Science news articles about 'vancouver'

... by Dr. Yossi Av-Gay, research scientist with the Immunity and Infection Research Centre at the Vancouver Coastal Research Institute and associate professor with UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, suggests ...

B.C.'s provincial opposition is introducing a private member's bill that it hopes will keep Vancouver's supervised injection site open.

A study has found that one in nine people in the Vancouver General Hospital emergency room were there because of an adverse reaction to their medication.

A pilot project to put defibrillators in some Vancouver community centres has come too late for one hockey player.

After 15 months of pregnancy, Qila, the Vancouver Aquarium's 12-year-old beluga whale, gave birth to her first calf on Tuesday afternoon.

Metro Vancouver's plan to build several new waste-to-energy plants is raising concerns amongst residents who are worried the plants will funnel more air pollution toward the Fraser Valley.

A police officer used a Taser on a mentally disturbed teenaged mother to save the life of her critically ill infant, the Vancouver Police Department says.

A well-known computer company has told a Vancouver Island school to drop its apple logo.

Hundreds of paramedics gathered outside the provincial cabinet offices in downtown Vancouver Tuesday demanding the B.C. government properly fund the province's ambulance service or face job action.

A retired pro snowboarder from Vancouver believes his new company, Envia, can beat major auto manufacturers in the race to make electric vehicles commercially viable.

Health officials inspected an Air Canada flight from Montreal that landed at Vancouver International Airport Monday night after a group of people on board began feeling ill.

Electronic Arts Inc. has cancelled plans to expand into a new video game development studio in Vancouver, citing slow holiday sales and concerns about the global economic situation.

... in British Columbia, video-game giant Electronic Arts. Inc. announced Friday morning it would further contract, closing downtown Vancouver's Black Box studio and revealing plans for more layoffs.

... infrequent earthquakes, runs along the length of North America's western coast from northern Vancouver Island to northern California and is the boundary between two of the Earth's tectonic plates. An ...

Aurora, a beluga whale at the Vancouver Aquarium, is pregnant again, and the calf is likely due in June or July, staff at the facility announced Thursday morning.