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#VanRE @SarahGrochowski Diversion of prescribed opioids. Alleged scheme involving incentives offered by dozens of pharmacies to patients, doctors & housing providers that prescribed drugs were being trafficked provincially, nationally and internationally.

#VanRE #cdnpolitics China may have launched a "disparaging" & "malicious" campaign against Liberal leadership candidate @cafreeland Freeland on the social media platform WeChat, according to the task force set up to monitor foreign election interference.

#VanRE #cdnpolitics @scoopercooper “We suspect that this CBSA officer is corrupt. CBSA were seen as tax collectors for picking on families coming across the border with two bottles of wine while behind it, there’s a truck coming with 500 kilos of cocaine.”

#VanRE #cdnpolitics @scoopercooper How the RCMP, CBSA, & Trudeau Govt Lost U.S. Trust in the Fentanyl Fight. Surveillance operations have raised alarms after placing Trudeau & a former cabinet minister in proximity to Asian organized crime suspects.

@Shelly_Royan @CBCLarsen @scoopercooper And, said Fintrac, suspicious transaction reports are finding China as “the primary country used by actors based in Canada for sourcing precursor chemicals and lab equipment, such as industrial pumps and pill presses.”

#VanRE @AmirsDoingItAll Vancouver home selling way over assessed has some wild features. A Vancouver home near UBC featuring extraordinarily glamorous touches is selling for $13,800,000, nearly $6 million over its assessed value.

#VanRE @AmirsDoingItAll Price drops over $4M in six years without a buyer. 104 at 1139 West Cordova is currently listed for $6,880,000. The last time it was sold was for $7,600,000, $720,000 below that sale. In 2019, it was listed for $10,980,000.

#VanRE @zakvescera B.C.’s government says it will seize more cash, cars and other property following recommendations from a 2022 commission report on money laundering that touted civil forfeiture as a key weapon against powerful organized criminal groups.

#VanRE @WestcoastWood Forfeiture sought against B.C. property drug 'superlab'. $485M of drugs — including enough to create 95.5M potentially lethal doses of fentanyl. Shuswap-area property where claimed to have uncovered Canada’s largest drug superlab.

#VanRE @Howellings COV enters ‘big leagues of development’. Other sites are Main & Terminal, currently a parking lot; the north end of the Granville Bridge, where 4 towers are proposed. The 2400 Motel at Kingsway, and Marpole at Granville and 67th Avenue.

#VanRE “Buyer psychology is changing rapidly, and even if there’s lower rates … there’s just too much political instability. I don’t think buyers will feel as confident in making one of the biggest purchases of their lives when there’s so much uncertainty”

#VanRE #vanpoli Andrey Pavlov, a finance professor at SFU's Beedie School of Business, said he's concerned that the city is planning to manage the tower itself because it has "no expertise" in this area. Maybe the City should hire @kbessey to manage it...��

#VanRE #vanpoli Vancouver to build thousands of homes 54- & 40-storey towers at Hornby & Pacific that would deliver an estimated 1,136 rentals, from studios to three-bedrooms for workers, families and essential workers close to jobs, schools & amenities.

#VanRE @amyjudd Armed man arrested in downtown Vancouver after barricading himself in a taxi who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. A witness told him he saw a man with a gun enter a building near Seymour and Nelson streets.

#VanRE Simpson believes the supply is coming, but the rents required to build won’t be attainable. He told the UDI audience that there are “more $5.50 sq ft rents than the market can absorb right now,” and “inventory is higher than it’s been in 10 years.”