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thePodcast: Canada left blowing in the wind as Trudeau to go. What next?

Conservatives seek to overturn Surrey-Guildford result, force by-election

Demo instead of reno means one less Vancouver hotel for 2026 World Cup

The beginning of the end of Justin Trudeau

WATCH: Trudeau announces exit, what next?

Eby NDP to end lengthy 278-day break when Legislature reopens Feb. 18

Analysis: Could 2026 World Cup co-hosts Canada, Mexico leverage the tournament against Trump’s tariffs?

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The A to Z of 2024: Part 2 of the Highlights of The Year that Was (in Alphabetical Order)

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The A to Z of 2024 – Highlights of The Year that Was (in Alphabetical Order)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from theBreaker.news

Burnaby provides ideal venue for Ireland’s native games

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Catching up at the Grey Cup with top CFLPA official Pete Dyakowski

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Touchdown Pacific: CFL’s Victoria field of dreams

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from theBreaker.news

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from theBreaker.news

Vancouver Police confirm they are paying to protect Mayor Sim

Eby NDP “checkmated” BC Greens with unnecessary agreement: ex-Green leader Weaver

Three suspects under federal investigation after Lynn Valley drugs, guns bust

Hotel development eyed for Grouse Mountain

Is BC Hydro’s future reliant on China?

Vancouver city councillor drove during committee meeting

Trudeau returning to West Coast for pre-Christmas campaigning

Richmond councillor denies working for law firm, two weeks after he declared a conflict of interest

Dispatches from outside B.C. Place Stadium, as Taylor Swift performed the penultimate show of Vancouver’s biggest concert weekend in 40 years

Another mishap scuttles Stanley Park Railway

Vancouver mayor proposes accepting Bitcoin for property tax payments

Vancouver mayor proposes accepting Bitcoin for property tax payments

Vancouver kept choice of parks for World Cup training secret for nine months

Exclusive: Vancouver bureaucrats backtracked on plan for a public meeting about hosting 2026 World Cup: affidavit

Last night of Surrey RCMP command was “very manageable”

Cost of first phase to make two Vancouver parks World Cup-ready: $25 million

No FIFA 26 fever in South Vancouver

HEAR: Surrey’s municipal police chief signs-on, ending RCMP command

HEAR: Surrey’s municipal police chief signs-on, ending RCMP command

Richmond city councillor reveals he moonlights with a law firm

WATCH: Vancouver’s mayor wants to make city “Bitcoin friendly”

B.C. taxpayers on the hook for $581 million: 2026 World Cup hosting contract revealed

Vancouver company to produce $20 million FIFA Fan Festival at new PNE venue

Kenny Chiu on comeback trail, aims to take back seat from Trudeau Liberal Bains

WATCH: Helicopter logging in Stanley Park

A baker’s dozen facts about the new NDP cabinet

Will British Columbians get to see Eby’s real mandate letters?

A dozen tributes to the late John Horgan

More questions than answers after Canada Soccer releases sanitized summary of drone spying report

Surrey Police Service takes command Nov. 29… kind of, sort of

Georgia Straight owner’s appeal fails

TikTok ordered to shut down Canadian operation

North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant schedule in flux again?

B.C. officials braced for “direct action” to disrupt provincial election

New West mayor’s United Nations climate junket broke civic, provincial rules

Exclusive: North Van’s 2023 Hallowe’en fireworks map a hint of 2024’s hot spots

Elections BC allowed staff to take ballots home during advanced voting week

Watch: ABC Vancouver caucus division aired in public

Meet the new boss, same as an old boss

Election tidbits: A compendium of stories to watch as British Columbia’s 43rd general election draws to a close

Finally, it is election day in British Columbia!

Guest commentary: UNDRIP — Framework for Indigenous reconciliation or recipe for societal division?

Fact check: NDP made COVID-19 vaccination an election issue, so how many candidates got their shots?

B.C.’s FOI watchdog refuses to interview Eby staff over deletion of records

The “sham” anti-Israel charity, that pressured B.C.’s NDP premier to dump a Jewish cabinet minister, is declared terrorist

How will the Indian diplomatic crisis affect B.C.’s Oct. 19 election?

Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park board

Questions of foreign interference in Burnaby Conservative’s office

Tuesday TV tilt: Furstenau comes up the middle to win B.C. leaders debate

NDP candidate suggests disagreement with party platform

Exclusive: With election in sight, NDP demanded Surrey city hall keep policing truce secret

Man sentenced to 30 days house arrest for 2023 antisemitic incident

Review: No clear winner in first of two B.C. leaders debates

Vancouver’s ruling civic party has backed-off its bid to freeze the integrity commissioner.

Conservatives complain to lobbying watchdog about NDP housing minister and his sister

Key poll in late 2023 set the stage for NDP 2024 election campaign

Could NDP revive First Nations land management amendments, post-election?

BC Place scoreboard to get new look, not new size

No charges for pro-China campaign to unseat Conservative Chiu, despite evidence of foreign interference

Fatal wedding crash driver fined, banned from driving for five years

Exclusive: Stanley Park logging budget grows to $18 million after secret city council meeting

Business, Culture, News

Governing body for B.C. accountants ousts former Crown corporation finance chief

Despite the power to act, Eby lacks political will to get to the bottom of North Shore sewage plant scandal: Fontaine

Man who fatally shot Richmond underground banker found guilty of first degree murder

Inside the federal funding agreement that put Metro Vancouver on the hook for North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant overruns

Rustad vows to fix B.C.’s broken freedom of information system

Business, News, Sports

Touchdown Pacific ends Lions’ slump, is it the start of something bigger?

A Vancouver city councillor who is critical of China’s government met with CSIS

Anti-CCP protest at Richmond event organized by opponents of foreign interference laws

Logging contributed to Stanley Park Railway derailment

B.C. public accounts reveal big paycheques and red ink

Surrey-Langley SkyTrain price skyrockets

CBSA and RCMP tight-lipped about video showing recovery of stolen vehicles at Vancouver port

Kitsilano Pool failed health inspection, week before closure announced

Price plummets for disbarred Richmond lawyer Hong Guo’s closed office

Vancouver’s integrity commissioner throws out complaint by Mayor Sim’s top aides

Wat flees sinking BC United ship, Conservative leader Rustad says he met with CSIS

Summertime blues at ICBC due to licensing backlog

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal reserves decision in case alleging RCMP discrimination, bias

Vancouver city hall hides staff directory from public

Does BCLC’s Taylor Swift suite lottery break government rules?

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Did a spy drone in France jeopardize Canada’s 2026 World Cup hopes?

Sentencing delayed for Vancouver Island environmental protesters

Liberal socialite disputes cancellation of her B.C. insurance licence

Electioneering NDP hides true cost of the Broadway Subway project, now two years behind schedule

Business, News, Sports

Judge dismisses defamation case about Burnaby sports centre donations

TikTok Canada exec talked to Elections BC about upcoming election

Citizens seek court injunction to stop Stanley Park logging

Telus closes Barrie office, urges Burnaby staff to come back to the office

BC United hires new manager to reboot campaign

Mullen mulling run in provincial election

Business, News, Sports

Greatest gathering of Canadian men’s hoops players to help send squad to Paris Olympics

Embattled lawyer Hong Guo loses another court battle

TransLink’s 2023 pay parade shows CEO over the half-million mark

Rest of Vancouver’s Nexii sold to Dallas lawyers

Inside the E-Comm 9-1-1 crash: missed email caused delayed reaction

Exclusive: Google says it cracked down on Chrystia Freeland deepfakes

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Exclusive: theBreaker.news obtains B.C. Place Stadium’s 2026 World Cup contract

Business, Miscellany, News, Sports

Exclusive: theBreaker.news obtains B.C. Place Stadium’s 2026 World Cup contract

Who is behind the Eby NDP’s dark money attack ad campaign?

Double dipping: Ex-mayor Cote received big paycheques from Metro Van and New West last year

Disqualified Conservative leadership hopeful Brown met twice with Vancouver allies of Communist China

Deepfake ads featuring artificial intelligence-generated images of Liberal finance minister Freeland spotted on YouTube

Park board says it netted only $30,000 from Stanley Park log sales

Exclusive: Controversy erupts over Conservative Party of B.C. nomination

Judge strikes province from Free Speech Club’s lawsuit over UBC cancellation of Antifa critic’s lecture

Son of ex-BC Liberal MLA avoids jail, sentenced to house arrest for sex crime

Sexual interference victim speaks out as ex-BC Liberal MLA’s son hopes Indigenous roots help him avoid jail

Vancouver Hamas promoter facing hate speech probe appears on pro-Iran webinar

Capilano University’s Quest takeover bill reaches $118 million

In 2023, Parole Board said man arrested at West Vancouver rental mansion was not an undue risk to society

B.C. NDP cybersecurity minister found at PNE

Freedom Mobile buys PNE Amphitheatre naming rights, but price not disclosed

Another truck hits a B.C. highway overpass

Conservative leader vows to strengthen lobbying laws

UBC investments include Qatar, China and Russia

Where is George? B.C. cybersecurity minister Chow a no-show when NDP says foreigner attacked IT system

What’s that smell? How January’s Parkland fuel refinery emergency unfolded

Business, News, Sports

Court approves Garibaldi at Squamish sale to Aquilini companies

It took five years, but the B.C. Legislature won’t call it a whistleblower policy

Fraser Health charged less than $13,000 for CBC police drama’s shoot at White Rock hospital

SkyTrain incident report explains why all Burnaby Expo Line stations were temporarily closed on April 17

ABC Park Board commissioner admitted “Transition Team” messages were deleted

Business, News, Sports

FIFA World Cup 26 costs skyrocket in Vancouver

Nexii’s Omicron division sale approved

Surrey cop swap goes before judge

North Vancouver docked cruise ship’s first Alaska voyage of the season cancelled

B.C. judge rules ex-general to be extradited to Mexico to face fuel theft charges

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thePodcast: Global Athlete’s Koehler on the long wait for Canada’s sport abuse and corruption commission

Exclusive: Vancouver Park Board officials concealed Stanley Park train derailment on Easter Weekend

Federal political parties send lawyers to Vancouver court to appeal B.C. privacy ruling

Business, News, Sports

B.C. government opposes Aquilini Squamish resort bid

City hall empty homes audits “an intrusion of privacy,” says Vancouver mayor’s ex-chief of staff

Exclusive: Poll for NDP government found high proportion of Surrey residents prefer RCMP over Surrey Police

Exclusive: Omnibus internal poll gave Eby NDP government failing grades

Occupant’s work on chimney blamed for house fire in British Properties

A dozen municipal parties under Elections BC investigation

Vancouver Park Board releases first Stanley Park logging stats

B.C. labour ministry rules publisher must pay ex-Georgia Straight employees

Eby’s NDP reported hefty surplus for 2023

Exclusive: Inside Vancouver city hall’s DEI training for board volunteers

Coquitlam school district sent 19-person delegation to China for spring break

Foreign Interference Commission: Chiu, O’Toole and Kwan in their own words

Exclusive: Sewage plant builder sues Powell River

Tough crowd at Lynn Valley Legion for Mike Farnworth, where housing critics were sharp and on-target

Federal minister says no bailout for North Vancouver sewage plant project

B.C. engineering and logistics experts analyze impacts of Baltimore bridge collapse

Metro Vancouver chair hoping for more federal, B.C. help to mop up North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant cost overruns

Sewage scandal: Shocking new price tag for delayed North Vancouver treatment plant is $3.86 billion

Business, News, Sports

Who’s who in Vancouver’s FIFA World Cup 26 organizing office

No posts were found.

Controversial RCMP unit aided local detachment during North Vancouver overpass protests

Ripple effects of Sky Global shutdown continue, but U.S. case against CEO, distributor appears dormant

A year before U.S. lawmakers targeted TikTok, B.C. government cybersecurity department scrambled to remove the app

Business, News, Sports

World Cup security slowly comes into focus

Toronto the latest 2026 World Cup host to disclose its FIFA contracts

Business, News, Sports

NDP minister says construction underway at BC Place to prepare for 2026 World Cup

Breaking through the B.C. government’s polling secrecy

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Lack of training, poorly maintained equipment led to railing collapse at Vancouver UFC event

Business, News, Sports

How much will the Trudeau Liberals spend on the FIFA 26 World Cup?

Business, News, Sports

B.C.’s FIFA budget mystery continues

ICBC moving headquarters to Vancouver or Burnaby

Business, News, Sports

Vancouver and B.C. government officials met last fall with FIFA, but most details are secret

Park Board “Transition Team” messages deleted

Helicopter giant contests B.C. government air ambulance contract award

Questions abound in B.C. Crown, agency forecasts for next fiscal year

Extradition hearing proceeds for ex-general wanted in Mexico

Foreign interference public inquiry commissioner withholds almost all applications for standing

Burnaby Conservative candidate admits to breaking the Motor Vehicle Act with campaign video

Oil-starved, misaligned part to blame for SkyTrain station escalator mishap: safety regulator

RCMP strikes team to coordinate probe of extortions targeting South Asian communities

Ad agency linked to top B.C. NDP official paid almost $900,000 in 2023

Lack of technician prolonged Lions Gate Hospital power problems after balloon-caused blackout

Judge awards Richmond condo presale buyers $13.1 million

After complaint to information commissioner, Park Board releases expert report from Stanley Park logging contractor

Thrown for a looper: Inside the city’s emergency contract for Stanley Park logging

Palestinian terror group applauds Selina Robinson’s NDP cabinet exit

Poilievre promises to fix Canada’s ailing access to information system, but would not expand it to include Parliament

Richmond condo developer gets reprieve, nearly half the units remain for sale at Prima

North Vancouver sewage plant spends more than 60% of budget

Group wants to halt Stanley Park logging, force disclosure of expert reports

Winters Hotel inquest over, with more than two-dozen recommendations to increase safety at SROs

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FIFA schedule released for 2026, but many unknowns remain

Business, News, Sports

Seven World Cup matches coming to B.C. Place in 2026

NDP keeps healthy lead on BC United, but Conservatives show huge 2023 donation boost

NDP keeps healthy lead on BC United, but Conservatives show huge 2023 donation boost

Anti-Israel protesters target Vancouver mayor’s house

Legal battle over century-old West Point Grey mansion, where U2 shot a video

U.S. charges bring Iranian foreign interference into focus for Burnaby human rights activist

No fire drills, no evacuation instructions at Winters Hotel, manager testifies

Iranian drug lord and B.C. gangster charged for murder-for-hire plot involving Iranian government

Internal City of Vancouver email exposes ongoing strife over Israel-Hamas war

Minutes of only one budget task force meeting released

Vancouver city council approves vision for Jericho Lands

Metro Vancouver downplays move to access officials records about troubled North Shore sewage plant

Nexii gets reprieve to end of April

Judge approves process to sell Garibaldi at Squamish

Junket to Dubai for New West mayor, climate manager estimated at $31,000

Expert reports about Stanley Park emergency logging behind paywall

Trudeau pre-Christmas Liberal party fundraiser drew less than 90 supporters to Vancouver hotel

Taiwan election result good news for the west, not so much for China

“Unicorn” Nexii under court protection from creditors

Capital Regional District water plan needs to go back to the drawing board, says expert report

Notorious vacant Shaughnessy mansion on the market

Ex-B.C. Conservatives president dead in Maple Ridge car crash

Taiwan goes to the polls under China’s long shadow

Video shows how a SkyTrain station escalator went out of control

NPA members fail in appeal of costs awarded to ex-mayor Stewart

Nearly $100 million owed to five creditors of delayed Squamish resort project

Vancouver mayor’s donation to own party deemed offside and returned before Christmas

Inside a Chinese Communist Party official’s visit to Vancouver city hall

Provincial report says TransLink development must protect endangered sturgeon on Fraser River foreshore

Embattled Richmond lawyer aims to overturn disbarment order

Questions swirl about New West mayor’s trip to UN conference in Dubai

Year in review: 23 foreign interference stories in 2023

Business, News, Sports

Sports lookahead to 2024

Decaying Vancouver monument a metaphor for the broken dream of peace on Earth

A B.C. Visit from St. Nicholas

Documents, photos reveal details of Surrey fireworks busts

Behind the scenes of the Richmond RCMP’s viral road safety video

More than 200 electronic supervision anklets illegally removed since 2021

Female suffers serious injuries in collision with SkyTrain

Business, News, Sports

Milestone seasons at B.C. Place for Lions, Whitecaps coming in 2024

Federal earthquake notification account on the former Twitter to be discontinued

House of Commons committee says B.C. and other public pensions should avoid Chinese human rights abusers

No posts were found.

Business, News, Sports

How number 12 dominated ’23

Business, News, Sports

A commission, but not a public inquiry, to root out abuse and corruption in Canadian amateur sport

Business, News, Sports

World Cup to trigger biggest BC Place renovations since 2011

NDP government withholds environment minister’s travel budget for UN climate change conference in Dubai

Capilano Suspension Bridge employee seriously injured

No posts were found.

VCH set to buy Seymour Health out of receivership

NDP government hiding cost of taxpayer-funded defence of Horgan’s 2020 snap election call

Transit Police says Surrey SkyTrain death an accident

Loan default the latest problem for delayed multi-billion-dollar ski resort near Squamish

Where’s the report behind the cutting of 160,000 Stanley Park trees?

District of North Vancouver Halloween fireworks permit revenue a whimper, not a bang

Vancouver city manager apologizes for staff email after October 7 massacre

Details of passenger pileup on SkyTrain station escalator revealed

No posts were found.

Trial begins over cancelled Richmond condo presales contracts

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NDP cancer treatment contractor caught overcharging patients

SOGI foe promotes campaign to recall NDP education minister Rachna Singh

NDP government admits it doesn’t know how many homeless live in an Abbotsford highway rest stop

Jewish association wants Vancouver pro-Palestine group Samidoun banned

Playland’s new rollercoaster costing more than originally announced

Ex-RCMP civilian intelligence official from Abbotsford convicted of leaking secrets, to be sentenced in January

Mayors showing resistance to loss of local power under Eby

Controversial Richmond lawyer disbarred

Defence lawyer says disgraced Ortis worked to protect Canadians, but Crown says he did the opposite

Man accused of assaulting police officer at pro-Palestine protest appears in court

Vancouver inside workers union closer to approving new deal

Ex-Mexican general’s extradition hearing delayed to new year

Trudeau’s Tofino flight cost revealed

Vancouver city hall finally bans WeChat from its devices

NDP won’t release scores, rankings for the 10 municipalities on the “naughty list”

Man from Abbotsford gunned down in Toronto

Bose bows out of NDP over government’s treatment of Surrey

Vancouver luxury real estate developer Westbank denies trouble

BCUC approves Senakw district energy plant

Trudeau’s April flights cost taxpayers more than $200K

Woman wanted in Washington State for vehicular homicide fled to China through YVR

Busy implementing B.C.’s whistleblower law, Ombudsperson Chalke regrets ferries not under his watch

BC United fundraising slows, gap grows with NDP

WeChat banned on federal devices, will Vancouver city hall follow?

Judge allows new evidence into extradition case for ex-Mexican general

Climate change campaigners switched gears to lobby MPs for a ceasefire in Gaza

Tunnel boring slowly reaches another milestone under Broadway, but province coy about subway completion

No posts were found.

CBSA breached Iranian citizen’s rights, judge says

Judge upholds $6 million foreign buyer tax bill

BC United secretary forced to resign over social media post about Gaza hospital blast

Guangzhou’s top Communist official led sister city delegation to Vancouver city hall

Tugboat captain dead after tug capsizing off Point Grey

Eight deaths at former North Vancouver motel used as supportive housing facility, says operator

Appeal court hears challenge of Horgan’s 2020 election call

Senior bureaucratic shuffle at Vancouver city hall

Business, News, Sports

Canadian government slammed at sports integrity awards

Three people injured when SkyTrain escalator malfunctioned

BC Hydro feared pot-testing policy was disqualifying too many job candidates: briefing note

New Playland rollercoaster threw PNE amphitheatre project for a loop

Business, News, Sports

Return of lacrosse to Olympics, debut of flag football open door to more than medals for Canadians

Jury finds Kasimir Tyabji-Sandana guilty of sex with underage girl

Province denies Surrey policing transition overseer in conflict of interest, reveals contract value

Business, Miscellany, News

Review: The future is Sphere — biggest bet in Vegas revolutionizes the concert experience, with help from Canadians

From Canadian soccer whistleblower to Irish soccer executive

Jury to decide fate of former BC Liberal MLA’s son

Accused of underage sex, Tyabji-Sandana admits he never asked for girl’s age

Judge dismisses two jurors from trial of former BC Liberal MLA’s son

Vancouver’s park and beach smoking ban a taste of what’s to come under the NDP’s public drug use restrictions

Son of former BC Liberal MLA testifies in his own defence at sexual interference trial

Sexual interference trial for son of former BC Liberal MLA underway in Powell River

Surrey Police Service hires the province’s ex-top policing bureaucrat to aid transition

Judge dismisses challenge to city hall’s secretive Senakw services deal

Chinese government official planning sister-city trip to Vancouver in October

Calgary Police Service looks to Metro Vancouver to bolster its ranks

Federal government reveals legal cost for contesting Information Commissioner’s orders

Legislature loses bid to thwart union organizing

Quest University sale details murky: documents

Business, News, Uncategorized

Province’s Surrey police transition facilitator a director with civic trash contractor

Health authority bids for Seymour Health Centre, but receiver wants to entertain more offers

Trudeau promoted Vancouver backbench MP with extensive tech and media share holdings to Canadian Heritage portfolio

Eby addresses Surrey hospital site photo op controversy

Business, News, Sports

Consultant offers SFU a playbook to revive football, but many obstacles remain

Questions swirl around NDP MLA turfed from caucus

Business, News, Sports

Despite the second year back after a pandemic pause, some Terry Fox Runs are virtual on Sunday

Ceremony for Surrey’s second hospital was all for show

UBC-educated researcher explains scope of Chinese interference to U.S. politicians

Abbotsford South shakes up B.C. politics again

Major holes in provincial dike oversight left communities vulnerable long before November 2021 disasters: report

BC Hydro says its version of work from home is here to stay, but is evolving

ABC Park Board opts to keep Jericho Beach Park Pier on “life support”

Analysis: A tale of two piers — White Rock rallied to rebuild its beloved pier, Vancouver’s storm-damaged Jericho Pier faces demolition

BC Hydro rated geopolitics a higher risk than climate change: documents

Business, News, Sports

Canada one win away from historic World Cup basketball bronze medal

Foreign interference inquiry finally a go, but ex-Richmond MP renews call to register foreign agents

Kevin Falcon vows to reopen B.C. offices in China

Broadway Subway’s revised service date disappears from project reports

B.C. sunshine list shows big swing in government communications spending

Ex-Sooke politician questions frequency of contracts with municipal consultancy

Business, News, Sports

Defendants added to Gymnastics Canada abuse lawsuit

Court battle over accommodation lodge sunk off Quadra Island

Vancouver mayor defends local FIFA secrecy

Deal to buy Quest didn’t include student dorms, which are now for sale

City hall withholds Senakw transportation planning documents

Concord Pacific CEO loses latest round in battle over condo amenity space

Mapping Vancouver’s single-room occupancy fires of 2022

Federal energy minister, ex-B.C. premier subjects of conflict of interest complaints

Kwan throws support behind petition for a foreign agents registry

B.C. government on Weibo, six months after TikTok ban

No charge for Surrey Police Service officer after shopkeeper’s complaint

Advocates unsuccessful in urging NDP government to halt Capilano University’s Quest land deal

Business, News, Sports

Documents shed more light on why the NDP government rejected bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics

Chinese immigration consultant jailed in Shanghai has deep ties to Vancouver

Surrey city manager suddenly retires

Should there be a public inquiry into pandemic preparation and response?

Chinese immigration consultant with Vancouver ties arrested in Shanghai, according to Chinese media reports

Business, News, Sports

Seattle reveals its FIFA stadium contract for the 2026 World Cup

High turnover at China’s consulate in Vancouver over the last two years

Unlike B.C., Ottawa speaker spouses still enjoy taxpayer-funded travel

Seattle city council releases contract with FIFA, while B.C. officials keep it secret

Quest University could become taxpayer-owned

Group predicts “rinse-and-repeat” without B.C. government action to combat COVID-19 in schools

Senior Lillooet bureaucrat dies at local hospital

Business, Culture, News

Vancouver librarians caught in the middle of the culture war

Seattle World Cup organizers reveal plans for 2026 hosting

Questions remain around Royal City Twitter scandal

Business, News, Uncategorized

Clients of Vancouver’s PacNet sentenced to jail in New York, ordered to forfeit almost $80 million

BC United has fundraising momentum

BC Ferries says computer systems upgraded to anticipate traffic spikes after Victoria Day crash

Agency linked to B.C. government hacked, but NDP health minister says no patient info stolen

B.C. application fee for permanent residency hopefuls hiked Aug. 1

Early closings at Park Board facilities rankle ex-chair

North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant spends beyond halfway mark of new budget

Business, News, Uncategorized

Washington DUI charge abandoned due to California man’s Surrey Memorial Hospital visit

Hong Kong Police in Canada for multisport festival, less than a month since bounties placed on human rights activists

Judge bans retired Mountie Majcher from contacting his mentor

Who is Bill Majcher, the retired Mountie charged for allegedly colluding with China?

NDP delayed public notification of B.C.’s first monkeypox case for a weekend, withheld documents for more than a year

Business, News, Uncategorized

Sooke could name new CAO on July 24

Legislature budgets $300,000 to make space for six new MLAs

Area residents want river access if Marpole Transit Centre goes ahead

Eby payroll shows he carries on Horgan’s high-spending legacy

Eby payroll shows he carries on Horgan’s high-spending legacy

Inside the Surrey policing war of words

Ex-Mayor to get some money for legal costs, but NPA appeal gets green light

Direct indictment for trio charged in murder outside UBC golf course

BC Ferries hides root cause of Victoria Day tech outage

MP Kwan, targeted by CCP, says foreign interference inquiry delay hurts Canadians and their democracy

Former homeless camp dweller pleads guilty in 2021 death of Little Mountain senior

Campaign manager who blew the whistle on Gurveen Dhaliwal speaks out

Inside the new deal for SkyTrain workers

Judge sends U.S.-funded, Pakistani protest leader to seven days jail

Man guilty of Lynn Valley mass-stabbing was near crime scene, five days before he killed a woman

Elections BC bans Vancouver mayoral candidate Marissen’s Progress Vancouver

Abbotsford homeless camp gone

Is a U.K. utility, part-owned by Canadians, at risk of failure?

SkyTrain derailment investigation points to neglect

SkyTrain derailment investigation points to neglect

Business, News, Sports

Inside SFU’s game plan to sack football

Business, News, Sports

B.C. stuck on the sidelines as field expands for 2030 Winter Olympics bids

Speedy delivery of FOI documents from Washington State Patrol after Peace Arch incident

Ex-Surrey Mayor’s lawyers billed Surrey taxpayers $317,000

Centennial of anti-Chinese immigration law coincides with campaign against proposed registry of foreign agents

Business, News, Sports

PNE has a new logo, but it’s not unique

China warning not connected to court ruling, CSIS says

Business, News, Sports

B.C. Place Stadium at 40: By the numbers

News, Opinion, Sports

Imagined thoughts: a Pacific Coliseum doorman’s letter to his grandchild

B.C. and Washington: neighbours, but so far apart on transparency and privacy

Business, News, Sports

Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton president says top coach remains, due to suffering abuse

Foreign interference public inquiry no substitute for proper law enforcement, says ex-B.C. Solicitor General

Ex-Richmond Conservative MP skeptical about public inquiry, after special rapporteur quits

Queen Elizabeth Annex parents lose battle with Vancouver School Board

Vancouver parking meter app contractor adds service charge after parent VW scores huge federal subsidy

Vancouver School Board pondering sale of land on Boundary Road

Vancouver parking meter app contractor adds service charge after parent VW scores huge federal subsidy

Municipal review pointed to big problems in small Sooke

Ex-Mexican general seeks to use worker’s statement in fight against extradition

Plea bargain in deadly Richmond restaurant shooting

Court orders Metro Vancouver boss to be cross-examined over sewage plant document leak

Tick tock went the clock, as Vancouver bureaucrats talked banning TikTok

TransLink Mayors’ Council reveals Ottawa trip cost, says two more trips proposed for fall

Stop Fracking Around leader sentenced for disobeying probation ban on blocking roadways

Face of Save Old Growth, hoping to avoid deportation, gets judge’s OK to move to Victoria with protester wife

Fraser Health Authority chair, once B.C.’s outspoken top labour leader, cancels interview

Business, News, Sports

B.C. Auditor General evades questions about monitoring spending on 2026 World Cup

New Westminster School Board chair Gurveen Dhaliwal on “administrative leave” from NDP government job

theBreakerVision: Gridlock on the highway and drama beneath in North Vancouver

Special prosecutor appointed to decide whether NDP aide, New West school board chair should be charged

B.C. government entourage of 13 heads to Asia, but NDP won’t disclose budget

Johnston report tainted times two, says government accountability watchdog

NDP aide transferred between cabinet ministers’ offices while Crown counsel mulls charges

Former Steveston-Richmond East MP disappointed by Johnston report into foreign interference

Challenge to B.C. mining claims system ends, judge reserves decision

TransLink Mayors’ Council sitting on Ottawa lobbying trip budget

University association warns members about Jordan Peterson’s Abbotsford lecture

TransLink Mayors’ Council sitting on Ottawa lobbying trip budget

World Cup logo eschews nationalism, hints at FIFA’s long-term North American goal

Ex-Richmond MP Chiu pleasantly surprised by House of Commons committee recommendations on China

Ex-Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum’s legal costs to be revealed by end of June

TransLink’s rail division expanding to Metrotown office tower

Business, News, Opinion

thePodcast: Putin’s illegal war exported worldwide, via disinformation networks

Shayne Ramsay gone from Squamish Nation company behind Senakw towers

Business, News, Sports

New Canada Soccer president Crooks promises transparency before skeptical House of Commons committee

Liberal minister’s constituency staff wind down WeChat group

Federal government to review Atira in the aftermath of the scathing BC Housing audit

B.C. investment manager grilled at House of Commons committee for shares in Chinese surveillance company

Business, News, Sports

Judge denies injunction to SFU football players, but president apologies

Crown and defence agree on jail for Lynn Valley Care Centre hoaxer over Richmond condo torture, but differ on sentence length

YVR boss got big pay raise in 2022, despite end of year debacle

Legislative Assembly lawyer tells court that parliamentary privilege trumps labour code at Parliament Buildings

Crown counsel mulling election charge against newly hired Adrian Dix aide

Business, News, Sports

Canadian Soccer Association swings from surplus to loss in World Cup year

BC United narrowing fundraising gap

Late Legislature clerk’s donation to library less than promised

Fraud — and secrecy about fraud — rampant across B.C. government

Business, News, Sports

Judge to decide whether football has a future at SFU

BC Hydro increases employee meal allowance significantly above inflation

BC Hydro workers relish freedom to work from home, according to survey

Judge says PacNet founder must answer questions about big money moves

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TikTok banned on Vancouver city hall devices

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Anti-Israel protesters target Vancouver mayor’s house

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U.S. charges bring Iranian foreign interference into focus for Burnaby human rights activist

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