Highlights

Aside from reported child pornography cases steadily rising, police reports show youth are sharing intimate images online with one another without consent.

Regional district finance committee recommends increasing municipal assessment

qathet Regional District board will consider allocations to grants-in-aid

Implementation of provincial mandates is stretching short-staffed planning departments.

VICTORIA — British Columbia is looking to put the brakes on crashes into highway overpasses by imposing the highest fines and penalties in Canada. Penalties for crashes into overpasses or other highway infrastructure by commercial vehicles in B.C.

Community Foundations Canada representative speaks to qathet region leaders

Any installation must be approved by qRD’s chief administrative officer

The program will target older homes and multifamily who need an energy-saving facelift.

Victoria MP Laurel Collins says Canada is not following recommendations from its environment commissioner to better track unaccounted emissions from the logging sector.

"Neither the unfolding process of climate disruption, nor the costs it imposes on cities, nor the hundreds of residents who mobilized in the past year, are going away." ~ Bob Hackett