No extra credit for criminals
As Momin Khawaja now knows, time spent in pre-trial custody doesn’t always mean a lighter sentence later on
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Nancy Macdonald
Nancy Macdonald writes primarily for Maclean’s national section. The transplanted Winnipegger now calls Vancouver home and spends her off-hours chasing her spirited toddler.
"A lot of Ontario gangsters are moving to Calgary and Edmonton and Vancouver—a sort of ’Go West, Young Man’ movement of gangsters."
Michael Chettleburgh, author of ’Young Thugs,’ talks about the suburbanization of gangsters, what’s really going on in Metro Vancouver and the Harper government’s proposed gang legislation
Something rotten in Bulgaria
Corruption runs rampant in the EU’s newest member state
Detroit north
Crime, homelessness, guns: Surrey has it all. Its unlikely saviour: a Buddhist conservative.
Canada’s Western tigers take a tumble
But which province has it worse—B.C. or Alberta?
Desperation marketing
In tough times, every brand wants to be a bargain brand
Nicolas Huberdeau 1959-2009
A dairy farmer who worked from dawn until dusk, he knew each of his ‘girls’ by their spots
Something fishy in B.C.
The latest foe in the war over salmon farms? Rapacious Norwegians.
Stanley Brian Hagen 1940-2009
A ‘lutefisk’ maker as a boy, he had an unmatched run in politics. And he could work even a delivery room.
Budget ’09: This ain’t Right
Solberg: “I know government needed to escape to fight another day. But I’m worried that the price may have been too high.”