aggregated from: Beyond Robson

In this city of ours, we are home to a helmet-wearing Mayor who arrives to meetings by bike and whom you can see pedaling around town dressed in business attire. He has promised to make this city the greenest in the world and when it comes to champio...

topics: business, cycling, downtown, mayor

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

As outlined in Budget 2010: Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth, our Government has a clear three-point plan to return to a balanced budget. First, we will wind down as planned the temporary measures in the Economic Action Plan. These investments are...

topics: business, health-care, investment, taxes

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Paralympics aim to keep Vancouver's party going -- but they're going to need to break out the strong stuff as Disabled again on BC Liberals' Hit List.Province slashes gaming grants to arts, culture, sports groups. Hey, that gold medal game was great ...

topics: arts, business, liberals, olympics

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]Last weekend, Ribiao Chen, Overseas Chinese Affairs Consul of the People's Republic of Chi...

topics: business, candidate, chinatown, election, federal-government

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]Last week I watched the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre with NDP Leader Carole James and MLA Bruc...

topics: arts, bc-government, business, candidate, design

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

It's a sad city that can't sustain independent bookstores anymore, and that's quickly the kind of city that Vancouver has grown into with the closing of the last Duthie's Books location on 4th ave announced a few days ago. The bookstore, once a chain...

topics: business, downtown

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Canadian Chamber of Commerce in HK s response to Harper s China visit (released to CIV on Dec 6):Andrew Work of Canadian Chamber of Commerce in HKCanadians doing business in China hold similar values to Canadians in Canada. Where there may be a diffe...

topics: business, economy, investment, olympic-games, premier

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].During the last provincial election, the BC Liberal Party stated in black and white that ...

topics: bc-government, bc-rail, business, candidate, concert

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Sounds like a shame to me. Wherein the Province dedicates column space to a cop who's bummed he doesn't get to play with his fancy sound blaster. Everyone knows the police do more than speak when things get out of hand. Indeed, have you ever tried ...

topics: business, show

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

I can t believe that now more Canadians support a unilateralist position than do Americans! When the Americans have moved on from the Bushism and into a multi-lateral, cooperative mode, we the friendly Canadians are catching on the chase for ism ide...

topics: business, election, political, politics, score