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Murder
Economic summit
Surrey student slain in parkade
Bush speech still on: Watts Outrage mounts across country but mayor won’t cave
Tom Zytaruk
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SURREY – Twenty-five homicide detectives are working around the clock to catch whoever shot Simon Fraser University student Maple Batalia dead Wednesday morning on a third-storey parkade behind the Whalley campus. Batalia, 19, studied health Maple Batalia sciences at SFU and was also an aspiring actress and model. Police found her dying of multiple gunshot wounds after receiving calls of shots fired shortly after 1 a.m. They tried to save her but she died in hospital. Sgt. Peter Thiessen, spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said at Now press time on Wednesday he couldn’t confirm if investigators believe the shooting was targeted or random.
Amy Reid
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Ardith Ingvaldson, left, and Barb Wolfe from the Surrey Arts Centre are eager to show the public what $280,000 worth of renovations did to the main-stage theatre. Patrons have a chance to see the transformation on Saturday. See story on page 15. (Photo: KEVIN HILL)
SURREY – Despite increasing pressure from critics who are outraged that George W. Bush is scheduled to speak in Surrey, Mayor Dianne Watts said she will not cancel Bush’s appearance. The former U.S. president is scheduled to speak at the Surrey Regional Economic Summit on Oct. 20 at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel. The outrage leading up to the summit is not surprising to some – around the country, a similar tune is ringing. Hundreds of people showed up to the Vancouver Club Monday to protest former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney’s appearance, yelling at police as well as insulting and shoving guests at the event. And a Sept. 20 Bush appearance was cancelled in Toronto at Tyndale University College & Seminary after students launched a petition saying, “Tyndale is hosting a war criminal.” Gail Davidson, a Vancouver-based lawyer with Lawyers Against the War, is asking Watts and organizers of the economic summit to cancel Bush’s appearance. see WATTS SHOULD › page 4
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