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  • Wait time and primary care reforms stalled

    Shortening wait times for hip and knee replacements, increasing electronic health records and starting a national pharmacare strategy are stalled, according to a new progress report. The Health Council of Canada releases its report on health care renewal in Saskatoon on ...

  • Man stabbed in Vancouver

    Vancouver police are investigating after a man was stabbed in the city's Downtown Eastside on Wednesday night. The incident occurred around 7:40 p.m. at the intersection of Gore Avenue and Keefer Street. Emergency responders found the man, who has not been identified, in the 400 block of Prior Street. The man suffered serious injuries in the stabbing and is receiving emergency treatment ...

  • Housing slowdown to worsen cost 7500 jobs in Vancouver mortgage group says

    Almost a year after the federal government's latest tightening of the rules for insured mortgages, the association that represents mortgage brokers has come out with a dire assessment of the effect of those changes.Canada's housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming ...

  • Task force finds ways for Vancouver to engage its citizens

    Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, flanked by several members of the city’s Engaged City Task Force, announces the task force’s initial recommendations for better civic engagement at the Collingwood community centre on ...

  • Vancouver photographer on mission to catalogue fading mom-and-pop convenience stores

    Finding a Vancouver Canucks fan on the streets of Vancouver was no easy feat Wednesday. Two years after a glorious run to the Stanley Cup final saw a bustling bandwagon overflowing with ...


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Pet Sematary [Blu-Ray]

Like many horror stories, Pet Sematary, which is based on the 1983 novel by Stephen King, is a parental nightmare, one that lays bare the limits of a fathers ability to protect his family and the horrors that can be unleashed when he reaches too far. When I first saw the film as ... ...

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  • BC Taxpayers Federation questions Vancouver City Managers spending

    5/22/2013 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is raising questions about expenses filed by Vancouver's City Manager. The Federation's Jordan Bateman wants to know why Penny Ballem spent nearly $700 on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver Airport to Victoria to join the budget lock up last year in the capital city. On top of that she charged the city $126 for a cab ride. Bateman says ...

  • B.C. teen saves dog from cougar

    A Belcarra, B.C. teenager and his beloved family dog are recovering tonight after surviving a vicious cougar attack on Tuesday night. Levi Sadler, 16, realized there was something wrong when heard his black Labrador Daisy screaming outside his window. "It was terrifying, like a scream you hear in movies, coming from a dog," he ...

  • Vancouver’s grand connectivity plan

    Vancouver, whose council has been accused of not listening to the public and whose residents say they are lonely and alienated, launched the first steps on Wednesday of a plan to make people who live there more connected. "Vancouver is a dynamic city undergoing a great deal of change," Mayor Gregor Robertson said. "The connection between city hall and citizens is tenuous at the ...

  • Beaverton cop arrested in Vancouver accused of raping 5-year-old

    Christopher R. Warren is currently on paid administrative leave from the Beaverton Police Department while he is being investigated for food stamp fraud. This is a mug shot from when he was arrested on the fraud ...

  • Vancouver aims to get citizens more involved with city hall

    The Vancouver Canucks have fired the most successful head coach in club history. Alain Vigneault lost his job after the Canucks were swept by the San Jose Sharks — a year after the heavily ...

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