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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014
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Home invaders hit wrong house, then stole vehicle & injured a cop
BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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he mother of the 25-year-old victim of an armed home invasion Saturday in Chilliwack say the incident was a case of mistaken identity. And mom is angry. “I want to see these guys locked up,” she said in an interview Tuesday. “I want to see justice served the way it should be.” The victim himself said he’s just glad the two suspects were caught and the community is safer. “I’m glad they are off the street and that the weapon is recovered and that they can’t harm themselves or anyone else,” he said. (The Times is not using the family’s names to protect them.) While Chilliwack RCMP reported they believe the home invasion on Brentwood Drive was targeted, the Times has learned the suspects were at the wrong address. The registered ow ner of the home one block over that was the alleged target of the home invasion is known to police and has faced drug trafficking and animal cruelty charges in the past.
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Municipal election turnout on Bowen Island (1,920 of 2,292 eligible voters)
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Who Cares? Voter apathy hit an all-time low last election. Why doesn’t Chilliwack vote? BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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hy didn’t you vote for city council in the last election? While statistics show that just 17.5 per cent of eligible voters in Chilliwack bothered to cast a ballot in local elections in 2011, that number isn’t important. If percentages don’t work for you, know that just 9,343 residents of Chilliwack out of an eligible 53,402 voted to decide exactly who should be in charge
Election turnout in Harrison Hot Springs (691 of 1,141 eligible voters)
of a $100-million budget. But more important than the number of people who did vote is the number who did not: 82.5 per cent, or 44,059 eligible voters didn’t bother to cast a ballot in 2011. What’s wrong with this picture? “It’s bad,” says University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) political science professor Hamish Telford. Voter turnout at all levels of government has been on the decline in Canada since the early 1990s and, in the U.S.,
since the 1970s. Harken back to 1988, a year with a historic high in Canadian voter turnout thanks to the national discussion over free trade. The 1993 election, too, had good turnout, but that’s when the descent began, according to Telford. “In the U.S., the drop-off happened about 20 years earlier, after Watergate,” he told the Times in an interview this week. { See WHO CARES?, page A3 }
“One of the things we have noticed at all levels is the more competitive the race, the better the turnout.” - Hamish Telford
Election turnout in Abbotsford
(33,303 of 84,866 eligible voters)
Election turnout in Maple Ridge
(12,809 of 51,202 eligible voters)
Election turnout in Chilliwack
(9,343 of 53,402 eligible voters)
84% 61% 39% 25% 17% 6618852
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