March 28, 2024

Surrey Mayor meets with anxious residents

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts met with members of the Panorama Ridge Residents Association Wednesday afternoon. They represent people living in the Colebrook Road area where two more bodies were found on the road earlier this morning -- bringing the body total to four since January. She says they spoke about measures to make resident's … [Read more...]

Rugged Meets Refined in Tasmania

Find the best of Australia in an unexpected place—from exploring Cradle Mountain to taking in some culture at the MONA, you can do it all on a side trip to Tasmania. Fodor's Travel News … [Read more...]

Fraser Health meets some, but not all targets

Fraser Health is out with a report on progress made in five areas of care in hospitals. Back in June, then-Health Minister Mike de Jong issued a directive to the authority to make improvements within 150 days. Fraser Health says three targets set out have been met, the other two showed "considerable improvement". The authority says the number of … [Read more...]

Vancouver Fire Department meets with Coast Guard ahead of Kits base closing

The Vancouver Fire Department wants to know what will be expected of them when it comes to fires in the harbour after Kits Coast Guard base closes.  Captain Gabe Roder says they met with the Coast Guard Wednesday.  Roder says they wanted to get a handle on how many fires Kits base responds to and where they are.   "In the past we … [Read more...]

Psych Review Board meets Wednesday

A mentally ill man found not criminally responsible for murdering his father last year has his first hearing before a Psychiatric Review Board Wednesday. Last November, Jordan Ramsay, who suffers from schizophrenia, attacked his parents while they were sleeping in their North Vancouver home.  In July, a BC Supreme Court Judge ruled the 28-year … [Read more...]

Café culture meets cycling

It has coffee, bicycles  and retro furniture — all Musette Café needs now is sushi and yoga classes, and it will have all of Vancouver’s obsessions in one place. The new café, which opened last Saturday in an alley near Davie and Burrard, is trying to capitalize on the popularity of the Hornby bike lane, and of cycling as a mode of transportation … [Read more...]

Cop Meets Space Opera In “Hyperdrive”

Paramount Pictures has acquired Morgan Jurgenson and David Daniels' sci-fi spec script "Hyperdrive" says Heat Vision. The story follows a tough cop who recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness. While on their search, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out on Earth. The film is … [Read more...]

Silicon Valley meets Vancouver at startup conference

Delegates from some of the biggest players in Silicon Valley – including Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. – will land in Vancouver soon to size up 15 Canadian tech startups ... Vancouver News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com … [Read more...]