Visit Patricia Bannerman's recently updated multi-themed Photo Gallery, including images of 21 of her original watercolour paintings. View the galleries here

Black bears have been a ubiquitous presence in Greater Vancouver residential neighbourhoods this year, most of them docile and just scavenging for food, but the mauling of victims caught by surprise have also sent people to hospital with serious injuries. Bannerline's Patricia Bannerman photographed a bear in one residential neighbourhood. Her photos were featured in the Friday, August 8, 2008 edition of the North Shore News (circulation 65,000). SEE PHOTOS

Private, personal transportation is a North American way of life and here to stay. Richard Pitt demonstrates that the great breakthroughs will be in energy sources for the car, not insensitive, impractical and doomed-to-failure political policies pushing people into transport modes they don't wish to use. >>more

WEB SITE LAUNCHED
Internationally renowned caricaturist Kerry Waghorn, whose work illustrated the book Squandering Billions, has become an important part of the BANNERLINE group. The site www.kerrywaghorn.com, designed by Doug Cook (www.dc-webdesign.com), is an explosion of famous faces. >>more

ARTIST ROBERT GENN'S world fame may be old news by now, but his passion for communication and sharing may eclipse all other accomplishments. One day this spring his art information web site www.painterskeys.com attracted one million unique visitors and no day passes without several hundred thousand hits.>>more

British Columbia's world acclaimed salmon fishing in the remote northern reaches of the Queen Charlotte Islands, will take another giant stride this season as Air North 737 charter jet service speeds the sports adventurer guests to Masset, en route to Queen Charlotte Lodge (QCL) on Naden Harbour. From Masset, Helijet takes over with a luxury high-speed shuttle to the Lodge. >>more

"They Just Don't Get It" - Gary Bannerman analyzes the current
health insurance debate in the United States.
What seems so mystifying to the world is to listen to prominent American politicians make a very simple principle and obvious solution, sound so complex. The words of Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and so many others who went before them, resemble something from Mad Magazine. >>more

Sports- Medical megaproject in the works at SFU
Over two years of planning led by visionary businessman and former athlete Ryan Skomorowski has finally surfaced publicly, a $250 million investment in structures alone, a sports-medical complex second in size in North America only to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. BANNERLINE has been a proud participant in this venture since early 2006. >>more

"THE BUCK STOPS NOWHERE"
- Former Vancouver Police Chief, founding Chair of the Justice Institute of B.C. and past member of the National Parole Board, Bob Stewart, speaks out about what he sees as a dysfunctional structure for urban policing in B.C., remarks also relevant to the current national debate concerning the RCMP.>>more

BC Horse Racing - new economic development thrust
Veteran thoroughbred horse owner, trainer and industry executive David Milburn, a lawyer by profession, has been appointed to chair a new thrust to assess the economic foundation of both standardbred and thoroughbred horse racing in B.C., and to prepare an action plan for the future, exploring a "competition committee" model used successfully to manage the development of other professional sports. >>more

New VSA web site launched
The Motor Vehicle Sales Authority of B.C., a BANNERLINE client, launched its new web site July 3, 2007, designed by long-term associate Doug Cook of DigiCom WebDesign  >>more

Vancouver spine conference:
Regeneration breakthrough nears for discs
Dr. Mark Erwin, a Toronto medical research scientist, told a conference here this weekend that he and his team are pursuing a breakthrough that could eliminate expensive and painful surgery for thousands of patients suffering from degenerative disc disease. >>more

Gotlib honoured by standing ovation
The Executive-Director of the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation (CCRF), Dr. Allan Gotlib, who has been instrumental in the establishment of research chairs at several Canadian universities, was honoured by his colleagues at the Vancouver Conference, Research 2007: The Spine Care Revolution. >>more

Regulator of motor vehicle sales gets new name
The Motor Dealer Council of B.C. (MDC) has become the Motor Vehicle Sales Authority of British Columbia (VSA), a new name for a new era, better reflecting both the public and industry service roles of the independent regulatory agency, ending any confusion with other business organizations. >>more

ANOTHER FARABLOC BREAKTHROUGH
A distinguished British medical journal, Clinical Rheumatology, has just published an article concerning the remarkable pain-reduction results of Farabloc, developed and manufactured by a Vancouver-headquartered company, in studies of patients suffering from fibromyalgia. >>more

Research 2007: THE SPINE CARE REVOLUTION
Dr. Don Nixdorf, Executive Director of the British Columbia Chiropractic Association, has announced a major conference for April 27-28 in Vancouver. It will bring together some of the foremost research scientists in the world today dealing with neurophysiological issues >>more (PDF 234kb)

Squandering Billions continues during "B.C. Conversation on Health"
A respected American think tank, in a report released last week in Washington, D.C., was the latest to criticize inefficiencies within health management in Canada, diagnostic mistakes and a failure to effectively use electronic records. >>more

Fedex and UPS "arrogant, deliberately unlawful and exploitative," court cases will prove
A class action law suit filed here Thursday against Fedex parallels one commenced against United Parcel Services Canada Ltd. (UPS) last week. The actions concern the assessment of uncontracted "brokerage" fees on United States products delivered to Canada, a charge not specified in the sales contract.  >>more

Stocker gets top international Crime Stoppers award.
BANNERLINE associate Shirley Stocker was honoured by Crime Stoppers International at the 30th anniversary conference at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in early October, 2006. She was named "Civilian of the Year" among the 1,400 Crime Stoppers programs that operate in 23 countries. >>more

Chiropractic Research Professorship Awarded at UBC
The Faculty of Education and the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia announced here today the appointment of Dr. Jean-Sebastien Blouin as Assistant Professor in Human Kinetics in the named position, Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation Professorship in Spine Biomechanics and Neuro-Physiology. >>more

Odometer tampering gets jail term
Motor Dealer Council of B.C. investigation sends a "curber" (an unlicensed auto dealer) to jail for odometer tampering. >>more

Class action suit seeks refund of unlawfully collected school fees
Government sued for unlawfully collecting extra fees from students >>more

Client profiled in respected journal
Ken Smith, the President and Registrar of the Motor Dealer Council of British Columbia, was recently profiled in the respected newspaper, Business in Vancouver. The writer was Andrew Petrozzi, now a full-time staff member of this publication, who has also done many research and journalistic projects for BANNERLINE over the years. >>more

CCTV - Closed Circuit Television
Maybe we need some rules - by Richard Pitt
Britain has millions of them, yet they didn't stop the bombers of 07/07/2005. They may, however, have kept others from following in their footsteps. ...in the Vancouver area they're talking about putting cameras on all the buses (amongst other places) and we've just had a murder all but solved by the use of video from a commercial camera in a parking lot. >>more

Boatswain's call launches "The Heritage District"
In a ceremony presided over by former mayor Philip W. Owen, a naval officer sounded a "Boatswain's call" here tonight, to inaugurate "The Heritage District on Hastings West", a neighbourhood offering the most prestigious concentration of luxury retail stores in Western Canada, including some of the world's most renowned brands. >>more

Bannerman-Nixdorf book, a shocker!  
A new book authored by Gary Bannerman and Dr. Don Nixdorf, a brutally frank indictment of health spending and mismanagement in Canada, was released near the end of June, 2005. Published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by Hancock House Publishers, Squandering Billions: Health Care in Canada, took a year in the preparation. The first draft was reviewed by distinguished health experts from east to west coast in Canada, and from Boston (Harvard University) to Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States.
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