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• 29th season of bard on the beach

  31-08-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  Saturday, Sept. 23, is the final curtain call for the 28th season of Bard on the Beach. This year’s offer of a marvellous and inventive Much Ado About Nothing, a haunting period piece in A Winter’s Tale, Two Gentleman of Verona and the Merchant of Venice proved a huge fan and critical success. Heck, there was even a starring role for a dog.
  What better time to announce the 29th season of the annual Shakespeare festival in Vanier Park?
  Running June 6 to Sept. 22, 2018, the plays inclu
  
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• Who's diggin' the new outdoor dining spaces in Lower Lonsdale? Tell us here, takes 2 minutes:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-08-2017 21:46 via twitter.com
  Who's diggin' the new outdoor dining spaces in Lower Lonsdale? Tell us here, takes 2 minutes:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Restaurant review: Oddfish goes for simple and delicious

  31-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Oddfish
  1881 West 1st Avenue | 604-564-6330
  Open Tuesday to Sunday for dinner. oddfishrestaurant.com
  To find a good meal, you can’t go wrong pointing yourself in the direction of the 1800 block of West 1st Avenue, especially since Oddfish opened earlier this summer, making for a hedonistic street. Oddfish is within hailing distance of AnnaLena, Cacao and Koko Monk Artisan Chocolates.
  It’s run by veteran restaurateurs Mike Jeffs, wife Nicole Welsh and partners Brad Roark and Jamie Max
  
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• B.C. child-killer Allan Schoenborn not high risk, judge rules

  31-08-2017 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has rejected an application to have a British Columbia man designated a high-risk accused after he was found not criminally responsible for killing his three children nine years ago.
  Justice Martha Devlin of the B.C. Supreme Court said Thursday that Allan Schoenborn does not pose a high enough risk that he could cause grave physical or psychological harm to another person.
  Devlin said based on Schoenborn’s progress, current mental condition and the opinions of experts, there is no
  
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• Last #LongTableLunch 12-2pm #CivicPlaza. FREE @welcomeparlour ice cream for first 50 people! Live music, food + fun… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-08-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  Last #LongTableLunch 12-2pm #CivicPlaza. FREE @welcomeparlour ice cream for first 50 people! Live music, food + fun… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ruling finding B.C. Children's Ministry failed to protect kids overturned

  31-08-2017 19:36 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that found the province’s Children’s Ministry failed to protect kids from being sexually abused by their father.
  The appeal court has also dismissed a family court decision that found the father had sexually abused his children and ordered a new trial.
  The three-judge panel unanimously agreed that B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Walker largely relied on evidence from an expert witness who misrepresente
  
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• Greyhound bus route on B.C.'s Highway of Tears one of five that could be axed

  31-08-2017 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Greyhound Canada has applied to regulators in British Columbia to drop five routes, four of them in northern B.C., as the company deals with plunging ridership.
  Greyhound calls the decision “regrettably unavoidable” in a news release but says there has been a 51 per cent drop in riders since 2010, along with higher costs and increased competition from publicly subsidized services.
  Routes that would be eliminated include a 718 kilometre run along Highway 16, the so-c
  
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• B.C. schools scrambling to hire teachers to meet new class-size standards

  31-08-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — School districts in British Columbia are scrambling to hire thousands of teachers ahead of the new school year to satisfy a court decision that reinstates standards on class size.
  The Supreme Court of Canada ruled last November that legislation implemented by the province’s previous Liberal government in 2002 that prevented teachers from negotiating class size and composition related to special needs students was unconstitutional, resulting in a need for 3,000 to 3,500 mo
  
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• We’re recruiting for a temporary full-time Clerk - Permits. Click here to apply: ow.ly/Y8vQ30eOPSb

  31-08-2017 18:52 via twitter.com
  We’re recruiting for a temporary full-time Clerk - Permits. Click here to apply: ow.ly/Y8vQ30eOPSb
  
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• Parents – talk to your kids about “Pre-Graduation” parties! bit.ly/2eHG43j #NorthVancouver

  31-08-2017 18:32 via twitter.com
  Parents – talk to your kids about “Pre-Graduation” parties!bit.ly/2eHG43j#NorthVancouver
  
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• RCMP task force to probe kidnapping scam targeting Chinese nationals

  31-08-2017 17:48 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. RCMP has created a joint task force to investigate a series of false kidnapping threats targeting Chinese nationals living in Metro Vancouver.
  In July, Mounties issued a public warning after at least six people reported receiving messages that said their personal information had been compromised and that they had been implicated in a crime back in China.
  They were then instructed to contact Chinese officials and that if they didn’t cooperate, their family back in China would be ha
  
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• Spoon drops Hot Thoughts

  31-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spoon
  Sept. 2, 7 p.m. | Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park
  Tickets: $45 at livenation.com
  With its latest record, Hot Thoughts, Spoon manages to do something few thought possible. The Austin, Tex., trio actually pairs down its already sparse sound and puts even more space into the 10 tracks.
  The result is the band’s most-seductive and also funky release.
  Songwriter, lead-singer and guitarist Britt Daniel says that drummer Jim Eno will have his work cut out for him, as the beats on Hot Thoughts are
  
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• Last wheeze for Accordion Noir? Let's hope not

  31-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  10th annual Accordion Noir Festival
  Sept. 7-10 | various venues
  Info and tickets: accordionnoirfest.com
  Wither Accordion Noir, one of Western Canada’s most unique music festivals?
  Katheryn Petersen is sounding the alarm.
  “This is a big year; it’s our 10th,” said Petersen. She’s artistic director for the Accordion Noir Festival Society, the festival’s presenter.
  “It’s a great achievement. But it’s probably the last time you’ll see the Ac
  
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• Kris Sims: Turning ICBC into driver-owned co-op would lower rates

  31-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Insurance Corp. of B.C. was launched in 1973 in the era of lava lamps and shag carpeting. Back then, All in the Family, Gunsmoke and Kojak were the best shows on our rabbit-eared TV sets and our governments ran things like phone companies and coal mines.
  Today, millions of Canadians in other provinces don’t have their government run an auto-insurance company. Those drivers get to pick their own car insurance, and they benefit from the healthy competition of dozens of competing com
  
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• iHeartRadio Beach Ball at PNE

  31-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  iHeartRadio Beach Ball
  Sept. 3-4, 2 p.m. | PNE Amphitheatre
  Tickets: From $69 at ticketleader.ca
  Shawn Hook played the PNE before. When the Nelson-born-and-raised singer first moved to Vancouver, he entered the annual talent show at the fair.
  “Yeah, I entered it and I won, which was pretty cool actually,” said Hook. “But I haven’t played there since, so I’m really looking forward to it.”
  Hook appears as part of the iHeartRadio Beach Ball. The two-day-long
  
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• Comics head north for some calm Canadian laughs

  31-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lewis Black and Kathleen Madigan the 49th Parallel Tour
  Sept. 7, 8 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets: $39-$70 at ticketmaster.ca
  In an episode about politics on the CNN series The History of Comedy, American comedian Lewis Black explained that politicians make him angry and when he’s angry he’s funny.
  So after Charlottesville, Va., North Korea, Russia and just about everything else happening with the Trump administration, how is he feeling these days?
  “I’m staggering
  
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• B.C. chief charged with sexual interference placed on leave of absence

  31-08-2017 16:54 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. First Nations chief charged with sexual interference has been placed on leave effective immediately.
  Chief Roger William of the Xeni Gwent’in First Nations in Williams Lake has been placed on a leave of absence, according to a statement issued Thursday morning by the Tsilhqot’in National Government. The Xeni Gwent’in is one of six nations that form the Tsilqot’in.
  “The TNG takes this matter very seriously,” read the statement issued by communications ma
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you support the Liberal leadership date change?

  31-08-2017 15:59 via vancouversun.com
  Following former premier Christy Clark’s resignation as leader of the B.C. Liberals, the party was set to announce its new leader on Feb. 4 in Vancouver, the same day as the 52nd Super Bowl in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  On Wednesday, the party announced it had changed the date of its leadership race, after they received a number of requests to consider rescheduling, in order to prevent a clash between the political appointment and the NFL championship game.A new leader will now be announced F
  
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• 'Perfect' mannequins can sour shoppers on clothing being marketed

  31-08-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you find yourself window-shopping and feeling like there’s nothing good, check the mannequin.
  A recently published University of B.C. study found that mannequins’ long legs, tiny waists and perky chests can cause some shoppers, particularly those with low self-esteem, to be turned off from the item of clothing the mannequin is marketing.
  “When that mannequin is an example of perfection, it reminds people who are vulnerable that they don’t measure up,” said study
  
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• Former B.C. health minister Terry Lake to join growing marijuana company

  31-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s former health minister, Terry Lake, is moving to the Ottawa area this weekend to become a vice-president of a “luxury” medical marijuana company that is poised for massive growth.
  Hydropothecary Corp. is a Health Canada authorized producer of medical marijuana with a 26-hectare facility in Gatineau, Que., that is about to get six times larger. The company was co-founded in 2013 by a stalwart Liberal, Adam Miron, who also helped start ipolitics.ca, a news website is popul
  
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• Five Things to Know: Lake goes to pot, drive-by eggers identified

  31-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s former health minister is getting into the marijuana business, the latest Surrey shooting victim has been identified, and so have four North Vancouver drive-by eggers. Here are five things you need to know.
  Lake goes to pot
  Wondering what Terry Lake, B.C.’s former minister from 2013 – 2017, is up to since stepping away from politics? (You probably aren’t, but stay with me.)
  Lake is moving to the Ottawa area this weekend to become vice-president of a “luxury&r
  
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• Paving the way for energy savings in schools

  31-08-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  BC Hydro works with some of B.C.’s largest organizations to strategically manage plans around energy efficiency. The important work being done by some of this province’s leaders in energy management is being featured in this space. This month, the discussion highlights how K-12 schools can benefit from energy efficiency.
  After putting a little thought into it, Alexandra Tudose believes she has identified the moment when her personal connection to the natural world bloomed into life.
  
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• Vigils to be held Thursday on International Overdose Awareness Day

  31-08-2017 08:23 via vancouversun.com
  People who use drugs and their loved ones will observe International Overdose Awareness Day at solemn events Thursday across B.C. as a fentanyl-related, public-health emergency shows little sign of slowing down.
  In the first half of 2017, 780 people died of an illicit-drug overdose death in B.C., compared with 414 during the same period last year, when there were a total of 978 deaths in 2016, according to a B.C. Coroners Service report last month. 
  Meanwhile, first-responders are strained
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Hells Angels Larry Amero freed after charges stayed

  31-08-2017 08:20 via vancouversun.com
  Even though Hells Angel Larry Amero has been in a Quebec jail for almost five years, he is still a powerful biker here in B.C. And now he could be coming back to his home province. He had major drug charges stayed Wednesday because of the length of time it took him to get to trial.
  Amero’s name has come out repeatedly at the trial in Kelowna of three men charged with killing Jonathan Bacon and injuring Amero in a 2011 shooting. But it has also come out at the Vancouver murder trial of Unit
  
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• Adventure cats? Meow's the time to explore outdoors with feline friend

  31-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the classic car-camping photo, taken just outside of Parksville on Vancouver Island where Lindsday Richards and Iain Roby were relaxing last week.
  The two of them are on a makeshift bed in the back of their wagon with the door swung in the air. And in their arms are their two pet cats: Fish and Chips, who love hiking and the great outdoors as much as they do.
  Fish, who is more energetic and fearless, tags along on multi-day, backpacking treks such as a recent one along the Juan de Fuc
  
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• Surrey's latest shooting victim was a gang associate who had been shot before

  31-08-2017 05:43 via vancouversun.com
  A young Surrey man with gang links is the latest to die in a targeted murder.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Wednesday that Pardeep Singh, 22, was shot to death in the driveway of his Cloverdale home Tuesday night.
  “Mr. Singh was known to police, and was associated to gangs. Investigators are working to determine motive, but believe that Mr. Singh’s murder was targeted,” Cpl. Meghan Foster said in a news release.
  Singh’s gang activity came to light when h
  
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• High-profile B.C. Hells Angel released after cocaine charges stayed

  31-08-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  For years, friends of incarcerated Hells Angel Larry Amero have pasted “Free Larry” stickers on their Harleys to demand his release.
  On Wednesday, they finally got their wish after a judge in Quebec stayed organized crime and cocaine importation charges against the prominent B.C. gangster.
  Prosecutor Philippe Vallières-Roland confirmed to Postmedia News that the charges were stayed because of the length of time the case took to get to trial.
  Last year, the Supreme Court of Can
  
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• Courtenay man injured in softball game has died

  31-08-2017 04:40 via vancouversun.com
  A Courtenay man has died after being hit on the head by a softball during a charity ball tournament on Aug. 19.
  A posting on the GoFundMe for Chris Godfrey, 32, about 4 p.m. Wednesday stated that he “passed peacefully this afternoon with his loving and devoted wife Amanda by his side at Victoria General Hospital. Chris was a devoted father, husband, son, brother and friend to so many, and he is going to be greatly missed by all whose path he crossed.”
  Godfrey was the father of a one-
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Judge slaps NDP, but allows it to intervene in pipeline case

  31-08-2017 04:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats have managed to secure a seat for B.C. in the court challenge to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, but only after enduring a public spanking by the presiding judge.
  “British Columbia does not appear to understand the basic ground rules of the complex proceeding it is seeking to enter,” wrote Justice David Stratas of the Federal Court of Appeal this week in granting B.C. intervener status to oppose the federal government’s approval of
  
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• Fall For Local market returns to North Vancouver with 65-plus small businesses on deck - Straight.com

  31-08-2017 04:02 via straight.com
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  Fall For Local market returns to North Vancouver with 65-plus small businesses on deck
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  Shop eco-friendly, handcrafted pet feeders by Vancouver's Howl & Home at Fall For Local's upcoming fall edition on the North Shore. Howl & Home. Fall For Local doesn't market itself as an arts-and-crafts fair—or even a marker's market, for that matter ...
  
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• National Energy Board says Trans Mountain meets conditions for B.C. terminal

  31-08-2017 03:58 via vancouversun.com
  The National Energy Board says the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has met conditions required for the expansion of the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby.
  Trans Mountain, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Canada, plans to expand the terminal’s dock to load three tankers at once, up from one, and increase the number of delivery pipelines.
  The expanded terminal is part of a $7.4-billion project that would triple the capacity of an Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline and increase tanker traffic
  
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• Five people rescued from burning fishing boat near Nanaimo

  31-08-2017 03:56 via vancouversun.com
  A blaze on a fishing boat near Gabriola Island, east of Nanaimo, has five people in medical care.
  Lt.-Cmdr. John Nethercott of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria said the people were rescued by a nearby vessel after a distress call went out at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday.
  Later, a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft arrived on scene. The rescued five were transferred to the hovercraft, who then transported them to Vancouver for further medical treatment.
  The boat is 22 metres long and is regis
  
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• Emergency plan found wanting when B.C. wildfires struck

  31-08-2017 03:53 via vancouversun.com
  WILLIAMS LAKE — The first thing Williams Lake Indian Band administrator Marg Shelley did when a fast-moving wildfire began to bear down on her community last month was pull out the band’s emergency management plan and start making phone calls.
  She was shocked to find that many of the numbers listed were unavailable — including the one for Indigenous and Northern Affairs, which the department didn’t know was out of service — or the lines were busy.
  “It took qui
  
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• Canucks' Gudbranson needs the right defensive partner this season

  31-08-2017 03:29 via vancouversun.com
  In the horror season that was Erik Gudbranson’s Canucks debut, there was actually a thing that went well.
  Yes, you can take a moment to set yourself.
  Between his wrist never working properly and a slew of negative numbers — both of the traditional and fancy varieties — very little went well in 2016-17. The one thing that did was his ability to make things difficult at the blue-line.
  More on that in a moment.
  When he was re-signed to a one-year extension, Vancouver made it clear
  
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• Report finds caregiver distress leading to more seniors in facilities

  31-08-2017 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  Increasing access to adult day programs for seniors is one of the recommendations by B.C.’s seniors advocate to address rising distress among family caregivers.
  Isobel Mackenzie said Wednesday that distress among primary caregivers has increased by seven to 31 per cent since her last report two years ago. In total numbers, that’s an increase of more than 1,000 caregivers in distress.
  Mackenzie wouldn’t describe the situation as a crisis. But she did say that a crisis tends to e
  
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• B.C. Hydro calculates cost of cancelling Massey bridge project

  31-08-2017 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro has quietly begun the process of calculating what it would cost to cancel its part in the multi-billion-dollar George Massey Tunnel replacement project.
  The Crown agency has asked contractors to figure out how much they would charge to abruptly stop work on moving two transmission lines from inside the Massey tunnel to an overhead line near the proposed new 10-lane bridge, which was announced five years ago when the Liberals were in power in Victoria.
  Two contrac
  
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• Should we build more sidewalks? Or upgrade existing ones? Take our #WalkCNV survey and have your say!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-08-2017 01:45 via twitter.com
  Should we build more sidewalks? Or upgrade existing ones? Take our #WalkCNV survey and have your say!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Man shot to death in driveway of Surrey home – UPDATED

  31-08-2017 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  Two years ago, Pardeep Singh was shot in Surrey’s gang conflict, but survived.
  On Tuesday night, he wasn’t so lucky.
  The 22-year-old Surrey man with gang links is just the latest to die in a targeted murder.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a new release that Singh was shot to death in the driveway of his Cloverdale home. He was found inside a vehicle.
  “Mr. Singh was known to police, and was associated to gangs.  Investigators are working to determin
  
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• Vancouver's 90-year-old cobbler finally retires

  31-08-2017 01:34 via vancouversun.com
  Thursday is the last time 90-year-old Henry Ng will work a 12-hour shift as a cobbler.
  Ng has run his shop, Henry’s Shoe Repair, in Vancouver’s Punjabi Market neighbourhood for a half-century. Now he’s retiring.
  The short man — owner of possibly the world’s widest smile — laughed when he was asked if he could really give up his dawn-to-dusk routine with a metaphorical snap of the fingers.
  “Play in the garden. Drink coffee,” he said of how he’
  
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• REAL SCOOP: VPD investigating eastside shooting

  31-08-2017 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Police officers are investigating shots fired Tuesday night in an east Vancouver neighbourhood,  Const. Jason Doucette said Wednesday.
  Doucette said in a news release that no one was injured in the shooting and no arrests have been made.
  “Just after 11:30 p.m. on August 29, the VPD received 911 calls reporting what callers described as gunshots in the area near East 22nd Avenue and Rupert Street,” he said. “Officers searched the area and spoke with several p
  
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• Atlantic salmon catches hint at widening circle of escapees in B.C.

  31-08-2017 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey sport angler Adam de Bosch Kemper’s accidental catch of Atlantic salmon in a smelt fishing net last Saturday night off White Rock offers further evidence of how far thousands of escaped salmon from a Washington State fish farm have spread in Canadian waters.
  De Bosch Kemper had just set his net and was waiting to see if it would fill with the small, sardine-like fish when he noticed two bigger fish thrashing in the net under the light of his headlamp. At first, he mistook them for s
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP looking to charge teens in egging that injured 13-year-old's eye - North Shore News

  31-08-2017 01:10 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver RCMP looking to charge teens in egging that injured 13-year-old's eye
  North Shore News
  Marcus van Bylandt addresses the media in North Vancouver on Friday. His son Matthys, pictured on the left, was seriously injured Monday in Canyon Heights when an egg thrown from a passing vehicle struck him in the eye. file photo Mike Wakefield, North ...
  Charges recommended in North Vancouver drive-by egging that injured youthVancouver Sun
  North Vancouver RCMP identify
  
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• B.C. Liberals change leadership dates to avoid Super Bowl clash

  31-08-2017 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  To avoid a potential political fumble B.C.’s Liberal party is moving the dates of its leadership race to avoid conflicting with the Super Bowl.
  The party had planned to announce its new leader on Feb. 4 at a convention in Vancouver — the same day the NFL’s championship game will be played in Minnesota.
  On Wednesday, the party said the date was being changed and a new leader will now be announced Feb. 3 after three days of voting online and by telephone.
  Liberal president Sharon
  
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• Back to school in B.C. by the numbers

  31-08-2017 00:43 via vancouversun.com
  More than half a million B.C. students in Grades K-12 are heading back to class after the Labour Day long weekend. Here’s a compilation of some important numbers for fans of ‘rithmetic to launch the school year.
  537,589
  Students expected to enrol in B.C. public schools for 2017-18.
  That’s 4,232 more students than last year, according to B.C.’s Ministry of Education. Last school year there were 66,665 students with special needs (up 2.2 per cent over the previous year), 69
  
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• Is your traffic circle garden looking thirsty? Please bring over a hose/watering can & give it a much needed drink.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-08-2017 00:05 via twitter.com
  Is your traffic circle garden looking thirsty? Please bring over a hose/watering can & give it a much needed drink.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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