A Vancouver woman has filed a civil lawsuit against Paramount Pictures Corp. and punk rocker Stephen Jones of The Sex Pistols alleging he sexually assaulted her as a teenager while she was a movie extra more than 40 years ago.
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A Crown lawyer says holdups to the trial of a man found guilty of murdering a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C., girl were mostly attributable to the defence and “discrete exceptional events,” as he argued against the case being thrown out over delays. #AliTrial

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Ali's lawyer brought the so-called Jordan application in an attempt to stay the proceedings on the grounds it took too long for their client to get to trial, a limit Canada's High Court has set at 30 months. #Alimurdertrial

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Non-profits and food co-ops across Canda are giving people alternative options as they look to change their shopping habits and cut down on their bills #grocery #inflation
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Saturday read for The Canadian Press News: Spring break skiing

Across Canada, many of the ski resorts that are open have been working to cover up green patches and make their terrain skiable enough to entice their usual holiday visitors. #springbreak2024 #skiing

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Premier David Eby says social media companies can’t be let “off the hook” after two British Columbia teens fell victim to online sextortion scams and died by suicide in the past year. #sextortion #BCpoli

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It’s been a dismal snow season, but scientist Michael Pidwirny says such conditions will be nothing unusual in just a couple decades. #skiseason #climatechange

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The father of a murdered 13-year-old girl did not bring a gun into a Vancouver courtroom eight weeks ago, on the day Ibrahim Ali was convicted of the killing, the man's lawyer has told a B.C. Supreme Court judge. #BCCourts
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Two acrid odours spread over parts of Metro Vancouver in less than a week, raising questions about corporate responsibility to inform the public when such events cause widespread concern and confusion but fall short of health and safety breaches.
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The father of a murdered 13-year-old girl has been under police investigation for allegedly bringing a gun into a Vancouver courtroom on the day that Ibrahim Ali was convicted of the killing, the man’s lawyer has told a hearing. Latest for The Canadian Press News
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Breaking: Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, according to two sources. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Forensic genealogy is still in the research and development phase, and while its value is clear for solving crime, the ethics debate over its use has a long way to go, says an expert in the field. #BCpoli

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Undercover police officers trying to solve a B.C. murder secretly collected DNA disguised as tea marketers. The sting identified a brother of the suspect in the murder of a 13-year-old girl, by Brieanna Charlebois theglobeandmail.com/canada/british… via The Globe and Mail #policing #genomics

Investigation: The jury in Ibrahim Ali's B.C. murder trial was never told how police first came to suspect him of killing a 13-year-old girl. Here's how - undercover police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community members without their permission. thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/bc…

The jury in Ibrahim Ali's B.C. murder trial was never told how police first came to suspect him of killing a 13yo girl. Here's how - undercover police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community members without their permission thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/bc… via The Canadian Press News

BC Civil Liberties Association is 'stunned' by the operation by police disguised as tea marketers who offered free tea at a Kurdish new year festival, swabbed the cups, took identities for a 'contest'. Brieanna Charlebois uncovered this important story by sifting 100s of hours of recorded pretrial hearings