Summer is done and politics is happening again. From Bruce Banman joining the BC Conservatives to the BCNDP amending the province’s decriminalization pilot, to federal Liberal housing policies. There’s a lot to talk about this week.
Links
Obituary: Serge Plotnikoff – Castlegar News
BC
- Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman leaving BC United to join Conservatives | Globalnews.ca
- BC Provincial, August 2023 Public – Mainstreet Research
- Mainstreet poll
- United for a Safer B.C.
- B.C. to ban drug possession near playgrounds for duration of decriminalization pilot project | CBC News
- Mental Health and Addictions Care
- It’s been more than 6 months of drug decriminalization in B.C. What’s changed? | Globalnews.ca
- BCUC Chair fired
- New chair, CEO appointed to BC Utilities Commission | BC Gov News
- Lil’wat, N’Quatqua, Province reach agreement on Joffre Lakes access | BC Gov News
FEDERAL
- Canada needs another 3.5M housing units built by 2030: CMHC | CTV News
- Trudeau announces $74M to help London, Ont., build 2,000 new homes | CBC News
- Liberal press releases (thread)
- Letter to Jyoti Gondek
- Could the Missing Middle Solve the Housing Crisis? | The Walrus
- Trudeau removes GST from rentals
- Enhanced GST Rental Rebate to build more apartments for renters – Canada.ca
- Trudeau announces new measures to deal with housing, grocery prices | CBC News
- Poilievre releases housing plan he says would ‘build homes, not bureaucracy’ | CBC News
- Conservative Convention
- Hannah Hodson out
- Conservatives love supplements
- Singh to prioritize ‘lowering prices for Canadians’ bill, Poilievre pushing ‘building homes, not bureaucracy’ bill
