Category Archives: Government
Vancouver to hold public hearing on legalizing short term rentals
The City of Vancouver will hold a public hearing next Tuesday on a new bylaw that would legalize and regulate AirBNB and other short term rental operations, which are currently illegal in the city.
BC government investigating North Van developer’s foreign buyer tax avoidance scheme
By Amy Chen British Columbia’s Ministry of Finance is investigating a foreign buyer tax avoidance scheme run by a North Vancouver developer uncovered by ThinkPol on Sunday, a ministry official confirmed today. “Our government is committed to making sure our
Christy Clark’s BC Liberals overpaid favoured donor $572 million to build bridge
By Amy Chen The former BC Liberal government under Christy Clark overpaid party donor Kiewit/Flatiron General Partnership more than half a billion dollars for the Port Mann Bridge project, documents reveal. While bridge was to be built under a fixed-price
Let’s Avoid Collective Amnesia at the Polls Next Week – The Innumerable Scandals of the BC Liberals
By Evan Sumner Let’s avoid collective amnesia at the polls next week and try to keep in mind the number of controversies our current government has managed to be embroiled in over the years. If you’re like me and specifics
Supporters publicly abandon Liberal Party as Trudeau reneges on electoral reform promise
By Amy Chen Social media is abuzz with Liberal Party supporters publicly abandoning their membership, some going as far as to tweet photos of themselves cutting up their party membership cards, after their leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided
Canada slams Fox News for fake news over Quebec attack
By Amy Chen, Vancouver Canadian government berated Fox News today for falsely tweeting to more than 13 million Twitter followers that the mosque attack in Quebec Monday that killed six worshippers and critically wounded five others had been carried out
Official Statement by Maryam Monsef
Official Statement By Maryam Monsef Today, The Globe and Mail published an article outlining that I was in fact born in Mashhad, Iran and not in Herat, Afghanistan – as I was led to believe for my whole life. Because
Workers denied opportunity to speak at TFWP review
The Liberal-dominated House Committee denied workers an opportunity speak at the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) review and only listened to employers and organizations representing employers, the opposition New Democrats stated in the dissenting report on the controversial program, where
Foreign pilots free to fly Canadian aircraft after Ottawa quietly removes restrictions
Canada has become the only industrialized nation in the world that allows foreign licenced pilots, some of whom may have obtained their licenses without ever having flown a plane, to operate local commercial aircraft, after Ottawa quietly altered the regulations
Harper signed trade deal with Panama encouraging tax evasion
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed a trade deal with Panama in 2010, which encourages tax evasion by Canadian companies, according to experts. Todd Tucker, research director at Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, warned Parliamentarians that the Canada-Panama Free Trade