March 28, 2024

Community centres hold special public meeting as they continue to protest revenue sharing

Some Vancouver Community Centres are not giving up their fight against the City's Park Board plan to centralizing surplus funding. Hillcrest Community Association is holding a special community meeting on the decision Monday, and have invited the entire park board. Association Chair Jesse Johl says the plan to spread revenue to community centres in … [Read more...]

A new year but the same old story in cost sharing talks for the new RCMP HQ

It might be a new year but it is the same old story when it comes to negotiations over the cost sharing formula for the RCMP's new Surrey headquarters.  Langley City mayor Peter Fassbender says the province has drawn a hard line in the sand over costs but he also admits with the Feds staying quiet it has been an entirely one sided conversation … [Read more...]

Sharing policing costs on the North Shore not a done deal

An idea to share West Vancouver Police along all three municipalities on the North Shore seems to have hit a roadblock. Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender says at a regional symposium, the Mayor of West Vancouver poured cold water on the idea, "Well, Mayor Smith from West Vancouver said that at the moment that is not seen as a priority by his … [Read more...]

Google Drive official: 5GB of free storage, Chrome web apps, Wave-like sharing and editing (video)

If it happened any other way, it just wouldn't be as satisfying, now would it? After years of leaks, murmurs, hubbub and other familiar synonyms, Google's mythical cloud storage platform is now official... sort of. As Lady Fate would have it, the company apparently outed a memo of the features on its French blog earlier today, but before it could … [Read more...]

Josh Gad Is A Sex Addict In “Sharing”

Tony nominated actor Josh Gad ("The Book of Mormon," "Love and Other Drugs," "21") has joined the ensemble cast of Stuart Blumberg's sex addiction dramedy "Thanks for Sharing" at Class 5 Films and Olympus Pictures reports Variety. Gad will play Neil, an unrestrained sex addict with a strong appetite who cheats his way through recovery … [Read more...]

Pirate Bay founders launch ‘copyright respecting’ BayFiles sharing site, still dream of a life on Sealand

It ain't often that the hated few have a genuine change of heart, but it sounds as if the folks who founded The Pirate Bay are tired of sailing the same seas. After years of turning a blind eye to content mavens across the globe, Fredrik Neij and co. have launched what appears to be a legitimate file-sharing site -- one that's "respectful of … [Read more...]