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BC Housing Goes on Vancouver Hotel Buying Spree The agency has bought the Patricia Hotel and five other properties to house people who are homeless, including Strathcona Park campers. Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. SHARES The Patricia Hotel on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will provide more than 100 new supported housing units. Photo by GoToVan, Creative Commons licensed. BC Housing has scooped up three more hotels in Vancouver, following news earlier this week that federal funding would create permanent...

The provincial government will appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that struck down ICBC reforms designed to prevent minor injury claims from being litigated in court, instead diverting those claims to an administrative tribunal.

Defeat could erase $390 million in savings projected for ICBC as a result of moving minor claims from courts to civil resolution tribunal.

BC Supreme Court March 1 struck down sections of B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal Act dealing with ICBC reforms as unconstitutional. Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled it is unconstitutional. . .

After dwelling at length during the NDP’s first term about the disgraceful state in which they found ICBC’s finances, Eby came up with a barrage of reforms. One of them was to shunt the lawyers out of the picture when it came to “minor” injury claims from car crashes. He announced they were going to replace the whole expensive bunch of them with the Civil Resolution ­Tribunal. It’s a group of lay ­people appointed by governme­nt to handle smaller-scale disputes. As he told the legislature: “The goal… is to get minor injury disputes and minor motor vehicle matters resolved ...