WorkSafeBC will keep its preliminary average base premium rate at $1.55 per $100 of assessable payroll in 2027, marking the 10th consecutive year the rate has stayed at this level.… …
British Columbia recorded 109 deaths from suspected unregulated drug toxicity in May 2026, the BC Coroners Service reported in a bulletin issued July 9. That works out to about 3.5… …
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By Margaret McGregor, Deborah Curran, Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, Kevin Berk, and Tim K. Takaro In May, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to double the capacity of Canada’s electricity grid by… …
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The Province of British Columbia is expanding skilled trades certification to tower and mobile crane operators, adding new training and licensing requirements for workers in the sector. Starting Monday, July… …
A construction crew working near Fort St. John, B.C., punctured an operating natural gas pipeline last November after losing track of exactly where the line was buried, the Transportation Safety… …
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