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  • Vancouver school board votes in student trustee

    The Vancouver school board passed a motion Monday night to allow a high-school student to sit with it this fall.Although the student trustee would not be able to vote or introduce any motions, the Grade 11 or 12 student would be able to participate in debates and ask to put issues on the table, said VSB vice-chair Mike Lombardi. "I'm confident they will make a difference," ...

  • Northern Gateway in Canadians interest Enbridge tells review board

    Canada will be vulnerable to economic disaster should the Northern Gateway pipeline be rejected, the proponent told a federal review panel Monday as the final phase of public hearings got underway. Richard Neufeld, the lawyer for Calgary-based Enbridge, said there are billions of dollars at stake in the pipeline that would link the Alberta oil sands with a tanker port on the coast of British ...

  • Teen killed at mill near Vernon identified

    The teen who died in a workplace accident in the North Okanagan this weekend was an 18-year-old high school student working an overnight shift, officials said. Bradley Haslam "became entangled in a conveyer belt at the mill," said a statement by Tolko Industries, which operates a planer facility in Lavington, 15 kilometres south east of Vernon, B.C. Haslam was found severely injured ...

  • Reducing greenhouse gas ‘remains a challenge’ for Port Metro Vancouver

    In its 2012 sustainability report the ever-growing Port Metro Vancouver describes the movement of goods as an ‘energy-intensive process requiring heavy industrial equipment that is primarily powered by diesel ...

  • Police slashed homeless tents say advocates in Abbotsford B.C.

    The Abbotsford, B.C., police chief has ordered an investigation into allegations the city's officers destroyed tents belonging to homeless people, in a second controversy over how the city treats its homeless. "Slashing tents is something we've heard a lot of over the years, where they'll go in and they'll use a knife or whatever to cut up tents, but the [use of] bear ...


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The Lords of Discipline [DVD]

The Lords of Discipline [DVD]

The Lords of Discipline was one of the last in a string of youth-oriented military movies that appeared in the early 1980s, including Taps (1981) and An Officer and a Gentleman (1983). However, it has neither the idealism of the former (even with it ... ...

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  • East Vancouver sees red over prolific graffiti ‘artist’ Mohinder

    VANCOUVER DESI As a small East Vancouver business owner, the last thing David Wong needs is to tack on an extra couple thousand dollars to his yearly expenses. But in his 25 years of owning the Dairy Queen Brazier on Main Street, he's come to terms with the added cost of graffiti. "We get tagged quite often," Wong said from his restaurant Monday. "We spend between $1,000 or ...

  • Star attraction at Vancouver space centre being put out to interstellar pasture

    Eating behaviours of preschoolers, such as having meals while plunked in front of the TV, can lead to elevated cholesterol levels that could put kids at risk for cardiovascular disease later in life, ...

  • Cancer society urges tougher anti-smoking laws

    The Canadian Cancer Society is calling on the B.C. government to tighten its anti-smoking regulations, in an effort to cut the smoking rate from 14 to 9 per cent over the next five years. The campaign comes on the 50th anniversary of the landmark declaration by Canada's Health Minister Judy LaMarsh that "smoking is a contributory cause of lung cancer". The statement came at a ...

  • North Vancouver donations save Filipina baristas life

    Janette Camba, while still working at a North Vancouver Tim Hortons, raises money to fund her own kidney operation. She has since had a surgery to receive a donated kidney from her sister and is expected to fully ...

  • Northern Gateway proponents begin final arguments in Terrace B.C.

    Proponents and those opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline have started making their final arguments before the federal review panel in Terrace, B.C. ...

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