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 Police identify man suspected of blowing himself up in Kamloops
A man suspected of rigging multiple bombs in a house and his nearby van who died in an explosion following a standoff with police has been identified as Denann Bruce Crosby of Surrey. The incident took place at his ex-girlfriend’s home in Kamloops. She, a man and four children escaped the mayhem.
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 Businessman pleads guilty to illegally cutting down trees
Arran Stephens, founder of Nature’s Path Foods Inc., pleaded guilty in provincial court on Tuesday to removing 25 trees from his Point Grey estate in 2010 without a permit.
He was fined $31,591 — $1,100 per tree plus $4,091 in permits.
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 B.C. cuts hydro rate hikes by half
Hydro customers are being offered some relief as the province moves to cut expected rate hikes by 50 per cent over the next three years.
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 Strike begins at Canadian Pacific
TORONTO — Teamsters Canada says a strike against Canadian Pacific is now under way and CP has suspended its freight service across the country.
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 'Lives will be lost' by decision to close Kitsilano Coast Guard base: Retired commander
Fred Moxey, who spent decades dispatching and manning two high-speed cutters from the Kitsilano base, spoke out at a news conference Tuesday attended by city councillors and Parks Board chair Constance Barnes.
“Very simply, lives will be lost,” said Moxey, noting the Kitsilano base is “Canada’s busiest” in the heart of a major recreational and business waterway.
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 Live chat: Predicting teen behaviour
Imagine if you could peer inside the minds of teenagers to understand the love they have of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Researchers are studying ways to harness the power of online metrics and models to try to understand the behaviour of teenagers. Join our live chat and find out what they have discovered about what your teen's surfing behaviour says about him or her. Be a part of the discussion, today starting at 9 a.m.
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 Five men imprisoned for kidnapping drug lord appeal convictions
Lawyers for five men convicted in the 2006 kidnapping and unlawful confinment of a Burnaby drug kingpin are in court this week appealing the convictions. In April 2010, the accused were found guilty in the abduction of Peter Li, Li’s wife Jennifer Pan and Li’s friend Xiao Cheng.
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 UPDATE: Police identify man suspected of blowing himself up in Kamloops
A man suspected of rigging multiple bombs in a house and his nearby van who died in an explosion following a standoff with police has been identified as Denann Bruce Crosby of Surrey. The incident took place at his ex-girlfriend’s home in Kamloops. She, a man and four children escaped the mayhem.
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 Maple Ridge woman guilty of second-degree murder of husband
A Maple Ridge woman who stabbed and cut her husband 14 times has been convicted of second-degree murder. Leah Florence was charged after the Nov. 3, 2009 death of 50-year-old Andrew Lynn Milne, to whom she had been married for 15 years.
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 Autopsy on Bowen Island body slated for Wednesday
The family of missing teen Jodi Henrickson isn’t jumping to any conclusions following the discovery last week of an unidentified body on Bowen Island, the last place where the popular Squamish girl was seen alive. Like the rest of the public, they are waiting for more details.
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 It's full steam ahead for West Coast Express commuter service
Service on the commuter rail service run for TransLink on Canadian Pacific rail lines was going to be shut down Wednesday because of strike action by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. But that has been averted because of negotiations Tuesday between the union and Minister of Labour Lisa Raitt.
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 Mentally ill carjacker goes missing from psyche facility
David Fomradas, 34, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after failing to return to his residence at the Port Coquitlam Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital after he was issued a daypass on Sunday. In 2009, he carjacked a Vancouver actress before crashing the vehicle into the CBC building.
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 Kits Coast Guard closure: 'It will cost lives,' says union rep
Canada’s busiest recreation facility, with “a quarter-million launches a year” into Vancouver waters, wasn’t even consulted in the federal decision to shut down the Kitsilano Coast Guard station. Lives will be lost, predicts Jericho Sailing Centre Association general manager Mike Cotter, without trained paramedics and rescue personnel just minutes away at the Kitsilano Coast Guard station, soon to be shut down.
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