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Bikers lose bid to get Nanaimo clubhouse back pending trial
It’s been more than eight years since the Nanaimo Hells Angels have had access to their Victoria Road clubhouse. They were kicked out in November 2007 when the B.C. government filed a civil forfeiture...
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Parents can now access grant for kids at BMO
Parents can now apply for the $1,200 B.C. Training and Education Savings Grant at BMO as well as at 350 credit unions in the province. Parents or grandparent need to open a Registered Education Savings...
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UBC faculty say university in ‘governance crisis’
The UBC Faculty Association is calling for an external review of the university’s board of governors and its operations. In a letter to new board chair Stuart Belkin, copied to Premier Christy Clark...
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Student society speaks out on divestment decision
The UBC AMS student society said the new $10-million sustainability fund proposed by the board’s finance committee isn’t adequate to address students’ concerns. “In a 2014 election, 76.9 per cent of...
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Great Youtube find: Bootleg of Nirvana’s first show at Commodore Ballroom
Here’s a treat for you old grungers. Someone has posted an entire bootleg of Nirvana’s first visit to Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on Youtube. The date of show was March 8, 1991, seven months before...
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Charges laid after VPD investigation into drug ring
Six people who allegedly trafficked fentanyl and other drugs in B.C. and Alberta are now facing a total of 42 charges. The six were arrested after a seven-month investigation by Vancouver Police into...
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Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign former B.C. Lions RB Andrew Harris
Longtime B.C. Lions running back Andrew Harris is now a Winnipeg Blue Bomber. Winnipeg signed the free agent to a three-year deal on Tuesday, the opening day of CFL free agency. Harris, a Winnipeg...
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Tweet of the day: Vancouver gas prices are crazy high compared to Edmonton
Our heavy gas tax and the lack of refineries in B.C. will always mean Vancouverites will pay a higher price at the pumps than our friends in Alberta … but this is ridiculous. Twitter user @caseyFp...
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Jimi Sandhu loses appeal of deportation order
A longtime Abbotsford gang associate has been ordered deported to India even though he left his birth country as a seven-year-old to live with relatives in B.C. Jimi Sandhu, 26, lost an appeal of the...
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Former airport worker loses court battle over security clearance
A former Vancouver airport worker will not be able to get the security clearance needed for her job because of gang associations more than a decade ago. Federal Court of Canada Judge Richard Mosley has...
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Faculty, deans speak out on UBC governance
Signs of tension appeared this week between the University of British Columbia deans and administration on the one hand and the faculty on the other hand. A petition by faculty and former faculty...
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Green MLA pushes for university changes
Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver waded into the University of British Columbia governance controversy on Thursday in the provincial legislature. Weaver introduced a private members bill, which he says on...
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Charges laid after triple shooting at Shuswap Lake home
One of three victims of a shooting in Celista, B.C. Feb. 7 has now died of his injuries. The identity of the 50-year-old murder victim has not been released. Police arrested local resident Richard...
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Two men wounded in Surrey shooting
Just before 11 p.m. Saturday, two young men arrived at a Surrey hospital with gunshot wounds. Surrey RCMP was called in to investigated. “Upon arrival, officers confirmed that both males had been...
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Vancouver skyline featured in Marco Rubio’s ‘Morning again in America’...
Marco Rubio, currently running third in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, must be hoping that scenic Vancouver can give him a push past frontrunners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The...
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Vancouver-filmed Deadpool smashes box office records
Vancouver actor Ryan Reynolds has struck gold with Deadpool. The R-rated comic book movie smashed box office records by grossing $150 million domestically over the four-day U.S. President’s Day weekend...
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Raj Soomel pleaded with his killers to “hold on,” trial hears
Before Rajinder Soomel was shot to death in the middle of Cambie Street six years ago, he shouted at his killers to “hold on, hold on, hold on,” a Crown prosecutor told B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday....
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Shots fired at a Surrey taxi, injuring passenger
Surrey RCMP is investigating a shooting into a local taxi which left a 40-year-old man with injuries. Just after 5 a.m. Thursday, Mounties responded to a call of shots fired in the area of 143 Street...
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TED2016 Vancouver: ‘So MC Hammer and Harrison Ford walk into a bar’
Harrison Ford seems to be having a good time in Vancouver as he takes in the TED Talks conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The Hollywood legend ventured into a Chinatown dance club Tuesday...
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More charges laid in investigation targeting Fraser Valley drug gang
Five more Chilliwack men are facing 50 charges in connection with a major investigation by Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit into a Fraser Valley drug trafficking organization operating in...
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