Derek Leschasin
Digital Journalist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Joined on Oct 30, 2009
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The atmosphere on Parliament Hill may be getting a makeover in coming years, as RCMP guarding the buildings are issued with new automatic weapons. In addition, the Government is considering plans to create an "integrated security system" on the Hill.
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As part of a nation-wide trend, Winnipeg paramedics now have a new tool to assist in emergency cases involving obese individuals.
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A prominent whale expert is suggesting that Tilikum, the orca whale who killed his trainer at the Orlando, Florida SeaWorld facility on Wednesday, cannot be trusted with humans and should be released into the wild.
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Vancouver residents and Olympic visitors flocked to a park in downtown Vancouver today for a taping of the popular "Colbert Report" TV show.
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The violence that was seen on February 13 in downtown Vancouver is a symptom of the simmering anger that many people feel towards the Olympic spectacle that has taken over this city.
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CSIS, Canada's spy agency, is still attempting to keep portions of its files on socialist politician and so-called "father of medicare" Tommy Douglas secret, decades after his death in 1986.
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Only a month after a similar incident in the waters near Antarctica, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is alleging that a Japanese whaling ship intentionally rammed one of their vessels during a confrontation on February 6.
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Warm winter temperatures are threatening the viability of Cypress Mountain as a venue for this year's Winter Olympic Games.
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Howard Zinn, the left-wing American historian who was best known for his ground-breaking alternative account of American history, "A People's History of the United States", has died. He was 87.
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A Liberal Member of Parliament from Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador is calling for Ottawa to examine if People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) should be labeled as a terrorist group in light of a recent pie attack on a federal minister.
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The "Sea of Grass" which greeted European explorers when they ventured into the heart of North America was long ago reduced to a fraction of its original extent. But a new study shows that what remains in Canada is shrinking fast.
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The American defense contractor Trijicon has announced that the practice of stamping biblical references on military rifle scopes it produces and sells to the US, Britain, and other Western nations will cease.
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Citing price-gouging and "multiple violations of Venezuelan laws", Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has nationalised Exito, a chain of supermarkets under French and Colombian ownership.
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The Iraqi government is collecting signatures from civilians, as it prepares to launch a class action lawsuit against Blackwater, the private security contractor now known as Xe Services.
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The saga of North America's first legal supervised safe injection site looks set to continue, after a ruling by the B.C. Court of Appeal today struck down an appeal from the federal government, aimed at closing the facility.
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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has adjusted the hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock back one minute, to six minutes to midnight.
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A veterinarian has determined the cause of death of at least one of two giraffes that died suddenly last month at Mountain View Conservation Centre in Fort Langley, British Columbia.
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The British Royal Military Police are currently investigating accusations that British troops were responsible for the extra-judicial death of an elderly Iraqi woman in 2006.
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Over one thousand African immigrants were evacuated from the Calabrian town of Rosarno this weekend, following rioting in which dozens of civilians and police were injured.
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A group of Imams from Canada and the United States have issued a fatwa against terrorist attacks in North America, declaring that an attack on Canada or the United States amounts to an attack on North American Muslims.
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