It will take almost a year for an RCMP officer accused of impaired driving to go to trial. Constable Tina Kerton was charged with one count each of operating a vehicle while impaired, and exceeding the blood alochol limit -- after crashing her car in January. She was off-duty at the time of her arrest on Highway One, near the 160th street overpass, … [Read more...]
Lengthy meeting over West End high rise
June 12, 2012 by
A City Council meeting over a proposed high rise in the West End is going late into the night. Council will hear as many speakers on the list of 60 as they can, "I am speaking today in support of the current re-zoning application at 1401 Comox Street. I am here to support this project, there is a lot of pain, there is particularly a lot of … [Read more...]
Deputy Chief giving lengthy testimony
December 2, 2011 by
A senior Vancouver Police officer who has been on the stand in the Missing Women Inquiry since early November, says it is possible lives may have been saved if there had been one force working to solve the case of Vancouver's missing women. Deputy Chief Doug Lepard says he wouldn't want to claim having one force would have been a remedy, but … [Read more...]
Some lengthy wait times for mammograms
October 4, 2011 by
Wait times for mammograms in BC can still be up to two months in some places and only 54-per cent of eligible women get screened. Residents of Williams Lake wait the longest for a mammogram, roughly seven-and-a-half weeks. On the Lower Mainland most waits are one to four weeks. Janette Sam with the screening mammography program says … [Read more...]
