Les Leyne: Emergency programs doing poor job of helping disaster victims, ombudsperson finds (TIMES COLONIST)
By accident or design, the B.C. government introduced a major rewrite of emergency legislation Tuesday at the same time Ombudsperson Jay Chalke determined emergency support programs are under-resourced, poorly-communicated and unfair. His office focused on the cataclysmic fires and floods of 2021, when B.C. was hit by two weather disasters just five months apart ... CLICK HERE for the full story