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B.C. students using Facebook to organize mass walkout
More than 10,000 B.C. students on a Facebook group have indicated they will take part in a staged walkout Wednesday in response to being “put in the middle of the labour dispute between the BCTF and...
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Defence seeks to limit questions asked of Kenny Kao if he testifies
The victims in the Surrey Six murders were begging for their lives right before they were shot to death inside a penthouse apartment on Oct. 19, 2007, B.C. Supreme Court heard Monday. Both drug dealer...
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Crown seeks two-year sentence for Internet predator who sexually abused...
Here’s a shocking story that should have parents paying more attention to what their children are doing online. The Crown is seeking a two-year prison sentence and three years probation for a Utah man...
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Government unable to get Nanaimo biker removed as defendant in clubhouse battle
The B.C. government has lost a bid to remove a full-patch Hells Angel as a defendant in a civil forfeiture case over the fate of the biker gang’s Nanaimo clubhouse. The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the...
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VPD says it has not done anti-gang presentations with Mike Adiwal
A B.C. Supreme Court judge credited notorious gangster Mike Adiwal at a recent sentencing for working “with Vancouver police in giving talks discouraging youth from participating in gang activity.” In...
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Keep yours eyes peeled for Cirque thieves
Vancouver police are on the lookout for a trio of thieves who made off with jewellery and a couple masks from Cirque Du Soleil’s Totem early Saturday. The burglars took off with a necklace, a black...
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Notes from the Sun newsroom: Would former Hub master LaPointe be a fit in...
Gooooooooood morning from the eighth floor of the Granville Square tower. Here are some of the stories we talked about in the morning Hub meeting and that our reporters are working on now. In News,...
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Vancouver home-sale numbers on the rise
That sound you heard was a thousand Lower Mainland REALTORS® honking their BMW horns in celebration over their latest sales numbers. In Metro Vancouver, not including Surrey, there were 3,286 sales...
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NPA have their man – but they aren’t telling us who it is
Vancouver Sun city hall reporter Jeff Lee reports that the Non-Partisan Association, the centre-right civic party looking to wrestle control away from mayor Gregor Robertson’s centre-left Vision...
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Killer sues prison staff for losing intimate photos of wife
A convicted killer and his wife are suing the federal government after the Correctional Service of Canada lost intimate photos he took of his spouse during a private family visit last year. Kevin...
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On the town: 3 Doors Down at the casino
They were one of the world’s top-selling rock acts in the early part of the millennium, but tonight 3 Doors Down are playing an acoustic set at the Hard Rock Casino in Coquitlam. 3 Doors Down used to...
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ScanBC first to report landlord-tenant onion dispute
If you are on Twitter and not a follower of @ScanBC then you should change that. The folks who operate the @ScanBC Twitter account are radio-scanning junkies who monitor just about every available...
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Notes from the Sun newsroom
Good morning from the eighth floor of the Granville Square tower in downtown Vancouver. We wrapped up our Wednesday morning story meeting and here are some of the things our reporters are working on...
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Toxic drug fentanyl linked to 13 overdose deaths in Fraser Valley
A rash of overdose deaths in the Fraser Valley, has led the BC Coroners Service to warn illicit drug users that the toxic drug fentanyl may be being falsely sold as heroin or oxycodone. Fentanyl, a...
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UVic creates new award for former foster children
The University of Victoria has joined the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Island University in providing tuition support for some former foster children. The new University of Victoria...
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Geroy Simon retires; next stop Hall of Fame
Geroy Simon, the Canadian Football League’s all-time leader in catches and yards, officially retired from football today. He finished his hall-of-fame calibre career as a Saskatchewan Roughrider, but...
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Doing the Dougie at B.C. Lions’ camp: Veteran QB Beck shows off his dance moves
Apparently a CFL training camp isn’t just about two-a-day practices and repeating smash-mouth drills. There’s also a fair bit of dancing. Quarterback John Beck, a 32-year-old NFL vet who has had...
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Haevischer’s loses bid to limit questioning if Kenny Kao testifies
The judge presiding over the Surrey Six murder trial has dismissed an application from accused killer Cody Haevischer to limit questions asked by the Crown of a potential defence witness. Haevischer’s...
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LRB backs government’s decision to dock striking teacher wages by 10 per cent
Vancouver Sun education reporter Tracy Sherlock reports that the B.C. Labour Relations Board has ruled that both the government’s lockout of teachers and the 10-per-cent rollback of teachers’ wages are...
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Teachers dispute: Education minister promises all provincial exams will happen
From Vancouver Sun education reporter Tracy Sherlock: Education Minister Peter Fassbender promised B.C. parents and students that all provincial exams would happen and that students would get their...
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