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• BC Liberal leadership candidates debate development, opioid crisis

  04-11-2017 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — B.C. Liberal leadership hopefuls touted their ideas for bolstering the resource sector and tackling the province’s opioid overdose crisis in an appeal to northern voters during a debate Saturday in Prince George.
  Mike de Jong, Dianne Watts, Michael Lee and Andrew Wilkinson were critical of the NDP government for considering whether to cancel the controversial Site C dam project that is already under construction.
  A recent utilities commission report found the pr
  
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• Douglas Todd: Reducing immigration not seen as racist by most, global survey shows

  04-11-2017 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  Racism. Immigration.
  Few topics can combine to ignite such anger, contempt and division.
  It was not always this way. The belief that it is racist to want to reduce immigration has only been a significant viewpoint since the 1960s for some in the West. It’s still not a common belief among people in Asia.
  A Vancouver-raised demographer has discovered that people of good will, across nations, use the word racism differently. Their disagreement over the meaning has lead to often-bitter, possib
  
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• Priciest property ever listed in North Vancouver - Vancouver Courier

  04-11-2017 22:45 via vancourier.com
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  Priciest property ever listed in North Vancouver
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  This home set among 14 acres on Indian River Crescent was recently listed for $36.2 million – the highest asking price for a property ever in North Vancouver. photos Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. 36 Milllion dollar house 02.jpg. This home set among ...
  
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• Castlegar brothers recognized for raising money to thank B.C. Children's Hospital

  04-11-2017 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  Ryder Squires arrived prematurely, but seemed a healthy and happy bouncing baby boy when he was born five years ago. That lasted less than an hour.
  Ryder went into respiratory distress, his body unable to convert oxygen in sufficient quantities. The treatment he needed — nitric oxide, which relaxes tightened blood vessels so oxygen and blood can flow without interference — wasn’t available at the hospital in Nelson.
  He was too small for a machine to help him breath to
  
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• Rally to oppose Sumas Mountain mine happens Saturday

  04-11-2017 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  Trail users are planning a rally on Sumas Mountain in Abbotsford Saturday afternoon to protest a proposed gravel mine that would destroy some of the region’s best trails.
  The group, which includes mountain bikers, trail runners and hikers, has collected more than 6,000 signatures on a petition opposing a Kamloops company’s plan to remove 4,000 truckloads of gravel from a 10-hectare site on the edge of Sumas Mountain Interregional Park over the next 10 years.
  “It would close the
  
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• Park board to vote on Jericho Beach Park Pier renewal

  04-11-2017 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver park board will vote Monday on a conceptual design for a $16-million makeover of the Jericho Beach Park Pier.
  The pier, lin Jericho Beach Park at the north end of Discovery Street, was built in 1977 and is popular with locals and tourists.  But staff say it is aging and costly to maintain.
  The board hired marine structural engineering firm Moffatt and Nichol, and Connect Landscape Architecture to design a new pier structure that could accommodate a wheelchair-accessi
  
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• We're countin' down to #KidsintheHall on Nov 18th! Here's Jill to tell you all about this year's event: youtu.be/jZOVscG27T8 #NorthVan

  04-11-2017 21:00 via twitter.com
  We're countin' down to #KidsintheHall on Nov 18th! Here's Jill to tell you all about this year's event: youtu.be/jZOVscG27T8 #NorthVan
  
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• Come down to 900 St. Denis for this years Charity Pumpkin Drop. We're here until 3. #northvan https://t.co/3DMHhjoVVx

  04-11-2017 20:43 via twitter.com
  
  Come down to 900 St. Denis for this years Charity Pumpkin Drop. We're here until 3. #northvan https://t.co/3DMHhjoVVx
  
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• Horgan warns celebratory B.C. NDP convention of tough decisions ahead

  04-11-2017 19:57 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier John Horgan kicked off his party’s post-election convention today cheering on the New Democratic Party’s rise to power after 16 years of Liberal governments, but he quickly turned to serious topics.
  Horgan says the New Democrats face one of the most difficult decisions in the history of British Columbia over the future of the $8.3 billion Site C hydroelectric dam, which has been under construction for more than two years.
  An independent gover
  
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• When you #FallBack on Sunday, don't forget to check the batteries in your smoke alarms. #NorthVan @NVCFD https://t.co/wL9qtKGUjg

  04-11-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  When you #FallBack on Sunday, don't forget to check the batteries in your smoke alarms. #NorthVan @NVCFD https://t.co/wL9qtKGUjg
  
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• Makeover: A little TLC can work wonders

  04-11-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lynn Power is a 50-year-old kindergarten teacher. She’s taking a year off and felt that her hair needed a major TLC session and an update.
  Lynn has very thick and coarse hair. It was previously coloured and due to over-processing, her hair was very dry and damaged. It was difficult to manage and she struggled with the texture and shape. To better compliment her complexion and enhance her eyes, I started by deepening her overall colour to a rich chocolate-red tone. I applied a permanent col
  
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• Vancouver North shore crews search for missing hiker Carl Couture

  04-11-2017 18:34 via vancouversun.com
  North Shore Search and Rescue crews are scouring the Grouse Mountain area for a missing young hiker.
  NSSR said Saturday it was searching  for 24-year-old Carl Couture, a Vancouver man reported missing by police on Thursday.
  NSR along with a number of other teams are continuing to search Hanes Valley today for a missing hiker.
  — North Shore Rescue (@NSRescue) November 4, 2017The West End resident was last seen in the area of Haro and Thurlow Street on Tuesday morning.
  Vancouver police
  
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• More snow on the way for Metro Vancouver Saturday, shelters open

  04-11-2017 17:58 via vancouversun.com
  Don’t put away the snow shovels, Metro Vancouver!
  Environment Canada posted another special weather statement Saturday, saying more snow is expected on the South Coast.
  Forecasters say a combination of Arctic air and low pressure will likely bring another round of snow in the afternoon. The region saw its first snowfall late Wednesday afternoon.
  Vancouver Island will likely see the most snow, with amounts of five to 10 centimetres expected through the evening.
   The agency says Me
  
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• Yeah 1 hour more sleep! Don't forget clocks fall back 1 hour Sunday, Nov 5 @ 2 am. Time to change your smoke detect… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-11-2017 17:01 via twitter.com
  Yeah 1 hour more sleep! Don't forget clocks fall back 1 hour Sunday, Nov 5 @ 2 am. Time to change your smoke detect… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The Home Front: Vancouver Homes for the Holidays tour

  04-11-2017 14:52 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re looking for a holiday decor fix, and like to do good things with your money, make note that the 13th annual Kids Help Phone Homes for the Holidays tour is returning, running Nov. 25 and 26.
  The tour features five Vancouver homes decked out in complete festive glory by designers like Andrew Pike, a regular on the Marilyn Dennis Show, with all proceeds from the two-day, self-guided tour going to the Canada-wide Kids Help Phone charity.
  “I think it’s an incredi
  
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• Elenore on Fifth set to maximize outlooks

  04-11-2017 14:10 via vancouversun.com
  When the team from Proscenium Architecture + Interiors designed the Elenore on Fifth new-home project, they rotated the building on the city’s grid to protect a view corridor and provide residents with spectacular outlooks of the North Shore Mountains and downtown Vancouver.
  Hugh Cochlin, architect with Proscenium, says the 58-unit, eight-storey building by Chard Development also takes into account its position on the incline at the corner of Main Street and Fifth Avenue in the Mount Pleas
  
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• Price is Right documentary delves into big game show controversy

  04-11-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much
  Nov. 4, 7 p.m. | Pyatt Hall at VSO School of Music, 843 Seymour St.
  Tickets: $15 at facebook.com/perfectbiddocumentary
  Vancouver filmmaker CJ Wallis likes a good story and the story at the heart of his new documentary Perfect Bid: The Contestant the Knew Too Much is a good story.
  The new documentary looks at super fan Ted Slauson’s relationship to his favourite game show The Price is Right. That relationship spanned decades and saw him help oth
  
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• Sold (Bought): West Van home enjoys prime bridge and water views

  04-11-2017 13:57 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1426 Haywood Avenue, West Vancouver
  Type: Five-bedroom, four-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,563 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $3,540,000
  Listed for: $3,580,000
  Sold for: $3,490,000
  Sold on: Aug. 24
  Days on market: 10
  Listing agent: Tom Hassan at Royal LePage Sussex — Tom Hassan
  Buyers agent: Hansol Kim at Sutton Centre Realty
  The big sell: This renovated family home is in a prime Ambleside location with Lions Gate Bri
  
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• System has no place for paralyzed, mentally ill and drug-addicted man

  04-11-2017 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  For nearly three months, a 29-year-old quadriplegic with psychosis and addictions has been locked in an expensive, private room in the St. Paul’s Hospital psychiatric ward, because there is nowhere else for him to go in B.C.
  Kyle Lloyd needs high-level care for his paralysis, his drug dependency and the persistent voices in his head, but being locked in a psych ward with limited access to services will not improve his life.
  The trouble is he has rotated through multiple facilities in
  
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• Opinion: We really must move beyond ‘shock and yawn’

  04-11-2017 06:00 via vancouversun.com
  No longer is climate change a future scenario. It has happened more quickly than predicted. The real story is the accelerating rate of change, especially since extreme events create their own weather.
  Flood, drought, fire, wind and cold — consider the extremes that British Columbia has experienced in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Instabilities in the water cycle are increasingly apparent. Droughts and wildfires will shape our future.
  The message is clear: For British Columbians to adapt to a changi
  
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• Opinion: An economics lesson on ride-hailing in B.C.

  04-11-2017 06:00 via vancouversun.com
  The current contest between B.C.’s taxi industry and incipient ride-hailing services provides a good lesson in some key economic concepts. On economic grounds and the public interest, the case for permitting ride-hailing competition is strong.
  Oligopoly profits. Monopoly is a familiar concept — a market with just a single supplier. Protected from competition, a monopolist typically sets a high price and earns “monopoly profits.” At the other pole is a firm with many compe
  
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• Vernon women join hunt for information on teen found dead on B.C. farm

  04-11-2017 04:51 via vancouversun.com
  VERNON — A street campaign to piece together the final days of a teenager found dead on a Salmon Arm-area farm has launched in her hometown of Vernon, where she disappeared last spring.
  Friday evening, a group of Indigenous women met outside the Upper Room Mission on 27th Avenue, where they brought stacks of flyers with photos and a description of Traci Genereaux, along with an appeal for information that may help police in their investigation.
  On Wednesday, RCMP confirmed that remains the
  
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• Dan Fumano: Disillusioned expert says city inaction could 'tax businesses to death'

  04-11-2017 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  The property-tax situation squeezing Vancouver’s small businesses was identified by city council last year as “urgent,” but the local expert they tapped to help create a solution is now asking whether councillors are willing or able to solve the problem.
  In Vancouver, where a commercial property’s assessed value can double every couple of years, some of the busiest and best-loved independent businesses are struggling — and, increasingly, failing — due to the c
  
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• UVic student pins drug hopes on price battle

  04-11-2017 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — With her life in the balance, a Victoria woman with cystic fibrosis is closely watching a high-stakes poker game, with a giant pharmaceutical company on one side and big government on the other.
  Lilia Zaharieva, a University of Victoria student, is running out of her supply of Orkambi, a pill that aims to treat a strain of cystic fibrosis, called Double Delta F508. Zaharieva said her life has changed since she began taking the drug in 2016.
  She learned in September that her priv
  
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• Letters: Drivers are expected to know rules of the road

  04-11-2017 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Are towing companies and City of Vancouver in cahoots? Letters, Oct. 26
  Letter-writer Pat Sullivan makes several errors regarding the City of Vancouver and towing companies.
  A quick review of the provincial DiveSmartBC shows: “You must not park within six metres of the approach side of a crosswalk”. This is also a city bylaw and need not be posted as drivers are expected to know the regulations when obtaining their license.
  DriveSmartBC also states that every intersection is a cr
  
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• Editorial: Site C should be completed

  04-11-2017 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  The 299-page report on Site C delivered this week by the B.C. Utilities Commission provides a wealth of information but has not made the provincial government’s decision on the fate of the project any easier. It would, however, have informed the deliberations of the previous government had it chosen to take advantage of the expertise available through the BCUC.
  The commission looked at three options: to cancel the project, to suspend it temporarily, and to complete it. It dismissed the sus
  
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• Failure to finance tips BuildDirect into creditor protection, CEO departs

  04-11-2017 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s BuildDirect, which pioneered the online sale of construction materials, has filed for protection from its creditors after failing to engineer a rescue from its mounting debts, according to court documents.
  The company’s filing on Oct. 31 follows from the abrupt Oct. 27 departure of BuildDirect’s founder and CEO Jeff Booth, who announced the development in a post to his LinkedIn profile that alluded to a growth plan that hit a wall when revenue stalled.
  “As thi
  
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• HQ2 aside, Amazon unveils plans to double-down on Vancouver operations

  04-11-2017 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  It’s not HQ2 but the plans Amazon announced Friday to double down on its Vancouver operations are still substantial, promising to add 1,000 new tech jobs in the city in a flashy new office tower under development kitty corner to its existing offices.
  From the company’s perspective, it’s a matter of “going where the talent is,” but it delivers a challenge to the city and province to ramp up the education of skilled technology graduates to fill the jobs in a growing t
  
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• Delay leads to charges being dropped against repeat sex offender

  04-11-2017 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  A repeat sex offender accused of assaults in Alberta and B.C. will not be tried for a heinous New Westminster attack on a passenger while he was a bus driver seven years ago.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen, appointed in June, said the delay in prosecuting Oliver James Doherty, who has been in jail since May 2011 for the Alberta charges, doomed the B.C. case from the outset.
  There was a “total breakdown” in communication between the two provinces, he concluded, and the Crow
  
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• Douglas Todd: Immigration cuts not seen as racist by most, global survey shows

  04-11-2017 00:56 via vancouversun.com
  Racism. Immigration.
  Few topics can combine to ignite such anger, contempt and division.
  It was not always this way. The belief that it is racist to want to reduce immigration has only been a significant viewpoint since the 1960s for some in the West. It’s still not a common belief among people in Asia.
  A Vancouver-raised demographer has discovered that people of good will, across nations, use the word racism differently. Their disagreement over the meaning has lead to often-bitter, possib
  
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• B.C. government looking into 'fishy' grant awarded to Surrey society

  04-11-2017 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. MLA is trying to determine how a Surrey society run by three men with B.C. Liberal party links received a $200,000 government grant less than three weeks after it was incorporated.
  “I’m kind of blown away by it, to be honest with you,” said Delta North MLA Ravi Kahlon, who is the parliamentary secretary for sport and multiculturalism. “It’s amazing how this went about.”
  In February 2017, Surrey businessmen Satnam Johal and Kulwinder Singh Badesha sent a
  
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  04-11-2017 00:49 via news.google.com
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