Hiking Trails III: Northern Vancouver Island : Great Central Lake to Cape Scott Featuring Strathcona Park and for the First Time Malcolm Island Nootka Island and the Bea
Christmas Island will cost the Federal Government $45 million more than it budgeted for this year as the overstretched detention centre is expanded to house hundreds more asylum seekers. The Immigration Department said this week it would boost capacity on the island to hold as many as 2200 asylum seekers, more than double the [...]
The head of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, has called on the Federal Government to stop offshore processing of asylum seekers and close the detention centre at Christmas Island.
The BC Cancer Foundation has received a $500,000 donation from David Black, one of the Vice-Chairs of the Inspire the World capital campaign. The $10 million campaign will fund a 10,000 square foot construction and renovation to create a state-of-the-art patient and family support centre, a predictive cancer research centre and a radiation innovation wing at the BC Cancer Agency's Vancouver...
Bacchus Island - Center Exploring Second Life is like finding yourself the last man after the end of the world. Many massive virtual constructions sit empty, much of the place is just a vast ghost town. Rober1236 Jua the Cyber Trekker of Second Life
By GENEVIEVE RYANPreparations are under way for the 2009-2010 Crucian Christmas Festival slated to begin Dec. 4. This year's theme, "See It, Believe It, Xperience It: 2009-2010 Festival," created by Grisha Theodore, is in recognition of Festival's arrival into a new era of global acceptance, embracing Virgin Islanders at home and afar. "We're reaching out to Virgin Islanders all over...
Many of us have been waiting Looooooong time for the restoration of the Park Cinema, and now it has finally come to fruition. From the Projo: CRANSTON, R.I. – The newly renovated and renamed Park Cinema (now the Rhode IslandCenter for Performing Arts at the Historic Park Theater) will present its first film premier [...]
Paeroa, a small, rural town in New Zealand’s North Island, is the centre of a new advertising campaign for Coca Cola Amatil’s traditional soft drink Lemon And Paeroa (L&P). The Tourism Paeroa campaign, online at http://www.tourismpaeroa.co.nz/, features a television commercial, a Facebook fan page, and a series of twelve webisodes covering the promotional tour of [...]...
Longtime Langleyite Brian McKenna shoots pool at The Dog House when it was still open for business back in 2008. Photo by Sue Frause.Although has perked up in the past few months with new retail shops opening in the empty spaces along First Street, plus Whidbey Island Bank preparing to move into the former Langley Drug space, we need our town tavern back. It was never more apparent than on Saturday...