Tzeporah Berman, the eco-activist who gained notoriety a generation ago as a “whacked-out nature worshipper” for blockading logging roads during British Columbia’s divisive War in the Woods, was honoured Thursday at UBC with a doctorate. Berman’s evolution, from tree hugger to joining forest industry icons H.R. MacMillan and Peter Bentley, who also have received honorary [...]
Judith Jardine lived the last 20 years of her life alone on a lavish Vancouver estate. Upon her death, she left behind one of the largest donations in B.C. history The bequest was made in memory of Jardine’s father, William, and will set up a fund called the W.E. Jardine Memorial Fund. Vancouver Foundation CEO [...]
Three people have been pulled from the water after the Skagit River Bridge on the I-5 in Washington State collapsed and sent vehicles into the water below Thursday. Washington State officials say no one died in the collapse. The Skagit River Bridge is located between Burlington and Mount Vernon, about 100 kilometres north of Seattle [...]
Homes in communities throughout BC, including Quesnel, Kamloops and Chilliwack, were built on ancient landslide sites and are now experiencing land slippage that has caused cracks in roadways and affected homes in other ways. UBC geological engineering professor Erik Eberhardt said there are modern tools – using laser technology to take images from a plane [...]
The name of Tera Van Beilen’s dentist is being withheld here, in a bid to keep he or she from being further alerted about what the swimmer has been up to. “They said that I shouldn’t be back into the pool by Monday, and then I should be going only a third of my maximum [...]
The Tyee is reporting on the placement of an international resident placed at St. Paul’s Hospital through UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and that the student’s father is a faculty member. David Snadden, executive associate dean of education who oversees the selection process for UBC’s faculty of medicine, said privacy concerns restrained him from talking about specifics, [...]
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