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For teen refugees a struggle to adapt to life in Metro Vancouver
In some of Metro Vancouver's poorest neighbourhoods, the effects of war linger.It pervades school hallways and city streets in areas like Surrey's Guildford, Burnaby's Metrotown or the Tri-Cities' Burquitlam -- the main destinations for the bulk of government-assisted refugees who settle in B.C.Refugees are often penniless, having fled war or political upheaval in their own ...
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Douglas Todd Many Hong Kong immigrants return home from Vancouver
‘Higher-paying jobs, greater job security, job promotion opportunities and family reunification’ are the main reasons for thousands of immigrants from Hong Kong to leave Canada, says SFU researcher Nuowen ...
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YouTube famous hatchet-wielding hitchhiker Kai spent time living on Vancouver Island
In this undated photo downloaded from the Union County Prosecutor’s website, Caleb ';Kai’ Lawrence McGillivary is shown. McGillivary, 24, is being sought by New Jersey authorities on a murder warrant in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer he befriended in New York’s Times Square. The homeless hitchhiker had previously gained Internet and TV celebrity status by using a ...
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Lawyer says RCMP refuses to mediate harassment suit
A lawyer representing 300 women who worked for the RCMP alleging harassment and gender-based discrimination in a lawsuit says the national police force is declining an offer to mediate. "The RCMP indicated they have no interest to discuss settlement. It comes as a big surprise to us," said Vancouver class action lawyer David Klein. But earlier this year, RCMP commissioner Bob ...
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Three arrested in racially-motivated attack at Vancouver bar www.privateofficer.com
– Three Clark County men were arrested for felony assault and racially-motivated malicious harassment in a March 18 assault at a Vancouver bar. The three men assaulted three other men with a deadly weapon at the Quarter Deck Bar, according to court documents. They were accused of making racist comments toward an interracial couple, and then getting a gun from a car and making death ...
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Photos Classic $4.388M West Vancouver mansion
This Ambleside Tudor revival home features four bedrooms, two full and three half bathrooms, an outdoor pool, landscaped gardens, chef's kitchen and media/games room. The 5,634-sq-ft mansion sits on 0.56 acres that includes a trout and salmon-bearing ...
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Vancouver boosts investment in local social enterprise
Heather O’Hara, executive director of the Potluck Cafe Society at the Potluck Cafe and Catering business on Hastings St. in Vancouver on May 16, 2013. The City of Vancouver approved a plan this week to grant the society $80,000 to be used to support the growth and success of other social enterprise ...
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Taxpayers Federation outraged after acupuncturists alleged fraud
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is outraged that a Richmond, B.C. acupuncturist was able to allegedly defraud the province's Medical Services Plan for years. Mubai ...
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MPs hear about RCMP harassment at Vancouver community meeting
5/17/2013 Members of the RCMP and the community gathered at Vancouver’s Jericho Sailing Centre on Friday to speak to politicians about harassment within the force. "There's a number of people who have stepped forward," says MP Joyce Murray, "and said there's a systematic culture that is undermining respectful treatment in the workplace, whether it's ...
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Public raising funds to buy alleged Rob Ford crack video
Two Toronto Star reporters and the editor of the U.S. website Gawker claim to have viewed a video that allegedly shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. (Chris Young/Canadian ...
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New $240-million water main under Fraser River will feed growing demand
Metro Vancouver engineers look down into the south tunnel shaft of a new water supply main going under the Fraser River, just west of the Port Mann Bridge in Surrey, B.C. May 9, 2013. The project involves digging a tunnel underneath the Fraser River from Maquabeak Park in Coquitlam on the north side to Surrey on the south ...
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Town Talk Massive yacht in North Vancouver belongs to Russian vodka mogul
STANDING TALLER: Shannon Belkin and Tina Oliver's golf club lunches for 100 women regularly benefited the Salvation Army's Deborah's Gate program to aid sexual-trafficking victims. This year, with Oliver still on the committee and Tali'ah Aquilini co-chairing, Belkin moved the Freedom Gala to the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel. With men now attending and author-TV reporter Victor ...
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Elderly Ladysmith mans death called suspicious
A criminal investigation is underway into the sudden death of a 76-year-old Ladysmith man found dead in his home by a neighbour Thursday.Ladysmith RCMP said a preliminary investigation into the death of Kenneth Benjamin Hein revealed some suspicious aspects to the case.As a result, the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit (VIIMCU) was called in to assist Ladysmith RCMP, and their ...
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Vancouver Island coal mine application rejected
A controversial application to open a coal mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island has been rejected as inadequate by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office. In a statement issued on May 16, the office said Compliance Energy's application for the Raven Coal Mine near Fanny Bay "does not contain the required information." While the EAO left the door open for the company to ...
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Hockey support group key in trangendered teens transition
The world of male sports is often described as a macho, intolerant place where anything outside of heterosexual norms is met derisively and attacked as a weakness. But for 16-year-old Cory Oskam, that just wasn't the case. Oskam, a transgendered teenager who has transitioned to being male, says hockey was key to getting through what can often be a difficult process. "Hockey is my ...
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Who is mailing LSD using forged stationery from a Vancouver print shop
Workers at a Vancouver printing shop have unwittingly uncovered what they believe to be an international LSD smuggling ring that is shipping drugs under their name. Over the past six months, ...
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Investor breaks even on Vancouver condo sale
"This particular penthouse was owned by an investor who prepurchased it from the developer a couple of years ago," listing agent Will McKitka said. "They would have paid somewhere in the $650,000 range for it, so if you included the taxes, the GST and property tax, they are really breaking even at this point. They are not motivated by ...
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Cowlitz Jail inmate dies at Vancouver hospital
LONGVIEW, Wash. — An inmate who collapsed at the Cowlitz County Jail died Thursday at a Vancouver hospital. The Clark County medical examiner's office will conduct on autopsy and the Cowlitz County sheriff's office is investigating what happened to 28-year-old Jenny Lynn Borelis. The Daily News reports ( http://bit.ly/12HuoPA) she hit her head Sunday when a Kelso police officer ...
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Police watchdog clears officers in Vancouver Prince George cases
British Columbia's police watchdog has cleared two officers of criminal wrongdoing in separate cases, one involving the death of a Vancouver man and the other connected to the injury of a man in a Prince George police pursuit.The Vancouver case involves Christopher Ray, who was shot and killed by a Vancouver police officer last October. At the time, police said the officer was responding ...
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Stolen artifacts returned to Victorias Christ Church Cathedral
An anonymous person has returned all of the artifacts stolen from Victoria's Christ Church Cathedral last weekend, police have confirmed. The stolen items included two gold and silver chalices, Canadian coins, a small communion plate and a mote ...
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Steven Point resigns from vulnerable womens committee
Steven Point, the former lieutenant governor of British Columbia, has resigned as chair of the advisory committee on the safety and security of vulnerable women because of lawsuits that put him a difficult legal position. Point told CBC News he stepped down because statements he might make could become evidence at several civil lawsuits launched by the children of women whose remains were found ...
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Vancouver Mayor says transit funding cant wait for referendum
5/17/2013 Now that the provincial election is over the Mayor of Vancouver says it is time for the BC Liberal government to move on transit funding. Gregor Robertson says the idea of holding a referendum on how to fund transit in the fall of 2014, simply doesn't fly. Robertson says Translink needs to find ways to fund a rapidly growing system sooner rather than later. "Mayors ...
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Tiny baby finally leaving Vancouver hospital
VANCOUVER, Wash. — After five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Vancouver hospital, little Harley Gulliksen is going home Friday. She weighed just 15 ounces when she was born prematurely on Dec. 20 and measured 10 inches. Her arm was smaller than an adult's pinky finger. The Columbian reports ( http://bit.ly/109cpmt) her stay included 33 days on a ventilator while she ...
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Friday chat Your gardening questions answered
Wondering what you should plant and when you should plant it? Lyndon Penner will be on hand today at noon MT to answer all your gardening questions. ...
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Residential school survivors reunite in Williams Lake
St. Joseph's residential school was torn down 26 years ago, but it left a painful legacy for survivors and their families. (Indian Residential School ...
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