The Province is launching a measles immunization catch-up program to help B.C. families ensure their children are protected from measles. The program will run from April through June 2019. “With outbreaks of measles occurring globally and here in B.C., we …
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B.C. wants your opinion on walkable and bike-friendly communities
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Budget 2019
Budget 2019 is about creating opportunities so that people can thrive. It lifts people up so that everyone can meet their full potential. We’re putting thousands of dollars back in people’s pockets with the biggest middle class tax cut in …
OUR VIEW: Will tenancy act changes bring a halt to renovictions?
NOW staff / Burnaby Now The B.C. government’s Rental Housing Task Force took the first important steps last week to make substantial changes to the Rental Tenancy Act. The three-member task force, led by Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, …
Making life more affordable for you and your family
AsianJournal December 14, 2018 The BC government is moving forward with 53 prototype projects around the province to deliver child care that will cost families a maximum of $200 per month per child. Learn more here. Too many people in …
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Stop ‘renovictions,’ B.C. housing task force says
B.C. rental task force member MLAs Adam Olsen (left), Ronna-Rae Leonard and Spencer Chandra-Herbert. (Black Press files) MLAs call for end to strata bans on renting vacant suites Tom Fletcher Dec. 12, 2018 12:15 p.m. Rules for evictions to renovate …
Task force makes recommendations to modernize rental housing system
Dec. 12, 2018 Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing NEWS RELEASE Task force makes recommendations to modernize rental housing system VICTORIA – The Rental Housing Task Force has submitted its final report and recommendations to make B.C.’s rental housing system …
Rental task force recommends ban on renovictions, not allowing stratas to restrict rentals
By Richard Zussman Online Journalist based at B.C. Legislature Global News more The province’s rental task force has made a series of recommendations. THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Bayne Stanley The province’s rental task force is calling for an immediate ban on …