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• Low wages, small workforce leaves booming B.C. restaurants without chefs

  14-10-2017 23:46 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The restaurant industry may be booming in British Columbia, but a combination of the high cost of living, tight profit margins and a shrinking workforce has made it difficult for kitchens to find enough staff.
  Eric Pateman, president of Edible Canada, said the company’s restaurant at Vancouver’s popular tourist destination Granville Island has been short anywhere from two to five chefs at a time for more than two years. That’s meant scaling back the restaurant
  
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• DYK smoke alarms need to be replaced every 10 years? You'll find the expiry date on the back.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  DYK smoke alarms need to be replaced every 10 years? You'll find the expiry date on the back.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Internment camp museum created in Sunshine Valley

  14-10-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Through the window of a moving car, the Sunshine Valley passes in a blur of white campers.
  Highway 3, which curves and climbs for much of the distance between Hope and Princeton, runs straight and flat through the recreational community dominated by a large RV campground.
  Seventy-five years ago, a traveller passing through the valley would have seen row upon row of tiny dwellings, said Ryan Ellan, a resident who recently opened a small museum dedicated to a dark chapter in Sunshine Valley’
  
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• B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Mike Bernier bows out of race

  14-10-2017 20:43 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Mike Bernier says he’s taking his hat out of the ring.
  The announcement, made Saturday at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Vancouver, comes one day before the first candidates debate.
  The debate is the first of six and will be held in Surrey on Sunday.
  Liberal party members are expected to choose a new leader to replace former premier Christy Clark early next year.
  Bernier said he is supporting Mike de Jong, who also attended Saturday’s news conference.
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• Don't toss that doggy doo in the garbage! Use the red bins located our 3 off-leash dog parks.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Don't toss that doggy doo in the garbage! Use the red bins located our 3 off-leash dog parks.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Meet the Chef: Red Wagon's Brad Miller feeds the soul

  14-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Brad Miller is the owner and creative force behind Vancouver’s The Red Wagon and Bistro Wagon Rouge.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: My family and my entrepreneurial spirit. I started cooking at a very young age with my grandmother. I baked bread with her as young as 5. I would knead the dough and use a tin can to cut rolls out for dinnertime. Around the age of 12, I would often make dinner. My mom raised me on her own so I was pretty motivated to have dinner ready fo
  
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• Makeover: Time for a reshape using face framing layers

  14-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Adina Dragasanu is a 31-year-old realtor in Vancouver and was in need of style reshape.
  Adina has naturally dark brown and curly hair. She loves her length but was having a hard time styling.
  I shampooed her hair using KMS Tame Frizzr Shampoo and Conditioner for frizz reduction and improved manageability. I added KMS Moist Repair — Revival Crème through her hair as a leave-in conditioner, then sectioned her hair into a central vertical parting. I cut her hair using diagonal back se
  
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• Fab 5: Fancy pants

  14-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Statement sleeves, shoulder pads, asymmetric dresses … it was only a matter of time before pants got the embellishment treatment, too. And why shouldn’t our bottom halves get to indulge in a bit of fun? Who said only our arms and elbows could appreciate an extreme ruffle, or a unique print, or a fun flare? Rebecca Tay presents five pairs of fancy pants to give your look a leg up this fall:HOLEY MOLY
  Let your legs play peek-a-boo in this pair of lace, cropped ‘Stonecrop’
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Bacon applies to toss murder charges over delay

  14-10-2017 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  Next Thursday is the 10th anniversary of the Surrey Six murders. As I researched this anniversary story, I confirmed that the one man still to go to trial – Jamie Bacon – has applied to have his murder and conspiracy charge stayed because of the delays in getting to trial. He has been in custody for 8.5 years – a near record for an accused in B.C. awaiting trial.
  I reached out to the families of victims for this story. Only relatives of the two bystanders Ed Schellenberg and Ch
  
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• Three injured in Saturday downtown Vancouver stabbing

  14-10-2017 18:08 via vancouversun.com
  Three people are in hospital with stab wounds after a fight broke out early Saturday morning in downtown Vancouver.
  Vancouver police say one man has been arrested. The VPD says shortly after midnight, a fight broke out between two groups of clubgoers in the area of West Hastings and Cambie Street.
  When officers arrived, they found three men in their 20s suffering from stab wounds.
  They were taken to hospital with serious injuries, but are expected to survive.
  Police say a suspect was arrest
  
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• See what Council will be discussing at the next meeting on Monday, October 16th. Here's the agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  See what Council will be discussing at the next meeting on Monday, October 16th. Here's the agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Opinion: Only ban on all grizzly hunting will ensure the slaughter ends

  14-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Last month, a hunter shot and killed a female grizzly bear after she wandered from Alberta into neighbouring B.C., where grizzly trophy hunting is still legal. Bear 148 was moved in July from the Bow Valley just outside Banff National Park to Kakwa Wildland Park, closer to the B.C.-Alberta border. According to the B.C. Conservation Service, the hunter who shot Bear 148 was well aware that the bear was wearing a research tracking collar but killed it anyway, which isn’t illegal.
  Bear 148 wa
  
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• Living large at Imperial

  14-10-2017 15:55 via vancouversun.com
  Gurveer Samra learned the homebuilding business quite literally from the ground up — on the Surrey properties where his dad has built homes for the past 40 years.
  “I was raised on a construction site,” said Samra with a laugh.
  “My three sisters and I would go after school and help my dad to clean up a construction site,” he said. “Dad always wanted to train us from the bottom up and we tried to learn as much as we could from start to finish by doing a lot of i
  
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• The Home Front: Up front with artist, designer and freedom fighter Jaime Hayon

  14-10-2017 15:49 via vancouversun.com
  Quartz surfaces manufacturer Caesarstone is known for bringing design stars to town for IDS Vancouver, and this year was no exception. Centerstage at the Vancouver Convention Centre West, where the interior design show ran late last month, was an installation by artist designer Jaime Hayon, whose work is both prolific and original.
  It’s not uncommon for designers to describe their approach to work as “childlike,” favouring the idea of being constantly curious about ev
  
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• Sold (Bought): Large Burnaby home showcases extensive renos

  14-10-2017 15:27 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  265 N Ellesmere Avenue, Burnaby
  Type: Six-bedroom, four-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,422 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $2,097,000
  Listed for: $3,380,000
  Sold for: $3,330,000
  Sold on: July 19
  Days on market: 36
  Listing agent: Sophia Gee at ReMax Central and Brian Vidas at Sutton Centre Realty
  Buyers agent: Amy Deng at Pacific Place – Arc Realty
  The big sell: Listing agents Sophia Gee and Brian Vidas report that approximately $
  
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• Jack DeJohnette is a Deluxe Drummer

  14-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  HUDSON: Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski, John Scofield
  Oct. 18, 8 p.m. | Chan Shun Concert Hall, UBC
  Tickets and info: From $52 at tickets.ubc.ca
  Jack DeJohnette is a living legend of jazz. With a career spanning five decades, the drummer has held down the beat for everyone from Miles Davis, Bill Evans and John Coltrane to leading such acclaimed bands as Gateway trio, Special Edition and now the supergroup Hudson. 
  Featuring DeJohnette, bassist Larry Grenadier, keyboardist Jo
  
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• Pink fans outraged as scalpers scoop up concert tickets in seconds

  14-10-2017 07:03 via vancouversun.com
  Some music fans are complaining about ticket scalpers after they lost out on tickets to see Pink’s Vancouver show in May.
  The tickets went on sale Friday morning and social media was flooded with messages from those who weren’t able to get tickets at regular prices — only to see them pop up on resale websites for $1,000 per ticket and more.
  Figured it’d be impossible again to get @Pink concert tickets for Vancouver:/ #TicketMaster #scalpers #EnoughAlready
  — Sha
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017

  14-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: TransLink launching study as complaints get louder, Oct. 6.
  The rapid transit vehicles negotiating the tight curves in the Canada Line tunnel beneath Queen Elizabeth Park produce loud squealing sounds that are very painful to this transit rider’s ears. Also on the elevated line leaving the Grandview Cut on a sharp curve approaching the Gilmore Station, transit vehicles generate loud squealing sounds to disturb nearby residents.
  Rather than conducting a study, TransLink should install r
  
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• Opinion: Jagmeet Singh fails to typecast easily, despite CBC’s best efforts

  14-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly 70 years since South Asians won the right to vote in Canada, Jagmeet Singh has become the first non-white leader of one of the country’s major political parties.Media coverage of Singh’s historic victory has ranged from admiration of the new leader’s alpha-male swagger to questions of whether he will hinder his party’s appeal at the Quebec polls. While most stories have understandably commented on the visible symbols of his Sikh faith, a few have taken an oddly sus
  
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• Opinion: Donald Trump's simplistic view of trade could hurt everyone

  14-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  On the campaign trail, soon-to-be U.S. President Donald Trump made much of his dislike of NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He called NAFTA “the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere” (first presidential debate), and the TPP a “job killer” (July 23, 2016 tweet) amounting to “another disaster done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country” (June 28, 2016 tweet).
  If approved, he added, the TPP “would be the death blow to our
  
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• Brian Minter: The surprising popularity of growing your own hops

  14-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  A couple of years ago, I attended a garden trends seminar in Oregon, and one statistic really stood out: In America, over one million young men between the ages of 18 to 24 grow hops! Who knew?
  I mentioned this to John Briner, who has been affiliated with the hop-growing and brewing industry for many years, but he didn’t seem surprised. “Since the late ’90s, there’s been an amazing growth in both home brewing and the craft brewing industry,” he explained. Even back
  
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• Woman found dead in West End apartment, murder suspect has fled

  14-10-2017 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Police are investigating the second homicide in Vancouver in less than 24 hours after a woman was found dead in a West End home on Friday.
  Paramedics called police just before 4 p.m. to an apartment near Jervis and Harwood streets, where they found the deceased woman along with uninjured people who are considered witnesses, Const. Jason Doucette said in a news release.
  Police believe the attacker fled the scene before paramedics arrived and believeit was not a random attack. No
  
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• Latest Mitchell Island blaze due to leaking gasoline tote, says investigator

  14-10-2017 03:50 via vancouversun.com
  A third fire in less than a year had firefighters rushing to Mitchell Island on Thursday evening as flames consumed an auto recycler.
  The property on the industrial island between Vancouver and Richmond was the site of an earlier fire in January, while a nearby mattress recycling facility went up in flames in June.
  A fire at a recycling depot on Mitchell Island sends huge plumes of black smoke into the surrounding skies, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.
  Condo residents across the Fraser River heard and fe
  
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• Fumano: 'Locals first' announcement set off pointed email exchange between city official, development association head

  14-10-2017 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  Over the Thanksgiving long weekend, the head of B.C.’s real estate development industry association was not happy.
  “I’ve been waiting to calm down a bit before sending you a note,” Urban Development Institute CEO Anne McMullin wrote in the first line of a private email sent last Saturday afternoon to a senior Vancouver official. “But I don’t think I can, so I’m contacting you now.”
  McMullin was expressing her displeasure to Kevin Quinlan, chief of
  
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• Your quick guide to the Vancouver byelection

  14-10-2017 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver residents will vote for a single city councillor and nine school trustees Saturday in the city’s first byelection in 25 years.
  Nine candidates are vying for a council seat abandoned over the summer by Geoff Meggs, who took a job as Premier John Horgan’s chief of staff.
  Another 19 candidates seek one of nine positions as trustees with School District 39, which is independent of Vancouver city council and responsible for about 50,000 students.
  Voters are replacing the entire
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline approval was based on sufficient evidence: Alberta lawyer

  14-10-2017 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Ottawa’s decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline was made on a broad base of evidence, a lawyer for Alberta’s attorney general has told the Federal Court of Appeal.
  Doreen Mueller said the governor in council considered economic, environmental, cultural and Indigenous interests in giving the $7.4-billion project its go-ahead last November.
  Mueller was allotted 30 minutes to address a panel of three judges Friday but spoke for less than two minutes, saying Al
  
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• Thx to EcoAction grant, @NorthShoreNH @the_egp Pollinator Garden Project gets a BIG boost! Plantings, workshops & m… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Thx to EcoAction grant, @NorthShoreNH @the_egp Pollinator Garden Project gets a BIG boost! Plantings, workshops & m… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Mulgrew: Hit-and-run scofflaw with 'possibly the largest punitive damage award in Canada'

  14-10-2017 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Supreme Court justice has made a rare, and possibly the largest punitive damage award in Canada, against a hit-and-run motorist for recklessness and disdain.
  Justice Heather MacNaughton hammered Leon Machi with the $100,000 penalty for lying and contempt for the rules of the road and the legal process.
  “His denial that he was the driver was entirely unbelievable,” MacNaughton concluded in a 138-page rebuke of the 34-year-old Vancouver man.
  “The fact that Mr. Machi left t
  
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• Police investigate shooting in south Vancouver

  14-10-2017 01:51 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating an apparent targeted shooting Friday in south Vancouver.
  Officers responded to reports of shots fired just after 2:30 p.m. near Main Street and East 51st Avenue, Sgt. Jason Robillard said in a brief statement.
  Robillard said the shooting appears targeted and there are no reports of injuries. He said there was no other information to share Friday afternoon.
  Anyone with information is asked to call police at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
  
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• North Vancouver brewer born to make Beere - North Shore News

  14-10-2017 01:44 via nsnews.com
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver brewer born to make Beere
  North Shore News
  Co-owner and head brewer Matt Beere checks the tanks at the soon-to-be-opened Beere Brewing Company. The Lower Lonsdale shop, formerly a timber warehouse, will be the North Shore's sixth craft brewery. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News.
  
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• No more shelters, say riled Burnside Gorge residents

  14-10-2017 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Fed up with what it says is increasing crime, open drug dealing and drug use, Victoria’s Burnside Gorge Community Association is calling for a moratorium on development of shelters and supportive housing within its boundaries. 
  “The concentration of marginalized and vulnerable populations has put tremendous strain on businesses and residents across the neighbourhood as there are steadily mounting levels of crime, drug dealing, open drug use, and entrenchment of
  
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• Families frustrated by delays that could free accused killer

  14-10-2017 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  For 10 long years, Eileen Mohan has hoped and prayed for justice for her murdered son Christopher.
  He was 22 when he was dragged into a penthouse apartment across the hall from his family’s home and killed with five others in what became known as the Surrey Six murders.
  Ed Schellenberg, also a bystander, was servicing the fireplace in suite 1505 at the Balmoral when he got caught in the slaughter that Friday afternoon. The others who died were young men involved in the drug trade &mda
  
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• The 2017 Firefighters Charitable Fishing Derby raised $24,000 to be split between @Athletics4kids and the Seymour S… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 01:06 via twitter.com
  The 2017 Firefighters Charitable Fishing Derby raised $24,000 to be split between @Athletics4kids and the Seymour S… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Inquest to be held into death of Quesnel man who fell out of ambulance

  14-10-2017 00:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. Coroners Service is launching an inquest into the death of a 36-year-old man who fell while being taken by ambulance to hospital in Quesnel, B.C.
  A statement from the service says Ebony Wood was involved in a vehicle crash on Nov. 5, 2016.
  The document says the RCMP arrived and put Wood in the back of a police cruiser, where he told an officer he was experiencing chest and shoulder pain.
  The service says Wood was transferred to an ambulance and that on the way to t
  
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• Guilty plea in 'quick wins' ethnic vote scandal wraps up long-running case

  14-10-2017 00:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The ‘quick wins’ scandal that hung over the previous Liberal government for almost four years has been largely concluded with the surprise guilty plea by a former government communications director on a breach of trust charge. 
  Special prosecutor David Butcher, who was appointed in 2013 to look into allegations of partisan use of taxpayer resources to win votes in ethnic communities, said Friday the case is now mostly over.
  “Subject to some other small odd
  
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• Student adviser says accused in UBC assault was depressed

  14-10-2017 00:35 via vancouversun.com
  A student residence adviser testified Friday that the young man accused of attempting to murder another student at UBC was depressed and she was worried he might harm himself.
  Janani Rangarajan said she met Thamer Almestadi several times less than a week prior to his alleged involvement in the Oct. 4, 2016 assault on Mary Hare in her room at the university’s Salish House residence.
  She told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Margot Fleming that Almestadi, a teen from Saudi Arabia, told her that he
  
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• Tomorrow, 9am-noon: Join our parks volunteers in helping restore Hastings Creek. We'll meet at end of Harold Road.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 00:29 via twitter.com
  Tomorrow, 9am-noon: Join our parks volunteers in helping restore Hastings Creek. We'll meet at end of Harold Road.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Social entrepreneurism

  14-10-2017 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  In his book How to Change the World, David Bornstein profiles social entrepreneurs who are innovative, successful, grassroots individuals that created businesses that address a wide range of social and economic problems. “Social entrepreneurs are creative, driven, and adventurous. They embrace change, exploit new opportunities, and think big,” he says.
  Madeleine Shaw is one such person.
  She was concerned about the affect that feminine hygiene products had on women
  
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• Room 207: Reports from Haunted Hotels of BC

  14-10-2017 00:23 via vancouversun.com
  On a recent visit to one of B.C.’s oldest continuously operating hotels, The Inn at Spences Bridge, I was loudly awakened by bone chilling sounds.
  It was like two ex-patrons were having a brawl in the attic. Rumblings and bangings, and crashing noises made sleep impossible, my partner and I were the only guests on the top floor that night. The commotion ended with a series of loud thuds on the floor above, almost like morse code, as if some wayward ghost was trying to send a message. 
  
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• This Week in History: 1954 Rump-sprung women who droop get a chance for a fashion makeover

  14-10-2017 00:20 via vancouversun.com
  On Oct. 10, 1954, The Vancouver Sun ran a front-page photo of a woman leaning against a bus stop.
  “Are You a Drooper?” asked a headline under the photo.
  “City women have a tendency to droop, claim fashion experts who say correct posture is essential to good appearance.”
  Underneath was another photo of a woman leaning on her elbow beside a typewriter.
  “Rump-sprung girl above has counterpart in office typist who droops over work,” said the cutline beneath the ph
  
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• Get ready for #BTWW. Polish up your loading skills on our rack & ride in #CivicPlaza. cnv.org/Cycling… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Get ready for #BTWW. Polish up your loading skills on our rack & ride in #CivicPlaza. cnv.org/Cycling… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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