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• SPCA seizes 17 'badly neglected' dogs from Cowichan Valley breeder

  06-06-2017 23:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  Seventeen dogs described by the B.C. SPCA as “badly neglected” have been removed from a breeder in the Cowichan Valley.
  Fifteen of the dogs are silky terriers — 10 females and five males, aged from one to nine years old — and two are adult German shepherds. The dogs are now living in foster care and some require dental attention, but they’ll eventually be put-up for adoption.
  According to a news release from the SPCA, “the dogs were in poor condition, with bad
  
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• Are you finding all the clues on the Walk-Bike-Bus Scavenger Hunt? Get your passport here: cnv.org/BTWW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 22:30 via twitter.com
  Are you finding all the clues on the Walk-Bike-Bus Scavenger Hunt? Get your passport here: cnv.org/BTWW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Hey, Collection Zone 2, organics and garbage cart delivery starts TOMORROW! Please use 'em as soon as you get 'em. youtu.be/HfNN0Q-63Xw

  06-06-2017 20:58 via twitter.com
  Hey, Collection Zone 2,organics and garbage cart delivery starts TOMORROW! Please use 'em as soon as you get 'em. youtu.be/HfNN0Q-63Xw
  
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• Reminder: Official unveiling #PublicArt by Coast Salish artist John Marston TODAY 2:30pm @ CNV Cemetery.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Reminder: Official unveiling #PublicArt by Coast Salish artist John Marston TODAY 2:30pm @ CNV Cemetery.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Surrey man, 70, charged with aggravated assault in weekend shooting and standoff

  06-06-2017 19:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  A 70-year-old man remains in custody after being charged in a South Surrey shooting and standoff over the weekend.
  Around 7:15 p.m. Saturday, RCMP were called to the 1300-block of 176th Street and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The alleged gunman did not flee the scene but refused to communicate with police for some time.
  Police locked down the area while a negotiator worked with the suspect. Just before midnight, the suspect began co-operating with police and was arrested without i
  
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• Christy Clark letter fires back at B.C. NDP and Green position on Site C

  06-06-2017 19:50 via vancouversun.com
  
  Premier Christy Clark has fired back at the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Greens over their position on Site C in a pair of nearly identical letters defending her party’s decision to approve the project.
  The B.C. Liberal leader’s letters are in response to one sent by B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan last week to the head of B.C. Hydro.
  Clark’s letter begins: “I appreciate being copied on your correspondence to BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald with respect to current and future plan
  
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• Hiking the West Highland Way

  06-06-2017 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  The spirit of Rob Roy MacGregor was palpable as we gazed over the highlands that he roamed and did battle with the English from some 300 years ago. Although history has treated him kindly, he was in fact a rogue who was lucky to escape the noose, but now he lives on in Scottish history as a Gaelic Robin Hood.
  I was part of a group on a guided walking tour of the West Highland Way, which stretches from Milngavie (pronounced Mal-guy) just outside Glasgow to Fort William almost due North. The 96 mi
  
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• Hermès celebrates Canada's 150th with limited-edition scarf

  06-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  French luxury brand Hermès may seem like an unlikely candidate for feting Canada on its 150th anniversary, but that’s exactly what it has done — in its own luxurious way, of course — with the release of a new limited-edition scarf.
  “Canada’s 150th anniversary is an important celebration, and Hermés wanted to honour this milestone,” Jennifer Carter, the president and Chief Executive Officer of Hermès Canada, says. &
  
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• Coming soon: Stanley Park outdoor film lineup announced for summer 2017

  06-06-2017 18:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  Get your beach blanket and mosquito repellent ready.
  The Vancouver Evo Summer Cinema schedule has been released.
  The series will kick off July 4 with The Lego Batman Movie. Also screening this summer are The Goonies on July 11, Toy Story on July 18, National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) on July 25, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) on Aug. 1, Jaws on Aug. 8, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on Aug. 15, and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 on Aug. 22.
  • July 4: The Leg
  
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• #ChrissySentMe: Acts of goodwill honouring Canadian woman killed in London attack reach Vancouver

  06-06-2017 18:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  Acts of goodwill in honour of a Canadian woman killed in the London Bridge terror attack Saturday have reached Vancouver.
  Christine Archibald, 30, was walking along the bridge with her fiancé when she was struck and killed by a van in a coordinated van-and-knife attack.
  Prior to moving to London to be with her fiancé, Archibald had worked at a shelter in Calgary. The social worker “had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and
  
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• #StudiointheCity = youth opportunities to apprentice in the arts in the City. Apply now: cnv.org/StudiointheCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  #StudiointheCity = youth opportunities to apprentice in the arts in the City. Apply now: cnv.org/StudiointheCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Surrey RCMP ask for help in search for missing senior

  06-06-2017 17:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  Surrey RCMP is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 72-year-old woman.
  Surjit Sidhu was last seen at 4 p.m. Monday in the 8700 block of 144th Street in Surrey.
  It’s believed she was headed to a nearby residence but she hasn’t been heard from since.
  Sidhu is South Asian, five-feet-five and 140 pounds with long dark hair and brown eyes.
  She was last seen wearing a sea green sari, a cream coloured shawl and black shoes.  
  Police say she suffers from a medica
  
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• Raymond Boisjoly shortlisted for Sobey Art Award

  06-06-2017 17:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  Raymond Boisjoly from Vancouver is among the five finalists for the 2017 Sobey Art Award.
  The winner of the Sobey, considered the country’s top contemporary art award, receives $50,000.
  The five finalists were announced Tuesday in Ottawa by the Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada.
  Raymond Boisjoly.
  Boisjoly, who represents B.C. and Yukon, is an indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent. His photographic and text-based work explores how pop culture f
  
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• Visiting #DeepCove this week? Rockcliff Rd parking lot closed M-F (7am-7pm) while we repave. Open evenings, weekend ow.ly/3vwX30cmx1x

  06-06-2017 17:08 via twitter.com
  Visiting #DeepCove this week? Rockcliff Rd parking lot closed M-F (7am-7pm) while we repave. Open evenings, weekend ow.ly/3vwX30cmx1x
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Province's top appeal court judges now seized with medicare challenge

  06-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  The constitutional litigation over B.C.’s medicare law has moved into the province’s highest court with an appeal that Victoria fears could create havoc in the trial courts.
  While the civil trial is adjourned in B.C. Supreme Court until at least Sept. 5 to resolve procedural issues, the B.C. Court of Appeal has been asked to reconsider its normal practice and overturn some of the judge’s rulings within the proceedings.
  B.C. government lawyer Jonathan Penner vehemently opposed t
  
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• All creatures great and small: Amateur topiarist creates everything from little chicken to T-Rex in his Burnaby yard

  06-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Four-year-old Wesley Fernandes doesn’t have to be asked twice which is his favourite among animals that his grandpa has carved out of shrubs and hedges.
  “T-Rex! Over there!” Wesley points excitedly.
  Over the past decade, Manuel Fernandes has turned his Burnaby yard into a topiary jungle. One of two: He’s done the same thing at his place in Osoyoos, only on a smaller scale.
  “It’s like one was not enough work, I had to have two,” Fernandes said.
  Always a g
  
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• Opinion: Provincial power on pipelines comes from being an Indigenous ally

  06-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  A key policy commitment in the B.C. NDP and Green Party agreement is to “immediately employ every tool available to stop the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.” There has been much buzz about this commitment debating what the province constitutionally can and cannot do. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has stated that B.C. has no tools to overturn or block the federal government’s approval of the project. Indeed, the Trans Mountain Pipeline is a federal undertaking, which gi
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Witnesses saw SUV speeding near Bacon shooting

  06-06-2017 06:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  The big development at the Kelowna trial for the accused killers of Jonathan Bacon was that the judge presiding over the case dismissed the defence application to throw out the charges.
  Justice Allan Betton hasn’t provided his reasons yet, but will at a later date. That means the trial will continue as scheduled.
  The Crown entered a new phase in its case. After a week of witnesses who were at or near the Delta Grand at the time of the shooting, witnesses Monday described seeing an SUV spee
  
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• City Hall will be lit up green tonight in honour of #WorldEnvironmentDay #NorthVan ❤ #ILoveMyCity #LivingCity https://t.co/LvBbx1oFZN

  06-06-2017 05:00 via twitter.com
  
  City Hall will be lit up green tonight in honour of #WorldEnvironmentDay #NorthVan ❤ #ILoveMyCity #LivingCity https://t.co/LvBbx1oFZN
  
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• Dan Fumano: Vancouver's privately owned single room occupancy hotels cause lion's share of problems

  06-06-2017 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  When the City of Vancouver ordered the evacuation of the Balmoral Hotel last Friday, telling 150 residents they must vacate within 10 days due to “imminent danger” in the century-old building, it left many people wondering how things could have gotten so bad.
  The Balmoral, the city said, was in such a state of disrepair that tenants needed to vacate to allow repairs to “ensure that the building does not collapse.”
  The Balmoral is far from the only problematic single-room
  
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• Mayors Council finalizes details for mobility-pricing commission

  06-06-2017 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  Metro Vancouver moves one step closer to mobility pricing following the creation of an independent commission tasked to look at how to implement such a system in the region. 
  The mobility pricing independent commission, designed to be arms-length from the government, will be made up of 12 lay people who are well-respected in the region and represent diversity in terms of gender, age and geographic location, said Richard Walton, mayor of the District of North Vancouver and co-chair of a stee
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Expect the speaker to be busy taking sides in the political fray

  06-06-2017 04:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — On an otherwise routine day in the B.C. legislature in the spring of 1980, the Opposition New Democratic Party sprang a trap on the Social Credit government of then-Premier Bill Bennett.
  A year earlier, Bennett was elected to a second term by less than two points in the popular vote and five in the seat count, one of the thinnest margins in modern times before this year.
  Despite the tight balance — and the absence of Speaker Harvey Schroeder who was recovering from a
  
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• Five things about the northeast False Creek plan to remove the viaducts

  06-06-2017 03:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  With the City of Vancouver’s unveiling of conceptual plans concerning a new look for northeast False Creek, here are five things to know:
  A Nov. 18, 1970, artist’s conception of the Georgia viaduct at the beginning of construction.
  No more viaducts
  Beyond all the planned green space, this is clearly the most notable item in the plan. City engineers insist the new plan, which includes a new Georgia Street extension down from the height of land by Beatty Street down to Pacific Boulevar
  
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• Photos: Vancouver releases concept plans for post-viaduct False Creek

  06-06-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The City of Vancouver and Vancouver Park Board have revealed conceptual plans for the future of Northeast False Creek, including a new park and the removal of viaducts.
  In 2015, Vancouver City Council approved a $200-million plan to remove the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts, which connect False Creek with downtown Vancouver. 
  Related
  City invites feedback on Northeast False Creek plans in new round of open housesCouncil votes to remove Georgia, Dunsmuir viaductsThis Week in History: The
  
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• Vancouver father, son to cycle in Europe for today’s warriors, yesterday’s heroes

  06-06-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  It’s not the physical strain of cycling 600 kilometres from England to France that has Larry and Steve Osachoff worried.
  That’s the easy part.
  It’s the emotional weight of visiting the places where thousands of Canadians gave their lives during the First World War that has the Vancouver father-son duo nervous to begin their journey.
  “I have thought a lot about it, and honestly? I think it will be utterly heart-wrenching,” said Larry.
  “It’s going to be a
  
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• Salt Spring residents give thumbs down to RCMP crackdown

  06-06-2017 02:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  Salt Spring Island residents are in a spat with members of their local RCMP detachment who they say are cracking down on a key component of their island culture — hitchhiking.
  For decades, locals have relied on the kindness of one another to get from place-to-place on the large island.
  So common is hitchhiking that in one location, rather than using their thumbs, prospective riders have taken to using handmade wooden signs painted with destination names to flag passing drivers. 
  That
  
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• Lions Bay pitches pay parking pilot project to deal with the 'zoo'

  06-06-2017 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  Lions Bay is a small village with a big parking problem.
  That’s why the municipality, which straddles the Sea-to-Sky Highway about 13 kilometres north of West Vancouver, is soliciting proposals for a pay parking pilot project at three of the most popular areas for summer visitors.
  “Social media has led to any number of places that were only known to the locals to be discovered,” said Lions Bay Mayor Karl Buhr. “On a good day, it’s a zoo.”
  Currently, the only p
  
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• Judge dismisses application to throw out charges in Bacon murder case

  06-06-2017 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  KELOWNA — Jamie Farquhar was on his way home from a job on Aug. 14, 2011 when he noticed an SUV approaching him rapidly in his rear-view mirror.
  He was so concerned about how the occupants of the Ford were driving that he tried to memorize the time and the plate number so he could call police later, he testified in B.C. Supreme Court Monday.
  Farquhar was one of a series of witnesses who testified about the vehicle that the Crown alleges was used by the killers of Jonathan Bacon to flee the
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Christy Clark raises much and donates little

  06-06-2017 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  There’s a glaring irony in the phrase “pay-to-play” when it comes to B.C. politics. While developers, oil companies, banks, unions and lobbyists clearly got the memo, B.C.’s fundraiser in chief apparently didn’t.
  Christy Clark helped raise $7.6 million for the B.C. Liberals in 2016. But the premier and party leader didn’t contribute a dollar of that nor has she made any donations this year, according to her party’s weekly online disclosures.
  In fact, Cla
  
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• Education funding and teacher hiring marred by government uncertainty

  06-06-2017 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s ambitious plan to hire more than 2,600 new teachers is being hampered by a lack of money, bureaucratic hang-ups and the political uncertainty over who will form the next government, say teachers and trustees.
  The Ministry of Education has been in “caretaker” mode since the election campaign began in April, meaning staff are in a holding pattern. That has dragged on because an accord between the NDP and Greens has given those parties the votes to topple L
  
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• Another half-metre added to expected high-water mark on Okanagan Lake

  06-06-2017 02:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  KELOWNA — The feasibility of increasing the drainage capacity of Okanagan Lake should be examined once the current flood risk passes, Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran says. 
  The 60-year-old drainage system can lower the level of the lake by 11 centimetres a week, a rate that isn’t sufficient to avert the prospect of serious flooding in the next 10 days along many areas of the city’s shoreline. 
  All of City Park could be under water, to varying depths, with flooding also aff
  
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• Reminder: No Council meeting today, due to to Federation of Canadian Municipalities Conference. Next Council meetin… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Reminder: No Council meeting today, due to to Federation of Canadian Municipalities Conference. Next Council meetin… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Wildfire near Quesnel out of control

  06-06-2017 01:55 via vancouversun.com
  
   
  The B.C. Wildfire Service says crews are responding to a wildfire about five kilometres south of Pantage Lake and 40 kilometres northwest of Quesnel.
  Thirty-seven firefighters are working to establish control lines around the perimeter of the 50-hectare fire, which is currently classified as being out of control.
  Officials say crews began fighting the fire Sunday and are now being supported by airtankers, a helicopter and heavy equipment.
  The cause of the fire is under investigation.
  
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• College of Veterinarians of B.C. apologizes to Indo-Canadian colleagues

  06-06-2017 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  The regulatory agency for veterinarians in B.C. has dropped a legal challenge to a finding that its investigation of Indo-Canadian vets was racially motivated and has issued an apology to all of the complainants involved in the rancorous dispute.
  On Monday, the College of Veterinarians of B.C. announced that it would not pursue a judicial review of an October 2015 decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of B.C. that found the college had engaged in discrimination against a number of Indo-Canadian
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Can Canucks fill void if they deal Chris Tanev?

  06-06-2017 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  Talk is cheap, but the asking price isn’t.
  Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning will inquire about trading for the third-overall selection in the 2017 National Hockey League draft. The Dallas Stars are seeking an impact right-shot defensive defenceman capable of logging as many as 24 minutes a night to part with the pick.
  Chris Tanev checks all the desirable boxes, and that’s where it gets tricky.
  Chris Tanev would make any team better in the defensive zone.
  If Benning wants
  
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• Add some colour & fun to Father's Day! @colormerad5k fun run June 18 in #NorthVan. Register now:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Add some colour & fun to Father's Day! @colormerad5k fun run June 18 in #NorthVan. Register now:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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