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• Zone 3, we're coming for your old cans this weekend... but if they're still in good shape, consider repurposing the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 23:58 via twitter.com
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• Suspect charged with manslaughter in fatal Surrey house fire

  08-09-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been charged with  manslaughter following a fatal house fire in Surrey Thursday.
  Homicide investigators said Friday that Robert Jones, a 32-year-old Surrey resident, had been charged. He was arrested shortly after first responders arrived on scene to the house fire in Surrey’s Bridgeview neighbourhood.
  Around 12:41 a.m. Thursday, Surrey RCMP was called to the 12300 block of 112A Avenue by firefighters who found a man inside the home.
  The man was declared dead on scene. The I
  
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• Hollywood North: Anna Kendrick taking over from Santa

  08-09-2017 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  Actress Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up In The Air), who spent a lot of time in Vancouver filming the Twilight trilogy, is returning next month for much jollier project.
  Kendrick is set to star in a still to be titled Christmas movie in which she plays Nicole Clause, daughter of Santa, who is forced into the family trade after her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit his role, gets cold feet.
  Funnyman Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, Superbad) is rumoured to co-star.
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• What's that stuff on the road?: Return of rain brings slick driving

  08-09-2017 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  Rain returned to Metro Vancouver Friday and with it, a foam-like substance on the roads that leads to slick driving conditions.
  Port Moody Fire Rescue offered up a simple explanation for the mysterious substance.
  “The white milky substance you see on the roads is a result of fresh rain and oil soaked roads – this is a natural reaction,” the fire department shared on Twitter Friday morning.The white milky substance you see on the roads is a result of fresh rain and oil soaked ro
  
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• Are you creating opportunities for youth in the City? See if you are eligible for a Child & Youth Grant:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Are you creating opportunities for youth in the City? See if you are eligible for a Child & Youth Grant:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Are you a community advocate w/ experience in project management, infrastructure, government? We're looking for you… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 21:58 via twitter.com
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• Fall Arts: Busy season ahead for Vancouver stages

  08-09-2017 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Fringe Festival kicks off the fall theatre season (Sept. 7-17) with 100 shows around Granville Island and across the city. It will be the last fringe for executive director David Jordan, one of three high profile changes at the top for local companies.
  Ashlie Corcoran, Bill Millerd’s successor at the Arts Club, won’t begin programming until next season. Millerd’s farewell fall opens with Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Perestroika, the sequel to last year&
  
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• Fall arts: This fall’s dance card is highlighted by Ballet B.C.’s Program 1

  08-09-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  This fall’s dance card is highlighted by Ballet B.C.’s Program 1. The venerable company is back after the summer with a new work from resident choreographer Cayatano Soto, as well as the North American premiere of Johan Inger’s B.R.I.S.A. The new program runs Nov. 2-4 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.  
  Also returning for a fall turn is the always-popular and long-standing Vancouver International Flamenco Festival on Sept. 12-14. The event is presented by Vancouver flamenco
  
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• Premier Horgan, Surrey Mayor Hepner pose with convicted gunman

  08-09-2017 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan, Surrey MLA Jinny Sims and Mayor Linda Hepner all posed for a photograph with convicted gunman and former Radio India owner Maninder Gill at a private Surrey residence this week.
  The photo, which is being circulated widely, was taken Sept. 6 at the home of Kulwant Dhesi. a community leader and long-time Sims supporter.
  Dhesi said Friday that he invited the politicians to his newly built home for a private function.
  And he said he invited Gill, who is out on bail awaiting a he
  
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• Fall visual arts: Two new art venues opening in Metro Vancouver

  08-09-2017 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  Two new venues for visual arts in Metro Vancouver are opening this fall.
  The first is the Libby Leshgold Gallery, the public space in the new $110.2-million building housing the Emily Carr University of Art + Design by Great Northern Way. The first exhibition of artists from the Pacific Rim opens Saturday, Oct. 21. That’s just in time for the public to check out the new campus during the two-day Open House on Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28.
  The other big addition to the visual-arts
  
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• Review: Shylock meets the sensitivity police

  08-09-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  Shylock
  To Sept. 15 | Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park
  Tickets  and info: From $21, at www.bardonthebeach.org
  With his exaggerated nose and protruding teeth, dirty straggly hair and layers of ugly clothing (hiding what?), this Shylock spits out his desire for revenge, his glee in collecting the pound of flesh owed him by the Christian merchant Antonio.
  This Shylock is the quintessential ugly, grasping Jew of centuries of European anti-Semitic myth and propaganda, a figure that found its ultim
  
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• Mum's the word for a pop of late-season colour

  08-09-2017 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  You see them everywhere right now, adding life to our overheated summer gardens, decks, patios and even our front steps.  Chrysanthemums add that fresh pop of colour when we need to replace tired, burnt, heat-stressed summer annuals.  They have become a late summer staple in so many gardens, and a much-welcomed introduction to autumn colour. 
  Many local growers do an amazing job with these fall icons.  One of the largest and most innovative producers is DeVry Greenhouses in C
  
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• Rain sweet rain ☔️. Welcome back! We are SO happy to see you. Sorry for all the things we said about you in the spr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 20:05 via twitter.com
  Rain sweet rain ☔️. Welcome back! We are SO happy to see you. Sorry for all the things we said about you in the spr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The rains are back (for a few days) with it the roads have become slippery. Slow down - allow for greater distance in braking! Safety first!

  08-09-2017 19:03 via twitter.com
  The rains are back (for a few days) with it the roads have become slippery. Slow down - allow for greater distance in braking! Safety first!
  
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• We’re recruiting for a Temporary Full-Time Administrative Assistant - Planning. Click here to apply: ow.ly/w4wg30f0YcI

  08-09-2017 18:39 via twitter.com
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• Douglas Todd: Top moral thinkers defend free speech in UBC clash

  08-09-2017 18:28 via vancouversun.com
  Two of North America’s leading moral thinkers are defending a University of B.C. philosophy student who has provoked a far-reaching clash over free speech.
  Noted UBC philosophy professor Paul Russell and well-known American psychologist Jonathan Haidt believe some UBC academics are over-reacting to student Franz Kurtzke’s August distribution of flyers on campus.
  Kurtzke, a fourth-year philosophy student, sent out 1,000 emails and distributed 500 flyers in which he criticized soc
  
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• How would you prioritize improvements to the CNV pedestrian network? Review plans & give feedback TOMORROW… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  How would you prioritize improvements to the CNV pedestrian network? Review plans & give feedback TOMORROW… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fall Arts: Where to spend your concert dollars

  08-09-2017 17:25 via vancouversun.com
  There are two big touring seasons in the music industry: Summers feature the festival circuit, and see major acts hitting hot-spots all over the planet. Fall is reserved for arena tours in support of new releases, and a push by up-and-coming acts to try to get some of that sweet back-to-school action on college campuses. (It’s not a coincidence so many tours coincide with the space of time between mid-terms and exams.)
  With the changes to the music business bands only make their money on t
  
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• Fed-up Surrey residents threaten to block road to slow speeders

  08-09-2017 17:18 via vancouversun.com
  Upset with motorists who treat her residential street “like a freeway,” Christina Eden is threatening to block 71A Avenue in Surrey to slow speeders.
  “I know it sounds extreme, but I’ve had it,” she said Thursday. “If we have to, we’ll go out on the road and slow them down ourselves.”
  Every day, in the morning and afternoon, drivers hoping to avoid the traffic on 72nd Avenue and 144 Street blast through Eden’s quiet Newton neighbourhood. Sinc
  
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• B.C. 'honour' killing: Supreme Court restores extradition orders for mother, uncle

  08-09-2017 17:15 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has cleared the path for extradition of two B.C. residents to India to face murder charges in a so-called honour killing.
  In a 9-0 judgment Friday, the high court set aside a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling that put the brakes on extradition over concerns about whether the two accused would be fairly treated in India. The Supreme Court also restored federal surrender orders in the high-profile case.
  Jaswinder (Jassi) Sidhu was found with her thr
  
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• B.C. Lions offer football fans virtual reality experience

  08-09-2017 17:12 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Lions unveiled a new app Thursday that will allow fans to dive into their locker room and onto the field.
  B.C. Lions EXP, available on iOS and Android platforms, uses 360-degree video to let fans use virtual reality video to join the team in the dressing room and experience what the players (and the cheerleading Felions) do on the field. It’s viewable either on a smartphone or on VR headsets.
  Chris Bedyk of Perspective Films says he built the camera he will use to film live game a
  
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• Two new art venues opening in Metro Vancouver

  08-09-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Two new venues for visual arts in Metro Vancouver are opening this fall.
  The first is the Libby Leshgold Gallery, the public space in the new $110.2-million building housing the Emily Carr University of Art + Design by Great Northern Way. The first exhibition of artists from the Pacific Rim opens Saturday, Oct. 21. That’s just in time for the public to check out the new campus during the two-day Open House on Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28.
  The other big addition to the visual-arts
  
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• Fall arts classical: Short season filled with events to tantalize

  08-09-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Our autumn performance season is actually the shortest where classical music is concerned: just a week or two of September, plus October and November, before the onslaught of holiday music.
  Fortunately, our major players start as they mean to go on, with events designed to tantalize. The big news for 2017-18 is restructuring. At the Vancouver Symphony this is Bramwell Tovey’s last year as music director. The implications are enormous, however smooth the transition may prove. The best news
  
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• Fall arts books: Three great local reads

  08-09-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  While summer is always touted as the top reading time, it doesn’t mean that books disappear with the beach towels.
  Great stories and interesting tales are just as welcome in turtleneck season.
  If you really want to immerse yourself in books, fall is especially rich when it comes to festivals.
  Here in B.C. the top fests to check out are the Whistler Writers Festival on Oct. 12-15, the Surrey International Writers’ Conference (Oct. 20-22) and, of course, the Vancouver Writers Festival
  
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• Daily Poll: Is Vancouver a viable destination for Amazon HQ2?

  08-09-2017 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  Online retailing giant Amazon is looking to add a second North American headquarters, promising to spend more than US$5 billion to create a ‘full equal’ to its current Seattle hub.
  The announcement is expected to set off an intense bidding war between major metropolitan centres to lure the tech behemoth — and the 50,000 high-paying jobs — to their respective cities.
  The city of Vancouver said Wednesday that they would be answering the request for proposal and will submit
  
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• Balance needed between parent's choices and child protection

  08-09-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Public policy, whether it is formulated into laws, rules or regulations, is aimed at the outliers, not the vast majority of people who will do the right thing.
  Sometimes those policies over-reach as seems to have happened in the case of Adrian Crook and his five children. A single father, Crook is trying to teach his kids aged five to 11 to be independent and able to navigate Vancouver without his supervision.
  He started by taking them on public transit — including their 45-minute trips to
  
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• Earthquakes can happen when not expected. Put together an emergency kit for your home. It could be life saving in a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 07:40 via twitter.com
  Earthquakes can happen when not expected. Put together an emergency kit for your home. It could be life saving in a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Opinion: Coastal First Nations on front line of guarding the environment

  08-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  For almost two decades the First Nations on B.C.’s central and north coast and Haida Gwaii have been working toward rebuilding a healthy coastal economy.
  Coastal First Nations — Great Bear Initiative (CFN) was established to help create a turning point in the environmental and economic relationship between First Nations and non-indigenous society.
  What progress has been made over this period?
  Today, the question of our aboriginal rights and title are clearer than ever before. The pow
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Sept. 8

  08-09-2017 06:46 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Sept. 8.
  Against Me! at The Vogue 
  The American punk band visits the Vogue on Friday night with guests Bleached and The Dirty Nil. Against Me! always puts on a great show, and singer Laura Jane Grace is one of the coolest people on the planet. Read up on her if you haven’t. Or just get to know her by seeing what she does best: front one of the best bands in punk. The band is touring in support
  
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• Vancouver man joins Hurricane Irma disaster relief efforts in the Caribbean

  08-09-2017 06:21 via vancouversun.com
  As Hurricane Irma sweeps through the Caribbean, most people are doing their best to avoid the region. Vancouver resident Wesley Tse, on the other hand, is on his way there.
  On Friday, Tse, an engineer, will join a Samaritan’s Purse flight to the Caribbean to deliver emergency supplies for up to 2,000 families victimized by the tropical superstorm.
  Irma is considered one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in recorded history. After making landfall on Sept. 6, the hurricane decimated Antig
  
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• Abbotsford cop pleads guilty to breach of trust

  08-09-2017 04:21 via vancouversun.com
  An Abbotsford cop who was charged following a lengthy investigation into corruption has pleaded guilty to breach of trust.
  Christopher Nicholson, a constable who joined the Fraser Valley police force  in 2005 and was charged in 2013, entered his plea during a brief appearance Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
  Before accepting the plea from Nicholson, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Brenda Brown got him to agree that he had made his decision voluntarily and had admitted the essential e
  
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• Young Langley farmer not shocked by stats showing downturn in Metro Vancouver farming

  08-09-2017 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  Langley farmer Stafford Richter is not surprised by a report going to a Metro Vancouver committee this week that shows a drop in the amount of farmland and the number of farms in the region over the past five years.
  “I’ve talked to farmers in the Lower Mainland and I worked with some of them here in Langley and they said, ‘Are you sure you’re gonna go into this? Because you’re not gonna be rich,’ ” said Richter, 32, co-owner of The Veggie Patch
  
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• Minister vows bold response to overdose crisis after meeting Portugal's drug czar

  08-09-2017 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s first minister of mental health and addictions says she will take an “all-ministry” approach to the overdose crisis, influenced in part by Portugal’s renowned policy for drug use and addiction.
  Minister Judy Darcy met with Dr. João Goulão, Portugal’s national drug coordinator, at this week’s Recovery Capital Conference of Canada in New Westminster.
  In 1998, Goulão was part of a committee that developed policy to deal with a dea
  
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• Much to prove, live down as new-look legislature convenes

  08-09-2017 04:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When the B.C. legislature convenes Friday under an all-new government for the first time in 16 years, each of the three parties in the house will have things to prove and things to live down.
  For the B.C. Liberals, now relegated to the Opposition side, the living down starts with the last ditch actions of their now departed leader Christy Clark.
  Much as Liberals are trying to forget Clark’s desperation throne speech — the one where she poached multiple planks fr
  
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• Opinion: B.C. under new government is at a fiscal crossroads

  08-09-2017 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  While in office, every government faces a few defining moments. Often, a government’s first budget is one of them because it sets its immediate and longer-term priorities. It’s also a chance for the public to get an early indication of which direction the government is heading.
  That’s why next week’s budget update from British Columbia’s new NDP government is so important. It will signal to entrepreneurs, businesses and investors, both inside and outside the provinc
  
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• Farmland, farms on decline in Metro Vancouver

  08-09-2017 03:47 via vancouversun.com
  Langley farmer Stafford Richter is not surprised by a report going to a Metro Vancouver committee today that shows a drop in the amount of farmland and the number of farms in the region over the past five years.
  “I’ve talked to farmers in the Lower Mainland and I worked with some of them here in Langley and they said, ‘are you sure you’re gonna go into this, because you’re not gonna be rich?'” said Richter, 32, co-owner of The Veggie Patch in Langley
  
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• Driver hospitalized after Highway 1 shooting in Langley

  08-09-2017 03:29 via vancouversun.com
  A man is in hospital recovering from gunshot wounds after being shot while driving through Langley on 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 of 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 hospit
  
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• B.C.'s NDP government to unveil first throne speech

  08-09-2017 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s first NDP government in 16 years starts work at the legislature on Friday with high expectations of translating its election promises into law.
  Campaign finance reform, moving the fixed-election date, reforming lobbying, and laying the groundwork for a referendum on proportional representation are a few of the items Premier John Horgan is expected to outline in his government’s first speech from the throne, to be delivered by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon at 2 p.m.
  
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• Online troll threatens Langley councillor

  08-09-2017 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  Township of Langley Coun. Michelle Sparrow was at work during a busy Wednesday when she opened her Facebook account to find a threatening message about her vote on an upcoming land use decision.
  The threat, from an anonymous account, was over “voting the right way” on an official community plan for the Brookswood-Fernridge neighbourhood, Sparrow said.
  It was summed up with the words “see you at the car show,” referring to a Saturday event she’s stated on Facebo
  
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• Blue Lights at City Hall = Prostate Cancer Awareness Month #NorthVan @ProstateCancerC #OneinSeven https://t.co/2ZgMTWBssV

  08-09-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  
  Blue Lights at City Hall = Prostate Cancer Awareness Month #NorthVan@ProstateCancerC #OneinSeven https://t.co/2ZgMTWBssV
  
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• Vancouver condo developer cancels Langara West on Cambie

  08-09-2017 01:52 via vancouversun.com
  Vivagrand Developments, a Vancouver-based firm which describes itself as the North American office of a property developer in southern China, has cancelled its Langara West condo project in the Cambie Street corridor.
  It’s a rare move that comes as land prices in the area, as well as end prices for condos and townhomes in general, have surged.
  It leaves 71 buyers of one-, two- and three-bedroom condos who, starting two years ago, locked into pre-sale contracts of around $700 to $900 a squa
  
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• Former Abbotsford cop pleads guilty to breach of trust

  08-09-2017 01:50 via vancouversun.com
  A former Abbotsford cop who was charged following a lengthy investigation into corruption has pleaded guilty to breach of trust.
  Christopher Nicholson, a constable who joined the Fraser Valley police force  in 2005 and was charged in 2013, entered his plea during a brief appearance Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
  Before accepting the plea from Nicholson, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Brenda Brown got him to agree that he had made his decision voluntarily and had admitted the essen
  
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• 'Help is on the way' says North Vancouver Lonsdale MLA - North Shore News

  08-09-2017 01:27 via nsnews.com
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  'Help is on the way' says North Vancouver Lonsdale MLA
  North Shore News
  "Didn't get passed up & got a seat on the 240/241 bus from #NorthVan to Vancouver during rush hours! Love that increased service," NDP MLA Bowinn Ma tweeted on Thursday. photo supplied. North Shore MLAs head back to the legislature Friday for the first ...
  
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