Vancouver---one of most livable city?

lionnoisy SG

This is another ''anti''--western thread.

Whether I am anti --western or not,pl read on.

I know Vancouer

is consistently ranked one of the three most livable cities in the world..

I am not keen which country is the top or at the bottom.

But I am interest to know that with so many guns shot
in Van,is it still one of the most livable city?

'''B.C. gang member gunned down
Police say latest victim known to them
By Terri Theodore, THE CANADIAN PRESS''

VANCOUVER - Police admitted Monday there's a troubling trend to public killing in Vancouver as they confirmed the city's latest murder victim was known to them.

Vancouver police spokesman Const. Tim Fanning said there are more high-profile shootings on streets, in restaurants and other public places, most connected to the Lower Mainland's drug-fuelled gangs.

"The trend that we've noticed over the last few years is that people killed in the city has gone from stabbings and bodily force (beatings) to more people being shot," Fanning said.

He wouldn't say if the latest victim, Raymond Huang, had gang connections, only that "he was known to other police agencies."

Vancouver police said initially Huang had no criminal record.

Huang, 45, was murdered Saturday night, steps away from the front door of his multi-million dollar home in Vancouver's posh Shaughnessy district near downtown.

Police say his 10-year-old daughter made the 911 call. ....

"There's easy access to weapons, whether it be through the drug trade across the U.S. border or certainly through illegal sources within Canada," he said in an interview.

Kirk said the violence has evolved in the last few decades from fist fights and stabbings to the use of clubs and finally guns in public places.

Two people were killed last summer in what police say was a gang shooting at the Fortune Happiness Restaurant in east Vancouver.

In another incident(31 Oct 2007), attackers fired into an upscale Italian restaurant on the city's west side, wounding a man in what police also considered a targeted attack.

And in suburban Langley, gunmen opened fire on an SUV driven by a purported biker-gang member as he drove his son to school.

Last month(19 Oct 2007), six men were killed in a Surrey apartment that police say was a drug den. Four had criminal connections but two were innocent bystanders. ....

---http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/11/05/4632819-cp.html

2.Have u read any foreign wire agency reported the 6 men murder case?
If not,why they do not report this big case?
Or the foreign media do think it was not a big case of 6 deaths?

3.Van is very lenient to drug traffickers.
They may be let go after one day jail.

selfobliged SG

but crime happens everywhere…

maurizio13 SG

Hehehe...........

Singapore is the No.1 city in the world.

No poverty.

Traffic system No.1, 20 mins to travel from one end to the other.

Everybody can afford healthcare, which is heavily subsidised by government.

Everybody can afford public housing, which is heavily subsidised by government.

Our media information also top notch, nobody can report anything bad about government, which means government is good.

Public transport cheapest and most efficient.

Ministers the hardest working compared to the salary they are paid.

There are no cases of corruption.

Even humanitarian like Durai in NKF gets paid peanuts for his work.

Laughing

lionnoisy SG

ya ya we all in the good hands of PAP,
Every morning every students and civil servants kow
tow to LKY .

so i dunt understand why so many complaint kings.

2.Never mind they put SG in the bottom of any survey.
The chance i get shot in SG is lower than striking a TOTO
first prize.

maurizio13 SG

I only praise Singapore now that I realised that all the western countries are crap. Did I raise any complains here?

Only Singapore is the ideal country on this planet.

I think every country should follow Singapore's way of governance.

Everything is so perfect in Singapore.

hahaha......

Mr. Green

t_a_s SG

without Lee Kuan Yew, there is no Singapore

reddressman SG

even in sg, there are many crimes . Many as in more than a few.

count sg lucky. it has only so few tiny population to produce not many crooks.

count sg lucky. it has no mountains for crooks to hide or run to.

count sg lucky. it has people as righteous as me to make it safe.

count sg lucky to have enforcers to keep it safe.

Kuali Baba SG

*Falls over laughing at threadstarter's pathetic attempt to besmirch yet another country*

He knows Vancouver?

^tamago^ SG

now, not only are they trying to be elite to fellow singaporeans, they want to be elite to the world! Laughing

LazerLordz SG

TS chui kong lam pah song. Rolling Eyes

walesa SG

I think you overlooked God's reverence for this regime through the exclusion of natural disasters from afflicting this utopian regime. That too must be down to the stellar work of the fascists. Laughing

walesa SG

Yes, and in my absence, the planet would stand still. Laughing

reddressman SG

might as well say without sir stamford raffles, no sg ?? di boh, yendao? Laughing

or how about this, without zhengher, no sg economy of today since that came 1st? chio kah peng ah!!!!

or how about this, without the people of sg, no sg ah!!!! hk liao

maurizio13 SG

Laughing Wink

maurizio13 SG

The earth still revolves around the sun even if Hitler's axis won against the allied. Much less to say a world without LKY. He's just big in SG, in other countries he is very small.

reddressman SG

I like to say something out of context for this topic.

Some predatory animals gone EXTINCT and see what a wonderful world has been created.

Predators must go extinct so that the little preys can thrive and live happily ever after.

now, back to the main topic...

vancouver is very nice and relaxing. Lots of Asians and the nature scenery is like no where you have seen. Even nicer than Europe!

SpeedStar SG

i dun know what is vancouver, but i can tell u the scenary there is a thousand time better than in sg. Weather is so much better than the hot + humid that sg can offer.

Its definitely a place that u wish u can retire...if u r rich. I dun undertand wtf is the thread starter trying to prove? R u trying to prove that u know better cos u went there for holiday and come back to tell us with ur essay? Haolian! Laughing

fymk SG

I wonder why my relatives have not been shot in Vancouver yet since the crime level in Vancouver is ,in Lionnoisy's opinion based on one newspaper clipping, so bad.

Quincey SG

I'm in Vancouver. Noisy is fully entitled to pasting snippets and making claims, very effective thread starting process. It is true that there is gang violence in the city, but the local and federal police divisions have taken steps to handle the situation and over the past fews days since the announcement of an anti-gang task force, I haven't heard any reports on the news of any further gang violence. Of course the city is far from perfect, especially when comparing it with back home, things by our Singapore standards, aren't exactly efficient. However, they just epitomize the differences in certain values - like the belief in one's rights for example (When i was first here, I found it startling that bus drivers actually take breaks in the midst of bus rides, but I kinda got use to the idea). People here also go about life at their own leisurely pace, while taking time to seep in the beauty of nature and the clean fresh air that Vancouver possesses. Instead of generalizing a single piece of news bit, as a claim of one city's virtues over another, we should view this as an alternative interpretation of living the good life.

Quincey SG

I’m surprise Coquitlam hasn’t stood up to defend his beloved Vancouver.