Provincial News
by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on Wednesday Mar 22 2017
The federal government missed a key opportunity to walk the walk and tackle income inequality in today’s federal budget, says Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Senior Economist David Macdonald.
by Contributor on Wednesday Mar 22 2017
As part of the Province’s long-standing commitment to healthy wildlife populations, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced Wednesday that all hunting licence revenue will be re-invested to enhance wildlife management activities.
by Contributor on Wednesday Mar 22 2017
In the first month of 2017, international visitor arrival numbers continue to show positive signs of growth for the booming tourism sector in British Columbia.
The latest numbers from Statistics Canada from January 2017 indicate a 9.2% increase over the same month in 2016, resulting in 23,427 more visitors arriving in B.C.
by Contributor on Sunday Mar 19 2017
The community of Balfour, located 40 kilometers north of Nelson, is one of 144 new projects in British Columbia through the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund (CWWF).
by Nelson Daily Staff on Sunday Mar 19 2017
The BC Teachers Federation is firing the first shot over the bow as the province nears the upcoming election with a new ad expected to hit the airwaves Monday.
The ad is the first part of the BCTF's campaign leading up to the provincial election and the period when school district budgets will be set for the coming school year.
by Nelson Daily Staff on Thursday Mar 16 2017
Insights West is a progressive, Western-based, full-service marketing research company said a recent survey revealed a third of British Columbians refuse to tip at restaurants where they perceive to have received bad service.
However, the survey went on to say most are happy to reward food servers with a higher gratuity if they believe their performance was exceptional.
by Dermod Travis on Thursday Mar 16 2017
Last week Premier Christy Clark heard the four letters that every politician dreads, particularly when it's hitting close to home: RCMP.
by The Fraser Institute on Tuesday Mar 14 2017
Health-care spending by provincial governments has increased by 116 per cent since 2001, and even though increases have slowed recently, health care is projected to consume an even larger portion of program spending over the next 15 years, according to a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
by Dermod Travis on Sunday Mar 12 2017
This past weekend the Globe and Mail reported that lobbyists in the province have been making political donations on behalf of their clients, effectively camouflaging the identity of the real donors and breaking B.C.'s Elections Act in the process.
by Nelson Daily Staff on Friday Mar 10 2017
BC Teachers' Federation members voted overwhelming to ratify the agreement to implement their restored collective agreement language a BCTF media release said on its website Friday.
The BCTF said the agreement will see all the substantive working conditions that were unconstitutionally stripped from teachers' collective agreements restored.
