Surrey union ratifies five-year agreement

The vast majority of civic workers in Surrey have voted to ratify a five-year agreement, making it the sixth municipality surrounding Vancouver to officially achieve labour peace.CUPE 402 president Laurie Larsen said she would have preferred a shorter term, but was glad the matter had been settled, citing an extra week of vacation for long-time employees as a key part of the new contract. The 17.5-per-cent wage increase over five years is similar to recent deals made in Burnaby, Richmond, Delta and North Vancouver District.

Man denied bail over driving charges

A Burnaby man who had his driver's licence stripped for a decade after he struck and killed a pedestrian in 2000 was denied bail yesterday in connection with more driving-related charges.

Death by overdose up in Vancouver

The number of drug overdose deaths in Vancouver is up for this year.Jeff Dolan of the B.C. Coroners Service says there were 36 deaths in the first six months, compared with 26 during the corresponding period last year.

All aboard for a hearty, extravagant ride

I am in love with Vancouver's new TransContinental Heritage Restaurant and Railway Lounge.It wasn't necessarily the food that swept me off my feet, although the Canadian classics on the menu are refreshingly simple, hearty and comforting.

Housing homeless top priority, 'civil' city official says

Vancouver's new Civil City commissioner supports the idea of importing to the chaotic downtown a style of aggressive policing similar to New York's, but stressed that housing the city's fast-growing homeless population is his top priority.

Both sides mum as strike grinds on in Vancouver

Residential garbage trucks rumbled through North Vancouver yesterday for the first time in three weeks, but Vancouver's municipal strike continued underneath a cloak of silence.Representatives of the city's three striking unions continued to meet with city officials at the bargaining table yesterday after resuming talks this weekend. There is a complete media blackout in effect.

RCMP investigate deaths of two men in custody

RCMP are investigating two custody deaths: one in the Vancouver Island town of Tofino and the other at Penticton in the B.C. Interior.Tofino RCMP say a 38-year-old man was arrested Saturday for public drunkenness and taken to the local jail. The man was checked by a guard early Sunday and found to have stopped breathing, then was pronounced dead at Tofino General Hospital.

Campers being treated for Norwalk-like symptoms

Nineteen people attending a family reunion have received medical attention in hospital after they began showing symptoms of a virus similar to the Norwalk strain.Gerry Graxton of the B.C. Ambulance Service said about 100 people were attending the event at the New Westminster Royal Canadian Legion Memorial Camp on the long weekend. He said two children showing symptoms similar to the Norwalk virus arrived on Friday and, as of noon yesterday, 28 people were complaining of illness.

Vancouver-Nanaimo ferry suddenly out of service

A B.C. ferry on the Duke Point-Tsawwassen run has been removed from service for a week for unscheduled work on one of its clutches.The Queen of Alberni was pulled out of service on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The ship will be replaced by the Queen of New Westminster today and the Queen of Esquimalt after that.

Cabinet to mark B.C.'s 150th at fort

British Columbia's cabinet will hold a rare ceremonial meeting in a historic property at Fort Langley in November, 2008, taking a break from its usual Victoria and Vancouver routines, as part of provincewide ceremonies to mark B.C.'s 150th anniversary.

Staff/Volunteer Meeting & Bag-Stuffing - August 11th, 1pm

Hello all staff and volunteers, Reminding you that the next staff/volunteer meeting will be held on Saturday, August 11th, 2007 at SFU's Maggie Benston Centre (MBC) Atrium cafeteria at 1 pm. Please note that this meeting is mandatory ...

Voice-actor Idol Panel

Introducing Voice-actor Idol, a panel hosted by our guest this year, Michael Coleman. Michael will be going through potential Voice-actors, and will be grading them on how believable they are as the character. ...

gay vancouver

hope eveyone makes it to this wonderful bud light main circle event in ocala forest,love my family but the truth is ive seen more baylon in the forest in 4 weeks of being in ocala the in the so called babylon of soiciety,when did ...

BACK-ON on Nikkei TV Saturday August 11, 2007 at 2:00 PM

Please check out NikkeiTV which airs on Saturday August 11 at 2.00 PM and repeats Monday at 2.00 PM and Thursdays at 10 AM on Channel M (Channel 8 on Shaw Cable in the Vancouver area). Channel will be different in other areas and on ...

Vancouver Aquarium April 2007

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False Creek Science World, Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia

False Creek Science World, Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

8/8/2007: ? She was the best student I ever had?

... limit for Brenna Jaclyn Innes, one of the two young women who died in a fire in Victoria over the weekend, one of her computer sciences professors at the University of Victoria said Tuesday. Wendy Myrvold said Innes, from Vancouver,...

8/8/2007: Endangered owls captured for breeding

Two northern spotted owls have been captured by the BC government as part of the world?s first captive breeding program for the endangered species. In late July, an adult male spotted owl named Skye was brought to the Mountain View ...

8/8/2007: BULK BUYING OF DRUGS WOULD SAVE CANADA BILLIONS, UBC ...

Canadians could save billions of dollars a year on prescription medicines if governments negotiated bulk- buying discounts from drug manufacturers, says a University of BC study being published today in the journal Healthcare Policy. ...

8/8/2007: McDonald?s must pay $ 50000 for firing 23- year employee

When Beena Datt came with her family to Canada from the Fiji Islands at age 19, the job she landed at McDonald?s quickly became her second home. She loved the customers, the other employees and the shift work that allowed her to raise ...

Richmond technology now helping in Utah mine

A Richmond company has added its expertise to the search for six missing Utah miners.

Count sheep - and jackhammers

It's what residents near Cambie and 12th Avenue call "an unbearable" noise.