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He said the province plans to launch a housing action plan, with details coming next month, with $4 2 billion in the budget to “build more homes for middle-income people across the province,” Eby said, calling housing “essential infrastructure.”

“It’s like electrical wires or roads, or sewer systems We need housing … or our province cannot function ”

He said the province is preparing to hire 160 new staff to deal with backlogs in permitting processes regarding housing

Eby also touted his government’s investments in the redevelopment of Burnaby Hospital and the Trades andTechnology complex at BCIT

“(It’s) not just money,” he added. “You need the physical people to help deliver the care the ac- tual nurses, the healthcare professionals and the doctors,” he said, noting the province is working to speed up the process of recognizing internationally trained health-care workers.

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12-month conditional discharge, saying Petrelli had suffered enough for his moment of weakness

Petrelli, a husband and father of two, who has worked all his life, was fired from the job he’d held for 25 years and is now battling depression, Doust said

He has no criminal record and has been a “law-abiding, contributing member of society,” according to Doust.

Doust argued Petrelli’s theft had not been a case of an employee trying to “connive and plot” to defraud his employer, but a “brief, ill-advised decision.”

“This is a one-off situation, where he’s presented with this unrealistic opportunity that he would never have imagined, and he reacted and he made a

decision he regrets.”

If the public was aware of all the circumstances of the case including the unique situation of a Purolator employee encountering a package stuffed with $94,060

Doust said most wouldn’t oppose a conditional charge, which would leave Petrelli without a criminal record if he successfully completes his year of probation.

“I really, truly believe that if the public knew all the facts and all the circumstances of this case, that nary a one of them would say he should get a criminal record and he should suffer more,”

Doust said B.C. provincial court Judge Reginald Harris agreed a conditional discharge was appropriate in the case.

He granted Petrelli a

12-month conditional discharge with 30 hours of community work service

For the first two months of his one year of probation, Petrelli will be under a curfew from 7 p m to 6 a.m. Monday to Friday and from 10 p m to 6 a m on Saturday and Sunday

He is also banned from the Burnaby Purolator facility on Douglas Road and from gambling or attending any B C casino

A Purolator spokesperson told the NOW the company could not comment on BitNational’s specific account details for privacy and security reasons but said it is not “common” for Purolator to give pre-approvals for cash shipments

BitNational did not respond to a request for comment on its $94,060 shipment