Darryl Greer
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Reporter with The Canadian Press
Officials panicked when Victoria's Reclaiming Canada event veered to the far right
When the organizer of the We Unify Reclaiming Canada event contacted officials about booking the Victoria Conference Centre, he touted invitees from across the political spectrum, including liberal luminaries such as Amal Clooney, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C.'s NDP Premier David Eby, movie stars and more.
TikTok files legal suit against federal government's shutdown order
TikTok is challenging the federal government’s order to shut down its operations in Canada, claiming it will eliminate hundreds of jobs and potentially terminate a quarter of a million contracts that it has with Canadian advertising clients.
Border agency sued for seizing 'forced labour' cargo shipments
Canada's border agency says it has detained about 50 shipments of cargo over suspicions they were products of forced labour under rules introduced in 2020 — but only one was eventually determined to be in breach of the ban.
Law suit alleges abuse, cultural devastation at Indigenous group homes
A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."
Bad weather and human error led to missed ballots: Elections BC
B.C.'s chief electoral officer Anton Boegman says the agency is investigating the mistakes to "identify key lessons learned" to improve training, change processes or make recommendations for legislative change to ensure "errors can be prevented in the future."
Guns for hire killed B.C. man accused in Air India bombing: court document
The day before Ripudaman Singh Malik was murdered in July 2022, a pair of hired hit men showed up at his B.C. business, "scoping out the scene" for several minutes before driving away.
Rustad backpedals after BC Coroners Service says no record of fatal overdose
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has changed his story about seeing a man die of a drug overdose on his way to a televised election debate, after the BC Coroners Service said it had no record of such a death where he said it occurred.
B.C. Premier vows to scrap consumer carbon tax if feds drop legal requirement
A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said on Thursday.
Is there microplastic in your coffee? This device can tell you
When UBC food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.
Disastrous fruit year the final straw for indebted B.C. fruit group
British Columbia's fruit growers co-operative that served farmers for almost a century has filed for creditor protection, citing more than $58 million in liabilities and a disastrous crop failure this year that it called "the final tipping point."