Anyone hearing about these bomb threats coming via email? One business I know of in Vancouver has received one (or two) and he had heard of others.
Matt.
Posted 13 December 2018 - 05:05 PM
Anyone hearing about these bomb threats coming via email? One business I know of in Vancouver has received one (or two) and he had heard of others.
Matt.
Posted 13 December 2018 - 05:05 PM
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Posted 13 December 2018 - 06:17 PM
Ah,it was just reported on the CBC radio news. Emailed in in places across Canada basically, demanding payment via Bitcoin. Hoax, obvs.
Matt.
Posted 13 December 2018 - 06:29 PM
Anyone hearing about these bomb threats coming via email? One business I know of in Vancouver has received one (or two) and he had heard of others.
Matt.
Victoria Film Commission received one (Film Commissioner posted email on her Facebook page - Film commission is housed in a BC Gov. building)
Edited by VIResident, 13 December 2018 - 06:30 PM.
Posted 19 December 2018 - 02:25 PM
B.C.'s Appeal Court has upheld a ruling that gave a couple convicted of planting explosive devices on the grounds of the legislature their freedom in 2016.
In a unanimous decision released Wednesday morning, the Appeal Court sided with a B.C. Supreme Court judge who stayed proceedings in the terrorism trial of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody on the grounds that the police investigation was a "travesty of justice."
https://www.cbc.ca/n...-2018-1.4952431
Posted 19 December 2018 - 06:54 PM
Posted 25 January 2019 - 04:31 PM
Posted 25 January 2019 - 05:44 PM
^Now that it has been revealed that one of the suspects entered Canada in 2017 as part of the Syrian refugee surge (that we allowed to enter without proper background screening) I suspect that the Government will try to manage the message from here on out.
https://www.cbc.ca/n...uslim-1.4992672
Posted 25 January 2019 - 11:04 PM
^Now that it has been revealed that one of the suspects entered Canada in 2017 as part of the Syrian refugee surge (that we allowed to enter without proper background screening) I suspect that the Government will try to manage the message from here on out.
https://www.cbc.ca/n...uslim-1.4992672
Posted 26 January 2019 - 01:05 AM
Posted 26 January 2019 - 01:34 AM
Posted 26 January 2019 - 03:11 AM
Posted 15 October 2019 - 08:57 AM
Not terrorists but treated like some:
The Connors family didn’t plan to be on the unmarked road.
Originally from the United Kingdom, the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour. But before the family could get very far, flashing lights from a police car appeared in their rearview mirror. The officer that pulled them over was American — they had accidentally crossed the border.
https://www.washingt...tion-detention/
They spent the day in a cold, miserable cell with a mylar sheet and the next day were taken to a Tacoma detention centre. The following day the mother and baby were taken to a hotel and the next day the whole family was flown to Pennsylvania to stay at yet another terrible facility where they are at this hour. Only after the family was finally permitted to contact the UK embassy did sanitary conditions improve.
The whole saga is worth reading. Kafka-esque. Of course, we are only outraged when this happens to "good" people.
Edited by Rob Randall, 15 October 2019 - 08:58 AM.
"[Randall's] aesthetic poll was more accurate than his political acumen"
-Tom Hawthorne, Toronto Globe and Mail
Posted 15 October 2019 - 09:06 AM
The more I think about it, the more I support Maxime Bernier's border "fence". Help us law-abiding citizens stay out of the whackhole arms of the American CBP and ICE. Let's make the Americans pay for it, too. Heck, the cost of housing/transporting this family to date would have paid for at least a few hundred metres, no?
Posted 15 October 2019 - 09:08 AM
it's paywalled but what "animal" was blocking them from staying on the canada side of the border?
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 October 2019 - 09:08 AM.
Posted 15 October 2019 - 09:12 AM
Here's a non-paywall version of the story from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
https://www.inquirer...y-20191014.html
This happens way too often. It was even on an episode of that Border Security show. That stupid road needs to be redesigned assuming they went down the same road that's fooled past drivers.
Here's the jogger story from last year:
https://www.cbc.ca/n...weeks-1.4717060
Edited by Rob Randall, 15 October 2019 - 09:16 AM.
"[Randall's] aesthetic poll was more accurate than his political acumen"
-Tom Hawthorne, Toronto Globe and Mail
Posted 15 October 2019 - 09:18 AM
it still does not make much sense. they swerved to avoid an animal (they don't know what type) and suddenly they were in the usa? come on.
the beach at white rock i don't know i'm sure there are at least signs there. and she was neither american or canadian and she had no id on her.
it sounds like both cases could have been better handled but for every "mistake" like this border guards probably catch 100 illegals trying a clandestine crossing. eventually you just say to them all "tell it to the judge" and throw them in jail.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 October 2019 - 09:26 AM.
Posted 15 October 2019 - 09:25 AM
Their scenario sounds about as likely as getting a black eye by kneeling down to tie your shoe while a door suddenly swings open and smokes you in the eye.
Something's very fishy here. I'm quite familiar with 0 Avenue and there's no way you wouldn't know you're driving across the border if you're aware you're driving along the border. The road is dead straight. Turn south and you're in the US, and that fact is communicated along the entire stretch of that road.
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Posted 15 October 2019 - 09:38 AM
Furthermore, if memory serves correct I don't think there are even any roads along that section of the border that allow you to just turn south, you need to go over a grassy median. So once you've done that you know something's up.
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