The Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-02-22
issued: 1992-02-20
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note: X-BORDER SHOPPING Level the playing field, says mayor MTJRRAYV1LL\- Officials in Port Moody rhinjc {hpy'bhave come up with an answer to the ^cross-border shopping' syndrome. ~ They have asked local politicians in other lower mainland communities to support their proposal. "Trie city (of Port Moody) respectfully suggests that rather than install fast 'Go' lanes for persons visiting Washington state to purchase goods, fast lanes would be more appropriate for U.S. tourists and Canadians with no goods to declare," says Mayor David Driscoll. "Persons who have crossed the border to purchase gasoline and other goods, should line up in a 'Stop' lane for regular customs inspection, and pay all of the federal and provincial levies and taxes applicable on all goods purchased." Prohibition-style war urged on kingpins VANCOUVER - A Canadian crime author says drug violence in North America is out of control and a Prohibition-style war must be waged on drug traffickers, killing them if need be. Author Yves Lavigne says the military should be mobilized to battle drug pushers involved in a $500-billion a year industry that threatens the freedom and security of North America. "President Bush's drug war is too soft. I think they should shoot the smugglers as they come up in their planes and boats. Mobilize the army, scramble fighter jets and blow the smugglers' planes out of the sky and sink the ships," Lavigne said in an interview to promote a new, non-fiction book on ethnic gangs Lavigne, 38, a former reporter with the Toronto Globe and Mail, said ethnic groups involved in organized crime are terrorizing North America and tearing its social fabric apart. He said politicians, journalists and even law enforcement officers are so frightened of being labeled racist, they are failing to address the problem. "Colombian drug cartels, prison gangs, Triads, Chinese and. Vietnamese street gangs, black street gangs like the Crips and Bloods, Jamaican posses, outlaw motorcycle gangs, all must b…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Rudy Langmann, April 9, 2003.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0440092
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [place of publication unknown] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text