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• Metro Vancouver penalizes trash haulers $200,000-plus for banned items

  19-07-2017 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  Metro Vancouver penalized trash haulers a total of $213,388 last year for delivering banned items such as electronic waste and cardboard to solid-waste facilities in the region.
  The good news is that the total penalties — “surcharge fees” — are down considerably from $345,889 in 2015, indicative of an improvement in commercial and municipal hauling practices.
  “What we’re seeing over time is improved compliance with the disposal ban program,” Paul Henders
  
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• Book review: Examination of psychedelic drug therapy a timely read

  19-07-2017 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Shamanic Graffiti — 100,000 Thousand Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition
  By Marcus Rummery & Frank Ogden
  (TrineDay Publishers, $22.95 )If I tell you that experimentation with LSD and other psychedelic drugs took place in B.C. in the 1960s, the account is likely to evoke images of colourful hippies free-form dancing at Human Be-in events in Stanley Park, wandering down Kitsilano’s famed “chemical row”, or sipping a meditative herbal tea at the Last Chance Sal
  
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• Who is Atticus? West Coast Canadian's short poems long on inspiration

  19-07-2017 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  To be honest, it would be so easy to dismiss an Instagram poet who doesn’t follow the rules of poetry, wears a mask and whose biggest supporters are a supermodel and coterie of young Hollywood stars.
  Oh, and who was voted “the world’s most tattoo-able” poet by Galore magazine.
  Yes, take that, you big drag Sylvia Plath.
  “I don’t mind it all,” says Atticus, the aforementioned anonymous Instagram poet about being called an Instagram poet and not just a poet
  
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• Rock legends photographer Bob Gruen rocking on with Vancouver show

  19-07-2017 22:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  Bob Gruen: Rockers
  July 24-Aug. 25 | Pendulum Gallery 885 W. Georgia, Vancouver
  Tickets free | pendulumgallery.bc.ca
  Chances are if you ask someone if they know that photo of John Lennon, the one with arms crossed standing in front of the skyline in his “New York City” T-shirt, the answer you’ll most likely get is yes.
  The picture was taken in 1974 by 29-year-old Bob Gruen at an album cover shoot on the rooftop of Lennon’s New York penthouse (Lennon and Yoko Ono were on a
  
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• Zones 1 & 2: If old cans are not picked up yet, pls leave them out, and crews will collect them as soon as possible… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  19-07-2017 22:17 via twitter.com
  Zones 1 & 2: If old cans are not picked up yet, pls leave them out, and crews will collect them as soon as possible… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Sorry, #LongTableLunch is cancelled tomorrow due to rain in the forecast. See you next week #NorthVan https://t.co/XDFBBJkJvv

  19-07-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  
  Sorry, #LongTableLunch is cancelled tomorrow due to rain in the forecast. See you next week #NorthVan https://t.co/XDFBBJkJvv
  
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• A cigarette tossed out the window in #LynnCanyon.Let's consider the fire danger & the environment & dispose of ciga… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  19-07-2017 21:38 via twitter.com
  A cigarette tossed out the window in #LynnCanyon.Let's consider the fire danger & the environment & dispose of ciga… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Premier John Horgan extends state of emergency as B.C. deals with wildfires

  19-07-2017 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – B.C. Premier John Horgan extended the provincial state of emergency for wildfires by an additional two weeks and boosted aid payments to those who were forced to evacuate their homes.
  Horgan emerged from his new government’s first cabinet meeting at the legislature to announce additional payments of $600 for each evacuee for every 14 days a person is unable to return home due the wildfires raging in the province’s interior.
  More than 45,000 people have been forced fr
  
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• B.C. cigarette smuggler receives conditional sentence, fine

  19-07-2017 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  A would-be smuggler has been handed a conditional sentence and a fine for attempting to sneak 202 cartons of cigarettes into Canada three years ago.  
  Ning Zang pleaded guilty last month to smuggling 202 cartons of undeclared cigarettes through the Point Roberts-Boundary Bay border crossing in 2014. 
  On June 26, Ning Zang pleaded guilty in Surrey Provincial Court to one count of smuggling and one count of possession of unstamped tobacco after being caught with the undeclared smoke
  
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• RCMP investigating suspicious death of teenage girl in Burnaby

  19-07-2017 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  Homicide investigators will speak in Burnaby today following the suspicious death of a 13-year-old girl.
  The entrance to Central Park in Burnaby is behind police tape as investigators scour the area.
  The media conference will take place at 1:30 pm. Wednesday at the Burnaby RCMP detachment. RCMP and members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team will be present.
  No further information was released about the victim, aside from her age.
  Burnaby RCMP on scene at Central Park where the suspici
  
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• Air quality advisory cancelled for Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley

  19-07-2017 21:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  Strong winds have pushed the smoke far enough away from the Lower Mainland that an air quality advisory has been cancelled for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District.
  The advisory was put in effect on Tuesday due to elevated concentrations of fine particulate matter from the more 150 wildfires burning in B.C.’s Interior.
  Metro Vancouver says air quality throughout the region has now improved as a result of stronger winds in advance of an incoming low pressure system.
  If sm
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Storms rolling towards interior could bring rain — and more lightning

  19-07-2017 21:08 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 45,000 from their homes.
  The Cariboo Fire Centre hasn’t seen blue sky for eight days.
  Winds have been light of late and the air throughout the region has filled with smoke from multiple wildfires.
  That’s making it difficult for aircraft to get off the ground, B.C. Wildfire Ser
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: It's make-or-break time for Chris Weidman

  19-07-2017 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  A little over four years ago, Chris Weidman walked into the Octagon and shocked the world, clipping Anderson Silva with a looping left hook as he pretended to be hurt, sending the Brazilian icon crashing to the canvas and bringing his long reign over the middleweight division to a surprising end.
  Saturday night on FOX, Weidman will make the walk to the cage with designs on ending an ugly three-fight losing streak and silencing questions about his place in the division he once ruled, when he take
  
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• We're recruiting for a Regular Full-Time Exempt Human Resources Coordinator. Click here to apply ow.ly/Wc7X30dLaIy

  19-07-2017 20:14 via twitter.com
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• Q&A: Bruce Thomas

  19-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Season Cycle
  Until Sept. 21 | Telus World of Science
  Info: scienceworld.ca
  In his Season Cycle exhibit, Bruce Thomas reinvents the B.C. landscape by drawing upon the personal recollections and thoughts of Canadians. The Revelstoke-based artist has been interviewing people across the country for what he is calling the PULSE Landscape Project. Season Cycle is one aspect of the ongoing work, in which Thomas uses the data he collects to inspire large-scale media compositions as well as sculptur
  
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• Let them eat cake: Blueridge Chamber Music Festival expands, explores

  19-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  THE BLUERIDGE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:
  The Very Thought Of You
  Aug. 5, 7 p.m. | Mount Seymour United Church
  Aug. 9, 7 p.m. | Orpheum Annex
  I’ve Got You Under My Skin
  Aug. 11, 7 p.m. | St. Mark’s Anglican Church
  Aug. 12, 7 p.m. | Mount Seymour United Church
  Shoshana Telner in Recital
  Aug. 13, 7 p.m. | St. Mark’s Anglican Church
  Let Them Eat Cake
  Aug. 16, 7 p.m. | Orpheum Annex
  Aug. 20, 7 p.m. | Mount Seymour United Church
  I Thee Dread
  Aug. 18, 7 p.m. | Orpheum
  
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• Five reasons to check out this year's Deighton Cup

  19-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Deighton Cup
  July 22, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. | Hastings Racecourse
  Tickets: $85 at deighton-cup.com
  1. Fashion. Ticket-buyers are encouraged to wear their finest or wackiest attire to impress the judges in the Style Stakes competition. Two Best Dressed awards will be handed out. 
  2. Cocktails. For the first time in its five years, the signature event Cocktail Jockey Mixology Competition takes place one day ahead of the Cup and at an off-site location: the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. From noon to 3 p
  
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• Summer CounterAttack Includes Our Waterways bit.ly/2vCKOxd #NorthVancouver

  19-07-2017 19:32 via twitter.com
  Summer CounterAttack Includes Our Waterwaysbit.ly/2vCKOxd#NorthVancouver
  
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• Vancouver's young female waste station boss talks trash

  19-07-2017 19:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  Some jokes, even throwaway lines, fall flat at the City of Vancouver’s transfer station.
  “This place is a dump,” for instance, will be met with a look that says ‘Really?’
  Still, if you want, Amrit Pangli can trash-talk with the best.
  “Oh yeah,” she said. “My friends love to trash-talk me.”
  Pangli is superintendent at the Vancouver transfer station, where what we discard is separated before being taken to the landfill in Delta, compost sites a
  
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• Premier Horgan and NDP name more staff for new B.C. government

  19-07-2017 18:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan’s government has rounded out the top ranks of its new administration with a flurry of cabinet orders signed by the new premier.
  Mira Oreck was named director of stakeholder relations, with a salary of $120,000. She’s a former federal NDP candidate with deep roots in Vancouver politics, having worked on Gregor Robertson’s provincial and mayoral election campaigns.
  She’ll work closely with Horgan’s chief of staff, Geoff Meggs,
  
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• Tokyo Police Club, Dragonette to headline free Richmond World Festival

  19-07-2017 18:47 via vancouversun.com
  
  Canadian acts Tokyo Police Club and Dragonette, and Korean rapper Verbal Jint will headline this year’s free Richmond World Festival.
  This year’s festival will expand to two days over Labour Day weekend at Minoru Park and Richmond Cultural Centre Plaza, after last year’s attendance topped 35,000 in one day. The event is free.
  The festival, which is heading into its third year, is heralded as Richmond’s “signature event” and celebrates the city’s cultural
  
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• Come show off your dance moves at #SummerSessions. Saturdays 5-10pm #Shipyards. Prizes for best dancers!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  19-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Come show off your dance moves at #SummerSessions. Saturdays 5-10pm #Shipyards. Prizes for best dancers!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Cache Creek residents return home

  19-07-2017 18:00 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 45,000 from their homes.B.C. FIRES OF NOTE (as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday)
  Kamloops Fire Centre 
  Elephant Hill: The interface fire near Ashcroft (formerly known as the  Ashcroft Reserve fire) expanded to 526 square kilometres. 240 firefighters, 13 helicopters, 29 heavy equipmen
  
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• Want to work with us? Applications are being accepted until July 26. #northvan northshorefirerecruiting.ca https://t.co/qDIpwIhKJh

  19-07-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  
  Want to work with us? Applications are being accepted until July 26. #northvan northshorefirerecruiting.ca https://t.co/qDIpwIhKJh
  
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• Daily Poll: Does the new cabinet accurately represent B. C.?

  19-07-2017 16:25 via vancouversun.com
  
  On Tuesday, John Horgan was officially sworn in as the 36th Premier of B.C. Soon after, he announced his new 22-person cabinet.
  Two thirds of the cabinet is made up of representatives in the Lower Mainland, where the NDP had made great strides during the May 9 election. An equal number of women and men are included in the cabinet as well.
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  B.C. NDP Cabinet 2017: Metro Vancouver MLAs handed key cabinet rolesAccording to reporter Rob Shaw, four ministers and two parliamentary secretaries ar
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Is equity policy linked to NDP's shaky grip on power?

  19-07-2017 07:22 via vancouversun.com
  
  It only took a century, but for the first time there are as many women as men in British Columbia’s cabinet.
  The New Democrats were the first major party in the province’s history to have more female candidates than male. Although the electoral results suggest that voters are gender blind, the B.C. NDP’s two milestones didn’t happen because of its gender blindness.
  It only happened because of a concerted and controversial effort — an equity policy that requires reti
  
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• Opinion: Talent for growth: Canada's window of opportunity

  19-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Canada has an opportunity to establish itself among the best performing countries in science and innovation. At a time when the current international situation is creating uncertainty for scientists, researchers and innovators around the world, Canada’s commitment to diversity and inclusiveness is making Canada an especially attractive destination.
  Recent initiatives such as the federal government’s Global Talent Stream, which cuts waiting times for work permits, support recruitment
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Cache Creek residents returning home

  19-07-2017 06:10 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.
  Residents of Cache Creek were being allowed to return home after more than a week away following an evacuation order. 
  Beginning at 3 p.m. Tuesday, RCMP spokewoman Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau said groups of 40 to 50 cars at a time would be allowed in to Cache Cr
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Is equity policy linked to NDP's precarious grip on power?

  19-07-2017 05:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  It only took a century, but for the first time there are as many women as men in British Columbia’s cabinet.
  The New Democrats were the first major party in the province’s history to have more female candidates than male. Although the electoral results suggest that voters are gender blind, the B.C. NDP’s two milestones didn’t happen because of its gender blindness.
  It only happened because of a concerted and controversial effort — an equity policy that requires reti
  
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• B.C. NDP Cabinet 2017: Metro Vancouver MLAs handed key cabinet roles

  19-07-2017 05:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan handed key responsibilities in his new cabinet to Metro Vancouver MLAs Tuesday, giving the region, and the NDP’s political power base, a massive voice in shaping his new administration.
  Almost two-thirds of Horgan’s new 22-person cabinet comes from the Lower Mainland, where the NDP made key gains in the May 9 election that ultimately allowed it to topple the B.C. Liberals and officially assume power on Tuesday.
  The NDP’s strong showing in V
  
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• Seven new B.C. NDP cabinet ministers you should know about

  19-07-2017 05:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  There are seven key ministers in B.C. Premier John Horgan’s 22-person gender-balanced cabinet, which was unveiled Tuesday:
  George Heyman becomes minister of environment and climate change as environmentalists rejoice
  By Larry Pynn
  Conservationists gave a glowing endorsement of Tuesday’s appointment Tuesday of George Heyman, a Vancouver-based MLA with a background in unionism and the environment, as Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.
  “I’m over the moon,&r
  
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• Cabinet ministers lauded by big union as the 'health dream team'

  19-07-2017 05:28 via vancouversun.com
  
  As former opposition health critics, they’ve been thorns in the side of numerous Liberal health ministers for years but now Health Minister Adrian Dix and Mental Health Minister Judy Darcy get their turn to reshape B.C.’s health care system.
  As the NDP pledged during the election campaign, Premier John Horgan appointed two ministers of health (the Greens had pressed for three during the campaign). Dix will head a ministry that spent about $18 billion last year, while Darcy’s bu
  
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• B.C.'s new education minister already diving into urgent priorities

  19-07-2017 05:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  Barely a day after he was named education minister, Rob Fleming is already racing against time.
  Critics usually don’t become ministers of their portfolios, but in Fleming’s case — he has served as NDP education critic since 2013 — it could be an advantage.
  “He’s going to be able to hit the ground running and that’s what we desperately need as we move towards September,” said B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman.
  The most immediate
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: Some evacuees head home, others on tenterhook

  19-07-2017 05:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  While formerly evacuated residents were being allowed back to Cache Creek Tuesday, residents of Loon Lake, just to the north, were grimly waiting for news of the fate of their community.
  The Elephant Hill fire, formerly known as the Ashcroft Reserve fire, swept through the Loon Lake area on Friday and Saturday and according to preliminary reports, damage was heavy. 
  Langley Township firefighter Shawn Cahill has a cabin on the south side of the lake and drove up with a friend who also has a
  
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• Style Q&A: Marina Moscone talks fashion design

  19-07-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Marina Moscone admits she has always been obsessed with fashion.
  But unlike most women, who typically segue their adolescent preoccupation with playing dress-up and reading fashion magazines into an appreciation of personal style, the Vancouver-raised creative turned to design. After studying at The New School’s Parsons School, Moscone made a name for herself in the fashion world — including a several-year stint as the design director at Peter Som — before creating her eponymou
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Darcy leads difficult job list in Horgan's tough cabinet

  19-07-2017 04:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — For all the pent-up excitement released at the cabinet swearing-in Tuesday, there was no overlooking how Premier John Horgan handed out some hugely difficult assignments to the first NDP ministers to hold office in 16 years.
  None greater than the one given to Judy Darcy, as Horgan himself conceded in talking to reporters for his first media conference as premier.
  It falls to Darcy to establish the stand-alone ministry of mental health and addiction services that the New Dem
  
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• Maple Ridge man sues stepdaughter over dispute involving real estate flip

  19-07-2017 03:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  A dispute over an alleged real estate flip has landed a B.C. family in court.
  Gary McNeal, a building contractor and roofer, claims that in June 2014, he and his stepdaughter, Shannon Lorraine, agreed to participate in a “flip” regarding a waterfront property in Maple Ridge.
  The property at 20194 Wharf St. is located on the Fraser River and at the time of the purchase had a dilapidated house that could be renovated, says McNeal’s notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme
  
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• Metro Vancouver mayors have high hopes for new NDP TransLink boss

  19-07-2017 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  
  Members of TransLink’s Mayors’ Council say rookie MLA Bowinn Ma has the right qualifications to be parliamentary secretary for TransLink, a portfolio that’s important to Metro Vancouver residents.
  The appointment came Tuesday as Premier John Horgan and his new cabinet ministers were sworn in during a ceremony in Victoria.
  The government brought TransLink, responsible for Metro transit and major roads, under the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and appointed Ma, who wa
  
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• 'Business as usual': Grouse Mountain sold to investment group

  19-07-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  An investment firm has finalized the purchase of North Vancouver’s landmark Grouse Mountain Resort.
  In an announcement Tuesday, the ski hill’s new owners confirmed there will be no changes to staff or management. 
  “It’s business as usual,” said Kenny Zou, director of CM (Canada) Asset Management Co., Ltd, the Vancouver-based company behind the purchase.
  “It’s mostly going to be driven by the management team, and we want to let them run this business
  
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• Is equity policy linked to NDP's precarious grip on power?

  19-07-2017 02:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  It only took a century, but for the first time there are as many women as men in British Columbia’s cabinet.
  The New Democrats were the first major party in the province’s history to have more female candidates than male. Although the electoral results suggest that voters are gender blind, the B.C. NDP’s two milestones didn’t happen because of its gender blindness.
  It only happened because of a concerted and controversial effort — an equity policy that requires reti
  
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• New housing minister Selina Robinson to tackle B.C.'s runaway housing

  19-07-2017 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  Coquitlam MLA Selina Robinson has been named B.C.’s new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
  Robinson, re-elected in Coquitlam-Maillairdville and formerly critic for mental health and addictions, is seen as a strong advocate for housing affordability and a rising star in Premier John Horgan’s party.
  On the campaign trail, Robinson said imposing a speculation tax to slow runaway home prices in Metro Vancouver and Victoria, and building 114,000 new rental units, were at the top o
  
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• Conservationists rejoice over George Heyman as environment minister

  19-07-2017 02:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Conservationists gave a glowing endorsement of Tuesday’s appointment Tuesday of George Heyman, a Vancouver-based MLA with a background in unionism and the environment, as Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.
  “I’m over the moon,” said Joe Foy, national campaign director for the Wilderness Committee. “I think he’s going to be a fantastic environment minister. It’s a great choice. George is a fighter. I think he’ll do well.”
  Heym
  
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• We agree! Thanks for sharing what you love about the City with us. ❤ #ILoveMyCity #NorthVan https://t.co/sVVeYhbR0Y

  19-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  
  We agree! Thanks for sharing what you love about the City with us.❤ #ILoveMyCity #NorthVan https://t.co/sVVeYhbR0Y
  
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• In the fire zone: Horsefly 'safest place,' but residents still nervous

  19-07-2017 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  HORSEFLY — For the time being, this small community is a safe haven for its 800 or so residents just outside the eastern edge of a red-hot wildfire evacuation zone in the Cariboo region.
  Even though the people are in a rare Cariboo community not on an evacuation alert or under an evacuation order, theirs is — temporarily at least — a strange existence.
  They can leave, but they are not allowed back in.
  The only authorized exit route — a one-way trip — is through the
  
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• Katrine Conroy takes on difficult child and family cabinet post

  19-07-2017 01:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  Katrine Conroy, a power engineer and former early childhood educator representing Kootenay West, will take the challenging helm of the Ministry of Children and Family Development in B.C.’s new NDP government.
  Conroy served three terms as MLA before being re-elected in May.
  Advocates lobbied the Liberal government for years to invest more into child protection services, and that intensified following a series of high-profile deaths of young people just before or after they aged out of care.
  
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• Firefighters are on their 3rd trail rescue of the day. Always happy to help! Remember to plan your trip and be safe adventuresmart.ca/tripplanning/p…

  19-07-2017 00:28 via twitter.com
  Firefighters are on their 3rd trail rescue of the day. Always happy to help! Remember to plan your trip and be safe adventuresmart.ca/tripplanning/p…
  
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• B.C. NDP Cabinet 2017: Premier John Horgan unveils his new cabinet

  19-07-2017 00:15 via vancouversun.com
  
   
  VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan unveiled a 22-person gender-balanced cabinet Tuesday, a mix of new and old MLAs and only a modest reorganization of the previous Liberal government.
  Horgan spoke to the crowd at government house, saying he was honoured at the opportunity to serve as premier.
  “My message to British Columbians is this: I will work as hard as I ever have before to make sure I live up to the commitments I made during the election campaign.”
  He focused his earl
  
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