Canadian Vet offers to Snip the Nuts off Easter Bunnies

Barry Artiste Op.Ed With Easter coming around the corner a British Columbia Vet has offered to chase down and "denut" the wild free roaming Little Bunnies, Hippity Hoppity around the University of...

Getting your licence...what an ordeal

Getting your licence now-a-days is a long ordeal that Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) has drawn out as long as they can.  There is now a system called Graduated Licensing Program (GLP).  How the GLP works is you must first complete a written test...

Simon Fraser University Surrey Parking

Parking at Simon Fraser University Surrey is not as easy as it seems. There are restrictions and regulations of how students should park put out by diamond parking security. Only those who redeem a parking pass...

Gondola – The perfect solution or more chaos?

Recently, the Simon Fraser University Community Trust proposed the idea of constructing a gondola system similar to Whistler’s Peak-2-Peak gondola system from the Production Way SkyTrain station to the transit...

Health Alert for Lean Ground Veal -- E. coli

The CFIA has issued an alert for lean ground veal packaged by New Zealand Lamb, of Etobicoke Ontario.  The veal may be contaminated by E. coli 157:H7.  This is the strain of E. coli that causes what is...

Anglican Diocese defies ban, will perform same-sex blessings

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa will perform same-sex blessings, making it the first Canadian Anglican Diocese to make such a move since the worldwide church called for a moratorium in 2004." In 2004, the worldwide...

Port Mann P3 scuttled by Victoria over lack of private finance

The B.C. Liberal government has ditched plans to build the new Port Mann bridge crossing through a so-called public-private partnership (P3) and will now finance the project directly. That's a dramatic reversal for Victoria which just a few weeks ago announced that it would...

CFL Declares Vancouver Host City of the 2011 Grey Cup

    CFL commissioner Mark Cohan announced Friday that the 2011 CFL Championship will be held in Vancouver's BC Place. This will be the third straight year that the Grey Cup will be hosted in Western...

Britain's PFI projects may look for huge government bailout

Public finance initiative (PFI) projects in Britain may be looking for a multi-billion pound bailout from government as funding sources dry up in the wake of the global economic crisis. Some think that when the British government brings down its budget in April, there will be...

Appeal court overturns drug, gun convictions over police mistakes

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Two time convicted Drug Supplier gets his conviction overturned over semantics by a Moronic Judge who despite this guy was convicted of the exact same offence in 1999 and finds this Drug Supplier Innocent on these new charges, because Police mistakenly...

Port Mann bridge partner reports massive losses on toll roads

The key investor behind the public-private partnership building and operating the new ten-lane Port Mann toll bridge today reported a loss of over $1 billion (CAD). Macquarie Group's infrastructure arm took the bath on its toll road assets around the world. " Macquarie...

Combating BC Gang Violence!

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Since hearing that British Columbia is now the Gang Capital of Canada, to go along with the title of British Columbia "BC Criminal Superpower" Government Lawmakers should be quite proud of...

Leaving the West: Tough times bring gangsters back East to Ottawa

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Seems even Criminals and Drug Dealers have "Nancy Boy Gangsters" who don't like the Prairie Gangsters shooting at them, and opted for a more gentler city to ply their terror and drug dealing. Guess West Coast and Prairie Gangsters are made of stronger...

B.C. P3 lender burning through government loan guarantees

The Belgian-French bank that's supplying the financing to several public-private partnership (P3) projects in British Columbia has exhausted half of the government guarantees it received in a September bailout. Dexia is a financial partner in the Royal Jubilee, Kelowna and...

U.K. woman’s 35-year search for dad ends in B.C.

Barry Artiste Op/EdOne can only imagine the elation of finding your parent after such a long time. For one Briton it ends in British Columbia."From the time she was 17, Rosemarie Mychajlow had searched tirelessly for her father. Thirty-five years later, the British woman...

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