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11/7/2009
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
If you've ever complained about how politicians spend your tax dollars, now's your chance to do something about it.
The City of Vancouver wants you to tell them how to close next year's $28,000,000 budget gap.
The eighth and final session is Saturday at Kitsilano.
There have been some very poor turnouts at other sessions, with as few as two people showing up.
That's disappointing to inside worker President Paul Faoro, "This is where decisions are made. This is all about local government and setting priorities. What's being asked is whether or not you want to have your community centre remain open. Whether or not you want your library to remain open, whether you want to keep the great services that we have."
Give the city your priorities at the Kitsilano Community Centre at 3:30 Saturday afternoon.
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11/7/2009
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
The future King of England and his wife have arrived in B.C. for a four-day visit.
They are now in Victoria, but during a brief speech, Prince Charles talked about their eagerness to seeing the host city of the 2010 Olympics, "I need hardly say my wife and I are greatly looking forward to visiting Vancouver --which I hear is demonstrating great leadership by vying to become one of the greenest cities on earth."
The Prince was an environmentalist long before reports of global warming started making headlines.
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11/7/2009
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
Liberal and New Democrat MLA's are staying up late tonight as the debate over Bill 21 continues....that's the legislation that will impose a settlement on striking paramedics and force them back to work.
The NDP has vowed to continue the debate as long as possible.
"Ramming this through is a mistake Mr. speaker, we've got an opportunity to step back and we should step back and the government should listen," says Cowichan MLA Bill Routley.
But the Liberal majority will inevitably approve the bill, likely sometime morning, imposing a settlement on the paramedics and ordering them back to work immediately.
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11/6/2009
METRO VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
The RCMP in Richmond are investigating the possible attack of a teenage bully by his victims on Wednesday night.
An anonymous caller tipped off police about a beating in an open field on Alexandra Road at Hazelbridge Way.
The 16-year old victim, who'd been stripped of his clothing, was left in a fetal position after he'd been kicked several times by four other boys ranging in age from 14 to 17.
Police say the kicks were hard enough to leave shoe impressions on his body.
The victim also suffered taser burns to his head.
His injuries were not life-threatening.
Police believe his attackers were motivated by revenge... they claimed the boy was a bully.
Everyone involved is from Vancouver.
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11/6/2009
VICTORIA/CKNW AM 980
BC's comptroller-general is calling for a single regulator to oversee both BC's Ferries and Translink.
In her report, Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland says a new single regulator with proper resources will give BC better oversight of BC Ferries and Tranlink, much as the BC Utilities Commission oversees natural gas and electric companies.
In all there are more than 20 recommendations, including new controls on payments to executives.
It finds compensation to BC Ferries executives is too high and bonuses too easy to get.
For example CEO David Hahn's total compensation of one million dollars was more than double that of larger public sector operations.
The report says the board of directors is overpaid, and they should not be able to set their own compensation levels.
It also calls for a better balance between financial sustainability and the needs of ferry customers and communities.
The report also says earlier action should have been taken at Translink to rein in costs; and the focus now should be to maximize existing revenue sources before creating new ones.
It also says the current Mayor's Council should be turned into a transit authority with more powers and some provincial representation.
The report also finds there are too ...
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11/6/2009
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
RCMP officers will meet with families of victims of BC'S so-called Highway of Tears this weekend.
But they insist there is no major break in the case.
Corporal Annie Linteau says prior to some other media reports, the meeting tomorrow is routine.
Two months ago police searched a property near Prince George looking for the remains of 25 year old Nicole Hoar, a tree planter who disappered while hitchhiking in 2002.
They have still not said if her remains were found.
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11/6/2009
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
A Vancouver Park Board commissioner has stepped down from his role on the P-N-E board after his cousin was accused of assault.
Raj Hundal says the incident happened on October 25th at Fright Nights at the PNE.
Hundal says his cousin was spooked by an actor dressed as a mental patient and pushed him away.
The incident was reported to staff and Hundal's cousin was asked to leave.
Hundal says he regrets what happened and hopes the actor continues to work for the P-N-E.
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11/6/2009
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
The jobless numbers show BC's economy is not out of the woods yet.
The province lost 13-thousand jobs last month, taking the unemployment rate from 7.4 to 8.3 percent.
BC's Small Business and Economic Development Minister Iain Black says it's all part of the ebb and flow of an economic recovery.
He says we are still looking for a path to that recovery, and getting confirmation from Moody's this week of BC's triple "A" rating is one of the building blocks.
He denies government stimulus isn't working, pointing to job gains in the two months before these latest numbers.
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11/6/2009
PORT COQUITLAM/CKNW(AM980)
An RCMP officer is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a serious, on-duty crash.
The officer was heading to a call with lights and siren operating when he was t-boned on the passenger side by a truck. The crash sent the cruiser into 2 other vehicles effectively closing the intersection of Lougheed and Shaughnessy.
The cruiser was so badly damaged, the officer had to be cut from it.
The intersection has since reopened to traffic.
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11/6/2009
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
A man convicted in three violent sexual assaults will be locked-up indefinitely.
39 year old David Merle Haines has been declared a dangerous offender. He has a long record, but the Court is mainly concerned with three violent rapes between 1995 and 2007.
After the second conviction, Haines went through a treatment program, but less than three years later, he committed his third rape.
The Court says Haines is at a high risk to re-offend, and has rarely shown remorse.
Haines knew all of his victims, including a fourth mentally challenged woman he assaulted. He tried to drag her into an alley, but took off when she screamed and a car drove by.
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