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• Five B.C. New Democrats with cabinet potential

  30-06-2017 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  By Dirk Meissner
  VICTORIA — British Columbia premier-designate John Horgan has a group of political veterans to choose from for his New Democrat cabinet, a team that is bound to be tested by an experienced Liberal opposition. Here are five members who may play major roles in Horgan’s government:
  Carole James: The first person Horgan hugged after the confidence vote in the legislature that defeated Christy Clark’s Liberal government. The four-term Victoria New Democrat was party
  
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• Good news the tennis courts are now open at #RayPerraultPark. We've got 2 new nets up + 2 coming soon! #NorthVan https://t.co/xuEdlpF6N8

  30-06-2017 23:20 via twitter.com
  
  Good news the tennis courts are now open at #RayPerraultPark. We've got 2 new nets up + 2 coming soon! #NorthVan https://t.co/xuEdlpF6N8
  
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• North Vancouver swimmer charges into open water - North Shore News

  30-06-2017 23:05 via nsnews.com
  
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  North Vancouver's Raben Dommann scored three medals at the Pan Am Open Water Swimming Championships held in the Cayman Islands in June. photo Paul McGrath, North Shore News. Winning swim races in a pool takes a lot of skill and strength, but ...
  
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• Victoria police board bill tops $600,000 in case of former chief Frank Elsner

  30-06-2017 22:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Victoria police board spent $602,444 on legal fees and two controversial investigations into former police chief Frank Elsner — a figure that does not include Elsner’s legal fees.
  “I think the whole thing is a waste of tax dollars,” said Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, co-chairwoman of the police board. “It’s been really expensive, it’s been really disruptive, but we’re beyond it. We’re taking fresh steps. We’ve got a new chief.”
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• Tallio case: B.C. Court of Appeal allows man convicted of 1983 murder to appeal

  30-06-2017 22:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  The B.C. Court of Appeal set the stage Friday for Phillip Tallio, who has spent the last 34 years in prison, to appeal his 1983 murder conviction.
  Tallio was 17 years old in 1983 when he was arrested for the murder of a 22-month-old girl in a First Nations reserve in Bella Coola. Nine days into a jury trial, Tallio pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, which led to a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years. Ever since Tallio’s sentencing, he has maintained his in
  
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• B.C. NDP moving quickly to transition into power

  30-06-2017 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — B.C. New Democrats are moving quickly to transition into power, following Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon’s request Thursday evening that party leader John Horgan form government.
  NDP officials and senior civil servants began the transition process Friday morning, which included the government handing over almost two dozen detailed transition binders.
  Don Wright, former president of the B.C. Institute of Technology who had been tapped to become the deputy minister and head of the
  
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• Have you checked out the emerging plan for #Maplewood yet? It's not too late... we want to know what you think!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-06-2017 22:11 via twitter.com
  Have you checked out the emerging plan for #Maplewood yet? It's not too late... we want to know what you think!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Attn teens! July 7th we're showing 'The NeverEnding Story' on the big screen in the plaza just for you!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-06-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Attn teens! July 7th we're showing 'The NeverEnding Story' on the big screen in the plaza just for you!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Cannabis Day to be held Saturday next to Pacific Central Station

  30-06-2017 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  Marijuana advocates and enthusiasts will celebrate Cannabis Day in Thornton Park, next to Pacific Central Station, on Saturday despite objections from the Vancouver park board. 
  The event features a large Marijuana Farmers Market where vendors sell marijuana products and pot-infused edibles.
  The park board had urged organizers to seek a more suitable site than the heavily used park.The annual July 1 pot protest, which in past years has been held outside the Vancouver Art Gallery,
  
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• Town Talk: Canada's birthday keeps on giving

  30-06-2017 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  Virtually “fresh off the boat,” as folk once said, columnist-to-be Malcolm Parry admired the Bridge River gorge to begin his first July 1 in Canada.
  MANY HAPPY RETURNS: Waking on his first July 1 in Canada, the young man marvelled at B.C.’s Bridge River gorge rising to twice the height of mountains he’d known in Wales. Spiralling in its sun-warming vortex, hawks scanned the valley floor for breakfast. Fifteen weeks earlier, the young immigrant had done much the same by fl
  
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• More than four people a day on average die in B.C. from illicit drugs: coroner

  30-06-2017 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — More than four people a day on average died in British Columbia in May from illicit drugs, a death toll the coroner’s service says should serve as a warning to people who are not drug-dependent to avoid experimentation.
  The service says provisional data show 129 persons died in May, down slightly from 136 who died in April.
  It says until November 2016, there had never been as many as 100 drug deaths in the province for a single month, but in every month since then the num
  
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• Obituary: Ann Watt was one of first singers to appear at Theatre Under the Stars

  30-06-2017 20:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  LONDON, England — Ann Watt, who was 101 when she died on June 4, was a lyric soprano who made her name in Vancouver as one of the first singers to appear at the city’s famous Theatre Under the Stars when it opened its doors in 1940.
  She sang the lead role in several operettas, including The Chocolate Soldier by Oscar Straus, Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert and The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg. She also gave recitals of classical lied, recalling that wartime restrictions requi
  
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• From coast to coast to coast, buildings are lighting up #redandwhite to celebrate #Canada150 on July 1! Come check… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-06-2017 20:36 via twitter.com
  From coast to coast to coast, buildings are lighting up #redandwhite to celebrate #Canada150 on July 1! Come check… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• You’ve seen the Capilano Suspension Bridge photo, now get a behind the scenes ... bit.ly/2tuKQcB… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-06-2017 20:32 via twitter.com
  You’ve seen the Capilano Suspension Bridge photo, now get a behind the scenes ...bit.ly/2tuKQcB… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Work Zone Awareness bit.ly/2usbuzP #NorthVancouver https://t.co/57YNKM1hsV

  30-06-2017 20:06 via twitter.com
  
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• Countdown to #CanadaDay festivities in the City is on. Here’s what’s happening. cnv.org/CommunityEvents #NorthVan https://t.co/wyO7RvycGG

  30-06-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  
  Countdown to #CanadaDay festivities in the City is on. Here’s what’s happening. cnv.org/CommunityEvents #NorthVan https://t.co/wyO7RvycGG
  
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• TUTS's Barber cuts to the chase with The Drowsy Chaperone under the stars

  30-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Theatre Under The Stars: The Drowsy Chaperone and Mary Poppins
  Previews: July 7-10. Opens: July 11-Aug. 19, 8 p.m. | Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park
  Tickets and info: From $30 at tuts.ca
  Gillian Barber loves musical theatre, but with reservations.
  “I’m deathly scared of singing in public,” says Barber. “Really, I come at it much more as a dancer than a singer. Of course, I’ll do it if I have to, but it’s not really my favourite thing.”
  You wouldn’t
  
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• Theatre review: Bard on the Beach's Winter's Tale finds magic only in fits and starts

  30-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Winter’s Tale
  To Sept. 22 | Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park
  Tickets and info. | From $21 at bardonthebeach.org
  Both mainstage shows at Bard on the Beach this summer revolve around a virtuous woman unjustly accused of adultery. And in both Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing and The Winter’s Tale — spoiler alert! — things turn out well in the end.
  Justice, of a sort, is done. The young lovers who ought to marry do marry. Some characters thought to be dead ar
  
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• Brian Minter: Make your lawn more eco-friendly with micro clover

  30-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Can our lawns be more environmentally friendly? Already they produce oxygen for us to breath, collect pollutants, sequester carbon, hold soils together, minimize dust and give us a soft place to walk, sit and connect with the outdoors. The answer is yes, we can tweak our lawns to be much more eco-friendly than they are now.
  As lawn stewards, we need to employ better practices to manage invasive weeds by spot treating them with safer controls and over-seeding with grass blends that are more weed
  
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• Book review: Memoir of family cabin delivers more than expected

  30-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  How Deep is the Lake — A Century at Chilliwack Lake
  By Shelley O’Callaghan
  (Caitlin Press, $24.95)How Deep is the Lake is a welcome surprise for a memoir-weary reviewer, and this well written, closely observed memoir is both a family album, a love letter to a stunning natural environment, an account of First Nations history, and the testimony to the author’s burgeoning awareness of the great Canadian land theft that made land on Chilliwack Lake available to her family.
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• Burnaby soccer star Christine Sinclair appointed to Order of Canada

  30-06-2017 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C.’s own Christine Sinclair is among those appointed to the Order of Canada this week.
  The 34-year-old Burnaby-born soccer star was one of 99 new appointments to the Order of Canada announced prior to Saturday’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. Former Vancouver Canucks captain Mark Messier was also appointed to the Order.
  Sinclair led Team Canada to back-to-back bronze medals at the Olympics, and has scored 168 goals in 259 games in her international career. Under Sinclair&rsquo
  
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• We're recruiting for a Regular Full-Time Design Technician. Click here to apply. ow.ly/tmsq30dbQ4N

  30-06-2017 19:08 via twitter.com
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• Film documenting Tragically Hip's 2016 Man Machine Poem tour to premier this fall

  30-06-2017 18:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  Fans will soon be able to see The Tragically Hip’s music at work when a documentary following the band’s emotional 2016 tour premiers this fall.
  In the spring of 2016, the iconic band announced lead singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, along with plans to tour over the summer.
  Long Time Running, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, follows the lead-up and preparations for that tour and gives fans a glimpse into the heart behind the perfo
  
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• Dancing on the Edge continues to step up for creatives

  30-06-2017 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Dancing on the Edge
  July 6 to 15 | Various venues
  Tickets and info: Free to $28, dancingontheedge.org
  From the theatre stage to a crosswalk on a busy city street the Dancing on the Edge contemporary dance festival hits a wide range of notes.
  “We go from Samsara Buddhism to crazy rock n’roll,” said the festival’s director/programmer/co-founder Donna Spencer referring to the festival’s bookend performances.
  Kicking things off on July 6 is the full-length Oath-Mid
  
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• We'll be closed on Monday for the Canada Day statutory holiday. We'll be back bright and early Tuesday to serve you. ow.ly/a3Os30dbHpS

  30-06-2017 18:29 via twitter.com
  We'll be closed on Monday for the Canada Day statutory holiday. We'll be back bright and early Tuesday to serve you. ow.ly/a3Os30dbHpS
  
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• North Vancouver school trustees pass budget - North Shore News

  30-06-2017 18:22 via nsnews.com
  
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  North Vancouver school trustees pass budget
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  After pressing Pause last week on adoption of its budget, school trustees in North Vancouver voted to approve a revised $182.5-million financial plan Tuesday evening, after receiving written assurance from the province about funding expected for the ...
  
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• Transition to government will keep B.C. NDP busy for the summer

  30-06-2017 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  With the transition of power finally underway, the B.C. NDP minority government, with Green backing, has plenty of work ahead before its own throne speech.
  Kimberly Speers, a political scientist at the University of Victoria, explained the process, saying B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan will first take time to appointment his cabinet before developing a legislative agenda.
  New MLAs will attend an orientation session to ensure they know their specific duties and responsibilities in government operati
  
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• Don't be shy, have a seat & #embracethespace #parklet #NorthVan. https://t.co/CYJOlI39ai

  30-06-2017 18:02 via twitter.com
  
  Don't be shy, have a seat & #embracethespace #parklet #NorthVan. https://t.co/CYJOlI39ai
  
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• B.C. soccer star Christine Sinclair appointed to Order of Canada

  30-06-2017 17:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C.’s own Christine Sinclair is among those appointed to the Order of Canada this week.
  The 34-year-old Burnaby-born soccer star was one of 99 new appointments to the Order of Canada announced prior to Saturday’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. Former Vancouver Canucks captain Mark Messier was also appointed to the Order.
  Sinclair led Team Canada to back-to-back bronze medals at the Olympics, and has scored 168 goals in 259 games in her international career. Under Sinclair&rsquo
  
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• Police on scene at Delbrook & Cartelier for lone motorcycle crash - two males taken to hospital - local traffic diverted for investigation.

  30-06-2017 17:15 via twitter.com
  Police on scene at Delbrook & Cartelier for lone motorcycle crash - two males taken to hospital - local traffic diverted for investigation.
  
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• Opinion: It’s time to end precarious work in B.C.’s hospitals

  30-06-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hospital cleaners are on the front-line of the battle against the hospital-acquired infections that put vulnerable patients at risk.
  Similarly, dietary workers take great care to ensure that the nutritional content and consistency of meals is appropriate for the medical condition of patients.
  These workers are essential for quality, safe patient care. But there is a dirty secret in many B.C.’s hospitals.
  Government legislation and policies over 16 years have created a disposable workforce
  
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• Daily Poll: What's been the most exciting moment of the 2017 B.C. election?

  30-06-2017 16:28 via vancouversun.com
  
  For the past seven weeks, all eyes have been on B.C.’s Legislature to see how the future of the province would unfold.
  A quick recap of the highlights since the election:
  May 9: Election night saw the B.C. Liberals fall one seat shy of a majority. The NDP and the Greens took 41 and three seats respectively.
  May 29: John Horgan and Andrew Weaver announce they have reached a power-sharing agreement, with the Greens pledging to back the NDP.
  May 30: Christy Clark announces she’ll delive
  
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• Canada 150: The lover of the universe who became B.C. premier

  30-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.
  B.C. has always been a great place for people to reinvent themselves. And nobody in this province’s history embodies this quite like Amor De Cosmos, B.C.’s second premier.
  Born William Alexander Smith in Windsor, N.S., on Aug. 25, 1825, he left his job as a clerk in Halifax in 1852 to try his luck in California during the gold rush.
  He arrived in California in
  
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• Man claiming 1983 wrongful murder conviction was in error has daughter, grandchildren waiting for him

  30-06-2017 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  When Phillip James Tallio went to jail 34 years ago for killing a child in Bella Coola, he left behind the world he knew and everyone important to him — including one special person still a few months from being born.
  The RCMP arrested Tallio, at age 17 in April 1983, for the murder of a 22-month-old girl in a remote First Nations community on B.C.’s central coast. At the time, Tallio and his 14-year-old girlfriend Theresa Hood had just found out she was pregnant with their child.
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan's next challenge begins now

  30-06-2017 07:25 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — After weeks of speculation, Lt-Gov. Judith Guichon acted decisively and simply Thursday to end 16 years of Liberal government in B.C. and invite the NDP back to office in an unusual partnership with the Greens.
  The drama started in the legislature just before 5 p.m. as Premier Christy Clark delivered a last plea to defend her government record and save it from defeat. To no avail.
  The New Democrats and Greens then combined forces to terminate the Liberal throne speech and the Li
  
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• Opinion: Removing statue of Judge Begbie benefits no one

  30-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  I have been disturbed by the public discussion of the removal of the statue of Judge Begbie in New Westminster. While I’m not an authority on him, I am a historian and was, at one time, the curator of B.C. history at the Museum of Canadian History.
  To remove this statue would be to deny both the positive and the negative sides of this important man in our history in B.C. As I’m sure you already know, Matthew Baillie Begbie was the person who brought law and order to the Colony of Bri
  
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• NDP asked to form next B.C. government after Liberal defeat

  30-06-2017 06:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s New Democrats will return to power at the legislature for the first time in 16 years, after toppling Premier Christy Clark’s Liberals Thursday and being asked by the lieutenant-governor to form the next government.
  NDP Leader John Horgan was summoned to Government House by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon and asked by the vice-regal representative to become the province’s 36th premier. That followed the Clark government’s defeat on a vote of confidence in t
  
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• B.C. NDP asked to form government after Liberal defeat

  30-06-2017 06:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s New Democrats will return to power at the legislature for the first time in 16 years, after toppling Premier Christy Clark’s Liberals Thursday and being asked by the lieutenant-governor to form the next government.
  NDP Leader John Horgan was summoned to Government House by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon and asked by the vice-regal representative to become the province’s 36th premier. That followed the Clark government’s defeat on a vote of confidence in t
  
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• Labour group delighted by transfer of power in B.C.; business group looks for stability

  30-06-2017 06:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C. premier-designate John Horgan now begins the challenging task of fulfilling key campaign promises to make B.C. better for workers and industry.
  Irene Lanzinger, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, said late Thursday that her federation looks forward to working with the B.C. NDP and Green party alliance, which she believes will work for workers across B.C.
  “I’m excited to have a government that I think will be on the side of working people and families, I think it will be
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Site C passes all legal loopholes, but project still threatened

  30-06-2017 04:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — The news out of the highest court in the land Thursday was brief but fraught with implications for B.C. Hydro and the hydroelectric dam now under construction at Site C.
  “Dismissed with costs,” ruled the Supreme Court of Canada in the first instance. “Dismissed with costs,” it ruled a second time.
  In both cases, the high court denied applications for leave to appeal lower court rulings that were in favour of letting Site C proceed.
  Both applications
  
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• Check out this week's #CityView eNews. So much happening: upcoming event,s, contest, parklets & more:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-06-2017 03:16 via twitter.com
  Check outthis week's #CityView eNews. So much happening: upcoming event,s, contest, parklets & more:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Bacon murder trial: Accused killer rented vehicle in Surrey days before shooting

  30-06-2017 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  One of the men accused of killing Jonathan Bacon in a daytime gang shooting outside a Kelowna hotel rented a car in Surrey 10 days before the incident, the court heard Thursday.
  Car rental documents from Dollar Thrifty Automotive, now merged with Thrifty Car Rental, showed Jujhar Khun-Khun rented a 2011 Jeep Cherokee on Aug. 4, 2011.
  Jason McBride, Michael Jones and Khun-Khun were arrested in 2013 and charged with first-degree murder for the killing of Bacon, along with the attempted murder of f
  
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• B.C. Wildlife Federation president Jim Glaicar steps down amid controversy

  30-06-2017 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  The president of the B.C. Wildlife Federation stepped down Wednesday in the wake of several controversies at the hunting and fishing organization.
  In an email sent to BCWF members, Jim Glaicar cited personal reasons for his resignation.
  Interim director of operations Brenton Froehlich confirmed that past president George Wilson has been appointed interim president in Glaicar’s place. The BCWF did not respond to a Postmedia request for an interview, but in an emailed statement Froehlic
  
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• Surrey pedestrian killed had complained about feeling ‘invisible’ in crosswalk before

  30-06-2017 02:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  A young Surrey woman who was fatally struck by a car while walking in a crosswalk on her way to work had complained about that crossing before.
  Police have not released the victim’s name but numerous Facebook posts have revealed her to be Emily Sanregret, 21. She died in hospital on Wednesday night, six days after the 7 a.m. crash at 168th Street and 60th Avenue in Cloverdale.
  Leanne Waniek, owner of Kidz Rock Daycare, was Sanregret’s boss.
  The crash happened nearby.
  “That&rsqu
  
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• Live: B.C. Liberals defeated on historic non-confidence vote

  30-06-2017 02:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s Liberal government has been defeated on a confidence vote in the legislature, forcing the resignation of Premier Christy Clark and potentially ending 16 years of Liberal rule in the province.
  An alliance of NDP and Green MLAs passed a motion of non-confidence in the Liberals by a vote of 44 to 42 (the 43rd Liberal MLA was Speaker Steve Thomson who did not vote).
  Clark will now tender her resignation to Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon.
  Guichon could ask NDP Leader John
  
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• Opinion: Maintaining your customers' trust in your brand is critically important

  30-06-2017 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  I was enjoying my cup of Irish Breakfast tea (no sugar, plenty of milk) one morning when I remembered the news about recently recalled milk. I quickly scoured the newspaper for the article about a recall of Natrel and Island Farms milk, due to the presence of unspecified “foreign material,” the vagueness of which sent my imagination into overdrive.
  At the bottom, was a table showing the UPC codes of suspect milk. Squinting at the table, the milk carton and back again, I assured
  
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• Homicide team investigates sudden death of four-month-old baby girl in Maple Ridge

  30-06-2017 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police in Maple Ridge are investigating the sudden and suspicious death of a four-month-old baby girl.
  Cpl. Amanda Harnett of Ridge Meadows RCMP says the detachment was notified of the death on Wednesday afternoon.
  She says in a news release that the infant was brought to hospital the night before.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is now responsible for the case but is currently not providing further details.
  
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• #TBT to Chief Dan George Park circa 2002. This park has been fully updated. Check it out on E 5th St between Moody… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-06-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  #TBT to Chief Dan George Park circa 2002. This park has been fully updated. Check it out on E 5th St between Moody… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Teen girl missing after leaping into Thompson River to evade police

  30-06-2017 01:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  Kamloops Mounties continue efforts to find a teenaged girl who escaped arrest and plunged into the Thompson River in the early morning hours of Thursday.
  Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said the incident began at about 2 a.m. when police were alerted to a report of a stolen bicycle.
  The bike was recovered and RCMP later used a dog to locate a young female suspect, found hiding beneath a dock on the river beside Royal Avenue on the North Shore.
  “The girl was subsequently arrested in connection with the b
  
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