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Premier John Horgan is making the right move by asking the courts to give advice on the pipeline dispute.

The provincial government made a rookie mistake in this week’s budget. Sixteen years out of power, the NDP apparently forgot that dropping bad news without warning can backfire painfully.

The highlights in Tuesday’s provincial budget were politically well chosen. The government promised $6 billion over 10 years for more affordable housing.

Woodwynn Farms therapeutic treatment centre has run aground on the hard rock of financial reality.

Advertisers are leaning on social-media companies to clean up the online swamp of sexism, racism, hate and fake news, but the cure could be as bad as the disease.

If there were any question about what direction the NDP government was going to go, it was quickly put to rest when Finance Minister Carole James announced several new social programs — and new taxes to pay for them — in Tuesday’s budget.

With unwanted pets filling animal shelters, we have to stop treating living creatures like accessories, to be bought and discarded on impulse. Victoria Coun.

The party in power has changed, but the provincial government still treats the Lower Mainland like the favourite, while the Island is sent to bed hungry. Last week, the NDP government announced it would take over the $1.

Twenty minutes might not seem like much time, but it can mean a lot to a senior in residential care. The provincial government wants to buy them that extra time.

With toxic street drugs such as fentanyl killing four British Columbians a day, much of the response has focused on overdose treatments with naloxone, and supervised injection sites.