B.C. First Nations appear poised to start taking back care of their own children, using their own culture and laws, as the number of Indigenous kids in foster care across Canada has reached crisis proportions.

Cutting down trees for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will damage waterways, infringe on park space, and reduce air quality, representatives of Burnaby, B.C. told federal regulators on Wednesday.

In a possible preview of what B.C. could see in next month’s provincial budget, Attorney General David Eby has pledged to crack down on white collar crime and introduce a whistleblower protection program.

Imagine living your entire life as a Canadian, but then suddenly finding out you’re not actually a citizen. Consider what it would be like to grow up in Canada, with Canadian parents, but then have a baby in another country and discover your child is not entitled to Canadian citizenship.

According to the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, inequality in B.C. is the highest in Canada and growing at a fast rate. We can do better, writes columnist Tracy Sherlock.

When wildfire smoke blankets a province, as it did in B.C. for weeks this summer, there are marked increases in asthma attacks and respiratory infections, as well as smaller increases for things like heart attacks and cardiac arrests, a B.C. scientist says.

Former Liberal cabinet minister George Abbott and Maureen Chapman, Hereditary Chief of the Sq'ewá:lxw (Skawahlook) First Nation, will review B.C.'s unprecedented 2017 fire season. Appointing Chapman to co-chair a major provincial review sends a remarkable and noteworthy message about the relationship between the provincial government and Indigenous peoples.

When it comes to preventing forest fires, responsibility for the work is a complicated dance between the province and small, civic governments.

The Province of British Columbia apparently knew what to do to lessen the intensity of wildfires by 2017. The reports they'd commissioned in 2003 after the catastrophic Kelowna wildfires were explicit. Remove small trees and other burnable debris and do controlled burns.

Even if the NDP government opposes the pipeline, the Liberal government approved it.