The Premier's Chief of Staff is downplaying more damning accounts of the BC Liberals using government resources for partisan needs. The Province newspaper is reporting that Premier Christy Clark insiders hatched a plan to use government resources to get the Liberals ahead in swing ridings. This, after a report this week found there were … [Read more...]
Border Services respond to raid allegations
March 14, 2013 by
The Canadian Border Services Agency says what is being reported as a series of raids of Metro Vancouver construction sites Wednesday -- detaining illegal migrant workers -- is not correct. In a written statement the CBSA says agents only went to one worksite looking for a man with a long criminal history who had previously been deported … [Read more...]
Furlong denies allegations of abuse
January 22, 2013 by
The man in charge of organizing the 2010 Olympics is calling the latest unproven allegations made against him by a reporter he's suing for defamation 'completely unfounded.' A statement was released late this afternoon. The Twentyten Group, which handles media requests for Furlong, has issued a two-paragraph response, calling Laura … [Read more...]
New unproven allegations of abuse made against John Furlong
January 21, 2013 by
The journalist accused of defaming the head of Vancouver's Olympic organizing team has made more allegations of abuse against John Furlong in her statement of defence. The 22-page document was filed Monday (Jan. 21st) in BC Supreme Court. An article first published by Laura Robinson in September (2012) reported eight First Nations children … [Read more...]
Furlong’s allegations detailed in civil claim
November 28, 2012 by
We now have the details of John Furlong's lawsuit against the reporter and local newspaper that published allegations of physical and mental abuse against him. Furlong's civil claim says the Sept. 27 report by Laura Robinson in the Georgia Straight is “false and defamatory.” It says during his time as a teacher in Burns Lake in 1969, he … [Read more...]
BREAKING: John Furlong facing serious allegations
September 27, 2012 by
John Furlong is expected to speak publicly, after serious allegations were published against him in the Georgia Straight. The Vancouver Whitecaps say they are working on an availability where Furlong, the executive chair, is expected to respond to an article that Furlong came to British Columbia in 1969 and spent five years as an oblate frontier … [Read more...]
RCMP deny Galliford allegations; claims she had drinking problem
July 17, 2012 by
The Federal and provincial governments are standing firm in response to Corporal Catherine Galliford's claims of being sexual harassed during her 16 year stint with the RCMP. In a joint statement of defence, the Canadian and BC governments claim Galliford had a drinking problem she had no interest in dealing with, and stating she failed to … [Read more...]
More allegations have been levelled against Denny’s Restaurants
June 22, 2012 by
A 10-million-dollar class action lawsuit against the restaurant was certified in March. It was on behalf of about 70 temporary foreign workers, most from the Phillipines, who claim Denny's promised them work, but made them pay recruiting fees and airfare, and then never actually gave them the work. Now, lawyer Charles Gordon says some workers … [Read more...]
Allegations made against HandyDart operator
April 18, 2012 by
Drivers for Translink's HandyDart service say ever since an American company took over, the service has gone downhill.The allegations are startling. Some of HandyDart's harshest critics are its own drivers. This one -- whose identity we've protected -- says the people with cognitive and physical disabilities using the service are suffering. He … [Read more...]
