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Police warn of building site fraud Benjamin Alldritt
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NORTH Vancouver RCMP are encouraging construction workers to come forward if they believe they have been defrauded by their employer. In February of this year, a worker filed a formal complaint against an out-of-province company that was doing work on a North Vancouver site. The worker told police that the company offered to lend tools to employees who didn’t have the right gear. But the contract said if the tools went missing, the cost to replace them would be taken out of the worker’s wages. Sure enough, said Cpl. Peter DeVries, the equipment vanished from the job site one night and the luckless worker was on the hook for thousands of dollars. “Through questioning and interviews with other people on the site, the officer who conducted the investigation was able to find out that in See Investigators page 3
Hatch the rainbow
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
BARRY Kolodychuk with the Fraser Valley Trout Hatchery releases rainbow trout into Rice Lake on Sept. 29. The trout are among thousands being released into Lower Mainland lakes as part of the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. fall stocking program.
Former MP targets reporter in lawsuit A legal battle is shaping up between a former West Vancouver MP who says he’s been wronged by political enemies, and a newspaper reporter who has refused to name her sources. Jay Straith, lawyer for former Liberal MP Blair Wilson, will ask the courts next month to force Province reporter Elaine O’Connor to reveal who gave her damning information alleging Wilson had contravened the Elections Act, which was later published in an article. O’Connor has so far refused to say where
WV’s Wilson seeks journalist’s sources in defamation case
her information came from. Wilson is suing O’Connor and publishers of The Province, along with website operator Steve Janke, former provincial MLA Judi Tyabji Wilson and Liberal organizer Mark Marissen for defamation. Wilson has claimed that Tyabji Wilson and Marissen plotted a smear campaign against him “in a deliberate attempt to cause political and financial damage.” Wilson claimed Tyabji Wilson wrote an anonymous report
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containing allegations of supposed misconduct that Marissen then gave to O’Connor. Recently, Marissen asked the judge to throw out the lawsuit against him, saying there’s no proof he was involved in any political smear campaign against Wilson. But Justice Bruce Greyell ruled Sept. 20 that Marissen will have to wait until it has been decided whether O’Connor can be forced to divulge her sources. That is set for a hearing at the end of October. Straith said the issue is important because one of the tests of a responsible journalism defence under a recent Supreme Court of See Reliability page 4
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