1 dead, 2 hurt in multiple stabbings in Vancouver

One does not normally associate gang violence with Vancouver.

One does not normally associate gang violence with Vancouver.

Unfortunately there's been quite a bit of it over the past decade or so.

One does not normally associate gang violence with Vancouver.

Just as one does not normally associate crime with Japan, gang & organized crime and the attendant violence is part of the underbelly of any society. Past and present. Gangs have been in Vancouver as well as the rest of the Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley for much more than a decade--most of the 20th century.

With social media now driving much of the news and news now being much more sensationalist than it was in the past, it's more in the open. Previously it mostly stayed underground. (Literally--if you count the opium dens in the tunnels below Vancouver's Chinatown.)

" No Gangs in Vancouver " << LMAO....

Narcotics are responsible for about 80% of Vancouver's surging anti-social activities, in case you were wondering. This has occurred since the authorities started taking a more and more "compassionate" stance toward illegal drug users around 20 years ago. Police recently announced they won't touch any users, including the most hardcore ones, and the social workers give druggies free facilities and needles, as if encouraging the habit.

Well, the results of such a policy speak for themselves. My condo unit and others nearby look like Fort Knox these days, since several break-ins and people's things stolen. Canada USED to be a nicer place, I'd say. In all cases, the burglars were druggies needing money for their next hit, and to provide revenue for the gangs.

Violent crime is up 36 percent in Surrey this year, due in large part to a gang turf war that led to an unprecedented number of public shootings.

Good thing no one has guns.