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Police officers monitor the crowd during the riot in downtown Vancouver following the Stanley Cup Finals on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A man waves a large Canucks flag in front of a car set on fire in the parking lot of the Canada Post office on W Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver during the riot on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Firefighters attack a truck on fire in the parking lot of the Canada Post office on W Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Riot police stand their ground as a car slowly burns itself out during the riot in downtown Vancouver following the Canucks’ loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Riot police stand their ground and prepare to release “flash-bangs” into the crowd during the riot in downtown Vancouver following the Canucks’ loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A man poses for photos in front of riot police during the riot in downtown Vancouver after the Canucks’ loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Riot police force a man back into the crowd in an attempt to control the riot in downtown Vancouver following the Canucks’ loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A young man rips out the blinds from the window of the Bank of Montreal on W Georgia Street after smashing the glass. People turned to looting during the riot in downtown Vancouver on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Multiple police vehicles were set on fire and destroyed including these two cruisers parked opposite the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on W Georgia Street and Cambie Street. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A riot police holds his ground as two police cars burn in the parking lot opposite the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on W Georgia Street and Cambie Street during the riot on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Multiple police vehicles were set on fire and destroyed including these two cruisers parked opposite the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on W Georgia Street and Cambie Street. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Rioters then turned to looting many of the stores in downtown Vancouver including major stores such as H&M and London Drugs during the riot on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A woman writes a message on the boarded up windows of the Bay department store in downtown Vancouver the morning following the June 15, 2011 riot. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Jaeger Mah, winner of Vancouver International Airport’s Live@YVR contest, sits in the cockpit of an Airbus A330 in September 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Jaeger Mah, winner of Vancouver International Airport’s Live@YVR contest, chats with Air China’s senior advisor Canada David Solloway about the brand new business class cabins on an Airbus A330 in September 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Yogi Michelle Renee holds a pose at Bikram Yoga Commercial Drive on Thursday, July 7, 2011. The yogi sold her possessions and hiked up the West Coast to Vancouver in an effort to rediscover herself. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A fire consumes the six-storey wood-frame Remy complex in Richmond, B.C. The fire began in the late hours of Tuesday, May 3, 2011 and burned well into the early hours of Wednesday. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Mayor Gregor Robertson poses for photos while demostraing one of Vancouver’s new electric car charging stations at a media event on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 in a parking lot by City Hall. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Police examine the end of a dock at the Plaza of Nations marina where a passerby found the remains of a leg bone attached to a foot still inside a sneaker around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

BC Ferries CEO Dave Hahn fields questions from the media following the company’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, where it was announced the company may cut up to 400 sailings — but won’t drop fares or examine upper-level wages — to save cash and revamp its ailing budget. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix hand delivers a thank you letter to a small business owner at Crystal Mall in the riding of Burnaby-Deer Lake on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. According to Dix, the efforts of Chinese-Canadian small business owners were key in defeating the HST. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Lone NPA Coun. Suzanne Anton speaks to media about the riot after storming out of council chambers on June 28, 2011. Anton’s mic was repeatedly shut off by Mayor Gregor Robertson during the regular council meeting, the first since the notorious riot on June 15, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

A bike sits parked by the seawall at English Bay. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson announced the official reopening of the Stanley Park seawall at a ceremony on July 5, 2011, celebrating the completion of a $12-million Stanley Park upgrade project. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Grace Makarewicz, Langara’s director of library services, is optimistic that student use of the library during the new extended hours will remain consistent throughout the fall 2010 semester. If this is the case, the college will consider more funding for the library in order to help with operating costs. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Chemistry instructors Tim Higgins (left) and Andrew Mosi (right) perfect their liquid nitrogen ice cream recipe. The demonstration was a part of Langara College’s 40th on 49th Anniversary celebrations on Oct. 14, 2010. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Goalie Brendon Ip poke checks the puck as two players from the Vancouver Ice Holes rush the net. The Ice Holes went on to win the game. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Firefighters review the damage in the 500 block of West Broadway after an accidental fire broke out at 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 1, 2010 at Japas Bistro. Police later deemed the fire accidental. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

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Qmunity volunteer Adam Giesbrecht, 21, pauses during his speech at a rally on Oct. 20, 2010. The rally at Emery Barnes Park was organized in memory of the recent string of LGBTQ suicides in the States. More than 500 people attended the rally and many wore purple to show support. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Willie Mitchell, former Vancouver Canucks player and the 2010 winner of the Fishing for Kids Charity Fishing Tournament, prepares to pass on the trophy to this year’s winner at a reception held at YVR’s south terminal on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

Fire officials watch as another firefighter waters the dying embers of a fire that consumed the six-storey wood-frame Remy complex in Richmond, B.C. The fire began in the late hours of Tuesday, May 3, 2011 and burned well into the early hours of Wednesday. (STEPHANIE IP PHOTO)

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