People living on Panorama Ridge in Surrey will meet again with the city's mayor this week to discuss crime prevention. Video cameras and lights have been installed on Colebrook Road in the area after four bodies were found there in a six week span this year. Bob Campbell with the local ratepayers association says the move is just one … [Read more...]
Expatriate Tales: Living in Malta
March 17, 2013 by
Ryan Murdock has seen it all—Mongolia to Nicaragua and more. And he recently decided to settle, for a few years at least, in an old palazzo on the Mediterranean island of Malta. Fodor's Travel News … [Read more...]
Surrey residents say they’re living in fear
March 13, 2013 by
RCMP say if you're a law-abiding citizen you have nothing to worry about. But people in Surrey living close to where two bodies were found this morning say they are living in fear. Resident Bob Campbell says bodies are being dumped on Colebrook Road, while drive by shootings, and killings have also happened on the ridge above. Campbell says … [Read more...]
Community Living workers to stage one day strike
January 29, 2013 by
Nearly 3400 Community Living workers around the province are staging one day strikes this week. They are members of the BCGEU, and work with adults, children, and infants with disabilities and their families. Pickets will be up at community social service agencies in eight communities around BC tomorrow, seven more on Thursday, and one, Cranbrook, … [Read more...]
Trilogy by Shea Homes® Offers Vancouver Residents Opportunity to Escape Gloomy Winters and Enjoy Resort Living in Sunny Arizona
January 28, 2013 by
Encanterra Country Club by Shea Homes, a developer of high-end resort communities designed for families and the baby boom generation will host a series of free informational sessions in Vancouver about buying vacation homes in Arizona’s #1 resort community, Encanterra Country Club. A hot-selling community for Canadians buying second homes, … [Read more...]
Expatriate Tales: Living in Istanbul
January 19, 2013 by
It is one thing to visit a foreign place and an entirely other thing to live in a country that's not your own. At the very least, you get to call yourself an expat, which sounds very chic. Here, one such expat expands on what it's like to live in Istanbul. Fodor's Travel News … [Read more...]
B.C. residents making more babies, living longer
December 30, 2012 by
An annual report from the British Columbia vital statistics agency shows more babies were born in 2011 than the previous year. The most common names for babies in 2011 were Liam and Emma. Health minister Margaret MacDiarmid says she's not surprised B.C.’s birth rate is on the rise as more and … [Read more...]
Humane society calls for zoo to relocate final living giraffe
November 5, 2012 by
In the wake of the third giraffe death at the Greater Vancouver Zoo within the span of a year, the Vancouver Humane Society says the zoo should relocate the last remaining giraffe. Peter Fricker with the society says this is simply an unnatural environment for the animals. "It seems common sense to us that the west coast of Canada is not the right … [Read more...]
Mayor wants to know where offender is living
October 10, 2012 by
It's been a week since a convicted child sex tourist was released on several conditions from police custody, but we still don't know where he's living. Christopher Neil was arrested after he flew in from Thailand, where he served time for sex assault, though he has not been charged with anything in Canada. A judge later released him on strict … [Read more...]
More same-sex couples living in Vancouver
September 19, 2012 by
More same-sex couples are living in the Vancouver area. And more young adults here are living at home. About 17-hundred more same-sex couples call the Vancouver metropolitan area home. They used to count one percent of all couples in the region, now up to 1.2 percent. Meanwhile, 46.7 percent of young adults in the Vancouver region -- those 20 to 29 … [Read more...]
