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• DNV team saving us $100,000/yr & reducing carbon by 50% at Karen Magnussen, thanks to strategic retrofit: ow.ly/bc6q30dyk33 #NorthVan

  11-07-2017 23:57 via twitter.com
  DNV team saving us $100,000/yr & reducing carbon by 50% at Karen Magnussen, thanks to strategic retrofit: ow.ly/bc6q30dyk33 #NorthVan
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: RCMP make 10 arrests in evacuated areas

  11-07-2017 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  In a press conference Tuesday, RCMP said they have mobilized resources including 300 additional members from troop and tactical units across the province and 40 from Alberta to assist with evacuations orders in fire-affected B.C. communities. 
  Officers are offering 24-hour patrols of evacuated areas, evacuation assistance, road safety in addition to continuing with core duties.
  Ten arrests have been made in the evacuated 100-Mile House and Williams Lake areas for break and enter and mischie
  
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• Rosy pink: Mistakenly painted horse brings levity to wildfire fight

  11-07-2017 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  LIKELY, B.C. — It’s definitely a horse of a different colour.
  Pictures of Rosy, a white-and-brown mare mistakenly painted neon pink by a teen in the British Columbia Interior, are providing some welcome levity to residents dealing with wildfires.
  Rosy ended up pink thanks to a problem pretty much every parent can identify with — a miscommunication between a mom and her 15-year-old son.
  Jacob Sharkey said his mother asked him to paint their phone number on 19-year-old Rosy, who
  
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• Christy Clark retools her staff for opposition

  11-07-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Outgoing premier Christy Clark has set her new staff as she transitions to leader of B.C.’s opposition.
  Clark on Tuesday named Nick Koolsbergen as her opposition chief of staff, Jessica Wolford as deputy chief of staff and Stephen Smart as executive director of communications and issues management.
  Several of her most high-profile staff do not appear to be making the transition from premier’s office to opposition, including chief of staff Mike McDonald (who said
  
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• Tomorrow is the last day for FREE Tai Chi classes in #CivicPlaza Wednesday @ 12:15pm. cnv.org/CommunityEvents… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-07-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Tomorrow is the last day for FREE Tai Chi classes in #CivicPlaza Wednesday @ 12:15pm. cnv.org/CommunityEvents… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Vancouver police arrest suspected serial bank robber

  11-07-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver police have arrested a man wanted in a string of bank robberies stretching from Calgary to North Vancouver.
  The 25-year-old was arrested in Vancouver on June 30 following an investigation involving police departments in Vancouver, Calgary, West Vancouver, Abbotsford, New Westminster and RCMP in North Vancouver and Burnaby.
  The arrest was in connection with nine robberies including a June 28 bank robbery at Lynn Valley Mall in which a man pulled a handgun and robbed the teller of an und
  
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• Horgan names key staff for new B.C. premier's office

  11-07-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Premier-designate John Horgan has named his new communications team as he prepares to assume power July 18.
  Four New Democrats who worked on Horgan’s election campaign will now handle the key messaging from the new premier’s office.
  Horgan named Sage Aaron his new communications director, Jen Holmwood as deputy communications director, Sheena McConnell as press secretary and Marie Della Mattia a communications “special adviser.”
  Kate Van Meer-Mass was nam
  
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• Cineplex adding adult-only comforts for movie watching in Vancouver

  11-07-2017 21:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  Cineplex is expanding its adults-only cinema offerings in Metro Vancouver.
  The Canadian movie theatre giant is opening two new cinemas — one in West Van and another in Burnaby —  that signal its continued march toward more VIP-style service in the company’s expanding local footprint.
  Cineplex recently announced plans to build a new 44,000-square-foot cinema at Park Royal shopping centre in West Vancouver. The new theatre on the south side of the mall will have 11 screens,
  
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• Have you shared your thoughts on turf fields at Inter River Park yet? The online survey closes tomorrow.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-07-2017 20:36 via twitter.com
  Have you shared your thoughts on turf fields at Inter River Park yet? The online survey closes tomorrow.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Rosy pink: Mistakenly painted horse brings levity to B.C. wildfire fight

  11-07-2017 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  LIKELY, B.C. — It’s definitely a horse of a different colour.
  Pictures of Rosy, a white-and-brown mare mistakenly painted neon pink by a teen in the British Columbia Interior, are providing some welcome levity to residents dealing with wildfires.
  Rosy ended up pink thanks to a problem pretty much every parent can identify with — a miscommunication between a mom and her 15-year-old son.
  Jacob Sharkey said his mother asked him to paint their phone number on 19-year-old Rosy, who
  
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• Ferrari driver nabbed doing 210 km/h over Lions Gate gets 16-month ban

  11-07-2017 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  
  A 16-month driving prohibition has been handed to a West Vancouver driver caught crossing the Lions Gate Bridge at 210 km/hr.
  The 22-year-old driver was travelling three-and-a-half times the posted speed limit of 60 km/h when he was pulled over by a West Vancouver police officer on July 13 at the north end of the bridge.
  His vehicle, a 2015 Ferrari 458, was initially impounded for seven days under the immediate roadside prohibition program.  The impound was later extended to 60 days.
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• Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Reich for summer listening

  11-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Mendelssohn in the Morning
  July 13, 10:30 a.m. | Ryerson United Church
  July 14, 10:30 a.m. | Christ Church Cathedral
  Brahms at Pyatt Hall
  July 13 & July 14, 7:30 p.m. | Pyatt Hall, VSO School of Music
  Music Talks: June Goldsmith and Jamie Parker on Brahms’ Piano Music
  July 13, 5 p.m. | Orpheum Annex
  Reich at the Roundhouse
  July 15, 7:30 p.m. | Roundhouse Exhibition Hall 
  Tickets and info: from $20, musicinthemorning.org
  July brings something a little bit new in music festivals, a
  
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• We're recruiting for a Regular Full-Time Exempt Administrative Assistant - Fire Department. Click here to apply ow.ly/38Jq30dxWCE

  11-07-2017 19:56 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a Regular Full-Time Exempt Administrative Assistant - Fire Department. Click here to apply ow.ly/38Jq30dxWCE
  
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• Police Arrest Prolific Bank Robber bit.ly/2uaFgMA #NorthVancouver

  11-07-2017 19:54 via twitter.com
  Police Arrest Prolific Bank Robberbit.ly/2uaFgMA#NorthVancouver
  
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• Meet stylish Vancouverite Jon Wiebe

  11-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Name: Jon Wiebe
  Occupation: Style blogger and pastor 
  Personal style in one word: Dapper
  Get social: @theroadtodapper on Instagram
  Get the look: Love Jon’s outfit? Here are a few options to help you recreate it.The jacket
  A simple suiting blazer gets a seasonally appropriate update thanks to a linen-chambray fabric. This Bosco jacket features a semi-slim fit, so it’s tailored enough to wear to the office, but also comfortable enough that you’ll be happy to wear it on
  
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• This Friday night, Westview Dr/W Queens Rd intersection will be closed for paving, 10pm-9am. Detour map: ow.ly/KmoY30dxJ6Q #NorthVan

  11-07-2017 18:03 via twitter.com
  This Friday night, Westview Dr/W Queens Rd intersection will be closed for paving, 10pm-9am. Detour map: ow.ly/KmoY30dxJ6Q #NorthVan
  
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• Get up-to-date City info, news & event listings delivered to your inbox Thursdays. cnv.org/CityConnect #NorthVan https://t.co/AujT34u7NG

  11-07-2017 18:02 via twitter.com
  
  Get up-to-date City info, news & event listings delivered to your inbox Thursdays. cnv.org/CityConnect #NorthVan https://t.co/AujT34u7NG
  
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• Style Q&A: thredUP brings secondhand fashion finds to Canada

  11-07-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  What do you do with your clothes when they no longer fit — literally or figuratively — into your wardrobe? 
  James Reinhart hopes the answer is this: You sell them. 
  The “serial entrepreneur” is the brain (he’s officially the founder and chief executive officer) behind the online thrift shop thredUP, which recently launched in Canada. 
  Reinhart recently chatted with Postmedia News about shopping secondhand, treasure hunting and getting shoppers to reth
  
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• Woman drowns while tubing in dangerous section of Cowichan River

  11-07-2017 16:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  A woman in her early 50s has died after falling into the rapids on a dangerous stretch of the Cowichan River on Saturday.
  The woman was tubing with friends when she passed the “pull-out” zone and entered the rough water near Horseshoe Bend and Marie Canyon, said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Janelle Shoihet. The woman tried to make it to the river bank, but fell off her tube and became trapped under the fast-flowing water.
  The 33-year-old man she was with pulled her from the water and tried
  
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• Daily Poll: Do we need to change the way we manage B.C.'s forests?

  11-07-2017 16:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  An associate professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia says our firefighting success over the last century has created a situation where our forests are more prone to fires.
  More than 14,000 people are under evacuation orders as firefighters battle more than 231 wildfires covering 320 square kilometres in the B.C. Interior.
  Lori Daniels told the Canadian Press that our firefighting efforts  have allowed for denser forests with a lot of dead material on the groun
  
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• Project underway to test text-message and web-based overdose reporting

  11-07-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  When a toxic batch of drugs is triggering potentially fatal overdoses, one of the most crucial antidotes is to get the word out as fast as possible to alert other users.
  A new research project to develop a more speedy way to communicate information about clusters of drug overdoses will be announced today by Vancouver Coastal Health and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
  “Vancouver Coastal’s pilot project will give medical health officers access to what’s happening when it&rsq
  
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• Legal quagmire must be addressed, ageless Oppal insists

  11-07-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Former Liberal Attorney General, erstwhile appeal justice, past Supreme Court justice, ex-County Court judge, former prosecutor, lawyer Wally Oppal sat amid a bespoke lunch crowd and indicted the legal system.
  “I’m really concerned,” confided the man who has been a member of the legal elite for nearly four decades.
  “We have arguably the best system in the world. We listen to everybody. We have no institutional corruption, no political interference, our wrongful conviction
  
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• Finding a home for the sharing economy in Vancouver

  11-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  As one of Canada’s most creative tech hubs, Vancouver has the opportunity to demonstrate its leadership through the creation and implementation of new home sharing regulations.
  In my role as Public Policy Manager for Airbnb in Canada, I have said many times that home sharing should be regulated. But those regulations should recognize the opportunities being provided by new technologies.
  Home sharing is nothing new. People around the world have been opening their doors and sharing their hom
  
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• B.C. wildfires: 14,000 people evacuated, Williams Lake on alert

  11-07-2017 06:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  Angie Thorne hugs her granddaughter as she looks for the first time at the blackened pit where her Ashcroft home of 21 years had stood just days earlier.
  Thorne and her husband escaped with their camper trailer on Friday before their home at the Ashcroft Indian Reserve burned to the ground.
  They returned on Sunday to see what remained after a large wildfire engulfed their community, west of Kamloops.
  “We made many memories here,” Thorne said, falling silent as tears streame
  
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• Fort McMurray helps B.C. wildfire evacuees, first responders

  11-07-2017 05:06 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — When a wildfire forced Ainsley Braithwaite from her home in Fort McMurray last year, she never thought she’d have a chance to repay the kindness shown to her by strangers.
  But on Monday, she and three other residents of the Alberta city rolled into Kamloops with a truckload of donated supplies to be distributed to evacuees and first responders fleeing and fighting the fires burning across B.C.’s Interior.
  “It just felt so right to come here and pay it forward,&
  
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• Williams Lake goes on evacuation alert

  11-07-2017 04:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  The city of Williams Lake and nearby areas have been placed on evacuation alert by city and regional officials.
  Worries about what Wednesday’s weather might have in store for the collection of fires burning in the Alexis Creek area, about an hour and a half west of Williams Lake, prompted officials to push out the alert Monday at 6 p.m.
  There is some possible precipitation in Wednesday’s forecast, but more worrying will be winds which could drive the flames quickly over the dry terra
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: 14,000 evacuated as crews battle 231 forest fires

  11-07-2017 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  More than 14,000 people are under evacuation orders as firefighters battle more than 231 wildfires covering 320 square kilometres in the B.C. Interior.
  Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says 98 new fires broke out within the last 24 hours.
  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 17 fires of note that pose a potential threat to public safety.  
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver won't allow talk of donations ban to drag on

  11-07-2017 03:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — When the New Democrats and the Greens struck their power-sharing deal in late May, a prime intention was to expedite an early session of the legislature to begin the process of campaign finance reform.
  “The legislature shall be recalled within a month of the swearing in of a B.C. NDP government,” said the text of the agreement signed May 30 by the 44 MLAs from the two parties.
  Among the provisions was a commitment “that legislation will be introduced in th
  
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• Tourism in B.C.'s interior takes hit from wildfire crisis

  11-07-2017 03:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  Instead of welcoming tourists to Wells Gray Provincial Park, visitor centre manager Tay Briggs has to break the news to them that it is closed and try directing them to activities outside the spectacular wilderness area.
  Wells Gray, one of the province’s most popular parks, was one of 60 across B.C.’s interior that were closed on short notice Sunday because of the extreme fire hazard.
  While there are no fires close to the 560,000-hectare park, access is limited to a single road that
  
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• Surrey mayor 'beyond angry' about shooting of innocent bystander

  11-07-2017 02:52 via vancouversun.com
  
  Sunday’s brazen gunfire between alleged gangsters which injured an innocent Surrey woman has the city’s mayor spitting mad.
  “I’m beyond angry now,” Linda Hepner said Monday between council meetings.
  “Beyond contempt,” Hepner said of her feelings toward the shooters.
  That an uninvolved bystander had been hurt — a woman who was in a nearby minivan with her family when gunfire erupted between the occupants of two other vehicles — “is
  
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• Prince George offers haven to wildfire evacuees and their horses

  11-07-2017 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  PRINCE GEORGE — Chad Braaten headed into work last Friday for the evening shift at West Fraser Sawmills in Williams Lake.
  At the mill, from the roof, workers could see smoke from wildfires all around.
  Their shift lasted about 15 minutes.
  Workers were called into the lunchroom where they were told: “Go home, save your houses.”
  Braaten went to his family’s 60-acre property at 150 Mile House, east of Williams Lake, where he, his brother Cody, mom Kelly and dad Darrell, loade
  
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• Remains of long-missing Australian man found near Grand Forks

  11-07-2017 02:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  The remains of an Australian man have been found nearly seven years after he disappeared in southeastern British Columbia.
  The provincial coroner’s service says Owen Rooney was 24 years old when he was last seen at a hospital in Grand Forks, where he left his belongings on Aug. 14, 2010.
  It’s believed the electrician was hitchhiking back to his home in Kelowna after visiting the Shambala music festival near Salmo.
  Members of Grand Forks Search and Rescue Unit were on a training exerc
  
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• First Nations community holds on as fire threatens

  11-07-2017 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  
  As fast-moving wildfires threaten homes across the Cariboo-Chilcotin, the entire town of 100 Mile House has been ordered evacuated. But on a First Nations reserve, several hundred kilometres east, band members say they are left to fight the fires themselves, and will not follow a general evacuation order.
  On Sunday, Chief Joe Alphonse announced that members of the Tl’etinqox First Nation community of Anaham Reserve would stay behind in efforts to save their homes.
  The Gustafsen wildfire is
  
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• Smoke at Kamloops airport disrupting flights

  11-07-2017 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  Smoke from wildfires caused delays and a handful of cancellations at Kamloops airport Monday afternoon.
  “There are a number that have circled,” the airport’s managing director, Fred Legace said. “One has gone back to Vancouver, a couple may have to go back to Calgary and then try again.
  “The valley is really charged with smoke.”
  Legace compared the situation to heavy fog, which is typically an issue just one or two days a year.
  Wind is the only thing which wil
  
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• There's a Council meeting & public hearing tonight, 6pm, City Hall. See what's on the agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  There's a Council meeting & public hearing tonight, 6pm, City Hall. See what's on the agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Sex offender moving to Chilliwack

  11-07-2017 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  A convicted sex offender is moving to Chilliwack.
  According to the B.C. Corrections Branch, James William Conway plans to reside in the city. Conway is said to be “high risk.”
  Conway is 6’4″, 250 pounds. He’s Caucasian, with short brown hair and blue eyes.
  According to the corrections branch, he “has a criminal history which includes sexual interference of person under 16, sexual assault, arson damaging property, fail to comply with disposition and breach of r
  
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• Wildfire evacuees from 100 Mile House torn by stress, lack of sleep

  11-07-2017 01:47 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — Sunday night was a long and uncomfortable one for Benita Gies.
  She and her husband slept — or tried to sleep — in the back of their truck on the side of the road near Lac des Roches after the 5,000-hectare Gustafsen wildfire threatened 100 Mile House and the town was evacuated around 8:45 p.m.
  “It was so dark and smoky and half the roads don’t have painted lines on them,” Gies said Monday as she sat outside the Emergency Social Services reception ce
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: 10,000 evacuated as crews battle 231 forest fires

  11-07-2017 00:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  More than 10,000 people are under evacuation orders as firefighters battle more than 231 wildfires covering 320 square kilometres in the B.C. Interior.
  Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says 98 new fires broke out within the last 24 hours.
  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 17 fires of note that pose a potential threat to public safety.  
  
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• We're setting the table for lunch in the plaza this summer. Bring your friends + lunch. Food truck, live music, gam… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-07-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  We're setting the table for lunch in the plaza this summer. Bring your friends + lunch. Food truck, live music, gam… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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