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Summer is done and politics is happening again. From Bruce Banman joining the BC Conservatives to the BCNDP amending the province's decriminalization pilot, to federal Liberal housing policies. There's a lot to talk about this week.

Links

Obituary: Serge Plotnikoff - Castlegar News  

BC

• Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman leaving BC United to join Conservatives | Globalnews.ca
• BC Provincial, August 2023 Public - Mainstreet Research
• Mainstreet poll
• United for a Safer B.C.
• B.C. to ban drug possession near playgrounds for duration of decriminalization pilot project | CBC News
• Mental Health and Addictions Care
• It’s been more than 6 months of drug decriminalization in B.C. What’s changed? | Globalnews.ca
• BCUC Chair fired
• New chair, CEO appointed to BC Utilities Commission | BC Gov News
• Lil’wat, N’Quatqua, Province reach agreement on Joffre Lakes access | BC Gov News

FEDERAL

• Canada needs another 3.5M housing units built by 2030: CMHC | CTV News
• Trudeau announces $74M to help London, Ont., build 2,000 new homes | CBC News
• Liberal press releases (thread)
• Letter to Jyoti Gondek
• Could the Missing Middle Solve the Housing Crisis? | The Walrus
• Trudeau removes GST from rentals
• Enhanced GST Rental Rebate to build more apartments for renters - Canada.ca
• Trudeau announces new measures to deal with housing, grocery prices | CBC News
• Poilievre releases housing plan he says would 'build homes, not bureaucracy' | CBC News
• Conservative Convention
• Hannah Hodson out
• Conservatives love supplements
• Singh to prioritize 'lowering prices for Canadians' bill, Poilievre pushing 'building homes, not bureaucracy' bill