Top headlines from Vancouver and beyond for June 17 2011:

The subjects of one of the most iconic images of the Vancouver hockey riot have been identified.

Mayor Gregor Robertson and Premier Christy Clark have declared that public celebrations for the Celebration of Light and the Grey Cup final will go ahead as planned. “We are not going to back off and give our city over to a bunch of losers … we are not going to let them change our plans to gather in big numbers and celebrate who we are,” Mr. Robertson said.

Meanwhile, Robertson has asserted that the violence and vandalism was the work of everyone’s favourite mass-gathering punching bags: the anarchists. Video evidence is emerging of young men with crowbars, supporting the assertion that some came down prepared for mayhem, but the majority of participants look like regular old fashioned idiots mixed with a few brave citizens.

On the way to the office The Tyee performed a random survey on the HST ballot. The findings: confusion.

And, the legendary barefoot bandit Colton Harris-Moore is expected to plead guilty to charges of interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, being a fugitive in possession of a firearm, piloting an aircraft without a valid airman’s certificate, interstate transportation of a stolen vessel, and interstate and foreign transportation of a stolen firearm.

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