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Upcoming Canadian Immigrant Fairs in Vancouver and Mississauga

November 6, 2019 admin canadian immigrant fair, careers, careers & education, Featured, mississauga, vancouver

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:13:02 +0000

Canadian Immigrant Fair: Careers. Education. Settlement. Don’t miss the upcoming Canadian Immigration Fairs in your city! These free one-stop events provide you with an opportunity to connect with employers, recruiters, immigrant service providers, educational institutions and government services that can help on your journey to success in Canada. The fair offers a dynamic environment for immigrants […]

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Vancouver considers seizing derelict Downtown Eastside hotels for $1 apiece

November 6, 2019 admin local news, vancouver

Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:25:55 +0000

The city says it wasn’t able to negotiate the purchase of the Balmoral and Regent hotels with the owners and a staff report is recommending that council approve the expropriation of each building for $1 apiece.

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Vancouver council votes to ban consumer fireworks by Halloween 2021

November 6, 2019 admin fireworks, local news, vancouver

Credit to Author: Susan Lazaruk| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 03:44:25 +0000

All but three city council members voted to pass the ban put forward by Coun. Pete Fry.

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Vancouver affirms quality of drinking water after investigation finds lead in Canadian taps

November 6, 2019 admin local news, vancouver

Credit to Author: Harrison Mooney| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:35:22 +0000

Drinking water flowing through in Vancouver is routinely tested, the city said

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Vancouver fentanyl trafficker with 69 prior convictions gets nine years in jail

November 5, 2019 admin Crime, Drugs, fentanyl, local news, vancouver

Credit to Author: Keith Fraser| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:10:03 +0000

“Mr. Oswald’s conduct was predatory in the extreme,” said a judge in sentencing fentanyl trafficker Warren Oswald to nine years in jail.

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Bing Thom Architects and Patkau Architects win B.C. architectural awards

November 5, 2019 admin architecture, local arts, local news, vancouver

Credit to Author: Kevin Griffin| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:49:22 +0000

The top architectural award is the Lieutenant Governor of B.C. Award in Architecture Medal.

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Heavy bronze statue worth $24,000 stolen from outside art gallery in Vancouver

November 5, 2019 admin local arts, local news, vancouver

Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:46:25 +0000

Vesna Zaric of the Petley Jones Gallery says the $24,000 sculpture titled “After Marino Marini” by acclaimed artist Fahri Aldin depicts an abstract figure on a horse and is more than a metre tall.

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Vancouver College teacher reprimanded after making legal threat against student

November 5, 2019 admin local news, vancouver, vancouver college

Credit to Author: David Carrigg| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:33:16 +0000

“He also told the student’s mother that the student has wasted everyone’s time and that the student needed ‘to get everyone out of this pickle now’,” says commissioner

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One person arrested in serious stabbing at Vancouver's International Village Mall

November 5, 2019 admin international village, local news, stabbing, vancouver, Vancouver police

Credit to Author: Postmedia News| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 20:54:24 +0000

Around 5:30 p.m., Vancouver police were called to the Chinatown shopping centre near Abbott and Keefer streets for the report of a stabbing.

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US & Canada Have To Overcome Patchwork Regulations In Low-Carbon Transformation – Part 2

November 5, 2019 admin air quality, British Columbia, buildings, California, Canada, climate change, energy efficiency, green economy, green jobs, HFCS, investment, kigali amendment, Paris Accord, policy & politics, subsidies, texas, United States, vancouver

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:59:36 +0000

This regulatory patchwork of federal, sub-national, and urban regulatory processes, incentives, and fines is dealt with today by local offices, and by hiring local engineers and architects for local efforts so that they can smooth the alignment