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Stories by Stanley Tromp
When Public Bodies Create Companies, Public Can't Peer In
Recent court ruling against freedom of info rights is a blow to accountability.
Premiers Got an Earful on BC Ferry Rate Increases
Angry citizens' emails to Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark surface via freedom of info request.
Mounties Privately Slammed Vancouver Police Claims on Pickton Case
VPD made 'inflammatory' and 'incorrect' criticisms of Mounties' serial killer investigation, accuses BC RCMP memo.
Steep Price to Make Legislative Buildings Quake Proof
Spend $182 million for seismic and other fixes or risk 'major tragedy': government-hired analysis revealed five years later.
For True Transparency, Amend David Hahn's FOI Strategy
Instead, give FOI recipients two weeks before making info public. And more ideas to keep watchdogs sharp and hungry.
Why David Hahn Has Investigative Reporters in a Tizzy
The BC Ferries boss pre-empts scoops by posting all FOI results online. If the province follows will it kill watchdogs' appetites? A Tyee interview.
In BC, We're Losing Our Gambling Fever
British Columbians are playing fewer BC Lottery Corp. games, and support for gambling is dropping.
Oil Sands to Boom: Internal Federal Report
Expect a rise in greenhouse-gas emitting heavy crude oil production in North America, says federal government report.
Would an Earthquake Crumble BC's Legislature Building?
The public can't know because government is fighting to withhold a 2006 report.
US Diplomat's Memo Urged 'Greening' of 'Shocking' Oil Sands
'Environmental impacts are high' but US should support Alberta's bitumen mining anyway, advised restricted 2008 report.
Pickton-style Serial Killings Could Recur Warns Cameron
Little has changed in Downtown Eastside to prevent it, says author.
BC Ferries Boss Defends His Reign
David Hahn parries with critical riders at public meeting.
Government Lawyers Stressed Out
New funding policy may create legal risks for province: internal audit.
Against the Global Blackout
From Canada to India and Bush's US, fighting government secrecy.
School's out for Piper
UBC's ex-president on the APEC mistake, corporate cash and other controversies.
Change of Guard at UBC
Stephen Toope dug up the truth about Maher Arar. Now he's UBC's president. A Tyee interview.
Indian Affairs Honcho, Well Grilled
And other notes from the Assembly of First Nations convention.
Government Secrecy Bills Pulled
Bills 23 and 30 deferred indefinitely.
What Libs Don't Want Us to Know
Bill 23 would limit truth-finding public inquiries.
Libs Poised to Slam Lid of Secrecy
Latest bills shut out public, invite scandal and waste.
We're Raising Gamblers
Glamour, tech feed betting habits of BC's kids.
- Appeal court upholds ruling on protection of orca habitat
- Foreign takeover score is 14,218 to two calculates Mel Hurtig, who speaks Saturday
- Abbott blames teachers' union, hints at legislation
- Greens exaggerating fracking fears 'to control you': Santorum
- Prime Minister Harper mixes oil with human rights on visit to China
- Civil jury finds former BC premier Vander Zalm guilty of defamation
- Vancouver theatre runs down curtain on section of BC's outdated liquor laws
- BC Premier Clark to replace throne speech with radio appearance
- 'The Kids Are All Right'
- 'Leave Your Shoes On'
- Glaciers, BC Hydro's Melting 'Batteries'
- Frankie Rose Makes Life Tougher for Journalists
- Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
- Becoming the Ethical Hunter
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Three Ryan Gosling Pickup Techniques that Don't Work in Real Life
- Could SOPA Pervade Canadian Copyright Law?
- Would You Buy a Used Car from These Libs?
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Economist Calls Gateway Pipeline an Inflationary 'Threat'
- Bill Rees' Last Lecture
- Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
- Is Canada Ignoring Signs of a Coming Economic Collapse?
- Harper in China
- How First Nations Are Gearing Up for Legal Battle Against Gateway
- Eleven Oily Questions for Every MP
- Remembering Lloyd Dykk's Wit, Generosity and Superb Prose
- BC Child Care Advocates in Geneva to Complain to UN
- BC, You Love You
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Who Pays Huge Power Bills for Clark's Gas Plants?
- Make It the Canadian Webcasting Corporation
- Harper in China
- When the Prize Is a Chance to Toil on BC's Farms
- Three Ryan Gosling Pickup Techniques that Don't Work in Real Life
- Would You Buy a Used Car from These Libs?
- Time to Zip John Baird's Loose Lips
- Foreign Trade Zones Eyed for Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Prince George
- Board, BC mayors make the case for Vancouver transit audit
- Tensions flare over Vancouver-owned mine in Oaxaca
- Osoyoos Times editor apologizes for comments on RCMP
- BC premier delivers talk show 'throne speech'
- NDP leadership: Thomas Mulcair ahead on first ballot, internal poll suggests
- Sky is the limit for use of mini, unmanned planes
- Prime Minister by day, oil exec by night
- Animal-made 'art' challenges human monopoly on creativity
