Stalwart white collar crime reporter David Baines has reportedly accepted a buy-out offer from the Postmedia Newspaper Group and will be leaving the Vancouver Sun.

Source: David Baines leaving Vancouver Sun | Straight.com

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No other reporter has covered the Vancouver venture community's miscreants and scallywags so closely as Mr. Baines.

Posts like "The show must go on: The life and times of Herb Capozzi" and "Your company is requested at a party for Howe Street Promoter Herb Capozzi" remind us how closely intertwined Mr. Baines has been with the city's business community over the past three decades, and how entertaining his writing was. All of Howe Street (secretly) looked forward to his Wednesday and Saturday columns.

More importantly, though, over the years Baines has, perhaps more ardently than anyone, looked out for the average BC investor's interests. Baines has had a tremendous impact on BC business and publishing and hopefully his departure from the Sun is only to somewhere new - to John Woods' Stockwatch or his own blog, perhaps?

We don't expect we have heard the last from David Baines.