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In this opinion piece published in The Vancouver Sun, Tyrone McNeil, Chair of the Emergency Planning Secretariat, & Watershed Watch's Lina Azeez explain why investing in flood prevention is both fiscally responsible & essential for community resilience
👉 vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
#BCBudget
Tomorrow 6:30 pm PT: Health care budget cuts will be felt in rural, underserved communities.
A BC Health Coalition webinar: senior economist Iglika Ivanova, a paramedic, northern deputy mayor on possible consequences for access to care. #BCBudget
us02web.zoom.us/webi...
BC 🇨🇦 The 2026 staffing of LTC & Homecare is projected $500 Million for private Agency nurses & LPNs. They are quitting public govt healthcare- burnout.
Homecare was just cut significantly on Jan. 1 so families are scrambling to be/find caregivers.
Mostly Women bear the burden.
#bcpoli #bcbudget
This cut is in itself appalling (just read the streets in any city) but the lack of transparency is troubling, too. Itemize all #bcbudget cuts, @davidebybc.bsky.social & @governmentofbc.bsky.social. We deserve clarity re what's to be lost. Including the #Queensborough School Bus. #NewWest #BCpoli
BC Greens Finance Critic Rob Botterell responds to the BC NDP's Budget 2026.
youtu.be/v-SI41vmVNk
#bcpoli #bcbudget
Today at noon I’m moderating this panel as they break down the #BCBudget and what it means for the people of BC. We’ll also be answering your questions live. There’s still time to register.
Can’t join live? Register at the link below & @bcpolicy.bsky.social will send you a recording.
Vaughn Palmer: David Eby's deficit is so deep, it will take years for B.C. to recover
Opinion: Eby was always a big spender and, upon becoming premier, promptly abandoned the fiscal restraint of John Horgan
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #bcpoli #bcbudget
NDP was able to do all that for a time under Horgan’s leadership until Eby threw it all away.
But looking back, Horgan surely knew what he was doing when he signed the cabinet order that separated Eby from control over the budget & BCs finances
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #bcpoli #bcbudget
“One of the myth-busting things that we were able to do was to end the narrative that the NDP can’t manage money
With Carole James as finance minister, we chalked up some massive surpluses that enabled us to pay down BC debt as well.” Horgan
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #bcpoli #bcbudget
But come fall Eby approved a $4 billion top up to the public sector bargaining mandate in hopes of improving his showing in a party leadership vote by a few percentage points.
At great cost to the treasury, it did.
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #bcpoli #bcbudget
Eby himself briefly picked up the theme, lecturing public sector workers to lower expectations about what the government could afford in the latest round of contract negotiations.
But
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So, there’s no money in the Provincial budget to rebuild the Red Bridge any time soon? #bcbudget #bcpolitics #kamloops
#ndp #redbridge
Today, the #BCBudget is under fire. I’m appalled that even the #NDP refuse to focus on reinventing the provincial economy beyond LNG & resources extraction. In #BC & "every day 100 soccer fields of irreplaceable old growth are cut down. Only a fraction of the most endangered stands are protected.“
Graphic for Disability Alliance BC's official statement on the BC Budget 2026 with a checklist graphic and dollar sign icon on a blue background.
The BC Budget for the 2026/2027 fiscal year was announced at the legislative assembly in Victoria on February 17, 2026. Read our statement on the Budget: disabilityalliancebc.org/bc-budget-2026-staving-o...
#BCBudget #BCBudget2026 #BC
“We have an affordability crisis, we have a housing crisis … and we have this government who says, ‘Hold on, we're gonna, just kind of tread water.’” says @iglikaivanova.bsky.social from @bcpolicy.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#BCBudget #BCPolicy
I'm excited to be hosting this expert panel as they break down the 2026 #BCBudget. I'll be asking them your questions live after their presentation, so please share what you want to know.
Budget 2026/27, titled “Securing BC’s Future,” has been tabled.
Our team breaks down what matters, what’s new, and what it signals for BC’s economic direction.
🔗 Read our full analysis here: www.hilltoppublicaffairs.ca/securing-bcs...
#bcpoli #BCBudget #PublicAffairs
🚨Hidden austerity is still austerity🚨
Corporations and billionaires are the winners of the BC NDP budget, while working people are forced to foot the bill.
Eby’s cuts abandon $10-a-day childcare, cancels public housing, and puts thousands of public servants out of work.
#bcpoli #bcbudget
Omg I’m watching the #bcbudget 2026 and the finance minister Brenda Bailey just called Mr Speaker…Mr Streaker!! A nice bit of levity after a lot of sad speeches on tragedy in tumbler Ridge and lots of public service layoffs to come
The @bcpolicy.bsky.social team is in Victoria today for the #bcbudget Follow for updates as we get them and don't forget to register for our budget briefing on Thursday at noon where we will break out all down (and answer your questions)
Registration link: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Amy Mullis, in a red blouse, delivers remarks at a podium to a seated audience of community social services professionals gathered for the "Voices and Vision" event in a bright atrium meeting space.
Thank you to every participant, speaker and partner who helped create space for honest conversation and collective direction. Together, we support each other and strengthen the sector.
#VoicesAndVision #CommunitySocialServices #SectorUnity #BuildBC #BCBudget #StrongerTogether
Getting ready to head into the BC budget lock-up this morning. I'll be looking at whether the budget strengthens core services, including mental health & provides relief to BC families struggling with the affordability crisis. #bcbudget @bcpolicy.bsky.social #bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When BC's consumer carbon tax was first introduced, it was accompanied by tax cuts to both personal and corporate taxes to make it revenue-neutral. But when it was eliminated last spring, these tax cuts were not reversed. The result is a $2 billion hole in BC's finances. #BCBudget
Heading to Victoria for the #bcbudget lockup with my colleague Véronique Sioufi @verosioufi.bsky.social.
We'll be looking at who's protected and who's being asked to sacrifice in tomorrow's budget.
Follow @bcpolicy.bsky.social to see our analysis fresh from the budget lockup tomorrow.
no. this is pre-spin. an austerity budget but it's not an austerity budget
ITS AN AUSTERITY BUDGET
call things what they are and don't accept the government's framing and terms
look they're doing long weekend pre-spin. you all are such fragile control freaks
AND TAX THE RICH #BCbudget
Senior economist Iglika Ivanova and policy analyst Véronique Sioufi will be in the #BCBudget lock up.
Two days after the Budget, they will be joined by climate campaigner Sven Biggs at a webinar to analyze the budget, Feb 19, 12:00 pm PT. Join Us!
Senior economist Iglika Ivanova and policy analyst Véronique Sioufi will be in the #BCBudget lock up.
Two days after the Budget, they will be joined by climate campaigner Sven Biggs at a webinar to analyze the budget, Feb 19, 12:00 pm PT. Join Us!
