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• Police recover new Vancouver couple's stolen belongings

  25-09-2017 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  A young couple who lost all their belongings when their U-Haul truck was stolen earlier this month in Abbotsford were reunited with their property this weekend after police recovered their belongings and made an arrest in Surrey.
  Sabrina and Nathan Drover were in the process of moving from New Brunswick to Vancouver when their rented truck was stolen on Sept. 12 from the park-and-ride lot at Lonzo Road and Sumas Way.
  The van, a white Ford E450 U-Haul cube van, was found empty the following
  
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• Gov't tried dozens of times to establish Atlantic salmon on West Coast

  25-09-2017 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  More than eight million Atlantic salmon have been intentionally released into B.C. rivers and lakes, beginning more than a century ago.
  With the support of the federal government, dozens of attempts were made to establish viable Atlantic salmon populations on the West Coast between 1905 and 1935.
  The experiments are documented in studies of salmonid distribution dating to the 1950s and as recently as 2002, which concluded that no spawning populations had survived.
  The escape last month of 165,00
  
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• How do you think pot should be regulated? B.C. government wants to know

  25-09-2017 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  Starting Monday, municipalities, First Nations, industry and the public will have a chance to tell the provincial government their opinions on non-medical cannabis regulation in B.C.
  Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth spoke about the importance of collaboration in developing a framework for regulation during his remarks on Monday at a session at the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) conference in Vancouver.
  “We want to make sure the policy we put in place meet
  
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• Attn St Andrews Park users! City crews will be installing sod Sept 26/27. Please give them space to work.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-09-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Attn St Andrews Park users! City crews will be installing sod Sept 26/27. Please give them space to work.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Liberal leadership race: Who's thrown their hat in?

  25-09-2017 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Liberals won’t select a new leader until Feb. 3, but those vying to replace former premier Christy Clark are starting to throw their hats into the ring prior to the mandated Oct. 15 party leadership debate.
  The last day to declare a leadership bid is Dec. 29
  A running list of those who have declared their candidacy:
  B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Lucy Sager
  Lucy Sager:  The 38-year-old Terrace businesswoman runs Spirit Strategies, a consulting firm focused on bus
  
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• We're looking for residents to advise us on public art, rec & culture, heritage, parks, and more! Join a committee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-09-2017 20:48 via twitter.com
  We're looking for residents to advise us on public art, rec & culture, heritage, parks, and more! Join a committee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. solicitor general announces public engagement on pot legalization

  25-09-2017 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth announced the official opening of a public engagement process around the future of non-medical cannabis regulation in B.C. on Monday.
  Farnworth spoke about the importance of collaboration in developing a framework for regulation during his remarks at a session at the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) Conference in Vancouver.
  “We want to make sure the policy we put in place meets the needs of British Columbians,” said Fa
  
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• Roadwork Alert! 1300-1400 St George's Ave. Expect delays/road closure/parking restrictions. Use alt route.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-09-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Roadwork Alert! 1300-1400 St George's Ave. Expect delays/road closure/parking restrictions. Use alt route.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sorry to use your least favourite four-letter word, but it looks like rain is settling in. Here's how to prepare youtu.be/hCE_-I_Llqc

  25-09-2017 19:37 via twitter.com
  Sorry to use your least favourite four-letter word, but it looks like rain is settling in. Here's how to prepare youtu.be/hCE_-I_Llqc
  
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• 7 things to do in Vancouver this week: Sept. 29 — Oct. 5

  25-09-2017 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  Feist
  Oct. 1-2, 8:30 p.m. | Vogue Theatre, Commodore Ballroom
  Tickets and info: livenation.com
  Indie pop singer/songwriter Feist is back with a brand-new album, her first in six years. Pleasure, released on April 28, 2017, is the followup to 2011’s Polaris Music Prize-winning Metals, and it finds her in a similar place, exploring many of the same themes as her previous work: “emotional limits … loneliness, private ritual, secrets, shame, mounting pressures, disconnec
  
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• Encouraged by 'Push For Change' Joe Roberts, former homeless person, speaking at North Van Carson Graham today. Ver… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-09-2017 18:31 via twitter.com
  Encouraged by 'Push For Change' Joe Roberts, former homeless person, speaking at North Van Carson Graham today. Ver… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Provincial announcement expected at UBCM cannabis legalization session

  25-09-2017 18:23 via vancouversun.com
  Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth will make an announcement Monday about the future of non-medical cannabis regulation in B.C.
  Farnworth will talk about the province’s next steps in developing a framework for regulation during his remarks at a session at the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) Conference in Vancouver.
  The topic of marijuana legalization and the role that municipalities will play in developing and administering policies is a big agenda item for
  
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• Don't delay! Today's the last day for Duplex Study Open House Feedback. Survey closes at 5pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-09-2017 18:02 via twitter.com
  Don't delay! Today's the last day for Duplex Study Open House Feedback. Survey closes at 5pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Should the Stanley Cup champions visit the White House?

  25-09-2017 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  Sidney Crosby is backing the Pittsburgh Penguins’ decision to accept a White House invitation from President Donald Trump.
  The reigning two-time Stanley Cup champions announced their decision Sunday morning.
  “I support it,” Crosby said Sunday night. “It’s a great honour for us to be invited there.”
  The Penguins’ decision came on a day that President Trump’s criticisms of players who kneel during the national anthem sparked a mass increase in such p
  
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• Update: Vancouver police arrest high-risk sex offender Gerald McLean

  25-09-2017 16:44 via vancouversun.com
  Update: The Vancouver Police Department issued a statement Monday morning that Gerald McLean, a high-risk sex offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, has been apprehended.Thanks everyone for the RTs. We are happy to report that Gerald McLean has been located and arrested. #VPD
  — Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) September 25, 2017
  Vancouver police issued the warrant on Sunday after McLean failed to return to his Vancouver halfway house.
  Vancouver police are searching for high-risk sex offe
  
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• Music reviews: Sept. 25: Moka Only, Bend Sinister, Chelsea Wolfe, more

  25-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Moka Only: Concert for One (URBNET): It’s funny how you can be a multiple Juno Award-winning rapper and still be a fixture on the West Coast hip-hop underground, too. But that’s what makes Vancouver Island’s Moka Only (born Daniel Denton) so unique. He even digs into this on the hilarious Featuring Drake, where he rhymes on that to make it in his biz of choice “maybe I’d be better off featuring Drake.” But he won’t and he doesn’t go for that style
  
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• Five notable Coldplay concerts in Vancouver

  25-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Coldplay
  Sept. 29, 5 p.m. | B.C. Place
  Tickets and info: From $95, at ticketmaster.ca
  Only a handful of artists can pack an arena the size of B.C. Place, with its 54,000-plus capacity. The 1060s, 1970s and 1980s were the decades of the arena rockers — and Taylor Swift, One Direction and Coldplay are some of the only acts to come into stardom post-2000 who can fill the big rooms. Coldplay arrived in Canada in 2000 riding the wave of its full-length debut Parachutes and the single Yello
  
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• Should we consider expropriation for 105 Keefer?

  25-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Earlier this month, I was walking to the open house presenting Beedie Holdings’ newest application to develop 105 Keefer Street in Chinatown. I passed by the “World’s Thinnest Building” according to the Guinness Book of World Records. At the corner of West Pender and Carrall Street, the building is a curiosity, recently renovated with flashy neon lights. Few people know why the building is only six feet deep — barely thicker than a person lying down.
  The history of
  
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• Opinion: Much work needs to be done ahead of electoral reform vote

  25-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Throne Speech delivered on Sept. 8 repeated the New Democratic Party’s election platform and the details of the agreement the NDP and the Green Party struck in May.
  One of these details was electoral reform. The speech stated that the “government will set the terms for a referendum on proportional representation to take place no later than November 2018.” It will “actively campaign in favour of reform” and ensure that “every vote counts.”
  These broad
  
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• Amazon HQ: Where could you put a 100-acre tech campus in Metro Vancouver?

  25-09-2017 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  With Vancouver’s leaders vying — like their counterparts in more than 100 other North American cities — to become the home of a new Amazon headquarters, it raises the question of where in Metro could the world’s largest online retailer set up shop?
  Amazon released a request for proposals earlier this month, in which the Seattle-based marketing giant outlined what they’re looking for in a second home, including “a greenfield site of approxim
  
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• The Battle of the False Creek Flats: SkyTrain extension may close art galleries

  25-09-2017 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  The Equinox and Monte Clark galleries are located in one of the great repurposed buildings in Vancouver, a former Finning factory at 525 Great Northern Way with vast open spaces and a ceiling that soars two-and-a-half storeys high.
  With Emily Carr University opening its new home a few steps down the street, the two art galleries have become a key part of a developing cultural precinct on the False Creek Flats.
  Hundreds of people have turned out for openings by artists like Gordon Smith, Fred Her
  
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• We're lit up blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month #NorthVan @ProstateCancerC #OneinSeven https://t.co/qBn9cfoX71

  25-09-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  
  We're lit up blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month #NorthVan @ProstateCancerC #OneinSeven https://t.co/qBn9cfoX71
  
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• Pinball fans flip out at Vancouver festival

  25-09-2017 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  There are two rules on covering pinball tournaments as a reporter.
  One: Never refer to the players as pinball wizards.
  And two: Never talk to said wizards mid-game.
  That was the word at the door of the Vancouver FlipOut Pinball Expo, where hundreds of proficient pinball practitioners racked up scores big and small last weekend on practice and tournament tables.
  Esteban Astudillo and his son Sebastian in action at The Vancouver FlipOut Pinball Expo on Sunday.
  Among them was Esteban Astudillo, a c
  
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• Dan Fumano: A critical math lesson ahead of next month's Vancouver byelection

  25-09-2017 00:36 via vancouversun.com
  The intricacies of Vancouver city council’s vote-counting math means the single seat up for grabs in next month’s byelection counts for a lot.
  Much of the news coverage of Vancouver’s byelection has noted that regardless of the result at the polls Oct. 14, Vision Vancouver won’t lose its majority. The departure of Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs to Victoria to work for the new premier left five Vision councillors remaining, with Mayor Gregor Robertson giving the party a single-v
  
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• Craft brewing: Every beer tells City Farmer's story of urban gardens

  25-09-2017 00:34 via vancouversun.com
  City Farmer plans to raise a glass to celebrate 40 years of advocating for urban agriculture and food gardening, with its own city-hopped India Pale Ale.
  A bumper crop of Goldings, Cascade and Willamette hops is being harvested from the ultra-funky Compost Demonstration Garden in Kitsilano in preparation for a Vancouver-style microbrew.
  “City Farmer is all about telling stories,” said project leader Maria Keating. “When the city compost pilot project started up we knew there wo
  
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• Thousands walk for reconciliation in Vancouver

  25-09-2017 00:14 via vancouversun.com
  Near the head of a crowd that stretched almost one kilometre walked Sam George, a survivor.
  George, one of the last living members of his cohort in St. Paul’s Residential School in North Vancouver, walked through downtown Vancouver Sunday with help from a cane and the support of tens of thousands of people.
  It was the city’s second Walk for Reconciliation, a march intended to foster better relationships between Indigenous peoples and other Canadians.
  George wore a T-shirt that read &
  
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• Some B.C. school boards still struggling to recruit teachers for smaller classes

  25-09-2017 00:09 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The need to hire 3,500 teachers in a rush to reduce class sizes in British Columbia is undermining the recruitment effort at the most expensive and remote districts, the province’s teachers union says.
  B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman said a surge in job openings resulted in a “domino effect” with teachers moving around the province to more desirable districts.
  “As early as May and June, we had a lot of our current members in northe
  
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• Attn #GreenNecklace users! Open House Sept 27th. Review preliminary design plans for Lonsdale to Grand.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-09-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Attn #GreenNecklace users! Open House Sept 27th. Review preliminary design plans for Lonsdale to Grand.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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