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• Ridgewood Dr is closed btwn Edgemont & Brookridge for about 3 weeks, with a detour in place. Details: ow.ly/SNFT30dniGZ #NorthVan

  05-07-2017 23:17 via twitter.com
  Ridgewood Dr is closed btwn Edgemont & Brookridge for about 3 weeks, with a detour in place. Details: ow.ly/SNFT30dniGZ #NorthVan
  
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• IHIT identifies Abbotsford murder victim as Clarence John Crothers

  05-07-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is trying to figure out who would kill 62-year-old Clarence John Crothers.
  Crothers’ body was found by Abbotsford police Tuesday morning inside an apartment in the 33000-block of Braun Avenue.
  IHIT isn’t saying how Crothers died, only that his injuries were “consistent with homicide.”
  “It remains early in the investigation, and police are working tirelessly to determine the motive for this tragic death,”  sa
  
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• Vancouver condo market heats up while detached home sales cool: board

  05-07-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver’s housing sales have divided into two separate markets with condominium’s being snatched up while detached homes remain on the market longer.
  Figures released Wednesday by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver showed an 11.5 per cent drop in the market last month compared with the over-heated market in June last year.
  However, the board says last month’s sales were still 14.5 per cent above the 10-year sales average for the month of June.
  The ratio of sales to li
  
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• Attn green thumbs! Help do some good in your 'hood. We've got orphaned traffic circles in need of some TLC… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-07-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Attn green thumbs! Help do some good in your 'hood. We've got orphaned traffic circles in need of some TLC… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police incident in Surrey puts Clayton Heights Secondary on 'lockout'

  05-07-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  A police incident near a Surrey school had summer school students being kept inside for safety reasons Wednesday morning.
  According to Surrey RCMP, a police incident in the 7000 block of 191st Street is the reason why Clayton Heights Secondary, which is several blocks away, was placed on “lockout” for about an hour and a half. Police were asking residents in a two-block radius to stay inside or to not return home for the time being.
  “191st is closed north of 70th Ave to the 710
  
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• Kelly Ripa vacations in 'beautiful, pristine, unspoiled' Vancouver

  05-07-2017 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  American talk show host Kelly Ripa spent most of her opening segment Wednesday extolling the virtues of Vancouver and British Columbia.
  Ripa has returned to New York after spending several days in B.C. last week.During her appearance on “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” she called the Vancouver area “beautiful, pristine and unspoiled.”
  Ripa said she and her children “climbed every mountain” and referred to her experience as “vacation porn.”
  She and her t
  
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• Apologies, cheques issued for B.C. health researcher firings

  05-07-2017 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Health researchers wrongly fired in 2012 have received letters of apology and cheques, ranging from $15,000 to $125,000, from the head of the B.C. Public Service.
  The payouts, based on recommendations by the B.C. ombudsperson, were delivered in the final week of June — just in time for the ombudsperson’s recommended deadline of June 30.
  A letter accompanying a cheque for $75,000 to Ramsay Hamdi details the ways in which the Ministry of Health failed him.
  Among them,
  
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• A dozen Vancouver Islanders per month opt for assisted death

  05-07-2017 21:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two per cent of dying individuals on Vancouver Island chose medically assisted deaths in the first six months after it was made legal and the rate is climbing, according to a case review. 
  Data collected for the period from June to December 2016 shows there were 72 medically assisted deaths in patients aged 49 to 96, according to the report in the B.C. Medical Journal. Patients were balanced in terms of gender; of the 72 cases, 37 were males and 35 were females.
  Most patients chose their ho
  
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• Former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe brings boot camp to Vancouver

  05-07-2017 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  A former Vancouver Bachelorette and her personal trainer fiancé are back in town this weekend with their popular cross-country boot camp tour.
  Kaitlyn Bristowe, 32, and Shawn Booth, 31, met during season 11 of ABC’s reality dating show The Bachelorette in 2015. After a whirlwind season of international jet-setting and fantasy dates, Booth proposed to Bristowe in the finale which was filmed at the infamous Bachelor mansion in Agoura Hills, Calif. The bachelorette then uprooted her li
  
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• Vancouver U2 ticket holders offered compensation

  05-07-2017 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  The May 12 U2 concert at B.C. Place Stadium was supposed to be a triumphant kickoff for the super-group’s world tour honouring the 30th anniversary of its breakthrough Joshua Tree album.
  The evening, however, descended into a ticketing debacle that saw a long line of frustrated, general-admission fans stuck outside the stadium, which resulted in them missing opening-act Mumford & Sons, a star band in its own right.
  Now, attendees who registered complaints over the fiasco are receiving
  
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• Sir Cameron Mackintosh on the touring Phantom of the Opera

  05-07-2017 21:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  Broadway Across Canada’s The Phantom of the Opera
  July 12-23, various times | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info | From $37.50 at ticketmaster.ca
  Cameron Mackintosh certainly has an ear for a hit. He’s had it for a good half century.
  In December 1990, he was described by New York Times reporter Mervyn Rothstein as “the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world.” Now 70, he was knighted Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh in 1996 for
  
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• Vancouver man charged with murder in connection with 2011 shooting

  05-07-2017 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  
  A 25-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a 2011 shooting death in Champlain Heights.
  On July 25, 2011, Harpreet “Hapi” Sandhu, 21, was gunned down following an argument with a group of youths in the area of Arlington Street and Whitehorn Court in south Vancouver. He died in hospital.
  Now, almost six years later, Vancouver Police Department detectives have made an arrest.
  Heval Hishyar Tilli of Vancouver was apprehended Tuesday and
  
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• #LongTableLunch #CivicPlaza tomorrow. R U comin'? Bring lunch or buy from #FoodTrucks. Live music + fun!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-07-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  #LongTableLunch #CivicPlaza tomorrow. R U comin'? Bring lunch or buy from #FoodTrucks. Live music + fun!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Keep the kids active this summer with a @NorthVanRC #PoolandPlay just $25 for the whole summer! #NorthVan twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…

  05-07-2017 19:39 via twitter.com
  Keep the kids active this summer with a @NorthVanRC #PoolandPlay just $25 for the whole summer! #NorthVan twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…
  
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• Hot weather, lack of rain prompt campfire ban on B.C.'s west coast

  05-07-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  PARKSVILLE, B.C. — Parched conditions on British Columbia’s west coast has prompted a campfire ban.
  The BC Wildfire Service says all open fires, including campfires, will be banned across the Coastal Fire Centre starting on Thursday, although gas, propane or briquette cooking stoves are still permitted.
  Only Haida Gwaii and the fog zone, a thin strip along the western edge of Vancouver Island, are exempt from the ban.
  The service says in a news release that a stretch of hot weather,
  
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• Daily Poll: Is an optional sex-ed class for students naughty or nice?

  05-07-2017 18:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  This week, a debate emerged over an optional sexual education program being offered at Lord Byng Secondary.
  While sex education is mandated by the Ministry of Education for students up to Grade 10, the lunch-hour quiz-show style program called “Sex at Lunch” at Lord Byng is optional and offered for those in Grade 10 to 12.
  Related
  Vancouver school board and conservative activist tussle over sex-ed program at Lord ByngKari Simpson, a local conservative activist, called the program &ld
  
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• Vancouver radio: Steve Darling to co-host Sportsnet 650 morning show

  05-07-2017 18:28 via vancouversun.com
  
  Former Global morning anchor Steve Darling is back in broadcasting following his unsuccessful stint as a politician.
  Darling has been named co-host, along with James Cybulski and Mira Laurence, of Sportsnet’s Starting Lineup morning show on Sportsnet 650, a new Vancouver all-sports radio station that launches Sept. 4.
  Darling was host of Global News Morning from 2001 until last year when he left the network after being shuffled out of the anchor seat. His departure caused an outcry am
  
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• Watermain flushing continues daily to July 7. Don't be alarmed by cloudy water or low water pressure.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Watermain flushing continues daily to July 7. Don't be alarmed by cloudy water or low water pressure.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Take a tour of Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica

  05-07-2017 17:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  Arctia’s multipurpose icebreaker Nordica will transit the Northwest Passage this  July.
  The vessel was docked in North Vancouver on Tuesday before the ship and its crew began its voyage to Nuuk, Greenland.
   
  
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• Opinion: Vancouver needs more than good craft breweries to be world-class beer city

  05-07-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  A few months ago Vogue magazine suggested that Vancouver might be the “New Craft Beer Capital of North America,” and this newspaper echoed with the question, “Is Vancouver the new Portland when it comes to craft beer?” Well, no. Vancouver has a very long way to go before it can be compared with the great beer cities in North America.
  Yes, we have great — maybe the best — craft beer and breweries, but that’s often where it ends. Great end-user distributio
  
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• Family voices concerns about bedbugs at North Vancouver motel - Globalnews.ca

  05-07-2017 15:58
  
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  Family voices concerns about bedbugs at North Vancouver motel
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  Tue, Jul 4: The members of a Vernon family says they were eaten alive by bedbugs when they stayed at a North Vancouver motel. What is this? Sponsored content is written by Global News' editorial staff without any editorial influence by the sponsor. If ...
  
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• One man in hospital, another in custody following Surrey shooting

  05-07-2017 15:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  A man is in hospital and another man in custody following a targeted shooting in Surrey Tuesday evening.
  Around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, a suspect opened fire inside Sushi Rei, located at a strip mall at the corner of 148th Street and 108 Avenue in the Guildford area. Police who responded to the call found a man in his 30s suffering from multiple gunshots.
  “The male was immediately transported to a regional trauma hospital and is in serious condition,” read a statement issued by Staff Sgt.
  
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• Two hikers rescued in North Vancouver, BC - Globalnews.ca

  05-07-2017 13:58
  
  Two hikers rescued in North Vancouver, BC
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  A team from North Shore Rescue (NSR) has located two missing hikers and brought them to safety. According to the search team's Facebook page, they were called out late Tuesday night to the Skyline Drive area for two hikers lost on the west side of ...
  
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• Two hikers rescued in North Vancouver, B.C.

  05-07-2017 13:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two lost hikers have been saved by North Shore Rescue.
  
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• Diabetes needs urgent focus by new NDP government, advocacy organization says

  05-07-2017 09:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  In its gloomiest report yet, Diabetes Canada says 29 per cent (1.4 million) of B.C.’s population either has diabetes or is at risk of getting it.
  In the next decade, that proportion will grow to a third of the population if prevention efforts fail to curtail the trend, it warns.
  The 20-page report by the advocacy organization is meant to sway the new NDP government towards more public funding of medications and devices. Nearly 500,000 B.C. residents have type 1 or 2 diabetes and health sys
  
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• Bacon murder trial: DNA on discarded hoodie does not appear to match suspects'

  05-07-2017 05:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  The DNA of several individuals, including at least one male and one female, was found on a hoodie discarded following the murder of Jonathan Bacon, a Kelowna court heard Tuesday.
  Jason McBride, Michael Jones and Jujhar Khun-Khun were arrested in 2013 and charged with first-degree murder for the August 2011 killing of Bacon, along with the attempted murder of four others.
  They have pleaded not guilty on all counts.
  Forensic technologist Tanya Dare analyzed the DNA samples on the discarded hoodie
  
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• This Just In: Benefit Cosmetics Galifornia Pink Blush, Olay Luminous Brightening & Protecting Lotion with Sunscreen and more

  05-07-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Benefit Cosmetics
  GALifornia Pink Blush
  They say: A golden-pink blusher that features bright pink and shimmering gold to capture the, “warm glow of a California sunshine in a box.” Lightly scented with notes of pink grapefruit and vanilla. 
  We say: This pretty pink blush gave our tester’s cheeks a healthy glow that wasn’t garish. While the idea of a scented blush initially turned our tester off, the subtle notes were so light they barely registered. Basically, this s
  
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• Woman rescued from Surrey ravine after being trapped for days

  05-07-2017 04:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  A woman who had been stranded for five days in a ravine in Surrey has been rescued.
  The woman, who told firefighters she’d been there since Thursday, was discovered Tuesday afternoon by a passerby in the Delta Creek ravine near 97th Avenue and 117B Street.
  Clint Whitla had been looking for his stolen bike, and ended up at a dead end where 96A Avenue dropped off into the ravine, so he decided to go for a walk to clear his head. 
  “I was making a lot of noise, and she heard me,&rdq
  
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• Fire west of Skaha Lake destroys homes in Kaleden

  05-07-2017 04:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  A fire in the Okanagan community of Kaleden has consumed a pair of homes and 30 homes have been evacuated, according to reports.
  Max Birkner of the B.C. Wildfire Service said Tuesday night he couldn’t confirm if a house had been destroyed, but did say buildings were “threatened.”
  “The B.C. Wildfire Service is assisting the Kaleden fire department,” he said.
  Firefighters from the Kaleden and Penticton fire departments are being assisted by 35 wildfire service firefig
  
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• Swimmers at Whytecliff Park get quite the surprise

  05-07-2017 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  A group of swimmers at West Vancouver’s Whytecliff Park got quite the surprise this holiday long weekend: they were joined by a pod of orcas.
  The video was captured by local photographer Robin Leveille and posted to his Instagram account.The park is well-known for its beach, its views and its wildlife — but encounters with orcas is definitely a rare thing.
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Liberals made books bloom before party wilted in B.C. election

  05-07-2017 03:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Finance Minister Mike de Jong could see the writing on the wall last week when he met with reporters for a final update on provincial finances.
  “It occurred to me that this may well be the last full day I spend as finance minister and who better to kick it off with than you lot,” began de Jong in the familiar setting of the press theatre in the basement of the legislature.
  Not quite his last full day, but close enough. Next day the B.C. Liberals would lose a con
  
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• Police investigating 'suspicious' death in Abbotsford home

  05-07-2017 03:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  Abbotsford police are investigating after a man was found dead inside an apartment Tuesday morning. 
  Police and paramedics were called to an apartment complex in the 33000-block Braun Avenue at around 7 a.m.
  The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The death doesn’t appear connected to gangs in the Lower Mainland, said police, but appears suspicious in nature.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team will take over the case.
  Police haven’t released the man’s name or his
  
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• City of Vancouver set to benefit from new NDP government says expert

  05-07-2017 03:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – With the first hires of their new government, the B.C. NDP have sent a signal that their goals align with the province’s largest city and its ruling Vision Vancouver party.
  Three-term City of Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs has become NDP premier-designate John Horgan’s chief of staff, the NDP announced Tuesday.
  Meggs has resigned his seat on city council to assume the new job. He previously worked as former NDP premier Glen Clark’s director of communications,
  
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• Firefighters responding to 2nd rescue.Lynn Canyon rescue will determine best way 2 extract patients.Rope rescue or possible boat deployment.

  05-07-2017 03:21 via twitter.com
  Firefighters responding to 2nd rescue.Lynn Canyon rescue will determine best way 2 extract patients.Rope rescue or possible boat deployment.
  
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• Firefighters are en route to a rescue near Twin Falls in Lynn Canyon. This is the 5th rescue for firefighters in the past 4 days. #northvan

  05-07-2017 02:58 via twitter.com
  Firefighters are en route to a rescue near Twin Falls in Lynn Canyon. This is the 5th rescue for firefighters in the past 4 days. #northvan
  
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• CSI Burnaby as forensic science students investigate mock disaster

  05-07-2017 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  A crashed helicopter, skeletal remains and a large group of people in full bio-hazard safety suits made for an alarming sight at BCIT’s Burnaby campus Tuesday.This was no crime scene or disaster zone, but the start of a custom two-week forensic science course for 27 criminal justice undergraduate students from California State University. 
  “Their job is to come out and process the scene,” said Dean Hildebrand, associate dean of Forensic Science and Technology at BCIT. &ldq
  
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• Got your #SlidetheCity tix yet? Early bird pricing ends soon. It's part of #FunCityFestival Aug 12/13.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-07-2017 02:30 via twitter.com
  Got your #SlidetheCity tix yet? Early bird pricing ends soon. It's part of #FunCityFestival Aug 12/13.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Harrison Lake fire doubles in size

  05-07-2017 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  The fire burning north of Harrison Hot Springs has doubled in size and is now estimated at 115 hectares, or 1.15 square kilometres. The human-caused fire, which sparked up on Saturday, is just five per cent contained.
  The fire is about 30 kilometres north of Harrison Hot Springs and is about half a kilometre up from the eastern side of Harrison Lake, near the mouth of Big Silver Creek.
  There are now 80 firefighters and additional support staff on scene. There are six helicopters fighting th
  
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• Irishman who drowned in B.C. remembered as 'friendly, positive guy'

  05-07-2017 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  What was supposed to be a fun jaunt through the Rockies for a group of new Irish immigrants to Canada has been halted by tragedy.
  David Gavin, 26, of Castlebar, County Mayo, drowned Friday after jumping off a bridge over Beaver Creek, which flows into Kinbasket Lake near Golden. After four days, the official search has now been called off.
  Gavin had moved to Vancouver from Ireland earlier this year with his girlfriend, Ciara, on a two-year work visa. He had started working for Telus in April and
  
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• Two Vancouver Island brothers win $2.5 million — the largest scratch-and-win prize won in B.C.

  05-07-2017 01:17 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two Vancouver Island brothers are B.C.’s newest millionaires after winning $2.5 million — the largest Scratch & Win prize ever won in B.C.
  Daniel Boylan, of Mill Bay, and Kenneth Boylan, of Cobble Hill, won the prize playing $250 Million Golden Treasures, which has the largest prize pool ever of $250 million and 10 top prizes of $2.5 million.
  The odds of winning on this Scratch & Win game, which has prizes starting at $30, is 1 in 3.55. The odds of hitting gold, or a $2.5-mil
  
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• Judge dismisses claims of a man that he was brutally assaulted by police in downtown Vancouver

  05-07-2017 01:17 via vancouversun.com
  
  A judge has dismissed the claims of a man that he was brutally assaulted by police in downtown Vancouver in a case of mistaken identity.
  Solomon Akintoye testified that after he was stopped by cops while he was walking along Richards Street on the way to a job interview, he was repeatedly kicked and punched by police who mistakenly believed he was a fraud suspect.
  Const. Jennifer White and Const. Jeremiah Birnbaum, the officers who initially detained Akintoye, denied those allegations and claime
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Child brides' parents need jail time as a punishment and as a warning to others

  05-07-2017 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  There are few more contemptible acts than parents knowingly and willingly putting their children in harm’s way.
  Brandon and Gail Blackmore did that in 2004 when they drove their 13-year-old daughter from B.C. to Utah and witnessed her marriage to Warren Jeffs, the 49-year-old prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
  Jeffs already had more than 80 wives (including one of the Blackmores’ other daughters). He was already known as erratic, autocratic and
  
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• Conservationists call on new B.C. gov't to act on Tulsequah Chief mine cleanup

  05-07-2017 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Conservation and indigenous groups in Alaska are pushing B.C.’s new government to act on cleaning up the dormant Tulsequah Chief mine site near the border in Alaska’s southeastern panhandle.
  The mine site has sat dormant since September 2016, when owner Chieftain Metals Corp. was pushed into receivership. But rather than allow the mine to be sold out of bankruptcy, the Alaskan groups are asking B.C. to just clean it up and shut it down.
  Chieftain is now the second company that h
  
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• Three dead following accidents Highway 5

  05-07-2017 00:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  Three people died in two crashes Tuesday on Highway 5 in the B.C. Interior.
  RCMP Cpl. Janelle Shoihet saids the first crash happened just before 6 a.m., about 40 kilometres south of Kamloops when a southbound vehicle hit a deer and veered down an embankment.
  Two people in the vehicle died at the scene and a third was critically injured and was being treated in hospital in Kamloops.
  Just 30 minutes later, the driver of a southbound sedan died when the vehicle was hit head-on by a pickup attemptin
  
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• We've updated #ChiefDanGeorgePark. Check it out on E. 5th between Moody & Queensbury cnv.org/ChiefDanGeorge…… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  05-07-2017 00:50 via twitter.com
  We've updated #ChiefDanGeorgePark. Check it out on E. 5th between Moody & Queensbury cnv.org/ChiefDanGeorge…… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Heads up. Gas main leak in the area of Carrie Cates Court to the new Polygon Gallery. Avoid area. Restaurants & biz not affected. #NorthVan

  05-07-2017 00:48 via twitter.com
  Heads up. Gas main leak in the area of Carrie Cates Court to the new Polygon Gallery. Avoid area. Restaurants & biz not affected. #NorthVan
  
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