North Vancouver news

• B.C. moves toward universal child care with $10-a-day project at 53 sites

  09-11-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Child care in B.C. will soon cost as little as $200 a month for some parents in the province.
  Children’s Minister Katrine Conroy said the $10-a-day plan is a prototype and will start at 53 day cares in B.C.
  She said in a statement the project looks to become a model for the New Democrat government’s 10-year plan for affordable, quality child care.
  The $60-million project is part of the Early Learning and Child Care Agreement the province has with the federal governme
  
  Read more

• Workers at four B.C. casinos say Yes to four-year agreement by slim margin

  09-11-2018 23:57 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — About 700 casino workers in the B.C. Interior have narrowly voted to accept a four-year contract agreement.
  After 19 weeks on the picket lines, members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union voted 50.7 per cent in favour of the deal.
  Union president Stephanie Smith says she understands some members may have felt they were being disrespected by the employer.
  Smith says in a news release she’s impressed by the solidarity and courage of members and they should be
  
  Read more

• Banjo Bowl rivals set to pick each other part in West semifinal clash

  09-11-2018 23:36 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Whenever the CFL kicks into Grey Cup tournament mode, it’s a bullish time for three-down football — and the CFL on TSN.That will be particularly true of the West Division semifinal Sunday between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Riders are the most popular brand in the CFL. They are kings in Saskatchewan and have the largest national following of any team in the league.
  Given the strong “Banjo Bowl” rivalry that ex
  
  Read more

• Remembrance Day 2018: Metro Vancouver guide to honouring Canada's veterans

  09-11-2018 21:36 via vancouversun.com
  It’s been 100 years since the Armistice of Compiègne went into effect, ending hostilities between the Allies and Germany — and marking the end of the First World War, then known as the war to end wars.
  Every year since, Canadians have honoured their veterans and war dead with a ceremony and moment of silence on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
  Related
  Remembrance Day: 5 things to think aboutClassical music: Thoughtful concerts for Remembrance DayWhile
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Town Talk: B.C. Cancer Foundation gala raises $4.3 million

  09-11-2018 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Wife Harpreet accompanied Bob Rai who chaired the South Asian community’s Night of Miracles that reportedly raised $755,000 for the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation and a 10-year total of $5.4 million.
  INSPIRED: As the B.C. Lions readied for a final home game under coach Wally Buono on Nov. 3, no less than four galas kicked off downtown. Unlike the Leos, all were winners. The first, the B.C. Cancer Foundation’s 14th annual Inspiration gala at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, re
  
  Read more

• Thanks to the quick work of Fortis BC the gas leak has been repaired and all traffic restrictions have been lifted.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 20:46 via twitter.com
  Thanks to the quick work of Fortis BC the gas leak has been repaired and all traffic restrictions have been lifted.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• Lonsdale gas leak update: Gas has been shut off. Businesses are reopening. 100 block W 15th will be open shortly. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 20:22 via twitter.com
  Lonsdale gas leak update: Gas has been shut off. Businesses are reopening. 100 block W 15th will be open shortly. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• Remembrance Day: 5 things to think about

  09-11-2018 20:04 via vancouversun.com
  Worn by everyone from young children to aging veterans, the poppy has been a symbol of respect and gratitude for the last century. But when you see all the poppies on lapels today, you may also want to consider: Who sells the poppies and why, who benefits from the proceeds, and what more can be done in Canada to support veterans and their families.
  1. Poppy sales and programs they support
  Thick rows of poppies grew over soldiers’ graves in Flanders, France, and were the inspiration for the
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Gas leak caused by excavator at Lonsdale Ave and 16th Street. Surrounding businesses have been evacuated. Local tra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 20:02 via twitter.com
  Gas leak caused by excavator at Lonsdale Ave and 16th Street. Surrounding businesses have been evacuated. Local tra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• Minecraft, mothers and sons all play in Theatre Replacement's Mine

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Mine
  When: Nov. 14-17, various times
  Where: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby
  Tickets and info: From $15, shadboltcentre.comTheatre Replacement’s latest work Mine is what happens when a performing arts parent gets actively involved in their child’s play — in this case, creator Maiko B. Yamamoto becoming involved in playing Minecraft with her 11-year-old gamer son, Hokuto MacDuff.
  Developed over the narratives the two discovered playing the popular
  
  Read more

• Meet the chef: Summit chef Mario Gross highlights simple, solid flavours

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The stars seem to follow Chef Marion Gross.
  He started his culinary apprenticeship at the Michelin-starred Relais & Chateaux Hotel Dollenberg, in the Black Forest of Germany. Then, he joined the kitchen at Der Alpenhof, which earned a Michelin star during his tenure. Gross fine-tuned his palate and skills under the guidance of three-star Chef Helmut Thieltges and finally assumed command of the one-star Waine & Tafelhous in Edmonton.
  And, today, you can find him at the Summit, t
  
  Read more

• Inside Les Ateliers de Verneuil-en-Halatte, the workshop where Chanel handbags come to life

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The first thing you notice when entering Les Ateliers de Verneuil-en-Halatte are the people. The second, of course, is the handbags.
  The workshop, about an hour’s drive north from central Paris, is the epicentre of handbag creation for French fashion house Chanel. Since 1990, it’s here where the sketches conceived in the Paris offices come to life; each timeless piece lovingly handcrafted by the trained artisans employed within its walls.
  It’s a sunny, mild day in France. And t
  
  Read more

• Francis Zwiers: Climate change is real but other human behaviour make the damage worse

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If putting the phrase “climate change” in front of as many Canadians as possible were enough to prepare citizens for a changing future, we’d be set after media coverage of the summer wildfire season, this fall’s hurricanes and the recent “1.5°C” report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  But blaming climate change for every wildfire and extreme weather event is neither accurate nor helpful. It does not address the multiple roots of such
  
  Read more

• Fab 5: Geometry class

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s been awhile since we were so excited about bags — sure, there’s been the odd designer style that’s tickled our fancy, but this season, whatever your budget, there’s plenty to choose from. Where to start? We’re loving the geometric bag trend that’s, er, taken shape this season. Whether you go rectangular, round, hexagon, or something that resembles a page from your high school math textbook, Rebecca Tay presents five shape-shifting bags to add t
  
  Read more

• Brian Minter: When to prune or not to prune

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  As the last of our fall colour disappears, the orchestration of next spring’s garden can now begin.
  Each year the plants in our gardens, large or small, continue to grow in size.  Evergreens, shade trees, colourful flowering shrubs and long-lived perennials all keep growing to the point that they become overgrown and crowded.  So, it’s decision time.
  Timing is everything when it comes to resizing our plants.  Once the foliage comes off our deciduous trees and shrubs, t
  
  Read more

• Anthony Gismondi: B.C. wines take on the world

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia wines took on the world late last month at the fourth annual Judgment of B.C.
  The double-blind tasting, hosted by the B.C. Wine Institute, and curated by Vancouver-based wine educator DJ Kearney, pits 12 acknowledged global benchmark wines against a dozen B.C. labels. This year’s tasting was held in Kelowna involving 37 international and national judges asked to taste and rank all 24 wines.
  The 2018 themes featured traditional method sparkling wine and Bordeaux-style red b
  
  Read more

• 5 things to know about You Have Options by François Houle, Alexander Hawkins and Harris Eisenstadt

  09-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  François Houle/ Alexander Hawkins/ Harris Eisenstadt
  You Have Options | Songlines
  The bringing together of clarinetist François Houle, pianist Alexander Hawkins and drummer Harris Eisenstadt came about in 2014. That’s when Ken Pickering, the late co-founder and artistic director of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, suggested Alexander Hawkins as a piano player in a new Houle project.
  Eisenstadt, a Brooklyn-based Canadian bandleader/composer, was already on deck in
  
  Read more

• Heads up! Crews are attending to a gas leak in 1500 block Lonsdale Ave. Businesses and homes in the area are being… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 19:39 via twitter.com
  Heads up! Crews are attending to a gas leak in 1500 block Lonsdale Ave. Businesses and homes in the area are being… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• Do you think dirty money is corrupting B.C.’s real estate market?

  09-11-2018 19:27
  
  Now’s your chance to have your say and suggest solutions, as province’s money laundering task force is seeking public input
  
  Read more

• Join #CityParkStewards for the final event of 2018. Invasive plant pull Saturday, November 24 @ Mosquito Creek Park… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Join #CityParkStewards for the final event of 2018. Invasive plant pull Saturday, November 24 @ Mosquito Creek Park… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• New poll shows B.C. residents split on electoral reform vote

  09-11-2018 17:50 via vancouversun.com
  A new poll shows that B.C. residents who are in the midst of a referendum on electoral reform are divided on what voting system should be used to determine provincial election results.
  The results of the online survey, conducted by Insights West on behalf of the Canada Committee 100 Society — a Chinese community organization — were released on Friday.
  Insights West asked 814 British Columbians whether they want to keep the current first-past-the-post voting system or change to propor
  
  Read more

• Decloux survives scary cancer fight, looks to conquer Phantom Run next

  09-11-2018 17:39 via vancouversun.com
  Hail. Rain. Snow. Sleet. Cold. That’s what you risk when you sign up for a mid-November trail race on Vancouver’s North Shore.
  Throw in some hills, rocks, roots, stairs and longer distances and, voila, you have obstacles galore for adventure runners who like their nature wild, scenic and challenging as possible.
  Doug Decloux can’t wait to tackle The Phantom Run on Saturday, Nov. 17 — the fourth and final leg of the successful 2018 Foretrails Race Series — and to soa
  
  Read more

• Vancouver Weather: Rain and cloudy skies

  09-11-2018 17:07 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Typical November weather is back on Friday, with rain in the morning, tapering off to cloudy skies and a 40-per-cent chance of drizzle. Environment Canada is predicting a steady temperature of 6 C, dipping to a low of 4 C overnight. Things are looking up for the weekend. On Saturday, the clouds are expected to clear in the morning and Saturday night will be clear with a low of 3 C. Sunday will be a return to clear, sunny skies and a high of 8 C.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  To
  
  Read more

• Coroner's inquest calls for more Vancouver police training after fatal shooting in 2015

  09-11-2018 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — More de-escalation training for Vancouver police is being recommended after a coroner’s inquest into the shooting death of a man who was stabbing people on the city’s Downtown Eastside.
  Police say 26-year-old Abdi Hirsi, who was from Edmonton, was killed during a confrontation with an officer in 2015, after he stabbed three people.
  In a statement at the time, the department said officers unsuccessfully tried to arrest the man and fired multiple bean bag rounds in an
  
  Read more

• One person dead after overnight Surrey shooting

  09-11-2018 16:23 via vancouversun.com
  An early-morning shooting in Surrey has left one person dead.
  The incident took place around 1:30 a.m. in the 14200-block 70A Avenue, in Newton.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over the case.
  MORE TO COME.
  [email protected]
  twitter.com/jensaltman
  Related
  Family hopes for closure as accused killer Josh Boden appears in courtAbbotsford murder victim was brother of gang boss slain last DecemberIHIT takes over as man fatally shot in Surrey Thursday afternoon
  
  Read more

• Coquitlam council and developer clash over Fraser Mills details

  09-11-2018 16:07
  
  City says Beedie's numbers on homes and park space in huge redevelopment of former mill site are still subject to public consultation
  
  Read more

• Conversations That Matter: Proportional representation, the No side

  09-11-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  For the third time in 15 years, British Columbians are voting in a referendum to change the way the people of the province elect a government.
  In 2005, the single transferable vote (or STV) was put to the people in a referendum. It required a super-majority that included approval of 60 per cent of the voters overall and simple majorities in 60 per cent of the 79 districts in order to pass. It fell short by an extremely slim margin.
  Four years later, STV was soundly defeated.
  The&n
  
  Read more

• Father of abducted B.C. boy says family wasn't told offender had been released

  09-11-2018 15:14 via vancouversun.com
  The father of a boy who was abducted from a home in southeastern British Columbia says his family wasn’t notified about the release of the high-risk offender.
  Randall Hopley, who is 53, has served his six-year sentence for breaking into a home in Sparwood and abducting the sleeping three-year-old in 2011.
  He returned the boy four days later physically unharmed.
  The boy’s father, who lives in northern Alberta, told CTV Calgary that his family was shocked and upset to learn about Hople
  
  Read more

• Editorial: Low early return of electoral-reform ballots a concern

  09-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Elections B.C. reports that there are 3,291,297 registered voters in B.C., every one of whom has been sent a ballot in the 2018 referendum on electoral reform. As of Thursday, guess how many ballots had been returned.
  Elections B.C. had received just 86,907 ballots — a mere 2.6 per cent of the total. That seems worryingly low, given that we are nearly three weeks into the referendum and the prevailing wisdom is that a large volume of ballots are returned at the start of voti
  
  Read more

• Daphne Bramham: Vimy oaks provide a living symbol of the horrors of war

  09-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  After more than a century, oak trees are again growing on the French battlefield near Vimy Ridge. How this has come to be is a uniquely Canadian story spanning the decades and the country’s breadth.
  It begins with Leslie Miller. Growing up on an Ontario farm, his goal was always to be a teacher. He loved people and was gifted in languages, eventually mastering English, French, German, Spanish, Greek and Hebrew.
  His first teaching job was in Weyburn in southeastern Saskatchewan. Had th
  
  Read more

• Daily Poll: Who won last night's debate on proportional representation?

  09-11-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan and Opposition Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson squared off Thursday in a debate on electoral reform, the subject of a province-wide mail-in referendum.
  Voters need to mail in their ballots by the Nov. 30 deadline to either support moving to a form of proportional representation for the next election or to keep the current first-past-the-post system. A majority of 50 per cent plus one is needed to change the system.
  Related
  Premier Horgan, Weaver support proport
  
  Read more

• This Week in History: 1918, The Great War finally ends

  09-11-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  At midnight on Nov. 11, 1918, The Vancouver Sun received a short message on its newswire: “FLASH — Armistice signed.”
  Within a minute of receiving the news, The Vancouver Sun’s presses were printing an extra edition announcing the First World War was over.
  The Vancouver Museum has a copy of the extra, and it is just awesome, maybe the best front page in the paper’s history.
  A giant headline proclaims “PEACE!” on the top of the page. The main illustration
  
  Read more

• Horgan and Wilkinson clash during TV electoral reform debate

  09-11-2018 05:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A much-anticipated debate between B.C. Premier John Horgan and Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson devolved into an extended 30-minute televised argument Thursday evening that political experts say offered voters little useful information.
  “I’m glad it was only half an hour,” said University of Fraser Valley political scientist Hamish Telford. “It was not terribly informative in terms of getting more details on any kind of electoral system.
  “There was j
  
  Read more

• Our thoughts are with those facing the terrible destruction from the N.California #Campfire. To our #IAFF brothers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 05:18 via twitter.com
  Our thoughts are with those facing the terrible destruction from the N.California #Campfire. To our #IAFF brothers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• VCH issues warning about Richmond hot sauce due to botulism scare

  09-11-2018 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Coastal Health is warning customers that a hot sauce being prepared out of a home in Richmond could cause botulism.
  The VCH considers Betty’s King Sauce, a homemade sauce that has been sold online and at local markets since 2014, unsafe because of its potential to grow Clostridium botulinum bacteria.
  “Inspectors discovered that the product is being produced in a person’s home in Richmond, which is not an approved and inspected facility, and the ingredie
  
  Read more

• Cracked church bell's companion will ring out as a reminder of the joy that peace brought

  09-11-2018 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  On Nov. 14, 1918, a few days after the signing of the armistice that ended the bloody battles of the First World War, a group of joyful young people climbed the bell tower of Trinity Lutheran church in Delta to celebrate.
  Apparently the bells weren’t ringing loudly enough.
  On the left Horst and Joyce Flemig, on the right Les and Bea Starheim, outisde Trinity Lutheran Church in Delta.
  “The local neighbourhood was so excited that they climbed up in the bell tower and banged on it with
  
  Read more

• B.C.'s walk-in clinic owners talk tactics to keep doctors and stem losses in their ranks

  09-11-2018 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s shortage of family doctors is crimping the ability of the province’s walk-in clinics to stay open, according to an organization that represents their interests.
  The non-profit group Walk-in Clinics of B.C., said about 50 clinics have closed since 2013 with the difficulty in recruiting physicians high on the list of reasons why, said founding director Mike McLoughlin.
  So his group is holding a conference in Richmond on Friday to talk about ways to improve operations
  
  Read more

• Terry Glavin: Canada's 'business as usual' approach to China undercuts human rights

  09-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The performance of the United Nations Human Rights Council in subjecting China to one of its periodic reviews in Geneva this week was everything critics have long pointed out about the UN system generally, and the UN’s human rights function specifically. It was a carnival of technocratic surrealism, polite uselessness and outrageous lies.
  If that seems a bit harsh, then let’s just say it wasn’t exactly the best advertisement for the rules-based global order that Prime Minister
  
  Read more

• Several contracted pot suppliers in B.C. unable to deliver on supply promises

  09-11-2018 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  Amid a nationwide legal cannabis shortage, B.C. is looking for more cannabis suppliers as some with contracts to supply the month-old legal market haven’t come through with the product they had promised.
  Some producers, “including five of the largest producers, have been unable to deliver the volumes that they had originally committed to,” said Kate Bilney, B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch senior communications officer in an email.
  But she said the B.C. LDB is “continuing
  
  Read more

• Vancouver's new mayor meets with provincial ministers in Victoria to talk opioids, transit

  09-11-2018 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  Within days of his inauguration, and before chairing his first regular city council meeting, Vancouver’s new mayor was venturing across the Strait of Georgia on Thursday.
  Newly sworn-in Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, a former federal NDP MP, visited the provincial capital Thursday morning for what he called “very productive meetings” with cabinet ministers from the B.C. NDP government.
  The Island trip, Stewart said, was intended “to open lines of communication on very i
  
  Read more

• Man faces 13 charges following two days of havoc in Castlegar

  09-11-2018 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  A 28-year-old Lake Country man is in custody and facing 13 charges in connection with two days of havoc, including dangerous driving and a carjacking, on the streets of Castlegar.
  The trouble started on Nov. 6 when Castlegar RCMP attempted to pull over a pickup truck with a burnt out headlight.
  Police say the driver refused to pull over and fled at a high rate of speed, but was not pursued by the RCMP.
  During his flight from police, the truck’s driver collided with an RCMP cruise
  
  Read more

• B.C. police target drivers in early days of cannabis legalization

  09-11-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  Following the legalization of recreational pot, B.C. police have been more concerned with traffic than trafficking.
  The new B.C. Cannabis Control and Licensing Act bans smoking or vaping in places where tobacco is prohibited, in places frequently used by children such as parks and on school properties and in vehicles. The government has set a limit for possession in a public place at 30 grams.
  Vancouver police have issued 18 traffic tickets for cannabis offences since Oct. 17, including six
  
  Read more

• David Suzuki: Proportional representation's diversity of views will lead to better policies

  09-11-2018 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  As a biologist, the most profound revelation for me has been that diversity is built into the very survival strategy for life in a constantly changing world.
  The planet is not constant and unchanging. The sun is 30-per-cent warmer than when life first appeared, magnetic poles have moved and switched, great tectonic plates collided and pulled apart, oceans filled and emptied, mountains thrust up and eroded away, warm periods were interrupted by ice ages, atmospheric oxygen levels rose over time &
  
  Read more

• Desmond assures Surrey, 'TransLink is going to be here for you'

  09-11-2018 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink’s CEO said that if Surrey prevails with its plan to build SkyTrain instead of light rail, the transit authority will do its best to deliver rapid transit as soon as possible.
  “What I want to say to the people of Surrey is TransLink is going to be here for you, whatever our policy makers decide,” Kevin Desmond said at a Greater Vancouver Board of Trade event on Thursday.
  This week, Surrey council passed a motion to stop the $1.65-billion Surrey-Newton-Guildford at-grad
  
  Read more

• Developers furious with City of White Rock as council freezes tower plans

  09-11-2018 01:50 via vancouversun.com
  White Rock council voted Wednesday to hit the pause button on two 12-storey residential towers planned for the city’s downtown core, a decision one developer said would “obliterate” several years of planning work.
  The newly elected mayor, Darryl Walker, said he heard from many residents during the campaign who were frustrated by overdevelopment, specifically “height restrictions that were well above what the people of White Rock thought to be reasonable.”
  At a meeti
  
  Read more

• Robust B.C. economy results in pay raise for public sector workers

  09-11-2018 01:45 via vancouversun.com
  Unionized government employees are about to the reap the benefits of a robust B.C. economy.
  Statistics Canada says B.C. economy grew 3.8 per cent in 2017, exceeding the provincial budget  forecast of 2.3 per cent provided by the Economic Forecast Council (EFC). The Ministry of Finance says that has triggered an economic growth-sharing clause, officially known as the Economic Stability Dividend (ESD), in government contracts which will result in public sector workers
  
  Read more

• #TBT Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph, Victoria Park, #NorthVan, 1925. Photo: North Vancouver Museum and Archives… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  #TBT Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph, Victoria Park, #NorthVan, 1925.Photo: North Vancouver Museum and Archives… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• TransLink Mayors' Council, board to review executive salaries

  09-11-2018 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink’s Mayors’ Council and board of directors are expected to form a committee next month to review executive pay.
  The transit authority has five senior executives: the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer and executive vice-president of finance and corporate services, the heads of the B.C. Rapid Transit Company and the Coast Mountain Bus Company, and the chief of Transit Police.
  Their combined salaries totalled just over $1.5 million in 2017.
  In the summer, the
  
  Read more

• Notorious child abductor Randall Hopley living in Vancouver: Police warning

  09-11-2018 00:41 via vancouversun.com
  Convicted child abductor Randall Peter Hopley is living in Vancouver and police are warning the public that they believe he poses a risk of significant harm to the safety of young boys.
  In 2011, the 53-year-old Hopley snatched sleeping three-year-old Kienan Hebert from a second-floor bedroom in Sparwood, B.C. He kept the child for four days before returning him physically unharmed after Hebert’s parents made a public plea.
  VPD handout photo of Randall Hopley.
  Hopley, who had prev
  
  Read more

• Ian Mulgrew: Legal tax is the elephant in legal aid debate

  09-11-2018 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  Consider the huge burr under the saddle of the B.C. bar: For decades, regardless of political stripe, provincial governments have been profiting from the clients of lawyers, using the legal profession as a cash cow, while ignoring the crisis in the courts and beggaring legal aid.
  Victoria raked in $210.6 million last year from the PST on legal services, yet it provided only about $75 million to legal aid (not including the federal transfer of about $16 million for criminal legal aid).
  The provin
  
  Read more

Follow @NorthVancouver_ on Twitter!