David Eby Defends Decision to Back Doug Ford in Dispute with Cities
Despite intervening in court case, BC’s attorney general says negotiation offers a better way to resolve disputes with municipalities.
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. SHARES Attorney General David Eby says the distribution of powers between municipalities and the province is important enough for BC to intervene in the Ontario case.
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Even though British Columbia is intervening in a Supreme Court of Canada case in an attempt to limit the power of municipal governments, Attorney General David Eby said Monday it would be better to negotiate the relationship between cities and provincial governments.
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Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches has warned that Ottawa is on the brink of moving from the “orange” to the “red” zone, as key COVID-19 indicators are heading in the wrong direction. She has expressed specific concern about people once again gathering in groups of 10 indoors and 25 outdoors, as allowed under the current rules.
Rather than imposing additional restrictions on businesses or locking them down yet again, I would suggest that the province simply impose stricter limits on private social gatherings in all zones under the colour-coded framework. Unmonitored gatherings are responsible for much of the community spread of COVID-19, and people tend to relax their behaviours if they are permitted to do so under the rules in place.
NDP government taking ‘regressive, conservative’ position on citizens’ charter rights, say critics.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of
All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at
. SHARES Unlikely allies?
Premier Doug Ford photo by Bruce Reeve via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Premier John Horgan photo via Province of BC Flickr.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has found an ally in British Columbia’s NDP government in his legal battle to limit municipal voting rights.
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Homeless Encampment Evictions Highlight the Cruelty of Capitalism Amid COVID
Advocates for the homeless and frontline health care workers stage a socially distanced protest aimed at speeding up what they say is Toronto s slow approach to managing COVID-19 in shelters, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2020.
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In Canadaâs homeless encampments, two faces of state brutality are on display. One is the âorganized abandonmentâ that has relegated hundreds of thousands across Canada to homelessness (at twice the rate as in the United States). The other is the âorganized violenceâ that evicts homeless people from encampments erected in the shadow of the stateâs malign neglect.