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• The @slidethecity boogie. Even waiting to slide is a blast. Happy shiny people all over Lonsdale. #NorthVan 💃🏻 https://t.co/TPlWo7nz0S

  12-08-2017 23:47 via twitter.com
  
  The @slidethecity boogie. Even waiting to slide is a blast. Happy shiny people all over Lonsdale. #NorthVan 💃🏻 https://t.co/TPlWo7nz0S
  
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• Today we're are having the best block party ever! #FunCityFestival #NorthVan https://t.co/YSwYERuRP7

  12-08-2017 23:05 via twitter.com
  
  Today we're are having the best block party ever! #FunCityFestival #NorthVan https://t.co/YSwYERuRP7
  
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• NDP orders review of government reliance on industry-hired experts

  12-08-2017 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  The NDP government has ordered a review of B.C.’s controversial “professional reliance” system, which uses experts hired by industry to assess the environmental risks associated with logging, mining and other projects.
  Environment Minister George Heyman said in an interview that the province previously relied on its own professionals to protect the public interest. But the Liberal government shifted much of that responsibility to professionals hired by project proponents &mdash
  
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• Fire officials want smoking drivers to stop flicking ashes out windows

  12-08-2017 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  Three roadside fires in a single day have the Vancouver fire department warning smokers that a fire risk exists here just as much as in the Interior.
  “Grass fires on the side of the roadways are still happening and it just is amazing — in the province of B.C. right now, with all the education out there — that people continually drive down the street with their cigarette hanging out the window,” said Joe Foster, an assistant chief with Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.
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• Air quality advisory lifted for Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley

  12-08-2017 22:48 via vancouversun.com
  An air quality advisory for the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley caused by smoke from the Interior wildfires has been lifted after almost two weeks.
  The advisory was issued Aug. 1 and alerted residents to “fine particulate matter” in the air, which had wafted across the region from wildfires burning throughout B.C.
  Changing weather mean much of the haze lifted on Saturday, allowing for the air quality advisory to be cancelled.
  However, Metro Vancouver said the advisory could be back
  
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• Dreams and doodads: The PNE Prize Home through the ages

  12-08-2017 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  The 2017 PNE Prize Home is a large contemporary home brimming with all the latest trends and doodads, such as a double height ceiling in the living room, white Corian countertops and a media room with $6,000 theatre seats and a 92-inch projector screen.
  It comes with a double-sided gas fireplace in the living room that’s set into the wall, chic maple barn doors in the kitchen, and a master bedroom and ensuite that’s bigger than many Vancouver condos.
  Wine cooler? Check. Subway tile?
  
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• Keep an eye out for photo ops @ #FunCityFestival. These and lots more fun frames will be out there. #NorthVan https://t.co/wkKjjE8mVC

  12-08-2017 21:00 via twitter.com
  
  Keep an eye out for photo ops @ #FunCityFestival.These and lots more fun frames will be out there. #NorthVan https://t.co/wkKjjE8mVC
  
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• It. Is. ON. Folks. #NorthVan https://t.co/QuQEC1J9P5

  12-08-2017 20:22 via twitter.com
  
  It. Is. ON.Folks.#NorthVan https://t.co/QuQEC1J9P5
  
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• Psst kids, check out what's happening on the Family Stage #FunCityFestival. Fun starts at 11:30 today #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Psst kids, check out what's happening on the Family Stage#FunCityFestival. Fun starts at 11:30 today #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Shambhala Music Festival on evacuation alert due to growing wildfire

  12-08-2017 19:03 via vancouversun.com
  An official evacuation alert has been expanded to cover the Shambhala Music Festival and the community of Nelway ordered to evacuate, as the McCormick Creek wildfire continues to grow.
  Updates shared Saturday morning said the fire had jumped the Salmo River and is moving closer toward the electronic music festival, located at the Salmo River Ranch. The growth of the fire prompted officials to expand the evacuation alert to cover the music festival, which began Friday and ends Monday.
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• Everything you want to know about #FunCityFestival & @slidethecityhappening this weekend, is right here.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  Everything you want to know about #FunCityFestival & @slidethecityhappening this weekend, is right here.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Wakey wakey everyone. It's Fun City Festival time! The slide is ready. Lonsdale is ready. Enjoy it all today!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 18:46 via twitter.com
  Wakey wakey everyone. It's Fun City Festival time! The slide is ready. Lonsdale is ready. Enjoy it all today!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #FunCityFestival is here! Get #SlidetheCity tix @slidethecity booth or online. Booth opens at 8am for sliders to pi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 17:01 via twitter.com
  #FunCityFestival is here! Get #SlidetheCity tix @slidethecity booth or online. Booth opens at 8am for sliders to pi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• The Home Front: The future of rug design

  12-08-2017 16:03 via vancouversun.com
  Rug design manufacturer Nani Marquina believes in moving forward at a constant pace, weaving the history of traditional rug design, and her own company — launched in Barcelona in the late ’80s — into every new collection, while always focusing on the future.
  Marquina is celebrating her brand’s 30th anniversary by releasing the Mia collection: her first range of customizable rugs, which clients can order online.
  “Mía means mine in Spanish,” Marquina
  
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• With The Yates on Yates, Chard continues to be active in Victoria

  12-08-2017 15:52 via vancouversun.com
  As part of its ongoing commitment to contribute to the revitalization of downtown Victoria, Chard Development is adding its ninth residential mixed-use project to the capital city with The Yates on Yates, a 20-storey tower.
  “We have been very strong on [supporting] a more vibrant downtown Victoria. Residents in Chard developments have helped keep restaurants, shops and services more vital,” says the developer’s president and CEO, David Chard. “By bringing in these new res
  
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• Developer's reputation drives interest in The Parker

  12-08-2017 15:36 via vancouversun.com
  Savvy buyers of new apartments in Metro Vancouver tend to do their research on who’s building them. Good reputations take years to develop and the people at Townline are using the company’s reputation for quality in their sales pitch for The Parker, a new 47-home development in the ever-popular Cambie corridor.
  Townline is a local operation that has been building homes in Vancouver since 1981. Back then, it was single-family homes, but the company has since branched out to building m
  
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• Sold (Bought): Vancouver condo has stunning outlooks from its 45th-storey location

  12-08-2017 15:13 via vancouversun.com
  This two-bedroom condo is located on the 45th-floor in downtown Vancouver’s One Wall Centre.
   
  4503 — 938 Nelson Street, Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 1,566 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,739,000
  Listed for: $2,100,000
  Sold for: $2,150,000
  Sold on: April 26
  Days on market: Two
  Listing agent: Mike Rampf and Shawn Anderson at Engel & Volkers Vancouver
  Buyers agent: Sue Chen at Sutton Group – West Coast Realty
  The big sell: This 45th-floor condo i
  
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• Five Things to Know: Bridge tollers ousted, Lorde coming to PNE

  12-08-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. NDP is not long for bridge tolls, a Surrey woman crossed the Port Mann bridge in the wrong direction, and a witness shares what he saw on the day a 22-year-old was killed in a Burnaby Starbucks. Here are five things you need to know.
  Witness account of fatal coffee shop sucker-punch
  More information is trickling out about 22-year-old Michael Page-Vincelli, who died in July after being sucker-punched in a Burnaby Starbucks.
  The Canadian Press spoke to Michael Zimeras, 73, who was si
  
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• Children of two war-weary men who saved a priceless Dutch art collection from Nazis meet in Vancouver

  12-08-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  In the final months of the Second World War, in an underground cavern close to the German front, Dutch art curator Willy Auping would, by lamplight, unveil priceless works of art to a rapt audience of doctors and nurses who were enduring the bitter, final days of the war together.
  The underground bunker where the paintings were hidden was in the Netherlands on the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum. The museum had been turned into a Red Cross hospital after the nearby city of Arnhem
  
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• Opinion: Human Rights Commission should not be used as a political football

  12-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan has announced his government’s intention to re-establish a human rights commission in B.C. “By re-establishing a human rights commission, we will create a more-inclusive and just society, where we work together to eliminate inequality and prevent discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression,” said Horgan.
  The previous commission that had been established in January 1997 was dismantled by the Gordon
  
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• Opinion: Drug-checking services could help prevent overdoses

  12-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  In recent years across B.C., a public-health tragedy has resulted in thousands of preventable deaths from street drugs containing powerful opioids such as fentanyl or its analogs.
  Toxicity from adulteration has occurred not just in the heroin supply, but also in stimulants, club drugs and counterfeit pills. Border agents and police have tried to reduce or disrupt the supply, but they have had little success in stemming the tide of illicit drug importation and consequent deaths.
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• Letters: Movie critic needs a history lesson

  12-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: American revisionism revised, Jamie Portman column, July 28.
  Those who ignore, or are ignorant of the lessons of history, are condemned to write embarrassingly ill-informed newspaper articles.
  I agree with the professed target of his piece, namely the shameless disregard for historical accuracy often shown by American filmmakers over the years. Unfortunately his article is thoroughly discredited by the writer’s adoption of the same cultural bias and appalling historical ignorance in hi
  
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• Editorial: How to bungle a termination

  12-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  “I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue,” said Cato the Elder. Had Premier John Horgan and Jobs Minister Bruce Ralston heeded the Roman senator’s sage advice the government appointee they sacked last week would have packed up his paperweights and moved on.
  It is, after all, the prerogative of any incoming government to replace key players in the public service with candidates of its own choosing. Horgan and his minister had every right to fire Gordon Wilson, who was
  
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• Smoke gives way to blue skies, but Metro air quality advisory extended

  12-08-2017 05:39 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouverites rarely celebrate a cloudy sky, perhaps because they’re so common out here.
  But after a week under a blanket of smoke that’s blocked out seemingly everything about Vancouver’s natural scenery, from the mountains to the ocean to, yes, even the cloudy sky, glimpses of cirri and cumuli in the evening air on Friday were practically a cause for celebration.Is that blue sky I see!?! #BCWildfire #vancouver #clearskies pic.twitter.com/E898sdozOv
  — Bradley Wou(@bradle
  
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• Four of five board members overseeing Port Mann Bridge tolls removed

  12-08-2017 04:13 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s NDP government has removed four of the five members of the Transportation Investment Corporation board, the provincial agency that oversees B.C.’s Port Mann Bridge.
  Chair Daniel Doyle, directors Anne Stewart and Clifford Neufeld and Colin Hansen, a former B.C. Liberal finance minister, all had their appointments rescinded in a cabinet order on Friday.
  Meanwhile, Irene Kerr, TI Corp’s president and CEO, has been appointed a board member through the end of 2018.
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• 'Let's go and get him,' witness heard before man killed in Burnaby Starbucks

  12-08-2017 03:49 via vancouversun.com
  BURNABY, B.C. — Outside a busy Starbucks in Metro Vancouver, a black-and-white photograph of a young man in a suit and tie sits nestled among flowers, handwritten cards and a bright red ribbon that reads, “Michael.”
  He has been identified in media reports as Michael Page-Vincelli, a 22-year-old who reportedly died after a shocking altercation inside the coffee shop that a witness says left him unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
  The tragedy happened a month ago, but the publ
  
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• 18 dead from overdoses in July as first responders combat 'new normal'

  12-08-2017 03:31 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police reported 18 probable overdose deaths in the month of July, a decrease from the 26 reported in June, but the opioid crisis shows little sign of slowing down.
  Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service reported 568 calls in response to overdoses, a number that, while “extremely high,” according to the city, is similar to the number reported for June. 
  Monthly overdose calls recorded by Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.
  “The volume of calls for first responders is c
  
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• Buddies refuse to bite in bid to uncover Lions' quarterback controversy

  12-08-2017 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  As far as quarterback controversies go, this one will need some work.
  “You never have to worry about me and Travis (Lulay),” said Jonathon Jennings. “There’s a friendship and a bond that’s never going to be taken away. He’s the guy who got me going in my career.”
  OK, nothing there. What about you, Travis?
  “I was thinking if Jon and I could drum up some drama, but we’re just not that interesting,” said Lulay.
  Tell me about it.
  Jennings a
  
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• Bring a water bottle to #FunCityFestival this w/e & refill at the @MetroVancouver #WaterWagon. #welovewater… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 03:10 via twitter.com
  Bring a water bottle to #FunCityFestival this w/e & refill at the @MetroVancouver #WaterWagon. #welovewater… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Confession admitted into evidence at murder trial

  12-08-2017 02:54 via vancouversun.com
  A marginalized Vancouver drug addict confessed to an undercover police officer posing as a crime boss that he killed a wheelchair-bound homeless man in 2009 by smashing a rock across his head.
  Aaron Dale Power also told the officer during a 2014 “Mr. Big” scenario that Michael Nestoruk had pulled a knife on him before Power struck the fatal blows on April 8, 2009.
  Power’s lawyer had argued to B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper that the confession should be inadmissible b
  
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• 'John whisperers' may be dispensable in party of smiles

  12-08-2017 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — On a recent evening in the capital, the scene outside the premier’s office caught the upbeat mood of an NDP government settling into power after 16 years in the wilderness.
  There on the lawn was cabinet minister Mike Farnworth, decked out in new blue jeans, checked shirt and baseball cap.
  He’d bought the lot off the rack on discovering, fresh from the cabinet oath-taking, that a quick visit to the Kamloops wildfire centre was his first assignment as solicitor ge
  
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• Woman attacked by knife-wielding man after getting off bike to remove log blocking Victoria path

  12-08-2017 02:27 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Police arrested a man Friday morning after he reportedly pulled a knife on a cyclist who had removed a log blocking Victoria’s Galloping Goose Trail.
  The cyclist, who was not physically injured, fled on her bike and called police at about 8:45 a.m. She said she had come across a log in the portion of the trail near Burnside Road that appeared to have been deliberately put there, so she got off her bike and started to remove the obstruction.
  As she did that, a man jumped fr
  
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• Police searching for scooter stolen from disabled Victoria woman

  12-08-2017 02:25 via vancouversun.com
  Victoria Police are searching for a disabled woman’s mobility scooter after it was stolen from a locked parking area overnight.
  According to police, the scooter was stolen from an apartment building in the 900-block of Balmoral Road sometime between Wednesday evening when she locked it up and Friday morning, when she first discovered that the scooter and both locks used to secure it were gone.
  Officers are searching for a suspect in the theft, but also hoping to simply reunite the woman an
  
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• Coca-Cola strike in Lower Mainland capped with new agreement

  12-08-2017 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  The Coca-Cola strike in the Lower Mainland has come to an end.
  On Thursday, after nearly three weeks on strike, Teamsters Union Local 213 said that workers had ratified a new collective agreement.
  The new agreement affects nearly 400 workers in Richmond, Coquitlam, Chilliwack and the Sunshine Coast, not to mention soda drinkers in the area.
  The three-week standoff diminished Coca-Cola supplies in the Lower Mainland, and had some worried about a long-term Coke drought. Plus, how wa
  
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• Surrey woman arrested after crossing Port Mann in the wrong direction

  12-08-2017 02:08 via vancouversun.com
  A 47-year-old Surrey woman has been arrested after causing a multi-vehicle collision Thursday night by driving the wrong way on Highway 1.
  No serious injuries were reported in the bizarre scene, in which the woman managed to travel along Highway 1 against the flow of traffic all the way through Surrey and even across the Port Mann Bridge before being stopped in a collision with a Coquitlam RCMP police vehicle.
  The incident began around 7:45 p.m., when Surrey RCMP was alerted to a grey 2014 Honda
  
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• Thanks to Jessica and Josh Dunham, Lucas Gagnon, and Madelin Lady for their hard work supporting those affected by… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 02:03 via twitter.com
  Thanks to Jessica and Josh Dunham, Lucas Gagnon, and Madelin Lady for their hard work supporting those affected by… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Work to convert Kirkstone Park gravel field to artifical turf starts Monday. Access to the field is closed until October. #NorthVan

  12-08-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Work to convert Kirkstone Park gravel field to artifical turf starts Monday. Access to the field is closed until October. #NorthVan
  
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• Attn slider wannabes! If you don’t have tix yet, buy them onsite this w/e @slidethecity booth. See map @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Attn slider wannabes! If you don’t have tix yet, buy them onsite this w/e @slidethecity booth. See map @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #DeepCove pro tip: Visiting by car? Have more time to hike, kayak, or sightsee - head straight to overflow parking:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  12-08-2017 00:24 via twitter.com
  #DeepCove pro tip: Visiting by car? Have more time to hike, kayak, or sightsee - head straight to overflow parking:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• UPDATE: 'Let's go and get him,' witness heard before man killed in Burnaby Starbucks

  12-08-2017 00:18 via vancouversun.com
  About a month ago, a young man died after a confrontation inside a Burnaby Starbucks that a witness says left him unconscious and bleeding profusely on the floor.
  It was a shocking incident inside a popular coffee shop, but the public only heard about it from media reports for the first time this week. Police did not issue any statements about it and no charges have been laid.
  A civil rights group is raising questions about why police kept the man’s death under wraps. And while media repor
  
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• Nanaimo man who says he killed to save souls is found not criminally responsible

  12-08-2017 00:13 via vancouversun.com
  NEW WESTMINSTER — A man who confessed to killing the house manager at an addiction treatment centre in Nanaimo has been found not criminally responsible for the death because of a mental disorder.
  Steven Rogers was charged with second-degree murder shortly after 38-year-old Jason Collett was killed with a hammer and knife on Sept. 16, 2014.
  Three psychiatrists gave evidence at his B.C. Supreme Court trial in New Westminster in February that Rogers was in a state of psychosis when he killed
  
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• Q&A: New Forests Minister Doug Donaldson starts on hot seat

  12-08-2017 00:09 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan threw Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson figuratively into the fire by appointing him Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
  Acting to “protect and create jobs by fighting for a fair deal for B.C. wood products” topped the list of Horgan’s priorities for Donaldson in the premier’s mandate letter for the portfolio, but now the 60-year-old Hazelton resident is also dealing with the province’s wildfire crisis.
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• Nuclear war would impact us all

  12-08-2017 00:01 via vancouversun.com
  About 9,000 kilometres of ocean separate Guam from Vancouver, meaning a nuclear attack on the U.S. island territory in the western Pacific Ocean would not have an immediate impact on B.C., says a nuclear expert.
  But Dr. Gordon Edwards said any nuclear detonation would have repercussions beyond the initial cloud of radiation generated by an explosion, as both the United States and North Korea continue to engage in rhetoric around the prospect of a nuclear war.
  “There’s always a risk (
  
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• Lorde joins PNE's summer concert series lineup

  12-08-2017 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Fair at the PNE has added another big name to its summer concert series, announcing Friday that Lorde has been added to the lineup as a special guest.
  The New Zealand-born singer/songwriter will perform Sunday, Sept. 3, as part of the all ages iHeartRadio Beach Ball as the headliner for an all-star lineup that includes Scott Helman, Shawn Hook, The Strumbellas, Liam Payne, and “Scars to Your Beautiful” singer Alessia Cara. But Lorde is by far the biggest name.
  Lord is touring in
  
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• Fridays = #ShipyardsNightMarket 5-10pm. Yeah! Food trucks, fun & entertainment. See you there. #NorthVan https://t.co/zuHmAYZ0i2

  12-08-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  
  Fridays = #ShipyardsNightMarket 5-10pm. Yeah! Food trucks, fun & entertainment. See you there. #NorthVan https://t.co/zuHmAYZ0i2
  
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