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• This Saturday, 9am-noon, come meet your neighbours, get some fresh air, and help restore Hastings Creek… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 23:34 via twitter.com
  This Saturday, 9am-noon, come meet your neighbours, get some fresh air, and help restore Hastings Creek… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Action needed now to restrict vessels in critical killer whale habitat, scientists warn

  12-10-2017 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  Government action is needed now — on an emergency basis — to restrict vessels within the critical habitat of endangered southern resident killer whales, marine scientists warned Thursday in Vancouver.
  “There are some short-term things that can be done — they’re practical, well-supported and cautionary,” Vancouver Aquarium whale researcher Lance Barrett-Lennard told a federally sponsored symposium on the killer whales. “We’d better stop talking abou
  
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• California firefighters have lost their homes fighting one the deadliest fires in state history.Please donate to he… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 22:40 via twitter.com
  California firefighters have lost their homes fighting one the deadliest fires in state history.Please donate to he… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver fire crews respond to boat blaze in Yaletown marina

  12-10-2017 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Fire Department and the coast guard were called to the scene of a massive boat fire at Yaletown’s Quayside Marina on Thursday.
  The fire broke out at around noon.
  A plume of thick, black smoke from the pleasure-craft blaze could be seen for kilometres.
  Huge blast in #yaletown as boat explodes @GlobalBC pic.twitter.com/uHkD3XLLYA
  — Mary Zilba (@MaryZilba) October 12, 2017The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, but witnesses reported hearing the blast.
  “It was
  
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• What's happening at the #FootofLonsdale? Read all about it in this week's #CityView enews: ow.ly/AjYr30fQ4Ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 22:35 via twitter.com
  What's happening at the #FootofLonsdale? Read all about it in this week's #CityView enews: ow.ly/AjYr30fQ4Ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• First Nations day students move towards settlement in residential school dispute

  12-10-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  Three First Nations say they have reached a memorandum of understanding with the federal government that could keep their bid to include day students in a settlement for residential school survivors out of court.
  The Tk’emlups and Sechelt bands in B.C. launched a class-action lawsuit in 2012 after a settlement between the government and about 86,000 residential school survivors excluded day scholars, students who attended the schools but did not live at them. They were later joined in the
  
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• Fentanyl mostly responsible for new height in B.C. illicit drug deaths

  12-10-2017 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — More people died from illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia in the first eight months of this year than all of 2016.
  The coroner’s service says the 1,013 people who died from overdoses from January to the end of August surpasses a record 982 deaths last year.
  The latest figures for 2017 show fentanyl was detected either alone or with another drug in more than 80 per cent of the deaths. In 2012, fentanyl was detected in just four per cent of overdose deaths.
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• Price of Metro Vancouver condos surge, detached homes drop: survey

  12-10-2017 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver condo prices surged in the third quarter says a new real estate price survey released Thursday.
  Royal Lepage’s survey found the median price of a condominium rose by 17.6 per cent year-over-year to $622,392, while the cost of two storey detached home dropped by 1.1 per cent to $1,532,849 over the same period. The price of a bungalow, however, went up 3.5 per cent to $1,422,458. 
  The survey shows the biggest jump in condo prices in Metro Vancouver wa
  
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• ART SEEN: The Shadow that came for a visit to the University of B.C.

  12-10-2017 21:41 via vancouversun.com
  Where does a new work of art come from?
  Is it outside the artist waiting to be found? Or is it in the artist waiting to be discovered?
  With Esther Shalev-Gerz, it was a little of both. When I asked her how she came up with The Shadow, she told a story about walking around the University of B.C. campus one day. Shalev-Gerz, who lives in Paris but spends her summers on Cortes Island in B.C., said she was thinking about the verticality of Jim Hart’s Reconciliation Pole at the south end of the
  
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• It's a wet one out there! Are you ready for the winter rain yet? Here's a good place to start. youtu.be/8Pk4SbqvQfg

  12-10-2017 21:28 via twitter.com
  It's a wet one out there! Are you ready for the winter rain yet? Here's a good place to start. youtu.be/8Pk4SbqvQfg
  
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• Archie Andrews thinks Vancouver is 'kind of boring'

  12-10-2017 20:57 via vancouversun.com
  It takes more than a soda shop to keep Archie Andrews entertained in Vancouver.
  New Zealand actor K.J. Apa, who plays Archie in the dark and gritty teen drama Riverdale, says filming The CW/Netflix series in Hollywood North is “kind of boring.”
  “The food is really good. The only thing is when you live there for a long time, it can get kind of boring. The city is not the biggest city in the world and it could have shuts early, which I guess is kind of good,” Apa told
  
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• Premier announces annual funding for Surrey gang prevention program

  12-10-2017 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has committed ongoing funding of $500,000 per year for a Surrey program aimed at preventing youths from joining gangs.
  Premier John Horgan, along with Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, announced the money for the Surrey Wraparound (Wrap) Program on Thursday during an event at Princess Margaret Secondary School.
  Horgan was following through on a promise made during the provincial election campaign earlier this year.
  Horgan called the Wrap Pro
  
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• Tonight, 7:30-8:30, public information meeting for proposed townhouse development at 4670 Capilano Road. #NorthVan ow.ly/dUnd30fPS9f

  12-10-2017 20:06 via twitter.com
  Tonight, 7:30-8:30, public information meeting for proposed townhouse development at 4670 Capilano Road. #NorthVan ow.ly/dUnd30fPS9f
  
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• Open House Alert! Join us for #EastviewPark Open House 5-7pm tonight @ #EastviewElementary.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Open House Alert! Join us for #EastviewPark Open House 5-7pm tonight@ #EastviewElementary.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• More research needed before imposing shipping restrictions to save B.C.'s killer whales: Garneau

  12-10-2017 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday in Vancouver he’s not ready to impose tough new restrictions on shipping to help protect B.C.’s endangered southern resident killer whales from extinction.
  He told reporters at a federally-sponsored killer whale symposium in Vancouver that “we’re gathering the scientific evidence..and then we’ll take the necessary measures” to mitigate the effects on the whales.
  “We’re committed to protect this endanger
  
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• From 2014: Empowered Health – Using chelation therapy to clear blocked arteries

  12-10-2017 19:16 via vancouversun.com
  When Vancouver’s Donald Allchurch discovered he had blocked arteries leading to his heart, he sought alternatives to a bypass operation. He says chelation therapy and an improved diet helped him on the path of better health.
  Story: Bypassing the heart bypass
  
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• Vancouver Island man banned from playing car stereo in Central Saanich

  12-10-2017 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  Dustin Hamilton is not allowed to play his car stereo in Central Saanich. 
  In fact, Hamilton is prohibited from driving his PT Cruiser at all in Central Saanich unless he’s taking his girlfriend to work and back.
  Since May, Central Saanich police have received about 17 noise complaints from residents of West Saanich Road between Keating Cross Road and Wallace Drive.
  “People are saying their pictures are rattling on the wall and coffee cups are falling off the table,&rd
  
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• Police incident on campus at University of B.C.

  12-10-2017 19:06 via vancouversun.com
  One person has died at the University of B.C. after falling from a construction site early Thursday.
  UBC public affairs confirmed the fatality.
  RCMP are investigating a fatality at Student Union Blvd near the Student Recreation Centre. There is no risk to the public.
  — UBC Public Affairs (@ubcnews) October 12, 2017The RCMP detachment said the media spokesman Sgt. Drew Grainger was not available to answer questions about the incident.
  WorksafeBC spokeswoman Trish Knight Chernecki said
  
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• Agendas for next Monday's Council meeting and next Tuesday's workshop are now available on our website #NorthVan ow.ly/3Ta530fPL5B

  12-10-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  Agendas for next Monday's Council meeting and next Tuesday's workshop are now available on our website #NorthVan ow.ly/3Ta530fPL5B
  
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• Premier to make announcement about Surrey gang prevention program

  12-10-2017 18:37 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan will make an announcement on Thursday morning regarding the future of a Surrey gang prevention program.
  Horgan will be joined at Princess Margaret Secondary School by Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, and representatives of the City of Surrey, Surrey RCMP and School District 36.
  It’s likely the announcement will concern the Surrey Wraparound (Wrap) Program, which is a partnership between the Surrey School District, City
  
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• Join the world’s largest earthquake drill – Oct 19 @ 10:15. The City supports this important drill.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Join the world’s largest earthquake drill – Oct 19 @ 10:15. The City supports this important drill.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Siwash Rock name disrespectful to First Nations says Vancouver Park Board

  12-10-2017 17:52 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Park Board says it has taken a first step toward righting “acts of dispossession and disrespect” in Stanley Park by considering whether to rename a prominent rock.
  The board has voted unanimously to work with Coast Salish Nations to determine if Siwash Rock should be renamed.
  The rock, a massive 18-metre, basalt sea stack, stands on the park’s northwest shore near the entrance to Vancouver’s harbour.
  The word Siwash is a derogatory term for
  
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• Five things to do in Vancouver

  12-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  John Stetch & Vulneraville
  Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St.
  Tickets and info: From $25 at opentable.com
  A six-time JUNO nominee, pianist John Stetch relocated to Vancouver after years in New York. His 15th album with his crack N.Y. quartet Vulneraville is titled The Vancouver Suite and showcases Stetch’s love of everything from Ukrainian folk songs to baroque classical and serious, sleeves-rolled up jazz. Backed by saxophonist Steve Krotyka, who performs w
  
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• No tenant, no problem in Vancouver as new office towers break ground on speculation

  12-10-2017 16:52 via vancouversun.com
  There was nothing to buy in Vancouver’s increasingly hot office market, so GWL Realty Advisors and its partners did the next best thing — they decided to build their own tower.
  That GWL, which has $2 billion in office, industrial, mixed-use, and multi-residential projects planned or underway across Canada, and its partner, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, didn’t have a tenant lined up didn’t bother them at all.
  “The story is just limited supply. There are a l
  
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• B.C. police watchdog releases list of injuries sustained by Myles Gray

  12-10-2017 16:38 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s independent police watchdog has released a shocking list of injuries suffered by Myles Gray in a fatal altercation with eight Vancouver police officers two years ago, including a fractured voice box and fractured sternum.
  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court this week, asking that an officer who witnessed the event sit for a second interview. Gray’s cause of death has not been released, however the IIO included the man’s in
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with rule prohibiting ferry passengers from staying in their cars?

  12-10-2017 15:43 via vancouversun.com
  As of this week, ferry passengers are no longer allowed to stay in their cars on the lower decks. B.C. Ferries says the new regulations are meant to be an added safety measure in case of fire and smoke erupting in an enclosed area. What do you think of this new policy?Take Our Poll
  
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• B.C. Ferries' new car-deck rules took effect Wednesday

  12-10-2017 15:37 via vancouversun.com
  As of Wednesday, B.C. Ferries passengers are no longer be allowed to stay in their vehicles when parked on the lower deck. 
  The policy prohibits passengers from remaining on any car deck with closed doors at both ends and limited openings along the sides.
  Until Wednesday, 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 that pro
  
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• September home sales and prices higher in B.C., says BCREA

  12-10-2017 15:22 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Home sales and average prices rose in B.C. in September, according to the latest figures from the British Columbia Real Estate Association.
  It says a total of 8,340 residential unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service during the month, an increase of 9.9 per cent from the same period last year.
  Total sales amounted to $5.8 billion, up 30.2 per cent from September 2016, and the average MLS residential price was $693,774, up 18.5 per cent.
  Year-to-date, the dollar
  
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• North Vancouver gymnastics club asked to clarify rules around disciplining kids - CBC.ca

  12-10-2017 15:01 via cbc.ca
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  North Vancouver gymnastics club asked to clarify rules around disciplining kids
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  A popular gymnastics club in North Vancouver has been instructed to clarify how it disciplines members as young as three years old. The suggestions come after parents of a five-year-old girl made a complaint alleging their daughter was forced to do the ...
  
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• Turandot showcases Vancouver Opera's desire to be extravagant, special

  12-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Turandot
  Oct. 13, 15, 19 & 21 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: from $46.75, vancouveropera.ca
  While it’s not quite back to the old days, Vancouver Opera launches its “festival within a season” concept this week with a four-performance run of Puccini’s Turandot.
  Set in a sort of mythic China, the tale has complex origins going back to Persia via 18th century Venetian dramatist and commedia dell’arte fan Carlo Gozzi. It’s Puccini’s last
  
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• Opinion: Relations between majority and minority nationalities are never set in stone

  12-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Spanish-Catalan crisis continues apace, with a monster rally by opponents of Catalan independence filling the streets of Barcelona on Sunday in response to the monster demonstrations in favour which had preceded. The Catalan autonomous government threatens a Unilateral Declaration of Independence on the basis of a highly contested referendum, and the central government threatens to suspend the autonomous government in response. Banks and other major companies are transferring their headquart
  
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• Opinion: During Homelessness Action Week, it’s time to take action

  12-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lethargy is an easy pitfall when considering the issue of homelessness in B.C. We have a societal malaise from decades of inadequate government inertia and the feelings of futility that follow. We become accustomed to stepping past our fellow citizens, huddled under awnings and in doorways. We start to accept that this is “just the way things are.”
  Still, we know there is a need to do better for our most vulnerable citizens. Walk near Main and Hastings or under the bridges and overpa
  
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• No darkness in KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities

  12-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cirque Du Soleil KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities
  Oct. 19 to Dec. 31 | Concord Pacific Place
  Tickets and info: From $49 at cirquedusoleil.com
  Cirque du Soleil took the traditional three rings down into one and added a level of theatricality that turned the Montreal-based organization into a multi-billion-dollar brand. That kind of growth is typically accompanied with a drop in imagination.
  But the company has managed to retain much of the freshness that made it an audience darling since its 1
  
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• Letters: First responders need more training to protect themselves from overdoses

  12-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  I read with interest the recent comments of Dr. Evan Wood on a new approach needed to the opioid crisis. He states that fentanyl residue on a table where cocaine is subsequently prepared and then inhaled can cause a fatal fentanyl overdose.
  To my knowledge, this is speculative at best. I am not aware of a fatal fentanyl overdose being specifically linked to this sequence of events. This being said, the death of a 10-year-old boy in Florida from a fentanyl overdose in July remains unsolved. Autho
  
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• Bacon murder trial: Vehicle of bloodthirsty gangsters was being tracked by police

  12-10-2017 06:34 via vancouversun.com
  As they stalked intended murder victim Larry Amero, two men had no idea their Jeep Cherokee had been equipped with a police tracking device. 
  The tracker had been installed during an earlier, unrelated police investigation. But early on the morning of Aug. 14, 2011, it provided a detailed electronic trail as the men drove around downtown Kelowna trying to find Amero, a Hells Angel. 
  A four-hour record of their Jeep’s movements was detailed Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court in Kelow
  
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• Animal control officers repeat call for provincial dangerous dog registry

  12-10-2017 06:19 via vancouversun.com
  An association that represents animal control officers are once again calling for a provincial registry of dangerous dogs after they struggled to identify a dog involved in an attack in Chilliwack.
  Steffan Zamzow, vice-president of the Licence Inspectors’ and Bylaw Officers’ Association of B.C., which represents more than 400 bylaw officers, licence inspectors, and animal control officers, said owners flouting licensing regulations by moving from municipality to municipality has
  
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• Sears has been a staple in British Columbia for decades

  12-10-2017 03:56 via vancouversun.com
  When Simpsons-Sears opened its first store in the Lower Mainland on May 5, 1954, the masses went bonkers.
  An estimated 75,000 people jammed into the store over the day at 3660 Kingsway in Burnaby. To put this in perspective, Burnaby’s population was 71,000 at the time; the population of the entire Lower Mainland was about 600,000.
  “A massive human traffic jam forced the management to close the doors 45 minutes after gala opening ceremonies while more than 10,000 persons fought a
  
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• Metro Vancouver malls to feel sting of Sears liquidation with six stores slated to close

  12-10-2017 03:33 via vancouversun.com
  Shoppers at Sears Canada’s Brentwood Town Centre location early Wednesday greeted news of the iconic retailer’s imminent liquidation with a mix of disappointment and resignation.
  There was sadness over the impending loss of the historic chain — one of Canada’s last mid-market full-service department store chains that has been a cornerstone merchant in suburban and small town markets — at the cost of about 1,200 jobs in B.C.
  Customers, however, also understood that S
  
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• West End luxury condo tower could mean loss of 130 affordable units

  12-10-2017 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  Architects hired by the owners of a site at 1400 Alberni St. in the West End have posted a rezoning application that proposes two luxury residential towers that would showcase cutting-edge design and technology.
  The plan, which includes buildings of 43 and 48 storeys, adheres to height allowances in the West End Community Plan. And the reported price of about $160 million paid by the developer for the land in early 2016 has always suggested a project of this scale.
  But opposition has d
  
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• Assisted dying advocates in B.C. dismayed by court ruling on law

  12-10-2017 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Severely ill Canadians who don’t qualify for medical help in dying will suffer even longer while they wait to find out whether the federal government has violated their right to a medically assisted death after a court ruling in B.C. on Wednesday, a civil liberties group says.
  Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson of the British Columbia Supreme Court said the government should be given a second chance to argue the findings of fact that were used by the country’s top co
  
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• David Duchovny: The Song is Out There

  12-10-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  David Duchovny
  Oct. 14, 8 p.m. | Imperial, 319 Main
  Tickets and info: $25 at ticketweb.ca. Meet and Greet tickets, $150.
  David Duchovny is shooting season 11 of the X-Files in Vancouver. The 10 episodes begin airing in January.
  The trailer is out there. With plans to bring his bestselling second novel Bucky F***ing Dent to the screen, and with constant acting and writing work, you would think that the man who brought the character of Fox Mulder to fame wouldn’t be rushing to start ano
  
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• Special needs kids being hurt by shortage of on-call teachers, says union

  12-10-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  A shortage of on-call teachers in some school districts is hurting those most in need, including special education students and those learning English, according to B.C. teachers’ associations.Presidents of three teachers’ associations have reported that six weeks into the school year there are a number of cases where teachers on call are not available to replace an absent teacher.That usually means resource teachers — normally assigned to provide tutelage to children with auti
  
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• Sound Doctor YuKong Ho an amp whisperer to the stars

  12-10-2017 02:56 via vancouversun.com
  YuKong Ho at Ho’s Electronics and Sound on Kingsway in Vancouver. Ho is an electronics wizard who has sold his amps to guitarists all over the world.
  Stepping into YuKong Ho’s small store on Kingsway is like walking through a time warp.
  Almost every inch of surface in the electronics shop is covered with integrated circuits, wires, soldering irons, you name it — plus there’s a pin-up calendar on the wall.
  And why not? Ho’s Electronics and Sound has been at the same
  
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• B.C. vintner's Signorello Estate winery destroyed in Calif. wildfire

  12-10-2017 02:51 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. winemakers are pulling together to support fellow vintners in Northern California devastated by the wildfires, particularly those with Canadian ties.
  The B.C. Wine Institute has encouraged its members to donate to a number of organizations that are working with those whose properties have been devastated by the fires, which are still raging.
  Among those is West Vancouver winemaker Ray Signorello Jr., whose Signorello Estate in Napa Valley has been destroyed. Photos from the scene taken earl
  
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• Former Site C manager files wrongful dismissal suit arising from allegations of worker safety violations

  12-10-2017 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  A former manager with the Site C dam project has filed a wrongful dismissal lawsuit alleging he was fired after he raised concerns about safety in the workplace.
  Kent Peyton said that in January he was hired to get construction of the Peace River dam on schedule and on budget and that he was responsible for all high-level decision-making related to the excavation process as well as being in charge of the health and safety of all workers.
  But in a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court
  
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• North Vancouver's great pumpkin, second biggest in B.C. - North Shore News

  12-10-2017 01:49 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver's great pumpkin, second biggest in B.C.
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  Grawp, the massive pumpkin grown in Jeff Pelletier's Queensbury backyard, weighed in at 1167 pounds on Saturday, the second biggest gourd grown in B.C. in ...and more »
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: What the B.C. government doesn't want Dr. Day to tell Medicare trial

  12-10-2017 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  Dr. Brian Day, the man behind the constitutional challenge to B.C.’s restrictions on access to private health care, wants to end the hypocrisy of the province’s single-tier medical system. 
  The scrappy, 70-year-old, working-class immigrant from Liverpool, England, and director of the private Cambie Surgery Centre, wants to take the stand in B.C. Supreme Court and call a spade a spade. 
  Private clinics do more than 60,000 operations a year, he says, and that saves the govern
  
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• North Vancouver’s great pumpkin, second biggest in B.C.

  12-10-2017 01:43
  
  Grawp, the massive pumpkin grown in Jeff Pelletier’s Queensbury backyard, weighed in at 1,167 pounds on Saturday, the second biggest gourd grown in B.C. in 2017.
  
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• It's #WasteReductionWeek in the City & across Canada Oct. 16 - 22. Learn how you can reduce waste:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 01:40 via twitter.com
  It's #WasteReductionWeek in the City & across Canada Oct. 16 - 22. Learn how you can reduce waste:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Skilled worker shortage felt across B.C.

  12-10-2017 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  A shortage of mechanics has resulted in cancelled runs on West Vancouver’s Blue Bus, which is struggling to keep aging buses road-worthy.
  The scarcity of qualified workers is being felt across the province, according to Cordell Draayers, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
  “Absolutely, we have companies that have postings unfilled because there are no people to fill them,” he said. “Prince George and the cent
  
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