IntegrityBC has released Christy's Christmas Castle, an animated video to drive home an important aspect of the organization's campaign on electoral finance reform. Since 2005, the B.C. Liberal party has raked in more than $40 million from big business and is now the only major B.C. political party that still opposes a ban ...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver has created a new app for locating a church while away from home. The app, available at http://www.rcav.org/app/ not only helps the person the address of Catholic churches, it also lists Mass and confession times. People can use the app to search for churches from Squamish to Hope...

IntegrityBC is calling on the B.C. government to recommit to its 2009 ban on non-essential government advertising in the four months prior to voting day. The organization made the call following growing public concerns over the government's new TV ads featuring Premier Christy Clark.   IntegrityBC released a copy of the...

The majority of B.C. Economic Forecast Council members predict B.C. real GDP growth will slightly outperform the Canadian average in 2013, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced at the conclusion of the annual meeting of the council.   On average, the council expects B.C. real GDP growth to be 2.1 per cent in 2012, down...

Not long after the Defend Our Coast rallies, a pollster phones, wanting to know who I plan to vote for in the provincial election.  The first party to unequivocally say NO to tar sands oil in pipelines and tankers through BC land and waters, I tell her. This causes a bit of confusion, as it clearly isn’t one of the options ...

IntegrityBC today launched “Take back BC,” a campaign focused on ensuring that the 2013 provincial election is the last election in B.C. bought and paid for by special interest money. The organization is calling on every political party to put electoral finance reform into their 2013 election platform and to make it one of ...

The B.C. Government made it easier for non-profit organizations to conduct fundraising using liquor. Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas Rich Coleman confirmed Friday the Province will take a "common sense" approach that will allow non-profit organizations to use gift baskets or similar items that have liquor as one of...

Three more tentative agreements have been reached under the Cooperative Gains Mandate with CUPE locals at Thompson Rivers University and CUPE Local 4879, the University of British Columbia and CUPE Local 116, and between the University of Northern BC and CUPE Local 3799, announced Minister of Advanced Education, Innovation ...

The B.C. Government has released stats that international visitor arrivals' indicate strong growth in key tourism markets — figures that are especially welcome as Tourism BC shifts its marketing efforts to focus on B.C.'s upcoming ski season. August 2012 International Overnight Custom Entries to B.C., released by Statistics...

The political climate in Lillooet is beginning to resemble a Quentin Tarantino movie and if it continues down the same path it’s not – from a cinematic perspective – going to end much differently than most of his films. In May, IntegrityBC called on the provincial government to appoint a conciliator in Lillooet, since then ...