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• Thanks @TransLink for helping fund five Major Road Network projects here in the City. #NorthVan https://t.co/Vv2Ruw7ham

  13-10-2017 23:10 via twitter.com
  
  Thanks @TransLink for helping fund five Major Road Network projects here in the City. #NorthVan https://t.co/Vv2Ruw7ham
  
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• Thinking in stories, the intersectional art of Angie Abdou

  13-10-2017 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  In Case I Go
  Angie Abdou
  Arsenal Pulp PressAngie Abdou has done it again. After the searing social realism of her masterpiece Between, reviewed in 2014, she has turned her considerable talents not to a simple and perhaps tempting reprise of the genre and approach that produced her last triumph but to a new and risky effort: an odd blend of ghost story, adultery drama, anti-racist consciousness raising, and magical realism.
  In Case I Go not only features a child narrator, à la Emma Donohue
  
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• Research puts B.C. Children's at forefront of 'precision medicine'

  13-10-2017 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  For Celia Lau, the value of the research at B.C. Children’s Hospital is not hard to measure. She sees it every day in the face of her vibrantly healthy 10-year-old son, Justin.
  Without a personalized genetic treatment developed at the hospital’s research institute, Justin may not have survived his illness.
  Lau gave birth to her first child, Cameron, in 2004. Cameron was a full-term, six pound, 11 ounce baby who appeared healthy and perfect in every way. But shortly after going home,
  
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• Expo 86 McBarge to become deep sea museum

  13-10-2017 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  The famous floating McBarge from Expo 86 has finally found a permanent home, as a deep sea museum in Vancouver.
  The Deep Discovery Centre, which will celebrate the history of Pacific Ocean exploration and conservation, is under development by Howard Meakin, owner of the 57-metre-long barge, and Phil Nuytten, president of the Historical Diving Society of Canada and curator of the new centre.
  Meakin and Nuytten, who have been working together on the project for more than a year, say they are keepi
  
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• Halloween 2017: Top 10 haunted places in Vancouver

  13-10-2017 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  By Mary Frances Hill, Special To Postmedia (Originally published May 13, 2011)
  1. ORPHEUM THEATRE 884 GRANVILLE ST.
  Orpheum Theatre.
  Since it was built in 1927, the Orpheum has played host to a variety of performers, including an acrobat who fell to his death during a vaudeville act. Since then, he’s been a regular fixture at the theatre, with many sightings of him -mostly as an orb of light -reported by staff and performers.
  2. VOGUE THEATRE 918 GRANVILLE ST.
  Vogue Theatre.
  Buil
  
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• Demolition of the old #Montroyal bridge is now underway! It's the last step before new bridge construction starts.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 21:48 via twitter.com
  Demolition of the old #Montroyal bridge is now underway! It's the last step before new bridge construction starts.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New spill rules tag transport companies with response, recovery costs in B.C.

  13-10-2017 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — New pollution prevention regulations will hold transport companies and pipeline operators moving petroleum products across British Columbia responsible for spill response and recovery costs.
  Provincial Environment Minister George Heyman says the new regulations apply to pipeline, railway and truck operators transporting more than 10,000 litres of products.
  He says the regulations increase responsibility, transparency and accountability for operators who transport potentially dan
  
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• B.C. log exporter sues Chinese owned supplier over bad shipment

  13-10-2017 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbian log exporter Northcrest Energy Corp. is suing the B.C. subsidiary of a Chinese company over allegations the company duped the exporter into financing its operations to supply logs to a customer in China and delivered inferior product.
  In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court of B.C. in New Westminster, Northcrest president Baljit Gill said representatives of the supplier, Richmond-headquartered Canada Forest Industrial Group Ltd., led her to believe that it was a su
  
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• Heavy snowfall temporarily closes Coquihalla Highway at Kamloops

  13-10-2017 21:12 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — An early dump of snow turned the Coquihalla Highway into a treacherous trek, especially for drivers unprepared for the weather.
  Environment Canada forecaster Trevor Smith said as much as 10 centimetres piled up on the route Thursday night and the snowfall continued into Friday morning, prompting a temporary closure of the highway at Kamloops.
  Smith forecasts a further five centimetres through the day and says an additional two centimetres of snow is expected Saturday.
  He warns t
  
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• Want to do good in your hood? #Volunteer on a City Committee. We've got vacancies we need to fill:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 21:01 via twitter.com
  Want to do good in your hood? #Volunteer on a City Committee. We've got vacancies we need to fill:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver MLA Ma warns of rental hikes that flout tenants' rights - North Shore News

  13-10-2017 18:19 via nsnews.com
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver MLA Ma warns of rental hikes that flout tenants' rights
  North Shore News
  NDP MLA Bowinn Ma, pictured here campaigning outside the North Vancouver SeaBus terminal during the election, is warning against illegal rent hikes. file photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. North Vancouver MLA Bowinn Ma says her office is trying ...
  
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• Vancouver police investigate possible targeted homicide on Commercial Drive

  13-10-2017 18:14 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are investigating a possible targeted homicide after a man was stabbed Thursday night in East Vancouver.
  The VPD were called out to Commercial Drive near East 1st Avenue at around 9:30 p.m. When they arrived they found a man suffering from stab wounds. He was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries.
  Police say the victim appears to be a man in his 30s. Investigators are working to confirm his identity and notify family.
  No arrests have been made in Vancouver&rsqu
  
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• Three arrested in assault of woman in Abbotsford

  13-10-2017 18:11 via vancouversun.com
  Three people have been arrested after a woman was assaulted in Abbotsford on Thursday night.
  Shortly before 9:30 p.m. police received a call about an assault in progress in the 4200-block of Gladwin Road, said Abbotsford police spokesman Const. Ian MacDonald.                                                             
  The man calling tol
  
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• Attn #EastviewPark users! We want to hear from you. Review our plans & take survey here: cnv.org/Eastview.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Attn #EastviewPark users! We want to hear from you. Review our plans & take survey here: cnv.org/Eastview.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Manslaughter charges possible for fentanyl dealers: B.C. public safety minister

  13-10-2017 17:40 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY — British Columbia’s minister of public safety says dealers whose fentanyl-laced drugs cause death could face a manslaughter charge.
  Mike Farnworth, who is also solicitor general, says the NDP government is considering tougher penalties against fentanyl dealers.
  Speaking at a news conference in Surrey, Farnworth said his ministry believes that anyone dealing fentanyl is, in his words, “dealing death.”
  A manslaughter charge was laid in Edmonton last year in an opioi
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think people should be charged for playing a car stereo too loud?

  13-10-2017 17:09 via vancouversun.com
  Self-described audiophile Dustin Hamilton just wants to turn up his tunes. But his Vancouver Island neighbours say his car stereo booms so loud it scares children and rattles pictures on the wall. The Saanich man has been banned from playing his car stereo, and driving his PT Cruiser unless he’s taking his girlfriend to work after 17 noise complaints. The the 24-year-old car-audio installer now faces a criminal charge of mischief. So we’re asking, do you think playing
  
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• City of Victoria joins campaign seeking climate costs from fossil fuel industry

  13-10-2017 17:01 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The City of Victoria is about to become the third Vancouver Island municipality to send what it calls a climate accountability letter to 20 of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.
  A majority of Victoria councillors have approved sending the letter, which asks the companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Shell, to pay their share of the city’s climate costs.
  The motion to send the letter also includes a call for other local governments across Canada to make simil
  
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• Systemic racism encourages half of Canadians to fear Islam an

  13-10-2017 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Recently I appeared before the standing committee on Canadian heritage, which is holding hearings in response to the passing of M-103 earlier this year. The hearings are ostensibly about systemic racism and religious discrimination, but some on the committee seem unaware of this.What should be an investigation into systemic hate in Canada often feels like a referendum on one word mentioned in M-103: Islamophobia.From the start of the hearings, witnesses have weighed in, with the active support o
  
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• Surrey RCMP investigating shots fired overnight in Newton area

  13-10-2017 15:39 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP officers are investigating in the Newton area of Surrey this morning after a report of gun shots fired late Thursday night.
  Mounties say shortly after 10 p.m., a caller reported shots being fired in the 6100-block of 150th Street. 
  No victims were located.   
  Officers are searching the neighbourhood and speaking with witnesses to obtain information.
  RCMP say two vehicles, a white pickup truck and a dark-coloured sedan, were stopped on the road. Occupants
  
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• Opinion: B.C. government should keep eye on debt, says accountants group

  13-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s GDP-growth rate, estimated at 3.7 per cent, led Canada in 2016. Economic growth was driven by increased housing activity and service demand, which led to 73,300 new jobs in the province. In addition, private non-residential building investment had favourable gains. These factors, combined with low provincial debt and a strong credit rating, continue to position the province as an attractive place to invest.
  According to the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia&rsqu
  
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• Vancouver Postmedia reporters take home Webster awards

  13-10-2017 07:05 via vancouversun.com
  A trio of reporters for The Vancouver Sun and The Province were honoured Thursday for their work as journalists.
  Long-time crime reporter Kim Bolan was the recipient of the Brian Hutchinson lifetime achievement award, while reporter Dan Fumano was twice-honoured. He shared an award with colleague Matt Robinson as well as receiving recognition for a project he worked on alone.
  The Hutchinson award recognizes a journalist’s body of work and their contribution to B.C. news throughout the
  
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• Opinion: More mortgage red tape could hurt homebuyers in many ways

  13-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Amid widespread concern about housing affordability in Vancouver and across Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions wants to raise the mortgage bar for many potential homebuyers by revising its guideline on residential mortgage underwriting.
  The proposed revisions, which are intended to address risks associated with relatively high levels of household debt, include a “stress test” for uninsured mortgages (those with a minimum of 20 per cent down of a proper
  
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• Big fire burning on Mitchell Island Thursday evening

  13-10-2017 06:45 via vancouversun.com
  A large fire is burning on Mitchell Island — between Vancouver and Richmond — Thursday evening.
  Videos posted to Twitter show a large blaze on the island, which has already seen two large blazes this year.
  The fire is at an auto wrecking yard on the eastern end of t the island and the Richmond fire department is on scene.
  @GlobalBC @cbcnewsbc pic.twitter.com/oUtoNWJiNV
  — Jenna (@iamrorykins) October 13, 2017One person tweeted that an explosion rocked their condo building across
  
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• Park Board request to have 24-hour park rangers referred to staff for costing

  13-10-2017 05:48 via vancouversun.com
  A proposal to move to 24-hour park ranger staffing at some city parks needs further study, the Vancouver Park Board voted Wednesday.
  The three NPA commissioners wanted to move forward with increased staffing immediately but were outvoted by the four other commissioners (two Green, one Vision Vancouver and an independent), who wanted to hear back from staff about what it would cost to have some park rangers on duty at all hours of the day as well as the associated logistics such a change would po
  
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• Surrey Memorial the first hospital in B.C. to have a trauma dog

  13-10-2017 04:21 via vancouversun.com
  Unconditional love is coming to Surrey Memorial.
  Koltan, a 3-year-old yellow lab, is the first “trauma dog” in B.C. His primary focus is on helping victims of relationship violence, including sexual abuse, as well comforting patients being treated in the emergency department and the intensive care unit.
  The hospital says he’s already helped hundreds of people.
  On top of adding a trauma dog, the hospital is also planning to have “puppy days” for staff wellness and wi
  
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• Surprise guilty plea entered in B.C. Liberals' 'quick wins' scandal

  13-10-2017 03:41 via vancouversun.com
  A former Liberal government communications director quietly entered a guilty plea to one count of breach of trust on Thursday in the so-called quick wins scandal from the Christy Clark era.
  Brian Bonney, who once worked on Clark’s Liberal leadership campaign, entered the plea to the criminal charge before provincial court Judge David St. Pierre in Vancouver.
  Bonney’s trial in provincial court had been scheduled to begin on Monday. A sentencing hearing for Bonney is expected on Dec. 6
  
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• Vancouver police officer's refusal to provide further information to investigators triggers debate

  13-10-2017 03:32 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Police Act requires officers to co-operate with independent investigators, though whether it is effective in doing so is up for debate. 
  Earlier this week, the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court seeking an order for a Vancouver police officer to cooperate fully with the office’s investigation into the death of 33-year-old Myles Gray.
  The IIO alleges that Const. Harder Sahota, who witnessed the event, has refused requests for
  
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• Body in Richmond linked to other fatal gangster shooting last month

  13-10-2017 03:06 via vancouversun.com
  A Coquitlam gang associate whose body was found in a Richmond park this week was a frequent visitor to Kamloops and was with a founding member of the Red Scorpions when he was gunned down last month in that Interior city, police say.
  Ibrahim Amjad Ibrahim, 30, was found dead from gunshot wounds in Richmond’s Garden City Park on Tuesday morning. He was known to police and was one of five men who were the subject of a warning from Surrey RCMP this summer.
  Police made Ibrahim’s name and
  
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• Surrey society offers up $1 million for housing projects

  13-10-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society is celebrating its 10th anniversary by offering up $1 million to help fund innovative housing solutions in Surrey.
  The request for proposals, issued on Thursday, comes after this year’s Metro Vancouver homeless count found the number of homeless people in Surrey increased by nearly 50 per cent over the past three years, to 602 from 403.
  “We’re all aware of the opioid crisis and the lack of housing to move people off the streets,
  
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• B.C. police watchdog releases list of injuries sustained by Myles Gray in confrontation with Vancouver police

  13-10-2017 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  For two years, the official version of the events leading to Myles Gray’s death has been vague, as have the injuries he sustained in a fatal confrontation with eight Vancouver police officers in a Burnaby backyard in the summer of 2015.
  A petition filed this week in B.C. Supreme Court by the province’s Independent Investigation Office reveals new information about both, including a list of injuries sustained by the 33-year-old small business owner from Sechelt. 
  According to the
  
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• Fall from construction site claims life at University of B.C.

  13-10-2017 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  A young man 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, 2017Sgt. Drew Grainger said a 20-year-old man had died, and that the coroner has confirmed that the death is not suspicious. He said they are still trying to determine whether the m
  
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• Vancouver Island bible camp cuts ties with Surrey pastor facing dozens of sex charges

  13-10-2017 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  A popular bible camp on Vancouver Island is publicly severing ties with Samuel Emerson, the former Surrey preacher facing dozens of allegations of sexual offences.
  Emerson was, until shortly after his arrest in May, a director of the Cowichan River Bible Camp, the same popular camp he attended as a child more than two decades ago.
  Emerson, 34, and his wife Madelaine, 37, were arrested in May and then charged last month with 28 counts including sexual assault and being in a position of
  
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• #EastviewPark Open House underway 'til 7pm. Let's discuss disc golf and park improvements. ow.ly/jlAn30fPP3R… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  #EastviewPark Open House underway 'til 7pm. Let's discuss disc golf and park improvements.ow.ly/jlAn30fPP3R… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fish and clam harvest still shut a year after Great Bear Rainforest fuel spill

  13-10-2017 01:18 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Fish and clam harvesting areas off British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest remain closed one year after a tug sank near Bella Bella and spilled more than 100,000 litres of fuel into the ocean.
  Heiltsuk First Nation Chief Marilyn Slett says her people are still looking for answers about the long-term health, social and economic impacts of the fuel spill but are getting little information from the B.C. and federal governments.
  She says a Heiltsuk report last April found fai
  
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• B.C. police watchdog releases list of injuries sustained by Myles Gray in altercation with Vancouver police

  13-10-2017 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  For two years, the official version of the events leading to Myles Gray’s death has been vague, as have the injuries he sustained in a fatal altercation with eight Vancouver police officers in a Burnaby backyard in the summer of 2015.
  A petition filed this week in B.C. Supreme Court by the provincial police watchdog reveals new information about both, including a list of injuries sustained by the 33-year-old small business owner from Sechelt. 
  According to the court file, Gray suffere
  
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• Edgemont Blvd south of Ridgewood Dr currently single lane alternating traffic for @FortisBC gas installation. Watch for delays. #DNVtraffic

  13-10-2017 01:02 via twitter.com
  Edgemont Blvd south of Ridgewood Dr currently single lane alternating traffic for @FortisBC gas installation. Watch for delays. #DNVtraffic
  
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• Senior missing after Penticton house fire

  13-10-2017 00:58 via vancouversun.com
  A 94-year-old woman remains missing following a house fire near the northern shore of Skaha Lake, say RCMP in Penticton.
  Cpl. Don Wrigglesworth said the blaze broke out Wednesday night and engulfed two homes.
  He said a couple in one house was able to escape but their elderly neighbour is missing.
  The fire remains under investigation and a cause has not been released.
   
  
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• Richmond hosting Pokémon Regional Championships this weekend

  13-10-2017 00:58 via vancouversun.com
  With the news the Pokémon Regional Championships are coming to Vancouver, we can finally break out this pun of puns:
  …hopefully it won’t be a Snorlax of a tournament.
  Seriously, though: this weekend, hundreds of players of the popular card and video games will be at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel, hoping to win cash and points that could land them an invitation to the 2018 Pokémon World Championships in Nashville.
  There’s $50,000 at stake, as well
  
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• Doctor warns parents to lock up medication to prevent theft by teens

  13-10-2017 00:51 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Teenagers who steal prescription medication from a medicine cabinet at home may be at risk of becoming addicted to drugs, says a family doctor who treats chronic substance use.
  Dr. William Barakett said parents should lock up their medication and return unused drugs to a pharmacy for disposal.
  Parents must ensure their teens aren’t pocketing drugs to mask an emotional disorder such as ADHD, he said.
  They also need to take a “good hard look” at whether there&rs
  
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• Student testifies about rescue of UBC assault victim

  13-10-2017 00:43 via vancouversun.com
  A University of B.C. student who came to the rescue of another student being assaulted in her dorm took the witness stand Thursday at the trial of the man accused of the crime.
  Adam Casey said that he was returning to his student residence after attending classes when several “pretty intense” women ran in to the residence’s common building and reported that someone was choking a person in the nearby Salish house residence.
  The 19-year-old mechanical engineering student said he
  
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• Man dies after being shot by Mounties on Vancouver Island

  13-10-2017 00:06 via vancouversun.com
  A  man is dead after being shot during a struggle with police in Qualicum Beach early Thursday morning.
  Oceanside RCMP were called out to assist Emergency Health Services who were attending a complaint of a man who had stabbed himself inside a vehicle on the Inland Island Highway.
  Mounties then received a 9-1-1 report that the same man was running down the highway and that someone was trying to restrain him.
  The RCMP says a struggle ensued after the officers arrived and shots were fire
  
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• #TBT to a sunny October day in 2014. Motive filming at St Roch Dock. Washrooms turned into dive shop for the day.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  #TBT to a sunny October day in 2014. Motive filming at St Roch Dock. Washrooms turned into dive shop for the day.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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