The Province is providing Metro Vancouver with funding to upgrade the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Richmond, ensuring it can meet the demands of the growing population, while protecting the health of people and the environment. 

More renters in B.C. will be protected from housing speculators and profiteers through the creation of a new $500-million Rental Protection Fund dedicated to protecting tenants and preserving affordable rental homes for decades.

People living in Burnaby-Metrotown will benefit from increased access to team-based primary care with the official opening of a new urgent and primary care centre (UPCC) at Unit 102-4555 Kingsway on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022.

Starting in December, parents in British Columbia will save as much as an additional $550 per month for each child they have in participating licensed child care centres.

More students will get the education and skills they need to build using one of the province’s greatest natural advantages: mass timber.

A new partnership with Jalisco and Guanajuato state governments will give more British Columbian students opportunities to learn in Mexico.

Students studying nursing, MRI diagnostics and other health-care roles will soon be learning in a new, innovative space, with the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Health Sciences Centre set to open in September.

People in one of the fastest-growing communities in B.C. are one step closer to expanded patient care as construction begins on the redevelopment of Burnaby Hospital.