News Archive
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November 30, 2009 "Vancouver City Councillors Jump On The MMA Bandwagon" Click here to read more. |
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November 30, 2009 "UFC Stars Descend On Edgewater Casino For Return Of Vancouver MMA" Click here to read more. |
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November 29, 2009 "UFC One Step Closer To Reality In Vancouver" Click here to read more. |
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November 28, 2009 "Mixed Martial Arts Crowd Isn’t “Hooligans”, Fighter Says After Vancouver Event" Click here to read more. |
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November 28, 2009 "Vancouver Hosts First MMA Fight In Two Years" Click here to read more. |
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November 27, 2009 "Promoters Going By The Book " Click here to read more. |
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November 25, 2009 "Vision Hesitates On Backing Crack Smoking Room" Click here to read more. |
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November 02, 2009 "Homeless Woman's Cart At Centre Of Coroner's Report" Click here to read more. |
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October 28 , 2009 "What To Do About The Homeless?" Click here to read more. |
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October 23, 2009 "Homeless Count" Click here to read more. |
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October 23, 2009 "Western Canada's Largest Climate Day of Action Oct 24th 2009" (Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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October 23, 2009 "Western Canada's Largest Climate Day of Action Oct 24th 2009 (Chinese)" Click here to read more. |
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September 24, 2009 "Proposed provincial law allowing removal of homeless from streets may violate Charter rights" Click here to read more. |
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September 22, 2009 "HST’s impact on sales of Olympic Village units" Click here to read more. |
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September 16, 2009 "Swag Revealed" Click here to read more. |
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September 9, 2009 "Vision Breaks Promise On Mental Health Advocate" Click here to read more. |
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September 3, 2009 "Downtown Hotel To Become Site Of Housing Project" Click here to read more. |
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August 28, 2009 "12th & Cambie: Say Cheese" Click here to read more. |
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August 25, 2009 "City Councillors To Request City Support For Inquiry" Click here to read more. |
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August 5 , 2009 "Letter Of The Week" Click here to read more. |
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August 5 , 2009 "Doomed Shelter Gains Popularity" Click here to read more. |
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July 28 , 2009 "VPD Committed To Supporting HEAT Shelters" Click here to read more. |
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July 26 , 2009 "Homeless Fume Over Smoking Raps" Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2009 "Reality Check Needed On Human Rights Complaints For Olympics" Click here to read more. |
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July 26 , 2009 "Even Perfect Man Not Welcome Here " Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2009 "COPE and Vision Cooperate To Address Issues Relating To Sex Trade" Click here to read more. |
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July 23, 2009 "Inside the Olympics" Click here to read more. |
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July 22, 2009 "VANDU's Ticket Blitz Demands Out Of City's Jurisdiction" Click here to read more. |
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July 21, 2009 "Vancouver Councillors Pledge To Reverse Bylaw Tickets Given To Homeless" Click here to read more. |
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July 15, 2009 "City Eliminates Parking Discounts For Hybrid Cars " Click here to read more. |
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July 15 , 2009 "Blood, Syringes, Feces Stain Downtown Parkade Walls" Click here to read more. |
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July 13, 2009 "Province, City Eye Former Jail To House Homeless " Click here to read more. |
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July 10, 2009 "Vancouver Council Taking Landlord To Court Over Repairs" Click here to read more. |
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July 09 , 2009 "Shelter Closed But Not Forgotten " Click here to read more. |
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July 09 , 2009 "Homeless Camp Sprouts Outside Closed Downtown Vancouver Shelter " Click here to read more. |
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July 06, 2009 "Council Takes Aim At Slum Landlords" Click here to read more. |
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June 29, 2009 "Homeless Shelters Get More Cash In New Deal With Province" Click here to read more. |
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June 26, 2009 "Mayor targets 'Bad Apples' " Click here to read more. |
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June 26, 2009 "Shelters could close July 1: Mayor" Click here to read more. |
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June 26, 2009 "Temporary shelters' future in doubt " Click here to read more. |
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June 25, 2009 "Temporary housing waiting on provincial funds " Click here to read more. |
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June 25 , 2009 "Thousands back keeping shelters open" Click here to read more. |
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June 24, 2009 "Councilor Kerry Jang troubled by False Creek North residents' push to close homeless shelters" Click here to read more. |
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June 24, 2009 "City lacks plan for hundreds of homeless in temporary shelters" Click here to read more. |
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June 24 , 2009 "US Couple tells State DepartmentFalse Creek North is Unsafe " Click here to read more. |
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June 23, 2009 "Involve Homeowners with the Homeless " Click here to read more. |
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June 22, 2009 "Fearful Residents urge city to close Vancouver Homeless Shelters" Click here to read more. |
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June 19, 2009 "Shelters to Shut Down " Click here to read more. |
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June 19, 2009 "Hotels Charge More than Welfare Allows: Report" Click here to read more. |
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June 17, 2009 "Condo/Shelter Clash Could Have Been Avoided " Click here to read more. |
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June 17, 2009 "Report Calls for Integrity Commissioner" Click here to read more. |
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June 18, 2009 "Governments Spar over Cash " Click here to read more. |
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June 18, 2009 "Province Stalls on Low-Cost Housing" Click here to read more. |
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June 18 , 2009 "We Have Solutions to Emergency Shelter Concerns" Click here to read more. |
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June 11, 2009 "Vancouver Waits for Homeless Shelter Funding from Province " Click here to read more. |
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June 11, 2009 "Sex-Worker Outreach Program in Jeopardy" Click here to read more. |
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June 09, 2009 "Vancouver Emergency Shelters Draw Fire From Neighbours" Click here to read more. |
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June 09, 2009 "Downtown Residents Say Homeless Shelters on Howe and Granville Streets A Disaster " Click here to read more. |
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June 09, 2009 "Neighbours Want Homeless Shelters Shut Down" Click here to read more. |
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May 22, 2009 "City Council Votes To Double The Number Of Pedicab Licences" Click here to read more. |
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"Little Learned Since Quints' Birth" Click here to read more. |
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May 21, 2009 "Mayor's Optimism Can't Convince Homelessness Researchers " Click here to read more. |
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May 21, 2009 "St. Paul's Wants Say In Community" Click here to read more. |
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May 21, 2009 "Vancouver Homeless Shelters due to Close in June" Click here to read more. |
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May 14, 2009 "Porn Cinema Gets Reprieve" Click here to read more. |
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May 13, 2009 "Vancouver's Last Pornography Cinema Keeps It's Business Licence" Click here to read more. |
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May 13, 2009 "Vancouver's Last XXX Theatre Can Stay Open, Councillors Rule" Click here to read more. |
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May 12, 2009 "Council Seeks To Extend HEAT Wave " Click here to read more. |
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April 20, 2009 "Stand Up for Mental Health Vancouver " Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2009 "Homeless Victim's Murder Sparks Call To Action (Chinese)" Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2009 "Residents Rattled By Death" Click here to read more. |
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April 14, 2009 "Homeless Man's Murder Prompts Calls For Housing" Click here to read more. |
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April 13, 2009 "Vancouver Homeless Man's Killing Turns Political" Click here to read more. |
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April 11, 2009 "Odds & Sods: Loose Lips, Bees Knees, A Squat is Jerked" Click here to read more. |
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April 09, 2009 "Blackberry fun...and just who is council's point person on mental health?" Click here to read more. |
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April 03, 2009 "Homeless Shelters Fail to Reduce Mental Health Calls" Click here to read more. |
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April 01, 2009 "Traffic Video Persuades City to Act" Click here to read more. |
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April 01, 2009 "Apprehending Homeless Still an Option" Click here to read more. |
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April 01, 2009 "New Emergency Shelters 'Making a Difference' to Street Disorder " Click here to read more. |
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March 28, 2009 "Civil Liberties and incivility clash on Cordova Street " Click here to read more. |
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March 27, 2009 "Stand Up for Mental Health 2008-2009 Update" Click here to read more. |
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March 13, 2009 "Homeless Shelters Reducing 911 Calls " Click here to read more. |
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March 12, 2009 "Survey: Vancouver's temporary shelter program working for homeless" Click here to read more. |
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March 10, 2009 "Shelters Get Three Month Extension" Click here to read more. |
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March 10, 2009 "Shelter Doors Open for Three More Months " Click here to read more. |
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March 09, 2009 "Province To Fund Emergency Shelters Until May" Click here to read more. |
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January 29, 2009 "UBC psychiatry professor and city councillor Kerry Jang has passed a motion that will lead to Vancouver dealing more effectively with issues of mental illness." Click here to read more. |
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January 23, 2009 "City badly needs mental health advocate" Click here to read more . |
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January 19, 2009 "Churches Partner with City, Province, and StreetoHome Foundation to Open Homeless Shelter at Night" Click here to read more. |
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January 07, 2009 "New shelter to accomodate 100 homeless" Click here to read more . |
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January 02, 2009 "Vision councillor calls for mental health advocate" Click here to read more. |
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December 12, 2008 "Kerry interviewed by the Observer" Click here to read more. |
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October 28, 2008 "Ways We Can Win!"Click here to read more. |
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September 21, 2008 "Incumbents Return to Vision Vancouver Council Slate " Click here to read more. |
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September 21, 2008 "Vision Vancouver Nominees Decided" Click here to read more. |
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September 21, 2008 "Kerry Secures Vision Nomination for Council"(Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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September 19, 2008 "Stuart Mackinnon and Adrian Dix join together to support Kerry Jangs's and Andrea Reimer's Council Nomination Bids "Click here to read more. |
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September 16, 2008 "Nomination Day September 20th"Click here to read more. |
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September 15, 2008 "Milk and Cookies Not The Problem in Downtown Eastside"Click here to read more. |
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September 09, 2008 "Reimer, Jang, and Dhaliwal Call for Three Month Car Free Trial on Davie, Commercial, and in the Punjabi Market" Click here to read more. |
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August 28, 2008 "Vision has 16,000 members, becoming biggest party in Vancouver" (Chinese) Click here to read more . |
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August 27, 2008 "Vision team says Vancouver should intervene in Insite appeal to defend supervised injection site from Conservative legal attack "Click here to read more. |
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August 21, 2008 "Does 'housing first' model make sense? A 'common-sense' solution that doesn't deal with the other problems of the homeless will only perpetuate the cycle" Click here to read more. |
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August 13, 2008 "Andrea Reimer and Kerry Jang, who are seeking Vision city council nominations, are urging transit users to apply to succeed three TransLink directors whose one-year terms on the transportation body's board are about to expire." Click here to read more. |
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August 13, 2008 Ming Pao coverage of Translink story (Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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August 12, 2008 "Anyone interested in helping run public transit in the Lower Mainland only has until Thursday to apply for a job on the TransLink board of professionals." Click here to read more. |
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August 12, 2008 "Reimer & Jang Take to the Streets to Recruit Transit Users for TransLink "Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2008 "Kerry Jang Seeks Nomination under Vision Vancouver Banner" (English and Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2008 "Kerry Jang Announces He is Running for Vancouver City Council" (English and Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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July 25, 2008 "UBC Professor Kerry Jang Seeks Vision Vancouver Nomination" (English and Chinese) Click here to read more. |
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Jul 24, 2008 "Andrea Reimer – Kerry Jang Joint Launch Statement"Click here to read more. |
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February 5, 2008 "Can this be true? A Vancouver police department study reports that more than 30 per cent of police service calls city-wide involved the mentally ill, with that number approaching 50 per cent in some neighbourhoods." Click here to read more. |
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February 4, 2008 "UBC professor Kerry Jang has told the Straight that a new Vancouver Police Department report suggests that officers on the beat are “truly in crisis mode”. Jang, an expert in psychiatry and statistical analysis, claimed that a lack of mental health facilities in Vancouver has led to a shift in how the VPD functions." Click here to read more. |
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January 17, 2008 "Kerry Jang, a Vision Vancouver member and a declared aspirant for a slot on the party’s council slate, said the nomination rules allow for flexibility in working with COPE. Vision councillor George Chow noted that there’s still plenty of time for the two parties to work out their differences before the election". Click here to read more. |
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April 13, 2007 "Under the mayor's Project Civil City initiative, city hall hopes to develop long-term and sustainable solutions to homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness by 2010. However, Think City board member and public health expert Dr. Kerry Jang says the city's harm reduction efforts must focus on all drugs, including alcohol. Dr. Jang cites a just-published study in the British medical journal the Lancet that finds alcohol is more dangerous than many illegal drugs as one more reason why the proposed liquor outlet expansion has to be carefully considered." From Think City Minute April 13, 2007. |
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January 29, 2007 "According to Think City board member and UBC Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Kerry Jang, the Sullivan plan does not provide any details on the medical justification for the treatment program, what specific drugs addicts will be prescribed, or how addicts are to be reliably monitored or followed up by those administering the program." From Think City Minute January 29, 2007. |
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January 17, 2007 "Think City board member and mental health expert Dr. Kerry Jang says NPA Councillor Kim Capri needs to retool her Project Civil City initiative, saying council has the wrong solution and is largely ignoring the needs of homeless people who are not mentally ill." From Think City Minute January 17, 2007. |
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January 9, 2007 "Six babies were born in a Vancouver hospital Sunday, between 25 and 26 weeks of gestation. One baby was born naturally and the others by caesarean section; they weight less than two pounds each -- and the odds against them are heavy. "[The family] did a good job of protecting their privacy," said Dr. Kerry Jang, a psychologist specializing in multiple-birth studies at the University of British Columbia's department of psychiatry. "Nobody, except a few people who obviously needed to know, knew this was happening." Click here to read more. |
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May 3, 2006 In a Vancouver Sun letter to the editor, UBC Prof. of Psychiatry Kerry Jang argues: "It's very sad to see that Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan prefers to blame his political opponents for the furore over his 'research' on drug addiction instead of recognizing that his actions were simply irresponsible. There is no excuse for providing substance abusers with drugs just to see what happens." Click here to read more about what Kerry wrote. |