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No fewer journalists today than 10 years ago: Statistics Canada
There are just as many journalists working in Canada today as there were a decade ago, according to data from Statistics Canada. Since 2001, the number of working journalists in the country has stayed...
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How to ‘Hold On to Your Kids’ online
Psychologist Gordon Neufeld and physician Gabor Mate have updated their 2004 book Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers (Vintage Canada) with new chapters on raising children...
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Plans approved for new Kitsilano Secondary
A $62.2-million seismic upgrade and renewal project will begin this fall at Kitsilano Secondary. The school has been a high priority for seismic upgrades for some time, but the project was complicated...
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Cop following Surrey Six suspects misplaced notebook – UPDATE
A lawyer for one of the accused in the Surrey Six murders says he is trying to get more information about the nature of police documents found at the former house of a Mountie who did surveillance in...
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3 marijuana grow-ops in 7 years force civil forfeiture of Vancouver home
From what I can glean from court documents and B.C.’s online registry, Vu Huy Nguyen has never been charged with a crime in connection to the three marijuana grow-ops police have discovered in his East...
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Gang associate has parole revoked
Convicted drug smuggler Kyle Gianis has had his parole revoked after breaching a condition of hsi release earlier this year. Parole Board of Canada member Linda Cross said re-releasing Gianis into the...
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City councilor charged with obstruction of justice
The longest-serving city councilor in Williams Lake says he is still in shock after his arrest Thursday for obstruction of justice related to his work as a translator for the RCMP last year....
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Seattle trial delayed for former B.C. Mountie
The trial for a former B.C. Mountie charged in Washington state with smuggling cocaine has been postponed until November. Rapinder (Rob) Sidhu had been scheduled to go to trial in Seattle on Sept. 23....
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Osoyoos man charged with smuggling handguns into B.C.
An Osoyoos man has been charged after allegedly selling dozens of smuggled firearms to gangsters in the Okanagan and Metro Vancouver. Tyler Ryan Cuff, 30, is believed to have used his dual...
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Okanagan man found with “bomb-making equipment”
Police have arrested an Okanagan man and seized “bomb-making equipment” they believe could have been used in future gang-related violence. The 36-year-old was arrested Aug. 28th after a tip that he was...
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Civil forfeiture office suffers rare defeat — could this set a precedent?
The B.C. government almost never loses when it goes to court seeking the civil forfeiture of a person’s home, vehicle or cash. Until today, I was aware of only one case in which someone had fought the...
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Two weekend shooting victims, no cooperation with police
Two men were injured in weekend shootings, but neither is cooperating with police. Just before 11 pm Friday, Surrey RCMP was called to a park at 90th Ave. and 128th St. after a report of shots fired....
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BCTF in court today over class-size, composition ruling
The B.C. Teachers’ Federation will be in B.C. Supreme Court today, seeking to restore class-size limits and specialist teacher guarantees to its collective agreement. In 2011, the court ruled that the...
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Selection of 15 free textbooks available online
A selection of textbooks on subjects ranging from math and chemistry to marketing, psychology and business is now available free online from BCcampus. The 15 textbooks have been reviewed by more than...
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What are B.C.’s highest paid jobs?
UPDATE: For more income-related fun, check out our online calculator showing how much money people just like you make. Statistics Canada released the final round of data from the National Household...
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Class action approved over alleged $83-million Ponzi scheme — but who would...
Investors who say they were bilked out of $83 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme operated by a former notary public have won the right to file a class-action lawsuit against her, but it doesn’t look...
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Edmonton killer gets 40 years to life for three murders
I have still been busy with a longer-term project but thought people on the Real Scoop might want to comment on the longest-ever sentence handed to a Canadian killer since capital punishment was...
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APD arrest gang associate on trafficking charges
A gang associate already charged with an attempted murder in Alberta is facing trafficking and firearms charges after being arrested in Abbotsford. Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said Manraj...
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Jarrod Bacon’s sentence increased to 14 years
The B.C. Court of Appeal has added two years to the cocaine conspiracy sentence of notorious gangster Jarrod Bacon. Justice Edward Chiasson said Bacon, who agreed to buy 100 kilos of cocaine from an...
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Traditional school parents upset about split classes
This morning a group of 30 to 40 parents from Surrey Traditional School gathered in front of the Surrey School District building to protest a change at their school. For the first time in recent...
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