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• Firefighters are responding to an injured mountain biker on Mt. Seymour 400m down Corkscrew trail. #northvan

  10-06-2017 23:25 via twitter.com
  Firefighters are responding to an injured mountain biker on Mt. Seymour 400m down Corkscrew trail. #northvan
  
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• Search continue for private plane missing on flight to Kamloops

  10-06-2017 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  
  The search is continuing for a light aircraft that disappeared Thursday somewhere between Cranbrook and Kamloops.
  A man and a woman were on the four-seater plane which had departed from Lethbridge, Alta, and landed in Cranbrook to refuel, Cranbrook RCMP said in a news release.
  Alex Simons, 21, of Kamloops and Sidney Robillard, 24, of Lethbridge, Alberta, were expected to arrive in Kamloops at 4 p.m. Thursday.
  Their Piper Warrior aircraft, call letters C-GDTK, left Cranbrook around 3 p.m. that da
  
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• Union Gospel Mission wilderness program helps men overcome addiction

  10-06-2017 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  GARIBALDI PROVINCIAL PARK — Looking out on Cheakamus Lake, Tom Sauls recalls how he would often stand at Crab Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and gaze north at the mountains, dreaming of someday escaping homelessness and addiction to find refuge in the wilderness.
  Sauls, 57, would take swigs of strong beer beneath the stars and picture himself climbing the green hills to look down upon the glimmering city. In his mind, Burrard Inlet would finally separate him from the shouting
  
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• REAL SCOOP: IHIT investigating Langley slaying

  10-06-2017 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  Homicide investigators are probing a targeted murder at a popular Langley restaurant.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man was killed and a second wounded at the Browns’ Socialhouse at 200th Avenue and the Langley Bypass near Willowbrook Mall.
  Police were called to the scene just before midnight Friday.
  Here’s my colleague’s story:
  If I learn more today, I will try to update this post.
   
  
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• Wondering what's on tap for the Council Meeting Monday @ 6pm? It's all right here: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/IEhOCeLZRo

  10-06-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Wondering what's on tap for the Council Meeting Monday @ 6pm? It's all right here: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/IEhOCeLZRo
  
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• Sex assault suspect arrested following Tuesday morning SeaBus terminal standoff

  10-06-2017 21:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  A man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman and then tried to grab her daughter in a February 2017 incident has been arrested.
  On Tuesday morning, Transit Police were called to the downtown Vancouver Waterfront Station SeaBus terminal for the report of a man yelling and waving a stick around.
  “As police arrived, the man entered a restricted area that consisted of a narrow cat-walk, one to two meters above sea level,” read a media release by Transit Police.
  SeaBus traffic was halte
  
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• We've got news for ya, lots of it! Subscribe @ cnv.org/CityConnect #NorthVan #CityView https://t.co/7LhJT60oMz

  10-06-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  
  We've got news for ya, lots of it! Subscribe @ cnv.org/CityConnect #NorthVan #CityView https://t.co/7LhJT60oMz
  
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• Weekend Poll: Are you prepared to care for your aging parents?

  10-06-2017 19:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  These are the bruises left on Patricia Craven’s wrists that her son alleges came from being forcibly restrained by hospital security at St. Paul’s Hospital on Monday.
  This week, we heard from Aaron Craven, a local Vancouver man whose mom was admitted to St. Paul’s Hospital this week to stabilize her Alzheimer’s medication.
  The treatment she received, however, may have been less than ideal. Craven alleges hospital security restrained her and stripped her naked after she be
  
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• Makeover: Gearing up for summer

  10-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Diane Sorochuk is a 23-year-old teacher and vice principal. She is gearing up for a trip and wanted style update for summer.
  Diane has medium textured and slightly wavy hair. It was previously lightened and she is ready to go little brighter for the summer. To lighten her overall colour, I applied very fine weave-foil highlights round her hairline and did some customized hair painting for a ribbonlike colour effect. To colour balance her highlights, I used a warm-golden blond tone to compliment
  
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• Beauty Bar: ATTITUDE Super Leaves Science collection

  10-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  What it is: A collection of body care products including shower gels, shampoos, conditioners and more that harnesses the power of “super leaves” — primarily Watercress and Indian cress leaves. 
  The natural ingredients are reportedly known for the “regenerative properties” and are also high in vitamins and minerals to nourish skin.
  The Canadian brand’s collection of products also targets a buzzy topic in the beauty world at the moment: environmen
  
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• One dead, one in hospital following Friday night shooting outside Langley restaurant

  10-06-2017 18:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  One man is dead and another is in hospital following a Friday night shooting in Langley.
  According to RCMP, reports of a possible shooting were received just before midnight. Police who arrived to the Brown’s Socialhouse located near Willowbrook Mall found one man suffering gunshot wounds and another man already dead in the parking lot outside the restaurant.
  The surviving victim was taken to hospital but no further updates on his condition have been released.
  It’s unclear whether th
  
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• Head to #WaterfrontPark for #PhilippineDaysFestival today & Sun. Mayor @DarrellMussatto will be giving a greeting t… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  10-06-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Head to #WaterfrontPark for #PhilippineDaysFestival today & Sun. Mayor @DarrellMussatto will be giving a greeting t… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Sold (Bought): West Van home attracts considerable attention

  10-06-2017 16:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  4 — 1786 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver
  Type: Three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 1,660 sq. ft.
  BC Assessment: $1,103,000
  Listed for: $1,088,000
  Sold for: $1,320,000
  Sold on: April 2
  Days on market: Five
  Listing agent: Stan van Woerkens at RE/MAX Crest Realty
  Buyers agent: Shannon McNulty at RE/MAX Real Estate Services
  The big sell: Listing agent Stan van Woerkens reports that 115 interested parties attended the open houses for a three-level townhome, which has the largest floo
  
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• Westbank's Joyce to bring a striking design to its neighbourhood

  10-06-2017 15:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  A planned 30-storey tower next to Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood SkyTrain station will feature ways of accommodating families that are sure to be high profile — quite literally.
  Instead of penthouse units, the top floor of Westbank’s striking Joyce highrise will be a public space for residents. The “rooftop learning and activity lounge,” as Westbank calls it, will include a library space, a music room and private study rooms that will include a tutor who will come in
  
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• The Bowker Collection a nod to its Oak Bay neighbourhood

  10-06-2017 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  It’s back to the future for the Bowker Collection, Abstract Developments’ new project in Oak Bay, one of Western Canada’s oldest municipalities.
  The Bowker Collection’s rusticated brick facade is a nod to the historic neighbourhood, while the solar-ready building and an electric car for residents are forward-looking elements of the four-storey development, the first residential multi-family mixed use project approved by the District of Oak Bay in more than a decade.
  Peter
  
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• Victoria actor Emily Piggford being rewarded for her love of work

  10-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Victoria actor Emily Piggford first came to attention with her work in Impulse Theatre. The movement-based performance company known for site specific works was started by her former classmate Andrew Barrett. She toured Toronto with the company for the Summerworks Festival five and a half years ago. At the urging of her agent, she stuck around. It was a good move, and she hastily set about establishing a busy career.
  Piggford has gone on to work in such varied series as Netflix’s Eli Roth-
  
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• The Home Front: Home furnishings to match the beautiful outdoors

  10-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  It’s hard to beat nature when it comes to beauty, but some designers are doing a pretty good job at complementing it through home decor and furnishings that accessorize outdoor living and entertaining.
  The Sun caught up with two designers whose products encourage us to spend more time in our backyards, on our porches and patios.
  Sandy Chilewich launched her innovative textiles company, Chilewich, in 2000, believing the woven vinyl material traditionally used for outdoor furniture upholster
  
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• Style Q&A: Arc’teryx sets up shop on Burrard Street

  10-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver has long been a mecca of outdoor beauty, outdoor adventure – and outdoor clothing.
  And one brand that’s boosting the locale’s latter element is Arc’teryx. The North Vancouver-based business has been at the forefront of technical outwear and apparel design since its start in 1989. Now, they’re set to expand their foothold in their hometown with a new location on Burrard Street. 
  Megan Cheesbrough, the brand’s director of global retail chatted wit
  
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• Opinion: Cetaceans do not belong in aquariums

  10-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  It is perfectly legitimate to debate the ongoing relevance of established democratic institutions, and I — as an elected Vancouver park board commissioner — welcome constructive criticism of our deliberations and decisions.
  To suggest, however, as The Vancouver Sun has done in a recent editorial, that the park board be abolished because of its recent vote to expand the ban on displaying cetaceans in Stanley Park is to ignore mounting public, scientific and ethical considerations.
  For
  
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• Living legend Bonnie Raitt slides into Vancouver

  10-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Bonnie Raitt
  June 19, 8 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $79.50 at Ticketmaster.caBonnie Raitt wants to set the record straight. It seems somewhat unnecessary. When you have 10 Grammy Awards lined up in a row on your mantle and your most recent album Dig In Deep debuted at #10 on the Billboard Album Charts, does it matter if you get called a blues woman, folk rocker or roots artist or not?
  “My thing is probably as much R&B as it is blues or rock ‘n’ rol
  
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• Five Things to Know: Balmoral residents get alternate housing, Kamloops couple's plane disappears

  10-06-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Housing units have been secured for displaced residents of the Balmoral, a small plane carrying two has disappeared en route to Kamloops, and a Vancouver man’s murder trial took a turn when the court heard a tape of him confessing to stabbing his brother. Here are five things you need to know:
  Balmoral Hotel residents get alternate housing
  A joint effort by the city and B.C. Housing secured 131 permanent housing units for the soon-to-be displaced tenants of the Balmoral Hotel, reports Post
  
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• This just in: Body Shop Almond Milk & amp; Honey, La Prairie White Caviar Illuminating Pearl Infusion and bareMinerals Brilliant Future Age Defense and Renew Face Serum

  10-06-2017 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Body Shop
  Almond Milk & Honey Soothing & Restoring Body Butter
  They say: The new line of Almond Milk and Honey Body Care products has been “lovingly formulated for sensitive dry skin.”  Enriched with essential oils this body butter will deliver two days of moisture.
  We say: Body Shop’s body butters are always a smooth, non-sticky delight and this one is no different. Our tester liked the quick-absorbing, very lightly scented, vegetarian, colourant-fre
  
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• Public services need public scrutiny to protect public interest

  10-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The federal government’s new infrastructure bank has become increasingly controversial over the last few months. Studies have suggested the bank’s projects will be expensive and slow to advance. The high-priced developments will likely be out of range for all but the largest municipalities.
  However, little attention has been paid so far to what is perhaps the biggest reason for controversy: The lack of public transparency about the public-private partnerships the bank will support.
  I
  
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• Opinion: Stop Victoria spewing sewage into sea

  10-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is trying to shut down the wrong pipeline. He laments the potential environmental threat of the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline while right on his doorstep the City of Victoria actually allows millions of tonnes of raw sewage to be pumped into the sea.
  Victoria pumps the equivalent of a tankerload of raw sewage into the ocean on a daily basis and this has been going on for decades. Where has Weaver been on this issue? Where are all the Green protesters? Why has t
  
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• Opinion: Farmland speculation: The buck stops with municipal politicians

  10-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  In his May 26 article, Postmedia reporter Sam Cooper noted that the B.C. government’s decision to exempt farmland from the 15-per-cent foreign buyers tax is fuelling runaway speculation on property in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
  He also noted that several other provincially sponsored tax breaks have been contributing to an agricultural land rush in the Metro Vancouver area — lower property taxes on farmland that meets minimal production levels, a 50-per-cent break on school and tr
  
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• Canada 150: Dan George, a North Shore native chief who became a Hollywood star

  10-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.
  On July 1, 1967, Chief Dan George was invited to speak at a giant celebration at Empire Stadium marking the 100th anniversary of Confederation.
  He stunned the crowd of 32,000 with a lament for the loss of the native way of life across Canada.
  “In the long hundred years since the white man came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going mysteriously
  
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• Adopt-a-school can help kids thanks to readers and supporters

  10-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program has so far this year sent more than $623,000 to 85 schools across the province to feed hungry children and ensure they are properly clothed.
  Since it began in 2011 the program has raised close to $4 million to help teachers and principals struggling — with few resources — to deal with the effects of poverty in the classroom.
  Many children arrive at school hungry without having breakfast and with no food to get them through the day and
  
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• Search underway after private plane carrying two fails to arrive in Kamloops

  10-06-2017 05:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  A private four-seater airplane travelling from Lethbridge to Kamloops has gone missing with a man and woman aboard, according to a release from Cranbrook RCMP.
  Alex Simons, 21, and Sidney Robillard, 24, both of Kamloops, were expected to arrive in Kamloops at 4 p.m. Thursday, but never did so.
  Their Piper Warrior aircraft, whose call letters are CGDTK, was last seen stopping for fuel in Cranbrook around 3 p.m. that day. There has been no contact with anyone on the plane.
  Crews from CFB Comox beg
  
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• Taking tropicals outdoors takes some adjusting

  10-06-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  At this time of year when we tend to spend many more hours outdoors, more folks are creating a tropical living space on their decks and patios.
  It’s a fun trend and today there is a wide selection of tropical plants that are relatively easy-to-care-for and love the sun and warmer summer weather.
  The only caution is the need for acclimatization. Most of these plants have either been grown in warm greenhouses or are recent arrivals from Florida and-or California.
  No matter which tropical pla
  
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• Q&A with Daniel Firth: Vancouver, too, can learn to love mobility pricing

  10-06-2017 03:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouverites may find it surprising that people could come to embrace the idea of paying a tax to drive downtown, Daniel Firth says, but he’s seen it happen in a city he says is similar in key ways to Vancouver.
  The urban planner was named this week as executive director of TransLink’s mobility pricing independent commission, which starts work this month on creating recommendations for new ways of pricing how we get around the region.
  Firth, a 44-year-old Englishman, arrived in
  
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• Court hears tape of Vancouver man confessing to killing his brother in a 'mad rage'

  10-06-2017 02:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Richmond man confessed to his brother that he had stabbed their younger brother multiple times in a “mad rage,” according to a taped phone call that was played in court on Friday.
  The confession was made by Douglas Cameron Orr, who has pleaded not guilty to the November 2014 second-degree murder of Robert Brown Orr, 59, of Vancouver.
  The Crown’s theory is that the accused confronted his brother in the lobby of the victim’s Kerrisdale apartment and stabbed him to death d
  
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• North Vancouver affordability dropping fast: report - North Shore News - North Shore News

  10-06-2017 02:00 via nsnews.com
  
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  North Vancouver affordability dropping fast: report - North Shore News
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  North Vancouver resident Chris Kaufman has faced repeated disappointment trying to buy into the North Vancouver condo market. A new report from Vancity ...and more »
  
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• North Vancouver affordability dropping fast: report - North Shore News

  10-06-2017 02:00 via nsnews.com
  
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver affordability dropping fast: report
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver resident Chris Kaufman has faced repeated disappointment trying to buy into the North Vancouver condo market. A new report from Vancity confirms homes are selling for far more than what local workers can afford to pay. photo Mike ...and more »
  
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• Hey families! Movie nights in the Plaza return in July & August. July 7 = #TeenMovieNight cnv.org/MovieNightinTh…… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  10-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Hey families! Movie nights in the Plaza return in July & August. July 7 = #TeenMovieNight cnv.org/MovieNightinTh…… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• St. Paul's Hospital addressing ‘brutal lack of dignity’ allegation in treating Alzheimer’s patient

  10-06-2017 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  Health officials are investigating after a Vancouver man alleges his 78-year-old mother with Alzheimer’s was roughed up by St. Paul’s Hospital security and left crying and bruised this week.
  Aaron Craven is now advocating for an “overhaul” of how Alzheimer’s patients are treated and hoping other families can draw from his experience and “get out ahead” of the disease.
  “I feel the entire situation was extremely poorly managed by St. Paul’s eme
  
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• The Westview Dr/Queens Rd closure scheduled for tonight is CANCELLED due to risk of rain. Will advise when we have a new date #NorthVan

  10-06-2017 00:15 via twitter.com
  The Westview Dr/Queens Rd closure scheduled for tonight is CANCELLED due to risk of rain. Will advise when we have a new date #NorthVan
  
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• Calling all artisans, food trucks & sponsors. Be part of #FunCityFestival August 12 & 13. Sign up here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  10-06-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Calling all artisans, food trucks & sponsors. Be part of #FunCityFestival August 12 & 13. Sign up here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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