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According to the Douglas College website, the David Lam Campus in Coquitlam will be closed tomorrow, February 29th while police investigate a specific threat made against the campus.
Source: vancouver.metblogs.com
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Most current polls show Barack Obama taking the lead in Texas, but one pollster argues that Hillary Clinton has in fact regained the momentum in the race. Here are the latest InsiderAdvantage numbers, compared to their previous poll from Monday:
Clinton 47% (+1)Obama 43% (-4)
The internals show Hillary expanding her lead among Latinos, holding steady among [...]
There are some very disturbing questions bouncing around today about whether Citigroup could go belly up.
Citigroup, which has incurred $22.1 billion in losses from the subprime crisis, has $320 billion in “significant unconsolidated VIEs,” according to a Feb. 22 filing by the New York-based bank. New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co., [...]
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Print media is having a rough week. TIME just laid off 100 people and the NYTimes also announced staff cuts. This all points to an uncertain future for print.
You can run, but you can’t hide from reality. And the longer you run, the quicker you realize that you are running off a cliff.
Today, more [...]
This is a great initiative:
The Fruit Tree Project, founded in 1999, is a community initiative which
operates in four Vancouver neighbourhoods: Mt. Pleasant, Little Mountain,
Cedar Cottage, and Kitsilano.
Our idea is simple: we build communities and [...]
There are plenty of legitimate things to say about Obama and every other nominee this season but fixating on badges of flair doesn’t seem like one of them.
WASHINGTON – Sen. [...]
VANCOUVER – It was a red-letter day for civic politics on Thursday, as word came out that two heavyweight candidates will enter the mayoral race for the two main civic parties, guaranteeing energetic, possibly divisive races for both.
NDP MLA Gregor Robertson’s team has told the media that Robertson is set to make an announcement Sunday, [...]
WASHINGTON – CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite repeated U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the [...]
Vancouver really needs to do something about our homeless problem. This is no way for people to live.
As downtown development squeezes a rising number of homeless British Columbians into a dwindling number of urban campsites, Vancouver’s homeless are passing their nights in some surprising locations.
Judy Graves has spent the past [...]
