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A group of public healthcare advocates and concerned citizens rallied Tuesday afternoon outside Richmond MP Alice Wong’s office against the federal government’s cancellation of the Canada Health Accord. The rally was organized by the Hospital Employees’ Union of B.C., which states the province will lose $500 million in funding each year for the next 10 years. Health workers, including the ones pictured from Richmond, claim the $36 billion in reduced funding to provincial revenues across Canada over the next 10 years undermine the national healthcare system and ignore the country’s need for a national pharmaceutical drug strategy. Photo by Graeme Wood/ Richmond News ! Look for full story online at Richmond-News.com and in Friday’s edition of the Richmond News
Passenger arrested for ‘bizarre’ behaviour Richmond woman flying back from Toronto allegedly threw sandwich before striking flight attendant Alan Campbell
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A Richmond woman could be facing an assault charge after her “bizarre” behaviour aboard a Toronto to Vancouver flight on the weekend. The woman, who can’t be named until charges are laid, was arrested once her WestJet flight landed on Sunday about 8:40 a.m. Mounties from the RCMP’s YVR detachment were called to meet the flight after reports of the woman behaving erratically.
She is alleged to have struck a flight attendant after the passenger was warned about her apparently “bizarre” and “belligerent” behaviour. According to one of the passengers, Darlene Jerome, the woman began behaving strangely with about an hour left to go in the flight. “A women up front was very demanding, and the next thing I knew, there was a sandwich that was thrown backwards,” Jerome told Global BC. “The stewardess came up and touched her gently, and said you can’t be doing that. The lady started yelling at her, and said ‘you touching me, I’m going to charge
you with sexual assault.’” Jerome alleges the woman then punched the flight attendant on the chin. “The flight attendant walked away then. It took a little while, but flight marshals went to the phone, came up and took her from the front. They escorted her to the back of the plane,” said Jerome. When the flight landed at YVR, Mounties boarded the plane and arrested the woman. Richmond RCMP’s acting Cpl. Dennis Hwang said the woman has been released on a promise to appear back in court at a later date. “We are still in the process of forming
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