Top headlines from Vancouver and beyond for September 19 2011:

Still reeling from the Stanley Cup riots, Vancouver readies itself for the 2011 Grey Cup festival, with City Council set to approve up to $250,000 in engineering and policing costs.

In a party meeting the Globe referred to as, “unprecedented for its size and ethnic diversity,” the Coalition of Progressive Electors voted to dump longstanding member and current councillor David Cadman in favour of rookie RJ Aquino. The two other candidates who won nomination were former councillor Tim Louis, and councillor Ellen Woodsworth. Louis was one of the lone critics of COPE’s decision to cooperate with Vision Vancouver, but since winning the nomination, says he’ll honour the agreement, which promises not to run overlapping candidates or publicly criticize the other party.

Kicking off her five-day-five-announcement tour, Christy Clark is set to visit a $4.5-billion liquefied natural gas facility today, as she announces the details of her new job-creation program.

Police say that a man critically-wounded in a Surrey shooting Friday is in a gang fighting with the Hells Angels. Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, 24, is a member of the “Dhak” crew, which may be connected to last month’s daylight shooting that killed Jonathon Bacon and wounded a member of the Hells Angels in Kelowna.

At least 21 pro-democracy protestors were killed in Yemen as security forces opened fire with water cannons, tear gas, and finally, heavy weapons.

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