Mahon Hall. 3pm February 11th. Tickets available HERE

At times, British Columbia’s Lower Mainland can seem like a warzone as the United Nations, Brothers-Keepers, Red Scorpions and other gangs fight for supremacy on city streets.
 
Kim Bolan has reported for the Vancouver Sun since 1984. She has covered the Air India bombings and their trials, the rise in organized gang warfare in-and-around Vancouver, contract killings, and even overseas wars—in Afghanistan, El Salvador and Guatemala.
 
Ms. Bolan has won many awards for her investigative journalism and the considerable courage involved in her reporting. She has been subjected to many threats and was even the target of a murder plot, while reporting on a United Nations gang murder trial in 2017. She continues reporting.
 
Has gang warfare changed over the years?
Do recent targeted killings of Vancouver-based gang members in Edmonton and Toronto indicate a new expansion of the Lower Mainland gang wars?
Are any of the gangs active in the Southern Gulf Islands?
What will it take to reverse the crisis of gang warfare? Is containment the best outcome that can be hoped for?
What are governments and the police doing to control or end gang warfare?
 
Kim Bolan will be joined on stage by moderator Justice Catherine Wedge of the BC Supreme Court, who presided over the 2014 Surrey Six trials on which Bolan reported.
 
Through its events, the Salt Spring Forum seeks to understand and address some of the great challenges of our time. Please join us in learning more about the challenge of gang warfare.