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More people are coming. That's what the politicians and the bureaucrats are telling us.

Stanley Park The Vancouver Aquarium is presenting a new exhibit that will allow visitors to get up close and personal with thousands of jellyfish without the need of anyone urinating on them as a result.

Keep Vancouver Spectacular, the annual citywide cleanup campaign, will soon be sweeping the streets and is still looking for volunteers. Last year, 16,400 volunteers in 180 groups came together to fill more than 6,000 bags with litter.

GASTOWN Fans of the reality TV series Real Housewives of Vancouver will remember that Ronnie Negus' special-needs daughter Remy almost choked to death in 2011. When retold, the incident even brought series villain Jody Claman to tears.

Non-profit organization with ideas for raising awareness and responding to issues on homelessness are invited to apply for a 2013 Homelessness Action Week grant.

Vancouver police are asking for witnesses to a stabbing at the Cambie Pub last week to come forward. A 36-year-old Vancouver man remains in hospital after the attack shortly before 8 p.m. May 1.

The Vancouver chapter of the Acumen Fund a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty hosts its third annual Dignity Vancouver event May 15 at the Electric Owl.

Improvisers lie.

Spring is here and so is UBC Botanical Gardens annual plant sale! As the name A Growing Affair suggests, the evolution of the Gardens popular and long-running annual Perennial Plant Sale includes more than just plants.