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Great-grandmother graduates high school in B.C.
A great-grandmother who has waited 56 years to get her high school diploma can finally cross that dream off her bucket list. Maureen Baker has attended several high school reunions with her classmates from the 1950s, but felt like an outsider because she never finished school. On Wednesday, the 76-year-old Agassiz, B.C., resident finally walked across a stage with two other seniors who ...
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Vancouver rats carry disease that can infect humans
A Vancouver School Board survey has found the high cost of housing is the major reason parents are pulling their kids out of the city’s schools. Few homes are priced at less than $600,000 in Vancouver. Here’s a comparison, looking at detached homes for less than $600,000 in Vancouver and in four other B.C. ...
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MLS Montreal 2 Houston 0
Felipe Martins and Marco DiViao scored first-half goals Wednesday in sending Montreal to a 2-0 triumph over Houston. The Impact won for the fourth time in five outings to increase their lead in the Eastern Conference to four points over idle New York. Mertens took a through ball from Patrice Bernier in the 14th minute and beat goalkeeper Tally Hall. DiViao scored in the 32nd minute. It was ...
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MLB Toronto 5 Colorado 2
Adam Lind hit a three-run homer in the first inning Wednesday and Toronto remained the hottest team in baseball with a 5-2 decision over Colorado. It was the eighth straight victory for the Blue Jays, who climbed within a game of .500 after being 10 games below the breakeven mark as recently as June 4. Lind's first-inning homer was his ninth of the season and it was enough to make a ...
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Rockies swept away by Jays in forgettable three-game trip to Canada
TORONTO - The length of the schedule demands improvisation. The Rockies awoke Wednesday underneath the dome, feeling like they were crawling from underneath a rock. They needed a burst of sunlight. Or a jolt. But apparently that will have to wait until Roy Oswalt's first start.Juan Nicasio wore a different number, but his ordinary performance was exactly what the Rockies weren't ...
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Hot Ticket Vancouver International Jazz Festival
He was a member of the famed Miles Davis Quintet, a synth music trailblazer, an award-winning film composer, a genre-crossing collaborator, and even an interpreter of the music of Joni Mitchell. Now Herbie Hancock is returning to the coast for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival."He's a musical hero, and someone who has always been ahead of the curve," says festival ...
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Lamphier Canada needs economic pipeline to Asia
Protesters against Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline gather outside the joint review final argument hearings in Terrace on Monday. The joint review panel on the project sits through June ...
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Full steam ahead for Vancouvers cruise ship industry
Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Cruise Lines International Association, is in Vancouver this week for the industry’s largest annual ...
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Talking Keystone Redford says Canada and U.S. share energy values
Visting New York for the third time 18 months, Premier Alison Redford stressed that Canada and the U.S. share environmental and political values over Keystone XL pipeline. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian ...
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B.C. First Nation sets fires to save bison
A First Nation band is reviving the age-old practice of controlled burning in order to improve the health of forests and restore the population of the wood bison in a corner of northeastern ...
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Status of Women conference aims to stop web exploitation
Canada's ministers responsible for the Status of Women ended a two-day conference Wednesday in northern P.E.I. expressing concerns about internet luring, cyber bullying and child sexual exploitation. Valerie Docherty, P.E.I.'s minister responsible for the Status of Women, hosted the meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers. The conference looked at ways to promote ...
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Couple plan to move business out of Ottawa after dispute with city
OTTAWA -- The Vaughan Side Road paintball saga is over. The city has won in court, meaning Dag and Allison Militky can't operate their paintball field any more."I'm not a child. I won't scream and cry," Dag Militky said after a court ruling.But he still can't help but feel that the city treated him unfairly.It was in the fall of 2007 that the couple, now in their ...
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Teachers disciplined for duct-taping mouths sex and gross stories
(Fotolia) VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver teacher is being reprimanded for having chatty ...
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Perjury trial hears from witnesses who saw RCMP officers use Taser on Robert Dziekanski
In 2010, the RCMP introduced new policies on Taser use saying they will fire stun guns at people only when they're hurting someone or clearly about to do so. The directive mirrored a recommendation from a B.C. public inquiry on Taser use prompted by the death of airline passenger Robert ...
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Opinion Vancouver community’s grassroots vs. centralized control
A Vancouver School Board survey has found the high cost of housing is the major reason parents are pulling their kids out of the city’s schools. Few homes are priced at less than $600,000 in Vancouver. Here’s a comparison, looking at detached homes for less than $600,000 in Vancouver and in four other B.C. ...
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‘I felt a big zap’ Juno-award-winning jazz singer survives lightning strike at her Ottawa home
Lightning storms always put on a good show near Kellylee Evans’s country home outside of Ottawa and the one crackling across the sky on June 8 was especially spectacular. The Juno-award-winning jazz vocalist admired its menacing power from her kitchen window around 6 p.m. as she washed up from supper. She had just reassured her son, spooked by the booms sounding ominously close. Less ...
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Canadian warships join Port Hueneme military exercise
JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Stef Ludin (left) and Joel LaLonde, who are both leading seamen and port inspector divers for the Royal Canadian Navy, aboard the HMCS Saskatoon, prepare to submerge a remote-operated vehicle Wednesday during a mine countermeasure exercise at Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme. Two ships from the Royal Canadian Navy are searching for fake mines off the coast ...
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Canada U.S. must work to become energy independent Alberta premier
Alberta Premier Alison Redford, (left to right) Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall listen in as British Columbia Premier Christy Clark responds to media questions during the press conference for the 2013 Western Premier's Conference in Winnipeg, Monday, June 17, 2013. (John Woods / THE CANADIAN ...
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Donald Trump announces $360M hotel-condo tower in Vancouver
Donald Trump gives the thumbs up as he leaves an announcement with sons Donald Jr, Eric and daughter Ivanka in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN ...
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Mask ban Canadas veiled protesters face 10 years jail
Protest A new Canadian law forbids people from wearing a mask or covering their face during a riot or so-called "unlawful assembly" in the country. The law carries a maximum ten-year sentence for anyone convicted of physically concealing their identity. Current Canadian law already forbids covering the face during a criminal act, although CBC reported that the statue, which ...
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Italy rallies to beat Japan advances to semis
Italy rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Japan and countryman Alberto Zaccheroni 4-3 Wednesday, earning a spot in the Confederations Cup semifinals. First-half substitute Sebastian Giovinco scored the winner in the 86th minute of an entertaining match at the Arena Pernambuco, pounding home a cross from Claudio Marchisio. After a dismal start for the Azzurri that saw Japan score twice in ...
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Preventative health care for unhealthy could save billions
Billions of dollars could be saved in Canada's health-care system with the introduction of preventative programs that focus on those individuals in poor health, says a study by the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. "Canadian medicare with its focus on illness treatment has made illness and disease a growth industry," lead author Herb Emery told reporters ...
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Girl assaulted at Kamloops graduation party
Mounties in Kamloops, B.C., are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at a bush party attended by as many as 1,000 high school graduates. The 17-year-old girl became separated from her friends, was approached by a male she didn't know and was taken into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted on Tuesday night, said RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush. RCMP had deployed extra ...
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Students and education officials react to EPSB budget
Impending cuts to staffing facing Edmonton Public Schools has parents, students and teachers worried. Edmonton Public is calling it a "bad news budget," but said it simply cannot afford to keep all of its staff. "We're disappointed -- it's been a really challenging month," said EPSB Chair Sarah Hoffman on Wednesday. "We know that a lot of people who've ...
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Ex-Rexall bartender in court for alleged theft
The man accused of stealing more than $700,000 while working at Rexall Place made his first court appearance in Edmonton Wednesday. Alvin Jackson Goh, 37, was arrested in the United Kingdom by Interpol after an international warrant was issued after he failed to turn himself into police on May 17. After his arrest, Goh was flown back to Canada in police custody, where he will remain. ...
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