Taser company's legal clout hangs over inquiry An Ohio court decision ordering a state coroner to remove all reference to Tasers from autopsy results is an "appalling interference,'' says British Columbia's chief medical officer.The maker of Taser shock weapons sued the medical examiner of one Ohio county. 5/11/2008 12:17:26 PM
B.C. teens selling themselves on the Net are victims Teen girls found advertising sex on Craigslist are suffering the effects of the B.C. government's ineffective approach to at-risk youth, the NDP charged. The Province revealed that five girls in the care of the provincial children's ministry were selling sex on the Craigslist web site. 5/11/2008 8:46:54 AM
Campbell: 'We are not changing the carbon tax. No,' Premier Gordon Campbell says he won't bend to northern concerns about his carbon tax, but avoided saying so yesterday in a keynote speech to a meeting of northern B.C. communities, who have challenged him to revise the tax. 5/11/2008 7:34:47 AM
Police inspections put damper on charity ride Motorcycle safety requirements clashed with a popular charity on Saturday. More than 100 motorcyclists gathered at M&M Performance on Highway 97 in Kelowna for the third annual Spring Run Off Ride, which raised more than $3,000 for the Have A Heart Radiothon of Astral Media. 5/11/2008 6:39:19 AM
Expectant parents consult list of baby names For parents, it's one of the most important decisions they will make for their baby. The most popular baby names in 2007 for boys are Ethan, Jacob and Noah, and for girls, Ava, Emily and Sophia, according to provincial stats. 5/11/2008 6:30:23 AM
2,000 revolt at idea of overhead lines Delta residents are making one last try to gain power for the people -- and lose the overhead power lines. About 2,000 people representing 60 interest groups came out to a community rally at South Delta Secondary yesterday afternoon. 5/11/2008 5:46:25 AM
Third deadly shooting in three days A man was killed and a 17-year-old girl injured after two vehicles driving south on Kingsway in Burnaby on Friday night were shot at by a third, sending the man's Porsche SUV crashing into the side of a building. 5/11/2008 5:43:58 AM
Rewards offered for Mia the spider monkey Two rewards have been posted for the safe return of Mia, the female spider monkey presumed stolen from the Aldergrove zoo. Two volunteers are offering $5,000, while the zoo is offering a reward up to $3,000 from public donations. 5/11/2008 5:39:18 AM
B.C. flood control awash in feds' $60m injection The funding announcement, made in Richmond Friday by federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, represents years of work by local and provincial politicians to secure Ottawa's assistance in preventing a major Fraser River flood. 5/11/2008 5:37:19 AM
Mission armed robbery suspect escapes RCMP custody RCMP offered few details on David Glen Moody's escape, except to say that he was outside the detachment when he assaulted his escort, ran down an embankment and made his getaway in a truck from a nearby works yard. 5/11/2008 5:02:13 AM
'Sexy, naughty' night for 15-to-21-year-olds A party called "Shower Girls" was the first in a series of events being held at a downtown Vancouver nightclub and was billed as "the naughtiest night of your life" on Facebook. "The general age was around 15 to 17, I would say," Sarah MacDonald said. 5/11/2008 4:35:36 AM
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Residents allowed back into suites Residents of a North Vancouver apartment building badly damaged in a deadly fire Tuesday night were allowed back into their suites for the first time Friday. But police had more bad news. 5/10/2008 5:57:38 AM
Charges laid in bear cub shooting A man has been charged after a bear cub, orphaned when its mother was killed by a car last week, was shot to death near the parking lot of a school in Whistler. Students at Whistler Secondary had developed a fondness for the cub, which had taken to feeding on skunk cabbage near the school. 5/10/2008 5:55:34 AM
Penticton one of 7 overcharging for gas Gas pumps in Hope, Kamloops, Penticton, Cache Creek, Williams Lake, Prince George and Revelstoke were at least three times as likely to fail Measurement Canada inspections compared to the provincial average. 5/10/2008 5:22:16 AM
Campbell plays games in BC Rail corruption case Ken Dobell, former deputy to Premier Gordon Campbell, confirmed yesterday that he handled confidential government documents that police seized in a political corruption case. Dobell said his actions did not contradict Mr. Campbell's assertions that no one in his office was involved. 5/9/2008 4:49:57 PM
Cop defends decision to tie up teen A Victoria police officer has defended the decision to put an intoxicated 15-year-old girl into a padded cell and keep her leashed to the cell door for four hours with her hands and feet tied. 5/9/2008 3:55:52 PM
$130-million for laid-off forestry workers Premier Gordon Campbell told the annual meeting of the Interior Logging Association in Kamloops Friday that the money will come from the community development fund. 5/9/2008 3:28:48 PM
Good Samaritan rescues woman in fatal crash Just before 3 a.m., a car with three passengers heading west on Lougheed Highway went off the road, falling down a steep embankment into water at the bottom of Mount Woodside. 5/9/2008 2:39:47 PM
Northern towns gang up on carbon tax Dozens of northern B.C. communities challenged Premier Gordon Campbell's groundbreaking carbon tax yesterday by backing a resolution that says the levy is unfair to northerners. 5/9/2008 2:28:53 PM
Merritt mother of slain children thanks community The mother of 3 children who were slain in Merritt has written a letter of thanks. Darcie Clarke in the Merritt Herald newspaper thanks "the people of Merritt and to every other community, both in and out of B.C., who have shared in our pain." 5/9/2008 12:12:16 PM
Jailer dropped from suit over police restraint Willow Kinloch has dropped her civil suit against a former Victoria police jailer after hearing evidence from Pierre Boudreau for the first time yesterday. Boudreau testified yesterday before a B.C. Supreme Court jury that he was told Kinloch had kicked jail matron Merle Edmonds. 5/9/2008 10:56:04 AM
Prosecutors told not to testify A disagreement between two arms of the provincial government over the responsibility of Crown lawyers during public probes became more entrenched Thursday. 5/9/2008 10:48:54 AM
VIA train illness likely not from B.C. B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall said health authorities in Vancouver, where the train originated, and Kamloops, where it stopped to collect and discharge passengers, were contacted Friday morning. 5/9/2008 10:25:34 AM
Fire that claimed 3 lives accidental The blaze that killed three elderly women in North Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday night was accidental and firefighters are trying to determine if smoking was a factor, RCMP said. 5/9/2008 5:59:33 AM
Bear victim released A man who survived a grizzly bear attack and drove 25 kilometres for help has been released from hospital, five days after the ferocious attack near Bella Coola. Brent Case of Ocean Falls left Vancouver General Hospital's burn unit yesterday. 5/9/2008 5:43:47 AM
RCMP Taser hospitalized man, 82 An elderly man in Kamloops, B.C., was zapped three times on the torso by a police stun gun while lying on his hospital bed. Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the Taser marks on his body and talked about the ordeal. 5/9/2008 5:30:33 AM
Hockey Tickets sold for $60,000 Cobb said a company alerted Vancouver 2010 that they'd bought a package of 10 tickets from a broker who revealed the source was a "national Olympic committee," which 2010 marketing boss Dave Cobb would not name. 5/9/2008 5:21:30 AM
Jocko killed by blow to head Jocko, the Greater Vancouver Zoo's male spider monkey, died of a crushing blow to the skull, a necropsy has revealed. Some time late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, a vandal broke into the zoo in Aldergrove. 5/9/2008 5:19:53 AM
Victim's family want charge reconsidered Let's see if I've got this straight. A judge, prosecutors, police, sheriffs, witnesses and a courtroom were set for an inquiry into what investigators believed was a murder case, when an 11th-hour memo from the accused's lawyer landed on Crown's desk. 5/9/2008 5:18:35 AM
Closed ranks no answer to terrible crime After deranged Victoria businessman Peter Lee slaughtered his family in a knife-wielding rage last fall, it took just four days for the Gordon Campbell government to announce a coroner's inquest into the terrible case. 5/9/2008 5:13:37 AM
5 teens in care of B.C. selling sex on-line Five girls in the care of the B.C. children's ministry have been selling sex on Craigslist. Police said the girls, aged 16 and 17, have been offering their services on the U.S.-based advertising website's "erotic-services" section for the Greater Vancouver area. 5/9/2008 5:11:30 AM
No end in sight for B.C. forestry woes The B.C. forest industry is bleeding thousands of jobs, but it's not bleeding them quickly enough, a forestry expert said yesterday. The sector will idle more mills and chop more jobs as it flounders through its worst year ever. 5/9/2008 5:03:21 AM
Massive bust of ecstasy chemicals at Port of Vancouver Border guards in Vancouver have seized a record-sized shipment from China of the main ingredient used in the production of ecstasy. RCMP have not said whether any arrests have been made. 5/9/2008 5:02:13 AM
Prince George mayor leaving municipal politics Colin Kinsley, the veteran mayor of the largest city in northern BC, is ending his career in municipal politics. Mr. Kinsley told the North Central Municipal Association annual general meeting he will not seek another term. 5/8/2008 5:27:57 PM
Taser: Dead man's Mother criticizes RCMP Zofia Cisowski says the death of her son, Robert Dziekanski, has drained her but she has no resources to discover for herself what really happened. And she says she's very angry that Mounties sent a team to Poland to investigate her son's background. 5/8/2008 4:59:19 PM
Gordon Campbell's Hawaiian Epiphany Premier Gordon Campbell's conversion to global warming dogma reportedly came during his annual vacation in Hawaii. Less than two months later, the government announced its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal of 33% below current levels by 2020. 5/8/2008 10:32:20 AM
Grizzly victim drives 25 km for help British Columbians are being warned to be extra vigilant of bear attacks after a man was mauled by a 400-kilogram grizzly. "We're looking at anywhere from 80,000 to 100,000 in the black bear population. The grizzly population is about 17,000. We have pretty much half of Canada's bears just in the one province." 5/8/2008 7:05:33 AM
Monkey likely died protecting mate A male spider monkey killed early yesterday at the Greater Vancouver Zoo likely died a hero's death trying to protect his mate from being kidnapped, according to RCMP. 5/8/2008 6:57:00 AM
RCMP called about pit bulls 1/2 hour before attack RCMP were called about two pit bulls that mauled 11-year-old Sean Bajwa a half-hour before the attack, but took no action, a Surrey man said Wednesday. Teacher Glen Pope, 37, was out for a bike ride Sunday. 5/8/2008 5:01:11 AM
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