B.C.'s TV Industry Gets Boost Through New Funding Partnership

Access 2020 is a $400,000 partnership between Creative BC, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Canadian Media Producers Association - BC Producers Branch (CMPA-BC). This is the first time CMF has part...

BC Real Estate Association Releases Upbeat 2020 First Quarter Housing Forecast

Multiple Listing Service residential sales in the province are forecast to increase 10.3 per cent to 85,290 units this year, after recording 77,349 residential sales in 2019. MLS residential sales are...

CAB FIGHT: Uber Seeks Injunction To Halt Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum From Harassing Drivers With Fines And Tickets

Uber has asked B.C. Supreme Court to grant an injunction against the City of Surrey to prevent bylaw officers from issuing tickets to its drivers. Uber’s head of western Canada, Michael van Hemmen, ...

South Asian Man From Surrey charged With Sexual Interference

Following the report made to police, BC Prosecution Services have approved two charges of Sexual Interference against 78 year-old Nader Abdulaziz. Investigators believe there may be more victims in th...

Indo-Canadian Among Two Charged With First Degree Murder In Surrey Killing

Jagpal Hothi and Jordan Bottomley were arrested by IHIT on January 24, and later charged by the B.C. Prosecution Service with first degree murder for Andrew Baldwin’s death. Both accused men will ap...

Nominations Open For The 12th Annual RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards

TORONTO – With around 350,000 immigrants coming to Canada annually, Canada stands as an extraordinary example for welcoming immigrants and refugees. Immigrants increasingly make-up a large portion o...

New Provincial Policy On Stop And Search Has VPD Changing It’s Ways But Critics Say They Still Have Concerns

According to Latoya Farrell, Policy Counsel of BC Civil Liberties Association, “The VPD policy on street checks has taken some steps in the right direction but we still have significant concerns on ...

PAVING SCAM: Men On Visitors’ Visa Arrested In Delta For Fraud Paving Scheme Not From India

There has been much talk in the South Asian community in Surrey-Delta that the four men on visitors’ visas who were arrested in North Delta after a fraud paving scheme unravelled are from India give...

Poll Says Half Of Canadians Don’t Approve Of US Air Strike That Killed Iranian General

Despite the relative calm that has descended in the Middle East after the U.S. and Iran each claimed victory in the escalating tensions, two-thirds of Canadians (66%) now see the world as a “more da...