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2/4/2012
Vancouver/CKNW(AM980)
The Canadian Autoworkers' Union has issued 72 hour strike notice against Vancouver's Edgewater Casino.
500 casino workers have been without a contract since December.
After two days of talks at the Labour Relations Board, the union claims no progress has been made.
The workers will be in a legal strike position Monday at 3pm.
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2/3/2012
LANGLEY/CKNW(AM980)
Gory details from a woman who says she was first on the scene after two men got into a fight in the middle of Fraser Highway in Langley. Alicia Thompson and her boyfriend were driving on the highway at 240th Street when they saw a man lying in the road kicking his legs around.
"There was people, like, running out of their houses, the police and ambulance had already been called, and he had a huge gash in his head, and he just kept saying, I was hit with a crowbar! I was hit with a crowbar!"
She said the man told her he had gotten into a fight with his son and that neighbours reported seeing a man flee the scene.Police, meanwhile, say two men are in hospital with serious but not-life-threatening injuries after getting into a fight.They would only say the men are related and had been arguing over some property.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
There was movement at the bargaining table this week between BC teachers and their employers, but in the end, no progress was made. The Public School Employers' Association tabled a counter-offer on Eednesday after the teachers revealed their demands for a pay hike. The Teachers' Union wanted to sign off on only one item, saying the rest was the same as past proposals.But BCPSEA neogtiators said the deal was to be taken as is, not pieced out.Chair Melanie Joy on the chances of ever reaching a new collective agreement:
"Given the current state and the lack of conversation at the table, and the preconditions that are still set by the union, the likelihood of a negotiated settlement is remote."
Though the two sides are going into their twelfth month of contract talks, Joy says she still does not support a legislated agreement.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
The courts have given the BC government the go-ahead to recover a total of six million dollars owed by a defendant in the Air India trial. In a ruling Friday, BC Supreme Court Judge Daphne Smith dismissed appeals brought by Ripudaman Singh Malik, as he tried to avoid paying back the money he owes the government in legal costs.The judge said Malik has not demonstrated any real intent to pursue his appeals and has a history of attempting to defraud the provincial government.So, she would not grant him more time to file necessary documents. Malik has already repaid about two million dollars out of his debt. In 2005, he and Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted on murder charges linked to the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
The mayor of Kitimat is hoping plans to build at least two liquified natural gas plants within three years will boost spirits, and business, in her community.
"It'll mean jobs for people that can stay in the community now. It's really a win-win situation."
Mayor Joanne Monaghan says when she moved to Kitimat 40 years ago, the population was 15,000, and it's dropped to less than 9,000. "So it has dropped a lot. We've lost several schools. As you know, we've gone through some pretty rough times and now, suddenly, things are turning around and people are happy."
The Rio Tinto Alcan smelter is now the biggest employer in Kitimat, providing about a thousand jobs.The new LNG plants are expected to add at least 800.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
It looks like the boy who was airlifted to hospital after being struck by a pick-up truck outside an Aldergrove school, may have been horsing around in traffic.The incident happened just before 3:00pm on 29th Avenue.The boy suffered head injuries and was taken to Childrens' Hospital by air ambulance.Police now say it looks like two boys ran across the street, where there was no crosswalk.One boy made it - while the 11-year old didn't.Police say the driver remained at the scene.
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2/3/2012
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
Premier Christy Clark's political opponents say the natural gas strategy she announced today could drive up BC Hydro rates for residential customers.NDP energy critic John Horgan supports LNG plants, but says the BC Utilities Commission should be empowered to make sure residential rate-payers don't get whacked with higher rates.
"Whenever you have BC Hydro having to go above and beyond just providing electricity to customers, there's gonna be a cost."
And Conservative leader John Cummins is upset that BC Hydro does not have to be completely energy self-sufficient by 2016 and can buy extra power as needed.
"So we're gonna be subject if you will to the will of the marketplace - and that's not good."
Cummins says buying power on the open market is going to be more expensive in the years ahead.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
Another avalanche death in BC, this time near Kaslo.
It happened late this morning.
RCMP say a group of eight or nine skiers was hit by a slide and one them didn't make it out alive.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
Former Vancouver Mayor Tom Campbell has died.
He first joined council as an alderman in 1962.
He would later serve three terms as mayor in the late 60's and early 70's.
Vancouver was undergoing a lot of change back then.
The older generation was trying to come to terms with the "hippie" movement.
Campbell defended the conduct of police during the Gastown riot.
"......when it came to a vote on charging them... I voted against charing them...I was for having disciplinary action by the chief. There is not a serious charge among them. They are assault charges, which is actually just shoving, or something like that". During his time as mayor, Vancouver saw completion of many projects that literally changed the city landscape, including Two Bentall Centre, Bloedel Conservatory, the H-R MacMillan planetarium and Pacific Centre.
Campbell was 84.
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2/3/2012
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
Despite solving 99.9-percent of their cases, the Vancouver Police's Missing Person's unit hopes some media attention will help crack their outstanding cases.
For 2011, the unit has five outstanding cases, and all the missing are young men.
Sergeant Kirk Star says they include 20-year-old Thai student Pemadesh Tatti, who was last seen in March.
29-year-old Daniel Holt, 19-year-old Mitchell Galivan, 20-year-old Brian Mbaruk, and 25-year-old Matthew Huszar are also still missing.
Star says he can't say why so many cases involving young men remain unsolved, and there's nothing to suggest the cases are connected.
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