Vancouver Benches Convert to Shelters
A Vancouver charity, RainCity Housing, is giving homeless people in this rainy city some dry coverage and a place to rest by converting city benches into pop-up shelters.
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Vancouver is Top Quality-of-Life City in N. America, Vienna Tops World
Vancouver is rated first among North American cities for quality of life, in a closely watched annual survey, followed by Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal in second, third and fourth places. San Francisco won the fifth spot. On a global basis, once again, the top city in the world for quality of life is Vienna.
Reclusive Heiress Bequeaths $40 million to Vancouver Community
A shy and reclusive heiress who lived alone for 20 years in a rambling mansion left the bulk of an estate worth $40 million to the Vancouver Foundation. One of the largest charitable bequests in British Columbia history, it will add $700,000 per year to the hundreds of thousands of dollars the community foundation already spends on BC projects focused on youth, the homeless, the elderly and the environment.
Registration Surges for Sunday's Vancouver Race After Boston Blasts
Registration has surged for the annual race since Monday and participants are being encouraged to honor the victims of the explosions by wearing the Boston Marathon colors of yellow and blue.
Vancouver Students Take Their Plastic Eating Bacteria Idea to TED Stage
High School seniors Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao want to continue pursuing a solution for how to make plastic decompose using natural bacteria already evolving on the planet. The two were finalists for Canada's top student biotechnology award, the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge, where their project was judged to have the greatest commercial potential of any project entry, valued at $10 million. Now they are bringing their ideas to the TED stage.
Cop Goes Undercover in Wheelchair to Make Arrests, Finds Kindness Instead
A police sergeant made himself an "easy mark" for criminals wanting to rob the vulnerable. What he got instead was an outpouring of kindness from strangers.
Extraordinary Man Rebuilds Pianos While Blind
It is not uncommon for piano tuners to be blind, but very rare for piano builders to have no sight. John Furniss of Vancouver is that rare individual. I'm totally blind, he told KGW-TV. But if you put your mind to something, you can do what you want to do.Read More
Salmon in East Vancouver? Miraculous Reappearance After 80 Years
Chum salmon are spawning again at an urban creek in the heart of East Vancouver. The salmon returned this week to Still Creek, which sits in a ravine surrounded by warehouses and was once thoroughly polluted by urban garbage, sewage and toxic chemicals. Much of the credit goes to people who have painstakingly restored their habitat.
1st Grey Whale in 100 Years Spotted in Vancouver's Howe Sound
A gray whale spotted feeding in Howe Sound north of Vancouver -- for the first time in more than a 100 years -- is a sign that efforts to restore the area's natural ecosystem are working.
Love at First Ride - Vancouver Couple Weds Aboard Transit Bus
Vancouver's downtown bus drivers - and their passengers - are quite a friendly bunch. One woman even met her true love and the pair asked the transit officials if they could get married on bus No.3.
Vancouver Launches World's First Cigarette-butt Recycling Program
The City of Vancouver, B.C. has launched the world's first cigarette butt recycling program in its bid to become the greenest city. The pilot project began last Tuesday with the installation of 110 receptacles in four downtown areas where discarded butts are a messy problem. Fortunately, cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate, which can be recycled into building materials.
Vancouver Takes Toy Donations to Clear Unpaid Parking Tickets
Vancouver's parking enforcement agency awakened the spirit of Christmas early in a one-day toy drive yesterday for residents with unpaid tickets. To benefit children served by The Salvation Army's Belkin House, violators were invited to trade new toys in exchange for forgiveness of all their parking fines.
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