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Vancouver police credit surveillance, vigilance for

big drop in property crimesThe Province- Vancouver police gave themselves and their partners a pat on the back Monday for a dramatic 40-per-cent reduction in property crime since 2004.At a state-of-crime seminar to kick off National Police Week, the VPD attributed the drop in crime to having many more eyes and cameras on the street and in stores, hotels, bars and parking lots.We could not have achieved a 10-per-cent drop in crime last year, and a nine-per-cent drop [so far] this year without the expertise and resources of community and business leaders, said Vancouver Deputy Chief Const. Warren Lemcke.Police and business leaders praised programs such as the Safer Parking Initiative, Bar (and Restaurant) Watch and Operation Co-operation.Owners of major shopping centres, hotels, office buildings, clubs, restaurants and bars have teamed up with police to share information about gang violence, chronic offenders and professional criminals.The result is that Vancouvers peskiest crime, property crime, is way down.In 2004, there were 5,257 residential break-and-enters reported, while in 2009 those

numbers dropped to 2,869, a reduction of 49.1 per cent.Thefts from cars have dropped 66 per cent, from 6,713 incidents in 2006 to 2,444 crimes in 2009.Lemcke noted that there has already been a nine-per-cent drop in property crime in the first quarter of 2010, and that last year there was a 13-per-cent drop in street disorder.Lemcke also emphasized that shelters for the homeless and help for the addicted are crucial to combating crime.Const. Jeff Campbell outlined how the Safer Parking Initiative advises parking lot managers to create bright, well-lit facilities, with frequent security patrols and closed-circuit TV, to scare away persistent thieves.There was a 25-per-cent decrease in crime and, in the first year, several facilities experienced zero crime, said Campbell.Police and bar owners also are making headway in curbing the street assaults and gangster activity that turned the downtown entertainment district into the streets of shame, said Sgt. Randy Regush.There have been zero shootings for months in the downtown entertainment district, he said.

Leftover Olympic housing to go to homeless

The Province- Modular homes left over from the Vancouver Olympics are rapidly being turned into housing for the homeless and seniors.There were 320 modular units used for the Olympics and Paralympics in Whistler that are being turned into 156 permanent, affordable homes in six communities around the province.Rich Coleman, the provincial minister of housing and social development, said that during the Olympics the structures were configured to be two rooms with a shared bathroom.For permanent housing, a kitchen has to be added and the spaces altered to become everything from bachelor suites to one-bedroom apartments.It depends on the client, said Coleman, who suggested the bachelor units are more suited to those dealing with problems such as addiction while the larger, one-bedroom units would be geared to seniors that want to continue living in their communities.

The housing looked like trailers during the Olympics. But reconfigured and stacked to two or even three storeys, the homes take on a whole different look.With new roofs and exterior cladding, the units are transformed into homes.Im really please with the product, said Coleman, who said the quality is comparable with conventional wood-frame housing.The first development, a $3.35-million, 12-apartment complex for seniors, opened April 6 in Chetwynd. Ground had also been broken on a $3.7-million affordable housing project with eight apartments in a two-storey format April 8 in Sechelt.Details have yet to be announced on 52 units in Surrey on 100th Avenue intended for people that are homeless or at risk of being homeless.Coleman said Vancouver has a clear need for affordable housing, but the modular units werent a good fit for the city due to the price of land.

New home prices edge up 0.3% in MarchThe Province- Prices for new homes in Canada rose 0.3 per cent in March, following a 0.1 per cent increase the previous month and extending gains that began in July 2009, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.The March increase was in line with economists forecasts.Statistics Canada said its new house price index was also up 1.6 per cent in March from a year earlier, compared with an annual increase of 0.9 per cent in February. The growth in March was mostly due to higher prices in Vancouver, the federal agency said.The new housing price index measures changes over time in the selling prices of new houses.Higher material costs helped boost the index in Montreal and the Ontario cities of Kitchener and London, where prices saw the biggest month-to-month jump.In Charlottetown and Hamilton, which saw the biggest decreases between March and February, some builders negotiated

lower selling prices, Statistics Canada said.Of the 21 metropolitan regions included in the index, the agency reported that Victoria, Edmonton and Charlottetown were the only ones to report year-over-year declines.The report notes that the introduction of a harmonized sales tax on July 1 in Ontario and British Columbia could bring the index down in those provinces during the taxs implementation period.On Monday, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported that home construction rose 1.3 per cent in April as Canadas real estate market continued to show signs of recovery.Housing starts were up by a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 201,700 units last month, up from a revised 199,200 units in March.

New housing price index for March

(per cent change m/m y/y):Canada 0.3 1.6

House only 0.5 2.9Land only -0.4 -1.1

New housing price index for March

(per cent change m/m y/y):St. Johns. N.L. 0.0 5.1Charlottetown -0.5 -1.2Halifax 0.1 0.7Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton, N.B. 0.0 0.7Quebec 0.0 3.4Montreal 1.0 2.7

Ottawa-Gatineau 0.3 3.3Toronto and Oshawa 0.1 1.4Hamilton -0.3 0.3London, Ont. 1.7 4.2Kitchener, Ont. 1.0 1.4Windsor, Ont. 0.0 0.3Winnipeg 0.4 4.5Regina 0.0 2.9Saskatoon 0.5 1.8Calgary 0.4 2.0Edmonton -0.3 -2.4Vancouver 0.5 4.3Victoria 0.3 -4.6Source: Statistics Canada

North Vancouver City may ban news boxesThe Vancouver Sun- North Vancouver city council is considering banning newspaper boxes from public property.In his report to council on Monday, city streetscape planner Alexander Kurnicki wrote that the 216 boxes currently in the city generated roughly $28,000 in costs each year. The vast majority of this -- $26,000 -- is spent on cleaning up discarded newspapers.The balance is used on administering the annual permits on free publication boxes and business licences for coin-operated ones.Permits and licence fees earn the city just $6,175 a year.Kurnicki offered several options to council, but he recommended the city install five to 10 large multi-publication newsboxes (MPNs) similar to those seen in Vancouver at high-traffic areas and transit hubs. Private companies, such as Pattison or CBS/Decaux, provide the large multi-compartment boxes in return for their use as advertising space. Some models also incorporate a newspaper recycling bin.Newspapers provide a public service, Kurnicki wrote. As such, staff propose (the MPN option) as a balance of reducing maintenance costs and supporting access to information.But Coun. Rod Clark preferred an outright ban on newspaper boxes on public property in hopes they could be relocated to privately owned sites. The City of Surrey has taken this step.I think they did the right thing in Surrey which was taking this out of the responsibility of the municipality and putting them only on private land, he said in support of his motion. As indicated in the report, it solved the litter problem; it solved the enforcement problem. It seems to be the best system enumerated in this report.Coun. Pam Bookham said most suitable private locations, such as gas stations or convenience stores, already offered

newspapers and would likely not want a box as well.Mayor Darrell Mussatto was adamantly opposed to the ban proposed by Clark.Theres no way I want to prohibit the distribution of newspapers in this city whether theyre for sale or for free, he said. Its absolutely the wrong direction to limit this. People love their newspapers; you go up Lonsdale and those boxes empty very quickly.With Coun. Craig Keating absent, council was deadlocked 3-3 over the ban, and deferred

the question until all seven councillors are present.It wouldnt be good for our business, obviously, said North Shore News publisher Doug Foot in an interview following the meeting. But it also wouldnt be good for the residents of North and West Vancouver.We put them out in front of coffee shops, high-traffic areas. We dont have them all over corners where theyre not being picked up. I think it would be a disservice to the public to remove them from the streets.

Victoria MP proposes TV, video-game blackout one day per week

The Vancouver Sun- Its likely an impossible notion for hockey fans to turn off their televisions any time soon, but Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Keith Martin is urging Canadians to employ a one-day TV and video game blackout for their kids sake.Martin introduced a motion in the House of Commons today calling for the federal government to work with the provinces to encourage Canadians to hide their TV remotes and controllers one day each week as a way to combat the dangerous decline in fitness amongst Canadians.Our children today are expected to be the first generation in history to have a shorter life span than their parents, said Martin, also medical doctor.Kids need to be active and parents need to lead by example by getting their children away

from the TV and video games to engage in free play, said Martin, in a news release.Over the last 30 years theres been a dramatic rise in obesity levels and a significant decline in strength and flexibility, according to the recently released Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card which compared fitness and obesity levels of Canadians between 1981 and 2006-07.These health problems are entirely preventable. Inactivity and poor diets are killing us, said Dr. Martin.The report showed the average child spends more than 40 hours a week about six hours a day watching TV or playing video games.Only 12 per cent are get the recommended 90 minutes of daily physical activity, according to the 2010 AHKC Report Card.

British Columbians

fuel spending with credit

The Vancouver Sun- While Canadians were racking up the highest household debt levels among developed nations, British Columbians appeared more willing than most to keep spending on credit, according to a new report.The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, in its analysis of household debt, found that even during the recession 47-per-cent of British Columbians surveyed reported taking on more debt compared with the national average of 38 per cent.Its difficult to make a simple judgment [that B.C. is] better off or worse off, said Elena Simonova, senior research and policy analyst with the association, because provincial figures on household debt are not available.Across Canada, however, the CGA association was able to observe that by 2009, consumer debt in Canada had more than doubled since 1989 to $1.44 trillion $41,740 for every single Canadian.By the end of 2009, Canadians debt-to-income ratio reached 144 per cent.And household debt, expressed as a ratio compared with household assets, ranked as highest among 20 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.Canadian households use of financing is one of the few things that did not noticeably adjust to a changing economic reality, Rock Lefebvre, vice-president of research and standards, said in releasing the report.The growth in household debt has been strong during good times and showed remarkable resilience during challenging times.Signs that British Columbians are more heavily indebted than most include a savings rate of -3.4 per cent, Simonova added, and debt-servicing ratios that are higher than other provinces.

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Ahmadinejad: U.N. resolutions vs Iran not worth penny

Reuters) U.N. resolutions aimed at increasing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program are not worth a penny and Tehran will give no ground to pressure, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.He was addressing six world powers that are discussing imposing more far-reaching sanctions on the major oil producer.Iran says its nuclear energy program is a peaceful bid to generate electricity, whereas Western powers see it as a camouflaged effort to develop the means to make atom bombs.The Islamic Republic has repeatedly rejected international demands to halt its escalating uranium enrichment program.You should know that your resolutions are not worth a penny, Ahmadinejad said in a

message to the big powers.If you think that by making fuss and propaganda you can force us to withdraw, you are wrong. The Iranian nation will not withdraw even one inch from its stance, he said in a speech to a crowd in southwestern Iran.Ahmadinejad and other Iranian official regularly dismiss the impact of U.N. and U.S. sanctions on the Islamic state. But analysts say they are damaging the economy by increasing trade costs and by deterring badly needed foreign investment.The United States is pushing for a fourth round of punitive sanctions, including proposed measures targeting Iranian banks and shipping, over its refusal to suspend sensitive enrichment-related activity seen as geared to developing bombs.

Turkey and Brazil, both non-permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, oppose further sanctions and have been trying to revive a stalled nuclear fuel swap deal meant to minimize the risk of Tehran using enrichment for military purposes.Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is due to visit Iran on May 16 and Irans Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is also expected to be in the Iranian capital on that day.The Obama administration has accused Tehran of trying to buy time by accepting Brazils offer to mediate and said Washington would be undeterred in its thrust for new sanctions.Ahmadinejad, declaring the end of the satanic U.S. dominance, said foreign forces should leave the Middle East, warning they would otherwise receive a slap on your face.Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the United States faced isolation and major challenges, Fars News Agency reported.The United States and Israel have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve the nuclear dispute. Iran says it would retaliate for any attack.We think that the Americans are wise enough not to make an unwise act against Islamic republic, Vahidi said, speaking on the last day of naval war games in the Gulf and Gulf of Oman.

Executed Dissidents Tortured to Confess

Human Rights Watch- ranian authorities executed five prisoners, four of them ethnic Kurds, without warning their families, and have so far refused to release their bodies, Human Rights Watch said today. These executions follow convictions that appear to have relied on the use of torture.The Kurdish prisoners - Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, and Shirin Alam Holi - were executed by hanging on the morning of May 9, 2010, in Tehrans Evin prison, said a statement released by the Tehran Public Prosecutors office. The government also executed a fifth prisoner, Mehdi Eslamian, an alleged member of a banned pro-monarchist group. Authorities maintain that all five were engaged in terrorist operations, including involvement in the bombing of government and public centers in various Iranian cities.These hangings of four Kurdish prisoners are the latest example of the governments unfair use of the death penalty against ethnic minority dissidents, said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. The judiciary routinely accuses Kurdish dissidents, including civil society activists, of belonging to armed separatist groups and sentences them to death in an effort to crush dissent.The Tehran prosecutors statement alleged that Kamangar, Heidarian, Vakili, and Alam Holi had confessed to being members of the outlawed Free Life Party of Kurdistan, or PJAK, and were involved in a series of bomb plots in northwestern Iran as well as Tehran. PJAK is widely regarded by analysts to be an Iranian affiliate of the banned Turkish Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK.The government accused the fifth prisoner, Eslamian, of involvement in the bombing of a religious site in the southern city of Shiraz in 2008. Authorities alleged that Eslamian was a supporter of the pro-monarchist Anjoman-e Padeshahi, or the Kingdom Assembly. The government executed two other alleged members of this group, Arash Ramanipour and Mohammad-Reza Ali Zamani, earlier this year.Branch 30 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced Kamangar, Heidarian and Vakil to death on February 25, 2008. Khalil Bahramian, one of the lawyers representing Kamangar who was at the closed-door trial of the three men, said that gross irregularities, including the absence of a jury, plagued the initial trial and subsequent appellate court decisions upholding the convictions. Bahramian told the BBC on Sunday that Kamangars trial lasted all of 10 minutes, and that when Bahramian asked permission to present his clients case, the judge simply instructed him to write down [his] concerns.In the end [the judge] never heard what I had to say, Bahramian told the BBC. He sharply denied that his client was in any way involved with PJAK or any other terrorist

group.In addition to finding the five persons guilty of various national security crimes, the judiciary sentenced all five to death after convicting them of the crime of moharebeh, or enmity with God. Under articles 186 and 190-91 of Irans penal code, anyone charged with taking up arms against the state, or belonging to organizations that take up arms against the government, may be considered guilty of moharebeh and sentenced to death.Security forces arrested Kamangar, a superintendent of high schools in the city of Kamyaran in July 2006 in Tehran. In February 2008, Bahramian informed Human Rights Watch that his client had alleged numerous instances of abuse and torture at the hands of prison authorities in Sanandaj, Kermanshah, and Tehran. Human Rights Watch obtained a copy of a letter Kamangar wrote and smuggled out of prison in which he detailed his torture, including threats of sexual violence. Bahramian also represented Eslamian.Vakili, Heidarian, and Alam Holi made similar allegations in prison letters, indicating that authorities used torture to secure confessions from them. In a series of letters from prison, Alam Holi, a 28-year-old Kurdish woman accused of bombing a vehicle at a Revolutionary Guards compound in Tehran, described numerous instances of physical and psychological torture suffered at the hands of her captors, including beatings

with cables and electric batons.The May 9 executions were carried out unannounced - the government informed neither the lawyers nor the families of the prisoners, Bahramian and family members said. Bahramian told the BBC that the law requires that I be informed regarding my two clients... but I was not informed [of their execution] in any way. One of Kamangars brothers told the BBC that the families learned about the executions from media reports.A family member of one of the other prisoners told Human Rights Watch that the authorities have so far prevented delivery of their bodies to the families for burial. Islamic custom generally requires burials to take place as soon as possible, preferably within 24 hours.Irans judiciary should immediately issue a moratorium on all executions, Stork said. This includes the 17 Kurdish dissidents known to be on death row.The 17 Kurds presently facing execution are: Rostam Arkia, Hossein Khezri, Anvar Rostami, Mohammad Amin Abdolahi, Ghader Mohammadzadeh, Zeynab Jalalian, Habibollah Latifi, Sherko Moarefi, Mostafa Salimi, Hassan Tali, Iraj Mohammadi, Rashid Akhkandi, Mohammad Amin Agoushi, Ahmad Pouladkhani, Sayed Sami Hosseini, Sayed Jamal Mohammadi, and Aziz Mohammadzadeh.Human Rights Watch opposes capital punishment in all circumstances because of its cruel and inhumane nature.

Iran sentences Newsweek journalist in absentia

AP- An Iranian court has sentenced a Newsweek reporter in absentia to more than 13 years in prison and 74 lashes, raising concerns about a new government crackdown ahead of the anniversary of disputed presidential elections.Maziar Bahari, a dual Canadian and Iranian citizen, was among scores of political activists and other figures detained amid a crackdown following disputed presidential elections last year.Bahari spent nearly four months in jail but was released on bail of 3 billion rials ($300,000) and allowed to leave the country to join his British wife in London in October.The journalist said in an article published this week in Newsweek that the sentence was handed down Sunday on charges including assembling and conspiring against state security, collecting secret and classified documents, propagandizing against the system and insulting the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.He said he also was sentenced to one year and 74 lashes for disruption of public order.Bahari, who was arrested on June 21 as part of a clampdown on street protests by hundreds of thousands of Iranians against the June 12 vote, said a family member went to the court and was told of the judgment.A wave of judgments like the one against me, coming on the eve of the first anniversary

Attacked Pakistani ambassador leaves Tehran hospital

AFP Pakistans ambassador to Iran left a Tehran hospital in good health on Wednesday, a day after he was injured in an apparent mugging attempt by an Afghan assailant, news agencies reported.The unidentified Afghan was arrested, and Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told ISNA news agency that, during the interrogation, the accused said he wanted to mug

the ambassador.Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedi-Nia told ISNA on Tuesday that the ambassador suffered a head injury while walking to his gym.The ambassador goes

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