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• Kelly Clarkson plays surprise show in North Vancouver - North Shore News

  20-07-2017 23:20 via nsnews.com
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  Kelly Clarkson plays surprise show in North Vancouver
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  Kelly Clarkson belts out one of her hits at the stage at Shipbuilders Square in North Vancouver Wednesday evening. The American Idol star was playing a private show for an insurance brokers convention. PHOTO supplied Gwen Farley. If you could hear a ...
  
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• A skilled network administrator who thrives on solving impossible problems? Have we got a job for you! ow.ly/w1Bc30dNebM #civicjobs

  20-07-2017 23:15 via twitter.com
  A skilled network administrator who thrives on solving impossible problems? Have we got a job for you! ow.ly/w1Bc30dNebM #civicjobs
  
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• Here's this week's #CityView eNews. Get all the latest scoop on City news and events right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  20-07-2017 22:24 via twitter.com
  Here's this week's #CityView eNews. Get all the latest scoop on City news and events right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NDP follow through with promise to raise B.C. welfare, disability rates

  20-07-2017 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan announced Thursday his new government would follow through with a campaign promise to raise welfare and disability rates by $100 a month.
  Horgan said the increases need 60 days to take effect, and begin with the Sept. 20, 2017 cheque.
  “Lifting families out of poverty starts with raising income assistance rates and assistance for people with disabilities. We’re raising the rates to support people and help them live in dignity,” Horgan sa
  
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• Vancouver Port to lead study to probe effects of ship noise on killer whales

  20-07-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — A program led by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority will examine how endangered Southern Resident killer whales respond to slower vessel speeds and reduced underwater noise in a key summer feeding area off southern British Columbia.
  The port authority says 54 marine shipping companies have signed up to take part in the voluntary study between August and October in Haro Strait, the channel separating Vancouver Island from the San Juan Islands in Washington state.
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Williams Lake receives much needed rain

  20-07-2017 21:59 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.
  MUCH NEEDED RAIN IN WILLIAMS LAKE
  Williams Lake, which is surrounded by wildfires on all sides, is getting some much needed rain today — and the mayor couldn’t be happier.
  Walt Cobb, who stayed behind in Williams Lake after an evacuation order was put
  
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• Linkin Park frontman commits suicide, was set to play Vancouver

  20-07-2017 21:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington, who was slated to perform in Vancouver this fall, has committed suicide.
  Bennington, who was 41, is most well known as the vocalist for Linkin Park, an American rock group that found fame following the 2000 release of their debut album Hybrid Theory. The band was among those that helped bring nu-metal and rap metal to mainstream radio in the early ’00s.
  Band mate Mike Shinoda confirmed the news in a brief Twitter post Thursday afternoon.
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• Banff's Sunshine Village clearing out guests as crews tackle nearby B.C. wildfire

  20-07-2017 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  CALGARY — A popular Rocky Mountain resort in Banff National Park is being cleared of guests so that crews can fight a wildfire raging in the nearby backcountry.
  Sunshine Village, a ski hill on the Alberta-B.C. boundary that offers summer hiking, is about 2 1/2 kilometres from the flames.
  Sunshine spokeswoman Kendra Scurfield says about 150 people are staying at the resort’s hotel and they’ll have to leave by midday Friday.
  Rick Kubian with Parks Canada says firefighters are goi
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: "Evacuation was a complete shock"

  20-07-2017 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  MONDAY, JULY 10
  A helicopter carrying a bucket battles the Gustafsen wildfire near 100 Mile House, B.C., on Saturday July 8, 2017.
    
  “EVACUATION WAS A COMPLETE SHOCK”
  100 Mile House mayor Mitch Campsall
  Mitch Campsall, mayor of 100-Mile House hasn’t slept in two nights. He’s hot. He’s breathing smoke. He’s also blown away.
  “The evacuation was a complete shock, we were not expecting it,” Campsall told Postmedia reporter Denise Ryan.&
  
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• B.C. wine of the week, wine to cellar and calendar items

  20-07-2017 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  • Similkameen Wineries Association is changing its brand identity and name, choosing the new moniker Similkameen Independent Winegrowers.Once described as “one of the Top 5 wine regions you have never heard of,” its members felt the time was right to tell a bigger story.The new commitment is to respect and care for the land, and focus on ensuring the wines and ciders express the rare and special terroir. For more details go to www.similkameenwine.com.
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Evacuation order for parts of Penticton

  20-07-2017 20:12 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.
  On Thursday just after 10 a.m., officials began ordering evacuations for residents living in the West Bench area of Penticton.
  Evacuees were told to register for aid at the Penticton Community Centre.
  A day earlier, properties in the West Bench area had been among
  
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• Police confirm timeline of when dead Burnaby teen was last seen

  20-07-2017 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police have now adjusted the timeline of when a Burnaby teen girl left home, before later being found dead in the bushes of a nearby park hours later.
  According to homicide investigators, Marissa Shen, 13, is believed to have left home around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. She was reported missing around 11:30 p.m., with her body being found just after 1 a.m. Wednesday on the southeast side of Burnaby’s Central Park.
  “IHIT confirms Marissa Shen was last seen leaving her home in Burnaby at 6 p.m.
  
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• Truck hits cow, veers into house off B.C. highway: RCMP

  20-07-2017 19:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  ARMSTRONG — Part of an Armstrong home is in shambles and a driver has minor injuries after a transport truck sheared off the back deck of a house in an early morning crash.
  RCMP say the truck lost control on Highway 97A when it hit a cow Thursday.
  The truck veered off the highway and into the deck and rear of the house before stopping.
  The cow was killed.
  Two other vehicles ran over the remains of the animal, disabling one of the cars, but no one in either vehicle was injured.
  Police say i
  
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• Reminder: No #LongTableLunch today. Catch ya next week #NorthVan https://t.co/Xk1nCKm7BF

  20-07-2017 19:40 via twitter.com
  
  Reminder: No #LongTableLunch today. Catch ya next week #NorthVan https://t.co/Xk1nCKm7BF
  
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• Premier Horgan appoints new chairs to ICBC, B.C. Hydro, B.C. Housing

  20-07-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  
  Former deputy premier Joy MacPhail has been named chair of ICBC, one of four high-profile appointments announced Thursday by B.C. Premier John Horgan.
  MacPhail, who previously served several ministerial roles, including Minister of Health, Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier during a 14-year stint as a NDP MLA, is the co-owner of OUTtv, the world’s longest airing LGBTQ+ television network. She has served as a director of Delta Hotels Ltd. and Silverbirch Hotels and Resort
  
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• Ridgewood Dr, Sunset to Edgemont & Edgemont to Ayr closed today. All #Edgemont businesses are OPEN. Info & map:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  20-07-2017 18:47 via twitter.com
  Ridgewood Dr, Sunset to Edgemont & Edgemont to Ayr closed today. All #Edgemont businesses are OPEN. Info & map:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• B.C.'s Steve Nash and wife Lilla welcome new baby boy Luca Sun

  20-07-2017 18:25 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C.’s Steve Nash and wife Lilla Frederick have welcomed their first baby boy.
  Luca Sun Nash was born Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in West Hollywood and weighed 8 pounds, the couple announced via Instagram.
  “Luca came this morning. What a day. Mom’s a serious champ and we’re in love with this little guy,” wrote Nash on Wednesday. “Gonna meet the rest of his family shortly. So much fun.”Nash, 43, is a former professional NBA player who spent
  
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• The Secret Life of Pets July 21 #CivicPlaza. Bring blankets & come early. Fun starts at 7pm. Movie @ 9pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  20-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  The Secret Life of Pets July 21 #CivicPlaza. Bring blankets & come early. Fun starts at 7pm. Movie @ 9pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• B.C. Wildfire Service worried campfire ban being ignored on coast

  20-07-2017 17:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  The B.C. Wildfire Service says too many people living within the Coastal Fire Centre are ignoring the province-wide open burning prohibition.
  The Coastal Fire Centre covers all of the area west of the height of land on the Coast Mountain Range from the U.S.-Canada border at Manning Park, including Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park in the north, the Sunshine Coast, the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii.
  Between July 15 and 17, more than 50 illegal campfires were re
  
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• Canada's high court to hear B.C. appeal in battle against big tobacco

  20-07-2017 17:16 via vancouversun.com
  
  OTTAWA — A 16-year battle in British Columbia will drag on a little longer as the province fights to recover billions of dollars in health-care costs linked to tobacco-related diseases.
  The Supreme Court of Canada has said it will hear the appeal of a B.C. court ruling that required the province to hand over patient information that tobacco giant Phillip Morris International says it needs to fight the B.C. lawsuit.
  The B.C. government turned to the high court after the B.C. Court of Appeal
  
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• Daily Poll: Should health officials send out infection notices sooner?

  20-07-2017 16:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  This week, Postmedia spoke to a Richmond father whose son contracted flesh-eating disease from a classmate. He now wants public health and school officials to notify parents immediately when potentially deadly infections show up in classrooms.
  From reporter Pamela Fayerman’s story:
  Sam Chen’s son, John Zhuang Chen, 11, has been in hospital for four months, fighting off an invasive group A streptococcus infection he contracted at Spul’u’kwuks Elementary School. Anothe
  
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• Five Things to Know: Burnaby homicide, state of emergency extended, Canuck the movie star

  20-07-2017 15:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  Homicide investigators have been called in after the body of 13-year-old girl was found in a Burnaby park, a Richmond father wants to be notified when infectious diseases show up at his child’s school, and Canuck the Crow is a movie star. Here are five things you need to know.
  Wildfire update: Rain welcome, so long as there’s a lot of it, and little lightning 
  After a wild weekend fighting fires in the Cariboo, fire crews have enjoyed a “fairly quiet” few days. There
  
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• Burnaby homicide, state of emergency extended, Canuck the movie star

  20-07-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Homicide investigators have been called in after the body of 13-year-old girl was found in a Burnaby park, a Richmond father wants to be notified when infectious diseases show up at his child’s school, and Canuck the Crow is a movie star. Here are five things you need to know.
  Wildfire update: Rain welcome, so long as there’s a lot of it, and little lightning 
  After a wild weekend fighting fires in the Cariboo, fire crews have enjoyed a “fairly quiet” few days. There
  
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• Richmond dad calls for change in infection notification policy

  20-07-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Richmond dad whose son contracted flesh-eating disease from a classmate wants public health officials to notify parents immediately when potentially deadly infections have been diagnosed in classrooms.
  Sam Chen’s son, John Zhuang Chen, 11, has been in hospital for four months, fighting off an invasive group A streptococcus infection he contracted at Spul’u’kwuks Elementary School. Another boy got the same infection more than a week earlier and was also hospital
  
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• North Vancouver Taylor's Crossing sold for above assessed value - Western Investor (subscription)

  20-07-2017 11:44 via westerninvestor.com
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  The Taylor's Crossing building in North Vancouver has been sold for above its assessed value, Avison Young tells Western Investor. The 44,000-square-foot, multi-tenant building is currently zoned Comprehensive Development Zone 21. There is an ...
  
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• Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, July 20

  20-07-2017 07:17 via vancouversun.com
  
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, July 20.
  Vancouver Aquarium After Hours
  I’ve said it many times, but some of the best events in Vancouver take place at family-friendly venues after dark. To that end, I strongly recommend the Vancouver Aquarium After Hours, where you can check out all the amazing creatures and exhibits the aquarium has to offer while drinking a glass of wine, beer or a specialty cocktail, and without dodging screaming
  
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• Splash of innovation — a new water agenda for B.C.

  20-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  As the heat of summer swings into full effect, most British Columbians are thinking only of vacations and long lazy days at their local swimming holes or favourite beaches. But for the leaders of our new government, holidays are likely one of the furthest things from their minds as they begin the daunting task of setting priorities and the work agenda ahead.
  No shortage of pressing issues and challenges will demand this new government’s attention as it looks to fulfil its platform commitme
  
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• Whitecaps 1 Galaxy 0: Tchani scores as Caps move up MLS standings

  20-07-2017 06:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  By Joseph D’Hippolito
  CARSON, Calif. — Tony Tchani scored in the 64th minute to give the Vancouver Whitecaps a 1-0 Major League Soccer victory over the L.A. Galaxy on Wednesday at the StubHub Center.
  The victory was just the second for the Whitecaps (8-7-3) against the Galaxy (6-9-4) on the road in team history and the third away from B.C. Place Stadium this season.
  As a result, the Whitecaps join the Portland Timbers and the Seattle Sounders in a three-way tie for fourth place
  
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• Contest Alert! How to enter: ‘Follow’ us on Twitter, ‘Retweet’ this post & tell us what you love about the City usi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  20-07-2017 06:07 via twitter.com
  Contest Alert! How to enter: ‘Follow’ us on Twitter, ‘Retweet’ this post & tell us what you love about the City usi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Running Room takes 20 to get Canadians moving

  20-07-2017 05:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  LANGLEY — Doug Lark made a deliberate decision Wednesday morning to run away from the Dairy Queen and Pizza Hut that teases/tempts his Running Room visitors in Willowbrook Park Shopping Centre.
  Apparently, the assistant store manager was well-versed on the vices of his new tagalong buddy (hi Mom!) for this special occasion. In policespeak, those are locations well known to his 20-Minute Challenge running accomplice — the Jenny Craig biz a couple doors down, not so much!
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• Running Room takes 20 to get Canada moving, but taking new hat off will be real challenge

  20-07-2017 05:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  LANGLEY — Doug Lark made a deliberate decision Wednesday morning to run away from the Dairy Queen and Pizza Hut that teases/tempts his Running Room visitors in Willowbrook Park Shopping Centre.
  Apparently, the assistant store manager was well-versed on the vices of his new tagalong buddy (hi Mom!) for this special occasion. In policespeak, those are locations well known to his 20-Minute Challenge running accomplice — the Jenny Craig biz a couple doors down, not so much!
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• RCMP investigating suspicious death of teenage girl in Burnaby park

  20-07-2017 04:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  It’s the nightmare that gnaws at parents everywhere.
  A 13-year-old Burnaby girl reported missing at 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday was found dead less than two hours later in a popular city park.
  “Something like this is the biggest fear I have,” Anthony Pezzolla said, cycling with his six-year-old son close to the brush — near Patterson Avenue — where Marissa Shen’s body was discovered at 1:10 a.m. in Central Park, not far from her home.
  “I’m always asking
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Newbie Lloyd would be wise to watch the Wright way

  20-07-2017 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — When incoming premier John Horgan announced Don Wright as his choice to head the public service, the responses were invariably positive.
  Deputy minister with NDP and B.C. Liberal governments. Forest industry executive. CEO for the credit unions. Harvard-educated economist. BCIT president.
  There was no challenging the Wright resume.
  More than that, were the assurances from the New Democrats that his main task would be to preserve the professionalism of the provincial public
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Judge rips lawyers for delays, 'blackmail' in Métis toddler tug of war

  20-07-2017 03:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two lawyers at the centre of a high-profile adoption tug of war on Vancouver Island involving a Métis toddler last summer have been slammed by the B.C. Supreme Court.
  In a stinging decision, Justice Barbara Fisher said it gave her “no pleasure” to levy a rare special-costs order to rebuke the Metro Vancouver practitioners:
  “They were acting zealously … (and) overstepped their proper role as counsel and pushed the limits of the litigation process beyond what i
  
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• Canuck the Crow's fame grows as beloved bird stars in new documentary

  20-07-2017 02:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  Canuck the Crow has really padded his resume this summer.
  In addition to picking up a full-time job at the PNE, Vancouver’s unofficial official bird is now a full-fledged movie star after picking up his first film credit in the Telus original documentary, Canuck & I.
  The 20-minute short film is an in-depth look into Canuck’s life, as well as his unlikely friendship with a human, East Vancouverite Shawn Bergman.
  It was funded by TELUS Optik TV and produced by The Number, a creativ
  
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• Judge rips lawyers for delays, 'blackmail' in Métis toddler tug of war

  20-07-2017 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  Two lawyers at the centre of a high-profile adoption tug of war on Vancouver Island involving a Métis toddler last summer have been slammed by the B.C. Supreme Court.
  In a stinging decision, Justice Barbara Fisher said it gave her “no pleasure” to levy a rare special-costs order to rebuke the Metro Vancouver practitioners:
  “They were acting zealously … (and) overstepped their proper role as counsel and pushed the limits of the litigation process beyond what i
  
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• Richmond retailer apologizes for ad for "Chinese" sales person

  20-07-2017 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  The owner of a Furniture Land outlet in Richmond is formally apologizing to would-be customers for erecting a sandwich board sign seeking a “Chinese” sales person.
  Sam Manj says in a newspaper ad that “our error was in the wording” of the sign, which was meant to seek “a sales person who could communicate in Chinese language.”
  Labour lawyer Lindsay Lyster told Postmedia that the original sign, which was removed by city staff for an unrelated reason, would be a
  
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• Body of man found near Agassiz after couple reported missing

  20-07-2017 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  
  AGASSIZ — Police in the Fraser Valley say the body of a man has been found near Agassiz after a Vancouver couple was reported missing July 12.
  Police say the man and woman’s vehicle was found near a hiking trail at Statlu Lake by a search and rescue crew shortly after they were reported missing.
  Searchers, including an RCMP emergency response team, the police dog service and search and rescue aircraft, began scouring the area immediately.
  Police say the body of the man was found in t
  
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• Clark and B.C. Liberals got donations in funds with money from allegedly defrauded Chinese investors, hearing told

  20-07-2017 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  A B.C. Securities Commission panel has heard that then-premier Christy Clark and her B.C. Liberals received $37,888 in political donations that came from investor funds for Cascade, the failed recycling scheme of prominent party supporter Paul Oei.
  Postmedia has reported previously on the case of Oei, who is accused of bilking investors of $6.9 million in an immigration-investment scam surrounding Cascade, a proposed Port Coquitlam recycling plant. Among the allegations are that he wooed Chinese
  
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• Man dies following struggle with Prince George RCMP

  20-07-2017 01:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  A B.C. police watchdog is investigating after a man died after a struggle with the Prince George RCMP officers.
  In a press release, the RCMP say the man was arrested Tuesday night after Mounties received a complaint that a man was “casing vehicles” in a Prince George parking lot.
  The RCMP allege the man first attempted to flee on a bicycle and then struggled with the responding officer, who called for backup.
  “Several other RCMP officers attended the scene after the lone police
  
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• Help out this Saturday & give Heywood Park some love #NorthVan See: ow.ly/6zgE30dJN0E https://t.co/a2LsBOYoez

  20-07-2017 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  Help out this Saturday & give Heywood Park some love #NorthVan See: ow.ly/6zgE30dJN0E https://t.co/a2LsBOYoez
  
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• Bowen Island residents fight provincial logging plans: Mayor

  20-07-2017 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  
  Bowen Island residents are outraged over a plan that could open nearly 30 per cent of their picturesque island to industrial-scale logging, says their mayor.
  The 50-square-kilometre island sits just off West Vancouver at the entrance to Howe Sound, features in offshore views from other parts of the Lower Mainland, and has not been logged in decades.
  But foresters are now viewing Bowen as a potential source for as much as 250 truckloads of fir, hemlock and cedar logs a year for the next two decad
  
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• Discarded cigarettes pose serious fire risk

  20-07-2017 00:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services held a demonstration on Wednesday to show how quickly a fire can start and spread, particularly from discarded cigarettes.
  
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• Woman says she needed spiritual aid to endure solitary confinement

  20-07-2017 00:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — A Regina woman who spent 3-1/2 years in solitary confinement cried Wednesday as she recalled how a spiritual ceremony led by a First Nations elder helped her through difficult times at a B.C. prison.
  BobbyLee Worm, 31, was testifying at a British Columbia Supreme Court trial launched by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada over the use of indefinite solitary confinement.
  Worm was sentenced to six years in prison and initially served time at
  
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• Where are all the great City events listed in an online calendar? Right here: cnv.org/CommunityEvents #NorthVan https://t.co/cMWwKpWlAO

  20-07-2017 00:01 via twitter.com
  
  Where are all the great City events listed in an online calendar? Right here: cnv.org/CommunityEvents #NorthVan https://t.co/cMWwKpWlAO
  
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