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• We're celebrating #RiversDay in #NorthVan tomorrow 12-4pm. Here's Angela to tell you all about our event.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-09-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  We're celebrating #RiversDay in #NorthVan tomorrow 12-4pm. Here's Angela to tell you all about our event.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. film and TV production booming with all-time high of $2.6B spent

  23-09-2017 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  Keep the cameras rolling.
  Film production activity in B.C. is at a “all-time high,” according to the latest numbers released by the provincial government on Saturday.
  For the 2016-17 fiscal year, film and TV productions spent an estimated $2.6 billion in B.C., an all-time high. That figure represents a more than 35 per cent increase in spending compared to the previous fiscal year, which saw $1.9 billion flow into the province.
  A total of 338 tax-credit certifications were also appro
  
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• Style update brightens, blends out natural silver

  23-09-2017 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  Diane Jamieson, 56, is retired and wanted to treat herself to a style update.
  Jamieson has thick and previously coloured hair. She has a lot of silver outgrowth, and was frustrated with the amount of maintenance it needed. I wanted to brighten up her overall colour to complement her blue eyes and complexion, as well as to eliminate the brassy tones from her existing colour.
  I also wanted to create a formula that would soften and blend out the natural silver in her hair. I started by applying a t
  
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• Kidney donation allows Burnaby mom to take care of dying son

  23-09-2017 20:57 via vancouversun.com
  Robin Gage’s son Bryan lived for seven months after the Burnaby mom got a life-saving kidney transplant. The extra time together was a gift, made possible by a stranger.
  In December of 2015, Gage sent a Christmas letter to family and friends titled “Robin needs a kidney, and she really hates to ask for help.”
  Struggling with kidney failure and facing a 10-year wait for a transplant, Gage hoped to find a live donor so she could continue to care for her 28-year-old son Bryan, who
  
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• Our idea board was a big hit at our alley opening party. Lots of great suggestions. Send us yours. #North #PlayCNV https://t.co/Nl6CdGruYE

  23-09-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  
  Our idea board was a big hit at our alley opening party. Lots of great suggestions. Send us yours. #North #PlayCNV https://t.co/Nl6CdGruYE
  
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• Weekend Poll: Should SFU's sports teams change the Clan team name?

  23-09-2017 18:42 via vancouversun.com
  For decades, Simon Fraser University’s sports teams have played under the name The Clan to honour the Scottish heritage of the man the school was named after.
  But a new petition is calling for the university to change that name, in response to the racially charged unrest south of the border.
  Related
  Petition launched to change Clan team name at Simon Fraser UniversityPhilosophy professor Holly Andersen, who started the petition, notes that regardless of how it’s spelled, the team nam
  
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• Surrey Central SkyTrain station and bus loop closed due to nearby fire

  23-09-2017 18:12 via vancouversun.com
  The Surrey Central SkyTrain station and bus loop has been closed Saturday morning due to thick smoke from a fire nearby.
  “Surrey Central SkyTrain Station on Expo Line is currently closed due to a fire at a business across the street. Heavy smoke is blowing into the station,” read a statement issued by TransLink spokeswoman Jill Drews. “Buses which would normally stop at Surrey Central have been rerouted to King George Station.”
   Trains on the Expo Line will continue
  
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• Feedback wanted! Review our Duplex Study Open House Boards and give feedback here: cnv.org/DuplexStudy. Survey… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-09-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Feedback wanted! Review our Duplex Study Open House Boards and give feedback here: cnv.org/DuplexStudy. Survey… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Southside takes a quiet, but amenity-rich location

  23-09-2017 15:56 via vancouversun.com
  Louise Roos couldn’t stay away from the South Surrey site where her new home was going up. As a former welder-turned-structural engineer, she couldn’t resist dropping by — almost daily — to see how Miracon Development and its crew were doing in building her single-family home.
  “They told me ‘Well, you can go inside, Louise, but just don’t start giving orders to workers,’” she laughed. “I was able to look at everything, from geotechnical
  
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• The Home Front: Green house

  23-09-2017 15:21 via vancouversun.com
  Nature, along with wellness and well-being, will continue to hugely influence home decor and furnishings this fall, and we see it particularly in the colour green that is dominating furniture, textiles and paint, Canadian designers say.
  “It’s organic, it’s rich, and warm and really inviting,” says Victoria Lambert, president of The FAT Paint Company in New Westminster, describing the “updated version of 90s forest green” she sees trending everywhere. Her compa
  
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• Options abound at Polygon's Currents at Water's Edge

  23-09-2017 15:19 via vancouversun.com
  In just a few years, the 130-acre piece of land between Boundary Road and Kerr Street in south Vancouver has been transformed beyond all recognition. The area’s industrial past is long gone and the master-planned residential community known as the River District is rapidly taking shape.
  Polygon’s Currents at Water’s Edge is the latest River District project to benefit from the growing number of local amenities and proximity to the waterfront along the Fraser River. The project
  
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• Sold (Bought): Arts and Crafts home showcases both original and modern touches

  23-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  4691 St. Catherines Street, Vancouver
  Type: Four-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 2,700 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,496,000
  Listed for: $1,490,000
  Sold for: $1,750,000
  Sold on: June 16
  Days on market: Four
  Listing agent: Matt Kerr at RE/MAX Real Estate Services
  Buyers agent: Paul Toffoli at TRG – The Residential Group Realty
  The big sell: This 1913 Arts and Crafts property has undergone a complete renovation while at the
  
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• Five Things to Know: Indian production company, suspect arrested in fatal crash, SFU Clan

  23-09-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  An Indian production company is coming to Vancouver, the SFU Clan should consider a name change, and a road rage incident was caught on camera. Here are five things you need to know.
  Money laundering concerns at B.C. casinos
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby has ordered an independent review of money-laundering controls in B.C. casinos after VIPs used gambling chips bought with stacks of cash that could be “proceeds of crime,” Postmedia has learned.
  This comes from a report releas
  
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• Todd: Taxpayer funding of politics the norm in democracies

  23-09-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia took a step this week to join the club of advanced democracies.
  But you might not realize it, in light of the feverish reaction to the B.C. NDP’s proposed bill to ban corporate, union, foreign and out-of-province political donations.
  The Opposition B.C. Liberals stirred up a surge of media attention by hammering one section of the proposed bill, which asks taxpayers to directly finance part of the budgets of political parties.
  Many British Columbians may not realize most d
  
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• Music brightens the often bleak lives of elderly in residential care

  23-09-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  With one thin, veined hand over the other, he tapped in time as the Borealis String Quartet played a very special concert.
  Across the room, a woman nodded her head along with the beat, while a man closed his eyes, perhaps transported somewhere else. Still, another woman looked slightly alarmed as violinist Patricia Shih occasionally rose and twisted in her chair, fully engaged with the music.
  Of course, there were critics. “They’re playing too loud,” a man said to the woman nex
  
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• Opinion: Legacy journalism? We need it now, more than ever

  23-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  As hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and flash floods and forest fires unleashed their fiery force across North America and the Caribbean these past weeks, leaving death and devastation in their unforgiving wake, those of us in safe zones were transfixed by our television screens, our laptops and smart phones, unable to turn away from every last surge warning, every crumpled structure, every breathtaking rescue.
  Because this is what we do when the news is so big and so disastrous.
  We seek
  
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• Letters: Tax fraud explains 'low income' in Richmond

  23-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: B.C.’s poor unable to bridge income gap, Sept. 14
  Iglika Ivanova’s explanation of why Richmond has the highest percentage of the population that falls below the poverty line in Metro Vancouver, significantly higher than the B.C. average and way above the percentage for Canada as a whole, shows either a lack of depth in researching the problem or a left-wing bias that comes from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
  Homes in Richmond are some of the most expensive in the pr
  
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• Editorial: Taxpayers pick up tab for banned corporate, union donations

  23-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  We should have seen it coming: Taxpayers will replace the money foregone by banning donations to political parties from corporations and unions. Perhaps we didn’t see it coming because Premier John Horgan said during the election campaign that he wouldn’t do it.
  In introducing the bill Monday that grants a public subsidy of $27.5 million to political parties over the next four to five years, Horgan said it ensures that the election three months ago would be the last “dictated b
  
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• Patients remember hope and healing at B.C. Children's

  23-09-2017 06:47 via vancouversun.com
  Madeline Lauener spent some of the worst days of her life at B.C. Children’s hospital. Now, she can’t wait to go back. 
  The 19-year-old has an enduring connection with the hospital where her life was saved. Like so many former patients, the memories of the most difficult time in her life are interwoven with gratitude and a desire to give back. So, when the B.C. Women and Children’s hospitals redevelopment team asked Lauener to tell her story as it prepares to open its
  
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• Indian broadcaster Zee sets up first Canadian production company in Vancouver

  23-09-2017 04:56 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver is already known as Hollywood North. Soon it could also be known as Bollywood West.
  On Friday, Mumbai-based entertainment company Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. announced that, after a series of discussions with the government of B.C., they would be setting up a production company in Vancouver, becoming the first Indian broadcaster to do so in Canada.
  Zee has been expanding internationally for several years. The company already has channels available in Africa, Asia, the U.K.
  
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• North Vancouver centre offers one stop shop for youth wellness - CBC.ca

  23-09-2017 04:31 via cbc.ca
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  North Vancouver centre offers one stop shop for youth wellness
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  The idea behind Foundry North Shore is to bring more than 15 existing programs and services for youth and their families under one friendly roof. The centre at 211 West First Street in North Vancouver has a team of doctors, nurses, therapists, mental ...
  
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• Bye @GlobalBC !! Was awesome having u visit! Thanks for the ❤️. Was great sharing our waterfront with u. Bye! C… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-09-2017 04:24 via twitter.com
  Bye @GlobalBC!!Was awesome having u visit! Thanks for the ❤️.Was great sharing our waterfront with u.Bye! C… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New Westminster clinic to screen for limb-threatening circulatory condition

  23-09-2017 03:46 via vancouversun.com
  A brand-new clinic at New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital will cater to patients believed to be suffering from peripheral artery disease, a common but under-recognized circulatory problem that can lead to severe pain and, in some cases, amputation of the extremities.
  Hundreds of patients at risk of developing PAD, a narrowing of the arteries other than those that supply the heart or the brain, are expected to be assessed annually at the hospital’s new vascular lab.&n
  
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• 'New information' cited as B.C. court halts extradition of Jassi Sidhu's mom and uncle

  23-09-2017 03:26 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A defence lawyer says the extradition of two British Columbia residents to India to face murder charges was challenged in court because the federal justice minister’s decision to surrender the pair failed to consider new information.
  Michael Klein said Surjit Singh Badesha and Malkit Kaur Sidhu were being escorted to India via Toronto on Thursday when the British Columbia Court of Appeal decided to halt their extradition.
  “I’m told he’s on his way back t
  
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• Surrey RCMP release composite sketches in sex assault case

  23-09-2017 03:09 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP have released three composite sketches of the man they believe sexually assaulted a woman in southeast Surrey earlier this month.
  On Sept. 13, a woman was assaulted while walking her dogs in Hi-Knoll Park.  She told police she was able to fight the attacker off and retreat to safety.
  Police later tied that assault to two other incidents involving a suspicious person around the same time and location. 
  The attacker is described as a white male in his late teens, 5-foot-
  
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• Suspect in fatal Hope crash in police custody, RCMP say

  23-09-2017 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  A suspect in a fatal crash near Hope on Monday is now in police custody, B.C. RCMP say.
  A man, whose name has been withheld by police, became the subject of a provincewide manhunt after a jewelry heist in Nelson, followed by a crash on Highway 3 about 10 kilometres east of Hope that Danielle Charlton, a passenger in a car, dead. 
  The driver fled, stealing a white Ford F350 truck that belonged to a firefighter who had stopped to help. The truck was later recovered but the driv
  
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• Get down to the Shipyards! Tons happening. @GlobalBC live news broadcast underway, and Friday Night Market is ready… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-09-2017 03:01 via twitter.com
  Get down to the Shipyards! Tons happening. @GlobalBC live news broadcast underway, and Friday Night Market is ready… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Petition launched to change Clan team name at Simon Fraser University

  23-09-2017 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  For more than 50 years, Simon Fraser University’s sports teams have played under the name The Clan, to honour the Scottish heritage of the man the school was named after.
  But now, amid violent neo-Nazi marches in the United States, some professors and students are sounding the alarm that the name evokes a very different clan — the Ku Klux Klan.
  Philosophy professor Holly Andersen has launched a petition to persuade the university to change the name, saying the word “clan”
  
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• Great turnout for Alley Opening Party last night. Awesome new alley @ 106 W. 1st St. Got lots of great name suggest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-09-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Great turnout for Alley Opening Party last night. Awesome new alley @ 106 W. 1st St. Got lots of great name suggest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: 'Class clown' questions circus over taxpayer subsidies

  23-09-2017 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For all the talk of a new mood in the legislature, the first two weeks of the fall session were mostly business as usual — at times raucously so.
  Granted, the two main parties find themselves on different sides of the house.
  But the New Democrats settled quickly into the traditional government stance of trumpeting their accomplishments and shouting down all criticisms. The B.C. Liberals soon enough fell into the Opposition role of making wild accusations amid a lot of heck
  
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• Police seeking charges after road rage incident in North Vancouver - North Shore News

  23-09-2017 01:16 via nsnews.com
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  Police seeking charges after road rage incident in North Vancouver
  North Shore News
  A screen-grab of a Youtube video showing a fight breaking out on Main Street Tuesday evening. Police are recommending assault charges for one of the men. image supplied, Youtube/Jony Lee. North Vancouver RCMP say one man is facing charges after ...
  Video: Assault, mischief charges recommended in North Vancouver road rageVancouver Sun
  'Glass got thrown around:' North Vancouver road rage alte
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Red Scorpion founder killed in Kamloops

  23-09-2017 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  A founding member of the Red Scorpion gang was shot to death in a targeted Kamloops slaying Thursday.
  Konaam Shirzad was not as high-profile as other Red Scorpions. But he had been connected to the gang since it started more than 12 years ago.
  Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said Shirzad was killed about 7:20 p.m. on Hudson’s Bay Trail. A second man was wounded in the shooting but is expected to survive. He was taken to Royal Inland Hospital, she said.
  “It is believed that this
  
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• Hey families, celebrate #RiversDay in a free, fun way this weekend. Complete passport fun & win a prize.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-09-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Hey families, celebrate #RiversDay in a free, fun way this weekend. Complete passport fun & win a prize.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Good news! Due to cooler weather and recent rain, the barbecue ban in North Shore parks has been lifted. #NorthVan

  23-09-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Good news! Due to cooler weather and recent rain, the barbecue ban in North Shore parks has been lifted. #NorthVan
  
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