Playoff position slipping away
SPCA claws back adoption fees
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Tuesday July 15, 2014
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$194-million system plagued by slow, unreliable readers
TransLink Compass card faces further delays by Jeff Nagel TRANSLINK IS further delaying the full launch of its long-promised Compass payment card until at least late fall due to poor performance of the mobile card readers on buses. Officials cited inadequate speed and reliability for passengers boarding buses in holding off on any further rollout of the
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Canadian Open slides into town
A Surrey Storm 99 Gold baserunner is tagged by a Fraser Valley Fusion ’99 infielder during a Showcase Gold game Saturday at the Scotiabank Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship at Softball City. The Storm won 11-0. Close to 90 teams will play during the 11-day softball event, with games played at Softball City, Cloverdale Athletic Park and Sunnyside Park. For more information, go to www.canadianopenfastpitch.com
$194-million system, which is far behind schedule and over budget. TransLink chief operating officer Doug Kelsey said the validators on buses are frequently taking longer than the target 0.3 seconds to read a card – sometimes “a couple of seconds.” Even worse, the validators are misreading cards more than eight per cent of the time, compared to TransLink’s expectation of “far below one per cent.” See SMART CARD / Page 8
Husband killer convicted Beatrice Thomas guilty of manslaughter in stabbing of Quannah O’Soup by Kevin Diakiw A DEADLY COCKTAIL OF FEAR, panic and intoxication all helped
fuel the fatal stabbing of Quannah O’Soup in North Delta four years ago, a judge has found. Justice Trevor Armstrong found Beatrice Thomas, 38, guilty of manslaughter on Friday in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, after ruling out self-defence and murder. In the early morning of July 3, 2011, Thomas and her commonlaw husband O’Soup were drinking and smoking crack cocaine in her North Delta rental home near 115 Street and 80 Avenue with
friends, when O’Soup charged into the living room to turn up the music. Thomas went to stop him because her children were asleep. Evidence of what occurred from there is foggy, the justice found, but O’Soup ended up with a stab wound to his left upper chest that punctured his lung and heart, killing him almost instantly. Thomas was originally charged with second-degree murder but was convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter. Crown counsel alleged Thomas knew what she was doing, and See JUDGE / Page 4
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