Over the next decade, there will be an estimated one million job openings in B.C. in many sectors, including liquefied natural gas, mining and mineral exploration, and shipbuilding. Of those job openings, 43 per cent will require trades and technical training.

The provincial government is offering a variety of front-line assistance to its neighbours as the full impact of severe flooding in Calgary and other communities in southern Alberta becomes clearer.

I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Vicki Huntington's letter about wheelchair maintenance fees published on June 26, 2013 in the Vancouver Sun.

I want to take this opportunity to clarify concerns regarding wheelchair fees in residential care homes.

B.C. spends over $1.7 billion each year to subsidize the province's comprehensive residential care and assisted living services.

The Kitimat Modernization Project (KMP) is a $3.3 billion project by Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) designed to modernize and increase production at the company's aluminium smelter in Kitimat.

The B.C. government has taken a number of bold steps to ensure air and water quality in British Columbia.

In 2012, BC Parks received an extra $3 million for the 2012/13 operating year,

representing a 27 per cent increase over the previous year.

Seventy per cent of B.C.'s caribou herds are in decline and identified as threatened

under the federal Species at Risk Act.

The Ministry of Environment approved Metro Vancouver's Solid Waste Management

Plan in July 2011 which includes goals for diverting 70 per cent of regional waste

through recycling, composting and other programs by 2015.