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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Rankin tops byelection poll for NDP Victoria riding gives Greens solid support Daniel Palmer News staff
Murray Rankin may have won Monday’s federal byelection in the Victoria riding, but the Orange wave didn’t roll until late in the evening. Donald Galloway and the Green Party proved themselves the only real contender besides the NDP, while the Liberals and Conservatives struggled to gain momentum. Frontrunner Rankin surged ahead only in the final hour of poll results, taking a commanding 1,200-vote lead. At several points throughout the night, Galloway and Rankin swapped the lead. Galloway seemed stunned by his own success earlier on, before conceding to Rankin at about 10:35 p.m. “I think we’ve won, whatever happened,” he said. “We’ve run a fabulous campaign. I don’t think they (the NDP) expected this.” NDP supporters at the Fairmont Empress Hotel, who had been anxious for most of the night, were jovial after Rankin’s victory speech. “Like Paul McCartney’s long and winding road, I never expected it to be quite such a nailbiter,” he said. “But at the end of the day, we won, and that’s the thing I treasure,” said Rankin, who succeeds retired NDP MP Denise Savoie. Conservative candidate Dale Gann was expected to finish with roughly 14 per cent support, while Liberal Paul Summerville had nearly 13 per cent of the vote. dpalmer@vicnews.com
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Singing in the season Singers Gayla Paranieski, left, and Gail Poole sing songs of the season onstage at Oak Bay’s annual light up celebration held Sunday evening on Oak Bay Avenue.
Theft from vehicle sparks identity theft Tim Collins News staff
A 2010 theft of an iPod from the unlocked vehicle of an Oak Bay couple resulted in their becoming the victims of a second crime. In early November, police received a complaint that someone had accessed the couple’s Air Miles account and had used the credits for unauthorized purchases. When the resident conducted a credit
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check on himself, he learned that someone had also opened an account in his wife’s name using the couple’s personal information. In an unrelated investigation, West Shore RCMP and the Regional Crime Unit conducted a search of a Colwood residence and found a series of credit card and air points card numbers, along with their PIN numbers – including those of the Oak Bay resident – in the possession of a 28-year-old West
Shore resident. Police discovered that the local couple’s personal information had been gleaned from the stolen iPod. The suspect, Derek Fast, was taken into custody and charged with identity theft. Police are using this event to remind residents to lock vehicles and remove valuables from parked cars. They also recommend against storing financial and personal information on electronic devices. reporter@vicnews.com
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