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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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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...
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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Congratulations to Trail , BC native Jason Bay on a triumphant debut with the storeyed Boston Red-Sox franchise. Bay, formally of the Pittsburgh Pirates was part of a three team trade deadline deal that sent...
Following a 3-2 loss Wednesday afternoon, that witnessed the Tampa Bay Rays sneaking away with the rubber match of a three game set in Toronto, Jay's head coach and pillar of Canadian baseball Cito Gaston made some...
A large rock slide occurred Tuesday evening on the Sea to Sky Highway and the road will be closed for at least 24 hours while the debris is being cleared. See additional NowPublic coverage from member Barbara...
While many cities spend resources trying to fight shopping cart theft, one group in Victoria wants to give them out for free. The move is an attempt to raise visibility and awareness of the homeless crisis in the...