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Keeping the Whitecaps in Vancouver

Published 3 weeks ago
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Over the past year, Surrey and the wider Lower Mainland have faced a wave of extortion targeting local businesses, prompting a major response from law enforcement and the BC government.

BC's minister of economic growth says the latest offer to keep the Vancouver Whitecaps playing at BC Place Stadium would see the Crown corporation that owns and operates the facility "operating at net zero." Is this enough to keep the Caps here?

The BC Human Rights Commissioner has released a report called ‘Un(media)ted’ examining last year’s Hastings Street encampment eviction in Vancouver. The inquiry found that the City and Vancouver Police improperly restricted media access, creating so-called exclusion zones that went beyond safety needs.

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