aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Vancouver police officer cleared in shooting after a 2 year investigation by, you guessed it, Vancouver Police. Not sure if they mentioned it in the article, but the man was bipolar, so...Meanwhile B.C. RCMP officer faces 2nd impaired driving charge ...

topics: investigation, olympics, unemployment

aggregated from: Legislature Raids

.Liberal Sen. Mobina Jaffer to undergo conduct review by BC Law SocietyBy: Tamsyn BurgmannTHE CANADIAN PRESS - Sept. 15, 2009VANCOUVER, B.C. - Liberal Sen. Mobina Jaffer is being disciplined by the B.C. Law Society over allegations she bilked a relig...

topics: investigation, liberal

aggregated from: Bill Tieleman

Outgoing Justice Elizabeth Bennett is scheduled to rule on a defence application to gain access to the private records of BC Liberal Party insider Patrick Kinsella at 9 a.m. on Monday September 14 at BC Supreme Court.Kinsella, the BC Liberals' 2001 a...

topics: bc-rail, election, investigation, liberal, liberals

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

In July, we exclusively told you about the unannounced shutdown of a provincial government-funded Royal Canadian Mounted Police team charged with investigating illegal gambling. But Douglas College gaming regulation expert Colin Campbell said he wasn...

topics: investigation, provincial-government

aggregated from: Legislature Raids

.A comment from Lynx:This is a really interesting excerpt to read from an article on Glen Clark's trial, especially in light of how the BC Rail case is proceeding...or not proceeding. It was written by Neal Hall in November, 2001. In 2001, Police we...

topics: bc-rail, crime, investigation, premier, supreme-court

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Hotline 2.jpg A collation of groups, some of which were impersonated by coal lobbying groups are banding together to uncover evidence of further wrongdoing in the ballooning fraudulent letter scandal...

topics: elected, investigation, sierra-club

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

In the wake of the forged letters scandal involving lobbyists for the coal industry, D.C. astroturf firm Bonner & Associates claimed to have reached out to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and several Virginia charities whose names appeared on the fraudulen...

topics: emissions, global-warming, investigation

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Usually PR firms like to be behind the news, not in the headlines themselves. But Bonner & Associates - the D.C. Astroturf shop busted for mailing forged letters to Congress attacking the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill on behalf of the Americ...

topics: business, busted, investigation

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Yesterday, it was announced the provincial government will be strengthening the Lobbyists Registration Act - an initiative The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer dubbed the Closing the Barn Door After the Horse Has Escaped Act. Which begs this question:...

topics: attorney-general, investigation, provincial-government

aggregated from: Legislature Raids

.Guest editorialThe section of the code (669.2) that Bennett cited is normally used when a judge dies or is otherwise unable to continue sitting on a case.Basically it says that as long as 'no evidence has been called' another judge of the same juris...

topics: bc-rail, elected, investigation, political