journalist • on hiatus from wearing many hats @ CBC BC 🌊 • former Legislative Reporter, fall '23 • she/her ✨
Lekwungen Territory/Victoria
Joined March 2014
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Not something you see every day 👀
BC RCMP out with a statement saying, "there is currently no evidence to support a widespread diversion of safer supply drugs in the illicit market in BC or Canada."
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We’ve heard about the cuts coming to staff at CBC and Rad-Can. No matter how many times this happens to our industry it never, ever, feels good. Our thoughts are with our colleagues across the country who are dealing with difficult times and insecurity.
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✨A personal thread✨Today is my final day filling in as CBC BC's Legislative reporter for the fall session. It's been a real privilege, and a wild ride, to be representing the public broadcaster during an *incredibly busy* session.
Also - I'll be taking some time away from CBC until spring, working with my wonderful partner in the ski industry. Maybe I'll be back in this role someday - and maybe not! But I'll definitely be around the B.C. journalism world, and ideally back at the CBC Victoria shop in May.
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NEW - The NDP government is ramming its multi-plex housing legislation through the legislature with its majority. All sections are now passing without further debate, due to time allocation by the NDP. Massive changes to allow 4/6-plexes on single family lots, w/out debate.
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So much for Finance Minister Katrine Conroy's claims in her speculation tax press conference today that communities were consulted and supportive.
Penticton, added today, blasts the minister for "zero consultation."
The minister appears to be fudging (I'm being generous here).
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Climate plan from Conservative Party of BC leader John Rustad:
Scrap carbon tax
Scrap gas tax
Scrap EV rebate
Scrap EV HOV priority
Scrap fuel standards
Consider nuclear power
Increase local food production
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Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke has announced the city will launch a "constitutional challenge" against the province in the neverending policing jurisdiction controversy, now 5+ years old.
Comes after the province fired the Surrey Police Service board and took direct oversight.
NEW - @bchydro says they will not start to fill the Site C reservoir this fall as they had been looking into - process will start next fall 2024 instead.
The company says work remains on the project's approach channel, spillway gates and powerhouse intake gates.
NEW - the province is announcing legislation requiring rezoning of single-family lots across many places in B.C. The province's version of "missing middle"
If passed, ALL B.C. municipalities would have to allow secondary suites in all single-family/duplex residential zones
Developers can still build single-family homes, but the legislation would mean local governments can no longer exclusively zone neighborhoods for single-family detached lots