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Les Leyne: All-housing theme is all-consuming

Les Leyne: All-housing theme is all-consuming

Lesser-known changes to housing policy are being introduced, to back up the high-profile ones
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Les Leyne: Accelerating push for electric vehicles makes no sense in North

Les Leyne: Accelerating push for electric vehicles makes no sense in North

Ninety per cent of light-duty vehicle sales will need to be electric by 2030, even in the North, where colder temperatures reduce their efficiency
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Les Leyne: Public hearings curbed in housing bill

Les Leyne: Public hearings curbed in housing bill

The move builds on antipathy to the public hearing process that has been building for a few years.
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Les Leyne: A hard no to chief coroner's drug plan after DULF trafficking allegations

Les Leyne: A hard no to chief coroner's drug plan after DULF trafficking allegations

It looks like the government was scorched by the revelations last week about the “Vancouver Drug Users Liberation Front.”
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Les Leyne: Carbon tax on shaky ground since Trudeau blunder

Les Leyne: Carbon tax on shaky ground since Trudeau blunder

BC United is retreating from one of its predecessor party’s most cherished positions, while the NDP, which once campaigned against the carbon tax, is defending it.
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Les Leyne: Rent long-term or sell, minister tells vacation-rental owners

Les Leyne: Rent long-term or sell, minister tells vacation-rental owners

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says owners of units used for short-term rentals have six months to decide
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Les Leyne: Top 10% of short-term rental hosts took in half the revenue

Les Leyne: Top 10% of short-term rental hosts took in half the revenue

McGill University researchers found that it’s the businesses renting out multiple units that dominate the market in B.C.
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Les Leyne: Government ends contract with group allegedly buying drugs on dark web

Les Leyne: Government ends contract with group allegedly buying drugs on dark web

Vancouver Coastal Health had contracted the “Drug Users Liberation Front” to provide street-level support for drug users, such as drug-checking and overdose-prevention training
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Les Leyne: No one willing to defend rules blocking foreign-trained workers

Les Leyne: No one willing to defend rules blocking foreign-trained workers

As a skills shortage worsens every year, thousands of qualified workers have been sidelined by bureaucratic inertia and bogus requirements that were imposed in a different age
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Les Leyne: Greens' views on 'decommodifying' housing may have quiet NDP support

Les Leyne: Greens' views on 'decommodifying' housing may have quiet NDP support

B.C.’s two Green MLAs’ frank thoughts on housing go a lot further than the government’s views. But it feels like some New Democrats would quietly agree with them, and are only constrained by the backlash
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