transparency at home too.
Read the record →Added an NDP Watch accountability story after David Eby reshuffled Finance, Health and Jobs while all three files remain under pressure.
David Eby calls the shuffle continuity. British Columbians should ask whether moving Finance, Health and Jobs around the same cabinet table will change results.
Read the record →Added a DRIPA / Land Claims accountability story after Postmedia reported B.C.’s denial of a Conservative claim about a Portugal-sized Tahltan land handover. The piece separates allegations from official denials and asks for a public land-and-title ledger.
The NDP denies negotiating a handover of all public land in Tahltan territory. That denial should be backed by a plain ledger of what is being negotiated, what is not, and who signs off.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money / Infrastructure accountability story after Postmedia reported $4 billion of B.C.’s 2025-26 capital plan went unspent, including named hospital, Surrey rapid transit and Highway 1 projects.
B.C.’s Public Accounts show $11 billion in capital investment, while Postmedia reports $4 billion of the 2025-26 capital plan went unspent across hospitals, transit, highways and schools.
Read the record →Added a Housing Spending accountability story after Global News reported the Luugat Hotel cost $101,000 in July while one resident remained after the province’s June closure deadline.
Global News reports B.C.’s Luugat Hotel cost $101,000 in July while one resident remained after the province’s June closure deadline passed.
Read the record →Added a Healthcare accountability story after CBC reported Northern Health is cutting Fort St. James emergency-department hours until at least October because of a physician shortage, leaving overnight access closed and weekend coverage uncertain.
Northern Health says Fort St. James emergency care is losing overnight coverage until at least October because there are not enough physicians to safely sustain 24/7 service.
Read the record →Added a DRIPA / Land Claims accountability story after CHEK reported Te’mexw treaty parcels include Hatley Castle/Royal Roads lands, Victoria parking lots and two provincial parks, while B.C.’s engagement page says treaty lands will sit outside local government zoning.
The Te’mexw treaty package names landmark public sites and says treaty lands will sit outside local zoning. The public deserves clear legal answers before final approvals.
Read the record →Added a wildfire accountability story after David Eby promised a Bald Range emergency-response review and CBC reported the fire had forced more than 12,000 evacuations since Friday while exposing Highway 97 route fragility.
After the Bald Range wildfire forced mass evacuations and exposed Highway 97 fragility, Eby’s promised review needs public terms, dates, routes and decision records.
Read the record →Added an affordability and tax accountability story after the B.C. Conservative Caucus listed a new item urging Victoria to pull the plug on the NDP PST hike.
A fresh opposition push against the NDP PST hike puts one question back in front of Victoria: if affordability is the crisis, why keep defending a broader tax squeeze?
Read the record →Added a Forestry accountability story after the B.C. Conservative Caucus listed a Quesnel River Pulp curtailment item saying operations are curtailed until at least November and 90 jobs are at risk.
A fresh Quesnel pulp curtailment warning should force Victoria to show measurable forestry results, not another round of managed-decline talking points.
Read the record →Added a Health Data / Privacy accountability story after B.C.’s Lobbyists Registry showed Palantir identified public-health-system opportunities tied to patient care, health-system resources and potential provincial procurement.
B.C.’s Lobbyists Registry shows Palantir identified opportunities tied to patient care, health-system resources and potential provincial contracts. The public deserves the guardrails.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money accountability story after the independent auditor gave B.C.’s 2025-26 Public Accounts a qualified opinion and estimated incomplete contractual-obligation disclosure at $7.068 billion.
Added a DRIPA / Land Claims accountability story after B.C.’s 2025-26 Public Accounts listed 135,425.3 hectares of provincial Crown land commitments in treaty tables while saying implementation and third-party compensation costs are not determinable at this time.
B.C.’s 2025-26 Public Accounts list 135,425.3 hectares of provincial Crown land commitments in treaty tables while saying implementation and third-party compensation costs are not determinable.
Read the record →B.C.’s 2025-26 Public Accounts carry a qualified audit opinion after the auditor said required contractual-obligation disclosures were incomplete by an estimated $7.068 billion.
Read the record →Added a Wildfires / Crown Land accountability story after B.C. temporarily prohibited recreational off-road vehicle use on Crown land throughout the Kamloops and Southeast fire centres and in parts of the Cariboo and Coastal fire centres.
B.C. temporarily banned recreational off-road vehicles on Crown land in major fire centres on August 10, citing hot, dry weather and wildfire-prevention risk.
Read the record →Added a Wildfires / Emergency Support accountability story after B.C. said Bald Range wildfire evacuees pushed the BC Evacuee Helpline to record calls, forcing ServiceBC to increase staff capacity twenty-fold while the province block-booked more than 1,000 hotel rooms and set up nearly 1,000 group-lodging beds.
B.C. says the Bald Range wildfire pushed the evacuee helpline to record calls, forcing ServiceBC to increase staff capacity twenty-fold and block-book more than 1,000 hotel rooms.
Read the record →Added a Public Safety accountability story after the BC Coroners Service announced an August 18 inquest into Julian Jones’s 2021 death following events involving the Tofino RCMP detachment.
B.C. has scheduled a mandatory coroner’s inquest into Julian Jones’s 2021 death after events involving Tofino RCMP. Public confidence should not depend on a five-year wait.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money accountability story after Vancouver Sun reported First Nations now own 12 B.C. casinos, about one-third of the province’s casinos and gambling centres, with BCLC 2024-25 figures showing large public-revenue and operator-commission stakes.
Vancouver Sun reports First Nations now own 12 B.C. casinos, about one-third of the province’s casinos and gambling centres. BCLC and the province owe a clearer public ledger.
Read the record →Added a Follow the Money accountability story after B.C.’s 2025-26 Public Accounts showed a $7.7-billion deficit, a $2.6-billion tobacco-settlement revenue item, overall spending only $344 million below budget and an $18.4-billion increase in taxpayer-supported debt.
B.C.’s 2025-26 Public Accounts show a $7.7-billion deficit, with the improvement from budget driven largely by higher revenue including a $2.6-billion tobacco settlement.
Read the record →Added a Housing accountability story after CBC reported Prince George is demolishing the former Knights Inn Motel, a 44-unit temporary supportive-housing site used by B.C. Housing since October 2021, with reported provincial lease and demolition contributions.
CBC reported Prince George is demolishing the former Knights Inn Motel after B.C. Housing used it as a 44-unit temporary supportive-housing site and contributed lease and demolition funds.
Read the record →Added a Wildfires / Emergency Support accountability story after Global News reported that federal shelter assistance was approved while some Bald Range wildfire evacuees at the Penticton reception centre described sleeping in vehicles and roughly 14-hour ESS registration waits.
Global News reported federal shelter assistance was approved while some Bald Range wildfire evacuees described 14-hour ESS registration waits and sleeping in vehicles.
Read the record →Added a Health Care accountability story after CBC reported Kelowna General Hospital emergency physician Dr. Jeffrey Eppler described severe exhaustion, overcrowding, staffing shortages, patients waiting eight to 12 hours and heart-attack patients being treated in chairs.
CBC reported a Kelowna ER doctor described patients in shock and heart-attack patients being treated in chairs, while calling for accountability, transparency and governments that listen.
Read the record →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after BCIT listed its Mining and Mineral Resource Engineering degree path as suspended for the September 2026 intake, while Budget 2026 promotes critical minerals, permitting capacity and demand for skilled workers.
Budget 2026 talks up critical-minerals jobs and training, but BCIT says its mining engineering continuation path is suspended for the September 2026 intake.
Read the record →Added a Housing accountability story after The Tyee reported, using Metro Vancouver material, that Budget 2026 changes affected at least 25 non-profit and Indigenous housing projects representing more than 3,500 planned affordable homes, while the province continues using municipal housing targets.
Budget 2026 slowed the non-profit and Indigenous housing pipeline while Victoria kept pressuring municipalities to hit housing targets. Targets do not build homes when the funding foundation is pulled away.
Read the record →Added a Health Care / Wildfires accountability story after Global News reported that Summerland seniors-care relocations included 48 Dr. Andrew Pavilion residents and 190 Summerland Seniors Village residents, with a Highway 97 closure turning a normally short trip toward Kelowna into a four- or five-hour emergency route.
Global News reported hundreds of Summerland care residents were relocated as wildfire evacuation and a Highway 97 closure turned a short trip toward Kelowna into an hours-long emergency route.
Read the record →Added a Rural B.C. / Water accountability story after the Province rescinded the Salmon River temporary fish-protection order, citing farmers, ranchers and elevated wildfire risk while saying streamflows remain low and Chinook protection continues to matter.
B.C. rescinded a Salmon River fish-protection order days after imposing it, citing farmers, ranchers and wildfire risk. Rural B.C. needs rules that work before the emergency week.
Read the record →Added a Housing accountability story after CBC reported July Rentals.ca/Urbanation data showing B.C. asking rents fell year over year while the province remained one of Canada’s most expensive rental markets, including high average asking rents for one-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments.
Added a Public Safety / Wildfires accountability story after Global News and CBC reported Summerland’s evacuation order tied to the fast-growing Bald Range wildfire. The framing avoids cause speculation and asks for a clearer provincial emergency-escalation threshold when local orders multiply and fire behaviour changes quickly.
Added a Public Safety / Mental Health accountability story after CBC reporting and a B.C. Coroners Service verdict showed jury recommendations on wellness checks, officer mental-health training, Indigenous supports and housing-navigation barriers following the death of Haida elder Jimmie Johannesson.
Added a Public Safety / NDP Watch accountability story after Global News reported on a classified CBSA tactical guide describing the Bishnoi gang’s growing operational presence in Canada. The framing labels allegations clearly, avoids racialized blame, and asks for B.C.-level metrics on extortion complaints, arrests, charges, bail outcomes, victim support and community resources.
Added a Housing accountability story using CBC/Canadian Press reporting on Greater Vancouver Realtors July data: sales were 18.6% below the 10-year seasonal average while the composite benchmark price remained above $1 million.
Added a Follow the Money accountability story using B.C. Legislature Hansard and Budget 2026 records showing Bill 2 raises the major-capital-project reporting threshold from $50 million to $125 million while the province carries large deficits, a $37.7-billion taxpayer-supported capital plan and rising taxpayer-supported debt.
Published a public-safety accountability story on Operation Hard Ball, the viral West Vancouver / France card, Surrey extortion statistics and the B.C. transparency questions the province still needs to answer.
Published a fresh healthcare labour follow-up on BCNU’s July 9 escalation: bargaining impasse, new Surrey picket lines, scheduled Vancouver Island picket lines, more than 2,300 alleged intimidation reports and the employer-side denial.
Published a distinct Follow the Money / Ferries accountability story on BC Ferries’ June 16 temporary 5% fuel surcharge, the Summit Class major-vessel timeline beginning in 2029, and the unanswered public ledger on China-built ships, B.C. jobs and ferry affordability.
Published a Healthcare accountability story after fresh reports of emergency-room closures affecting Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt and Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital in Clearwater, with rural patients directed to larger hospitals during the interruptions.
Published a distinct NDP Watch / FOI accountability story after B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner called for mandatory public-body FOI metrics reporting, warning that B.C. still has gaps in measuring whether the transparency system is working.
Published a distinct DRIPA / Land Claims accountability story after Ottawa’s Canada-B.C. prosperity agreement committed to determining mechanisms to participate in and contribute to the Tahltan Foundation Agreement talks by December 1, 2026.
Published an NDP Watch / Democracy accountability story after Amelia Boultbee, elected in Penticton-Summerland as a Conservative by 317 votes, joined David Eby’s BC NDP caucus without a by-election.
Published a distinct Follow the Money / Resources story on KSM, critical minerals and B.C.’s certainty problem after the court-ordered consultation process and northwest tenure pause.
Published an evening follow-up on the Alberta-to-Delta pipeline file after Alberta named its proposed route and partners, and the federal-B.C. framework showed B.C. moving from opposition to compensation and liability negotiations.
Published a Housing / Follow the Money accountability story after Global News reported an ethics-committee probe request over the federal-B.C. vacant-condo plan, citing Global News, the PMO, CityNews/Canadian Press and the B.C. Conservative criticism.
Published a morning health-care labour accountability story after BCNU announced nurses would escalate job action with a July 7 picket line at Vancouver General Hospital while maintaining essential services, citing BCNU and CityNews/Canadian Press reporting.
Published a Follow the Money / Energy accountability story after Alberta put a July 2 announcement and Major Projects Office timeline behind its proposed one-million-barrel-per-day West Coast pipeline, citing Global News, CityNews, Alberta’s project page, the PMO agreement and Eby’s May 15 response.
Published a health-care labour accountability story after BCNU announced 72-hour strike notice, citing BCNU, CityNews, Global News, Canadian Press/iNFOnews and HSA reporting on the strike timeline, vote numbers, staffing concerns and essential-services context.
Published an evening Follow the Money / Energy story on B.C.’s AI data-centre backlash, including CityNews protest reporting, TELUS/federal AI infrastructure announcements and BC Hydro’s 2026 call-for-demand criteria for AI/data-centre loads.
Published two morning accountability stories: David Eby’s China trade/LNG mission and a separate health-care labour story after B.C. nurses voted 67% to reject the tentative agreement with health employers.
Published an evening DRIPA/public-access accountability story on the Joffre Lakes closure challenge, including Global News reporting, BC Parks pass/visitor-cap rules and the constitutional-law warning over public park closures.
Published an evening housing-accountability story on the Eby/Carney vacant-condo conversion plan, including the reported roughly $1.4B to $1.45B potential spending framework, the proposed public-cash/financing structure and the unresolved affordability/risk details.
Reviewed every recent post from the last 21 days plus older homepage/sidebar features. Updated visible blog-index and nursing-post wording so the BCNU file now reflects the June 19 rejection of the tentative agreement, not an active June 15–19 ratification vote. KSM, Bill 9, Cowichan/Montrose, Dallas Brodie recall and Tumbler Ridge watch items remain open with no unsupported new outcome claimed.
Published two midday accountability stories: the post-secondary funding-crisis story, and a separate FOI-backed health-care unpaid-bills story after reviewing SecondStreet, CityNews Vancouver and Global News reporting.
Published the Angus Reid issue-by-issue NDP report card story, the Fraser River Tunnel / George Massey procurement reset story, and a distinct BC Hydro Site E/Homathko mega-dam review story. Also kept the nurses rejected-agreement, KSM consultation ruling, Bill 9 and Tumbler Ridge watch items current.
Reviewed recent posts and older featured/sidebar links for stale current-event framing. Top-level source-page updates now reflect Bill 9 status review, the May 2026 Labour Force Survey, K’ómoks provincial Royal Assent, Cowichan/Montrose’s still-unresolved status, PHARA/Cattlemen litigation, BCNU’s June 19 rejection of the tentative agreement and Dallas Brodie/OneBC recall/event timing.
Published a morning DRIPA/land-claims accountability story after Montrose Properties lost its bid to reopen the Cowichan title case. The piece keeps the legal framing cautious: appeals remain live, but B.C. voters still need transparent notice where private land may be affected.
Published an evening follow-up on the Massey Tunnel replacement after Delta Mayor George Harvie demanded open public answers about safety concerns raised around the terminated contractor path.
Published an evening Follow the Money / Energy story on the Delta and Roberts Bank risk questions inside the new West Coast pipeline bargain, including CityNews reporting and federal Canada-B.C./Canada-Alberta source records.
Published a public-safety accountability story on B.C.’s new chronic property-offender hubs, including the official $16-million program announcement, Global News reporting and Crown-capacity concerns.
Published a healthcare labour follow-up on BCNU’s 1,400 alleged employer-intimidation reports, the July 7 VGH picket line and the July 9 expansion to Surrey Memorial and Jim Pattison Outpatient.
Published a distinct DRIPA/land-use accountability story on the province’s July 6 conservation-planning announcement for Qat’muk, Skagit Headwaters and Raush Valley, including the three-year pause on new Qat’muk mineral-tenure applications.
Published a distinct healthcare/public-safety accountability story on the BC Coroners Service May 2026 toxic-drug death update: 109 suspected unregulated-drug deaths, roughly 3.5 per day, even in the lowest monthly total since February 2020.
Published a forestry accountability story after Canfor announced the permanent closure of Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George, directly impacting about 300 employees and removing about 300,000 tonnes of annual NBSK pulp production.
Published an evening Follow the Money / Transparency story after Surrey said municipalities representing roughly one-third of Metro Vancouver now support its call for an inquiry into regional governance, accountability and public-spending oversight.
Published a Healthcare / Rural B.C. accountability story after CJDC reported Hudson’s Hope Health Centre’s emergency department is closed until Aug. 4 because of staffing shortages, with residents directed to 911 during the closure.
Published a DRIPA / Critical Minerals accountability story after B.C. and Simpcw signed a consent-based decision-making agreement for the proposed Yellowhead Copper project, with both Simpcw consent and a provincial environmental assessment certificate required before the project can proceed.
Published an NDP Watch / Pipelines follow-up after Angus Reid reported David Eby’s approval at 27% and approval among past BC NDP voters falling from 78% to 53% following the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline announcement.
Published an NDP Watch / Public Safety update after the Province said as many as 865 people involved in repeat violent, property and public-disorder offences will be monitored provincewide, including 365 in the Lower Mainland.
Published a Healthcare / Nurses accountability story after BCNU said workplace violence remains common for nurses and alleged government and health employers have yet to meaningfully act on prevention measures presented months ago.
Published a Healthcare / Nurses follow-up after BCNU said the Nurses’ Bargaining Association accepted mediators’ recommendations and ended province-wide job action, while compensation issues are expected to proceed to binding arbitration this fall.
Published a DRIPA / Crown Land accountability story after B.C.’s Sea to Sky land-use consultation closed July 20, with proposed Land Act objectives tied to 33 Síiyamiin cultural/historical sites and six special cultural management areas covering more than 20,000 hectares.
Published a Healthcare / Mental Health accountability story after Canadian Press reported partial B.C. psychiatric ER-to-bed wait data, including a just-over-nine-day Interior Health wait, while the Province’s new Prince George and Surrey involuntary-care beds are scheduled for 2027 and 2028.
Published an NDP Watch / Local Democracy accountability story after Vancouver asked Premier David Eby and Housing and Municipal Affairs Minister Christine Boyle to amend the Vancouver Charter following California caller and public-hearing queue concerns.
Published a Healthcare / Charter Rights accountability story after the B.C. Supreme Court found B.C.’s involuntary mental-health treatment-consent regime unconstitutional and gave the Legislature six months to draft Charter-compliant legislation.
Added a DRIPA / Property Rights accountability story after Montrose filed an appeal challenging the refusal to reopen the Cowichan title case, with careful wording that the title decision remains subject to appeals and Cowichan representatives say they are not seeking to invalidate existing private ownership.
Added a Jobs / Public Safety accountability story after reports of London Drugs job cuts and recent Vancouver closures raised fresh questions about B.C. retail confidence, street-level safety and the real economy under David Eby.
Added a Housing / Public Safety accountability story after Global News video and Richmond council minutes showed a growing highway encampment, fire-risk concerns, and provincial transportation-land responsibility.
Added a DRIPA / Public Access accountability story after B.C. government road records showed the Incomappleux FSR gated at kilometre zero, unsafe, and moving toward deactivation while the conservancy has no road access, trails or facilities.
Added a Public Safety accountability story after Global BC video and emergency records showed Big Bar Complex residents questioning wildfire air response while evacuation orders and alerts were active.
Added a Public Safety / NDP Watch accountability story after Downtown Victoria Business Association records showed safety, public disorder and open drug use still weighing on downtown visits and business confidence.
Added a Public Safety / Wildfires accountability story after CBC, CityNews Vancouver and EmergencyInfoBC records showed major evacuation pressure, outside wildfire crews arriving, and Forests Minister Ravi Parmar saying B.C. did not need provincial emergency powers at this point.
Added a Public Safety / Wildfires accountability story after Castanet reported an estimated 230 homes destroyed on Okanagan Indian Band land, more than 1,400 evacuees registered for support, and continuing hazards around water, power and roads.
Added a Healthcare accountability story after Interior Health alerts, CFJC reporting and Legislature estimates showed repeated rural emergency-room interruptions in Merritt, Clearwater and 100 Mile House despite provincial claims that closure-hour trends are improving.
Added a Public Safety / NDP Watch accountability story after CityNews reported Premier David Eby would push Ottawa for U.S.-style anti-racketeering laws, tied to extortion and organized-crime concerns. The framing labels allegations clearly and asks for metrics, guardrails and results.
Added a Follow the Money / Energy accountability story after B.C. announced BC Hydro would acquire the 275-MW Island Generation natural-gas facility in Campbell River because additional electricity capacity is needed sooner than previously expected.
Added a Forestry / Land Use accountability story after CBC reported Walbran Valley protest sentences tied to a 2025 injunction, showing the province’s old-growth and forestry conflicts are still being routed through courts instead of durable certainty.
Added a Public Safety / Wildfires accountability story after Global News reported that a 90-year-old Desert Cove man with dementia needed a stranger’s help to evacuate during wildfire pressure, then was reportedly told no accommodation was available at the reception centre. The framing praises the helper and asks for a provincial vulnerable-person evacuation protocol and overflow accommodation plan.
Added a Public Safety / Northern B.C. accountability story after CBC reported Fort St. John RCMP are investigating a second drive-by shooting in recent weeks, with bullet holes found in a trailer, two neighbouring homes and a vehicle near downtown. The framing labels police claims carefully and asks for a northern public-safety scorecard.
Added an NDP Watch / Forestry accountability story after Global News and Business Examiner reported Interfor is shifting corporate functions from Burnaby to Georgia. The framing distinguishes company and market factors from provincial responsibility, and asks for measurable forestry competitiveness targets instead of spending-announcement spin.
Added a Public Services / Accessibility accountability story after Global News reported a 71-year-old long-time HandyDART passenger was left without rides for two months before B.C.’s transportation minister directed staff to fix the problem. The framing asks for a clear escalation standard when accessible-transit users are stranded by technical or contractor limits.
Added a Healthcare / Wildfire Risk accountability story after Global News reported 100 Mile District General Hospital’s emergency department closed for a 13-hour stretch on August 7 and was expected to close again Sunday, with patients directed 95 kilometres to Williams Lake while wildfire smoke and road risks affected the region.
Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →Added a Public Safety accountability story after Surrey Now-Leader, Castanet/Canadian Press and Surrey Police Service records showed a suspected targeted Whalley shooting, a same-week Robertson Drive Park shots-fired investigation, firearm-related charges from an August 2 arrest and a July 28 City Centre shooting file. The framing avoids speculation and asks for measurable safety results.
Added a Public Safety / Wildfires accountability story after CBC and EmergencyInfoBC records showed B.C. moving to province-wide wildfire emergency powers following the Summerland evacuation order and tens of thousands of residents displaced or on alert. The framing asks for a dated explanation of the emergency threshold and what powers will be used first.
B.C. declared province-wide wildfire emergency powers after Summerland was ordered out and tens of thousands were displaced or on alert. The province owes a dated threshold explanation.
Read the record →A suspected targeted Whalley shooting and same-week Surrey Police firearm files show why B.C. needs measurable public-safety results, not another announcement cycle.
Read the record →July asking rents fell in B.C., but Rentals.ca/Urbanation data reported by CBC still left the province near the top of Canada’s rental-affordability crisis.
Read the record →The Bald Range wildfire forced an evacuation order affecting about 12,000 Summerland residents after explosive Friday growth. B.C. needs a clearer emergency-escalation threshold.
Read the record →Global News reported 100 Mile House faced its 36th ER closure of 2026 while patients needing emergency care were directed 95 kilometres to Williams Lake through wildfire smoke and road-risk conditions.
Read the record →Global News reported a 71-year-old HandyDART user was left without rides for two months before B.C.’s transportation minister directed staff to fix the problem.
Read the record →Interfor’s shift of corporate functions from Burnaby to Georgia is a warning sign for B.C. forestry: the province is losing command-centre confidence, not just mill capacity.
Read the record →CBC reports Fort St. John RCMP are investigating a second drive-by shooting in recent weeks after bullets hit homes, a trailer and a vehicle near downtown.
Read the record →Global News reported that a 90-year-old Desert Cove man with dementia needed a stranger’s help to evacuate, then was reportedly told no accommodation was available at reception.
Read the record →A coroner’s inquest into the death of Haida elder Jimmie Johannesson produced concrete wellness-check, mental-health training and Indigenous housing-support recommendations. B.C. needs deadlines, not another shelf report.
Read the record →B.C. Budget 2026 carries deep deficits while Hansard shows questions over a $3.5-million arts-and-culture line and $927 million forecast for film tax credits.
Read the record →Bill 2 raises B.C.’s major-capital-project reporting threshold from $50 million to $125 million while Budget 2026 carries huge deficits, a $37.7-billion capital plan and rising taxpayer-supported debt.
Read the record →Global News says a classified CBSA tactical guide describes the Bishnoi gang’s growing presence in Canada. B.C. needs a public scoreboard for extortion complaints, arrests, charges, bail outcomes and victim support.
Read the record →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →CBC/Canadian Press reports Greater Vancouver’s July home sales were 18.6% below the 10-year seasonal average while the benchmark price remained above $1 million.
Read the record →Two Walbran blockade sentences show B.C. forestry conflict is still being pushed through injunctions, arrests and courts instead of a durable land-use settlement.
Read the record →B.C.’s new SFU medical school starts with 48 students in interim space while the premier admits the doctor shortage remains real now.
Read the record →BC Hydro is acquiring Campbell River’s 275-MW Island Generation gas-fired plant after government says B.C. needs electricity capacity sooner than expected.
Read the record →Interior Health alerts and local reporting show repeated rural emergency-room interruptions while B.C.’s health minister says closures are tracking in the right direction.
Read the record →David Eby is asking Ottawa for U.S.-style anti-racketeering laws. That demands metrics, civil-liberties guardrails and an honest accounting of what B.C.’s current safety tools have not fixed.
Read the record →Bradley Creek’s damage estimate, 1,400 evacuees and unsafe return conditions make the NDP’s emergency threshold a public accountability test.
Read the record →As Okanagan and Interior wildfire evacuations spread, Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says B.C. does not need emergency powers. The public deserves the evidence behind that threshold.
Read the record →Downtown Victoria’s 2026 business report says safety, public disorder and open drug use are still limiting visits and confidence despite fresh government programs.
Read the record →As Big Bar Complex evacuation orders and alerts spread, residents questioning wildfire air support deserve clear public answers from Victoria and incident commanders.
Read the record →B.C. government records show the Incomappleux FSR is gated, unsafe and headed for deactivation, raising hard questions about public access after conservation policy removes the repair case.
Read the record →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →Richmond records and Global News video show a growing highway encampment, fire-risk warnings, and provincial land responsibility still without clear public accountability.
Read the record →London Drugs job cuts and recent Vancouver closures are a local warning light on jobs, public safety and business confidence under David Eby’s B.C. government.
Read the record →Montrose is appealing the refusal to reopen the Cowichan title case, keeping B.C.’s private-property certainty problem squarely on David Eby’s desk.
Read the record →After Vancouver’s Villages Plan hearing drew California callers and more than 340 registered speakers, the city asked Victoria for a Vancouver Charter fix so local hearings stay accountable to affected communities.
Read the record →Partial B.C. data shows psychiatric patients can wait hours — and in one Interior Health case, more than nine days — for a bed while the province’s new facilities are scheduled for 2027 and 2028.
Read the record →B.C.’s Sea to Sky consultation closed July 20 after proposing Land Act objectives tied to 33 cultural/historical sites and six special cultural management areas covering more than 20,000 hectares.
Read the record →BCNU says nurses have ended province-wide job action after accepting mediators’ recommendations, but compensation arbitration, violence, staffing and non-nursing duties remain public accountability tests.
Read the record →BCNU says nurses are still facing violence, abuse and short staffing while government and health employers have yet to meaningfully act on safety measures put forward months ago.
Read the record →B.C.’s July 23 repeat-offender announcement says as many as 865 people will be monitored provincewide, including 365 in the Lower Mainland. That is progress rhetoric — and an admission of scale.
Read the record →Angus Reid says Eby’s approval has fallen to 27% after the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline announcement, while approval among past BC NDP voters dropped from 78% to 53% in one month.
Read the record →B.C. says Yellowhead Copper now requires both a provincial environmental assessment certificate and Simpcw consent before it can proceed. That is a major-project accountability story, not just a reconciliation announcement.
Read the record →Hudson’s Hope Health Centre’s emergency department is closed until Aug. 4 because of staffing shortages. For rural B.C., that is not a brief interruption — it is a system failure.
Read the record →Surrey says New Westminster and both North Vancouver municipalities now back its Metro Vancouver inquiry call — representing about one million residents and roughly one-third of the region.
Read the record →Canfor says it will permanently close Northwood in Prince George, directly affecting about 300 employees and removing about 300,000 tonnes of annual pulp production.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →BC Coroners Service preliminary data says 109 people died from suspected unregulated-drug toxicity in May — the lowest month since 2020, but still about 3.5 deaths a day.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →BCNU says bargaining has hit an impasse again, Surrey picket lines are up, Vancouver Island dates are scheduled, and nurses have filed more than 2,300 alleged intimidation reports.
Read the record →B.C. has opened conservation planning for Qat’muk, Skagit Headwaters and Raush Valley — including a three-year pause on new mineral-tenure applications in Qat’muk.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →BCNU says nurses have reported more than 1,400 alleged employer-intimidation incidents as job action moves from VGH to more facilities. The NDP government cannot call that labour peace.
Read the record →BC Ferries brought in a 5% fuel surcharge while the major-vessel relief coastal communities need will not begin arriving until 2029 — from a Chinese shipyard.
Read the record →B.C.’s new chronic property-offender hubs are an admission that repeat theft, vandalism and street disorder are real — but the NDP still owes a justice-capacity plan.
Read the record →David Eby says B.C. cannot stop Ottawa’s proposed West Coast pipeline. That makes the unanswered Delta, Roberts Bank and orca-risk questions more urgent, not less.
Read the record →B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner says public bodies still do not consistently track basic FOI performance metrics. After Bill 9, that is an accountability warning the NDP cannot ignore.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →BCNU escalated job action with a July 7 Vancouver General Hospital picket line while maintaining essential services. The province’s biggest hospital is now part of Eby’s health-care labour crisis.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →Merritt and Clearwater residents are being told again that local emergency rooms will be unavailable. Rural B.C. deserves more than another diversion notice to Kamloops.
Read the record →Ottawa has put a December 1 deadline behind participation in B.C.’s Tahltan Foundation Agreement talks. Voters deserve to know what is being negotiated.
Read the record →Penticton-Summerland elected Amelia Boultbee as a Conservative by 317 votes. Now that seat gives David Eby another NDP caucus vote without a by-election.
Read the record →A proposed Alberta-to-Delta pipeline route and federal-B.C. framework turn David Eby’s opposition into a compensation negotiation, not a court fight.
Read the record →KSM shows the gap between B.C.’s critical-minerals sales pitch and the NDP government’s record on consultation, permitting certainty and northern resource jobs.
Read the record →Montrose lost its bid to reopen the Cowichan title case. The appeal may decide the law, but voters still deserve transparent notice where private land is at issue.
Read the record →After B.C. terminated the Massey Tunnel contractor path, Delta’s mayor is demanding public answers about safety questions beside the old crossing.
Read the record →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →The Eby-Carney vacant-condo plan is now facing an ethics-committee probe request, and taxpayers still do not have the transaction-level details.
Read the record →Alberta has put a dated one-million-barrel West Coast pipeline timeline on the table. B.C. voters deserve more than reflexive opposition and process complaints.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →B.C. nurses issued 72-hour strike notice after rejecting the tentative agreement, putting the Eby government’s health-care labour file back under pressure.
Read the record →Hundreds protested proposed AI data centres while TELUS and governments advance a 150 MW B.C. cluster.
Read the record →David Eby is courting PetroChina on LNG Canada Phase 2 while withholding the full China-trip itinerary from the public.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →B.C. nurses voted no to the tentative four-year agreement, keeping the staffing, workload and patient-care crisis unresolved.
Read the record →A Charter warning over Joffre Lakes puts B.C.’s park-closure process, public access rules and transparency back under scrutiny.
Read the record →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →Before Victoria helps finance a vacant-condo conversion plan, B.C. taxpayers deserve the purchase rules, affordability test and risk structure.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →FOI-backed reporting says unpaid B.C. health bills from non-residents totalled $200.606M from 2020/21 to 2024/25.
Read the record →A new report says B.C.’s public post-secondary system faces its worst funding crisis while programs, staff and student supports are being cut.
Read the record →Angus Reid’s June 16 poll says British Columbians give David Eby’s NDP net-negative marks on every major issue measured.
Read the record →B.C.’s NDP government is seriously re-examining Site E and Homathko hydro projects after Site C doubled from its original estimate to $16 billion.
Read the record →B.C. has terminated the Fraser River Tunnel final-construction path with Cross Fraser Partnership and will retender remaining work while insisting the project is still on track.
Read the record →B.C.’s Tumbler Ridge open house is over, but public comment on West Moberly First Nations’ proposed Crown land transfers remains open until June 30.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →BC Coroners Service preliminary data says 119 people died from suspected unregulated-drug toxicity in April 2026 — about four deaths a day.
Read the record →Surrey Police Service has its first extortion-crisis convictions, but police are still investigating shots fired at occupied homes.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →Mission Memorial and Hudson’s Hope emergency-service interruptions show B.C.’s health-care crisis is still a staffing crisis.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →Global News reports B.C. is the only province not covering Luspatercept for myelodysplastic syndrome, while the NDP government defends its review process.
Read the record →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →BCNU says the tentative nurses agreement followed a record 98.2% strike mandate from more than 50,000 nurses. Nurses voted 67% to reject the tentative agreement on June 19.
Read the record →The Canadian Taxpayers Federation gave B.C.’s finance minister an F, while Budget 2026 confirms deficits, higher taxes and rising debt.
Read More →B.C. employment rose in May, but unemployment stayed above Canada’s rate while youth and private-sector indicators moved the wrong way.
Read More →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →B.C.’s BC Builds milestone is real, but CMHC’s 2026 outlook warns construction momentum in B.C. and Vancouver is weakening.
Read More →Surrey’s provincially forced police transition now faces a chief ouster, board resignations, union concern and renewed questions about who is accountable.
Read More →CUPE 8911 issued 72-hour strike notice for B.C. emergency communications workers after months of bargaining with E-Comm 9-1-1 reached impasse.
Read More →B.C.’s NDP extended the northern pause on new mineral, placer and coal tenures to Jan. 31, 2027, while industry warns investors need certainty.
Read More →Leger’s June Pulse Check puts the BC Conservatives at 45% and the NDP at 41% among decided voters, with housing, health care and the economy leading public concern.
Read More →The B.C. Review Board granted Allan Schoenborn a conditional discharge. Families and local leaders are asking why public safety and victim confidence keep coming last.
Read More →The NDP paused new $10-a-day enrolment, faced provider funding warnings, and is now asking families for more feedback.
Read More →The NDP pushed Bill 20 through while neighbouring First Nations and UBCIC said serious overlap and consent concerns remained unresolved.
Read More →The NDP’s spring-session victory lap collides with deficits, DRIPA trouble, health-care pressure and delayed infrastructure projects.
Read More →Eby finally named two DRIPA-linked court examples — an ICBC benefits dispute and the Willingdon class action — while still refusing to release the full list.
Read More →The NDP’s new World Cup line is that costs are down. The same update shows a $242-million safety-and-security estimate, Vancouver’s larger host-city budget, hotel-tax dependence and another promised $100 million from Ottawa.
Read More →A viral West Vancouver / France card points to a real FBI-RCMP organized-crime case — and to unanswered B.C. questions about extortion response, victim support and transparency.
Read the record →After B.C. cancelled the Phase 2 Burnaby Hospital construction contract, residents rallied for a restart, a timeline and the 160 beds and cancer care the province had already advertised.
Read More →A careful accountability piece tying Clark-era transparency failures to Bonnie Henry’s health-care worker orders, nurse mandate fallout, and the CSASPP court-access fight.
Read More →The Supreme Court of Canada will hear B.C.’s appeal in the Gitxaała/Ehattesaht mineral-claims case — a direct test of what the NDP’s DRIPA framework means in law.
Read More →Added a Jobs / Economy accountability story after Castanet reported Metro Kelowna’s unemployment rate reached 9.3%, the highest among Canadian metro regions for a third straight month, despite local job gains.
Metro Kelowna had Canada’s highest unemployment rate for a third straight month. B.C.’s provincewide jobs line does not answer the regional reality facing the Interior.
Read the record →Global News reports B.C. funding of $547,100 over two months while Vancouver’s 140-room Colonial Hotel SRO was winding down with two tenants remaining.
Read More →A Rebel News interview with HSLDA president Peter Stock raises the question B.C. parents are already asking: why is the NDP narrowing home-learning options while families look for alternatives?
Read More →All topics · DRIPA · Land Claims · NDP Watch · Healthcare · Eby · Follow the Money · NDP Failures · Fiscal Accountability · Co-Government · FIFA
Reviewed all May 13–31 posts plus older homepage/sidebar features for stale current-event framing. Added June 3 correction notes to the Cowichan/Montrose, Bill 9 and Bill 20/K’ómoks files so litigation, FOI and treaty-status claims are no longer frozen at their May hearing/debate posture.
Reviewed all May 2026 posts from the last 21 days plus older homepage/sidebar features. Added update notes to the Cowichan/Montrose hearing post and the nurses strike-vote/strike-mandate posts so past event framing now reflects the May 22 tentative nurses agreement, the May 25–27 Cowichan reopening hearing, and the active Supreme Court DRIPA/mineral-claims docket.
July asking rents fell in B.C., but Rentals.ca/Urbanation data reported by CBC still left the province near the top of Canada’s rental-affordability crisis.
Read Full Story →The Bald Range wildfire forced an evacuation order affecting about 12,000 Summerland residents after explosive Friday growth. B.C. needs a clearer emergency-escalation threshold.
Read Full Story →The B.C. Supreme Court says B.C.’s involuntary mental-health treatment-consent regime violated Charter rights and gave the Legislature six months to write Charter-compliant law.
Read Full Story →New Westminster’s school-capacity crunch shows the province cannot order more density and leave families waiting for the classrooms, fields and safe buildings that growth requires.
Read Full Story →Partial B.C. data shows psychiatric patients can wait hours — and in one Interior Health case, more than nine days — for a bed while the province’s new facilities are scheduled for 2027 and 2028.
Read Full Story →BCNU escalated job action with a July 7 Vancouver General Hospital picket line while maintaining essential services. The province’s biggest hospital is now part of Eby’s health-care labour crisis.
Read Full Story →Merritt and Clearwater residents are being told again that local emergency rooms will be unavailable. Rural B.C. deserves more than another diversion notice to Kamloops.
Read Full Story →Ottawa has put a December 1 deadline behind participation in B.C.’s Tahltan Foundation Agreement talks. Voters deserve to know what is being negotiated.
Read Full Story →Penticton-Summerland elected Amelia Boultbee as a Conservative by 317 votes. Now that seat gives David Eby another NDP caucus vote without a by-election.
Read Full Story →A proposed Alberta-to-Delta pipeline route and federal-B.C. framework turn David Eby’s opposition into a compensation negotiation, not a court fight.
Read Full Story →Montrose lost its bid to reopen the Cowichan title case. The appeal may decide the law, but voters still deserve transparent notice where private land is at issue.
Read Full Story →Alberta has put a dated one-million-barrel West Coast pipeline timeline on the table. B.C. voters deserve more than reflexive opposition and process complaints.
Read Full Story →B.C. nurses issued 72-hour strike notice after rejecting the tentative agreement, putting the Eby government’s health-care labour file back under pressure.
Read Full Story →Hundreds protested proposed AI data centres while TELUS and governments advance a 150 MW B.C. cluster.
Read Full Story →David Eby is courting PetroChina on LNG Canada Phase 2 while withholding the full China-trip itinerary from the public.
Read Full Story →B.C. nurses voted no to the tentative four-year agreement, keeping the staffing, workload and patient-care crisis unresolved.
Read Full Story →A Charter warning over Joffre Lakes puts B.C.’s park-closure process, public access rules and transparency back under scrutiny.
Read Full Story →A new report says B.C.’s public post-secondary system faces its worst funding crisis while programs, staff and student supports are being cut.
Read Full Story →B.C. has terminated the Fraser River Tunnel final-construction path with Cross Fraser Partnership and will retender remaining work while insisting the project is still on track.
Read Full Story →B.C.’s Tumbler Ridge open house is over, but public comment on West Moberly First Nations’ proposed Crown land transfers remains open until June 30.
Read Full Story →BC Coroners Service preliminary data says 119 people died from suspected unregulated-drug toxicity in April 2026 — about four deaths a day.
Read Full Story →Surrey has its first extortion-crisis convictions while police continue to investigate shots fired at occupied homes.
Read Full Story →Mission Memorial and Hudson’s Hope emergency-service interruptions show B.C.’s health-care crisis is still a staffing crisis.
Read Full Story →BCNU says the tentative nurses agreement followed a record 98.2% strike mandate. Nurses voted 67% to reject the tentative agreement on June 19.
Read Full Story →Global News reports B.C. is the only province not covering Luspatercept for myelodysplastic syndrome, while the NDP government defends its review process.
Read Full Story →The CTF ranked B.C.’s finance minister dead last in Canada as Budget 2026 confirms higher taxes, deficits and rising debt.
Read Full Story →B.C. added jobs in May, but unemployment stayed above Canada’s rate as youth unemployment and private-sector weakness raise harder questions.
Read Full Story →B.C.’s BC Builds victory lap collides with CMHC warnings that B.C. and Vancouver construction momentum is weakening.
Read Full Story →CUPE 8911 issued 72-hour strike notice for B.C. emergency communications workers after months of bargaining with E-Comm 9-1-1 reached impasse.
Read Full Story →Leger’s June Pulse Check puts the BC Conservatives narrowly ahead as voters keep naming housing, health care, the economy, deficits, taxes and public safety.
Read Full Story →The B.C. Review Board granted Allan Schoenborn a conditional discharge, exposing the public-safety trust gap around B.C.’s mental-health justice system.
Read Full Story →The province paused new $10-a-day child-care enrolment, providers warned about funding pressure, and families are still waiting for affordable spaces.
Read Full Story →A treaty sold as reconciliation has passed while neighbouring First Nations and UBCIC warn overlap, consent and jurisdiction concerns remain unresolved.
Read Full Story →The NDP’s spring-session victory lap collides with deficits, DRIPA trouble, health-care pressure and delayed infrastructure projects.
Read Full Story →Eby finally named two DRIPA-linked court examples — an ICBC benefits dispute and the Willingdon class action — while still refusing to release the full list.
Read Full Story →The NDP’s new World Cup line is that costs are down. The same update shows a $242-million safety-and-security estimate, Vancouver’s larger host-city budget, hotel-tax dependence and another promised $100 million from Ottawa.
Read Full Story →After B.C. cancelled the Phase 2 Burnaby Hospital construction contract, residents rallied for a restart, a timeline and the 160 beds and cancer care the province had already advertised.
Read Full Story →A careful accountability piece tying Clark-era transparency failures to Bonnie Henry’s health-care worker orders, nurse mandate fallout, and the CSASPP court-access fight.
Read Full Story →The Supreme Court of Canada will hear B.C.’s appeal in the Gitxaała/Ehattesaht mineral-claims case — a direct test of what the NDP’s DRIPA framework means in law.
Read Full Story →Global News reports B.C. funding of $547,100 over two months while Vancouver’s 140-room Colonial Hotel SRO was winding down with two tenants remaining.
Read Full Story →Dallas Brodie’s new Bill 20 video gives the K’ómoks Treaty Act a fresh political frame: land, money, jurisdiction, overlap and consent.
Read Full Story →Bill 9 was already a transparency problem. Now the Opposition says the NDP is bending legislative convention to rescue its own FOI amendments.
Read Full Story →After Premier David Eby met Prime Minister Mark Carney behind closed doors in Vancouver, British Columbians still need to know what B.C. actually won on jobs, revenue and resource certainty.
Read Full Story →A viral Claire Rattée Reel turns one legislature clash into a bigger question: why is the NDP trying to claim LNG credit now while Northern B.C. workers remember who fought for resource jobs when it mattered?
Read Full Story →After a 2.5-year wait and a 144-page refusal to certify one of Canada’s largest proposed class actions, CSASPP is appealing — and the issue now reaches beyond COVID into emergency powers, DRIPA uncertainty, land rights, and civil liberties.
Read Full Story →After the Jobs Minister accused Rattée of being “economical with the truth,” the data shows B.C. has shed 40,000-plus jobs, youth unemployment is elevated, and DRIPA uncertainty is hitting investment confidence.
Read Full Story →Wente’s column turns B.C.’s DRIPA uncertainty into a national question: can Carney build anything if Eby keeps moving land-use power behind closed doors?
Read Full Story →Tom Fletcher’s latest Western Standard column connects the Heritage Conservation Act rewrite to the bigger NDP pattern: land-use power shifting behind closed doors.
Read Full Story →A community voted for incorporation. Now residents are watching naming, boundary and DRIPA questions get handled through a process they cannot see clearly.
Read Full Story →The NDP says pets should be welcome in purpose-built rentals. Current provincial tenancy guidance still tells renters that landlords can say no.
Read Full Story →Metro Vancouver’s North Shore wastewater settlement may end one legal fight. It does not answer how a roughly $700-million public project became a $3.86-billion bill.
Read Full Story →The NDP government advanced Bill 9 after an all-night FOI fight. British Columbians deserved daylight, not a 4 A.M. transparency vote.
Read Full Story →Opposition-released figures say 7,829 seniors were waiting for long-term care in January. The NDP cannot call that a health-care success story.
Read Full Story →A viral TikTok is dramatic, but the core issue is real: B.C.’s Health Professions and Occupations Act has changed health regulation, and patients deserve plain answers about independence, records access and penalties.
Read Full Story →Ottawa, B.C. and LNG Canada are moving toward a possible 2026 Phase 2 decision. Taxpayers need the ledger before the next megaproject bet.
Read Full Story →A renewed online fight over Pacific Spirit Regional Park shows why B.C. needs open rules before public land, reconciliation policy and park access collide.
Read Full Story →More than 50,000 B.C. nurses voted 98.2% in favour of job action, the strongest strike mandate in BCNU history, after months of bargaining and an April impasse.
Read Full Story →Eby unveiled BC Place upgrades and promised a $1B economic impact, but taxpayers still do not have the full hosting bill for Vancouver’s seven FIFA World Cup matches.
Read Full Story →A broad municipal and business coalition rejected NDAs tied to B.C.’s Heritage Conservation Act reforms, warning that major land-use rules are being shaped behind closed doors.
Read Full Story →Phase 2 was supposed to deliver a 160-bed tower and cancer-care centre. The province cancelled the contract and left Burnaby without a confirmed construction start date.
Read Full Story →B.C. taxpayers are funding Vancouver’s World Cup hosting while activists still protest FIFA, displacement, and stolen land. What exactly did taxpayers buy?
Read Full Story →Global News reported B.C.-trained nurse practitioners struggling to find jobs; the latest provincial dashboard says roughly 23% of residents remain unattached to primary care while the province celebrates recruitment.
Read Full Story →CHBA BC warned Premier David Eby that Budget 2026 tax changes and code timing risk adding cost and uncertainty while B.C. is already short of homes.
Read Full Story →Global BC’s May 9 Conservative leadership debate put resources, jobs, energy, food and housing security at the centre of the race to oppose David Eby’s NDP.
Read Full Story →Angus Reid reports the BC Conservatives now lead the governing NDP 46 to 36, while David Eby’s approval has fallen to 33 per cent amid land-rights and DRIPA uncertainty.
Read Full Story →More than 50,000 BCNU members voted May 8–11 on a strike mandate; the file has since moved to a May 22 tentative agreement rejected by members on June 19.
Read Full Story →The Premier compared borrowing for infrastructure to buying a family home. But the same week, B.C. faced pressure over a record deficit, rising debt and job losses in the first four months of 2026.
Read Full Story →The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has launched a campaign against B.C.’s planned PST expansion on professional services, warning it will add costs to housing, infrastructure, mining and small business.
Read Full Story →Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart alleged on CKNW that a B.C. cabinet minister is under investigation over collaboration with China’s government. Eby says RCMP and CSIS have raised no such concerns with him.
Read Full Story →A shareable cartoon captures the frustration many families feel as food prices, taxes and regulation collide with British Columbia’s cost-of-living crisis.
Read Full Story →The PHARA DRIPA challenge and BC Cattlemen intervention are pushing land-use uncertainty into public view, with private property, dock tenures, ranching and democratic accountability all on the table.
Read Full Story →A Property Rights Canada reel featuring lawyer Thomas Isaac reignites the core question in B.C.’s land-title debate: if governments can defend fee-simple private property, why are homeowners still getting fog?
Read Full Story →Northern Beat reports the BC Cattlemen’s Association is seeking intervenor status in a constitutional challenge against DRIPA, citing uncertainty around private land, grazing tenures, water rights and democratic accountability.
Read Full Story →theBreaker.news reports public emails obtained under FOI showed 177 writers opposed the Cowichan title ruling and urged Premier David Eby to appeal, while four supported it.
Read Full Story →A new Leaders on the Frontier discussion with Tom Isaac and Bruce Hallsor puts plain-language questions around Aboriginal land claims, DRIPA, homeowners, investors and property uncertainty in British Columbia.
Read Full Story →OneBC leader and Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie is pressing the question the NDP would rather avoid: how did B.C. end up with a projected $13.3-billion deficit, rising taxpayer-supported debt, and still-broken services?
Read Full Story →A May 6 Business Council of British Columbia survey says 98% of respondents are very concerned about DRIPA implementation and the same share say it is not living up to its investment-certainty promise. 74% reported decreased B.C. investment plans and 73% cited higher time, cost, complexity or uncertainty in permitting.
Read Full Story →Canadian Press and Global News report B.C. cancelled contracts for Burnaby Hospital Phase 2 and long-term care projects after previously describing them as “re-paced.” Burnaby’s promised 160-bed tower and cancer centre now sit in limbo while communities wait for real timelines.
Read Full Story →CBC News reports B.C. taxpayers have spent more than $300,000 since April 17 flying accused prisoners to and from court on private charter aircraft after transport failures delayed proceedings and triggered a contempt ruling against senior ministers. When basic court transport breaks, taxpayers get the emergency workaround bill.
Read Full Story →The Canadian Press reports relatives of a B.C. man killed in supportive housing are still asking why the case remains unsolved, even after the killing helped spur housing law reform. The NDP can point to reform. The family can point to unanswered questions. That gap is accountability.
Read Full Story →A new Angus Reid Institute poll released today (May 5) shows the BC NDP at 36% — the lowest since 2020. Eby’s approval has cratered from 53% in March 2025 to 33%. Leaderless BC Conservatives lead by 10 points. 47% back DRIPA repeal — including 26% of 2024 NDP voters. The Eby coalition is breaking apart in real time.
Read Full Story →Two previous overdose prevention sites in the same Vancouver neighbourhood were closed in the last three years due to community complaints. Today, VCH announced it’s opening a third one two blocks away — citing a provincial NDP ministerial order. Mayor Ken Sim says he was not meaningfully consulted, and is bringing an urgent motion to council to stop it. Source: CBC News, May 5, 2026.
Read Full Story →OneBC leader Dallas Brodie stood up in the BC Legislature and dared David Eby to call a referendum on DRIPA — the law that hands veto power over BC’s land and resources to unelected Indigenous organizations, without a single province-wide vote. If Eby won’t call one, she says, let British Columbians do it themselves. A petition is circulating now. Sign it.
Read Full Story →A Postmedia investigation reveals FortisBC’s Woodfibre LNG pipeline tunnel exceeded permitted effluent volumes almost every single day from March 2025 to March 2026 — dumping 365 million extra litres into a UNESCO biosphere region. Dissolved copper, toxic to aquatic life, was up to 10x the permit on at least three days. The BC Energy Regulator’s response: a warning letter. No fine. No work stoppage. Now FortisBC wants permission to quadruple its discharge. Source: Vancouver Sun, May 5, 2026.
Read Full Story →The BC Supreme Court heard arguments May 25–27 on Montrose Holdings’ bid to reopen the August 2025 Cowichan Aboriginal title decision — with the BC NDP, the Carney government, and the private landowner all on the same side. The Cowichan Nation calls it “an abuse of process.” Eby on Monday: “I am hopeful certainly that we are on the same page as the prime minister on the matter of private property.” Source: Vancouver Sun column, May 5, 2026.
Read Full Story →The Sinixt Confederacy and the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission — representing 14 U.S. tribes — are amending lawsuits to cite B.C.’s Gitxa̱a̱la DRIPA decision, demanding consultation rights on mines including Eskay Creek, Red Chris, Seabridge, and West High Yield. Conservative critic Scott McInnis calls it a “sovereignty crisis.” A former B.C. chief treaty negotiator says DRIPA left a “dump-truck-sized hole.” Source: Vancouver Sun, May 4, 2026.
Read Full Story →Citizens’ Services Minister Diana Gibson admits “a small number of areas” in Bill 9 needed “adjustments” after weeks of Opposition pressure. The NDP tried to weaken B.C.’s freedom-of-information law, got caught, and is walking it back — without admitting fault. Critics ask: which clauses, what was wrong, and when do the Premier’s calendar and no-bid lists come back online? Source: Government of BC statement, May 4, 2026.
Read Full Story →While Eby scrambled to manage the DRIPA crisis, his government quietly pushed Bill-9 through the legislature — expanding bureaucrats’ power to reject information requests. Opposition MLAs have waited nearly a year for drug crisis reports, SkyTrain cost-overrun records, and Indigenous deal correspondence. The man who built BC’s FOI law calls it “freedom FROM information.” Source: Vancouver Sun (Vaughn Palmer).
Read Full Story →A 72-year-old quadriplegic man in Saanich went five consecutive days without a medically necessary bowel routine because BC’s home support system sent untrained workers. His doctor warns the situation can trigger a stroke. The government’s response: “Consider calling 911.” Source: CBC News, May 4, 2026.
Read Full Story →The Globe and Mail’s Gary Mason catalogues three NDP failures that no spin can fix: a failed drug decriminalization experiment reversed after public outcry, a record $13.3-billion deficit with “no tough choices,” and a DRIPA meltdown that has left everyone angry. Verdict: “The NDP is making things worse.” Source: Globe and Mail.
Read Full Story →A new Leger Research poll shows the NDP’s lead has collapsed to just 4 points over the Conservatives (44% vs 40%). A majority — 54% — say BC is heading in the wrong direction. Eby’s disapproval is rising sharply. Housing, health care, and the record deficit are driving voters away. Source: Leger Research, April 2026.
Read Full Story →The K’ómoks and Kitselas treaties were introduced with no consultation with adjacent nations holding overlapping claims. Now those nations — backed by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs — are demanding a 180-day pause and threatening blockades of a BC Hydro dam that supplies 50% of Vancouver Island’s power. The NDP: full steam ahead. Source: Vancouver Sun, April 29, 2026.
Read Full Story →BC’s most influential political columnist dissects the NDP’s “re-paced” language in the legislature. Burnaby Hospital Phase 2 is cancelled. Seven long-term care homes had contracts terminated. Mayors from Delta to Burnaby say they were misled. The NDP: it’s not cancelled, it’s “re-paced.” Source: Vancouver Sun / Vaughn Palmer, May 2, 2026.
Read Full Story →The same week the NDP admitted it was “re-pacing” hospital projects across BC and clawing back nurses’ benefits, it quietly signed a $283-million, 10-year restoration deal with seven Treaty 8 First Nations. No legislative debate. No public vote. Just a Friday afternoon press release. Source: BC Gov News Release, May 1, 2026.
Read Full Story →The man who helped write BC’s original Freedom of Information Act calls Bill-9 a move from “freedom of information to freedom FROM information.” Conservatives say the NDP is hiding drug decriminalization failures, SkyTrain cost overruns, and secret Indigenous land deals. The NDP’s response? Silence — they have the votes. Source: Vancouver Sun / Vaughn Palmer.
Read Full Story →For the second time, the NDP is pushing through Heritage Conservation Act changes developed in secret under DRIPA — despite opposition from UBCM, the Urban Development Institute, the BC Business Council, and the ICBA. Permits could still take “hundreds of days.” Approval authority for heritage sites quietly shifted from cabinet to a single minister. Sources: Vancouver Sun / Vaughn Palmer.
Read Full Story →The NDP passed the Firearm Violence Prevention Act in March 2021 — then never implemented it. For five years. Now, as the Lower Mainland battles a gang and extortion crisis, the government is re-announcing the same law as if it’s new. Firearms experts say it’s “old news.” Sources: Vancouver Sun, May 2026.
Read Full Story →The Premier’s calendar, ministerial travel records, and no-bid contracts haven’t been published since December 2025 — a 5-month blackout that conveniently covers DRIPA, the $13.3B deficit, and hospital cancellations. Now the NDP wants to amend the FOI Act to make these blackouts even easier. Sources: theBreaker.news, BC Legislature Hansard.
Read Full Story →Forget the annual deficit for a moment. BC’s total provincial debt is fast approaching $155 billion — and under Eby, debt as a share of the entire BC economy will more than double, from 22.3% of GDP to over 46%. Debt servicing is now the third-largest government expenditure. Sources: ICBA, Vancouver Sun, The Hub, TD Economics.
Read Full Story →On Sunday April 20, Eby was preparing to suspend DRIPA. By evening he had surrendered completely — giving up everything while Indigenous leaders agreed only to “talk.” One cabinet minister heard about the U-turn from a reporter. Vaughn Palmer: “He reminded observers of a hostage reading a statement prepared by his captors.”
Read Full Story →In February 2026, the BC NDP slashed the penalty for exporting unprocessed logs — with no press release and no debate. Forest advocates warn it triggers a death spiral: more exports mean more mill closures, which justify even more exports. Horgan promised the opposite in 2019.
Read Full Story →BC Regional Chief Terry Teegee — one of the architects of DRIPA — confirmed on CKNW radio that 200 First Nations are co-governing BC. When the Opposition pressed Eby for a yes or no three times, he refused each time.
Read Full Story →With 7,200 unfilled nursing positions, violence up 25% since 2019, and hospitals being cancelled, the Eby government is offering nurses a fraction of what other unions received. Strike vote: May 8–11; members later rejected a tentative agreement on June 19.
Read Full Story →BC is spending millions replacing street signs, park names, and public infrastructure with Indigenous language text — in languages so critically endangered you need a university expert to read them. If a sign falls in the forest and nobody can read it, is it reconciliation?
Read More →A BC Supreme Court ruling handed the Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal title over 300+ hectares inside Metro Vancouver. Even the federal Liberals appealed it. So why did the BC NDP build the legal framework that made this possible — and then go silent when the consequences arrived?
Read More →The NDP “re-paced” $3.5 billion in health infrastructure. Contracts were cancelled. Burnaby Hospital Phase 2 is dead. Mayors are “horrified” and “disgusted.” And the government still won’t say the word “cancelled.” Vaughn Palmer says the time for euphemisms is over.
Read More →BC Ferries CEO admitted to the Sunshine Coast Regional District that the aging fleet can’t keep up — and the provincial government makes the decisions. The NDP denied a 5th ferry, presided over Easter weekend chaos, and left communities stranded. Source: CBC BC.
Read More →Instead of fixing BC's education crisis, the NDP-aligned Vancouver School Board is renaming schools to Indigenous names most families cannot pronounce. Dallas Brodie breaks it down — 44,000+ views.
Read More →BC’s government workforce grew 54% in a decade under the NDP — even as hospitals closed, waitlists exploded, and the province hurtled toward a record $13.3 billion deficit. A new analysis reveals the structural rot driving BC’s fiscal crisis.
Read More →The official account of MLS Commissioner Don Garber posted “Liar liar pants on fire” under Premier Eby’s tweet about keeping the Vancouver Whitecaps in BC. MLS claims the account was hacked. The credibility gap it exposed is harder to dismiss.
Read More →In the same week the BC NDP cancelled Burnaby Hospital’s cancer care expansion, they revealed World Cup costs have exploded to $581 million — more than double the original estimate. BC can afford FIFA. It cannot afford your cancer care.
Read More →BC’s own Seniors’ Advocate documented a crisis years in the making: the long-term care wait list has tripled since 2016, with seniors now waiting nearly 10 months for a bed. The province’s response? Cancel the contracts for the five facilities that were supposed to fix it — while running a $13.3-billion deficit.
Read More →A $2.5-billion Aboriginal title ruling has left 150+ Richmond homeowners uncertain about the land beneath their feet. Half of Haida Gwaii’s non-Indigenous residents face the same question. Eby drafted DRIPA in 2019 — and seven years later, his government still has no answer for the British Columbians caught in the middle.
Read More →Multiple Indigenous nations say 80% of K’ómoks treaty lands overlap their own territories — and the Kitselas treaty is proceeding without neighbouring nations’ consent. The NDP is pushing ahead anyway, with UNDRIP now locked inside constitutionally protected agreements that no future legislature can undo.
Read More →After scrapping two previous versions, the NDP gave municipalities and developers 30 days to respond to its revised Heritage Conservation Act — then rejected requests for more time. The feedback: permits would still take hundreds of days even improved by 50%, private property rights remain uncertain, and nobody trusts the process.
Read More →In less than three years, the BC NDP turned the largest provincial surplus in Canadian history into the largest provincial deficit in BC history. Debt servicing is now BC’s third-biggest budget line. The services British Columbians paid for are getting worse, not better.
Read More →Cypress Provincial Park is now just “Cypress Park.” BC Parks spent $16,000 on the new sign. No announcement. No debate. And it’s happening across the province — right alongside the DRIPA co-management push.
Read More →The NDP axed the Burnaby Hospital Redevelopment and a long-term care centre in Delta — after the community raised $20 million and the Finance Minister promised the Legislature these projects weren’t going anywhere. Fraser Health serves 40% of BC but receives only 22% of provincial health funding.
Read More →Bill-9 is advancing through the legislature with almost no public attention. The man who wrote BC’s original FOI law calls it “freedom FROM information.” The NDP is counting on the DRIPA circus to keep you from noticing — and so far, it’s working.
Read More →Families of the victims of Canada’s worst mass shooting are suing OpenAI in California today — because BC’s damage caps make a provincial lawsuit pointless. Seven weeks after seven people were killed, BC’s Attorney General is still writing letters to Ottawa and waiting to see what Manitoba does.
Read More →The BC Court of Appeal unanimously rejected the argument that a Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief could breach a court injunction by citing Indigenous law. The ruling draws a careful but clear line — one that cuts against the expansive DRIPA interpretation advocates have been pushing, and arrives just days after Eby’s failed attempt to amend the law.
Read More →Two NDP treaty bills claim up to 90% of neighbouring nations’ traditional territories without consent. UBCIC — the same organization that helped write DRIPA — is now threatening to sue the NDP government under DRIPA’s own consent principles. The minister called it “not unusual.”
Read More →BC's chief coroner released a landmark report today: 135 people killed by intimate partner violence between 2016 and 2024, with Indigenous people hit hardest. The recommendations largely repeat a 2016 report the NDP ignored for years. The coroner called these deaths “overwhelmingly preventable.” The NDP had the power to prevent them. They didn't.
Read More →A new Leger poll puts BC NDP support at 44% — down from a 48% peak — while Eby's disapproval has nearly doubled in a year. The province faces a record $13.3 billion deficit, and the Conservatives just held their sharpest leadership debate yet. The math is turning against the government.
Read More →While BC was consumed by the DRIPA crisis, the Eby government quietly advanced Bill-9 — legislation that strips citizens of access to government records and hands bureaucrats sweeping new powers to reject inconvenient requests. The man who helped build BC's original FOI law calls it a move from "freedom of information to freedom FROM information."
Read More →Canada's 30x30 biodiversity plan commits $3.8 billion to designate nearly a third of the country as protected land — with Indigenous-managed territories as the primary mechanism. Layered with UNDRIP and BC's DRIPA, it amounts to effective Indigenous veto power over resource development on 30% of Canada. No vote. No referendum. No public debate.
Read More →MLA Dallas Brodie's documentary Making a Killing exposes how unverified grave claims triggered a massive government spending spree — with zero confirmed remains excavated at Kamloops.
Read More →At Friday's Vancouver debate, all five BC Conservative leadership hopefuls pledged to repeal DRIPA. The NDP's one-seat majority is all that stands between the law and the scrap heap — and that majority nearly collapsed this week. The Fulmer vs. Elliott fireworks over "guilty settlers" and land acknowledgments showed just how far the conversation has shifted.
Read More →David Eby backed down from suspending DRIPA because Joan Phillip — NDP MLA and wife of Grand Chief Stewart Phillip — told him she couldn't vote for it. One person's personal conviction, shaped by a profound familial conflict of interest, rewrote the government's legislative agenda. The margin: 47–44.
Read More →In December 2025, Tahltan Nation members received approximately $10,000 each from a $40 million upfront payment by Skeena Gold & Silver — days before they voted to approve the Eskay Creek mine restart. The vote passed. Now ask yourself: is consent that's purchased days before the ballot truly "free, prior, and informed"?
Read More →Stewart Phillip has led the Union of BC Indian Chiefs since 1998. His wife Joan Phillip is an NDP MLA and Parliamentary Secretary. His government-funded organization helped write DRIPA — the law her government enforces. No recusal on record. In any other sector, this would be a front-page scandal.
Read More →BC posted a -0.4% population decline in Q4 2025 — the worst in Canada. Alberta gained +0.1% for the 14th consecutive quarter leading interprovincial migration. Doctors, tech workers, and young families are leaving. The NDP's response: silence.
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