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Premier David Eby has hired veteran health executive Penny Ballem as his new special adviser on health, adding yet another civilian expert into his office to tackle a complex issue on which he’s planning major reforms.

When barely a dozen protesters tried to disrupt a drag queen story-time event at Coquitlam’s public library on Saturday, they were greeted by hundreds of flag-waving, singing, cheering supporters who drowned them out and pushed them back.

Premier David Eby has reached the half-way point of his 100-day launch plan, and while he’s racked up an impressive list of accomplishments so far, he’s also a long way away from hitting the high bar he set for himself at the start.

Get ready for a spending spree by the B.C. government. Premier David Eby says it’s his intention to spend the almost $6 billion surplus his government is currently sitting on, rather than let it expire in March and automatically go to debt repayment.

Premier David Eby is walking back two key promises from his leadership campaign – a new provincial mental health facility, and a proposal to involuntarily detain people who overdose for treatment.

When Amber Hockin announced she was leaving her job as deputy chief of staff to the premier last month, she made it sound to her colleagues like she was choosing to resign.

Premier David Eby took great pains this week to try and blame the worsening problems of homelessness in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on his government’s greatest villain and most-frequent scapegoat: The previous BC Liberal administration.