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• Police investigating 'suspicious' Nanaimo fire that left family of three dead

  11-10-2017 23:46 via vancouversun.com
  A mother, father and their seven-year-old daughter were found dead after a house fire in Nanaimo on Tuesday, police say.
  Nanaimo RCMP Cpl. Jon Stuart confirmed Wednesday morning that the three people who died were a family and all lived in the Nicol Street home.
  Amberlee Scarr, her ex-husband Jason Stephenson and their daughter Piper have been identified by family as the deceased.
  A man who identified himself as Scarr’s uncle said she was a “beautiful person.”
  “The whole
  
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• Hooray, the floating dock beside Goldsworthy Pier is now open for business. ow.ly/C6zY30fOiJ3 #NorthVan https://t.co/Wug2EJPpsu

  11-10-2017 22:30 via twitter.com
  
  Hooray, the floating dock beside Goldsworthy Pier is now open for business. ow.ly/C6zY30fOiJ3 #NorthVan https://t.co/Wug2EJPpsu
  
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• Tonight, 6-8pm, public info meeting for proposed development at 2049 Heritage Park Lane. Development & meeting info: ow.ly/Ifnn30fOh1O

  11-10-2017 21:48 via twitter.com
  Tonight, 6-8pm, public info meeting for proposed development at 2049 Heritage Park Lane. Development & meeting info: ow.ly/Ifnn30fOh1O
  
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• Surrey RCMP seek man after girl, 11, sexually assaulted

  11-10-2017 21:38 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP is investigating a sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl that occurred Wednesday afternoon in Cloverdale.
  Police say the girl was walking in the 18800 block of 65th Avenue, near Hillcrest Elementary school, when she was grabbed on the buttocks by an unknown man.“When the 11-year-old victim reacted, the male apologized and quickly retreated from the area on foot,” RCMP Cpl. Scotty Schumann said in a release. “While she was not physically injured, the victim
  
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• Fisheries Minister pledges "to do whatever it takes" to save endangered southern resident killer whales

  11-10-2017 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc pledged Wednesday “to do whatever it takes with whoever it takes” to protect endangered southern resident killer whales — down to just 76 individuals — from extinction.
  “We are convinced that collectively there’s a real desire to do the right thing,” he told reporters at a Vancouver symposium attended by 300 delegates, including scientists, industry, indigenous groups,  and government officials. “We’ll
  
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• B.C. promises to earthquake-proof schools, two in Vancouver up for replacement

  11-10-2017 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Two schools in Vancouver are being replaced so they will meet modern seismic standards, part of what Premier John Horgan says is a new provincewide focus on making schools safe in the event of earthquakes.
  Sir Matthew Begbie and Bayview elementary schools are slated to be replaced at a cost of $46.9 million with new buildings scheduled to open in about four years.
  The government says both schools are at high risk of collapse in an earthquake.
  Education Minister Rob Fleming said
  
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• Oprah, Goldie Hawn and more to visit Vancouver for David Foster's gala

  11-10-2017 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  They don’t call it Hollywood North for nothing.
  The star-studded guest list for David Foster’s 30th Annual Miracle Gala & Concert continues to grow with celebrity heavyweights Oprah, Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler, actress Goldie Hawn and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, confirmed to visit Vancouver later this month.
  The David Foster Foundation’s marquee event raises funds each year to support families who often have to travel to other cities so that their children can under
  
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• Taste of Yaletown: Neighbourhood eateries come together for annual event

  11-10-2017 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  Taste of Yaletown
  Oct. 11-27 | Various locations
  Reservations and info: yaletowninfo.com
  Looking to discover some good eats in the city this weekend? Well, you really only need head to one place.
  The 13th annual Taste of Yaletown festival is underway. The event sees neighbourhood eateries offer a selection of menu to diners featuring 3-course meals at set prices ranging from $25, $35 and $45. 
  We asked Annette O’Shea, the executive director of the Yaletown Bus
  
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• Police investigating 'suspicious' fire that left family of three dead in Nanaimo

  11-10-2017 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — A woman, man and their seven-year-old daughter are dead in what police say is a suspicious fire at a home in Nanaimo.
  RCMP Cpl. Jon Stewart says it’s unclear what sparked the fire Tuesday afternoon, but when fire crews arrived the home was in flames.
  Three bodies were pulled from the house and Stewart says officers with the RCMP’s serious crime unit are following up with the coroner to determine what caused the deaths.
  He says a passerby spotted flames and tried to al
  
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• Restaurant review: Sushi flies high at West End's Tetsu

  11-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tetsu Sushi Bar
  75 Denman St. | 604-428-5775
  Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday to Sunday.
  Local sourcing is the biggest trend of the decade, but Tetsu Sushi Bar’s Satoshi Makise eagerly awaits air deliveries (several times a week) from the famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
  Other sushi chefs do, too, preferring fish processed by tried and true Japanese traditions, including the way fish are killed and bled. The Japanese method of ikejime involves driving a spike into the back of the bra
  
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• Got curbside collection questions? Wondering what goes where? Get more info @ cnv.org/Recycling #NorthVan https://t.co/pPnHi0IFVo

  11-10-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  
  Got curbside collection questions? Wondering what goes where? Get more info @ cnv.org/Recycling #NorthVan https://t.co/pPnHi0IFVo
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Celebrating women in wine

  11-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Celebrating Women in Wine is an inspiring discussion designed to provide insight into overcoming the challenges, and identify strategies for success, in the wine business from supportive female professionals. This year’s event takes place Oct. 26 at Marquis Wine Cellars (1034 Davie St.). Fairmont Pacific Rim wine director Jill Spoor will preview her 2016 Okanagan Crush Pad Jill Spoor Terroir White Blend, a wine project made available to the B.C. Sommelier of the Year as awarded by the Vanc
  
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• White Rock, South Surrey hammered by hailstorm

  11-10-2017 18:34 via vancouversun.com
  White Rock and South Surrey residents stepped out of their homes Wednesday morning — and into slush.
  A thunderstorm rolled into the area with hail so heavy that it blanketed roads and lawns.@VirginRadioVan Snow in White Rock this morning pic.twitter.com/95a9kJkWtm
  — OceanGirl (@BC_OceanGirl) October 11, 2017
  White Rock RCMP posted photos of the hail-covered streets on Twitter with a message for residents to “drive safe.”
  Environment Canada had been calling for heavy showe
  
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• B.C. Ferries' new car-deck rules take effect today

  11-10-2017 18:32 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries passengers will no longer be allowed to stay in their vehicles when parked on the lower deck. 
  The policy, which comes into force today, prohibits passengers from remaining on any car deck with closed doors at both ends and limited openings along the sides.
  Until today, B.C. Ferries had been the only ferry operator in Canada to allow passengers to remain below decks in enclosed spaces.
  The change brings the corporation’s policy in line with Transport Canada regulations th
  
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• One meter = the amount of room to give cyclists when passing. Don’t be a space invader. youtube.com/watch?v=DWYT9s…… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-10-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  One meter = the amount of room to give cyclists when passing. Don’t be a space invader. youtube.com/watch?v=DWYT9s…… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SkyTrain delays during morning commute

  11-10-2017 17:56 via vancouversun.com
  Commuters can expect delays on SkyTrain this morning. 
  TransLink says a track issue caused a delay to SkyTrain service between Lougheed and Moody Centre stations on the Millennium Line. The problem has since been restored, but passengers can expect delays as operations return to normal.
  TransLink advises passengers to watch signs as their train may arrive on a different side of the platform than usual.
  TransLink says the Canada and Expo lines are running normally. 
   
  
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• Daily poll: Who would you pick to lead B.C.'s Liberal party?

  11-10-2017 17:53 via vancouversun.com
  Eight candidates have now thrown their hats into the ring to replace former premier Christy Clark prior to the mandated Oct. 15 party leadership debate. The last day to declare a leadership bid is Dec. 29.
  Who do you think will lead this race?
   Take Our Poll 
  
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• Less time explaining, more time podcasting

  11-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Stop Podcasting Yourself: 500th episode
  Oct. 16
  Info: maximumfun.org/shows/stop-podcasting-yourself
  When Graham Clark and Dave Shumka started Stop Podcasting Yourself, they faced relatively few competitors in the comedy-podcast field.
  “There weren’t very many, and that was one of the reasons that we started,” Clark said. “Now there’s like a million, in every shape and size. And most have some sort of theme or gimmick. Whereas, when we started there wasn’t a ne
  
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• Canopy Growth to develop up to 3M sq. ft. of marijuana growing capacity in B.C.

  11-10-2017 16:04 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Canopy Growth Corp. says it will develop up to three million square feet of greenhouse growing capacity in British Columbia, more than doubling Canada’s biggest licensed marijuana producer’s production footprint.
  The company said in a statement that it has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with a large-scale greenhouse operator where it will be a majority shareholder of BC Tweed Joint Venture Inc., a new company.
  Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton says t
  
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• Earthquake rattles west of Vancouver Island

  11-10-2017 16:01 via vancouversun.com
  No damage was reported after an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale rattled the west coast of Vancouver Island early Wednesday morning.
  The United States Geological Survey reports the tremor was centred about 170 kilometres southwest of Tofino at a depth of 10 kilometres.
  The earthquake occurred at 2:26 a.m.
  Emergency Info B.C. said in a Tweet that the quake was “no threat to B.C.”NO THREAT TO BC.4.5 earthquake,169 km WSW from Tofino, BC. 2017-10-11 02:26, depth 1
  
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• RCMP seek public's help in finding missing Abbotsford woman

  11-10-2017 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  Langley RCMP is seeking the public’s assistance to located 20-year-old Kristina Ward of Abbotsford.
  Ward was reported missing Sept. 25 by Abbotsford police. RCMP say it is possible she may have been in the North Surrey area on Sept. 27. She is also known to frequent the Langley city core area.
  Ward is described as being First Nations and standing 5-feet-6 tall and 130 pounds. She has curly brown hair and brown eyes.
  Police say Ward requires medication but it is believed she does not have t
  
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• Highest proportion of high-rollers at River Rock Casino are real estate professionals: internal audit

  11-10-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A background review of hundreds of VIP gamblers at Richmond’s River Rock Casino in 2015 found that the highest proportion of players involved in large and suspicious cash transactions worked in real estate, according to a confidential memo obtained by Postmedia.
  The memo did not state whether these gamblers work in B.C.’s or China’s real estate sector.
  The Aug. 2016 internal review — filed to B.C. Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch compliance director Len Meilleur &mdas
  
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• Opinion: Bringing public confidence to B.C.’s forest management

  11-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The recent announcement from Environment Minister George Heyman setting the terms of reference for the government’s review of professional reliance in the natural resource sector brings some much-needed clarity to an item that was promised by both the NDP and Green Party during the election. As a professional regulator in the forest sector, the Association of B.C. Forest Professionals is supportive of ensuring professional reliance serves the needs of British Columbians and we look forward
  
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• Opinion: End of Energy East pipeline proposal another win for our competitors

  11-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s another week in Canada when businesses and investors are taking their ideas, their people, and their capital elsewhere.
  This week, it was the announcement that TransCanada has scrapped its $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline proposal, after the National Energy Board changed the regulatory review process and after it was clear there was no way around the opposition from local and provincial politicians in Quebec.  
  In a decade, we have gone from a country on the verge of becoming a
  
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• REAL SCOOP: IHIT called in after body found in Richmond

  11-10-2017 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide investigators were called in Tuesday after a man’s body was found near Garden City Road in Richmond.
  Richmond RCMP Cpl. Dennis Hwang said the body was discovered about 4:30 a.m. and that the death is considered suspicious and “appears targeted.”
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken conduct of this investigation, he said, providing no further details.
  I am working on a feature for Saturday so have not looked into this case at all.
   
  Anyone with info
  
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• B.C. bull-rider suffered traumatic brain injuries before killing himself, study confirms

  11-10-2017 05:25 via vancouversun.com
  “CTE.” 
  It’s a disturbing diagnosis that football families and fans have come to know well. For rodeo families and fans, it’s a new one.
  An examination of the brain of Ty Pozzobon, the Merritt bull-rider who took his own life earlier this year, has found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE.
  CTE is a degenerative brain disorder which kills brain cells and often leads to impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and paranoia.
  “Super
  
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• Be fire safe and have a plan! Pass the word to #NorthVan residents, friends and family to have them think about fir… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-10-2017 04:56 via twitter.com
  Be fire safe and have a plan! Pass the word to #NorthVan residents, friends and family to have them think about fir… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Surrey serves up stadium mystery with request for proposals to build

  11-10-2017 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  An as-yet-unnamed group has proposed to build an outdoor stadium on city-owned land in Surrey for a yet-to-be-identified pro team, said Coun. Bob Hayne, rolling out a mystery as to who that might be.
  It doesn’t appear to be either the B.C. Lions or the Vancouver Whitecaps as management of both teams, which play home games at B.C. Place Stadium now, expressed little knowledge of the proposed development.
  However, Surrey has received an unsolicited bid from a group, Hayne said, though he dec
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: B.C. government out to scuttle Medicare challenge

  11-10-2017 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is complicating the constitutional challenge to Medicare by raising innumerable objections and claiming even statements by Health Ministers are irrelevant.
  The marathon trial is bogged down in procedural disputes and B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Steeves is struggling to re-start it faced with the government’s unprecedented steps.
  He plans to sit well into next year but can’t yet schedule even a solid fortnight of witnesses because Victoria wants to constrain do
  
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• B.C. trauma dog Caber among those helping Las Vegas victims

  11-10-2017 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  It was an incomprehensible tragedy and Caber, a nine-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, has some serious work to do. But Vegas is still Vegas.
  Caber and his handler Kim Gramlich of the Delta Police Department are one of a handful of K9 teams invited to Las Vegas to help victims, their families and first responders deal with their trauma and grief after the Route 91 Harvest massacre in which 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured on Oct. 1.
  The pair was met at the airport by a limo driv
  
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• No easy answer for Vancouver mayor as speculation grips pre-sale condo market

  11-10-2017 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is preparing a motion for city council that he says will give local buyers of pre-sale condos priority access ahead of foreign purchasers.
  It comes as there are more acute signs of speculation in the pre-sale condo market, which has seen sharp price gains. But the idea is already drawing criticism and a realization that there isn’t a silver bullet solution.
  Jon Stovell, chair of the Urban Development Institute, which represents property developers, said tha
  
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• 'The guy was going to kill me': UBC attack victim on terrifying ordeal

  11-10-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  A University of B.C. student testified Tuesday about a terrifying attack in which a male student burst into her room, held a knife to her throat and tried to choke her.
  Mary Hare told a judge that she’d just woken up in her third-floor dorm at the Salish house student residence on Oct. 4, 2016 when she heard a knock on her door.
  When she opened the door, a man entered and attacked her with a knife, she said.
  “He grabbed me and he had a knife to my throat and he was cutting me,”
  
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• Police confirm body found in B.C. woods is that of missing Australian hiker

  11-10-2017 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP have confirmed a body found at the base of a waterfall near Agassiz is that of a missing hiker from Australia.
  Sophie Dowsley and her partner, 44-year-old Greg Tiffin, were reported missing July 10.
  The hikers were last seen July 8 in the Fraser Valley.
  A search was launched after the couple’s vehicle was found unoccupied near Statlu Lake.
  Tiffin’s body was found eight days later along with some personal belongings of Dowsley’s but it wasn’t until Sept. 23 that h
  
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• B.C. Liberals didn't always listen, Todd Stone says as he joins leadership race

  11-10-2017 02:16 via vancouversun.com
  The latest hopeful to run for the leadership of British Columbia’s Liberals spoke candidly Tuesday about the elephant in the room that contributed to the party’s downfall after 16 years in power, despite the province’s resounding economic success.
  Todd Stone is the fourth member of former premier Christy Clark’s pre-election cabinet to enter the leadership race, which brings the field to eight candidates. The Liberals will elect their new leader in February.
  The former tr
  
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• Stopping chinook fishing might not be enough to help hungry killer whales: salmon official

  11-10-2017 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  Stopping all fishing of chinook, including harvesting by First Nations, likely won’t provide an instant food solution for endangered Southern Resident killer whales, the president of the Pacific Salmon Foundation said Tuesday.
  Brian Riddell, a former senior official with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, said in an interview there are limited options to help the whales other than to stop fishing. “Can you do it? Certainly. That’s something that could be done right now, if that was t
  
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• Three people found dead in Nanaimo house fire

  11-10-2017 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  Three people were found dead after a house fire in Nanaimo this afternoon.
  A neighbour called the Nanaimo fire department about noon Tuesday to report that an older home in the 700 block of Nicol Street was engulfed in flames.
  Despite the heavy flames, firefighters were able to enter the home for an offensive attack, said Nanaimo Fire Chief Karen Fry.
  The fire was extinguished and firefighters found the bodies of three people inside.
  Fry was unable to give their ages.
  “It’s tragic,&r
  
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• Letters: Adoptive parents saved children's lives

  11-10-2017 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Trudeau and his gang have allocated $800 million as compensation for native kids who were taken from reserves, where they were being neglected by their parents, and placed in “white” homes.
  My wife and I adopted a native child during this time, and our son who is an adult now says that if it hadn’t been for our intervention, he would be dead.
  Our son is so much better off, and works as an independent contractor. He recently visited his birth mother’s gravesite and as he w
  
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• Help save Christmas: Vancouver's Santa Claus parade needs sponsors

  11-10-2017 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  Sponsors are needed to help save Vancouver’s Santa Claus Parade.
  The 13th annual parade needs more sponsors to help pay a budget shortfall of about $150,000 for this year or it could be cancelled.
  About 300,000 people attend the December parade which is managed by a community non-profit society.
  In a press release, the society said it costs $400,000 to put on the parade, with the biggest costs going to the city for various fees including policing, float construction and parade production.
  
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• Our public art inventory just got bigger. Meet, The Lady at 13th & Lonsdale. #NorthVan #PublicArt… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-10-2017 01:45 via twitter.com
  Our public art inventory just got bigger. Meet, The Lady at 13th & Lonsdale. #NorthVan #PublicArt… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Many questions for Vancouver mayor's motion to quell speculation in pre-sale condo market

  11-10-2017 01:43 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is preparing a motion for city council that he says will give local buyers of pre-sale condos priority access ahead of foreign purchasers.
  It comes as there are more acute signs of speculation in the pre-sale condo market, which has seen sharp price gains. But the idea is already drawing criticism and a realization that there isn’t a silver bullet solution.
  Jon Stovell, chair of the Urban Development Institute, which represents property developers, said tha
  
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• Researchers find genes for peanut allergy, asthma

  11-10-2017 01:08 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian researchers have identified a gene associated with allergy to peanuts that could prove to be a useful target for predicting and treating food allergies.
  The gene — called c11orf30/EMSY — appears to play an important role in a variety of allergic responses to peanuts and other foods.
  “The discovery of this genetic link gives us a fuller picture of the causes for food allergies and this could eventually help doctors identify children at risk,” said co-author D
  
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• B.C. government tries to scuttle Medicare challenge

  11-10-2017 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is complicating the constitutional challenge to Medicare by raising innumerable objections and claiming even statements by Health Ministers are irrelevant.
  The marathon trial is bogged down in procedural disputes and B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Steeves is struggling to re-start it faced with the government’s unprecedented steps.
  He plans to sit well into next year but can’t yet schedule even a solid fortnight of witnesses because Victoria wants to constrain do
  
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