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Saturday Dec 19 | Canada.com

UN gangster no wimp, says 'proud' dad

Photos included in a government submission to U.S. Distric Court records in a detention hearing for alleged United Nations gang leader Clayton Roueche of Coquitlam show a cocaine brick, a tombstone bearing the UN gang markings, seized weapons and a group photo labelled as UN Gang.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Canada, North America, World News,

Wed Dec 16, 2009

The Globe and Mail

Gang leader jailed 30 years in cross-border smuggling scheme

Ian Bailey Seattle - From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Dec.

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Related Topix: Prison, Drugs, Canada, California

Mon Dec 14, 2009

Vancouver Sun

Prairies see highest rate of gun, gang murders as national homicide rate up slightly

Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald talks with reporters in May 2009 about students Joseph Randay, 18, and Dilsher Gill, 17, victims in an apparent gangland killing.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News,

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Canada.com

Neighbourhood reunites vintage hot rod builders

The love of cars has brought a lot of people together over the years. But it was an amazing coincidence that three people who would play a crucial role in bringing to life the memory of one of Vancouver's most historic and important hotrods would end up living on the same quiet street in a small waterfront community east of Vancouver: The man who ...

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Related Topix: Canada, Pontiac, Pontiac Grand Prix

Tue Nov 24, 2009

The Abbotsford Times Newspaper

Charlie a major player on stage

Surrounded by bikers, leather jackets, punks in cheap sunglasses, bald-headed boomers and tattooed women all anxious to see and hear Texas headliner ZZ Top, the clean-cut Canadian country music artist quickly reminded a small-ish Sunday crowd why he was country's king of the '90s with a short, but superb opening set.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Mon Nov 16, 2009

CBC

Charitable donations down 5.3% in 2008

Canadians donated $8.19 billion to charities in 2008 a ' a 5.3 per cent drop from the previous year a ' as the recession led people to contribute a little less to good causes.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Life, Charity , Tax,

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Canada.com

'Total gridlock' without more bridges

A new transportation study predicts "total gridlock" in the Lower Mainland unless three new eight-lane bridges are built.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News,

Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Abbotsford Times Newspaper

Abbotsford photographer and retired military man Colin Blackburn has...

As if to serve as a sobering reminder, 40 large glossy photographs adorn the walls of The Reach gallery in Abbotsford through Remembrance Day and beyond.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Israel, Middle East

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Canada.com

Homicides up

Canada's murder rate increased in 2008, amid declines in other types of crime, according to a report released Tuesday by Statistics Canada.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Prison,

Fri Oct 16, 2009

The Abbotsford Times Newspaper

Ideas for making area more...

Who says diversity isn't working here? Where else can you go and eat Thanksgiving turkey and Diwali sweets all in the period of a week? I don't know about you, but I am completely stuffed.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Canada, North America, World News

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Canada.com

Small airports in state of emergency over bills

When Mont Tremblant International Airport threatened to close this month over unpaid bills, it was the latest small airport to cry "mayday" over having to pay for its customs agents.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Canada.com

Drug bust stuns Quast clan

Quast family members are reeling from the news that Devron Quast, the general manager of Don Quast Hyundai in Abbotsford, son of the dealership's patriarch, was picked up on drug trafficking charges in Ferndale, Wash.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Canada, Prison,

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Vancouver Television

Google Street View launches in Canada

After months of preparation -- and considerable prodding from the privacy commissioner -- Google's Street View feature has launched in Canada.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Tue Oct 06, 2009

Canada.com

A freedom we can't surrender

One of the great freedoms we enjoy in a country like Canada is the right to express our views without being punished by the state.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Opinion

Tue Sep 22, 2009

The Abbotsford Times Newspaper

MP Fast is 'shocked' by Grits' behaviour

Abbotsford Conservative MP Ed Fast said in a press release Friday that he was "shocked" that Liberal MPs voted against his government's Home Renovation Tax Credit.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Mon Sep 07, 2009

Abbotsford News

Back to the federal ballot box?

Canadian voters have little appetite for a fourth federal election in five years, according to Abbotsford Conservative MP Ed Fast, but the words of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff last week suggest that scenario could soon become reality.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Wed Aug 12, 2009

The Chilliwack Progress

Political rhetoric clouds tax discussion

Maybe ita s time to take a breather on this HST tax fiasco and look at it rationally.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Opinion

Mon Aug 10, 2009

The Chilliwack Progress

Political rhetoric clouds tax discussion

Maybe ita s time to take a breather on this HST tax fiasco and look at it rationally.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Opinion

Sun Aug 02, 2009

Boston.com

Few hurdles for Canada smugglers to get choppers

Colin Martin was on bail, appealing his sentence for leading a U.S.-Canada drug conspiracy involving aircraft.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Drugs, Prison, US News, Federal Aviation Administration,

Tue Jul 21, 2009

Leader Post

Crime across Canada declines in 2008

Crime continued to decline in Canada in 2008 following a five-year trend, according to a report by Statistics Canada.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Prison,

 

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