Joel Ballard

Apr 23, 2024 | cbc.ca | Joel Ballard

British Columbia·NewSurrey city council passed its 2024 operating and capital budget Monday night, which includes a seven per cent tax hike for residents. The 2024 operating and capital budget passed by a vote of 5-4Joel Ballard · CBC News · Posted: Apr 23, 2024 11:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes agoThe 2024 budget includes a six per cent general property tax increase and a one per cent roads and traffic tax.

Apr 22, 2024 | cbc.ca | Joel Ballard

British Columbia·NewEarlier this month, changes to B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act quietly came into effect, prohibiting the use of fully automated self-driving vehicles. Transport Canada doesn’t currently permit the purchase or import of automated vehiclesJoel Ballard · CBC News · Posted: Apr 22, 2024 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes agoIn this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, an Uber driverless car is displayed in a garage in San Francisco.

Apr 18, 2024 | cbc.ca | Joel Ballard

British Columbia·NewA plan to charge for parking at Vancouver's Spanish Banks beach has been met with public backlash, including a new petition to scrap the move that has already garnered more than a thousand signatures. Vancouver Park Board staff say pay parking could be implemented as early as JuneJoel Ballard · CBC News · Posted: Apr 18, 2024 4:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes agoSpanish Banks is Vancouver's only beach with free parking.

Apr 17, 2024 | cbc.ca | Joel Ballard

British Columbia·UpdatedThe B.C. Review Board is currently holding a hearing to determine whether a man who killed his three children in Merritt, B.C., in 2008 should be released into the public. Allan Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for the deaths in 2008Joel Ballard · CBC News · Posted: Apr 17, 2024 10:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes agoThe Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C., in a file photo.

Apr 15, 2024 | cbc.ca | Joel Ballard

Coroner's inquest into fatal B.C. hostage-taking set to beginJoel Ballard | CBC News | Posted: Monday, April 15th, 2024 3:20 PM | Last Updated: Just nowPolice shooting in Surrey in 2019 left 2 people dead, including hostageImage | Nona McEwanCaption: Nona McEwan was killed by stray bullets fired by police while she was being held hostage by her boyfriend, Randy Crosson, in 2019.