Two key sources of information about the finances and management of the 2010 Olympic Games have been abruptly cut off.

Since the B.C. Liberal government expanded gambling opportunities, more than $2 billion in gross gambling revenue poured into the publicly owned British Columbia Lottery Corporation in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005. The BCLC's executives were well rewarded for the company's success.

More than a dozen people earned over $300,000 at the University of British Columbia in the fiscal year 2004-05. UBC president Martha Piper tops the list at $434,567, followed by the head of fetal medicine, Deborah Money ($396,313), and eye-care associate professor Duncan Anderson ($395,113).

The University of British Columbia has filed suit in B.C. Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn a Labour Relations Board ruling that supported a UBC dentistry professor's bid for a promotion.

A Vancouver-based pulp-and-paper company is suing 20 American and European chemical companies for conspiring to fix the price of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used for bleaching pulp, textiles, laundry, and hair. In documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court on May 25, Norske Skog Canada Ltd. claimed that last January 31, European Commission antitrust regulators confirmed that the EC had formally charged 18 chemical companies with fixing the prices of the product from 1994 to 2001.

On May 9, many questioners flayed the B.C. Liberal government's record on poverty and human rights at a lively, well-attended debate hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress with heavy security.

The District of Kitimat is suing Alcan Inc. and the B.C. government for not reinvesting Alcan's foreign hydroelectric-power sales profits into the local community.

A North Vancouver man is suing his ex-wife in B.C. Supreme Court for defamation because she placed a "wanted" poster of him, with his photos and personal details, on a "Deadbeat" Web site's "Hall of Shame". The man alleges that the West Vancouver woman falsely claimed on www.wantedposters.com/ that he owes $25,609 in child-support payments.

Vancouver lawyer Phil Rankin has filed a legal claim against his stepmother, Connie Fogal-Rankin, over her management of Harry Rankin's estate. Harry Rankin, a former Vancouver city councillor, died on February 26, 2002. He was Phil's father and Connie's husband.

A UBC law-school graduate, screenwriter, and PhD is suing UBC for hiring a filmmaker with no degree as an assistant professor of theatre, film, and creative writing instead of him in 1995. The successful applicant, Peggy Thompson, has since been promoted to chair of UBC's creative-writing program.

The Vancouver police department's 2004 deficit figure has been chopped in half, according to a report presented to the February 16 police-board meeting. Last November, Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham startled a meeting of city council by announcing a $5-million projected deficit for 2004.

On July 22, British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis ruled in favour of the B.C. government's argument that it must deny the Straight access to Premier Gordon Campbell's telephone records.