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  • Bald and beautiful women host fashion fundraiser

    in Vancouver From hats, to bandanas and wigs, for years Huang tried everything to cover her hair loss. But this year, the 30-year-old fashion designer decided the wig needed to go. The 'Aha!' ...

  • Former B.C. politician Garde Gardom dead at 88

    (Government of B.C.) Gardom was born in Banff in 1924, studied law at UBC and practiced in Vancouver before turning to a career in politics. He was first elected as a Liberal MLA in 1966, and joined the Social Credit party in 1974. He was appointed to cabinet by then-premier Bill Bennett in 1975, and held several positions including attorney general and government house leader. In 1995 he was ...

  • Christy Clark reverses pay hikes for B.C. political aides

    B.C. Premier Christy Clark has reversed a move to increase the pay scales of many political staffers, labelling the hikes a "mistake." The pay raises were made earlier this month, but only came to light last ...

  • Stolen cross-Canada bike returned to B.C. senior

    A stolen bicycle has been returned to the Burnaby, B.C. man who previously rode it 4,700 kilometres across Canada to visit relatives in Ontario. Cor Dyskstra, 85, was devastated when the orange Apollo 10-speed was stolen from the wall of his garage, where he had it mounted to remind him of the epic journeys he undertook in the early ...

  • Trumps announce exclusive tower deal in Vancouver

    U.S. business magnate Donald Trump and his family are in Vancouver to announce the details of an exclusive deal to build the city's first Trump Tower. Trump, along with sons Donald and Eric, and daughter Ivanka, have licensed the Trump brand to Vancouver developers Holborn and TA ...


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Movie Review

Monster

Monster

Like last years Dahmer, Patty Jenkins Monster is a daring film that attempts to find the humanity in a notorious serial killer. In this case, the film searches beneath the leather-thick skin of Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of murdering seven of her johns in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jenkins doesnt try to construct an easy psychological framework by de ... ...

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  • B.C. native Svein Tuft to make Tour de France debut

    Canadian Svein Tuft will be making his Tour de France debut later this month. The 36-year-old cyclist from Langley, B.C., was named on his Australia-based WorldTour squad Orica-GreenEdge's Tour start list Wednesday. Tuft is an eight-time Canadian time trial champion and recently won the Tour of Slovenia's prologue chrono. Matt White, Orica-GreenEdge's sports director, said Tuft ...

  • Vancouvers Chan Centre announces star-studded 2013-14 season

    You won't need to leave Vancouver to go globe-trotting this year thanks to the Chan Centre for Performing Arts' new season lineup.Kicking off Oct. 19 with the critically acclaimed Kronos Quartet performing new works by famed composer Philip Glass, the Chan's season at UBC will also feature its popular Connects series featuring film screenings and artist talks throughout the year. ...

  • Vancouver high school teacher reprimanded for duct taping students

    VANCOUVER - A Vancouver teacher who duct taped some of her students' mouths for talking in class has been reprimanded by the B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch.Margo Fowler, a math teacher at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, punished two Grade 8 students and one Grade 10 student on separate occasions by taping their mouths, according to a 2012 report to the branch from Vancouver School ...

  • Vancouver mining firm gives nod to $458-million Alberta coal project

    VANCOUVER -- The board of Coalspur Mines Ltd. (TSX:CPT) has approved a $458-million capital budget for the Vista coal project in Alberta, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.Coalspur is now planning a one-stage project with the capacity to deliver six million tonnes per year, giving it a capital efficiency of $76 per tonne of capacity.The Vancouver-based company says its current plan ...

  • Bridge construction worker suffers severe electric shock on Vancouver Island

    NORTH COWICHAN - A man has been airlifted to hospital in Victoria with serious injuries after being hurt in a workplace accident on Vancouver Island, between Ladysmith and Duncan.BC Ambulance Services spokeswoman Kelsie Carwithin says the incident happened just after 2 p.m. Tuesday.She says the man was working on the Chemainus River Bridge replacement project and appears to have suffered ...

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