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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RadioZoom Episode #137

I figured that blogging 49 posts in 24 hours (for 24 hours straight) wasn?t enough of a challenge so John decided to do a little podcast with me tonight. RadioZoom episode #137 to be precise. A very quick, turnaround episode that we ...

All Clear At Tsawwassen Terminal

Delta Police say they have found nothing suspicious after The Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal was shut down due to a bomb scare.

Future Shop Wants My Money

Shortly after I got a Future Shop credit card I received a letter in the mail saying that they were discontinuing their credit cards. Huh, okay. A little while after that I received a letter in the mail saying that Future Shop now has a ...

Talks between the City of Vancouver and inside workers break off

Jerry Dobrovolny with the City says CUPE 15 tabled a package that was completely unacceptable. Dobrovolny says the union wage increase was almost 23 percent and a non wage demand that added up to almost ...

Midnight Nudity

I know I know, it?s probably not the most appropriate thing but the post title has you intrigued doesn?t it? Since Keira and I were on a Degrassi kick over the last 24 hours she must have been searching through YouTube because well, ...

Sidestepping To Vancouver

The first place I would like to go is The Vancouver Art Gallery. I?ma huge art buff so I would love to see the work of some famous Canadian artists. The gallery is also pretty convenient, because it?s in close proximity to some ...

Troubled Hubble - 14000 things to be happy about

Good day, and welcome to my first appearance on this Blogathon. I?ve been busy for a good portion of today with the newly christened day job, so my appearance here needs to be in true fashion. That means, a post about music, ...

Air India memorial unveiled in Vancouver

Ceperley playground in Stanley Park was refurbished with new play equipment designed to encourage co-operative collective play in memory of the 82 ?

100 Days of Summer - Tennis

A couple of weeks ago John was working at the Stanley Park Open and caught wind of the events that take place at Hollyburn. I?m not into tennis, but I know a couple people who love to watch. Apparently Vancouver is a pretty good place ...

No not a warzone

Hanging out on our balcony we ?heard? the fireworks tonight. We weren?t able to get down to the beach but we recorded some podcast audio. When John went to plug in the ipod on which we were recording the computer freaked out and I think ...

I have no beer

Ever since Alanah?s post I?ve been craving some Granville Island lager. I decided that these contributor posts are just too great to get swept away with the rest so they?re all in their own category ?guest post? so that you can revisit ...

WordTwit

Our pal Duane is always tinkering with applications. He?s made a couple Facebook apps and numerous Wordpress Plugins. His latest works hand-in-hand with Wordpress to post alerts of your blog entries directly to Twitter. ...