aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Earlier, we exclusively reported the head of the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch took a six-day, $8,155 business trip to Bordeaux and London this past June - tacking on a 12-day United Kingdom vacation for himself at the end of that trip....

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Earlier today, we exclusively told you the provincial government might eliminate its $5 million early intensive behavioural intervention program - which provides 70 children with intensive one-to-one therapy at a cost of $70,000 each. That decision...

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Today, the Campbell administration announced it would be going ahead with the $404 million Northwest Transmission Line. This, after the federal government committed to fund $130 million worth of that project. So where is the remaining money coming fr...

topics: campbell-administration, federal-government, mining

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While government programs and unnecessary expenses were being chopped, the head of the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch took a six-day, $8,155 business trip to Bordeaux and London. But the government has said that trip, during which Jay Ch...

topics: business, environment, housing

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The assistant deputy minister responsible for the ministry of children and family development's early childhood development policy and support team is going bye-bye, Public Eye has learned. Just three years ago, Marilyn Hedlund, was hired with much f...

topics: business, elected

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Last month, we reported most of the key recommendations in Whistler's community wildfire protection plan remain incomplete. Among them: reviewing and revising the resort municipality's existing bylaws so new buildings are constructed using standards ...

topics: housing, whistler

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Last month, The Canadian Press's Maria Babbage reported federal Conservative parliamentarians have been playing down Ottawa's role in convincing Ontario and B.C. to move towards tax harmonization, saying the federal government had nothing to do with...

topics: candidate, federal-government, liberals, tax

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Earlier, we reported independent legislator Vicki Huntington's biggest campaign corporate contribution was a $2,000 donation from Westshore Terminals Ltd. But, according to her election financing report, the campaign also received a $2,000 donation f...

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When we started covering provincial politics, reporters were prevented from chasing government MLAs into their caucus room by legislature security guards standing near its door. But, over the years, those guards have have been posted further and furt...

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In the recent election, independent legislator Vicki Huntington attacked the expansion of the Deltaport container terminal as an immoral use of taxpayer dollars when the existing infrastructure is used inefficiently. So why, according to her electi...