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  • McDonalds CEO chastized by 9-year-old B.C. girl

    A girl from Kelowna, B.C., is making international headlines for chastizing the CEO of McDonald's during the corporation's annual shareholders meeting in Chicago on Thursday. Hannah Robertson was at the meeting to ask some tough questions of the fast food chain's CEO Don Thompson. "Mr. Thompson, don't you want kids to be healthy so they can live a long and happy ...

  • Ryan Lochte cruises to pair of victories at Vancouver swim meet

    VANCOUVER -- Olympic champion Ryan Lochte was the teacher and Hassaan Abdel-Khalik was happy to be the pupil during Friday's opening night of the Mel Zajac Jr. International Canada Cup.Lochte cruised to victories in the 200-metre backstroke and the 200 freestyle before a loud crowd at the University of British Columbia Aquatic Centre.Abdel-Khalik, who will compete at this summer's ...

  • Officials assure B.C. bridges are safe

    B.C. officials insist the province's aging bridges are safe following a "freak" accident that brought down a bridge over the Skagit River in Washington State on Thursday ...

  • This day in history May 25 1939

    Seventy-four years ago, the Hotel Vancouver swung open its doors for the first time. Six hundred and fifty people came out for an inaugural luncheon celebrating the opening of the grand hotel, designed in a fanciful "modified French Renaissance" style.It was an important civic event, because the Hotel Vancouver had come to symbolize the city during the Depression - it had taken 10 ...

  • Huge delays expected following bridge collapse on busy highway

    The significance of the collapse of the Skagit River bridge on the busy Interstate 5 corridor was just beginning to sink in for both Americans and Canadians on Friday as they headed into the Memorial Day weekend, one of America's busiest holiday ...


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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

A decade ago, Oliver Stone was the premiere cinematic chronicler of the recent American past. No filmmaker better nailed the anxieties and failed dreams of the 1960s and, more importantly, the remorse that followed, than Stone did in Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of Ju ... ...

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  • Civic engagement Key moments in the City of Vancouvers history

    May 3, 1886: City of Vancouver holds its first election.May 10, 1886: First council meeting.Dec. 14, 1887: First "Vancouver Reading Room" library opens.Sept. 7, 1907: Protest rally at City Hall by the Vancouver Asiatic Exclusion League turns into a riot.1916: Aldermen vote to allow women to hold office.Dec. 5, 1923: Radio was used for the first time in a Vancouver election ...

  • A tale of two itineraries

    Vancouver and Toronto are two cities increasingly in contrast. Nothing better embodies this than the personal itineraries - recently obtained by The Sun - of their iconic mayors, Gregor Robertson and Rob Ford. ...

  • Former West Vancouver officer killed in Mexico

    A retired West Vancouver police officer has been stabbed to death in Mexico, as two Metro Vancouver families issue pleas for help to find relatives missing in the popular holiday ...

  • Homeowners seek more help after slide

    Trading unstable land in Johnsons Landing for stable Crown land elsewhere was suggested at a community meeting Thursday as a possible compensation solution for residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged in a landslide there last July."Some of the people applauded that," said Angele Ortega, who lives with her husband Richard Ortega, who left his Johnsons Landing Retreat Centre to ...

  • Teacher talks must now focus on 10-year deal Premier

    Premier Christy Clark's government on Friday dramatically altered the course of negotiations with B.C.'s teachers, serving notice that the employer must abandon previous instructions and now focus on reaching the 10-year agreement Clark promised during the election ...

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