Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Frances Bula
Publication Date: September 20, 2025 - 08:30
Street disorder, homelessness key issues as B.C. civic leaders meet
September 20, 2025
Homelessness, street chaos, mental-health problems and drug addiction are the top preoccupations for many municipal politicians set to gather in Victoria next week for their annual convention.
Stretched to the limit of their resources, they say that although the provincial government has been stepping up with housing support in the past year, it’s still not enough.
OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s oil and gas emissions cap may not even be fully implemented yet, but the Opposition Conservatives aren’t waiting to go in for the kill.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in the House of Commons on Monday that, even in its preliminary form, the federal emissions cap is chilling private investment in the oil and gas sector, to the tune of billions in lost opportunities.
“It turns out that nobody wants to build a pipeline when the government bans you from producing the oil to put into it,” said Poilievre.
Poilievre was speaking in favour...
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