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was found in Los Angeles last month. Inside were the bodies of two babies, wrapped in newspapers from the 1930s. Police say the trunk was owned by a nurse named Janet Barrie who spent her final years in Vancouver. Now her niece and nephew in B. C. are...

Deputy commissioner questions whether Mounties should continue to fund SFU research after criminology professor spoke out about police handling of case against serial killer.

Metro chief says TransLink should build the Evergreen line in Coquitlam and expand rail in Surrey before considering the Vancouver proposal.

TransLink is moving to a new SkyTrain stop. The regional transportation authority said Friday it will move its headquarters from Burnaby’s Metrotown to the site of a former Labatts brewery in New Westminster. The move — which also involves the...

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On the day after Liberal party official Jordan Bateman had his brief turn in the media spotlight, his website filled up with reactions to his on-then-off-again call for the resignation of Finance Minister Colin Hansen. “ For a while there you looked...

British Columbia is suing several third parties in efforts to recoup health care costs relating to a fiery hot-air balloon crash that killed two people and injured several others in August 2007. Those named in the lawsuit are SRP Adventures Ltd.,...

On the subject of chance, or probability, or fortune so astounding as to be laughable, consider the case of Tom Aitken, of Chilliwack. Aitken is 44. He drives a shuttle truck for a living. He is also an avid motorcyclist who has ridden bikes for more...

“ Don’t make a federal case out of it” means “ Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill” or don’t make a “ big deal” of a small matter. So quipped a Federal Court of Canada judge, citing his own internal thesaurus, in a ruling this week about whether a...

C huck Davies doesn’t know the lyrics to Loudon Wainwright’s Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road. But as one of the longestserving members of Vancouver’s dead-skunk patrol, he sure can tell you what it smells like. “ You know when you walk into a...

Barbara Szczepanska has always been a stickler for cleanliness. As a teenager growing up in Poland, she kept her family’s house meticulously tidy, and her mother learned not to mess with her fastidious routine. “ Certain things always have to be in...

Roofer Ben Nesdoly remembers standing atop the roof of a home in Cloverdale last summer and shouting down to his co-worker Andrew to grab his phone from their work truck — Nesdoly wanted to check the time. But that’s about all he remembers of July 30,...

It is sometimes called one of the world’s most stressful jobs, and Dr. Kambiz Khorshid admits even some of his friends have quit the profession owing to the pressure that comes with it. But for Khorshid, the daily challenges and variation in work are...

New provisions in B. C.’ s Motor Vehicle Act will cost excessive speeders dearly once they take effect later this month. Starting Sept. 20, drivers caught speeding in excess of 40 kilometres over the posted speed limit can expect to pay as much as $...

A 16-year-old Burnaby girl has died and three other teenagers were injured in a single-vehicle crash in Port Moody Thursday. The four Burnaby teens, two males and two females 16 to 19 years old, had been driving along Bedwell Bay Road from White Pine...

A music video parody created by four longtime North Vancouver residents has struck a chord on YouTube. North Vancouver Boyz, a send-up of pop star Katy Perry’s California Gurls, has been viewed more than 83,000 times since it was posted last month, a...

Vancouver police arrested three people after being called to the luxury Shangri-La condominium complex to rescue a man said to have been held there against his will in one of the apartments. According to police, officers rescued a 21-year-old man...

Police in Castlegar charged a 24-year-old man with sexual assault after receiving a complaint that he had taken photos of a 14-year-old girl and sent them to her Facebook account. Further investigation revealed the man and girl had been involved in...

Police said Friday they arrested three car thieves Thursday in two incidents in which they used helicopters. A 32-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman were arrested early Thursday as they travelled on Highway 1 from Langley toward Chilliwack. Members...

Victoria police are looking for a woman they believe was injured in a crash Friday while sitting on the driver’s lap. At 3: 30 a. m., a van slammed into a tree in the city’s south end, said Const. Brent Burger. When officers arrived, they found a...

Imagine if, this semester in high school, you could take a course in midwifery, or go work on a farm, build a house or learn about sustainable agriculture. Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid says schools need to change to become more relevant and...

Priscilla Corrie came to Canada 67 years ago as a 20-year-old war bride, having met and married Samuel Wilkie McCowan during his officer training in Britain. Her husband returned to Canada and was in Winnipeg by the time Mrs. Corrie arrived in May...

When a late model Volvo rolled up to an RCMP checkpoint on Highway 3 near Midway on March 30, 2006, both the occupant and the vehicle attracted the attention of the sergeant in charge. The driver didn’t own the vehicle, he was alone, unshaven and...

Anyone who has made it to paradise in Desolation Sound will be drawn back to it, time and time again. So close to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, and yet it’s like another world, a soothing escape from your cares and woes. Lund, at the...

TEN YEARS LATER: Labour Day weekends from 1990 to 2004 were when the Molson Indy auto race ran beside False Creek. Sandwiched by the burst dot. com bubble and 9/ 11, the 2000 running was a sentimental tribute to local hero Greg Moore, who died during a...

The curtain rises on the annual theatre of the absurd known as sockeye season on the Fraser, which begins with the comical ritual of clowns putting their oversized boots to the hangdog department of fisheries and oceans. Columnists who apparently...

Today’s youth can pretty well forget about finding a job straight out of college and working at the same place through to retirement. A look at the structural shifts in Canada’s economy.

The high-altitude, high-speed winds were discovered by a Japanese scientist and used to balloon-bomb the U. S. in the Second World War. Now, scientists hope to tap them for clean energy.

Sun foreign affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe updates you on the biggest news developments in his morning podcast.

It’s one of the most infamous events involving Canadian soldiers from the First World War: the murder of a British policeman during a drunken uprising by frustrated, homesick servicemen awaiting their post-armistice passage back to Canada in June...

In a vast muddy cornfield scarred with the tracks of heavy vehicles, two young engineers pore over a construction blueprint showing a grid of 100 rectangular factory blocks. Here on the outskirts of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan in China’s...

Fazil Mihlar believes business executives can learn a thing or two about staff morale, productivity, revenues and profits from pirates. And he’s serious.

The number of wild tigers in the world is estimated at 3,000, while there were probably 100,000 a century ago. John Vaillant’s new book is all about this magnificent creature.

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In the last few decades, governments across Canada have developed numerous programs and advertisements directed at helping Canadians to stop smoking. Those programs and advertisements, along with the changes in social values that accompany them, have...

Re: ICBC rates to go down 2.4 per cent, Sept. 1 With an additional rate cut ordered just two weeks after the provincial government and the Insurance Corp. of B. C. tried to lowball drivers, British Columbians must be asking, “ What exactly is going on...

Re: Ground Zero mosque issue not quite that cut-and-dried, Letters, Aug. 31 David Waterman writes, “ To build a mosque at that location would be insensitive to everyone who lost friends and family there.” First, the proposed building is not only a...

If you were really diabolical and wanted to collapse the world economy, you’d cut off the supply of coffee beans. Without that morning pick-me-up, Lord knows how many members of the labour force would never make it to work, and those who did would be...

Re: Labour Day: Why we need unions more than ever, Sept. 1 B. C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair’s rant is about what one would expect from a person in his position. His comments don’t contain anything new. While I agree that unions did...

Re: Back to the books in style, Aug. 24 Really, sometimes reading the newspaper is an exercise in irascibility. Take the caption on a photo in the Style section: “ Allowing children to express themselves through fashion gives them freedom.” What...

Re: Ideological clash at city hall, Sept. 1 The Robertson/ Vision government seems to be less than forthright in the way it is running/ ruining the city. First, it imposes bike lanes and helps destroy local businesses without consultation. Secondly,...

Intrigue Nine ( 9) Riesling-Gewurztraminer-Semillon 2009, Lake Country, Okanagan Valley,$ 15 Nine, named after the vintage “ 2009,” is a blend of Riesling, Gewurztraminer and a touch of Semillon. Expect a high-toned, floral aroma with lychee, citrus...

As a kid, Hilary Grist followed strict classical music training. Though she says it was just a hobby, the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter admits she went into learning the piano with blinders on, music becoming something that just followed her along...

Snoop Dogg is working on a sequel to his 1993 West Coast classic Doggystyle — aptly named Doggystyle 2: The Doggumentary — the rapper announced in a video sent out over producer Swizz Beatz’s Twitter account. As per Snoop, he and Mr. Alicia Keys have...

VICTORY SQUARE BLOCK PARTY Featuring: The Pack a. d., the Tranzmitors, Apollo Ghosts, Makeout Videotape, Lord Beginner and more When: Sunday, 2 p. m. Where: Victory Square park, 200 W. Hastings Tickets: Free, schedule info at...

Vancouver-based miners Goldcorp and Eldorado are battling over Australia’s Andean Resources and its Argentinian gold project with rival bids worth more than $ 3 billion.

REBECCA MARINO The 19-year-old Vancouver native shut out the thousands of fans and television cameras to give Venus Williams a match to remember at the U. S. Open tennis tournament this week. Making her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand...

The wealthiest athlete of all time? Not Tiger Woods. Not Michael Jordan. Not David Beckham. It would be charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. According to Peter Struck, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Diocles earned what was then a...

MONTREAL — With Michelle Wie winning the CN Canadian Women’s Open last weekend, the question now for Montrealarea golf fans is will she defend her title next year? Confirmation won’t come for some time, but chances are very good that Wie will be at the...

( Re: NHL, players should be able to close ‘ Beat The Cap’ loophole) The contracts being under question, and the media frenzy are just smoke in our face. Gary Bettman is trying to show to the World why teams like the Coyotes, Nashville, etc. are having...