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3/12/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
A 46 year old Calgary man has been arrested just outside of Creston after Canada Border Service Agency officers found 10 kilograms of cocaine hidden in his commercial truck.
RCMP Sgt. Duncan Pound says border guards made the find last Saturday.
He says this kind of quantity of cocaine could have only been arranged by organized crime.
The man arrested will make his first court appearance May 19th.
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3/12/2010
METRO VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
Convicted killer Steven LeClair will not be getting out of prison anytime soon.
A national parole board panel has rejected his request for unescorted temporary absences and day parole, along with full parole.
In 1980, LeClair shot three people dead in a Hastings Street beer parlour before driving to the Richmond RCMP detachment and killing a constable.
He was handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
In its decision today, the board said it felt LeClair had demonstrated little insight into his risk for violence.
LeClair will remain at Mission Institution.
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3/12/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
A BC Supreme Court judge has sentenced a full patch member of the Hells Angels on drug charges.
Justice Peter Leask has sentenced 43 year old John Punko to six years in prison for three charges: production and trafficking of methamphetamines, trafficking cocaine and possessing cash from the sale of drugs.
Leask gave punkotwo years credit because of mitigating factors, including what he called a bungled RCMP investigation--"E-Pandora", and 34 months credit for time already served.
The crown was looking for a 16 year sentence.
Hells Angels associate Randy Potts will be sentenced next.
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3/12/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Vancouver Police have released a composite drawing of a suspect from a February 11th sexual assault.
He is described as a Middle Eastern male between 25 and 30, and identifies himself as "Mike".
The attack occured in the 6200-block of Knight Street, when a man walked up to a 13-year-old girl waiting at a bus stop, and started talking to her.
He then grabbed her by the shoulders, forcibly kissed her cheek and groped her.
She was able to run away and reported it as soon as she got home.
Another man was with the suspect but was not involved in the assault.
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3/12/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Canada's Olympic Men's Hockey net minder was the big attraction at Robson Square Thursday evening.
Hundreds of people huddled in the rain to cheer as Roberto Luongo lit the community cauldron.
Luongo says he was rather overwhelmed, "It was very emotional coming down that ramp, for some reason. A lot of emotions that go by, that I witnessed playing in the Olympic Games and obviously, it was a great moment; great honour to have the privilege to carry the torch."
Among the other torch bearers was CKNW's Nafeesa Karim.
(Photo courtesy Riyaz Lalani)
The torch was then carried through downtown Vancouver as part of a 24-hour relay before the start of the Paralympic Games Friday evening.
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3/12/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
The Paralympic Torch was a big hit in downtown Vancouver Thursday.
Torchbearers braved heavy rain to carry the flame down cleared streets.
Bocce Paralympic medalist Alison Kabush carried the torch in her wheelchair. Kabush and friend Shannon Sydorak says she was thrilled to take part, "It was really cool!"
"'It's very cool, It's like she said. It's fun to be able to watch it too. We got to go to some of the Olympic events and we're going to be going to some of the Paralympic events as well. So, just to be able to cheer on fellow Canadian athletes while you're at home is fantastic, as an athlete yourself."
The torch is now on a 24-hour relay before the start of the Paralympic Games Friday.
The Ceremony will not be carried live tonight but CTV will replay it at 2 pm Saturday.
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3/12/2010
ALDERGROVE/CKNW(AM980)
An Aldergrove restaurant has been slapped with a ten day suspension after inspectors found it operating without a business license. They also found a cooler filled with liquor that was being served to high school students.
Corporal Holly Marks says the investigation focused on The Yummy House but it's unclear if this is happening at other places, "I am not aware of any at this time, that I could specifically comment on. I would hate to make a blanket statement that it's not happening anywhere else for sure because that may not be the case, but this is the one we ended up targeting because the investigation lead us there.
The Yummy House Restaurant, in the Alder Inn, has been ordered to write a letter of apology to the nearby high school for serving the students.
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3/12/2010
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
Transportation Minister Shirley Bond denies Translink is being shut out of the planning process for the Evergreen Line but she's also leveled a blast at the agency's Mayors Council.
The Mayors complain the Province seems to be working on a new funding formula for the 1.4 billion dollar Evergreen Line without involving them.
Shirley Bond says not so, "And, in fact, I'm meeting with the new Chair next week."
But Bond also complains that while the Province has long committed its 410 million dollars to the project, the Mayors have failed to do their part, "The Mayors have certainly had their chance to move the Evergreen Line forward more quickly than they have. They very much participated in the announcement about the Evergreen Line but certainly have not been able to meet the commitment they made to bring dollars to the table."
The Province says it will announce a new plan for the Evergreen Line soon.
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3/12/2010
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
It took just hours after the NDP highlighted the issue for the Campbell Government to do an about face and cancel a rent hike that would have shut down a Royal Canadian Legion branch in Victoria.
New Democrats John Horgan and Doug Routley feasted on the story in Question Period, "Liberating Holland is a front line service. Being a prisoner of war in Hong Kong is a front line service."
"Those were tough times! The decision made by that e-mail was not tough, it was cowardly."
At issue, the Government's sudden decision to impose annual rent of 26-thousand dollars on the Legion which has been exempt since 1933, and which it can't afford.
It took Minister responsible Ben Stewart three separate scrums with reporters before he announced the rent would not be charged, "Make it the same as what the arrangement was in the past, they haven't been paying anything."
"So, it's the same? So they will continue not to pay anything?"
"That's correct."
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3/12/2010
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
The Provincial Government is taking more direct control over the BC Ambulance Service in a bid to resolve some nagging problems.
Health Minister Kevin Falcon says the overhaul will allow the Government to solve chronic issues like excessive overtime and low pay for rural paramedics that helped to drive last year's eight-month-long strike, "What we're doing is more closely integrating it with the health system overseen by the Provincial Health Services Authority, and that can help us drive to the solutions that they raised."
But NDP critic Adrian Dix says these changes are too little, too late, and won't solve the larger contract problem, "They failed, they have a poisonous labour relations climate that they largely caused."
In fact, Labour Minister Murray Coell has now been given until the end of this month to figure out the impacts on the bargaining structure.
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