Do you “friend” your teachers on Facebook?
Send us a screengrab of your teacher’s Facebook page by emailing provweb@theprovince.com or posting on Tumblr using the hashtag #TeacherFB
We’re doing a story on how the Vancouver School Board is implementing a policy to bar teachers from friending students on social media.
Look familiar?
An anonymous video game developer has mapped Port Moody Secondary School for a Counter-Strike sequence.
The body of 18-year-old Mission mom, Rachel Pernosky, has been found.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is taking over the case. They’ll be releasing more information at a 11:30 press conference, which we will be live-blogging from. Follow along here: http://theprov.in/100p5Ja
The Abbotsford Police Department is sending out this Christmas card to people on their naughty list: gangsters, prolific offenders and property offenders.
What do you think of the tactic?
Go go dancers and disco dancing were all part of the scene at Vancouver’s Oil Can Harry’s nightclub.
We dug through our archives for these groovy photos.
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Two men have been arrested in the murder of SFU Surrey student Maple Batalia.
Elk Valley RCMP have issued an amber alert for Alvin Barnet, 3.
Alvin is three-foot-2, 35 pounds and was last seen wearing a red shirt and blue jeans.
He may be travelling with his father, Robert Barnet, in a blue 2002 Subaru Outback with BC licence plate 347-SBL.
Terrace pot advocate Bob Erb has won a cool $25 million in a LOTTOMAX draw.
The former candidate for the BC Marijuana Party plans to spread his wealth to soup kitchens, food banks, shelters, local organizations and on the fight for the legalization of pot.
Happy 85th birthday, Orpheum Theatre!
We dug through our archives to discover photos and ads from the Vancouver landmark.
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Mounties from the Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, and UBC detachments, as well as officers from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and the gang-fighting Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit came together to talk about being openly gay while in the RCMP.
I will not let it beat me. …I still have the same mindset as before. I still want to play college (football), I still want to make Team Canada (for ball hockey). I still want to accomplish anything. Nothing is going to change.
Gangnam Okanagan Style.
Okanangan Mission Secondary’s parody of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” featuring their mascot and teachers is going viral.
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The best,
