People living in Maple Ridge with complex mental-health and substance-use challenges will have access to enhanced services as the Province adds eight complex-care housing spaces to serve the community.

The Province, through BC Housing, has purchased the former Lamplighter Motel in Kamloops to ensure people at risk of homelessness in the community continue to have a place to live.

Like other jurisdictions, B.C. is expected to see slower economic growth through 2023 because of global inflation and higher interest rates, before steady growth resumes in the medium term, according to projections from private-sector forecasters.

Families and individuals of the Lhtako Dené Nation will soon begin moving into 10 new on-reserve homes, with the opening of an affordable rental development.  

Thousands more families in B.C. will save thousands of dollars per year as more than 2,450 more child care spaces moved into the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program in December.

As of Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, more employees at B.C.’s agencies, boards, commissions, and a number of Crown corporations will be protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act.

The seventh B.C. Cabinet and First Nations Leaders’ Gathering began on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, marking the first in-person gathering since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020 and the atmospheric river of 2021.