Union awaits ruling on essential services

The city of Vancouver sent a formal letter yesterday urging the union that represents the city's outside workers to come back to the bargaining table instead of striking.''We've only been bargaining with them since the start of the year and we've indicated there's still flexibility and room for movement,'' city spokesman Jerry Dobrovolny said.

Constable avoids criminal record

A New Westminster police officer will have to feed the poor and counsel fellow officers on dealing with aggression under the terms of a conditional discharge he received yesterday for kicking a handcuffed suspect in the head.

Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo ferry out of service

A mechanical problem on the Queen of Oak Bay ferry yesterday morning will cause serious travel delays between the mainland and Vancouver Island for at least a week.''The vessel had sailed from Departure Bay on its scheduled 8:30 sailing and en route over to Horseshoe Bay one of the bearings in a gearbox overheated,'' said B.C. Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall.

Plants uprooted for the Winter Games

In the muck of a wetland atop a mountain at West Vancouver's Cypress Provincial Park, volunteer gardeners gently tug at the butterwort plants. The plants have to move out, so to speak, to make way for a water reservoir needed for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Blistering heat breaks records across B.C.

Soaring mercury levels broke at least six records across the Lower Mainland this week, but the heat should ease off a bit this weekend for sweltering Vancouverites, according to Environment Canada.

City, union at odds over legal strike timing

The city of Vancouver is prepared for its outside workers to walk off the job at 4 p.m. today, even though the union does not plan on striking until it is legally able, which will not be until Monday at the earliest.

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Opening Porn

After the first major flurry of this summer?s damn fool crazy glut of the new restaurants (The Shore Club, Toratatsu, Goldfish Pacific Kitchen, the new Hapa, Boneta, Metro, ), the next wave is quietly soldiering on.

Photos from the Vancouver Water Fight

Today Arieanna and I went down to Stanley Park to participate in the water fight flashmob happening near the lumberman?s arch. Only a fraction of the thousands of people in the Facebook event showed up, so no records were broken, ...

And another ray of hope from Vancouver?s VANDU

Vancouver?s Radio CKNW (AM980) reports on their website Saturday: Advocacy group fights bed bug outbreak VANCOUVER - Community advocacy group the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users VANDU is trying to fight a massive outbreak of ...

7/14/2007: Vancouver Island: Council backs Yukon Street housing

Lack of affordable housing is one of the major issues Victoria will face over the next five years and city council wants to show it is serious about getting units on the ground. Council voted unanimously this week to approve a ...

7/14/2007: Vancouver Island: Dogs on catwalk at Hugo?s today

Dogs will be strutting their stuff on the catwalk today, along with their two-legged friends. Unleashed, a two and four-legged fashion show in aid of Victoria SPCA, will be held at Hugo?s Brewhouse, 625 Courtney St. ...

7/14/2007: Vancouver Island: BC Transit says high costs delay ...

Transit passengers won?t be riding new hybrid electric buses any time soon, with BC Transit saying it won?t be adding any more to its fleet until the cost drops. ?We like the hybrid bus and we like the concept, but at this particular ...

7/14/2007: Vancouver Island: Bellingham salvager aims to refloat ...

The Robertson II may float again this weekend if all goes according to plan. A Bellingham ship salvager is near the reef off Saturna Island where the classic schooner has been hung up for two weeks. He is making preparations to refloat ...

7/14/2007: Vancouver Island: CVRD rejects ski lake proposal

A dream to build a ski lake surrounded by 22 houses south of Shawnigan Lake appears to be dead in the water after members of the Cowichan Valley Regional District board voted against it this week. But hobby farmer Dale Erb said ...

Stem Friends!

Facebook. College social hangout or worthy business tool? One thing I do know about the Internet is that things often start social and experimental, and then end up with a business development spin. Email, websites, blogs -- over the ...

Web Traffic - It?s All About Getting Eyeballs

Starting up a new website is the most daunting challenge a webmaster/blogger faces. Weeks of sleepless nights, getting the site ready for launch, are likely to produce only a trickle of visitors within the first weeks. ...