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• Young jockey's 'spirits as good as can be' after suffering broken back at Hastings Racecourse

  11-06-2017 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  Apprentice jockey Jose Asencio was competing last weekend at Hastings Racecourse when his horse clipped heels with another horse, sending the young jockey and his steed tumbling into the dirt.
  While the horse, a three-year-old named McCallum, walked away uninjured, Asencio wasn’t so lucky. The ensuing spill fractured a vertebra in his back and broke his leg, among other injuries. He was rushed to Vancouver General Hospital, where he underwent multiple surgeries. He now has a steel rod in h
  
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• Property taxes due July 4th. Pay online or in person. Find out how to pay at cnv.org/Taxes. #NorthVan https://t.co/QydQNjv2WF

  11-06-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Property taxes due July 4th. Pay online or in person. Find out how to pay at cnv.org/Taxes. #NorthVan https://t.co/QydQNjv2WF
  
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• Downtown Eastside decrepit hotels vital, but temporary answer to housing woes: experts

  11-06-2017 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  Despite the rats, roaches and clogged toilets at decaying rooming houses and hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, activists and experts say they provide necessary affordable housing to the poorest people who would otherwise be pushed onto the streets.
  The Balmoral Hotel recently became the focus of the housing crisis in the neighbourhood when the city issued an evacuation notice for about 143 tenants after it determined the building is at risk of collapse.
  Vancouver’s bylaws defi
  
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• ICYMI, this week's #CityView e-news is ready & waiting for you right here: ow.ly/2ySk30crb4e #NorthVan https://t.co/iXjLiu4Bt9

  11-06-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  
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• A B.C. NDP minority government will feel the crack of the whip

  11-06-2017 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  
  Gerard Janssen remembers the day then-premier Glen Clark was left pounding on a locked door after arriving late for a vote in the B.C. legislature.
  Clark’s blunder in May 1997 nearly lost the government the vote. Janssen, the party whip, punished the New Democrat premier with four nights of house duty and a cancelled trip to New York.
  Not even the most powerful person in provincial politics was above sanction by Janssen, who as whip ensured politicians were in the house when they needed to
  
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• Youth dominate street beat in crushing Abbotsford's fun Police Challenge Run

  11-06-2017 19:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Bob Rich once told a breakfast crowd in this patch of Fraser Valley pasture that “crime is toast.”
  Posing for pictures before Saturday’s 27th annual Abbotsford Police Challenge Run, the chief constable also joked that anyone trying to pass him in the morning 5K would be, too.
  So, at about the 1K mark, as we shuffled past Rich and the police torch-carrying Callun Hay, the chief blurted: “Hey Gord, the back of your shirt is on fire!”
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• Buyer beware: Duty-free shopping whammy

  11-06-2017 18:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  I don’t usually buy duty-free anything in airports, thinking it’s usually more hassle than it’s worth and the supposed bargains often don’t turn out to be bargains.
  So it was a bit of a shock when, after I finally relented and brought some Carlos 1 brandy at one airport duty free shop in Europe, it was soon seized by customs officials at another airport.
  Falsely believing the boxed bottle of Carlos 1 brandy was safely tucked into a World Duty Free shopping bag, we were tr
  
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• Heads up! Watermain flushing June 12-23. Some residents may experience cloudy water or low water pressure.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-06-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Heads up! Watermain flushing June 12-23. Some residents may experience cloudy water or low water pressure.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Father's Day gift guide: Give the gift of good grooming

  11-06-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  It’s almost Father’s Day, so, the big question becomes: what are you going to buy dad? 
  While the items on his wish list likely include, oh, a shiny new John Deer ride-on lawn mower, an even-shinier Omega watch, a vintage cab sauv (or a delicious IPA) and a tasty meal centred around a perfectly marbled steak, there are a few more personal presents to give him this year.
  Rather than gift an old go-to, why not treat pops to something a little more, shall w
  
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• Five Things to Know: Langley shooting, Vancouver man gets skateboarding ticket

  11-06-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  There was a shooting in Langley Friday night, a Vancouver man got a $600 ticket because his skateboard can go on its own, and two protest marches collided on Granville Street. Here are five things you need to know:
  Shooting in parking lot of Langley restaurant
  A shooting outside Brown’s Socialhouse in Langley has left one dead and another in hospital, Postmedia’s Stephanie Ip reports.
  According to police, the shooting, which happened just before midnight on Friday, appears targeted.&
  
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• Letters: Reducing natural-gas use is a good thing

  11-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Re: We’re not selling Hawaii’s weather: Canada’s economic advantage is in resources, Opinion, June 2.
  Mark Milke says he agrees that reducing carbon pollution is important, but uses the majority of his opinion piece to attack the businesses, organizations and governments trying to solve the problem. The City of Vancouver’s green-building policies were one of his targets and he misses the mark by a wide margin.
  Those policies will reduce natural-gas use, and that’s a
  
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• Editorial: Mobility pricing is on the table

  11-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  In 2008, TransLink and Metro Vancouver undertook a consultation process that consisted of 60 presentations in which 2,700 participants provided feedback, two public-opinion surveys that tapped 9,000 Metro residents and an online poll that drew thousands more. The results showed support for some system of road-pricing, a policy that subsequently became one of the Mayors Council on Regional Transportation recommendations to raise revenue and reduce congestion.
  However, the mayors lumped it in with
  
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• Vancouver Spartan Race 2017

  11-06-2017 05:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  Spartan Race, at Mount Seymour in North Vancouver this weekend, has become the global leader for worldwide obstacle course races. Germany, Spain and Chile are just a few of the 20 countries that have taken on the Spartan challenge.
   
   
   
  
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• Hikers rescued after getting stranded on Coquitlam's Eagle Mountain

  11-06-2017 05:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two hikers have been rescued after getting stranded near the summit of Eagle Mountain, also known as Mt. Beautiful, north of Coquitlam.
  According to Michael Coyle of Coquitlam Search and Rescue (SAR), the hikers called for help shortly after reaching the peak, when the trek back down the mountain became too dangerous.
  “What we think happened is they went up, they got into the snow, and they proceeded over the summit,” he said, “and as they were going down the other side it got
  
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• Jeff Paterson: Blink, and your shot at the Stanley Cup is gone

  11-06-2017 04:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  A tweet from hockey writer and statistical analyst Tyler Dellow earlier in the week got me thinking. Dellow posted to social media: “Good way to realize how hard it is to get to the final is to go back and look at a team that lost and count the players who get another shot.” I decided to take him up on that offer and examine the post-season histories of the 20 players in uniform for the Vancouver Canucks on the night of June 15, 2011.
  While head coach Alain Vigneault returned to the
  
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• Vancouver protest marches collide on Granville Street

  11-06-2017 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  Worlds collided in Vancouver on Saturday when two protest marches nearly did the same.
  The Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity, now in its fifth year, had some competition this time out, as another protest, The Vancouver March to Close All Slaughterhouses, walked a similar route at the same time. The two groups met on Granville Street on Saturday, where police suddenly found themselves trying to manage a traffic jam of causes.
  “I don’t know if they knew about our march, b
  
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• Advocates ask how B.C. could house Balmoral residents within a week, but others wait years

  11-06-2017 04:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  Advocates for B.C.’s homeless are wondering how B.C. Housing almost immediately found homes for residents being evacuated from a Vancouver SRO despite an escalating homeless crisis.
  Friday, the City of Vancouver said it had worked with B.C. Housing to line up 131 units for the displaced residents of the Balmoral Hotel, who were given an evacuation notice a week before. Residents were told they would need to leave the building by Monday.
  For decades, conditions at the Balmoral have deterior
  
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• Vancouver man's first ride on electric skateboard ends with $600 ticket

  11-06-2017 03:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Vancouver man is “flabbergasted” after his first ride on his new, motorized longboard ended with a $598 fine.
  Daniel Dahlberg, 25, was on his way to work, riding a Boosted Board v2 that he’d purchased just two days earlier from West 4th Avenue’s Boarder Labs. After rolling down a hill and coming to a stop at 3rd Avenue and Maple in Kitsilano, a Vancouver police officer on a motorcycle pulled him over, then wrote him a ticket.
  “My jaw dropped to the ground and
  
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• Quesnel mayor says political uncertainty creating problems

  11-06-2017 03:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  QUESNEL — The mayor of Quesnel says political uncertainty in B.C. is hurting resource-dependent communities.
  Bob Simpson says forestry companies in the Quesnel-area are awaiting determination of their annual allowable cut to learn how much they can harvest.
  He says B.C.’s chief forester won’t be issuing those figures until a new government and a new forests minister are in place, and the lack of detail about the softwood lumber agreement is compounding the anxiety.
  He says resi
  
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• ‘Inevitable’ demise for many manufactured homes in Surrey

  11-06-2017 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  Will manufactured homes and trailers become a thing of the past in Surrey?
  Along Surrey’s King George Boulevard, the city estimates there’s more than 1,000 of these homes. But with light rail planned along the major artery, will they remain?
  Surrey’s Community Planning Manager Don Luymes predicted many will fall.
  “As the city grows and transit investments are made along King George, it’s probably inevitable that many of these sites will be redevelopment candidates,&
  
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• See something in need of TLC around the City? Download our #CityFix app & report it: cnv.org/CityFix… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  See something in need of TLC around the City? Download our #CityFix app & report it: cnv.org/CityFix… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Search continues for private plane missing on flight to Kamloops

  11-06-2017 00:46 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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• Don't change rules to let people sleep in cars: acting Victoria police chief

  11-06-2017 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Police and bylaw officers should be able to decide whether to ticket people for sleeping in cars, acting Victoria Police Chief Del Manak told Victoria city councillors this week.
  Mayor Lisa Helps and Coun. Chris Coleman had proposed that council approve an exemption to the city’s streets and traffic bylaw so tickets would not be issued to people sleeping in cars parked on the street when the city’s vacancy rate falls below three per cent. The rate is currently about
  
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• One dead, one in hospital after Friday night shooting outside Langley restaurant

  11-06-2017 00:06 via vancouversun.com
  
  One man is dead and another is in hospital after a Friday night shooting near a busy Langley restaurant.
  According to RCMP, the “targeted” shooting happened just before midnight on Friday. Police found one man with gunshot wounds and another man already dead in the parking lot outside Brown’s Socialhouse, near Willowbrook Mall at 20065 Langley Bypass.Langley RCMP investigating shooting outside popular restaurant Gunshots and person shot in Langley at Browns Social House on 200t
  
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• Our 2016 Annual Municipal Report is out. Review the report and provide comments @ cnv.org/AnnualMunicipa… #NorthVan https://t.co/PEBCPcIBuq

  11-06-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  
  Our 2016 Annual Municipal Report is out. Review the report and provide comments @ cnv.org/AnnualMunicipa… #NorthVan https://t.co/PEBCPcIBuq
  
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