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In two previous columns, reported how two promoters, Mo Jiwani and Gerard Darmon, persuaded dozens of people to invest more than $20 million in their private B.C. company, Dexior Financial Inc.
 
 
 

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SCENE & HEARD: In the five years that Howard Blank has been a volunteer auctioneer for celebrity charities, the $365,000 he landed Thursday night for a single item was a personal best. Flanked on stage by Roberto Luongo and Manny Malhotra, Blank raised the eye-popping sum for an Olympic torch signed by the men's 2010 gold medal winning hockey team. Local philanthropist Munir Ali had the Regency Ballroom in an uproar when he closed the bidding at the Canucks annual Dice and Ice Benefit. Final numbers aren't in but the live and silent auctions alone raised close to $1 million for the Canucks for Kids Fund.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Canucks defenceman Sami Salo will take to the ice against the Calgary Flames tonight for his first NHL game of the season. He scored a pair of goals last week during the first game of a brief rehab stint with the AHL's Manitoba Moose.

Sami battles back one more time

The temptation has always been to make jokes, and heaven knows we've made a few of them here.


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Don't blame religion for Middle East conflicts

With a peaceful people's revolution rocking Egypt and the Middle East, the Western public's confusion is again being confronted in regards to Islam.


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Olympics left legacy for indigenous people: Joseph

Tewanee Joseph, former chief executive officer of the Four Host First Nations, spoke to Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham about the 2010 Winter Games and their legacy.


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Fans supported Canadian Olympians throughout the 2010 Games, but it's unclear whether that support will be ongoing -or return only in time for the next Olympics.

The flickering flame

"Canada has taken a stand for sport. We have turned a corner, and we must never look back."


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Fireworks explode as thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters celebrate inside Tahrir Square after the announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Cairo Friday. A furious wave of protest finally swept Mubarak from power after 30 years of rule, sparking jubilation on the streets.

Mubarak out, but military still in charge

Seldom, if ever, has such a acophony of liberation uphoria greeted the ousting of a military dictator by a military dictatorship.


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Holy genitalia: 3-D portraits not insulting, artist says

The Blim Community Market is an art gallery and craft emporium on East Pender in the heart of Chinatown, and last week its new exhibit Holy Men opened on its second-floor gallery.


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How did two unqualified radiologists obtain their positions?

Question: What do you call the man or woman who graduates at the bottom of their class at medical school?


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Gloves are off, but winner is undecided

B.C. Liberal leadership candidates Christy Clark and George Abbott started a broadcast debate Friday where they'd left off in an open-letter exchange earlier in the week; she accusing him of "going negative," he saying he was just engaging in "vigorous" debate.


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Fowler lifts Ducks past Flames in OT

Rookie defenseman Cam Fowler scored with 18.6 seconds remaining in overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks rallied to beat the Calgary Flames, 5-4, at Scotiabank Saddledome.


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Opinion: 'Genial George' goes negative

George Abbott started his bid for the B.C. Liberal leadership by pitching himself as the consensus-builder of the peace, the candidate best able to unite a divided party.


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Appeal court acquits man after Mountie peeked at his pictures

A 37-year-old Prince George man caught with $60,000 in dirty money and a loaded handgun has been acquitted on appeal because an RCMP officer looked at the photographs in his digital camera.


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Opinion: Lali calls shenanigans

New Democratic Party leadership hopeful Harry Lali sees an idea "whose time has come" and figures he's just the guy to make something out of it.


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Gutenberg changed the world. The Internet can do it again

The first of the giant telecoms - which control 95 per cent of Canada's bandwidth market - has blinked in the face of a consumer firestorm over caps and usage-based billing.


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A hardy survivor in NHL's shuffle game

The list, Randy Carlyle says, sat in the desk drawer in his Winnipeg office. "We started it in Manitoba, [Moose general manager] Craig Heisinger and I - a list of designated future replacements for myself," said the Anaheim Ducks head coach, whose last step before getting the big job in the NHL was mentoring the Vancouver Canucks' AHL affiliate.


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