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wildlife

This film offers a rare visit with the creatures in BC’s Great Bear Rainforest

GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST: Ryan Reynolds is the voice, the big name, the draw but the real star of this beautiful documentary is a white bear named Mox. She’s what the Indigenous people in this part of...

Murder on the Orient Express told once again and a true original, Jane

Also two small quirky films: My Friend Dahmer and Infinity Baby

Searching for a Lost City, eyeing the wildlife of China, honoring the guru of better cities

And there’s more: friends and monsters connect long distance, wartime feelings that don’t go away and the real life of drug addicts

Study singles out genes for aggressive, wingmen and cross-dressing birds

Experts say those traits could hold clues to what's behind aggression in other species, and even humans.

Cougar killed after Halloween sighting in New Westminster neighbourhood

Animal killed weeks after cougar in Victoria was successfully tranquillized and relocated by authorities.

Dramatic cougar chase in Victoria ends with big cat felled by tranquilizer dart

Cougar evaded capture since Sunday night, but was finally chased down by tracker dogs and tranquilized by conservation oficers.

Father's punch to the face saves British Columbia toddler in cougar attack

TAHSIS, B.C. — A Vancouver Island man punched a cougar in the face Monday to rescue his two-year-old girl from its jaws. Travis Nielsen's daughter, Bree, suffered some puncture wounds in the sudden...

Reviews of Monkey Kingdom, True Story, Unfriended and two social realist films from France

Cyberbullying, street hustlers, youth gangs, home invasion, wife and child killing, and warring wildlife. We’ve got them all at the movies this week. Also ethics, or not, in journalism.

Vancouver’s photographers urged to get snapping: photo contest

Novice and seasoned nature photographers in Vancouver are urged to get out their cameras and get snapping to be in with a chance of winning a new photo contest that kicks off on April 6, 2013....