Benjamin Perrin News Today

The Abbotsford police shooting of a reportedly suicidal man Sunday evening brings the total number of people shot by police in British Columbia this year to 18 – with nine of those incidents being fatal.

There are times when routine police activities do more harm than good.

A pair of fatal encounters with Edmonton police in the past week have prompted calls for greater transparency and a different response to mental health emergencies.

The drug crisis represents an intractable public policy dilemma, for which a solution faces long odds amid the rancour and division enveloping any conversation about it

A new tentative agreement that would make Vancouvers police officers the highest paid in Canada is a crucial tool for the city to recruit and retain talent in the face of a major labour crunch, the union representing the officers said.

Months before the 2022 election, data suggests the number of random stranger attacks in Vancouver had plummeted to an average of 1.8 per day – a positive trend that would apparently remain unknown to police, politicians or the public for another full year.

A Friday afternoon wellness check on a Langley man believed to be distraught led to an hours-long standoff and ended with the man presumed dead after a massive fire.

What’s the prescription for the mental health crisis in B.C.’s ailing courts as accused, lawyers, judges, sheriffs and court staff deal with problems?

B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.

B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.