News for Youse: More bomb scares, America votes, and Rihanna collaborates with Chris Brown

Delta homes evacuated The Delta Police Department has disclosed that a "suspicious package" was found outside a Tsawwassen home yesterday, resulting in the evacuation of 16 to 20 residences. The RCMP conducted a "controlled explosion" in the early evening.

New West bomb scare The New Westminster SkyTrain station was closed for a couple of hours late last night after a pipe was found with white powder; the RCMP bomb squad took it away..

Restaurateur defends shark-fin soup In an interview with the Straight Jade Palace owner David Chung said that Canadian-born critics of shark-fin soup like Coun. Kerry Jang "are called bananas for good reason". That's because he claimed they have no feelings for eating the controversial Chinese delicacy, unlike those born in Hong Kong and China.

SFU faculty defend support staff More than 60 academics at Simon Fraser University have signed an open letter defending the striking members of CUPE Local 3338 and the Teaching Support Staff Union, claiming that working conditions have deteriorated and wages have been frozen for years.

Attempted child abduction The Mounties have issued a statement after an 11-year-old girl ran away from a 5'11" Caucasian male in his late 30s who was driving a late '90s white Ford cargo van. The incident occurred on Knappen Street in Port Coquitlam at 4:30 p.m. on November 4.

America votes As Americans enter polling stations today, it's a dead heat between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, according to a poll by Politico and George Washington University. Politico's James Hohmann writes: "New laws in places like Florida and Pennsylvania related to the handling of provisional ballots raise the very real possibility that the winner will not be known today."

Montreal mayor resigns Gérald Tremblay has quit as mayor of Canada's second-largest city as a construction-company-related corruption scandal continues to taint his administration. He insisted that in his 25 years in politics, he "never betrayed" those who supported him.

Rihanna collaborates with Chris Brown Nearly four years ago, singer Chris Brown punched Rihanna in the face several times, resulting in an assault conviction, but she has tweeted that they are collaborating on a song on her newest album.

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Scare Tactics?
So, were they bombs or not?? That seems like pretty crucial info.
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KiDDAA Magazine
Talk about media frenzy friday they find what may or not be a bomb or a Kids hoax and CBC goes nuts. In Delta again it could have been kids, 20 something pranksters or Halloween. I guess in an age of fear, 9-11, white racism, its not hard to see media generating a frenzy of fear where there should be none. The skytrain like any public place should have security but the media frenzy is unneeded.
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DavidH
@ Scare Tactics: I'm pretty sure that the punches landed by Chris Brown on Rihanna could reasonably described as "bombs".
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Anonymous
Hoax or not not to be taken lightly regardless we need to have morevideo Cameras installed in every station especially for the track. Money spent on beefing up the security for public safety and new trains instead of toll gates to bust and issue these harsh fines for no ticket its not to serve us better noway its for transit to profit using there scare tactics on people that have little money to live on don't need to be treated like criminals if they can't afford the transit cost can still get on the train and pay when u can policy and everyone has the same rights and freedom to get around anywhere they want no more fines no one can pay just better service and state of the art top notch world class skytrain security so this bomb threats fear and terroriest creeps are set with before therr is aexosion
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KiDDAA Magazine
Kids playing pranks with firecrackers are not bombs no matter what the police say. Sorry these are punks dont call these people something they arent.
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