{
  "id": 6595066,
  "title": "Opinion: B.C. public hates PST expansion, but government going ahead with it anyway",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/opinion-b-c-public-hates-pst-expansion-but-government-going-ahead",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T13:00:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vancouver Sun",
    "slug": "vancouver-sun",
    "url": "https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-bc-public-hates-pst-expansion-but-government-going-ahead-with-it-anyway"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Carson Binda: New poll finds majority in every region and every demographic want PST expansion scrapped. Even the legislature's finance committee recommended it be repealed. So why is the government pushing ahead?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}