BC involuntary care policy found unconstitutional Post Facto: Police at Pride. Vic seeks more homelessness info. Protest coverage lawsuits. Losing housing.
DULF trial ends, but no decision expected soon Post Facto: RCMP set home on fire. AI racism in prisons? ICE & Raytheon deals. Compassion club fights eviction. Reform towards wards thwarts restored board.
Police’s ‘mandate of secrecy & confidentiality’ Transparency experts weigh in. Potent new drug. Migrant worker class action. Cops' false testimonies.
Transparency advocates on police ‘culture of confidentiality and secrecy’ A conversation with BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association's leaders about Vancouver top cops' claims to have no emails about Drug User Liberation Front before they raided — emails we later obtained in court.
VPD claimed no emails went to senior cops about DULF ahead of raid. That’s untrue. Plus: Nasal naloxone ramp-up. RCMP learn Israel's tactics. Nurses strike. BC vs. OpenAi?
VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrue Freedom-of-information advocates say force's non-response likely broke BC’s transparency law — and ask if Vancouver police should undergo ‘greater scrutiny’ for public transparency
POST FACTO: Hospital OD secrecy, a 'rubber stamp' police board, consumption site survives vote 13,000 paid hours for suspended cops. Police corruption tied to Olympic drug case. Class action over separatist data leak
POST FACTO: Top cop's West Bank trip. Anti-drug blitz risks. Feds’ secret contracts. VPD's AI photo. World Cup visa rejections. BC mining firm's Trump loophole.
POST FACTO: Camping bylaw in court, police racism scandal, corporate watchdog cut Cops’ in-house AI, Trump’s ex-ICE leader joins BC firm, the $63K fence, Innu history censored, Canada sued for climate rollbacks
‘A two-tier system’: Rights groups say the immigration system is built on exploitation. A new law could make it even worse With Bill C-12 now in force, volunteers build a mobile office for migrant workers amid escalating concerns over deportations and asylum restrictions
‘A troubling trend’: Lawyer Zool Suleman on rising cop-immigration collaboration Everyday contact with police, such as transit fare-checks, is getting migrants reported to the feds. Why this expert finds De Facto’s newly revealed data ‘disturbing’
Transit Police are calling border enforcement more — but you wouldn't know that from their own records In 2024, Metro Vancouver transit cops’ immigration calls reached their highest in a decade. But not even a tenth of them went into daily duty reports as required
Vancouver cops are calling border enforcement more than ever. Community members fear that puts them in danger Migrant sex workers say they're ‘more afraid of police than perpetrators of a crime,’ as new data reveals VPD ‘immigration status checks’ spiked 80% to nearly 1,000 people in two years