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This guide is designed to help get you started with your library research for information and publications from the Government of British Columbia.

Click on any of the tabs above to find books, articles, and more.Locate specific the Departments and Agencies using the A-Z list.

Follow this link for information on BC Goverment activies pre and post election 2013, known as the "writ period", April 16, 2013 - June 5, 2013.

News Feeds

Newsroom BC Government - March 2011 to present
Access BC Government news from March 2011.
Archived BC Government News Releases 1994-2009
1994 to June 10, 2009
Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM)
News Feed. Annual Conference September 16 - 10, 2013

Featured Resources

BC Budget 2018
Delivered February 20, 2018
Site C Dam Information and Updates
BC Budget Speech 2018
Speech from the Throne, February 13, 2018
3rd Session, 41st Parliament
BC Representative for Children and Youth
Reports and publications, 2007 to the present.
BC Coastal Ferry Act Review Report Released, January 24, 2012
BC Building Codes 2012
BC Fire Code, BC Building Code, BC Plumbing Services, along with application and intent statements. Access to 2006 included.
Election chill effect: The Impact of BC's New Third Party Advertising Rules on Social Movement Groups
From the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, authored by Shannon Daub, Heather Whiteside. August 2010.

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Poorly designed third party advertising rules chilled election debate, reduced voter access to information: Study
Cohen Commission
Commission of Inquiry into the Declione of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River. This federal commission was established by order inCouncil, Novembe r2009.

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http://www.cohencommission.ca/en/
http://www.watershed-watch.org/resources/cohen-inquiry-highlights/
Braidwood Inquiry
The Braidwood Commmission on the Death of Robert Dziekanski released on June 18, 2010 its Final report, "WHY? The Robert Dziekanski Tragedy", locate on the commission website under the section "Obtain Report" Phase Two.

The first report of the commission, "RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE: Restricting the Use of Conducted Energy Weapons in British Columbia" was released 18 June 2009. Locate the report on the commission website under the section "Obtain Report" Phase One.
POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
The Water Sustainability Project (WSP) began in 2003 at the University of Victoria's POLIS Project on Ecological Governance in British Columbia, Canada.
HST in BC
Includes the May 4. 2011 Independent Panel Report
Fraser River Sockeye Salmon: past declines, future sustainability?
Interim Report, issued by the Coommission of Inquiry into the decline of the Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River. Ottawa, 2010.
Forging partnerships, building relationships- Aboriginal Canadians and energy development: report to the Prime Minister by Douglas R. Eyford
November 29, 2013.
Very large pdf.