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provincial politics

Report ranks premiers from best, Mike Harris, to worst, Pauline Marois

Vancouver-based think tank ranks Canada's provincial leaders in a new 'Premier League' - with Mike Harris at top and Pauline Marois at bottom.

Mayor blames province and feds for slow response to English Bay spill

It took six hours for the Coast Guard to build a containment boom around a toxic spill at a deep-water anchorage off English Bay and 13 hours before City authorities were notified. Now the City of...

Harper’s Canada: A local and provincial politics fact sheet

Fourth in a series documenting key events and issues in Canadian politics. Here’s a look at how Conservative policies are affecting change at the local and provincial level.

Harper's Canada: Fact sheets exploring Conservative government policy

To help Canadians understand what's been going on in our federal government, here's your guide to our series of cheat sheets on today's Conservative politics.

Will Christy Clark kill BC's climate-change policies?

B.C. politics is littered with the dashed careers of politicians left and right who tried to kill Campbell’s popular climate-change policies. Will Premier Clark be next?