Reading Time: 4 minutes Do we or the government own our bodies?
Tag: BC politics
Any violation of human rights is a crime against humanity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Doing a little isn’t good enough, especially when we ignore abuses
The horrible cost of constantly punting Indigenous claims to court
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments have more resources and delays can drag on for years. Indigenous peoples pay heavily for the delays in resolving their claims
How much First Nations business comes from government?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Yukon government recently unveiled a procurement policy that offers a roadmap for Canadian jurisdictions like B.C.
What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
Alberta oil and gas critical to B.C.’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Be it in employment, salaries paid, or the jobs and GDP created for all British Columbians, the impact of oil and natural gas is significant
We don’t need elections now, we need leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Elections will turn us away from dealing with the real issues. And we don’t seem to have the means to conduct safe voting
B.C.’s emissions reduction targets remain out of reach
Reading Time: 4 minutes Absent a wholesale restructuring of the economy, meeting the 2030 goal will be an impossible task
Patients deserve access to timely medical care
Reading Time: 4 minutes The B.C. government’s claim in the court challenge to medicare that waiting lists don’t harm patients is nothing short of ridiculous
How mismanagement of B.C. forests is hurting Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Recent sawmill closures have exposed a raft of problems in the industry and government failure to ensure long-term productivity