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Raiding the Roof
Vancouver's pre-Olympic spruce-up hits a bump in the road.
It seems the commodity price surge underlying B.C.’s economic boom cuts both ways. Thieves have made off with thousands of dollars’ worth of aluminium intended for the roof of Vancouver’s convention centre.
It could have been worse, however. Last month, police in Russia arrested a man for stealing a bridge east of Moscow and lawmakers in California are looking into tougher measures to get a handle on a metal heist “epidemic” there.
Also under the heading of silver linings, the company in charge of the Vancouver Convention Centre expansion project said the mishap would not affect the anticipated completion date. And for Sam Sullivan, the man who won Vancouver’s 2005 mayoral election largely on an anti-crime platform, there may have been one other bright spot: the theft took place in Surrey. On this occasion at least, his city remained civil and its streets safe. ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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Working Memory
4 years ago
Bump?
A bump Rob?
It's more like a bottomless pit and we've only scratched the surface. LOL
I hope small business owners have a plan to make up for the losses they are absorbing respective of increased cost of living and doing business in an Olympics region.
Hidden costs are the bane of all Olympic regions, so Vancouverites shouldn't feel like they are special. It happens to everyone.
Wait until you see what the police department has in store regarding last minute costs.
When you poke a sharp stick into a hornet's nest the inhabitants tend to get a little nasty, just like our local criminals have been doing lately.
Now that 2010 is on it's way our politicians have decided we have to clean up our act for visitors, so they're putting pressure on the illegal drug industry, which as you might have guessed uses gangs as foot soldiers. Unfortunately, now the soldiers are fighting back and shooting up fancy restaurants.
You can find more details and video of the last shootout at the Quattro restaurant you can find it on my blog under 2010 Ganglympics.
BTW, the current CUPE strike is all about the Olympics too, but no one really wants to connect the dots.
bowenmark
4 years ago
Crime rate is down, not up
Although the neocons in bed with the MSM such as Global and The Province newspaper would have you believe that all heck is breaking loose, crime is out of control and they are coming to get us in our sleep - the crime rate is DOWN, not up.
Violent crimes have been about the same amount since the 90's, and property crime has dropped a lot.
2006 Crime Report
southdeltawalker
4 years ago
Big Story?
This is "Todays Big Story"?
It is three paragraphs long and one paragraph has three lines.
Just call this posting "A Big Comment".
David Beers
4 years ago
What's a Big Story anyway?
Southdeltawalker --
Sorry to have confused with our 'Big Story' label. We just mean it say that it's a big story in the wider media, and we aim to offer a quick briefing with interesting links to bring you up to speed. Perhaps the lesson to web site editors is: avoid ironic humour in naming departments!
David
southdeltawalker
4 years ago
David Beers....
Thank you...appreciate you taking the time to explain.
SharingIsGood
4 years ago
Crime wave to come
bowenmark4 says:
The huge increase in use of drugs on construction sites can only mean one thing: when work slows down or work becomes more more difficult for a using worker to deliver, he will resort to theft to support his new habit.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=7361cbcf-7cbf-4fb6-bc36-ec37c6c428af&k=39790&p=1