Monthly Archives: December, 2016

B.C. Mountie exonerated in brief conference call, cleared to return to duty

BY DAN FUMANO After more than 40 months of paid suspension, a B.C. Mountie was exonerated Tuesday in a swift two-minute phone call. It’s the latest...

TransLink finalizes sale of Oakridge Transit Centre lands for $440 million

This is an aerial view from Google Maps/Earth of the Oakridge Transit Centre located at 949 West 41st Avenue, east of Oak Street. The...

B.C. man who scammed three with sham stock scheme banned from trading

BY BETHANY LINDSAY Vancouver sun Ayaz Dhanani, shown here in a Facebook photo, is in court this week to face criminal charges of fraud and theft,...

Percentage of single-family homes in Metro Vancouver worth more than $1 million in 2016 widens from 28% to 43%: Andy Yan

BY JOANNE LEE-YOUNG In his latest snapshot of housing unaffordability, researcher Andy Yan shows the percentage of Metro Vancouver homes valued over $1 million rose from...

Thousands of pilots have suicidal thoughts each day, study says, with industry under a ‘veil of secrecy’

BY HENRY BODKIN, THE TELEGRAPH Gendarmes and rescuers from the Gendarmerie High-Mountain Rescue Group working at the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 near...

Canadians’ rising household debt key risk to economy, Bank of Canada warns

BARBARA SHECTER, FINANCIAL POST The key vulnerabilities to the Canadian financial system continue to be elevated household debt, imbalances in the housing market across the...

B.C. government offers down payment loans to first-time homebuyers

VICTORIA — The B.C. government will loan first-time homebuyers some of the cash they need to afford their down payment, Premier Christy Clark announced...

Two men with the same face, or one man lying about having two identities to stay in Canada?

By Adrian Humphreys An Alberta restaurant worker from Pakistan has been ordered out of Canada after facial recognition software analyzed his driver’s license photo and declared...

Winter Storm Preparedness and Safety Tips

Environment Canada has issued special weather advisories for several regions of the province for extremely cold temperatures and arctic outflows causing strong winds combined...

Windsor police make record seizure of crystal meth and more

By CRAIG PEARSON, WINDSOR STAR Following a 12-week undercover investigation Windsor police have seized an estimated $180,000 in drugs, including the force’s largest ever haul of...

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