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Former Premier Glen Clark's Teenage Daughter Gets Newspaper Column

I recognized the name right away when I opened 24 Hours newspaper. Layne Clark. She looks a lot like her father, former British Columbia Premier Glen Clark, especially around the eyes. The first year student at Simon Fraser University has started writing a...

created by jr | 1 wk ago | updated 5 days ago
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Condo Developer Accused of Rewarding Sexual Harassment Donates $2 Million for...

Condo developer and philanthropist Michael Audain, who has ducked criticism for donating to the SFU Centre for the Contemporary Arts, having a Gallery at the Centre named after him, and presenting a former Department Head at the Centre with a cash Lifetime Achievement Award...

created by jr | 2 wks ago | updated 5 days ago
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Just Desserts at Downtown Community Court

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Just Desserts at Downtown Community Court

Usually when a Downtown Eastsider walks into a courthouse, they expect to be served something other than jumbo chocolate chip cookies. But that's what they got Saturday afternoon along with burgers and salad at the...

created by jr | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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Vancouver School Board Trustee Ken Denike Has Cancer

Ken Denike, a Vancouver School Board trustee while an international boycott of Vancouver School Board Diplomas organized by Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry has gained ground, has been diagnosed with colon...

created by jr | 4 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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Recount of Carnegie Election Results Fuels Distrust

The membership voted at a Special Meeting at Carnegie Center this evening to hold a recount of the June 5th election results for the Board of Directors. Board President, M. Matthew, announced that three tellers chosen by him would perform the recount. He chose...

created by jr | 10 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago
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Firemen Hose Down Homeless Man's "Home"

A spot where a homeless man was living in an alley off Main St. between National and Prior Streets -- just north of the Pacific Central train and bus station -- went up in flames Thursday night around 10 p.m. "A...

created by jr | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago
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Firemen Put Out Roof Fire at Pizza Joint

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Firemen Put Out Roof Fire at Best Pizza

It's the second time it's happened. Late Monday afternoon, something on fire was thrown from the Balmoral Hotel near Main & Hastings onto the roof of Best Pizza next door at 151 Hastings. It was a sweltering...

created by jr | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago
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Distrust at Carnegie Center Results in Request for Recount of Election Results

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Distrust at Carnegie Center Results in Request for Recount of Election Results

Carnegie members don't trust the results of the June 5th election for Board of Directors at the Carnegie Center operated by the City of Vancouver on the Downtown Eastside. James A. announced at the meeting...

created by jr | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago
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Cyclist Hit on Main St. Near 3rd Ave. in Vancouver

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Cyclist Hit on Main St. Near 3rd Ave. in Vancouver

Vancouver Police blocked off all traffic other than buses on Main St. between 2nd and 3rd Ave. for roughly 2 1/2 hours on Monday after a cyclist was hit. The cyclist, riding what a witness described as a "mountain...

created by jr | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago
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JFK Quoted at "Islamophobia" Trial at BC Human Rights Tribunal

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John F. Kennedy Quoted on Liberty at "Islamophobia" Trial in Vancouver

John F. Kennedy was quoted in defense of free speech in closing arguments on Friday at the BC Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver. MacLeans magazine is accused of making Muslims the...

created by jr | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago
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Demonstrators Carry Blank Signs Outside "Islamophobia" Trial to Protest Free ...

The signs protesters carried at the courthouse said it all by saying nothing.Protesters carried blank signs in front of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver Monday morning to draw attention to erosion of freedom of expression. They say...

created by jr | 18 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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"Cooking Drugs" Causes Flood at Glory Rooms

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"Cooking Drugs" Causes Flood at Glory Rooms

Last week a guy was “cooking drugs” in his room on the top floor of the Glory Rooms near the Gassy Jack statue at Carroll and Powell St. on the Downtown Eastside. But his home cooking accidentally...

created by jr | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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Vancouver Artist Jeff Wall Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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Vancouver Artist Jeff Wall Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Jeff Wall was $30,000 richer when he walked out of the Vancouver Art Gallery last Thursday. He had just received the Audain Lifetime Achievement award given annually to a British Columbia artist and...

created by jr | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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Woman Jumps from 7th Floor of Regent Hotel

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Woman Jumps from 7th Floor of Regent Hotel

The word on the Downtown Eastside is that a woman jumped seven floors inside the Regent Hotel on the afternoon of Thursday, May 22. She died. In the attached photo, a police officer in the background...

created by jr | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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Executive Asst. in Lyndon Johnson's West Wing Fights for Democracy in Powell ...

Patricia Aldworth went to the coastal pulp mill city of Powell River to retire. But the woman who had learned about politics while an Executive Assistant in the West Wing during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency, couldn’t retire. Not when she saw that democracy in Powell River...

created by jr | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago
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