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• Lululemon in body-shaming hot water again

  03-07-2017 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  Four years after Lululemon Athletica’s founder Chip Wilson got into trouble over comments about the kind of women’s legs he said were best suited to his company’s pants, the Vancouver-based clothier is back in the news for similar reasons.
  An Ohio woman says she was offered unsolicited advice from Lululemon staff at a store in Ohio about which particular pant styles would cause less friction between her thighs.
  In a June 20 Facebook post, 21-year-old Jamie Kraig wrote “al
  
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• Back to the bush: Veteran B.C. firefighter values being 'a better asset out in the field'

  03-07-2017 23:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  Wildfire season is around the corner, and Gord Shaw has seen his share of them.
  Shaw started fighting forest fires in 1981 in the Interior’s Mackenzie region, where he still battles blazes today.
  “I was awaiting a job working on Williston Lake on tugs, moving logs,” the 60-year-old said.
  “Suddenly, they needed emergency firefighters.”
  He’d deliver gear to the site, drop it off, return for another load.
  Over the years he’s performed lots of duties, includ
  
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• Richmond business dresses Trudeau kids for Canada Day

  03-07-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two days before Traci Costa was expected to deliver the outfits the children of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau were going to wear on Canada Day, she saw red — the wrong shade of red. 
  The red and white garb for Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien Trudeau were made with the wrong fabric, a bright tomato red instead of the rich cherry red that Costa had envisioned. 
  “I don’t think anyone would notice, but I’d know,” said Costa, CEO of R
  
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• Paragon poised to put its Parq mark on B.C. Place with 'urban resort'

  03-07-2017 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  With about 90 days to go before its scheduled opening, Paragon Development’s $640 million Parq Vancouver urban-resort development at B.C. Place remains more of a construction site than completed project.
  The dark wood trim, marble flooring and ornately woven carpets that are in place remain mostly covered with protective layers of cardboard and thin sheets of veneer as a crew of about 800 construction workers continue installing finishing touches.
  At this point there is a lot at stake: The
  
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• Reckless disregard for fire safety in B.C.'s backcountry an ongoing problem

  03-07-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  Spotting the messy aftermath of campfires and fireworks in the backcountry should give anyone pause.
  With a dry summer setting in, the smallest spark can cause the biggest fire — think of the human-caused McLure fire that burned a vast swath of forest and destroyed homes in McLure, Barriere and Louis Creek in 2003. It was started by a carelessly discarded cigarette.
  Rene Lemckert is an avid backcountry user. A week ago on a ride up the Harrison East Forest Service Road, he came across a ch
  
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• Long weekend = changes to garbage/recycling collection days. Check your #CityCollect app or download it… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Long weekend = changes to garbage/recycling collection days. Check your #CityCollect app or download it… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Firefighters are conducting a trail rescue on the #Quarryrock trail. FF’s third rescue in 3 days. Please be safe on the trails #northvan

  03-07-2017 20:48 via twitter.com
  Firefighters are conducting a trail rescue on the #Quarryrock trail.FF’s third rescue in 3 days.Please be safe on the trails #northvan
  
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• Reminder: Property taxes are due July 4th. Don't forget to claim your homeowners grant. cnv.org/Taxes… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Reminder: Property taxes are due July 4th. Don't forget to claim your homeowners grant. cnv.org/Taxes… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Record Reviews: Bison, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Sqürl, The Battle of Santiago and Hell's Gate Blues Band

  03-07-2017 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  
  Bison: You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient (Pelagic Records): Ten years on, this Vancouver crew remains one of the heaviest of the region’s internationally raved-about metal scene. But the Bison (the B.C. is gone, now) you hear on this seven song record is a more agile act than the riff-riding behemoth that established itself with Quiet Earth. The first album to feature former Three Inches of Blood guitarist Shane Clark on bass doesn’t so much change up the sound as hone in on
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Hells Angel David Giles dies months after record sentence – UPDATED

  03-07-2017 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  Here is my updated story about David Giles, who was a Hells Angel for 35 years. His status in the club he loved was unclear at the time of his death Saturday in an Abbotsford hospital.
  “Normand (Biff) Hamel (left) with fellow Hells Angels Maurice (Mom) Boucher and David (Gyrator) Giles in a photo taken in 1990″ – (SOURCE:”evidence filed in court” ) 
   “Formidable” Hells Angel David Giles dies months after getting record sentence
  Retired Vancouve
  
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• Don't play the waiting game if you drive to #DeepCove today. Overflow parking lots just few minutes walk away. Map:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  Don't play the waiting game if you drive to #DeepCove today. Overflow parking lots just few minutes walk away. Map:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Seven things to do this week: July 7-13: Khatsahlano, Foonyap, Carnaval del Sol, and more

  03-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Khatsahlano Street Party
  July 8, 11 a.m. — 9 p.m. | West 4th Ave.
  Free: khatsahlano.com
  It’s hard to imagine in a today’s world of storefront yoga and tony designer shops, but Kitsilano was once the epicentre of hippiedom with rowdy live music venues like Rohan’s Rock Pile, low-key organic stores like Lifestream, and people smoking weed that was supplied by a dealer, not a dispensary. Once a year West 4th Ave. gets shut down from MacDonald to Burrard for a monster neighbo
  
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• International students in fake marriage schemes to Canada

  03-07-2017 18:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  The newspaper ads in India are the visible tip of a booming underground industry in fake marriages involving would-be international students.
  The prize for the “spouse” whose family buys an instant marriage with a foreign student is back-door access to a full-time job in Canada and a fast-track to citizenship.
  The matrimonial ads normally promise that the foreign students’ sham marriage, plus all travel and study expenses, will be paid for by the Indian families who are determi
  
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• City Hall is closed today for Canada Day holiday. We're back July 4th at 8:30am and always cnv.org… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 17:01 via twitter.com
  City Hall is closed today for Canada Day holiday. We're back July 4th at 8:30am and always cnv.org… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Lance Berelowitz: Urban planning lessons from Grenfell Tower disaster

  03-07-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Did anyone notice how virtually all of the news images and videos of the recent fire disaster at Grenfell Tower in London were shot from some distance or from the air? There were no views from adjacent streets. This wasn’t just because of public-safety reasons, but something more fundamental: There are no adjacent streets. None.
  In fact, one of the contributing factors in the unfolding disaster was that large fire engines had great difficulty getting right up beside the building and were t
  
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• It's summertime, and relocating invasive species is easy

  03-07-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  It’s summer in B.C. and an army of invading plants and animals is on the move.
  Hitching a ride on ATV tires, trailing from boat motors and enticing novice gardeners, the invaders’ advance is swift and stealthy.
  It’s also deadly.
  “Summer in B.C. is the time for recreation and gardening — and both are key pathways for invasive species,” said Gail Wallin, executive director of the Invasive Species Council of B.C.
  Name an invasive plant or animal and examine the c
  
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• International students in B.C. could be in fake marriage schemes

  03-07-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  The newspaper ads in India are the visible tip of a booming underground industry in fake marriages involving would-be international students.
  The prize for the “spouse” whose family buys an instant marriage with a foreign student is back-door access to a full-time job in Canada and a fast-track to citizenship.
  The matrimonial ads normally promise that the foreign students’ sham marriage, plus all travel and study expenses, will be paid for by the Indian families who are determi
  
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• Longtime Hells Angel David Giles dies months after getting record sentence

  03-07-2017 06:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  Retired Vancouver Police biker specialist Brad Stephen remembers the first time he met Hells Angel David Giles in the mid-1990s.
  Stephen pulled him over on Dundas in East Vancouver after seeing Giles “peel out” of the parking lot of the old Drake Hotel.
  “I remember it vividly,” Stephen recalled Sunday. “I pulled him over and he just oozed hatred for law enforcement. You could just feel the disdain coming from his pores.”
  Stephen said he was polite with the pow
  
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• Wildfire burning at base of Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler

  03-07-2017 06:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Firefighters are battling a fire at the base of Blackcomb Mountain near Whistler Village. 
  The Resort Municipality of Whistler said the ground fire was ignited around 5:30 p.m. Sunday above Painted Cliff Road in the Blackcomb Benchlands area. No homes or structures are affected.
  More than 50 firefighters from Whistler Fire Rescue Service, Whistler Backcomb, and the B.C. Wildfire Branch are responding, with at least five aircraft dropping water and fire retardant on the fire. 
  The B.C.
  
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• Cyclist injured in North Vancouver collision, police seek witnesses - CBC.ca

  03-07-2017 03:18 via cbc.ca
  
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  Cyclist injured in North Vancouver collision, police seek witnesses
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  A 27-year-old male cyclist is recovering in hospital after colliding with a car Sunday morning in North Vancouver, police say. Officers are hoping to speak to anyone who witnessed the collision, which involved a 2008 black Nissan Rogue. The incident ...
  
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• All North Van RCMP trained in Regina but today, Regina came to North Van! We love HMCS Regina's Mountie decor!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 02:27 via twitter.com
  All North Van RCMP trained in Regina but today, Regina came to North Van! We love HMCS Regina's Mountie decor!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• PLAY: Embrace the Space. Help transform public spaces into vibrant, fun locations. Share ideas:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  PLAY: Embrace the Space. Help transform public spaces into vibrant, fun locations. Share ideas:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Early Morning Collision Involving Vehicle and Cyclist bit.ly/2tBKYXN #NorthVancouver

  03-07-2017 01:54 via twitter.com
  Early Morning Collision Involving Vehicle and Cyclistbit.ly/2tBKYXN#NorthVancouver
  
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• Tallio case: Decades-long friendship with corrections officer helped lead to convicted murderer's appeal

  03-07-2017 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  It took a decades-long and unlikely friendship between Phillip Tallio and his one-time correctional officer, and years of dogged work by the officer’s daughter, to bring the imprisoned man’s claim of innocence before the B.C. Court of Appeal.
  Tallio pleaded guilty in 1983 to the murder of 22-month-old Delavina Mack in Bella Coola, but he has maintained his innocence — and remained in prison — ever since.
  On Friday, Justice Elizabeth Bennett ruled that Tallio&rsq
  
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• Canada 150: Six memorable moments from B.C.'s sporting history

  03-07-2017 01:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  To commemorate Canada’s 150th birthday weekend, we look back at six of the most memorable sporting moments from B.C.’s sporting past.
   
  1915 Stanley Cup champion Vancouver Canucks: (from left to right) Back row: Johnny Matz, Cyclone Taylor, Miller (trainer), Mickey McKay, Frank Nighbor. Front row: Frank Patrick, Si Griffis, Lloyd Cook, Hugh Lehman.
  Vancouver Millionaires Stanley Cup, March 1915
  The Cyclone from the Pacific blew away the eastern competition in March 1915, and bro
  
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• Remember glass gets VIP treatment. All glass goes in grey box. #Grey4Glass cnv.org/Recycling #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-07-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Remember glass gets VIP treatment. All glass goes in grey box. #Grey4Glass cnv.org/Recycling #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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