SFU experts: stock market tumble, green light on Surrey police force

Stock markets continue their drop today after a week of plummeting amid fears about COVID-19.SFU Beedie professor Andrey Pavlov is following the story and can comment.

Andrey Pavlov, 604.763.3696; apavlov@sfu.ca (available until 1 pm today)

SFU criminology professor Rob Gordon can weigh in on what happens next after B.C.’s solicitor general formally authorized the City of Surrey to establish its own municipal police force, replacing the RCMP.

Rob Gordon, criminology, 778.782.9739; 604.418.6640, rgordon@sfu.ca

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