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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN Today he is remembered as a literary icon, whose classic works and impetuous personality firmly stamped his place into the hearts, minds and graphic T-shirts of a malleable generation. With his seminal classics — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 and Hells Angels — he spawned “Gonzo journalism,” a subjective style of

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Authorities didn't alert Calgary man of daughter's death BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN KIRO TV The last time James Shelswell saw his daughter Clare was two years ago in Vancouver. Clare, Shelswell and his other daughter Suzanna, who was six at the time, had gone to the Vancouver Aquarium, followed by a trip to McDonald's. “The kids were having a great time,” Shelswell, 48, told The Vancouver

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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN RICHARD LAM, VANCOUVER SUN FILES Former Vancouver police officer Peter Hodson was released on $65,000 bail with numerous conditions Wednesday as his parents watched quietly from the Main Street courtroom's gallery. Hodson, wearing red prison attire, remained mostly expressionless as Provincial Court Judge Jeanne Watchuk listed the conditions of his release. Hodson

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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN IAN SMITH, PNG The Vancouver park board voted unanimously on Monday to ban smoking in public spaces that are under park board jurisdiction - such as beaches, parks and trails. But smokers still have the summer to indulge their habit, as the ban does not take effect until Sept. 1. The decision, which drew a round of applause from a crowd of about 30, came after the

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110,000-square-foot, 24-hour casino to supplant Richmond's River Rock as province's largestBY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN The B.C. government confirmed all the rumours Friday, announcing a $450-million entertainment complex will be attached to BC Place Stadium, anchored by a 110,000-square-foot, 24-hour casino. Premier Gordon Campbell made the announcement at a news conference inside the stadium,

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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN Garry and Ruth Auguste and their two children scour the Internet for information about survivors in Haiti. LES BAZSO, VANCOUVER SUN Surrey resident Garry Auguste has countless friends and family in his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- none of whom he has been able to contact following Tuesday's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Calling their cellphones and

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Security workers will be able to see through travellers' clothes BY ANDREA WOO AND DARAH HANSEN, VANCOUVER SUN   Travellers at Vancouver International Airport could find themselves subject to full-body scans that see through clothing as early as next week. The airport is expected to receive one or two of the controversial full-body imaging scanners in the next 10 days, said Don Ehrenholz,

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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN METRO VANCOUVER — Across Canada, he is being mourned as the Langley soldier slain in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded Wednesday. But to his family, Garrett William Chidley is being remembered as a bright, funny, 21-year-old who loved spending time with friends, flying helicopters and playing with his cats Cranston and Gilbert. Pte. Chidley was among five

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Major bust proves the need for tighter restrictions, RCMP says BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN RCMP display drugs and weapons seized after the recent bust of a major Richmond drug lab. BILL KEAY, VANCOUVER SUN The RCMP says the recent bust of a major Richmond drug lab is confirmation that Ottawa needs to clamp down on legal loopholes facilitating the manufacture of synthetic drugs. At a news

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BY ANDREA WOO   Former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov, left, with MP Ujjal Dosanjh. Lennikov has taken sanctuary in Vancouver's First Lutheran Church to avoid deportation. Liberal and NDP MPs are asking the government to relent and let Lennikov stay in Canada. IAN SMITH, VANCOUVER SUN  VANCOUVER — Two B.C. members of Parliament invoked the spirit of Christmas Sunday as they called for the

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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN, AND RAFE ARNOTT, ABBOTSFORD TIMES   Abbotsford Police Insp. Len Goerke announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that an APD investigation into the Vancouver Police officer-related shooting of Michael Vann Hubbard in March concluded that no Criminal Code charges be laid against the police officers involved. RAFE ARNOTT, ABBOTSFORD TIMES The Vancouver police

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Many will get up to $150,000 each, but about 500 will get nothingBY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN New Westminster's Bill McArthur won't receive government compensation in a settlement with Woodlands School survivors. WARD PERRIN, VANCOUVER SUN The provincial government will pay about 1,100 survivors of sexual, verbal and physical abuse at Woodlands School between $3,000 and $150,000 each in

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Plan includes hiring 22 people to collect recyclable bottles and cans during Olympics  BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN Bottle collectors at United We Can: The Downtown Eastside-based non-profit organization is expected to receive $50,000 in funding from the city of Vancouver to pay binners to help clean up the downtown core during the 2010 Winter Olympics. IAN SMITH, VANCOUVER SUNThe City of

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BY ANDREA WOO, VANCOUVER SUN PHIL MCCARTEN, REUTERS Simon Fraser University is crediting a new "bait laptop" program for cutting computer thefts on campus by more than 30 per cent. Modelled after the successful bait car program and created in conjunction with the Burnaby RCMP, the bait laptop program involves placing rigged laptops around the campus library. When one is picked up, an alarm

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The Olympics Versus Free Speech in Vancouver, BCby Andrea Woo   JAY BLACK In February, when Vancouver, British Columbia, kicks off the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, 20 teams will begin patrolling city streets and venues, scouring for anything—people, protests, posters—deemed anti-Olympics. The squads are the creation of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), responsible for planning,

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I interviewed rapper Raekwon for the second time one day before the fifth anniversary of Wu-Tang brethren Ol' Dirty Bastard's death. In this clip, he reflects on his favorite memories of Russell "ODB" Jones, who died on Nov. 13, 2004, of an accidental drug overdose.

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 RAFE ARNOTT BY ANDREA WOO Some people who have never been to Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside say that reports of the neighborhood must be grossly exaggerated. The district called "Canada's poorest postal code," a few blocks from the new Olympic Athletes’ Village, couldn't possibly be the destitute wasteland depicted in news features and documentaries. After all, Vancouver is routinely

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By Andrea Woo The pills took hold some time in the evening, 12 hours after he had swallowed the first. They were Suboxones—powerful semisynthetic opiates prescribed to help combat a dangerous OxyContin addiction, and indeed that is what they would eventually do. But at that moment, after 12 hours, 32 milligrams, and a three-year addiction that had left his body resistant to change, Shane

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August 25, 2009 By ANDREA WOO The motel is sheltered from the rest of the world by tree-covered mountains. A neon red-and-green “MOTEL” sign stands out front, its flashing arrow pointing toward the L-shaped lodge, and buzzes steadily on an otherwise silent stretch of road. It looks like the setting of a horror movie, created specifically for terrible things to happen in, and terrible things

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And so draws to a close another tumultuous year. 2008 was a whirlwind of highs and lows, with love and laughter peppering panicked days and nervous nights. Our economy spiraled into devastating depths and its ripple effects will claim casualties into the foreseeable future. The Big Three are dying a slow and agonizing death, too weak to fight through and too stubborn to pull the plug. Gay

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From Pound magazine:June 2008By Andrea Woo It's the day before the kickoff of the much-hyped Glow in the Dark tour in Seattle, Wa., and the Emerald City is looking characteristically like the Pacific Northwest. A perpetual mist of rain has dampened the earth and the wheels of the city are turning amidst a funk of grey and overcast. At a local radio station, where Pharrell Williams, Chad

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April 2007 BY ANDREA WOO Perhaps to most, he is known as Jazz, the streetwise best friend of Will Smith who Uncle Phil routinely tossed out of the mansion on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. But to those with hip-hop in their blood, the man born Jeff Townes is the magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff, a legend who has been holding it down at the wheels of steel for more than two decades. He is the man, who

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By Andrea WooOriginally published in Pound magazine in October 2006It is a wholly satisfying experience to throw a clenched fist at the head of someone who has wronged you, connect with a crispy thwack and send teeth spinning violently into orbit as their unconscious owner slumps into a flaccid heap on the pavement. Perhaps with the exception of the spinning teeth, Wu-Tang Clan’s Masta Killa

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By Andrea WooOriginally published in Word magazine in June/July 2006 “I thought I’d confuse him, because he didn’t know where we were going,” he begins. Southside Chicago native Rhymefest is talking about his son Solomon. The second thing the emcee did after receiving his first big paycheck from rap –– the first being that he paid all his mother’s bills –– was take his son on a shopping spree

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By Andrea WooOriginally published on MVRemix in 2004It’s a drizzly Saturday night in Vancouver, B.C. and director Kevin Fitzgerald is taking refuge in a warm, tranquil coffee shop, where he orders a blend of “Zen” and “Calm” teas. “I like to mix the two,” he says, and lowering his voice to a whisper, adds, “but sometimes they charge you extra.” With slow, casual strides, he takes his peaceful

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By Andrea WooOriginally published on WPJ in 2004When they found her in February 2001, she was cold, beaten and pumped full of stimulants. She was an out-of-towner—originally from Oregon—and had worked the streets for four days, earning nearly $1000 before Vancouver Police apprehended her. But as much as she fit in working on Vancouver’s downtown eastside, she was different. At 11, she was the

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