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• Michael Buble announces a return to the stage with two concerts next year

  13-11-2017 22:42 via vancouversun.com
  Burnaby singer Michael Buble is returning to the stage next summer.
  Buble says he’s booked gigs in Dublin and London in July 2018.
  The announcement comes one year after Buble revealed his son was diagnosed with cancer.
  He and his wife Luisana Lopilato said that they were putting their careers on hold while Noah — now four years old — had treatment for an unspecified form of cancer.
  The 42-year-old Buble went on to cancel hosting duties for the 2017 Juno Awards.
  Buble and his fa
  
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• Converting mansion to seniors home will cost Vancouver jobs, argues David Radler

  13-11-2017 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver newspaper executive David Radler opposes a bid to convert a historic Southwest Marine Drive mansion into a seniors care facility.
   The Care Group, in collaboration with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, has applied to the city for a rezoning amendment to transform the Casa Mia mansion at 1920 Southwest Marine Drive into a 90-bed Community Care Facility for seniors. 
  David Radler is not in favour of a proposal to convert an empty heritage mansion into a care ho
  
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• Theatre review: Good intentions are not enough in The Ridiculous Darkness

  13-11-2017 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  The Ridiculous Darkness
  To Nov. 19 | The Annex
  Tickets & Info: From $19 at ridarkness.ca
  What do you call a German radio play adapted from a British novel and an American movie, translated into English, adapted for the stage by a Canadian, and produced by two Vancouver companies in partnership with nine other local organizations whose members perform in the show? 
  That would be The Ridiculous Darkness, described by Alley Theatre co-producer, actor and adaptation facilitator Daniel Arnol
  
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• No council meeting today, due to Remembrance Day. Next Council meeting is on November 20. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-11-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  No council meeting today, due to Remembrance Day. Next Council meeting is on November 20. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• “Super Mini Itsy Bitsy Barkley” goes off in North Vancouver - Canadian Running Magazine (blog)

  13-11-2017 21:54 via runningmagazine.ca
  Canadian Running Magazine (blog)
  “Super Mini Itsy Bitsy Barkley” goes off in North Vancouver
  Canadian Running Magazine (blog)
  The Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club hosted what they called the “Super Mini Itsy Bitsy Barkley,” a “more PG-13” version of the annual 100-mile-plus ultramarathon with a 60-hour time limit that takes place in the thick brush of Frozen Head State ...
  
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• Donald Grayston: Peace-maker, peace-disturber, RIP

  13-11-2017 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  Donald Grayston made a difference. He did so as an Anglican parish priest and as an intellectual leader among liberal Christians on the West Coast of Canada and beyond. 
  Grayston, who died on October 23 at the age of 78, was a multi-generation Vancouverite who had an impact as a community-builder, teacher and author. He was an instructor in religious studies at Simon Fraser University, where he inspired many students to discover more about the rich and ragged complexities of global faiths.
  
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• Q& A: Club Cabana's Miguelito Valdes adds a Cuban twist to Canadian classics

  13-11-2017 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  Club Habana Celebrates Canada’s 150+
  Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. | Vancouver Playhouse
  Tickets and info: from $32, at brownpapertickets.com, Highlife Records, Honey’s Doughnuts
  For the third year in a row, Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre is presenting a concert by Club Habana. The Vancouver-based ensemble is made up of Latin American-Canadian musicians led by trumpet player Miguelito Valdes. To mark Canada’s 150th anniversary, the concert features new and classic Canad
  
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• The much anticipated @PolygonGallery opens its doors to the public Nov 18. Enjoy free admission Nov 18/19.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-11-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  The much anticipated @PolygonGallery opens its doors to the public Nov 18. Enjoy free admission Nov 18/19.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Q& A: Skater Kurtis Hori talks Follow Your Heart, an on-ice mash-up of Disney favourites

  13-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Disney On Ice presents Follow Your Heart
  Nov. 22-26 | Pacific Coliseum 
  Tickets and info: From $25; Ticketleader.ca
  Whether you’re a diehard fan of all things Disney, or are just looking for a fun, family friendly event to attend this month, you might want to grab the kids, a jacket (it might get chilly in the ice rink, after all) and head out to Follow Your Heart, presented by Disney on Ice.
  Aside from featuring familiar faces from film classics, Vancouver ice skater Kurtis Hori, who
  
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• Orwell's social satire gets a remount in the age of Trump

  13-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Coming Up for Air
  Nov. 16 to 25 | Kay Meek Studio Theatre
  Tickets and info: $29 to $45 at kaymeek.com
  George Orwell’s name is synonymous with Animal House and 1984, two works of speculative fiction that have become cultural memes. The English author, born Eric Blair, is also known for his non-fiction, including essays like Shooting an Elephant and books such as Down and Out in Paris and London.
  But the author rarely gets credit for his comic/realist novels. In books like his 1936 dark come
  
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• Vancouver Folk Festival looks for new artistic director

  13-11-2017 19:57 via vancouversun.com
   Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society has announced the departure of Linda Tanaka, who served as the festival’s artistic managing director for the past 10 years.
  “Linda has been at the helm of the VFMF for ten years, during which time she has been an incredible champion for the festival, as well as for the artists who join us each summer at Jericho Beach Park,” said a statement on the festival’s Facebook page. “Under her leadership, the festival
  
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• 5 things to do in Metro Vancouver, Nov. 17-23

  13-11-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving
  Nov. 19 to April 15, 2018 | The Museum of Anthropology
  Tickets and info: moa.ubc.ca
  This new exhibition showcases two centuries of wool weaving from the Salish traditions. With pieces from the early 1800s through the Colonial era to the present day renaissance, this is the most thorough exhibition of its kind, with one of the world’s largest collections of blankets on loan from contemporary weavers as well as museums across North America and Europe. T
  
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• Pro-Nazi images strike UBC again: Posters found at gym on Remembrance Day

  13-11-2017 18:59 via vancouversun.com
  Officials at the University of British Columbia says pro-Nazi posters have been found on the school’s Vancouver campus.
  Philip Steenkamp, UBC’s vice-president of external relations, says in a statement that the “disturbing” posters were discovered on War Memorial Gym on Saturday.
  The university was hosting Remembrance Day ceremonies in the gym that morning.
  Photos of the posters obtained by the Ubyssey student newspaper show what appears to be images of Nazis with the wor
  
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• Ferries cancelled as powerful winds batter British Columbia's south coast

  13-11-2017 18:37 via vancouversun.com
  Batten down the hatches, Vancouver — we’re in for some stormy weather.
   Environment Canada has issued a wind warning for B.C.’s south coast. A strong low pressure system will bring powerful winds with gusts of 70 to 80 km/h to the coastal sections of Metro Vancouver by late Monday morning.
  The winds are expected ease later in the afternoon.
  Winds will be even stronger on Vancouver Island, which could see storm force winds along the west coast.
  The wind storm has
  
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• Supergirl star responds to executive producer's sexual harassment suspension

  13-11-2017 18:22 via vancouversun.com
  Supergirl actress Melissa Benoist is calling for “safe, respectful and collaborative” work spaces amid allegations of sexual harassment on the Vancouver-filmed show.
  Andrew Kreisberg, an executive producer on CW shows Supergirl Arrow, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — all of which are filmed in whole or in part in British Columbia — was suspended Friday by Warner Bros. TV Group after 15 women and four men came forward with allegations of inappropriate t
  
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• Reminder City Hall is closed today. We're back tomorrow at 8:30am. We've got plenty of online services:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-11-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Reminder City Hall is closed today. We're back tomorrow at 8:30am. We've got plenty of online services:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver's Jacob Tremblay takes on another heavy role with 'Wonder'

  13-11-2017 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  TORONTO — Jacob Tremblay is searching for the best way to describe what it’s like acting behind a face prosthetic.
  In his new film “Wonder,” the 11-year-old Vancouver actor plays Auggie, a boy born with a severe facial deformity. He’s up against major social hurdles as he embarks on his first year of public school and the judgemental eye of others.
  Tremblay portrays the role disguised by an artificial face that was shaped from his own.
  “They put something like
  
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• Daily Poll: Should condo stratas make exceptions for emotional support dogs?

  13-11-2017 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. woman who claims her condo strata is discriminating against her daughters’ therapy dogs has taken her case to a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
  Related
  B.C. woman fights strata to keep children's therapy dogsAccording 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. 
  The strata unit where the family lives does not allow pets.
  Betwee
  
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• SkyTrain disruption: Expo Line single tracking between Columbia and Lougheed

  13-11-2017 16:30 via vancouversun.com
  Some SkyTrain commuters travelling on Expo Line can expect delays this morning due to a track issue near Braid Station.
  TransLink says Expo Line is will be single tracking between Columbia and Lougheed.
  Passengers travelling from Columbia past Sapperton Station will need to transfer trains at Braid Station, while passengers travelling from Production towards Waterfront will need to transfer at Lougheed Station. 
  A shuttle bus is operating between Sapperton and Lougheed.
  Millennium Line
  
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• Army & Navy CEO recalls dad's battle with MS

  13-11-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Multiple sclerosis did not define Jacqui Cohen’s father.
  The Army & Navy CEO has been reflecting on some of her childhood memories in preparation for an upcoming Women Against MS luncheon where she will be the keynote speaker.
  “It wasn’t who he was,” she said in an interview about her father, the late Jack Cohen. “There were things that I hadn’t really thought about until someone asked me to do the talk. He never acted like a victim, he never let the MS ta
  
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• Blob is gone, but not forgotten for scientists studying decline in B.C. fish stocks

  13-11-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The “blob” is gone, but it’s left a troubling legacy on B.C.’s Pacific coast.
  The blob is the popular name for a huge patch of warm water that featured record temperatures — in some cases, three to four degrees Celsius above normal — in the Northeast Pacific starting in 2013 and running through late 2015 and early 2016.
  Scientists are now concerned that young fish feeding at sea during the blob’s presence did not have enough nutritious food to eat &mdash
  
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• TransLink bus ends up in ditch after accident on Hwy. 99

  13-11-2017 05:23 via vancouversun.com
  A TransLink bus carrying passengers lost control on the highway and ended up in a ditch. 
  There were no injuries from the incident, which occurred just after 3 p.m. on Sunday. 
  The northbound 351 bus was on Hwy. 99 in Surrey just past the exit for King George Boulevard when it went off the road, said TransLink spokesman Chris Bryan.
  “We believe a vehicle merged in front of the bus and both vehicles were forced off the road into a ditch,” he said. 
  A photo posted o
  
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• Opinion: Surtax needed to bring fairness to Vancouver real estate

  13-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In Canadian society, the consensus is that wealthy people should pay more tax than less-wealthy people.
  This is the basis of our progressive income tax system. Wealthy people can afford to pay more tax without seriously impinging on their lifestyle, and so they should bear a higher burden.
  Some people grumble about this, but they are in the minority. And almost no one thinks that wealthy people should pay less tax than non-wealthy people.
  Yet that is precisely what happens on a significant scale
  
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• Letters: Would a man wearing a face mask be allowed on a bus?

  13-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  As a woman, I have to ask: Is a man wearing a face covering is allowed to get on a bus or request any public service? My bank has a sign posted telling everyone to remove sunglasses and ski masks. How is the niqab different from a ski mask?
  I am an immigrant to this country and had to change in many ways to be part of the Canadian society.
  After 46 years in Canada, I still struggle with certain norms, but I have learned to accept. The small minority of Muslim women who push for a right, which is
  
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• Public memorial held in Fernie for men killed in ammonia leak at rink

  13-11-2017 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  Hundreds of people gathered on a snow-covered field in Fernie Sunday to pay their final respects to three men who died in last month’s tragic ammonia leak at the local arena. 
  The public memorial, held on the grounds of Fernie Secondary and broadcast live on Facebook, celebrated the lives of city workers Wayne Hornquist, 59, and Lloyd Smith, 52, as well as of contractor Jason Podloski, 46, who were killed last month by the toxic, colourless gas while doing repairs at Fernie Memorial A
  
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• Model train show gives enthusiasts something to 'Choo Choo' on

  13-11-2017 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  Rumours that the model train hobby is in decline would seem greatly exaggerated to anyone who attended the Vancouver train expo at the Pacific National Exhibition on Saturday and Sunday.
  Dozens of clubs laid down track, showed off their building skills and engines, entertaining crowds that fell into two distinct demographics: toddlers and seniors. 
  Converting toddlers into lifelong enthusiasts was easier back when scale-model and miniature trains with steam engines, working boilers, operati
  
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• Hey parents, here's your chance to have your say on our new Child Care Strategy. Survey closes Nov 20… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-11-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Hey parents, here's your chance to have your say on our new Child Care Strategy. Survey closes Nov 20… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Photos: Fantastic cosplay at Fan Expo Vancouver

  13-11-2017 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  Fan Expo Vancouver, a three-day celebration of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, anime, comic books and all things nerdy, attracted some big-name talent and some well-dressed attendees.
  Henry Winkler (Happy Days), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Grant Gustin (The Flash) and Famke Janssen (X-Men) were among the guests who appeared at the pop culture festival held at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  The true stars of the show, however, were the costumed fans.
  I love a good family reunion. Thank you
  
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• Protesters vow to continue fish farm protest amid court action

  13-11-2017 00:02 via vancouversun.com
  PORT HARDY — First Nations protesters at a salmon farm off the northern coast of Vancouver Island are vowing to stay, despite court action aimed at removing them.
  Molina Dawson with the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw says she began occupying the Midsummer Island farm with several other protesters more than two months ago because of concerns about the effect the facility is having on wild salmon in the region.
  Marine Harvest Canada, which runs the farm, has filed an application for a court i
  
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  13-11-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  
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