The province is stepping up where the Park Board failed and the coyotes of Stanley Park will soon all be dead. And in Surrey, the Mayor may or may not have started an angry confrontation that may or may not have ended with his foot being run over.

Matthew calls in from Pender Island for our first post-summer episode.

Links

* Active trapping of coyotes in Stanley Park set to begin – BC | Globalnews.ca

* Update on Stanley Park coyote cull: ‘Relocation not an option’ after 45 attacks, 5 on children | CTV News

* Stanley Park coyote cull is result of human mismanagement: lawyer – NEWS 1130

* Opinion: Coyotes in Stanley Park need to be culled – immediately

* Petition created remove coyotes from Stanley Park once and for all

* Scientist take

* Petition against Stanley Park coyote cull sees boost after cull announced, hits 15,500 signees

* Coyote attacks: Expert says animals in Vancouver’s Stanley Park exhibiting ‘abnormal behaviour’ 

* Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum claims he was hit by car during confrontation

* Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum accused of intimidation in Elections BC complaint

* Developing: Petitioners say Surrey’s Mayor threatened to have them removed from private property

* Bob Mackin tweets

* Tents being removed from homeless camp in Vancouver park

* All-women development team advances social-housing project near Vancouver City Hall

* This Is What The New Pattullo Bridge Will Look Like Once Complete

* Canadian Farmer Succeeds with Olives and Gives Kelp Seaweed Some of the Credit