Economy, Law & Politics

The British Columbia election campaign officially launches in Victoria Tuesday (April 11), but the parties got a head start a day earlier with the NDP promising to freeze electricity rates and Liberals rolling out their “first ever” Vancouver Island

Concerns rising over the use of shell companies and bare trusts to access real estate markets in Vancouver and other jurisdictions

Q&A | Michael Lee, BC Liberal Party candidate, Vancouver-Langara

Q&A | Morgane Oger, New Democratic Party candidate, Vancouver-False Creek

The following is a list of stock trades made by corporate executives, directors and other company insiders of B.C.’s public companies filed in the week ended April 5, 2017. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission obtained from DisclosureNet.com.

BC Liberal platform was largely announced in budget

Ferry-dependent communities will get a break on fares and wireless Internet service at terminals an on board the vessels will be improved, according to details from the BC Liberals’ platform.

The approval rating for the BC Liberals and Premier Christy Clark has fallen to 30%, down six percentage points since February, Insights West said April 10.

B.C. has been accustomed to leading the country in economic growth for the last two years or so since the 2014 oil shock.

A flawed investigation guided by suspicion and driven by rushed decision-making led to the wrongful firing of seven drug researchers — one of whom later took his own life, a new report shows.