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Great sea view from the Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver.

Hiking Zone of Lighthouse Park.

Trails at The Lighthouse Park.

Vancouver Revolving Restaurant.

A distant view of Vancouver especially the downtown region.

ATI Request

Amanatveer Kaur
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72 Ave
Surrey, B.C.
V3W 2M8

February 24, 2019

RCMP Access to Information and Privacy Branch
73 Leikin Drive, Mail Stop #61
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0R2

To whom it may concern,

Under the Access to Information Act, kindly provide me with:

• The number of cars stolen in each year from January 2017 to January 2019 in the city of Surrey (British Columbia, Canada) and also include the areas that witnessed the robbery.

If possible, please provide the details of the specific location, date and time of the incident as a list in electronic database format (i.e. Excel, Access).

If there are problems releasing some portions of the documents requested, please do not withhold the release of all the documents, but instead forward those you can release.

I have enclosed the $5 application fee.

If you have any questions, you can reach me via phone; 7789285576, or via email; amanatveer.kaur@email.kpu.ca .

Please advice me when the material is available for release.

Thank you,

Amanatveer Kaur, Student

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Explanation for the Request:

I just wanted the details of the car robberies because everyone in Surrey is curious about the incidents that are taking place here. Few months back everyone was wondering about the carjacking at 10100 block of King George Boulevard it was quite surprising how someone could just rob and leave in the day time and that too at such a busy location. So, I wanted to know that how many car robberies took place in two years and  which areas are more prone to these types of robberies so that I might take care of my vehicle and also make sure my family members are aware about this.

Note: The RCMP do not have a particular person in charge of ATI request forms, so I typed 'to whom it may concern'. 

Laptops: Should be allowed in classrooms

Photo by: Thuy Tien/ Flicker

In the modern world, we have witnessed a great war with technology. This war has now came into the academic field as well. Students are given options to buy online text or paper text for their courses, however the price of e-text is lower than the paper textbook which lets the students to buy it online. Furthermore, many instructors ban the usage of laptops in their class, which leads to the question how will the student co-relate the class notes with the text?

Amanda Hecimovic mentioned in Doing More Harm than Good: Laptops Be Banned from University Classrooms? that students use laptops for non- academic purposes during the class time. This is completely fine as it would not affect the learning process of the fellow classmates and moreover, it's the freedom of a student to study in which so ever way he/she is comfortable.

Melanie Stamps, an English senior in UTeach department program stated:

" There's a difference between high school and college, in college we're adults, If I choose to not pay attention and use my laptop in class, then that's my adult decision".

Amanda also said that laptops used for just note-taking can still have negative consequences which is not the case with majority of the students. Julia Brinkmeier, molecular bio medicine programme student told in an article that:

''Laptops mean that note taking has become easy, they have great visualization tools, they are easier to carry around than books, and sharing is instant. Also it saves a lot of time when solving complex math which I appreciate''.

Amanda also mentioned that note-taking by hand is still important but what about the wastage when we need to edit the notes later on when we study them? Laptops are eco-friendly as we do not need to waste the paper while taking the notes from the lectures and scheduling our day also becomes easy as one can easily note down all the important dates and deadline in the class by setting reminders so that he/she does not forget later on, which is not possible with the traditional pen and paper style.

As the sharing of notes is easy when taken on laptop because one can easily transfer them to their mobile phones and access them while travelling. Whereas, if we talk about getting the pictures of notes, those are not engaging and clear enough for someone to study.

An article informs that laptops allow students to make a quick search when they do not understand something and continue with the class as digital representation helps a lot in understanding things in a better way. Multitasking is an additional benefit for students when they have laptops with them as they can make presentations, finish assignments and solve problems at the same time which is a modern way of study.

It is clear from this that if students use laptops for there coursework like note-taking, digital study and do not browse facebook , twitter and other social networking or shopping sites, then laptops would be a great boon for the students in their academic field during their classes.


Search-Engine Optimization:
Earlier, I had decided to use the term ''computer'' instead of ''laptop'', but when I checked on google trends, term ''laptop'' was found to be more popular than the term ''computer''. I also preferred using the term ''digital'' over the term ''visual'' as it was far more common than the latter. Finally, I compared ''mobile phones'' with ''smart phones'' and found ''mobile phones'' more popular. I would also like to mention that all my searches are based on the results of past 12 months.