Burnaby RCMP had its hands full Friday night, dealing with a range of incidents involving a pedestrian fatality, a shooting and a pair of attempted sexual assaults. Staff Sergeant Steve Crawford has been a cop for over two decades. But he hasn't seen a night quite like this. It started with an apparent jaywalker in his sixties dying after being hit … [Read more...]
VCC overwhelmed by ESL students
December 12, 2012 by
The demand for tuition free E-S-L courses is overwhelming staff at Vancouver Community College. Earlier this year, the provincial government announced it would foot the bill for the courses. And this morning, up to five hundred people stood in line to register. "At a certain point we had to stop the line because we said we know beyond that we … [Read more...]
Brace yourself for shopping at a Chinese market to avoid being overwhelmed
July 16, 2011 by
It’s great fun for the savvy shopper. Do haggle—with histrionics at the seller’s first asking price but with a polite, positive attitude throughout, and never with finger pointing (use your whole hand instead). Fodor's Travel Wire … [Read more...]
