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How did the BC Liberal government's $1 billion privatization of BC Rail spark the province's biggest political scandal in decades? Why did the ministerial aides to then finance minister Gary ...
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 ...
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 $ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Premier Campbell pushed BC Rail privatization. A lie, it is said, can run halfway around the world before the truth can put on its boots. And as observers of B.C. politics know all too well ...
The abrupt end to a political corruption trial involving Dave Basi, Bob Virk and the leaking of confidential government information about the sale of BC Rail has left many questions unanswered.
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 ...
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 ...
CN Rail won't privately prosecute participants of the 2020 Northern BC rail blockade. CN Rail says it does not plan on privately prosecuting three participants of a 2020 blockade in Northern B.C ...
British Columbia’s forestry industry is bracing for disruptions from a potential rail strike that would quickly ... according to the BC Council of Forest Industries.