-- VANCOUVER -- The parents of homicide victim Amanda Zhao are dismayed that David Emerson cancelled a planned meeting with them yesterday, and plan to stay in Canada for much of this month in hopes of meeting with the Foreign Affairs Minister and the Justice Minister.Hmmmm... who is it that's alway's moaning about the rights of those poor guys on death row? As I recall... it wasn't the Conservatives.
Canada is wary about co-operating with China because Mr. Li could face the death penalty.
So what, according to the Globe and Mail... is the solution here?
The case has drawn the attention of New Democratic MPs Libby Davies and Bill Siksay as well as MLAs Mike Farnworth and Jenny Kwan. All pledged yesterday to act as the family's champions even after they return to China.Yeah... the crime-fighting NDP... they'll fix this one right up. Because, you know... Bill and Libby... they're all about "the family"...
The bill would raise the age of consent to 16 from 14 and rename it "age of protection." It provides a five-year near-in-age exemption for 14- and 15-year-olds and a "transitional" exemption for those already in some non-exploitive relationships with people aged 14 and 15.**********
Davies and gay Burnaby NDP MP Bill Siksay spoke out against the bill on second reading - the only MPs to do so.
RELATED: Dippers profess shock and outrage...
...call for multi-billion dollar childcare plan...
Sgt. Mike Quinn carries baby found in back seat of car allegedly used in home invasion.**********
They nabbed the bad guys, the handgun and the two stolen laptops. All in a day's work, they thought, until they looked in the backseat and found a 2-month-old boy sound asleep.
UPDATE: So where exactly... is crime falling?
A 45-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the back close to his home near Finch Ave. W. and Kipling Ave. at around 10:36 p.m. He was transported to hospital and is expected to survive.**********
Officers who responded arrested a suspect in possession of a loaded .12 gauge pump-action shotgun.
Devon Vaughn Edwards, 18, faces a number of charges including, attempted murder, discharged firearm intent to wound and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
LAST WORD: The right to remain, now & forever...
...a loyal disciple of the criminal subculture...
The wall of silence has been erected yet again.*
Following the triple shooting behind a Jane St. and Wilson Ave. area mall before the sun set Thursday, not even the victims were offering up information, Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. Carl Ashley said.
"There are still no witnesses coming forward and the victims don't want to talk to us," Ashley said yesterday.
