Premier Gordon Campbell ducks debates in Point Grey

While all the other party leaders are signing up for debates with their opponents Premier Campbell has other plans. "And what about B.C. Liberal premier Gordon Campbell? “Campbell is still refusing to debate,”...

VPD allegedly urging Dunbar residents to tie up 911 lines

UPDATE: Since this story was first posted, the VPD has issued a statement clarifying their policy on the issue._____ According to Linda MacAdam, a member of the Dunbar Community Patrol,  The Vancouver Police...

Dunbar Residents Rally to Support Local Merchant

Residents of Dunbar are trying to help out a longstanding local hardware store.  A recent neighbourhood mailing list had the following plea: ""The little hardware store on Dunbar Street is in trouble."Grant has put his entire stock on sale this month of February....

Practicing for peak oil

We sometimes take for granted that we drive machines that have 100,200,300 or sometimes over 500 horsepower.  It's always nice to remind ourselves what this metric means and how many horses we'd have without...

Dunbar / UBC area under snow

The snow fell pretty consistently over the weekend and overnight on Sunday.  Right now the skies are generally clear and it doesn't look like it will be coming down anytime soon.  The snow on the ground...

Changes for Ubc-Area Schools

Janet Steffenhagen reports that: "I received a tip this morning that the Vancouver board of education has developed another plan for UBC-area schools. The board's communications manager, David Weir, would not give me...

Coyotes in Dunbar

Just got this through a mailing list I am on:""Just a heads up to all our neighbours in the southwest section of Dunbar.Every morning this week we have encountered a pair of coyotes while walking our dog at 6:30 am.  Tuesday through Thursday the animals were close...

Fiesta Days in Point Grey

A big weekend in Point Grey last week featured the Premiere, the outgoing Mayor and a handful of other dignitaries.  Lots of stuff for the kids including everything sugar coated and spinning machines of...

Dunbar residents rally against 16th Avenue Bus route

There is some controversy surrounding the proposed new bus route along 16th Ave. in Dunbar.  Many residents believe it will relieve congestion and is the responsible, green thing to do while others are...

Missing teenage beauty queen is found in London

"A TEENAGE beauty queen has been reunited with her parents after vanishing for nine days with a man she met on a social networking website. The family of Kovi Dunbar, 17, blamed cruel jibes at school about an illness which altered her looks, after she disappeared from her...

Private policing for upscale Vancouver neighbourhood (CBC British Columbia)

VANCOUVER – A private security firm is launching a new neighbourhood security service in the affluent Dunbar neighbourhood on Vancouver's Westside. Genesis Security will patrol Dunbar in specially-equipped Smart cars 24 hours a day, seven days a week – on a free trial...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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