Crash kills pilot, injures passengers

A hockey player who played for the San Jose Sharks' farm team last season was injured in a plane crash on Vancouver Island that killed the pilot.Glenn Olson, a 23-year-old left winger, who is currently a free agent after playing for the Worchester Sharks, was rescued from the crash site, media reports said. He was listed in stable condition yesterday, said a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit of St. Joseph's Hospital in Comox. A second passenger, a 22-year-old man, also survived and was in critical condition.

Police target prostitutes near Pickton trial

The New Westminster Police Service has conducted a sting operation to arrest prostitutes and their customers a few blocks from the courthouse holding the trial of Robert Pickton.A three-day undercover operation on 12th Street in New Westminster led to arrests that were announced on the same day a police officer at Mr. Pickton's trial testified about an incident on the so-called stroll on 12th Street eight years ago.

On the West Coast, the ocean can move mountains

Herb Wilson has a stock reply when he's asked how far Polaris Minerals Corp.'s Orca quarry is from California, the project's most important customer.Twenty-five miles, he likes to say, a response that while a geographic whopper - the quarry, on northern Vancouver Island, is actually about 1,150 miles from San Francisco - works as a sales pitch.

Slain principal's husband reported detained in B.C.

The husband of slain elementary school principal Shemina Hirji was held in custody over the weekend but released without any charges being laid, CTV reported yesterday.However RCMP Corporal Dale Carr, of the Lower Mainland integrated homicide investigation unit, refused in an interview to confirm media reports that the prime and only suspect was Ms. Hirji's husband of about a week, Paul Cheema. He would only confirm that police arrested ''the prime suspect'' in the case at a residence in Surrey, B.C., on Saturday.

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Tonight's sunset - and there was one

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Pierce likely to start against Tabbies

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Statement by Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan regarding Vision ...

My focus is getting on with the job of running the city, improving the environment, expanding our economy, delivering on our Project Civil City objectives and making Vancouver the most inclusive and accessible city in Canada.?

The Vancouver Film School

Some of the coolest content we?ve featured lately has come from The Vancouver Film School. Last week I talked with their director of marketing, Stephen Webster. He told me about the inspiration behind their strategy to put their ...