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Delta Boy Dies Following a Near Drowning
One of two toddlers pulled from a backyard pool in North Delta on Sunday has died.
Andrew, 3, died Wednesday at B.C. Children's Hospital, three day...
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politix_pete |
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Local Election results
cbc.ca is probably the easiest way to find out what happened where you live in BC - or where you are interested in if you don't.Vancouver has seen a d...
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Street Racing Steals Another Life - Delta
One person died and another was injured in a Delta, B.C., crash that police say was caused by street racing.
The incident happened in the 9000 bloc...
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cosmo_girl |
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Down The Stretch We Come
With just three sleeps left until Election Day, the papers are packed with news, and seem to be identifying some of the flaws in Rick Green's campaign...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Tour to Westham Island Herb Farm in Delta
Arzeena organized a field trip to the Westham Island Herb Farm in Delta for the Greenhouse Social Club which is part of the Richmond Fruit Tree progra...
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Chow Times |
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Plan released for rail transit across Surrey
SURREY - Surrey City Council candidate Paul Hillsdon announced today the centrepiece of his campaign - the Transit for Tomorrow plan. The plan, design...
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Wishful Thinking
The Sun reports that in the south-of-the-Fraser communities of Langley, Surrey, Delta and White Rock, where gridlock on the bridge is a huge issue,...
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Price Tags |
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Bridges and blacktop likely targets of Liberal accelerated spending
Vaughan Palmer speculates on the projects that are ready to go that may get accelerated funding as a result of the Premier's announcement this w...
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Town Hall on SFPR at the North Delta Firehall
I was privileged to be invited to be an expert at a meeting last night. My assigned subject was the lack of economic rationale for the Gateway i...
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Farmers voice concerns over highway project
Country Life in BCDonna Passmore tells me these web pages do not have a long life, so I am copying the entire story belowThe point being that the Prov...
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The Road and The Bog
The following is an open letter sent by Don Hunt of the Sunbury Neighborhood Association spelling out, chapter and verse, the effects of the SFPR on B...
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Declining bird numbers could be swan song for ecosystem
Vancouver SunThe Asper empire moves further into blog territory with a new one by Rob Butler on birds.Butler retired in January after 28 years as a fe...
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Gateway takes a beating at forum
Delta OptimistThe forum in question was the all candidates meeting in Delta. So at least the people running for election to the federal government are...
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Morning Brew: This One Was Done in Mauve
A New Sun is Rising, as the Vancouver Sun ups its print-exclusive content, making it that much more difficult to sift for real news. Funny, all I coul...
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Beyond Robson |
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Vancouver house prices Q2 2008
Royal LePage Suvery of Canadian House Prices Q2 2008Detached bungalow Price Apr-Jun Price 3 mon. ago Price 1 yr ago % Change 1 yr ...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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Vote for Climate
Climate CrunchIt seems very clear to me that the real issue this federal election ought to be climate change. And clearly our current Prime Minister i...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Township Council Meeting Report--Monday Afternoon, Sept. 29, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's Monday afternoon meeting, September 29, 2008. Councillor Kositsky was absent.Margaret Mahan of BEST made a deleg...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Sunday round up
I seemed to spend a lot of time this weekend with a microphone in my hand. I have already written about Saturday's rally so this post just looks at Su...
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Transportation News and Notes
I missed this Frank Bucholtz opinion piece when it first came out, but it seems he endorses the need for more bridges in the Lower Mainland:One reason...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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VIFF 2008: An Unusual, But Hopeful, Theme Emerges
An unusual theme has developed at this year's Vancouver Film Festival.Where for many years the theme of the Festival might reasonably be interpreted a...
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VanRamblings |
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they are lining up again!
Breaking local news! There is a line-up tonight in North Delta!First new subdivision in 25 years in N. Delta! Would that make it Alpha? It might just ...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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Fraser River clogs up, as does money to fix it
ProvinceThe process of the Government of Canada getting out of the port business goes back a long way and is bi partisan. In the early 90s many shippe...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Canadian Rockies Int'l Airport
The NEW & IMPROVED Canadian Rockies International Airport between Cranbrook and Kimberley in the Kootenay Rockies region (SE corner of BC) is awesome!...
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Reviews:: Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir Ten Thousand
web sitePurity is music is an increasing rare thing. All too often, bands look for a hot sound, try to replicate it and hope label execs or bloggers e...
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HeroBlog |
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All blogged up
Federal Liberal Delta-Richmond East candidate Dana Miller says she wasn't comparing the Harper administration's propaganda to that of the Nazis. At is...
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Public Eye Online |
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B.C.'s transit plan faces funding shortfall
CBCKevin Falcon was on the Radio 1 morning show today (no, I didn't listen) so I suppose that is the genesis of this story today. The shortfall on Tra...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Highway route just more proof gov't doesn't care
A letter to the Editor of the Delta Optimist published on September 20Re: Farmers fear loss of land if highway built as planned, Sept. 13At a meeting ...
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A Survey of Surrey
The City Program was asked to submit a paper for the Surrey Economic Summit.The development of a post-war urban region at a time of changing assumptio...
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A Survey of Surrey
Here's the paper I wrote for the Surrey Economic Summit (at which Rudy Giuliani, oddly enough, got all the press):The development of a post-war urban ...
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Price Tags |
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The Burns Bog Conservation Society's positon on the South Fraser Perimeter Road
This is a letter Eliza Olson wrote in response to an article in the Delta Optimist. It showcases some of the Society's concerns and points out the mi...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Why Federal Elections Bore
Rafe Mair's Tyee piece this week is about the election.Like Rafe I will be voting Green but he has this to say about my local Conservative candidateSt...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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NO TRUCKIN' FREEWAYS!
Come out and support your neighbours It's time to tell the Province:NO TRUCKIN' FREEWAYS!Attention all! The time has come to bring the Gateway Proje...
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Terry Fox Run brings out the best in our communities: Todd Wong attends Terry Fox Run in Richmond BC
Stories of Terry Fox and personal stories of cancer are shared by the Terry Fox Run site in Richmond BC.The Terry Fox Run site in Richmond BC, is orga...
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Terry Fox Run at Chief Maquinna is inspiring: Guest speaker Todd Wong meets young leukemia survivor
Todd Wong speaks at the Chief Maquinna Elementary School Terry Fox Run. Elementary Schools across Canada, all hold Terry Fox Runs. Chief Maquinna he...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Five federal election stories that caught my eye t
Five federal election stories that caught my eye today:1. The husband of a Nova Scotian Tory candidate compared Stephen Harper's leadership style to ...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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BC has 10 swing ridings
The Strategic Counsel, pollster for CTV and Globe and Mail for this election, says there are 45 swing ridings in three big provinces that will d...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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John Cummins and the SFPR
I am indebted to Donna Passmore for the following informationOn Friday last Delta-East Richmond Member of Parliament, John Cummins, was invited to an ...
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Must Visit British Columbia
Our BC trip was awesome. We visited the entire province and the National Parks in and on the border of British Columbia. We flew in to Vancouver YVR...
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Morning Brew: Election Season
The gloves are off as the election for, um, mayor of Vancouver, draws closer: Gregor Robinson Afraid of Debate? I'm not sure Betty. I don't actually k...
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Beyond Robson |
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Shavluk's candidacy revoked
Today, federal Green leader Elizabeth May revoked Newton-North Delta hopeful John Shavluk's candidacy following revelations that he made comments in ...
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Public Eye Online |
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Vancouver shows for me:: No Kids, Azeda Booth, and the Agnostics
I actually meant to throw this post up a few days ago, letting the good people of Vancouver know about some great shows that are happening this week. ...
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HeroBlog |
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BC TRIP WAS AWESOME ! WATCH THE VID
Our BC trip was awesome. We visited the entire province and the National Parks in and on the border of British Columbia. We flew in to Vancouver YVR...
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Time for action not studies
The ProvinceAn announcement of yet another study into transit for the South of the Fraser has been greeted with an unusually stongly worded response f...
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Gridlock or gold medal?
Mike Harcourt in the Globe and MailMike has a long shopping list of projects that he says are needed in time for the 2010 Games. Just one quibble I ...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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What Metro Vancouver doesn't want us to think about
This story, appearing in the Georgia Straight, was noticed by Gudrun Langolf and copied to the BCEN mailing list. I am going to break my usual practic...
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Guy Gentner goes after the SFPR
The ProvinceA report commissioned by local port authorities but virtually ignored by the B.C. government for more than three years now raises serious ...
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Call me an optimist, but if Denmark can go green, Canada can too
Gary Mason, Globe and MailGary appears to be joining the other sage of Delta (Pete McMartin) onthe side of the angels.He enthuses about a hotel in Gre...
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TransLink warns of cuts without more cash
Jeff Nagel BC Local NewsWell that didn't last longIt was not so long ago that I was writing about a surplus at Translink. But now the new board is b...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Upcoming engagements
I hope that readers of this blog will want to come to one of these events - not to hear me but because they are important, and a show of interest will...
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Friday wrap up
There are a whole host of stories this morning, but none of them seem worthy of more than a passing comment.The Sea to Sky closure was, of course, pre...
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