Provides the latest RSS feeds for Vancouver News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Vancouver News.Net http://www.vancouvernews.net/ en-us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:39:38 -0400 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:39:38 -0400 30 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 http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357149&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:14:36 -0400 PR Web http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357149&cat=535f27099a41ff22 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357871&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:38:23 -0400 CBC News http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357871&cat=535f27099a41ff22 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. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357870&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:36:07 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357870&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Controversial 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358665&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:36:02 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358665&cat=535f27099a41ff22 The 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357285&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:57 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357285&cat=535f27099a41ff22 If 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357166&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:52 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357166&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Vancouver'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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357426&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:49 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357426&cat=535f27099a41ff22 About 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. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358666&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:47 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358666&cat=535f27099a41ff22 It 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358667&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:41 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358667&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Vancouver 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357167&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:36 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357167&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Vancouver 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357738&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:32 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357738&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Far 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358669&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:26 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358669&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Kwantlen 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358668&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:21 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358668&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A 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. ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357168&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:16 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357168&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Three 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358672&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:06 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358672&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Florence 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. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358671&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:01 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358671&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fire 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358670&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:34:56 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358670&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Georgia'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, ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358157&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:34:51 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358157&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357170&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:34:46 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357170&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Garbage is compacted at the 225 hectre Vancouver Landfill in Delta in this file photo. If Metro continues to truck its garbage to the Cache Creek dump, taxpayers will fork out about $1.3 billion over ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357876&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:33:00 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37357876&cat=535f27099a41ff22 7/30/2010 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358673&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:42:23 -0400 CKNW http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358673&cat=535f27099a41ff22 7/30/2010 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... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358674&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:42:22 -0400 CKNW http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37358674&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Jory Simkin one of the co-partners in Roaming Dragon - seen here in Vancouver July 28, 2010 - which aims to bring quality gourmet food to Vancouver's streets. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355080&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:12:16 -0400 The Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355080&cat=535f27099a41ff22 How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s mental... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355075&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:29:20 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355075&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A B.C. judge has ruled that Jason "Jay" Phillips (pictured) was a victim of assault by three white men in Courtenay in July of 2009. Phillips was knocked to the ground and punched and kicked by the th... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355078&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:25:50 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355078&cat=535f27099a41ff22 How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s mental... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37354866&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:25:06 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37354866&cat=535f27099a41ff22 How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s mental... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355076&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:24:17 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355076&cat=535f27099a41ff22 7/30/2010 When the Vancouver Whitecaps unveiled their new jerseys for the 2011 season in early June they were embraced by fans. But not everyone was happy with the jerseys. Umbro, the teams current... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355997&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:34:32 -0400 CKNW http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355997&cat=535f27099a41ff22 7/30/2010 Almost two weeks after he was asked to help bring convicted war criminal Michael Seifert back to Vancouver, Canada's Public Safety Minister says he hasn't seen that request, "Nothing has ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355996&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:34:30 -0400 CKNW http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37355996&cat=535f27099a41ff22 British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell during a break between meetings at the Western Premiers' Conference in Dawson City, Yukon, on Thursday June 18, 2009. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37353579&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:03:54 -0400 Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37353579&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A long-awaited ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada Friday morning will either send Robert Pickton back to court or slam shut his penitentiary cell.The Vancouver pig farmer argued that he was not giv... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37353580&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:03:52 -0400 Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37353580&cat=535f27099a41ff22 WorkSafeBC says it has limited jurisdiction over a Victoria construction site where a crane operator was impaled earlier this week. Mike Dorval was operating a mobile crane on Tuesday when it toppled... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37352885&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:19:15 -0400 CBC News http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37352885&cat=535f27099a41ff22 The story so far: The Liberal government passed the Clean Energy Act in June to inject investment into the province’s green energy industry, with a key goal of increasing such clean-energy ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37351301&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:52:21 -0400 Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37351301&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A provincial court judge has found three Vancouver Island men guilty of assault in an attack on a black man that was broadcast on YouTube. Judge Peter Doherty said the actions of the three men — Da... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346869&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:50:38 -0400 CBC News http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346869&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews Thursday said the Schara Tzedeck synagogue and the Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel would receive $20,000 from the Communities at Risk: Security Infrastructure Pilot Pr... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346885&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:49:01 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346885&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Vancouver Sun has an exclusive report on questionable practices by Canada Revenue Agency involving the manipulation of some tax returns. Managing Editor Kirk LaPointe discusses this and other stories ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346886&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:48:16 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346886&cat=535f27099a41ff22 China’s regulator has approved Geely’s acquisition of Ford’s Volvo unit, clearing one of the last remaining hurdles to the high-profile deal, a source with knowledge of the matter said Thursday.... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346880&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:47:42 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37346880&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A vessel carrying more than 200 suspected Tamil asylum seekers believed to be on course for British Columbia has not yet entered Canada’s territorial waters, the federal public safety minister s... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343227&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:06:04 -0400 The Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343227&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A sex-offense charge against a staff member involved in a controversial testing program for teenage sex offenders has helped convince B.C’s minister of children and family development to cancel ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343229&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:06:01 -0400 The Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343229&cat=535f27099a41ff22 A Financial Analyst from Surrey can now add "winning the lottery" to his portfolio. Randy Atwal, who works for the federal government, today claimed a $1 Million MAXMILLION prize, after the ticket he... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37342046&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:53:56 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37342046&cat=535f27099a41ff22 The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, today announced support for important security infrastructure enhancements to help prevent hate crimes directed at the Congregation Schara Tzedeck ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343191&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:53:31 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343191&cat=535f27099a41ff22 How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s mental... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37342958&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:19:18 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37342958&cat=535f27099a41ff22 How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s mental... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343210&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:22 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343210&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews Thursday said the Schara Tzedeck synagogue and the Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel would receive $20,000 from the Communities at Risk: Security Infrastructure Pilot Pr... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343216&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:47 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37343216&cat=535f27099a41ff22 The television star Eric McCormack is best known for his lead role in the series Will & Grace, in which he played a well-scrubbed gay man so upright and fastidious that the writers were obliged to... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37340720&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:48:17 -0400 Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37340720&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Greenpeace protestors dressed as oil workers stage an "oil spill" outside the offices of pipeline and energy company Enbridge in Vancouver, British Columbia July 28, 2010. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37339611&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:48:13 -0400 The Globe and Mail http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37339611&cat=535f27099a41ff22 exploration company, Gold Fields Horsefly Exploration Corporation ("Gold Fields"), has provided an update on its work on the Woodjam South Property. The commencement date for the agreement was July 2,... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37338674&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:36 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37338674&cat=535f27099a41ff22 The health minister said she couldn't commit to implementing a plan designed by her own expert panel to reduce the dangerously high sodium consumption of Canadians. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37339600&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:59:04 -0400 Times Colonist http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37339600&cat=535f27099a41ff22 How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s mental... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37338617&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:10 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37338617&cat=535f27099a41ff22 RCMP in this province issued more than 16-thousand tickets in may as part of a high risk driving crackdown. The campaign also saw more than 900 impaired drivers taken off BC streets. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37340721&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:02:31 -0400 CKNW http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37340721&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Members of the Lower Mainland's Chinese community are expressing shock at racist graffiti painted on the walls, ceilings and the stairwell of a shopping mall parkade. RCMP are looking for two Caucasi... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335455&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:41:26 -0400 CBC News http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335455&cat=535f27099a41ff22 (CBC) The B.C. government has again postponed plans to mail out flyers outlining the benefits of the harmonized sales tax, even though the flyers have already been printed. Finance Minister Colin Han... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335693&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:41:22 -0400 CBC News http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335693&cat=535f27099a41ff22 © 2008 - 2010 Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335694&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:38:51 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335694&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Vancouver police say a new online predator campaign has netted its first alleged child-lurer — a Burnaby man charged after sending pornographic webcam images of himself to a detective, who he believ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37334662&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:36:23 -0400 The Province http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37334662&cat=535f27099a41ff22 KAMLOOPS, British Columbia (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in the western Canadian interior has sparked a new evacuation order, the second such order in the last two days. The evacuation order cov... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335484&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:14:24 -0400 Sun-Sentinel http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37335484&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Volunteers at the Mount Currie reserve north of Whistler plan to spend Thursday evening picking up stray dogs. The community has been plagued by an aggressive pack of roaming dogs that officials say ... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37332162&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:21:34 -0400 CBC News http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37332162&cat=535f27099a41ff22 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- 07/29/10 -- Fjordland Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE: FEX) and Cariboo Rose Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: CRB), 60%-40% partners in the Woodjam Joint Venture ("WJV"), hav... http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37331296&cat=535f27099a41ff22 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:51:56 -0400 Earth Times http://feeds.vancouvernews.net/?rid=37331296&cat=535f27099a41ff22