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Troubled BC Rail sold off its trains almost a decade ago and was absorbed into the transportation ministry in 2010, and yet it still has 20 executives and staff that collectively made nearly $4 ...
More than two decades after CN bought BC Rail for $1 billion, the Crown corporation’s two executives are still taking home a healthy pay cheque. BC Rail's two executives earned a combined $ ...
Bobby Virk, left, and David Basi pleaded guilty to fraud and breach of trust in connection with the BC Rail sale. ((VSB)) An exhaustive political corruption investigation into the sale of BC Rail ...
The B.C. government will not hold a public inquiry into the sale of BC Rail but it will pick up the tab for $6 million in legal fees for the two men convicted in the case, B.C. Premier Gordon ...
The provincial Liberal government is scrambling in the wake of public information about B.C. Rail’s overpaid, under-worked executives. B.C. Transportation Minister Shirley Bond has promised a ...
Two ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bobby Virk, were charged with fraud and breach of trust in connection with the $1 billion privatization sale of BC Rail in 2003. The pair eventually pleaded ...
The BC Rail trial has been delayed for two days because of legal issues. Madam Justice Anne Mackenzie called the jury into the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Monday morning, only to dismiss ...
Canadian National Railway Co. is paying $1-billion in cash to acquire provincially owned BC Rail Ltd., unveiling a plan yesterday to expand its fleet of rail cars and chop 430 jobs. B.C. Premier ...
Premier Campbell announces rail deal in 2003. Two major rail companies who dropped out of bidding on the $1 billion privatization of B.C. Rail angrily accused the BC Liberals of leaking vital ...