ESPN (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
British Columbia's provincial health officer says Vancouver Canucks players jumped the line when they received swine flu vaccinations this week.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) The British Columbia Securities Commission has settled with a retired teacher who admitted to helping illegally distribute approximately $475,000 in securities.
Reflections on Faith and Culture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thomas Aquinas that is. If you have doubts, my friend Chris Morrissey, professor of philosophy at Redeemer Pacific College in British Columbia, has a solution. Subscriptions ($20 per issue) 604-882-8048 or toll free 1-877-477-7212 Also available at TWU Bookstore
Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
from Wikimedia Commons It's official. Kelley and I now live by the Salish Sea . We still live by Puget Sound, of course--it's just now acknowledged to be part of an ecologically coherent system that ignores the Canadian border. So, hey, all you British Columbia folks: we live by the same sea. I like that. I like thinking of us sharing our wee ecosystem. I won't throw rubbish in it if you don't; I won't...
NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 324 pages, $27 In August of 1910, the largest fire ever to sweep across forests in the United States claimed trees, buildings, and lives across a stretch of three million acres in the Rocky Mountains. Timothy Egan writes in his follow-up to The Worst Hard Time, his National Book Award-winning...
HTMF: Prince Rupert's Website (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are a few raised eyebrows coming from down south at word that when BC Ferries holds their consultations with the public on November 30th to discuss the proposed Vancouver to Prince Rupert ferry route, they'll be holding it at the Crest Hotel. The Ferry Service has booked space in the British Columbia Room at the hotel, the cost of the two hour conversation with North coast residents will be 300...
The Green Changemakers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Air Date: Week of November 20, 2009 (Photo: Don Genova) Cowichan Bay, a small Canadian town, has become the first Slow City in North America. Towns or cities have to meet certain criteria to gain slow city certification - pedestrian walkways, no big box or chain stores, a population of less than 50 thousand. Producer Don Genova visited Cowichan Bay and found a community proud of its newly gained status....
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Christian Ehrhoff's second goal got Vancouver even in the third period, and Henrik Sedin then netted the go-ahead tally as the Canucks rallied to beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 on Friday night.
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | yesterday
I saw De Carlo when she was a babe in the 1950s and didn't see her as Lily Munster till I saw reruns on TV after I came to the USA. She made 60 movies in the late 1940s and 1950s before doing The Munsters - and I saw most of them as a kid. She was stunningly beautiful. I really loved this lady. Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) : In her six-decade career, her most prolific...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nanaimo: t's already garnered big laughs and set tongues wagging at the Gabriola Theatre Festival. Now Edward Albee's taboo-smashing comedy comes to Nanaimo.
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Health care spending to jump nearly 12% this year due to economy’s decline Vancouver Sun, November 20, 2009 Canadian health care spending is expected to reach $183.1 billion in 2009 or $5,452 per Canadian, according to figures released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The estimate represents a $9.5-billion increase from 2008. As a proportion of the gross domestic product,...
SI.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- British Columbia's highest court says Vancouver Olympic officials had no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Winter Games so they could not be found to be violating athletes' rights.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lindsay Nielsen scored two goals Friday night to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 3-1 victory over the Kamloops Blazers at ShoWare Center.
The Search Principle blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the press release: “…the CARL Library Education Working Group that reviewed the applications awarded three research grants of $2000 to Dean Giustini (University of British Columbia) for his project titled “Canadian academic librarians and their use of social media; a two-phase survey“, to Laura Briggs (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) for her project titled [...]...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last winter, I was fortunate to ski the biggest lift-served verticals on both sides of the Atlantic. In the Alps, this means the long-standing leader by this measure, the Vallée Blanche above Chamonix. At approaching three vertical kilometres, it is the world's largest. However, across the Atlantic a new contender, the resort of Revelstoke in British Columbia, in its second season of operations,...
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neilsamsung | 03/11/2009
The American dream is changing, and real estate professionals are doing their best to keep up in order to sell homes. Many buyers still want a big house in an uncrowded neighborhood, especially if they have a family, but there are conditions attached now. Long commutes into the city are more of a deal breaker now than ever before, and areas without a nearby business community, parks infrastructure,...
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