Interactive graphic: Vancouver to Whistler along the Sea-to-Sky Highway

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.

The Sea-to-Sky Highway (99) in British Columbia is one of Canada’s most scenic highways, stretching from Horseshoe Bay to Whistler. In preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the road has undergone many improvements, making the breathtaking drive safer for commuters ...

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Man accused in death of model Jasmine Fiore hangs self near Vancouver, police say [Updated]

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Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 11:11 p.m.

The international manhunt for Ryan Jenkins, the man suspected of killing his ex-wife, model Jasmine Fiore, ended Sunday evening in the woodsy tourist town of Hope, British Columbia, when a hotel employee found him dead of an apparent suicide. Authorities ...

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Music did a number on me

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Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Experts say that musical training can have a profound effect on young minds. But 50 years after violin lessons and a disaster with the Chicago Symphony, the writer is singing a different tune ... In a recent interview in Harper's Magazine, Dr. Oliver Sacks, the respected Columbia University neurologist, argued that intensive musical training had a profound effect on young brains. He noted a study that showed children with a single year of violin training demonstrated striking positive change in

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Hydropower boom may not be a bust for salmon

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Published July 27, 2009 at 8:52 a.m.

With the big push for renewable energy, hydropower is getting a new lease on life. The Chelan County Public Utility District in Washington state is trying to get more power out of the Columbia River without harming endangered salmon. How ...

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Female ski jumpers to appeal court decision

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Published July 16, 2009 at 6:38 p.m.

A group of female ski jumpers will appeal a court decision that prevents them from competing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. According to the group's lawyer, the appeal will argue that the organizers of the Winter ...

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Women ski jumpers shut out of Vancouver Games

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Published July 10, 2009 at 1:45 p.m.

A bid by female ski jumpers to be included in the next Winter Olympics was rejected by a judge in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fifteen jumpers had sued the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) over their exclusion from the ...

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Saving the Columbia and Snake river salmon

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Published July 6, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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A judge overseeing endangered salmon on the Columbia and Snake rivers is raising the possibility of dam removal. If politics trumps science this time, how can we hope to deal with climate change? ... If ever there were a story that foreshadowed the political and legal Waterloos that loom in seeking solutions to climate change, surely that cautionary tale is the one about the Columbia and Snake rivers' salmon and their imminent extinction. And like most stories about endangered species or

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If salmon can't be saved, Snake River dams may have to go

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Published May 18, 2009 at 10:05 p.m.

For years, the federal government has struggled to find a way to operate the massive hydropower system on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest--and also try to recover the endangered salmon that are all-too-frequently slaughtered at the ...

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