Minister Rich Coleman has announced several changes that will help support local breweries and distilleries, create new business opportunities, and revise current liquor laws in British Columbia.

Catering companies can now obtain a liquor licence to fully meet the food and beverage needs of their clients as regulations accompanying prior legislative changes have been brought into effect.

Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas Rich Coleman has issued the following statement:

Women and women with children who are homeless or at risk will soon have access to new supportive housing with the official start of construction for the Budzey Building - the 11th new supportive housing development to get underway in Vancouver.

The Province and the City of Vancouver have secured the former Howard Johnson Hotel at 395 Kingsway to provide 100 interim housing spaces for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness while more supportive housing is completed.

Two agreements between BC Housing and the BCGEU reached under the 2012 Cooperative Gains Mandate have now been ratified.

A new housing development with 36 apartments and on-site support services for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness was officially opened in Nanaimo.

Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas Rich Coleman today announced a package of regulatory changes designed to cut red tape and make exploration and mining more efficient in B.C.

An affordable home-ownership project for low-to-moderate-income families is one step closer to reality after a partnership was announced today between the Province and Habitat for Humanity.