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Friday, August 12, 2016 10:00 AM
Homes now have been provided or offered to everyone at the Victoria courthouse site who requested housing, and the encampment has been shut down, in accordance with Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson’s ruling.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016 1:00 PM
Peter Fassbender, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development and Responsible for TransLink, issued the following statement after attending Deloitte’s “Transit Enabling Livable Communities” roundtable:
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Monday, July 18, 2016 10:30 AM
Health Minister Terry Lake announced $50,000 in new funding to Pain BC today.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 4:04 PM
Federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for housing met to discuss key priorities for housing in Canada.
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Friday, June 24, 2016 10:30 AM
To provide more safe and secure housing for homeless people in Victoria, including those camping on the courthouse lawns, the B.C. government is purchasing the former Super 8 hotel located at 2915 Douglas St.
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Monday, June 20, 2016 10:00 AM
Along with the United Nations, the UNHCR, the Government of Canada and civic groups in more than 100 countries, the Province has proclaimed June 20, 2016, as World Refugee Day in British Columbia.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016 10:30 AM
The British Columbia government will provide more than 140 additional housing units for people who are homeless in Victoria, including those camping on the courthouse lawn, through the purchase of the former Central Care Home.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:15 PM
Sixteen exceptional civic leaders will be appointed to the Order of British Columbia, the Province’s highest form of recognition.
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Thursday, June 9, 2016 2:00 PM
Enhancements to a youth-driven website, more funding for post-secondary education and more funding for programs that help with life skills/employability – these are in the spotlight during B.C. Child and Youth in Care Week as government focuses on giving young people from care a leg up in their transition to adulthood and independence.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016 12:30 PM
To make the regional portion of Emergency Management BC’s $1.2-million earthquake exercise – taking place in Port Alberni from June 7-10, 2016 – as real as possible, the Province is relying on the time and donations of many businesses and volunteers to help deliver Exercise Coastal Response (https://news.gov.bc.ca/stories/exercise-coastal-response-2016), B.C.’s first ever, full-scale earthquake and tsunami response exercise throughout the entire provincial landscape.
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