Union, Vancouver trade shots over poll

The City of Vancouver released the results of two questions of a commissioned poll to try to help resolve the civic strike, a city spokesman said yesterday, but it seems to have only further strained tensions between the union and the city.

The business of bringing hope to Africans in need

Some academics spend the summer attending conferences, touring Europe or relaxing on a beach. In search of something entirely different, two Vancouver professors and their students are spending this summer in African slums, helping to develop local businesses.

Rallies held to protest man's deportation to India

More than a dozen politicians and community leaders came together yesterday to urge the federal government to allow a paralyzed Indian refugee who faces deportation to stay in Canada.Since July, Laibar Singh has lived in sanctuary at an Abbotsford Sikh temple. He left his safety zone on Monday to seek treatment at a local hospital, where he was arrested.

Driver killed, passenger hurt when car hits bus

The driver of a car was killed on the Lion's Gate Bridge yesterday afternoon when her vehicle collided with a West Vancouver transit bus headed into downtown Vancouver. A passenger in the car was in serious condition. Four to five passengers in the bus were injured in the accident at about 4 p.m., according to initial police reports.

A city hall manager's mind is a terrible thing for waste

Are we getting tired of Vancouver's municipal strike yet? I know I am. My putch-and-pitt prowess is becoming woeful without those bumpy public greens on which to hone my craft. I'll never make the Seniors' Tour this way. (Globe Insider subscribers only)

T'Sou-ke band sues over its fishing rights

Vancouver Island's T'Sou-ke band wants to be able to fish where, when and how much it wants, so it is suing the federal government in the hope that a regime of restrictive rules will be struck down.

Striking workers dive into hot job market

As Vancouver's labour dispute enters its fifth week, striking workers are streaming off the picket lines and into the booming labour market - and union leaders figure some of them won't be coming back.

Tofino goes from hippie hangout to 'mini-Maui'

The hippies and other refugees who first made their way to the west coast of Vancouver Island in the 1960s were in the market for a piece of paradise.There was surf, they had boards - life was good.

Civilian review urged in police shooting

A Vancouver Police Department investigation of an incident, in which a man who attacked officers with a chain was shot dead on a busy city street, is going to be subject to an extra level of police scrutiny.

No mechanical failure in fatal crash, TSB says

The Transportation Safety Board says there was no mechanical failure with a small plane that crashed last month near Port McNeill on Vancouver Island.The crash killed the 34-year-old pilot but two passengers survived.

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Review of I camp

Hey everyone, As you know we had i camp during the week of aug 6-10 and it was a smashing hit. We had a large group of youth and leaders head out to camp luther from youth church vancouver and youth ...

What?s REST? - Why the Web Works - Free Web Alternative to KeyNote ...

Join us at BarCamp at the WorkSpace office in Gastown in downtown Vancouver. I?ve signed-up for a slightly reworked version of the ?What?s REST - Why the Web Works? talk for tomorrow?s ad-hoc unconference that schedules all talks in the ...

See you soon Vancouver

I am buzzing with energy and excitement as I take my leave of Vancouver and British Columbia. Tonight, as I spend my last night in my mom's house, I am thinking less of everything that is being left behind, and more of what I am gaining ...

Vancouver: Welcome to Brollywood

... being Goldie Hawn who enjoyed shooting Bird on a Wire with Mel Gibson so much in 1990 that she bought a mansion in the leafy suburb of Shaughnessy. ...

Vancouver iPod Owners Targeted in Violent Muggings

Vancouver Police are warning people sporting trendy iPods about a rash of violent attacks, including one that left an older teen in hospital with serious injuries.Const. Howard Chow said on Friday that police are getting two or three ...

Vancouver Salvation Army checking shelves for dangerous toys

Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/miahansen/645052245/. The Salvation Army has issued a Canada-wide directive to remove all toys from its thrift shop shelves following a massive recall by Mattel earlier this week. ...

New Vancouver bike map

The City of Vancouver has published a new ?Cycling the Cities? bicycle map showing bike facilities, routes and trails in the Vancouver and Portland area. The complete bicycling guide contains a map of both the Vancouver urban area ...

Vancouver?s Brollywood

VANCOUVER, hosting an ever-lengthening list of American film and TV productions, these days is widely known as Hollywood North and in the rainy winter season, ?Brollywood?. More than 200 films and television programs are produced ...

Vancouver tackles Sun - credit squeeze Financial group

National PostFinancial group tackles credit squeezeVancouver Sun, Canada - 18 hours agoUnder the plan, the short-term paper will be restructured into longer-term notes whose maturities will be linked to these of underlying assets, ? ...

BarCamp Vancouver 2007 kicks off this eve

Here we are at noon on the eve of BarCamp Vancouver 2007. Duane Storey and I are hacking some phone VoIP stuff, I'll be doing geo logging (surprise!) and....and I don't know what else will happen. It was great to read through Roland's ...