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PARK Royal Shopping Centre says its plan to build a cinema where alcoholic drinks might be served remains on track, even as a Vancouver theatre's licencing woes appear to raise serious questions about the viability of the idea.

When Grace came to the Customized Employment program at North Shore ConneXions in August 2011, she was thinking that she might like to try office work.

"WHO says married sex can't be hot?" asked a recent news release that wound up chez moi. I always look around my one-person office when I get emails like this, which raise provocative questions that I've never thought to pose to myself.

DESPITE some concerns over the loss of industrial space, City of North Vancouver councillors signed off Monday on allowing more retail activity in eastern Lower Lonsdale and more office space in a Harbourside Drive building.

ICONIC American clothing brand J.Crew is coming to Vancouver. According to a release, the retailer will open on Robson Street in April. The two-level space will showcase J.

A Burnaby construction worker was on trial in B.C. Supreme Court this week for allegedly causing a colleague's thumb to be severed during an argument at a North Vancouver job site.

PROPERTY crime plummeted while violent crime increased in West Vancouver last year, according to the West Vancouver Police Department's year-end report released Monday.

THE Marc Atkinson Quartet (featuring Adrian Dolan on fiddle and accordion, Joey Smith on acoustic bass, Kelby McNayr on drums and Atkinson on lead guitar) will perform their gypsy jazz tunes at Capilano University's NSCU Centre for the Performing Art

MY father has a sense of humour sharper than a serpent's switchblade. An English professor, he delights in the play of language and clever turns of phrase.