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  • B.C. native Svein Tuft to make Tour de France debut

    Canadian Svein Tuft will be making his Tour de France debut later this month. The 36-year-old cyclist from Langley, B.C., was named on his Australia-based WorldTour squad Orica-GreenEdge's Tour start list Wednesday. Tuft is an eight-time Canadian time trial champion and recently won the Tour of Slovenia's prologue chrono. Matt White, Orica-GreenEdge's sports director, said Tuft ...

  • Vancouvers Chan Centre announces star-studded 2013-14 season

    You won't need to leave Vancouver to go globe-trotting this year thanks to the Chan Centre for Performing Arts' new season lineup.Kicking off Oct. 19 with the critically acclaimed Kronos Quartet performing new works by famed composer Philip Glass, the Chan's season at UBC will also feature its popular Connects series featuring film screenings and artist talks throughout the year. ...

  • Vancouver high school teacher reprimanded for duct taping students

    VANCOUVER - A Vancouver teacher who duct taped some of her students' mouths for talking in class has been reprimanded by the B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch.Margo Fowler, a math teacher at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, punished two Grade 8 students and one Grade 10 student on separate occasions by taping their mouths, according to a 2012 report to the branch from Vancouver School ...

  • Vancouver mining firm gives nod to $458-million Alberta coal project

    VANCOUVER -- The board of Coalspur Mines Ltd. (TSX:CPT) has approved a $458-million capital budget for the Vista coal project in Alberta, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.Coalspur is now planning a one-stage project with the capacity to deliver six million tonnes per year, giving it a capital efficiency of $76 per tonne of capacity.The Vancouver-based company says its current plan ...

  • Bridge construction worker suffers severe electric shock on Vancouver Island

    NORTH COWICHAN - A man has been airlifted to hospital in Victoria with serious injuries after being hurt in a workplace accident on Vancouver Island, between Ladysmith and Duncan.BC Ambulance Services spokeswoman Kelsie Carwithin says the incident happened just after 2 p.m. Tuesday.She says the man was working on the Chemainus River Bridge replacement project and appears to have suffered ...


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Movie Review

Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

In Seabiscuit, writer/director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) doesnt want to just tell the story of one of the most famous racehorses of all time. Rather, he wants to turn that racehorse into a metaphor for the American spirit itself, which is his films greatest strength and its most crippling weakness. Ross sincerity is clear in every frame of Seabiscuit, yet he never manages to ... ...

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  • B.C. backcountry mobile maps cause concern

    The BC Search and Rescue Association is raising concerns about a set of free, high-resolution topographical backcountry maps released by the provincial government on Tuesday. The 7,000 GeoBC maps cover the entire province of British Columbia at a scale of 1:20,000 and are designed to be downloaded onto mobile devices. They allow users to zoom into areas without compromising the quality of the ...

  • Vancouver teacher admits to duct-taping mouths of chatty students

    6/19/2013 A Vancouver high school teacher has admitted to literally shutting-up chatty students. The Teachers Regulation Branch says Margo Anne Fowler had three students at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School duct-tape their mouths shut when they were talking in her class. Two of the students were in grade eight, one was in grade ten. A resolution agreement notes the tape stayed over ...

  • 30000 Canadians are homeless every night

    A homeless man keeps warm in his blankets in a park in downtown Toronto. On any given day, about 30,000 Canadians are homeless, a new report says. (Kevin Frayer/Canadian ...

  • Wearing a mask at a riot becomes a crime today

    A bill that would ban the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence is scheduled to become law today. Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the Senate on May 23 and is expected to be proclaimed law during a royal assent ...

  • Mask ban bill expected to become law today

    A bill that would ban the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence is scheduled to become law today. Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the Senate on May 23 and is expected to be proclaimed law during a royal assent ...

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