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• B.C. child killer Allan Schoenborn too much of a threat for escorted outings, Crown says

  12-06-2017 23:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  The brutal nature of the crimes committed by a man who stabbed his daughter to death and smothered his two sons means he poses too much of a threat to be allowed escorted outings into the community, a Crown lawyer says.
  Wendy Dawson asked a British Columbia Supreme Court judge on Monday to designate Allan Schoenborn, 49, a high-risk accused. Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder for killing his three children, aged five to 10, at the family’s home in
  
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• B.C. Premier Christy Clark introduces new cabinet

  12-06-2017 22:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  Their reign is expected to be a short one, but Premier Christy Clark and her cabinet were officially sworn in by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon at Government House on Monday in Victoria.
  Clark will recall the legislature on June 22 for a confidence vote that she’s expected to lose after the New Democrats and Greens reached an agreement to allow the NDP to form a minority government.
  The Liberals won 43 seats in the 87-seat legislature, with the NDP winning 41 seats and the Greens three.
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• Health minister says overdose issue requires treatment without judgment

  12-06-2017 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says more people are expected to die of illicit opioid overdoses in Canada this year compared with nearly 2,500 fatalities recorded in 2016.
  “It is going to get worse before it gets better,” Philpott told the National Health Leadership Conference on Monday, calling British Columbia “ground zero” because the crisis claimed 935 lives in the province last year.
  The complex problem of substance use is rooted in social is
  
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• B.C. longshoreman loses court battle for security pass because of criminal brothers

  12-06-2017 22:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  A B.C. longshoreman with two brothers who have been convicted of drug smuggling in the U.S. has lost his bid to get security clearance for the Vancouver waterfront.
  Arun Randhawa challenged a Transport Canada decision to deny him the special clearance because of the organized crime links of his brothers, both of whom are also longshoremen.
  But the Federal Court of Canada ruled against Randhawa, saying the government’s decision to deny his security clearance was reasonable.
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• Hit-and-run accident leaves cyclist seriously injured in West Vancouver

  12-06-2017 22:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  West Vancouver police have released surveillance video of a hit-and-run collision that put a cyclist in hospital with serious injuries on Saturday evening in hopes that someone will be able to identify the driver involved.
  The cyclist, a 48-year-old West Vancouver man, was struck by a black pickup truck, possibly a Ford F-150, while travelling westbound on Bellevue Avenue at around 8:30 p.m.
  Despite serious injury to the cyclist, police say the truck driver just sped away.West Vancouver Police a
  
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• TSB says small plane that crashed in North Vancouver ran out of fuel

  12-06-2017 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Transportation Safety Board says a small plane carrying four people crashed in North Vancouver on Sunday because it ran out of fuel.
  North Vancouver RCMP say everyone on board survived when the Cessna 172M crashed just after 4 p.m. along an industrial road off McKeen Avenue in North Vancouver.
  The plane was flying from Langley to Tofino and back when it crashed.
  The TSB said an onsite investigation revealed the aircraft’s right-wing fuel tank was empty, and the left tank contained
  
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• North Vancouver plane crash blamed on empty fuel tanks - CBC.ca

  12-06-2017 22:05 via cbc.ca
  
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  North Vancouver plane crash blamed on empty fuel tanks
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  A small plane that crashed while attempting an emergency landing in North Vancouver Sunday ran out of fuel, investigators say. "The right wing tank was empty and the left wing tank contained a small amount of fuel," said Transportation Safety Board ...
  Four people survive small plane crash in North VancouverVancouver Sun
  Plane ran out of gas before crashing in North Vancouver: TSBGlobalnews.ca
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• Attn City Youth 15-19: apps for #StudiointheCity 10 are now being accepted. Apply by June 15.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-06-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Attn City Youth 15-19: apps for #StudiointheCity 10 are now being accepted. Apply by June 15.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• TSB says small plane that crashed in North Vancouver ran out of fuel - Vancouver Sun

  12-06-2017 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  
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  TSB says small plane that crashed in North Vancouver ran out of fuel
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  The wreckage of a Cessna plane after crashing on Philip Avenue and McKeen Ave in North Vancouver, BC., June 11, 2017. The four occupants all survived after the plane lost power over the Lions Gate Bridge with one man sustaining a broken arm.
  North Vancouver plane crash blamed on empty fuel tanksCBC.ca
  Plane ran out of gas before crashing in North Vancouver: TSBGlobalnews.ca
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• A Highway 1 ‘Five Duckling Rescue’ Call bit.ly/2sgqqTU #NorthVancouver

  12-06-2017 21:32 via twitter.com
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• Been to #NewDelbrook yet? Take this video tour, or better, come to the Jun 24 opening party! ow.ly/gmnh30cwT9n youtu.be/GYfxpi8JRPE

  12-06-2017 20:46 via twitter.com
  Been to #NewDelbrook yet? Take this video tour, or better, come to the Jun 24 opening party! ow.ly/gmnh30cwT9n youtu.be/GYfxpi8JRPE
  
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• That 'crocodile' in Surrey is actually just a tire

  12-06-2017 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  Surrey RCMP were called twice to a marsh off Highway 17 and 104 Avenue on the weekend after receiving reports of a crocodile swimming in the murky water.
  The crocodile, the largest living reptile measuring 20 feet long and 2,000 pounds, can be found in North America — in Mexico and Florida — but the furthest north they usually get is Tampa Bay.  You won’t find the American croc in Surrey.
  That “crocodile” people were spotting in the Surrey marsh, Mounties say,
  
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• HOG... and we aren't talking farm animals. Make sure you claim your HOG. More info: cnv.org/HOG.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-06-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  HOG... and we aren't talking farm animals. Make sure you claim your HOG. More info: cnv.org/HOG.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Plane ran out of gas before crashing in North Vancouver: TSB - Globalnews.ca

  12-06-2017 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  
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  Plane ran out of gas before crashing in North Vancouver: TSB
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  A Cessna with four people on board was returning to Langley from Tofino when it lost power and dived nose first under the Philip Avenue overpass. Jordan Armstrong has the details. What is this? Sponsored content is written by Global News' editorial ...and more »
  
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• Plane ran out of gas before crashing in North Vancouver: TSB

  12-06-2017 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) says the plane that crashed in North Vancouver on Sunday ran out of gas.
  
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• Off the beaten track in Seattle

  12-06-2017 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  So you think you know Seattle?
  If you’ve made even one trip there, you have probably been to the Pike Place Market, the Space Needle and the Seattle Art Museum. Those are good choices, but a bit mainstream — you’ll find all three in any travel guidebook or online top-10 list of what to see in the Emerald City.
  If you’re looking for something just a bit different, consider checking out these unexpected, offbeat or downright quirky attractions on your next visit to Seattle.
  
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• Vancouver man dies after shooting himself during Kamloops pistol contest

  12-06-2017 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — A 50-year-old Vancouver man who was competing in a pistol competition Sunday has died in what RCMP say was a tragic accident.
  Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says the man was taking part in a pistol contest at the Target Sports Complex in Kamloops when he lost control of his weapon and accidentally shot himself in the torso.
  She says witnesses administered first aid right away and the man was taken to hospital by ambulance but he died of his injuries shortly after reaching hospital.
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• Cars 3 follows Pixar's winning formula

  12-06-2017 19:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  EMERYVILLE, CA. — Kids will love it. Their parents will love it. Their grandparents will love it.
  This has always been the strength of Pixar movies, and as I came to appreciate during an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the studio, interviews with the Cars 3 director, writers and creative teams, it’s by no means a happy accident.
  This Friday the Radiator Springs gang is back for the third instalment of the Cars franchise, and after getting an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of w
  
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• Nickelback Feed the Machine once again

  12-06-2017 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  This Friday, Billboard Magazine’s Group of the Decade (1999-2009) releases its ninth album. Titled, Feed the Machine, this is the first album to follow the Canadian quartet cancelling the majority of its tour in support of 2014’s No Fixed Address. Lead singer Chad Kroeger required surgery on a vocal-cord cyst, so the band was obliged to bow-out as he went through a significant recovery process.
  Rest assured, this meant the machine around the group — promoters, venues, ticket r
  
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• Cars 3 an unabashed love letter to NASCAR

  12-06-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  “It’s not always the fastest and strongest car that wins. It’s the smartest.”
  No, that’s not a tagline from Cars 3. It’s a quote from Ray Evernham, a man who knows a think or two about winning races. He was four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon’s crew chief, owned his own NASCAR team for 10 years and is currently is an analyst for ESPN’s NASCAR coverage.
  He also worked closely with Pixar Creative Director Jay Ward as a consultant on Cars 3, bringin
  
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• 'Truth to material' guides Cars 3 artists

  12-06-2017 18:43 via vancouversun.com
  
  There’s sweet irony in the fact that despite Pixar’s cutting-edge, computer-generated animation, the studio’s beloved characters are first born from a few simple pencil lines on a sketchpad.
  And creating the new ‘car-acters’ for Cars 3 was no exception, only this time the Pixar artists were joined by a design legend from the real world of cars. J Mays was Chief Creative Officer for Ford Motor Company for 16 years, overseeing designs ranging from the Aston Martin DB9
  
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• There's a FUN running event coming to town. Register now, @colormerad5k takes place June 18!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-06-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  There's a FUN running event coming to town. Register now, @colormerad5k takes place June 18!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Lending their voices

  12-06-2017 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  State-of-the-art animation and great story-telling is at the heart of the Cars franchise, but it’s the human voices that breath life into the anthropomorphized ‘car-acters.’
  Cars 3 has a cast featuring veterans from the first two movies, some rookies, and some real life racecar drivers. Here’s a look at some of them:
  THE VETS
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  THE ROOKIES
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  THE RACERS
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• Cars 3 followed 'Story is King' script

  12-06-2017 17:57 via vancouversun.com
  
  ‘What is your purpose in life?’
  That weighty theme is at the heart of the Cars 3, and serves as testimony to the skilled story-telling ability of Pixar Studio’s creative teams.
  After all, this is a cartoon, right?
  Well, yes and no. True, it is an animated film, but as Pixar movies of the past have demonstrated, that medium doesn’t exclude exploring life’s big questions through characters based on toys, robots and fantastical floating houses. And, of course, cars.
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• Christy Clark will be sworn in as B.C. premier today

  12-06-2017 17:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  Her reign is expected to be a short one, but Christy Clark will be officially sworn in as B.C. premier this afternoon at Government House in Victoria.
  The Liberal cabinet will also be sworn in today.
  Clark will recall the legislature on June 22 for a confidence vote that she’s expected to lose after the New Democrats and Greens reached an agreement to allow the NDP to form a minority government.
  The Liberals won 43 seats in the 87-seat legislature, with the NDP winning 41 seats and th
  
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• Daily Diversion: Fascinating timelapse of slug chowing down on dandelion

  12-06-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  This is the most incredible slug video you are going to watch all day.
  On her Shutterjet Photography Facebook page, photographer R Jeanette Martin shared this time-lapse video of a garden slug consuming a dandelion in her backyard on Gabriola Island.
  “This is potentially the best thing I’ve ever filmed,” Martin said in her post.
  She says it took the plump little slug 30 minutes to consume the weed. The video is just 32 seconds. 
   
  
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• A reminder that @bchydro is working to underground lines at #krbridge this week. Expect WB curb lane closures during the day #NorthVan

  12-06-2017 17:00 via twitter.com
  A reminder that @bchydro is working to underground lines at #krbridge this week. Expect WB curb lane closures during the day #NorthVan
  
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• Daily Poll: Should a 12-storey residential complex be built in Chinatown?

  12-06-2017 16:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  On Tuesday, Vancouver’s city council is slated to debate, then decided whether to approve a 12-story condominium project at 105 Keefer Street.
  The complex, which would stand nearly 36 metres (118 feet), would tower over the current low-rise neighbourhood featuring small storefronts.
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  Decision day on Chinatown development approaches as allegations flyChanges to Chinatown policy contemplated, but too late for 105 KeeferHeated battle over Chinatown's future pours into council chambersD
  
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• Building a balance between modern architecture and sustainability

  12-06-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Often in any business endeavour, it’s the relative newcomer with fresh ideas who sets new standards of quality, and for Metro Vancouver’s residential development sector, that person is 38-year-old Nick Kerchum.
  Kerchum’s company, Natural Balance Premium Home Builders, most recently took home a 2017 Grand Georgie award as Custom Home Builder of the Year as well as a Georgie in the category of Best Custom Home between $1.8 and $3 million.
  The wins would be noteworthy for any home
  
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• Opinion: Pipeline approvals based on faulty assumptions

  12-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Once the political reality of B.C. is determined, next steps on energy projects like Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the Site C dam will follow.
  And while the federal government has approved the pipeline expansion, the B.C. NDP and Green party — which have signed a power-sharing deal following the provincial election — say they’ll use every tool at their disposal to scuttle it.
  When determining whether or not the pipeline expansion from Edmonton to B
  
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• Opinion: A slow burn is quickening in B.C.

  12-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  There is a growing sense of anger and frustration as more people in B.C. realize how their very livelihoods are being treated as pawns in a political chess game between the NDP and Green parties.
  Unable to form a government without violating the convention requiring the as-yet-to-be-named Speaker to be a neutral arbitrator, in a classic case of the tail wagging the dog, the NDP-Green coalition is preparing to implement ideologically driven, insular changes to the economy.
  Reviews of the proposed
  
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• Canada 150: Stuart Keate, last of the great Vancouver newspaper publishers

  12-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Robert and Donald Cromie are the publishers most associated with The Vancouver Sun. Robert because he saved the paper when it looked like it was going under in 1917, Donald because he was in charge when the Sun overtook The Province to become Vancouver’s biggest paper in the 1940s and ’50s.
  Unlike the Cromies, Stuart Keate didn’t own the paper – he was just a hired gun. But the Keate era from 1964 to 1978 will probably go down as the best in the paper’s history.
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• Castlegar, Calgary vigils remember woman killed in London terror attack

  12-06-2017 05:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Separate vigils in Castlegar and Calgary were held Sunday to remember the Canadian woman killed in last week’s London attack who left behind a legacy of generosity and community service.
  Christine Archibald, 30, died last weekend on London Bridge after three men drove a van into the sidewalk and later attacked people in restaurants and bars at a nearby market. Eight people were killed.
  Archibald, who was born and raised in Castlegar before moving to Calgary, was one of several people Castl
  
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• Tenants, advocates hold block party outside condemned Balmoral Hotel

  12-06-2017 05:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  One day before she has to move out of her mouldy sixth-floor unit at the dilapidated Balmoral Hotel, Roberta Westenberg is scrambling to find a roof over her head. 
  Residents of the notorious Downtown Eastside single-room occupancy hotel on East Hastings near Main Street have been ordered to leave by Monday, 10 days after the city deemed the building uninhabitable and in threat of collapse. 
  “It’s not the perfect place to be, but there’s nowhere else for me to go,&rdq
  
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• Tenants, advocates hold block party held outside condemned Balmoral Hotel

  12-06-2017 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  
  One day before she has to move out of her mouldy sixth-floor unit at the dilapidated Balmoral Hotel, Roberta Westenberg is scrambling to find a roof over her head. 
  Residents of the notorious Downtown Eastside single-room occupancy hotel on the Hasting strip near Main have been ordered to leave by Monday, 12 days after the city deemed the building too dangerous and in threat of collapse. 
  “It’s not the perfect place to be, but there’s nowhere else for me to go,”
  
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• We are all Italian today as Commercial Drive celebrates Italian Day

  12-06-2017 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  Swiss nuts, fresh-squeezed lemonade, Slavic dessert rolls and Vietnamese coffee Popsicles. 
  Those are just some of the foods that helped to underscore a key take-away from Vancouver’s Italian Day on The Drive Sunday: We, evidently, are all Italian.
  Between the tacos, curries, Portuguese plates, hamburgers and myriad other international foods being sold in tents on Commercial Drive, it’s almost hard to find true Italian fare — pizza, pasta, cannoli and the like. 
  But l
  
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• VSO ends season on a high note

  12-06-2017 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  This year’s season end concert of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is one of those “you had to have been there” propositions, a concert with a favourite concerto (Korngold’s lush Violin Concerto, played with fire and finesse by Baiba Skride), Mahler’s grand and glorious First Symphony, and the premiere of an extraordinary set of songs for soprano and orchestra by Music Director Bramwell Tovey.
  The Korngold concerto helped win Tovey, the VSO, and violinist James Ehne
  
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• UPDATE: Man who claims to be pilot in North Vancouver plane crash calls it an ‘unforgettable moment’

  12-06-2017 03:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Some terrifying moments for four people who were able to walk away from a small plane crash along the North Vancouver waterfront Sunday afternoon.
  
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• No fatalities after small plane with four people aboard goes down in North Vancouver

  12-06-2017 03:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Some terrifying moments for four people who were able to walk away from a small plane crash along the North Vancouver waterfront Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Decision day on Chinatown development approaches as allegations fly

  12-06-2017 02:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  While city councillors prepare to decide on Tuesday the fate of a controversial proposed development at 105 Keefer Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood, advocates on both sides of the debate are starting to get personal.
  Over the past week there have been several statements from both sides sent to media outlets detailing or responding to unsubstantiated allegations involving such things as chartered bus rides to protests, free tickets to casinos, and harassment and bullying. And a
  
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• Four people survive small plane crash in North Vancouver

  12-06-2017 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Officials say a small plane carrying four passengers has crashed in North Vancouver.
  Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Sophie Wistaff said four people were on board the Cessna 172 when it went down on Sunday afternoon.
  North Vancouver RCMP say everyone on board survived, though it’s unclear whether any suffered injuries. McKeen Avenue was shut down after the crash.
  Wistaff says the plane was flying from Langley to Tofino and back when it crashed.
  The cause of the crash was
  
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• Hey #NorthVan #Youth, got summer plans? Into film & videography? Check out #IndieFilmmakersLab camp.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Hey #NorthVan #Youth, got summer plans? Into film & videography? Check out #IndieFilmmakersLab camp.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Cause of airplane crash unknown. Early stages of investigation. More information to be disseminated as it becomes available.

  12-06-2017 01:46 via twitter.com
  Cause of airplane crash unknown.Early stages of investigation.More information to be disseminated as it becomes available.
  
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• First responders on scene of Cessna airplane crash in industrial area of North Vancouver. Four passengers safe. Transport Canada called out.

  12-06-2017 01:44 via twitter.com
  First responders on scene of Cessna airplane crash in industrial area of North Vancouver. Four passengers safe. Transport Canada called out.
  
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• Luckily, initial reports are indicating only minor injuries resulted from the plane crash near Mckeen Ave. #northvan

  12-06-2017 01:33 via twitter.com
  Luckily, initial reports are indicating only minor injuries resulted from the plane crash near Mckeen Ave. #northvan
  
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• Decision day on Keefer project approaches as allegations fly

  12-06-2017 01:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  While city councillors prepare to decide on Tuesday the fate of a controversial proposed development at 105 Keefer Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood, advocates on both sides of the debate are starting to get personal.
  Over the past week there have been several statements from both sides sent to media outlets detailing or responding to unsubstantiated allegations involving such things as chartered bus rides to protests, free tickets to casinos, and harassment and bullying. And a
  
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