I've spent a lot of time over the last year reading charity revocation letters from the CRA and one name keeps popping up again and again: Blake Bromley. Here's a closer look at the audits and investigations into his charities: theijf.org/article/blak...

How many public meetings is the Vancouver Police Board having this year? No one will say. Here’s why an expert says the prospect of significantly slashing public meetings combined with the refusal to answer a basic question is cause for concern. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

I don’t think anyone is going to be satisfied with these answers. Apologies for the lop sided video.

One family member believes he saw an IIO investigator hugging an RCMP officer at the scene, hours after the shooting. The IIO declined to follow up with the members assigned to this case for my story.

My story on the BC Human Rights Commissioner report that finds press access was blocked/delayed in a way that violated human rights. And the city's assertion that the commissioner is wrong. Despite the rigourous evidence-gathering process conducted by the inquiry. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

It's taken more than 19 months for B.C.'s financial regulator to issue a decision on Hon Kit Chung. He's accused of posing as a mortgage broker and running an illicit scheme to pocket the proceeds of home loans. In the meantime, there are new claims of fraud by Chung. theijf.org/article/hot-...

After a year of trying, I finally got my hands on some of the annual financial statements for the Eric Woodward Foundation. They've raised a lot of new questions about the Langley township mayor's pre-election pledges... theijf.org/article/eric...

A Vancouver city councillor is defending his attendance record after selling his local home and buying a property in the Okanagan.

Not exaggerating when I say I have been trying to meet this local celebrity all summer. Worth the effort for my EXCLUSIVE:

30 years ago, BC Mounties launched an investigation into abuse at every residential school in the province. It was the first—and last—probe on this scale. The task force's final report was buried in the RCMP archives, until it popped up in @theijf.org's databases. theijf.org/residential-...

This is why standardized data gathering, curation, and reporting are critical to democracy. Otherwise self-interested government bureaucracies can do what self-interested government bureaucracies always do: game the numbers they report to make it look like the latest Five Year Plan is/is-not working

Another colleague, @kehyslop.bsky.social, is only now being allowed by VPD to go into their HQ to view training material for their SLO program. That was also an incredibly long battle.

One of my colleagues, @michellegamage.bsky.social, recently got an FOI back on police training for decriminalization policies over a year after the request and only after threatening to go to the OIPC.

Three years and four FOIs later, here's everything we know about the stranger assault scare that gripped Vancouver in an election year – as the attacks were dramatically decreasing in frequency, unbeknownst to voters. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...