A new affordable housing development for adults and families with low-to-modest incomes broke ground in Victoria.

The B.C. government is providing new funding to support multicultural organizations in raising awareness and strengthening their capacity to promote and enhance B.C.'s multicultural identity.

Canada and B.C. targeted funding to support business development, innovation, food safety and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the second quarter of 2012-13.

Minister of Education Don McRae has issued the following statement: "The BCTF is claiming that the government's proposed framework "ignores the ruling of the BC Supreme Court that teachers have the right to bargain working conditions, such as class size and class composition."

While the Prolific Offender Management (POM) pilot has now concluded, the best practices learned through the program will be continued in each of the pilot communities and incorporated throughout the province to ensure co-ordinated supervision, enforcement, and access to services for chronic offenders.

Minister of Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond has issued the following statement: We received the auditor general's access and security audit on the JUSTIN system and thank him for his recommendations and the additional time he provided us to improve the system that integrates, manages and stores criminal case information from provincial justice agencies.