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Hardest to house: Gaps, flaws and failures - Northern Beat

Hardest to house: Gaps, flaws and failures - Northern Beat

Over the past months, front-line workers, mayors, and citizens have called for action as inner-city crime and…

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Mean Streets: Nowhere else to go - Northern Beat

Mean Streets: Nowhere else to go - Northern Beat

A small group of British Columbians are homeless, addicted, mentally ill, and trapped in a loop of repeating …

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Terrace: Unchecked crime, a "community in crisis" - Northern Beat

Terrace: Unchecked crime, a "community in crisis" - Northern Beat

Cameron Golder was serving a customer in the clothing boutique where she works in downtown Terrace, B.C., whe…

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Occupy Blue River: High-conflict protest, two rules of law - Northern Beat

Occupy Blue River: High-conflict protest, two rules of law - Northern Beat

Caution: The following story contains content and language that may be disturbing. In a filmed incident on Se…

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Proposed logging road in pristine Fraser headwaters mobilizes campaign for land use review

Proposed logging road in pristine Fraser headwaters mobilizes campaign for land use review

A proposed logging road through a pristine Robson Valley watershed that hosts endangered chinook salmon, acts…

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Solidarity trumps competition in NDP leadership race - Northern Beat

Solidarity trumps competition in NDP leadership race - Northern Beat

So, that's it. Hours after the race was officially launched, 48 MLAs were already queued up in lock-step behi…

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Backed by Ottawa, BC negotiates governance, Aboriginal title in mineral-rich northwest

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By Fran Yanor
| NorthernBeat News
Without legislative approval or a public mandate, the BC NDP government—apparently enabled by the federal government—is negotiating a secret agreement with a tiny, remote Indigenous community that aims to recognize legally unproven Aboriginal title, transfer lands, share revenue and cede unprecdented governance authority over 11 per cent of the province in one of Canada’s most mineral-rich districts, containing an estimated value of known deposits exceeding C$1 trillion.
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Joan Young: The bid to reopen Cowichan trial and why landowners must be heard

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By Fran Yanor
| NorthernBeat News
“You can’t have two sets of owners having ownership interests, with mutually exclusive rights, over the same piece of land. It just, in our view, doesn’t work.” Property owners need to have a voice, says Joan Young As litigator for Montrose Properties, Joan Young has taken on an unenviable, but some say, noble task. Last month, Young was in the BC Supreme Court petitioning to reopen the Cowichan Tribes v Canada trial to add Montrose as a defendant.
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Political skeet shooting with Keith Baldrey & Vaughn Palmer

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By Fran Yanor
| NorthernBeat News
“Horgan was more inclusive, a team leader, a chair of the board, and he delegated. Eby doesn’t do any of those things.” –Vaughn Palmer “If [BC Conservatives] stick to the economy, I think they can stick together. If they stray into social conservatism and faith and all that that goes with that, it’s going to be a problem.” —Keith Baldrey If you follow BC politics, veteran political journalists Vaughn Palmer and Keith Baldrey need no introduction.
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