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• Looking for a rewarding career in our community? Consider becoming a firefighter. Tri-muni force now recruiting:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-07-2017 23:54 via twitter.com
  Looking for a rewarding career in our community? Consider becoming a firefighter. Tri-muni force now recruiting:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• First Nation angry over timing of New Prosperity permits

  18-07-2017 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  The province last Friday issued drilling permits for Taseko Mines Ltd.’s controversial New Prosperity mine proposal while First Nations communities deeply opposed to it were busy dealing with wildfires and just days before a new government was due to take office.
  The three permits authorize Taseko to build 76 kilometres of trails, drill 122 holes, excavate 367 test pits and cut 20 kilometres of seismic lines. The Tsilhqot’in National Government and their communities are outraged over
  
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• Quiz: Are these guns real or fake? bit.ly/2vzq1uo #NorthVancouver

  18-07-2017 22:46 via twitter.com
  Quiz: Are these guns real or fake?bit.ly/2vzq1uo#NorthVancouver
  
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• Blitz: Lulay brothers had their own high school heroics

  18-07-2017 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  In each edition of Blitz through the 2017 CFL season, we’ll get a Lions player to recall a memorable game from his past whether in pee wee, high school, college or the pro ranks. We’ll leave it to the player to determine whether the game was noteworthy due to the stakes, the venue, the playing conditions, individual performance or some other factor. Today’s entry: Travis Lulay.
  Playing high school football together under the bright lights was a dream that turned into a reality
  
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• Man, 73, charged with murder in death of man, woman in West End tower

  18-07-2017 21:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  An elderly man has been charged with two counts of murder following the death of two neighbours in a West End building.
  Vancouver police were called to 1835 Morton Ave. in Vancouver’s West End on July 9 around 5 p.m. When they arrived, police discovered a 57-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man, both of whom were dead.
  At the time, police said they had arrested a “person of interest.”On Tuesday, investigators announced Leonard Landrick, 73, had been charged with two counts of s
  
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• Lotto winner in Kamloops donates money to wildfire relief

  18-07-2017 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — A British Columbia lottery winner says he will donate some of his cash to the province’s wildfire battle.
  Jason Labby of Kamloops won $500,000 playing the Extra on the July 7 Lotto Max draw.
  Labby hasn’t said how much he will donate but that a portion of his winnings will help people affected by scores of wildfires.
  Labby also intends to use his windfall to buy a home.
  Another item at the top of his bucket list is to “relax more.”
  About 40,000 people have
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Air quality advisory issued for Metro Vancouver

  18-07-2017 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  A spate of wildfires in the Interior have led to provincewide state of emergency being declared in British Columbia. Follow along for our latest updates on the efforts to combat the blazes that have forced 37,000 from their homes.
  ​Metro Vancouver has issued an air quality advisory for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District because of high concentrations of fine particulate matter due to wildfires outside of the region.
  The Lower Mainland is clouded with a haze o
  
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• Tallio Day 7: Phillip Tallio describes the two thirds of his life spent behind bars

  18-07-2017 21:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  Final in a seven-part series
  After a nine-year-old boy found the body of his mother, dead from alcohol and pills on New Year’s Eve of 1974, he spent most of the next eight years shuttling around the province from Vancouver Island to the Cariboo, from group homes to foster families and a stint in juvenile detention.
  Shortly after that orphan, Phillip Tallio, turned 17, he returned home to the Nuxalk Nation reserve in Bella Coola. A few months later, according to Tallio’s account,
  
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• Port Moody calls byelection to fill empty council seat

  18-07-2017 20:57 via vancouversun.com
  
  The city of Port Moody has called a byelection for Sept. 30 to fill the council seat left vacant by Rick Glumac, who was elected as an NDP MLA for Port Moody-Coquitlam in the May 9 B.C. election.
  Glumac, who defeated Liberal incumbent Linda Reimer in the provincial election, announced he was leaving council last month.  
  On general voting day, there will be three polling stations: Port Moody Recreation Complex (300 Ioco Road), Heritage Mountain Community Centre (200 Panorama Place), an
  
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• Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week highlights 'strong, rich culture'

  18-07-2017 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week
  July 26-29; 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Free: vifw.webflow.io
  Joleen Mitton is no stranger to the world of fashion. 
  After being discovered at a fairgrounds in Vancouver as a teen, she was plucked from her normal urban life filled with school and basketball and catapulted into a wild world of runway shows and international photo shoots.
  Now, after stepping away from full-time modelling, Mitton is choosing to shine the spotlight on cultural c
  
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• Hops are slowly making a comeback in the Fraser Valley

  18-07-2017 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  A few years ago, Abbotsford farmer Raymond Bredenhof decided to give his poultry farm a little boost.
  “I wanted to diversify my farm,” he told Postmedia News. “I wanted to do something that is a less-regulated industry; be more creative business-wise and marketing-wise. For me, (growing hops) was a new challenge.”
  Bredenhof, who is the chair of the B.C. Hop Growers Association, planted six acres of the plant on his own farm in spring of 2016, and eight more acres at anoth
  
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• #Northvan firefighters donate $15,000 to the @BCBurnFund. A charity that supports burn survivors, Burn Treatment Ce… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-07-2017 20:27 via twitter.com
  #Northvan firefighters donate $15,000 to the @BCBurnFund. A charity that supports burn survivors, Burn Treatment Ce… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Psst – the #PooFairy doesn’t exist. Bag it & Bin it & keep our City beautiful. cnv.org/PooFairy #NorthVan https://t.co/FXaFHhUGH2

  18-07-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  
  Psst – the #PooFairy doesn’t exist. Bag it & Bin it & keep our City beautiful. cnv.org/PooFairy #NorthVan https://t.co/FXaFHhUGH2
  
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• Metro Vancouver air quality advisory issued due to B.C. wildfires

  18-07-2017 19:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  Metro Vancouver has issued an air quality advisory for both Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District due to high concentrations of smoke drifting down from wildfires in the interior of the province.
  Fine particulate matter — airborne solids and liquids — can penetrate indoors due to their small size and may sicken people who have diabetes, asthma, lung or heart disease.
  “If you are experiencing symptoms such as chest discomfort, shortness of breath, coughing or w
  
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• ART SEEN: Old Column recalls Burnaby's former old growth forest

  18-07-2017 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  Artists Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo hope that Old Column makes passersby stop, look and explore.
  Han and Mihalyo are the team behind the 7.6-metre tall public art work in the public plaza at the corner of Willingdon Avenue and Beresford Street in Burnaby. Old Column is made from blackened stainless steel and steel wire filigree. Its form made me think of the old growth trees that once covered the site.
  Mihalyo said the sculptural work is located on a prominent corner in Metrotown.
  “You mi
  
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• B.C. NDP Cabinet 2017: John Horgan will be sworn in as 36th premier

  18-07-2017 19:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C.’s new NDP government will officially assume power today and John Horgan will become the province’s 36th premier.
  The New Democrats won 41 of the legislature’s 87 seats during in the May 9 election, two less than Christy Clark’s governing Liberals.
  But Horgan managed to broker a deal with the B.C. Greens, who won three seats, paving the way for him to form the narrowest of minority governments..@bcndp start off their swearing-in day with a 6am fundraising email from i
  
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• 5 Reasons to see Bruno Mars in concert

  18-07-2017 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  Bruno Mars
  July 26, 27, 8 p.m. | Rogers Arena
  Tickets and info: From $130, at livenation.com
  It’s hard to imagine that the music industry put up impediments for Grammy Award-winning Bruno Mars. The Hawaiian musician is easily one of the most dynamic personalities on the contemporary music scene, with both chart-topping singles and best-selling records. 
  Mars was the first male singer in two decades to crack the Top 10 with his first four singles from his 2010 debut album Doo-Wops &
  
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• Criminal charge recommended in West Vancouver hit-and-run of cyclist

  18-07-2017 19:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police are recommending a criminal charge against a driver who allegedly hit a cyclist in West Vancouver last month and drove off.
  On June 10, a cyclist was hit by a pickup truck and taken to hospital with serious injuries. The cyclist, a 48-year-old man, has since been released from hospital but continues to recover from fractures in several ribs, as well as a concussion.
  Witnesses at the scene told police the truck, believed to be a Ford F-150, drove away without stopping Investigators were al
  
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• The #LynnCanyon suspension bridge is now OPEN. Thank you for your patience as we completed this morning's maintenance work. #NorthVan

  18-07-2017 19:16 via twitter.com
  The #LynnCanyon suspension bridge is now OPEN. Thank you for your patience as we completed this morning's maintenance work. #NorthVan
  
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• B.C.'s top reads of the week for July 22

  18-07-2017 18:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  1. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from A Secret World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books).
  2. Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations — Richard Wagamese (Douglas & McIntyre). 
  3. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  4. Hello Humpback! — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers (Harbour Publishing). 
  5. British Co
  
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• Film backed by Surrey businessman reveals truths about Sikh royal history

  18-07-2017 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  In 1843, five-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh sat on the throne of the Sikh kingdom.
  The Punjabi boy had ascended due to the death of his father, the Lion of Punjab, a.k.a. Ranjit Singh.
  The boy ruled (sort of, he was five after all) for five years until war broke out and Britain got involved. The result was in 1849 Punjab was annexed to British India, and the boy was removed from the throne thus becoming the last ruler of the Sikh kingdom.
  Duleep Singh’s mother (who was pretty much in char
  
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• Majority of Canadians oppose animal cruelty, willing to pay more

  18-07-2017 18:36 via vancouversun.com
  
  According to poll results released following recent high-profile cases of animal abuse, the majority of Canadians are willing to pay more if it means food companies will take greater strides toward better animal welfare.
  The poll, conducted on behalf of Mercy for Animals and the results of which were releases to Postmedia this week, shows that 90 per cent of Canadians oppose the breeding of chickens that develop so quickly that they become crippled under their own weight.
  Some 86 per cent of res
  
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• Adoption Alert! We've got a number of city traffic circle orphans in need of adoption. Can you help?… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Adoption Alert! We've got a number of city traffic circle orphans in need of adoption. Can you help?… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• A reminder that #LynnCanyon suspension bridge is CLOSED for maintanance until later today. We'll keep you updated here on Twitter.

  18-07-2017 17:52 via twitter.com
  A reminder that #LynnCanyon suspension bridge is CLOSED for maintanance until later today. We'll keep you updated here on Twitter.
  
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• Daily Poll: Should the new NDP-Green office be publicly funded?

  18-07-2017 16:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  On Monday, the B.C. Liberals filed a complaint over a new NDP-Green office, which was created to help manage its political relationship.
  The Confidence and Supply Agreement Secretariat will fall under premier-designate John Horgan’s office and will be paid for by taxpayer funds, something the Liberals are calling a misuse of public money for political purposes.
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  B.C. Liberals complain about new, publicly funded NDP-Green officeLiberal MLA Andrew Wilkinson, who filed the written comp
  
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• 100 Mile House woman missing during wildfire evacuation has been found

  18-07-2017 16:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Update: Prince George RCMP have located Maria Martha Watt, who was previously reported as missing amid the wildfire evacuations.
  Watt is safe, and no further details have been released.
  “Thank you to all those that assisted police,” said Cpl. Craig Douglass in a statement Tuesday morning.
  Previously:
  Police are looking for a woman who may have gone missing during the evacuation of 100 Mile House last week.
  According to a media release from the Prince George RCMP, “extensiv
  
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• B.C. officials face challenges in bringing people home after wildfire

  18-07-2017 15:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — A British Columbia official says getting people to safety as fast-moving wildfires approached was only half the battle — the other half will be returning them home.
  Al Richmond, chairman of the Cariboo Regional District in B.C.’s central Interior, says the district has hit logistical snags as it prepares to allow the re-entry of residents of 100 Mile House and the surrounding area.
  “We’re beginning to look at how we can bring you folks home,” he tol
  
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• 100 Mile House woman goes missing during wildfire evacuation

  18-07-2017 09:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police are looking for a woman who may have gone missing during the evacuation of 100 Mile House last week.
  According to a media release from the Prince George RCMP, “extensive efforts” have been made to locate 88-year-old Maria Martha Watt, but she’s not been found.
  She was reported missing on Sunday night; she has not spoken with loved ones in ten days and hasn’t been seen in more than a week. She has not registered as an evacuee at any emergency centre and a search of
  
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• 'Games' being played with late Victoria bid

  18-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Should taxpayers in the capital region, the Lower Mainland and B.C. shell out for another billion-dollar mega-sports event — the Commonwealth Games 2022 — without knowing costs and risks?
  First, a little background on this last-minute bid from Victoria.
  Of two initial bids, one dropped out, leaving Durban, South Africa, as the winner out of 70 Commonwealth countries. Durban was then disqualified because of financial issues, reopening the bid process. Toronto and Edmonton applied, the
  
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• Wanted high-risk sex offender arrested in Vancouver

  18-07-2017 05:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  A high-risk sex offender unlawfully at large since last week has been arrested by Vancouver police.
  Christopher Schafer, 40, failed to return to his residential correctional facility in Vancouver on July 13. He’s a federal offender who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.
  Schafer has a long criminal history that includes break and enter, sexual offences, uttering threats, robbery and assault a police officer.
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• Some B.C. wildfire evacuees to be allowed to return home Tuesday

  18-07-2017 05:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  More than a week after out-of-control wildfires sparked a mass exodus of about 40,000 people in the B.C. Interior, some residents who fled their fire-stricken communities learned they could be going home. 
  Residents of the Village of Cache Creek — one of the first communities ordered to leave their homes and businesses — were told Monday they would be allowed to return to their homes on Tuesday afternoon.
  The Ashcroft Reserve fire, which forced the departure of the village&rsquo
  
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• North Vancouver bike shop replaces wildfire evacuees' stolen bicycles - Globalnews.ca

  18-07-2017 04:55 via globalnews.ca
  
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  North Vancouver bike shop replaces wildfire evacuees' stolen bicycles
  Globalnews.ca
  Mon, Jul 17: A family fled 100 Mile House during the evacuation alert period only to be victimized on the Lower Mainland but as Geoff Hastings reports, the heartless theft of their children's bikes is bringing out the best in others.
  
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• Elderly 100 Mile House woman goes missing during wildfire evacuation

  18-07-2017 04:52 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police are looking for a woman who may have gone missing during the evacuation of 100 Mile House last week.
  According to a media release from the Prince George RCMP, “extensive efforts” have been made to locate 88-year-old Maria Martha Watt, but she’s not been found.
  She was reported missing on Sunday night; she has not spoken with loved ones in ten days and hasn’t been seen in more than a week. She has not registered as an evacuee at any emergency centre and a search of
  
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• RCMP looking for missing 88-year-old 100 Mile House woman

  18-07-2017 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police are looking for a woman who may have gone missing during the evacuation of 100 Mile House last week.
  According to a media release from the Prince George RCMP, “extensive efforts” have been made to locate 88-year-old Maria Martha Watt, but she’s not been found.
  She was reported missing on Sunday night; she has not spoken with loved ones in ten days and hasn’t been seen in more than a week. She has not registered as an evacuee at any emergency centre and a search of
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan's swearing in ceremony to be low-key affair

  18-07-2017 03:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — While the New Democrats plan something special for Tuesday’s swearing in ceremony with Premier John Horgan and cabinet, they are not expected to put on as big a show as the last time the party returned to office after 16 years in the wilderness.
  The date was Nov. 5, 1991, when incoming NDP Premier Mike Harcourt and 19 ministers took the oath of office in front of 1,200 invited guests in the main auditorium at the University of Victoria.
  The budgeted-at-$50,000 ceremon
  
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• B.C. NDP to usher in gender-balanced cabinet as it ousts Liberal staff

  18-07-2017 03:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s New Democrats will introduce a gender-balanced cabinet Tuesday, as the party transitions to power a day after laying off more than 100 Liberal political appointees at the legislature.
  The cabinet will be a mix of old and new NDP MLAs, but will also maintain a balanced proportion of male and female ministers. Yet the NDP will stop short of creating a stand-alone ministry of women’s equality, which the party has operated in past governments. Instead, the new gov
  
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• 'Everyone was calm': B.C. wildfire evacuees recall trip out of Williams Lake

  18-07-2017 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  The threat of an encroaching wildfire weighed on Britanni Erlandson’s mind for days, yet when the evacuation order came, she wasn’t ready to leave her home in Williams Lake.
  “You think you’re all ready until it comes down to it. You feel panic, you don’t know what to do,” she said, adding her husband and their seven-year-old daughter joined a caravan of vehicles Saturday after a wind-fuelled flare-up of a fire near their town.
  “It was very busy. A two-ho
  
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• Westside Vancouver residents rally to save 70-year-old trees

  18-07-2017 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  A westside Vancouver man is rallying to save a pair of mature trees from the axe as his neighbour prepares to redevelop his property.
  Tony Dean’s family has owned the home he is living in on the 4100-block of West 12th Ave. for 77 years. Dean’s is a well-treed neighbourhood and the home directly beside his has two particularly large, mature trees on the lot. 
  Each are about 70 years old and nearly a metre thick. One is a maple, the other is a cedar, and both could soon be c
  
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• Proposed 57-storey West End tower headed to public hearing Tuesday

  18-07-2017 02:43 via vancouversun.com
  
  On the agenda this week at Vancouver city hall is a major development proposal which sees a church and a local developer partnering to build what would be one of the city’s tallest buildings.
  A proposed 57-storey skyscraper, at Burrard and Nelson on the edge of the West End, would tower over the 48-storey Wall Centre across the street, which is currently the city’s third tallest building.
  The project, a partnership of The First Baptist Church of Vancouver and Westbank Project Corp, i
  
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• Council workshop starts at 6pm. Here's the link to watch it live, online: ow.ly/iFGd30dHUyq #NorthVan

  18-07-2017 02:10 via twitter.com
  Council workshop starts at 6pm. Here's the link to watch it live, online: ow.ly/iFGd30dHUyq #NorthVan
  
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• Counting down till Council meets tonight. Joining us? Watching online? Here’s the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan

  18-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Counting down till Council meets tonight. Joining us? Watching online? Here’s the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan
  
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• Sutherland Road fire exposes unique rural firefighting agreement

  18-07-2017 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  Rural life in B.C. presents all kinds of challenges when it comes to wildfires.
  Take the Sutherland Road fire, which has been burning for more than a week north east of the community of Fort Fraser, about 135 kilometres west of Prince George.
  The nearly 16-square-kilometre fire was first spotted on July 7 by a nearby resident, who called it in to the B.C. Wildfire Service. Initially, there was worry it would threaten homes less than 10 kilometres to the south, but the work of firefighters and so
  
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• Jennings' shoulder is OK, but Lulay still set to start Friday for Leos

  18-07-2017 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  The news about Jonathon Jennings’ wounded shoulder probably couldn’t be much better for the B.C. Lions.
  After an MRI, the Leos’ star pivot appears to be in clear.
  Jennings told reporters Monday at the team’s training facility in Surrey that his range of motion was already better than a day before.
  Head coach Wally Buono said he was “relieved” at the news.
  The Lions host the Blue Bombers on Friday; Travis Lulay is slated to start.
  The veteran put up the best-ev
  
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• Westside Vancouver residents rally to save trees

  18-07-2017 01:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  A westside Vancouver man is rallying to save a pair of mature trees from the axe as his neighbour prepares to redevelop his property.
  Tony Dean’s family has owned the home he is living in on the 4100-block of West 12th Ave. for 77 years. Dean’s is a well-treed neighbourhood and the home directly beside his has two particularly large, mature trees on the lot. 
  Each are about 70 years old and nearly a metre thick. One is a maple, the other is a cedar, and both could soon be c
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Cache Creek residents to be allowed home

  18-07-2017 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  A spate of wildfires in the Interior have led to provincewide state of emergency being declared in British Columbia. Follow along for our latest updates on the efforts to combat the blazes that have forced 37,000 from their homes.
  A 38-year-old man is in custody and facing changes in connection with the possession of goods stolen from B.C. wildfire evacuees.
  Members of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia have been engaged in proactive enforcement in th
  
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• #LynnCanyon suspension bridge will close for maintenance tomorrow at 6am for a half day. Keep an eye out here for status updates. #NorthVan

  18-07-2017 01:36 via twitter.com
  #LynnCanyon suspension bridge will close for maintenance tomorrow at 6am for a half day. Keep an eye out here for status updates. #NorthVan
  
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• Deaf woman sentenced to 2 years less a day for sex assault of teen

  18-07-2017 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  A deaf woman who committed sex offences against a trouble underage girl has been sentenced to two years less a day in prison.
  In March, a jury found Moreen Akumu, 36, guilty of sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, being a householder who permitted prohibited sexual activity and sexual assault in relation to the offences involving the 14-year-old girl, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban.
  The victim had come to Akumu’s East Vancouver apartment building to visit
  
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