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• Extreme heat self-care tips from @BC_Housing #NorthVan https://t.co/lqtYtMepWZ

  04-08-2017 23:43 via twitter.com
  
  Extreme heat self-care tips from @BC_Housing #NorthVan https://t.co/lqtYtMepWZ
  
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• “Operation Dry Water” - Out to Reduce Impaired Boating bit.ly/2vAAkSJ #NorthVancouver

  04-08-2017 23:20 via twitter.com
  “Operation Dry Water” - Out to Reduce Impaired Boatingbit.ly/2vAAkSJ#NorthVancouver
  
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• Bulls and Bears: The rise of Ambrosie, Pete Rose's fall from grace — again

  04-08-2017 23:08 via vancouversun.com
  Sorting out the major winners and losers of this week — with a bottom-line twist — in the world of sports:
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  The Los Angeles Dodgers continue their record-setting tear in the National League of Major League Baseball. Winning another 10 in a row — and a ridiculous 40 of 46 — before an unusual loss Wednesday night put them at 76-32 and playing .704 baseball going into the weekend.
  Despite their stranglehold on the NL West and the best record in MLB, the Dodg
  
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• E. coli worry prompts Costco in B.C. to recall broccoli florettes

  04-08-2017 22:36 via vancouversun.com
  Costco Wholesale is recalling Gold Coast brand of Broccettes, or broccoli florettes, due to possible E. coli contamination.
  The produce was sold in British Columbia in 908 gram packages with a product code of 12 AU 2017.
  There have been no reported illnesses and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recall was prompted by the company.
  The agency says it is conducting a food-safety investigation.
  Food contaminated with E. coli may not look or smell spoiled but can still make people sick.
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• B.C. government brings back human rights commission after 15 years

  04-08-2017 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The NDP government is bringing back the province’s human rights commission, which was scuttled by the Liberal government in 2002.
  B.C. is the only province without a commission and instead relies on a tribunal that receives and hears complaints but is not able to do any proactive work.
  Premier John Horgan says re-establishing the commission will create a more inclusive and just society that prevents discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation and gen
  
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• Off-road vehicles banned in parts of B.C. backcountry

  04-08-2017 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  Backcountry users of off-road vehicles can no longer use them for recreational use in the Cariboo, Kamloops or Southeast fire centres.
  “We’ve taken this step to prevent further human-caused wildfires,” B.C. Wildfire Serivce chief information officer Kevin Skrepnek said Friday. The very dry conditions across the province present an extreme risk of such vehicles causing wildfires.
  The ban of off-road use on Crown lands and the restriction on roads went into place at noon on Frida
  
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• Drum roll please... the lucky #SlidetheCity 💦 contest winners are Angie & Amanda. Congratulations!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  04-08-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Drum roll please... the lucky #SlidetheCity 💦 contest winners are Angie & Amanda. Congratulations!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Martin Luther's legacy alive, even in secular Canada

  04-08-2017 21:38 via vancouversun.com
  Citizens of the world’s fourth-largest economy are this year celebrating every aspect of the legacy of Martin Luther, who is credited with starting the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago.
  Even Germans who no longer count themselves Protestants recognize their country has been intimately shaped by the former Dominican monk, who risked his life by rebelling against the oppression of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of his era.
  Martin Luther and his impressive wife, Katie, kept beer kegs in the
  
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• Heat wave ends, smoky conditions persist in B.C. ahead of long weekend

  04-08-2017 21:18 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A heat wave scorching British Columbia’s south coast has ended but poor air quality caused by smoke from raging wildfires continues to plague the southern half of the province.
  Environment Canada rescinded a special weather statement related to the prolonged heat wave, although warm temperatures in the mid to high 20s are forecast through the long weekend for the south coast.
  An air quality advisory that has spanned from eastern Vancouver Island to the Elk Valley on the A
  
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• Tonight at 7pm: SB lane of #LynnValley Rd at Hwy 1 underpass will shift to accommodate ongoing improvement work: ow.ly/NLFV30e9E6j

  04-08-2017 21:10 via twitter.com
  Tonight at 7pm: SB lane of #LynnValley Rd at Hwy 1 underpass will shift to accommodate ongoing improvement work: ow.ly/NLFV30e9E6j
  
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• New owners celebrate Hotel Georgia acquisition

  04-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  NEST EGG: Leaving Tanzania in 1971, Abdul and Shamim Jamal launched a Chilliwack poultry farm. Their birds sure laid golden eggs. The enterprise evolved into the Pacific Reach Properties firm that son Azim founded with his uncle, Joe Moosa. China-based Anbang’s Cedar Tree Investment Canada Inc. subsidiary recently paid more than $1 billion for PRP’s 24-home B.C. Retirement Concepts chain. The firm retained over a dozen L.A. and Phoenix properties and 12 in B.C., including the Westin
  
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• B.C. overdose deaths reach 780 in June, up 88 per cent from same time last year

  04-08-2017 20:36 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — B.C.’s coroners’ service says 111 people overdosed and died from illicit opioids in the province in June, the lowest monthly death toll so far this year.
  However, the service says the total this year at 780 deaths is 88 per cent higher than the first six months of last year.
  Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says while it’s a relief the monthly toll is down, there is still a significant increase from last year.
  Lapointe says the drug supply is unsafe — typical
  
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• Extreme fire risk rating now in effect across Metro Vancouver

  04-08-2017 20:33 via vancouversun.com
  An extreme fire danger rating is now in effect across Metro Vancouver, which means all campfires and briquette barbecues are banned in regional parks ahead of the long weekend.
  The rating will remain in place until there is “significant” rainfall, according to a statement from the Metro Vancouver authority.
  “We encourage residents to head out and have a fun B.C. Day long weekend but to be mindful of the effects this heat is having on our region,” said Metro Vancouver chai
  
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• La Belle barge provides small-scale cruising with a very French flavour

  04-08-2017 20:26 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a lot of numbers, but no math needed for a six-day cruise along the Burgundy Canal on La Belle Epoque: one hotel barge, 17 meals, 22 wines and 19 cheeses, one hot tub, some mountain bikes and visits to at least a dozen interesting sites.
  Originally built in 1930 to carry logs from the Burgundy area to Paris and Amsterdam, the barge was renovated in 1995 by European Waterways, Europe’s largest hotel barge operator, to provide a small-scale yet luxurious cruising experience wit
  
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• Horgan hosting $500-a-head golf fundraiser at Bear Mountain; Weaver teed off

  04-08-2017 20:16 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan, who has promised to get big money out of B.C. politics, is hosting a $500-a-head fundraising event at Bear Mountain Resort this month that will accept union and corporate donations.
  The NDP is billing the event as the “Leader’s Golf Tournament” and inviting people to join Horgan and “MLA Rob Fleming” for a round of golf and a dinner reception on Thursday, Aug. 24.
  The NDP is charging $2,000 for a foursome of golfers and confirmed Thursday that t
  
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• Mayne and Saturna perfect for weekend getaway

  04-08-2017 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re planning to spend some time on Mayne and Saturna islands get ready to shed some of your preconceptions.
  No, not everyone on the islands wears hand-knitted toques and Birkenstocks. And yes, there is more to eat than granola, crunchy or otherwise.
  Mayne and Saturna, part of the Southern Gulf Islands chain between the B.C. mainland and Vancouver Island, are more sophisticated than many city slickers might imagine.
  Get out on the water in a kayak to see sea lions and seals off the co
  
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• Everything is AWESOME! We've got #LegoMovie on the BIG screen in #CivicPlaza tonight. Fun starts @ 7pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  04-08-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Everything is AWESOME! We've got #LegoMovie on the BIG screen in #CivicPlaza tonight. Fun starts @ 7pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• District Hall will be closed on Monday for #BCDay. We'll be back to serve you at 8am on Tuesday morning.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  04-08-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  District Hall will be closed on Monday for #BCDay. We'll be back to serve you at 8am on Tuesday morning.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• We tried it: Robin McGraw Revelation brightening polish

  04-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Robin McGraw Revelation 
  Twinkle Twinkle, You’re a Star! Triple Action Brightening Polish
  They say: A brightening polish featuring triple-action Lumiskin (a skin-lightening ingredient), lactic acid and vitamin C working together to combat dark spots, brighten the skin and refine pores.
  We say: The pumice/white clay scrub feels like it’s really doing something — without drying up every drop of moisture in your skin. It rinses well and leaves skin feeling smoo
  
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• Fab 5: Flower girl

  04-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Besides being one of the most overused clichés of the 2000s, florals for spring ARE groundbreaking — especially when their staying power then continues through summer, fall, and winter. And that’s not all: printed posies are also blooming marvellous when it comes to occasion dressing. So from weddings and baby showers to last-minute vacations and the like, here are five floral dresses to see you through the season — and beyond.
  Wiltshire dress by Liberty London
  
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• Bulls&Bears: The rise of Ambrosie, Pete Rose's fall from grace — again

  04-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  The Los Angeles Dodgers continue their record-setting tear in the National League of Major League Baseball. Winning another 10 in a row — and a ridiculous 40 of 46 — before an unusual loss Wednesday night put them at 76-32 and playing .704 baseball going into the weekend.
  Despite their stranglehold on the NL West and the best record in MLB, the Dodgers showed they’re in this business to win by beginning the week by acquiring Yu Darvish, Tony Cingrani and Tony
  
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• B.C.'s provincial state of emergency extended due to ongoing wildfires

  04-08-2017 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  The province’s state of emergency has been extended again due to the ongoing wildfires in B.C.’s interior.
  The state of emergency was first declared July 7 before being extended on July 19, and again extended Friday through to the end of Aug. 18.
  “The state of emergency declaration will continue to apply to the whole province,” read a media statement issued by the Ministry of Public Safety. “This ensures that federal, provincial and local resources can be delivered
  
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• Hot, smoky conditions forecast to persist in B.C. ahead of long weekend

  04-08-2017 18:36 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia is in store for another day of poor air quality due to smoke from persistent wildfires.
  The province says there has been a slight improvement in air quality for most of Metro Vancouver this morning with the health risk rating at low or moderate.
  But the air quality is forecast to get worse throughout the day.
  The health risk is already rated high for eastern Fraser Valley, north Okanagan, Kamloops, Squamish, Whistler and Williams Lake.
  Environment Canada says w
  
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• Thar’s a bear in the Grand Blvd area. Discourage him by making easy meals scarce. Get tips @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  04-08-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Thar’s a bear in the Grand Blvd area. Discourage him by making easy meals scarce. Get tips @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Sai Woo's neon rooster sign crows over Chinatown once again

  04-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  For the first time in almost 60 years, the distinctive green-and-yellow neon rooster once again reigns over Sai Woo in Vancouver’s Chinatown. 
  The only image restaurant owner Salli Pateman had of the original sign that used to grace the original Sai Woo on 158 East Pender St. was a brief clip on a YouTube video that her friend sent her of a Chinatown parade in 1958.
  “We rebuilt this sign literally from a one-and-a-half to two-second frame,” said Pateman, with a laugh.
  
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• Daily Poll: Is it time to end the ICBC insurance monopoly in B.C.?

  04-08-2017 16:54 via vancouversun.com
  The topic of the day: ICBC. In an interview with Postmedia this week, ICBC president and CEO Mark Blucher spoke about an increase in motor-vehicle collisions, a new road-safety campaign, and that leaked Ernst & Young report warning of major rate hikes.
  Between 2013 and 2018, collisions in B.C. increased 23 per cent, from 260,000 to 320,000. According to reporter Jennifer Saltman’s story:
  That’s an average of 875 crashes per day, or 36 every hour. The reasons behind the increase i
  
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• Five Things to Know: Gang wars, wildfire season, and David Duchovny

  04-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Wildfire season is hitting its stride, gang wars are keeping police busy, and David Duchovny is back. Here are five things you need to know.
  Wildfire update: Busy season just beginning, zoo animals suffering too
  On Thursday, Kevin Skrepnek of the B.C. Wildfire Service said that 4,910 square kilometres of forest, bush and grassland have been torched, which makes 2017 the second-worst in recorded history, and worst in six decades, in terms of land destroyed. And the season is far from over.
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• Watchdog called in after B.C. Mountie shoots knife-wielding homeless camper

  04-08-2017 06:50 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA, B.C. — British Columbia’s police watchdog has been called in after an officer shot a man at a homeless camp near Kelowna.
  A statement from the RCMP says a Mountie was called to the camp on Duck Lake 7 Thursday afternoon to help a city bylaw officer who was responding to a complaint.
  The document says a man who was living in the camp approached with a knife, and the officers tried to de-escalate the situation.
  Police say the RCMP officer eventually shot the man, who was taken
  
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• Police allege Abbotsford man kept HIV-positive status from multiple sex partners

  04-08-2017 04:45 via vancouversun.com
  Mission RCMP are warning the public about an Abbotsford man who they allege engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse with women without disclosing that he’s HIV-positive.
  According to police, after receiving a report about the man and beginning an investigation, a number of victims were identified, prompting investigators to alert the public.
  Brian Carlisle, 47, is described as a 6-foot-2, 220-pound Caucasian male with blue eyes and short brown hair.
  Police allege offences have occur
  
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• Victoria’s first supervised drug consumption site gets green light

  04-08-2017 04:19 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The federal government has approved the first supervised consumption site in Victoria for illicit drug users.
  Island Health said Thursday Health Canada approved the service site at 941 Pandora Ave., which will be called the Pandora Community Health and Wellness Centre.
  The centre is located next to Our Place Society, where an overdose prevention site has been operating under emergency orders in a response to the overdose crisis. The site operates in a shipping container, with sm
  
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• B.C. Liberals highlight small business, rural economy with opposition critic roles

  04-08-2017 04:01 via vancouversun.com
  Opposition Leader Rich Coleman has assigned critic roles to his Liberal caucus while noting “two glaring omissions from the NDP cabinet,” small business and the rural economy. 
  “Both heavily contribute to the backbone of our province’s economy so our shadow cabinet features critics who will ensure these issues are front and centre,” Coleman, who takes over as the interim Liberal leader on Friday, said in a news release. “We will make the NDP remember the
  
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• Bellringer uneasy with 'cosy' contracting under B.C. Liberals

  04-08-2017 03:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Just in time for the new government to take notice, Auditor General Carol Bellringer reported Thursday on the cosy relationship between the province and the private overseer of child and spousal support payments.
  The independent financial watchdog identified a number of concerns with a cost-plus contract that stuck taxpayers with most of the financial risk and a renewal process that foreclosed competitive bidding.
  The end result being a privatization where the provincial governm
  
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• David Duchovny, X-Files return to Vancouver for 11th season

  04-08-2017 03:37 via vancouversun.com
  David Duchovny famously broke up with Vancouver at the end of the X-Files’ fifth season, pushing for a move to Los Angeles. (Coincidentally, he later played a character on “Californication” who disliked Los Angeles just as much.)
  But now he and Vancouver are back together, as the show that made him a household name gears up to film its 11th season in the city where it all began.
  More like the ex-files.
  “Guess where I am?” Duchovny tweeted on Thursday, alongside a pi
  
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• Big tobacco steps into vaping debate with Vancouver in its sights

  04-08-2017 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  Cigarettes are harmful and smoking kills, but tobacco executive Jorge Araya argues that his industry should be allowed to play a more visible role in offering up alternative products that he says will help drive smoking rates down.
  “I’m not here to defend tobacco,” Araya, president of Imperial Tobacco Canada, told a small group gathered for a Canadian Club of Vancouver luncheon at the Terminal City Club on Thursday.
  Instead, Araya was in town to talk about his industry’s
  
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• Mount Polley dam failure: Why were there no charges under B.C. laws?

  04-08-2017 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  The disclosure Wednesday that there will be no charges laid under B.C.’s environmental laws for Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley tailings dam failure in 2014 has environmentalists questioning whether the province’s laws are strong enough.
  There remains the possibility of federal charges under the Fisheries Act, but the B.C. Conservation Officer Service has said a B.C.-federal investigation will not be complete by Friday — when the three-year time limit to lay charg
  
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• Opinion: BCUC must consider 'dispatchability' in Site C review

  04-08-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In its rush review of B.C. Hydro’s Site C project, the B.C. Utilities Commission must address the widespread assumption that the dam’s economic value has declined relative to its renewable competitors, especially wind and solar. As I frequently hear and read, “the falling cost of wind and solar is eroding the economic justification for Site C.”
  This sounds logical. But it isn’t. To see why, I must explain a key term from the worlds of emergency services and electric
  
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• Metro police grapple with warring gangs and public shootings

  04-08-2017 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  The sun was setting on Coal Harbour last week when the Vancouver police marine squad took special notice of a charter boat called the Magic Charm.
  Aboard the vessel were dozens of young men, some of whom were linked to the Red Scorpion gang.
  Several had chest tattoos reading “My brother’s keeper.”
  The anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit was called in to check the party-boat crowd when it docked beside the Westin Bayshore around 9 p.m. on July 25.
  It was another t
  
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• Former MP Blair Wilson awarded $125,000 in defamation case

  04-08-2017 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  Former MP Blair Wilson has been awarded $125,000 in damages after a judge found that The Province newspaper defamed him in an article published nearly 10 years ago.
  In a ruling released Thursday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jane Dardi cleared the paper of most of the allegations of defamation levelled against it by Wilson, but found it liable for one paragraph in the October 2007 story that alleged he sought a loan from his mother-in-law on her deathbed.
  “Balancing the evidence as a whole,
  
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• B.C. wildfire season worst in six decades

  04-08-2017 02:38 via vancouversun.com
  This year’s wildfire season has become British Columbia’s worst in six decades, and a provincial spokesman says the action is far from over.
  Kevin Skrepnek of the B.C. Wildfire Service said Thursday that 4,910 square kilometres of forest, bush and grassland have been torched, making 2017 the second worst in recorded history in terms of land destroyed.
  “I think it’s important for everyone to remember we are only in early August at this point,” Skrepnek told reporters
  
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• Mt Polley dam failure: Why no charges under B.C. laws?

  04-08-2017 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  The disclosure Wednesday that there will be no charges laid under B.C.’s environmental laws for Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley tailings dam failure in 2014 has environmentalists questioning whether the province’s laws are strong enough.
  There remains the possibility of federal charges under the Fisheries Act, but the B.C. Conservation Officer Service has said a B.C.-federal investigation will not be complete by Friday – when the three-year time limit to lay charg
  
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• Police grapple with warring gangs and public shootings

  04-08-2017 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  The sun was setting on Coal Harbour last week when the Vancouver Police marine squad took special notice of a charter boat called the Magic Charm.
  Aboard the vessel were dozens of young men, some of whom were linked to the Red Scorpion gang.
  Several had chest tattoos reading “My brother’s keeper.”
  The anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit was called in to check the party boat crowd when it docked beside the Westin Bayshore around 9 p.m. on July 25.
  It was another t
  
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• Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, August 4

  04-08-2017 02:04 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, August 4.
  OH! 
  Vancouver-based art and design studio Tangible Interaction presents OH!, a very cool interactive art installation: a scale model of Science World’s geodesic dome set up in Olympic Village will allow you to actually play with the lights on the real Science World across the water. The scale model is covered with 240 sensors and LEDs, and as you wave your hand across it, it changes the l
  
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• Here's the #FunCityFestival 2017 music lineup. @AndrewAllenLive @THEBOOMBOOMS & much more! cnv.org/FunCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  04-08-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Here's the #FunCityFestival 2017 music lineup. @AndrewAllenLive @THEBOOMBOOMS & much more! cnv.org/FunCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Motor vehicle crashes in B.C. jumped 23 per cent in three years, says ICBC

  04-08-2017 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. drivers are involved in more crashes than ever, according to latest ICBC figures. 
  The number of motor vehicle collisions in B.C. increased 23 per cent between 2013 and 2016 (from 260,000 to 320,000).
  That’s an average of 875 crashes per day, or 36 every hour. The reasons behind the increase include more cars going on the road each year — which can be attributed to a growing economy and lower gas prices — and drivers succumbing to distractions, such as hand-held devic
  
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• When Shariah favors Canadian fathers having custody of children

  04-08-2017 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  Islamic Shariah law stipulates that custody of children in divorce generally goes to the father, according to a Canadian immigration department report.
  That is creating headaches for Canadian customs officials in the Middle East and elsewhere. The internal report shows many are being put on the spot to decide edgy custody conundrums, such as whether Syrian-Canadian children are permitted to travel to the Middle East with their mothers.
  Shariah rulings on divorce have legal status in Middle Easte
  
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• David McCann's 111 acts of kindness, from the tiny to the grand

  04-08-2017 01:25 via vancouversun.com
  David McCann teared up as he described the feeling he got helping out an elderly couple on the seawall who had been hurt by racist remarks aimed their way.
  “This elderly Chinese couple were collecting bottles and someone made a derogatory comment as I was walking by them, you could see the pain in their faces,” McCann said. “They’re just trying to survive.”
  He took out his wallet and handed the couple $20 and bowed. He began walking away, had a second thought, and r
  
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