2024 January 2

Pineau v. Glacier Media Inc., 2024 BCSC 4

[varied by the Court of Appeal on March 31, 2025 by increasing the special damages to $330,000: 2025 BCCA 101]

The British Columbia Supreme Court awarded the plaintiff general damages of $72,000 and special damages of $180,000 over a defamatory 2015 Business in Vancouver (“BIV”) article which appeared both in the print edition and on the BIV website.  The online edition included a photograph of the plaintiff and was only removed from public access in July, 2021.