"Can't believe IOC is cutting wrestling! Huge blow to our sport all over the world". The Twitter reaction from Carol Huynh of New Hazelton, who won a gold medal for Canada in Beijing and a silver in London. Earlier today the I-O-C announced it was dropping wrestling from the 2020 games, but it was keeping modern pentathalon, a sport of five … [Read more...]
Legislature committee decides against province-wide pesticide ban
May 17, 2012 by
A special committee of the legislature has decided against a province-wide ban on the use of cosmetic pesticides. Committee chair Bill Bennett is calling for further restrictions, but says the science does not support an outright ban. "I lost my mother to cancer, I lost my father to cancer, I … [Read more...]
MLA Black decides to leave
August 25, 2011 by
Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Iain Black is stepping down from his post to take a private sector job. The former B.C. labour minister will be joining the Vancouver Board of Trade as president and CEO in early October. “It took some convincing to tear me away from a job and a passion of mine since I was very young boy,” Black said. Black is the second … [Read more...]
