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Trendy Vancouver neighbourhood gets its first homeless shelter »

Trendy Vancouver neighbourhood gets its first homeless shelter

Rod Gash is a resident of Kitsilano’s first homeless shelter. A recovering addict, Gash lived in area carports before the shelter opened Jan. 15...

Feb 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Union rules could hit drug addicts’ job chances »

Union rules could hit drug addicts’ job chances

Up to 35 positions are scheduled to be eliminated from the City of Vancouver Department of Engineering, but so far, one group appears to...

Dec 23 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Hundreds of unnamed cameras watching Vancouver »

Hundreds of unnamed cameras watching Vancouver

Nearly 500 surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver do not post information about who owns them, making it impossible for people to find out who...

Dec 10 2009 / 6 comments / Read More »

First Nations street vendors cornered by Olympics bylaws »

First Nations street vendors cornered by Olympics bylaws

Dennis Rose and Chris Turo sit on foldable chairs outside Robson Street’s designer shops in downtown Vancouver nearly every day, selling their art on...

Dec 7 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »
Olympics

Flagging demand drives YVR cabbies to despair »

Flagging demand drives YVR cabbies to despair

When Anoop Singh, 36, entered the taxi business seven years ago, he was making 15 trips to and from Vancouver’s YVR airport per day. Now, he works double shifts and is lucky to make eight. “This was a sanctuary at one time,” said Singh. “You could...

Dec 2 2009 / 4 comments / Read More »

Southeast Vancouver skaters short on ice in 2010 »

Southeast Vancouver skaters short on ice in 2010

Hockey enthusiasts in southeast Vancouver are facing a shortage of ice despite the construction of two new rink facilities in preparation of the 2010 Olympic Games. From January 15, the newly built rink at Killarney will be used solely for the Olympics. It will host short...

Dec 2 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Winter Olympics ground model plane enthusiasts »

Winter Olympics ground model plane enthusiasts

Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined planes dodge gliders with 13 foot wingspans. Below the air traffic, fellow flyers...

Dec 2 2009 / 3 comments / Read More »
Culture

Aboriginal youth centre gets funding lifeline »

Aboriginal youth centre gets funding lifelineKrystal Bell and Soila Hill surf the web on side-by-side desktop PCs. It’s a typical Tuesday evening at the Kla-how-ya Youth Drop-in Centre in Surrey. Led...

Dec 7 2009 / No comment / Read More »

More Vancouver boys leap into dance »

More Vancouver boys leap into danceLive drumming signals the start of a new exercise in Edmond Kilpatrick’s boys-only dance class. The group of 13 six- and seven-year-old boys wear uniforms of...

Dec 2 2009 / 6 comments / Read More »

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Life Kitsilano pet owners disgruntled over lone dog park

Kitsilano pet owners disgruntled over lone dog park

Take a stroll in Kitsilano and you will meet your fair share of dogs. Water dishes line the entrances to shops in this part of Vancouver, and it is common to find treats...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »
Culture Aboriginal youth centre gets funding lifeline

Aboriginal youth centre gets funding lifeline

Krystal Bell and Soila Hill surf the web on side-by-side desktop PCs. It’s a typical Tuesday evening at the Kla-how-ya Youth Drop-in Centre in Surrey. Led Zeppelin, New Order and others flowed out of...

Dec 7, 2009 / More »
Health Lack of uniform hiring rules in BC pain Filipino nurses

Lack of uniform hiring rules in BC pain Filipino nurses

Ana Cagas Tabella knows first-hand being accredited as a nurse with international credentials in Canada can be a lottery for new immigrants. Cagas, a former nurse in Philippines, came to Canada as a member...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »
Environment Norway taps salt water as green energy source

Norway taps salt water as green energy source

In 1974 a researcher at the University of Connecticut submitted a paper to the journal Science. He claimed that large amounts of energy could be extracted from the natural mixing of fresh water...

Jan 19, 2010 / More »
Business Anxious times for rising numbers of BC temporary workers

Anxious times for rising numbers of BC temporary workers

For the past six months, Mehernosh Panthaki has been earning 40 per cent less than his fellow construction workers at Woodward’s, a marquee housing and commercial project in downtown Vancouver.  When the project...

Dec 10, 2009 / More »
Olympics Flagging demand drives YVR cabbies to despair

Flagging demand drives YVR cabbies to despair

When Anoop Singh, 36, entered the taxi business seven years ago, he was making 15 trips to and from Vancouver’s YVR airport per day. Now, he works double shifts and is lucky to...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »
Immigration Well educated immigrants struggle to find good jobs

Well educated immigrants struggle to find good jobs

Tim Horton’s is an odd place for an anthropologist to find a job. But when Veronica Grigio arrived in Vancouver just over a month ago, that was her best hope. Grigio interviewed at clothing...

Oct 29, 2009 / More »
Sport Winter Olympics ground model plane enthusiasts

Winter Olympics ground model plane enthusiasts

Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »

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