Elected officials, academics, developers and business leaders to gather to discuss the opportunities for investment in this rapidly growing region.

Advancing gender equality is key to strengthening the middle class, growing the economy, and building a better world. Canada is a champion for gender equality at home and abroad. Investing in women and girls’ health, and protecting their sexual and reproductive health rights, is a critical part of that.

Ensuring the safety of workers was one of the reasons I first became politically active, and it will always be an issue I care about. For decades, farmworkers were left out of any legislated labour protections. Unfortunately it was common for workers to be severely injured or even killed as a result of unsafe working conditions.  That’s why I started advocating for farmworkers’ rights and protections.

The Province has released its quarterly environmental enforcement summaries for the third and fourth quarters of 2018 to provide transparency on action taken against polluters in British Columbia. 

As the next step in cracking down on money laundering in British Columbia, government is working with public and private post-secondary institutions to ensure they are not targets for money laundering after being identified as one of several vulnerable sectors.

“Police have estimated that there are 20,000 grow operations in British Columbia, and there will be many more now that cannabis has been legalized,” says Throness.

At a fuel station in Metro Vancouver in late April, drivers paid a record $1.78 per litre for gasoline- the highest price ever recorded in British Columbia, and the highest fuel price in North America. And there is no relief in sight it seems from the ever-spiraling cost of fuel.

For 2019 and beyond, Canada has several concerns and challenges regarding its economic outlook. The Bank of Canada points to some markers and several areas of uncertainty — the persistence of the crude oil -price drops, the extent of its impact on non-oil-producing regions, how household spending adjusts to previous interest-rate hikes, tighter mortgage rules, and global trade developments such as the U.S.-China conflict.

By Bacchus Barua Perceptions about how much we pay for health care in Canada vary wildly. Some call it a “free” system. Some analysts…

British Columbia’s luxury car sector is being used to launder the proceeds of crime, according to an independent review on money laundering through luxury cars and horse racing by former senior RCMP officer Peter German.