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• Have children in elementary school? Give your feedback on out-of-school time opportunities on the #NorthShore.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 23:42 via twitter.com
  Have children in elementary school?Give your feedback on out-of-school time opportunities on the #NorthShore.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Douglas Todd: “Visible minority” now meaningless term in Metro Vancouver, Toronto

  26-10-2017 23:20 via vancouversun.com
  New Canadian census data reveals the term “visible minority” has become virtually meaningless across Metro Vancouver.
  The region’s five largest municipalities now have fewer whites than people of colour, which means Caucasians are a “visible minority” in Richmond, Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam and the city of Vancouver.
  The 2016 Canadian census data on ethnicity and immigration, released Wednesday, also shows the foreign-born population of Metro Vancouver has risen to
  
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• RCMP say fraudsters pulled lotto ticket scam in Richmond mall

  26-10-2017 23:16 via vancouversun.com
  RCMP are circulating photos of people they believe used a fake lottery ticket to scam a senior out of thousands of dollars at a Richmond mall last month.
  The alleged fraud took place on Sept. 26 at the Richmond Centre.
  The victim, a man over 65 years old, was approached by a stranger who claimed he needed help cashing his winning lottery ticket. 
  The suspected scammer, who spoke broken English, said he couldn’t claim the winnings because he was an illegal immigrant. Soon a second man,
  
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• UBC student found not criminally responsible for assault due to mental disorder

  26-10-2017 23:05 via vancouversun.com
  A former UBC student accused of attempting to murder another student in her university dorm has been found guilty of the assault but not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Margot Fleming delivered her verdict in the case of Thamer Almestadi, an international student from Saudi Arabia, in a Vancouver courtroom Thursday.
  MORE TO COME.
  Mary Hare, the UBC student allegedly attacked by a knife-wielding assailant inside her dorm outside the Vancouver Law Courts
  
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• This week's edition of #CityView e-news is ready for you. A quick update of City events & headlines:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 22:50 via twitter.com
  This week's edition of #CityView e-news is ready for you. A quick update of City events & headlines:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ART SEEN: City thinks outside the box with artist-in-residence in engineering

  26-10-2017 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  When the city builds the next protected bikeway, could it be both functional and fun? What about sewers: is there a different and maybe greener way to design them? And don’t forget the little things: is there a better way to build specialized broom holders for trucks?
  Some, or none of them, could be part of a new program to marry art and engineering in the city of Vancouver.
  The city is looking to embed three artists for consecutive 18-month periods in the engineering department. The innov
  
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• Abandoned, sunken ship on Vancouver Island underscores need for updated law: MP

  26-10-2017 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  LADYSMITH — A New Democrat MP from B.C. is criticizing the federal government for failing to act quickly enough to deal with derelict vessels.
  The complaints come days after the 27-metre Anapaya, a wooden fishing boat, sank in Ladysmith Harbour.
  Nanaimo-Ladysmith New Democrat MP Sheila Malcolmson spoke during Question Period on Tuesday calling the sinking the “latest example of the Liberal’s failed boat-by-boat approach on abandoned vessels.”
  Malcolmson says the boat was
  
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• Firefighters have just completed a rescue for a broken ankle near Quarry Rock. Stay safe when out on the trails in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 22:26 via twitter.com
  Firefighters have just completed a rescue for a broken ankle near Quarry Rock. Stay safe when out on the trails in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. kids in gov't care have lower grades than counterparts: Report

  26-10-2017 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  Schoolchildren in B.C. government care are struggling compared with their counterparts, with significantly lower grades and fewer high school graduates, says a new children and youth report.
  The troubling results of the Representative for Children and Youth (RCY) study, released Thursday, have led to six recommendations, including calling on the government for specific funding for school districts to better support young people in government care.
  In the 2014-15 school year, for example, on
  
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• RCMP search for missing North Vancouver woman - Vancouver Sun

  26-10-2017 22:11 via vancouversun.com
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  RCMP search for missing North Vancouver woman
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  The North Vancouver RCMP is asking the general public for assistance in locating Shyra Starblanket. RCMP Handout. Share Adjust Comment Print. RCMP are asking for the public in finding a missing 21-year-old North Vancouver woman. Shyra Starblanket ...
  
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• B.C. kids in government care have lower grades than counterparts: report

  26-10-2017 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  School kids in B.C. government care have significantly lower grades than their contemporaries, says a new children and youth report.
  The Representative for Children and Youth study, released Thursday, says in 2014/15, only 34 per cent of B.C. Grade 7 students in continuing care met or exceeded expectations in math, compared with 73 per cent for the rest of B.C. students.
  The same goes for science, with 71 per cent of all other B.C. students earning marks of C-plus or better, compared to only 39.
  
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• Vancouver building modular housing project along Cambie corridor

  26-10-2017 20:36 via vancouversun.com
  Two temporary modular housing buildings, containing 78 new homes, are being constructed to address the immediate housing needs for homeless residents in Vancouver
  The new homes, announced Thursday morning by the  City of Vancouver, B.C. government and the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, are part of a $66 million commitment from the province towards constructing 600 units of temporary modular housing in Vancouver.
  The buildings are planned for the Pearson-Dogwood loc
  
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• Live: UBC student found not criminally responsible for assault due to mental disorder

  26-10-2017 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  A former UBC student accused of attempting to murder another student in her university dorm has been found guilty of the assault but not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Margot Fleming delivered her verdict in the case of Thamer Almestadi, an international student from Saudi Arabia, in a Vancouver courtroom Thursday.
  MORE TO COME.
  Mary Hare, the UBC student allegedly attacked by a knife-wielding assailant inside her dorm outside the Vancouver Law Courts
  
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• Forecast for Saturday is sunny and mild... a great day to come help 'Free the Trees' in Lynn Canyon Park!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Forecast for Saturday is sunny and mild... a great day to come help 'Free the Trees' in Lynn Canyon Park!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fall Classic too good to miss, unless a Princess puts her slipper down

  26-10-2017 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  High on a hill in the thriving Township of Langley sits Castle Kurenoff, where Princess Lisa has a comfy throne and rules when I’m not home (wink, wink).
  My “super” training for scuba diving in Australia began last Sunday in White Rock when I ripped the head off a dangerous land shark in the Great Pumpkin Run/Walk!
  She slammed her royal foot down last month — in a glass slipper, of course — when this peasant jogger blogger suggested we delay our much-needed vacation
  
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• Author Q&A: David Chariandy talks race, love and Brother

  26-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Brother
  By David Chariandy
  McClelland & StewartDavid Chariandy may not have set out to write a “timely” novel that touches on some of the largest issues emanating through news headlines, social discussions and beyond.
  Class, gender and race.
  But, that’s exactly what he did with his latest release, Brother.
  The Canadian author recently chatted with Postmedia News about the new book, why he eschews the term “timely,” and what he hopes to accomplish with his latest
  
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• Convicted B.C. fentanyl dealer will not serve jail time, despite appeals court directive

  26-10-2017 19:32 via vancouversun.com
  A Provincial Court judge has ignored a B.C. Court of Appeal directive and given a 21-year-old dial-a-dope fentanyl dealer a suspended sentence with three years’ probation instead of jail time.
  The Crown argued there were no special circumstances, and Ajay Joon of North Vancouver deserved two years less a day in prison.
  Judge Joanne Challenger in 2006.
  Judge Joanne Challenger’s decision to spare the rod undercut the tough-nosed message of the appellate justices, who wanted much stiffe
  
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• Great turnout at #BTWW Celebration Station. Beautiful day, free snacks, bike tuneups, prizes + discussions on bike… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 19:01 via twitter.com
  Great turnout at #BTWW Celebration Station. Beautiful day, free snacks, bike tuneups, prizes + discussions on bike… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver police seek witness to baseball bat beating

  26-10-2017 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police want to speak with a motorcyclist who witnessed an assault in the Downtown Eastside on Oct. 24.
  The VPD say a motorcyclist pulled next to another motorist near Main Street and Keefer and pleaded with him to call 9-1-1 because he had just witnessed someone being beaten with a baseball bat.
  The motorcyclist then rode off without leaving his contact information.
  The incident happened at around 8 a.m.
  VPD searched the area but were unable to find a victim, witnesses, or a crime scen
  
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• Clear and cool forecast for Halloween night in Metro Vancouver

  26-10-2017 17:23 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver trick or treaters may not get drenched this year, but the forecast still looks chilling.
  Environment Canada predicts the weather will be clear Tuesday night, but with temperatures expected to drop down to five degrees C.
  During the day though, the federal weather agency forecasts plenty of sunshine and highs of 13 degrees C.
  The Weather Network said Thursday that parents may want to add extra layers of clothing under their kids’ Halloween costumes.
  Network chief meteorologi
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: B.C. wine of the week, wine to cellar, what's on

  26-10-2017 17:20 via vancouversun.com
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  • Even if soup is notoriously tough to serve with wine, I love the idea of Soup Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m. at Blue Grouse Estate Winery in Duncan on Vancouver Island.
  Until December 23, visitors can enjoy a bowl of delicious homemade soup made with locally sourced seasonal ingredients, a Cowichan Valley True Grain baguette, and a 5oz glass of wine for only $14.
  Some of the soup and wine pairings on the menu include squash and apple with 2016 Quill Off-Dry White, leek
  
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• Roadwork Alert! Pavement restoration 300-600 W. Keith Rd (south side) for next 3 weeks. Plan alt route.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 17:01 via twitter.com
  Roadwork Alert! Pavement restoration 300-600 W. Keith Rd (south side) for next 3 weeks. Plan alt route.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Don't think archery, think food at Bows and Arrows

  26-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bows and Arrows
  4194 Fraser St. | 604-620-7657
  Open: Daily for breakfast and lunch; Wednesday to Saturday for dinner; bowsxarrows.ca
  Sometimes I walk into a room and suddenly feel freshly showered and laundered. Bows and Arrows is like that — natural light washes over you (in daylight, at least) and the white walls, spare wood furnishings (including a gorgeous 26-foot fir table) and great music floats you to a Zen place.
  It’s always been a great spot for serious coffee and a des
  
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• Power restored after fire under New Westminster bridge darkens neighbourhood

  26-10-2017 16:44 via vancouversun.com
  NEW WESTMINSTER — Officials in New Westminster say power has been restored to thousands of residents, but why high voltage lines under a major bridge exploded and burned is still under investigation.
  A tweet from the city says the electrical lines damaged early Wednesday have been replaced and re-energized.
  Homes, businesses and two schools at the eastern tip of Lulu Island, in the Queensborough neigbourhood were blacked out when the lines under the Queensborough Bridge burst into flames.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think BC should set up a registry for pre-construction condo sales?

  26-10-2017 15:52 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government is discussing a registry of condominium presales and assignment sales, which some argue will curb shadow flipping, where a buyer purchases a condo from a developer and sells it to another buyer before it is completed to avoid paying tax. Do you think B.C. should go ahead with this plan?Take Our Poll
  
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• B.C.-led research aims to help people with spinal cord injuries get fit

  26-10-2017 15:45 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — People with spinal cord injuries now have a set of exercise guidelines for maintaining heart health to match those offered to the general population decades ago.
  Kathleen Martin Ginis, a researcher at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, led an international committee that recommends 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity aerobic exercise, three times a week, for people with spinal cord injuries.
  That’s compared with 150 minutes of cardiovascu
  
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• Stop by our #BTWW Week Celebration Station 6:30-9am TODAY @ 1st & Mackay FREE refreshments, prizes & more.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 15:01 via twitter.com
  Stop by our #BTWW Week Celebration Station 6:30-9am TODAY @ 1st & Mackay FREE refreshments, prizes & more.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• More details set to be revealed on 600 units of temporary modular housing in Vancouver

  26-10-2017 14:53 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver and BC Housing are set to announce further details about 600 units of modular housing that are to be built in the city.
  Thursday morning, Mayor Gregor Robinson and Craig Crawford, vice-president of operations for BC Housing, are expected to reveal more on the $66-million project, which will see the temporary units built throughout the city.   “The new homes will address the immediate and urgent housing needs for homeless residents in Vancouver whil
  
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• Convicted fentanyl dealer given probation

  26-10-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A Provincial Court judge has ignored a B.C. Court of Appeal directive and given a 21-year-old dial-a-dope fentanyl dealer a suspended sentence with three years’ probation instead of jail time.
  The Crown argued there were no special circumstances, and Ajay Joon of North Vancouver deserved two years less a day in prison.
  Judge Joanne Challenger in 2006.
  Judge Joanne Challenger’s decision to spare the rod undercut the tough-nosed message of the appellate justices, who wanted much stiffe
  
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• Have you seen Shyra Starblanket? bit.ly/2lgyxhA #NorthVancouver

  26-10-2017 08:31 via twitter.com
  Have you seen Shyra Starblanket?bit.ly/2lgyxhA#NorthVancouver
  
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• Letters: Time to act against foreign-funded saboteurs

  26-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Time to question outside influence on oil debate, Opinion, Oct. 7.
  It’s a pity that The Vancouver Sun attached such a wimpy headline to Barinder Rasode’s powerful column on the pernicious influence of the California-based Tides Foundation on Canada’s resource industries. Your timid, “Time to question outside influence on oil debate,” obscures the fact that other commentators, including Vivian Krause in this very newspaper, have been calling for investigation of
  
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• Details emerge about man linked to Salmon Arm farm body search

  26-10-2017 06:22 via vancouversun.com
  A farm near Salmon Arm, where police have expanded their weeklong search for more human remains, is the subject of intense scrutiny by worried British Columbians, especially the families of five women missing from the area.
  But the man who appears to be at the centre of this search — Curtis Wayne Sagmoen, 37, the son of farm owners Wayne and Evelyn Sagmoen — remains mostly a mystery.
  “I didn’t even know he (Curtis) existed ’til the last week or two,” said one
  
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• Census: B.C. Aboriginal population grew 38 per cent over last decade

  26-10-2017 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  The Aboriginal population in British Columbia grew 38 per cent over a decade to hit 270,585 in the 2016 census, a growth rate that was more than three times B.C.’s population as a whole, due both to high rates of fertility and an increasing willingness to identify as Indigenous, the latest data released by Statistics Canada shows.
  And that growth rate makes Aboriginal communities a slightly bigger presence in B.C. as a whole, accounting for six per cent of the province’s total popula
  
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• RCMP investigators truck heavy equipment, living supplies into Sagmoen farm

  26-10-2017 04:43 via vancouversun.com
  Heavy equipment and living supplies were trucked into a rural property near Salmon Arm on Wednesday as police expand the search of a farm where human remains were found last week.
  Officers from the RCMP’s Southeast District Major Crimes Unit are combing the 25-acre farm at 2290 Salmon River Road in  the Silver Creek region following the grim discovery on Oct. 17.
  Related
  Search intensifies at Salmon Arm farm where human remains foundHuman remains found on
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan reels in Popham, takes over messy fish farm file

  26-10-2017 04:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Shortly after noon Wednesday, Premier John Horgan announced his office would take charge of allegations that provincial fish farm research has been tainted by dubious data and possible conflict of interest.
  Henceforth, Hogan told reporters, the review of the allegations would be overseen by Don Wright, deputy minister to the premier and the well-respected senior public servant in the province.
  Gone from the picture was Agriculture Minister Lana Popham, whose one-sided, thre
  
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• Six ways to keep your kids safe on Halloween

  26-10-2017 03:43 via vancouversun.com
  Halloween is just under a week away. Have you put safety first in designing your kids’ costumes?
  “Halloween safety is a shared responsibility, and we’re hoping to educate parents and caregivers to plan ahead for the upcoming festivities,” Lisa Romein, manager of the trauma program at B.C. Children’s Hospital said in a media release. “Talk to your children about safety and ensure they know what to do if they, or someone they’re with, needs help. Stay safe
  
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• Census: Declining home ownership in suburbs among younger residents mirror national trends

  26-10-2017 03:16 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver has been a city of more renters than owners going back many decades. And between the 2011 and 2016 census numbers on housing released Wednesday, there was a modest increase in the percentage of people who rent in Vancouver that doesn’t speak much to the angst felt in this city over housing unaffordability.
  But a drill into the rising number of renters in suburban areas and among certain age groups over a decade reveals how Vancouver, the country’s most expensive real estate
  
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• Crowded B.C. Liberal leadership race gets another candidate

  26-10-2017 03:12 via vancouversun.com
  Former Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal is throwing his hat into the Liberal leadership race.
  Grewal, who represented Surrey ridings in Ottawa from 1997 to 2005, will announce his leadership bid on Thursday morning.
  He told Postmedia Wednesday that he feels at home with the B.C. Liberals.
  “The B.C. Liberal Party is a free enterprise party. It’s a coalition of federal Liberals and federal Conservatives and I believe in the Conservative values,” Grewal said Wednesday.
  He said his c
  
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• Vancouver cop named one of world's top 40 under 40 for youth outreach

  26-10-2017 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver police officer described by colleagues as a rising star has been honoured by police chiefs worldwide.
  Const. Mike Bal, 29, an eight-year veteran with the Vancouver Police Department, was named a 2017 top-40, law-enforcement professional under the age of 40, for his leadership and commitment to police work, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday.
  “Mike is a rising star in my mind and I know his co-workers feel the same,” said Insp. Howard Tran of t
  
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• Douglas Todd: “Visible minority” now meaningless term in Metro Vancouver

  26-10-2017 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  New Canadian census data reveals the term “visible minority” has become virtually meaningless across Metro Vancouver.
  The region’s five largest municipalities now have fewer whites than people of colour, which means Caucasians are the “visible minority” in Richmond, Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam and the city of Vancouver.
  The 2016 Canadian census data on ethnicity and immigration, released Wednesday, also shows the foreign-born population of Metro Vancouver has risen t
  
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• Antique radio auction in Abbotsford creates buzz

  26-10-2017 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  Victor Jaeggle loved radios.
  “He had a big, shortwave radio he kept by his bedside,” said his daughter, Susan. “This thing would buzz all night. He’d have headphones on, listening to San Francisco, the British news. He was just a radio junkie.”
  Jaeggle wasn’t just a radio listener, he was a radio collector. He bought his first cabinet radio from an auction as a teen, and over the decades amassed a huge collection.
  “He spent many hours torturing his famil
  
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• Mayor @DarrellMussatto was handing out reflectors @ SeaBus terminal early this am w/ @nvanrcmp & volunteers.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 02:24 via twitter.com
  Mayor @DarrellMussatto was handing out reflectors @ SeaBus terminal early this am w/ @nvanrcmp & volunteers.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Chilliwack arrest teen accused of assault and uttering threats

  26-10-2017 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  Police have arrested an 18-year-old male in Chilliwack on a Canada-wide warrant issued three weeks ago.
  Dhillon Singh Sahota is facing a series of charges, including uttering threats, mischief under $5000, being unlawfully in a dwelling house and two counts of assault.
  Those charges stem from an incident on Sept. 28, just days after he made a court appearance where a series of other charges had been dropped.
  He had been charged with two counts of assault from a Jan. 25 incident, one count o
  
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• Kamloops woman suing for damages after alleged assault at Vancouver nightclub

  26-10-2017 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  A civil claim in relation to the alleged sexual assault of a Kamloops woman in a Vancouver nightclub in October 2015 has been filed in B.C. Supreme Court.
  Listed as defendants are the Twelve West nightclub, 1219 Granville Street, and Tajinder Sangha.
  Plaintiff Yoshnika Shah claims that on Oct. 23, 2015, she was found “in an immobile state” on a couch in the club and was picked up by staff and put in the kitchen where she was sexually assaulted by Sangha, who had entered the club thro
  
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• B.C., Ontario mull pre-construction condo sales registry amid CRA crackdown

  26-10-2017 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. and Ontario’s finance ministers say they are open to the idea of a registry of pre-construction condominium sales as the Canada Revenue Agency ramps up efforts to find tax evaders who earn money flipping condos still being built.
  Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa says the government wants the CRA to enforce disclosure of so-called assignment sales or shadow flipping, where a buyer purchases a condo from a developer and sells it to another buyer before it is completed, to prevent
  
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• Canada C3 expedition visits Saturna Island site of historic 1964 killer whale capture

  26-10-2017 01:11 via vancouversun.com
  ABOARD THE MV POLAR PRINCE — More than half a century after the capture of the first killer whale in B.C. waters helped to change public perceptions forever, the Canada C3 expedition returned to Saturna Island on Wednesday to see how citizen science is trying to improve conditions for the species.
  “This is where everything shifted,” said C3 participant Mark Leiren-Young, the award-winning author of The Killer Whale Who Changed the World. “This is where we went from v
  
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• Premier appoints deputy minister to lead probe of fish farm science

  26-10-2017 00:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan put the head of the civil service in charge of an investigation into provincial fish farm research Wednesday, removing the probe from the political hands of his agriculture minister after several days of controversy.
  Horgan appointed Don Wright, his deputy minister, to oversee a review of the B.C. Animal Health Centre and, specifically, its research into fish health and fish farms. 
  “Today I can tell you I’ve asked my deputy minister, th
  
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• The old #Montroyal bridge is soon to be a distant memory. Pile driving for the new bridge starts next week.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 00:39 via twitter.com
  The old #Montroyal bridge is soon to be a distant memory. Pile driving for the new bridge starts next week.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. government moves towards electronic traffic tickets

  26-10-2017 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  Your next speeding ticket could be an electronic one.
  On Wednesday, the B.C. government introduced electronic ticketing legislation it says will lead to safer roads and allow people to pay their traffic fines online through ICBC. The existing payment options are by phone, mail, or in person.
  If passed, the province claims eTicketing will eliminate data entry errors and improve ticket processing speed. 
  It will also combat writer’s cramp as police officers will trade in their pen
  
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