Provincial Politics

Gentlemen, cool down your engines.

Five days is a long time to be left on hold at the best of times. And these were not the best of times.

Rob Shaw: By blaming the floods for Indigenous governments not meeting the NDP’s unrealistic 30 day deadline to respond to its new forestry plan, it’s refusing to accept its responsibility for creating the mess.

Kris Sims: When BC first launched the carbon tax, it was promised to be revenue neutral, stop at $30 per tonne, and would reduce emissions. Today, none of those things are true.

Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock look at the numbers, nuts, and bolts of paid sick leave, how it will affect employers, and how its fits alongside existing programs.

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

Rob Shaw: Sitting on five days of urgent pleas for help from a flood-stricken regional district isn’t a good look for the NDP government.

Rob Shaw: If what Citizens’ Services Minister Lisa Beare told the legislature about FOI fees isn’t a lie, it comes awfully close.

If this week's BCPOLI Hotstove were a Jane Austen novel, it'd be called Floods and FOIpability.

There's a storm coming - and we're not talking about FOI fees. (Okay, we ARE, but that's a different storm.)