News for Youse: Election race tightens, new Vancouver food carts, and Luongo starts in goal

by The Georgia Straight Staff on May 3rd, 2013 at 8:50 AM

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B.C. Liberals narrow gap An Angus Reid poll for CTV News has put the B.C. Liberals seven points behind the NDP among decided voters. The NDP has 41 percent support, compared with 34 percent for the B.C. Liberals, 12 percent for the Greens, and 10 percent for the B.C. Conservatives.

Conservative name off ballots Elections B.C. has ruled that four B.C. Conservative candidates, including former MP Bill Clarke and former party president Christine Clarke, cannot put their party affiliation beside their names on the ballot. The B.C. Conservatives are threatening court action.

Dix attends local debate NDP Leader Adrian Dix attended a local candidates debate at Collingwood Neighbourhood House in his constituency of Vancouver-Kingsway. B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark has refused to attend debates in Vancouver-Point Grey, which she has represented in the legislature since 2011.

Mayor announces more food carts The City of Vancouver will allow 15 more food carts outside of the downtown business district, locating them at Victory Square, Abbott Street near Rogers Arena, beside Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Olympic Village, and the Olympic Village SkyTrain station.

London Drugs sues rioters One of B.C.'s best-known retailers, London Drugs, has filed lawsuits against 14 Stanley Cup rioters in small-claims court in connection with the trashing of the store at Georgia and Granville streets on June 15, 2011.

U.S. job growth The U.S. Labor Department has reported that there were 165,000 new American jobs created in April.

Posters support bomb suspect The BBC has reported that posters have gone up in the Chechnyan capital of Grozny declaring that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is not guilty of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Chomsky comments on bombings U.S. left-wing icon Noam Chomsky has written an article claiming that the Boston bombings "gave Americans a taste of the terrorism that the U.S. inflicts abroad every day".

Luongo will start Game 2 Tonight at Rogers Arena, Roberto Luongo will be back in goal for the second game of the Canucks' Western Conference quarter-final match against the San Jose Sharks.

Slayer guitarist dies A cofounder of the heavy-metal band Slayer, guitarist Jeff Hanneman, has died of liver failure in a Southern California hospital. He was 49.