I believe there are 600+ First Nations across Canada.

7 out of the 12 indigenous language families are in BC. The families encompass 70 languages.

That's pretty unfair!

Consider writing to your local mp demanding that your tax dollars be used to expand dentalcare.

9m people eligible in 2025 in the original doc

If that's true then the maximum would be be 21.76% of the population covered by the plan. We're currently 8.36% away from that goal.

However our taxes are going to Sun Life Financial who is currently lobbying against pharmacare.

Looks like Robinhood to me. The red and blue politicians intend to keep groceries expensive for their rich backers.

You don’t get to boss the courts around Eby. Stop opposing indigenous rights.

Canadians need to protect Canada Post from the liberal-conservative coalition serving the rich.

The BC NDP wants to serve the rich and powerful who are destroying the climate.

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So...how would proportional representation even work? Would your representatives be chosen for you, based on the total number of votes in the province?

You’re thinking of the closed party list electoral system. Which isn’t being proposed for Canada.

Proportional representation is a family of voting systems that corresponds to the percentage of the vote.

The 3 systems that are under the pr umbrella are the single transferable vote, mixed-member proportional and party lists.

who gets to choose who occupies those proportionally delegated seats in the legislative assembly, if it's no longer chosen by each riding?

The single transferable vote groups multiple single member ridings into one like from 1 to 5 representatives. With mixed-member it’s a hybrid between first past the post and party lists, where you get 2 ticks one for your local representative and one for your preferred party.

I get how this works, in theory...but in practice, we would no longer be choosing our own representatives anymore. You'd get proportional representation...but lose the choice of who those representatives are.

Thats not accurate. Since you can rank your candidates on the ballot with stv or chose between your local candidate with mmp.

The Canada Food Price Report just issued reveals that a quarter of Canadian households are living in food insecurity and that they will be forced to spend nearly one thousand dollars more on groceries in 2026. This means that hunger in Canada will continue to rise as more Canadians will be forced to skip meals or sacrifice to keep their children fed.

The report notes that only four food conglomerates control 72 per cent of the grocery market in Canada. New Democrats have long called for effective action to police anti-competitive practices caused by this monopoly. We reiterate our call for mandatory standards to ensure free competition and fight collusion in price-setting, and for the government to properly enforce the Grocery Code of Conduct.

Please stick around, there are people who want you here.

But emergency departments are not intended for the long-term care of patients, and being stuck in the hallway came with stress. She witnessed, for example, hospital security tackle a man at the foot of her bed.

Stories like Gill’s are far from rare in British Columbia. Over the last decade, the province’s hospitals have consistently operated over capacity. That means people admitted for overnight care are regularly cared for in locations including hallways and emergency room nooks, rather than in spaces designated for ongoing care. It also means nurses and other hospital staff are left caring for more patients than they should be.

Hospital overcrowding leads to more medical errors and less effective care for patients, health-care officials broadly agree. As hospitals approach full capacity, traffic jams emerge and care becomes less efficient. Officials in Fraser Health have been warned that occupancy levels above 95 per cent lead to worse patient outcomes. The Tyee is supported by readers like you Join us and grow independent media in Canada

New data provided to The Tyee reveals that seven B.C. hospitals operated at more than 20 per cent over capacity last year. In such hospitals, that means at least one of every six patients is cared for in an “unfunded” bed. Fifty of B.C.’s 87 hospitals had more patients than beds over the last year.