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• No further concessions on Trans Mountain pipeline, Kinder Morgan Canada president says

  02-06-2017 23:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  TORONTO — Kinder Morgan Canada won’t make further concessions on its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the company’s president said Friday, setting the stage for a showdown with British Columbia’s potential government-in-waiting.
  Ian Anderson said he is willing to meet with the provincial NDP and Greens, who have vowed to immediately stop the $7.4-billion development should they oust the Liberals from power through an alliance.
  But moments after toasting Kinder Morgan Ca
  
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• Doctors providing medically assisted death gather for first national meeting

  02-06-2017 23:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  Doctors who provide assisted death are meeting for the first time since the service became legal in Canada to discuss how some eligible patients are not getting the help they need to end their lives because of confusion over one phrase in the right-to-die law.
  Dr. Jonathan Reggler, a family physician in the Vancouver Island community of Courtenay, said he has helped about a dozen people die since last June.
  Reggler, a member of the Canadian Association of Medical Assistance In Dying Assessors an
  
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• Vancouver orders tenants removed, immediate repairs to 'disgusting' Balmoral Hotel

  02-06-2017 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  The City of Vancouver is removing tenants from the Balmoral Hotel and has ordered the dilapidated building’s landlords to begin repairs immediately.
  “The City of Vancouver’s chief building official has determined that the structural and fire concerns at the Balmoral constitute an unsafe condition and has issued an order pursuant to the Vancouver building bylaw directing that occupancy of the Balmoral cease as of June 12,” read a statement given to reporters at a media con
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Lake Country now a promising B.C. wine terroir

  02-06-2017 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Not all that long ago, the Lake Country area situated about halfway between Kelowna and Vernon was home to a single winery.
  Gray Monk Winery owners George and Trudy Heiss and their family started growing grapes and selling wine overlooking the north end of Okanagan Lake back in 1976, and for more than 25 years it was the only winery in the region.
  During their initial search for vineyard land the advice was to look for a place where you could grow peaches and apples because that meant you likely
  
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• City gets GOLD at the Planning Institute of British Columbia 2017 Awards @_PIBC #NorthVan ow.ly/O2Hz30cgL1u https://t.co/edbpyQiF5i

  02-06-2017 21:50 via twitter.com
  
  City gets GOLD at the Planning Institute of British Columbia 2017 Awards @_PIBC #NorthVan ow.ly/O2Hz30cgL1u https://t.co/edbpyQiF5i
  
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• RCMP takes part in Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run bit.ly/2rArjqi #NorthVancouver

  02-06-2017 21:21 via twitter.com
  RCMP takes part in Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Runbit.ly/2rArjqi#NorthVancouver
  
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• Abbotsford murder victim was 'known to police'

  02-06-2017 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified the victim of Wednesday’s murder in Abbotsford as 41-year-old Nektarios Pardalis.
  Abbotsford RCMP discovered Pardalis’s body inside his Cameron Crescent residence after responding to “a suspicious circumstance” at the home at around 1:45 a.m.
  Details on the cause of death or what led police to believe it was a homicide have not been released.
  The investigation has revealed that Pardalis lived alone, and he was
  
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• Two seal pups rescued by Vancouver Aquarium at start of pupping season

  02-06-2017 20:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two rescued seal pups have been admitted to the Vancouver Aquarium’s rescue facility, just as pupping season gets underway.
  Princeton and Georgina are both named for Canadian towns – Princeton, B.C. and Georgina, Ont. – in honour of Canada 150. Both seals were found still covered in the fur of premature pups and had remnants of their umbilical cords attached.
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: JUNE 2, 2017 – Two rescued seal pups have been admitted to the Vancouver Aquarium’s rescue
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Did we miss out on Asia?

  02-06-2017 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  This week’s Conversation That Matters features Stewart Beck of the Asia Pacific Foundation on the opportunities that Donald Trump’s isolationist and anti-trade rhetoric aimed at Asia present to Canada.
  Did we squander the endowment that was created in 1970 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau when Canada was the first western nation to recognize the government of the People’s Republic of China?
  Many experts believe Canada relied too heavily on our relationship with the&nb
  
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• Vancouver to evict tenants, orders immediate repairs to 'disgusting' Balmoral Hotel

  02-06-2017 20:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  The City of Vancouver is evicting tenants from the Balmoral Hotel and has ordered the dilapidated building’s landlords to begin repairs immediately.
  “The City of Vancouver’s Chief Building Official has determined that the structural and fire concerns at the Balmoral constitute an unsafe condition and has issued an order pursuant to the Vancouver Building Bylaw directing that occupancy of the Balmoral cease as of June 12,” read a statement given to reporters at a media con
  
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• High-octane soccer: The rise of Atlanta United FC

  02-06-2017 20:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  Take an owner with deep pockets, a big potential fan base, a big-name manager and some smart market research, put it all together and what do you get?
  Atlanta United, of course, the expansion team that’s playing high-octane soccer and is in the playoff mix to boot. They’re here in Vancouver to play the Whitecaps on Saturday at B.C. Place (2:30 p.m., TSN).
  It’s all a bit of a surprising success in a region known best for college football, then the NFL, with the NBA and Major Lea
  
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• Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films helps 'break the sound barrier'

  02-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films
  Sunday, June 4, 3-10 p.m. | Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St.
  Tickets | $15-$25 at eventbrite.ca
  If you literally dip below the surface on the issue of the marine environment, you’ll understand there is a massive sound-pollution problem.
  Propeller noise, naval sonar testing, oil-company exploration explosions, cruise ships are all causing a cetacean-killing clamour.
  Directed by Daniel Hinerfeld of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the
  
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• Town Talk: Canadian Club honours Grace McCarthy and other distinguished citizens

  02-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and B.C. Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon attended a Canadian Club luncheon.
  VISIONS WE HAVE FOUND: Beverley McLachlin’s judicial career has led her from the Vancouver County Court to chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court to, in 2000, the Supreme Court of Canada. At the Terminal City Club this week, soon-to-be-published novelist McLachlan attended the 20th annual luncheon of the Canadian Club of Vancouver whose president Raymond Greenwood&r
  
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• Remember #Grey4Glass. Smithrite no longer collects improperly sorted glass. cnv.org/Recycling #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-06-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Remember #Grey4Glass. Smithrite no longer collects improperly sorted glass. cnv.org/Recycling#NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Victoria’s makeover and all things local

  02-06-2017 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  If you’re looking for a hip and swanky getaway, maybe with a little splurge, Victoria is the ticket. Sure it’s still retirement central but young Canadians are making an impact. This isn’t the city I remember from a few decades ago, when I’d had enough of the “newly weds and nearly deads” and moved to big sister Vancouver.
  Of course change is inevitable and some people whine about it, but Victoria has changed for the better and I get why people young and old a
  
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• Governments ‘won’t rest’ on opioid crisis: Trudeau

  02-06-2017 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  The prime minister says all levels of government must continue to push for “lasting solutions” to the rising opioid epidemic in Canada.
  Justin Trudeau addressed the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Friday in Ottawa.
  
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• Your countdown to the weekend starts now! twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…

  02-06-2017 18:39 via twitter.com
  Your countdown to the weekend starts now! twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…
  
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• Scavenger Hunt! Walk/Bike/Bus the City. Collect clues, explore, win prizes. Get passport + details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-06-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Scavenger Hunt! Walk/Bike/Bus the City. Collect clues, explore, win prizes. Get passport + details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Daily Poll: Is John Horgan getting ahead of himself with Site C?

  02-06-2017 16:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  In Vaughn Palmer’s Thursday column, he detailed how NDP Leader (and perhaps soon-to-be B.C. premier) John Horgan sent a letter Wednesday to B.C. Hydro, asking them not to proceed with Site C construction until a new government is established.
  The $9-million Site C project is a hydro dam located on the Peace River in northeast B.C. Unlike the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, the Site C project is under provincial jurisdiction and was approved by the B.C. Liberal government in 2014.
  Related
  
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• Five Things to Know: Balmoral tenants stage sit-in, Horgan says halt, B.C. has very good dogs

  02-06-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Balmoral residents stormed City Hall, John Horgan told B.C. Hydro to hold off on finalizing Site C contracts, and two B.C. terriers win SPCA courage awards.
  Here are five things you need to know:  
  Balmoral tenants stage City Hall sit-in
  More like sitty hall, am I right? (I’m not right. I’ll move on.)
  Tenants of the Downtown Eastside’s dilapidated Balmoral Hotel, whose plight was covered in The Vancouver Sun earlier this week, stormed City Hall and staged a sit-in out
  
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• What’s hot in home décor for summer 2017?

  02-06-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Keeping up with the trends and best new looks when it comes to your home can be as daunting as following the ever-changing face of fashion. What’s hot? What’s not? Home décor style moves quickly, so keeping current can be challenging. Always on top of all the hottest home decor trends, we sat down with La-Z-Boy design expert Debbie Heal to chat about new looks, colours, textures and more.
  Q: In the 90s it was all about monochromatic palettes like beige, taupe, and cream.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Witness describes trying to save Jon Bacon

  02-06-2017 07:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  There was more stunning testimony at the trial of Jujhar Khun-Khun, Jason McBride and Michel Jones Thursday. Hearing Vaughn Smeltzer, a Penticton man who ran towards the hotel to help the wounded, was really remarkable. 
  He tried his best to save Jonathan Bacon and probably prolonged the Red Scorpion gangster’s life for an extra half an hour. But despite his valiant efforts, Bacon died.
  The trial is now adjourned until Monday. I will be covering it live for another week and hope to re
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, June 2

  02-06-2017 07:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, June 2.
  Lord of the Schwings: A Tolkien Burlesque Night
  I’m a sucker for the Geekenders’ nerdy, body-positive burlesque parodies, so I wasn’t going to let their latest production pass without comment. Fresh off last month’s Star Wars-themed show, The Empire Strips Back, the troupe heads to Middle Earth for this month’s event. If you’ve ever wanted to see Gandalf the Grey bec
  
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• Reign of terrier: Fight for survival earns puppy BC SPCA Courage Award

  02-06-2017 06:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  A tiny terrier who spent a week forgotten in a dark, unheated storage room has earned the BC SPCA’s Animal Courage Award.
  Jimmy Bean, a five-month old puppy, was surrendered to the BC SPCA’s Port Alberni Branch in December 2016 after his guardian left the dog with a grandparent, who placed him in a storage chamber under his house, then promptly forgot about him. According to the BC SPCA, Jimmy Bean arrived clinging to life, weighing just one kilogram and suffering from
  
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• Great day. Thanks Kulvir! twitter.com/beingkulvir/st…

  02-06-2017 06:27 via twitter.com
  Great day.Thanks Kulvir! twitter.com/beingkulvir/st…
  
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• Cops tired of tire thefts as Vancouver couple loses two in a night

  02-06-2017 05:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Vancouver woman was shocked on Thursday morning to discover that her boyfriend’s car had two fewer tires than when he parked it the night before.
  Thieves made off with both of the driver’s side tires on Doug De Visser’s 2016 Honda Civic, leaving the vehicle resting on concrete blocks. Photos indicate that the perpetrators intended to leave with a complete set, but couldn’t. The tires on the passenger’s side were only partly removed. 
  A Kitsilano woman shared
  
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• Tenants at 'disgusting' Downtown Eastside hotel protest inside city hall

  02-06-2017 05:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hours after Vancouver’s mayor slammed the owners of a “disgusting” Downtown Eastside hotel and threatened legal action, its tenants stormed city hall and staged a sit-in outside council chambers.
  In recent years, the Balmoral Hotel at 159 East Hastings has been the subject of complaints about the building’s condition lodged by tenants and housing advocates, including legal battles against its owners, the Sahota family.
  The Sahotas also own the nearby Regent, Astoria and C
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan's Hydro dealings promise to be riveting power play

  02-06-2017 04:25 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Though New Democratic Party Leader John Horgan still has to clear a hurdle or two before becoming premier, he’s already fired off a cautionary letter to B.C. Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald about the Site C project.
  “I am concerned at the potential to increase the liability of B.C. Hydro, B.C. Hydro ratepayers and taxpayers for new contracts that B.C. Hydro may be contemplating during this time of uncertainty regarding future governments and what new decisions may be
  
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• WestJet sets sights on China, announces plan for new service

  02-06-2017 03:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  WestJet is looking to add service to China, CEO Gregg Saretsky announced in a speech at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Thursday.
  “We’re looking east, west and south,” he said. “We are entering into the century of the Asia Pacific region.”
  The airline has “applied for designation to serve China.”
  WestJet is only at the beginning of the process of approval with Transport Canada and doesn’t yet know when the service would start or which desti
  
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• Tenants at 'disgusting' Downtown Eastside protest inside city hall

  02-06-2017 03:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hours after Vancouver’s mayor slammed the owners of a “disgusting” Downtown Eastside hotel and threatened legal action, its tenants stormed city hall and staged a sit-in outside council chambers.
  In recent years, the Balmoral Hotel at 159 East Hastings has been the subject of complaints about the building’s condition lodged by tenants and housing advocates, including legal battles against its owners, the Sahota family.
  The Sahotas also own the nearby Regent, Astoria and C
  
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• Dan Fumano: Once derided as 'instant slum,' does False Creek now hold lessons for rest of city?

  02-06-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  When False Creek South was proposed in the early 1970s, critics said the plan for a cluster of socially-mixed stacked townhouses on former industrial land would lead to a crime-infested slum, inhospitable to families.
  Hardly. If you stroll there today through the leafy paths between low-rises and townhouses, it doesn’t feel anything like a slum. And, as a remarkably poised 12-year-old told City of Vancouver councillors this week, it’s one of the city’s most “awesome&rdquo
  
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• NDP Leader John Horgan calls on BC Hydro not to finalize Site C contracts

  02-06-2017 02:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  NDP Leader John Horgan has advised BC Hydro not to sign any new contracts on the divisive Site C hydroelectric dam project.
  The $8.8 billion dam will be the third on the Peace River, flooding an 83-kilometre stretch of valley, and local First Nations, landowners and farmers have fiercely opposed the project.
  In a letter addressed to BC Hydro’s president and CEO, Horgan urges the corporation not to finalize any contracts that do not contain a penalty-free cancellation clause “until a
  
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• Senate report urges more support, schools for French education in B.C.

  02-06-2017 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia needs to build more French-only schools and increase access to French language education to support the province’s Francophone community and prevent children from losing their linguistic birthright, says a Senate report.
  The report by the Senate committee on official languages says the federal government is not assuming its leadership role to ensure access to French first-language or French second-language education in B.C.
  “It is essential for the f
  
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• B.C. MP calls on prime minister to stand up for Kinder Morgan

  02-06-2017 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Conservative member of parliament from B.C. has a clear message for the prime minister: stand up for Kinder Morgan.
  In the wake of this week’s announcement that the provincial NDP and Green parties were ready to form government in B.C., federal Conservatives have been calling on Justin Trudeau to speak strongly in support of Kinder Morgan’s Transmountain pipeline expansion project. The Liberal government approved the project late last year.
  Both leaders of the provincial parties ha
  
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• B.C. NDP transition team on hold until Clark government voted out

  02-06-2017 02:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s New Democrats say they’ve got a transition team ready to help them form the next government, but they’ve put its formal work on hold until they see whether they are successful in voting down Premier Christy Clark’s government this month.
  “What you do in these circumstances is you assume you might win and you start preparing stuff before hand,” said Bob Dewar, chief of staff to NDP leader John Horgan and the party’s election campai
  
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• Henrik and Daniel Sedin awarded honorary degrees from Kwantlen Polytechnic University

  02-06-2017 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  Henrik and Daniel Sedin have accumulated all sorts of accolades over their arguably Hall of Fame-worthy hockey careers, and on Thursday, they added two more.
  In addition to twin scoring titles, twin Golden Pucks, twin Victoria Scholarships, Olympic gold medals, a Hart Trophy, and a Ted Lindsay Award, the Sedins can now boast honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
  It’s not the Stanley Cup, but it’s the next best thing. Although Masters of Fine Arts might
  
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• Canada's $867 million in aid to lumber industry riles U.S. producers

  02-06-2017 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  The federal government crafted its $867-million assistance plan for Canada’s forest sector to avoid the appearance of subsidy to its U.S. opponents in the softwood lumber dispute, but it has already annoyed the main American lobby group.
  Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr unveiled on Thursday expanded loan guarantees, financing support and employment-insurance extensions to lessen the reduce of expected job losses caused by punishing duties attached to Canadian softwood exports to the U.S
  
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• World's tallest mostly wood building poised to be built in downtown Vancouver alongside Erickson classic

  02-06-2017 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  A design by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for the world’s tallest hybrid timber structure is poised to be built in downtown Vancouver.
  When complete, the wood, glass and concrete building will stand 19 storeys and 71 metres tall — one storey higher than the wood-hybrid Brock Commons at the University of B.C. — said Tobi Reyes, the CEO of PortLiving, the Vancouver-based developer behind the project.
  Ban designed the residential tower, Terrace House, as a trib
  
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• #FunCityFestival Aug 12 & 13 | 2 days, 8 City blocks, music, food, vendors, no cars + giant water slide.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  #FunCityFestival Aug 12 & 13 | 2 days, 8 City blocks, music, food, vendors, no cars + giant water slide.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• District of North Vancouver council votes itself a raise - North Shore News

  02-06-2017 01:29 via nsnews.com
  
  North Shore News
  District of North Vancouver council votes itself a raise
  North Shore News
  Mayor and council were paid a total of $356,482 last year, approximately $4,278 more than 2015. Council's pay rises or dips according to changes in Canada's consumer price index. Mayor Richard Walton was the top earner in 2016 with $100,677 in ...
  
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