Archive for the ‘canada’ Category
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Prepare to get screwed: Vancouver organizers will place the bulk of the 1.6 million tickets on sale in October, with a lottery through the Games' Web site, www.vancouver2010.com. But American fans won't be able to simply get in line online with Canadians. Those tickets, ranging in price from $25 ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday. In a development consistent with climate change theories, the enormous icy plain broke free sometime last week and ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Vancouver has long had extremely high real estate prices: The number of homes for sale tipped 20,000 on Friday and is still climbing. Paul Boenisch, a popular blogger who runs the North Vancouver Homes blog was the first to announce the turn of the dial: "20,000 listings. Is this the ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
British Columbia has raked in a record-breaking $610-million in an oil and gas rights sale, the latest in a series of windfalls driven by a rush of natural gas producers looking to lock up land in the northeastern part of the province. The tally from the one-day sale smashes ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A fire Monday morning knocked out power to skyscrapers and buildings throughout Vancouver's downtown core, causing traffic nightmares in the city and Internet woes all over North America. Power was cut to more than 2,200 Hydro customers, many of them major employers in the city.Read the full story
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
The Canadian government's effort to remove Mr. Glass contrasts with the warm reception given to deserters and draft avoiders from the United States during the war in Vietnam. And although the war in Iraq has very little support among Canadians, the situation of Mr. Glass and others who abandoned their ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
"Oh my God, this is close to home. It just makes you think something is going on in this area," said Malone. "Obviously people are losing their feet, they've got to be dying somewhere." Yes, you could say that... you could have said that at three feet.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Since launching its new Web site for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Comedy Central network, whose parent company is Viacom, has as yet not offered an RSS feed for clips of the popular show (for now, you can use this one). As it releases new shows, such as ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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: According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including five occasions in which victims had been accosted for riding free.Read the full story
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Many Canadians have no sense of humor. My ad was intended as a political statement. I've teetered on the brink of bankruptcy for years, and I'm tired of waiting for guaranteed, affordable health care. When I posted the ad, I added a footnote: "If I do marry a Canadian citizen, ...
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