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Vancouver consultant accused of defrauding immigrants faces allegations in...
A B.C. Securities Commission panel heard Monday that prominent immigration businessman Paul Oei was rubbing elbows with B.C. politicians while he impressed Chinese investors that he allegedly bilked...
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'I wanted to kill myself' : Chinese investor testifies his family destroyed...
Chinese investor Jiang Yicheng sobbed violently while telling a B.C. Securities Commission panel that his family has been ruined by disastrous financial losses in a fraud allegedly perpetrated by...
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Panel hears about company used by alleged fraudster to sponsor lunch with...
A B.C. Securities Commission panel heard this week about Organic Eco-Centre Corp., a company created as part of an alleged immigration-investment fraud and later used to sponsor a pre-election speech...
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Investor says he was wooed with pictures of B.C.'s premier for alleged fraud
A B.C. Securities Commission panel heard Tuesday that B.C. Liberal donor Paul Oei — who is accused of running a scam based on a Metro Vancouver recycling plant — told Chinese investors that Premier...
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Parties propose to tackle housing affordability in their own ways
B.C. residents say affordable housing is the top election issue, according to several polls. And the governing B.C. Liberals and their main challenger, B.C.’s NDP, say they have plans to increase the...
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Panel told alleged fraud dropped several politicians' names to woo investors
A B.C. Securities Commission panel has heard allegations that Paul Oei claimed a number of politicians were supporting a Metro Vancouver recycling plant project, allegedly the centre of an...
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B.C. political parties make promises for affordable housing
With housing affordability rating as a top election issue for B.C. voters, political parties have offered a number of promises to tackle sky-rocketing housing costs. The party that wins the May 9...
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City on hook for $10-million damage costs in Vancouver aquifer breach
The City of Vancouver will try to collect on a repair bill of at least $9.9 million after un-permitted drilling on a city residential lot caused a massive aquifer flood that has yet to be contained,...
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Neighbours worried aquifer flood hurting home prices on exclusive Vancouver...
As a City of Vancouver operation to repair a massive aquifer flood in an affluent residential area drags on, neighbours are worried that their multimillion-dollar home values have been reduced. The...
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B.C. Liberals under fire for little-known program that gives tax breaks to...
B.C. Liberal party Leader Christy Clark has defended a little-known provincial tax rebate program that was expanded in 2014 to attract international banks and investment firms to Vancouver and is...
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B.C. must reconsider refusal to rebate $2.8 million to TD Bank under...
The B.C. Court of Appeal has directed the provincial government to reconsider TD Bank’s claim for a $2.8 million tax rebate under a little-known program designed to attract international financial...
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'Civil conspiracy' alleged in Vancouver mortgage fraud case
A number of mortgage lenders have filed a B.C. Supreme Court action alleging a “civil conspiracy” involving alleged mortgage frauds on a Vancouver home. In a claim filed April 11, Antrim Balanced...
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Vancouver: NDP shakes up vote in select ridings
The NDP scored a big win with George Chow over Suzanne Anton in Vancouver-Fraserview, a riding that pundits said the party absolutely had to re-capture in order to defeat the B.C. Liberals...
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Prominent Vancouver developer James Schouw banned for fraud
A B.C. Securities Commission panel has permanently banned a Vancouver developer for fraud. However, the developer, James Schouw, says he doesn’t believe the panel’s decision will impact five Metro...
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Fraser Valley board warns offshore clients seeking to misuse realtor bank...
The Fraser Valley Real Estate board (FVREB) has warned managing brokers that offshore investors have apparently been asking realtors to complete illegal transactions that would break money-laundering...
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Speculators target B.C. farmland after foreign buyer tax introduced for...
Sales of farmland in B.C. surged and prices jumped immediately after the provincial government announced a foreign buyer tax on residential land in July 2016, a Postmedia investigation shows. The...
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Development lots in False Creek Flats offered in untendered deal that needs...
The last two open lots on a prime False Creek Flats development site owned by four B.C. universities have been offered in a confidential untendered sale to several Vancouver developers, in a deal that...
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Canadian millennials' connections to country, home and family on the wane
Veteran pollster Angus Reid has spent time studying issues that he believes will shape Canada’s future, and his findings on younger Canadians may raise some eyebrows. In an interview Wednesday, Reid...
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Construction company sues Vancouver realtor over sale that fell through
A condominium renovation company has sued a Vancouver realtor for “breach of trust and conversion,” alleging a buyer working with the realtor backed out of a Yaletown condo purchase. In a B.C. Supreme...
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Estate of murdered Chinese investor sued by accused killer for farmland profits
Li Zhao, who is accused of murdering Chinese businessman Gang Yuan, has filed a claim in B.C. Supreme Court seeking a one-third share of the Yuan estate’s profits from the sale of 47 Saskatchewan farm...
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