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• We're looking for an enthusiastic CPA to join our Finance and Technology Division. Apply now: ow.ly/uljA30eDkjE.

  23-08-2017 23:31 via twitter.com
  We're looking for an enthusiastic CPA to join our Finance and Technology Division. Apply now: ow.ly/uljA30eDkjE.
  
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• Blackberry Bake-off w/ prizes for best treats. Bring your fav blackberry dish to Greenwood Park Aug 26.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-08-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Blackberry Bake-off w/ prizes for best treats. Bring your fav blackberry dish to Greenwood Park Aug 26.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver native Alex Kerfoot spurns Canucks for Avalanche - Straight.com (blog)

  23-08-2017 21:14 via straight.com
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  North Vancouver native Alex Kerfoot spurns Canucks for Avalanche
  Straight.com (blog)
  College free agents often have to base their decision on where they might be able to get playing time, as they typically become available on August 15, after most teams have made their player personnel decisions. Teams of course will do their best to ...and more »
  
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• Free fun for youth 13-24 in #CivicPlaza TODAY 3-4:30pm w/ @GVYU. Snacks, art, games + music jams. #NorthVan @NVSD44 @NorthVanRC

  23-08-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Free fun for youth 13-24 in #CivicPlaza TODAY 3-4:30pm w/ @GVYU. Snacks, art, games + music jams. #NorthVan @NVSD44 @NorthVanRC
  
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• TODAY is Library Day at the PNE! Admission only $5 when you show your @NorthVanCityLib library card. Children 12 &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-08-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  TODAY is Library Day at the PNE! Admission only $5 when you show your @NorthVanCityLib library card. Children 12 &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sun letters to the editor for Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017

  23-08-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Douglas Todd’s Aug. 17 column regarding international students.
  I must reinforce in the strongest terms that there is no pressure from college administration to pass students who do not meet the learning outcomes of Langara courses.We make great efforts to ensure that students we admit are prepared for the high academic standards of our courses and programs. Langara has some of the highest English language admission requirements among B.C.’s post-secondary institutions. Those who
  
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• Vancouver police, Portland Hotel Society investigate fraud complaint

  23-08-2017 06:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police and PHS Community Services Society are investigating an alleged incident of fraud involving a PHS client.
  “PHS is conducting an internal investigation of the incident, and the VPD is also conducting its own investigation,” PHS executive director Jennifer Breakspear told Postmedia News on Tuesday.
  “We are co-operating fully with the VPD, and have provided them with evidence as requested. We are working closely with police to ensure the invest
  
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• Vancouver police, Portland Hotel Society investigate internal fraud complaint

  23-08-2017 05:28 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police and PHS Community Services Society are investigating an alleged incident of fraud involving a PHS client.
  “PHS is conducting internal investigation of the incident, and the VPD is also conducting its own investigation,” PHS executive director Jennifer Breakspear told Postmedia on Tuesday.
  “We are cooperating fully with the VPD, and have provided them with evidence as requested. We are working closely with police to ensure the investigations
  
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• Weaver pushes foreign-buyer ban for B.C. farmland

  23-08-2017 04:25 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s government must fight raging land speculation by banning non-resident purchases of B.C. farmland and extending a residential foreign-buyer tax across the province, Green party Leader Andrew Weaver said Tuesday.
  In an interview, Weaver said the introduction of Metro Vancouver’s 15-per-cent, foreign-buyer tax in July 2016 initially cooled markets, but quickly led to speculation in other areas, such as Lower Mainland farmland.
  “It is critical we act,” Weaver said, not
  
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• B.C. government seeks to join court case against Kinder Morgan

  23-08-2017 03:43 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – The B.C. government has formally applied for intervener status in a court case involving Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
  Attorney General David Eby said government lawyers on Tuesday filed the required paperwork with the Federal Court of Appeal to seek intervener status in upcoming court proceedings that seek to overturn the project’s environmental approval.
  “The court has to grant us permission and this filing today is the first step in that process,&
  
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• Bacon trial: Now-dead Dhak gang bodyguard spotted near murder scene

  23-08-2017 03:23 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — The bodyguard for the man accused of orchestrating the murder of Jonathan Bacon was in West Kelowna the morning of the shooting, surveillance tapes show.
  Thomas Mantel pumped gas into a silver pickup truck at a Shell station in West Kelowna at 3:23 a.m. on Aug. 14, 2011, as shown on security footage played Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court in Kelowna.
  Surveillance tapes from inside the store show a burly man with tattoos on the back of his neck, dressed in black, his face clearly vis
  
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• Eclipse tides break Washington salmon-farm nets sparking B.C. concerns

  23-08-2017 03:03 via vancouversun.com
  The escape of hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon from a fish farm northeast of Victoria on the Washington state side of the San Juan Islands has sparked concerns by B.C. conservation groups about the potential impacts on wild Pacific salmon.
  The farm operator, Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, said anchor lines to net pens broke Saturday afternoon and is blaming strong tides and currents leading up to Monday’s solar eclipse for causing the damage and allowing an unknown number of adult fish
  
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• Road rager ordered to pay $800K to North Vancouver beating victim - North Shore News

  23-08-2017 03:02 via nsnews.com
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  Road rager ordered to pay $800K to North Vancouver beating victim
  North Shore News
  The incident happened on Jan. 1, 2011 when Gerardo Arguello and Ryan McCaffery got into an altercation while merging onto the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrow Crossing, according to court documents. The two exchanged insults and began ...
  
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• This Just In: Kat Von D Creme Contour Palette

  23-08-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kat Von DCreme Contour Palette
  They say: A palette of six refillable cream and powder shades that can be combined and customized to create the “contour palette of your wildest dreams.” The colours come in neutral, cool and warm undertones, are non-greasy, blendable and are cruelty-free.
  We say: This palette may be best-suited for serious makeup fans who know how to contour and highlight like a pro given its limitations to purely those pursuits. Our tester, who considers herself to be
  
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• B.C. school districts in hiring crunch, face teachers shortage

  23-08-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  Help wanted. With two weeks left before the school year starts, hundreds of teaching positions are still vacant in more than 30 school districts across B.C.
  About 171 full-time jobs still need to be filled by September in Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford, Osoyoos, Fort St. John, Prince George and other districts, according to Make a Future, the recruitment arm of the B.C. Public School Employers Association. The vacancies are highest in the north, where 48 positions are yet to be filled, followed b
  
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• B.C. government posts massive but likely unsustainable surplus

  23-08-2017 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The massive provincial surplus inherited by B.C.’s New Democrats may look impressive at first glance, but economists say it could disappear quickly as the economy settles and the new government follows through on its ambitious spending promises.
  B.C. ended the fiscal year on March 31 with a $2.7 billion surplus, Finance Minister Carole James announced Tuesday. That’s a huge spike from the $264 million surplus the previous Liberal government had budgeted in February 2
  
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• Surrey RCMP display seized drugs, weapons and ask for help in locating suspect

  23-08-2017 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP are seeking the public’s help in tracking down an alleged drug trafficker following a massive bust last week. 
  In February, the detachment’s drug section began investigating a local drug-distribution network operating throughout the Lower Mainland and “preying” on drug users at Surrey’s notorious “Strip” on 135A Street, Cpl. Scotty Schumann said.
  Officers executed four search warrants on Aug. 16 and 17 in the South Surrey and Guildf
  
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• Signing off every night at PNE fair with dazzling drone show

  23-08-2017 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  Move over, fireworks. The drones are in town.
  Instead of the usual fireworks capping a day at The Fair at the PNE, this year a fleet of drones takes centre stage in a choreographed light show synced to music.
  “It’s a really cool new art medium,” said Everett Findlay, the CEO of Arrowonics, a Toronto-based tech startup that puts together the nightly finale mounted above a pond and can be viewed from Festival Park. “It’s working in 3-D space as opposed to a flat canva
  
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• Help us build a more active, vibrant & safe community. #WalkCNV Pop-Up, Aug 26 5-7pm @ #SummerSessions.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-08-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Help us build a more active, vibrant & safe community. #WalkCNV Pop-Up, Aug 26 5-7pm @ #SummerSessions.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Securities Commission finds insurance agent bilked investors

  23-08-2017 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Securities Commission panel has found that a former insurance sales agent perpetrated a fraud on 13 investors by using their money for personal use, including gambling.
  The commission panel found that in 2009 and 2010 Lynne Rae Nickford, also known as Lynne Rae Zlotnik, convinced 13 investors to loan or invest nearly $2 million in her Vancouver-based company, LZ Wealth Management.
  She told the investors — 11 individuals and two couples — that their money would be used for the
  
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• Richmond cops say distracted driver hit officer

  23-08-2017 01:27 via vancouversun.com
  A high speed chase in Richmond Monday afternoon sent a Mountie to hospital, left vehicles damaged and police on the lookout for a suspect.
  According to a media release from Richmond RCMP, police were looking for distracted drivers on No. 3 Road.
  At about 3:30 p.m., they pulled over a brown 2005 Audi that had been driving north toward Alderbridge Way. The driver, they say, was “using a mobile device.”
  The driver stopped briefly before taking off and turning east on Alderbridge. In the
  
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• Missing Mission cat found three bridges, seven cities and 32 days from home

  23-08-2017 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  It was the morning of July 11, and Sox had run out the door of his Mission home as he was accustomed to doing.
  The one-year-old rescue cat fancied himself a bit of a dog, as his owner Ralena White put it, and his regular routine included lengthy outdoor jaunts, hangout time with White’s husband before he headed to work, and frequent meals back at home.
  “He comes back every three hours, pretty much like clockwork. He’s a bit of a pig,” White explained. 
  But not on Jul
  
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• Chilliwack and Surrey wildfire evacuation centres scale down as students and skaters set to return

  23-08-2017 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  Wildfire evacuee reception centres in the Lower Mainland have scaled down their operations over the past few weeks as the number of evacuees from the B.C. Interior has dwindled.
  Reception centres were set up in Chilliwack and Surrey in mid-July, when the number of people displaced by the fires climbed to around 37,000. There are currently 23 evacuation orders affecting 2,672 people.
  “The needs have tapered down quite a bit,” said Surrey support services manager Kerri Van Eaton.
  Surre
  
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• Final #SummerSessions of the season Aug 26. #MostlyMarley will be playin' some Classic Reggae tunes to get you on y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-08-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Final #SummerSessions of the season Aug 26. #MostlyMarley will be playin' some Classic Reggae tunes to get you on y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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