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Article content “This particular project is representative of the volume and the kind of housing we need to be building right now across Metro Vancouver,” said Eby citing the balance of rental, social and other kinds of housing in the Woodland Park project. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Vaughn Palmer: Eby goes to bat for huge Port Moody housing project Back to video “The folks who can’t afford to live in Metro Vancouver are the people who make our economy go,” the housing minister told Gloria Macarenko on CBC’s On the Coast on M...

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Government officials and ICBC blame B.C.’s legal profession for the Crown corporation’s escalating costs and annual deficits. The government says it needed to make changes that essentially remove lawyers and the courts from the dispute-settlement process for drivers injured in car crashes. But lawyers and insurance-industry advocates argue that those changes will reduce policy-holders’ rights and unfairly strengthen ICBC’s monopoly over B.C.’s auto insurance market. Enhanced care B.C. Attorney General David Eby announced ICBC’s switch to enhanced care in February 2020, outlin...

Many Vancouver Islanders find this hard to understand. If we are prohibited from having friends over for Christmas dinner outside our “core bubble,” why can visitors from the mainland, where COVID-19 is much worse, come here at their own discretion? The same question might be asked about air travel. More than one million Canadian air passengers have entered the country since the outbreak began. Yes, they are required to self-isolate for 14 days. But other than for essential reasons, why are we allowing people to fly back and forth to other countries while the epidemic continues? Indee...