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Cut to a different point of view
Lumberjacks came to my neighbour’s yard today and cut down every tree standing. Pine. Poplar. Cedar. Plum. Alder. The view has changed dramatically. The trees were originally planted to create a...
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Anne Frank travelling exhibition coming to Vancouver
An Anne Frank travelling exhibition will be at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre at the Jewish Community Centre (950 W. 41st Ave.) beginning in January and continuing until May. Volunteer...
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Man with HA links charged in brutal cabbie assault
A Vancouver man with links to the East End Hells Angels has been charged with aggravated assault after the brutal beating of a taxi driver last weekend. Lloyd Peter Robinson, 29, appeared in Vancouver...
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Man charged in home invasion that left drug dealer dead
A Surrey man with links to the street-level drug trade has been charged with killing an acquaintance during a home invasion Nov. 9. And a second man is in custody and will also likely be charged in the...
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Another murder in Surrey Saturday for a record 23 in 2013
The murder rate in Surrey continues to climb, with the slaying early Saturday of a man at a booze can in the 9100 block of 147A Street. The house is notorious for after hours drinking and the...
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Surrey Six live tweets for Nov. 25, 2013
The trial is resuming after a week-long break. There was supposed to be a key Crown witness testifying, but we are learning there will be some kind of major development. Court is expected to get...
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Sudden adjournment and new publication ban at Surrey Six Monday
The Surrey Six murder trial broke suddenly Monday after a major development was announced that is covered by a new publication ban. The trial of Cody Haevischer, Matthew Johnston and Michael Le was set...
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Another guilty plea in the Dudley-McKay slayings
Another suspect has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal 2008 double shooting of Lisa Dudley and Guthrie McKay. Justin MacKinnon had faced two first degree murder counts when he was arrested in...
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Woman charged in murder of respected Kwantlen Elder
A 41-year-old woman has been arrested in Quebec City and charged in the March 2011 murder of a respected elder of the Kwantlen First Nation. Michele Marie Serdar was picked up Nov. 24 on one count of...
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Vancouver Sun live
Streaming news and views from the Vancouver Sun newsroom. Mobile users click hereFiled under: Buzz, News, STAFF Tagged: live, News, Vancouver ...
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VSB chairperson asks government to increase education funding
The Vancouver School Board chairperson Patti Bacchus wrote an open letter to the Premier and the Cabinet on Monday urging the government to heed the findings and recommendations of the Select Standing...
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Interim Surrey Six ban may be lifted Thursday
An interim publication ban over a major development in the Surrey Six murder case may be lifted as early as Thursday, Justice Catherine Wedge said Wednesday. And the trial of three men charged in...
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Poverty affects many B.C. students, survey of teachers shows
B.C. has the distinction of having highest percentage of children living in poverty of all Canadian provinces, statistics show. Using the 2011 before-tax, low-income cut-off statistics, 153,000 or 18.6...
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Surrey Six live tweets for Nov. 28 special hearing
We are about to have a special session in the Surrey Six case. Follow my tweets here: Filed under: The Real Scoop Tagged: Breaking News, Surrey, Surrey Six ...
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Michael Le pleads guilty to conspiracy in Surrey Six case
A founding member of the Red Scorpion gang entered a surprise guilty plea to conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the Surrey Six slaughter of Oct. 19, 2007. Quang Vinh Thang (Michael) Le stood...
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CUPE strike notice served in three B.C. school districts
CUPE education workers in three Okanagan school districts served 72-hour strike notice on Thursday, the union said in a news release. The three districts are Okanagan Similkameen, Okanagan Skaha and...
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See Vancouver’s bike theft hotspots on our interactive map
I’ve got a story in Saturday’s paper on bike thefts in Vancouver — one of the few types of property crime that has been steadily increasing in the city over the past five years. Indeed, there are now...
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Foreign students: Hype, ‘chaos’ and dubious standards
It’s time for promoters of foreign-student programs to stop acting as if they are “white knights.” That’s the view of Hanneke Teekens, one of many scholars studying the so-called “internationalization...
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Fatal Shooting in North Vancouver Saturday afternoon
A man in his 60s was shot to death in North Vancouver Saturday afternoon. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team now has conduct of the murder file. Sgt. Bari Emam said the victim was shot about...
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Ex-girlfriend describes Red Scorpions drug world at Surrey Six trial
The ex-girlfriend of accused Surrey Six killer Cody Haevischer said members of the Red Scorpions who she met in 2004 took credit for a Vancouver shooting that spring. The woman, who can only be...
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