Tweet Vancouver‘s St. Paul’s Hospital is setting up its own version of the “foundling wheel,” an idea first used in medieval Europe so mothers could leave unwanted babies at convents. The wheels were wooden cylinders in the walls of convents where babies could be placed. The mother rotated the wheel, placing the child inside the [...]

Tweet The Vancouver school district plans to identify a number of schools for potential closure in a report to be released in June, sparking a year-long process that’s intended to address problems of declining enrolments and rising costs, trustee Mike Lombardi said Thursday. He wouldn’t speculate on how many schools might be on the list, [...]

Tweet A Vancouver Catholic school accused of firing a woman for being gay says that the she was never fired, and is still employed as a music teacher at Little Flower Academy. Lisa Reimer said that she was told earlier this week she need not come in to work for the remainder of her one-year [...]

Tweet The Jonas Brothers announced today a summer concert tour spanning three continents, with a mid-September stop in Vancouver, B.C. The tour will include special guest Demi Lovato, star of the series “Sonny With A Chance.” The shows will include music from the Disney Channel Original Movie, “Camp Rock,” and its sequel, which is set [...]

Tweet Vancouver is joining a string of other B.C. school districts in adding school holidays to save money. Trustees voted last night in favour of closing schools for a two-week spring break in 2011, instead of one week, and will extend long weekends throughout the year to allow for a further five days of closures. [...]

Tweet Wealthy investors are opening their wallets again as luxury home sales in Greater Vancouver skyrocketed 184% in the first quarter of 2010. The increase is compared with the same period in 2009 when only 80 homes with price tags of $2 million or more were sold, according to a RE/MAX report released today. “Recovery [...]

Tweet City Hall is showing its support for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team as they enter the second round of the NHL playoffs by declaring tomorrow Canucks Day. The media is invited to join Mayor Robertson and Council, Canucks Sports & Entertainment owner Francesco Aquilini, President and General Manager Mike Gillis and Chief Operating Officer [...]

Tweet A worldwide protest against an Iranian cleric’s suggestion that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes is gaining magnitude in Vancouver. “Boobquake”, the brainchild of Indiana university student Jen McCreight, urges women worldwide to satirize cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi Monday by revealing a little cleavage — or ankle, for the modest. “This is more than just [...]

Tweet One resident of a Vancouver rooming house is in hospital recovering from burns suffered in a fire that destroyed a ground-floor suite in the residence, police said. Vancouver police Const. Lindsey Houghton said the fire, at a house in the 3400 block of Kingsway, started shortly before midnight and sent a total of four [...]

Tweet Vancouver city council has approved a plan to halve the amount of social housing in the Olympic Village development. Councillors spent hours Thursday debating how to keep an Olympic promise to provide 252 social housing units at the athletes’ village, but in the end they approved a $32-million plan to rent out half of [...]