Economy, Law & Politics

Land/corporate ownership registries need to verify ID: anti-money laundering experts

The Land Owner Transparency Registry (LOTR) began accepting filings from non-individual landowners on Monday but experts are calling on loopholes to be closed

Dec 2, 2020 5:06 PM Read more >

Final decision on Vancouver police budget could rest with B.C. bureaucrat

Case involving Victoria Police Department provides example of appeal process

Dec 2, 2020 3:02 PM Read more >

Vancouver budget: Library board seeks $625,000 to eliminate overdue fines

Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant have highest proportion of residents blocked from library

Dec 2, 2020 2:41 PM Read more >

B.C. hits record-high COVID-19 hospitalizations for 15th straight update

Number of people suffering in hospital with the virus rose by one to 337 overnight

Dec 2, 2020 1:54 PM Read more >

Horgan: holiday celebrations must be kept to "absolute minimum"

The premier spoke with reporters Wednesday ahead of the legislature resuming next week

Dec 2, 2020 12:20 PM Read more >

Lower Mainland home sales, prices, surge in November

Sales were up 22% in the Greater Vancouver region, and up 54.7% in the Fraser Valley, compared with November 2019

Dec 2, 2020 9:57 AM Read more >

Beware of rising authoritarians indulged by Trump: former justice minister

Irwin Cotler warns B.C. lawyers of global anti-democracy creep

Dec 2, 2020 9:02 AM Read more >

B.C. sets record for COVID-19 patients in hospital, ICU, and deaths in a day

There have been 58 COVID-19-related deaths in the past four days

Dec 1, 2020 3:45 PM Read more >

Kash Heed Tapes: RCMP an ‘unethical’ network; Attorney General questioned

Dirty Money report author Peter German questioned on perceived conflict of interest by former B.C. Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Kash Heed

Dec 1, 2020 12:48 PM Read more >

Vancouver police board approves $6.4m increase to VPD budget

$322m budget is provisional, now goes before city council for vote

Dec 1, 2020 12:19 PM Read more >