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• Interior family both fleeing and fighting wild fires at 150 Mile House

  10-07-2017 23:28 via vancouversun.com
  
  Linda Jorgensen was reduced to tears Sunday when one of her sons sent a photo of her 1,650-square-foot, two-storey home in 150 Mile House.Two days after a fire-evacuation order affecting the Cariboo community, south of Williams Lake on Highway 97, the home was still untouched even as others’ homes and structures had burned to the ground.
  Linda Jorgensen, a long-time resident of 150 Mile House, cried to learn her home was spared from the fires swirling around her community, although others
  
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• Emotional B.C. family returns to home devastated by wildfire

  10-07-2017 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  British Columbia resident Angie Thorne returned to the Ashcroft Indian Reserve Sunday to see what remained after a fire engulfed the community.
  Thorne says her home, now a blackened pit, was renovated just last year.
  
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• Update: Vancouver police investigate double murder in West End

  10-07-2017 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  A “person of interest” is in custody following a double murder in Vancouver’s West End on Sunday. 
  Vancouver police were called to an apartment at 1835 Morton Avenue, near English Bay beach, at 5 p.m. and discovered the bodies of a 57-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man, both residents of Vancouver.Investigators arrested a person of interest.
  “Based on the information collected so far, there is no indication that the public is at risk,” the VPD said in a relea
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: 10,000 evacuated as crews battle 200 forest fires

  10-07-2017 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  More than 10,000 people are under evacuation orders as firefighters battle more than 220 wildfires covering 320 square kilometres in the B.C. Interior.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service has an interactive map that lists all active fires in British Columbia. Included on the map — and represented by the large flames — are 12 fires of note that pose a potential threat to public safety.  
   
  Province of B.C. wildfire map.
   
  The Canadian Press reported that 300 firefighter
  
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• B.C. wildfires: Help pours in for evacuees, firefighters

  10-07-2017 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — Help from other provinces and the federal government has begun to pour in for firefighters and thousands of evacuees grappling with more than 200 intense wildfires raging across British Columbia.
  About 300 firefighters and support staff from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick were expected to start arriving Monday to help relieve the pressure on roughly 1,000 B.C. firefighters battling the blazes.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he spoke with Premier Christy Cla
  
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• Vancouver Canucks’ Erik Gudbranson suits up

  10-07-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  We go shopping with Vancouver Canucks player Erik Gudbranson as he suits up at TOPMAN.
  
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• deadmau5 to play Pacific Coliseum Oct. 24

  10-07-2017 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  deadmau5 lots of shows in a row: pt. 2
  Tuesday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. | Pacific Coliseum
  Tickets and info: On sale Thursday, 10 a.m. from $45.85 at livenation.com
  Electronic music producer deadmau5 (a.k.a. Joel Zimmerman) launched his “lots of shows in a row” tour through the U.S. earlier in the year. The performances brought out fans of the big-eared, big-beat-dropping DJ sets ranging from throughout his career, all pumping out through his new, updated and custom-built Cube 2.1. soundstag
  
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• #FunCityFestival is the biggest weekend of the summer! Food trucks, artisans, kids' + teen zone, a bevvy garden + 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  10-07-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  #FunCityFestival is the biggest weekend of the summer! Food trucks, artisans, kids' + teen zone, a bevvy garden + 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• In Zones 1 or 2? Leave your old clean & empty cans out on next 2 collection days, and we'll remove & recycle them… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  10-07-2017 19:50 via twitter.com
  In Zones 1 or 2? Leave your old clean & empty cans out on next 2 collection days, and we'll remove & recycle them… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Music reviews: Anat Cohen, Astrocolor, ADHD, The Melvins, Dale Crover

  10-07-2017 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  Anat Cohen
  Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Marcello Gonçalves) 
  Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro)(Anzic Records)
  Just in time for caipirinhas on the beach season, Israeli clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen drops two marvellous recordings of Brazilian music.
  Outra Coisa is a sublime collection of of a dozen duets performed with seven-string guitar player Marcello Gonçalves. All compositions are by Moacir Santos (1026-2006), and you can certainly hear his appreciat
  
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• Seven things to do this week, July 14-20

  10-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Theatre Under the Stars: Mary Poppins
  Until Aug. 18, 8 p.m. | Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park
  Tickets and info: From $20, ticketstonight.ticketforce.com
  This Broadway musical — adapted by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh from the 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke — is an enduring hit. When the Banks family children are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are less than excited. But what they get is the magical Mary Poppins, a powerhouse of good advice (A Spoonful
  
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• New Brunswick firefighters to help battle B.C. wildfires

  10-07-2017 18:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  FREDERICTON — A crew of 21 firefighters from New Brunswick is headed across the country to help battle forest fires in British Columbia.
  At least 220 fires are burning and more than 8,500 people have been forced from their homes, including about 1,500 ordered out of 100 Mile House, B.C., on Sunday night.
  Julien Bourque of Rogersville, N.B., said he’s anxious to provide “boots on the ground.”
  “They have quite a few fires there and seem pretty busy so they need help f
  
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• Past firefighting success has made B.C. more vulnerable: expert

  10-07-2017 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C. has been so successful at putting out wildfires in recent decades that it has actually created a situation where its forests are more prone to flames, says an expert.
  Lori Daniels, an associate professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, said firefighting efforts over the last 60 to 100 years have allowed for denser forests with a lot of dead material on the ground.
  Now, when the province has hot, dry weather and lightning strikes or there is a human ignition, the fir
  
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• Calling all #Yogis, meet at the Pier - Mondays 6PM. #Free #Yoga #NorthVan, Namaste! ow.ly/vhHH30dnruD… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  10-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Calling all #Yogis, meet at the Pier - Mondays 6PM. #Free #Yoga #NorthVan, Namaste! ow.ly/vhHH30dnruD… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Fort McMurray helps B.C: 'We know exactly what's needed'

  10-07-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  FORT McMURRAY, Alta. — Seeing reports of the wildfire evacuations in British Columbia has brought back stressful memories for residents of Fort McMurray, Alta., who had to flee a massive wildfire just over a year ago.
  But they’ve sprung into action by collecting donations of supplies for first responders, driving those supplies to B.C., and offering advice and guidance for evacuees through a Facebook page.
  “Last year, everybody throughout our whole country was awesome and the s
  
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• Concert Announcement: Jay-Z brings 4:44 Tour to Vancouver Dec. 11

  10-07-2017 16:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hip-hop kingpin Jay-Z announced a North American tour in support of his new record 4:44.
  The New York rapper will stop at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Dec. 11 as part of his 31-date tour which starts Oct. 27 in Anaheim and finishes Dec. 21 in Los Angeles.
  Other Canadian stops include Montreal (Nov. 21), Toronto (Nov. 22) and Edmonton (Dec. 9).
  Subscribers to Tidal, the music streaming service co-owned by Jay-Z, will get first crack at tickets with a presale opportunity today (Monday) at 9 a
  
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• Fitness fashion gets feminine with new Taryn Toomey for Lululemon collection

  10-07-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Class founder, Taryn Toomey.
  Clothes can be powerful — especially when it comes to the workout variety.
  A great pair of leggings can make you feel more sleek, while a well-fitting sports bra can make you feel, well, supported.
  But Taryn Toomey is hoping her new collection with Lululemon does even more than that: she hopes it empowers.
  “We wanted to create a collection with a light and ethereal feel that not only connects the body and mind, but also allows you to move freely and w
  
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• Dying hero who saved 130 lives on Surrey strip has final wish granted

  10-07-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Many who have the misfortune of winding up on the notorious “Strip” in Surrey owe their lives to Douglas Nickerson.
  They call him “Little Doug” and recognize him by his cruiser bicycle painted with flames which, before his cancer diagnosis, he would pedal up and down 135A Street to respond to drug overdoses using his naloxone kit.
  Nickerson, 59, got the bad news in April. With his permission, Dr. Caroline Ferris confirmed by phone that he was diagnosed with untr
  
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• Protecting First Nations' powers would complete Confederation

  10-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two-thousand-and-seventeen marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation. It’s often called the “birth” of Canada, but Confederation didn’t bring real independence nor did it include all sovereign governments in British North America. Confederation was based on the fiction that First Nations title and jurisdiction didn’t exist — a founding myth that has been busted many times by the courts in the last 40 years.
  This fiction was used to justify many wrongs. The
  
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• Opinion: Is NDP ready to manage 21st-century energy system?

  10-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  With a B.C. NDP government preparing to enter office, in every ministry at this moment civil servants are getting ready to brief their new bosses on the workings of an organization — the Province of British Columbia — that has significantly larger revenues than Canada’s largest public company.
  Fat binders have been prepared that diagram each ministry, explaining who’s accountable for what and how it’s all paid for.
  The B.C. NDP, broadly echoed by its legislative sup
  
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• B.C. lags in cutting greenhouse gas emissions

  10-07-2017 06:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  Some provinces have already met their target for the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reductions that Canada committed to in the 2016 Paris agreement, an analysis by the National Energy Board shows. 
  Those provinces are Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, plus the Yukon territory. The two provinces have reduced emissions by 30 per cent by 2015 from 2005 levels, well ahead of the 2030 target date, according to the NEB data.
  British Columbia lags behind. As of 2015, the province had reduced
  
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• B.C. wildfire evacuees 'didn't have time to get anything'

  10-07-2017 05:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — When Ester Spye left her home on the Ashcroft Reserve on Friday, the fire was just a few hundred metres away. The flames were approaching, the air was thick with smoke and she could feel the heat on her skin.
  “I thought I was safe because (the fire) was down at the end of the reserve, but it came up the gully and we had to go fast. I couldn’t save my cat, he wouldn’t come to me. I got my dog but I lost my house,” Spye said through tears as she stood outsi
  
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• Vancouver police investigate suspicious death in the West End

  10-07-2017 04:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver Police are investigating a “sudden death” of a person in the West End Sunday. 
  Officers were called to an apartment building near Davie and Denman just before 5 p.m. 
  Police say they have no reason to believe the public is at risk, but is treating the death as suspicious until further investigation proves otherwise.  
  No other information, including the victim’s gender, age or identity, was released.
  
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• Evacuated by a wildfire? Here's what to do

  10-07-2017 04:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Fort McMurray woman is offering advice to people who have had to evacuate because of wildfires in the B.C. interior.
  Stacey Hebner Johnston and her husband Jim were living in Fort McMurray when a massive wildfire swept through the town in 2016.
  Johnston said her motivation was straightforward: Help those who are in the same spot as she was a year ago.
  “When we were evacuated, the previous year there had been a fire in Slave Lake,” she said Sunday from her home in Summerland, B.C. &
  
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• Innocent bystander caught in crossfire of Surrey drive-by shooting

  10-07-2017 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  An innocent woman has been wounded in a car-to-car drive-by shooting in Surrey Sunday afternoon.
  At around 3:30 p.m., Surrey RCMP received multiple 911 calls reporting the occupants of a black Hyundai shooting at a red pickup truck in the 7700-block of 147 A Street. When police arrived, they found an adult female suffering from a gunshot wound. She is said to have a non-life threatening injury and is in an area hospital.
  The woman and her family are said to have been in a minivan when the shooti
  
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• Runners turned on the jets Sunday in MEC's airport races in Abbotsford

  10-07-2017 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  ABBOTSFORD — You couldn’t tell by the humongous smile on Greg Medwid’s face Sunday morning that he was in a bit of pain.
  The jovial Calgary native, who apologized for “only” doing the 5K MEC race at Abbotsford International Airport, had “worked out” the day before in North Vancouver, taking seven hours and change to complete the gruelling 48.3-kilometre Knee Knackering Trail Run.
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• B.C. Indigenous groups paddle for reconciliation

  10-07-2017 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Rhiannon Bennett loves the moment when sunlight flashes across the canoe paddle, when the paddles pull together and the canoes skim across the water.
  Bennett has been paddling along traditional Indigenous waterways of the Sunshine Coast, portaging and camping, since July 5, along with nearly 300 other Indigenous canoers, community members, RCMP officers, youth paddlers and members of the public service, as part of the annual Pulling Together Canoe journey. 
  The group will land in Vanier Par
  
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• Ramp full of people collapses at Pajo's restaurant in Steveston

  10-07-2017 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  A ramp carrying over a dozen people to the Pajo’s on the Wharf in Steveston collapsed Sunday afternoon, stranding dozens more at the restaurant.
  Images from social media show the ramp, which leads people from the Steveston dock to the restaurant, having collapsed into the water. It appears to have dropped a few metres.
  Witnesses are saying online that “around fifteen” people were on the ramp when it collapsed.The ramp to Pajos just broke with about 15 of us on it pic.twitt
  
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• Rob Shaw: Good staff key to ensuring the new Horgan doesn't backslide

  10-07-2017 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — One of the more remarkable developments of the past election was John Horgan’s public relations transformation from hot-tempered opposition leader to a passionate premier in waiting.
  Full credit has to go to the man himself, who, at 57 years old, in the middle of a provincial election campaign, with the pressure of a province watching, and the weight of his party’s fortunes on his shoulders, quite simply chose to change.
  After a televised radio debate in which Horgan
  
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