No Justice For Incest Victims

Here's another example of the fine state of Canadian Justice.  It's time for some reality and compassion.  How can the ivory tower parole board members even contemplate releasing this man into this small town.  As some comments in the local paper said, "Release...

Truckers Looking For Environmental Choices

This year's biannual truck show at Tradex in Abbotsford, B.C. this week-end is highlighting  the environmental choices industry is having to make. Owner operators, managers, company service and maintenance personal will be converging onto TruxPo at TradeX for ideas,...

British Columbia: Gangs bring crime and drugs to Abbotsford

Opinion Barry Artiste Certainly when marijuana advocates say Marijuana is a victimless crime, never read the stats on crime, smuggling, death and gangs. Many advocates say, it will go away if we legalise marijuana,...

Vancouver:Slain realtor connected to infamous UN gang; No suspects in shootin...

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor It should not surprise anyone as British Columbia named "BC's Criminal Superpower of the World" ...

Voice Report from tbphotos at the Abbotsford Air Show

"Yes. This is tbphotos (Trevor Buttstone?) contributor to Now Public, reporting from Media Day at the Abbotsford Speed Air Show at (??). And I just went for a ride with Juan Peach in a (1946 Taylor car?) along the...

Demonstrators Carry Blank Signs Outside "Islamophobia" Trial to Protest Free ...

The signs protesters carried at the courthouse said it all by saying nothing.Protesters carried blank signs in front of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver Monday morning to draw attention to erosion of freedom of expression. They say...

Premier Campbell: Magical Fairy for Universities

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell Premier Gordon "Pixie Dust" Campbell is at it again.  As I reported last week on one recently Certified College turned magically into a University in British...

BC University offering: The Simpsons as Sociology? D'oh!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know for a minute I thought this was a joke, then I realised Silly me, I live in British Columbia, where the joke is a University which recently got it's University...

Dozens injured as floor collapses at Christian rock concert in Abbotsford

No one was killed during a Christian Concert at a local Church in Abbotsford.Apparently a Mosh Pit had formed with a 100 people in front of the stage jumping up and down in unision, when the floor collapsed sending...

British Columbia: New TOP COP "Teatless"

By Barry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMeet the Honourable John van Dongen, once again another "Former Dairy Farmer " and British Columbia's New Solicitor General and Minister of Public Safety and TOP COP for Police...

Ottawa vows crackdown on child drug mules in prison

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorParents using infants to carry drugs to smuggle into prisions for the benefit of supplying inmates has inmates calling for Privacy Laws to protect them (Prisoners). ...

British Columbia: Gangsters jailed 6 years in violent kidnapping

Opinon Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor When comparing Canada's Notorious Serial Killer Wally Pickton's sentence of 4.1 years per murder victim versus 4 Criminals ongoing past Drug and present Kidnapping...

British Columbia: Marijuana grow-ops growing bigger and going rural

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMy hit parade on Grow Op busts were the busiest in Coquitlam in 2002-2004, then Abbotsford 2004-2006 with Surrey from 2005-2007, and now I am finding myself having to drive...

BC Homeless:NDP "Shocked and Flawed"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorBritish Columbia's NDP Party Leader Carole James, may seem to some as a "Crack Head", who has definitely  "Cracked her Head" once too often walking the hallowed halls...

B.C. Gangland Slayings: Leaders, Residents want answers

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Certainly answers in light of todays shooting on the same spot where two gangsters were gunned down just yesterday.  Answers, with a poignant question...

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