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Form and function in perfect balance at Harmony – Check out all the finalists...
Harmony 8288 Granville St., Richmond Developer: Townline Anticipating that Harmony’s residents would be up to 95 per cent Asian or of Asian descent, Townline prudently consulted a feng shui master to...
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Daphne Bramham: Supreme Court to rule whether B.C. muzzles free speech at...
It’s the inherent messiness of democracy that small, individual voices are raised in attempts to hold politicians responsible, to get answers to problems or to find common cause with others. But the...
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Creepy clown prank spreads to B.C.
The “creepy clown” social-media-fuelled frenzy that is causing fear and bizarre behaviour in the United States appears to have spread to B.C. Langley RCMP reported that several boys were terrified...
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MC2 8031 & 8131 Nunavut Lane, Vancouver Developer: Intracorp Sitting at the gateway to Vancouver on the Canada Line is MC2 – Intracorp’s transit-oriented, sustainable community made up of market...
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Obituary: ‘Old Leather Lungs,’ one of B.C.’s most colourful politicians
Former B.C. Social Credit cabinet minister Don Phillips, whose bombastic style earned him the nickname “Old Leather Lungs,” has died in hospital in Australia where he lived. He was 87. Phillips had...
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Scientists investigate discovery of fumaroles atop Mount Meager, a dormant...
Scientists are investigating the “new and interesting” discovery of a fumarole field atop Mount Meager, a dormant volcano near Pemberton that is expected to blow its top one day and pose a threat to...
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Order now: Get an 8×10 print from Vancouver in the Seventies
Book jacket for Vancouver in the Seventies, by Kate Bird with introduction by Shelley Fralic.To mark the release of the new book Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos From a Decade That Changed the City...
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Police offering gun amnesty through October
British Columbians are being allowed to voluntarily surrender illegal or unwanted firearms, weapons or ammunition through the month of October. From Oct. 1 to 31, police are not recommending...
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Senior forced into the 'Dodge Hotel'– his old car – after eviction
Eighty-four-year-old Ben Trimble was evicted from his apartment in September. Unable to find a new apartment in Vancouver’s tight rental market, he’s been sleeping in his car. “It gets fairly cool at...
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The 1970s: A decade that changed Vancouver forever
It was the decade of Greenpeace, when a ragtag group of Vancouverites banded together to launch a worldwide environmental movement. It was the decade of street protests, when Vancouverites raised...
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This Week in History, 1909: On first test drive, new 'auto ambulance' kills a...
On Oct. 6, 1909, Charles Cocking took Vancouver’s new “auto ambulance” out for its first test drive, and promptly killed a pedestrian. “Out for a trial spin at noon, Vancouver’s new city police...
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Braille computer stolen from blind UNBC student
PRINCE GEORGE — A blind University of Northern B.C. student just wants to show her two sons that anything is possible despite the challenges life has to offer. On Tuesday morning, Shea Anker, an...
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Embracing gratitude on Thanksgiving
Nightmares of the battlefield often wake Bill Cameron up at night, leaving him panicked and soaked in sweat. His girlfriend, Judi Simon, rouses herself to comfort him, reminding him that he’s safe and...
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Douglas Todd: The “great professor’s” blind spot
There is no God in heaven There is no hell below. So says the great professor Of all there is to know. — Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is onto something about secular higher education. In Almost Like the...
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Creepy clowns not welcome in North Vancouver schools
Students returning to school in North Vancouver Tuesday will receive a talk about “creepy clowns.” In a letter emailed to families Friday afternoon, the North Vancouver school district superintendent,...
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Thirteen-year-old Bowen Island chef appears on reality cooking show
School is out for the day and coconut beurre blanc is on 13-year-old Hudson Stiver’s mind. The combination of butter and coconut milk, reduced down to a rich sauce, will be a key part of the supper...
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REAL SCOOP: Man shot in Kelowna a key witness in US drug case (EXCLUSIVE)
When a man was critically injured in a bicycle drive-by in Kelowna in August, I thought it was a strange event. Police announced soon afterwards that a suspect had been arrested. His name is Tyrone...
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Vancouver police seek man after 12-year-old groped in West End
Vancouver police are working to find a man after a 12-year-old girl was groped on Friday in the West End. According to police, three girls left a community centre in the area shortly after 9 p.m....
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B.C. mines ministry investigating pollution from old Vancouver Island mine
VICTORIA — B.C. Mines Minister Bill Bennett says he doesn’t know why a high-risk mine site leaching copper into southern Vancouver Island’s Jordan River was deemed clean by the province in 1993. The...
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Victoria fines first pot shop under new licensing regime
VICTORIA — A pot shop has been given the first fine under the City of Victoria’s new rules aimed at marijuana retailers, and it plans to fight the penalty. Green Ceiling was fined $500 on Friday for...
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