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• The Council Workshop scheduled for today at 5pm has been cancelled. Next Council meeting is Mon, Jun 12 at 7pm. ow.ly/1NHy30ckYoV

  05-06-2017 22:14 via twitter.com
  The Council Workshop scheduled for today at 5pm has been cancelled. Next Council meeting is Mon, Jun 12 at 7pm. ow.ly/1NHy30ckYoV
  
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• Syrian refugee finds a job and belonging at Victoria café

  05-06-2017 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  
  A few weeks after 19-year-old Rateb started working at Zazu Cafe in downtown Victoria, he put a Syrian soup, shurbat addes, on the menu. Selling the red lentil soup, spiced with cumin, to customers was a small way of tying his old life in Syria to his new one in Canada.
  Rateb has been working part-time at the Blanshard Street café since March. The café’s owner, Tracey Higgins, is not just Rateb’s boss — right now, she’s the closest thing he has to a mother.
  
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• Mayors' Council finalize details for mobility pricing commission

  05-06-2017 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  Metro Vancouver’s mayors, along with TransLink’s board, have firmed up the terms of reference for an independent commission that will study mobility pricing’s usefulness in dealing with congestion on the Lower Mainland’s roads.
  Full details, along with the identities of the commissioners, will be announced Tuesday morning in downtown Vancouver. Vancouver mayor Gregor Roberston, who is currently chairing the council, and TransLink board member Janet Austin will be in atten
  
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• Walk-Bike-Bus Scavenger Hunt continues! Grab your friends + a passport & find the clues! ow.ly/emKa30ckNRq… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-06-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Walk-Bike-Bus Scavenger Hunt continues! Grab your friends + a passport & find the clues! ow.ly/emKa30ckNRq… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Music reviews: Chuck Berry, Roger Waters, Ashleigh Ball, Fake Shark, and The Wheelgrinders

  05-06-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Chuck Berry CHUCK (Dualtone)
  On his final recording, the late legendary architect of rock n’ roll does what he’s always done. It would be more than a little late in the game for him to mix up the stripped down, bluesy riffing that is the foundation of some of the most beloved songs of all time.
  Yet what instantly strikes you about his first new recording since 1979s Rock It is just how incredibly vital his signature boogie remains. From the opening track, Wonderful Woman, to the
  
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• Theatre review: A dark, demonic, adults-only comedy — with puppets

  05-06-2017 21:57 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hand to God
  To June 25 | BMO Theatre Centre, 162 W. 1st Ave.
  Tickets and info: From $29, at artsclub.com 
  Oliver Castillo in Hand to God.
  Don’t be fooled by the Arts Club’s publicity for Hand to God. They’re advertising the play as “an irreverent comedy,” with a poster of a cute little devilish hand puppet.
  It’s a comedy all right, but about as dark as they come. And “irreverent” is an enormous understatement. Hand to God is demonic. It’
  
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• Families of missing, murdered indigenous women share hopes for future of inquiry

  05-06-2017 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  WHITEHORSE — Relatives of missing and murdered indigenous women in Whitehorse say the national inquiry must keep listening and adapting to families’ concerns as it prepares to move on to other communities.
  The inquiry’s first family hearings wrapped in Yukon last week and Chief Commissioner Marion Buller says staff will spend the summer preparing for the next hearings in the fall.
  She says future hearings could be different, depending on the needs of the community, and it takes
  
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• Abbotsford police believe they've nabbed the tailgate bandit

  05-06-2017 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  
  Abbotsford police are hoping a recent arrest will help curb a rash of tailgate thievery in the Fraser Valley.
  Since 2016, police have received reports of more than 80 tailgates stolen from newer model trucks in Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack and Langley.
  Police say the cost of replacing a single tailgate can total thousands of dollars.
  David Ahner, 38, was arrested in connection with the theft of two 2016 Ford F350 tailgates from Langley and one 2014 Ford F350 tailgate from Abbotsford.
  He
  
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• Join Mayor @DarrellMussatto for a #PublicArt unveiling & blessing ceremony Jun 6 2:30pm @ #NorthVan cemetery.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-06-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Join Mayor @DarrellMussattofor a #PublicArt unveiling & blessing ceremony Jun 6 2:30pm @ #NorthVan cemetery.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Tonight, we're lighting the Hall green in honour of #WorldEnvironmentDay. Get outside today and connect #WithNature ow.ly/jsmn30ckyhP

  05-06-2017 18:42 via twitter.com
  Tonight, we're lighting the Hall green in honour of #WorldEnvironmentDay. Get outside today and connect #WithNature ow.ly/jsmn30ckyhP
  
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• Got one of these? If not, we've got some at the Engineering counter @ #CityHall. Come get one. #Grey4Glass… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-06-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Got one of these? If not, we've got some at the Engineering counter @ #CityHall. Come get one. #Grey4Glass… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Vancouver School Board to make leadership announcement today

  05-06-2017 17:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Vancouver School Board has called a press conference for 10:30 a.m. Monday to make an “announcement regarding leadership at the school district.”
  In October, B.C. Education Minister Mike Bernier fired all nine elected Vancouver School Board trustees and appointed former Delta School District superintendent Dianne Turner as the official trustee.
  Bernier dismissed the board for failing to pass a balanced budget.
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  B.C. education minister Bernier fires Vancouver school boardMO
  
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• Search for southeastern B.C. teacher suspended until waters drop in nearby creek

  05-06-2017 17:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  CRAWFORD BAY — The search has been suspended for a teacher missing in southeastern British Columbia.
  Search officials say efforts to find 57-year-old Alvin Dunic have been called off in Crawford Bay, 75 kilometres north of Creston, at least until water levels subside in a nearby creek.
  Dunic vanished on May 29 after telling others at Crawford Bay Elementary and Secondary that he wanted to check a location for a possible student field trip.
  His car was found near a trail leading to Crawford
  
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• Over-protective deer attack two dogs and their owners near Victoria

  05-06-2017 17:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Aggressive deer are being blamed for two separate attacks on dogs and their owners in Saanich.
  Police in the suburban Victoria municipality say both incidents happened Sunday near wooded areas close to the University of Victoria.
  Romeo Strasbourg says he was walking his dog when a doe attacked and would not be deterred by shouts or arm waving.
  He says the animal tracked him for blocks and even tried to follow him onto the porch of a house before being scared off.
  Staff Sgt. Chri
  
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• Daily Poll: Is Vancouver's empty homes tax unfair?

  05-06-2017 17:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver homeowners have less than a month to find renters to fill their vacant homes in the city – or they will be subject to a new empty home tax.
  The deadline is July 1.
  Homes that are deemed empty for at least six months per year and not used as a principal residence will be subject to a tax of 1 per cent of the property’s assessed value.
  Related
  City of Vancouver reminds empty-home owners of looming deadlineOpinion: Vancouver's 'empty homes tax' anything but, it's neither
  
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• Two skydivers injured after hard landings during Oak Bay Tea Party

  05-06-2017 15:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  OAK BAY — An annual event in suburban Victoria to raise funds for service organizations, has been marred by a skydiving mishap, but fortunately the two men involved are expected to fully recover.
  Oak Bay Sgt. Chris Goudie says the skydivers were hurt when they made hard landings during an aerial performance Sunday at the Oak Bay Tea Party.
  Goudie says air currents were treacherous at the time.
  He says both men were taken to hospital and the most serious injury appeared to be a broken leg,
  
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• Condolences pour in for B.C. victim of London terror attack

  05-06-2017 15:25 via vancouversun.com
  
  Messages of sorrow and condolence have been pouring in following the death of a B.C. woman who was killed in Saturday’s terror attack in the heart of London.
  Christine Archibald, 30, was enjoying a warm spring night with her fiance, Tyler Ferguson, when she was struck by a speeding van that plowed into people strolling on London Bridge.
  Archibald was a social worker before moving to Europe to be with her fiance. She had attended Calgary’s Mount Royal University where one of her teach
  
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• Rob Shaw: Christy Clark eyes narrow road to redemption

  05-06-2017 12:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Christy Clark is entering her dying days as B.C.’s 35th premier. Her once-mighty Liberal government will soon be skulking off to the cramped and unglamorous offices of the official Opposition.
  It’s going to be an easy time to kick Clark when she’s down. And maybe she and the Liberals deserve it. But it would be a mistake to count her out for good, just yet.
  There’s still a possible road to redemption for Clark. And she’s got about a year to pull it
  
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• Mature students still striving

  05-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Fourteen years after completing her bachelor’s degree in education and already in her 40s, Sherryl Sewepagaham knew she had to go back to university.
  “I was 31 when I got my first degree, and I taught music for many years in Edmonton,” said Sewepagaham, a former Juno Award nominee. “I moved to a different district to work as an education consultant and I was getting all kinds of calls from schools and social workers to come and sing with troubled children.”
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• Ian Mulgrew: Busted! Begbie decision, Grand Chief cast pall over top judges' McEachern move

  05-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Law Society of B.C. is removing icons of the province’s first chief justice out of respect for First Nations while the top judges are installing a bust to honour an equally controversial legal figure.
  The unveiling ceremony for a bronze of the late Chief Justice Allan McEachern, who died in 2008, will be held June 22 in the Great Hall of the Law Courts in downtown Vancouver.
  He did not have the same towering physical presence, but McEachern shared his legendary predecessor Sir Mat
  
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• Park Boulevard: Canada’s first interactive illuminated residential tower

  05-06-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  WHAT: 41-storey residential tower with 419 one-to-three- bedroom homes, including eight three-storey townhomes with double-car garages and roof decks.
  WHERE: 9887 Whalley Boulevard, Surrey
  WHEN: Occupancy set for 2020
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  Residence size: one-bedroom homes start at approximately 529 square feet, two-bedrooms at approximately 647 square feet and three-bedrooms at approximately 1,015 square feet.
  Architect: DYS Architecture
  Interior designer: LIV Interiors
  Telephone: 604-583-9866
  Websi
  
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• Hello Destroyer skates past competition at 2017 Leo Awards

  05-06-2017 08:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hockey film Hello Destroyer was the big winner at 2017 Leo Awards, which recognize excellence in B.C. film and television.
  The debut feature from Vancouver-born writer and director Kevan Funk picked up four of the top awards during the gala held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Sunday night in Vancouver, including Best Motion Picture, Best Direction, Best Screenwriting, and Best Lead Performance by a Male for Jared Abrahamson, who also won Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the 2016 Vancouver
  
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• Letters: Vancouver must take action against slumlords

  05-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Re: ‘Disgusting’ hotel’s tenants occupy Vancouver City Hall, June 2. 
  I agree with Coun. George Affleck that it’s “shocking” that Mayor Gregor Robertson is just now finding it “disgusting” that the multimillionaire Sahota family let their tenants live in filth and dangerous conditions.
  The mayor and city council need to take action now and stop “assessing” the situation. You don’t need anyone else to tell you that the Sahotas
  
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• Seen the new mural @ 3rd St & Forbes? @carsonsecondary students transformed a cement wall into a vibrant mural.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Seen the new mural @ 3rd St & Forbes? @carsonsecondary students transformed a cement wall into a vibrant mural.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Changes to Chinatown policy contemplated, but too late for 105 Keefer

  05-06-2017 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Major changes may be coming to the City of Vancouver’s Chinatown development policy in the wake of public anger over a proposed 12-storey residential complex in the area.
  Those changes, being prepared by staff now, include a ban on tall and wide buildings in favour of small, narrow lots for better character fit.
  “The City wants to see the kind of development that makes Chinatown so special and unique to many of us. This includes smaller buildings with small storefronts, spaces f
  
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• Granville Island sinkhole repaired by city crews

  05-06-2017 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  The sinkhole which closed road access to Granville Island for a time on Saturday has been repaired.
  Road crews worked Sunday morning to finish the job by re-paving the road, which had been reopened to alternating single-lane traffic Saturday evening.
  “The sinkhole was repaired last night and the road repaved this morning, the street should be now open to all traffic,” a City of Vancouver spokesperson said in an email on Sunday. 
  Clean up was completed Sunday morning at two sinkh
  
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• Canadian killed in London terror attack identified as B.C. woman

  05-06-2017 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Canadian killed in London has been identified as Chrissy Archibald from Castlegar.
  The family has released a statement:
  Christine Archibald of Castlegar was identified on Sunday as the Canadian killed in Saturday’s terror attack in London that left seven people dead.
  “We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving daughter and sister.  She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected. She lived this belief workin
  
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• Work continues towards commuter-rail service on Vancouver Island

  05-06-2017 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  Capital region mayors remain optimistic about the prospects for commuter-rail service on the E&N Rail corridor from Langford to Vic West, despite a pending change in the provincial government.
  Langford Mayor Stewart Young said he expects the project to receive strong consideration, whether the existing Liberal government survives or falls to a new NDP-Green alliance.
  “I know the NDP support the E&N,” he said. “Pretty well every government has.”
  Young stressed
  
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• City of Vancouver reminds empty-home owners of looming deadline

  05-06-2017 00:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver’s new empty homes tax could soon find its first targets.
  Homeowners who keep their principal residence outside Vancouver are being reminded by the city they have until July 1st to find renters for their property. 
  The city’s tax targets properties left vacant at least six months per year and not used as a principal residence. The 2016 census found 25,000 empty homes in Vancouver.
  Homes that aren’t being used by their owners as a principal residence but are being
  
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• DYK we’re home to four Super Heroes? Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow & Super Girl have all filmed in the City… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-06-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  DYK we’re home to four Super Heroes? Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow & Super Girl have all filmed in the City… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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