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Police and politicians tried again Friday to allay public fears after the latest fatal shooting, this time of a Brothers Keepers gangster suspected of being linked to Sunday’s gang murder at Vancouver airport.
Jaskeert Kalkat, 23, was gunned down about 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of Burnaby’s Market Crossing mall at Marine Way and Byrne Road.
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Two other people were also shot, a man and a woman who were also “known to police, ” said Sgt. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. They were taken to hospital with “severe injuries, but they are expected to survive.”
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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said he has every confidence police in the Lower Mainland have the right strategies in place to combat escalating gang violence.
Farnworth, who is also solicitor general, met with the chiefs of police of municipal departments and commanders of RCMP detachments on Thursday afternoon.
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After the meeting, Farnworth told Postmedia News everyone agrees on the necessary response to the shootings and murders.
“I am very pleased with the meeting. It was a very productive meeting and everybody is on the same page,” he said. “I am pleased with the direction police are going. There is no issue about lack of co-operation. It’s not an issue of resources.”
VICTORIA — People who don t pay their COVID-19 fines may be unable to obtain or renew a British Columbia driver s or vehicle licence under proposed legislation introduced Wednesday.Public Safety . . .
Unpaid COVID-19 fines could lead to refusal of driver s licences, B.C. says
Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth speaks during a press conference in the press gallery at Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Monday February 5, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito May 12, 2021 - 3:16 PM
VICTORIA - People who don t pay their COVID-19 fines may be unable to obtain or renew a British Columbia driver s or vehicle licence under proposed legislation introduced Wednesday.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says the province previously moved up the date for when unpaid fines would be sent to collection, and this next step will target a small group of people who refuse to pay.