Catherine Urquhart

The suit, filed in 2020, alleges that the province is illegally using ICBC to tax people for health-care costs by essentially double-dipping on MSP premiums.

Taxpayers bought 550 McDonalds burgers for catered City of Richmond holiday party

On Dec. 12 last year, the city held a party at the Olympic Oval for approximately 900 city staff. The cost was $119,000, or about $132 per person.

A Global News investigation using a freedom of information request has revealed Richmond spent nearly $120,000 on a year-end holiday party.

The 2024 slide created an 11-kilometre lake upstream of the dam and the resulting flood severely altered the critical migratory pathway.

Countless flowers, stuffed toys and notes were placed near Fraser Street and East 43rd Avenue after Kai-Ji Adam Lo allegedly drove his SUV into a crowd on April 26.

The outcry follows a secret vote by Metro Vancouver directors on July 25 to delay a review of the financial disaster.

After being convicted for the 2006 murder of Shelley Devoe, Shawn Merrick escaped a B.C. prison in 2015 and robbed six banks before being captured and put back behind bars.

Sources inside Metro Vancouver tell Global News board members received legal advice to suspend the review due to litigation with former contractor Acciona Wastewater Solutions LP.

Metro Vancouver claims it's putting the review on hold because of ongoing litigation with the project's former contractor, Acciona. The trial isn't scheduled to start until 2027.

Some receipts have notations, such as "prizes," "goals and accomplishments," "team building," "no sick time taken," and "take our kids to work day volunteer appreciation.

Receipts contained in the more than one thousand pages have markings on them saying they're for "prizes," "goals and accomplishments," and "team building."

The excessive purchase of gift cards with taxpayer dollars at the City of Richmond appears to extend back into the last decade, a Global News investigation has discovered.

Provincial leaders are responding to concerns about open drug use and drug dealing in downtown New Westminster. It follows earlier comments from local business owners.

More business owners in downtown New Westminster are speaking out about issues related to open drug use and drug dealing.

New Westminster's Hyack Square is often a desperate scene resembling Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Drug deals are done in plain sight.

The Oval received $3.904 million in 2023, $4.001 million in 2024 and $3.574 million in 2025, but a motion heading to council could cap that at $2.5 million a year.

The province says it hopes to see changes this fall, and supports calls for transparency on politicians' earnings. For now, there's no indication this will be provincially mandated

The province says it hopes to see changes this fall, and supports calls for transparency on politicians' earnings. For now, there's no indication this will be provincially mandated

A Deloitte report for Metro Vancouver recently recommended that the B.C. legislate a maximum remuneration threshold for total income from all local government-related appointments.