Thursday 29th July, 2010
Eco-Friendly Practices Enhance Hyatt Regency Vancouver Hotel's Meeting...
Hyatt Regency Vancouver hotel today announced the launch of Meet and Be Green, a new program that encourages guests and planners to make green choices for their meetings. In order to
Pickton appeal ruling due Friday
The Supreme Court of Canada will rule Friday on whether convicted serial killer Robert William Pickton will get a new trial. Pickton, a former B.C. pig farmer, was found guilty of six counts of secon...
'It's going to be close': Metro Vancouver prepares to vote on garbage-disposal plan
In what's expected to be a close vote, Metro Vancouver's municipalities will finally decide today on what to do with the region's growing mounds of garbage.
Sexual arousal tests cancelled
Vancouver SunControversial sex arousal tests used on young offenders have been halted permanently, following news that a medical technician working in the program has been charged with an unrelated sexual offen...
Bowen Island ferry out of service for repairs
Vancouver SunThe ferry that runs between Horseshoe Bay and Bowen Island was cancelled Thursday and it was not known when service would resume, the BC Ferries service said Thursday. The Queen of Capilano will be...
Don't drink at Saturday's fireworks show, police say
Vancouver SunIf you're going to watch the fireworks at the Celebration of Light on Saturday, leave your booze at home or drink it at a bar or restaurant. Police dumped out 535 alcoholic beverages at English Bay on...
101-year-old Vancouver woman credits independent streak, impatience and fresh mountain air for her longevity
Vancouver SunVancouver's Florence Bartlett turns 101 on Aug. 12, and the feisty False Creek resident credits her longevity to her independent nature. She says she's 'not going to add the hundred' to her age. 'Gonn...
Group pays tribute to homeless man who died of heat exhaustion in park
Vancouver SunAbout 100 people gathered at a memorial rally for Curtis Brick on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the homeless aboriginal man's death from heat exhaustion in Grandview Park.
HST pamphlet fiasco is par for the course
Vancouver SunIt may have been that I've been away on holiday for three weeks. But even in the few days I've been back, I haven't detected much to reflect Finance Minister Colin Hansen's assessment Wednesday that B...
Police chief's 2009 salary was $303,602
Vancouver SunVancouver Police Chief Jim Chu made more than $300,000 last year and two of his three deputy chiefs made more than $200,000, according to figures released Thursday by the Vancouver police departmen...
Woman charged in death of New Westminster man
Vancouver SunVancouver police have charged a 52-year-old woman with the January 2009 death of a 65-year-old New Westminster man. Nirmala Arjun was arrested at her home in Vancouver and charged with second-degree m...
B.C. plays catch-up with family law reform
Vancouver SunFar from revolutionary, the proposed reform of B.C.'s family law draws heavily on changes made in jurisdictions more attuned to the seismic shift in family makeup that has occurred over the past 40...
Kwantlen University ends credit card use for fees and tuition
Vancouver SunKwantlen Polytechnic University students, who pay tuition using credit cards, will have to rethink their payment strategy. As of Aug. 3 the university will no longer accept credit card payment for dom...
Honest man turns lost $1,600 over to police
Vancouver SunA Penticton man has been reunited with an envelope of cash thanks to the honesty of another Okanagan resident. George Ballinghall went to the RCMP on Wednesday after losing $1,600 on Riverside Drive. ...
Police arrest parkade graffitist
Vancouver SunRichmond RCMP have arrested an 18-year-old man after surveillance video showed him writing racially inflammatory graffiti aimed at people of Chinese origin -- as well as derogatory comments toward ...
Trio guilty in racially motivated assault
Vancouver SunThree men who pummelled a black man in a Courtenay parking lot have been found guilty of common assault. "On a soft summer evening, in the beautiful Comox Valley, a very ugly incident took place," sai...
Starting all over, at 101
Vancouver SunFlorence Bartlett was born on a Thursday 101 years ago, just a few weeks before Vancouver's first motorized ambulance went out for a test drive, running over and killing an American tourist.
Two men injured in helicopter crash while fighting inferno
Vancouver SunFire crews were still struggling Thursday to gain control of a B.C. Interior wildfire that quickly grew to 110 hectares this week, forcing the evacuation of about 60 homes near Bonaparte Lake, north o...
Russians blamed for photo furore
Vancouver SunGeorgia's economy minister has reportedly lashed out at The Vancouver Sun, calling it a Russian propaganda unit, after it reported an apparent discrepancy in her official biography. Vera Kobalia, 28, ...
Shooters who killed woman were after boyfriend, police say
Vancouver SunA Langley woman shot to death in Abbotsford on Wednesday was likely an unintended victim in a drug-related assassination attempt. While Mandy Astin Johnson was known to police, RCMP said Thursday they...
B.C. wildfire threatens homes in Vancouver suburb
Windsor StarBURNABY, B.C. — A British Columbia wildfire that threatened houses in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby is nearly under control, officials said Thursday evening.Burnaby firefighters were trying to con...
Parents didn't tell them not to play with fire?
CKNW7/30/2010 Residents of a Burnaby Mountain townhome complex (Hillside Place Housing complex) on Forest Grove Drive, are breathing a sigh of relief after a brush fire that crept up the hill towards t...
Olympic security costs still to come
CKNW7/30/2010 Canada's Public Safety Minister says he's still waiting for a final tally on security costs linked to the 2010 Olympics. Vic Toews says he doesn't think the total 900-million dollar bu...
Toews says the world loves our Mounties
CKNW7/30/2010 If the BC Government cancels its contract with the RCMP when it expires in 2012, the Federal Government would save a lot of money, but Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says the Mounties a...
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