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There has been a lot of attention paid to the upcoming plebiscite on transportation and transit funding and for good reason. Our current network of roads, buses and trains is simply not able to support our growing region. We’ve all sat in gridlock, been passed over by packed buses and had to squeeze onto the SkyTrain during peak travel times. So the question in front of us — the real question we

How many British Columbians have been told that getting a job is their path out of poverty? Unfortunately, the sad truth is that thousands of full-time workers toiling at $10.25 per hour (the current minimum wage in BC) find themselves thousands of dollars short of the reaching the poverty line each year. And every day it gets worse – their wage is stagnant, but the cost of living keeps going up

“On the importance of education generally we may remark it is as necessary as the light, it should be as common as water, and as free as air.” - Egerton Ryerson, founding father of public education in Canada, 1846 As most of us head for work this morning we will likely walk, drive, or cycle by a public school, but unlike most days, that school will be closed. Teachers are walking the picket line

This week I was able to visit with workers from Cascade Aerospace. When the company is in operation, it is one of the area’s largest employers, with more than 600 highly-trained employees whose number one job is to keep airplanes in the air. According to the company, "the employees are key to our success." Today these workers are walking the picket line. This is their first strike and two critical