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B.C.’s municipal elections next year will look a little different than the last time, with new rules that will likely affect things like union-funded electioneering and developers anonymously buying billboards.
The 2018 municipal elections were the first after the B.C. NDP government introduced stricter campaign finance rules, banning corporate and union donations and setting $1,200 donation limits. The NDP proclaimed its 2017 reforms would end the “era of big money” in local and provincial elections, but the lead-up to the 2018 municipal elections featured confusion and controversy over what the new rules allowed.
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But a closer look at the numbers makes it all pretty depressing.
The federal government promoted Monday’s “major housing-related announcement” for days in advance, touting big names like Ahmed Hussen, the federal minister of families, children and social development, Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, and Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry.
The politicians said how pleased they were to reveal the City of Vancouver has used federal funds to purchase the Days Inn in East Vancouver and convert it into 65 supportive homes for the homeless.
The hotel purchase and renovation is funded by the federal Liberal government’s Rapid Housing Initiative, which was announced last September and committed $51.5 million to Vancouver to quickly create up to 135 new affordable homes in the city. Surrey got another $16.4 million, while Victoria received $13.1 million.
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‘A disgrace’: First Nation Pipeline opponent gets 90 days in jail after ceremony along Trans Mountain route So, is there a degree of (anti-Indigenous) targeting happening? That, to me, is a fair question to ask.
“A disgrace.”
That’s how Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein reacted Tuesday to the news that Stacy Gallagher, an Indigenous land defender, had been sentenced to 90 days in jail after being arrested in 2019 for
performing a ceremony along the Trans Mountain pipeline route in British Columbia. VICE, which was informed of Gallagher’s plight by a source close to him, the three-month prison sentence handed down by judge Shelley Fitzpatrick comes “despite a new policy that urges prosecutors to avoid jail time for Indigenous peoples if it’s under two years,” an initiative “geared towards protecting Indigenous peoples from a biased justice system.”
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British Columbia’s chief coroner says deadlier street drugs are behind another grim milestone in the province’s overdose crisis as a record was set for the number of deaths in January.
The BC Coroners Service says 165 people died from suspected overdoses in January, the largest number of lives lost due to illicit drugs in the first month of a calendar year.