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Vancouver parking-meter rates could rise
Vancouver :: Canada | 9 days ago
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The City of Vancouver's budget crunch could lead to an increase in parking meter charges — and for a longer time each day. One of the officers involved in the fatal confrontation with Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver's airport has been charged with attempting...
Tags: Vancouver Island, Vancouver International Airport, Canada, Vancouver, flu pandemic in the United States, Influenza, August Schoenborn, United States Capitol, Health in the United States, Robert Dziekaￅﾄski Taser incident, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Disaster Accident, Law Crime
Claire Drainie was half of formidable acting duo
Swift Current :: Canada | 10 days ago
Credibility C laire Drainie Taylor had at least three lives and as many husbands in an overflowing life as an actor, writer and homemaker. She flourished in the golden age of radio, from the Second World War to the launch of network television, an era when voice,...
Tags: Mr. Drainie, Vancouver Community Playhouse, Vancouver Island, Black Black Beard, John Drainie, Ms. Taylor, Claire Pearl Wodlinger, Claire Murray, CBC, Jake Trumper, Canada, Swift Current, Bronwyn Drainie, Claire Drainie Taylor, The Investigator, This Hour Has Seven Days, Anne of Green Gables, Andrew Allan, Fletcher Markle, Entertainment Culture
De Havilland Beaver remains bush workhorse decades after debut despite crash
Vancouver :: Canada | 10 days ago
Credibility Despite Sunday's fatal crash, the de Havilland Beaver is considered one of the Canadian aviation industry's crown jewels. The single-engined Beaver, which first flew in 1947 and last rolled off de Havilland Canada's Downsview, Ont., assembly line in 1968,...
Tags: float plane, B.C, plane crashes, saturna islands, Saturna Island, Gulf Islands, Lyall Harbour, beaver aircraft, Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada, Vancouver, Disaster Accident, De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, Aviation accidents and incidents, Salt Spring Air, Vancouver International Airport, Pilot, STOL, Seaplane, De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter, Aviation history, Grumman aircraft, BC Ferries, Air safety, Saturna British Columbia, De Havilland, Bombardier, Search and rescue, Viking Air, De Havilland Canada
Olympic torch relay breaks for one day
Bathurst :: Australia | 14 days ago
Credibility For the first time in 28 days, the Olympic torch didn’t light Canadian skies and hearts as the iconic lamp’s journey paused Thursday. The flame’s 106-day trek is slated to resume Friday in Bathurst, N.B., where it will be taken to a memorial dedicated...
Tags: Vancouver Island, Canada, Bathurst High School, Australia, Bathurst, Winter Olympics, Olympic Flame, Fire, Summer Olympics torch relay, Vancouver, Torch
B.C.'s James faces crucial convention
Vancouver :: Canada | 14 days ago
Credibility The B.C. legislature might have risen Thursday, but that doesn't mean the province's political season is over. While Finance Minister Colin Hansen releases his latest financial update in Victoria on Friday, hundreds of New Democrats will gather in Vancouver...
Tags: Vancouver Island, Vancouver Park Board, Vancouver Canucks, Supreme Court of Canada, Robert Pickton, U.S, serial killer, border crossing, Amy Goodman, B.C., Canada, Vancouver, Law Crime, Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Somalia, Conservatory, Pacifica Radio, Amanda Lindhout, Stanley Park, Goodman, Julius Bloedel, North Cowichan British Columbia, Henrik Sedin, Identical twins, Politics, Killer Pickton, Assault, Crimes, Victoria British Columbia, allnews, Diocese of New Westminster
Hit-run victim identified
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 15 days ago
Credibility Taser, after a video of the altercation with police came to light. A man arrested Monday in connection with a mass murder in Surrey, B.C., had just won a huge poker jackpot.
Tags: Vancouver Island, Somalia, Mogadishu, Disaster Accident, Homelessness, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, North Cowichan British Columbia, Cowichan Valley, Downtown Eastside, Busking, Vancouver, Taser, Socioeconomics, Amanda Lindhout, Humanitarian aid
Vancouver Island New Democrat among hundreds bailing water from flooded homes
Victoria :: Canada | 17 days ago
Credibility New Democrat MLA is getting some first-hand experience of the province's emergency preparedness, after his Vancouver Island home was flooded on the weekend. Bill Routley says he's been bailing water out of his basement and he's called in machines to dig...
Tags: Vancouver Island New Democrat, Canada, Victoria, Bill Routley, Year of birth missing, Flood, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment, North Cowichan British Columbia, Cowichan Valley, Cowichan River, Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island residents survey flood damage
Vancouver :: Canada | 19 days ago
Credibility Hundreds of people on south Vancouver Island forced from their homes by flooding have been allowed to return, but most won't be able to stay because of damage to their houses. Alberta and B.C. are looking to add more international sparkle to Canada's...
Tags: Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, Vancouver, Montreal Alouettes, Prima ballerinas, Ulyana Lopatkina, BC Lions, Disaster Accident, Hornby, Sumas Washington, Lower Mainland, Law Crime, Weather
Getting a Dunkin' in Duncan!
Heavy rains combined with unusually high tides have flooded large areas of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The town of 27,000 sits near the mouth of the Cowichan River and the river estuary is not far off. The Koksilah River is also nearby...
Tags: Duncan, flood, Cowichan, tides, heavy rains, Vancouver Island, Canada, Victoria, Vancouver, Koksilah River Provincial Park, Cowichan Valley, Cowichan River, Disaster Accident, Environment, allnews
Girl, 15, sexually assaulted in Port Coquitlam
Duncan :: Canada | 20 days ago
Credibility Police in a Metro Vancouver suburb are investigating after a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning. November is living up to its reputation as B.C.'s wettest month in the calendar year. Dozens of homes have water "up to the...
Tags: Vancouver Island, vancouver islanders, B.C., Duncan, Koksilah River, Cowichan Valley, North Cowichan, heavy rain, Hornby Island, hornby islanders, Canada, Disaster Accident, Environment, Weather, North Cowichan British Columbia, Cowichan River, Cowichan Tribes, Duncan British Columbia, Koksilah River Provincial Park, Levee, Island Savings, Hospitality Recreation, Northwest Division, Island Savings Centre, Cowichan Valley Regional District, Geotechnical engineering, Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Canucks, Cowichan Bay British Columbia, Vancouver, Canuck
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