• Metro Vancouver looks to replace trucks with barges - CBC.ca

    Metro Vancouver looks to replace trucks with barges - CBC.ca
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    Metro Vancouver looks to replace trucks with barges
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    One in four trucks leaving Port Metro Vancouver is carrying cargo that could be shipped by barge instead, according to a new Metro Vancouver report. The report, prepared for a regional planning meeting this week, looked at the potential for more "short ...and more »
  • 100 Men Who Care launches in Kamloops - CBC.ca

    100 Men Who Care launches in Kamloops - CBC.ca
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    100 Men Who Care launches in Kamloops
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    A Thompson Rivers University professor is trying to gather up enough men to start a 100 Men Who Care group in Kamloops, B.C.. There are currently, in Canada and the U.S., a significant number of 100 Women Who Care chapters — a movement that sees ...
  • Island Health eyes free public Wi-Fi for hospitals - CBC.ca

    Island Health eyes free public Wi-Fi for hospitals - CBC.ca
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    Island Health eyes free public Wi-Fi for hospitals
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    Visitors and patients at Vancouver Island hospitals may soon have access to free public Wi-Fi. Island Health recently issued a request for proposal, asking internet service providers to set up a public Wi-Fi system that would be separate from the ...
  • Maple Ridge bans new payday loan centres - CBC.ca

    Maple Ridge bans new payday loan centres - CBC.ca
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    Maple Ridge bans new payday loan centres
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    New payday loan centres that promise short-term loans and instant cash are now banned from opening up in Maple Ridge, B.C.. There are currently six such businesses in the city, but council recently passed a bylaw prohibiting any new ones from setting ...
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  • Metrotown stabbing under investigation by Burnaby RCMP - CBC.ca

    Metrotown stabbing under investigation by Burnaby RCMP - CBC.ca
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    Metrotown stabbing under investigation by Burnaby RCMP
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    Police in Burnaby, B.C., say a 36-year-old man was stabbed in the leg in an apparently random attack by one or two other men in the Metrotown Mall food court just after 6 p.m. PT, Tuesday. RCMP Staff Sgt. Major John Buis said the victim, who was taken ...and more »
  • UBC Type 1 diabetes drug trial seeks to end injections - CBC.ca

    UBC Type 1 diabetes drug trial seeks to end injections - CBC.ca
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    UBC Type 1 diabetes drug trial seeks to end injections
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    Researchers at UBC are looking for young people recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes for a pilot study to see if an existing drug can curb the need for insulin injections. UBC Associate Professor Dr. Tom Elliott is working with B.C. Diabetes on the ...and more »