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VICTORIA The past week has featured three tests of Premier John Horgan’s promise of openness and transparency and his NDP government failed all three.
The most telling example was the leak of two internal reports from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, which showed the government has been assembling far more information about the COVID-19 outbreak than it made public.
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“The internal reports each over 45 pages are four times longer than the weekly reports published by the centre,” as Nathan Griffiths reported in The Vancouver Sun on Friday. “They delve into the details of COVID-19 case counts and vaccinations at the neighbourhood level, breakdowns about variants of concern, and more … a level of detail the centre has so far refused to make public despite repeated calls from a
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VICTORIA The West Moberly First Nations have obtained court-ordered access to much of the material that the New Democrats have withheld from the public on the safety and cost overruns at the troubled Site C project.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Warren Milman made the ruling last week in response to an application from West Moberly and Chief Roland Willson. They sought the information as part of their legal action that tries to halt construction on B.C. Hydro’s Site C dam on grounds that it violates their treaty rights and poses a threat to their traditional territories along the Peace River in northeastern B.C.
The cost of British Columbia's Site C hydroelectric dam has grown by $6 billion, bringing the price tag of the megaproject to $16 billion and stretching the completion date to 2025.
The NDP government's decision to complete the Site C dam despite a $5.3 billion increase in costs was met with swift condemnation by local farmers and First Nations on Friday.
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