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Surrey woman apologizes for fatal drunken stabbing

The sentencing hearing has begun for a young Surrey woman who stabbed a teenage girl to death at a house party in East Vancouver three years ago. Katey Renieta Gonzales stabbed 17-year-old Angela Qiu five times at a booze-fuelled party in May 2010. She was charged with one count of second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. Fighting back tears in Vancouver Supreme ...
Vancouver man pleads guilty to beating his mother to death

Richard Glenn Shields lived with his mother, Ethel Fenotti, in this apartment building at East 12th Avenue and Main Street in Vancouver. Shields pleased guilty Wednesday to second-degree ...
Vancouver man charged with waving a gun aboard SkyTrain and at a station

A Vancouver man has been charged after allegedly waving a gun around on the SkyTrain and at a station. The charges involve two separate incidents that took place last ...
Gillian Shaw Twitter opening ‘global centre of excellence’ in Vancouver

Twitter is hiring computer science graduates for a "global centre of excellence" the social networking company is opening in Vancouver. ...
Donald Trump puts his brand on Vancouver tower project

Vancouver has become the next stop for real estate tycoon and reality television icon Donald Trump's international hotel chain.Surrounded by his two sons and daughter, as well as the CEO of Vancouver-based developer Holborn Group, Trump said Wednesday that the $360-million Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver will be an architectural wonder and worth the hefty price.The ...

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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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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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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

Hassan Rouhani

Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Hotel Galvez, Galveston, Texas

Coming off Highway 45, about an hour's drive and 50 miles south of Houston, and as we approached Galveston my ...

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Why we crave things we should not

A new study from the University of British Columbia has shed light on how people become obsessed with forbidden pleasures.

The study showed that when people are forbidden from something, it takes on a new level of focus.

"Our findings show that when individuals are forbidden from everyday objects, our minds and brains pay more attention to them," said lead author Grace Truong, a graduate student in UBC's Dept. of Psychology.

"Our brains give forbidden objects the same level of attention as our own personal possessions," Truong added.

The study's most important finding, though, is that obsession is not as strong if others are also denied: when an object is forbidden to a group, the allure of the object drops dramatically.

This helps to explain why group diet techniques such as Weight Watchers can be more successful than dieting alone. It also offers important insights for compulsive hoarding and parents seeking to help their children's attachment to toys and other possessions.

For the study, groups of participants were shown images of everyday objects and told the objects were either theirs, someone else's, forbidden to them or forbidden to everyone. Using electronic brain imaging and memory tests, researchers found the forbidden objects were recognized as well as self-owned objects. ...