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• Free trip offered for donating toe to legendary Dawson City cocktail

  24-06-2017 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  Want a free trip to the Yukon? It won’t cost you an arm and a leg but it will cost you a big toe.
  Tourism Yukon is seeking volunteers willing to donate their big toe to Dawson City’s Downtown Hotel so that the legendary Sourtoe Cocktail can live on. The winning volunteer will have their toe immortalized post mortem in the cocktail and in exchange get a free trip for two to visit the Yukon pre mortem.
  “The Sourtoe Cocktail is a one-of-a-kind experience that you can only get in D
  
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• Crews fighting out-of-control wildfire near 100 Mile House

  24-06-2017 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  
  Provincial firefighters were tackling an out-of-control wildfire Saturday in the Cariboo near 100 Mile House.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service says the fire was discovered Friday and has since grown to an estimated one-third of a square kilometre in size.
  The fire doesn’t pose a threat to public safety or any homes, but it is burning near a major hydro transmission line.
  The Esketem’c First Nation Territory is also about five kilometres away from the fire, and wildfire service says it&rsquo
  
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• Watch out for the bald eagle at the Delbrook Grand Opening!!! He'll steal your hat! @NVanDistrict #NorthVancouver https://t.co/koRRU0pBvj

  24-06-2017 22:26 via twitter.com
  
  Watch out for the bald eagle at the Delbrook Grand Opening!!! He'll steal your hat! @NVanDistrict #NorthVancouver https://t.co/koRRU0pBvj
  
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• Free trip offered for toe donation to legendary Dawson City cocktail

  24-06-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  Want a free trip to the Yukon? It won’t cost you an arm and a leg but it will cost you a big toe.
  Tourism Yukon is seeking volunteers willing to donate their big toe to Dawson City’s Downtown Hotel so that the legendary Sourtoe Cocktail can live on. The winning volunteer will have their toe immortalized post mortem in the cocktail and in exchange get a free trip for two to visit the Yukon pre mortem.
  “The Sourtoe Cocktail is a one-of-a-kind experience that you can only get in D
  
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• Break out the fans, we're in for a heat wave! Get tips to beat the heat @ cnv.org/ExtremeHeat #NorthVan https://t.co/bRyJ9g3gvd

  24-06-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Break out the fans, we're in for a heat wave! Get tips to beat the heat @ cnv.org/ExtremeHeat#NorthVan https://t.co/bRyJ9g3gvd
  
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• 'Darth Radar' switches from handing out speeding tickets to helping the defence

  24-06-2017 21:07 via vancouversun.com
  
  From handing out some of the harshest punishments that traffic laws allow to now helping those on the receiving end, Grant Gottgetreu has moved on.
  Known by former police colleagues as “Darth Radar,”  Gottgetreu hung up his speed gun in April after impounding more than 2,000 vehicles for excessive speeding (40 or more kilometres an hour above the posted limit).
  The 48-year-old, who was a traffic officer and team supervisor for 28 years in New Westminster, West Vancouver and
  
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• Love Jazz? There's a FREE concert in #CivicPlaza TODAY 3pm w/ Festival d’été Afro-Canadian Collaboration.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-06-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Love Jazz? There's a FREE concert in #CivicPlaza TODAY 3pm w/ Festival d’été Afro-Canadian Collaboration.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Makeover: A special gift for a dedicated mom

  24-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Cherene Bradbury is a selfless and hardworking mom who is taking care of the family while her husband is battling a terminal illness. Her daughter wanted to show appreciation for all that her mom does and nominated her for a makeover.
  When Cherene, who is a security guard, is not wearing her uniform, she lives in her jeans and flip-flops. She has admitted that she never wears dresses because she hasn’t found a style that feels good and looks flattering, and was hoping to incorporate more c
  
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• Beauty Bar: NARS The Orgasm Collection

  24-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  What it is: When it comes to blush colours, it doesn’t get much more iconic than Orgasm from NARS. 
  The cult-classic shade, which is a pretty peachy-pink hue with a slight subtle undertone of gold, has inspired dozens of dupes — and more than a few lineups when it was first released. 
  Now the colour has expanded into a curated collection of pink beauty staples with the introduction of an Orgasm Liquid Blush and lipstick. 
  The liquid blush formula provides full colour p
  
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• On Canada's 150th birthday, journey through B.C.'s past

  24-06-2017 17:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  Silvery totem poles peek through the mists of Haida Gwaii. An abandoned rail track meanders along a Kootenay mountain pass. In Gastown, the perfume of gin lingers in a former bootlegger’s haunt.
  Traces of the past are all over British Columbia, if you know where to look. Luckily, B.C.’s 91 National Historic Sites, 10 Provincial Historic Sites and three UNESCO World Heritage Sites make it easy to journey back through the 150 years of Canada’s history in its westernmost province.
  
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• Ed Willes: He walks the walk; now it's time for Jon Jennings to talk the talk

  24-06-2017 17:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  During a scrimmage in the closing days of training camp, B.C. Lions defensive tackle Mic’hael Brooks broke through the line and found his way to the general vicinity of Jonathon Jennings.
  This, to Brooks’s way of thinking, provided incontrovertible evidence that, had this been a game, he would have sacked the Lions’ quarterback. He also expressed that opinion to Jennings, who took a contrary view.
  “You wouldn’t have touched me in a game,” Jennings opined.
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• Do some good in your 'hood. Help #CityParkStewards give Loutet Park some TLC TODAY 9-noon. No exp req.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-06-2017 17:00 via twitter.com
  Do some good in your 'hood. Help #CityParkStewards give Loutet Park some TLC TODAY 9-noon. No exp req.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Canada 150 food: MELA! Festivals serves up melting pot of cultural cuisine

  24-06-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  MELA! Festivals
  July 1, 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; July 2, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. | Granville Island
  Tickets and info: Free at Melafestivals.com 
  Canada has long been praised for its “melting pot” of different cultures. But we don’t always get the opportunity to explore the vast influences that make up the mix. 
  Mashood Max Ali and Ravi Singh wanted to change that — even if for only a day — and they decided Canada Day would be the perfect time to do it.
  
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• Large Vancouver property generates considerable income

  24-06-2017 16:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  475 West 19th Avenue, Vancouver
  Type: Six-bedroom, seven-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,177 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $2,478,600
  Listed for: $2,750,000
  Sold for: $2,680,000
  Sold on: March 27
  Days on market: 61
  Listing agent: Bob Bracken at RE/MAX Real Estate Services
  Buyers agent: Franco Diligenti at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: This sizable property in Vancouver’s Cambie Village comprises four levels and more than 4,100 square feet of living space. Listing agent Bob Bracken reports that the 1
  
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• The Home Front: Curating a better home design experience

  24-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Running counter to the increasing quantity of mass-produced home decor and furnishing items on the market, a number of Canadian designer makers are teaming up to offer products for the home that are handmade, from natural materials, and with a focus on originality, craft and sustainability. The Sun caught up with a few of them to discuss what drives them, and how they’re being received.
  Chic & Basta is an online marketplace that offers contemporary goods for the home by designer m
  
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• Polygon's Seven Peaks a stylish addition to Squamish

  24-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  With four girls and a boy in a blended family, mother Ashley Dempsey was taking no chances in getting exactly what she wanted in her new home.
  So when she learned that Polygon was releasing another 12 homes after selling out 22 homes in just two hours in May, she set up her chair in front of its Seven Peaks development in Squamish the day before a Saturday release at noon. She had a realtor spell her off Friday night and rode her bike back the next morning from the family’s rented home nea
  
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• North Van's Muir clan traces ancestry back to two Fathers of Confederation

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  When Jack Muir’s mom and dad married in 1930 — he an alumnus of Point Grey Secondary, she a Kitsilano grad — it brought together the bloodlines of two of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation.
  “That’s the neat thing,” Jack’s son Kim Muir said. “They both had roots in Nova Scotia. They came all the way from there and it culminated in a small point where my grandfather met my grandmother in Kits.”
  Jack’s father, George Muir, traced his
  
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• Journey through B.C.'s past

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Silvery totem poles peek through the mists of Haida Gwaii. An abandoned rail track meanders along a Kootenay mountain pass. In Gastown, the perfume of gin lingers in a former bootlegger’s haunt.
  Traces of the past are all over British Columbia, if you know where to look. Luckily, B.C.’s 91 National Historic Sites, 10 Provincial Historic Sites and three UNESCO World Heritage Sites make it easy to journey back through the 150 years of Canada’s history in its westernmost province.
  
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• Historical Northwest Coast works become more than art at Museum of Anthropology

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  In traditional museum exhibitions, historical objects are often put on display and accompanied by pithy curatorial comments that put the works in context. This approach is very much about preserving objects as artifacts in a western-style museum setting.
  The basket is made from the roots of a spruce tree and painted with Wasgo (Sea Wolf) imagery. It was originally made in 1890-1920 by a Skidegate Haida artist and painted by John Cross Neeslant.
  Another, newer approach at institutions such as the
  
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• Canada 150: What will B.C. look like 50 years from now?

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Waves of immigration that have shaped Metro Vancouver in decades past will continue to do so in the future — but by the year 2067 will come with a twist.
  By that time, thanks to climate change, it is likely that many of the immigrants flocking to British Columbia from around the Pacific Rim will be fleeing increasingly inhospitable weather conditions in their homelands as much as anything, according to demographer Andy Yan.
  “The idea of climate refugees will definitely come into play
  
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• Canada 150: Ian Tyson, the cowboy folksinger

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  In the early 1960s, folksinger Ian Tyson was sitting in a bar called the Kettle of Fish in Greenwich Village in New York. A “kind of grubby kid” walked in and announced he had a new song.
  “It was Bobby Dylan, and he sang me, Blowin’ in the Wind,” Tyson recalled on the TV show, The Texas Connection. “He just wrote it. I thought, ‘I can do that.’”
  Tyson went home and wrote his first song, Four Strong Winds. Not bad for a first try — in 20
  
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• Canada 150: Five artifacts representing B.C. on Canada's 150th birthday

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  From the seven million objects in the collection of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, curators have selected five they feel represent B.C. as the country marks its first 150 years. 
  Argillite Chest
  On top of this argillite chest by Charles Edenshaw, a human is caught in a moment of transformation into a raven, the bringer of light to the world. The transforming figure is above a shell out of which human faces emerge. It’s a visual illustration of a Haida creation myth and the in
  
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• Canada 150: 10 books that honour the True North

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Oh, Canada.
  Our home and native land deserves a special kind of celebration for its 15oth milestone. And one way many authors are celebrating this great nation is with a keepsake book.
  From photo books to heartfelt personal stories, there is a wide array of tomes taking over bookstores this year in honour of Canada’s big birthday. 
  Here are a few of our favourites: THE WORLD NEEDS MORE CANADA
  Indigo
  This epic compilation gives the mic to some of Canada’s most influential pe
  
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• B.C.’s immigrants giving voice to their own stories

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Lino Coria is a Vancouver engineer who develops computer vision algorithms. But to tens of thousands of YouTube users in his native Mexico and across Latin America, he’s better known for talking about the life of his young family in Port Moody.
  Coria has fans. His wife, Marcela de la Pena, was shopping for Halloween costumes at Value Village in Coquitlam last year when a stranger came up to their daughters, Julia and Emilia, now nine and four-years old.
  ” ‘Are these Lino Coria&
  
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• Opinion: Why parks should be a policy priority

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  By the time I turned 17, I had spent a couple of years battling night sweats, heart palpitations, insomnia, and a general sense of impending doom. I finally saw a psychiatrist, who said I had anxiety and gave me a long list of prescriptions.
  I had heard stories from friends about developing dependencies on these drugs, and was generally adverse to medication, so I never went to pick them up. Instead, I found myself drawn to parks, spaces where a sense of calm would descend, and the verge of cris
  
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• Opinion: Proposed cannabis policy doesn't do enough to protect youth

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Canada’s Liberal government has stated that marijuana will be decriminalized by July 2018. This means the removal, or at the least, a lessening of laws and restrictions related to marijuana use and associated pot services.
  While people on both sides of the debate have strongly held and differing opinions, the protection of youth is an area of agreement.
  Marijuana, also known as cannabis, has been illegal in Canada for close to 100 years. Marijuana can’t be produced, sold or even poss
  
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• Opinion: Canada must win exemption from NAFTA's proportionality rule

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump is known for tweeting alternative facts. But occasionally, perhaps inadvertently, his tweets conform to real facts. When he approved the building of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, Trump said it would “reduce our dependence on foreign oil.” Given that the pipeline would be filled with mainly Alberta bitumen, Trump revealed that he thinks Canadian oil is American oil.
  Unfortunately, it’s virtually true. NAFTA’s proportionality rule (Ar
  
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• Letters: Moving toward best dementia care possible

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Re: St. Paul’s Hospital addressing ‘brutal lack of dignity’ allegation in treating Alzheimer’s patient, June 9. 
  The Alzheimer Society of B.C. appreciates the continued media attention to issues affecting people living with dementia and the people who support them. Across the province many health-care providers provide exemplary care to people living with dementia; unfortunately, this story highlights the ways that we need to continue to raise the standards.
  While th
  
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• Editorial: Liberals force opponents to vote against everything they believe in

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  As expected, the Throne Speech delivered Thursday borrowed heavily from the platforms of the New Democrat and Green party platforms. But it would be naive to think the Liberal caucus has converted through some sort of electoral epiphany and will embrace causes espoused by the opposition. 
  Maybe it’s the cynic in us, but we see the pledges to invest $1 billion to create 60,000 child-care spaces and to make child care free for families with incomes below $60,000, to raise the welfare ra
  
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• Families of Air India victims in Vancouver repeat calls for justice

  24-06-2017 06:06 via vancouversun.com
  
  Ram and Sudha Jalan were visiting Vancouver from Bangalore, India, Friday when they read a Postmedia News article about the Air India memorial service at Stanley Park.
  Ram lost his brother, his sister-in-law and their two children in the June 23, 1985, terrorist bombing.
  The Jalan family of Bangalore, India attended the ceremony at the Air India Memorial Wall in Stanley Park on Friday.
  “This just happened to be a coincidence,” Ram said just before the evening service began. “I
  
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• Sam Elliott steps up to play The Hero in a legacy movie written for hi

  24-06-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  After nearly five decades as an actor, Sam Elliott is enjoying a career first: starring in a movie written just for him.
  The iconic actor, with the legendary slow drawl voice and marked moustache, is front and centre of the new film The Hero, which opens June 30 in Vancouver at Vancity Theatre.“It is nice to have something written for you as an actor,” Elliott said recently over the phone from Malibu, Calif. “I think that’s something any actor would want to realize. That&
  
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• NHL Draft: Canucks take Elias Pettersson with fifth overall pick, but will need to be patient

  24-06-2017 04:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  CHICAGO — If it was by design, there was no better way for Elias Pettersson to witness what it will take to pack on muscle and eventually ply his playmaking trade in the National Hockey League.
  Not only did the Vancouver Canucks select the slick Swedish centre fifth-overall Friday — missing on projected top-pairing defenceman Cale Makar who went fourth to Colorado and passing on centre Cody Glass who went sixth to Las Vegas — they made sure on a post-Draft Combine visit to Roge
  
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• Dan Fumano: Applying Vancouver's empty home tax may cost $2.7 million more than expected

  24-06-2017 04:36 via vancouversun.com
  
  With the July 1 deadline approaching for Vancouver dwellings to be rented out or be hit with the country’s first vacancy tax, it appears the cost of implementing the tax will be $2.7 million more than anticipated.
  No one can argue against the stated goals of the new tax — raising money for affordable housing in the country’s most expensive city and boosting rental stock in a city with a vacancy rate below one per cent.
  But the effectiveness and fairness of the tax hav
  
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• Get arrested for a good cause! Our riders and volunteers are out raising money for #CopsForCancer at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-06-2017 03:47 via twitter.com
  Get arrested for a good cause! Our riders and volunteers are out raising money for #CopsForCancer at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Want to work with us? Applications are being accepted July 4th. #northvan northshorefirerecruiting.ca/2015-fire-recr… https://t.co/hwuj2sm88T

  24-06-2017 03:26 via twitter.com
  
  Want to work with us? Applications are being accepted July 4th. #northvan northshorefirerecruiting.ca/2015-fire-recr… https://t.co/hwuj2sm88T
  
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• Dan Fumano: Applying Vancouver's empty home tax may cost an $2.7 million more than expected

  24-06-2017 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  
  With the July 1 deadline approaching for Vancouver dwellings to be rented out or be hit with the country’s first vacancy tax, it appears the cost of implementing the tax will be $2.7 million more than anticipated.
  No one can argue against the stated goals of the new tax — raising money for affordable housing in the country’s most expensive city and boosting rental stock in a city with a vacancy rate below one per cent.
  But the effectiveness and fairness of the tax hav
  
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• Vancouver piano teacher convicted of sexual assault should get 40-44 months: Crown

  24-06-2017 02:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  A well-known piano teacher in Vancouver’s Asian community who was convicted of sexually assaulting five of his female students should spend 40 to 44 months in jail, a prosecutor argued Friday.
  In February, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray found Yung Ping David Chen guilty of nine counts relating to the crimes that occurred in the piano studio of his Vancouver home. The offences happened over a nearly 20-year period, from 1994 to 2013.
  In his sentencing submissions, Crown counsel
  
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• HandyDART users appeal to TransLink board to hold off on long-term contracts

  24-06-2017 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  Customers and drivers are lobbying TransLink to hold off on signing any long-term contracts with HandyDART service providers until there is a more stable government in Victoria.
  The door-to-door shared-ride service for people with physical or cognitive disabilities who are unable to use conventional public transit without assistance is currently provided by MVT Canadian Bus Inc.
  TransLink’s contract with MVT expires next year and the transit authority is planning to begin a competitive pro
  
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• Clark's left turn worries her party's conservatives, could endanger Liberals free-enterprise coalition

  24-06-2017 02:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  Former B.C. Liberal cabinet ministers reacted with shock — and worry that the party’s free-enterprise coalition could be at risk — at the abrupt policy turnarounds outlined in Premier Christy Clark’s throne speech Thursday.
  Bill Bennett, a former mining and energy minister who represented Kootenay East for the Liberals, said Friday the abrupt changes will put pressure on the free-enterprise coalition of centre-left liberals and right-wing conservatives.
  “I think the
  
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• NHL Draft: Canucks take Elias Pettersson with fifth overall pick

  24-06-2017 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Ben Kuzma profiled Elias Pettersson as part of our series on the top players the Canucks might draft. Here’s his take on the Swedish centre, whom the Canucks picked at No. 5 Friday night in the NHL Entry Draft in Chicago.  
   
  Elias Pettersson isn’t Nicklas Backstrom, but there are similarities.
  Backstrom doesn’t get enough credit for being the straw that stirs the drink for the Washington Capitals. The Swedish centre often dishes sweet feeds to wide-open linemate Alex
  
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