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• Firefighters are on scene at a working structure fire on Regent Ave. in Lynn Valley. They are hitting the seat of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 23:52 via twitter.com
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• Toxic algae near Kamloops possibly linked to cattle deaths, sick dogs

  07-09-2017 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Visitors to a popular recreational lake in British Columbia’s southern Interior want better warnings about a potentially dangerous strain of algae suspected to be growing in the water.
  Kamloops resident Anita Ashton says she and her family visited Tunkwa Lake, west of Kamloops, over the Labour Day weekend but the trip was interrupted when their dog Rufuss suddenly collapsed.
  Ashton says the vet determined Rufuss would pull through but had likely consumed something that con
  
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• Driver sent to hospital following Highway 1 shootout in Langley

  07-09-2017 23:31 via vancouversun.com
  A man is in hospital recovering from gunshot wounds after being shot while driving through Langley Wednesday night.
  Langley RCMP say the man was driving a white Jeep SUV westbound on Highway 1 between 200th Street and 192nd Street when he was fired upon by occupants in a mid-90s black Acura.
  Despite being shot, Mounties say the man, whose name was not released, was able to drive to the area of 96th Avenue and 176th Street in Surrey where he awaited assistance before being taken to hospital
  
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  07-09-2017 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Delta casino site gets preliminary approval

  07-09-2017 23:14 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Lottery Corporation has given preliminary approval for a casino to open in Delta.
  Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Ltd. wants to relocate the Newton Community Gaming Centre in Surrey to the Delta Town and Country Inn.
  The Newton facility has operated as a bingo hall since 2014, when the BCLC stripped the facility of its 150 slot machines at the request of Surrey city council.
  The Corporation of Delta recommended the Delta Town and Country Inn as the only suitable site &mdas
  
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• Person in custody after dead man discovered in Surrey house fire

  07-09-2017 23:12 via vancouversun.com
  A fire investigation has given way to a murder investigation after a dead man was found inside a burning house in Surrey early Thursday morning.
  Surrey RCMP were called to a house fire at 112A Avenue and 124 Street at 12:41 a.m., after firefighters discovered the body of a deceased male.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team took over the investigation after it was determined the man died under suspicious circumstances. The cause of the fire was also deemed suspicious.
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• CORRECTION: This #LynnValley event takes place on Sept 16, not the 12th, as we tweeted originally. Sorry! twitter.com/NVanDistrict/s…

  07-09-2017 23:12 via twitter.com
  CORRECTION: This #LynnValley event takes place on Sept 16, not the 12th, as we tweeted originally. Sorry! twitter.com/NVanDistrict/s…
  
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• Sept 12, celebrate #LynnValley LINK, a series of joined trails that enable you to explore LV's beautiful setting:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 22:22 via twitter.com
  Sept 12, celebrate #LynnValley LINK, a series of joined trails that enable you to explore LV's beautiful setting:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Green party will run three candidates in Vancouver school board election

  07-09-2017 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  The Green Party of Vancouver has unveiled its three candidates to run for the nine open positions on the Vancouver school board.
  Dr. Janet Fraser, a chemist and former VSB trustee, Estrellita Gonzalez, a wellness consultant, and Dr. Judy Zaichkowsky, professor of marketing at Simon Fraser University, will be among the names on the ballot to repopulated the vacant Vancouver school board.
  Former education minister Mike Bernier fired the Vancouver school board trustees for failing to
  
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• City open houses, surveys, grants, events & more. It's all right here in this week's #CityView eNews:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 22:15 via twitter.com
  City open houses, surveys, grants, events & more. It's all right here in this week's #CityView eNews:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cops say alert citizen helped police nab guitar thief in Vancouver

  07-09-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  An alert citizen who reported suspicious activity to police is credited with helping to recover a stolen guitar.
  Vancouver police say the 911 call came in around 7 p.m. Wednesday from a man who had spotted “suspicious behaviour” in the area of Keefer Street and Heatley Avenue. The citizen said he had seen two people kneeling beside a parked car with a smashed window before running off with a guitar case.
  Information shared by the citizen helped police to locate and arrest a suspect a
  
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• North Vancouver police seek man who performed indecent act in public

  07-09-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  North Vancouver police are hoping the public can help identify a man who performed an indecent act in front of a woman last month.
  On Aug. 9 around 1 p.m., an elderly woman was walking alone in the Lynn Valley area when she was approached by an unknown man. The man then performed an indecent act in front of her and then rode away on an older navy blue mountain bike. He was wearing a silver and blue bike helmet.
  “Thankfully the female victim was not physically injured,” said Cpl. Rich
  
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• North Vancouver police seek man who performed indecent act in ... - Vancouver Sun

  07-09-2017 21:19 via vancouversun.com
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  On Aug. 9 around 1 p.m., an elderly woman was walking alone in the Lynn Valley area when she was approached by an unknown man.
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• North Vancouver police seek man who performed indecent act in public - Vancouver Sun

  07-09-2017 21:19 via vancouversun.com
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  On Aug. 9 around 1 p.m., an elderly woman was walking alone in the Lynn Valley area when she was approached by an unknown man. Stephanie Ip More from Stephanie Ip. Published on: September 7, 2017 | Last Updated: September 7, 2017 12:51 PM ...
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• NPA names candidates for Vancouver council and school board byelection

  07-09-2017 20:51 via vancouversun.com
  Hector Bremner, an energy company lobbyist and former Liberal government staffer, has been selected to represent the NPA in the Oct. 14 Vancouver city council byelection.
  Currently vice-president of public affairs for the media relations firm Pace Group, Bremner is a former B.C. Liberal candidate who worked in various roles in 2014 and 2015 for former deputy premier Rich Coleman.
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• The City encourages families to walk or roll to school, and leave the car at home, or at least five minutes away.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  The City encourages families to walk or roll to school, and leave the car at home, or at least five minutes away.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Public Assistance Needed In Indecent Act Investigation bit.ly/2xRYeXM #NorthVancouver https://t.co/b05oCh7aTT

  07-09-2017 20:20 via twitter.com
  
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• Fentanyl detected in 81 per cent of overdose deaths in 2017: coroners

  07-09-2017 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  About three people died per day of an overdose in the month of July, according to the latest numbers released by the B.C. Coroners Service.
  There were 91 suspected drug overdose deaths in July, which is about three per day and which represents a 30 per cent increase over the same month last year. That brings the year’s total of overdose deaths up to 876, an 82 per cent increase over the same period in 2016 when 482 deaths were recorded from January to July.
  Of those 876 deaths, fentanyl wa
  
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• Fab 5: Eighties redux

  07-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Our obsession with the 1980s continues, and while some of the fashion from the decade is pretty cringe-y (especially if you wore it the first time around), there are options that are definitely palatable. You might even call them cool. From mom jeans to designer fanny packs, Rebecca Tay presents five ’80s styles to give a try.
  SHOE BUSINESS
  Stilettos like these probably had Keith Haring-style prints, graffiti or spray paint motifs on them the first time around, but there’s something
  
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• Demi-Gods: Book details incestuous adolescent relationships

  07-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Demi-Gods
  Eliza Robertson 
  Hamish Hamilton | $29.95
  Don’t let the summery, slightly sexy cover of this book fool you. It’s neither as bright nor as carefree as the cover art — what with its bathing suit-clad girls and blue sky — would have you imagine.
  In fact, the tale bound between the hardcover confines is unsettling, slightly odd — and a tad bit incestuous. 
  Montreal-based author Eliza Robertson brings readers to her native Vancouver Island in her
  
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• NPA names candidates for Vancouver byelection, school board

  07-09-2017 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  Hector Bremner, an energy company lobbyist and former Liberal government staffer, has been selected to represent the NPA in the Oct. 14 Vancouver byelection.
  Currently vice-president of public affairs for the media relations firm Pace Group, Bremner is a former B.C. Liberal candidate who worked in various roles in 2014 and 2015 for former deputy premier Rich Coleman.
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  NPA nomination contest for Vancouver seat marked by controversyDiego Cardona named Vision candidate for council in Oc
  
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• Add weight and warmth to your daily wines for fall

  07-09-2017 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  Summer’s not gone yet, but those long, warm evenings are quickly dissipating. With fall knocking on the door it’s time to consider exchanging those rosé and the light whites you been drinking all summer for a bit more weight and warmth in your daily wines.
  White wine isn’t so much a problem, but finding what I would term affordable reds for everyday drinking isn’t as easy as it once was. The affordable part in B.C. is almost laughable, and when you combine it with
  
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• REAL SCOOP: B.C. woman linked to bizarre U.S. kidnapping plot

  07-09-2017 18:50 via vancouversun.com
  Someone on twitter tipped me to this weird story out of Tennessee implicating a Williams Lake woman in an American plot to kidnap a judge and a sheriff. When I started looking at Suzanne Holland’s local history, I found that she was already facing criminal charges here. And I found several court rulings by B.C. judges calling her a “vexatious” litigant. She tried unsuccessfully to sue the B.C. and federal governments, as well as the American Dental Association over mercury fill
  
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• Take the #WalkCNV survey to weigh in on the strategies proposed to make our community more walkable… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Take the #WalkCNV survey to weigh in on the strategies proposed to make our community more walkable… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man shot while driving on Highway 1 in Surrey: reports

  07-09-2017 16:11 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating after a man was shot while driving on Highway 1 late Wednesday evening.
  The driver was headed west when the incident occurred around 10 p.m.; he then pulled off the highway and stopped near 176th Street and 96th Avenue on the border between Surrey and Langley. He has reportedly been taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
  Police then closed a section of Highway 1 for about two hours while combing the scene for clues.
  Surrey RCMP have not release
  
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• Homicide police to investigate fatal house fire in Surrey

  07-09-2017 15:34 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide police have been called in to investigate a fatal house fire that took place early Thursday morning in Surrey.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is reportedly on scene at 112A Avenue and 124 Street, where a fire in a home was reported just after midnight.
  More to come.SURREY, B.C.: SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 – Homicide investigators are looking into a fatal house fire that took place in Surrey, B.C. in the early morning hours of Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. A single storey house was f
  
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• Theatre review: Mr. Foote's Other Leg has its kicks

  07-09-2017 15:01 via vancouversun.com
  Mr. Foote’s Other Leg
  To Sept. 24 | Jericho Arts Centre
  Tickets & Info: $20-$26 at http://www.unitedplayers.com
  When the Playhouse Theatre Company folded in 2012, it left a void in Vancouver’s theatrical landscape. Who would do the British classics? They’re expensive — big casts, lots of costumes — and who wants to see that old stuff anyway.
  We still get plenty of Shakespeare, but not much else of the Brits, except from United Players. They opened last season wi
  
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• Vancouver teen pens children's novel

  07-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Big Adventures Come in Small Packages  
  By Jessica Haight
  Wildflower Books
  While most teens would be worrying about whether to post that selfie to social media, Vancouverite Jessica Haight was wondering whether she should publish her first novel.
  The 18-year-old decided the time was right to release her tale of a young guinea pig, and Big Adventures Come in Small Packages was the result. 
  Haight took a break from post-publishing promotions and pre-college prep, to chat with Postme
  
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• MRG Concerts brings Westward Music Festival energy

  07-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Westward Music Festival
  Sept. 14-17, various times | Vogue Theatre, Biltmore Cabaret, Imperial and Venue
  Tickets and info: Wristbands from $59.50. Assorted individual concert tickets too at westwardfest.com
  Matthew Gibbons is a positive attitude person. The founder of MRG Group is behind the new Westward Music Festival, a multi-venue event taking place in Vancouver which aims to prove that big music festivals aren’t over in our immediate area. They just need to be presented differentl
  
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• Five Things to Know: Smoke relief, dump truck update, the cat returns

  07-09-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  The smoke will begin to move out on Thursday, a cat left for dead in a wildfire evacuation has returned very much alive, and the B.C. NDP has cancelled the plan to replace the Massey Tunnel with a bridge. Here are five things you need to know.
  Smoke relief coming this weekend
  Good news on the smoke front: starting Thursday, Metro Vancouver will begin to see some relief.
  The haze that’s turned Metro Vancouver skies into something out of the apocalypse hit a 7 on the air quality health index
  
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• Top prospects come through for Canadians in series opener

  07-09-2017 07:27 via vancouversun.com
  The Toronto Blue Jays’ first-round draft picks from June came through for the Vancouver Canadians Wednesday night.
  Logan Warmoth, the No. 22 overall selection, slugged a two-run home run in the top of the eighth and Nate Pearson, the No. 28 choice, struck out 10 in four innings to lead the C’s to 2-1 victory over the Spokane Indians in Game 1 of the best-of-three Northwest League North Division final before a crowd of 6,320 at Nat Bailey Stadium.
  Warmoth, a shortstop out of the Unive
  
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• Exciting lineup finalized for 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival

  07-09-2017 06:44 via vancouversun.com
  Julianne Moore in a scene from Todd Haynes’ film Wonderstruck.
  2017 Vancouver International Film Festival
  Sept. 28 – Oct. 13. | Various venues
  Tickets and info: viff.org
  Vancouver International Film Festival confirmed Wednesday it will be closing out its 2017 program with the Canadian premiere of Todd Haynes’s latest feature Wonderstruck.
  The American director behind such films as Far From Heaven, I’m Not There and Carol has a long history with VIFF, including showin
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Alkhalil makes appearance in Duhre murder case

  07-09-2017 05:11 via vancouversun.com
  Accused killer Rabih (Robbie) Alkhalil made an appearance via video link at Vancouver Provincial Court this morning in a high-profile gangland murder case.
  Details of the appearance cannot be reported due to a routine publication ban.
  Alkhalil appeared in orange prison garb from a Toronto jail where he is being held after his conviction three months ago in the fatal shooting of Johnnie Raposo in June 2012.
  He is also charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of gangster Sandip Duhre
  
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• NDP cancels construction on George Massey bridge project

  07-09-2017 05:03 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s NDP government has cancelled construction of a bridge to replace the Massey tunnel, putting an end to former premier Christy Clark’s signature solution to traffic congestion at a key Metro choke point.
  Transportation Minister Claire Trevena announced Wednesday her government had scrapped the process to design, build and finance a 10-lane $3.5-billion bridge between Richmond and Delta. The province will pay out the companies shortlisted to bid on the work and r
  
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• B.C. realtors to be banned from dual agency as part of rule changes

  07-09-2017 05:01 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. real estate agents will be generally banned from acting as dual agents for both buyers and sellers under tough new rules drafted by the Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate and obtained by Postmedia News. 
  The draft rules were based on recommendations from the report of an independent advisory group released in June 2016 to address problems in B.C.’s real estate industry. Those problems included some realtors putting their own interests ahead of clients, some not abid
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Massey Bridge project sent into limbo

  07-09-2017 04:08 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats slammed the brakes on construction of a 10-lane toll bridge to replace the Massey tunnel on Thursday, sending the project to an outside review that will take at least until spring.
  The cabinet cancelled the pending award of the major contract to design, build and maintain the budgeted-at-$3.5 billion crossing, necessitating a $2 million payout to each of the two bidders that submitted final proposals.
  Cast into limbo is the work already done, including $66
  
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• Vancouver real estate developer faces lawsuits, extradition to U.S.

  07-09-2017 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  Mark John Chandler claimed “to be one of the biggest real estate developers in Canada” when he reached out to a New York money lender in 2011, according to court filings.
  Now, the Vancouver developer faces the prospect of being shipped to the U.S. to face charges in an alleged “fraudulent scheme” involving Los Angeles real estate. The FBI alleges in court documents that Chandler may have used investors’ funds to “support his lifestyle.”
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• Ian Mulgrew: Hollow Tree friendship leads to inheritance squabble

  07-09-2017 03:58 via vancouversun.com
  In its first decision involving the controversial new Wills, Estates and Succession Act, B.C.’s top court has emphasized the broad discretion the law confers on judges.
  The Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that rejected a 93-year-old widow’s note, hand-written a few months before her death, entitled “This is my last Will,” in favour of a much older, professionally prepared division of her $1.3-million estate.
  The case had the added fillip of seemingly involving
  
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• Former RCMP spokesman Tim Shields describes 'flirty' office relationship

  07-09-2017 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  Former RCMP spokesman Tim Shields says he had a “very flirty” relationship with a former colleague who claims he sexually assaulted her in the workplace.
  The colleague, a civilian RCMP employee who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, testified that Shields led her into a unisex washroom that she’d never seen before, locked the door, kissed her and said they had chemistry before he undid her bra, touched her breasts, unbuttoned her pants and put her hand on his genita
  
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• Central bank interest rate hikes begin to squeeze indebted consumers

  07-09-2017 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  The Bank of Canada’s increase to its key interest rate Wednesday, the second bump since July, will start putting a more noticeable squeeze on consumers holding variable rate mortgages, lines of credit or any consumer debt tied to bank prime lending rates, according to experts.
  “It won’t necessarily have an affect on people trying to get into the (property) market,” Vancity mortgage expert Ryan McKinley said. “Who it does affect is people who already have some kind o
  
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• B.C. woman linked to bizarre U.S. plot to kidnap judge, sheriff

  07-09-2017 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. woman allegedly conspired with a Tennessee associate to kidnap a judge in that state, as well as a sheriff in Nebraska.
  Details of the strange case implicating Suzanne Holland were laid out at a court hearing in Tennessee on Sept. 1 during which state resident Patricia Parsons pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting solicitation to commit kidnapping.
  Parson admitted that between February and May 2017, she conspired with Holland, who is also known as Zsuzsanna Hegedus, to kidnap the two
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, September 7

  07-09-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, September 7.
  Vancouver Fringe Festival
  It’s Fringe! I love a good fringe festival, and I can say without hesitation that the Vancouver Fringe Festival is a very good fringe festival. Ten days. More than 90 plays. The best annual celebration of local and international theatre in Vancouver. This is one of my favourite events of the year, and I’m confident that after a few days of fringing, you&rsqu
  
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• Five Vancouver Sun/Province reporters named finalists for 2017 Jack Webster Awards

  07-09-2017 02:49 via vancouversun.com
  Five Vancouver Sun/Province reporters have been named finalists for the prestigious 2017 Jack Webster Awards.
  Crime reporter Kim Bolan is nominated in the breaking news category for a series of stories she wrote on the murder of prominent Hells Angel Bob Green. Bolan revealed Green’s business connections, his standing in the biker gang and was also able to link the Green murder to the shooting of a Hells Angels prospect in Burnaby and the slaying of a young man, whose dismembered body was
  
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• 'This is as dark as the human experience gets': Father-to-be mourned after Coquitlam crash

  07-09-2017 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  The loved ones of a man killed in a workplace accident Tuesday in Coquitlam say they are devastated by the loss of a young father-to-be known for his boundless kindness and adoration of his wife.
  Bobby Vanderhoef, 32, of Maple Ridge, died after an articulated dump truck rolled down a hill from a construction site onto the 2700-block of Lougheed Highway at 3:30 p.m. 
  Coquitlam RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Jennifer Goodings said in a media release that the operator of the unoccupied truck was killed
  
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• September = Community Workshop Time. Next one up is Seed Saving | September 17. Details: ow.ly/RgbK30eW1hd

  07-09-2017 01:45 via twitter.com
  September = Community Workshop Time. Next one up is Seed Saving | September 17. Details: ow.ly/RgbK30eW1hd
  
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• Mayors say bridge traffic shifting in wake of toll removal

  07-09-2017 00:56 via vancouversun.com
  Local mayors say they have already noticed a shift in traffic since tolls were removed from two Lower Mainland bridges last week.
  On Sept. 1, the NDP government followed through on its campaign promise to cancel tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges, calling them unfair to those living south of the Fraser River.
  Eliminating tolls is expected to save commuters who cross the bridges twice each weekday about $1,500 a year. Commercial vehicle users could save up to $4,500 a year.
  New Westmi
  
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• RCMP investigate apparent kidnapping of three people in northeastern B.C.

  07-09-2017 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  DAWSON CREEK — RCMP in northeastern British Columbia say they are investigating what appears to be a triple kidnapping.
  Cpl. Madonna Saunderson said police in Dawson Creek learned of the case on Saturday.
  A woman reported she had been kidnapped and held against her will for several days but had managed to escape from the home in a rural area near the city.
  A second person also reported they had been kidnapped and told investigators a third person was still in the house.
  Saunderson said RCM
  
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• Want to ride to work/uni but think it's too far? Perhaps busing is the answer. Test run it at our Civic Plaza demo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 00:35 via twitter.com
  Want to ride to work/uni but think it's too far? Perhaps busing is the answer. Test run it at our Civic Plaza demo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Training is done!! Now the ride begins for NV Cops for Cancer riders Cst Rockhill & Sgt Devries All the best.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-09-2017 00:24 via twitter.com
  Training is done!!Now the ride begins for NV Cops for Cancer riders Cst Rockhill & Sgt Devries All the best.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Sustained' rain needed to end devastating B.C. wildfire season: officials

  07-09-2017 00:24 via vancouversun.com
  INVERMERE, B.C. — Hundreds of homes have burned and nearly half a billion dollars has been spent, but officials say there’s no end in sight for British Columbia’s devastating wildfire season.
  Kevin Skrepnek with the B.C. Wildfire Service said Wednesday that many areas of the province are still tinder dry and in desperate need of rain.
  The forecast is calling for showers across the province in the coming days, but Skrepnek said that won’t be enough to douse the flames, esp
  
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