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Les Leyne: Public hearings curbed in housing bill

Les Leyne: Public hearings curbed in housing bill

The move builds on antipathy to the public hearing process that has been building for a few years.
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Les Leyne: A hard no to chief coroner's drug plan after DULF trafficking allegations

Les Leyne: A hard no to chief coroner's drug plan after DULF trafficking allegations

It looks like the government was scorched by the revelations last week about the “Vancouver Drug Users Liberation Front.”
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Les Leyne: Carbon tax on shaky ground since Trudeau blunder

Les Leyne: Carbon tax on shaky ground since Trudeau blunder

BC United is retreating from one of its predecessor party’s most cherished positions, while the NDP, which once campaigned against the carbon tax, is defending it.
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Les Leyne: 'Enough is enough,' says coalition against public disorder

Les Leyne: 'Enough is enough,' says coalition against public disorder

Businesses and citizen groups have banded together to push public disorder higher up on the government’s agenda.
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Les Leyne: Rent long-term or sell, minister tells vacation-rental owners

Les Leyne: Rent long-term or sell, minister tells vacation-rental owners

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says owners of units used for short-term rentals have six months to decide
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Les Leyne: Bureaucrats' rejection of power-generation plan to cost taxpayers $10 million

Les Leyne: Bureaucrats' rejection of power-generation plan to cost taxpayers $10 million

The B.C. Supreme Court ruled that officials committed misfeasance — wrongful exercise of authority — in rejecting the multi-million dollar project without having any apparent grounds or authority to do so
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Les Leyne: Short-term rental crackdown was a long time coming

Les Leyne: Short-term rental crackdown was a long time coming

The last decade or so was taken up by ineffectually dabbing at the problem and bringing in measures that didn’t accomplish much of anything
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Les Leyne: Legislature's newest party is causing a lot of mischief and fury

Les Leyne: Legislature's newest party is causing a lot of mischief and fury

Two Conservative MLAs have sparked tensions
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Les Leyne: Leaders shift their stances on B.C. drug policy

Les Leyne: Leaders shift their stances on B.C. drug policy

As Premier David Eby cites drug seizures in response to a backlash to decriminalization, BC United Leader Kevin Falcon is sounding increasingly dubious about harm reduction
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Les Leyne: NDP silence on government lawyer bill speaks volumes

Les Leyne: NDP silence on government lawyer bill speaks volumes

They gave up defending the bill that bars more than 300 government lawyers from forming their own union, hunkered down like penguins in a blizzard and let the opposition critics wear themselves out
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