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Broken
link
Seventy-year-old Corinne Haveman twists in her seat,
leaning back so the driver won’t hear. She doesn’t want to
upset the well-dressed coachman as he plies the only TransLink
route now operating south of Burrard Inlet. |
Strike
cutting into business hours
Before the transit strike began more than a month ago,
Francis White used to start her job as receptionist for Que
Pasa Mexican Foods at 8 a.m. and leave at 4:30 p.m. Now she
arrives and leaves at least two hours later. |
Dead
dentist’s past shrouded in mystery
A mysterious Egyptian dentist who died of mercury
poisoning is creating a postmortem headache for authorities
desperate to find where the man used to live. |
Brusque
voters show Hastings divided
At the corner of Penticton and Hastings, it’s easy to feel
like a pylon on an obstacle course. |
No-show
Lee says he’s reaching voters as critics point out
The Liberal candidate for Vancouver-Hastings, who has pulled
out of or turned down at least three debates with NDP opponent
Joy MacPhail, says he debated MacPhail and Green Party
candidate Ian Gregson on CKNW May 3. |
Kingsway
NDP voters face tough choices
Moham Bahd, a long-time NDP voter, has just moved into Glen
Clark’s Vancouver-Kingsway riding after losing his union
sawmill job on Vancouver Island. |
Clark’s
former powerbase a ‘riding to watch’ on election night
Despite a zero-per-cent chance of winning Vancouver-Kingsway,
Council of British Columbians candidate Tyler Ducharme
estimates he’s visited half the homes in the NDP stronghold,
banging on thousands of doors in two weeks. |
Skater
says Finning led him down garden path
An in-line skating activist says Finning is backing away from
its promise to build a biking and skating path through its
planned high-tech park on Great Northern Way. |
Pharamacist
remembered by many
West Side pharmacist Odie McNeill—who has died at age 85
in Vancouver—had a mind like a filing cabinet for memorizing
names and prescriptions. |
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