Housing

EDITOR – Tax exemptions for developers won’t solve housing crunch

April 4, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES don’t make for exciting reading. In fact, a lot of people probably don’t even know what they are, but they go [Continue]

MILOBAR – Affordability is, sadly, just another broken NDP promise

December 22, 2023 // 1 Comment

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson AS WE ENTER the holiday season and the end of the year approaches, it’s natural to begin reflecting on the year that [Continue]

CAPUTO – A tragedy in Kamloops, and the government’s failures on housing

December 6, 2023 // 4 Comments

Excerpt from debate in Parliament on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2022: remarks by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo. FIRST, I WANT TO BEGIN by recognizing a tragic motor vehicle [Continue]

BEPPLE – Cities need new deal with Ottawa on infrastructure costs

November 27, 2023 // 5 Comments

LAST WEEK, I was in Ottawa. I spent the week with about 100 other local government elected officials from across Canada. Our goal: to make it more affordable for our [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Eby housing strategy pushes us back to the era of little boxes

November 25, 2023 // 3 Comments

THE MARCH TO TICKY TACKY continues apace. David Eby’s NDP government is determined to run roughshod over the rights of cities to plan how they’ll grow. Maybe Pete [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Short-term rentals bill won’t fix housing but it will help

October 17, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE HOUSING SHORTAGE will become a little less serious after the provincial government introduced new legislation on short-term rentals [Continue]