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• Immigration board orders ISIS supporter detained

  05-10-2017 23:54 via vancouversun.com
   
  A B.C. man who posted violent online rhetoric in support of the Islamic State and terrorist attacks has been ordered detained by the Immigration Board pending a full hearing on his status in Canada.
  Board member Trent Cook said Thursday that he believes Othman Hamdan would be a danger to the public if released from custody before an admissibility hearing later this fall.
  Hamdan, 35, was acquitted in B.C. Supreme Court Sept. 22 on four terrorism charges related to the controversial pro-ISI
  
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• Vancouver city council awards contract to build 600 modular homes

  05-10-2017 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council has awarded a contract to build 600 modular homes by the end of this winter.
  Council voted Wednesday evening to award the contract to Horizon North, which will design, supply and construct the 600 units of housing to be spread across 10 to 12 sites throughout Vancouver. The specific sites are still to be determined.
  “Homelessness continues to be our top priority and we won’t back down until we have our most vulnerable in safe and secure housing,” sai
  
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• Movie Minute: Blade Runner 2049 reviewed in less than 60 seconds

  05-10-2017 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia News movie critic Dana Gee discusses Blade Runner 2049, the new film from Oscar-nominated director Denis Villeneuve starring Ryan Gosling.
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• Knife-wielding, bat-swinging skeleton robs Nanaimo beer store

  05-10-2017 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  Nanaimo beer store clerks were left traumatized but uninjured after being robbed at knife point by a man wearing a skeleton mask and swinging a baseball bat.
  The robbery happened Saturday at 10:40 p.m. 
  RCMP say the masked man entered the Harewood Arms Beer and Wine store waving a knife. He then started  banging a bat on the counter and demanding the clerks hand over the money from the till.Nanaimo RCMP officers and a police dog were unable to find the robber, but the bat and knif
  
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• Pipeline approval put Alberta's needs ahead of B.C.'s oil-spill concerns, court hears

  05-10-2017 23:22 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A lawyer representing British Columbia in its fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says the federal cabinet’s approval of the project put Alberta’s economic needs ahead of B.C.’s concerns about oil spills.
  Thomas Berger has told the Federal Court of Appeal that Ottawa also breached its statutory duty to provide reasons for deciding the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.
  Outside court, Berger says the move a
  
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• Beware of Lies. Rent Wise. bit.ly/2xkTBUX #NorthVancouver

  05-10-2017 23:19 via twitter.com
  Beware of Lies. Rent Wise.bit.ly/2xkTBUX#NorthVancouver
  
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• Don't forget - #Montroyal bridge is single lane alternating traffic until 8pm this evening. ow.ly/JfyN30fEjfh

  05-10-2017 23:01 via twitter.com
  Don't forget - #Montroyal bridge is single lane alternating traffic until 8pm this evening. ow.ly/JfyN30fEjfh
  
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• We'll be closed next Monday for Thanksgiving. Our after-hours emergency phone number is 604-990-3666… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  We'll be closed next Monday for Thanksgiving. Our after-hours emergency phone number is 604-990-3666… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Check out this week's #CityView eNews. Get the scoop on the camel, plus all the latest City news:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Check out this week's #CityView eNews. Get the scoop on the camel, plus all the latest City news:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. RCMP appeal for information in cold case involving murder of infant twins

  05-10-2017 21:36 via vancouversun.com
  Police say they continue to investigate the murder of newborn twin girls more than 20 years after their bodies were found in a provincial park north of Princeton.
  RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk has made a new appeal for information that might solve the crime.
  The girls’ identities haven’t been determined but Moskaluk says the search continues for their mother or whoever left them wrapped in black garbage bags at Allison Lake Provincial Park.
  The bodies were found on Oct. 9, 1994.
  Moskaluk sa
  
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• Las Vegas attack leaves costly wake for uninsured B.C. victims

  05-10-2017 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Hudson Mack says he doesn’t know the cost of his Victoria-based son’s intensive medical care after being shot Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, only that he’s sure it’s already “catastrophic.”
  Like many who make a short trip to the United States, his 21-year-old son Sheldon didn’t buy travel health insurance before crossing the border, and is now facing the potential of a staggering medical bill after the deadliest mass shooting
  
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• B.C. man shot in head at Vegas concert begins long trip home

  05-10-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  LAS VEGAS — Braden Matejka, a Canadian who was shot in the head in the weekend attack on a country music festival, left Las Vegas Wednesday on a 22-hour road trip back home.
  Matejka, a heavy duty mechanic and welder from Lake Country, B.C., told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his symptoms prevent him from flying for 10 days.
  He left the city later in the day with his girlfriend and his parents, who flew to Las Vegas to drive the couple home.
  At least four Canadians have been report
  
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• RCMP seek public's help to find missing Chilliwack teen

  05-10-2017 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  Chilliwack RCMP asking the public to help find 15-year-old Kusone Shacquor Robinson.
  The Chilliwack teen was last seen on Sept. 17 in the 45000-block of Wellington Avenue.
  Robinson is described as black male, approximately five-foot-five and weighing about 119 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.
  “Police and caregivers are concerned for Kusone’s well being,” said RCMP Cpl. Mike Rail.
  Anyone with information on Robinson’s whereabouts is asked to contact the
  
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• Steven Tyler returns to stage for David Foster Foundation gala in Vancouver

  05-10-2017 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, who has been dogged by health rumours after cancelling a series of concerts last week, will return to the stage on Oct. 21 for David Foster Foundation 30th Anniversary Miracle Gala and Concert at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.
  In a statement on the band’s website, the 69-year-old Tyler told fans he cut Aerosmith’s current world tour short — cancelling four shows in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico — because he had to have a m
  
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• Great weather for #walknwheel to school! How's it going? Bus rides are free kids for K-12 'til Oct 6th.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  Great weather for #walknwheel to school! How's it going? Bus rides are free kids for K-12 'til Oct 6th.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. experiments with 'Lego block' housing in fight against homelessness

  05-10-2017 19:35 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Stack them up. Take them down. Move them around. Repeat.
  What could easily pass as a description of the children’s toy Lego could also be a portrait of British Columbia’s latest tool in the fight against homelessness.
  The province is turning to modular housing to help with a critical lack of short-term accommodation. Temporary modular housing involves the construction of small, self-contained living quarters, which can be shipped directly from a factory and quickly
  
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• Richmond escape room shows how tough it is to leave homelessness

  05-10-2017 19:11 via vancouversun.com
  Escape rooms have become popular everywhere – but what if you were homeless and there was no escape?
  That’s the immersive experience Union Gospel Mission hopes to share with the public through a specially designed educational escape room at Exit Canada’s Richmond location.
  The room, titled Encounter: Interactively Understanding Homelessness and its Barriers, mimics some of the challenges homeless individuals face when trying to get off the street. The room was partly conce
  
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• Know somebody making an outstanding contribution to community life? It's not too late to nominate them for an award… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  Know somebody making an outstanding contribution to community life? It's not too late to nominate them for an award… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• It's time to 'gear' up for Bike to Work Week October 23-29. Register now & you could WIN a trip for 2 to Tuscany! b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  It's time to 'gear' up for Bike to Work Week October 23-29. Register now & you could WIN a trip for 2 to Tuscany! b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What to do this Halloween: 50+ events happening in Metro Vancouver

  05-10-2017 18:17 via vancouversun.com
  Get ready for the most spooktacular time of the year! Our Halloween round-up features some of the best haunted houses, attractions, costumed dance parties and other scary – and not so scary – events for big kids, little kids and adults.
  HALLOWEEN FUN FOR THE BIG KIDS:
  Fright Nights at PlaylandIt’s our favourite time of fear – this terrifying adult-themed Halloween event is back to haunt Playland for another year. Features eight haunted houses, including the new one &ndash
  
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• A reminder that single lane alternating traffic at #Montroyal bridge will be in place until 8pm this evening. ow.ly/O3VS30fEj6P

  05-10-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  A reminder that single lane alternating traffic at #Montroyal bridge will be in place until 8pm this evening. ow.ly/O3VS30fEj6P
  
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• Concert announcement: Pop star Pink coming to Rogers Arena

  05-10-2017 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  Pink will stop at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena May 12 as part of her Beautiful Trauma World Tour.
   Tickets, which will range in price from $60.10 to $260.10 (plus fees), go on sale through Live Nation on Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. There will be an American Express pre-sale starting Oct. 10.
  On Thursday, Pink’s seventh album, Beautiful Trauma, will be released on Oct. 13.
  The 38-year-old singer has sold more than 42 million albums and has had 15 top 10 Billboard singles since her debut in 20
  
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• Whistler Writer's Festival puts authors in book club

  05-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Whistler Writers Festival
  Oct. 12-15 | Whistler/various locations
  Tickets at whistlerwritersfest.com
  Once again the Whistler Writers Festival (WWF) is offering some fresh literary tracks for attendees to enjoy.
  Festival artistic director Stella Harvey, who founded WWF in her living room 16 years ago, says this year the popular book-club portion of the festival is getting a new and lively twist.
  For years the festival, Oct. 12-15, has held seminars and events designed to help book-club members ge
  
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• VIFF 2017 music, art and dance films

  05-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  VIFF M/A/D is a stream at the Vancouver International Film Festival that focuses on silver-screen showcases of music, art and design. While most of us are familiar with a good band documentary or Knowledge Network-style artist focus, many of the films programmed into M/A/D fall outside those general-interest areas and open up a world of alternative views to entertain, challenge and surprise viewers.
  The following six films are highly recommended:
  Bunch of Kunst
  Director: Christine Franz.
  Cast: S
  
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• Sarah Slean's dark Metaphysics

  05-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sarah Slean
  Oct. 6, 8 p.m. | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts, North Vancouver
  Tickets and info: From $32 at capilanou.ca
  Sarah Slean spent five years working on her seventh album. Titled Metaphysics, the 10-track record is a continuation of the distinct mix of orchestral pop with a shine toward show tunes that’s given the Pickering, Ont., artist a devoted fan base.
  Literate and classically trained, Slean makes music that could be fairly described as adult and urban. Funn
  
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• Guy Maddin and Kronos Quartet perform The Green Fog at VIFF 2017

  05-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Green Fog — A San Francisco Fantasia with Kronos Quartet
  Oct. 10, 8 p.m. | Centre for the Performing Arts
  Tickets and info: From $35 at viff.org
  Guy Maddin doesn’t hold back when discussing audience response to his work. The Manitoba-raised director knows his offbeat and provocative films have some calling him Guy Maddin-ing. But with his latest work, he has found a happy place collaborating with the renowned San Francisco new-music string section, the Kronos Quartet, in a live c
  
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• Film tests friendship while exploring grief

  05-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International Film Festival: Suck it Up
  Oct. 8, 9 p.m. | Rio TheatreOct. 11, 2 p.m. | International village #10
  Tickets and info: viff.org
  DIY isn’t just for drywall and decorating.
  The do it yourself model can and has been applied quite successfully to creative arts like filmmaking.
  That is the case with the new B.C. shot film Suck it Up. Screening at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival on, Suck it Up is the story of two young women trying to cope &mdash
  
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• Book review: Vancouver's vanishing architectural history preserved

  05-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Friedman House
  Richard Cavell
  ORO Editions
  In a real estate market as hot as the Lower Mainland, it should come as no surprise that this region’s architectural heritage is as expendable as its livability. Many of the finest examples of West Coast Modern design and building once populated local neighbourhoods. Their numbers are dwindling fast.
  While preserving as many of these homes as possible is a lovely goal, the reality is that it won’t happen. So concerned academics at UBC SALA (
  
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• Daily Poll: Should pre-sale buyers be charged more to re-sell a condo?

  05-10-2017 16:11 via vancouversun.com
  The developer behind downtown Vancouver’s One Burrard Place is now upping the fee they charge to allow pre-sale buyers to re-sell their unfinished condo.
  The value of a condo frequently increases between the time the pre-sale contract is signed and when the condo is completed, the buyer begins occupation and the sale is legally finished.
  Developers have typically charged between 1.5 per cent to two per cent of the original purchase price to allow a pre-sale buyer to re-assign their pre-sal
  
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• Historic BC camels inspire new North Vancouver statue - CBC.ca

  05-10-2017 15:01 via cbc.ca
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  Historic BC camels inspire new North Vancouver statue
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  The City of North Vancouver has a new resident. The Lady is a two metre-tall statue of a camel and stands on the corner of 13th Street and Lonsdale where it gazes out towards the Burrard Inlet. The beast might be made out bronze, but it's inspired by a ...
  
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• Basscoast is 10

  05-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bass Coast Festival 10th Anniversary Celebration
  Oct. 9, 9 p.m. | Commodore Ballroom
  Tickets and info: From $20 at livenation.com
  Bass Coast stands out in a world of electronic music and arts festivals. The combination of site, sounds and surroundings assured that the annual independent, non-corporate event in Merritt, B.C. was certain to be on the global beat scene schedule. But this festival has always differentiated itself from the rest by having something so many major music events lack.
  Bas
  
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• Three Days of Adventure in Seattle Backcountry

  05-10-2017 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  Seattle’s Backcountry lies between the snow-marbled Cascade Mountains and the royal-blue waters of Puget Sound in Snohomish County, Washington State. Quaint coastal communities, beautiful mountainous regions and adventurous river corridors are just 25km north of downtown Seattle. The area’s many attractions and family activities make it the perfect place to find a perfect family getaway. With Seattle minutes to the south and the San Juan Islands or Olympic Peninsula just a ferry ride
  
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• Opinion: A plan to reverse labour shortages for seniors care

  05-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many British Columbians will find it hard to ignore recent headlines about school boards seeking to hire upwards of 3,500 new teachers to meet increased requirements this fall. Had there been more notice, the stress experienced by school administrators today may have been avoided.
  Another sector is about to embark on a major expansion of B.C.’s labour force, and the challenges are equally as daunting. In an effort to address the needs of our aging population, the provincial government anno
  
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• Amorous bull moose takes up with cattle for third year in Bella Coola Valley

  05-10-2017 04:54 via vancouversun.com
  BELLA COOLA VALLEY, B.C. — Locals call him Cowboy. He’s a bull moose with a confident, if misplaced, swagger that has shown up for three straight autumns to mingle with a herd of cattle — and, occasionally, do much more in plain sight alongside Highway 20.
  “He was trying to mate when I drove by,” conservation officer Steve Hodgson said. “He was going pretty good and the cow wasn’t running away. He looked like he was going for it, going for broke. I didn&
  
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• Vancouver company giving all-electric school bus a first test

  05-10-2017 04:31 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver company is demonstrating what it says is the first purpose-built all-electric school bus.
  Called the Synapse 72, GreenPower Motor Company will have the bus at Vancouver City Hall midday Thursday. On Friday, GreenPower will be giving public rides near the Vancouver Convention Centre at 10 a.m.
  GreenPower  is a Vancouver-based bus manufacturer “that develops electric powered vehicles for commercial markets.”
  In a media release, GreenPower adds that it offers “a r
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Pose of neutrality a little late in PR electoral reform

  05-10-2017 03:56 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats left no doubt Wednesday of their effort to stack the deck in favour of proportional representation in next year’s referendum on electoral reform.
  “Government takes action to modernize democracy,” declared the news release on the enabling legislation for the fall 2018 ballot-by-mail.
  All part of a drive to “bring B.C.’s democratic institutions into the 21st century,” added Attorney General David Eby, clarifying the object
  
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• Video: B.C. man thankful to survive Las Vegas attack

  05-10-2017 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. tourists Braden Matejka and Amanda Homulos said they went to Las Vegas to celebrate Matejka’s birthday last Thursday, when the couple unexpectedly got caught up in a mass shooting that left 59 dead and hundreds injured on Sunday.
  
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• Vancouver developer hikes fee for re-assigning a pre-sale condo in effort to dampen speculation

  05-10-2017 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  Condo sales and prices are on fire. And now, developers of a prominent condo project in Vancouver’s West End, which won’t be completed until 2019, are hiking the fee they charge for letting a pre-sale buyer of a unit re-assign (sell) their contract to another buyer.
  It’s the latest example of developers and buyers figuring out who benefits when there are steep gains in value. This is happening because prices are climbing in the years between when a buyer signs a pre-sale contra
  
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• Mayor Hepner reiterates case for light rail in Surrey

  05-10-2017 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner is once again defending her city’s decision to build light rail instead of SkyTrain when rapid transit is expanded in the coming years.
  Hepner made the case for light rail during a speech at a Surrey Board of Trade luncheon, where she and TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond talked about the future of transit South of the Fraser.
  A 10-kilometre, 11-stop, light-rail line connecting Surrey’s SkyTrain stations to Newton and Guildford is part of the second phase of the M
  
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• Boy's suicide reveals flaws in B.C.'s youth mental health system: advocate

  05-10-2017 02:12 via vancouversun.com
  The province’s youth mental health system failed a North Vancouver teen who, after years struggling with profound mental illness, ended his life outside B.C. Children’s Hospital, says a new damning report by the children’s representative.
  It is crucial to fix the system now because the significant problems faced by this victim are not going to go way, representative Bernard Richard told reporters Wednesday.
  “This is a growing issue. More and more kids suffer from mental i
  
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• Surrey pastor speaks about son's sex offence charges

  05-10-2017 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  On the Sunday after Samuel and Madelaine Emerson were arrested in May, attendance at the non-denominational Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church plummeted.
  Word of the arrests of a pastor and his wife in relation to allegations of sexual assault, sexual touching and threats had made its way through the congregation, and about three-quarters of the church’s 250 members had fled.
  In the months that followed, Samuel’s father Randy — senior pastor at the church — held
  
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• Housing crisis: Fraser Valley has higher proportion of homeless women

  05-10-2017 02:01 via vancouversun.com
  A high proportion of homeless women live in the Fraser Valley and resource workers in the region say there is a dire need for affordable and supportive housing for those fleeing abuse with their children or struggling with addiction. 
  Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District recently released their first-ever joint report on homelessness in the Lower Mainland, comparing data from homeless counts conducted in both regions last March.
  In Metro Vancouver, 27 per cent of the home
  
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• Taylor Van Diest murder: Second trial scheduled for Matthew Foerster

  05-10-2017 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  The retrial for the man accused of murdering a young woman near Armstrong is set to begin next spring.
  Matthew Foerster, who is now in his 30s, was found guilty of first-degree murder in April 2014 and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance at parole for 25 years.
  A jury found he beat 18-year-old Taylor Van Diest to death with a metal flashlight along train tracks in Armstrong on Halloween night in 2011.
  The cause of her death was determined to be diffuse bleeding in the brain caused by
  
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• Musqueam decision to reject judicial review won't affect legal bid to stop Kinder Morgan, says lawyer

  05-10-2017 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  The Musqueam First Nation’s decision to pull out of a judicial review process against the federal government will have no impact on ongoing legal efforts to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, a Vancouver lawyer involved in the process said Wednesday.
  “I don’t think it makes any difference at all,” said Matthew Kirchner, who represents both the Squamish First Nation and Coldwater Indian Band. “It’s a decision the Musqueam have made, for whatever reason,
  
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