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  • Soggy start to summer for B.C.

    Johanna Wagstaffe . The showers will become more steady early Thursday morning, before the rain tapers back down to showers in the evening. In total, Vancouver can expect between 15 mm to 30 mm of rain. Temperatures at the Vancouver International Airport will also come down on Thursday to a high of just 16 C. It will be one of the coolest days in a while and, just in time for the start of ...

  • 10 Trump tweets what the man behind the hair has to say

    U.S billionaire Donald Trump was in Vancouver today to lend his name to the city's first Trump Tower on West Georgia Street in the city's downtown core. Since he was renting out his name, CBC ...

  • Crown argues woman who stabbed teen girl to death at Vancouver house party should serve eight years

    Kamloops RCMP continue to investigate an alleged sexual assault they believe may have been caught on video camera during a wild high school grad party attended by more than 1,000 ...

  • Vancouver city council to get latest report on future of viaducts next week

    If you’re young and hoping to work your way up into a high-paid position, here are 10 jobs you’ll probably want to avoid. People in these jobs work at the bottom strata of the labour market, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage ...

  • West Vancouver kids find discarded guns

    WEST VANCOUVER -- Children playing in the woods near Rockridge secondary in West Vancouver found two pistols late Tuesday afternoon, according to police.The children stumbled on a starter pistol and an antique Webley .455 from the seldom-travelled area, according to West Vancouver Police Department spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer."(They) picked it up, had a look at them, and then realized, ...


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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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  • Green Party councillor wants Vancouver to push province for cigarette butt deposit program

    VANCOUVER -- Green Party councillor Adriane Carr is urging city council to ask the province to create a cigarette butt deposit return program.On the heels of a successful initiative during Car Free Day when neighbourhood group West End Cleanup collected over 60,000 butts in four hours, Carr is bringing a motion to next week's city council meeting.She wants council to work with the ...

  • 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 ...

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