Disgraced priest left legacy of pain

OBITUARY: HUBERT O’CONNOR, 79
Disgraced priest left legacy of pain
Bishop convicted in 1996 of sex crimes against aboriginal women in the 1960s
TOM HAWTHORN
Special to The Globe and Mail
July 28, 2007
Hubert O’Connor, who has died at 79, was a priest and an educator whose predatory sexual practices were revealed only long after he had become a bishop.
The [...]

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Delta paint manufacturer had tainted safety record

Delta paint manufacturer had tainted safety record
WorkSafeBC says Chemcraft Sadolin cited for lax ignition control
Kent Spencer, The Province
Published: Friday, July 27, 2007
A Delta paint manufacturer where a man has died in an explosion was once ordered to change the way it handled flammable liquids.
The 2005 order from WorkSafeBC noted that “flammable gas was handled without [...]

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Police veteran skirts jail in child porn case

Police veteran skirts jail in child porn case
Former sergeant given conditional sentence for possessing computer images of kids
Glenn Bohn, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, July 26, 2007
VANCOUVER – A former Vancouver police sergeant who used his home computer to view more than 2,000 sexual images of children can no longer surf the Internet but won’t be going [...]

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Industrial Disasters in Greater Vancouver

Man dies from injuries in Tuesday’s Annacis Island explosion
Thursday, July 26 – 11:02:57 AM Karen Thomson
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A man who was severely injured in Tuesday’s explosion on Annacis Island has now died. The 53-year-old man was working at the Chemcraft-Sadolin manufacturing plant that morning when the blast and fire occured. He suffered serious burns. [...]

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Vancouver City Workers Strike

Free Parking for the People! – Anti-Poverty Activists Engage in Campaign of Economic Sabotage!
Anti-poverty activists have begun a campaign of economic sabotage targeting parking meters. So far, in one night, over 300 meters have been damaged in such a way as too make them useless.
According to one saboteur, ‘This is an act of militant solidarity [...]

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89 charges laid in drug crackdown downtown

89 charges laid in drug crackdown downtown
Follow-up to similar sweep in February nets 34 arrests
Glenn Bohn, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, July 20, 2007
VANCOUVER – Sixty-three people face drug-trafficking charges following an undercover Vancouver police operation that targeted street-level dealers of crack cocaine in the Downtown Eastside.
A police roundup of the alleged dealers began Wednesday, leading to [...]

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Police officers in ‘altercation’

Police officers in ‘altercation’
Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, July 20, 2007
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver police department has launched an internal investigation into the off-duty conduct of three of its members after they got into an “altercation” with three other men early last Friday morning.
According to a brief written statement released by the department Thursday afternoon, [...]

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Ex-Employee Rage

Ex-Employee Rage
by Wayne Moore
Castanet news (Kelowna, British Columbia)
July 16, 2007
Two years after the fact, it appears a former employee still has issues with his ex-boss.
Kelowna RCMP say a man returned to his home on Stevens Road Friday evening to find a former employee damaging his property. Police say there was extensive damage to his [...]

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Police target prostitutes near Pickton trial

Police target prostitutes near Pickton trial
Three-day undercover operation results in arrests of six men, three women on New Westminster’s 12th Street
ROBERT MATAS
Globe and Mail
July 16, 2007
NEW WESTMINSTER — The New Westminster Police Service has conducted a sting operation to arrest prostitutes and their customers a few blocks from the courthouse holding the trial of Robert [...]

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Officer won’t have criminal record

Officer won’t have criminal record
Constable who kicked ‘defenceless’ suspect given conditional discharge
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, July 14, 2007
NEW WESTMINSTER -A New Westminster police officer who kicked a suspected car thief in the head will not have a criminal record, but will have to reconnect with the public by volunteering in a homeless shelter and [...]

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