In the weeks before a deadly attack at a Vancouver Filipino festival, suspect Adam Kai-Ji Lo asked to have his antipsychotic medication reduced, even as his mental health was deteriorating, a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit says.  The proposed class-action civil suit filed Thursday by a survivor of the attack says Lo’s psychiatrist was concerned during […]

The Vancouver Police Board says a “full report” into a complaint about political motivations and arrest quotas for a crack down on crime in the Downtown Eastside will be delivered in June.  Director Allan Black has told a board meeting the complaint centred on the Vancouver Police Department’s “recent expectation of setting arrest quotas,” and […]

Vancouver Public Library policies that prevent staff from wearing Palestinian symbols have put the library in the spotlight. The library’s policies say it can’t become involved in partisan issues and bar employees from wearing political symbols at work. After a handful of complaints about pro-Palestinian symbols at library branches this summer, leadership enforced the policies […]

Canadian police forces have been using drones for many years, but scrutiny of their use is lacking, especially as the technology has evolved, privacy and surveillance researchers say.  Their concerns come after Vancouver’s Chief Const. Adam Palmer revealed that investigators deployed drones to locate a suspect in a pair of gruesome stranger attacks in the […]