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2012 Police Dog Calendar

Published on November 3, 2011 By Sandra

The Vancouver Police Dog Squad has released its 2012 Police Dog calendar, funded and produced by the Candy Anfield Memorial Foundation.   Candy Anfield, a Vancouver police officer, lost her battle with cancer in 2004. Photographer Derek Cain, who is also a Vancouver police officer, donated his time, skill and equipment to capture the spirit [...]

Missing & Murdered Women in the DTES

Published on October 11, 2011 By Sandra

The Missing Women Commission of Enquiry commenced today, in downtown Vancouver. For those of you not familiar with the case, Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 for the murders of six women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (map).  He was also charged in the murders of twenty more women, all of them from the Downtown Eastside [...]

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly

Published on February 13, 2010 By Sandra

Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms reads as follows: Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association. Be proud [...]

Fact & Folly – Studies on Driving

Published on December 30, 2009 By Sandra

“A car behind me honked its horn and I noticed that I had slowed down to under thirty miles an hour.  It occurred to me that with clever gadgetry you could easily chart the emotional state of a driver from his variations in speed and aggression at the wheel.  I considered the idea of cars [...]

The Street Racer – Our Days in Court

Published on November 26, 2009 By Sandra

In the time between issuing the excessive speeding ticket and our the first court date, the Street Racing Hot Line worked out the wrinkles in their new system and figured out how to deal with Mr Corvette Driver.  As a result, Mr. CD had his licence revoked for a number of weeks and he found himself wallowing in the [...]