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About Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook - CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia. The site is a sister to Atlantic...
City tells church to stop feeding the home - NNTRM - A church in Abbotsford, B.C., has been asked to stop feeding a group of homeless people that the city says is frightening residents of a seniors' home.City council had initially asked churches to help them deal with issues of homelessness in...
Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1Y6 Canada. Kjkingsbury@telus.net The authors present an introduction to the basics of lipid metabolism including an overview of the structure and function of lipoproteins and a description of the pathways of lipid...
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) KAMLOOPS, B.C. _ Struggling B.C. ranchers will receive cash payments in return for using a sophisticated cattle ID system that will eventually allow grocers to identify where beef is raised, the province announced Friday. Speaking in Kamloops, Minister of Lands and...
Hi Flockers! This is my first time posting to the Flock blog, but I've been with the company since September 2006, working out of the Victoria, BC office (informally known as Flock North). Not two weeks after taking the Webby award for Social Networking, last night Flock was honoured to receive...
GREG JOYCE The Canadian Press VANCOUVER -- The Metro Vancouver transit police force recently changed its policy on using tasers after it was revealed that some fare-evading transit users had been zapped with the stun gun, the force's deputy chief told an inquiry yesterday. Ken Allen said transit...
TOM HANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO Independent MP Chuck Cadman votes with the Liberals during a budget confidence vote in the Commons on May 19, 2005. Mounties investigated allegation that Tories offered MP financial incentive for vote Petti Fong Western Canada Bureau Chief VANCOUVER–The...
Former sergeant felt it was wrong to hold someone in jail who didn't deserve to be there, lawyer says CAMILLE BAINS The Canadian Press VANCOUVER -- Kevin Woodall, who represents former sergeant Russell Sanderson, told an inquiry into the freezing death of the aboriginal man that his client...
A Chilliwack man has pleaded guilty to drunk driving after he crashed his car into a picnic table in front of an RCMP detachment.On Feb. 12, Brian Nash of Chilliwack jumped his car over a retaining wall and crushed a picnic table in the parking lot of the Kamloops RCMP detachment. Two...
If you want to ski, do whale watching, and be part of a “green” ethos, take a trip to Canada’s jewel, Vancouver. With the plummeting U.S. dollar, this is a more economical trip than say, packing your trousseau to St. Tropez. Here are some first impressions of the city from tourists: • “I noticed...
