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Les Leyne

Les Leyne

Provincial Political Columnist at Times Colonist Online

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Recent Articles

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We’re seeing more old-growth logging deferrals - Victoria - Times Colonist

B.C. government is offering millions of dollars to help companies and workers dealing with the impact of restrictions on old-growth logging.
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Les Leyne: Single-family zoning is fading away

The owner-occupied, stand-alone single-family-home model that took off after the Second World War and defined our way of life for three generations is steadily being dismantled
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Les Leyne: Legislature's newest party is causing a lot of mischief ...

Two Conservative MLAs have sparked tensions
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Les Leyne: Surrey policing debacle set to eat up more time and mone...

They’ll be teaching this horror story in public administration schools for years to come
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Les Leyne: Greens' views on 'decommodifying' housing may have quiet...

B.C.’s two Green MLAs’ frank thoughts on housing go a lot further than the government’s views. But it feels like some New Democrats would quietly agree with them, and are only constrained by the backlash
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Les Leyne: Government ends contract with group allegedly buying dru...

Vancouver Coastal Health had contracted the “Drug Users Liberation Front” to provide street-level support for drug users, such as drug-checking and overdose-prevention training
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Les Leyne: Top 10% of short-term rental hosts took in half the reve...

McGill University researchers found that it’s the businesses renting out multiple units that dominate the market in B.C.
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Les Leyne: Carbon tax on shaky ground since Trudeau blunder

BC United is retreating from one of its predecessor party’s most cherished positions, while the NDP, which once campaigned against the carbon tax, is defending it.
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Les Leyne: A hard no to chief coroner's drug plan after DULF ... - ...

It looks like the government was scorched by the revelations last week about the “Vancouver Drug Users Liberation Front.”
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Les Leyne: Accelerating push for electric vehicles makes no sense ....

Ninety per cent of light-duty vehicle sales will need to be electric by 2030, even in the North, where colder temperatures reduce their efficiency
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Les Leyne: Court finds province violated labour deal with prosecutors

B.C. Supreme Court ruling stems from Premier David Eby’s attempt when he was attorney general to change how bail hearings are dealt with
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Finance Ministry lowballs housing-start forecast - Times Colonist

Either the government’s economic analysts are pessimistic to the point of hopelessness, or the NDP is vastly overselling the effect of the zoning and building bonanza it is trying to create
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Les Leyne: One-time goodies designed to smooth path to fall vote - ...

Good luck to whoever is running things in 2025 when it comes time to cancel the benefits offered in the 2024 budget.
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Is safe-supply diversion ‘widespread’? - Times Colonist

Police working the drug beat at street level in at least two communities say it is happening to some degree
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Les Leyne: NDP flips, launches dual probes after accusation of kick...

A consulting firm hired by the NDP to administer grants from its CleanBC program is accused of asking for a kickback to successfully process an application.
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Les Leyne: Aboriginal title for Haida Gwaii raises questions about ...

All private land owners on Haida Gwaii will need consent from the Haida Nation, according to a law firm specializing in Aboriginal issues.
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Les Leyne: Two accounts of the pause of social harms bill

Government introduced a bill that was supposed to smooth the way for the province to sue the social media giants for the damage they are doing to society
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Les Leyne: Moulting attention hound needs some tough love

Les Leyne: Moulting attention hound needs some tough love
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Les Leyne: Retiring MLAs leave on high notes - Times Colonist

The next legislature will look significantly different, no matter who wins.
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Les Leyne: What John Rustad is pitching: Tax cuts, addiction treatm...

B.C. Conservative leader said he’s offering a “common sense” approach to governing
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Les Leyne: Former Green leader now mostly on side with Conservatives

You have to have a lot on your mind to overlook that and throw your support behind a candidate for a party that is relatively indifferent to your life’s work.