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Jericho Boat Show OPEN HOUSE May 11

   The annual Jericho Boat Show Open House is on Saturday, May 11 from Noon-1600H. Bring your landlubber friends, co-workers, neighbours and relatives down to the Centre on that day to check out all of the ocean access opportunities available to … Continue reading

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Flights of Spring Regatta

Flights of Spring NOR 2013 Coming up this Saturday and Sunday(April 20& 21) is the Flights of Spring regatta! Come out and enjoy an exciting weekend of racing. The Notice of Race is linked right above with all the information … Continue reading

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NEXT 2 Weekends @ Jericho – 2012 UBC REC “Day of the Longboat”

This year’s annual celebration of the paddle at Jericho is almost, slightly, historic. For the first time in more than 70 years, the recently uncovered central portion of Jericho Beach will witness mass numbers of native paddlers from the vantage … Continue reading

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Kitsilano Coast Guard Station Update 2 – JSCA GM Letter to Fisheries & Ocean Minister + BC Conservatives

Ahoy Minister Ashfield: When we met in Vancouver at the June 26 roundtable discussion regarding the closure of the Canadian Coast Guard – Kitsilano Station you told me along with other representatives of local marine transportation, industry and recreation, that … Continue reading

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Kitsilano Coast Guard Station Update CCG Rescue Coordination Centre Strongly Objects to Closure

This week, just as the 2012 Canadian Parliament is about to launch their Fall session, information has surfaced that appears to contradict Conservative Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Keith Ashfield’s claim that the decision to close the Kitsilano Coast Guard … Continue reading

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JRCC Victoria – Kits Letter

JRCC Victoria SMC – Kits Letter

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JRCC Victoria – Website Objection Letter

JRCC Victoria SMC – Website Objection Letter

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Kitsilano Coast Guard Station Closure Update Do You Think Canadian Lives are Worth a Nickel a Head? Come to the Public Rally to Save Kits Coast Guard Station

Within a 30 minute response radius of Vancouver’s Kitsilano Coast Guard Station, there are more than 20 million human ocean transits annually. Kits Station is centrally located in Canada’s busiest waterway and its crews have been saving lives in peril for … Continue reading

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Closure

Surf over to the link below for a great article in the Georgia Straight regarding the emergency Town Hall Meeting that was held at the JSCA yesterday evening regarding the proposed closure of the Kits Coast Guard Base. http://www.straight.com/article-700066/vancouver/kitsilano-coast-guard-station-closure-will-cost-lives-and-threaten-economy-according-searchandrescue-ex

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CCG Kits Station Centrally Located to Support Human Safety

Almost 5 million people annually transport, work and recreate within a critical response radius of the Kitsilano Coast Guard Base: the highest concentration of, mixed use, marine traffic in Canada. The Kitsilano Coast Guard Station is the centrally located “fire … Continue reading

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