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| 07.08.2024 | Olympic Basketball: A Clash of Titans in Paris | The Paris 2024 Olympics have become a battleground for basketball giants. The air is thick with anticipation, as teams clash in a quest for glory. The hardwood courts echo with the sound of sneakers squeaking and the swish of nets. This is ... |
| 06.08.2024 | Basketball 3x3-Dutch men win gold over France, Germany women defeat Spain | Previous
Paris 2024 Olympics - Basketball 3x3 - Women's Semifinal - Spain vs United States - La Concorde 1, Paris, France - August 05, 2024. Vega Gimeno of Spain, Gracia Alonso of Spain, Juana Camilion of Spain and Sandra Ygueravide of Spai... |
| 02.08.2024 | Aussies reach quarters despite defeat, Brazil also qualify, Spain out | Previous
Paris 2024 Olympics - Basketball - Men's Group Phase - Group B - Japan vs Brazil - Lille, Pierre Mauroy Stadium, Villeneve-d'Ascq, France - August 02, 2024. Bruno Caboclo of Brazil in action against Yuta Watanabe of Japan REUTERS/B... |
| 11.07.2024 | NATO allies call China a 'decisive enabler' of Russia's war in Ukraine | WASHINGTON: In their most serious rebuke against Beijing, NATO allies on Wednesday (Jul 10) called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia's war against Ukraine and expressed concerns over China's nuclear arsenal and its capabilities in space.... |
| 22.06.2024 | Bill Gates' Nuclear Power Project Gains Bipartisan Support in Wyoming | Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, is spearheading a groundbreaking nuclear power project in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that has garnered impressive bipartisan support. The project, led by Gates' energy company TerraPower, aims to revolutionize nuc... |
| 16.06.2024 | Bill Gates says "support for nuclear power is very impressive in both parties" amid new plant in Wyoming | Washington — Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Sunday that he's "quite confident" that a next generation nuclear power project will continue regardless of the balance of power in Washington next year, saying "support for nucl... |
| 30.05.2024 | Forrester: Global Online Retail Sales To Grow 8.9% Annually, Reaching $6.8 Trillion In 2028 | Retailers' investments in genAI, the rise of online marketplaces, and higher digital literacy will continue to drive global online retail sales growth
SINGAPORE, May 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) forecasts that total glo... |
| 21.05.2024 | Growing Tension: US and Russia Spar Over Space Weapons Ban | By Quincy Jon
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| 28.12.2022 | Federation of Canadian-Brazilian Businesses and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies join forces | Sérgio Frias (left), president of FCBB, and Paulo Milliet, president of ABES
It opens a strategic front for IT innovation and investments between Canada and Brazil, two countries that are among the top ten leaders in the software sector
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| 03.11.2022 | Canada Announces Crypto, Stablecoin Consultation in New Budget Statement | Canada's federal government announced it was launching a consultation on "cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies," in a fiscal update published Thursday.
The Fall Economic Statement, a mini-budget releas... |
| 18.02.2022 | Court Orders Freeze of Canadian 'Freedom Convoy' Crypto Fundraising | A private class action lawsuit against participants in Canada's "freedom convoy" has successfully secured an injunction freezing funds raised via crypto donations.
A Mareva injunction was signed on Thursday by Ontario Superior Cou... |
| 19.01.2020 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #89 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.NEWS
Lime, the “smart-mobility provider that offers cities an array of mobility products including Lime... |
| 01.09.2015 | Canadian Police Charge Syrian Colonel Accused of Torturing Maher Arar | Police in Canada have criminally charged the Syrian military official believed to have tortured Maher Arar, a Syrian-Canadian engineer who was imprisoned in Syria after US authorities deported him on what turned out to be false suspicions h... |
| 16.07.2015 | Canadian Court Ponders If A Disagreement On Twitter Constitutes Criminal Harassment | Free speech debates can often get tiresome online (for fairly obvious reasons), but it continues to astound me how people seem to think that there should be some sort of obvious exception to free speech rights for speech they don’t like — a... |
| 29.06.2015 | Here Are Places Women Can't Take Their Husband's Name When They Get Married | While women in the U.S. are increasingly keeping their maiden names, that’s nothing new just across the border. In Quebec, all women have been keeping their maiden names since 1981, whether they want to or not.
Provincial law in Quebec forb... |
| 16.06.2015 | Canada Is Helping a Private Arms Company Sell Light Armored Vehicles in the Middle East | Canada isn't just sanctioning weapons and equipment sales to the Middle East, it's now flying them over for private arms manufacturers to sell.
VICE News has obtained new documents under the Access to Information Act showing that the Canadi... |
| 05.06.2015 | Canada to Deport Pakistani Man Accused of Plotting to Blow Up a US Consulate | A Pakistani man accused of plotting to blow up the US Consulate and other buildings in downtown Toronto will be deported from Canada, the country's immigration tribunal ruled Friday, arguing he was a threat to Canadian society.
Jahanzeb Mal... |
| 01.06.2015 | How Drones And Virtual Reality Will Change Tourism | Robin Burks, Tech Times 01 June 2015, 12:06 pm
Imagine traveling all over the world and seeing famous sites in an entirely new way from the comfort of your home. Soar up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, fly over the Roman Colosseum or look d... |
| 29.05.2015 | Canada’s Justice Minister and Tough-on-Crime Architect to Quit Politics | After a generation in politics, one of the most important figures in Canadian politics is quietly bowing out.
Peter MacKay, over his 18-year stretch as a member of Parliament, killed Canada's federal Progressive Conservative Party, cemented... |
| 24.04.2015 | Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner, Convicted of Killing US Soldier, Granted Bail in Canada | The Canadian who confessed to killing an American soldier during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan was granted bail on Friday, meaning he will soon be a free man for the first time in 13 years, as he appeals a conviction for war crimes that h... |
| 18.11.2014 | Quebec's Fight Against Austerity Could Be the Next Maple Spring | Police at an austerity protest in Montreal, via the author.
Quebec's austerity agenda may have roots in the drastic spending cuts during the recession of the mid-90s, but the current Liberal government is pushing it forward in an unpreceden... |
| 22.04.2014 | Grown-Ups: Done Growing Up | Chances are, you haven’t heard Calgary no-fi punk crew Grown-Ups, aka the husband and wife duo of Josiah and Sara Hughes. But if you’re reading this, you’ve likely heard about them without even realizing it. Perhaps it was earlier this mont... |
| 08.04.2014 | Cutting the cord: 5 ways to join growing number of Canadians cutting the cord on cable | Article content
Have you hung up on your landline? Cut the cable on your television?
If you have, you’ve joined an increasing number of Canadians who are opting for wireless phones only over wired lines and Internet-enabled entertainment se... |
| 02.04.2014 | Bank of Montreal Open to Rekindling Partnerships with Bitcoin Businesses | The Bank of Montreal, one of Canada's 'Big Five' banks and the fourth largest in the country, issued new statements on 1st April suggesting that it may be open to working with bitcoin businesses again, provided it receives regulatory clarit... |
| 13.03.2014 | Bitcoin is down but not out | Regular readers will know that I’ve had my doubts about Bitcoin. Recent events in the Bitcoin world, especially the failure of Mt. Gox, the biggest Bitcoin exchange, have caused further problems for the crypto currency. But I’m oddly cheere... |
| 31.01.2014 | A 4-year-old top-grossing game? How Kingdoms At War is still making money years after launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the fast-paced world of mobile games, you usually sink or swim — fast. And even if you swim, it’s only for a short while.
So how has... |
| 31.01.2014 | A 4-year-old top-grossing game? How Kingdoms At War is still making money years after launch | In the fast-paced world of mobile games, you usually sink or swim — fast. And even if you swim, it’s only for a short while.
So how has A Thinking Ape‘s Kingdoms at War stayed so high for so long?
Kingdoms at War was the eighth-highest gros... |
| 15.11.2013 | Too Busy to Eat? Try These 5 On-The-Go Breakfasts | November 15, 2013 4 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
For busy entrepreneurs, sitting down for a hearty breakfast sounds like something out of a dream. Despite research that eating breakfast improves co... |
| 07.11.2013 | Al Gore And Tim Berners-Lee Condemn NSA Surveillance: Appalling And Unconstitutional | There’s the famous (incorrect) meme out there that Al Gore once took credit for inventing the internet (he didn’t), but it does appear that he has one thing very much in common with the guy who actually invented the web (which, of course, i... |
| 04.06.2013 | Was Adam Nobody, a G20 Protester, Assaulted for Carrying an Explosive Water Bottle? | Photo by Carl Heindl.
The dust has not settled over Toronto’s violent G20 protests from 2010. In response to the planet’s most powerful leaders congregating in Ontario’s capital city, massive security fences were erected around Union Statio... |
| 10.12.2012 | Nintendo Wii Mini launches in Canada: Mini specs, mini price | Article content
The Wii Mini has launched in the Canadian market in time for Christmas and while it doesn’t appear to be aimed at luring away customers lining up for the recently released Nintendo Wii U, it could appeal to those looking for... |
| 16.10.2012 | RCMP say hacktivist group allegations about Amanda Todd "unfounded" | Article content
The RCMP said Tuesday information released by an international hacktivist group identifying a Vancouver area man as Amanda Todd’s tormenter is “unfounded,” and they warned against the spread of false information through soci... |
| 18.09.2012 | Netflix updates its iPhone app | Article content
In the same week as the release of Apple’s new iPhone 5, Netflix has announced its updated app for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Among the changes in the new version of the Netflix app are a new browsing screen, with more title... |
| 18.09.2012 | Sorin wins new Euro approvals for Perceval heart valve and accessories | Sorin Group (BIT:SRN) touted new European regulatory wins extending use of its Perceval bioprosthetic heart valve and approving a new suite of implantation accessories.
The Perceval valve, which originally won CE Mark last year, was previou... |
| 02.07.2012 | Free Agents of Destruction | We understand, you spent all weekend celebrating Canada Day. I did too. Wasn’t it so weird they burned that Uncle Sam effigy pinata? And what was their prime minister doing joining Megadeth onstage? Couldn’t they just do fireworks? Oh, in c... |
| 01.07.2012 | Newfoundland cod recovery finally evident | Twenty years after Ottawa shut down Newfoundland’s once-thriving northern cod fishery, a growing number of scientists, fishermen and environmentalists say there are signs the fish are finally coming back.
George Rose, director of the Centre... |
| 22.05.2012 | Mainstream: Cost of IHN outbreak yet unknown | A virus outbreak has Mainstream Canada killing off 560,000 Atlantic salmon at its Dixon Bay farm north of Tofino, but it’s too soon to know the financial costs of the outbreak, a company spokesperson said Friday.
Mainstream Canada announced... |
| 01.02.2012 | BlackBerry Users Least Likely To Score On The First Date… In Canada, Mind You | You’ve heard of Match.com, right? It’s a dating site much like OkCupid or eHarmony, and from the bowels of the website’s collective online dating profiles, a company called Zoomerang harvested an interesting bit of data regarding who gets l... |
| 24.11.2011 | B.C. salmon farmers: Bycatch close to zero | Latest figures released by BC’s salmon farms regarding incidental catch of wild fish show operators are very near their goal of eliminating these interactions completely, a new release from them stated yesterday.
The amount of bycatch from ... |
| 16.08.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Montreal | The largest primarily French-speaking city outside of Paris, Montreal is the second largest city in Canada and the largest in the province of Quebec. Despite some claims to the contrary, Montreal still maintains it is the cultural capital o... |
| 24.11.2009 | Don't Blame Facebook For Some Kids Beating Up Another Student | Pickle Monger alerts us to a CNN story suggesting that a Facebook group “may have lead to the beating of a 12-year-old” boy. Really? Facebook could do that rather than a group of kids who are bullies? The “group” in question was apparently ... |
| 24.11.2009 | Mobile money | Article content
Scotiabank has linked up with M-Com to deliver mobile banking to its customers starting next spring.
Personal and small business customers will be able to check balances, transaction history, pay bills and make transfers on ... |
| 23.11.2009 | Social media and trad media: A cheat sheet | Article content
I’m at a real estate tech meetup tonight with The Vancouver’s Sun’s managing editor Kirk LaPointe and the issues we’ll be talking about are ones we grapple with every day and ones that are constantly changing:
Getting on the... |
| 09.09.2009 | Why Doesn't Century 21 Canada Want More People Viewing Its Real Estate Listings? | A whole bunch of folks have sent in this rather odd legal dispute up in Canada, with real estate firm Century 21 Canada suing telco Rogers and its subsidiary Zoocasa for creating what appears to be a real estate info portal/search engine. A... |
| 10.08.2009 | Nortel CEO steps down in massive restructuring | Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski is stepping down from his position today as the nearly bankrupt Canadian telecommunications company continues its liquidation and reconstruction.
After losing almost $7 billion in two years, Nortel filed for chapt... |
| 06.08.2009 | Palm Wants Apple Core, Really Needs Sprint Alternative | Palm seems to be on an exec hiring spree. Only, if you're a recruiter, don't bother to call unless you've got a line on talent from Apple. Palm just snagged its fourth executive that spent time in Cupertino. Maybe the company is taking to h... |
| 03.05.2009 | Roundup: Swine Flu in the World of Warcraft, SMS sex ed and more | Recession boosts entrepreneurship — A recent study shows more people have founded new businesses in the months since the downturn began than in the months preceding it.
Swine flu hits World of Warcraft — Researchers are using the game to st... |
| 06.04.2009 | No mommy you can't have your iPhone back, I'm watching videos | Article content
If you’ve ever been stuck with nothing to entertain a restless toddler but your iPhone you’ll appreciate today’s launch of the iPhone and iPod touch version of the children’s video Web site
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| 02.03.2009 | The Vastly Different Approaches Of Google And Yahoo When It Comes To Newspapers | About a month ago, Google dumped its program to try to help sell newspaper ads, admitting that it had been something of a failure. It wasn’t a huge surprise why. Google entered the space assuming that it could reform the newspaper ad busine... |
| 21.02.2009 | Tweets and transformation: Trad media meets social media | Article content
I moderated a panel at Northern Voice today called Tweets and transformation: How social media is changing journalism.
Put together by Alfred Hermida, who leads the integrated journalism program at the University of BC’s Gra... |
| 05.02.2009 | Canadian government eyes open source, asks for feedback | reader comments 19 with 18 posters participating, including story author
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| 08.01.2009 | Hired via Facebook? Fired via Facebook | We’ve seen stories of people being fired over email and even text message before, but now there’s a story of a Canadian spa worker fired via Facebook (via Michael Geist). The woman still got dressed and went to in to work that day because s... |
| 21.11.2008 | Hug a Ginger | Article content
Not everyone is as cyber stupid as the nearly 5,000 people who signed on with the kick a redhead campaign launched by a Vancouver Island teen on Facebook.
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| 15.11.2008 | Canadian Anti-Camming Laws Net First Conviction | Early in 2007, Twentieth Century Fox announced that Canada had a major movie ‘camming’ problem, claiming that 50% of all such copies of movies originated from the country. The controversial claims caused panic and before long, theater staff... |
| 05.11.2008 | Will the real Peter Ladner please Tweet | Article content
Vision Vancouver mayoralty candidate Gregor Robertson appears to be tops in the social networking class.
But it remains to be seen whether his campaign’s latest cyber salvo on Twitter will backfire.
There’s a Twitter persona... |
| 28.10.2008 | Grow Your Business with Twitter | Article content
I’ve been canvassing business people about their use of Twitter for a story I did today. Here’s Mat Wilcox of the Wilcox Group, a public relations firm a week after signing on.
“I’m brand new to it; my office is on it,” she ... |
| 24.10.2008 | Can B.C. researchers save our bees? | Article content
Over the past several years, the number of bees dying around the world has increased dramatically. Last year alone, more than a third of all the bees in Canada died over the winter months. Well, we’ve got a story in today’s ... |
| 15.09.2008 | Student Charged With Crime For Telling University Officials About Security Hole | For many years, we’ve covered case after case after case after case after case after case after case of people being blamed, arrested or even jailed for pointing out a security flaw. It should come as no surprise that many security research... |
| 11.08.2008 | Blind and sighted athletes display same "victory stance" at Olympics | Article content
We’ve got an interesting story appearing in tomorrow’s paper about a UBC study that compared how blind and sighted athletes responded to victory and defeat at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Athens. Interestingly, a... |
| 11.07.2008 | iPhone 3G out of the box | Article content
Technology touches our everyday lives but some days more than others.
Today’s launch date of Apple’s new iPhone 3G that had people lining up overnight for a chance to buy this much-coveted new device is one of those days and... |
| 07.07.2008 | Canadians hoping for iPhone salvation may be disappointed | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 13.06.2008 | What happens when a salmon can't smell anymore? | Article content
Everyone knows fish smell. But who knew how important it was for them to be able to sniff around?
Salmon use their sniffer to do everything from avoid predators to figure out what stream to spawn in. Now, a team of researche... |
| 04.06.2008 | Canadians Unite To Fight Off The "Feared TechCrunch" | I really miss former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley. But at least he gave us a gift just before he left that just keeps on giving – his May 5 post calling BS on a Canadian startup called MediaScrape and its founder, Tyler Cavell.
Cavell too... |
| 29.05.2008 | A Little Sunshine Brings Out Rapid And Well Deserved Anger Towards ACTA Treaty | Last week, I wrote a post highlighting the faulty premises behind a secretly negotiated treaty between the US and many other countries, the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Since then a bunch of news articles have been ... |
| 27.05.2008 | Industry group pressures governments into forcing border guards to be copyright cops | As if music copyright laws weren’t mucky enough as they are, the Canadian government is reportedly working with other governments and industry groups, like the dreaded RIAA, to work out a trade agreement for digital downloads, called the An... |
| 27.05.2008 | G8 agreement would criminalise having copyrighted content on your iPod | How’s this for a fine how-do-you-do? It seems Canada is preparing, in conjunction with other G8 countries, some sort of trade agreement that would make having copyrighted material on your iPod and laptop (and so on) illegal. What’s more, th... |
| 12.05.2008 | Apple offers 45 loonie credit to Canadians with old iPods | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 09.05.2008 | Sue-happy Canadians get $45 from Apple | Apple Canada Inc. is offering $45 credits to Canadians who own the first-third generation iPods purchased before June 24th, 2004. This settlement is a result of two iPod owners suing when their one-year-old iPods died after 3 hours of use, ... |
| 29.04.2008 | World-class stealing: Grand Theft Auto IV makes its global premiere | Rockstar Games/Take-Two Interactive have released the fourth installment of the popular Grand Theft Auto series for the Xbox 360 and PS3 -- easily the most important episode thus far for the fate of its publisher.
Sales of this game could h... |
| 28.04.2008 | Brain pacemaker could keep us all happy | A small device, implanted in the chest, can potentially treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in most patients. The device, produced by Medtronic, prevents recurring feelings of depression or obsession by shocking the brain con... |
| 17.04.2008 | MediaScrape Takes $3.2 Million | Montreal based MediaScrape, a Google News meets video translation service has taken $3.2 million in a new round from we don’t know who, for total funding or over how many rounds we have no idea either.
MediaScrape’s new service is updated e... |
| 07.04.2008 | Play is important for child development: experts | Article content
As part of our paper’s special civil-society edition on Saturday, I wrote a story about what the current science says about the importance of play to child development.
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| 24.03.2008 | Canadian Telemarketers Play The FUD Card On Do Not Call List | Michael Geist points us to the news that telemarketing firms are coming up with bogus reasons why a Canadian Do Not Call List is dangerous. The latest is particularly ridiculous. They’re afraid (no, seriously) that people will upload other ... |
| 19.03.2008 | Capazoo Blows $25+ Million, Heading To The DeadPool | Canadian social networking site Capazoo has fired most of its staff and is heading to the Deadpool.
We first wrote about Capazoo in December 2007 where we noted that it paid users to participate, but only if they paid a membership fee then ... |
| 18.03.2008 | Dr. Science says we're mentally ill | [photopress:internet_addiction.jpg,full,left]Even on days when I’m not blogging I spend a helluva lot of time online. I like to track rumors, email pretty girls, and check on the Seattle Mariners. Most of these activities cause me to cry in... |
| 18.03.2008 | Some Psychiatrists Addicted To Prescribing Internet Addiction | Over the past few years, we’ve seen so many “calls” to label the use of certain technologies as “addictions” that we’ve noticed something of a… well… addiction by some to call for new technology addictions. Among the long, long list of poss... |
| 17.03.2008 | Push To Classify Internet Addiction As a Mental Disorder | An editorial to be published in the American Journal of Psychiatry argues that Internet addiction is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that should be added to psychiatry’s official guidebook of mental disorders.
Report author Dr. Block... |
| 17.03.2008 | New super-fast research network for B.C. universities | Article content
Imagine being able to download an entire feature film in less than a second. That’s the kind of bandwidth now available to B.C. researchers after a $6 million upgrade to BCNET, the computer network that connects the province... |
| 07.03.2008 | Five reasons why Internet rumours will never die | Article content
We’ve got a story in today’s paper about why all those Internet rumours infesting your Inbox — whether that Barack Obama is a Muslim or Mr. Rogers’ was a Marine sniper — keep on spreading long after they’ve been thoroughly d... |
| 05.03.2008 | UBC museum to display blue whale skeleton -- a Canadian first | Article content
We had a story in Tuesday’s paper about how UBC’s new Beaty Biodiversity Museum, still under construction, will feature a skeleton of the largest animal that ever lived on earth — the blue whale. (An artist’s rendering, show... |
| 28.02.2008 | Canadian Politician Pushing For Canadian DMCA Caught Violating Copyright | As you may have heard, some Canadian politicians have been trying (despite great opposition) to introduce a Canadian version of the DMCA, claiming that it’s necessary — despite an awful lot of evidence to the contrary. In a fair bit of iron... |
| 22.02.2008 | The Science of Parenting | Article content
This weekend, The Vancouver Sun is launching our brand-new parenting website, which you can check out by clicking here. The site examines the science and research behind 10 of the most controversial issues in pregnancy and p... |
| 07.02.2008 | Knee-Mounted Device Generates Electricity While You Walk | Article content
If Canadian inventor Max Donelan has his way, a few years from now you might be walking around in something like this to power everything from your cellphone to your iPod. And you won’t have to exert much more physical energ... |
| 26.01.2008 | Clouds Could Be The Key To How Bad Global Warming Gets | Article content
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| 27.12.2007 | Could B.C.'s Hot Springs Be The Answer To Our Energy Needs? | Article content
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| 07.12.2007 | UBC Astronomers Discover The "Secret Powers" of White Dwarf Stars | Article content
The pretty picture above (courtesy of NASA, the European Space Agency and Harvey Richer) lies at the heart of an interesting discovery by a team of astronomers at UBC. Here’s an excerpt from the story in today’s paper:
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| 07.12.2007 | B.C.'s Latest Rhodes Scholar is From East Van | Article content
Living in Vancouver, it seems like there’s a constant debate about whether public schools on the west side are any better than those east of Main.
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| 05.12.2007 | Police Charge ‘maVen’, ‘World Leader’ in Internet Movie Piracy | Between 2004 and 2006, not many movie release groups could keep up with the mighty ‘maVen’ when it came to releasing quality ‘Telesync‘ versions of pirated movies onto the internet. From great versions of the ‘Bourne Supremacy’, ‘Collateral... |
| 29.11.2007 | Do Hyper Pre-Schoolers Just Need To Play More? | Article content
We’ve got an interesting story in today’s paper about a UBC study that found a kindergarten curriculum that includes more play time than traditional classes actually improved the ability of children to focus and behave.
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| 21.11.2007 | B.C. Researchers Excited About Stem-Cell Discovery | Article content
B.C. researchers who work with stem cells say they’re pretty excited about a new discovery that created cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells from normal human skin. In the U.S., where abortion is a political hot... |
| 19.11.2007 | Roundup: iPhone the spyPhone?, Google’s internet, and more | 1) iPhone, the apple of Steve Job’s spying eye?
2) More on Google’s internet efforts
3) Reuters Space, a social network for finance types. LinkedIn also growing fast
4) OpenSocial inside Facebook, and who’s side is Amazon on, anyway?
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| 15.11.2007 | UBC Tops Stanford and Berkeley to Win Programming Contest | Article content
A team of students from UBC (above, from left to right, Patrick Nguyen, Anton Likhtarov and Henry Wong) has won a regional computer programming contest, beating out students from some of the leading schools in Silicon Valley... |
| 03.11.2007 | Why Do So Many Aboriginal Canadians Have First Names as Surnames? | Article content
The Sun’s surnames projects (you can check it out by clicking here) has been getting an overwhelming response online, so I thought I’d post one last excerpt from the package that I found really interesting: the history of Ab... |
| 03.11.2007 | 10 Surnames That Began As Insults. No. 1: Shakespeare | Article content
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| 03.11.2007 | Lee, Wong and Chan All Beat Out Smith For Most Common Surname in Greater Vancouver | Article content
We’ve got a big package in the paper today all about surnames, including an article on how the last name Lee is now the most common in the Lower Mainland. You can read all the surname stories — and search to find out how com... |
| 01.11.2007 | SFU Researcher Studies Why Astronauts Are Prone To Fainting | Article content
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| 26.10.2007 | Life-Expectancy Calculator Tells You When You're Going To Die | Article content
Just in time for Hallowe’en, we’ve got a story in today’s paper on when the Grim Reaper may be paying you a visit. As part of our special health issue, I wrote a story on life-expectancy calculators — online tools that ask y... |
| 26.10.2007 | Why Do Leaves Change Colour In The Fall? | Article content
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| 26.10.2007 | Research Funding Way Up at B.C. Universities | Article content
We’ve got a story online today about how research funding is up more than 20% at B.C.’s public universities, one of the biggest year-over-year increases in the country. B.C. universities reap leap in research funding Chad Sk... |
| 25.10.2007 | B.C.-led team discovers biomarkers for bone-marrow complications | Article content
We’ve got a story in today’s paper about a new study that discovered distinct blood proteins for those who suffer graft-versus-host disease, a debilitating complication suffered by blood-marrow transplant recipients. Bone-ma... |
