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Tam for Greens again Election gets rolling in local riding By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com
As federal party leaders exchange barbs at the national level, the election is gearing up in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge. The Green Party announced its candidate this week – Peter Tam – while the Liberal and Conservative parties are now into the nomination process. Tam asserts that any Green MPs could have influence on government because, in his opinion, the Oct. 19 election is unlikely to result in a majority government. “The numbers are so close, right across the country,” said Tam. “A couple of Green MPs could work with any of the parties.” See Election, 5
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The NDP, with Bob D’Eith as its candidate, was the first to get its signs up after Prime Minister Stephen Harper called a federal election on Sunday.
Pit bull’s death questioned Another witness claims officers used a knife By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com
The Ridge Meadows RCMP’s killing of a pit bull is being criticized by the dog’s owner and scrutinized by the SPCA amid contradictory accounts about whether the dog’s throat was slashed or not. RCMP have twice denied taking a knife to the dog’s throat and
claim no knowledge of how it died. The dog attacked 15-year-old newspaper carrier Sarah Metzner on July 24, as she worked her route on 117th Avenue, near Thomas Haney secondary. It broke through the screen on a door to get at her. The girl’s mother was told officers cut the dog’s throat. Another witness said they did so twice. In an online account of the story, Richard Rennie posted that his wife watched almost the entire incident.
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“She said the officers tried various measures to get the dog off and in the end resulted to cutting the dogs throat twice, the second cut was deeper and resulted in blood gushing out, so there was definitely blood from the dog, as well as the girl. The dog let go about five minutes after its throat was cut.” The dog’s owner, Shannon Lind, heard a different story. Witnesses told her husband Gord that the dog was strangled using a cord laying in the yard that she had tied the dog up with.
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“My husband didn’t want to tell me, because he knew I would be upset. They strangled him with a cord.” She doesn’t know why the dog attacked the girl, and says it had never attacked anyone before. Lind explained that Clouse was a two-year-old pit bull. He had been becoming increasingly agitated by the paper carrier dropping the paper through the slot in the door. He would grab at the paper and rip it to shreds. See Pit bull, 9
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Sarah Metzner was attacked by a pit bull while delivering newspapers.
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