While ICBC cuts staff to reduce costs they could be on the hook for millions of dollars in severance payments. Seven executives were sent packing last week, and ICBC says over a million and half dollars in potential severance could be spent on them alone. Craig Horton leads the pack with a possible severance pay out of 17 … [Read more...]
BCGEU off the hook for massive fines
September 7, 2012 by
BC's largest public sector union has successfully appealed a multi million dollar fine levied by Elections BC. The BC Government and Service Employees' Union won't have to pay $ 3.2 million for ads it ran during two recent byelection campaigns. Elections BC claimed the union overspent advertising limits by hundreds of thousands of … [Read more...]
Taxpayers not on hook for Malik legal fees
July 12, 2012 by
Another court loss for one of the men acquitted of plotting Canada's worst case of terrorism. And this one will hurt him in the pocketbook. Ripudaman Singh Malik wanted the province to pick up his 9.2-million dollar tab for mounting a defence to Air India bomb plot charges he was acquitted of. But BC Supreme Court Justice Ian Josephson has ruled … [Read more...]
B.C. shouldn’t be on the hook for HST: MP
August 30, 2011 by
With repayment of British Columbia’s $ 1.6-billion HST compensation looming, opinion among the province’s federal parliamentarians is divided on how to proceed. Vancouver-Kingsway New Democratic MP Don Davies argues that B.C. should have to repay only a small portion — if any — of the total. “I believe that the (HST) was brought in with … [Read more...]
