Breaking ground on the 56 new affordable permanent homes at Cindy Beedie Place on Canada Way, which will give women and children leaving violence options in Burnaby, especially with the addition of the child care facility. Learn more here. Watch …

New funding for research infrastructure at B.C. universities is supporting innovative projects, like helping children in pain receive the safest, most effective pain management possible. Through another round of BCKDF funding, the Government of B.C. is providing $2.5 million to …

Turning short-term rentals into homes for people is at the core of newly introduced legislation to regulate the rapidly expanding short-term rental market. The short-term rental market in B.C. is dominated by a small segment of profit-driven operators. Research from …

New legislation will create clear rules regarding public drug use and enable police to redirect people to safer spaces where they can be connected to health-care services and treatment. The restricting public consumption of illegal substances act will encourage people …

Communities around the Province will see less plastic in landfills after three million single-use plastic tree seedling wraps, which support 45 million seedlings, are eliminated from the tree-planting process in 2024. Following a successful trial of plastic removal for the …

People with disabilities will have better employment opportunities with personalized technologies funded through a $1-million grant to CanAssist, an organization based at the University of Victoria (UVic). To read more on this grant, please click on the link here: http://news.gov.bc.ca/29608

New legislation will create clear rules regarding public drug use and enable police to redirect people to safer spaces where they can be connected to health-care services and treatment. You can read more at the link here: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023PSSG0059-001546