News for Youse: PNE will control Hastings Park, Mountie sued, and containers become social housing
PNE keeps control of Hastings Park Vancouver city council rejected Hastings Park–area residents' requests to turn over control of the site to the Vancouver park board, and instead left control in the hands of the Pacific National Exhibition.
Containers house women Atira Women's Resource Society has unveiled how 12 housing social-housing units were created in the Downtown Eastside from recycled shipping containers.
RCMP inspector sued One of the Mounties' highest profile members, Insp. Tim Shields, is named in a sexual harassment suit filed by a civilian employee on stress leave. The allegations have not been proven in court.
Ethnic outreach didn't violate privacy B.C.'s privacy commissioner, Elizabath Denham, has issued a report saying that the B.C. Liberal multicultural-outreach strategy did not break the privacy law. But she noted that the government "has not sufficiently integrated its responsibilities regarding privacy and access into the workplace culture".
Vancouver trans march The annual transgender and genderqueer march begins tonight at 5:30 at Clark Park, goes down Commercial Drive, and winds up with speeches and a party at Victoria Park.
Commissioner orders bilingual cards Graham Fraser, the official languages commissioners, has instructed Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to stop distributing English-only business cards.
More U.S. jobs There were 162,000 more jobs in the U.S. in July, according to the Department of Labour.
Armstrong wins bronze B.C. shot putter Dylan Armstrong has received a bronze medal for his performance in the 2010 indoor world championships after Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich was banned for life for using performance-enhancing drugs. There are high expectations that Armstrong may also receive a 2008 Olympic bronze after he finished fourth and Mikhnevic took silver.
Prince George's birth certificate The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have registered the birth of their son, George Alexander Louis, who's third in line for the throne.
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