2009 Four Continents figure skating championships to be held in Vancouver, BC

I am an avid figure skating fan, so when I get a chance to see my favourite skaters live, I get very excited. And, I will have plenty of opportunity to get excited in February of next year. Vancouver is set to host 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at the...

Nanaimo Clippers Win In Overtime

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, CanadaNanaimo's BCHL hockey team won a squeaker in overtime against the Quesnel Millionaires Sunday afternoon.  The Clippers came out strong against the interior team and it looked...

18th death from Listeria takes place in British Columbia

We are just all waiting and hoping for this situation to be over, unfortunately we are still seeing the effects of this bacteria - which made its most recent mark in BC."According to Canada's top medical journal, the outbreak is the worst epidemic of listeriosis in the world...

Flying beer, too much to drink, a late game, a negative outcome for the home ...

CFL week 10 review   Friday, August 29 Another 100 yard rushing performance from Montreal’s star ball carrier Avon Cobourne allowed the American born mini might to elapse the 800 yard rushing mark for the...

Car crash in downtown Vancouver

A blue Toyota Yaris was involved in a crash Wednesday lunchtime at the junction of Seymour and Dunsmuir streets in downtown Vancouver. This junction has often been the scene of car accidents. As I passed by, police...

Canadian Elections announcing tommorrow morning for Oct.14th

Your guess is as good as any but I personally  believe that Harper will announce the Federal elections  tomorrow to be held for Oct 14th 2008. He will do it first thing in the morning because he is just...

Seven year itch gets the better of Toronto Argonauts

CFL Week 9 Review: A slow week on the field provided a ton of "good" football and even more action away from the gridiron. Scores: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Saskatchewan 10 @ Edmonton 27 - Saskatchewan loses second...

Man crashes truck into Maple Ridge sushi restaurant

Two women are dead and several others injured after a bizarre incident at a sushi restaurant in Maple Ridge, B.C. A 51-year-old man reportedly crashed his truck into a strip mall restaurant on the Lougheed Highway at 203rd Street. There were 45 people in the establishment...

Vancouver Island Is On The Move

Vancouver Island sits on a small tectonic plate that is slowly burying itself under the continent.  Those of us who live here are quite used to the little jiggles that signal an earthquake.  We don't sweat...

Last Missing Bill Reid Artworks Recovered

As NowPublic previously reported, several artworks produced by the late Haida carver Bill Reid were stolen from the UBC Museum of Anthropology in May. Thankfully, the last of the missing pieces has now been...

People, Pit Bulls and Bruins! Oh My!

There has been so much in the news about black bear and Pit Bull dog attacks in Metro Vancouver, the last few weeks. Thoughts on both bear and dog  been polarized. Save them! Kill them! Co-exist with them? It's...

Not Good Enough for "Them"?

WARNING- Some sarcasm may be offensive to some.Is there anybody out there who really wants a job? Who among home and garden services really wants to work? Is it my unruly home and garden that makes them want...

Past Tense: Harm Reduction, '50s Style

In the recent hullabaloo over Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site for drug users, critics of the facility are doing their best to create the impression that harm reduction is the recent product of radicals....

The dullest game, ever.

CFL week 6 review   Saturday Saskatchewan 22 @ Calgary 21 (Saskatchewan improves record to 6-0)   Friday CFL games this season are averaging nearly seventy points per game, a real treat to the few that...

Past Tense: “The Dope Craze that’s Terrorizing Vancouver”

I recently heard a senior city planner say that economic decline in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside preceded the drug problem now associated with the area. The point he was making was valid – that the drug trade...

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