New regulations are in effect to standardize and improve community planning in the province and make it easier to get more homes for people built faster.

Thirty-eight local governments will soon receive a grant to create more efficient development approvals processes. 

A new, online reporting tool has been created to support B.C. employers with an efficient way to prepare pay transparency reports.

The final legislative session for the 42nd parliament delivered action to help people in B.C. with new laws and measures aimed at easing cost-of-living pressures, delivering more homes for people with middle incomes and improving public health care.

Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, has released the following statement regarding the BC Coroners Service report on illicit drug toxicity deaths in March 2024:

As part of the Province’s commitment to build more homes for people, the next set of priority communities has been identified to receive housing targets for the next five years.

Strata owners will soon have more certainty and consistency around the repair and maintenance of common property with new regulations to close a loophole that allowed strata corporations to indefinitely defer depreciation reports.