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
How a Mexican woman’s 2013 death in custody of Canada’s ‘de facto ICE agents’ sparked a movement Detained at a transit fare check, Lucía Vega Jiménez died awaiting deportation back to a violent ex-boyfriend. An inquest revealed shocking details
BC journalists launch new worker-owned investigative publication Six reporters, editors, and photojournalists in Victoria and Vancouver are taking matters into their own hands with a new co-operative — launching just after World Press Freedom Day and International Workers’ Day — to publish investigative journalism about legal, justice, and rights issues.