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• Notorious slumlords slammed for Vancouver cannabis dispensary plans

  12-07-2017 23:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  Notorious slumlords the Sahota family, whose dilapidated Balmoral Hotel was evacuated last month, are fighting to operate a dispensary near an elementary school.
  Herban Legends, at 3038 Arbutus St., seeks to sell cannabis 260 metres from York House School, against regulations that require all dispensaries to be at least 300 metres from schools.
  On Wednesday at 4 p.m., Herban Legends has an appeal hearing with the city’s board of variance to try to continue operating at 3038 Arbutus.
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• Taxing the rich is Seattle's plan for preserving affordability

  12-07-2017 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  Amid the mansions of tech billionaires and millionaires, the luxury stores and upscale eateries, Seattle is having an existential crisis.
  There’s a deepening wealth gap and housing costs are soaring beyond the reach of many working people, including software engineers whose salaries average $120,000 a year (and those are U.S. dollars). And the question that’s being asked is: Is this a city only for the wealthy?
  Sound familiar? Well, yes. But the solution that Seattle’s city cou
  
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• B.C. wildfires’ impact on animals ‘to be horrific’: wildlife rehab facility

  12-07-2017 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  A major wildlife rehabilitation facility is bracing for the devastating impact of the B.C. wildfires on birds and mammals.
  “It’s going to be horrific,” Angelika Langen, co-founder of non-profit Northern Lights Wildlife Society in Smithers, said in an interview Wednesday.
  “We’re expecting a storm in the aftermath of the fires. It’s pretty horrible for the wildlife with this huge area affected. It’s all over. It’s going to have an impact on numbers.
  
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• Lions middle linebacker still on top of his game

  12-07-2017 23:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  He would have been awfully thick to have missed it, but when the B.C. Lions lined up for their first game of this CFL season, Solomon Elimimian was aware things had changed dramatically in his work environment.
  Adam Bighill, his teammate of six years and alter ego at linebacker, was gone. Ryan Phillips, the COO of the secondary and an 11-year vet, was gone. There were, however, five new starters, including a safety, Louchiez Purifoy, who was a linebacker last year and a linebacker, Chandler Fenn
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Weather improves near Williams Lake

  12-07-2017 23:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  A spate of wildfires in the Interior have lead to province-wide state of emergency being declared in British Columbia. Follow along for our latest updates on the efforts to combat the blazes that have forced some 14,000 from their homes.
  THE CANADIAN PRESS — Fire officials say they’re relieved by a slight reprieve in the weather forecast that had been calling for strong winds where dozens of fires are burning.
   B.C. Wildfire Service chief information officer Kevin Skrepnek
  
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• Trump profits as taxpayers foot $15K USD hotel bill for Secret Service

  12-07-2017 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  In what appears to the first evidence of the Trump brand profiting from Donald Trump’s presidency, freedom-of-information documents show that the U.S. State Department spent more than US$15,000 to book 19 rooms at the Trump Vancouver hotel in February during the grand-opening festivities.
  The highly redacted documents were obtained by the Washington Post and reported Wednesday.
  For the hotel’s grand opening on Feb. 28, Trump’s two sons Donald Jr. and Eric, his daughter Tiffany,
  
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• Meet you at the #LongTable Thursdays in July 12-2pm in #CivicPlaza. Look for the table, musician, games & food truc… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-07-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
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• Vancouver philanthropists' home sale funding health research, including this rat researcher

  12-07-2017 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  
  The $5,2 million sale of an important mid-century modern home in the UBC Endowment Lands has helped create a $9-million health research endowment. 
  The 1953-built home was owned by Constance Livingstone-Friedman and Sydney Friedman, who left the home to UBC upon their deaths. Proceeds from the sale of the house, designed by modernist movement architect Frederic Lasserre, were combined with funds already in the Friedman Foundation endowment fund.The Friedmans were among the founders of
  
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• Live in collection zone #3? Your new garbage/organics carts are coming! Learn how to use them (or look up your zone… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-07-2017 20:50 via twitter.com
  Live in collection zone #3? Your new garbage/organics carts are coming! Learn how to use them (or look up your zone… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Cyclist Florenz Knauer proposes to girlfriend after winning Grand Prix

  12-07-2017 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  The winner of this week’s New West Grand Prix is walking away with more than just a podium finish — he’s also walking away with a new fiancée.
  After placing first in the men’s division on Tuesday, German cyclist Florenz Knauer, 28, borrowed a mic while still at the podium and invited his girlfriend Alisha Lundgren onstage. The pair met when Knauer came to B.C. in 2012 and stayed with a host family while he raced in that year’s B.C. Superweek series; Lundgren&
  
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• Wildfire smoke blankets much of British Columbia, part of Alberta

  12-07-2017 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — Wildfires in British Columbia’s Interior mean only coastal and extreme northern and northeastern corners of the province have escaped a pall of smoke blanketing regions that include the United States border.
  The Environment Ministry, in collaboration with local health authorities, has issued a smoky skies bulletin as 198 wildfires chew through just under 400 square kilometres of trees, bush and grasslands.
  The bulletin is issued when smoke concentrations in an area could
  
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• Charges laid after Burnaby flaggers hit by SUV

  12-07-2017 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  Charges have been laid after a white SUV struck two flaggers in Burnaby two weeks ago, seriously injuring one.
  Brenda Ouma Aregay, 38, of Surrey, was charged Wednesday morning with two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of failing to stop at the scene of an accident and two counts of assault, according to a new release from Burnaby RCMP.
  The charges relate to the hit and run of two flaggers that occurred on June 28 on 10th Avenue nea
  
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• Tallio Day 2: The hours following the 17-year-old's arrest for murder

  12-07-2017 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Court documents paint a picture of a remote coastal B.C. village racked by horror and confusion in the hours after the discovery, in 1983, of a murdered child.
  In the early morning of April 23, 1983, 17-year-old Phillip James Tallio found his 22-month-old cousin not breathing, and sprinted in a grief-stricken panic to wake up family members and relay the terrible news. That’s the account he has been telling for the past three decades.
  Within three hours of that morning’s discovery in
  
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• Love gardening? Live near Mahon? Will you adopt an orphaned traffic circle garden? Check locations:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-07-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Love gardening? Live near Mahon? Will you adopt an orphaned traffic circle garden? Check locations:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• New Vancouver theatre company to bring roaring twenties’ stories to life

  12-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  This is Our Youth
  July 14-17, 19, 22-23, 7 and 3 p.m. | Red Gate Revue Stage
  Tickets | $20 at brownpapertickets.com
  Beau Han Bridge hopes the new theatre company he has founded will not only employ millennials, but entertain them as well.
  Formed this spring, the non-profit Midtwenties Theatre Society’s plan is to get younger audiences into live theatre seats by offering plays that depict a world familiar to them.
  “It’s for people who are not necessarily emerging but are not ful
  
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• We're currently recruiting for Auxiliary Parking Bylaw Enforcement Officers. Click here to apply ow.ly/lk0q30dzIoN

  12-07-2017 18:29 via twitter.com
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• Daily Poll: How prepared are you for an emergency evacuation?

  12-07-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  In recent days, some 14,000 people have been evacuated due to wildfires across B.C. and for many, there was no time to prepare.
  On Wednesday, the city of Williams Lake was expected to find out if its residents would be ordered to evacuate. Residents had earlier been placed on alert and told to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice if weather conditions on Wednesday forced flames closer towards the city.
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  B.C. Wildfires Live: Resources mobilized from across B.C. and AlbertaThe Hance
  
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• B.C. wildfires threaten as many as 20,000 cattle, association says

  12-07-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — Ranchers fleeing wildfires in British Columbia’s Interior are leaving behind an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 cattle, hoping the animals’ instincts will keep them safe.
  The head of the B.C. Cattleman’s Association said there are a significant number of ranches established in the Cariboo region, where dozens of fires have been sparked since Thursday.
  Association general manager Kevin Boon said with so many fires springing up at once and cattle dispersed across pro
  
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• Banks, companies step up with cash to assist B.C. wildfire victims

  12-07-2017 16:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  TORONTO — Canada’s big banks and other companies are donating sizeable sums to the Canadian Red Cross to help the victims of the wildfires in British Columbia.
  About 14,000 people have been displaced by more than 200 wildfires and an official with Emergency Management BC said Tuesday that the situation continues to deteriorate.
  The Canadian Red Cross has said cash donations for wildfire victims are coming in at an overwhelming rate from across B.C. and Canada, and with the crisis exp
  
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• Tacos having a Vancouver moment

  12-07-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Lucha Verde
  1326 Davie St. | 604-669-8620
  Open Tuesday to Sunday for dinner; luchaverde.com
  Slowly, steadily, tacos threaten to trounce sushi as the West Coast food mascot. The density of taco shops and tacos on casual menus are reaching epic or sushi proportions thanks to their price and user-friendly nature. Shops like Tacofino (with three popular locations and a couple of food trucks), La Taqueria Pinche (another three) and Sal y Limon certainly contributed to our taco love.
  Lucia Verde inhab
  
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• Five Things to Know: False fire marshals, Canuck the Crow finds work

  12-07-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Wildfires continue to burn in British Columbia, some kid painted his horse bright pink by accident, and Canuck the Crow is officially a working bird. Here are five things you need to know:
  Wildfire news: beware of false fire marshals
  If you’re looking for the latest updates on the wildfires across British Columbia, do be sure to check out the up-to-date coverage in our live blog. There’s good news, insofar as that’s possible right now: the final update of Tuesday night was a po
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Lawyers clash over 'money laundering' at LSBC hearing

  12-07-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Law Society of B.C. disciplinary hearing descended Tuesday into acrimony and occasional raised voices over the regulatory body’s ability and willingness to police money laundering.
  Kenneth McEwan, a lawyer for the society, rebuked media comments made by Donald Gurney and said they raised a serious question about rehabilitating the West Vancouver practitioner found guilty of professional misconduct.
  “No one is seeking to punish him for daring to speak up, no one is seeking to stop h
  
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• Looking Glass Foundation unveils new form of community support for eating disorder sufferers

  12-07-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The full launch this year of a Looking Glass Foundation program called Hand in Hand is heralding in an entirely new model of community-based support for mental health – in this case, for eating-disorder sufferers.
  Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that sometimes coincide with depression, anxiety or addiction. Sadly, treatment options are limited. Clinical in- and out-patient programs are scarce and can be difficult to access.  Private therapy, not covered under the public
  
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• Indigenous consent is key to sustainable development

  12-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  On June 30, the Trudeau government quietly released its highly anticipated approach to revamping the federal environmental assessment process. Expectations were high following the recommendations of the government-appointed expert panel. Sadly, the Liberal government opted for the status quo over innovative change.
  Nowhere is this more evident than in the proposed approach to indigenous peoples’ role in the process. Despite what appears to be some generous language (Indigenous peoples will
  
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• Savary Island torn apart as man pleads not guilty to killing a dog

  12-07-2017 05:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  The killing of a dog on Savary Island near Powell River has torn the small community apart. 
  Eric Ferreira, a longtime resident and prominent local businessman, pleaded not guilty in Powell River provincial court Tuesday to a charge of killing or injuring an animal.
  Maybe, a three-year-old Australian shepherd, vanished on a winter’s day walk in an area called Patricia’s Crescent on Feb. 3. 
  In his statement to RCMP, owner Darren Claydon said the off-leash dog was a cou
  
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• What's the best place to get ice cream in Metro Vancouver?

  12-07-2017 05:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  HARRISON MOONEY: It’s ice cream season in Vancouver, otherwise known as summer. The heat is on, which means it’s time to find strategies to beat it, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better one — or, at least, a more delicious one — than an ice cream cone.
  Don’t give me any guff about ice cream in a cup, by the way. The only acceptable way to eat ice cream is scooped onto a cone, waffle wherever possible, and I will fight anyone who disagrees. Now, gran
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, July 12

  12-07-2017 04:57 via vancouversun.com
  
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, July 12.
  Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix
  We’re midway through BC Superweek, one of the most prestigious Pro-Cycling Series in North America, and definitely the most prestigious in the province: over the course of 10 days, there are nine big bike races in British Columbia. On Wednesday, Gastown will be overrun with cyclists and cycling fans as the oldest neighbourhood in Vancouver hosts the Global Rela
  
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• First Nations water ceremony held for evacuees in Kamloops

  12-07-2017 04:25 via vancouversun.com
  
  Food, water and shelter weren’t the only necessities provided to wildfire evacuees at the Kamloops Emergency Social Services reception centre on Tuesday.
  Outside, in the middle of a basketball court, members of the Secwepemc Health Caucus and the Tk’emlúps First Nation attended to people’s spiritual needs with a water ceremony.
  At centre court, a blanket was spread out and on top lay drums, braids of sweetgrass, a bag of sage, eagle feathers and a smudging bowl with an a
  
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• In the hours before a brutal discovery, Phillip Tallio's last day as a free man

  12-07-2017 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  First in a seven-part series
  Around 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 23, 1983, Phillip Tallio was sitting in the kitchen at a house party catching up with a relative he hadn’t seen in years.
  According to court documents recently made public, he told her how excited he was to learn he was going to have a baby and a family of his own.
  About seven hours later, Tallio, then 17, was picked up by police for the murder of his 22-month-old relative Delavina Mack. It was a crime Tallio pleaded guilty
  
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• B.C. wildfire volunteers vow to leave no horses behind

  12-07-2017 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE — The only thing that stopped Logan Piesse from leaving Rocky Mountain House in Alberta early Sunday morning to help out with the B.C. wildfires was a tornado warning. 
  When it cleared later that day, he began the 12-hour drive to Prince George.
  Piesse towed a six-horse trailer, arriving Monday morning at the Prince George Exhibition Grounds, where he was immediately sent south to the City of Williams Lake — which is now under evacuation alert — to pick
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Resources mobilized from across B.C. and Alberta

  12-07-2017 03:59 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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• Safe space: giant West Vancouver bank vault listed for free on Craigslist

  12-07-2017 03:52 via vancouversun.com
  
  Looking for a more secure way to store your bicycle? How about an unorthodox beer fridge? There’s a bank vault in West Vancouver that could be yours, free. 
  Seriously. A massive bank vault — not just a safe — is currently listed among Craigslist Vancouver’s free stuff. Keep your money, perhaps in the vault.
  “The bank is moving out and leaving their vault,” says the West Vancouver listing. “Free to whomever can haul this away.”
  The vault is app
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Greens' craving for electoral reform easier said than done

  12-07-2017 03:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — No political priority looms larger for the B.C. Greens than reforming the electoral system to establish proportional representation and improve their chances of winning seats in the legislature.
  The commitment is foremost in the power-sharing agreement they struck with the New Democrats for obvious reasons.
  In May, the Greens won 17 per cent of the vote but only three seats. With a system that allocated representation in proportion to the share of the vote, they would have
  
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• UBC forest researcher posts video of harrowing wildfire escape

  12-07-2017 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  After filming her harrowing escape from the B.C. wildfires, a Vancouver forestry researcher worries that with ongoing climate change such devastation is now “the new normal” for the province.
  Dr. Sally Aitken, associate dean for research and innovation at the University of B.C.’s Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, said a two-week vacation to her recreational property in the west Chilcotin region was cut short Monday when smoke nearby grew and she and her
  
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• Get Saturday night fever every weekend this summer with our #SummerSessions concerts @ the Shipyards.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
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• Vancouver firefighters heading to B.C. interior to help out

  12-07-2017 01:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  Ten Vancouver firefighters are heading to the province’s interior to help fight wildfires.
  Tuesday afternoon, Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services announced six members of the city’s heavy urban search and rescue unit (called Canada Task Force-1) were being deployed to the provincial emergency operations centres in Prince George and Kamloops.
  The six have “specialized incident command skills,” public information officer Capt. Jonathan Gormick said.
  A fire engine and four fi
  
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• B.C. wildfires put dent in interior resource industries

  12-07-2017 01:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  Logging contractor John McNeil’s crews have been double-shifting since late last week, when they can, cutting fire breaks around the mills and northeast boundary of 100 Mile House, instead of stacking up timber for his employer.
  “The big thing is to save those two big sawmills, because that’s what our town is,” McNeil said, “and to save the homes in the area, and that’s what the effort has been concentrated on.”
  His McNeil & Sons Logging is one of do
  
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• Caws for celebration: Canuck the Crow lands a paying gig at PNE

  12-07-2017 01:43 via vancouversun.com
  
  IT specialists probably think they’ve heard it all, but Loredana Udovicic has a new one for them: The crow stole my keyboard.
  Well, not the entire keyboard, but the manager of food and beverage at the Pacific National Exhibition has had to repeatedly ask her IT department for a replacement keyboard after Canuck the Crow flew through an open window into her office and made off with one of the keys.
  “IT is upset with me, I’ve lost three keyboards and they don’t believe me w
  
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• Quesnel mayor warns of 'false fire marshals' going door-to-door

  12-07-2017 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  As though there wasn’t already enough confusion and concern stemming from wildfires in central British Columbia, Quesnel Mayor Bob Simpson has now warned the public to be on the lookout for false fire marshals.
  “There have been very disturbing reports of people being given evacuation alerts by individuals posing as ‘Fire Marshals’,” Simpson wrote in a Facebook post. “These individuals have been dressed in some form of uniform and wear high-viz vests and are do
  
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• No charges laid against officer in crash that killed B.C. Mountie

  12-07-2017 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — No charges will be laid against an RCMP officer who tried to stop a pickup truck moments before it crashed into a marked police car in suburban Victoria, killing another Mountie.
  B.C.’s prosecution service says there is not enough evidence to approve charges against the officer, who has not been named.
  Const. Sarah Beckett was killed on April 5, 2016, when a truck driven by Kenneth Fenton sped through an intersection in Langford and smashed into her cruiser.
  The prosecutio
  
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• Seymour River rescue enters second year

  12-07-2017 01:00
  
  The heroic mission to save the Seymour River is entering its second season.
  
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• In the hours before a terrible discovery, Phillip Tallio's last day as a free man

  12-07-2017 00:43 via vancouversun.com
  
  First in a seven-part series
  Around 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 23, 1983, Phillip Tallio was sitting in the kitchen at a house party catching up with a relative he hadn’t seen in years.
  According to court documents recently made public, he told her how excited he was to learn he was going to have a baby and a family of his own.
  About seven hours later, Tallio, then 17, was picked up by police for the murder of his 22-month-old relative Delavina Mack. It was a crime Tallio pleaded guilty
  
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• 100 Mile House evacuation order 'hardest decision of my life': mayor

  12-07-2017 00:36 via vancouversun.com
  
  The mayor of the District of 100 Mile House says the decision to issue a wildfire evacuation order for his entire community was the most difficult he’s ever made.
  “It was the hardest decision in my life, not a lot of fun,” Mitch Campsall said in an interview Tuesday. “You know there’s a good chance this fire could take out our community. That’s tough, that’s the realization you come to. It’s a pretty horrible feeling.”
  Campsall, a truck
  
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• Alberta man arrested for North Vancouver bank robbery - North Shore News

  12-07-2017 00:16
  
  North Shore News
  Alberta man arrested for North Vancouver bank robbery
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver RCMP have arrested the man they say robbed a Lynn Valley bank last month as well as eight other banks across the Lower Mainland and Alberta. On the afternoon of June 28, a suspect held up the CIBC at Lynn Valley Centre at gunpoint.and more »
  
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• Missed last night’s Council meeting? Wonder what happened? Watch it here: ow.ly/rwpR30dnhrU #NorthVan https://t.co/Y5bzYVnubB

  12-07-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  
  Missed last night’s Council meeting? Wonder what happened? Watch it here: ow.ly/rwpR30dnhrU #NorthVan https://t.co/Y5bzYVnubB
  
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