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It's all about jobs for Premier David Eby as the NDP lays the groundwork for the next provincial election
The opioid crisis, the wave of extortions in Surrey, even affordability were missing from Premier's convention address, the climax of an intense…
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A salmon skull and an e-mail from the Eastside Cultural Crawl trigger memories of an old friend
Dennis Brown was a union organizer, a writer, an artist and a mountaineer who left his mark on the salmon industry and the city's arts community
Nov 10
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Contract killer Dean Wiwchar, the Wolfpack's 'best hitter,' finally pleads guilty to 2012 Wall Centre shooting
When police advised Wiwchar he was under arrest for first degree murder, he famously asked 'which one?' His legal saga underlines the challenges faced…
Nov 3
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Eby's reversal on decriminalization signals a new stage in BC's toxic drug crisis
May 6, 2024
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John Horgan believed most British Columbians are New Democrats, they just don't know it yet
Nov 17, 2024
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British Columbia's polarity shift: an election that changed the face of provincial politics
Dec 30, 2024
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Rat Park, the BC "morphine on demand" experiment that upended addiction theory
Apr 8, 2024
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Despite a deadlocked election, the logjam on policing the overdose crisis is over
Oct 23, 2024
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The mother of all "drug dens:" Vancouver OPS, the life-saving overdose prevention site Pierre Poilievre vows to shut down
Apr 14
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BC's dubious achievement: a 'post-fentanyl' illicit drug production hub that exports across Canada and the Pacific
Experts see BC emerging as a globally-significant production hub for illicit, synthetic drugs, raising the human, economic and geopolitical costs of the…
Oct 27
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Bullets spraying everywhere in Fraser Valley communities as 'Bishnoi Gang' copycats try to catch the 'terrorist' extortion wave
Veteran police officer Kash Heed notes four different task forces tackling the extortion crisis, which seems to have accelerated since Canada declared…
Oct 20
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How the illicit fentanyl industry makes murder and fatal overdoses leading causes of death in North America
A Surrey drug seizure highlights Canada's place in the transnational supply chain, shipping fentanyl, meth across Canada and around the world while…
Oct 14
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What will it take to trigger public outrage at BC's deadly gang warfare?
In Quebec, the killing of Daniel Desrochers, 11, was a turning point in the battle against biker gangs. Yet the death of Alfred Wong, 15, killed by…
Oct 7
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How police informant Agent 66 helped put Vancouver Hells Angel Damion Ryan on trial
His recording of a Montreal meeting with one of Canada's "most prolific organized crime members" resulted in 22 arrests and the biggest drug seizure in…
Sep 29
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'One of the toughest jobs in cabinet'
Judy Darcy's new autobiography, Leading from the Heart, provides the first insider's account of BC's fight against the deadly impact of the toxic drug…
Sep 22
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Three charged in Rabih Alkhalil's prison break, but was murderer's escape an inside job?
Did one of Canada's most dangerous criminals have help from BC Corrections employees when he walked out of North Fraser Pretrial Centre and disappeared…
Sep 15
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Just a cog in the opioid suppy chain, courier Jason Conrad was carrying 15.6 kilograms of high-purity fentanyl worth millions
Drug courier Jason Conrad had 15.6 kilograms of fentanyl in his Tesla, three cell phones and a taser baton. His guilty plea drew a curtain of silence…
Sep 8
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The criminal career of lawyer Martin Chambers, godfather of BC's lawyers gone bad
Chambers 'toiled for decades in the city's underworld as a financial facilitator for the Hells Angels, Russian mobsters and myriad other people who…
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