Chuck Chiang

1 week ago | timescolonist.com | Chuck Chiang

Canadians need to "keep the pressure up" on the United States by buying local and avoiding travel there, despite a recent push from California to draw visitors from Canada, British Columbia's premier says. David Eby says he had a "really good conversation" with California Governor Gavin Newsom this week as the state launched a campaign to re-engage Canadian tourists, but it's not enough to change current pressure tactics.

1 week ago | auroratoday.ca | Chuck Chiang

Canadians need to "keep the pressure up" on the United States by buying local and avoiding travel there, despite a recent push from California to draw visitors from Canada, British Columbia's premier says. David Eby says he had a "really good conversation" with California Governor Gavin Newsom this week as the state launched a campaign to re-engage Canadian tourists, but it's not enough to change current pressure tactics.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Chuck Chiang

VANCOUVER — British Columbia has been a sanctuary for New Democrats and the Green Party in recent federal elections — but strategic voting in the upcoming election could push those parties to the brink, politics watchers say. Previously safe ridings are now considered to be in play for the Liberals and the Conservatives, making British Columbia one of the most unpredictable regions to call for the April 28 election.

1 week ago | richmond-news.com | Chuck Chiang

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one of the province's largest environmental disasters. The Xatsull First Nation has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court requesting a judicial review of the government's decision to approve the raising of the dam by four metres without "meaningful" conversations with the nation.

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Chuck Chiang

British Columbia Energy Minister Adrian Dix says the province will have to “make choices” on programs within its CleanBC initiative given the repeal of the consumer carbon tax. Dix told a news conference related to heat pumps that the New Democrat government is working with the provincial Greens to look at CleanBC, under an agreement between the two parties, on top of a budgetary review of the initiative.