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DRIPA may face first legal test over boat docks

DRIPA may face first legal test over boat docks

Pender Harbour residents association plans to sue over co-management agreement
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Opinion: Food inflation is changing consumer habits—could it change votes?

Opinion: Food inflation is changing consumer habits—could it change votes?

Shifting diets and budget shopping strategies the new norm as Canadians cope with high food prices
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Statistics Canada reports wholesale sales down 1.1% in March

Statistics Canada reports wholesale sales down 1.1% in March

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and oilseed and grain, fell 1.1 per cent to $81.4 billion in March.
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Vaccine mandates for health-care workers reasonable and constitutional, B.C. judge rules

Vaccine mandates for health-care workers reasonable and constitutional, B.C. judge rules

Religious and personal beliefs about vaccines do not entitle you to work in a health-care setting with vulnerable patients whilst unvaccinated, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled.
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B.C. retailers up cybersecurity defences to avoid attacks

B.C. retailers up cybersecurity defences to avoid attacks

Recent disruptive cyberattack on London Drugs is a warning for executives in the sector.
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Ottawa should address AI's impact on workers' rights, privacy: parliamentary report

Ottawa should address AI's impact on workers' rights, privacy: parliamentary report

OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence will have an impact on the Canadian labour force, a parliamentary committee recently heard, and MPs are suggesting ways the federal government can better prepare.
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B.C., Ottawa put up nearly $254M to expand heat pump rebates

B.C., Ottawa put up nearly $254M to expand heat pump rebates

VICTORIA — The B.C. and federal governments have set aside nearly $254 million to expand rebates to convert home heating and cooling systems to more climate-friendly options with a focus on low- and middle-income households.
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Canadian banks directed over US$100 billion to oil and gas last year: report

Canadian banks directed over US$100 billion to oil and gas last year: report

TORONTO — Canadian banks provided almost US$104 billion in fossil fuel funding last year despite the urgent need to reduce emissions, says the latest annual Banking on Climate Chaos report.
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Rob Shaw: Public deserves answers after B.C. government cyberattack

Rob Shaw: Public deserves answers after B.C. government cyberattack

Potential for foreign interference in upcoming election a growing concern as province remains tight-lipped
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No refund for travellers who cancelled flight already scrapped by airline: regulator

No refund for travellers who cancelled flight already scrapped by airline: regulator

Four years on, the controversy over whether airlines owed refunds to passengers after cancelling hundreds of thousands of flights during the pandemic continues to simmer, aggravated by a sluggish, opaque complaints process.
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