Lisa Beare, Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, and Kelli Paddon, Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity, have released the following joint statement in recognition of the annual Consent Awareness Week 2024:

More Métis families will benefit from increased access to culturally based child care with more than 200 new child care spaces opening or on the way.

Senior representatives from the British Columbia Lumber Trade Council (BCLTC) and officials from the Government of British Columbia met in Washington, D.C., this week for four days of critical hearings for the long-standing softwood lumber dispute.

From the City of Victoria: https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/news/community-amenities-get-128m-provincial-funding-boost

On Sept. 10, 2023, three people in Vancouver were attacked and Blair Donnelly, a patient at the BC Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (FPH) who was on unescorted leave, was arrested and subsequently charged with three counts of assault with a weapon.

The Government of British Columbia has appointed two new judges to the Provincial Court to support consistent and timely access to justice.

Dozens of families will benefit from new culturally relevant child care spaces through the Aboriginal Head Start (AHS) program.

The Province is granting in-stream protections for housing projects that are underway in relation to new 2024 building code changes for adaptable dwellings, and earthquake designs.

The Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) issued 10 administrative penalties totalling $590,000 to Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. (CGL) on Sept. 11, 2024, for non-compliance with requirements of its environmental assessment certificate.