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Labour deal averts Canada Line strike SkyTrain workers also have tentative agreement by Jeff Nagel
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Paramedics tend to a 13-year-old girl, now identified as Anna Nguyen, who was shot in the back in a house in Fleetwood on Friday. The body of a deceased man was found later in the burning home. The girl is now recovering in hospital.
Teen says man who shot her was a family friend Details unclear as to what he was doing in house or why he had a gun by Kevin Diakiw THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Anna Nguyen says it was a
family friend who shot her in the back on Friday. She was at home alone on the morning of March 25 when a man in his 30s came to the door. Because he was a family friend, she let him in. He went to Anna’s room, and a few minutes later, attacked the 13-year-old and pulled a gun. “I just remember a really loud bang and then how my body was numb,” Nguyen told CTV News on
Saturday. “Then he left to go to my mom’s room and then I grabbed my phone and ran out the back door.” She grabbed her cellphone and ran from the home, in the 15700 block of 90 Avenue in Fleetwood. She was found two blocks away, near Woodland Park Elementary, where she goes to school. Police then responded to a fire at the home, where they discovered the body of the man. Friends say Anna has lived in the home for about four years.
“I just remember a really loud bang and then how my body was numb.” Anna Nguyen
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LABOUR PEACE appears to be at hand for Metro Vancouver’s rapid transit system. A first contract reached last week with Canada Line workers ended the threat of a strike disrupting service on the region’s newest line. The nearly 200 control room operators, attendants and maintenance staff voted 87 per cent to accept the threeyear collective agreement, terms of which were not made public. Canada Line staff represented by the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union had previously voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action but never issued 72-hour strike notice. The 19-kilometre line linking Richmond, Vancouver and the airport is run for TransLink by operator Protrans BC. A tentative contract has also been reached with more than 500 SkyTrain workers who run and maintain the Expo and Millennium Lines. CUPE local 7000 rep David Fleming said the results of a mail-in ratification vote now underway will not be known until next week. Unionized SkyTrain employees had also voted to strike before returning to mediated talks with TransLink’s SkyTrain subsidiary. Bargaining had been underway since the previous contract expired last August. Negotiations are getting started between TransLink and its bus drivers across Metro Vancouver. Their previous contract, which ensured labour peace during the 2010 Winter Olympics, expires March 31.
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