VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) –  A crowd of 1,000 unmasked people stood shoulder-to-shoulder chanting in downtown Vancouver Saturday for the “B.C. Freedom Mega Rally” — an event one Vancouver councillor describes as “incredibly reckless.”

The estimate of the crowd size comes from the Vancouver Police Department, which reported “no major incidents.”

School board, council and other institutions aren’t taking needed actions on racism, warns official advisory group.

Katie Hyslop 10 Jul 2020 | TheTyee.ca

Vancouver is getting failing grades from its own Indigenous advisory committee six years after it pledged to become the “City of Reconciliation.”

And the current council has failed to act in a meaningful way in its first 20 months, said Penny Kerrigan, a member of the Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee.

An East Vancouver woman is speaking out after intervening in a racist incident on Commercial Drive.

Mira Oreck was in line for the Home Hardware at Gravely Street with her son Thursday afternoon, when she heard a commotion behind her.

“A woman in the line was yelling at another man in the line who happened to be Chinese, telling him to move away from her, to move back to Wuhan, and that he was going to get her sick.”

Investigators seeking suspect captured on camera wearing mask and carrying blue bag

Police released photos of a man they are looking for after several large windows at the Chinese Cultural Centre were sprayed with what they describe as 'hateful' graffiti on April 2. (Vancouver Police Department)

Vancouver police are asking for help in identifying a male suspect after someone defaced several large windows of the Chinese Cultural Centre with what officers called "hateful" graffiti.

Hate crimes against Vancouver’s sizable East Asian population have surged for the second straight month, with police renewing their pledge to the public that the force will not tolerate these attacks, which are tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maxwell Johnson thought his appointment at the Bank of Montreal would be routine.

He's been a customer since 2014 and wanted to open an account for his 12-year-old granddaughter so he could transfer funds to her electronically when she was on the road for basketball games.

But at the Dec. 20 meeting at BMO's Burrard Street location in downtown Vancouver, an employee questioned the identification he and his granddaughter presented.