Lisa Beare

The British Columbia and federal governments say they will fund a new secondary school in Tumbler Ridge at a different site from the one where six people were killed in February’s mass shooting.

British Columbia’s NDP government tabled legislation Monday to extend restrictions on protests and other “disruptive behaviour” near schools and expand the rules to public places of worship.

The union representing about 52,000 teachers said the province had offered general wage increases it described as being in line with other public sector unions, but that the offer did not include additional funding to address working conditions in classrooms.

The federal government is allocating more than $113 million to British Columbia to support French language education in schools.

Proposed legislation would allow British Columbia to take legal action against vape manufacturers to recover health-care-related costs. 

A trio of B.C. mothers and elected officials is calling on the province to implement a provincewide standard for maternity and parental leaves for locally elected officials.