For the Growing Communities Fund, 85% of the total funds are allocated to municipalities and 15% go to regional districts. The allocation generally follows the population split between incorporated (urban/suburban) and unincorporated (rural) areas of the province and provides a slight boost to address the increased costs of servicing rural growth areas as they are constrained in their population base to raise servicing costs.

Over the next decade, our province is going to need more than 85,000 new skilled tradespeople to build and maintain the services and infrastructure British Columbians rely on every day.

Ten years ago, two workers were killed and 20 others were injured in an explosion at the Babine Forest Products mill near Burns Lake.

We all know about or have personally felt the effects of the forestry industry’s downturn over the last few years.

It’s hard to believe it’s been only four months since the world as we knew it changed drastically.

The tourism industry is a major economic engine and job creator for people in British Columbia.

The B.C. government reassures renters they will not be evicted if they cannot pay rent during the state of emergency related to novel coronavirus (COVID-19). As announced on March 25, 2020, the Province has halted evictions during the COVID-19 crisis.

Workers’ rights must be protected.

BC Hydro has used regulatory accounts since the early 1990s. They are normally used to match costs with benefits to customers, capture differences between forecast and actual costs typically related to uncontrollable factors (e.g., variation in water inflows, storm restoration costs) and manage the impacts of accounting changes.