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• Richmond man loses bid to have sex assault case thrown out due to sentencing delays

  15-09-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond man who is facing a dangerous offender hearing after being convicted in a sexual assault case has lost a bid to have the case thrown out due to delays in sentencing.
  On Aug. 15, 2016, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Pearlman found Novid Dadmand guilty of sexually assaulting five women, four of them by deceiving them into believing he was a modelling agent and that they were auditioning for a position as a model.
  Two of the victims were unconscious when Dadmand sexually assaulted them,
  
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• Hapa-palooza Festival returns to Vancouver this month

  15-09-2017 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Hapa-palooza Festival, a festival celebrating hapa and mixed heritage culture, is returning to Vancouver this month.
  The festival features music, art, storytelling and dance over three days from Sept. 22 to 24 at various venues throughout the city.
  “Hapa-palooza bridges worlds, gathers community and celebrates diverse ancestry and cultural heritage,” said co-founder and journalist Anna Ling Kaye. “It encourages people to share their stories and be proud of their cultural make-u
  
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• What's up? We're working w/ Larson students on this street mural masterpiece @ Larson & 28th to improve pedestrian… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  What's up? We're working w/ Larson students on this street mural masterpiece @ Larson & 28th to improve pedestrian… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Town Talk: Men drop pants to raise $125,000 for prostate cancer research

  15-09-2017 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  DOWN AND AT ’EM: Trousers descended and $125,000 was raised at the Vancouver Rowing Club recently. That’s where Yongku Jung and Mikhail Zalesky staged the fourth-annual Pants Off night to increase the $370,000 generated earlier for Prostate Cancer Canada. Although spared from an ailment that strikes one in seven Canadian men, several women present adopted their shirt-and-no-britches attire. They may dress more inventively at the Imperial on Oct. 21 when the Boobyball should much incr
  
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• New probe ordered into IHealth electronic records system

  15-09-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Health Minister Adrian Dix is ordering a second independent review of a controversial electronic health records system that created a stalemate between Island Health and the doctors refusing to use it. 
  The $174-million paperless IHealth system was launched in March 2016 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Dufferin Place residential care centre in Nanaimo and Oceanside Health Centre in Parksville.
  The system was scheduled to roll out to other Island health facilities this
  
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• Want to get outside, meet like-minded neighbours, and help keep our parks thriving? Consider a #volunteer event… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 20:54 via twitter.com
  Want to get outside, meet like-minded neighbours, and help keep our parks thriving? Consider a #volunteer event… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Greyhound seeks further cuts or reductions to bus routes in B.C.

  15-09-2017 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Just weeks after Greyhound Canada asked for permission to cut a number of routes in British Columbia, the company has applied to chop or change even more its bus routes through the province.
  Documents on the B.C. Passenger Transportation Board website show Greyhound has applied to eliminate a total of nine routes, including Prince Rupert to Prince George and Dawson Creek to the Yukon boundary.
  Additional routes that Greyhound hopes to abandon include one from the University End
  
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• Survey finds staffing levels a major concern in B.C. seniors' care homes

  15-09-2017 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  Staffing levels in residential care facilities in B.C. need to be increased so that seniors feel more engaged and have more individual freedom, according to a groundbreaking new survey from the Office of the Seniors Advocate.
  The survey found that staffing levels are a major concern of almost 20,000 seniors and family members who were interviewed.
  “While staff overall are caring and respectful, consistent feedback is that there simply are not enough staff to ensure residents’ needs a
  
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• Man charged in string of eight robberies in Surrey, Coquitlam and Vancouver

  15-09-2017 20:24 via vancouversun.com
  A man linked to eight bank robberies across the Lower Mainland has been arrested and charged.
  Jared Mcclure, 34, was pulled over in Surrey on Aug. 30 in a vehicle that had been reported stolen.
  Officers quickly linked Mcclure to an ongoing investigation about a recent string of bank robberies throughout Surrey, Coquitlam and Vancouver. The Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team then handed Mcclure over to the Surrey RCMP.
  Mcclure is now charged with one count of theft of a motor vehicle
  
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• University of British Columbia faces new sexual assault human-rights complaint

  15-09-2017 20:13 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Stephanie Hale remembers jumping up and down and crying tears of joy when she received her acceptance letter from the University of British Columbia.
  Now, she wishes she had pursued her degree anywhere else.
  Hale has filed a complaint with B.C.’s Human Rights Tribunal alleging the university failed to take action after she reported a sexual assault, leading her to struggle in class and take indefinite medical leave. It is the second known complaint the institution is faci
  
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• DYK distracted driving is the #1 cause of car crashes & #2 cause of car crash fatalities in BC? #ThinkofMe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  DYK distracted driving is the #1 cause of car crashes & #2 cause of car crash fatalities in BC? #ThinkofMe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The gospel according to Ben Heppner (and the Blind Boys of Alabama)

  15-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Blind Boys of Alabama
  with Ben Heppner
  Sept. 23, 8 p.m. | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC
  Sold out: tickets.ubc.ca
  One of the world’s greatest heldentenors (heroic tenors), Canadian vocalist Ben Heppner has scaled the heights of opera, particularly those big Wagnerian roles.
  For decades, he was considered the go-to for such signature parts as Tristan in Tristan and Isolde, or the title role in Lohengrin. A recipient of seven honorary degrees, he has also been promoted from the Ord
  
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• Bulls&Bears: Cleveland chasing MLB history, DAZN's future a mystery

  15-09-2017 19:57 via vancouversun.com
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  You know you’re making history when you’re chasing the record set by a club more than a century ago.
  That’s exactly what this week’s most bullish franchise in all of professional sport — baseball’s Cleveland Indians — are doing going into the weekend.After passing the 2002 ‘Moneyball’ Oakland A’s American League record of 20 consecutive wins earlier this week, they one-upped the 1935 Chicago Cubs and 1880 Chicago
  
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• Another overdose prevention site opens on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

  15-09-2017 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Another overdose prevention site has opened in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in an effort to relieve pressure on two nearby sites that have had 120,000 visits since last December.
  The Molson site, named after the former Molson Bank Building where it’s located, will be the seventh overdose prevention facility in the few blocks that make up the impoverished neighbourhood.
  B.C. Addictions Minister Judy Darcy says in a news release there is a great need for each of the
  
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• TOMORROW: Come see what the new #LynnValley LINK is all about! Opening celebration starts 12:30 in Lynn Canyon Park… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 19:47 via twitter.com
  TOMORROW: Come see what the new #LynnValley LINK is all about! Opening celebration starts 12:30 in Lynn Canyon Park… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hurry! TODAY is the deadline to apply for a 2017 Community Grant. cnv.org/CommunityGrants #NorthVan https://t.co/qlPFRabC6j

  15-09-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  
  Hurry! TODAY is the deadline to apply for a 2017 Community Grant. cnv.org/CommunityGrants #NorthVan https://t.co/qlPFRabC6j
  
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• Daily Poll: How should B.C. sell marijuana when it is legalized?

  15-09-2017 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  This week, local leaders are meeting with federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to discuss options on how B.C. might regulate and distribute marijuana when it is legalized next year by the federal government.
  Ontario recently became the first province to establish a framework of how it will handle legalization when it comes down the line. That province plans to open a number of government-run designated shops across the province while cracking down on illegal dispensaries. The shops
  
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• Greater Victoria man dies after weekend fall off 250-metre cliff in Oregon

  15-09-2017 15:33 via vancouversun.com
   
   A Greater Victoria man has died after falling off a 250-metre cliff on the Oregon coast. 
  Joe Lescene, 51, and his wife, Sarah Jones Lescene, were walking near a cliff known as the Devil’s Cauldron in Oswald West State Park on Sunday when Lescene lost his footing and fell down the cliff face into the water below.
  His wife started screaming and other people in the park called 911.The U.S. Coast Guard called in rescue boats and a helicopter to search for Lescene.His backpac
  
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• The evolution of La-Z-Boy: it’s not your parents’ furniture anymore

  15-09-2017 15:25 via vancouversun.com
  For many, when we think of the La-Z-Boy brand we picture an overstuffed reclining chair much like Marty Crane’s duct taped avocado green version on 90s sitcom Frasier. Perhaps it’s time to rethink.
  The iconic American furniture brand has evolved dramatically, and as brothers Tim and Gerald Miller, owners of the four Lower Mainland stores, say, “it’s not your parents furniture anymore.”  Since opening La-Z-Boy stores over the last 17 years in Richmond, Langley,
  
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• Salman Rushdie's prescient prose looks at reinvention American style

  15-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Salman Rushdie in Conversation
  Sept. 19, 7:30 | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
  Tickets: $30-$50 at tickets.ubc.ca
  For years the main player in his new novel The Golden House has been on Salman Rushdie’s mind.
  Nero Golden is a wealthy, often wretched, real estate magnate who along with his three adult sons and a trunk full of secrets fled India and the Bombay mafia to start new lives with new identities in New York City.
  “The beginnings of the story were in Bombay. I only gradual
  
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• Five Things to Know: Rental rates still on the rise, pot rules, mumps outbreak

  15-09-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rental rates are sky-high, B.C. is still mulling its marijuana options, and the Canucks’ are rebuilding everywhere, not just on the ice. Here are five things you need to know.
  Vancouver’s one-bedroom apartment rental price still rising
  The average rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver has risen to an absurd $2,020, Postmedia’s Stephanie Ip reports.
  That’s a 1.5 per cent increase on the previous month, as rental rates continue to skyrocket in the area. On t
  
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• Opinion: B.C. budget abandons any hope for efficient carbon tax

  15-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  In its first budget released earlier this week, Premier John Horgan’s NDP government raised the carbon tax rate by 66 per cent over the next four years and rejected revenue neutrality, undermining the case for an economically efficient carbon tax.
  B.C.’s carbon tax is currently at $30 per tonne. As of April 1, 2018, the government will increase the tax by $5 per tonne of CO2 equivalent emissions per year until it meets the federally imposed floor price of $50 in 2021, a year before O
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, September 15

  15-09-2017 06:18 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, September 15.
  Dear Rouge at The Imperial
  The Westward Music Festival has gifted Vancouver with all sorts of excellent concerts at a number of venues all over the city this week. With a few days left in the festival, be sure to check out the full lineup so you aren’t kicking yourself later for missing a show you would have loved.
  Now then: if I can recommend a Westward concert for Friday evening, I think
  
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• 'We want everything new': Canucks rebuild extends to in-game fan experience

  15-09-2017 05:56 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Canucks are rebuilding.
  That much has been clear for awhile, even if the team has been loath to admit it in the past. But after waffling for two seasons, the organization tacitly admitted as much at last February’s trade deadline, when Vancouver swapped longtime Canucks Jannik Hansen and Alex Burrows for up-and-coming prospects.
  Then, last April, President of Hockey Operations Trevor Linden finally dared to say it out loud.
  “If that’s the word it takes to align ou
  
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• Five things about new head of B.C.'s police watchdog

  15-09-2017 05:01 via vancouversun.com
  A new permanent civilan head of the provincial police watchdog has been announced.
  Richard Rosenthal left the post in September 2016; Bert Phipps has served as the interim chief civilian director of the Independent Investigations Office since then.
  Thursday, Attorney General David Eby announced Ron MacDonald as the new permanent chief. MacDonald will begin in his new role Oct. 24.
  Here are five things to know about the IIO and its new boss…
  The IIO’s head is always a civilian
  T
  
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• Douglas Todd: Tax avoidance behind Metro's disconnect between housing, income

  15-09-2017 04:09 via vancouversun.com
  After census figures this week revealed alarming gaps between housing costs and average incomes in Metro Vancouver, veteran real-estate analyst Richard Wozny is preparing a speech for B.C. politicians that blames the disparity is in part on tax avoidance.
  A reason why residents of Metro Vancouver municipalities with expensive housing tend to report lower incomes than people in less-costly municipalities is that many of the former avoid declaring their total wealth, said Wozny, whose company has
  
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• Folks are dropping by City Hall right now for our Duplex Study OPEN HOUSE.We're here til 8pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 04:07 via twitter.com
  Folks are dropping by City Hall right now for our Duplex Study OPEN HOUSE.We're here til 8pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dan Fumano: Is there a place for mom-and-pops in future of legal pot?

  15-09-2017 04:04 via vancouversun.com
  Like a vignette of small-town life, a laid-back shopkeeper sits at a yellow table beside the unlocked bicycle leaning against the storefront, smiles, puts down his coffee mug and greets a customer by name.
  “Hey Fred, how ya doing?” Jeremy Jacob said to his visitor Thursday, welcoming his old friend into the shop. 
  Jacob and his wife Andrea Dobbs run a family business in Kitsilano, a bright airy space where a loud waterfall rushes outside, dozens of cannabis products line the she
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Review raises doubts about Site C's costs, schedule

  15-09-2017 04:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — An independent review for the B.C. Utilities Commission raises new doubts about whether B.C. Hydro can stick to its commitment to finish Site C on time and on budget.
  Both goals are at risk, with the project in danger of falling a full year behind schedule for diverting the Peace River while eating through the initial contingency budget at a prodigious rate.
  This according to a report from Deloitte LLP, the international accounting and financial consulting firm brought in b
  
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• Provincewide hunt for suspect in jewelry heist, fatal highway crash

  15-09-2017 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  A jewelry heist in a B.C. Interior town in the morning. A fatal crash on Highway 3 near Hope in the afternoon. Now the man police believe was responsible for both incidents is the subject of a provincewide manhunt. 
  The suspect is wanted in relation to an early Monday morning break-and-enter at Ted Allen’s Jewellery in Nelson. 
  At around 4:30 a.m., a man wearing a disguise smashed the store’s glass window using a large hammer or similar tool and made off with several items
  
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• B.C.'s new independent police investigator ran Nova Scotia's incident squad

  15-09-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A lawyer from Nova Scotia with experience investigating the actions of police is the new head of British Columbia’s police watchdog agency.
  Ron MacDonald was named as the chief civilian director of the Independent Investigations office on Thursday. The office probes all cases where police in B.C. are involved in a death or serious injury.
  He previously held a similar role as head of the Serious Incident Response Team in Nova Scotia.
  MacDonald said he will work to conduct p
  
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• Weather projections suggest another big dump for the North Shore this winter

  15-09-2017 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  Is mid-September too early to talk about getting ready for ski season?
  The U.S. National Weather Service says there’s now as much of a 60 per cent chance the Northern Hemisphere will be facing La Niña conditions this winter.
   
  According to the NWS, conditions in the Pacific may be tilting towards conditions which would allow for cooler temperatures in the central and eastern parts of the ocean.
  Last winter saw La Niña conditions, leading to a very snowy wi
  
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• B.C. undecided on rules for legal marijuana, even as justice ministers discuss ideas

  15-09-2017 02:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s top cop says the province remains undecided on how it will tax, distribute and regulate the use of marijuana once the federal government legalizes it next summer.
  Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said he hopes to hear more ideas from his provincial and federal counterparts on Friday as they continue a meeting in Vancouver. Ottawa intends to legalize pot within 10 months, forcing the provinces to develop their own rules.
  “It’s certainly a challenging
  
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• Collision between police car and semi sends Richmond Mountie to hospital

  15-09-2017 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  A Thursday afternoon traffic collision in Richmond has landed an RCMP officer in hospital.
  According to a media release from the RCMP, at about 3 p.m. on Thursday, a semi-trailer hit a police car on the passenger side while passing through the intersection of Jacombs Road and Westminster Highway.
  The intersection was closed for several hours Thursday, as investigators from the RCMP and the provincial Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement agency were on-scene.
  The officer suffered non-li
  
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• West Vancouver realtor denies demanding $75k bonus

  15-09-2017 02:12 via vancouversun.com
  A prominent West Vancouver realtor denied that he unethically demanded a $75,000 bonus from a client in a $2.7-million property sale, a Real Estate Council of B.C. disciplinary panel heard on Thursday.
  Shahin Behroyan faces seven allegations.
  The council alleges that in November 2014, Behroyan indicated to Hamid Gamini, his client, that a $75,000 bonus “was required by the representative of” a couple who wanted to buy Gamini’s property on Kings Avenue, and also that the bonus w
  
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• We’re recruiting for a regular full-time Support Clerk. Click here to apply: ow.ly/BHML30faqIE

  15-09-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  We’re recruiting for a regular full-time Support Clerk. Click here to apply: ow.ly/BHML30faqIE
  
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• Attn naval ship buffs! Japanese & Canadian naval ships at the Pier this weekend. Free public tours Sunday Sept 17th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Attn naval ship buffs! Japanese & Canadian naval ships at the Pier this weekend. Free public tours Sunday Sept 17th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Victoria Good Samaritan returns stuffed billfold to visiting 85-year-old veteran from Arizona

  15-09-2017 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  It took a Good Samaritan and some amateur sleuthing to reunite American tourist Zachary Whaley with his lost wallet.
  “When I discovered I had lost my billfold, adrenalin energized me to practically run back along Government Street, but I found no trace of it,” said the 85-year-old Whaley, who was in Victoria for a family reunion.
  “After cancelling my credit cards, I filed a police report and began planning how to pay for the rest of our stay in Victoria and return home.”
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Legalization threatens pot dispensaries

  15-09-2017 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  Cannabis dispensaries should be afraid, very afraid about what is in store when the federal government legalizes cannabis for recreational use on Canada Day.
  Justice ministers are meeting in Vancouver and the House of Commons health committee this week has been examining the legalization law — the clock is ticking for those trying to cash in on the current chaos.
  There are widespread concerns about everything from the massive impact of legal cannabis on impaired driving enforcement to the
  
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• Vancouver car dealership found partly to blame for collisions after truck stolen from lot

  15-09-2017 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver car dealership has been found partly to blame after one of their vehicles was stolen from the company’s lot and was later involved in several serious collisions.
  On April 24, 2012, the Dueck Downtown Chevrolet Buick GMC dealership at 888 Terminal Avenue left an unlocked one-ton 2011 GMC Sierra K2500 pickup truck outside a detail bay, with the key in the ignition and the engine running for about 40 minutes before a man named David James Bolton hopped into the vehicle and drove a
  
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• Liberals say Massey bridge could have been built under budget

  15-09-2017 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The cancelled 10-lane George Massey bridge project could have been built for $900 million less than budgeted, according to internal government documents.
  Todd Stone, who had served as transportation minister until the NDP took power in July, released a government briefing note this week that showed the preferred bidder for the bridge had submitted a bid that was $900 million less than the $3.5-billion budget.
  “The lowest price proposal is significantly less (approx. $900 m
  
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• Vancouver Island filmmaker missing for about a week: police

  15-09-2017 01:36 via vancouversun.com
  CAMPBELL RIVER — Police say a search is underway for a 37-year-old Vancouver Island woman who has been missing for about a week.
  Port McNeil RCMP say Twyla Roscovich was reported missing on Sept. 12.
  She reportedly left her home in Port McNeill, B.C., for medical treatment on Sept. 6 and was last confirmed to be in the Campbell River or Quadra Island area on Sept. 7 and 8.Please help! Have you seen BC filmmaker Twyla Roscovich? Missing near Campbell River/Quadra since 7 Sept. Please share
  
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• Lane, road closures coming as with Commercial-Broadway station upgrade

  15-09-2017 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  Traffic jams are about to get worse on Vancouver’s Broadway corridor as construction ramps up on improvements to the Commercial-Broadway transit station.
  Starting on Friday, the work that started in 2015 on the station — which sees about 150,000 transit users each day and is the busiest in TransLink’s network — will be felt by road users in the form of lane and street closures.
  In order to install a new overhead walkway that takes passengers over Broadway between the two
  
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• Theatre review: A transformative epic of hope

  15-09-2017 01:08 via vancouversun.com
  Angels in America: Perestroika
  To Oct. 8 | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
  Tickets and info: From $29 at artsclub.com
  The dead speak. A man climbs a ladder to heaven. Angels have sex with humans.
  Surreal, miraculous events punctuate Angels in America: Perestroika, part two of Tony Kushner’s epic comic drama about love, politics and AIDS in 1980s New York.
  Kim Collier’s magnificent production at the Stanley, launching the Arts Club season, features the same superb cast and design te
  
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• Duplex Study OPEN HOUSE underway: Review concepts & give feedback. We're at #CityHall 'til 8pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  15-09-2017 01:00 via twitter.com
  Duplex Study OPEN HOUSE underway: Review concepts & give feedback. We're at #CityHall 'til 8pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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