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Six fleeing
migrants caught
Police captured five more
Chinese migrants late yesterday after taking one into custody earlier
during a hunt for seven escapees who bolted from a detention centre in
Prince George a day earlier, an RCMP spokesman said.
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Couple help
rescue woman and baby from burning car
A Surrey woman described
her husband as a hero yesterday after he pulled a mother and a young
baby from a burning car.
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Indian actor
calls for review of Vancouver Sikh
'blacklist'
An Indian movie star
turned politician says India's consular staff in Vancouver should review
a blacklist of Sikhs who are denied visas to go to their motherland for
alleged anti-India activities.
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Limo ride on
wild side
Angry parents are
demanding an investigation after a limousine driver took their
graduating teenagers on a wild high-speed chase to elude creditors
trying to repossess the limo.
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Bus rider
knocked to ground seeks police apology
Trapped on a bus full of
brawling drunks at Main and Hastings, Sally Ann Hurst figured her ride
home couldn't get much worse. Then police showed up.
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Class action
to challenge mediated deal
VICTORIA -- Some former
students who were sexually abused at Jericho Hill School for the Deaf
are planning to head to court to try to overturn agreements they signed
not to sue the government.
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Police braced
for big protest
WINDSOR, Ont. --
Anti-globalization protesters were blasted with pepper spray and
arrested yesterday as police riot squads braced for the opening of the
annual assembly of the Organization of American States.
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In Sports,
Tony Gallagher wonders why the New Jersey Devils have so much to
fear. And in Opinion,
forest activist Betty Krawczyk writes from jail.
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