Spice Girls to bring their flavour back to Vancouver

The Police performed together again for the first time in years here in May, and now it seems Vancouver has been bestowed with the honour of launching yet another reunion tour of an entirely different former pop-culture juggernaut.

Talks under way to end strike

An end to Vancouver's labour dispute is slowly and quietly becoming more likely, with the city's library workers' union headed back to the bargaining table early next week and the outside workers' union expected to do the same soon.

Crude oil escapes booms, forcing beach closings

Crude oil from a ruptured pipeline that sprayed a quiet residential neighbourhood and flowed into Burrard Inlet east of Vancouver has escaped booms that were supposed to have contained it, forcing the closing of beaches on the other side of the inlet.

Sign treaties, jubilant chief urges natives

Basking in the joyous aftermath of her band's historic ratification of the country's first modern urban treaty and the first under British Columbia's beleaguered, 14-year treaty process, Tsawwassen First Nation Chief Kim Baird urged other natives yesterday to get on board the treaty train.

Vancouver can offer five-year contracts

A major roadblock to ending Vancouver's inside workers' strike has been cleared, as the city's negotiators will be able to offer a five-year contract to the union when they resume negotiations this morning.

Forestry firms find profit in their real estate

At a bend in the road near Jordan River on Vancouver Island, three men are on a picket line, waving from camp chairs to passersby and trying to keep their ''On Strike'' signs from blowing over in the ocean breeze.

Premier may have found his legacy

It was an ebullient B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell who met with reporters yesterday to talk about the success of the Tsawwassen treaty vote.As a key player in the province's first modern urban treaty, Mr. Campbell had every reason to be smiling: The approval of the treaty by the band helped prevent the collapse of land claims negotiations across the province.

One worker, 53, dead after blast at Delta plant

A Coquitlam man has died of his injuries from a fiery explosion at a manufacturing plant in Delta.The blast tore through the Chemcraft Sadolin plant on Annacis Island early Tuesday morning, leaving the 53-year-old worker with severe burns and blast injuries. Police say the man, whose name has not been released, died yesterday. Five others who were injured are recovering at home.

Natives apply for review of Skeena fishing policy

The Gitanyow First Nation applied to Vancouver Federal Court yesterday for a judicial review of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans's Skeena River fishing plan.Glen Williams, chief negotiator for the Gitanyow, said the government-operated commercial fishery has caused historic declines in salmon stocks in the Kitwanga River, a tributary of the Skeena.

Two high-risk Canadian newborns finally at home

Two premature babies born in the United States when there was no room for them in Canada have returned to British Columbia hospitals.One of them, Kelsey James, was sent by air ambulance to Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford General Hospital on Wednesday evening, her mother, Michelle James, said in a telephone interview. ''We're stuck [in Abbotsford] but we're doing our best to get into B.C. Women's'' Hospital and Health Centre, Ms. James said.

?Spanish? Coming To Gastown

I had the pleasure of dining with a couple of young Argentinian restaurateurs the other night. Chef Simon Ibanez (just 28, from Buenos Aires), his wine-growing partner Javier Russo (from Mendoza), and Russo?s wife Nora (a Canuck ...

vancouver gig

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Vancouver Represent! - Lululemon in San Francisco

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Vancouver 2 - 2 Seattle

I went to my first Vancouver Whitecaps match tonight. It was good football, Vancouver are defending champions sitting 4th on the table and the game tonight against Seattle who are 2nd of the table promised to be a good one. ...

Doggie Style - Vancouver Film School (VFS)

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Streaming Audio Killed the Video Star: Spoon Coming to Vancouver!

The perpetual head cold of Britt Daniel has reared its phlegmy maw yet again, this time in the form of stupid album title of the month Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. His nasally vocal-designs on rock and roll plod forward, untouched by modern medicine ...

3. The Simpsons Movie (9/10)

Animation with Dan Castellaneta & Julie Kavner.

July 27 2007 Podcast

Music review featuring Smoosh, Strategies game store, and the pizza grrl.

A contract is on the table

Metroblogging Vancouver can exclusively reveal that there is a contract on the table between the city and the union that should end the strike. The CBC reported earlier today that the union had gone back to bargain with the city [cbc] ...

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Re: Possible move to Vancouver, BC.

Thank you for the reply back also on this. Once i get my student loan paid and credit card fixed, i will see what i will do. I feel at times when my friends from there tell me to do it and just move, i feel that it is some sort of hint ...