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I’m asking for the public’s help on a hit-and-run investigation from five days ago. You will recall some of the details we released: On Sunday, December 2, just before 10:00 in the evening, a 43-year...
Information obtained through a new FOI makes it clear that the BC Pavillion Corporation (PavCo) was planning to relocate Edgewater Casino to the BC Place redevelopment up to a year before issuing a...
2011 was a year of big stories on the Vancouver Observer. From natural disasters to political unrest, many of the events around the world impacted people in Vancouver, while a few of the big stories...
Vancouver doesn't need a mega-casino downtown. It's the wrong project for the city centre. City planners should focus instead on developing projects that make the city a better place to live, work...
I live in Kitsilano and work in Yaletown. I am a bankruptcy lawyer. I was a registrar in bankruptcy for 8 years and I oppose the expansion of the Edgewater Casino. I would like to speak about...
Moral questions surrounding gambling surfaced repeatedly in today's public hearing on casino expansion. Councillors pressed casino proponents hard, eliciting some surprising answers from casino...
Jason Feng falls silent for a moment, busily calculating the odds on how successful a new casino in downtown Vancouver might eventually be – if the controversial proposal survives the heated public...