The Pacific Newspaper Group reports on its website:

Last year, Pacific Newspaper Group (The Province and The Vancouver Sun) successfully fought a court order to surrender to the Vancouver Police Department all images and video produced by our respective newsrooms on the night of the Stanley Cup riot.

The VPD modified its original application to the court and a new order to surrender images and video was delivered late last year to both newsrooms.

Based on legal opinion, Pacific Newspaper Group will comply with the order and deliver the materials to the VPD by the Jan. 21 deadline.

As a result of this decision, The Vancouver Sun and The Province have decided to make all the images we intend to surrender to police available first to our readers. The following images and videos represent the entirety of materials we will deliver, through our lawyer, to the VPD.

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Screensnap of the Vancouver Sun website

I remember a day, too long ago, when I was a young photographer at a small daily Wyoming newspaper. I was driving down the road when the police scanner in my jeep went off with a call for backup at a convenience store that was right around the corner. I quickly changed lanes and pulled into the store’s parking lot. I threw the vehicle in park, grabbed my camera and started making pictures. I was young and inexperienced. Nervous excitement got the best of me. My camera settings were all wrong as I made a few bad pictures of two police officers taking down a suspect.

The newspaper ended up not using the pictures, but the next day a police detective showed up in the newsroom asking for copies of the pictures. To my surprise, the managing editor ran the detective off and then sat me down to dispense a little newsroom learnin’. He explained that journalists are not an information gathering arm of law enforcement. He told me that the newspaper would have a very difficult time reporting on drug abuse, police corruption or anything else that might involve the police if we started handing over our unpublished photographs and interview notes to the police.

At the time I felt like I was in a difficult position. I understood the ideals my editor was talking about, but as a photojournalist I needed to have a working relationship with the police. I ran into them every day at crime scenes, traffic accidents, fires and even high school ball games. I also believe that there is a natural desire in law-abiding citizens to help the police.

However, I’ve come to understand much more deeply what my editor was getting at that day, and that knowledge makes what’s happening to the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers so painful.

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The AP reports from Vancouver, British Columbia:

Angry, drunken fans ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks' 4-0 loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles.

The violence appeared to start when fans set fire to a stuffed bear decorated to symbolize the Bruins.

Anthony Bolante / Reuters

Some 100,000 Vancouver Canucks fans gather at the corner of Georgia Street and Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia under a giant jumbotron television to watch Game-7 of the Stanley Cup NHL Playoffs on June 15.

Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press via AP

A police car burns during a riot in downtown Vancouver on June 15 following the Canucks' 4-0 loss to the Boston Bruins.

Geoff Howe / The Canadian Press via AP

Police confront rioters.

Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP

Police officers pursue rioters.

Rich Lam / Getty Images

Riot police in front of a burning vehicle.

Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP

A police officer walks amid debris following the riot.

"What I've seen is a complete disgrace," said Beth Hope, 28, who is originally from England but has lived in Vancouver for two years. "I'm a Canucks fan, but my jersey's in my bag. I'm ashamed to be a fan right now."

Hope said she saw a parkade on fire and cars ablaze.

"It's insane, it's absolutely insane," she said. "What's the point? Our team lost. Why destroy your own city? I'm afraid."

Read the full story and see images from Game 7 in an earlier post on PhotoBlog.

I thought these were both haunting images from photographer Claire Martin's series on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C. Martin's description of the area follows below:

Claire Martin / Oculi / Redux Pictures

Tony lives in the Downtown Eastside in the same building as his brother and sister-in-law. They have all been addicted to heroin for around 25 years. Tony lost his wife to AIDS five years ago. They had twin daughters who were born HIV positive and were taken away by the state immediately after birth. Tony is on the Methadone program, but continues to use heroin. Despite all the tragedies this drug has inflicted on his life he is still unable to quit.
Here he eats cream pie purchased by the photographer.

"This is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a place notorious for its residents who live below the poverty line in a city twice voted 'the world's most livable' by the Economist Magazine. Statistics for the suburb include and AIDS rate estimated at 30% and the leading cause of death as overdose. Addiction is the core problem causing women to sell sex in order to meet subsistence needs such as food and shelter. Living conditions are sub-standard with the norm consisting of small single-room accommodations that are ridden with bed bugs and multi-resistant staphylococcus. The media regularly makes rounds on the Downtown East Side, but it only serves to stigmatise the people. It is easy to forget that this is a real suburb home to real people who are suffering devastating loss of health and quality of life due to addiction." 

See more from this project on the photographer's site

Claire Martin / Oculi / Redux Pictures

Rose has lived in the Downtown East Side for over 20 years. She lives in a half way home and feeds the birds every day at 2pm. She says that they are her only friends.