Category: Politics

A Delta councillor wants Metro Vancouver to abandon an initiative meant to promote economic development in the region. “That thing should be dropped today, don’t spend another cent on it,” said Delta Coun. Lois Jackson, at a Metro board of directors meeting on Friday. “We do not have a mandate for that sort of thing.” […]

VICTORIA — The extraordinary clash between MLAs and the Speaker of B.C.’s legislature at a meeting Thursday has raised the stakes in the ongoing crisis at the capital and set a new timeline for events. Here are 5 Things To Know about where we are at: 1 Speaker Darryl Plecas wants MLAs to reconvene in […]

Delivery of four new SkyTrains is behind schedule, due to delays by the manufacturer. “We’re running about 60 to 90 days late on the deliveries, which is pretty good considering the challenges that we’ve had,” Haydn Acheson, interim president and general manager of the B.C. Rapid Transit Company, which maintains the Expo and Millennium lines, […]

Memos issued by federal prosecutors on Friday about President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen—together with a sentencing memo filed earlier this week about Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn—offer the clearest indication yet of how investigators are encircling the president and perhaps reaching the climax of the 19-month probe into a potential […]

Whatever Republicans on the House Judiciary thought they were going to get from Friday’s deposition of former FBI Director James Comey, it doesn’t appear they got it. The proof will come when a transcript of the deposition is released on Saturday, part of a deal Comey struck to testify, having initially resisted a subpoena. But […]

Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) and Olivia Paschal (@oliviacpaschal). We’re working on improving our email newsletters and your opinion is important to us. Will you help us by answering this short survey, so we can make our newsletters a better fit for you? Today in 5 Lines Former FBI Director James Comey refused to answer […]

Richard Ben Cramer begins What it Takes, his masterful account of the 1988 presidential race, with the story of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush botching the first pitch of Game One of the 1986 National League Championship Series. Cramer writes of Bush readying his windup as over 40,000 fans in Houston’s Astrodome look on. But […]

Friday is the last day to get in your electoral reform vote — and you’ll have to deliver it. It’s too late for the mai. Less than half of eligible B.C. voters had returned their voting packages in the referendum on the day before the deadline. As of 8:20 a.m. on Dec. 6, 1,335,000 packages […]