On the eve of National Aboriginal Day, Education Minister Peter Fassbender and Tyrone McNeil, president of the First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC), signed a protocol agreement to help guide further collaboration on improving educational outcomes for B.C.’s Aboriginal students.

The Government of Canada has identified the Highway 1 Lower Lynn Corridor Improvement project for funding consideration of up to $34.1 million under the New Building Canada Plan in British Columbia.

High-school students in North Vancouver are getting a head-start in hands-on trades training at the Squamish Nation Trade Centre through a new ACE IT Piping Foundation program made possible through a B.C.'s Skills for Jobs Blueprint partnership involving the Squamish First Nation, the Industry Training Authority (ITA), Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), North Vancouver school district 44 and the private sector.

An interactive map and improved patient intake process are two steps BC is taking to make it faster and easier for families to get child and youth mental health and substance use services in B.C.

Andrew Saxton, Member of Parliament for North Vancouver, and Naomi Yamamoto, Minister of State for Tourism and Small Business for British Columbia and MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, on behalf of Todd Stone, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure for British Columbia, announced that funding is being set aside to build a new interchange where Highway 1 intersects with Mountain Highway in the District of North Vancouver.

Mental health care on the North Shore will be enhanced with the Greta and Robert H.N. Ho Centre for Psychiatry and Education (HOpe Centre).