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• Firefighters are at their 2nd call on the Grouse Grind today. Always happy to help those in need on the trails and in the canyons. #northvan

  15-07-2017 23:39 via twitter.com
  Firefighters are at their 2nd call on the Grouse Grind today. Always happy to help those in need on the trails and in the canyons. #northvan
  
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• Review of former B.C. radiologist's work expanded in N.W.T.

  15-07-2017 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Northwest Territories has expanded a quality assurance review of a former Yellowknife hospital radiologist whose past work in B.C. is the subject of investigation by medical regulators.
  Dr. Claude Vezina, who worked in Terrace, B.C. last year, was found to have made hundreds of errors in this province while reading X-rays, ultrasounds and CT scans over a four-month period at Mills Memorial Hospital.
  In the spring, radiologists at Vancouver General Hospital completed re-interpretations of 8,4
  
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• Friday was packing day as MLAs' staffs prepare to switch places

  15-07-2017 22:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  In the west end of the B.C. legislature, NDP staff spent Friday filling cardboard boxes with documents, office supplies and personal effects.
  Two manoeuvred a large roll of packing paper, in preparation for their move out of the Opposition cubicle farm.
  “We’re supposed to have our boxes packed by the end of the day,” said NDP communications officer Marielle Tounsi.
  On Tuesday, the provincial government will change hands for the first time in 16 years, when John Horgan is sworn
  
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• Lack of 'criminal' designation for Hells Angels lets gang flourish

  15-07-2017 22:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  On a recent Wednesday evening in Kelowna, a row of Harleys was parked outside the Hells Angels clubhouse on Ellis Street.
  The biker gang was holding its weekly “church” meeting at the clubhouse, despite the fact the B.C. Civil Forfeiture office is fighting in court to get the nondescript stucco building, across from a log yard, forfeited to taxpayers.
  The government case to seize the Kelowna, Nanaimo and (Vancouver) East End Hells Angels clubhouses as sites of criminal activity has b
  
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• B.C. orca rescued in 2002 gives birth to her second calf

  15-07-2017 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Springer, the once-tiny orca rescued in Puget Sound and returned to Johnstone Strait 15 years ago, has given birth to a second calf.
  The northern resident killer whale was spotted with a new youngster on B.C.’s north-central coast by CetaceaLab and confirmed by federal Fisheries Department staff.
  Springer made headlines around the world. She is the first known case of a whale being captured and successfully reintegrated with her pod in the wild.
  Springer, officially called
  
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• Lots to discuss @ Council Meeting & Public Hearing Monday @ 6PM. See what's on the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan

  15-07-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Lots to discuss @ Council Meeting & Public Hearing Monday @ 6PM. See what's on the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan
  
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• DYK the CityCollect App also has a 'What Goes Where' tool to find out how to recycle any item?… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  15-07-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  DYK the CityCollect App also has a 'What Goes Where' tool to find out how to recycle any item?… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Brewery and the Beast: Vancouver event serves up seriously meaty eats — and drinks, of course (with recipes and beer pairings)

  15-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Brewery & The Beast
  July 23, 1-4 p.m. | Concord Pacific (88 Pacific Blvd.)
  Tickets and info: Sold out; breweryandthebeast.com 
  Could there be a better way to spend a summer weekend than sipping on refreshing beers and sampling delicious fare? 
  Scott Gurney doesn’t think there is. That’s why he created the ultimate Sunday food-beer mash-up with the event, Brewery & The Beast.
  But it wasn’t just the obvious recipe for fun the pairing provided that pro
  
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• Don't forget, BBQ's in parks and beaches BANNED in all 3 North Shore municipalities. ow.ly/D3U230dE9KW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  15-07-2017 19:38 via twitter.com
  Don't forget, BBQ's in parks and beaches BANNED in all 3 North Shore municipalities.ow.ly/D3U230dE9KW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Dance to the beat w/ @Brickh0useBand at SummerSessions tonight @ #TheShipyards. Food, music + fun!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  15-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Dance to the beat w/ @Brickh0useBand at SummerSessions tonight @ #TheShipyards. Food, music + fun!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Community attraction at Eaglehurst Homes

  15-07-2017 15:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  An eagle is soaring over the large single-family community of detached homes on the Saanich Peninsula on southern Vancouver Island. “She’s just had eaglets and we think of her as our mascot,” enthuses Brooke Alexander, a realtor with Dexter Associates Realty.
  The energy-efficient homes, designed to a Built Green gold status, make up the new neighbourhood that borders Sidney in north Saanich. With an emphasis on living within nature, it took 16 years to bring this community to f
  
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• The Home Front: Summertime, and the outdoor living is easy

  15-07-2017 15:52 via vancouversun.com
  
  With summer now truly upon us, there is no better place to be than at home relaxing on your patio, terrace or deck.
  The Sun caught up with a local developer, interior designer and decking expert to see what’s new and improved in the materials and design being applied to these spaces.
  In Vancouver, there is a growing demand for multi-family dwellings that have impressive outdoor spaces, says Jason Turcotte, vice-president of development for Cressey Development Group.
  “People are
  
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• Foxridge's Edgewood Gate offers 'everything right at hand'

  15-07-2017 15:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  In October this year, Lisa McJunkin and Bill Reny will be moving into a new home at Edgewood Gate, Foxridge Homes’ new development of four- and five-bedroom single-family houses in South Surrey.
  The couple are local to the area and are moving in together for the first time. They were looking for a place that works for both of their sons and found it in a four-bedroom home with a finished basement suite.
  “My son is 21 so that will work really well for him,” McJunkin said. &ldquo
  
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• Kits home noteworthy for location, beautiful restoration

  15-07-2017 15:08 via vancouversun.com
  
  A snapshot of residential buying trends in Metro Vancouver
  3616 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver
  Type: Five-bedroom, three-bathroom detached
  Size: 3,735 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $3,339,000
  Listed for: $3,088,000
  Sold for: $3,616,000
  Sold on: April 12
  Days on market: Nine
  Listing agent: Marty Pospischil and Adam Pospischil at Dexter Associates Realty
  Buyers agent: Eric Coulombe at Infinite Real Estate Services
  The big sell: Listing agent Adam Pospischil credits the abundance of period features in this
  
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• Old McDonald's Farm Blues E-I-E-I-OH!

  15-07-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has settled a tawdry squabble among the great grandchildren of Samuel McDonald, a Cariboo gold-rush pioneer and founder of the eponymous farm on Nicomen Island.
  In a decision released this week, the high bench dismissed the claims of the great grandchildren who said they deserved a larger inheritance for performing childhood chores after the renowned historic farm was given to their brother.
  “In general, we see the performance of chores by children in a family
  
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• Five Things to Know: Wildfire looters, toe donation, miracle hawk

  15-07-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  A gusty forecast for the weekend concerns fire crews, a Vancouverite will be donating her toe to a popular Yukon bar, and a baby hawk is being raised by Eagles. Here are five things you need to know.
  Wildfire update: Village of Clinton on evacuation alert
   
  The Village of Clinton was placed one evacuation alert Friday as the Ashcroft Reserve fire moved toward the community.
  The residents of the village — about 650 people in total — have been instructed to prepare to evacuate sho
  
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• Hiker safe after losing her way on Mount Seymour in North Vancouver - Globalnews.ca

  15-07-2017 13:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hiker safe after losing her way on Mount Seymour in North Vancouver
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  A lost tourist is on her way back home after getting lost on Mount Seymour Friday night. North Shore Rescue was called in just after 9 p.m. to look for a 26-year-old American woman who had lost her way on Suicide Bluffs after hiking Dog Mountain.and more »
  
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• North Vancouver community centre gets green upgrade - North Shore News

  15-07-2017 12:57 via nsnews.com
  
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  North Vancouver community centre gets green upgrade
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  New upgrades at Karen Magnussen are expected to save the district $100,000 in annual costs. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. A longstanding North Vancouver community centre has been going through some changes that might help the planet, ...
  
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• The ocean is calling at Royal Bay on Vancouver Island

  15-07-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Royal Bay, a spectacular seaside community on Vancouver Island, just 25-minutes from downtown Victoria, is ready for you.
  Situated along a 1.3-kilometre stretch of beachfront in temperate Colwood, B.C., this walkable, master-planned community offers residents a relaxed coastal lifestyle, surrounded by some of the island’s top urban and natural amenities.
  Once complete, Royal Bay will include a series of unique neighbourhoods, interconnected by parks and winding tree-lined pathways.
  In the
  
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• Opinion: Managing the tricky politics of government transition

  15-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The past weeks have seen high political drama in British Columbia — but the days leading up to this week’s swearing-in may turn out to be the most intense of premier-designate John Horgan’s already long political career. From the transition team, to senior bureaucrats, to candidates for cabinet, John Horgan’s most complex task is evaluating and managing the many people whose careers he holds in his hands.
  This process began officially on June 29, but work has been on
  
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• Letters: Khadr payout will live in infamy

  15-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The decision by Justin Trudeau’s government to make terrorist Omar Khadr rich with a $10.5 million settlement and to give an official apology to Khadr, who murdered American soldier U.S. Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer in cold blood and left a grieving wife a widow with two children, is as wrong as it gets and millions of Canadians will surely remember this outrage come election time in 2019. This is nothing less than a slap in the face for not only the grieving widow and family of the
  
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• Editorial: Rate hike a harbinger of higher borrowing costs

  15-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  This week’s move by the Bank of Canada to raise its key interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 per cent from 0.50 per cent was not unexpected. In advance of the increase, economists gave it a 90-per-cent probability.
  For many Canadians, an interest-rate increase of a quarter point is unlikely to change their financial circumstances. But in Vancouver, where homeowners carry the biggest mortgages in the country, any increase in interest rates merits attention.
  Based on the ave
  
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• Caouette keeping it 'reel' — from stuntman to passionate filmmaker

  15-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Hollywood North has always been a hotbed for high-kicking series and fast-moving features — and is home to a burgeoning FX scene as well.
  But all the CGI in the world won’t ever cover for real live onscreen action. That’s where Kirk Caouette comes in.
  From X-Men to Watchmen, The A-Team to Arrow, the veteran stuntman has coordinated, choreographed and performed everything from massive fights to basic utility stunts depending on what the job required.
  He has also put on multiple
  
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• B.C. can learn from Quebec on child care policy

  15-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The upside of big policy proposals is that they are bold, expansive, and exciting. The downside is that they often neglect real-world evidence. Both aspects are evident in B.C.’s new NDP-led government’s proposal to roll out universal $10-a-day child care.
  At present, details of the NDP child care plan are nebulous beyond the marquee $10-a-day billing with no fees for families at incomes below $40,000. Before the election, NDP point person for the plan, then-MLA Jodie Wickens stated,
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Strong winds could bring 'extreme' conditions

  15-07-2017 06:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  A spate of wildfires in the Interior have led 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 16,000 from their homes.
  Crews battling wildfires in British Columbia prepared for the worst as officials predicted stronger winds over the weekend after a slight reprieve from the weather in recent days. Kevin Skrepnek, chief information officer for the B.C. Wildfire Service, says
  
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• Hustling to keep Williams Lake operative while many flee flames

  15-07-2017 05:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE — Miles St. Amand is hustling at Sun Valley Gas just off the main intersection of this Cariboo community on Highway 97.
  That’s because there are only three gas pump jockeys at this full-service station, which normally has a contingent of 12 or 15.
  Like many of the other residents of this community, they have joined the exodus from Williams Lake, which has been under a wildfire evacuation alert since Monday. Many have gone to Prince George — 270 kilometres north of
  
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• Firefighters in dry Williams Lake say it 'was just a matter of time'

  15-07-2017 04:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE — Dustin Duncan was sitting in his backyard Friday afternoon last week watching his four-year-old daughter play in a kiddie pool, when lightning struck the hillside above his community.
  Duncan, 29, a member of the Williams Lake Indian Band, was hoping to take a break this summer from fighting wildfires with the province. Often, it would take him away for months at a time from his daughter Samantha.
  When he saw within minutes the black smoke billowing from the lightning strike
  
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• Hustling to keep Williams Lake operative while many self-evacuate

  15-07-2017 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE — Miles St. Amand is hustling at Sun Valley Gas just off the main intersection of this Cariboo community on Highway 97.
  That’s because there are only three gas pump jockeys at this full-service station, which normally has a contingent of 12 or 15.
  Like many of the other residents of this community, they have joined the exodus from Williams Lake, which has been under a wildfire evacuation alert since Monday. Many have gone to Prince George — 270 kilometres north of
  
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• Wildfire emergency: A week under threat in the B.C. Interior

  15-07-2017 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  
  It was 1:14 p.m. on Thursday, July 6, when the B.C. Wildfire Service warned on Twitter about a two-hectare fire, about the size of two playing fields, that was burning just west of 100 Mile House.Crews responding to ~2 ha #BCwildfire just west of #100MileHouse. Air support and an officer on site. 25 firefighters en route. pic.twitter.com/EYjnNkL4Nl
  — BC Wildfire Service (@BCGovFireInfo) July 6, 2017
  The blaze along the Gustafsen North Forest Service Road, thought to be caused by lightning,
  
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• TOMORROW, Ridgewood Dr btwn Ayr and Edgemont will be closed 9am-3pm for a concrete pour. Ridgewood east of Edgemont will be open. #NorthVan

  15-07-2017 02:17 via twitter.com
  TOMORROW, Ridgewood Dr btwn Ayr and Edgemont will be closed 9am-3pm for a concrete pour. Ridgewood east of Edgemont will be open. #NorthVan
  
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• Horgan has ways to reward MLAs in or out of new cabinet

  15-07-2017 02:08 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — On a weekend when NDP MLAs will be hoping for a cabinet summons from premier-to-be John Horgan, the only certainty is that the number of hopefuls exceeds the number of openings at the table.
  Experience, geography, gender, diversity and other qualifications will all figure in Horgan’s calculations in appointing the first NDP cabinet to hold office in 16 years.
  Still, many of the 40 MLAs in the NDP caucus will be disappointed when Horgan sets the lineup that will take t
  
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• Fridays + 5-10PM = #ShipyardsNightMarket. Yeah! Food Trucks, Fun & Entertainment. See you there. #NorthVan https://t.co/PaBem2ogTt

  15-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  
  Fridays + 5-10PM = #ShipyardsNightMarket. Yeah! Food Trucks, Fun & Entertainment. See you there. #NorthVan https://t.co/PaBem2ogTt
  
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• Westview Dr/W Queens Rd intersection closes at 10pm for paving. Open tomorrow at 8am. Details/detour map: ow.ly/ZJ5t30dEeNG #NorthVan

  15-07-2017 01:40 via twitter.com
  Westview Dr/W Queens Rd intersection closes at 10pm for paving. Open tomorrow at 8am. Details/detour map: ow.ly/ZJ5t30dEeNG #NorthVan
  
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• Pride comes to North Vancouver - North Shore News

  15-07-2017 01:38 via nsnews.com
  
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  Pride comes to North Vancouver
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  Party people enjoy the Vancouver Pride Parade. The Vancouver Pride Society, organizers of the annual parade, are bringing pride to North Vancouver with an all-ages dance at Shipbuilders' Square Aug. 2. photo Jennifer Gauthier/Vancouver Courier. Pride ...
  
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• B.C. wildfires: Scattered showers won't help, wind may fuel flames, officials say

  15-07-2017 00:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE — Crews struggling to beat back wildfires in British Columbia braced Friday for the worst as officials predicted weather conditions would deteriorate heading into the weekend.
  Kevin Skrepnek of the B.C. Wildfire Service said the Saturday forecast called for sustained winds between 20 and 40 kilometres an hour across the Cariboo region and the southern Interior, with gusts reaching 70 km-h in some areas affected by the fires.
  “That level of wind certainly has the prospec
  
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• Barbeques in parks banned in North Shore municipalities effective today. See Media Release: ow.ly/D3U230dE9KW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  15-07-2017 00:07 via twitter.com
  Barbeques in parks banned in North Shore municipalities effective today. See Media Release: ow.ly/D3U230dE9KW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Not a bad view for a volleyball game hey? DYK you can book the volleyball courts on Kings Mill Walk Park?… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  15-07-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Not a bad view for a volleyball game hey? DYK you can book the volleyball courts on Kings Mill Walk Park?… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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