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Sneak peek at the Vancouver 2030 Winter Olympics bid’s unlikely venues: Sun Peaks, Agrodome and Hastings Racecourse

Ex-B.C. Legislature clerk Craig James found guilty of breach of public trust and fraud

Another NDP insider quits government to join a lobbying firm

Trial set for July 2023 for men charged in the killing of a Little Mountain senior

Horgan broke the law with 2020’s snap election: lawyer

SNC-Lavalin admits to more corruption, after Vancouver city council adds it to a preferred suppliers list

BC Liberal leader Kevin Falcon missed campaign finance report deadline

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Ticket holders for nixed electric car race stuck in neutral

Man charged in 2017 East Richmond murder

Ex-Squamish Nation councillor gambled habitually at Squamish Nation casino, says defence lawyer

Penny Ballem’s “vaccine czar” contract increased by 245%

Cullen Commission cohort catches COVID-19, concluding communique carried-over

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Vancouver 2030 bid team big on hopes, vague on specifics

Indigenous woman’s remains found at Shaughnessy mansion under renovation

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IOC keeps Vancouver visit under wraps, as delegation ponders 2030 Winter Games sites

Park board opted for whimsical barge sign instead of hot chocolate and swag

More charges in killing of Richmond underground banker

Auditor General found Site C went beyond halfway mark without a fraud risk assessment

B.C. Ombudsperson slams McCallum’s move to muzzle civic ethics commissioner

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Plug pulled on electric car race

Mystery continues over Royal City fire chief’s retirement

Judge says Hong Guo companion abused the court process to extort a settlement

NDP environment minister’s UN climate conference travel costs revealed

Victoria city councillor tainted by pandemic travel scandal won’t seek re-election

Analysis: Revolving door lobbying means a different kind of cash for access under the Horgan NDP

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart scores re-election support from Canucks owner

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Rugby Canada at a crossroads

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Hefty price tag if Vancouver hosts matches during the 2026 World Cup

Vancouver whistleblower policy trails other big cities

David Sidoo accused in massive securities fraud ring

Organized crime has infiltrated city halls, says national crime intelligence agency

Vancouver TED Conference contract revealed

NDP rolling in the dough

Four months jail for Florida man connected to David Sidoo

NDP FOI minister won’t commit to adopting recommendations of all-party committee

B.C. emergency management bureaucrat’s emergency contract

Canada’s former Chief Justice noncommittal about future on Hong Kong’s top court

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Legacy of controversial Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton election felt in 2022

More proof Mexican senator kept Canadian citizenship

Auditor General shies away from questions about B.C. Legislative Assembly’s 2020 hack

Transnational money launderer caught at YVR pleads guilty in Chicago

Exclusive: A new home for Vancouver city hall, a new name for Queen Elizabeth Park (April Fool!)

Province to attack spongy moths, but not looper moths in 2022

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Vancouver mayoral candidate proposes 2030 Olympic bid plebiscite

Document outlines NDP government’s emergency alert patchwork

Judge slams the brakes on Richmond father and son duo’s Mercedes lawsuit

NDP’s three-headed pandemic review a waste of time, says expert

“March Madness,” B.C. NDP style

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SkyTrain, WestCoast Express union joins chorus for TransLink bailout

PCL could replace Acciona on Metro Vancouver’s troubled North Shore sewage plant project

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NDP spent a half-billion-dollars to make-up for its depleted PPE stockpiles

Ex-general accused of Mexican hydrocarbon theft freed to live in Surrey

Kremlin news channel may be gone from Canada for good, but what about propaganda from Beijing?

Inside B.C.’s first coronavirus superspreader, two years ago

Former B.C. Legislature Clerk Craig James’s fate in judge’s hands

Craig James inept, but not corrupt, says his lawyer

Prosecutor says clerk’s behaviour was “strange and unconventional” — and illegal

Putin’s Ukraine invasion prompts B.C.’s rep for Russia to quit

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FIFA Women’s World Cup stadium contract finally revealed

Big deficits, bigger debt and bigger government: the B.C. NDP way

A peek inside Crown service plans: what’s up with B.C. betting, booze, utilities and bums in seats

Ex-speaker Barisoff testifies in B.C. Legislature corruption trial

B.C.’s vaccine booking hotline cost revealed

Of Ballem’s bucks and Bonnie’s book

Ex-B.C. auditor, comptroller testifies at B.C. Legislature corruption trial

Birarda pleads guilty to sexually assaulting players

Ex-B.C. Legislature clerk won’t testify at his B.C. Supreme Court trial

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Spirit of Trudeau’s Beijing Olympics diplomatic boycott not followed at home

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Government grog shop managers too busy to count potentially dirty money

Legislature CFO under cross-examination at ex-clerk’s corruption trial

Suitcase of documents discovered on eve of last Crown witness in Craig James trial

Scandal at the Legislature

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Exclusive video: Plecas and Mullen unleash a blizzard during a talk in the snow

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Craig James charged with breach of trust, fraud

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In a final bombshell report, Darryl Plecas says farewell to the Speaker’s chair

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Farewell, Dermod: IntegrityBC’s Travis was B.C.’s most-vital voice of the post-Olympic era

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Suspended B.C. Legislature sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz quits

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Key finding in auditor general’s report on Legislature scandal contradicts ex-supreme court chief judge

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Developing: B.C. Auditor General quits after discredited report on Legislature spending scandal

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Exclusive video: Plecas and Mullen unleash a blizzard during a talk in the snow

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Craig James charged with breach of trust, fraud

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In a final bombshell report, Darryl Plecas says farewell to the Speaker’s chair

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Farewell, Dermod: IntegrityBC’s Travis was B.C.’s most-vital voice of the post-Olympic era

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Suspended B.C. Legislature sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz quits

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Key finding in auditor general’s report on Legislature scandal contradicts ex-supreme court chief judge

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Developing: B.C. Auditor General quits after discredited report on Legislature spending scandal

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Fifteen years later, questions remain about B.C. Place’s roof rip-off

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