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• B.C. woman fights strata to keep children's therapy dogs

  11-11-2017 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. woman claims her daughters faced discrimination when the company that manages their strata unit fined them for keeping two therapy dogs.
  According to a summary recently posted on the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal website, the woman’s two daughters have “mental health concerns” that require the assistance of therapy dogs. One of the daughters struggles with bipolar disorder, while the other has a mental disability. (The girls are not named because they are minors; neith
  
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• Vancouver to vote on regulating short-term rentals

  11-11-2017 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council will vote Tuesday on how to regulate short-term vacation rentals listed on websites like Airbnb and Expedia.
  The city wants to regulate the thousands of short-term rental units in Vancouver in a bid to ease the rental housing crunch.
  Under the proposed regulations, rental operators would be required to purchase a $49 annual business license.
  Short-term rentals would only be allowed in the operator’s principal residence; rentals of secondary suites would be prohi
  
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• SFU course for DTES residents reunites man with wife, four daughters

  11-11-2017 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver — Living in a Downtown Eastside homeless shelter, sharing a room with up to 30 strangers and separated from his wife and four daughters by an hour-plus transit ride — when he could afford a ticket — José Guerra found a silver lining.
  “It was really hard,” the 53-year-old said. “I love my wife and children so much, I love to be with them. … For some families, they have a movie night once a week. Our family, we did something together
  
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• Our #KidsintheHall event is almost here. 1 week 'til kids take over City Hall to play, explore & learn.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-11-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Our #KidsintheHall event is almost here. 1 week 'til kids take over City Hall to play, explore & learn.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We remember, honour & thank our brave Canadian veterans, the fallen, & our soldiers, today & everyday. #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-11-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  We remember, honour & thank our brave Canadian veterans, the fallen, & our soldiers, today & everyday. #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Makeover: Time for an uplifting new look

  11-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Nadine Pinnell is a 38-year-old biologist. She’s had a string of mishaps from a broken arm to a broken toe, and needed an uplifting new look.
  Nadine has medium textured and long hair. She hasn’t had a hair cut in almost one year and her ends were feeling a little dry. She was ready for a shorter length and with a little more body.
  I shampooed her hair using KMS Moist Repair — Shampoo and Conditioner, for moisture repair and manageability. I sectioned her hair into a centra vert
  
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• Bruno Feldeisen

  11-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Bruno Feldeisen is the executive chef at Semiahmoo Resort and a judge on CBC’s The Great Canadian Baking Show. As sweet as that gig is, Feldeisen has served as executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver and was named one of the top ten pastry chefs in America by Chocolatier Magazine.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: For me, it’s all about connecting with people. I create the dots that connect farmers to the talents who cook in our kitchen and to th
  
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• Hundreds gather in Vancouver's Victory Square for Remembrance Day

  11-11-2017 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  Hundreds of people have gathered under grey skies in downtown Vancouver this morning to honour veterans of war.
  This year’s Remembrance Day event, held at the cenotaph in Victory Square at West Hastings Street and Cambie Street, began at 10 a.m. with a performance by the Vancouver Bach Youth Choir and Sarabande.
  Pipe band plays song called Sands of Kuwait and veterans of more recent conflicts remembered. @VancouverSun
  — Glenda Luymes (@glendaluymes) November 11, 2017It is an "honoura
  
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• Join Mayor @DarrellMussatto for Remembrance Day service 10:30am @ Victoria Park Cenotaph. ow.ly/xyTm30glp5G… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-11-2017 18:02 via twitter.com
  Join Mayor @DarrellMussatto for Remembrance Day service 10:30am @ Victoria Park Cenotaph. ow.ly/xyTm30glp5G… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ian Mulgew: Hollywood's war not our war — remembering Canadian heroes

  11-11-2017 17:14 via vancouversun.com
  With a badly-whistled Colonel Bogey March waning, Al Borthwick flipped through the pages of an emerald green photo album.
  “There he is, Uncle Roy — the man who bombed the Bridge on the River Kwai,” he said proudly. “That’s the reconnaissance photo taken after they did it. “I knew him from when I was a little boy. He was an inspiration.”
  “But he didn’t talk much about the war,” added Roy’s son, Steve. “He and his friends
  
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• Sold (Bought): Large West Van home showcases plenty of updates

  11-11-2017 15:43 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  4763 Woodgreen Drive, West Vancouver
  Type: Six-bedroom, five-bathroom detached
  Size: 5,070 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $2,717,000
  Listed for: $3,850,000
  Sold for: $3,760,000
  Sold on: Sept. 10
  Days on market: 55
  Listing agent: Ray Proc at Royal LePage Sussex
  Buyers agent: Tyra Xu at Magsen Realty
  The big sell: This expansive 5,000-plus-square-foot home was built in 1981 and given a recent facelift by West Vancouver interior des
  
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• The Home Front: Colour talk

  11-11-2017 15:18 via vancouversun.com
  The psychology of colour is endlessly debated in the world of home decor and furnishings, and no more so than when it comes to the paint on our walls.
  Certain colours, we’re told by designers and paint producers, can make us feel invigorated and alive, while others have a soothing, calming effect. Light colours, like white, will open up a space, while dark colours can create a cave-like environment for you to crawl into and escape.
  Near the end of every year, leading paint brands like Benj
  
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• A veteran recalls harrowing flight

  11-11-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Flight Lieutenant Roy Borthwick didn’t talk much about the Second World War, but occasionally he sat down, put pen to paper and shared his memories with pals in the Burma Star Association — B.C. Branch.
  Here is one experience:
  “Skipper, we’ve been hit in #3 (engine) and we’ve got black smoke pouring from it.”
  The urgent voice of my flight engineer came through my headset. We had just pulled up and away from a low level attack on the railway bridge near Three P
  
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• The Pacific to make a design statement in downtown Vancouver

  11-11-2017 14:59 via vancouversun.com
  The Pacific, Grosvenor Americas’ striking addition to Vancouver’s skyline, is one of those buildings that will serve as a beacon that guides visitors to the city’s downtown.
  But its developers, architects and interior designers have also spent a lot of time and energy making sure The Pacific “feels like home” to those who move into the building when it is complete in 2021.
  “We ascribe to the idea that we want it to be a timeless home that in 10 years from now
  
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• Fire damages several units at Surrey U-Haul storage facility

  11-11-2017 08:01 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey firefighters were called to put out a huge blaze at a U-Haul storage building at King George Boulevard and 84th Avenue, which began late Friday afternoon.
  It’s not known what started the blaze.
  There were reports five storage units on the lot were damaged by fire. No injuries were reported.
  Traffic was redirected as flames and thick smoke flowed from the building before the fire was put out.
  The City of Surrey’s traffic Twitter account said King George Boulevard between 88th a
  
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• Three Remembrance Day stories that show Canadians still care

  11-11-2017 07:39 via vancouversun.com
  Many Canadians don’t have a personal connection to overseas wars and veterans, but as healthy poppy sales and large crowds that gather around cenotaphs across the country every Nov. 11 indicate, the service and sacrifice of Canada’s soldiers and veterans are not forgotten. 
  More than 115,500 Canadians died in the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War. Another 188 have been killed since then in peacekeeping missions and the war in Afghanistan. 
  As of March
  
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• Producer on Arrow, Supergirl and other Vancouver-shot shows suspended over sexual harassment allegations

  11-11-2017 07:06 via vancouversun.com
  The latest explosive sexual-harassment allegations to hit Hollywood have been levelled at an executive producer with ties to some of Vancouver’s top television series.
  Andrew Kreisberg, a producer on CW shows Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — all of which are filmed in whole or in part in British Columbia — has been suspended by Warner Bros. TV Group after Variety magazine said 15 women and four men came forward with the allegations.
  The executive
  
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• Opinion: Full public inquiry examining health impacts of fracking and LNG in B.C. needed

  11-11-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Prior to last spring’s provincial election, the B.C. NDP promised to appoint a panel to examine the impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in B.C., a review that would include an investigation into the natural gas industry’s impacts on water, earthquakes and greenhouse gas emissions.
  As an organization concerned about human health and welfare, we believe that such an inquiry, however well intentioned, would be much too limited in scope and should be expanded to a full public i
  
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• Editorial: This Remembrance Day, we have much to remember

  11-11-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lest we forget.
  The phrase — taken from Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 poem, Recessional, and before that from the Book of Deuteronomy in the Bible — has been uttered with reverence since King George V launched Armistice Day in 1919 to honour the estimated 1.1 million Commonwealth soldiers who died during the First World War.
  Over time, Remembrance Day evolved to also honour the 5.3 million or so soldiers from other allied nations who gave their lives in that terrible war — the w
  
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• Forests Minister pins hopes on higher-value lumber exports to Asia

  11-11-2017 03:39 via vancouversun.com
  Forests Minister Doug Donaldson is leading a trade mission to China and Japan with hopes of boosting exports of higher-value wood products to the Pacific Rim at a time B.C. will be challenged to maintain timber supplies at home.
  After building China into B.C.’s second biggest export market, replacing Japan, lumber producers have seen sales to both countries slide, which makes the mission all the more important considering Canada’s trade dispute with the U.S. over softwood lumber.
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• Vancouver council motion aims to enhance financial disclosure transparency

  11-11-2017 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  A Vision Vancouver councillor plans to introduce a motion seeking to address a perception of “undisclosed conflicts” for councillors who work for public relations firms, while a rival NPA councillor says the motion is a “thinly veiled reference” to him and a waste of time.
  Next week’s council agenda includes a motion entitled “Transparency in Financial Disclosure by Members of Council” set to be moved by Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer. The motion would
  
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• Huge fire at Surrey U-Haul storage facility

  11-11-2017 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey firefighters are trying to put out a huge blaze at a U-Haul storage building at King George Highway and 84th Avenue, which began late Friday afternoon.
  It’s not known what started the blaze.
  Traffic is being redirected as flames and thick smoke flow from the building.
  More to come …
  
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• Opinion: Reclaiming space for the community by giving the 13th floor to the people

  11-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The 13th floor is always the ‘bad luck’ floor.
  As long as anyone can remember, residents have not wanted to live on the 13th floor and businesses have not wanted to have their offices on the 13th floor of any building.  Because of this phobia, the numbering of floors often omits the 13th floor, moving simply from the 12th to the 14th floor without any explanation. This superstition might be converted into tomorrow’s opportunity.
  In Greater Vancouver, the single most worris
  
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• Opinion: B.C. Bud and what to do with our cannabis entrepreneurs 

  11-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Entrepreneurialism and innovation are key ingredients to Canada’s domestic economy and its international competitiveness. For example, France has a vibrant wine industry, Cuba is recognized for its cigars, China has a strong manufacturing role, and Italy and France have their fashion brands.
  To this end, the Government of Canada invests a considerable amount of money and effort into sparking and supporting entrepreneurial activities. For example, government-funded Entrepreneurial Incubator
  
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• Letters: Contracts should be awarded on cost, fairness and skill

  11-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Horgan likely to make good on vow to unions, Vaughn Palmer column, Oct. 31.
  This is déjà vu all over again. A return to the dismal 1990s when unions and special-interest groups were rewarded and the rest of us were excluded and forced to pay the bill. Remember these are the guys who brought us the fast-ferry fiasco in which the province paid over $500 million for three useless catamaran ferries that eventually were sold for about $20 million.
  For me, best bid and low bid should
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: NDP can only kick funding cans so far down the road

  11-11-2017 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Cabinet minister David Eby provided an advance look at the challenges ahead for the New Democrats in 2018, during a daylong debate this week over the current budget for his Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General.
  Eby was handed a heavy workload from Premier John Horgan, with responsibility for his own portfolio as well as liquor licensing and the financially troubled Insurance Corp. of B.C.
  He was also in charge of seven of the 15 pieces of legislation on the agenda for the fa
  
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• Reminder: City Hall is closed Monday and there's no council meeting for Remembrance Day holiday. Enjoy your weekend… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-11-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Reminder: City Hall is closed Monday and there's no council meeting for Remembrance Day holiday. Enjoy your weekend… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We're recruiting for a Temporary Full-time Engineering Development Technician. Click here to apply. ow.ly/DJuO30gvqSe

  11-11-2017 01:11 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a Temporary Full-time Engineering Development Technician.Click here to apply. ow.ly/DJuO30gvqSe
  
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• Celebration of life for Abbotsford Const. John Davidson on Nov. 19

  11-11-2017 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  A public celebration of life has been planned for Abbotsford police Const. John Davidson, who was killed in the line of duty earlier this week.
  The ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 19 and will take place at the Abbotsford Centre (33800 King Rd.). Davidson’s family will be present.
  A procession of uniformed law-enforcement personnel will begin at about noon on MacKenzie Road and head westbound on King Road to the Abbotsford Centre. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m., but roads will be
  
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• Vancouver's Ivan Decker heads to New York for Conan O'Brien's Comics to Watch showcase

  11-11-2017 00:59 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver comedian Ivan Decker has been making waves Canada-wide for some time. In addition to his local success — the 30-year-old standup has been named Georgia Straight’s Best Newcomer and Vancouver Magazine’s Next Big Thing in Comedy — Decker has performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, on CBC program “The Debaters,” and as part of the Winnipeg and Halifax Comedy festivals. 
  Now the hilarious and eminently likable comic has caught th
  
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• Re: Found plate on hit & run of stop sign. Thanks to all the "Twitter Eyes" out there - vehicle has been located abandoned. Thanks everyone!

  11-11-2017 00:21 via twitter.com
  Re: Found plate on hit & run of stop sign. Thanks to all the "Twitter Eyes" out there - vehicle has been located abandoned. Thanks everyone!
  
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• Vancouver police warn of high-risk sex offender

  11-11-2017 00:11 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are warning the public that 44-year-old Trevor Leonard Smith, a convicted federal offender, has completed his sentence and is residing in Vancouver. 
  Smith was convicted of sexual assault, possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, assault causing bodily harm, and failure to comply with a recognizance.
  Police say he poses a high risk for committing violence against women and sexual offences against children.
  The Correctional Services of Canada h
  
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• We're recruiting for a Temporary Full-time Assistant Plan Checker 1. Click here to apply. ow.ly/lg5w30gvoel

  11-11-2017 00:02 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a Temporary Full-time Assistant Plan Checker 1.Click here to apply. ow.ly/lg5w30gvoel
  
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• Coffee filters, tea bags & napkins... yep they all go in your #GreenBin. Food Scraps aren’t garbage.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-11-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Coffee filters, tea bags & napkins... yep they all go in your #GreenBin. Food Scraps aren’t garbage.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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