April 13
Dear Division 16,
You have a week to complete this assignment.
Please take some time to read the news for British Columbia.
There are many Vancouver-based newspapers Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, for example), community-based papers (The Courier, The West Ender), online news sources (www.thetyee.com, for example), as well as national newspapers that cover BC news (Globe and Mail, CBC, for example).
You can also use web services like Google News to search for keywords that you are interested in.
Your job is to choose one news story that addresses an issue that is the responsibility of the provincial government (an article or a video from a news program), copy the link into your response, indicate which area of responsibility you believe the article addresses (i.e. Health, Advanced Education) and then briefly summarize the issue in one or two sentences.
Here is the chart that shows the levels of government:
Make sure that you have read the article thoroughly and understand the issue.
I look forward to your responses!
Jody
Divisions 17 and 18 
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/liberals+introduce+long+awaited+bills+legalize+marijuana/13300769/story.html this story is how the liberals are going to not let cannabis/marijuana to children but to people 18 years of age as a minimal and will arrest any criminal that lures children into using cannabis.
this should be on all government levels.
this effects health and education to children as there brains grow up.
I found this article on google:
University of Lethbridge has humble and controversial beginnings
By Sarah Komadina
Video Journalist University administration,
students and the City of Lethbridge all agreed the west side was the better location, but the provincial government didn’t see it that way. They proposed a city referendum to determine where the campus should be built.
read more
http://globalnews.ca/news/3163564/university-of-lethbridge-has-a-humble-and-controversial-beginning/
This article shows an issue that is the responsibility of the provincial government because the provincial government is responsible for the local school issue and should do the best they can to solve the problem in order to get the students well educated and it might increase the chance of him/her getting re-elected.
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-who-will-defend-public-education (Education).
This article by Maggie Milne Martens addresses how highly uneducated many children in BC are.
http://www.theprovince.com/opinion/emery+liberals+have+lied+their+plan+legalization/13306375/story.html
The Liberal government introduced marijuana legalization legislation. But the proposal is not legalization it is continued criminalization but with new harsher laws and is designed to punish more people. Many people want it to be legal because they are tired of there friends being arrested aND put in jail. They are also understand happy that the police are using their tax money for going after people for pot and they should being using it for bigger situations. I think it should be a municipal responsibility.
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/murderer-caught-after-escaping-from-minimum-security-b-c-prison-1.3369923
This article is about a man who walked out of a minimum security prison and it took authority’s 24 hours to find the man he is serving a life sentience in the jail. This is the provinces problem they have to make sure that people who are serving live sentience’s are in the proper prisons. This falls under the justice category.
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-vaisakhi-parade-brings-together-communities-and-election-campaigns
I found this article on Vancouver sun newspaper:
This article is about Christy Clark going to the local candidates and supporters from the Sikh community. Supporters from both parties wearing Liberal or NDP bottoms mingled at the event. To promote the B.C election 2017.
http://infotel.ca/newsitem/bc-election-2017-main-parties-campaign-on-health-care-jobs-at-start-of-week-2/it41716
I found this article that talks about John Horgan’s promise to install small centers with a few doctors, nurses and counselors to address the 700,000 people without a family doctor. This is one of his main ideas in his platform in the election because when the Liberals were in office they failed to help people who didn’t have access to medical help.
Here is the article,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/its-time-to-confront-the-exploitation-of-bcs-environment/article33465705/
This article talks about threats to the B.C. environment. Taking care of the environment is a provincial responsibility. The article talks about animals going extinct because exploitation of B.C. natural resources. For example the gold rush happened at a place where there was a salmon spawn. Because of the gold rush it was more difficult for the salmon to survive and it’s population declined.
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/a-primer-on-some-of-the-main-issues-in-the-b-c-election-on-may-9
This article talks about many issues the one that I focused on housing. The alarming housing prices causes homelessness in many areas around BC.
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/opinion-to-site-c-or-not-to-site-c
here is the link to an article about the sight c dam witch is very controvertial in our province and its going to be very important in the up coming election.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/patricia-tomasi/adhd-learning-disorder-bc_b_15582542.html
My article is about BC finally recognizing that ADHD is a learning disorder.
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/rise-in-first-responder-suicides-leads-to-calls-for-better-worksafe-bc-coverage
I saw this article online with the Vancouver Sun. It talks about the rise in first responder suicides, particularly paramedics who are affected by PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Paramedics claim that Work Safe BC has made it difficult for them to file claims for time off of work or counseling. The paramedics want the provincial government to pass legislation making PTSD claims easier for first responders.
http://richardhughes.ca/teachers-meet-with-bc-green-leader-andrew-weaver/ (education)
My Mom found this article on Facebook and I thought it was a unique fit for this post.
This article is about the views and opinions on education by the green party leader Andrew Weaver.
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-election-2017-where-the-three-parties-stand-on-child-care
this article is about the child care in BC and it talks about the different party platforms and what they think about childcare cost.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170329/dq170329a-eng.htm
This article is about the finance statistics of 2015 i couldn’t find anything earlier
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017TRAN0179-001197
this article is about the BC governments steps to warn people about flooding and how to protect yourself from a flood.