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What $600,000 buys across B.C.
A Vancouver School Board survey has found the high cost of housing is the major reason parents are pulling their kids out of the city’s schools. Few homes are priced at less than $600,000 in Vancouver. Here’s a comparison, looking at detached homes for less than $600,000 in Vancouver and in four other B.C. cities.
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Canmore has declared a state of emergency due to heavy rainfall and high water. Here's a look in photos.
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Bombardier gets lift from Nigerian order at Paris Air Show
The Canadian manufacturer says it has won an order from Arik Air for seven commercial aircraft valued at US$297 million.
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Astronaut Hadfield returns after five months on space station
Astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth Monday night after a five-month mission at the International Space Station that saw him become the first Canadian to command the orbiting laboratory.
Chris Hadfield sings David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' aboard the ISS (with video)
It's being called the first music video made in space.
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Video: Space travel - At least 35 Canadians have applied for one-way trip to Mars
Andrew Rader has always wanted to be an astronaut and he's ready to do anything to get into space — even spend the rest of his life on Mars.
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Space travel: At least 35 Canadians have applied for one-way trip to Mars (with video)
Andrew Rader has always wanted to be an astronaut and he's ready to do anything to get into space — even spend the rest of his life on Mars.
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MDA signs almost $50 million space surveillance contract with unnamed customer
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. says it has signed a five-year deal that could be worth up to $50 million to supply space-based radar surveillance and intelligence information.
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic over the Mojave
The 10-minute test flight is considered a major step for the program.
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Blackhawks able to find their groove
Remember that Tuukka Rask story, the one about the Boston goaltender's frighteningly good save percentage and goals-against average and Conn Smythe-in-the-mak-ing? No?
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Putting slumping Johnny on the spot
Team Canada's 2010 Olympic lineup was loaded with centres, but of them all, Jonathan Toews was No. 1, playing on the top line with Rick Nash and Mike Richards, himself a natural centre who had been moved to the wing.
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Mr. Perfect absent from Canucks' final four
If the Vancouver Canucks absolutely had to have as their coach any of the numerous candidates they've interviewed, chances are the National Hockey League team would have him hired by now.
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Pension perks add to labour shortage woes
The serious shortage of workers that is looming for B.C. and Canada as baby boomers head out to pasture is well understood to be one of the major challenges facing both governments and employers.
