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Dustin Godfrey

A lawyer wears a blue suit behind some leaves with a brick wall in the background

‘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’
14 May 2026
A Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer stands outside looking away as a woman walks past

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
11 May 2026
An composite illustration depicts a Vancouver police officer, a Canada Border Services Agency sign, and yellow tape that says "Police line do not cross"

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
04 May 2026
Photographs show police facing protesters, as well as an Indigenous Elder outside law courts with a sign reading 'Our land, our law'

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.
01 May 2026

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