Far from cutting red tape, B.C. NDP fast-tracking law hands big overriding powers to cabinet

Far from cutting red tape, B.C. NDP fast-tracking law hands big overriding powers to cabinet

Vaughn Palmer: The New Democrats could bypass normal permitting processes for their pet projects, which could give rise to abuse

Rob Shaw: New B.C. legislation sparks concerns of steamrolling Indigenous rights

Bill 15 would allow British Columbia cabinet members to override local processes and short-circuit consultation

Shared Country, Unshared History

There is quite a violence in forgetting.    It bleeds through our history textbooks, stains the real estate signs planted over sacred sites, and hangs in silence after a name is butchered, or worse, deliberately erased. We inherit a country that pretends it began at colonisation and punishes those who remember otherwise. And now, as Acknowledgement of Country ceremonies become politicised battlegrounds, we must ask ourselves: What are we really …