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Cellphone plug-in nets ticket JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A North Vancouver driver who reached down to plug in his cellphone while stopped at a red light has had an appeal of his distracted driving ticket tossed by a B.C. Supreme Court justice.
LOG ON Shaker minister Eugene Harry performs a prayer during a blessing ceremony on the hill of Cleveland Dam park Wednesday. The ceremony marked the start of a public art piece which will honour the Twin Sisters, a.k.a. The Lions, and be made out of old growth cedar logs chosen by artist Wade Baker. The art will be installed at the new North Vancouver museum in Lower Lonsdale when it opens in 2019. See more photos at nsnews.com/photo-galleries. PHOTO LISA KING
Masoud Jahani appealed his $167 traffic ticket, arguing before Justice Miriam Maisonville that he shouldn’t have received the ticket for using an electronic device while driving, because he wasn’t actually using his cellphone at the time. But the judge rejected that, pointing out that “use” of a cellphone includes any kind of handling of the phone. In some circumstances, even looking at a cellphone screen while driving can be considered using it, the judge noted in her written decision. Jahani’s traffic ticket came about as a result of
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Election results final, no North Shore seats flip
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Absentee voters from the North Shore tended to support opposition challengers over B.C. Liberal incumbents final election results show.
Following the unofficial election results on May 9, there were still 11,564 absentee ballots cast at polling stations outside the riding or by mail yet to be counted for the North Shore’s four ridings. By the time the dust had settled in North
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Absentee votes slightly favour opposition challengers, yet not enough to cause seats to flip Vancouver-Lonsdale, NDP MLA-elect Bowinn Ma finished with 12,361 votes or 45.45 per cent overall, widening the gap slightly from election night. Outgoing Liberal Naomi Yamamoto’s final tally was 10,373 or 38.14 per cent. Green Party candidate Richard Warrington placed third with 4,148 votes (15.25 per cent) and
Libertarian Donald N.S. Wilson’s 316 votes placed him fourth with 1.16 per cent overall. In North Vancouver-Seymour, absentee ballots loosened Liberal incumbent Jane Thornthwaite’s hold on the seat by about one per cent but were nowhere near enough to cause the seat to flip. Official results show Thornthwaite took 13,194 votes (46.36 per cent). NDP candidate Michael Charrois and Green Party candidate Joshua Johnson both saw their vote shares increase by about half a per cent each with absentee ballots, finishing
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