De Facto News

More

We’re on the radio! Spies and corporate intel-sharing

4 months of De Facto event

BC journalists launch new worker-owned investigative publication

Newsletters

More

We’re on the radio! Spies and corporate intel-sharing

Apples, carrots, and peas on bikes

How frontline workers are tackling Victoria’s overdose crisis

4 months of De Facto event

How we found emails police claimed didn't exist

De Facto Radio

More

Podcast: Expert UBC Medicine witness on testifying in DULF trial (E04: Oct 10, 2026)

Podcast: Drug User Liberation Front's big court win (E03: Oct 3, 2026)

Podcast: Workers' right to strike under Bill C-39 (E02: Sept 26, 2026)

Podcast: Canadian spies' corporate intel-sharing (E01: Sept 19, 2026)

Freedom of Information

More

Transparency advocates on police ‘culture of confidentiality and secrecy’

VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrue

‘A troubling trend’: Lawyer Zool Suleman on rising cop-immigration collaboration

Transit Police are calling border enforcement more — but you wouldn't know that from their own records

Vancouver cops are calling border enforcement more than ever. Community members fear that puts them in danger

Police

More

DULF founders’ trafficking charges thrown out in BC Supreme Court ruling on constitutional challenge

How Vancouver police turned against DULF

DULF trial ends, but no decision expected soon

Transparency advocates on police ‘culture of confidentiality and secrecy’

VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrue

Housing

More

Unhoused woman sues city over impounded property

Courts

More

DULF founders’ trafficking charges thrown out in BC Supreme Court ruling on constitutional challenge

DULF trial ends, but no decision expected soon

Transparency advocates on police ‘culture of confidentiality and secrecy’

VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrue

Immigration

More

Apples, carrots, and peas on bikes

$1M to deport 7 people by private jet

‘A two-tier system’: Rights groups say the immigration system is built on exploitation. A new law could make it even worse

‘A troubling trend’: Lawyer Zool Suleman on rising cop-immigration collaboration

Transit Police are calling border enforcement more — but you wouldn't know that from their own records

Surveillance

More

We’re on the radio! Spies and corporate intel-sharing

Health

More

BC involuntary care policy found unconstitutional

VPD claimed no emails sent to or from senior cops about compassion club ahead of raid. That’s untrue

Labour

More

‘A two-tier system’: Rights groups say the immigration system is built on exploitation. A new law could make it even worse

Environment

More

My time fighting BC’s wildfires