Former B.C. premier John Horgan dies following battle with cancer | Global BC
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https://globalnews.ca/news/10865455/former-bc-premier-john-horgan-dies-cancer/
No one who is STILL on a waiting list for a family doctor, etc. is surprised to read this...
This is why health transfers require confirmation and enforcement/fulfillment of healthcare spending by premiers.
PREMIERS ARE NOT SPENDING THE BILLIONS AND WHINING FOR EVEN MORE BILLIONS THEY REFUSE TO SPEND ON HEALTHCARE.
Federal health transfers outpace provincial spending... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/federal-health-spending-provinces-1.7311340 #cdnpoli #cdnhealth #onpoli #onleg #dofontario #polQC #assnat #caqastrophe #bcpoli #bcleg
I’ve been waiting for the BC Builds program for a while, and it’s finally here! Glad to see some progress being made on non-market middle-income housing. It won’t magically solve everything, but it’s a start.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024HOUS0006-000188
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So she supported the Coutts blockade, cried foul when the feds intervened, then passed a law that tried to block feds from intervening in provincial jurisdiction.
Now, she’s asking the feds to intervene into provincial jurisdiction.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith raised concerns about the prolonged impact of the B.C. port workers' strike on the Canadian economy. She said around $12.4 billion of the province's merchandise exports were shipped via the Vancouver and Prince Ruper ports in 2021.
Can the speaker require
brief on-topic answers, please?
How is it that Adrian misuses the time off-topic when Sonia asks a specific question in her limited time?
Adrian Dix answering Sonia
(3:40mark): https://videoarchive.leg.bc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/0/0/13763?viewMode=2&mediastarttime=20230427125949&mediaendtime=20230427172717
https://www.leg.bc.ca/content/hansard/42nd4th/20230427pm-Hansard-n316.pdf
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Hon. Cassy O'Connor, MP for Clark, Tasmania
Genuinely heartbreaking listening to Adam Olsen of the BC Green Party trying in vain to hold government accountable as they claim environmental stewardship with one hand while they hack down old growth forests and ram through LNG pipelines with the other.
His exasperation at hearing the clapping seals applaud themselves for destroying the planet reminds me of Don't Look Up director Adam McKay's desperate plea for sanity in Jacobin Magazine:
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/adam-mckay-climate-change-emergency
"Governments Are Making #taxpayers Subsidize #Corporate Cleanup of #Oil and #Gas Wells
Companies are responsible for dormant wells, but the public is helping foot the bill."
Oil and gas companies are not cleaning up their wells. So #Canadians are paying to get it done. #OilSubsidy, but this is also Fed Pandemic Recovery $$.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/19/Governments-Make-Taxpayers-Subsidize-Corporate-Cleanup-Oil-Wells/
#News #Politique #Politics #Business #Energy #FF #FossilFuel #Canada #BC #BCPoli #CDNPoli #CanPol #BCLeg
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