Dirk Meissner
Reporter with The Canadian Press
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Metro Vancouver casinos gang destinations for money laundering: report
Money-laundering operations in casinos have been tied to British Columbia's opioid overdose crisis and the real-estate market, the attorney general said on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, as he released an independent report detailing how organized crime groups used the gaming industry to distribute its profits.
Federal government and First Nations to approve B.C. fish farms: province
Fish farmers in British Columbia have four years to show their open-net operations don't harm wild salmon and to get approval from First Nations to locate them in their territories as part of new rules introduced on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.
B.C. aims to recycle difficult plastic: six-pack rings, chip bags, crinkly wraps
A British Columbia non-profit is the first organization in North America to start collecting some of the toughest plastics to recycle, including potato chip bags, zipper-lock sandwich pouches and six-pack rings around beer cans.
Vancouver's conversion therapy ban more than symbolic for identity: experts
A ban on the practice of so-called conversion therapy in Vancouver sends a powerful message of rejection for controversial "pray the gay away" treatments, say advocates and experts.
B.C. files constitutional challenge of Alberta's fuel restriction law
The British Columbia government filed a constitutional lawsuit on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, countering an Alberta government bill that would limit fuel being sent to the province.
Trans Mountain pipeline won't cause tension with Notley at meeting: Horgan
The premiers of British Columbia and Alberta will join their counterparts from Western Canada and the North at meetings next week in Yellowknife, but John Horgan doesn't expect any drama over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
B.C. heading to court in Alberta to stop fuel restriction law, may seek damages
Tensions over the Trans Mountain pipeline increased on Thursday, May 17, 2018, with British Columbia announcing plans to launch a lawsuit over new Alberta legislation that could restrict fuel exports to the West Coast.
B.C. threatens to sue Alberta as all sides in Trans Mountain dispute dig in
All sides in the escalating dispute over the Trans Mountain expansion project appear to be digging in with the Alberta and British Columbia governments clashing over fuel prices and Indigenous and political leaders warning of civil unrest
Horgan says Alberta legislation to raise gas prices in B.C. 'provocative'
Premier John Horgan says he's concerned and surprised that Alberta's latest move in an escalating pipeline feud is legislation that could drive up British Columbia's already sky-high gas prices.
B.C.'s John Horgan denies crisis, says one investment doesn't make an economy
British Columbia Premier John Horgan showed no signs Monday of backing down on the battle over the Kinder Morgan pipeline, rejecting widespread claims his government's challenge of the $7.4 billion project is hurting the economy and tearing apart the country.