Young people and families will have faster, easier access to mental-health and addiction services and primary care with the expansion of Foundry centres to more communities throughout the province. Through Budget 2023, government will add 12 new Foundry centres to …
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StrongerBC program creates new jobs, opportunities
VICTORIA – The Province is providing more than 5,000 youth and young adults across British Columbia with access to skills training and well-paid jobs through the almost $45-million StrongerBC Future Leaders Program. “This pandemic has set back many young people …
More supportive homes for Indigenous peoples in need in Vancouver
New Beginnings, a new modular housing project, is opening its doors and offering Indigenous peoples experiencing homelessness a place to call home. The Province and the City of Vancouver have partnered on the 98-unit supportive housing project, which is a …
453 new licensed child-care spaces are on their way to Vancouver
VANCOUVER – Local families across Vancouver will soon be able to access new licensed child-care spaces thanks to a $3.46 million investment through the Province’s Child Care Major Capital Funding Program. This funding will create a total of 453 new …
Horgan calls on prov govt to start tracking TFWs, supports federal review of TFW program
B.C. workers must be first in line for construction jobs and apprenticeship opportunities, but the provincial government does not track temporary foreign workers in our economy, says Opposition leader John Horgan. The Opposition supports the call for a federal review …
Save Our Schools
Our province has gone from having the second best funded K-12 education system in Canada to the second worst under this provincial government. And now sadly, provincial policies are targeting the closure of various schools in Richmond, Victoria and Vancouver. …
Failed candidate put to work handing out B.C. Liberal patronage appointments
VICTORIA— New Democrats have uncovered documents showing that the failed B.C. Liberal candidate for Port Coquitlam, Barbara Lu, was hired by the B.C. Liberal government to help hand out patronage appointments, many of which have gone to other failed B.C. …
Failed candidate put to work handing out B.C. Liberal patronage appointments
VICTORIA— New Democrats have uncovered documents showing that the failed B.C. Liberal candidate for Port Coquitlam, Barbara Lu, was hired by the B.C. Liberal government to help hand out patronage appointments, many of which have gone to other failed B.C. …
B.C. Liberal incompetence threatening province’s international education schools
VICTORIA— Chaos in the Ministry of Advanced Education is leaving international students in limbo and threatening British Columbia’s international education industry, says New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby. “Students thinking about coming to B.C. to study are being put …