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Cellphone companies to deny service for stolen devices
Vancouver :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Vancouverites may soon be better insulated against cellphone theft, with Canada's wireless industry preparing to lock out mobile service to phones registered as stolen. The strategy represents a push by carriers, spurred on by police, to blacklist
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Fraudsters target elderly Chinese women
Vancouver :: Canada | 6 months ago
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A lucrative scam is playing on the superstitious beliefs of elderly Chinese women, say Vancouver police...In each instance, the fraudsters have approached an elderly Chinese woman and told her that she was being followed by a ghost or evil spirit
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Pot possession charges in B.C. up 88 per cent in 10 years
Justice :: IL :: USA | 7 months ago
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A recent report on British Columbia crime trends shows the number of marijuana possession charges continues to climb, despite the fact many British Columbians want to see marijuana decriminalized. The crime trends report, released in late October by
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Young man dead in targeted shooting in East Vancouver Halloween night
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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A 21-year-old Vancouver man out on bail on charges of drug trafficking and unlawful confinement was shot to death at his parents' eastside home on Halloween night. Alexander Julian Liang was gunned down in a targeted hit in the 3200 block of East 6th
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Family of man killed by Vancouver police stunned by news
Vancouver :: WA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Blair Gardner wants to remember her dad Christopher Lewis Ray as a compassionate caring man who always took in a stray animal. And the 19-year-old Washington state resident finds it hard to believe that her father was wielding a knife when he was
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Online vigilantes can slow police investigations, UBC study on Stanley Cup riot concludes
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Online vigilantes such as those who took part in the name-and-shame-athon after the 2011 Stanley Cup riot may believe they are helping police round up criminals. But experts say this crowd-sourced policing is heralding a new age of e-justice that can
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Vancouver police chief renews call for Internet surveillance bill
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Police chiefs across the country are urging Ottawa to bring controversial Internet surveillance legislation back online, arguing investigations are being handcuffed by outdated laws. Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu says Bill C30 will enable officers
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Disabled woman pushed to the ground by Vancouver police officer gets hearing
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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A disabled woman who was shoved to the ground by a Vancouver police officer will have her case heard by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Sandy Davidsen, who has cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis, filed a complaint in October 2010
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Two Vancouver police officers injured in crash
Nanaimo :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Two Vancouver police officers have been hospitalized after a crash last night in East Vancouver. Vancouver police say the two officers were responding to a 911 call about a car break-in around 11:30 p.m. on 41st. They were traveling west on 41st when
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Vancouver police to target unsafe driving over Thanksgiving weekend
Vancouver :: Canada | 8 months ago
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That's the message of the Vancouver police department and other B.C. and Canadian police agencies, which will be targeting unsafe driving, including speeding and disobeying intersection lights, over the Thanksgiving weekend...Howard Chow said
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