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Solar Taxi Stops in Vancouver on World Tour
Everywhere Swiss schoolteacher Louis Palmer drives, he manages to draw a crowd.
And he's drawn a lot of crowds.
Palmer and his now world-famous SolarTaxi made a stop in Vancouver on Thursday to kick off the North American part o...
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Safe Injection Site May Relocate to the West End
Controversy surrounding the future of Insite, the Downtown Eastside facility that offers supervised injection for drug users, has sparked renewed interest in the West End's Dr. Peter Centre, Canada's only HIV/AIDS health program a...
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Sammy Sullivan to Run in the Federal Race?
Mayor Sam Sullivan lost an ally last week in his ongoing public relations assault on how good the 2010 Winter Games will be for Vancouverites.
On June 25, Conservative Vancouver-Kingsway MP David Emerson was officially given the p...
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Union Gospel Mission President Retires After 29 Yrs
Maurice McElrea, president of the Union Gospel Mission, is calling it a day after 29 years on the job. Bill Mollard, formerly of the Salvation Army, will be officially appointed as the new president July 11.
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Dogs vs. Toddlers at False Creek Park
An ongoing conflict over off-leash dogs at Charleson Park in South False Creek has gone public on the online site Facebook.
False Creek resident Kelly Kovach was initially dismayed last week when she discovered she'd become the ta...
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Rail Car Leaks Toxins Into the Thompson Near Lytton
A rail car that was knocked into the Thompson River by a rock slide is leaking a toxic chemical, provincial officials told a public meeting in Lytton, B.C., Wednesday night.
An Environment Ministry official said there is no doubt ...
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Charges Finally Laid for Sinking Barge Fiasco
Prosecutors have laid charges in the case of a barge that sank with a load of logging equipment near the killer whale habitat of Robson Bight on Vancouver Island in August 2007.
Chemainus-based logging contractor Ted LeRoy Truckin...
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Farmed Salmon Escape and Threaten Indigenous Salmon Stocks
Some of the 30,000 farmed Atlantic salmon that escaped yesterday near Campbell River have already been caught by anglers in the area, according to at least one experienced fishing guide working in the region.
The salmon swam away ...
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Queen E Park Thief Caught on Video
Vancouver police are asking the public for help in identifying a woman caught on a surveillance video trying to sell one of four bronze plaques stolen from Queen Elizabeth Park last month.
The plaques went missing on June 19, the ...
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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Where on Earth is Waldo?
Melanie Coles has created a 2,300 square foot Waldo and placed it on a building top in Vancouver. N...
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