Surrey’s new mayor Doug McCallum has wasted no time attempting to end the RCMP’s contract with the city and get his municipal police force off the ground.  We’ve spoken about McCallum’s desires to replace the RCMP, but Is replacing the RCMP actually necessary? According to Roger Morrow, no.

As temperatures drop, Metro Vancouver’s most vulnerable endure harsh conditions day and night on city streets around our region. For 10 years, Blanket Society BC has been collecting and distributing blankets and other items to help keep homeless people warm (and alive). To date, volunteers have handed out over 4-hundred thousand blankets.

There’s outrage after a 16 year old North Vancouver boy was sentenced to just two weeks in custody, for a brutal sex attack on a teenage girl at Encore nightclub on Granville Street almost three years ago. The 17 year old girl was attending an underage, no booze dance event when she was assaulted, leaving her in critical condition.