Discipline hearing set for former Victoria police chief
Dates have been set for the discipline hearing for a former Victoria police chief accused of of harassing staff in the workplace. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner says the hearing for...
View ArticleMetro Vancouver to light up blue in honour of fallen Abbotsford officer
Metro Vancouver will glow blue Saturday night to pay respect to Abbotsford police officer Const. John Davidson. Thousands are expected Sunday at a funeral for Davidson, killed in the line of duty in...
View ArticlePolice raid Vancouver house
A large crowd has gathered in southwest Vancouver where Vancouver police are raiding a house. Photos posted on social media by those identifying themselves as Langara journalism students show a large...
View ArticleTED 2019 rolls into Vancouver on Monday
TED 2019 starts in Vancouver on April 15 and ends on the 19th. This year’s theme is “joining the search for deeper meaning.” According to the website, “we’ll be exploring technologies that evoke wonder...
View ArticleYasir Naqvi: Citizen action needed to clean up pollution of our public square
We are being divided. We see stories daily about people being pitted against each other. Though some are true, we know that many are false, designed to manipulate us. Each online argument, conspiracy...
View ArticleJournalist puts Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on hot seat for the TED Talks stage
British journalist Carole Cadwalladr used her TED Talk in Vancouver to put Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on the hot seat the evening before he was due to take the stage. Cadwalladr, a writer for the Guardian...
View ArticleB.C. teacher freed from alleged Twitter censorship over LGBTQ+ vocabulary...
A B.C. teacher is thanking supporters and allies after his #100DaysofQueer education project was freed from alleged Twitter censorship. Read More
View ArticleThe tweets of #elxn43: Tracking the negativity
Postmedia analyzed more 5,500 tweets from the official Twitter accounts of party leaders since the start of the election campaign, scoring each tweet as positive or negative based on word choice. Read...
View ArticleFour more Metro Vancouver homeowners hosed in a falling market
A recent report from Central 1 Credit Union suggests a rebound in Metro Vancouver's housing market is coming. However, at the moment there are property owners losing hundreds-of-thousands of dollars on...
View ArticleDouglas Todd: Has Twitter become 'demonic'?
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples and ages it is the rule.” Read More
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