Close X
    Friday, November 15, 2024
    ADVT 
    National

    Early days of B.C. campaign sees NDP, Conservatives trade barbs over housing, drugs

    Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Sep, 2024 10:47 AM
    • Early days of B.C. campaign sees NDP, Conservatives trade barbs over housing, drugs

    Drug policy and housing shortages are emerging as the top issues early in British Columbia's election campaign.

    New Democrat Leader David Eby and B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad spent much of the campaign's first weekend traversing Metro Vancouver, from Richmond to North Vancouver to Surrey to Langley, signaling the importance of winning ridings in urban areas.

    Rustad launched his campaign in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside CRAB park, an area associated with homeless encampments and people with addiction and mental health issues.

    He turned up his focus on the drug issue on Sunday, releasing a statement saying the B.C. Conservatives commit to shutting down injection sites in Richmond and calling them drug dens.

    Eby and Green Leader Sonia Furstenau denounced the statement, saying Rustad had voiced support for safe drug injection sites earlier this month.

    Furstenau says Rustad was a cabinet minister in the former B.C. Liberal government that funded safe injection sites.

    Prev Next

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Canada drops $9M on NYC luxury condo for consul general's official residence

    Canada drops $9M on NYC luxury condo for consul general's official residence
    Canada has spent $9 million for a luxury condo in Manhattan to be used as the official residence for its consul general in New York. Global Affairs Canada says a previous New York City residence purchased in 1961 isn't up to code and doesn't meet the department's standards, but won't say what is being done with it.

    Canada drops $9M on NYC luxury condo for consul general's official residence

    B.C.'s 'massive error' part of web of inaction that could have saved boy: advocate

    B.C.'s 'massive error' part of web of inaction that could have saved boy: advocate
    Jennifer Charlesworth says the boy's death is not an outlier, but rather an example of ways the child welfare system has let down children and families in B.C. and across Canada, despite decades of reports making hundreds of recommendations for change.

    B.C.'s 'massive error' part of web of inaction that could have saved boy: advocate

    Firefighting crews from Australia and New Zealand on the way to help B.C. fire fight

    Firefighting crews from Australia and New Zealand on the way to help B.C. fire fight
    The BC Wildfire Service said on social media that the international personnel are expected to arrive on Friday, as hot, dry conditions persist in the province and the number of active wildfires hovers around 150. It said the two 15-person incident management teams will then be briefed and given their first assignments. 

    Firefighting crews from Australia and New Zealand on the way to help B.C. fire fight

    B.C. government is testing out AI tools for rapid disease diagnosis

    B.C. government is testing out AI tools for rapid disease diagnosis
    Provincial labs in B.C. are testing out artificial intelligence for more rapid disease diagnosis, including cancer. The province says in a statement that the new digital tools will allow researchers to “securely share high-quality images” in other B.C. locations, helping them to perform a faster diagnoses or get a second opinion. 

    B.C. government is testing out AI tools for rapid disease diagnosis

    Beach art mischief

    Beach art mischief
    Mounties in West Shore say a man has been arrested after setting fire to the mammoth statue at Royal Bay Beach.  Police say they responded to a call Monday at 7 a-m after a man who experienced a mental health crisis started a fire at the Esquimalt Lagoon.

    Beach art mischief

    Knife attack in Nanaimo by a man wearing a bra on his head

    Knife attack in Nanaimo by a man wearing a bra on his head
    R-C-M-P say the attacker swung the knives at the man, attempting to stab him, but the large dog lunged and bit him before the dog's owner used his martial arts training to incapacitate the other man and take control of the knives.

    Knife attack in Nanaimo by a man wearing a bra on his head

    PrevNext