THE FRIDAY
NOV. 22, 2013
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Pitt River middle school students, including (from left) Divya Muniyappan, Grade 7, Tiana Brennan, Grade 6, and Caleb Mills, Grade 7, are calling on the citizens of Port Coquitlam to contribute a toonie to a fundraising drive next week with funds going to the Red Cross in support of victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. To see where and when you can donate, see article on page 14.
Heavy metal haul in PoMo By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Port Moody Police Department is searching for suspects after a massive metal theft earlier this month at a business in the 2600-block of Murray Street. More than $40,000 worth of metal was taken from a large shipping container, including 200 sheets of five-by-12-foot aluminum valued at $200 per piece and at least 20 four-by-eight sheets of stainless steel. “That is a substantial amount of metal,” said Port Moody Police Department Const. Luke van Winkel. “Because there is so much money to be made, there are a lot of people who do this for a living.” see THEY LIKELY, page 4
iPads helping youths A Coquitlam middle school is piloting use of iPads to help kids learn: page 3
Todd applauds feds’ new cyberbully law Law would have been a weapon in Amanda’s case By Neil Corbett BLACK PRESS
Cyberbullies are the target of new legislation announced Wednesday by the federal government, and prominent in the discussion in Ottawa was the case of Amanda Todd.
The Port Coquitlam teen took her own life in October 2012 at the age of 15, leaving behind a video message on YouTube explaining how she was tormented by her peers online. Todd had transferred between high schools in Maple Ridge and Coquitlam during her ordeal. C a r o l To d d , h e r mother, was in Ottawa for Wednesday’s announcement and said she was “really pleased”
with the new law. “It’s about time some legislation came into place,” she said from Ontario. “To have it be federal, instead of just provincial, is huge.” The changes to the country’s Criminal Code will ban the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, empower the courts to order the removal of such images from the internet. see MORE, page 7
CAROL TODD