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Workers who are sick with COVID-19 or need to quarantine while awaiting test results will get three days paid sick leave covered by the B.C. government, Premier John Horgan and Labour Minister Harry Bains announced Tuesday.
The measures were slammed by labour advocates and opposition leaders who say three days is not enough to ensure someone who is ill doesn’t go into work.
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Companies are rushing to get permits before protection comes for critical areas, advocates say.
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES In the year since the government received a report recommending increased old-growth protection, approvals jumped 43 per cent.
Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance.
New mapping released today by the Wilderness Committee indicates the province approved significantly more old-growth logging over the past 12 months than it did the previous year.
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Some of it is revealing. Building the economy is this government’s last priority, not its first. But one aspect is disturbing. Note the third principle “equity”. Now why should that concern us? Isn’t equality one of the basic rights built into our constitution? Yes, but the government isn’t promising equality. It is promising equity, an entirely different notion. Equality is about the rights of individuals. Equity is about the rights of groups, whether they be gender-based, ethnicity-based, age-based, or whatever. To promote equality, you outlaw discrimination. To promote equity, you champion discrimination. Here’s an example. In her budget, Robinson wanted to foster entrepreneurialism. She set aside $300 million for this purpose.
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The BC government introduced an exemption today for businesses charged a speculation and vacancy tax for the air space above their leased spaces.
The exemption is meant to provide relief to commercial tenants with landlords that have added the cost of the speculation and vacancy tax into their triple-net leases. Leases where properties based on the “highest and best use,” meaning a single-storey commercial building can be assessed as if there were a multi-residential tower on the site.
This can be the result of rezoning or changes to an official community plan, which leads to an unexpected spike in value, potentially increasing the property tax burden.