FundchangeTM, KoodonationTM and TELUS invite you to an interactive workshop on social media, crowdfunding and microvolunteering for charities and non-profits. The format will be a combination of seminar and discussion and give you concrete tools for helping your organizations. Topics to be covered: • Social media and its impact on fundraising and … [Read more...]
VPD could adopt ‘major shift’ in sex work enforcement policy
March 18, 2012 by
The Vancouver Police Board will consider new guidelines this week designed to significantly improve the safety and wellbeing of sex trade workers. Senior officers have been meeting with groups representing the industry since the Missing Women Inquiry began in October. They have been trying to find ways to improve relations that have become … [Read more...]
Education Minister hopes to work with the BCTF to choose a mediator
March 15, 2012 by
The Clark government will pass Bill 22 by the end of the business day, making strikes by the BC Teachers Federation illegal until the end of August. Education Minister George Abbott says he hopes the union then works with the government to choose a mediator. "I do hope that Susan will take me up on my offer to provide us with … [Read more...]
Resentment in the air as teachers return to work
March 8, 2012 by
Just because teachers are back in classrooms Thursday doesn’t mean their war with the provincial government is over. Thousands of teachers, union supporters, parents and students rallied outside the Vancouver Art Gallery to throw their support behind the B.C. Teachers’ Federation Wednesday, on the last of three legal strike days this week. Amid … [Read more...]
Work Begins On “Muppets” Sequel
March 3, 2012 by
Disney is moving forward with a sequel to "The Muppets" after the first film scored $ 154 million at the worldwide box office reports Variety. Director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller will pen the script for the sequel. Jason Segel may return to star in the sequel, but his various projects are keeping him too busy to pen the … [Read more...]
Repair work begins on Port Mann
February 16, 2012 by
It's still early but officials with the Port Mann Bridge project say they don't expect the timetable for completion of the bridge to be affected by last Friday's crane accident. Max Logan with the Port Mann-Highway One Improvement Project says they will begin, likely Thursday, to level the gantry. "At that point the repairs will take place so … [Read more...]
District Chair wants teachers legislated back to work
February 7, 2012 by
One Lower Mainland school board chair says it's time for a legislative contract to settle the negotiations between BC teachers and the BC Public School Employers Association. Chair of the Coquitlam District, Melissa Hyndes, says the District hasn't been able to move forward in the way it would like because administrators and business managers have … [Read more...]
Joe Johnston Is “Not Safe For Work”
February 2, 2012 by
"Captain America: The First Avenger" director Joe Johnston has signed on for the micro-budgeted thriller "Not Safe For Work" for Universal Pictures says Heat Vision. Adam Mason and Simon Boyes penned the script which centers on a young paralegal who is trapped in the office with a killer on a mission to destroy files for another … [Read more...]
First Nation’s injunction granted to delay work on Properity mine
December 2, 2011 by
A B.C. First Nation is basking in a court victory that they say reiterates their right to be consulted. The Tsilhqot'in have won an injunction that prevents Taseko Mines from continuing exploration work for 90 days on the proposed Prosperity mine near Williams Lake. The province approved that work, but now a judicial review will go over the entire … [Read more...]
First Nation wins ruling against mine work
December 2, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - The Tsilhoquo'in (sill-ko-teen) First Nation has been granted an injunction preventing Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO) from conducting exploration work around its proposed gold and copper mine in B.C.'s central Interior.In the same court hearing, Taseko failed in its bid for an injunction forcing the First Nation to stop blocking the mine … [Read more...]
