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Retailers pressured on anniversary of lethal Bangladesh factory fire
From the sun-blasted streets of Dhaka to the wet sidewalks outside a Burnaby mall, the Canadian labour movement today marked the first anniversary of the most lethal incident in garment worker history, the factory collapse and fire at the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh that killed over 1,130 workers. Read more…
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Faith-based law school grads can't practice in Ontario
The Law Society of Upper Canada voted today not to accredit the proposed law school at Trinity Western University, a B.C.-based Christian school that forces students to sign a community covenant that bans same-sex intimacy. Read more…
BC to review tenancy laws that may trap women in bad relationships
The province is reviewing a call from women's groups to change B.C.'s tenancy laws amid suggestions they inadvertently stop women from fleeing domestic violence. Read more…
Clark's Kenya Christmas mystery continues
Details about Premier Christy Clark's cancelled Christmastime humanitarian mission to Kenya remain a mystery. Read more…
Free tickets to five DOXA films for Tyee Builders!
We just drew five random names from our list of over 1,600 Tyee Builders. Each of these fabulous supporters of independent Canadian journalism will get a pair of tickets to one of the following documentary films screening soon at DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Read more…
Herring fishermen ask feds for $6 million to compensate losses
Commercial herring roe fishermen are asking the federal government to compensate their losses after a decision to reopen fisheries was capsized by First Nations' opposition. Read more…
Regulator approves more steaming at leaking oilsands site
Despite an unresolved leak, the Alberta Energy Regulator has given bitumen extractor Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. permission to once again start steaming parts of its Primrose and Wolf project in the Cold Lake Weapons Range. Read more…
VIEW: Parents plead against education cuts in open letter to premier
Premier, you are hearing from your families. Please listen and take action to supplement the 2014-15 Education Budget now, before school boards across the province are forced to compromise our children's education. As taxpayers, we are willing to shoulder the costs. The province cannot afford to keep adding to an education deficit that will impact future generations. Read more…
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Newspapers hire ex-Clark aide to oppose her new recycling scheme
British Columbia biggest daily and weekly publishers have hired a key member of the BC Liberals' 2013 re-election campaign in a last-ditch effort to change Environment Minister Mary Polak's mind about the imposition of a hidden tax on newsprint. Read more…
VIEW: Trinity Western seeks protection from discrimination in order to promote it
How is it that Trinity Western University persuaded the Law Society of British Columbia to permit it to accredit its law school? Read more…
Bureaucrats expected Les contract controversy
British Columbia government communications staff anticipated tough questions from reporters about how much John Les would be paid to co-chair a review of earthquake readiness in the province. Read more…
UPDATED: Teachers begin 'administrative' job action Wednesday
Six weeks after taking their strike vote, the BC Teachers' Federation gave its 72-hour phase one job action notice today. It's the union's way of pushing back on what they see as a stalled contract negotiations with the provincial government. Read more…
Developer eyes Downtown Eastside SRO, worries low-income tenants
After a developer toured their property, tenants of the Chelsea Hotel on 33 W. Hastings are fearful of a possible future on the streets. Read more…
Province slow to review earthquake readiness
Experts claim British Columbia is overdue for a major earthquake that could cause deaths and damage, but the March 11-announced probe of the province's readiness doesn't appear to be in a rush to get going. Read more…
BC Cons leadership vote turnout revealed
The BC Conservative Party's participation rate for the April 12 convention that elected new leader Dan Brooks looks better than previously reported. Read more…
Toronto Star to pay new digital journalists less than print writers
The Toronto Star announced it will hire eight digital journalists who will be paid less than other journalists in the newsroom and it is considering another round of editorial buyouts. The newspaper also laid off 11 full-time page editors and eight staff in the circulation department. Read more…
Advocates say promises broken in Vancouver affordable housing redevelopment
The fate of Heather Place, an affordable housing complex some have described as Vancouver's next "Little Mountain," is still unclear. Read more…
BC exempts sweet gas plants, ski resorts from enviro assessment process
The B.C. government has exempted some gas processing plants from its environmental assessment process and changed the process of environmental review for ski resorts. Read more…
$7.2-billion abandoned pipeline fund in the works
The National Energy Board will soon launch a $7.2-billion fund to pay for the cost of abandoned pipelines in an effort to keep landowners from footing the bill. Read more…
Green councillor proposes municipal campaign donation limits
Tim Louis isn't hopeful a motion to limit campaign donations to municipal parties and candidates in B.C. will fly with a Vision Vancouver-dominated city council. Read more…
