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• B.C. winemakers worry about smoke taint after wildfires

  30-09-2017 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. winemakers are confident the wildfire smoke that lingered over their vineyards this summer did not taint the grapes, but they won’t know for sure until the winemaking process is complete.
  “I’d be surprised if there was smoke taint, at least in the Okanagan,” said viticulturist and winemaker Val Tait, who manages Bench 1775. “But it can be random and unpredictable, so we don’t really know yet.”
  Smoke taint happens when a volatile molecule found in sm
  
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• Meet the chef: Ned Bell fries a virtuous fish

  30-09-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ned Bell made his bones at Vancouver’s YEW seafood + bar at the Four Seasons, and now applies his skills as the Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise executive chef.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: My focus for the past 10 years is and has been healthy lakes, oceans and rivers. So, any time I get a chance to celebrate, cook from, fish in or just generally advocate for the delicious and sustainable seafood that comes from there, that’s my passion and my inspirati
  
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• Attn Semisch Park users! We need your input on plans for park improvements. Review plans + give feedback… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-09-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Attn Semisch Park users! We need your input on plans for park improvements. Review plans + give feedback… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• First Nations invited to apply for $6.4M for child welfare improvement

  30-09-2017 21:43 via vancouversun.com
  Some $6.4 million in funding will be made available to B.C. First Nations groups and agencies to promote family reunification and preservation.
  The funding will be used to help keep Indigenous families together and improve conditions for children and youth, said Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy in a statement.
  “Indigenous communities are in the best position to identify and deliver services and supports that will have positive and lasting effects for Indigenous fa
  
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• Review: Coldplay's BC Place concert the best arena show of 2017

  30-09-2017 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams tour has played to packed arenas across three continents and nearly three million fans. The U.K. quartet added Vancouver to that list on Sept. 30 with a performance at BC Place that was easily the top arena show of the year.
  Right from the opening chords of the tour’s title track, the group’s performance was pure spectacle unlike any other act on the road at the moment.
  Any massive venue tour is always a carefully scripted and calculated corpora
  
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• Snapshot: City makes good on promise to tow couple's RV

  30-09-2017 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Sean Murphy and his wife Brenda had been living in a broken-down RV near the Renfrew SkyTrain station for two months before the City of Vancouver finally made good on a promise last week to tow it away. Postmedia reporter Gordon McIntyre offers a snapshot of their lives leading to the day they lost their home.  
  You could not have asked for a nicer autumn day. Blue skies, and unusually warm for a late-September.
  Sean Murphy headed out early in search of that one last part for his broken-dow
  
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• Today is #OrangeShirtDay. We honour residential school survivors and remember that #EveryChildMatters.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-09-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Today is #OrangeShirtDay. We honour residential school survivors and remember that #EveryChildMatters.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The meat of the matter: Two Rivers Meats brings old school butchery back into style

  30-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Say you’re out for dinner and you order a hanger steak and think, I’d like to make that at home. Or you fall in love with calotte in France and decide to cook it back in Vancouver. Or perhaps you swoon for a South American cut of beef called vacio and plan to grill it up for Sunday dinner.
  Yeah, good luck with that.
  There is a whole wide world of meat out there that hasn’t been readily available to B.C.’s home cooks. Until now.
  Later this month, Two Rivers Specialty Meats
  
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• Weekend Poll: Is a $700 fine and impound enough for this new driver?

  30-09-2017 19:23 via vancouversun.com
  This week, West Vancouver Police shared details of a new driver who was caught doing nearly double the speed limit on the Upper Limits Highway.
  The novice driver was clocked doing 175 km/h in a stretch where the limit is usually 90 km/h. Police issued the driver a $700 fine and impounded his vehicle for a week. The driver was also responsible for the cost of the impound storage “and the long taxi ride home.”
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• Channel your inner artist at North Shore #CultureDays. 2 Activity Hubs in the City. Lots of FREE events.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-09-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Channel your inner artist at North Shore #CultureDays. 2 Activity Hubs in the City. Lots of FREE events.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Douglas Todd: How to debate immigration without distorting facts, foes

  30-09-2017 17:41 via vancouversun.com
  Canada is one of the few advanced countries that can’t seem to hold an authentic public discussion about immigration policy.
  Canadian boosters of high immigration and those who oppose it are mutually contemptuous. Their verbal boxing matches are dominated by sloganeering and name-calling.
  If Ottawa is ever going to take seriously public opinion to fine-tune its immigration policies, the combatants need to follow a few rules. They may need a referee, who acts fairly when others are losing t
  
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• Douglas Todd: Young foreign workers pervade Metro's hospitality sector

  30-09-2017 17:25 via vancouversun.com
  If you think you’re hearing a lot of French, Irish, Korean and German accents when you buy coffee and restaurant food these days in Metro Vancouver, it’s because you are.
  There has been a sharp rise in the number of young foreign nationals obtaining working-holiday jobs in the Canadian hospitality industry under the federal government’s “international experience” visa program.
  The number of young workers coming to Canada on temporary visas from France, Chile, South
  
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• VIFF: Once There Was a Winter is one chilly thriller

  30-09-2017 17:17 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International Film Festival: Once There Was a Winter
  Oct. 1, 9 p.m. | Rio
  Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m. | International Village No. 9
  Tickets at VIFF.org
  Ana Valine’s new film, Once There Was a Winter, is an anxiety-inducing thriller set mostly in an isolated, mouldy, mobile home that is so depressing you can almost see the desperation dripping from the door jambs.
  “We weren’t in Yaletown I can tell you that,” said Teach Grant, who plays Welder in the film that was sho
  
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• Green on Queensbury makes for a fine fit in North Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  30-09-2017 15:44 via vancouversun.com
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  Green on Queensbury makes for a fine fit in North Vancouver
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  Green on Queensbury is a project from Qualex Landmark Northern Limited Partnership in North Vancouver. Calgary Photos / PNG. Share Adjust Comment Print. When former Deep Cove resident Will Stevens was house-hunting, he looked all around East ...
  
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• Green on Queensbury makes for a fine fit in North Vancouver

  30-09-2017 15:44 via vancouversun.com
  When former Deep Cove resident Will Stevens was house-hunting, he looked all around East Vancouver, False Creek and Mount Pleasant, but ultimately ended up coming back to the North Shore.
  Not only did he believe he got the biggest bang for his housing buck in purchasing his first home there, he also avoided the dreaded “bidding wars.”
  “I heard some very negative experiences about some of the bidding wars to get into entry-level second-hand purchases,” said Stevens, who wo
  
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• Sold (Bought): Pender Harbour home is ideal for entertaining

  30-09-2017 15:36 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  12853 Sunshine Coast Highway, Pender Harbour
  Type: Five-bedroom, five-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,328 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,308,000
  Listed for: $3,288,000
  Sold for: $3 million
  Sold on: May 6
  Days on market: 25
  Listing agent: Joel O’Reilly and Denise Brynelsen at Royal LePage Sussex
  Buyers agent: Joel O’Reilly and Denise Brynelsen at Royal LePage Sussex
  This home at 12853 Sunshine Coast Highway in Pender Harb
  
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• The Home Front: Looks and brains combined in home furnishings

  30-09-2017 15:28 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re a sucker for good-looking things in your home that are equally functional, you’re no doubt familiar with Italian design company Alessi.
  The Sun caught up with Alessi’s Canadian representative Laura Bulley, in town from Toronto, to discuss the brand’s new fall and winter collection, which displays Alessi’s signature modern esthetic, just-right Italian colour palette and innovative design.
  The design-forward approach Alessi is known for is seen in its fall-w
  
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• Five Things to Know: Marpole murder victims ID'ed, B.C. wants Amazon, ICBC scam warning

  30-09-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Police have identified the victims in Wednesday’s double murder in Marpole, the province has thrown its weight behind Metro Vancouver’s Amazon bid, and ICBC is warning of scam texts. Here are five things you need to know.
  Police identify victims of Marpole double homicide
  Vancouver police have identified the victims in Wednesday’s double homicide in Marpole as Dianna Mah-Jones, 65, and Richard Jones, 68.
  The married couple were found dead in their home Wednesday afternoon after
  
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• 'Whale' gamblers also placed bets on B.C. real estate

  30-09-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Paul King Jin, the alleged suspect at the centre of a major RCMP probe into money laundering and underground banking, is connected through big B.C. real estate loans to “high-risk” VIP gamblers from China, a Postmedia investigation shows.
  The RCMP’s investigation, dubbed E-Pirate, alleges that Jin and his associates used an illegal cash exchange business in Richmond to lend suspected drug dealer cash to high-roller gamblers who, with troubling ease, used massive wads of small b
  
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• Whole girl education nurtures every student to shine

  30-09-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  Juliet Hunter-Walsh was full of nerves as she took the stage before a packed house. She had spent months in rehearsal with a cast of 56 preparing for this moment in the junior school’s musical, Through the Looking Glass. But under the intense spotlight, it was easy for her to doubt her abilities. Juliet thought of the support from her friends and teachers, and their advice to “just go for it.”
  When the first note of music began, her nervousness evaporated. The lyrics began to f
  
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• Painting comes back from the dead at the Vancouver Art Gallery

  30-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Art Gallery is about to open an exhibition about contemporary painting. Some people might be tempted to say, “It’s about time.” To art world insiders, the exhibition signals a big change in the ideology around painting.
  Not too long ago, painting was considered dead. Finished. Forever left in the dustbin of history. Its official demise was announced by the influential art journal October when it published the now-famous essay The End of Painting in
  
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• Opinion: Parks and recreation system under threat

  30-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The manufactured consent coming out of the city and Park Board bureaucratic machines has intensified over the last month as they take aim at the parks and recreation systems.
  Britannia Community Services Centre is being targeted for housing. Meanwhile, community centre associations are being forced into a new agreement many consider a shotgun marriage that undermines independent community involvement in programming in favour of centralized controls. The community centre associations and the inde
  
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• Opinion: B.C. finances precarious after just a few months of NDP governance

  30-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  During the 2017 election campaign, now-Premier John Horgan successfully convinced many British Columbians that his NDP government would be different than the previous NDP regime, particularly with respect to the province’s finances. Unfortunately, the first few months the NDP’s reign do not augur well for the future of government finances.
  Consider just how markedly B.C.’s finances have changed in the few months since the election and what that implies for the future. In the sp
  
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• Letters: Unlike so-called citizen journalism, legacy journalism is accountable

  30-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Now more than ever, we need legacy journalism, Opinion, Sept. 23.
  As an old-school subscriber who reads her newspaper in print form with her morning coffee, but who is also used to getting up-to-the-minute news and watching videos of natural disasters on social media, I was very interested in Shelley Fralic’s article. I was surprised to learn that readership and viewership of these more traditional media go up at times of crisis, and the reasons that Fralic stated make sense, but I thi
  
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• Editorial: On your mark, get set, go — Liberal Party leadership race is on

  30-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  At last count, there were eight contenders in the race for the Liberal Party leadership. Many are familiar names: former Cabinet ministers Andrew Wilkinson, Mike Bernier, Todd Stone and Mike de Jong; MLA and former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan and MP and former Surrey mayor Dianne Watts. First time MLA Michael Lee and Terrace business owner Lucy Sager have also thrown their hats into the ring.
  The first leadership debate is scheduled for Oct. 15, giving us our first opportunity to compare the ca
  
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• School board byelection comes down to who voters punish

  30-09-2017 04:23 via vancouversun.com
  The questions were nasty, the behaviour rude and disrespectful. There was bickering, eye-rolling, table thumping and loud sighing. 
  This wasn’t a class of Grade 8 troublemakers, but then-trustees of the Vancouver School Board according to an independent investigation into allegations of bullying at the district. 
  The Goldner report was released five months after the board was fired by then-education minister Mike Bernier last October for failing to pass a balanced budget. 
  N
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Has trust faded for 'open, transparent' Site C review?

  30-09-2017 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The day began with the B.C. Utilities Commission saying it was not in the public interest for the public to know too much about the troubles with the Site C project.
  At issue were specifics about budget overruns, schedule delays and the drain on contingency funds on the main civil works contract for the hydroelectric dam now under construction at Site C on the Peace River.
  The commission blacked out those and other details from a report by Deloitte LLP, the consulting firm
  
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• Crowded field battles for a single city council seat in Vancouver

  30-09-2017 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  There’s only a single council seat up for grabs in Vancouver’s first municipal byelection in 25 years, but city hall watchers say there’s plenty on the line.
  Coming 12 months before the 2018 general municipal election, this byelection will determine “the comfort level of the Vision majority,” said Richard Johnston, a UBC political science professor. “And it could mark a subtle shift in the balance of forces in the next election. … There&r
  
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• Delegates pass resolution opposing Greyhound bus service cuts

  30-09-2017 03:42 via vancouversun.com
  Greyhound Canada is being asked to “put people ahead of parcels” and stop its plans to cancel inter-city bus routes in northern B.C. and on Vancouver Island.
  Delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities conference on Friday voted in favour of a resolution, which was sponsored by the City of Prince George, urging the Passenger Transportation Board to decline Greyhound’s application to cancel five routes — including one that covers the Highway of Tears, where dozens of wom
  
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• Have you seen Claudia Jang? bit.ly/2x3n45B #NorthVancouver

  30-09-2017 03:19 via twitter.com
  Have you seen Claudia Jang?bit.ly/2x3n45B#NorthVancouver
  
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• This Week in History: 1867 Gassy Jack Deighton moves to the future Vancouver

  30-09-2017 02:38 via vancouversun.com
  One-hundred-and-fifty years ago today, John Deighton arrived on the south shore of Burrard Inlet in a dugout canoe. Within 24 hours he had set up a makeshift bar and was selling booze to workers from nearby Stamp’s Mill.
  Deighton named his establishment the Globe Saloon, after a bar he had owned in New Westminster. He was a big talker, hence his nickname, Gassy Jack.
  “He was a Yorkshireman, fat, florid and full of fun,” said a July 12, 1927, story in The Province. “Withal
  
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• Stemcell Technologies aims for the world

  30-09-2017 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  This week Conversations That Matter features the remarkable Dr. Allen Eaves, the founder, CEO and president of Stemcell Technologies, Canada’s most successful biotech company.
  It is is playing a pivotal role in fostering a community of biotech startups.
  “We’re very keen to support an ecosystem of biotechnology here and be closely related with the universities, especially UBC and SFU, and you know, this is my passion,” Eaves said.
  Stemcell Technologies has experi
  
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• We're recruiting for a Regular Full-Time Accounts Clerk. Click here to apply ow.ly/rI3r30fxgLH

  30-09-2017 02:07 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a Regular Full-Time Accounts Clerk. Click here to apply ow.ly/rI3r30fxgLH
  
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• Road advisory: Oct 2-6, East 27th St will be closed for utility work between Mtn Hwy and the entrance to Safeway parking lot. #DNVtraffic

  30-09-2017 02:06 via twitter.com
  Road advisory: Oct 2-6, East 27th St will be closed for utility work between Mtn Hwy and the entrance to Safeway parking lot. #DNVtraffic
  
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• So many FREE North Shore #CultureDays events to enjoy this weekend! There are 2 activity hubs in the City.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-09-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  So many FREE North Shore #CultureDays events to enjoy this weekend! There are 2 activity hubs in the City.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Being old and female means you're twice as likely as a man to be poor

  30-09-2017 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  Women face economic disadvantages throughout their lifetimes, but it is near the end of their lives that it is most acute.
  Nowhere is that more evident than in Metro Vancouver, which has Canada’s highest percentage of people living in low-income households. The 2016 census data for the region indicates that the percentage of women living in low-income households is 7.5-per-cent higher than men. But past the age of 65? The percentage of poor women jumps to 15.8 per cent.
  “This is stru
  
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• B.C. to increase treatment and public safety programs to address overdose crisis

  30-09-2017 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — People on the front lines of British Columbia’s opioid overdose crisis are applauding the government’s announcement of more funding in an attempt to stem the death toll.
  Premier John Horgan announced Friday the province will spend more than $31 million over the next three years to increase access to treatment programs, offer more free kits of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, help front-line workers and empower communities to keep people safe.
  Speaking to a crow
  
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• This week at @UBCM, #NewDelbrook Recreation Centre received a 2017 Community Recognition Award from @wood_works. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-09-2017 01:43 via twitter.com
  This week at @UBCM, #NewDelbrook Recreation Centre received a 2017 Community Recognition Award from @wood_works.T… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hyperlink logs into Internet theatre

  30-09-2017 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  Elbow Theatre’s Hyperlink
  Oct. 4 to 14 | Firehall Arts Centre
  Tickets and info: From $25 at firehallartscentre.ca
  More access to information, greater and faster communication, a global community operating in real time, all the time. We so often are told about all the benefits living in a digital age brings.
  But what about fake news, reactionary responses and the frequently reported statistics on how much more alone people are now than they were prior to the advent of all these mo
  
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• UBCM delegates vote against contract with Martin Mars owner

  30-09-2017 00:57 via vancouversun.com
  Municipal politicians will not urge the provincial government to sign a long-term deal with the company that owns the Martin Mars water bomber.
  The City of Port Alberni put forward a resolution at the Union of B.C. Municipalities annual conference asking for a 10-year contract with Coulson Group, which is based in the city and owns two of the firefighting aircraft, and for Coulson to upgrade the aircraft to meet operational requirements.
  The province’s previous contract with Coulson expire
  
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• Accused killer admits he let girlfriend's body decompose

  30-09-2017 00:51 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver man accused of the murder of his girlfriend admits that he let the victim’s body decompose in his apartment as long as possible after the slaying.
  Daniel Alphonse Paul, 45, has pleaded not guilty to the January 2015 second-degree murder of Crystal Rose Paul, 36.
  The Crown theory is that he beat his girlfriend to death and then lived with the corpse for nearly a month before fleeing his apartment.
  Paul denies that he killed her, but admits that he remained in the apartment on Ea
  
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