Time: Networking starts: 6pm Presentation and Q&A: 6:30pm to 8:30pm Location: Welch Room, 4th Floor, YWCA at 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver Description: MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., based in Richmond B.C., has over 40 years of experience building systems and software for Canadian and international customers. Since 2001, … [Read more...]
“Avatar 2” Delayed Two Years To 2016
January 11, 2012 by
Are you keenly anticipating the "Avatar" sequels? You're going to have to wait a little longer - two years longer than previously anticipated according to EntertainmentWise. Speaking at a screening for "Titanic 3D", Producer Jon Landau confirmed it would be a good wait before we return to Pandora - "We are excitedly working on it as we speak and … [Read more...]
B.C. will pay $1.6 billion in HST funding over five years
January 11, 2012 by
British Columbia will pay back, interest free, $ 1.6 billion in federal HST transition money over the next five years, the province announced Wednesday. The money was given to the province to help implement the harmonized sales tax, which was to have replaced the combined federal goods and services tax and provincial sales tax. Voters in a … [Read more...]
Remains of missing scuba diver found after 26 years
December 7, 2011 by
The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the body of a scuba diver that was recovered from the Burrard Inlet back in October. The remains of Peter Devoe, who was wearing a wetsuit and scuba gear, were found entangled in the nets of two commercial fishermen as they were pulling up their crab trap on Oct. 23 in the Burrard Inlet, just west of Cates … [Read more...]
Toronto mom gets 11 years for son’s scalding death
December 7, 2011 by
TORONTO - A Toronto woman who was convicted of manslaughter in the scalding death of her 19-month-old son has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Melissa Alexander maintained her son Miguel Fernandes pulled a boiling pot of water on top of himself in September 2007. But a pathologist testified the boy's third-degree burns were consistent with … [Read more...]
5 Over-the-Top New Year’s Eve Experiences
December 6, 2011 by
It only comes once a year, so why not close out 2011 with a bang? Check out these indulgent, blowout New Year’s Eve experiences. You might just wake up and wonder where the night went, but that’s what resolutions are for. Fodor's Travel News … [Read more...]
Killer gets jail for at least 15 years
November 3, 2011 by
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man convicted in a brutal stabbing death in Surrey, B.C., 13 years ago will have to wait at least 15 years before he can apply for parole.A B.C. Supreme Court judge in New Westminster set the parole eligibility for 52-year-old Gary Johnston, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Vic Fraser.Fraser walked … [Read more...]
Ten years of Four Pillars in Vancouver
October 7, 2011 by
Prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement. It’s been 10 years since the Four Pillars drug strategy has been official policy in Vancouver — and although the comprehensive model of dealing with the city’s drug epidemic has worked, it hasn’t been on the scale the policy’s author envisioned in 2001. “We’re getting there slowly, but scale … [Read more...]
Former VPD officer sentenced to three years in prison
September 23, 2011 by
A former Vancouver police officer who sold drugs from his cruiser has been sentenced to three years in prison. Peter Hodson pleaded guilty last November to three charges, including break and enter and trafficking in marijuana. At his sentencing hearing, provincial court heard the married father of four is a born narcissist who didn't care if his … [Read more...]
Drug-dealing cop gets three years in prison
September 22, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - A judge who sentenced a former Vancouver police officer to three years in prison for dealing drugs on the job says the man will be carrying the burden of his actions forever.Peter Hodson, 33, pleaded guilty last November to illegally using the police database and trafficking in marijuana in the Downtown Eastside.Hodson's wife broke down … [Read more...]
