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• Her pet project is to set up text warnings about cat-snatching coyotes

  11-08-2017 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  Coyotes snatching cats isn’t new, but a Vancouver cat-lover is hoping to pilot an attempt at thwarting the critters from grabbing some cat chow.
  Judith Webster hopes to set up a group text network to warn neighbours when coyotes are out and about.
  “Please don’t let your cats out early in the morning or in the evening,” Webster urged. “Supervise them and even in the daytime coyotes have been seen stalking backyards.”
  In the East Van area, a cat-carrying coyote
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Bountiful parents jailed for trafficking 13-year-old

  11-08-2017 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK – For the first time, a fundamentalist Mormon woman has been convicted and jailed for her role in the polygamous marriage of her under-aged daughter.
  Emily Ruth Gail Blackmore, 60, was sentenced Friday to seven months in jail and 18 months’ probation for the removal of her 13-year-old daughter from Canada for an unlawful purpose.
  The girl’s 71-year-old father, Brandon James Blackmore, was sentenced to 12 months in jail and 18 months’ probation.
  Both parents also
  
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• Shapo saves Canada's bacon in rough Rogers Cup

  11-08-2017 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  It was a big week for the accelerating transition from conventional broadcast sport television to video streaming when Disney Corporation announced it had taken full control of BAMtech, Major League Baseball’s impressive digital platform that made “Baseball Advanced Media” the industry leader worldwide.
  Ownership control of the company now valued at $3.76 billion US will not only give Disney a streaming service to compete with the Netflixes of the world, it wi
  
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• Backcountry access banned in B.C.'s Cariboo region where wildfires rage

  11-08-2017 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Access to the backcountry has been banned in a large swath of British Columbia’s Interior as wildfire crews gear up for a challenging weekend.
  Kevin Skrepnek with the B.C. Wildfire Service says winds are expected to pick up Saturday with a change in the weather and that risks fuelling fires already burning throughout the Cariboo fire centre.
  The ban starts immediately, covering 103,000 square kilometres in south central B.C., and Skrepnek says it is intended to maintain sa
  
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• Check out the main stage line-up for #FunCityFestival #NorthVan funcityfestival.com/artists-and-pe… https://t.co/UQJ71BCoIk

  11-08-2017 22:45 via twitter.com
  
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• Parched? Fill up your water bottle at #FunCityFestival this w/e @MetroVancouver #WaterWagon. #welovewater #NorthVan https://t.co/LZCE3tvCp8

  11-08-2017 22:10 via twitter.com
  
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• Concerned about forest fires? We have a plan to prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfires. View the plan:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 21:42 via twitter.com
  Concerned about forest fires? We have a plan to prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfires. View the plan:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Take transit/bike/walk or carpool to #FCF = car free zone. There’s a bike valet + free shuttle bus. Map:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  Take transit/bike/walk or carpool to #FCF = car free zone. There’s a bike valet + free shuttle bus. Map:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Two men arrested, charged in separate assaults on Transit Police

  11-08-2017 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  Two men have been charged and remain in custody following two separate incidents in recent weeks that involved injuries to Transit Police officers.
  On July 25, two Transit Police officers at New Westminster SkyTrain Station spotted two men openly drinking alcohol. When officers approached, one man was cooperative while the other gave a fake name. Officers also spotted a syringe sticking out of the second man’s pocket and when they asked him to remove, he began to run away.
  Officers chased
  
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• Tiny Terravista's wines the essence of Okanagan future

  11-08-2017 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  It’s hard to believe there are still some hidden treasures in the B.C. wine business.
  While I wouldn’t suggest Terravista Vineyards flies under the radar, it is fair to say the tiny Penticton winery is off the beaten path when you compare it to more famous wine thoroughfares like Highway 29 (Napa Valley, California), Highway 222 (Tuscany, Italy), the B19 (Barossa Valley, South Australia) and Medoc’s famed D2 in France. But if you turn off Naramata Road about 8 km north of Penti
  
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• From counter-culture childhood to book-writing present

  11-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Between modelling and authoring careers, Cea Sunrise Person designed and made bikinis favoured by actresses Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and others.
  BUSH TO BOOKS: A counter-culture, backwoods upbringing with glamorous, high-fashion career to follow sounds like any autobiographer’s best assets. Adding a husband-and-three-kids suburban lifestyle would be icing on the best-seller cake. In fact, Cea Sunrise Person signs herself that way: best-selling author. That’s based on the HarperCol
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canada struggling to 'absorb' immigrants: report

  11-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Assimilation? Integration? Absorption?
  There’s nothing like a dispute over words to get Canadians to pay attention – and in this case that might not be a bad thing.
  This month Manitoba responded to two complaints by barring a driver from continuing to use his two-year-old licence plate “ASIMIL8.”
  The word “assimilate” has been used to describe the process by which Indigenous people and immigrants could mix into the larger culture. Some Canadians consider it of
  
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• MINISO sets up shop on Granville Street

  11-08-2017 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  There are two words every shopper loves to hear: affordable and stylish. 
  Whether you are shopping for home accent items or lifestyle goods, finding an item that’s both a good deal and on-trend can be a challenge. 
  A new shop in downtown Vancouver is looking to offer both elements — through a wide range of product categories.
  We chatted with Yi Ma, vice-president of business development for MINISO, in advance of the Aug. 12 launch event, which will include a ribbon-cutting
  
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• Jail sentences for two members of B.C. polygamous sect in child bride case

  11-08-2017 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK – Brandon James Blackmore, 71, was sentenced Friday to a year and prison and 18 months probation for taking his 13-year-old daughter to the United States to be placed in a polygamous marriage with the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
  Blackmore’s estranged wife, Emily Ruth Gail Blackmore, 60, was given seven months in prison and 18 months probation for her part in the removal of their daughter.
  The daughter – now an adult, but
  
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• Play it again Sam: Chopsticks, twinkle twinkle, Moonlight Sonata: if you can play give it a go #PlazaPiano… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Play it again Sam: Chopsticks, twinkle twinkle, Moonlight Sonata: if you can play give it a go #PlazaPiano… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• The Bald and The Beard embrace Amazing Race Canada thrill ride

  11-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  They call themselves The Bald and The Beard.
  To fans of The Amazing Race Canada, they made their mark this season as determined father-and-son team Shabbir and Zed Dhalla.
  It looked like the Vancouver-based pair had a solid shot to win two cars, a trip around the world and the $250,000 grand prize — until their chances were wiped out in an intense challenge at an urban beach club in Bangkok, Thailand.
  It all played out during a recent episode when&nb
  
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• Italian fashion finds in Vancouver

  11-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  You don’t have to hop on a plane in order to shop Italian style. In fact, you don’t even have to leave the downtown core.
  Rachel Kapsalis, the owner of the Vancouver-based boutique Vetrina, has curated a selection of unique and stylish threads by Italian brands (and others), in her Georgia Street shop. And she’s been doing it more nearly 20 years. 
  Kapsalis recently chatted with Postmedia News about her store, her love for European brands and why exclusivity is key in a wo
  
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full time Traffic Engineering Technician. Click here to apply: ow.ly/Ypa930eloKT

  11-08-2017 19:46 via twitter.com
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• Q&A: James Hetfield talks Metallica

  11-08-2017 19:45 via vancouversun.com
  Metallica
  Aug. 14, 6 p.m. | B.C. Place 
  Tickets and info: $55.50-$183; Ticketmaster.ca
  Metallica is not alone in having to compete with its own ghost — don’t we all?
  But given the metal icons’ unquestionable influence early on — plus the rabidity of their intergenerational and global fan base — few musical acts have been so scrutinized at such a level.
  While 1991’s self-titled Metallica sold over 20 million copies — one million of those in
  
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• Q&A: New Education Minister Rob Fleming talks improvements

  11-08-2017 18:34 via vancouversun.com
  Another in a series of question and answer articles on B.C.’s new cabinet ministers:
  Rob Fleming, the new NDP Minister of Education, is connected to public education in a very real way: he has two kids in a Victoria-area public school, one in Grade 3 and the other in Grade 6.
  “I’m a parent of two kids,” said Fleming. “To have your own children in the school system, being the parent who interacts with the teaches and learning assistants and school principal, and to h
  
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• Hey families! Check out family zone @ #FunCityFestival. #FreeFamilyFun w/ crafts, entertainment + more.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 18:02 via twitter.com
  Hey families! Check out family zone @ #FunCityFestival. #FreeFamilyFun w/ crafts, entertainment + more.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Daily Poll: Thoughts on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline?

  11-08-2017 17:17 via vancouversun.com
  On Thursday, the B.C. NDP government announced it had hired high-profile lawyer Thomas Berger to help its case against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The NDP had campaigned on a promise to take action against the pipeline if it was elected.
  “We know with the federal government’s approval of this project that this will be a challenge,” said Environment and Climate Change Minister George Heyman on Thursday, “but we’ve committed to stepping up
  
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• Sentencing expected for man and woman in B.C. child bride case

  11-08-2017 16:13 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK — A B.C. judge is expected to sentence today a man and woman who took a 13-year-old girl into the United States over a decade ago to marry the now-imprisoned leader of a polygamous sect.
  Former husband and wife Brandon Blackmore and Gail Blackmore were found guilty by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in February of the charge of taking a child under the age of 16 out of Canada for sexual purposes.
  The trial heard that in 2004, the girl was secreted into the United States to marry Warre
  
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• Five Things to Know: Burnaby sucker-punch, Berger joins pipeline fight

  11-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  A 22-year-old is dead in Burnaby from a sucker punch, the smoke is on the way out, and the NDP has enlisted the services of aboriginal rights legend Thomas Berger in their fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline. Here are five things you need to know.
  Man dies after coffee shop sucker-punch
  A 22-year-old man is dead after being sucker-punched at a Starbucks in Burnaby.
  According to witnesses, Michael Page-Vincelli confronted a woman who had tossed a cigarette butt out of her car window, report
  
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• Dan Fumano: Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze

  11-08-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  Sensitive patient data supplied to a Vancouver cannabis dispensary has been either mishandled or — according to the shop’s owner — stolen, a situation again highlighting the cloud of confusion over the regulation of retail pot.
  Most people in stereotypically weed-friendly Vancouver, it seems, don’t have a problem with dispensaries. A Nanos poll of Vancouverites last year found only 14 per cent supported banning medical dispensaries.
  But the city’s decision to take t
  
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• Faulty bus heaters get North Vancouver commuter steamed - North Shore News

  11-08-2017 11:55 via nsnews.com
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  Faulty bus heaters get North Vancouver commuter steamed
  North Shore News
  A misfiring heating component on some of TransLink's Nova buses has left commuters hot under the collar. file photo, North Shore News. The heater on the bus goes on and on. And when temperatures soar, that can be uncomfortable. North Shore commuter ...
  
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• RCMP settle lawsuit, apologize to West Van woman acquitted of human smuggling

  11-08-2017 08:17 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP has settled a lawsuit and apologized for making what they describe as improper comments about a West Vancouver woman accused and later acquitted of human smuggling.
  Police spokesman Supt. Sean Sullivan says the RCMP recognize that public statements made against Mumtaz Ladha over the course of the criminal investigation were improper and they apologize unreservedly.
  Ladha settled a lawsuit nearly three weeks ago against the Mounties for negligent investigation and defamation.
  In a statem
  
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• Opinion: Canadian doctors will be hurt by proposed tax change

  11-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  On July 18, 2017, Liberal Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced proposed changes to taxes on small businesses including professional corporations. Alan Actan, a financial columnist, called the impact of the first two changes ‘huge” and warned that “They call into question the purpose, really, of having a corporation.”
  If implemented, these proposals could have a major effect on physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants, architects and engineers, as well as their patien
  
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• 22-year-old killed in sucker punch attack at Burnaby Starbucks

  11-08-2017 06:38 via vancouversun.com
  A 22-year-old man has died after an altercation inside a Burnaby coffee shop last month.
  The July 12 incident at the Kensington Square Starbucks at Hastings Street and Kensington Avenue was initially handled by Burnaby RCMP, but was handed over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team after Michael Page-Vincelli died in hospital on July 15.
  The altercation appears to have revolved around an improperly discarded cigarette butt. According to a witness, after Page-Vincelli saw a woman toss a c
  
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• Ed Willes: 'Fresh' Foley figures God planned for his return to Lions

  11-08-2017 05:24 via vancouversun.com
  On the most superficial level, the decision to bring Ricky Foley back was fairly straightforward for Wally Buono and the B.C. Lions.
  Foley, the Most Outstanding Canadian in 2009, might not be the force he once was but, at 35, he can still fill a number of roles with the Lions.
  As a rush end, he fits into the defensive line rotation and, under the right circumstances, he can still be a productive player in the Canadian Football League. His Canadian passport also gives the team options with its ro
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Multi-pronged attack launched in B.C.'s pipeline politics

  11-08-2017 04:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats began their promised effort to block the Trans Mountain pipeline twinning on Thursday, launching a multi-pronged attack on the project with full support of their governing partners, the Greens.
  The plan includes new and revised action in the courts, as well as a more rigorous standard for environmental approval and consultations with First Nations.
  B.C. will seek to join a broad-based challenge to the project that is scheduled to go ahead in Federal Court this
  
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• New evacuation order issued for Anahim Lake area

  11-08-2017 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  An evacuation order has been issued for areas around Anahim Lake, “due to immediate danger” from a nearby wildfire.
  The Cariboo Regional District order, issued in conjunction with the Ulkatcho First Nation, affects Anahim Lake, Nimpo Lake, Charlotte Lake, and the entire Ulkatcho First Nation territory.
  The affected area is approximately 300 kilometres west of Williams Lake.The threat is coming from the Precipice Creek fire, a lightning-caused, 60-square-kilometre
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, August 11

  11-08-2017 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, August 11.
  Metropolis Tasty Treats
  I’ve got an insane sweet tooth — it’s my biggest and favourite flaw — so I’m incredibly biased towards Metropolis Tasty Treats, the newest exhibit at Metropolis at Metrotown’s Grand Court. This whimsical installation features massive food art displays, including a seven-foot gumball machine filled with 22,000 jawbreakers, an eight-foot donu
  
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• 22-year-old killed with a punch in Burnaby coffee shop

  11-08-2017 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  A 22-year-old man has died after an altercation inside a Burnaby coffee shop last month.
  The July 12 incident at the Kensington Square Starbucks at Hastings Street and Kensington Avenue was initially handled by Burnaby RCMP, but was handed over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team after Michael Page-Vincelli died in hospital on July 15.
  A altercation appears to revolve around an improperly discarded cigarette butt. According to a witness, after Page-Vincelli saw a woman toss a cigarette
  
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• Thomas Berger has long history of arguing for Aboriginal rights

  11-08-2017 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. NDP government has hired former B.C. Supreme Court judge Thomas Berger, 84, to lead a legal fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  • Berger, the son of an RCMP sergeant who emigrated to Canada from Sweden, was born in Victoria in 1933
  • In 1962, at the age of 29, he was elected to the House of Commons, representing the riding of Vancouver — Burrard for the NDP.
  • In 1966, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Briti
  
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• Victoria police make first seizure of deadly carfentanil

  11-08-2017 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  Victoria police have seized the deadly opioid carfentanil for the first time, a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
  The deadly substance was mixed with heroin. Investigators found it as they scanned drug samples seized after two men were arrested in a drug investigation carried out by Victoria police plainclothes officers and West Shore RCMP.
  “There were over 900 overdose deaths in B.C. in 2016, and fentanyl played a part in many of those,” said Victoria police drug expert Staf
  
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• Vancouver housing on fire with biggest price gains since 1990

  11-08-2017 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  Just as Toronto’s housing market is beginning to slow down, Vancouver’s is roaring back to life.
  New home prices in Canada’s most-expensive market jumped 1.5 per cent in June, and have gained five per cent since March, data released Thursday by Statistics Canada show. That is the biggest three-month increase since 1990. Prices for existing homes are also on fire, gaining 11 per cent in the five months through July, according to data released this month by Vancouver’s
  
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• Marriage vow renewal ceremony for five couples at Surrey retirement residence

  11-08-2017 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Ed Ervin talks about his wife Shirley, the look of adoration on his face is impossible to miss, even after 60 years of marriage.
  “I have to say if ever there’s been a fantastic marriage, we have enjoyed it,” he said.
  Key to the success of any marriage, he added, is maturity.
  “I think a lot of marriages don’t last because people don’t really try and really get along, because there’s lots of ups and downs and problems in marriages,” Ed said. &ld
  
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• Duplex Study underway to explore low density housing options. We need your input. Take survey:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Duplex Study underway to explore low density housing options. We need your input. Take survey:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Curious humpback whale greets research boat off Cortes Island

  11-08-2017 00:23 via vancouversun.com
  Peter Hamilton of the environmental group Lifeforce captured a close encounter with a curious humpback whale off Cortes Island in the Strait of Georgia.
  “Seeing whales in the wild is an incredible experience,” Hamilton told Postmedia’s Larry Pynn, noting this humpback took the initiative to approach his vessel as he was documenting behaviour for research.
  The federal government urges boaters to keep at least 100 metres from whales in Canadian waters, although Hamilton would lik
  
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• Someone's excited about #FunCityFestival, now it's your turn #NorthVan. cnv.org/FunCityFestival https://t.co/7B88YXkWJS

  11-08-2017 00:10 via twitter.com
  
  Someone's excited about #FunCityFestival, now it's your turn #NorthVan. cnv.org/FunCityFestival https://t.co/7B88YXkWJS
  
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