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Water's Edge: Mud, marsh and 'menace' seals from Wreck Beach to Steveston
I awake to the sound of a gull and crows scrounging through my gear for food. The gull thinks it has something, but it’s just a plastic baggie containing my pocket matches. “Get out of here,” I scream....
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Water's Edge: Cafes, hotels and other commercial properties sitting on pricey...
Commercial properties may only take up two per cent of the land lining Metro Vancouver’s oceanfront, but this includes nearly 600 businesses that will feed, entertain and pamper you along the...
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Global experts support proposed B.C. cave protection bill
Karst experts from around the world are lending support to an NDP private member’s bill designed to protect B.C.’s fragile and extensive cave systems from damage by individuals and corporations such as...
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Body found by worker in Abbotsford blueberry field
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Homicide investigators have been called to Abbotsford, B.C. after a body was found Wednesday in a rural blueberry field. Abbotsford police Sgt. Judy Bird says a farm workers made the...
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Six men charged in Metro Vancouver attacks on women after cops pool resources
Six men — including a youth — have been charged in connection with a number of stranger attacks and sexual assaults that have taken place this year in Metro Vancouver communities. Starting in January,...
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REAL SCOOP: Crown says biker associate should get long sentence and forfeit...
It looks like Hells Angels associate Kevin Van Kalkeren will be doing a long jail term after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine. He was one of seven men charged in August 2012 after a...
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Wipes that aren't really 'flushable' cost Canadian taxpayers billions,...
Devin Kiyonaga spends a lot of time thinking about toilets flushing. “I can’t help but be passionate about this topic now,” said Kiyonaga, a Metro Vancouver project engineer. “As a joke, I’ll throw in...
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Woman who suffered deflated breast implant at Coquitlam Ikea has suit dismissed
A woman who sued Ikea Ltd. after slipping on the Coquitlam retail store’s bathroom floor causing her breast implant to deflate has had her suit dismissed in B.C. Supreme Court. According to a judgment...
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Former B.C. Socred government abused power in water export dealings, says judge
Former B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm and members of the 1980s Social Credit government committed “misfeasance in public office” in their dealings with a B.C. water export company, a B.C. Supreme Court...
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Why do people buy Ponzi schemes? They often build on trust
An alleged $40-million Ponzi scheme by a West Vancouver couple looks like it will be added to a list of high-value cases of the surprisingly common fraud in British Columbia. The case involves...
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YVR plans to use north runway this summer has residents airing complaints
Vancouver airport’s plans to have jets depart on a second runway to accommodate heavy summer traffic has some city residents complaining that YVR is bending the rules put in place for the north runway...
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Metro mayors renew pitch for carbon tax, vehicle levy to fund transportation
Nearly a year after the public killed a proposed sales tax to fund transportation in Metro Vancouver, the region’s mayors are making a renewed pitch to use the carbon tax or a vehicle levy to...
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Water's Edge: Eye-popping property values on Metro Vancouver's waterfront
When we think of waterfront homes, we often think big: The palatial mansion on the expansive lot with the eye-popping price tag. And while there are many teeny tiny places squeezed onto precious...
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Water's Edge: Like a flea among elephants at Roberts Bank
If we just left things alone, Canoe Pass wouldn’t be the quiet little backwater that it is, all but forgotten next to the other three arms of the Fraser River. That’s not how it works on the industrial...
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Video: A look at Nihon Fest 2016
If you’re skeptical about going to Nihon Fest, it’s probably normal. After all, Vancouver is home to at least half a dozen Japanese-themed festivals and events such as Anime Revolution, Sakura Days...
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When is a park not a park? City of Vancouver and river district residents...
What looks like a park, smells like a park, and is even dubbed a park might not be a park at all. That’s one of the lessons stemming from a battle breaking out between residents and the City of...
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B.C. premier plots course to next year's provincial election
Victoria — Premier Christy Clark has set an August deadline for her MLAs and cabinet ministers to tell her if they are running for re-election, before she shifts her government into campaign mode for...
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B.C. premier backs density around new transit, but won't commit to density...
B.C. Premier Christy Clark says she expects Metro Vancouver municipalities to allow high density around the billion-dollar rapid transit projects proposed for Surrey and Vancouver but has yet to commit...
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After crushing rattlesnakes, it's time to cowboy up and rope Road Runners'...
Karin Femi, left, and Margaret Buttner: Irinia Gordina was not an option, apparently. Karin Femi, a super-cool personal trainer in North Vancouver who lapped me in November’s UBC Fall Classic despite...
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Water's Edge: Border hopping by boat exposes more than cheap gas and milk
There is no line in the sand marking the international boundary on the oceanfront at Point Roberts. A marker offshore officially indicates the border, but on the shoreline the forested cliffs and...
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