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Federal agents have searched several Western Washington locations in an expanding investigation of two Pakistani men arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Saturday after their names appeared on terrorism watch lists. Agents also have scrutinized passenger lists for possible associates of the men on the American Airlines and JetBlue flights for which they tried to buy tickets. The men, who bought one-way tickets with cash, have not been charged with a crime and have not been publicly identified. One, a 29-year-old with a New York driver's license, had been detained and released at an unnamed airport once before and had...

Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics   They'll learn how to talk to the media   May 19, 2009 04:30 AM   THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER – Vancouver sex-trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters and will be offered media training ahead of the 2010 Olympic Games, an advocacy group said. The Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education Society, located in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, will hold the session in November. "We just want our members to feel safe. ... Media attention to the area can be a little less than compassionate and we don't...

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The state Department of Ecology in 1996 officially declared Burnt Bridge Creek to be severely polluted with fecal coliform. The environmental regulators, it turns out, had unwittingly contributed to the problem. This week, Vancouver city workers made a startling discovery near the regional office shared by Ecology and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife at 2108 Grand Blvd. At some point in the building's history, a sewer pipe that was supposed to be connected to the city's sanitary sewer main had been incorrectly connected to a stormwater line instead. "The only thing that's supposed to be in the stormwater...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 11 (UPI) -- Two more people have been gunned down in the violence-wracked western Canadian city of Vancouver, raising the region's death toll to 20 this year, police said. City police were called to an apartment above retail stores in the city's east end Tuesday morning, where they found the two victims, The Province newspaper said. The city has had a spate of gang- and drug-related shootings and attacks this year but Constable Lindsey Houghton said it was too early to tell if the double killing was part of the turf war. He said officers had...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – A surge in gang violence is hurting Vancouver's image as it prepares to host the 2010 Olympics, the city's mayor said on Friday. Police publicly acknowledged for the first time that the Vancouver area was in the midst of a "gang war" between several organized crime groups fighting over the illegal drug market. While the violence is still tame compared to that seen in other parts of the world, it is not something Vancouver is used to dealing with, Mayor Gregor Robertson said. "Vancouver has never been known for this, so in terms of our...

January 23, 2009 Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/fugitive012309.htm Possible Sighting of FBI Fugitive in British Columbia The FBI is working with Canadian authorities to confirm the possible sighting of one of its Domestic Terrorism fugitives. Last November, the Bureau announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of four eco-terrorists known as “The Family.” Rebecca Rubin, one of the four fugitives, was spotted by a tipster who may have seen her near her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. We received several tips about all of the fugitives as a result of the publicity. Some of...

Monday, January 12, 2009 Could the 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS BE cancelled? A BILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT IS NEEDED! Will RUSSIA BAIL THEM OUT? Vancouver taxpayers are on the hook for the entire billion-dollar Olympic Athletes' Village project after the lender cut off funding to the troubled development, Mayor Gregor Robertson said Friday. Now, the city is scrambling to renegotiate its deal with Fortress Investment Group before Feb. 15, when the money flow is to evaporate and construction will be halted unless a new deal is in place. "The Olympic village is a billion-dollar project, and the city taxpayers are on the...

Tuesday January 6, 2009 Outspokenly Orthodox, Pro-life Archbishop Takes Over in Vancouver Diocese By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiVANCOUVER, January 6, 2008 (LifeSIteNews.com) - The Archdiocese of Vancouver has announced that Coadjutor Archbishop J. Michael Miller will assume pastoral responsibility for the archdiocese following the retirement of Archbishop Raymond Roussin.Archbishop Miller is well-known for his orthodoxy, including on the life and family issues, and is a specialist on the Papacy and on Catholic higher education, having served as the Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, which oversees norms for seminaries, Catholic universities and colleges, and Catholic schools. He served in...

The teenager behind a "Kick a Ginger" group on Facebook is being investigated by police after reports of attacks on redhead children. Nearly 5,000 people joined the online campaign which urged members to "get them steel toes ready" for a day of booting this week. The website appears to have been inspired by a recent episode of the cartoon South Park, in which a young character called Cartman describes people with red hair as evil and soulless. Dozens of children left messages on the page claiming to have carried out attacks on "National Kick a Ginger Day" on Thursday,...

Harried family forgets tot in Vancouver airport Air Canada staff took care of boy while father flew back from Winnipeg The Associated Press updated 9:54 a.m. CT, Wed., May. 14, 2008 VANCOUVER, British Columbia - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy's father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents of the child, J.M., were scrambling between their arrival in Canada and a connecting flight to Winnipeg on Air...

Court rules BDSM case can be heard HUMAN RIGHTS / Judges reject claim that kinky sex not protected Jeremy Hainsworth / Xtra West / Wednesday, April 23, 2008 The BC Court of Appeal has ruled that the province's Human Rights Tribunal can resume hearing a complaint of alleged discrimination on the basis of BDSM practices to determine whether BDSM is protected from discrimination under the Human Rights Code and, if so, whether any discrimination took place in this case. In an Apr 8 decision, Justice Anne Rowles ruled that the BC Human Rights Tribunal was right to agree to hear...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

What do you call it when the Vancouver Public Library decides to present Felton, an apologist for the book-banning, journalist-jailing Iranian theocracy, as the featured author on the evening of Feb. 25, and as the library's contribution to national Freedom to Read Week? What do you call it when the Vancouver Public Library decides to present Felton, an apologist for the book-banning, journalist-jailing Iranian theocracy, as the featured author on the evening of Feb. 25, and as the library's contribution to national Freedom to Read Week?

The latest JFK tale tells of a tall, handsome, illegitimate Camelot kid now well into his 40s, living a life of seclusion in cold Canada. A call by the Herald to Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Washington, D.C. office yesterday was met with “nobody is available now.” Yet the New York Post reports the Bay State’s senior senator is trying to prevent Vanity Fair magazine from publishing the story of the alleged love child of the assassinated president. The Post proclaims Vanity Fair’s David Friend has been working on the article for more than a year and even sent photographer Harry Benson...

BRUSH PRAIRIE - The tracking dog Dakota was shot and killed Tuesday as teams of SWAT officers closed in on an armed convicted murderer - who allegedly had told an acquaintance he wanted to "kill a cop." Dakota, a 5-year-old German shepherd owned by the Vancouver Police Department, was shot in the head and killed about 3 ½ hours after police were called to the Lewis & Clark Railway Co. tracks just east of Northeast Caples Road in Brush Prairie....

Anti-Bush tracks among masters on hard drive that are taken The Department of Homeland Security may be substantially hipper than previously known. Chris Walla, the guitarist and producer for indie rock legends Death Cab for Cutie, says border guards seized a computer drive containing the master tracks for his upcoming solo album last month when a courier tried to deliver it to Seattle-based Barsuk Records from a studio in Vancouver, B.C. "I don't know what red flag could possibly have gone up at the border," Walla said Wednesday in a phone interview from Portland. Walla said he had been working...

Brian Baird’s statements that the surge is actually working has drawn the wrath of the Netroots. What’s striking is that it doesn’t say that Baird lied about the improving conditions on the ground. Please call Rep. Baird and thank him for his integrity and help prevent him from caving into the moonbats.

VANCOUVER -- In what Vancouver police say is likely the worst mass shooting in the city’s history, two masked gunmen burst into an eastside all-night Chinese restaurant and shot eight people in front of horrified onlookers. At least two young men died and a third man was taken to hospital in critical condition, according to Const. Howard Chow, a Vancouver Police Department spokesman. Five others were also taken to hospital with less serious gunshot wounds. The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. local time Thursday at the Fortune Happiness Restaurant, leaving a restaurant shattered, and a city on edge. The severity...

Roy Klopp survived a shocking twist in his daily bike ride Monday after being bit in the behind by a black bear near Clinton. "It wasn't my day to die," said Klopp, who returned to his job at the sawmill last night after taking a day to recuperate from the attack. Around 11 a.m. Monday morning, Klopp, 56, and his border collies, Tippy and Chuckie, met an unusually aggressive black bear in the bushes near a curve in the walking trails above Clinton, a town of about 740 residents 380 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Protected only by a pair of...