Premier David Eby has appointed a new cabinet, so sharpen up your advocacy skills for a new round of meetings for getting to know a (mostly) brand-new team. Board Voice will be posting key cabinet ministers’ mandate letters under our …
Finance Minister Selina Robinson tabled the 2022 budget in the BC Legislature this week. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights noted in Tyee journalist Andrew Macleod’s coverage of the budget, which the Tyee describes as a …
We’re delighted to be sharing this letter below received by Board Voice today from Mental Health and Addictions Minister Sheila Malcolmson. It brings the very good news that government has opted not to proceed with an open bid planned for …
Board Voice wasn’t able to land a live presentation with the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services this year, despite calling in within hours of the announcement of the consultations. So we just …
The federal government’s first budget in two years was tabled Monday, followed by BC Budget day on Tuesday. Here are some highlights for the community social services sector from those two budgets.
For our sector, …
Premier John Horgan unveiled his new cabinet on Nov. 26, with a number of MLAs now leading ministries relevant to our sector who have personal work backgrounds in community-based …
Board Voice puts in a submission every year to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Governance, which seeks engagement leading up to the planning of the following year’s budget. Here’s what we had to say this time, which …
Budget 2020 was presented Feb. 18 by Finance Minister Carole James. Coming in the third year of a three-year plan, it’s a “no surprises” budget.
Recruitment and retention in the community social services …
Many more of us will be saying yes to that after May 4, when provincial policy changes around which organizations are required to report monthly on their efforts to influence the BC government.
That’s the date when the new Lobbyists …
Unsettling rumours that Victoria-owned GT Hiring was bought by the US multinational Maximus Inc have now been confirmed. This now means that two multinationals have 30 per cent of the provincial funding for employment training in BC, in multi-year contracts …
