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Large-scale money-laundering at B.C. casinos; collective system failure: report

Large-scale money-laundering at B.C. casinos; collective system failure: report

Casino/Shutterstock British Columbia's attorney general has released an independent report saying the province's casinos unknowingly served as money-laundering outlets for organized crime.
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OPINION: Richmond is growing McMansions instead of crops on "protected" farmland

OPINION: Richmond is growing McMansions instead of crops on "protected" farmland

In a puzzling scene at Richmond City Hall in May, City Council opened the barn door for rampant speculation on agricultural farmland.
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A 10-year-old girl found a bag of crack on a Nanaimo school playground

A 10-year-old girl found a bag of crack on a Nanaimo school playground

0626-nanaimo001578.jpg A Nanaimo mother says her daugher found a baggie containing crack cocaine on the playground of Cilaire Elementary School.
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CONTAGION Part 3 of 6: Antibiotics in agriculture add to growing superbug threat

CONTAGION Part 3 of 6: Antibiotics in agriculture add to growing superbug threat

- Part 1: How Canada ‘dropped the ball’ on drug resistance - Part 2: Drug resistance takes devastating human toll
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Eight CN Rail freight cars derail in Metro Vancouver, closing busy rail bridge

Eight CN Rail freight cars derail in Metro Vancouver, closing busy rail bridge

Rail bridge alongside the Pattullo in New West. Google Maps Eight cars from a Canadian National Railway freight train have jumped the tracks in Metro Vancouver.
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First Nations receive $620 million in gas pipeline contracts

First Nations receive $620 million in gas pipeline contracts

West Moberly Chief Roland Wilson is now in support of the LNG Canada project, despite having had reservations in the past | File photo, credit William Stodalka First Nations along the corridor for the natural gas pipeline that would feed the LNG Cana
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Every BCer should read this new book about the 2017 wildfire season

Every BCer should read this new book about the 2017 wildfire season

British Columbia Burning by Bethany Lindsay. Image c/o MacIntyre Purcell Fans of the wildfire memoir Chasing Smoke which came out last year will want to pick up a copy of British Columbia Burning .
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Study predicts Trans Mountain pipeline purchase will add to federal deficit

Study predicts Trans Mountain pipeline purchase will add to federal deficit

Protestors stand outside the fence as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Kinder Morgan in Edmonton Alta, on Tuesday June 5, 2018.
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City celebrates hitting target of creating 1,000 new childcare spaces

City celebrates hitting target of creating 1,000 new childcare spaces

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Katrina Chen, provincial minister of state for childcare, at a press conference Tuesday, June 26 celebrating the creation of more than 1,000 new childcare spaces in the city.
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With 208 shootings in 3 years, "Surrey is not a safe place"

With 208 shootings in 3 years, "Surrey is not a safe place"

Listening to CBC's The Early Edition in my car this morning, a quote struck me. Criminologist Curt Taylor Griffiths was speaking on the show following this week's shooting death of a beloved hockey dad who was gunned down in his driveway.
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