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Canadian woman faked cancer on Facebook

Faked cancer - now Facebook friends want her in jail.

By Karen Mullins The young Oakville woman was young, beautiful and dying from cancer. Various fundraisers were held for the woman and a Facebook page, Change for a Cure, was set up to help her. Now, police have arrested her for defrauding good people who thought they were helping a gravely ill young woman. The [...]

August 9th, 2010 | Posted in Canada,EDITOR'S CHOICE,Featured,LATEST FROM VANCOUVER | Read More »

RCMP warning about ‘Little Girl’ sex parties

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - High school teenagers are using Facebook to lure “Little Girls” to parties in a bid to have sex with them. Cops say you need to worry about the trend. They say they are worried about it as well. “ Like parents these days don’t have enough to worry about with their teenage kids, there [...]

May 28th, 2010 | Posted in B.C.,Featured | Read More »

Ontario union targets Shopper’s on generic drug costs

By Karen Mullins TORONTO – The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is using the social media networking site Facebook to blast Shopper’s Drug Mart for fighting the public’s right to lower drug costs. On Wednesday the OFL sent an Open Letter to Shoppers Drug Mart for its attempt to undermine an initiative to lower the [...]

April 17th, 2010 | Posted in Canada | Read More »

Former Whitby church counsellor faces child sex charge

WHITBY, Ontario – A former youth counsellor at a Whitby Methodist Church has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Durham Regional Police said they were called on Saturday by the family of the girl.  She told cops she had been assaulted earlier in the day at a business office after she met 52-year-old Brian [...]

March 15th, 2010 | Posted in Canada | Read More »

Candle light vigil for slain Surrey man on Friday

Gary Bassi was found dead in the driver's seat of his car at a Surrey Park.

Family members of slain Surrey man Gary Bassi are planning a candle light vigil to remember him. It will be held on Friday. A Facebook page is filling up with outpouring of grief over the death of the 23-year-old.

October 29th, 2009 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Neo-Nazi group says Nanaimo man shot by cops was their leader in Canada

Stormfront - Neo-Nazi leader in Nanaimo.

A White Supremacist group is claiming a man shot by RCMP in Nanaimo was the leader of an Aryan-Nations inspired group called the Northwest Front. They have sent Vancouverite an audio message denouncing the “execution” of Jeff Hughes.

October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Featured,More News | Read More »

Surrey boy’s tribute to slain dad on Facebook fills up with kind words

Sam McGowan

Conor McGowan’s memorial page on Facebook is filling up with tributes to his dad, Sam, who was murdered last Wednesday in Surrey. A boy, 14, is accused of stabbing him to death.

August 10th, 2009 | Posted in Featured,LATEST FROM VANCOUVER | Read More »

Catholic school kids go to bat for teacher charged with sex crime

Teacher charged with luring a kid

Kids and former students of popular teacher Martin Careen disbelieve a charge of sexual exploitation against him and are rallying behind him with Facebook support pages. Full story.

July 8th, 2009 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

In B.C. – Facebook politicians, faithless voters

mike-geoghegan

Facebook politicians and faithless voters. Even as poll day nears, the question remains: What is with British Columbia’s political state of Ennui?

April 28th, 2009 | Posted in More News | Read More »

The ugly pictures that forced NDP candidate Ray Lam to quit race

raylam-pic-from-facebook

NDP candidate for Vancouver-False Creek has pulled out of the race for a seat in the B.C. legislature after pictures surfaced with his hands on a woman’s breast and another with people playing with his underwear. He posted the pictures on the social networking site Facebook where they would be visible to many. Lam is a planning commissioner with the city of Vancouver.

April 19th, 2009 | Posted in Canada,Featured,LATEST FROM VANCOUVER,More News | Read More »

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