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  • 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 ...

  • Full steam ahead for Vancouvers cruise ship industry

    Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Cruise Lines International Association, is in Vancouver this week for the industry’s largest annual ...


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Movie Review

Rounders

Even though it's not as good as it could have been , "Rounders" is certainly an educational experience. For those without a working knowledge of the in's and out's of gambling and all the slang and lingo associated with it, "Rounders" will be a real eye-opener. The best scenes in the movie take place at the poker table and allow us to safely watch professional gamblers easily taking advantage of k ... ...

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  • B.C. First Nation sets fires to save bison

    A First Nation band is reviving the age-old practice of controlled burning in order to improve the health of forests and restore the population of the wood bison in a corner of northeastern ...

  • Opinion Vancouver community’s grassroots vs. centralized control

    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. ...

  • Donald Trump announces $360M hotel-condo tower in Vancouver

    Donald Trump gives the thumbs up as he leaves an announcement with sons Donald Jr, Eric and daughter Ivanka in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN ...

  • Girl assaulted at Kamloops graduation party

    Mounties in Kamloops, B.C., are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at a bush party attended by as many as 1,000 high school graduates. The 17-year-old girl became separated from her friends, was approached by a male she didn't know and was taken into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted on Tuesday night, said RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush. RCMP had deployed extra ...

  • Vancouver high school teacher disciplined after shutting up students with duct tape

    Even though the Trump family was in Vancouver for less than 24 hours Wednesday, Donald’s third child Eric was happy to see a bit of the Pacific Northwest nature he had heard so much ...

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