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• Got the new organics/garbage carts? A friendly reminder to unlock the lids when you set them out. Here's how. youtu.be/5-Qgnh2LunM

  25-07-2017 23:15 via twitter.com
  Got the new organics/garbage carts? A friendly reminder to unlock the lids when you set them out. Here's how. youtu.be/5-Qgnh2LunM
  
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• Surrey woman charged with defrauding school's parent advisory council of $35,000

  25-07-2017 23:12 via vancouversun.com
  The former treasurer of a Surrey elementary school parent advisory council faces fraud and theft charges after thousands of dollars went missing from the PAC’s coffers.
  École K.B. Woodward Elementary School in Whalley contacted Surrey RCMP last September to report that their PAC had been defrauded of more than $35,000. 
  The RCMP’s economic crime unit led the investigation and quickly identified a suspect.
  Tuyet Ngo, 31, has been charged with fraud over $5,000, theft over
  
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• Cougar in Port Moody dropped dog after owner yelled at it: police

  25-07-2017 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  Police in Port Moody say a cougar walked into a residential neighbourhood and tried to carry away a dog.
  They say the dog’s owner reported yelling at the cougar on Monday before it dropped the animal.
  The small dog needed surgery, but police say in a news release that it’s expected to make a full recovery.
  The neighbourhood borders on a heavily wooded area.
  Police say residents can discourage cougars and other wildlife by making sure pets are fed indoors.
  Officers say anyone who enco
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: Ranchers face devastating losses when they return home

  25-07-2017 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Ranchers in the centre of B.C.’s cattle country are facing “heartbreak” as they return to scorched fields, dead and displaced livestock and damaged infrastructure following weeks of wildfires.
  Kevin Boon, general manager of the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association, said the process of tallying losses has just begun and could take some time because the extreme heat of the wildfires would leave little evidence of a carcass.
  He said hundreds if not thousands of catt
  
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• A special visitor came by to 3 Hall for a tour. Unfortunately this little one wasn't allowed inside to see the truc… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 22:20 via twitter.com
  A special visitor came by to 3 Hall for a tour. Unfortunately this little one wasn't allowed inside to see the truc… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Accused was in traffic stop in SUV similar to getaway vehicle

  25-07-2017 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — Michael Jones got a ticket for not wearing his seatbelt while driving a vehicle similar to the one used in the Jonathan Bacon killing, a Kelowna court heard Monday.
  Jones was behind the wheel of a green Ford Explorer that was pulled over during a routine traffic stop in Vancouver, RCMP Const. Ryan Lee testified.
  “He was pleasant. Nothing stuck out about him,” Lee said of Jones’s behaviour during the five-minute traffic stop on April 21, 2011, on Bridgeport Road
  
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• Vancouver Sun Weekly What's On July 28 — Aug. 3

  25-07-2017 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  Wanderlust
  Aug. 3-6 | Whistler
  Tickets and info: From $85, at wanderlust.com
  A global phenomenon, Wanderlust is a mixture of yoga, meditation and assorted outdoor activity paired with “premium food experiences” and some good old fashioned party hard vibes to boot. The full schedule allows participants to tailor their own adventure which could include such things as Essential Oils 101, Crystalline Energy Medicine, and Curated Wisdom for Life and Work. Others may just want to get down
  
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• Wondering what happened at last night's Council Meeting? We've got the video for you right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Wondering what happened at last night's Council Meeting? We've got the video for you right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Just under 2 months until our 6th annual charity fishing derby. Last year we raised $20,000 for 2 #northvan chariti… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 21:56 via twitter.com
  Just under 2 months until our 6th annual charity fishing derby. Last year we raised $20,000 for 2 #northvan chariti… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Lucky lemons: Herschel pops up in Deep Cove

  25-07-2017 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  Summertime and lemonade go together like, well, the beach and sand, sunscreen and sunglasses, beers and … well, you get the point.
  So, it makes sense that the team behind the wildly popular accessories brand Herschel Supply would merge the two inspirations — sweet, tangy summertime drinks and a perfectly timed July opening — for their first pop-up shop in Deep Cove. 
  “The Lemonade Stand is a 298-square-foot pop-up lemonade stand in the heart of Deep Cove’s mai
  
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• Trudeau, Horgan ‘progressive politicians’ in congenial first meeting

  25-07-2017 21:23 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and brand new B.C. Premier John Horgan bent over backwards to appear congenial after their first meeting Tuesday, avoiding any mention of their differing positions on expanding Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
  The two leaders even showed up to their first face-to-face meeting in nearly identical blue suits, right down to their striped socks and matching shoes, prompting Trudeau to joke about their clear “compatibility.”
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• Petronas cancels $11.4-billion LNG project near Prince Rupert

  25-07-2017 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  Malaysian state-controlled energy giant Petronas has pulled the plug on the proposed $11.4-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project near Prince Rupert.
  Petronas planned to build a LNG processing plant on Lelu Island that would have shipped 19 million tonnes a year of liquefied gas to markets in Asia, while pumping more than five million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually into the atmosphere. 
  The project received federal government approval last September.
  In a statement, Petronas said it
  
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• Vancouver is fastest growing industrial market in the country: report

  25-07-2017 20:47 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver and Toronto have been dominating the country’s industrial growth since mid-2014, when the bottom started to fall out on oil prices, according to a new report by Cushman & Wakefield.
  The two cities have accounted for 80.3 per cent of total national industrial space absorption since oil prices started to decline dramatically in spring of 2014.
  In May of that year, the price of crude oil (Western Canada Select) was at $108.56 (all figures in Canadian dollars) per barrel.
  On July
  
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• 2017 #SustainableCityAwards were handed out last night. Congrats to the winners! More info @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 20:40 via twitter.com
  2017 #SustainableCityAwards were handed out last night. Congrats to the winners! More info @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Efforts to reduce numbers of Aboriginals in jail failing

  25-07-2017 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  The combined initiative by Parliament and the Supreme Court of Canada to reduce overrepresentation of Aboriginal peoples in prison with an Indigenous-discount strategy is failing badly.
  In the mid-1990s when the Criminal Code was amended to have judges consider the specific circumstances of Aboriginal offenders, Indigenous peoples made up 16 per cent of those in custody.
  By 2012, when the Supreme Court doubled down on the approach, that number had hit 28 per cent of those incarcerated where
  
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• We tried it: Arbonne Rescue and Renew Detox Face Mask 

  25-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A face mask formulated with French pink clay that works to cleanse skin by drawing out impurities. 
  In addition to purifying, this products promises to reduce the overall appearance of pores. How exactly? The clay elixir features a special “oil-pulling technology” featuring five “self-neutralizing acids” that help clarify and brighten skin, while also getting ride of the gunk stuck in pores. 
  While worn, the clay creamy formula goes from wet to dry i
  
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• Three new beauty products worth checking out

  25-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  MuglerA*Men Kryptomint eau de toilette 
  They say: A men’s cologne that is an “icy-cool reinterpretation” of the iconic Mugler scent. The fragrance has a heart of “powerful peppermint” for an unexpected twist to traditional scents.  
  We say: While this fragrance is billed as a men’s scent, our tester reported she was just as pleased to wear it as her partner was. The fragrance stays true enough to the traditional Angel elixir — but the cool
  
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• Lululemon gets into the home decor business (well, kind of)

  25-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ask any teen girl where her favourite room in her parent’s house is and the universal answer will likely be the same: her room. 
  From quirky coloured walls to snapshots of her friends hastily affixed to walls (or carefully placed in photo frames), a teen girl’s room is her own personal sanctuary. 
  Now, that much-loved space can get even, well, more loved thanks to a collaboration between the Vancouver-based line Ivivva by Lululemon and PBteen, the youth-oriented arm of
  
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• B.C. MP says not enough being done to deal with abandoned vessels on Canada's coasts

  25-07-2017 19:03 via vancouversun.com
  HALIFAX — A British Columbia MP is pressing Ottawa to do more to deal with the hundreds of abandoned vessels that blight Canada’s coasts and harbours, despite a new federal program announced last month.
  New Democrat Sheila Malcolmson brought her campaign to Nova Scotia on Tuesday, where money and years of effort have been spent dealing with such high-profile cases as the MV Miner in Cape Breton and the MV Farley Mowat in Shelburne.
  Malcolmson said that as things stand, it appears aba
  
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• Trudeau to visit B.C. to assess wildfire damage, promises federal help

  25-07-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to visit British Columbia next week to assess the damage wrought by wildfires that have ravaged the interior of the province.
  Trudeau says the federal government stands ready to do everything it can to help.
  The prime minister announced his planned visit after meeting for the first time with B.C.’s new premier, the NDP’s John Horgan.
  The two leaders say they used the introductory meeting to concentrate on issues on which they agree a
  
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• B.C. Premier John Horgan delivers mandate duties to cabinet ministers

  25-07-2017 18:53 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s new premier handed his cabinet ministers their to-do lists on Monday, and the tasks include a mix of both campaign promises and new plans.
  John Horgan, who appointed his 22-member cabinet last week, said his government’s priorities involve relieving families of rising costs and fees, offering better services for people, and providing good jobs and economic opportunities throughout B.C.
  “I expect my ministers to work hard every day to deliver
  
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• ICYMI we had a party in #RogersPlaza Sunday. It's updated & awesome! A new spot to chill in LoLo.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  ICYMI we had a party in #RogersPlaza Sunday. It's updated & awesome! A new spot to chill in LoLo.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• The Fair food: Cricket fries and chicken feet new delicacies on PNE menu

  25-07-2017 17:24 via vancouversun.com
  Move over mini donuts. Cricket fries are sure to be the new taste sensation at the Pacific National Exhibition.
  Yes indeed, folks. Step right up and get your fries topped with roasted protein-rich arthropods and gravy at the year’s Fair at the PNE, which runs from Aug. 19 to Sept. 14.
  Of course, cricket fries are just the side order to the main entry — the roasted BBQ cricket burger. 
  Looks delicious!
  “High in fiber and protein, this burger packs a gratifying and tasty cru
  
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• Daily Poll: What should RCMP's top priority be after misplacing grenade launcher?

  25-07-2017 16:21 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP were very lucky on Monday when a citizen returned their lost 40mm Abrams Airborne Mfg Inc. Less Lethal Multi-Launcher.
  The a bag containing gun, a semi-automatic grenade launcher used to fire tear gas canisters capable of penetrating walls and “less lethal” blunt impact rounds, fell out the back of a truck driven by a member of the Integrated Emergency Response Team somewhere in the area of the Golden Ears Bridge on Sunday.
  A member of the public returned it to the poli
  
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• Justin Trudeau, BC Premier John Horgan to discuss pipeline, wildfires

  25-07-2017 16:01 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The debate around the future of the planned TransMountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia could intensify today when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets new B.C. Premier John Horgan for the first time.
  Horgan was sworn into office last week after an unprecedented photo-finish election that saw former premier Christy Clark’s short-lived minority Liberal government defeated and Horgan’s NDP take over with the backing of the Green party.
  Trudeau’s government
  
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• You've got to read this: The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal

  25-07-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Lost Ones
  By Sheena Kamal
  Harper Collins 
  If you’re looking for a book with a heroine that you’ll fall head over heels in love with, The Lost Ones may not be the summer read for you. 
  The Vancouver (and broader B.C.)-based thriller tells a griping tale of loss, loss and more loss … as well as a bit of love, but its main character, Nora Watts, is so deeply damaged she’s a tad difficult to fall for.
  But despite the lack of affection, there are a plethora of
  
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• Efforts to reduce numbers of Aboriginals in jail failing badly

  25-07-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  The combined initiative by Parliament and the Supreme Court of Canada to reduce overrepresentation of Aboriginal peoples in prison with an Indigenous-discount strategy is failing badly.
  In the mid-1990s when the Criminal Code was amended to have judges consider the specific circumstances of Aboriginal offenders, Indigenous peoples made up 16 per cent of those in custody.
  By 2012, when the Supreme Court doubled down on the approach, that number had hit 28 per cent of those incarcerated where
  
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• Regulator targeting credit unions only helps banks

  25-07-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the independent agency that regulates Canadian banks and other federal financial institutions, recently decided to prohibit credit unions from using the terms ‘bank’ or ‘banking’ to describe their services. The prohibition was issued by the federal office’s assistant superintendent Carolyn Rogers, who is responsible for regulation, on Friday of the Canada Day long weekend.
  What a difference a new jo
  
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• Surrey residents vow 'fight's not over' with Hawthorne Park road plan

  25-07-2017 06:37 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey city council moved one step closer toward the construction of a new east-west connector road that would bisect a popular park.
  On Monday, councillors voted to repeal a 30-year-old bylaw that protects portions of Hawthorne Park in order to move forward with the 105 Avenue corridor project, a two-lane road between Whalley Boulevard and 150th Street.
  The decision prompted jeers and calls of “shame” from opponents who insist the proposed road would damage ecologically-sensitive ar
  
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• Richmond urges premier to halt Massey Tunnel replacement bridge

  25-07-2017 06:36 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond city council is urging B.C.’s premier to suspend all work on the George Massey Tunnel replacement project and consider whether the tunnel should be twinned instead of scrapped in favour of a bridge.
  A report from director of transportation Victor Wei examining alternatives to the proposed bridge was presented to council on Monday, with eight of nine council members supporting the recommendations in the report.
  “We have been trying to constructively comment on this proposal f
  
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• Frustrating night for search team in North Vancouver - Globalnews.ca

  25-07-2017 06:14
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  Frustrating night for search team in North Vancouver
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  Mon, Jul 24: North Shore Rescue dealt with five call outs over 48 hours this past weekend and some are wondering if signage and language barriers are fuelling these rescues. Geoff Hastings reports.
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Eby considers safer technology versus hiking ICBC rates

  25-07-2017 03:47 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — New Democrats could not have asked for a better starting point from which to reform public auto insurance than the report left behind by the B.C. Liberals.
  Late last year, the Liberals commissioned the accounting firm of Ernst and Young (EY) to do an independent review of the growing financial pressures on rates at the Insurance Corp. of B.C.
  The findings were returnable within six months, meaning the Liberals expected to be in a position to pick and choose among possible r
  
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• Eby considers safer technology versus hiking ICBC rates

  25-07-2017 03:47 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — New Democrats could not have asked for a better starting point from which to reform public auto insurance than the report left behind by the B.C. Liberals.
  Late last year, the Liberals commissioned the accounting firm of Ernst and Young (EY) to do an independent review of the growing financial pressures on rates at the Insurance Corp. of B.C.
  The findings were returnable within six months, meaning the Liberals expected to be in a position to pick and choose among possible r
  
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• John Horgan: I'm committed to fighting fires in D.C. — as well as in B.C.

  25-07-2017 03:39 via vancouversun.com
  There are two kinds of fire burning in the B.C. forest this summer. There is the real fire that has pushed people from their homes and consumed too much of a resource that is precious – to us all – on so many levels. But there is another kind of fire, burning at the border. U.S. protectionists are working to torch Canadian jobs by blocking U.S. imports of our softwood lumber.
  My new government has no higher priority than to defeat the actual forest fires, and I have struck a Cabinet
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Blackmore welcomes guilty verdict in polygamy case

  25-07-2017 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK, B.C. — It took four hours in court listening to the judge read key sections of her 162-page decision before two fundamentalist Mormon leaders finally heard the verdict. Guilty.
  Winston Blackmore, 60, was found guilty of knowingly having entered into conjugal unions with 24 women in religious ceremonies even though he was already legally married to another woman.
  As Justice Sheri Donegan noted in her decision, Blackmore himself confirmed the list of names with the police and told
  
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• RCMP recover big gun lost somewhere near the Golden Ears Bridge

  25-07-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  A multi-launcher tactical gun, capable of firing tear gas canisters and soft-tipped “less-lethal” rounds, has been returned to the RCMP after falling out of a truck on Sunday.
  A search of the area had turned up nothing, but a member of the public returned it to the police on Monday after extensive media coverage. 
  Mounties believe a green camouflage bag containing the 40mm Abrams Airborne Mfg Inc. Less Lethal Multi-Launcher and its ammunition fell through the back hatch of a tru
  
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• Watch out for falling birds in Vancouver, especially under bridges

  25-07-2017 02:49 via vancouversun.com
  Wildlife rescuers are asking people to keep an eye out for distressed baby birds on downtown Vancouver streets, particularly near some of the city’s bridges. 
  On Saturday, a jogger found a pelagic cormorant on two wobbly feet on Granville Street near the bridge. On Monday, a second lethargic bird was found on the seawall near the Burrard Bridge. Both animals were turned into the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. for care. 
  “This is the time of year cormorants are learning
  
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• Last Council meeting before summer break today @ 6PM. See you there or follow online @ cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Last Council meeting before summer break today @ 6PM. See you there or follow online @ cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Recovering Canadian dollar means cross-border bargains

  25-07-2017 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  After two years in the doldrums, Canadian cross-border shoppers are heading south again.
  Bellingham Whatcom County Tourism CEO Sandy Ward said hotel booking in Whatcom County were 12 per cent higher compared to the same period last year.
  “It’s been a little bit tough the last couple of years, because we had seen quite a drop in Canadian traffic,” she said. “We know that when the dollars are closer we see people staying longer, spending more time, spending more money.&rdqu
  
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• NDP will 'take steps necessary to fix' ICBC: David Eby

  25-07-2017 01:36 via vancouversun.com
  It’s unacceptable that British Columbians may have to pay 30 per cent more for auto insurance, says newly appointed Attorney General David Eby.
  “This is a very serious and a very grave concern,” Eby told a news conference in Vancouver on Monday.
  “We will take the steps necessary to fix what is happening at ICBC, to make British Columbia’s roads safer for British Columbians and to ensure that rates are affordable for British Columbians, because clearly that is n
  
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• Burnaby RCMP step up park patrols, but fears remain after teen slain

  25-07-2017 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  Bouquets, stuffed animals, toys, cards and a solitary RCMP cruiser now mark the southeast entrance to the heavily forested Central Park in Burnaby, where 13-year-old Marrisa Shen was found slain last week. 
  RCMP at a memorial for homicide victim Marrisa Shen on Patterson Avenue at Central Park in Burnaby, B.C … July 24, 2017.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team revealed on Monday that they do not know whether Shen’s murder was targeted or random. 
  “Until we co
  
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• Richmond council discusses twinning the Massey Tunnel

  25-07-2017 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond’s director of transportation says the George Massey Tunnel should be twinned instead of replaced with a bridge, and is recommending the premier be urged to suspend all work on replacing the tunnel until a review can be conducted.
  A report from Victor Wei will be considered at a special meeting of Richmond’s general purposes committee on Monday afternoon. If the committee supports the recommendation, it will be considered at the regular council meeting for ratification.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: Tens of thousands of evacuated B.C. residents go home

  25-07-2017 00:59 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Tens of thousands of anxious British Columbia residents who were forced to escape raging wildfires have returned home in recent days as firefighters made progress and conditions improved.
  About 20,000 people remained displaced on Monday, but that number was down significantly from 45,000 last week, said Chris Duffy, executive director of operations at Emergency Management B.C.
  People have returned to 100 Mile House and its surrounding areas, as well as Princeton, Cache Creek and
  
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• RCMP lost this big gun somewhere near the Golden Ears Bridge

  25-07-2017 00:47 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP is desperate to find one of their multi-launcher tactical guns, capable of firing tear gas canisters and soft-tipped “less-lethal” rounds, which fell out of a truck on Sunday.
  Mounties believe a green camouflage bag containing the 40mm Abrams Airborne Mfg Inc. Less Lethal Multi-Launcher and its ammunition fell through the back hatch of a truck canopy at around 7:30 a.m. in the area of the Golden Ears Bridge.
  The driver of the truck, a member of the Integrated Emergency Respo
  
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• Piano teacher gets 75 days jail, 21 month conditional sentence

  25-07-2017 00:33 via vancouversun.com
  A former piano teacher who sexually assaulted five of his female students has been sentenced to 75 days in jail, to be followed by a 21-month conditional sentence order and one year of probation.
  In February, Yung Ping David Chen, 69, a highly regarded teacher in the Asian community, was convicted of the offences that occurred during lessons he gave at his Vancouver home.
  The crimes involved girls between the ages of 11 and 19 and spanned a period of 19 years, from 1994 to 2013. None of the vict
  
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• Maple Ridge man charged in 2011 Coquitlam stabbing

  25-07-2017 00:11 via vancouversun.com
  An arrest has been made in a six-year-old stabbing.
  Tyrel William Scott, 39, has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault following a long investigation into a stabbing at the Coquitlam Centre bus loop in 2011.
  Police say Scott is from Maple Ridge.
  Police investigation in the years since the Dec. 15, 2011 incident have led to 14 further charges, Coquitlam RCMP said in a media release.
  Scott has also been charged with five counts of possession of a firearm while prohibited, four counts o
  
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• Come play us a tune! We've got a piano in the plaza all summer long. Launch party July 27 12-2pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-07-2017 00:05 via twitter.com
  Come play us a tune! We've got a piano in the plaza all summer long. Launch party July 27 12-2pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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