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  • Camilos 2 goals lead Whitecaps over Chivas USA

    Vancouver Whitecaps' Camilo Sanvezzo, centre, celebrates his goal with teammates Kenny Miller, right, and Russell Teibert during the first half against Chivas USA in Vancouver on Wednesday. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian ...

  • The case for taking down the viaducts keeps getting stronger Vancouver mayor

    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. ...

  • High cost of housing driving students out of Vancouver School District

    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. ...

  • Trump family adds celebrity status to Vancouver hotel and condo announcement

    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. ...

  • Photos Donald Trump and family visit Vancouver

    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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Movie Review

The Tenant (Le Locataire) [DVD]

The Tenant (Le Locataire) [DVD]

Given the fact that Roman Polanskis slowly dwindling career has been given an injection of life with his having won both the Palm dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and the 2002 Best Director Oscar for The Pianist, perhaps viewers will return to his earlier and lesser known works, particularly The Tenant, which was critically reviled upon its initial release (Roger Ebert dubbed it an e ... ...

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  • MLS Vancouver 3 Chivas USA 1

    Camilo Sanvezzo scored twice and had an assist as well Wednesday to bring Vancouver a 3-1 decision over Chivas USA. Vancouver (6-5-4) jumped into the top half of the Western Conference and, with 22 points, moved within six of first-place Dallas. The Whitecaps have earned 13 points in their last six games and have won back-to-back contests for the first time this season. Chivas USA (3-9-2) has ...

  • Richmond widow racks up $1800 hospital parking bill

    A Richmond widow -- furious at racking up nearly $1,800 in hospital parking fees while visiting her dying son and husband -- says hospital parking should be free. But the health authority says that money is needed to pay for operating costs. Anne Graham lost her son Bruce to lymphoma, in October. Then her husband Don died from bone cancer in March. The 82-year old would visit every day for ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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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