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Pickton Maintains Innocence In Interview

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.19.2012 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - Convicted serial killer Robert Pickton maintained his innocence as recently as last August as he was interviewed ahead of the public inqui...

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Pickton Case Had Similar Failings As Bernardo's

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2012 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - The same systemic problems that allowed notorious sex killer Paul Bernardo to rape and murder women in Ontario in the late 1980s and early...

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Does Police Repression Make Prostitution More Dangerous?

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.02.2012 | Canada
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MONTREAL - It wasn't so long ago that prostitutes were a common sight on Montreal's historic lower Main, standing on street corners in high-heeled boo...

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B.C. Inks 20-Year RCMP Deal

CP | Dirk Meissner and Camille Bains, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada Politics
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VICTORIA - The RCMP will continue providing police services to six provinces and three territories for the next 20 years as part of a renewed Canada-w...

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Police Could Have Searched Serial Killer's Farm Years Earlier: Mountie

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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VANCOUVER - The RCMP say they are reviewing allegations that police could have obtained a search warrant for convicted serial killer Robert Pickton ye...

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Women Went Missing, Investigators Partied On: Mountie

CBC | Posted 01.23.2012 | Canada
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A high-profile Mountie who recently came forward with allegations of sexual harassment in the RCMP has now made sensational new claims ab...

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Massive Leadership Failures In Missing Women Probe: Pickton Inquiry

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2012 | Canada Politics
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VANCOUVER - A massive leadership failure within the Vancouver Police Department stalled the investigation into reports of missing sex workers in the l...

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No Protection For Former Prostitute Testifying At Serial Killer Inquiry

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.18.2012 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - A former prostitute described as the only one who got away from serial killer Robert Pickton won't get the same protections as other witne...

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RCMP Did Not Share Pickton Investigation Info

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada Politics
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VANCOUVER - The Mounties failed to share important information about Robert Pickton with their counterparts in Vancouver, were quick to dismiss credib...

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One Investigator In Charge Of Missing Sex Workers: Pickton Inquiry

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - Robert Pickton was the top suspect in the disappearance of sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the late 1990s, but investiga...

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Pickton Victim's Missing Report Sat In Drawer For Years: Relative

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.27.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - The sister-in-law of one of Robert Pickton's victims says a missing-person's report she filed with Vancouver police sat in a filing drawer...

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Waiting For Pickton Inquiry Painful

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - Almost four years before Robert Pickton was arrested for a string of horrific murders, the stepmother of one of his victims tried to climb...

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How Did Robert Pickton Kill So Many?

Posted 12.23.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - It's been more than a decade since Lynn Frey visited the gritty streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside carrying a photograph of her step...

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Parliament Blamed For Making B.C. Prostitutes Easy Prey

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.20.2011 | Canada Politics
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VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Department's decades-long campaign to move sex workers into the darkest, dirtiest streets of the city's Downtown East...

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Police Make Sex Workers Easier Targets, Inquiry Told

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.18.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - Canada's prostitution laws have quickly become the focus of the public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case, not the police investigation ...

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Expert: Police Strategy Made It Easier For Pickton

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.13.2011 | Canada Politics
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VANCOUVER - A combination of the law, police tactics and bad attitudes among officers has forced street-level sex workers out of sight where they are ...

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Pickton Murders: Still Looking For Answers

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.10.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - The failure of Vancouver police and the RCMP to properly investigate reports of women disappearing from the Downtown Eastside has left bot...

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Independent Lawyers Join The Expanding Pickton Inquiry

CP | Posted 10.10.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - The public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case has appointed two independent lawyers to represent the interests of aboriginal women and r...

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Will Cutbacks in British Columbia Sheriffs Lead to Courtroom Chaos?

Georgialee Lang | Posted 08.16.2011 | Canada
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Cutbacks in sheriff services continues unabated with the layoff of 34 more sheriffs this month and a growing concern that U.S.-style courtroom violence may be an unintended consequence.

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