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Crown wants jail in HIV case Canada Dot Com | An HIV-positive man convicted of exposing two women to the deadly virus should be sentenced to four to five years in jail, a prosecutor said yesterday. | After a two-week trial in February, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Michael Wright, a 60-year-old father of four, guilty of two counts of aggrav...
Marijuana popular among educated, middle-class: study Canada Dot Com | A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are "making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana" to relax or focus on leisure activities, say researchers behind a new study spotlighting pot smoking behind the nation's picket fences. | These people might drive minivans to their full-time ...
Taser killed my son, mom says Canada Dot Com | All four presenters yesterday at the Braidwood Inquiry into Taser use called for a moratorium on its use, including the weeping mother of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, who saw her son die seconds after being Tasered. | Zofia Cisowski said she...
Murder rate doubles Canada Dot Com | The murder rate in the Lower Mainland has doubled over the last year. | And homicide investigators say the Abbotsford murder last week of Duane Harvey Meyer, 41, of Mission, is the | latest example of someone linked to organized crime being targete...
Alcoholics need sobering centres, not jail, inquiry hears Canada Dot Com | VANCOUVER - A lawyer representing the Vancouver police department asked Frank Paul Inquiry Commissioner William Davies to recommend that sobering centres be set up in Vancouver to handle chronic alcoholics so police would no longer have to detain t...
Cabinet-making begins with the pundits poking at the incumbents Canada Dot Com | VICTORIA - Premier Gordon Campbell having set May 29 as the deadline for B.C. Liberals to say if they will run in the next election, reporters spent part of the week asking ministers their intentions. | Those who decide to retire can expect to be l...
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Kudos Canada Dot Com | The Electronic Health Library of British Columbia has been honoured with a British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Merit Award. Nominees are evaluated on the basis of overall...
Billy Bob's son dating older woman? Canada Dot Com | Billy Bob Thornton's 14-year-old son is reportedly being questioned by police about his relationship with an older woman. | William Thornton is rumoured to be under investigation...
Malaysia angers women with travel-restriction idea Canada Dot Com | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian women's groups reacted with outrage on Sunday to a government proposal to impose restrictions on women planning to travel overseas on their own...
Teen gets $60,000 in police abuse suit Canada Dot Com | VICTORIA -- A jury awarded a Vancouver Island teen $60,000 Thursday after finding police used excessive force when officers handcuffed her, tied her feet together, then tethered her to a locked jail cell door. | Willow Kinloch was 15 years old and ...
Uncle, aunt should pay big for sex abuse Canada Dot Com | The lawyer acting for a woman sexually attacked countless times as a child called on the court to make an example of the deviant Sikh uncle and his wife by hitting them in the pocketbook -- to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages...
Crown wants jail in HIV case Canada Dot Com | An HIV-positive man convicted of exposing two women to the deadly virus should be sentenced to four to five years in jail, a prosecutor said yesterday. | After a two-week trial in February, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Michael Wright, a 60-year-...
India says BlackBerry issue nears resolution Canada Dot Com | Reuters Published: Friday, May 16, 2008 | Change font size | Story tools presented by try{ var arr_da = document.getElementById('ad-leaderboard').getElementsByTagName('script'); for(var i in arr_da){ if(typeof(arr_da[i].src) != 'undefined' && (/http://ad.ca.doubleclick.net/.test(arr_da[i].src))){ var str_da_src = arr_da[i].src; str_da_src = st...
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