Several news stories by Stanley Tromp,
based on
Freedom of Information requests
Cloud shrouds
fraud risk: RCMP (Financial Post,
Canadian
financial fraudsters prefer foreign exchanges: RCMP (Financial Post,
Vancouver
mayor spent $85,934 on PR consultants in 2011 (The Vancouver Courier, Feb. 15, 2012)
Commissioner
orders health audits released to Vancouver Courier (The Vancouver Courier, Feb. 1, 2012)
Audit calls for
improvements to Metro Vancouver water plan
(The Vancouver Courier, Jan.
26, 2012)
Chinese consulate urged
Mayor to boycott show (The Vancouver Courier, Dec. 28, 2011)
Mounties Privately Slammed Vancouver Police Claims on Pickton Case (The Tyee,
March 22, 2011)
Home care providers must
report abuse to Vancouver Coastal Health
(The Vancouver Courier, Nov.
15, 2011)
Angry constituents to
Clark: Please be our Iron Lady (The Vancouver Sun, Oct. 8, 2011) Sidebar
RCMP issues warning on
diamonds (The Financial Post, August 10, 2011)
Audit warned of VCH
purchasing card misuse (The Vancouver Courier, August 10, 2011)
Audit found overuse of
overtime in Vancouver hospitals (The
Vancouver Courier, August 4, 2011)
$450,000 allegedly
stolen by UBC official (The Vancouver Sun. July 16, 2011)
Recession
driving more truckers into organized crime: RCMP (The Tyee, July 31, 2011)
Violations 101 - A damning
audit conducted by the Ministry of Finance highlights safety violations - including
potential fire hazards, carbon monoxide poisoning and natural gas leaks - at
Vancouver Community College (The Vancouver Courier, June 24, 2011)
Premiers Got an
Earful on BC Ferry Rate Increases (The Tyee, July
6, 2011)
Vancouver
city hall racks up $1.1 million cellphone bill (The
Vancouver Courier, July 20, 2011)
Steep Price to Make
Legislative Buildings Quake Proof (The Tyee,
March 11, 2001)
In B.C., were losing
our gambling fever (The Tyee, Feb.
17, 2011)
Worker
happiness at BC gambling corporation depends on position (The Tyee, Jan. 31, 2011)
Canada
lobbied U.S. over TransCanadas Keystone pipeline (Financial
Post, Jan. 23, 2011)
Oil sands to Boom: Internal Federal Report. (The Tyee, Dec. 27, 2010)
U.S. Diplomats
Memo Urged Greening of Shocking Oil Sands. (The Tyee, Nov. 10, 2010)
B.C. urges greater securities powers. (Financial Post, Aug. 20, 2010)
Canada Warns of Evolving
Market Frauds (Courthouse News Service. Feb. 15, 2012)
ICBC pays
$650,000 for staff incentives; Bucks attract, keep top talent, it argues. (The Province. Vancouver May 7, 2010 )
Mulroney gov't wrestled with
politics of abortion debate, documents show. (Ottawa Citizen, July
4, 2009 ) With link to cabinet minutes file.
How Mulroney buried the move to reinstate capital punishment. (The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Oct. 13, 2007)
Confidential American reports
prove prescient; Embassy dispatches obtained through Freedom of
Information Act reveal consulate officials' reports on Canadian politics and
politicians (The Vancouver Sun, Oct. 11, 2008)
U.S. analysts keep wary eye on B.C.
political scene. (The
Vancouver Sun. May 12, 2005)
U.S.
view in 2005: Campbell uncharismatic, James unknown. (TheTyee.ca,
May 5, 2009)
Revenue from stumpage fees at risk, audit
finds. (The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Apr. 12, 2007)
Doctors fail to report on vaccines, audit says. (The Vancouver Sun. Aug. 14, 2006)
Audit sounds alarm over $900m in civic
projects. (The Vancouver Sun. July 27, 2006)
Lottery CEO fired one
day after poll. (The Globe and
Mail. Toronto, Oct. 16, 2007)
Former Vancouver police
chief's pay outpaced that of B.C. counterparts. (The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Sept. 26, 2007)
Ex-president of BCIT paid $400,000 in
severance. (The
Globe and Mail. Toronto, Aug. 3, 2007)
Feeling Flushed. Public complaints on Translink
facilities. (The Vancouver Courier. August 26, 2011)
Fraser Institute report cards don't tell
the whole story, ministry says. (The Globe and
Mail. Toronto, July 24, 2007)
Report: New West firehalls
plagued by poor morale. (The Vancouver Sun. Apr. 17, 2006)
Government Lawyers Stressed (TheTyee.ca, March 15, 2007)
Maximus was fined $156,000 for performance failings in 2005. (TheTyee.ca,
Aug. 5, 2010)
Portside Review
Contradicted (Georgia Straight, Feb
7, 2002)
Ministry Finds Holes
in Oil and Gas Report (Georgia Straight, Dec. 3, 1998)
Backroom diplomatic pressure
from the Chinese consulate to prevent the Goddess of Democracy statue being
erected on UBC grounds (The Ubyssey,
Sept. 15, 1998)
B.C. Lotto Polling Bill
Doubles (Monday Magazine, Victoria, April 27, 1995)
As FOI researcher
Premier's daybook logs meetings with
lobbyist; Adviser Ken Dobell met with Campbell while unregistered in
new role. (The Vancouver Sun.
Apr. 23, 2007.)
Dispute over secret agenda books has cost
taxpayers $568,000 so far: Information watchdog, government fighting
over whether PM's books can be made public. (The
Ottawa Citizen, July 10, 2002)
Richmond hospital at high risk in quake (Richmond
Review, August 10, 2011)
Provincial differences put unique spins on financial
fraud: RCMP report (Financial Post, Feb 6, 2012)
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Stories on 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
Vancouver's
Olympics were a success, but not without shortcomings: U.K. officials. (The first
Canadian news story produced from a British FOI request) (Vancouver Sun, Jan. 3, 2011)
Getting government to disclose its costs is an Olympian ordeal. The Province (Vancouver, B.C.) Feb. 11, 2010
Records for 2010 Olympic Games
go missing. (The Georgia Straight,
April 17, 2008)
Let the Voting Begin!
Cover story on 2003 Olympic referendum in Vancouver. (Vancouver Courier, Feb. 2003)
As
FOI researcher
Politicians score seats for top events before public (Vancouver
Sun, Jan. 24, 2010)
City of Vancouver pays $377,000 for Olympic tickets (Vancouver
Sun, Jan. 25, 2010)
VANOC bosses tackle ski-jump fight, labour woes. (The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Jan 17, 2008.)
19 per cent of Olympic tickets raffled to students. (The Ubyssey, Feb.
8, 2010 )
Several
other news stories by Stanley Tromp