March 29, 2024

Hearings, application for controversial Surrey casino proposal delayed

Those who want to speak their mind over a controversial casino proposal for South Surrey will have to wait until January. City of Surrey staff are delaying the hearings on the gaming application until January 14th as they take additional time to review public feedback and impact studies. Staff will also be looking at comments from the Semiahmoo … [Read more...]

Court rules in favour of unions over controversial hiring of Chinese miners

Two unions trying to block the hiring of Chinese workers for a new underground coal mine in northern B.C. have scored their first victory in federal court. Justice Douglas Campbell has ruled in favour of the unions, granting them permission to fight for access to records that let up to 300 Chinese nationals into Canada on temporary visas. Union … [Read more...]

Dhaliwal answers questions about controversial letter

Saying he believes in the leadership of Premier Christy Clark, Sukh Dhaliwal has made it official: he wants to be a BC Liberal MLA for the riding of Surrey-Panorama. The former Liberal MP is finally answering questions about a letter he wrote in 2008. Dhaliwal wrote to a U-S district court judge on parlimentary letter head saying he had met Ranjit … [Read more...]

Burnaby Teachers Association defends controversial email.

Despite criticism from the provinces Education Minister the Burnaby Teachers Association is standing behind an email sent to their members.  President Richard Storch resfused to categorize the email as threatening instead he called it an information piece on extra-curricular activity.  He says "Our approach as a union is not to threaten … [Read more...]

BCCLA calling on federal Public Safety Minister to retract controversial comments

The BC Civil Liberties Association has sent a letter to Canada's Public Safety Minister after he made some highly controversial comments.  BCCLA President Robert Holmes wants Vic Toews to retract comments saying critics of a Tory bill are aligning themselves with child pornographers.  Holmes says the bill allows for the government to … [Read more...]

Searchlight Acquires Controversial “Shame”

Ever since its overwhelmingly enthusiastic response in Venice and the slightly less so but still very positive reception in Telluride this time last week, one of the big questions that's been floating around was which distributor would have the balls to pick up Steve McQueen's NC-17 drama "Shame". Michael Fassbender stars as a thirty-something … [Read more...]