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Vancouver stories: 16 news summaries

 7th Severed Foot 
 Hits Canadian Shores 

Like others, severed by natural causes, but no less mysterious

Oct 29, 09 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another foot has washed up on a British Columbia beach, bringing the total to seven over the last two years. The right foot, inside a running shoe like some of the others, was separated from the body through a “natural process,” police officials tell the Vancouver... More »

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Canada • British Columbia • Vancouver • police investigation • severed feet • Royal Canadian Mounted Police • shore • running shoe

TRAVEL

 Best Layover Mini-Vacations 

Who needs the boring airport when you can get out and explore?

Sep 14, 09 5:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stuck with a long layover? You don’t have to idle in the airport. Condé Nast Traveler presents its readers' best suggestions for killing an hour or 4:
  • Honolulu: Take a 25-minute cab ride to Waikiki Beach to enjoy the sand, surf, and views of Diamond Head
... More »

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Minneapolis • San Francisco • London • Los Angeles • Singapore • airport • Honolulu • Vancouver • Jay-ZTV

 Seoul's Airport Is World's No. 1 

None in North America makes top 10

Jun 9, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Incheon International airport in Seoul, South Korea, is the world's best, according to a British survey that took into account passengers' experiences with check-in, departures, transfers, and arrivals. Two other Asian airports, in Hong Kong and Singapore, finished second and third, the BBC reports. More »

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San Francisco • South Korea • Seoul • Dallas • Hong Kong • Amsterdam • Zurich • Singapore • airport • air travel • Vancouver • Munich • Auckland • Incheon airport • Kansai • Kuala Lumpur • Nagoya

 Vancouver Tops 
 Most Livable Cities 

Canadian, Australian cities ranked among the world's best to live in

Jun 9, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vancouver has once again topped the Economist's list of the most livable cities in the world. Canadian and Australian cities dominated the upper reaches of the list, which is ranked by factors including stability, health care, and environment. The highest-ranked US city was Pittsburgh, at 29th out of 140 while... More »

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Canada • cities • Vancouver

 Newest Bailout: 2010 Olympics 

Vancouver games get $369M loan approved

Jan 19, 09 11:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The global recession is putting the 2010 Olympics Games in Vancouver in peril, writes Canada's Globe and Mail. This weekend the provincial parliament in British Columbia passed an emergency bill that allows the host city to borrow $369 million to make sure the athletes' village will be ready in time.... More »

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Canada • British Columbia • loan • Vancouver • winter sports • bailout • Olympics • 2010 Vancouver Olympics

 8 Die in Avalanche Horror 

Snowmobilers caught in two avalanches

Dec 30, 08 2:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The bodies of seven Canadian snowmobilers killed in two avalanches have been recovered by a search team in British Columbia, reports the Vancouver Sun. The double tragedy occurred as survivors of a first avalanche searched desperately for their friends before they, too, were engulfed by snow. The search for an... More »

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British Columbia • Vancouver • avalanche • snowmobile • Royal Canadian Mounted Police • Provincial Emergency Program • Fernie • Canadian Avalanche Centre

Canada May Have a Match
in Case of Severed Feet

New left foot also in New Balance sneaker

Nov 13, 08 9:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Another severed foot in an athletic shoe has washed up on a Canadian shore, the sixth in a bizarre series of feet found over the last 15 months, reports the Vancouver Sun. The left foot, encased in a New Balance running shoe, was found earlier this week on a riverbank... More »

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Canada • sneakers • British Columbia • Vancouver • feet • severed feet

Canadian Foot Linked to Depressed Man

First to be identified in mysterious case of dismembered feet

Jul 20, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(AP) - One of five dismembered feet that have mysteriously washed ashore near Vancouver over the past year has been linked by DNA to a depressed man who disappeared a year ago, police announced. Investigators released no other information at the family's request. The foot is the first to be identified in... More »

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Canada • Vancouver • feet • severed feet

Sixth Foot Washes
Ashore in Canada

'It's very unusual,' say stumped local cops

Jun 19, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yet another severed foot—the sixth in a year and second this week—washed ashore yesterday in Canada on an island near Vancouver. Like all but one of the others, it was a sneaker-clad right foot. "It's very unusual," said a police spokeswoman. "To my knowledge, we... More »

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Canada • Vancouver • feet • severed feet

UPDATED

Death, Illness on Canada Train Not Related

Woman who died on Via Rail not infectious; quarantine to be lifted

May 9, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Canadian authorities are set to lift the quarantine on a train en route from Vancouver to Toronto after determining that the 60-year-old passenger who died aboard earlier today "most likely did not have an infectious disease," CTV reports. Ten other passengers came down with flu-like symptoms; "we... More »

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Canada • public health • quarantine • train • flu • Vancouver • Toronto

Obama Wins Delegates Abroad

Primary voting by expat Democrats gives him an 11th consecutive win

Feb 21, 08 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has won the primary organized by Democrats Abroad, a global organization controlling seven official delegates in the national convention, the AP reports today. Obama won more than 65% of the 20,000 US expatriates who voted from more than 164 countries. It is Obama’s 11th consecutive primary... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • presidential primaries • Vancouver • delegates • expatriates • Election 2008

3 Stars Take Over Ledger's Last Role

Depp, Farrell, Law
will play 1 character
in fantasy flick

Feb 18, 08 4:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood hotties Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law will take over Heath Ledger's final film role, the BBC reports. Each will morph into the part in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Ledger's character, an actor, passes through a magic mirror into other dimensions. Ledger's footage will likely remain... More »

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film • London • Johnny Depp • Heath Ledger • Jude Law • Vancouver • Colin Farrell • Terry Gilliam

Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

New tech could burn off Vancouver's garbage and make electricity

Feb 17, 08 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Vancouver may have a fix for its garbage overflow crisis: Burn the trash into a gas that makes electricity. A Canadian company called Plasco Energy Group has proposed a plant that zaps waste into ionized gas, or plasma; about a fifth of it would run the plant and the rest... More »

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energy • trash • landfill • garbage • waste • Vancouver • plasma gasification • Plasco

Canada Man Says He's JFK's Son

Alleged love child wants DNA compared

Feb 14, 08 3:42 AM CST
(Newser) - A Vancouver man is claiming he's John F. Kennedy's son and he wants the Kennedy clan to supply some DNA so he can prove it. Jack Worthington was born on November 22, 1961—exactly two years before JFK was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged presidential love child says his Texan... More »

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Canada • John F. Kennedy • Vancouver • Kennedy family

Pig Farmer Guilty of Butchering Women

Murderer fed up to 49 victims to his animals

Dec 10, 07 2:14 AM CST
(Newser) - A Canadian pig farmer has been convicted of murdering six women, chopping up the corpses in his slaughterhouse and feeding parts to his pigs. Robert "Willie" Pickton, 58, may face trial for up to 20 other murders—and police believe he's responsible for even more. Pickton told an undercover... More »

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murder • British Columbia • Robert 'Willie' Pickton • Vancouver • prostitute • Port Coquitlam • Peter Ritchie

Spice Girls Heat Up Canada

Pop group kicks off world tour

Dec 3, 07 2:16 PM CST
(Newser) - If what you want, what you really really want, is a Spice Girls reunion, you've got it. The five-woman pop group resurfaced yesterday in Vancouver, dressed a little more conservatively than in the past. It was the quintet's first concert in a world tour expected to run through Canada, the... More »

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Canada • pop music • Spice Girls • concert • reunion • Vancouver • reunion concert

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