People gathered at the Orpheum Theatre Tuesday night for the kick-off of a week-long summit to look at isolation in Metro Vancouver. It's an effort by Simon Fraser University, the City of Vancouver, and the Vancouver Foundation after the foundation came out with research earlier this year indicating isolation and disconnection are problems in … [Read more...]
Likely record crowd turns out at Hastings Park despite I’ll Have Another scratched
June 9, 2012 by
Despite his horse not racing in the Belmont, a huge crowd has turned out to Vancouver's Hastings racecourse to support locally trained jockey Mario Gutierrez. Track managers are expecting a record turnout out – as many as 13,000 people. A message of thanks from Gutierrez was read across the public address system before the race, and welcomed … [Read more...]
Occupy Vancouver attracts peaceful crowd
October 15, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - Demonstrators protesting corporate greed and social inequality are packing a one-block square behind the Vancouver Art Gallery.Occupy Vancouver kicked off around 10 a.m. today in the city's downtown core.It's one of many similar peaceful protests taking place across the country.Social worker Tony Vanon says he's attending the protest … [Read more...]
Riot crowd was just too big: VPD chief
September 7, 2011 by
Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu is again saying there was no pre-game intelligence indicating a riot could happen the night of game seven of the Stanley Cup.Chu also says the crowd was just too big to deal with. He says, "when a large group of people want to do something, then the police can't prevent it. We have to move into the mode that we … [Read more...]
Booze, out-of-control crowd caused riot: Report
September 3, 2011 by
Police were overwhelmed by the massive crowd gathered on Vancouver’s streets during the June 15 Stanley Cup riot, according to a report released Thursday. An independent review entitled “The Night the City Became a Stadium” — authored by John Furlong and Douglas Keefe — found that police lost control of the large crowd, many fuelled by alcohol, … [Read more...]
Researchers demo 3D face scanning breakthroughs at SIGGRAPH, Kinect crowd squarely targeted
August 11, 2011 by
Lookin' to get your Grown Nerd on? Look no further. We just sat through 1.5 hours of high-brow technobabble here at SIGGRAPH 2011, where a gaggle of gurus with IQs far, far higher than ours explained in detail what the future of 3D face scanning would hold. Scientists from ETH Zürich, Texas A&M, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, … [Read more...]
Police force readies for fireworks crowd
July 30, 2011 by
Beginning of Story Content Police in Vancouver are mobilizing a force that's up to 30 per cent stronger than it has been in past years for the city's annual Celebration of Light fireworks ... Vancouver News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com … [Read more...]
