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"No one in our communities asked for these data centres," Yi-Kieran said, "and it’s our communities who will bear the costs while tech bros and CEOs rake in the profits.”
The party's platform consists of four main pillars: "stay in the city you call home, make a good living in Vancouver, get where you need to go faster and cheaper, and love your community."
"There's absolutely nothing stopping us from working to achieve — within the limits of the Election Finance Act, of course — a better City Hall."
Fry thanked him for making that decision, calling it "courageous."
"If this city doesn't give people somewhere to find joy and community, they'll find something else," he warned.
When asked to "unequivocally" state that he would not call a fall election, Eby dodged the question.
"We know that housing is a human right, but governments and the housing industry have failed to treat it as one," Allen lamented.
Bhangu said his focus remains keeping the Conservatives together and defeating the NDP in the next provincial election.
There's never a dull moment in BC politics — but even by west coast standards these past couple weeks have been particularly wild.
Eby's words came less than an hour after Prince George-Valemount MLA Rosalyn Bird announced her departure from the party, the third to do so in 11 days.
"We know what we're doing," Findlay declared.
May accused Premier Eby of not doing enough to protect BC's already fragile forestry sector.
It is the North Shore's sole non-vehicle bridge over Highway 1 east of Lonsdale.
There are reportedly 700 IRGC agents operating on Canadian soil.
Sitka Media Managing Editor Jarryd Jäger sat down with MLA and BC Conservative Economic Development Critic Gavin Dew to learn more about the economic impacts of wildfires.
The government of BC has expressed support for exploring the criminalization of "residential school denialism."
"The idea that you have to vote for maybe what you don’t want because there’s something out there that’s even worse — it’s not healthy."
The site is located on Tilbury Island in Delta.
"You deal with the cards that you're dealt," Sim said. "We won't complain about it."
Sim called for the elimination of the Covid-era policy, while Digby argued that things are fine as is.
"The message that I hear loud and clear from British Columbians is that we have to make more in BC," Parmar said.
Strikes are planned across Vancouver Island over the coming days.
"If it’s not a bailout," Kwan said, "then exactly what is it?"
Gear said she believed the public was "for the most part" on the side of those on the picket lines.
They both justified the move, and argued that it does not equate to a "bailout" of developers, as some have suggested.
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