Tuesday December 9 2014
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▼ DEAN JEFFREY ANDERSON ACCUSED OF KILLING ONE MAN AND SERIOUSLY ASSAULTING ANOTHER
PROLIFIC OFFENDER TO STAND TRIAL FOR MURDER SHEILA REYNOLDS
A man who was once one of the RCMP’s top 10 most-wanted criminals has been ordered to stand trial for the murder of one man and beating of another in Surrey last year. Dean Jeffrey Anderson, 45, is accused of killing one man and viciously assaulting another at an illegal after-hours establishment in a Fleetwood-area house just over a year ago. He is charged with the second-degree murder of Richard Lomas and the aggravated assault of Donovan Foster in November Dean Anderson 2013. Anderson, who also goes by the alias “Biggie,” was arrested Dec. 4, 2013 in connection with a fight that was reported at a home near 91 Avenue and 147A Street a week-and-a-half earlier. continued on page 4
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NO MORE CASH FOR TRANSIT: B.C. ▶ MAYORS HAVE TOUGH CHOICE: CUT TRANSIT PROJECTS OR RAISE PROPERTY TAXES JEFF NAGEL
Transportation Minister Todd Stone is holding firm that the province won’t contribute as much money as Metro Vancouver mayors want for their $7.5-billion transit expansion plan.
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And while he is prepared to approve a new TransLink tax subject to a spring referendum, he won’t sign off on the extra $300 million a year the mayors want to raise, saying it is not affordable. That leaves the mayors with a difficult choice – chop projects out of their vision and risk rupturing their consensus; extend the timeline from 10 to 15 years; or raise property taxes, which can be done without a referendum. “One of the key principles to government is the challenge of affordability,” Stone said in an interview Wednesday. “We want to do everything we possibly can to set this referendum up for success.”
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He said there will be a new revenue source allowed by the province, conditional on referendum approval, but added it will have to be “far less than the $300 million they want.” Metro mayors met behind closed doors Dec. 5 ahead of another mayors’ council meeting Dec. 11, where the final decision is expected to be made on the transit referendum question and requested tax. Stone would not say exactly how much in new tax money he would approve if not $300 million a year, but said mayors could raise property taxes to make up the gap.
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