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Rob Shaw: Premier Eby hits the ground sprinting to catch up to B.C.'s crises

Rob Shaw: Premier Eby hits the ground sprinting to catch up to B.C.'s crises

For most new premiers, their swearing-in day is a leisurely victory lap. Typically, they pose for the cameras, introduce their new cabinet and pat themselves on the back for winning an election or leadership race.
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Rob Shaw: Health care, crime and climate issues will define Eby’s first year as premier

Rob Shaw: Health care, crime and climate issues will define Eby’s first year as premier

As David Eby prepares to be sworn in as premier, it’s worth looking at the political landscape he will inherit in B.C. compared to only one year ago.
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Survey: Morality increasingly considered a barrier to health-care access in Canada

Survey: Morality increasingly considered a barrier to health-care access in Canada

Over the past four and half years, Research Co. and Glacier Media have asked Canadians about a wide range of issues.
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Meet Premier Eby: The new leader of British Columbia

Meet Premier Eby: The new leader of British Columbia

Almost no one is surprised Eby is about to be sworn in as premier.
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Mario Canseco: British Columbians having a hard time digesting food price hikes

Mario Canseco: British Columbians having a hard time digesting food price hikes

As British Columbia heads towards the holiday season, residents of the province are paying attention to how they spend money.
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Kirk LaPointe: Cannabis sector being taxed, restricted, regulated into insolvency

Kirk LaPointe: Cannabis sector being taxed, restricted, regulated into insolvency

There was a time not so long ago that it was hard to muster any sympathy for cannabis retailers. I would argue – and probably with some of you, I would have to do so quite strenuously – that the time has come.
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Commentary: Trudeau's carbon tax punishes us for heating our homes

Commentary: Trudeau's carbon tax punishes us for heating our homes

Winter is coming and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is punishing Canadians for heating their homes. The carbon tax hits the essential needs of our daily lives hard.
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Survey: Push for Alberta, Saskatchewan sovereignty acts raises concern, support from fellow provinces

Survey: Push for Alberta, Saskatchewan sovereignty acts raises concern, support from fellow provinces

The past few days have provided a glimpse of what some provincial governments in Canada have chosen to focus on.
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Rob Shaw: Leaked VPD report an inflated work of fiction

Rob Shaw: Leaked VPD report an inflated work of fiction

The VPD summary concludes that $1.1 million is being spent a day on “charitable investments into non-profit organizations based in the Downtown Eastside” while poverty and crime get worse.
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Rob Shaw: Poilievre and Eby have a lot in common on housing

Rob Shaw: Poilievre and Eby have a lot in common on housing

Pierre Poilievre and David Eby have a lot in common in their plans to address British Columbia’s housing market. It’s just that neither of them wants to actually say that out loud.
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