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• Burnaby RCMP warn public not to fall for popular Bitcoin scam

  17-10-2017 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  Burnaby RCMP are concerned about a recent increase in the number of scams involving the transfer of money via Bitcoin.
  In one of more common scams involving that cryptocurrency, Mounties say a scammer will call a potential victim claiming to be employed with the Canada Revenue Agency. Victims are told they owe back taxes and are threatened with immediate arrest if they do not pay up using Bitcoin.
  In another version of the scam, the caller pretends to be a police officer who tells the victi
  
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• Did you know your funky mid-century "Brady Bunch" house may qualify for a #heritage grant? Get details and apply:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 22:03 via twitter.com
  Did you know your funky mid-century "Brady Bunch" house may qualify for a #heritage grant? Get details and apply:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Enbridge spurs raid on environmentalist group Stand's Vancouver offices to seize assets

  17-10-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  The environmental organization Stand reports that bailiffs showed up at its downtown Vancouver office this morning with orders on behalf of Enbridge to seize assets related to a 2014 Federal Court of Appeal judgment that awarded the pipeline giant court costs.
  The organization’s campaigns director Karen Mahon said Enbridge was an intervener in a court action that Stand had taken against the National Energy Board arguing that the public was being excluded from its review process of Enbridge
  
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• Survived 1st big fall rainstorm. Batten down the hatches. Mother Nature's not done yet! Wind warning w/ gusts to 90… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Survived 1st big fall rainstorm. Batten down the hatches. Mother Nature's not done yet! Wind warning w/ gusts to 90… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Your guide to Halloween fireworks in Metro Vancouver: Where can you, where can't you

  17-10-2017 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  For many, Metro Vancouverites Halloween wouldn’t be the holiday it is without the spectacular flash and boom of a seasonal fireworks display to light up the evening sky, to the chagrin of Metro Vancouver fire departments.
  Where you can buy fireworks and where you are allowed to set them off, however, is a patchwork of local regulations.
  A few municipalities, such as Vancouver, West Vancouver and New Westminster do allow private displays, subject to restrictions.
  An increasing number, howev
  
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• Style in the City: Martin Barclay

  17-10-2017 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Martin Barclay
  Occupation: Territory sales rep and fashion consultant 
  Personal style in one word: Polished
  Get social: @martintbarclay
  Love Martin’s look? Here’s how to recreate it:The suit
  While not every man will be able to pull off the bold check print that Martin sports above, that doesn’t mean he has to write off the look completely. Not even close. This Bosco Uomo at Le 31 Burgundy plaid suit in a semi-slim fit boasts a flattering — and fashionable plai
  
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• ART SEEN: Libby Leshgold Gallery frames the Pacific Ocean as a shared space

  17-10-2017 20:43 via vancouversun.com
  By any kind of measurement, the Pacific Ocean is big.
  With a surface area of 161 million square kilometers, it’s the largest ocean basin in the world. For comparison, in the Atlantic Ocean is second largest at slightly more than half of the size of the Pacific.
  The Pacific is so big that all the world’s continents could fit into it – with room left over for another Canada.
  Its volume of water is equally massive. The Pacific Ocean is 660 million kilometers cubed – an estim
  
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• Drop, Cover, Hold On. 3 words that could save your life. Practice Oct. 19 during #ShakeOutBC… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Drop, Cover, Hold On. 3 words that could save your life. Practice Oct. 19 during #ShakeOutBC… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Timeshare Scam Targets Owners bit.ly/2x2FXXb #NorthVancouver

  17-10-2017 19:19 via twitter.com
  Timeshare Scam Targets Ownersbit.ly/2x2FXXb#NorthVancouver
  
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• RCMP in B.C. say man who vanished in Okanagan Lake has been found alive and well

  17-10-2017 18:29 via vancouversun.com
  VERNON — A man has been found safe after police feared he might have drowned when he jumped into Okanagan Lake near Vernon.
  RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk says rescuers searched the north end of the lake over the weekend after officers investigating reports of a prowler saw someone jump into the water.
  It appeared the person never resurfaced.
  Moskaluk says police have since learned the 38-year-old man was able to swim across the lake to another community.
  Moskaluk wouldn’t say which communit
  
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• Kamloops man fights to prove he's alive after bureaucratic error declares him dead

  17-10-2017 18:12 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — A British Columbia man who recently lost his mother is fighting for his own life after a bureaucratic mix-up declared him dead.
  Bryan Kupiak, who is 65 and from Kamloops, is healthy but says somehow his social insurance number was substituted for his mother’s after she died in September.
  A death certificate with Kupiak’s name on it was issued to his estate.
  He says the mix-up has cost him access to his own pension and he has also had to ensure his bank accounts, driv
  
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• Are you an #EastviewPark user? We want to hear from you about proposed improvements. Plans & survey here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Are you an #EastviewPark user? We want to hear from you about proposed improvements. Plans & survey here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SKOOKUM music and arts festival coming to Stanley Park in 2018

  17-10-2017 17:59 via vancouversun.com
  SKOOKUM, a new music, food and arts festival is coming to Vancouver’s Stanley Park next September 7 – 9, 2018. The three day-long party in the park is presented by BrandLive, who previously produced the Squamish Valley Music Festival.
  “In 2012, we produced the Sarah McLachlan School of Music Fundraiser which was the first major ticketed event of its kind to take place in the park,” said BrandLive’s Paul Runnals. “Looking around at the site, the crowd and feeli
  
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• Rain's not over yet, folks. @environmentca issued a rainfall warning for this morning. Take care out there! ow.ly/Q48S30fWfXv #BCStorm

  17-10-2017 17:51 via twitter.com
  Rain's not over yet, folks. @environmentca issued a rainfall warning for this morning. Take care out there! ow.ly/Q48S30fWfXv #BCStorm
  
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• Live: Wind warnings issued for B.C. south coast and islands on Tuesday

  17-10-2017 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  This news is going to blow you away.
  Environment Canada issued wind warnings on Tuesday morning for the B.C. south coast and islands. The warnings come on the heels of the first of two storms forecast for the week; rains were expected to taper on Tuesday before a second round of heavy rain hits the region on Wednesday.
  Tuesday’s forecast warned of “strong winds that may cause damage” in Metro Vancouver – including Surrey, Langley, Richmond and Delta – the Fraser Val
  
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• Official complaint lodged against Trans Mountain biologist over unauthorized river work

  17-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  A Fraser Valley-based conservation group has lodged a formal complaint with the College of Applied Biology over a Trans Mountain biologist’s role in the installation of matting to discourage salmon from spawning at stream sites where the company plans pipeline crossings.
  In the official written complaint, WaterWealth program director Ian Stephen quotes a Trans Mountain blog post of Sept. 12, 2017, that reads: “Trans Mountain fisheries biologist Calum Bonnington and his team are tempo
  
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• Bunking down for the night in Vancouver: Home sweet home is underground

  17-10-2017 16:43 via vancouversun.com
  Mitch Lagimodiere is proud of his hobbit hole, but already thinking about how to improve upon it when he feels, inevitably, that he will have to move and dig a new burrow.
  Lagimodiere was surviving quite nicely, thank you, in an underground bunker he has built into the side of the muddy, slippery bank of a ravine near Lakewood Street and 12th Ave. in East Vancouver.
  That is, until a chance discovery by Vancouver police on Oct. 4.
  “I’m trying to peacefully live here,” he said. &
  
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• Gofundme launched for Vancouver couple after fire destroys drum shop

  17-10-2017 16:28 via vancouversun.com
  A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support Vancouver master drummer Kwasi Iruoje and his wife after their African drum shop and home was destroyed by a fire Sunday.
  The blaze was located at 163 West Broadway, home to African Arts and Percussions, and started sometime after 9:30 p.m. The shop offered African drums, art, clothing and music for sale, as well as regular drum circles, lessons and repair services.“Master Drummer Kwasi and his wife Lisa have lost their drum shop and hom
  
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• Study ranks Victoria best Canadian city to be a woman; Vancouver 5th out of 25

  17-10-2017 15:51 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — A new study suggests Victoria is the best city in Canada to be a woman, despite the wage gap between men and women there worsening slightly in recent years.
  The study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives looks at differences between men’s and women’s access to economic and personal security, education, health and positions of leadership in Canada’s 25 biggest cities.
  The CCPA says Victoria is the only city on the list where more women than men are emplo
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you leave Vancouver due to the cost of housing?

  17-10-2017 15:39 via vancouversun.com
  The median asking price for a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver has increased to $2,120, according to the latest PadMapper Canadian rent report.
  The increase represented a five-per-cent hike from the previous month and a 15.8-per-cent jump over October 2016. The asking price for a two-bedroom apartment in Vancouver has also gone up to $3,200 a month, a 1.3-per-cent increase from September and a 14.3-per-cent increase from October last year.
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• CFIA: Certain B.C. farm-raised oysters recalled due to biotoxin

  17-10-2017 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Federal health officials say some farm-raised Pacific oysters are being recalled due to a marine biotoxin which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the oysters were produced by two firms in Richmond, B.C. — Albion Farms and Fisheries Ltd. and Union Bay Seafood Ltd.
  The Albion Farms oysters were sold from Oct. 9 to Oct. 16 and the Union Bay oysters were sold from Oct. 10 to Oct. 16.
  The CFIA says the products were sold in Alberta, Br
  
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• Crop the top: Vancouver Convention Centre set for its annual mowing

  17-10-2017 07:57 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Convention Centre is facing its annual must-do: it’s getting mowed.
  The six-acre living roof, that is.
  It’s an insulator that reduces the building’s heat gain in the summer and controls heat loss in the summer.
  Over the next two weeks or so, a team of six will mow the grass on the roof using a single lawnmower, a single blade trimmer and a trio of line trimmers.
  According to stats provided by the convention centre, it’s the largest green roof in Canada, the
  
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• Opinion: Run-off elections beat proportional representation

  17-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Trudeau government promised electoral reform.
  As someone who spent years studying political science, I faithfully watched to see which new system they would select.  None, was their answer and it was not unexpected. Big changes promised in opposition seldom translate to real action when in power. 
  Now the new B.C. NDP/Green government is promising a change. Our “first past the post” election system is again on the chopping block and, again, proportional representation i
  
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• K.J. Apa finds some guitar-playing fun on the Railway stage

  17-10-2017 06:49 via vancouversun.com
  Days after he told Kelly Ripa Vancouver is kind of boring, Riverdale star K.J. Apa found himself shredding on the guitar in downtown Vancouver.
  Apa found himself trading blues riffs on stage Saturday night with Hawaiian guitarist Ron Artis II at the Railway Stage and Beer Cafe.“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 shuts early, which I guess is kind of good,” 
  
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• Man who's been in and out of prison since 1972 suspected in Chilliwack bank robbery

  17-10-2017 05:40 via vancouversun.com
  A Chilliwack man who has been in and out of jail since he was a teenaged has been charged in relation to a bank robbery last week in Chilliwack.
  Police allege Dean Evan Kinley, 63, stole cash from a Scotiabank at the corner of Yale Road and Princess Avenue on Oct. 10. The bank is across the street from the Chilliwack courthouse.
  Kinley was arrested later than afternoon and charged with theft under $5,000.
  He made a court appearance the next day, where he was also charged with theft under $5
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Former B.C. Hells Angel shot to death in Toronto

  17-10-2017 04:58 via vancouversun.com
  Jamie Holland was a powerful and wealthy Hells Angel before he was tossed out of the gang in 2006. He continued running a number of B.C. companies before moving to Toronto a few years ago.
  On Saturday he was shot to death. He was involved in the marijuana business in Ontario.
  Here’s my story:
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  Former B.C. Hells Angel gunned down outside his Toronto pot dispensary
   A former B.C. Hells Angel was shot to death over the weekend outside a strip mall in Toronto.
  James Clayton &ldq
  
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• The rains return, how will we cope? Here are some coping skills

  17-10-2017 03:57 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re looking outside at the buzzkill rain clouds and feeling overwhelmed, you could be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder.
  Or maybe not.
  “A lot of people think (SAD) is way more common than it is,” said Sarah Hamid-Balma, a spokeswoman for the B.C. office of the Canadian Mental Health Association as B.C. was hit Monday by the first prolonged rains of the season.
  “Two to three per cent of Canadians are affected (by SAD) and another 15 per cent will get the win
  
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• LEC to Sell Recovered Heat from the New North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant. See NR: ow.ly/8MmA30fVf1c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 03:30 via twitter.com
  LEC to Sell Recovered Heat from the New North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant. See NR: ow.ly/8MmA30fVf1c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Palmer: B.C. Liberal leadership debate shows party unity a challenge

  17-10-2017 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For two hours Sunday, six candidates for the B.C. Liberal leadership went back and forth on why the party lost its majority in the spring and how it should proceed differently in the future.
  “We were preaching at people from 30,000 feet,” said former advanced education minister Andrew Wilkinson. “Telling them about credit ratings, telling them about our debt-to-GDP ratio, (while) the New Democrats were in their living rooms offering them a cheaper way of life.&
  
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• Former B.C. Hells Angel gunned down outside Toronto strip mall

  17-10-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  A former B.C. Hells Angel was shot to death over the weekend outside a strip mall in Toronto.
  James Clayton “Jamie” Holland, 43, was once a member of the elite Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels, then based in Burnaby.
  He was kicked out of the B.C. biker gang in 2006, but continued to operate several companies in this province for years.
  Toronto Police issued a news release Sunday confirming that Holland had been shot several times about 9:43 p.m. outside a North York plaza from
  
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• Fumano: After Vancouver byelection, don't expect housing policy debates to stop soon

  17-10-2017 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  If you can read anything in the tea leaves of a civic byelection where just 11 per cent of voters elected a single councillor, maybe it’s that Vancouverites appear to have an appetite for big, disruptive change on housing.
  Consider the top two finishers: one from the right-of-centre establishment party, and the other a hard-left activist from outside the mainstream, who together combined for about half of all ballots cast and both campaigned on boldly attacking the housing crisis.
  The main
  
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• Dan Fumano: After Vancouver byelection, don't expect housing policy debates to stop soon

  17-10-2017 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  If you can read anything in the tea leaves of a civic byelection where just 11 per cent of voters elected a single councillor, maybe it’s that Vancouverites appear to have an appetite for big, disruptive change on housing.
  Consider the top two finishers: one from the right-of-centre establishment party, and the other a hard-left activist from outside the mainstream, who together combined for about half of all ballots cast and both campaigned on boldly attacking the housing crisis.
  The main
  
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• Thousands sign petition to preserve the name of a Langley high school

  17-10-2017 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  A Langley student’s online petition to preserve the name of her high school has earned more than 16,000 signatures.
  Halle Bottrell is a student at R.E. Mountain Secondary School, named after beloved educator Roy Edward Mountain, who was raised in Langley and taught or administrated in the community for more than 40 years. He died in 1975.
  “If we were to take away our high school’s name, it would take away all the memories that have been made by past students and the legacy they
  
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• Council meets tonight at 6PM. Join us in person or watch online. See what's on tap at cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Council meets tonight at 6PM. Join us in person or watch online. See what's on tap at cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver hires former San Fransisco official to reduce seismic risk

  17-10-2017 01:14 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver has hired a seismic manager, nine months after it first said it would, to establish a plan to reduce the earthquake risk to privately owned buildings.
  The person hired for the position — officially called project lead of seismic mitigation for high-risk buildings — is Micah Hilt, previously an urban planner with the City of San Francisco.
  Hilt, who helped develop a mandatory retrofit program for wood-frame buildings at risk in earthquakes for San Francisco, star
  
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• RAINFALL WARNING: Expect heavy rain tonight thru tomorrow morning. Pls be sure storm drains are clear #BCStorm youtu.be/8Pk4SbqvQfg

  17-10-2017 01:02 via twitter.com
  RAINFALL WARNING: Expect heavy rain tonight thru tomorrow morning. Pls be sure storm drains are clear #BCStorm youtu.be/8Pk4SbqvQfg
  
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• Can't make tonight's 7pm Council meeting? All of our Council meetings are streamed live on our website. ow.ly/hJ7n30fVbFA #NorthVan

  17-10-2017 00:54 via twitter.com
  Can't make tonight's 7pm Council meeting? All of our Council meetings are streamed live on our website. ow.ly/hJ7n30fVbFA #NorthVan
  
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• NDP pushes decision on ride-hailing off for more consultation

  17-10-2017 00:26 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s NDP government has stalled any decision on allowing ride-hailing services like Uber to operate in the province while it launches an independent review.
  Transportation Minister Claire Trevena said Monday the province has hired Dan Hara to conduct the review, and expects he will complete it in “early 2018” with possible legislation that fall.
  The timeline means the NDP will break a campaign promise to have a plan to allow ride-hailing services in the provi
  
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• Hollywood North: 10 productions shot in Vancouver in 2017

  17-10-2017 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  It’s been a year blockbuster year for the third largest film and TV production centre in North America. Here are 10 star-studded productions shot in Vancouver in 2017.
  
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• Five women who allege Ivan Henry sexually assaulted them file lawsuit

  17-10-2017 00:18 via vancouversun.com
  Five women who allege they were sexually assaulted by Ivan Henry, a man who spent 27 years behind bars before the courts found he’d been wrongfully convicted of being a serial rapist, have filed suit against the B.C. man.
  In a lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the five women claim that Henry sexually assaulted them in their Vancouver apartments during attacks that occurred from May 1981 to June 1982.
  The women are only identified as Jane Doe Nos. 1 through 5 in the notice of civil claim
  
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• Andrew Weaver's defamation trial gets bumped due to judge shortage

  17-10-2017 00:14 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is one of the latest litigants to be impacted by a judge shortage in the B.C. Supreme Court.
  On Monday, Weaver showed up at the Vancouver Law Courts hoping that a defamation lawsuit that he had filed in 2011 would get underway.
  But along with five other court cases that were scheduled to begin, Weaver’s lawsuit got bumped because there is an ongoing shortage of the federally-appointed judges in B.C.’s superior trial court.
  B.C. Supreme Court Asso
  
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• Weather warning in effect for tonight | high winds & heavy rain expected #BCStorm #NorthVan ow.ly/Yzo830fV7hW https://t.co/aAUt0TjyF6

  17-10-2017 00:10 via twitter.com
  
  Weather warning in effect for tonight | high winds & heavy rain expected #BCStorm #NorthVan ow.ly/Yzo830fV7hW https://t.co/aAUt0TjyF6
  
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