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  • Ryan Dempster thankful for time with Cubs

    Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster has dropped two of his past three starts to fall to 2-4 with a 4.27 earned-run average in nine games. (Jim Rogash/Getty ...

  • Douglas Todd Ecstatic Christian charismatic movement is powerful in Metro Vancouver around world

    "God's movin' in this place. I am undone. I've got tears flowin.' I've got snot comin' out of my nose. God, we can be undignified with you. Knowin' our indignity is all for you."Pastor Rico Galindez is shaking in front of about 500 people who are praying and swaying in the near-dark sanctuary of Cedar Grove Baptist Church in north Surrey.It's ...

  • Green businesses balk at Vancouver bike lane

    Cyclists on a tandem bike and pedestrians are silhouetted while using the seawall along False Creek in Vancouver, B.C., in March, 2013. A proposal to create a separated lane on the edge of Chinatown has generated anxiety among the kinds of green, local businesses that Mayor Gregor Robertson frequently touts as the future of the city. (DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN ...

  • Summer to rank among Canadas warmest on record typical temperatures predicted for Metro Vancouver

    Southwestern British Columbia should expect typical summer temperatures this year, although the southern interior will see more heat than usual.That's the prediction of meteorologists at AccuWeather.com, which said in its summer outlook Monday that Canadians in general will experience hot spells interspersed with cooler periods.However, it will be more of the same in Metro Vancouver and ...

  • Bylaw review could put wind in sails of Vancouver kitesurfers

    Stephen Codrington, at Spanish Banks Beach in Vancouver on Sunday, lets the air out of the kite he uses when kitesurfing. (DARRYL DYCK For the Globe and ...


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The New World

The New World

Given that the gap between writer/director Terrence Malicks second and third films, Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), was a full two decades, the mere seven years between The Thin Red Line and his newest film, The New World, comes close to con ... ...

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  • With season nearly one-third over Vancouver Whitecaps struggle to find positives

    Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation’s midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. One person was killed near Shawnee, Okla., and 21 injuries were reported throughout the state.Victims and emergency responders might not get much of reprieve as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center was forecasting ...

  • Vancouver link to Hadfields space guitar

    A Vancouver company says it will re-start production of a guitar used by Chris Hadfield in space, prompting dozens of new orders. The Canadian astronaut gained worldwide attention when he performed David ...

  • Vancouver weather 2013 top-10 warmest summers on record

    "The biggest takeaway from this forecast is it's not going to resemble last year's summer, which was the warmest summer on record for Canada," Brett Anderson, lead forecaster for Canada, told The Canadian ...

  • NDP wants RCMP inquiry into $90K payment to Duffy

    The NDP is calling on the RCMP to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, who resigned recently after news emerged of a secret $90,000 payment he made to Senator Mike Duffy in relation to the Senate expense scandal. NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus announced Monday that a letter had been sent to the commissioner of the RCMP, Robert ...

  • Nanaimo Facebook group takes aim at thieves

    Residents fed up with petty crime in Nanaimo have turned to social media to try to prevent theft. The Facebook group 'Stealing Nanaimo' -- with close to 900 members -- allows people to list property that has been stolen in the hope that second-hand stores and pawn shops will check the site. "When someone steals something, it either gets pawned off or shipped out somewhere," ...

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