MARCH 26, 2006 =i Bright Lights 0012 Celebratisns : Classifieds ri Fashion Home & Garden Pets Travel ooo 30 i Talking Personals *** 34 HCN Pupication Company Pubister Pater Sp {135 Lonsaate &senve, hon Vanes: Catatan Puptecance: Seniors p22 Gardens 928 Eldercollege grapples Beauty of begonias with health care eat Makeover winner Tracy Jeffery’s he stylish new look ‘eh Fashion p15 48 Pages The Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969 Www. nsnews.com FREE Jan-Christian Sorensen Contributing Writer BUILDING with Lego was never this complicated. But when the 54° pieces vowre joining together igh 105 tonnes each, run size of a small parking lot and will soon be suspended high aver Burrard Inlet as pat of othe Lions Gate Bridge, precision is the name of the game. Canron Construction Corp. is the steel fabrication company contracted to build the deck panels that will com- prise the new road surface of the aging, structure when the “current S100 million bridge refurbish ment project is con plete © "The project isa joint ven- Beture between American Bridge and Surespan * — Canron’s contracts man- “Irs Cet CIERRA ent NEWS photo Mike Wakefield A Lions Gate Bridge deck section nears completion at Canron Construction Corp.'s Annacis tsiand fabrication plant. Fifty-four of the 105-tonne See Bridge page 18 pieces will be used in the bridge's $100-million upgrade. Bridge closures to allow for the deck replacement are scheduled to start in May. Bob Mackin News Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com ‘WELCOME back Shaw? Shaw Cable may reassume control of the North Shore cable TV - monopoly if the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRIC) approves a deal announced Thursday. Rogers Communications wants to swap its cable opesations in “BC. for Shaw’s cable companies in southern Ontario and New Brunswick. Rogers has 623,000 subscribers in Vancouver, whi Shaw has 623,000 in Ontario and New Brunswick If approved, Shaw would sell its shares in Cogeco Cable and Cogeco Inc. to Rogers, while Rogers would selt its shares in Canadian Satellite Communications to Shaw, The two companics also plan to merge theic high speed Internet Operations into a single national service provider and form ‘ancther strateyic alliance to build a national Internet backbone Rogers Communications has heldings in cellular and digital Rogers seeks to swap local cable phones. paging. cable TY, high-speed Internet, video retailing, H H ew media, radio and TV, and publishing. operations for eastern properties si snes nadine TV tbect-to-home satelite yand Internet service. Itis waiting approval from the CRTC to company. Rogers recently proposed a merger with Queby take aver Western International Communications specialry TV and Videotron, so this week's deal falls in tine with its strategy to focus AM and FM radio properties, including Vancouver's CKNW. on the central and eastern Canada market. Rogers originally moved on to the North Shore in 1996 when Conversely, Shaw wants to bolster its presence in western the CRTC approved a deal between Rogers Cablesystems and Canada. Shaw Cable thar saw the companies agree to swap assets, including “With this swap, we become the most clustered and intercon- Shaw’s North Shore territory. nected cable company in western Canada while maintaining a crit- David Ingram, whose popular Rogers daytime TV talk show ical mass of approximately 1.86 million subscribers,” Jim Shaw, — celebrated its 500th installment on Jan. 28, said he and others president and CEO of Shaw Communications, said in a news — involved in’ Rogers’ local TV production did not know what release. impact the switch back to Shaw would have on shows like his. “In our view, Vancouver is a key urban centre in Canada with Rogers was scheduled to extend broadcasts of his Ingram show good growth potential and an improving economy.” to Toronto as of April £. at ‘eG it. North Van.