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POLICE – Shoplifter pulls bear spray on clerk at Columbia Street West store

November 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

A suspected shoplifter pulled a canister of bear spray on a store employee who tried to prevent the theft of a jacket Thursday afternoon. The Summit Centre Atmosphere store, [Continue]

McQUARRIE – 99 per cent of police officers are good. Or are they?

November 1, 2020 // 2 Comments

WHEN TALKING ABOUT POLICING and police officers in B.C., I hear many speak up in defence of their community police force. They claim that 99 per cent of their officers are [Continue]

POLICE – Man, bat apprehended after fight breaks out at bus exchange

October 31, 2020 // 1 Comment

A disagreement between two men at the North Shore bus exchange today (Oct. 31, 2020) turned into a foot chase with police after a baseball bat became involved. At 1:40 p.m. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Columbia Street West is not the place to put social housing

October 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE OFTEN LIKE TO REFER to street people, the addicted and the down-and-out as mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts and uncles. It’s [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Defend or defund? One in four say cut police budgets

October 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE October 26, 2020 – As RCMP are criticized in Nova Scotia for failing to protect Mi’kmaq fishermen in Nova Scotia in a violent dispute over the [Continue]

POLICE – Another incident brings RCMP to upper Columbia Street

October 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

Police were called to a hotel on upper Columbia Street again today (Oct. 21, 2020), this time in response to a domestic dispute. The call, to the Panorama Inn in the 600 [Continue]