An Ex-Hells Angel Tells Us What it Takes to Beat Addiction

Yo Bro | Yo Girl Youth Initiative2017-09-221 min read
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When I sat down with former full patch Hells Angel Joe Calendino earlier this month, it was on the heels of a deadly week of gang shootings across Metro Vancouver.
 

It started with one dead in Surrey on August 30, followed by another shooting that killed an 18-year-old and wounded another teen in Abbotsford August 31. A man and a woman were then found with fatal gunshot wounds in Langley in the early hours of September 1. And two days later, on September 3, a 35-year-old man was shot to death further east in Chilliwack, BC.

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