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• NDP leader Jagmeet Singh makes Vancouver stop in get-to-know-you tour

  20-10-2017 23:26 via vancouversun.com
  The response to Canada’s opioid overdose problem should elevated as a national issue with a significant, harm reduction approach, new NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh argued during his first visit to Vancouver as party head.
  “Thousands of people are dying in our country as a result of this crisis and it needs to be named a national crisis first,” said Singh, speaking during a media availability Friday after taking a tour of Chinatown.
  Singh’s first official visit to the city afte
  
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• Acute care centre designed to distract, soothe young patients

  20-10-2017 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  Medical treatments can be painful and frightening for children, not to mention distressing for their parents, so positive distractions and tranquil environments conducive to healing are core design principles and priorities in the new Teck Acute Care Centre at B.C. Children’s Hospital.
  Studies have shown that viewing art, especially images of nature, can reduce stress and pain, so when the new building opens on Oct. 29, patients will see enhancements intended to lower anxiety, their p
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Howe Sound, canary in the coal mine?

  20-10-2017 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  For more than 30 years Vancouver Aquarium and other groups have been researching the fiord that extends from West Vancouver to Squamish. It has been home to pulp mills, a copper mine, been the gathering site for log booms and the output of sawmills.
  In 1956, B.C. Rail completed its line to Squamish making it more accessible to industry and the people who lived and worked for the major employers that were extracting the resources from the land that borders the Sound.
  By 1959, the Sea to
  
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• North Vancouver MLA proposes SkyTrain route running from Dundarave to downtown Vancouver - Straight.com

  20-10-2017 22:46 via straight.com
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  North Vancouver MLA proposes SkyTrain route running from Dundarave to downtown Vancouver
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  If you've driven through North Vancouver during rush hour lately, you know the North Shore suburb has a traffic problem. The section of highway that runs from the north end of the Second Narrows Bridge, past the exit for Lonsdale Avenue, and then ...
  
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• The power outage in Edgemont has also impacted the libray. twitter.com/nvdpl/status/9…

  20-10-2017 22:44 via twitter.com
  The power outage in Edgemont has also impacted the libray. twitter.com/nvdpl/status/9…
  
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• Please note the Edgemont power outage is impacting Delbrook rec centre twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…

  20-10-2017 22:43 via twitter.com
  Please note the Edgemont power outage is impacting Delbrook rec centre twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…
  
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• Power is currently out for about 1300 homes around #Edgemont Village. Here's info from @bchydro's outage map: ow.ly/WUTf30g1D5z

  20-10-2017 22:06 via twitter.com
  Power is currently out for about 1300 homes around #Edgemont Village. Here's info from @bchydro's outage map: ow.ly/WUTf30g1D5z
  
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• Off-duty paramedic among three men who died in Fernie arena ammonia leak

  20-10-2017 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  FERNIE — The City of Fernie shut down its operations Friday to give staff time to grieve the deaths of co-workers following an ammonia leak at the local ice rink.
  The provincial coroners service said the men who died were Fernie residents Wayne Hornquist, 59, and Lloyd Smith, 52, and 46-year-old Jason Podloski of Turner Valley, Alta.
  The city has said two of the men worked for the municipality. A spokesman for the parent company of refrigeration business CIMCO confirmed the third man
  
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• #Foodscraps are not garbage. Plate scrapings, veggie peels, pizza crusts + egg shells all go in #GreenCan.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  #Foodscraps are not garbage. Plate scrapings, veggie peels, pizza crusts + egg shells all go in #GreenCan.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Overdose crisis claims average seven lives per week in Vancouver: VPD

  20-10-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  In a year of grim statistics in the drug overdose crisis, the City of Vancouver now averages seven overdose deaths per week, the city said in a news release.
  Vancouver police recorded three suspected drug overdose deaths in the week ending Oct. 9, which is less than that average, but brings the overall toll to 275  deaths to that date in 2017 with more than two-and-a-half months left before the end of the year.
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• Abbotsford woman's husband pleads guilty to playing part in her hit-and-run death

  20-10-2017 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  Hit and run victim Kulwinder Gill, who died in April 2009 on an Abbotsford rural road after being struck by a vehicle.
   
  A 53-year-old Abbotsford man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill his wife eight years ago.
  Iqbal Singh Gill was charged in 2013 with conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder after his wife Kulwinder Kaur Gill was struck by a truck on Townshipline Road in Abbotsford on April 27, 2009.
  Gill was strolling alongside his wife at the time she was struck. He f
  
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• Town Talk: Arts Umbrella makes biggest Splash ever

  20-10-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  BEST OF TIME: The recent Gift of Time gala for the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice reportedly raised a record $1.24 million and pushed its 13-year total beyond $10 million. The funds will go toward the $12 million needed every year to support 715 children and their families at the hospice’s Vancouver and Abbotsford locations. Third-time co-chair Emily Lazare and second-timer Shanni Eckford said tickets sold out in two weeks and $107,000 had been received before 600 guests filled the
  
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• Woman's body found in Langley dumpster

  20-10-2017 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties in Langley are investigating after a woman’s body was found in a burning dumpster behind a shopping mall early Friday.
  RCMP Cpl. Craig van Herk says a section behind the Rio Can shopping centre in Langley City is behind police tape but otherwise all the businesses are open and there are no road closures. 
  He says shortly before 6 a.m., Langley firefighters called RCMP after they found the body while extinguishing a blaze in the dumpster. 
  While investigators have yet to
  
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• Securely shred personal info, protect against identity theft + raise money for @NorthVanCityLib. Deets:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Securely shred personal info, protect against identity theft + raise money for@NorthVanCityLib. Deets:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Life sentence with no parole for 17 years for man who killed Surrey teenager

  20-10-2017 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  NEW WESTMINSTER — A British Columbia man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 17 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
  Raymond Caissie was sentenced Friday in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster for the September 2014 slaying of 17-year-old Serena Vermeersch.
  Her body was found along railway tracks in Surrey a day after she was reported missing.
  Caissie had been released from prison just a year earlier.
  He had served his entire 22 year
  
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• Fab 5: White out

  20-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What’s that saying about wearing white after Labour Day? Exactly — forget it. This season is all about eschewing the outdated rules of yesteryear, right down to your toes. After all, there’s nothing like a pair of box-fresh white shoes to cleanse your wardrobe palette. From sleek white pumps to classic sneakers, Rebecca Tay discovers five pairs that steer stylishly clear of old shoe rules.
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  A decade ago, white patent leather shoes would have been the biggest
  
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• Bedbugs crawl out of seat and feast on Canadians trapped on nine-hour Vancouver to London flight

  20-10-2017 19:52 via vancouversun.com
  A British Columbia woman plagued by bedbugs on a nine-hour flight to London is a victim of the explosive growth in the critters globally, but travellers shouldn’t worry they’ll become a common feature on planes, says an entomologist.Heather Szilagyi was on a British Airways flight with her seven-year-old daughter and fiancée Eric Neilson on Oct. 10 when she said they noticed what appeared to be bedbugs crawling out of the seat in front of them.
  She said the flight attendants c
  
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• UBC students learn to care for Indigenous people by understanding racist legacy

  20-10-2017 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  The University of British Columbia is on mission to train future doctors, dentists and other health-care providers to treat Indigenous patients by learning about the pain inflicted by past Canadian policies.
  First-year students in midwifery, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, genetic counselling, social work, dental hygiene and dietetics are required to take an online course and two workshops to help them better serve Aboriginal people. In 2018, students in audiology and speech an
  
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• Live in collection zone #4? You can now exchange your new garbage carts for larger or smaller sizes, or order more. ow.ly/kcda30g1pV3

  20-10-2017 19:36 via twitter.com
  Live in collection zone #4? You can now exchange your new garbage carts for larger or smaller sizes, or order more. ow.ly/kcda30g1pV3
  
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• City of North Vancouver aims to take Step Code one step further - North Shore News

  20-10-2017 19:30 via nsnews.com
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  City of North Vancouver aims to take Step Code one step further
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  A laneway house on West 28th Street is built in accordance with B.C. Energy Step Code. file photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. When it comes to energy efficiency, the province needs to think bigger. That was the consensus Monday as City of North ...
  
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• Bulls&Bears: Money talks in the MLS

  20-10-2017 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  With designated players actually worth their exorbitant salaries — US$7.1 million for Sebastian Giovinco, US$6.5 million for Michael Bradley and US$4.88 million for Jozy Altidore — Toronto FC is putting the finishing touches on the most dominant regular season in Major League Soccer history while the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Seattle Sounders FC and Portland Timbers FC go into ‘Decision Day’ jockeying for position in what should be an interesting post-seas
  
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• Brian Minter: Beat nibbling Bambi with these deer-resistant spring bulbs

  20-10-2017 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  Who loves spring bulbs more than we do?  Here are some clues:  They have four legs, are cute-as-a-button, and enjoy visiting every garden for miles around.  I can’t think of any major reason, other than deer, why folks would not plant bulbs for spring enjoyment.
  Before I dare suggest deer-proof bulbs, let’s be honest:  No one ever tells the deer which ones they’re not supposed to eat.  I’ve never felt sorrier for any speaker than I did a few years
  
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• Here's Natalie with some tips for biking to work in the fall + info on #BTWW Oct 23-29th. Happy Riding! #NorthVan https://t.co/0GDZ7P9DrE

  20-10-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  
  Here's Natalie with some tips for biking to work in the fall + info on #BTWW Oct 23-29th. Happy Riding! #NorthVan https://t.co/0GDZ7P9DrE
  
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• Study involving SFU professor finds pollution is deadlier than war, disaster, hunger

  20-10-2017 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  NEW DELHI — Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
  One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about 9 million — could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday in the Lancet medical journal. The financia
  
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• Daily Poll: Where do you think people should buy their pot?

  20-10-2017 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbians seem to agree that marijuana should be legal, but disagree on where it should be sold, according to an Insights West survey. Most respondents (44 per cent) favoured stand-alone shops dedicated to the sale of cannabis, while 23 per cent want to see it sold in liquor stores, and 22 per cent think drugstores would be best. Where do you think pot should be sold?Take Our Poll
  
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• Wanted: A good home for a singing Surrey pig

  20-10-2017 16:19 via vancouversun.com
  He might have a voice for showbiz, but Lyle the singing pig just wants a loving family.
  The BC SPCA is searching for someone to adopt the two-year-old pig with a lot of personality.
  BC SPCA spokeswoman Leiki Salumets says Lyle has been cared for at the Good Shepherd Barn in Surrey since September 2016, when he was seized with several other animals as part of a cruelty investigation.
  Now, more than a year later, he’s a much different pig, she says.“When Lyle first came into our care,
  
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• New political party declares in City of North Vancouver - North Shore News

  20-10-2017 15:04 via nsnews.com
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  New political party declares in City of North Vancouver
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  John Jensen stands outside the city hall where he hopes next year members of the North Vancouver Citizen Action Association will be elected to council. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. The next municipal election is a year away but a new group ...
  
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• Ballet on the Goh

  20-10-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s like a little jewel box, Chan Hon Goh said, neatly summing up the feel of the Main Street ballet school her father and mother founded almost 40 years ago.
  Her parents, Choo Chiat and Lin Yee Goh, started teaching ballet in 1978 at a W. 12th Avenue basement studio with a ceiling so low dancers were unable to jump.
  Today, Choo Chiat Goh is a decorated dance mentor who put Vancouver on the global ballet map, most recently receiving a lifetime achievement award in the arts from Vancouver
  
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• Opinion: Promise of universal public education unfulfilled for students with special needs

  20-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Today, public schools enrol students who 75 years ago rarely attended school. Children who were deaf, blind, or who had developmental disabilities did not typically attend public schools. If they were educated, their education took place at home, in specialized schools or in institutions.
  Surveying its history, the promise of universal public education — an idea of the mid-19th century — has taken more than 150 years to achieve. But, when I look at the data about the performance of s
  
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• Fumano: Church's 3,100 per cent tax hike highlights 'absurdity' of Vancouver system, expert says

  20-10-2017 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver councillors expressed sympathy Thursday for a $275,000 property-tax increase that will make it harder for a West End church to run children’s camps and feed the hungry, then unanimously voted against the church’s appeal for a break on the bill.
  Representatives of Vancouver’s First Baptist Church were at city hall seeking relief from a shocking 3,100 per cent, one-year tax jump for a parking lot behind the church at 969 Burrard St.
  The circumstances of the church&rsquo
  
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• Fernie disaster: Former Olympian calls for better ammonia enforcement

  20-10-2017 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  When former Olympic figure skater Karen Magnussen learned about the fatal ammonia leak in Fernie on Tuesday, the news brought back agonizing memories of the day six years ago that will haunt her for life.
  Magnussen, winner of a silver medal at the 1972 Olympics and the 1973 world champion, had been preparing to coach some young skaters early on the morning of Nov. 28, 2011, when she walked into a hallway at the North Shore Winter Club, unaware it was packed with ammonia gas from a brea
  
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• Westbank Corp. faces new scrutiny for pre-sale condo pricing at Joyce

  20-10-2017 03:10 via vancouversun.com
  Developers in Vancouver gathered Thursday for one of their usual industry luncheons to discuss pre-sale condo sellouts, double-digit price increases and an increasingly frustrated public that feels shut out of home ownership.
  And they heard a voice they respect call out Westbank Corp. for the high pricing of its units at Joyce, a 30-storey condo building that will be constructed near a SkyTrain station in an East Vancouver neighbourhood.
  “Just because you can (sell for a high price), shoul
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan points accusing finger at fish farm fearmongers

  20-10-2017 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats are now accusing their critics of “fearmongering” over Agriculture Minister Lana Popham’s veiled threat to cancel the tenures of one of B.C.’s big fish farming operators.
  “You know what is not good for business?” challenged Popham Thursday in responding to a question from the B.C. Liberals. “The fearmongering from that side of the chamber.”
  The question about the impact on business was provoked by Popham’s l
  
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• Longtime West End staple Cardero Grocery set to close at month's end

  20-10-2017 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  A few years ago, a couple in their 80s stopped by Cardero Grocery in Vancouver’s West End and struck up a conversation with the shop’s owner.
  The couple told Emma Ng that they had moved away from the neighbourhood about 40 years ago but that they had both attended Lord Roberts Elementary as children. The school opened in 1901 and is across the street from the shop.
  “So funny,” said Ng of the visitors who had returned to find out how the area had or hadn’t changed. &
  
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• Former UBC student testifies message from the Qur'an told him to kill

  20-10-2017 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  A former UBC student charged with the attempted murder of a female student testified Thursday that he got a message from the Qur’an to kill the victim.
  Thamer Hameed Almestadi, 19, has pleaded not guilty to the October 2016 attempted murder of Mary Hare in the victim’s university dorm. The main issue at the trial is whether Almestadi is not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. 
  The accused told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Margot Fleming that he was agitated after atte
  
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• Public consultation coming on transit fare structure review

  20-10-2017 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  Another round of public consultation will begin next month as TransLink moves into the third phase of reviewing its fare structure.
  Fares are currently determined by the zones. SkyTrain and SeaBus have a three-zone structure, West Coast Express has five zones, while buses and HandyDart have one zone. The fare system — with the exception of buses and HandyDart — has not changed since 1984.
  During the first two phases of the fare review, TransLink learned that nearly two-thirds of peop
  
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• DYK the average person uses 45kg of plastic/year? 16 tips to reduce your plastic use: ow.ly/Uo0W30fWDkn… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  DYK the average person uses 45kg of plastic/year? 16 tips to reduce your plastic use: ow.ly/Uo0W30fWDkn… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• TransLink mayors ask for carbon tax revenue to fund transit projects

  20-10-2017 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver mayors are asking for a portion of the revenue from proposed provincial carbon tax increases over the next four years to be dedicated to funding transit and transportation projects in the region.
  The proposal was made as part of the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation submission to a standing committee that is holding consultations on the 2018 provincial budget. 
  Allocating the carbon tax money was one of three recommendations the mayors made to the province.
  Th
  
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• Surrey RCMP ask for public's help identifying attacker in sex assaults

  20-10-2017 01:11 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP  have video footage of a man they believe is responsible for a pair of recent sex attacks on schoolaged girls in Cloverdale.
  On Oct. 10 and Oct. 17, two girls, aged 11 and 15, were groped by an unknown man. In both incidents, the girls were grabbed from behind as they walked to school.
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  Surrey RCMP seek man after girl, 11, sexually assaultedRCMP say girl sexually assaulted while walking to school in CloverdaleThe Oct. 10 attack occurred in the 18800 block of 65th Avenue n
  
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• B.C. angler lands possible San Juan Islands Atlantic salmon farm escapee on Harrison River

  20-10-2017 00:54 via vancouversun.com
  Abbotsford angler Don Temple thought he had hooked into a native coho salmon while fishing the Harrison River on Oct. 8, but was surprised by the fish he saw when he reeled it in.
  “The way it was fighting, I though it was a coho or else a small spring (salmon),” Temple said. “But when I got it up, I couldn’t figure out what it was because I had not seen anything like it.”
  He had been spin casting from a boat on the river above Harrison Mills, about half way up the r
  
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• Man arrested in Surrey SkyTrain assault

  20-10-2017 00:16 via vancouversun.com
  A 32- year-old Surrey man has been arrested and charged with attacking a SkyTrain passenger.
  The incident happened shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Monday night in Surrey, says Metro Vancouver Transit police spokeswoman Anne Drennan.
  The victim boarded the SkyTrain at King George Station and sat down. He was making a call on his mobile phone when another man boarded the train.
  When the call ended, Drennan said the the second man began yelling and swearing at the victim, threatening him with violence.
  
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• What's full of stuff you need to know about? This week's #CityView e-News of course! Here it is:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 00:01 via twitter.com
  What's full of stuff you need to know about? This week's #CityView e-News of course! Here it is:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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