Another election, another police candidate running with Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party. The latest is a crime analyst who detected the pandemic-era spike in stranger assaults that became a major campaign issue in 2022. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

‘Unusual’ ties between Vancouver police, mayor’s party scrutinized as crime analyst joins campaign

For the second election in a row, a senior crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department has stepped away from her role to run in a partisan campaign—raising new questions about politicization wi...

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It’s been more than three decades since National Christian Television failed to get a broadcasting licence. What it’s been doing since then isn’t clear, but it’s now lost its charity status for failing to do any charity. zurl.co/aRIsv

“The goal was to remove Mr. Hackl from the residence for arrest, have a lethal confrontation with Mr. Hackl, or have Mr. Hackl perish in the fire.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

RCMP officers ‘intentionally’ set home ablaze during tense standoff, court documents reveal

A house fire that erupted during an armed standoff in B.C.’s Lower Mainland three years ago was “intentionally” ignited by RCMP officers on scene, court documents have revealed.

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I've spent a lot of time over the last year reading charity revocation letters from the CRA and one name keeps popping up again and again: Blake Bromley. Here's a closer look at the audits and investigations into his charities: theijf.org/article/blak...

40% of B.C. charity revocations linked to one retired lawyer and his associates

Blake Bromley and connected charities have faced multiple investigations

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How many public meetings is the Vancouver Police Board having this year? No one will say. Here’s why an expert says the prospect of significantly slashing public meetings combined with the refusal to answer a basic question is cause for concern. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Vancouver Police Board’s lack of transparency ‘raises alarm bells’: expert

After receiving a $175,000 boost to its budget, the Vancouver Police Board has only scheduled four meetings for all of 2026—half the number held last year, the bare minimum required by provincial legi...

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I don’t think anyone is going to be satisfied with these answers. Apologies for the lop sided video.

isabella zavarise@isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 7mo ago

At a housing announcement event. The mayor is here. Let’s see if he talks to media.

One family member believes he saw an IIO investigator hugging an RCMP officer at the scene, hours after the shooting. The IIO declined to follow up with the members assigned to this case for my story.

Grieving B.C. family wants answers after call for help ends in deadly police shooting

When Tia Voth called 911 last month, her hope was that her mom Cindy Mulrooney would be taken to hospital for emergency psychiatric treatment.

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My story on the BC Human Rights Commissioner report that finds press access was blocked/delayed in a way that violated human rights. And the city's assertion that the commissioner is wrong. Despite the rigourous evidence-gathering process conducted by the inquiry. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Press Restrictions During Vancouver Decampment Violated Human Rights: Report | The Tyee

A BC human rights inquiry also found that the police board ‘abdicated its legal responsibility’ when investigating complaints.

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It's taken more than 19 months for B.C.'s financial regulator to issue a decision on Hon Kit Chung. He's accused of posing as a mortgage broker and running an illicit scheme to pocket the proceeds of home loans. In the meantime, there are new claims of fraud by Chung. theijf.org/article/hot-...

New fraud claim levelled against B.C. man accused of masterminding mortgage scheme

Public service journalism

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After a year of trying, I finally got my hands on some of the annual financial statements for the Eric Woodward Foundation. They've raised a lot of new questions about the Langley township mayor's pre-election pledges... theijf.org/article/eric...

B.C. mayor’s foundation reported just $8,117 in donations over 5 years

Public service journalism

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A Vancouver city councillor is defending his attendance record after selling his local home and buying a property in the Okanagan.

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Vancouver councillor defends attendance record after selling local home, buying property in Okanagan

Not exaggerating when I say I have been trying to meet this local celebrity all summer. Worth the effort for my EXCLUSIVE:

‘She could bring world peace’: Meet Mittens, the deaf cat spreading joy at Vancouver’s English Bay beach

At the far end of Vancouver’s bustling English Bay beach, a steady stream of curious onlookers gravitates toward a large tree stump.

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30 years ago, BC Mounties launched an investigation into abuse at every residential school in the province. It was the first—and last—probe on this scale. The task force's final report was buried in the RCMP archives, until it popped up in @theijf.org's databases. theijf.org/residential-...

The untold story of Canada’s only province-wide police investigation into residential school abuses

Final report of the B.C. RCMP Native Indian Residential School Task Force made public for 1st time through IJF database

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This is why standardized data gathering, curation, and reporting are critical to democracy. Otherwise self-interested government bureaucracies can do what self-interested government bureaucracies always do: game the numbers they report to make it look like the latest Five Year Plan is/is-not working

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‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare

Another colleague, @kehyslop.bsky.social, is only now being allowed by VPD to go into their HQ to view training material for their SLO program. That was also an incredibly long battle.

One of my colleagues, @michellegamage.bsky.social, recently got an FOI back on police training for decriminalization policies over a year after the request and only after threatening to go to the OIPC.

Three years and four FOIs later, here's everything we know about the stranger assault scare that gripped Vancouver in an election year – as the attacks were dramatically decreasing in frequency, unbeknownst to voters. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare

Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

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