Removing fixtures from some public washrooms pitched as part of cutting Vancouver’s budget Removing change tables and hygiene product dispensers from some public washrooms in Vancouver is one of the ways the city’s proposed budget will seek to reduce costs to deliver a zero per cent propert...

“We’re looking at things like removing change tables for babies in high-vandalism areas, which, believe it or not, actually take a lot of time and money to actually replace.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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

Love not a ‘requirement’ for marriage, B.C. judge says in ruling on multimillionaire’s separation A B.C. philanthropist worth an estimated $150 million has been ordered to pay his former fiancée more than $5 million after a judge rejected his argument that the much-younger woman was never his spou...

A B.C. philanthropist worth an estimated $150 million has been ordered to pay his former fiancée more than $5 million after a judge rejected his argument that the much-younger woman was never his spouse and never loved him www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

B.C. man convicted of perjury for testimony during sexual assault trial A man who was found not guilty of sexual assault has been convicted of perjury for lying on the stand at his trial, according to a recently published court decision.

A man who was found not guilty of sexual assault has been convicted of perjury for lying on the stand at his trial about an email from his accuser he had “fabricated” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

VPD Officers Weren’t Fully Prepared for Drug Decriminalization | The Tyee Data released 16 months after an FOI request shows one-third hadn’t finished the available training by the launch of the pilot project.

“The Tyee is just learning about this now because it took 16 months for the Vancouver Police Department to release requested data about how many of its officers were trained on decriminalization.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

‘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.

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.

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‘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.

VPD was aware of the intense public interest – and also of the “fear and anxiety” news of stranger assaults was causing in 2022. VPD issued at least 52 releases mentioning stranger assaults, but provided no updated data about the frequency of these crimes. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Video shows B.C. woman’s ‘incredible’ up-close encounter with massive moose A B.C. woman who recently took her South African husband on a “Canadian safari” in the Rockies says the pair’s up-close encounter with a massive moose was quite literally breathtaking.

“We essentially just held our breath for the minute that this was taking place. He came up and started licking the side mirror. Then he started licking our door, and the next thing you know, he was sticking his head into the car” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Notorious B.C. pimp, trafficker has sentence reduced on appeal Reza Moazami, a B.C. man who was convicted of 30 crimes involving the trafficking, pimping, sexual assault and exploitation of 11 young female victims, has had his prison sentence reduced.

“He engaged in predatory and exploitative criminal behaviour toward a large number of vulnerable young victims. His conduct was punctuated by coercion and sexual violence toward a number of them…All were traumatized”

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‘Really beautiful to watch:’ Meet co-parenting cats Casper and Edie A feral cat named Casper is defying the stereotypes about feline fatherhood – and the doting dad’s every move is being livestreamed by a B.C. rescue.

“They’re so delightful…It gives you a really good feeling. It’s something you can ‘joy scroll’ to counteract all of the scary and bad things going on in the world right now. That seems like something that is resonating with a lot of people.”

Man with ‘pattern’ of sexually abusing vulnerable teen girls sentenced in B.C. court A B.C. man who is already in prison for sexually assaulting an adolescent girl has been sentenced for crimes against two additional victims – both vulnerable teens in foster care, according to a recen...

A B.C. man who is already in prison for sexually assaulting an adolescent girl has been sentenced for crimes against two additional victims – both vulnerable teens in foster care.

‘No one is talking to us:’ B.C. woman searching for answers after brother’s death in jail Cassie Savage’s brother Kurtis Champagne was 37 when he was taken off life support at a northern B.C. Hospital last month. He was also in the custody of B.C. Corrections, having been arrested and take...

‘No one is talking to us:’ B.C. woman searching for answers after brother’s death in jail www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...