Kier Junos
Video Journalist and Host at citynews1130.com
Video Journalist at CKWX-AM (Vancouver, BC)
Award-winning Video Journalist @CityNewsVAN on @City_TV. Follow me on Bluesky: @kierjunos.bsky.social
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5 days ago |
vancouver.citynews.ca | Kier Junos
The heart of the Downtown Eastside was beating with joy and passion Saturday as the neighbourhood held an event celebrating Indigenous people in Canada. Michelle Bryant-Gravelle, senior director of Indigenous Relations at the City of Vancouver, says it was important to have the event in the Downtown Eastside. "We have a large population of Indigenous people who live here. They're not the majority, but there's a large portion," Gravelle said.
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1 week ago |
vancouver.citynews.ca | Kier Junos
Performance measures - not arrest quotas - are what inform the daily work of VPD officers on Task Force Barrage, according to a new Vancouver Police Board report. This follows a month-long investigation into a whistleblower complaint alleging officers were instructed to meet arrest quotas in the Downtown Eastside.
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1 week ago |
vancouver.citynews.ca | Kier Junos
Travellers from B.C.'s Lower Mainland are stuck in the Middle East as Israel and Iran trade airstrikes for a sixth day. Simon Fraser University tells CityNews it's in contact with two faculty members who are in Iran with their families. Students suggest one of those faculty members is an SFU engineering professor. In a Reddit post, a message that appears to be from Prof.
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1 week ago |
vancouver.citynews.ca | Kier Junos
June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and while leaps in technology and artificial intelligence have enabled higher-quality lifestyles for older adults, the same advancements are increasingly being used to scam them. There are many forms of elder abuse, but financial abuse is the most common in Canada. "Make sure you're having those conversations with people that you care about," said B.C. Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt.
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2 weeks ago |
vancouver.citynews.ca | Kier Junos
The Langley RCMP says it has not made any arrests in connection to a massive fire that destroyed a barn in Langley Township Friday. Police say when first responders arrived on scene around 11:45 a.m., they found a barn on 102B Avenue west of 208 Street engulfed in flames. According to the owner, she was attacked by a handyman working on this property and she suspects he was the person responsible for starting this fire. CityNews hasn't been able to confirm this with police.
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