Close X
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
ADVT 
National

3500 rental homes to be built: BC Gov

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Aug, 2023 05:18 PM
  • 3500 rental homes to be built: BC Gov

The B-C government is seeking proposals to create new affordable rental homes through its Community Housing Fund.

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says the newest round of funding will create approximately 35-hundred homes.

Proposals will be accepted until mid-November, with the winning applicants set to be announced early next year.

The government says it wants to build 20-thousand homes through the C-H-F program by 2032.

MORE National ARTICLES

Safety board to release report on B.C. tug sinking

Safety board to release report on B.C. tug sinking
Transportation Safety Board chair Kathy Fox and Clifford Harvey, the director of marine investigations, will hold a news conference to reveal the findings on the sinking of the tug Ingenika in February 2021. The tug was towing a barge and had a captain and two crew members aboard when it took on water and sank in Gardner Canal.    

Safety board to release report on B.C. tug sinking

Metro Vancouver homeless count underway

Metro Vancouver homeless count underway
The association says its volunteers try to be as accurate as possible in order to understand who is living without safe, affordable, appropriate housing, and why they are in that situation. That count was completed less than a week before the pandemic was declared and it identified 3,634 people who were experiencing homelessness.

Metro Vancouver homeless count underway

3 youths arrested for an alleged unprovoked attack with a hammer in Port Moody

3 youths arrested for an alleged unprovoked attack with a hammer in Port Moody
During the physical altercation, one youth allegedly struck the victim with a hammer and another youth allegedly brandished a knife. A total of three suspects fled the scene and soon after, officers located them at a Skytrain station.

3 youths arrested for an alleged unprovoked attack with a hammer in Port Moody

Appointment of new Surrey Ethics Commissioner Peter Johnson

Appointment of new Surrey Ethics Commissioner Peter Johnson
Mr. Peter Johnson is a partner with B.C. law firm, Stewart McDannold Stuart, and possesses more than 30 years of knowledge and experience providing legal advice and assistance to local governments throughout the province on a wide variety of matters. 

Appointment of new Surrey Ethics Commissioner Peter Johnson

PBO: Plenty of immigration staff to meet goals

PBO: Plenty of immigration staff to meet goals
Yves Giroux says his office analyzed the cost of processing applications for economic immigrants through the express entry system for five fiscal years. For the 2022-23 fiscal year, the report said Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has 65 per cent more staff than needed to process applications on time.

PBO: Plenty of immigration staff to meet goals

Liberals remain under pressure on interference

Liberals remain under pressure on interference
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he will appoint a "special rapporteur" to probe foreign interference in Canada and recommend what more to do about it, among several measures aimed at responding to renewed scrutiny of the Liberal response so far.

Liberals remain under pressure on interference