Rio Theatre suffers another setback in booze battle - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:13:28 -0100 The struggling Rio Theatre has been forced to pull out of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival in an ongoing battle over liquor licensing. | House arrest for teen driver in fatal Surrey crash - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:19:37 -0100 The teen driver in the Surrey car crash that killed Sanjeeve Sharma has been sentenced to six months of house arrest for dangerous driving. | Drivers in fatal crash shouldn't have been on the road - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:36:19 -0100 Neither driver in the head-on crash that killed two teens in Maple Ridge this weekend should have been driving, according to information from B.C. Mounties. | Distracted driving deaths drop 40 per cent - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:31:22 -0100 B.C. Mounties say that distracted drivers are responsible for 45 per cent of all fatal and serious car crashes and are beginning a month-long ticketing blitz. | Ambassadors aren't discriminating against homeless: BCHRT - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:45:38 -0100 The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint that Vancouver's Downtown Ambassadors are unfairly harassing homeless people and drug addicts. | Cops stopped watching Pickton after he was tipped off - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:25:38 -0100 A retired RCMP officer says police were forced to stop surveillance on now-convicted serial killer Robert Pickton after the Port Coquitlam, B.C. pig farmer was tipped off. | Suspect charged in Pitt Meadows murder - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:01:46 -0100 A Maple Ridge resident has been arrested and charged with killing a 26-year-old whose body was found in a muddy field last month. | Hunting store employee allegedly stole 159 guns - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:42 -0100 A Vancouver Island hunting store employee is being accused of stealing 159 guns and hundreds of boxes of ammunition from the business. | Vancouver man charged with groping exchange students - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:18:33 -0100 A 40-year-old Vancouver man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting four international exchange students, and police believe there could be others who have yet to come forward. | Police find 1 of 5 missing Vancouver men - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:50 -0100 Vancouver police have found one of the five young men missing since last year after Daniel Holt was spotted outside the city on the weekend. |
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Pickton under surveillance 3 years before arrest - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:08:50 EST

A former B.C. RCMP officer said he ordered surveillance on Robert Pickton more than three years before he was arrested, but the stakeout was limited to 30 days.


 | Convicted leader continued with Scouts movement - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:39:12 EST

A family in B.C. feels little comfort after Scouts Canada says it was wrong to welcome a man twice-convicted of sex offences against children back into an alumni association.


 | Drunk driver avoids jail for 2009 driving death - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:14:53 EST

The parents of a 15-year-old B.C. boy killed in a car crash say the court sentence handed to the young driver Monday is inadequate and unjust.


 | Rescuer couple reunites with rescued family - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:17:34 EST

A B.C. RCMP officer and his wife have been reunited with the young girl who they rescued from a car that had overturned in a water-filled ditch Friday.


 | Ontario crash kills 11, including migrant workers - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:08:58 EST

A collision west of Waterloo, Ont., has killed 11 people — including migrant workers — in what one veteran police officer described as the worst crash he has seen in nearly 30 years on the job.


 | Missing B.C. man found living under new identity - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:08:40 EST

One of five young Vancouver men at the centre of a police appeal has been found alive and well, living in a small B.C. town under a different name.


 | B.C. student landlord accused of sexual assault - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:28:52 EST

A Vancouver man is facing four charges of sexual assault for incidents involving foreign exchange students who sublet rooms from him


 | Maple Ridge schools bring in grief counsellors following crash - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:29:03 EST

The Maple Ridge-Pitt-Meadows School District says grief counsellors will be at local schools on Monday to help students deal with a fatal vehicle crash over the weekend.


 | Controversial B.C. ski resort eyed by French company - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:28:01 EST

A B.C. business delegation is in France this week to promote Jumbo Glacier Resort, a controversial year-round ski resort west of Invermere.


 | Osoyoos Band site picked for new Okanagan jail - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:28:44 EST

The B.C. government will build a new Okanagan jail on land owned by the Osoyoos Indian Band north of Oliver.


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Missing man found living under different name outside Metro Vancouver - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:33:36 Z One of Vancouver’s five remaining unsolved missing persons cases from 2011 has been solved after police turned to the public for help last week. | Update: Dustin Paxton guilty of aggravated assault, sexual assault of former roommate - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:23 Z Dustin Ward Paxton has been found guilty in the savage beating of his former roommate. | 11 dead in Ontario road crash - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:52:16 Z An accident involving a flatbed truck and a passenger van north of Shakespeare, Ont. has claimed the lives of 11 people, according to Perth County Emergency Medical Services. | Kevin Falcon reaffirms promise of balanced budget by 2013 - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:08:10 Z British Columbia will balance its books by 2013-14, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon announced Monday. | Canucks keen on Kesler finding his ‘crazy good’ groove again in Nashville - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:21:47 Z NASHVILLE — If there's an old country music classic that best describes just how dominant Ryan Kesler was in last season's playoff series against the Nashville Predators, it just might be Crazy by Patsy Cline. | Maldives police mutiny, take over state - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:12:25 Z Mutinying police on the holiday islands of the Maldives took over the state broadcaster on Tuesday and broadcast an opposition-linked station’s calls for people to come on the streets to overthrow President Mohamed Nasheed, witnesses said. | New Okanagan prison to go north of Oliver - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:42:15 Z The B.C. government has selected the Osoyoos Indian Band's proposed site north of Oliver as the location for a new Okanagan correctional centre, Premier Christy Clark announced today. | In reversal, Obama backs lucrative fundraising drive - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:06:44 Z In a key twist to the 2012 election, U.S. President Barack Obama has reversed course and will encourage rich Democratic donors to back a fund that can raise unlimited millions for his reelection bid. | Opinion: The dollars and sense of Stephen Harper’s trip to China - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:06:47 Z Stephen Harper’s arrival in China today signals that country’s importance to a Conservative political agenda focused on trade diversification and job creation. This is the prime minister’s second trip to China since 2009, and this time he’s accompanied by a big entourage: five cabinet ministers, six MPs and a business delegation of 40. | Sitting in first class won't prevent blood clots: expert - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:07:52 Z You might feel cramped in economy class but if you're otherwise healthy you're no more likely to develop a blood clot in a leg on long haul flights than passengers in roomier first-class. |
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