Time stands still on B.C.'s move to permanent daylight time
On Nov. 6, British Columbians will set their clocks back one hour, as they have every autumn for more than 50 years, even though the province promised to end the practice three years ago.
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On Nov. 6, British Columbians will set their clocks back one hour, as they have every autumn for more than 50 years, even though the province promised to end the practice three years ago.
Cities across northern B.C. have fresh leadership after incumbents in Prince George, Prince Rupert, Fort St. John and Dawson Creek chose not to run. Prince George elected its first mayor of colour, Simon Yu.
Behind the official agenda for the annual gathering of B.C.'s municipal officials and provincial politicians is a quiet and urgent discussion about the alarming levels of hate and harassment they're experiencing on the job.
Health Minister Adrian Dix says B.C. has been in a health-care crisis since at least the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledges urgent need for change.
Small communities are at the epicentre of severe and protracted shortages of doctors and nurses, increasing emergency room closures, an ailing primary care system and an immobilized ambulance service, say mayors behind a new rural caucus that wants provincewide solutions.