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Officials optimistic no deaths in Washington state bridge collapse

An aging bridge on Washington State's Interstate 5 collapsed Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river. The four-lane bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash., which is about 100 kilometres north of Seattle, collapsed around 7 p.m. PT, Washington State Patrol Trooper Mark Francis said. Three people were pulled from the water and reportedly treated for hypothermia at ...
Highway bridge collapses between Seattle and Vancouver in US people in water

Washington State Patrol says a major highway bridge over a river has collapsed, dumping vehicles and people into the water. Trooper Mark Francis says the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge collapsed about ...
Vancouver is least affordable city to buy a house in Canada RBC

Vancouver remains the least affordable city to buy a house in Canada while home ownership in Toronto is becoming more difficult, Royal Bank of Canada Economics Research said. The costs of owning a detached bungalow in Vancouver take up 82.3 percent of a typical household's income, up 0.1 percentage points from the previous quarter. In Toronto, the largest city in Canada, that figure is ...
Glee actress Lauren Potter visits Vancouver for Down syndrome fundraiser

Lauren Potter [left] poses for a photograph with Aliya Dall' Antonia, May 23rd, during her visit to the Down Syndrome Research Foundation in Burnaby. Potter plays Becky in the television show ...
16 ways Vancouver city hopes to better engage its citizens

Mayor Gregor Robertson admits more can be done to improve how the city and its citizens engage with each other. Click the images to view the city's 16 ...

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Dodes'ka-den [DVD]

The title of Akira Kurosawas Dodeska-den is not a real word, but rather an onomatopoeia for the sound of a trolley car clacking along its rails that is used by a simple-minded teenager who lives in a shanty-town slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. The film begins and ends with the boy, ... ...

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Bridge collapse on Washington interstate drops cars into water

The Washington State Patrol says the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon has collapsed, dumping vehicles and people into the water. Trooper Mark Francis said the four-lane bridge collapsed about 7 p.m. PT, closing all northbound and southbound lanes between Burlington and Mount ...
BREAKING Brigde on I-5 south of Burlington collapses

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Premier offers a way to avoid municipal by-elections for new MLAs

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Teens death sparks call for social services information

The investigation into the death of teen in Calgary's northwest community of Citadel is still underway. Police have so far deemed the death as ...
Don’t get caught cruising around Traffic jam expected Friday in and around downtown Vancouver

File photo: Vancouver B.C. September 12, 2012. You’ll wish you were setting sail on the seven seas if you get caught in this traffic jam. Those in and around downtown Vancouver are being warned of higher than normal vehicle traffic volumes as 11,400 embarking and disembarking passengers are set to travel through the Canada Place port on Friday between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Demand for taxis and ...

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'Fish Thermometer' Reveal Impact of Climate Change

While much of the discussion about climate change focuses on the threat of future sea level rise, scientists at the University of British Columbia say warmer global temperatures have been affecting the world's oceans and fisheries for some 40 years.

They used known temperature preferences of fish and other marine species as a sort of "thermometer" to gauge the extent of the change, and they saw a gradual migration of fish species away from the equator into cooler, deeper waters.

The researchers analyzed data from global fisheries from 1970 to 2006 and found the catch was increasingly dominated by warm-water species. Lead author William Cheung notes that while boats off the northeastern coast of the U.S. were catching new species typically found closer to the tropics, "in the tropics, climate change meant fewer marine species and reduced catches, with serious implications for food security."

The study of the changes in fish distribution worldwide as a result of climate change is published in this month's Nature.