Bethany Lindsay

A B.C. nurse facing potential discipline for making numerous “derogatory and discriminatory” public statements about transgender people attempted to draw a line between her off-duty activism and professional duties at a hearing this week.

A landowner responsible for an open burn that ignited a wildfire in B.C.‘s Cariboo region is on the hook for about $450,000 after an appeals commission rejected his claim that the real cause was arson by his neighbours’ troubled grandson.

The B.C. government is proposing new employment standards for gig workers with ride-hailing and food delivery apps, including a minimum wage, tip protection and workers’ compensation coverage.

A Vancouver personal injury lawyer has been disbarred after he misappropriated more than $62,000 from the trust fund of a vulnerable client. Rene Joan Gantzert has yet to acknowledge his wrongdoing, according to a discipline decision from the Law Society of B.C.

A B.C. immigration consultant and political hopeful who’s been the subject of numerous complaints and a proposed class-action lawsuit has had her licence suspended for 30 months.

A Vancouver woman is asking for the courts to make an example of her neighbour, a practising lawyer she alleges has filed a baseless pseudolegal lawsuit against her in an attempt to “provoke a state of fear.”

The Hospital Appeal Board has found that Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak’s refusal of the shot in 2021 amounted to neglect of her obligations as a hospitalist at Royal Inland Hospital, and the decision to take action on her privileges was appropriate.

A Surrey RCMP officer abused his power to search police databases for information on a troubled 19-year-old sex worker and her mother, then appeared at their home under false pretences to pursue a sexual relationship with the teenager, a B.C. court heard Wednesday.

Naturopaths in B.C. are lobbying for the right to prescribe safer supply, saying they want to help address a toxic drug crisis that’s killing nearly seven people in the province every day.

Naturopaths in B.C. are lobbying for the right to prescribe safer supply, saying they want to help address a toxic drug crisis that’s killing nearly seven people in the province every day.

Vancouver property management company Plan A Real Estate Services acted in bad faith when it tried to evict a tenant to make space for a live-in building caretaker, B.C.’s Residential Tenancy Branch has found.

A fraudulent scheme that saw an unoccupied home in Richmond, B.C., sold without the owner’s consent has led to more than $300,000 in discipline penalties and costs for the real estate agents and brokers involved.

David Hilderman, who ran for the PPC in the Saanich—Gulf Islands riding in 2021, has a university degree in engineering but is not licensed as a professional engineer, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment.

Advocates are applauding the ‘exceptional’ accommodations provided to a domestic violence victim testifying in a recent B.C. family law case, saying they should be more widely available to survivors facing their abusers in court.

After two decades, Susanna Blunt’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that appears on all Canadian coins will slowly begin disappearing from people’s wallets, replaced by Steven Rosati’s portrayal of King Charles III.

The Vancouver outdoor company Arc’teryx has won a temporary injunction barring Adidas from using the name “Terrex” on a Kitsilano store, in what a judge has described as a David vs. Goliath battle over trademark infringement.

Two wildfires in B.C.’s southern interior caused more than $720 million in insured losses last year, making them the most costly insured extreme weather event the province has ever seen, according to a new report.

A lawsuit filed by a suspended Vancouver lawyer against her neighbour has been dismissed by a B.C. Supreme Court associate judge, who described it as “frivolous and vexatious” and bearing many hallmarks of a pseudolegal claim.

A Vancouver lawyer who filed a frivolous lawsuit tinged with pseudolegal hallmarks has resigned her licence to practise law, according to the Law Society of B.C.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint from a college instructor who was fired over YouTube videos calling for the death penalty for women who have abortions, suggesting transgender people should be forced into asylums and referring to Allah as the Antichrist.