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Vancouver’s Harry Jerome statue gets Avengers treatment
The Vancouver Park Board says whoever placed an Iron Man helmet on the Harry Jerome statue along the Stanley Park seawall has until the end of the day to retrieve it or it will be seized. The Iron Man...
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Interactive map: How many of Vancouver’s 84 pot shops are near you?
Last week, when the City of Vancouver proposed new rules to regulate the city’s growing number of marijuana-related businesses, we ran a series of maps showing how close the city’s pot shops were to...
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HA puppet club sets up second Island chapter
The Devil’s Army, which set up shop in Campbell River in 2009, has now started a second Vancouver Island chapter in the Victoria suburb of Langford. Police there confirmed this week that a building on...
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Toy review unboxing: Toy Qube’s Kaniza cluster 01 – Andrew Bell (with video)
One of the greatest moments for any nerdy toy collector has to be the discovery of a rare and well crafted figure (that doesn’t break the bank); For me this “gem” was the Kaniza Cluster 01 by Toy...
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Gangster Ley sentenced to another 21 months for firearms convictions
Vancouver gangster Philip Juan Ley has been sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court to six years minus time served for three firearms convictions. Ley was credited more than four years for his time in...
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Burnaby apartment tenants ordered to submit dog poop to management
A landlord at a Burnaby apartment complex is demanding tenants submit samples of their dogs’ feces in order to catch the canine that made a mess in the building’s stairwell. A memo delivered to dog...
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Telus Wi-Fi will soon be available in Vancouver Yellow Cabs
If you’ve ever wanted to stream a movie or download a large file while taking a cab ride across town, you are now in luck. Telus and Yellow Cab have partnered on an initiative to outfit every taxi in...
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RCMP on the scene of possible shooting in Coquitlam
Scan B.C. is reporting that Coquitlam RCMP is investigating a shooting and robbery of a young man near Westwood and Lougheed. B.C. Ambulance took the victim away. There’s no news on his condition....
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Get the raw data for our B.C. baby name series
Last month, we ran a three-part series on baby names in B.C. A lot of the series was based on 100 years of data on boy names and girl names posted on the B.C. government’s open data site, plus...
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Update: Vancouver Whitecaps game in Edmonton cancelled due to snow
Update: The Canadian Soccer Association has postponed tonight’s Amway Canadian Championship match between the Vancouver Whitecaps and FC Edmonton at Edmonton’s Clarke Field due to snow. GAME OFF!...
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City of Langford tries to shut down Devil’s Army clubhouse
After getting numerous complaints from area residents about the opening of a new biker clubhouse linked to the Hells Angels, the City of Langford is going to court to try to get it shut down. The city...
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Three injured in Surrey shooting early Friday
Two men and a woman sustained injuries in a shooting inside a Surrey home early Friday. Neighbours of the residence in the 10400-block of 128th Street called 911 about 5:50 a.m. after hearing...
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Organized crime and the port: part one of my series
More than two dozen of the longshoremen unloading container ships on the docks of Metro Vancouver are Hells Angels, their associates, other gangsters or people with serious criminal records, a...
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Cocaine smuggler had inside man on Vancouver waterfront
How could the Port of Vancouver be misused by organized crime? It’s not that hard, according to encrypted messages intercepted by police that detailed an exchange between one Vancouver man and the...
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CBSA and police search for drugs smuggled through port
Sitting inside a large-scale imaging machine at Deltaport, a Canada Border Services agent carefully examines the computer screen in front of her. The cargo is billed as barrels of mango pulp inside a...
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Longshoremen convicted of US drug charges keep jobs
Metro Vancouver longshoreman Jason Cavezza has had a rough few years. He was arrested in Cancún, Mexico on May 31, 2008 while on his honeymoon with his now ex-wife. His father died during his seven...
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More charges laid after investigation into Surrey-Delta shootings
A police crackdown in Surrey has led to more charges against young men believed to be involved in a recent conflict that has led to a series of shootings in the region. Surrey RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr said...
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Hells Angel nominates fellow biker for longshore job
When full-patch West Point Hells Angels Ryan Sept wanted work as a longshoreman last year, he needed someone to get him into the union. That person appears to have been fellow West Point member Larry...
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Ecstasy chemicals found in shipping contained destroyed with civil forfeiture...
B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture office has provided money for the safe destruction of 1,200 kilograms of chemicals used to make ecstasy, chemicals that were discovered recently inside an international shipping...
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19-year-old former foster child died within a year of leaving care
A young girl who lived a chaotic life in and out of government care died on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside of a drug overdose at the age of 19, just 11 months after she aged out of foster care, a...
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