Salim Jiwa
Digital Journalist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Joined on Oct 18, 2009
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Seven more mastectomy errors have surfaced at Hotel-Dieu Grace and more may come to light after a finding that a pathology lab was also making errors. Several more hospitals now checking their records in a major medical scandal.
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Star Trek star Walter Koenig is desperately looking for help in finding his 41-year-old son Andrew Koenig who is missing in Vancouver. Walter Koenig played Chekov on Star Trek. Andrew, known for his role in Growing Pains, disappeared Feb 14.
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Vijay Singh, 29, of Burnaby, B.C. was arrested and taken to Oshawa to face two charges of first degree murder in the deaths of two men found stuffed in the trunk of a car parked in Pickering last May.
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A young father of two little boys spent a month in jail before he was bailed out. He told his common law wife he wanted to change his life and be back with her and their two sons. On Wednesday, Nathan Marshall was found shot to death.
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An RCMP Staff-Sgt. seconded to the Integrated Security Unit guarding the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver has been charged with theft and sent back to Ottawa. Six other officers and four soldiers also sent home over discipline issues.
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A man with an apparent grudge against the IRS wrote on a website saying "Mr. Big Brother IRS - take my pound of flesh" before he smashed a plane into a building in Austin, Texas. Thirteen people are injured, two seriously. One person is missing.
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A surgeon at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital misread a pathology report and removed a woman's breast although she did not have cancer. The hospital was not told about the error by Dr. Barbara Heartwell. Now, the hospital is scrambling to appease the patient.
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The district attorney in Orange County, California says he'll be seeking the death penalty for a woman who was convicted of killing a fortune teller and her daughter. The killer was a client who killed the fortune teller to steal her expensive jewelry.
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Cluster bombs have killed more than 10,000 civilians, according to the United Nations. A treaty imposing a ban on the use of these civilian killing bombs comes into effect on Aug. 1 after the 30th country ratified the agreement.
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A little girl was left alone in a car for at least 20 minutes while a man went into a Calgary casino. Firemen were about to break into the car to rescue the toddler when the man returned. The toddler has been taken into care by social workers.
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A man cops claim is a self-proclaimed anarchist leader has been arrested by police as they move to round up several people who rampaged through downtown Vancouver twice during Olympic demos. Cops say the man urged followers to vandalize property.
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The avalanche risk was listed as considerable when a party of eight bob sledding enthusiasts set out for fun. It ended with one of them buried by a 100-ton avalanche near Eagle Mountain which is located around Revelstoke, B.C. The man died.
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The motorcade carrying U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was involved in an accident. Two former U.S. gold medal winners were taken to hospital and treated.. An oil slick on the road may have caused the crash.
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Calgary -
Calgary-based Shaw Communications Inc. has moved to take over financially ruined Canwest. Shaw is emphasizing the purchase attempt as a broadcast industry buy but Canwest is known to exert greater influence with a stable of newspapers.
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Doping has already become an issue at the 2010 Olympic Games with 30 athletes barred and a Russian given a stern reprimand after her urine tested positive for a prohibited chemical. Several more athletes are suspected and being tested.
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Vancouver -
The Olympic Torch is on home ground and the games are set to begin. Tens of thousands turned out on city routes to cheer the Olympic Torch and the city broke out in celebration with parties planned by the mayor of Vancouver.
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Trenton -
CFB Trenton media relations officer Capt. Annie Morin says she worked alongside Col. Russ Williams every day. She was stunned to hear of charges of serial sex crimes and murder. The OPP say they're using the VICLAS computer system to check crime linkages.
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One of Canada's top Air Commanders - Col. Russ Williams - chief of Air Wing 8, stands accused of serial sex attacks and murders of two women. Chief of Canada's Air Force calls it a tragedy.
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A woman was found dyng in her Calgary home on Sunday. Efforts to save her failed. Now, a 43-year-old man faces first degree murder charge and four kids are in the care of the government.
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A young mom who told no one she was pregnant now faces charges of infanticide after her baby boy's body was found in a landfill following three days of searching by 35 cops. The mom, 20, apparently did not even tell her boyfriend, cops said.
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