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Les Leyne: Two provinces, two approaches to opioid crisis

Les Leyne: Two provinces, two approaches to opioid crisis

B.C. is emphasizing harm reduction, which implicitly accepts people will use drugs. Most of Alberta’s emphasis is on recovery.
Les Leyne: Surrey police planning slipshod

Les Leyne: Surrey police planning slipshod

The total focus on Surrey in planning to create a municipal police force to replace the RCMP failed to account for the potentially serious province-wide impacts of what the council wanted to do.
Les Leyne: Surrey policing debacle will cost us all

Les Leyne: Surrey policing debacle will cost us all

If the NDP government’s attempt to chart a route out of this bungle by enticing the city to go with a municipal force goes as planned, provincial taxpayers will cover some ongoing costs.
Les Leyne: B.C. and Telus settle health argument

Les Leyne: B.C. and Telus settle health argument

Dispute erupted last year over whether Telus was extra billing customers to see doctors.
Les Leyne: B.C. has ‘strictest’ bail policy? Where’s the proof?

Les Leyne: B.C. has ‘strictest’ bail policy? Where’s the proof?

If an early look at partial data doesn’t conclusively prove anything, how can they claim it’s the strictest policy in Canada?
Les Leyne: Bail data aimed at federal government

Les Leyne: Bail data aimed at federal government

Provincial authorities appear keen to pin as much blame as possible on the federal government for the increased sense of danger on city streets stemming from violent offenders shuttling through the justice system while remaining out on bail.
Les Leyne: The travails of 'John from Langford'

Les Leyne: The travails of 'John from Langford'

John Horgan’s private career still public, caught in political and environmental crossfire
Les Leyne: Dix takes steps to stop flow of diabetes drug to U.S.

Les Leyne: Dix takes steps to stop flow of diabetes drug to U.S.

Three weeks after blowing the whistle on the scheme, Health Minister Adrian Dix signed a ministerial order that curbs the online sale of Ozempic to non-Canadians.
Les Leyne: NIMBY override is part of province's housing plan

Les Leyne: NIMBY override is part of province's housing plan

The “not in my backyard” objections to new housing in the NDP government’s latest push won’t carry nearly the weight they once did
Les Leyne: Fixing a century-old wrong gets expensive

Les Leyne: Fixing a century-old wrong gets expensive

Federal Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says people should understand the cost of the Treaty 8 settlement with First Nations is not “a windfall … It is a bill that has gone unpaid for over 100 years by the government of Canada.”
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