British Columbia

• Main government page
• Ministries

News releases:

• Latest news releases You can search by date and ministry by clicking here
• Search news by ministry

Search Government Publications

• Main search page
• Search by keyword

Search entire government database

• Search by keyword
• Advanced search  Search by title, date and other factors

Find government people

• Directory Find civil servants; you can also find all people with the same job or within a department
• Find MLAs

Legislature

• Main Page
• Search Main Page   One of the best legislative search pages on the web.
• MLAs   Bios and pics
• Find MLAs voting records See how they voted (you can only search each session at a time)
• Bills - What they are and where they stand
  
  Hansard:
• Search Committees
• Search Hansard Search Hansard, documents and bills going all the way back to 1992
• Search Hansard by Index - By topic or speakers

Political Parties  

• British Columbia Liberal Party
• B.C. NDP
• Reform BC
• BC Social Credit Party
• The BC Conservative Party
• Family Coalition Party of BC
• BC Libertarian Party
• Green Party in B.C.
• Pacific Salmon Alliance

BC Newspapers:

• See BC newspapers at JNet's Canada papers  
  
  Chinese-language papers:
  
• Mingpao
• Singtao

  BC Politics:

• BC Politics.ca
• VancouverScrum
• The Republic

Property, business ownership:

• BC Online - Corporate search and land registry Not free but the only way to search online for who owns what
• http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/cso/ $6 per search online for most court documents

Vancouver Public Library databases:

• Vancouver Public Library Free access to many treasures troves, including newspaper archives, encyclopedias, corporate records. All that is required is a library card
• Vancouver Public Library - Newpaper Clipping Collection Index - Search Entries in the Index provide the headings used on individual folders of clippings as well as the specific file each headings belongs to. The collection is located on level 5 of VPL Central Library

• Full text of over 65 Canadian newspapers

• The Globe and Mail newspaper The electronic full-image version of the complete works from its inception in 1844 to December 1999. The database includes every article, image, cartoon, advertisement, classified advertisement, birth and death notice published in the Globe and Mail.
• Index to the minutes of Vancouver City Council meetings, Beginning January 1, 1992. Each motion and/or meeting agenda is searchable by subject; by name(s) associated with the issue (eg, personal name, city department or committee, company or organization name, etc); and by 'title' assigned to each agenda item by the City Clerk's Office.

Other databases:

• BC Canadian Bar Association