Economy, Law & Politics

LACHINE, Que. — Former Amazon.com Inc. workers and labour organizers will visit some of the e-commerce giant's Quebec locations today as part of a global movement urging the company to stop "squeezing" workers, communities and the planet.

A meeting Nov. 22 heard a variety of complaints about area residents selling parking, the PNE’s removal of trees, lack of access to parts of Hastings Park during the annual fair and the impact of concert sound on small animals and migratory birds that frequent the Hastings Park Sanctuary.

The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) hearings into the use of the Emergencies Act to end the trucker convoy blockades are scheduled to climax Friday with testimony from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

David Sidoo and seven other men face allegations of orchestrating a complex, international stock manipulation scheme that generated at least $145 million in illicit profits

While somewhat stale at this point, Statistics Canada’s release of expenditure and income estimates for 2021 reinforced what was already known as a stellar year for growth in B.C. Provincial economic growth reached 6.

New presumed COVID-19 deaths in the province declined to 21, from 30 one week ago

Unexplained wealth orders will allow government to ask people to show proof of source of funds when connections to criminal activity can be shown.

Chu Ming Feng, who killed River Rock casino loan shark Rong Lilly Li in May 2006, was convicted of first degree murder in 2009 for an automatic 25 year sentence without parole

Both failed to include mandatory authorization statements in some of their campaign advertising, said Elections BC

The province found that of the more than 11,000 B.C. Emergency Benefit for Workers files audited, 95 per cent should not have received a one-time, tax-free $1,000 payment