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thePodcast: More from “Terry and Me” author Bill Vigars, Terry Fox’s wingman from the Marathon of Hope

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

Eby addresses Surrey hospital site photo op controversy

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

Questions swirl around NDP MLA turfed from caucus

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Inside SFU’s game plan to sack football

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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

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

China warning not connected to court ruling, CSIS says

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

Shayne Ramsay gone from Squamish Nation company behind Senakw towers

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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

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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

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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

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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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Figure skaters the latest to demand Canadian sport system reform, over allegations of abuse at Burnaby rink

Ken Sim’s ex-chief of staff opens up about ABC election strategy, calls Vancouver a “Chinese city”

BC Hydro found PCBs where it believed none existed

Ex-Liberal MP not asking House of Commons to reimburse legal fees

“Highly hypothetical”: TikTok CEO reacts to questions at Vancouver TED Conference about app’s potential to disrupt elections

B.C.’s highest court sides with parents seeking shift change from mining company to accommodate childcare

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Soccer players wonder why Trudeau government hasn’t called an inquiry into sport abuse, corruption

BC Hydro cryptic about crypto electricity use

Plane carrying Prime Minister to Vancouver parade burned more than 13,000 litres of fuel

City lawyer defends council’s Senakw secrecy

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Green leader wants conflict of interest law strengthened after Horgan disclosed his coal board gig

NDP tries telephone town halls again

Current, former NPA directors appeal judge’s ruling to pay ex-Mayor’s $100,000 legal bill

Kits Point Residents’ bid to overturn secretive Senakw services agreement in court

Vancouver TED Conference payments revealed

Trudeau chief of staff stonewalls MP asking about China meddling in Richmond ridings

Irish politician looks back at peace deal, looks forward to potential for unity

Diplomat says Taiwan has a lot to offer Canada in combatting China’s interference

BC Liberals file last annual financial report before rebranding as BC United

Crown lawyer suggests negotiations with First Nations if province loses mining claims challenge