Unpublished Newswire

The Vancouver Police Board says a “full report” into a complaint about political motivations and arrest quotas for a crack down on crime in the Downtown Eastside will be delivered in June.Director Allan Black has told a board meeting the complaint centred on the Vancouver Police Department’s “recent expectation of setting arrest quotas,” and the report into the complaint will be delivered by the board’s next meeting on June 19.Agenda materials for the meeting on Thursday included a heavily redacted e-mail to the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner from an anonymous whistle-blower...

A former Alberta cabinet minister says an investigation called by Premier Danielle Smith’s government into multimillion-dollar health contracts looks like a whitewashing exercise.Peter Guthrie, now an Independent member of the legislature, posted a letter Wednesday afternoon, saying that, among other problems, the terms of a third-party probe by a former Manitoba judge are so narrow that it will be tough to get to the heart of what happened.Guthrie said the United Conservative government is only hurting itself since the investigation by former Manitoba judge Raymond Wyant is unlikely to...