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Queen E Park Thief Caught on Video
Vancouver police are asking the public for help in identifying a woman caught on a surveillance video trying to sell one of four bronze plaques stolen...
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hippe_gal |
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Fifth human foot washes up on B.C. shore
Another severed foot has washed ashore - this time in Ladner. Const Sharlene Brooks, of the Delta Police Department, said the human left foot was spo...
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travelbug |
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Vancouverites urged to release inner vigilante
IAN BAILEY
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
July 15, 2008 at 3:33 AM EDT
VANCOUVER An eye-gouging fistfight between a good Samaritan and a ...
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Dallas_Ross |
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Thugs Arrested For Assault on Disabled Woman in West End
Vancouver police have arrested two men they suspect of attacking a woman who uses a prosthetic leg in a dispute over a disabled parking spot.
The s...
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politix_pete |
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Serial 'Groper' on the Loose, Targeting Burnaby Skytrain Stations
RCMP in Burnaby, B.C., are asking women in the Edmonds SkyTrain area to be on the alert for a serial groper believed to be 14 to 16 years old.
Ten ...
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politix_pete |
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Ninja Arrested!
Canwest News Service
Published: Monday, May 05, 2008
VANCOUVER - A B.C. teenager arrested on the weekend for allegedly trying to enter a neighbour...
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NYtransplant |
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Let There Be Light
A look at the 2008 Celebration Of Light...
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Dallas_Ross |
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1,500 bikes stolen, one man charged
Police are looking for the owners of 1,500 bicycles recovered during raids last week on a shop, a home and storage garages. So far, more than 50 bicyc...
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travelbug |
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Dangerous Offenders Finally Transferred to Actual Prisons
The nine dangerous offenders left over in the Ferndale minimum security prison have been transferred to higher security institutions. You know, one's ...
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VanRW |
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Surrey Woman Loses Parents in Hit and Run En Route Home After Engagement Party
Rupi Badh should be planning her wedding. Instead she's planning her parents' funeral.
This is murder. They killed my parents, Rupi sobbed yester...
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hippe_gal |
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Vancouver police seek homeless man's attackers
VANCOUVER -- A man known on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver as a gentle giant is fighting for his life in hospital after sustaining serious injur...
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Nag_Champa |
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Nutbar Nudist Causes a Comotion During Morning Commute
A crazed, naked man stole a large transport truck and led police on a half-hour chase through rush-hour traffic yesterday after allegedly threatening ...
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politix_pete |
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All Aboard the Censorship
A look into both the reasoning and controversy behind the notorious Bill C-10. ...
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MattJohnson |
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Tickling Bandit nailed
A Kamloops man who displayed bizarre behaviour during three break-ins last summer, has been convicted of theft. Dubbed the Tickling Bandit, Murray Ric...
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MintyPop |
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Morning Brew: August 27th (Or do you like it when I do subtitles instead of the date?)
B.C. judge sets goal of crime-free Downtown Eastside. 'Community court system will integrate health, social services; aims to clean up area by 2010 Ol...
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Beyond Robson |
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Some of Bill Reid's Stolen Pieces Found in Burnaby Home
Some of Haida artist Bill Reid's stolen artwork has been recovered, but police refused to disclose how many pieces were found and what led them to the...
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hippe_gal |
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More charges expected against UN
METRO VANCOUVER - Police expect charges will be laid here against the leader of the notorious United Nations gang and his associates after a massive t...
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Johanna |
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Foot Number Four Washes Up on BC Beach
Another human foot has washed up on a south-west BC island, bringing the total of disembodied feet to four. Two feet washed ashore in the Georgia Stra...
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Xander |
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Hells Angels Investigation Failed Because of Rivalry Among Police Agencies -- And it Cost Us Millions
From the Vancouver Sun
Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar invest...
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Shane_B |
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Monday Morning Reads
Start your week off right by checking out these stories:Newsweek has an outstanding piece on the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, pointing out that eigh...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Illegal handicap parkers sought
Man allegedly slams car door on amputee -- twice. A man who parked in a spot for the handicapped slammed a car door on an amputee's leg -- twice -- w...
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MintyPop |
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Yet Another Dangerous Criminal Walks Off
From The Province
Police Canada-wide are hunting a child molester missing from his Vancouver half-way house.
A Vancouver police spokesman said S...
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VanRW |
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Dangerous Offenders -- don't pen them in
Blane MacDougal is a multiple rapist, a murderer, and is also a free man, after walking out of Ferndale minimum security prison a few weeks ago. MacDo...
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Shane_B |
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Victoria Police In American-Style Wrong Door Raid
When we think of heavily-militarized police forces smashing in doors and wrongly arresting people, we tend to think of the good old United States. But...
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Xander |
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Line land could be lucrative
Richmond NewsInvesting in real estate within 500 metres of three of Richmond's new Canada Line stations could spark a cash bonanza.A report released t...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Helping Neighbours Fight Back Against Crime
Over the past several months, a group of neighbours in north Aldergrove have been tormented by petty property crime. Over and over again in the local ...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Canadian Man Nabbed in Australia for $80M Drug Smuggle
Vancouver man is facing a number of charges in Australia after police there busted an international drug syndicate.
Van Quyen Ken Tang, 41, is cha...
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politix_pete |
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Robbers in the vault
.Pretending Parliament. Pretending Democracy. Robbers in the Vault.By Robin MathewsOne of the keepers of the democratic system has gone, for all rea...
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Legislature Raids |
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Oldest profession much like any businessAug. 8, 20
Oldest profession much like any businessAug. 8, 2008The business of sex is surprisingly unsexy when you're getting all you want, and our little film c...
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A Closer Look |
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Michael Byers's nomination acceptance speech
Via Michael Byers on Politics, Vancouver Centre, and the NDP, his nomination acceptance speech. Excerpt:Last year, I wrote a book entitled Intent for ...
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View from Seymour |
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Who Kills Monkeys?
RCMP are searching for a suspect after someone broke into an enclosure at the Greater Vancouver Zoo and killed one of the resident monkeys.
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NYtransplant |
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Langley MP Mark Warawa's Cons. Party SPAM Flyers Questions Left Unanswered
Following this introduction, you will find the posting from Jared Butcher of The Butcher Shoppe blog. Jared Butcher of Victoria, British Columbia c...
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Langley Free Press |
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"As part of the conspiracy, the cocaine was possessed for distribution ... in Canada ..."
.The conspiracy described by Kim Bolan in this Vancouver Sun story covers the 5-year time period we are watching so closely: from the day of the polic...
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Legislature Raids |
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Five years of fair treatment for sex workers in Ne
Five years of fair treatment for sex workers in New ZealandAug. 1, 2008 As you read this, I'm somewhere in Auckland, in the midst of an intense few da...
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A Closer Look |
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The Crime Lab returns
One of my favorite drink places when I first moved to Vancouver was the Crime Lab, and I've missed it since it's closure back at the start of 2006 [mb...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Hipsters are Not a Crime
I'm going to make T-shirts that say Hipsters are Not a Crime. After the explosion of anti-hipster sentiments sparked by an article about soccer, and a...
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Beyond Robson |
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The liberal-killer and his apologists
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out the mindset of American right-wingers, and especially how they try to cope with their own nut cases. Case i...
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View from Seymour |
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To Barricade or Not To Barricade
I have a lot of sympathy for resident and business owner Roger Pinette, who runs Ponds Beautiful Trading across the street from the Hells Angels' club...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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B.C. Rail secrecy a betrayal
.When Gordo's best friends begin telling him that he has B.O., the times they are a-changin'. But Lord in Heaven, what took them so long?? - BC Mary...
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Legislature Raids |
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Oyster card hack to be published
BBCThe Oyster card is the smart card used by London Transport, Hong Kong and the Dutch rijkpas. Not only has its security been compromised, making it ...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Special Prosecutor, defence lawyer reject NDP demand that Attorney-General Wally Oppal intervene in Basi-Virk case to drop Supreme Court appeal
Both the Special Prosecutor and a defence lawyer are rejecting a call from New Democratic Party MLA Leonard Krog that BC Attorney-General Wally Oppal ...
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Bill Tieleman |
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For kids in care, a court date is more likely than a grad dance
Bob Ritchie is one of the interesting people I only know because I write a column. We've never met, but he's a prolific writer of letters to the edito...
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Paying attention |
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Crime and corruption in Canada: Flashpoint
. And now, for something completely different yet still the same ... we could watch Flashpoint this evening ... Flashpoint is about a Canadian police...
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Legislature Raids |
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RCMP reviewing new evidence on Powder Mt Ski Resort near Whistler. "We know that project was stolen from us" says Hartwick
.The Legislature Raids has received startling information, the past week. Perhaps none is more astonishing than the story of a battle which has gone o...
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Legislature Raids |
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News: Violent Purse Snatching in East Vancouver
Wednesday, July 02 - 12:41:32 PM Shane Bigham VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Vancouver Police are investigating a violent purse snatching that happened ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Oil Execs to the Big House Over Climate Change?
Should oil executives be prosecuted for high crimes against humanity? Top NASA scientist Jim Hansen thinks so. In an interview with the Guardian news...
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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
The GuardianJames Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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The Generation Gap On Bill C-61
The proposed copyright law illustrates the generation gap that has formed between Canada's lawmakers and the emerging generation of residents and busi...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Uproar over a dead journalist
The American media and blogs are beside themselves about the sudden death yesterday of Tim Russert. A few bloggers like John Cole have been less than ...
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View from Seymour |
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Today's Local Papers
A few points of interest in today's local newspapers.First, kudos to the Langley Advance for putting the residential schools apology into a local cont...
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