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Local news for West Vancouver (Vancouver, BC) continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

9 hrs ago | Vancouver Sun

Accident-prone Metro Vancouver home to all top 10 crash sites

All of B.C.'s top-10 motor-vehicle crash sites are located in Metro Vancouver and half of them are stretches of the Trans-Canada Highway, ICBC statistics show.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Journal of Commerce

Public-private partnership system in British Columbia keeps evolving

Private/public partnerships continue to evolve in British Columbia. The system is not remaining static.

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North Shore Outlook

Future regional service could eat 20% of household incomes: Metro Vancouver

In 20 years, North Shore property owners could face $12,000 bills for regional services, says Metro Vancouver's chief financial officer.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Lacombe Globe

Axani's film sweeps Vancouver's short film festival

Former Lacombe high school student Marshall Axani continues to pull in awards and praise for his short film, The Light of Family Burnham.

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Northwest Newspapers (Northwest Herald)

Fire guts NV sushi restaurant's kitchen

A North Vancouver sushi restaurant is closed for business after a fire on Halloween destroyed its kitchen.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Canada.com

Mounties in Dziekanski case could face charges in Poland

Robert Dziekanski weilds a folding table at the Vancouver International Airport Oct.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

The Columbian

Port of Vancouver projects business growth

When the three-member Port of Vancouver commission meets Tuesday to vote on the agency's final 2010 budget, it will find projections for the highest net assets, highest port revenues, and lowest expenses the port has seen in five years.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Northwest Newspapers (Northwest Herald)

WVPD arrest man for assault on girl

A man is in custody and will likely face an assault charge after a 12-year-old girl was attacked on Esquimalt Avenue in West Vancouver Tuesday afternoon.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Regina Leader Post

Highway of Tears announcement expected this weekend

A significant announcement about the murder of women along British Columbia's Highway of Tears will be made Saturday, according to a First Nations leader.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

24 Hours Vancouer

Girl, 12, attacked by panhandler: West Van police

An alleged aggressive panhandling incident has West Vancouver police on guard. Investigators say a man in his 50s demanded money from 12-year-old girl Tuesday at a footbridge on Esquimalt Avenue.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Vancouver Sun

Maybe selling Hydro is a good idea to pay for the Olympic Games and the Sea to Sky Highway.

Bob Elton is being shuffled out of his post as president and CEO of BC Hydro, the crown corporation announced today.

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Journal of Commerce

Permits issued for Arthur Erickson-designed community in West Vancouver

Development permits for the first phase of the Evelyn Drive master planned community in West Vancouver, B.C. are in hand.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Vancouver Television

Private clinics accused of H1N1 queue jumping

Don Copeman, the founder of the Copeman Health Care Centre in Vancouver and Calgary, says anyone ineligible for the H1N1 vaccine won't be able to jump the line at his facilities.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

National Post

Abandoned in Pakistan

Beverley Giesbrecht got into a long-distance "shouting match" with her closest friend a week before she was kidnapped last year in Pakistan.

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The West Australian

Drunk clown crashes into police car

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

National Post

Interview: Wade Davis, Canada's real-life Indiana Jones speaks about vanishing cultures

Wade Davis, an explorer-in-residence with National Georgraphic, is delivering the 2009 Massey Lectures, focusing on vanishing cultures.

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Star Phoenix

Protest cuts short Rockland leg of relay

What started as a peaceful protest in Centennial Square grew increasingly disruptive Friday evening as a group of 200 protesters blocked the Olympic relay's route through the Victoria neighbourhood of Rockland, cutting that leg of the relay short.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

Vancouver Sun

Turning Vancouver into Hawaii

Rudi Pinkowski is thrilled by the way the lavish planting of hardy windmill palms has given English Bay in Vancouver's West End the tropical look of Hawaii.

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National Post

First a convert, now a mystery

One year ago plus a day, executives at Channel 4 Television in London received an astonishing email.

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Star Phoenix

Aboriginal affairs, justice ministers vow action on missing women

Dozens of women have gone missing along the so-called Highway of Tears. Photograph by: Mikael Kjellstrom, Calgary Herald Canada's aboriginal affairs and justice ministers, attending separate federal-provincial meetings in Toronto and Fredericton on Friday, highlighted the tragedy of this country's 1,559 missing women and vowed action on several ...

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