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• Year after year #FunCityFestival delivers more & more fun #ThrowbackThursday #NorthVan https://t.co/nrrxoQyZgg

  17-08-2017 23:20 via twitter.com
  
  Year after year #FunCityFestival delivers more & more fun #ThrowbackThursday #NorthVan https://t.co/nrrxoQyZgg
  
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• Dominique Walker's "Wildhood" series celebrates life on the #NorthShore thru childhood outdoor play. Come see, in o… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 22:56 via twitter.com
  Dominique Walker's "Wildhood" series celebrates life on the #NorthShore thru childhood outdoor play. Come see, in o… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• North Vancouver comic vying for festival spot - North Shore News

  17-08-2017 21:57 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver comic vying for festival spot
  North Shore News
  Jane Stanton is in the running to become Canada's best comic and has a chance to win $25,000 and a spot at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Voting closes Friday at topcomic.siriusxm.ca. photo supplied. What would you do with $25,000 cash?
  
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• Here's your weekly #CityView at a glance, a huge party, movies, blackberries & more . Enjoy!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 21:49 via twitter.com
  Here's your weekly #CityView at a glance, a huge party, movies, blackberries & more . Enjoy!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• 10-Year-Old North Vancouver Townhouse Listed for $1m Never Lived In - North Shore News

  17-08-2017 21:35 via nsnews.com
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  10-Year-Old North Vancouver Townhouse Listed for $1m Never Lived In
  North Shore News
  A recently listed three-bedroom, three-bathroom Lower Lonsdale townhouse has never been occupied by tenants or owners. photo supplied rew.ca. A $1.15 million townhouse has gone up for sale in North Vancouver, a property that has never been lived in ...and more »
  
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• B.C. tug that rammed another left unattended at full speed: safety board

  17-08-2017 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  The Transportation Safety Board says a six-to-eight-second absence from the controls of a tug boat caused the sinking of another tug off the east coast of Vancouver Island.
  A safety board report says the captain of the C.T. Titan left the tug going while he moved from the upper bridge to the wheelhouse and by the time he reached the controls, the boat had veered towards the vessel Albern.
  The Titan’s master attempted to transfer propulsion control to the wheelhouse, but the report says he
  
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• Stop by our #WalkCNV tent Friday night @ #CivicPlaza & share your ideas for making our City more walkable.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 21:01 via twitter.com
  Stop by our #WalkCNV tent Friday night @ #CivicPlaza & share your ideas for making our City more walkable.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Meet the chef: Jim Vesal of Virtuous Pie favours big, bold flavours

  17-08-2017 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  After flirting with a career in law, Jim Vesal devoted himself entirely to food, in particular ethical, sustainable food. Today, Main Street’s Virtuous Pie specializes in hand-crafted pizza and ice creams made entirely from plants. His empire is now expanding to Vancouver’s soulmate city, Portland, Ore.
  Q: What and who have motivated and inspired you as a chef?
  A: Growing up, we didn’t have a lot. My mom raised me and my sister by herself and worked two, som
  
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• Neo-Nazi flyers stuffed in Vancouver mailboxes

  17-08-2017 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  An east Vancouver man hopes the appearance of a neo-Nazi flyer in his mailbox isn’t the start of a steady stream of literature.
  “I’m not against their right to advertise. I’m not against their right to distribute,” said Tony, who asked that his last name not be published. “I’m just concerned that they feel it necessary to do that. Hopefully, it’s not an indication of more of this to come.”
  The flyer appeared days after a white nationalist ral
  
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• Julia, with the City Park Stewards, says bake your blackberry heart out for prizes. Have a listen for details… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  Julia, with the City Park Stewards, says bake your blackberry heart out for prizes. Have a listen for details… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Surrey chiropractor found guilty of defrauding ICBC

  17-08-2017 19:53 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey chiropractor has been ordered to pay nearly $20,000 in fines and restitution after being found guilty of defrauding ICBC.
  A B.C. Provincial Court judge has found Dr. Maninder Singh Badyal was convicted June 8 of committing fraud over $5,000 for billing the insurance corporation for treatments that were never performed.
  ICBC says the investigation into Badyal, owner of Absolute Health and Wellness Clinic in Surrey, began in October 2014 when an adjuster noticed irregularities in the docu
  
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• B.C. Ferries review ahead; fare cuts eyed by NDP

  17-08-2017 19:05 via vancouversun.com
  The NDP government expects to launch a review of B.C. Ferries this fall as it prepares to reduce fares on minor routes next spring, freeze fares on major routes and restore the full seniors’ weekday discount.
  Transportation Minister Claire Trevena said the review will examine all aspects of the operation.
  “We’ve not had an examination really of how B.C. Ferries is working for 16 years, so that’s what we’re going to be doing,” she said. “We’re going
  
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• Green party selects candidate for upcoming Vancouver civic byelection

  17-08-2017 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver community advocate will make a second attempt to win a city council seat for the Green party.
  Pete Fry is the son of longtime member of Parliament Hedy Fry, and he’s been acclaimed as the Green party of Vancouver candidate for a byelection in October.
  If successful, he would join sole Green politician Adriane Carr, who is among the city’s 10 councillors — five representing the Vision Vancouver party and three elected under the Non-Partisan Associat
  
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• Lunch is more fun on Thursdays! Join us #LongTableLunch 12-2pm. Live music, food truck & games.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Lunch is more fun on Thursdays! Join us #LongTableLunch 12-2pm. Live music, food truck & games.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Is Site C the right energy project for B.C.?

  17-08-2017 17:42 via vancouversun.com
  This week Conversations That Matter features the former B.C. Hydro CEO, Jessica McDonald, in a Conversation that was recorded at Site C in April of 2017 when she was still the head of the provincial utility.
  McDonald insisted the Conversation be embargoed until after the final results of the provincial election were known.
   We sat down with her to hear from her why she believed that Site C was the right project. The Conversation covers a wide range of topics including projected en
  
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• Concert Announcement: Shania Twain coming to Rogers Arena next May

  17-08-2017 17:28 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian country superstar Shania Twain has included two Vancouver stops on her just-announced 2018 NOW Tour.
  The five-time Grammy winner will play two shows, May 5 and 6, at Rogers Arena in support of her soon-to-be-released album, NOW.
  Tickets, which will cost between $59.95 and $189.95, go on sale Aug. 25 through Live Nation. A pre-sale opportunity will be available to American Express Card members from Aug. 22 to Aug. 24.
  Twain, who will perform at halftime during this year’s Cana
  
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• Theatre review: Sea of Stories chronicles White Rock histories

  17-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sea of Stories
  Until Aug. 26 | Coast Capital Playhouse, White Rock
  Tickets and info: $13-$27 at peninsulaproductions.org
  The complex of municipalities traditionally known as the Lower Mainland and now officially called Metro Vancouver can sometimes seem like one giant, undifferentiated traffic jam or real estate scam. It’s useful to remember that each component of this megalopolis has its own history and civic identity.
  The small seaside city of White Rock, with the help of Canada 150 fund
  
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• Daily Poll: Will you be attending Saturday's anti-racism rally in Vancouver?

  17-08-2017 16:57 via vancouversun.com
  A planned anti-immigration rally, whose organizers have celebrated the violence in Charlottesville, Va.,  scheduled for Saturday in Vancouver is expected to be dwarfed in numbers by a counter-protest organized by Stand Up to Racism Metro Vancouver.
  Related
  Vancouver anti-immigration rally organizers celebrate violence onlineTrump's blame game reverberates in VancouverFamily, friends mourn 3 dead in Virginia rally violenceSaturday’s rally, scheduled for 2 p.m. outside Vancouver City Ha
  
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• Q&A: Yukiko Onley

  17-08-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Toni Onley: Eloquence
  Aug. 17 to Sept. 9 | Visualspace Gallery
  Info: visualspace.ca
  The B.C.-based watercolour landscapes of Toni Onley (b. 1928 on the Isle of Man, d. 2004 in a plane crash) have helped form the province’s identity, at least among art collectors. Later this month, Onley’s widow, Yukiko, will exhibit a retrospective of the artist’s work. Much of it is previously unseen by the general public and drawn from the private collections of local collectors, and ranges f
  
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• Five reasons to see Tom Petty

  17-08-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
  Aug. 17 at 7:30 p.m. | Rogers Arena
  Tickets: $49-$256 at ticketmaster.ca
  1. It’s the start of a West Coast tour. Vancouver will get a preview of the show that Petty and his Heartbreakers are taking to Seattle and other points south.
  2. No surprises. As on previous tours, Petty continues to mine his 40-year-old catalogue of hits. Shows earlier this year included standbys such as You Got Lucky, Refugee, and American Girl.
  3. Sam Smith. Scores of younger list
  
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• Five Things to Know: Record wildfire season, Deadpool 2 back filming

  17-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a record wildfire season, Deadpool 2 is back filming after a stuntperson’s death over the weekend, and the Vancouver Police seized a bunch of drugs and guns in a bust. Here are five things you need to know.
  Wildfire season 2017: It’s the worst 
  It’s official: this is the worst wildfire season in British Columbia’s history. 
  The B.C. Wildfire Service said Wednesday that 1,026 wildfires have razed nearly 8,950 square kilometres of the province, surpassi
  
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• Douglas Todd: B.C. college faculty feel pressure to 'pass' foreign students

  17-08-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  Veteran college English instructors are routinely receiving passionate, imploring pleas for passing grades from the international students who increasingly fill their classes.
  The foreign students’ emotion-filled emails and in-office appeals, often issued in jumbled English, invariably aim to cajole faculty at Langara College and other institutions into giving them a break, so they will be able to move on from their mandatory courses in English literature.
  The foreign students often mainta
  
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• MEC Vancouver passes torch to Ms. Muffin to amplify trail, road races

  17-08-2017 08:56 via vancouversun.com
  Kaitlyn Rowsom, with several items already checked off her busy to-do list, giggled out loud during a refreshing coffee chat Wednesday morning.
  “I guess we’ll find out next Sunday (Aug. 27) if you and the others love me for more than my muffins and chocolate milk,” said Rowsom, a vibrant lady with a gift for making people smile — especially by handing out finish-line refreshments.
  She was promoted 3½ weeks ago from unofficial “giver of race-day snacks”
  
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• Talking Dreads set to give Salmon Arm festival a piece of their heart

  17-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival
  Aug. 17-20 | Salmon Arm
  Tickets: $189/$115 (students)/$70 (youths)/$130 (seniors) at rootsandblues.ca
  If you’re waiting for a reunion of one of the most important bands of the punk and post-punk era, don’t hold your breath.
  However, if you’d like to see a reggae version of the Talking Heads, then the Talking Dreads are for you.
  The idea of reggae-fying classics from the Talking Heads’ songbook came to Mystic Bowie several years ago. A
  
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• Swans' song comes to Vancouver

  17-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Swans
  Aug. 26, 7 p.m. | Venue Nightclub, 881 Granville
  Tickets and info: $28 at blive.electrostub.com
  On August 10, 2016, Michael Gira announced the release of The Glowing Man and the demise of the band that recorded it. It’s not the first time that the founder and creative force behind this highly influential American noise rock act has retired Swans. 
  Formed in the early eighties, the group always had a fluid lineup and disbanded in 1997 after its first dozen years of raging around
  
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• Suffer the Children musical manifesto

  17-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  A gritty Gastown alleyway revealed Suffer the Children’s name to the band. Members Shallom Johnson, Rian Peters and Chin Injeti were taking a break from recording sessions for the trio’s coming album. The sad reality of the surroundings lead Injeti to quote Jesus’ familiar verse from the Gospel of Matthew: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
  “I always thought that statement rang so deeply, and b
  
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• Opinion: Reconciliation at 150 — Canada’s Great Challenge

  17-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  As Canada celebrated 150 years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is a top Canadian priority. He acknowledged that festivities in Ottawa took place on Algonquin ancestral land and referred to Canada as part of “Turtle Island.” Those symbolic gestures may reassure many of their country’s benevolence, but a different message was delivered to a group of Indigenous people who erected a teepee on Parliament Hill.
  The Indigenous &ldquo
  
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• Opinion: Ending some rodeo events could restore goodwill

  17-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Chilliwack has made national headlines recently, but for all the wrong reasons.
  In June, animal rights group Mercy for Animals released undercover video showing alleged abuse of chickens by employees of Chilliwack-based company Elite Farm Services at several poultry facilities. B.C. SPCA officials said the footage, which allegedly showed workers throwing and hitting chickens, simulating sexual acts with them and letting some injured birds slowly die on the ground,
  
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• VIFF to kick off 37th year with Mina Shum's Meditation Park

  17-08-2017 06:30 via vancouversun.com
  The 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival begins on September 28, 2017 with a screening of Mina Shum’s Meditation Park, the festival announced Wednesday.
  Shum’s film, her first since critically-acclaimed 2015 documentary Ninth Floor and her first feature-length film since 2002’s Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity, is a bittersweet comedy, filmed in East Vancouver and Chinatown, about a Chinese-Canadian wife who begins to suspect that her husband has been unfaithful. 
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, August 17

  17-08-2017 06:11 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, August 17.
  ECLIPSE: Total Alignment
  There’s a total solar eclipse coming, which is very cool and exciting. It’s also a great opportunity to learn about our solar system, and why it is that, occasionally, the sun disappears. This event includes a performance show in the Planetarium Star theatre, plus interactive multi- and mixed media art installations, attended by the artists and scientists
  
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• Classic Chevy convertible stolen from inside owner's Surrey garage

  17-08-2017 05:11 via vancouversun.com
  Colin Franklin had been awake barely 10 minutes when his neighbour knocked on his door last Friday.
  His garage door was wide open, Franklin was informed, and some of his golf gear was lying at the side of the road a few doors down on his quiet Morgan Creek cul-de-sac.
  Groggily, he retrieved his golfing clickcart from the side of the road and, when he got back to his garage, noticed all the stainless-steel doors to his cabinets were open.
  “It still hadn’t registered that my car was go
  
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• Vancouver anti-immigration rally organizers celebrate violence online

  17-08-2017 03:52 via vancouversun.com
  A group linked to an anti-immigration rally Saturday in Vancouver is using social media to celebrate the death of a woman killed by a white supremacist at a rally last weekend in Charlottesville, Va.
  The upcoming rally outside Vancouver City Hall is organized by the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam’s Canadian chapter (WCAI Canada), as well as the Cultural Action Party of Canada (CAP), according to an event Facebook page.
  Saturday, after protester Heather Heyer was allegedly mowed dow
  
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• Bacon murder trial: Inner workings of deadly Dhak Group detailed in court

  17-08-2017 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — Two of the three men accused of killing gangster Jonathan Bacon had beads associating them with the gang leader who allegedly ordered the hit on the gangsters with Bacon at the time of the shooting, a Kelowna court heard Wednesday.
  Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones are on trial for the murder of Bacon and the attempted murder of Hells Angel Larry Amero and two women who were also in a Porsche Cayenne that was shot up the afternoon of Aug. 14, 2011, outside the Del
  
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• Do it for your country: Winners announced in Canada 150 condom design contest

  17-08-2017 03:11 via vancouversun.com
  For as long as there’s been a Canada, Canadians have been having sex with one another. One could argue it’s a very Canadian activity.
  That in mind, it’s only fitting that the country’s 150th anniversary would be celebrated with a condom design contest, which reached a climax Wednesday as the winners of the ONE Condoms Canada Design Contest were announced.
  “We’re so impressed by all the designs across Canada, from loonies and lumberjacks to condom igloos a
  
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• Developers help fill Burnaby's coffers to tune of $1 billion

  17-08-2017 03:04 via vancouversun.com
  There are cranes galore and condo towers are popping up all over Burnaby’s major town centres. The physical transformation around Brentwood, Lougheed, Metrotown and Edmonds is dramatic, with nearly 100 new residential buildings underway or in the pipeline. 
  All of this construction is also helping fill the city’s coffers.
  Burnaby is one of only two municipalities in B.C. that operate debt-free.
  But it’s Burnaby that is known for investing its so-called “reserve funds
  
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• Petrowest agrees to receivership, faces termination from Site C

  17-08-2017 02:47 via vancouversun.com
  Matt Preprost, Sean Yoon
  Alaska Highway News/Business in Vancouver
  Financial troubles are mounting for Petrowest Corp., one of three main contractors involved in the building of the $8.8-billion Site C dam.
  The company has agreed to be placed into receivership and faces termination from Peace River Hydro Partners (PRHP) — the international consortium tasked with the $1.75-billion main civil-works construction of the dam.
  The firm says its lenders are seeking immediate repayment of all owed
  
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• Blackberries! Beat the birds. Pick the berries. Bake 'em & win prizes at the Blackberry Bake-off Aug 26 #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Blackberries! Beat the birds. Pick the berries. Bake 'em & win prizes at the Blackberry Bake-off Aug 26 #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Classic Chevy convertible stolen from inside owner's White Rock garage

  17-08-2017 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  Colin Franklin had been awake barely 10 minutes when his neighbour knocked on his door last Friday.
  His garage door was wide open, Franklin was informed, and some of his golf gear was laying at the side of the road a few doors down on his quiet Morgan Creek cul-de-sac.
  Groggily, he retrieved his golfing clickcart from the side of the road and, when he got back to his garage, noticed all the stainless-steel doors to his cabinets were open.
  “It still hadn’t registered that my car was g
  
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• The PNE has a new shimmer, and cricket fries

  17-08-2017 00:58 via vancouversun.com
  The Pacific National Exhibition will go to the ends of the earth to discover new trends to unveil to the masses.
  Sometimes it’s a ride like The Beast, an “extreme pendulum” that rips 12 storeys into the sky at 90 km/h, twirls, then sends riders hurtling 120 degrees in another direction.
  Other times it’s a gnarly new food, like a burger filled with macaroni and cheese, or a giant pickle stuffed with a hotdog, covered in cornmeal and deep-fried.
  This year’s hot item i
  
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• New report points to 10 areas to help reverse overdose toll in B.C.

  17-08-2017 00:58 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is calling for the expansion of prescription opioids in place of contaminated street drugs as a way to combat the province’s overdose death crisis.
  The idea to expand the prescribing of opioids such as injectable heroin and long-acting slow-release oral morphine is among 10 areas of action that came out of a meeting in June.
  The B.C. Overdose Action Exchange meeting involved 130 people, including health professionals and drug users, and resulted in a rep
  
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• B.C. wildfires set record for total land burned over

  17-08-2017 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. wildfires have destroyed a record amount of forest, brush and grassland, surpassing the devastation of nearly 60 years ago.
  Kevin Skrepnek with the B.C. Wildfire Service said about 8,944 square kilometres have been scorched by fires, breaking the 1958 record of 8,550 square kilometres.
  With no rain in the forecast for the wildfire-ravaged southern parts of the province, Skrepnek said more land will be burned.
  “Temperatures should be relatively seasonal going forward, so that’s o
  
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• Province says 2017 is B.C.'s worst wildfire season on record

  17-08-2017 00:54 via vancouversun.com
  The 2017 wildfire season is officially the worst on record in British Columbia.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service said Wednesday that a total of 1,026 wildfires have razed nearly 8,950 square kilometres, surpassing the old record of 8,560 square kilometres set in 1958.
  The majority of the activity has occurred in the province’s Cariboo region where fires have destroyed more than 6,700 square kilometres.
  B.C. Wildfire Service spokesman Kevin Skrepnek says there are still 142 fires currently bu
  
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• Strata dispute's legal costs staggering

  17-08-2017 00:29 via vancouversun.com
  A strata dispute over about $30,000 in rooftop renovations has dragged through the courts and morphed into a bitter debate over $200,000 in legal and other costs.
  The neighbour-versus-neighbour battle exemplifies why such squabbles were moved out of the courts last year and into the Civil Resolution Tribunal, which provides a ruling for about $250 in fees.
  The owners of a Homer Street strata building lost at trial, lost in the court of appeal and now say they have been staggered by a demand for
  
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• Trophy-hunting group accused of influencing Sun poll on grizzly hunt

  17-08-2017 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  An international trophy-hunting organization is being criticized for trying to influence a Vancouver Sun online poll on the NDP government ban on the grizzly trophy hunt.
  The 50,000-member, U.S.-based Safari Club International (SCI) has posted a tweet designed to rally its supporters, saying: “Your help is needed to support grizzly hunting! Click on this link and vote ‘NO’ at the end of the article!”
  The Sun’s poll asks: “Are you happy with the B.C. NDP’
  
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• #LynnHeadwaters access road closes to pedestrians/bikes on Aug 22 for 6-7 days as repairs continue. #NorthVan ow.ly/PoR930esRBl

  17-08-2017 00:27 via twitter.com
  #LynnHeadwaters access road closes to pedestrians/bikes on Aug 22 for 6-7 days as repairs continue. #NorthVan ow.ly/PoR930esRBl
  
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• Prince George police lay charges in alleged abduction attempts

  17-08-2017 00:09 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — A 35-year-old Prince George man faces several charges over allegations he tried to abduct two children in the city.
  Police say they were called Tuesday to a disturbance in a playground where a man and woman were fighting.
  The man ran off as police approached and they say they were told the man attempted to take a child from the playground before the woman intervened.
  Police say they caught up with the man and arrested him a short while later.
  After the arrest, police say th
  
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• Food scraps can be easy 5-star dining for bears. Reduce odour, keep #GreenCan clean. Get #BearAware tips @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  17-08-2017 00:01 via twitter.com
  Food scraps can be easy 5-star dining for bears. Reduce odour, keep #GreenCan clean. Get #BearAware tips @… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Research ramped up to provide more hope for cancer patients

  17-08-2017 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  With pancreatic-cancer patients facing the grimmest of all cancer prognoses, the B.C. Cancer Agency is ramping up research and protocols to provide more hope for such patients and their families.
  About 700 B.C. residents are expected to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a recent report, but since the cancer is most often detected in the advanced stage and is so difficult to treat, only six per cent survive past five years.
  Up to 10 per cent of those diagnosed with pancreatic canc
  
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