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4 hrs ago | The Georgia Straight

Craig Richmond appointed new CEO of Vancouver International Airport

Authority has a new president and chief executive officer. Craig Richmond will lead the Vancouver International Airport starting July 2. During a news conference today, Vancouver Airport Authority board of directors chair Mary Jordan announced that Richmond-a former Canadian military fighter pilot-was chosen after an extensive global recruitment ... (more)

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8 hrs ago | The Oregonian

Canadian teen killed on charity bike ride through Washington identified

ARLINGTON, Wash. - The 16-year-old Victoria, British Columbia, boy who was killed while biking near Arlington on a cancer charity ride was showing his support for his uncle, a cancer survivor.

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8 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Victoria teen killed on charity bike ride ID'd

The 16-year-old Victoria, British Columbia, boy who was killed while biking near Arlington on a cancer charity ride was showing his support for his uncle, a cancer survivor.

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11 hrs ago | Vancouver Sun

Passengers the losers as more downtown weekend taxis put on hold

Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them.

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15 hrs ago | CBC News

Cancer society urges tougher anti-smoking laws

B.C. has the lowest smoking rate in the country, but the Canadian Cancer Society says the figure hasn't fallen in six years.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer, Canada

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Province

Star attraction at Vancouver space centre being put out to interstellar pasture

JUNE 17 2013. Harold-the star projector at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre-is semi-retiring after more than 40 years of service.

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Canada.com

North Vancouver donations save Filipina barista's life

Janette Camba, while still working at a North Vancouver Tim Hortons, raises money to fund her own kidney operation.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Kidney Cancer, Health

Regina Leader Post

Perjury trial sees notorious video of Dziekanski's fatal Taser confrontation

RCMP Const. Bill Bentley leaves court after the second day of his perjury trial in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday June 11, 2013.

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Cloverdale Reporter

ICBC sues 46 for car vandalism at Stanley Cup riot

Rioters in downtown Vancouver prepare to flip a car on June 15, 2011, following the Canucks loss in the Stanley Cup final.

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CBC News

5 Vancouver street festivals you don't want to miss

Car-free days in Vancouver may be over, but that doesn't mean it's the end of summer festival street closures.

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CBC News

Private schools top Fraser Institute rankings

The Report Card rates 284 public and independent schools based on several factors, but primarily on mandatory provincial exams in grades 10 through 12. Only two public schools appear in the Fraser Institute's top 20 secondary schools in British Columbia, as private schools continue to dominate the controversial School Report Card ranking system.

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Vancouver Sun

Urban Wildlife: Sun readers share stories of animal encounters

A group of seven transient killer whales dropped by Vancouver's harbour on June 14, 2013, giving tourists and locals alike a rare treat.

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Lifestyles

Stanley Cup riot prompts ICBC to file civil claim against 46 people

British Columbia's Crown auto insurer has filed a civil claim against 46 people who have been charged or convicted for taking part in the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver two years ago.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Seattle Times

Teen cyclist hit, killed in charity ride

A 16-year-old cyclist from Victoria, B.C., was killed Sunday in Snohomish County during a charity bike ride.

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CTV

Woman, 75, killed by bus and man later dies by fire in her basement

At the centre of the apparent coincidence: a 75-year-old woman who died after falling out of a charter bus as it rolled backwards down a South Vancouver hill, police say.

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The Georgia Straight

News for Youse: Car-free festivals, manure spread on homeless camp, and Bruins tie series

I have just turned 38 and I am settling down into a sedate life style, I am married to a great girl and am quite happy with work.

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Lake Cowichan Gazette

Travel: Mexico's Mazatlan is getting its mojo back

MAZATLAN, Mexico-The atmosphere in the Plaza de Toros, hot in the afternoon sun, crackled like popcorn, leaving visitors wondering just how long the crowd, growing larger by the minute, would sit patiently and wait.

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Journalgazette.net

Giving new life to old paint

Everybody's Paint, a Michigan company's line of recycled latex paint, is sold at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on North Wells Street.

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CBC News

Petition calls for safer bike path in Stanley Park causeway

In May, a 61-year-old woman she fell off the raised pathway and into the path of a West Vancouver bus.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

Nanaimo Daily News

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Eric Hamber Secondary School computer programming students, from left to right, Ari Blondal, 15, Emmanuel Sales, 15, Jasper Chapman-Black, 15, and Phillip Wong, 14, pose for a photograph at the school in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday May 24, 2013.

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Related Topix: Computers, Canada, Science, Computer Science