BC Government Announces New Initiatives And Incentives To Help The Taxi Industry

“For the past several months, our government has been working with ICBC and the taxi industry to create a new insurance product option for taxi drivers. The insurance product will be based on the pe...

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...

FAKE NEWS: Canadian Journalism Foundation Launches “Doubt It?” Campaign To Fight Misinformation

The “Doubt it? Check it. Challenge it” campaign builds on the organization’s earlier project NewsWise (which was in partnership with CIVIX and supported by a grant from Google), a program that p...

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, ...

JUSTICE DENIED: India Continues To Insult Memory Of Victims Of 1984 Sikh Genocide With Another Dead-End Report, Says WSO

“There is very little happening in India to give the victims of the 1984 Sikh Genocide hope. Kamal Nath, who is accused of leading a mob that burnt Sikhs alive, is today the Chief Minister of Madhya...

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...

RAUCOUS DEMONSTRATION: Khalistanis And Anti-Modi Demonstrators Shout Anti-India Slogans In Front Of Indian Consulate In Vancouver

DESIBUZZCanada Photo-Journalist was on hand at the Consulate located near Canada Place and reports that there were about 100 people from the local Sikh community under the Sikhs For Justice banner and...

BC Government Says Tax Relief Coming For Small Businesses, Non-Profits

VICTORIA - Small businesses, non-profits and arts and culture organizations paying high property taxes through their commercial leases will be able to get relief through interim business property tax ...