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• Vancouver to host major conference on gender equality in 2019

  16-11-2017 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver will be the site of a major conference in 2019 on gender equality.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau were involved Thursday in the announcement of the location for Women Deliver 2019.
  The prime minister and his wife promoted the conference, with Trudeau saying everyone benefits from greater gender equality in all fields, from politics and industry to education and sports.
  Gregoire Trudeau says the world is missing out on the talent, skill and passion found in gi
  
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• Former UN gangster says Vallee admitted murdering LeClair

  16-11-2017 23:20 via vancouversun.com
  A former United Nations gang member says accused killer Cory Vallee felt badly after he participated in the 2009 murder of a Red Scorpion rival.
  The man, who can only be identified as Witness A, testified in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday that Vallee confessed his role in the fatal shooting of Kevin LeClair outside a Langley strip mall on Feb. 6, 2009.
  Witness A told Justice Janice Dillon he didn’t recall where he was when Vallee told him about LeClair’s slaying.
  But he said it would
  
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• Hey Zone 5, got questions about your new organics and garbage carts? We've got answers! youtu.be/HfNN0Q-63Xw

  16-11-2017 23:18 via twitter.com
  Hey Zone 5, got questions about your new organics and garbage carts? We've got answers! youtu.be/HfNN0Q-63Xw
  
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• #TBT some excited kids at our first Kids in Hall event in 2015. We've got lots of fun stuff planned this weekend:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-11-2017 23:15 via twitter.com
  #TBT some excited kids at our first Kids in Hall event in 2015. We've got lots of fun stuff planned this weekend:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dawson Creek fight night: Country star Dallas Smith rips bad fan behaviour

  16-11-2017 23:05 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian country musician Dallas Smith says he didn’t know what to do when “organized violence” broke out at the end of a concert in Dawson Creek on Tuesday night, but he doesn’t regret calling out concertgoers who caused trouble.
  “Altercations happen. They happen all the time,” Smith said from a tour stop in Kamloops, where he was set to play a show Thursday evening. “But this was different. This was very, very different.”
  “Tonight I got to
  
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• Live: B.C. Premier John Horgan addresses developers

  16-11-2017 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan is now addressing the province’s soaring housing costs at a meeting with B.C.’s development community.
  Horgan and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson are speaking to the Urban Development Institute at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver. UDI had said they would share an “update on their first 100 days in government and future plans to address housing affordability and transit priorities. ” 
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• TransLink, provincial government transit funding talks slow

  16-11-2017 22:18 via vancouversun.com
  Transportation funding discussions between TransLink and the provincial government are taking longer than expected, Metro Vancouver mayors heard on Thursday.
  “I wish I had more to report at this particular time,” said New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Coté, who co-chairs the joint committee on transportation planning and funding. “We still remain in a bit of a holding pattern on the most recent proposal that the Mayors’ Council put forward about using the carbon tax.&
  
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• Vancouver expands bike sharing to The Drive

  16-11-2017 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver is expanding its bike-share program, including to Commercial Drive.
  Mayor Gregor Robertson said that since the Mobi by Shaw Go program began in July 2016, there have been more than 650,000 trips covering over two million kilometres across the city. 
  The city says the expansion will service Commercial Drive, Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station, as well as eastside neighbourhoods including Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland, more of the Downtown Eastside and Mount Plea
  
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• No Operation Red Nose this year in Surrey, Langley

  16-11-2017 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Operation Red Nose will run in 11 B.C. communities this year, but not in Langley and Surrey.
  The national non-profit organization says the local group that usually organizes the campaign in Surrey and Langley was unable to commit to the free sober ride service this year.
  Spokesman David Latouche says it is not unusual to have groups drop out. 
  He says it is too late to find a replacement group for this year since the program starts next week, but they are confident they will find volunteers
  
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• Lots of BIG news and upcoming events in the City. We've got it all wrapped up for you in this week's #CityView e-Ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-11-2017 21:15 via twitter.com
  Lots of BIG news and upcoming events in the City. We've got it all wrapped up for you in this week's #CityView e-Ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Next Monday's 5pm Council workshop has been cancelled. The 7pm regular Council meeting will still take place as scheduled. #NorthVan

  16-11-2017 21:02 via twitter.com
  Next Monday's 5pm Council workshop has been cancelled. The 7pm regular Council meeting will still take place as scheduled. #NorthVan
  
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• Can't keep your eyes off Jersey Boys in Vancouver

  16-11-2017 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  Jersey Boys
  Nov. 14-19, 8 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: $30.50-$130 (plus taxes and fees)  Ticketmaster.ca
  Jersey Boys has worked its way back to us.
  The hit Broadway musical about the life, times and music of the 1960s supergroup The Four Seasons is playing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Nov. 14-19.
  The show, which features 33 songs from the group’s catalogue, opened on Broadway on Oct. 4, 2005, and ran until Jan. 15, 2017, racking up an impressive 4,642 performan
  
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• ICYMI: The 2018 JUNO Awards are coming to Vancouver

  16-11-2017 20:40 via vancouversun.com
  Have you heard? The 2018 JUNO Awards are happening in Vancouver next year.
  And the event’s official press conference announcing the host, ticket information and local programming takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 11 a.m. at CBC Studios — so we can expect to see a number of initiatives around the event including big-name artists to be made public.
  Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, Creative BC CEO Prem Gill, CARAS head Allan Reid and 2018 JUNO Host Committe co-chairs Nick Blasko and C
  
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• Check out this monster Chinook salmon just caught near Rivers Inlet

  16-11-2017 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  Even in an area renowned as a mystical “lost world” of monster salmon — this salmon was particularly monstrous.
  When held aloft by Ted Walkus, a hereditary chief of the Wuikinuxv First Nation, its tail nearly brushed the ground. The animal’s jaws were large enough to encompass a human head. And it weighed in at 50 pounds (22.7 kg) — and that’s after two weeks of crash weight loss due to spawning.
  “That salmon would have been even more impressive to see t
  
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• Engine 4 spent part of this am teaching pre schoolers about fire safety. Does your family have an outside meeting p… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-11-2017 20:19 via twitter.com
  Engine 4 spent part of this am teaching pre schoolers about fire safety. Does your family have an outside meeting p… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Charlie Demers's Robin's Eggs Books is giving voice to other funny people

  16-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Charlie Demers’ latest career move is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup kind of thing.
  The Vancouverite has used the combination of his successful stand up and literary careers to formulate the new publishing imprint Robin’s Eggs Books.
  Robin’s Eggs Books flies under the Arsenal Pulp Press banner and has a very straightforward mandate: give people who kill on a comedy stage a voice on the page.
  “I’m the person who is probably furthest into both worlds of comedy
  
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• Book review: The White Angel by John MacLachlan Gray

  16-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Janet Smith the nurse maid who was mysteriously killed in 1924.
  The White AngelBy John MacLachlan Gray
  Douglas & McIntyre 
  It was a crime that shook the streets of Vancouver. 
  In 1924, a Scottish nanny named Janet Smith was found dead in her employer’s home in the upscale neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights. To this day, the truth surrounding Smith’s death remains a mystery.
  This real-life crime conundrum is the basis for a new book from multi-hyphenate John MacLachlan
  
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• B.C. Premier John Horgan to address development community

  16-11-2017 18:57 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan is expected to address the province’s soaring housing costs at a meeting with B.C.’s development community on Thursday.
  Horgan and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson will be speaking to the Urban Development Institute this afternoon at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver.
  UDI says Horgan and Robinson will share an “update on their first 100 days in government and future plans to address housing affordability and transit pri
  
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• Water main break 100 blk W. 21st St. Emergency shut-down of water from 11am for up to 8 hrs. Surrounding areas may… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-11-2017 18:18 via twitter.com
  Water main break 100 blk W. 21st St. Emergency shut-down of water from 11am for up to 8 hrs. Surrounding areas may… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• One woman dead in Burnaby crash

  16-11-2017 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  A woman in her 70s is dead and another pedestrian seriously injured after they were struck by a vehicle in Burnaby Wednesday afternoon.
  The incident happened at around 2:30 p.m. at the intersection of Moscrop Street and Willingdon Avenue.
  The intersection was closed in the area for a few hours, but has since reopened , according to the RCMP.
  Burnaby RCMP say the woman dies at the scene and a man, also in his 70s, was taken to hospital in serious condition.
  Mounties say it is too early in the inv
  
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• Driving through #Edgemont Village today? New sidewalk installation plus utility work requires closure of a lane of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-11-2017 17:40 via twitter.com
  Driving through #Edgemont Village today?New sidewalk installation plus utility work requires closure of a lane of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Kelowna man gets 9 years for injuring paper carrier during high speed police chase

  16-11-2017 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  Donald Brodie has been sentenced to nine years in jail for fleeing from police in a high speed chase and seriously injuring a newspaper carrier.
  On Sept. 22, Justice Martha Devlin found Brodie, 38, guilty of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and flight from a police officer causing bodily harm. 
  Shortly after midnight on Dec. 6, 2013, Brodie sped away from an RCMP roadblock on Springfield Road and led Mounties on a chase through Rutland.
  The car drove off the road and slammed into Ste
  
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• The Shipment is full of subversive skewering of black stereotypes

  16-11-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Shipment
  Nov. 22 to Dec. 2, 8 p.m. Nov. 25 & Dec. 2, 2 p.m. | The Culture Lab at the Cultch, 1895 Venables
  Tickets and Info: From $22.50 at thecultch.com
  Any play that bills itself as “a subversive modern minstrel show about Black identity” is clearly looking to push buttons. The Shipment, by Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee is a work that blasts through multiple levels of racial bias in an attempt to draw attention to just how much racism is part of everyone&rs
  
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• Serious injuries sustained in 3 car crash in Surrey

  16-11-2017 14:58 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey Mounties are investigating a serious crash that led to multiple injuries, some life-threatening, in South Surrey early Thursday.
  Shortly after midnight, Surrey RCMP responded to a three vehicle crash at 24 Avenue and Croydon Drive.
  Investigators have not yet said how many people were injured in the crash, but they say initial reports are that there are potentially life threatening injuries involved.
  RCMP say traffic in the area will be affected for an undetermined time as officers co
  
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• Five Things to Know: Aquarium documentary, pot calendar, distracted driving

  16-11-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  A filmmaker has won an appeal to protect his documentary on the Vancouver Aquarium, carollers are about to have a brawl on the streets of Gastown, and there’s an advent calendar for marijuana. Here are five things you need to know.
  Filmmaker wins appeal to protect Vancouver Aquarium documentary
  A filmmaker whose documentary criticized the Vancouver Aquarium’s practice of keeping cetaceans in captivity has won an appeal to protect his film.
  After a lower court ordered Gary Charbonneau
  
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• Flaw of Vancouver's short-term rental rules is enforcement

  16-11-2017 07:06 via vancouversun.com
  It’s one thing to dream up a regulatory framework for short-term rentals, but enforcing it is another thing entirely.
  As the City of Vancouver itself noted in a recent report, “the general consensus among policy-makers and academics” is that no city has effectively enabled and enforced short-term rental activity. Despite that disheartening track record, Vancouver on Tuesday became the latest municipality to try.
  Erez Aloni, an assistant professor at the University of B.C.&rsquo
  
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• Opinion: Those holding religious views should be respected

  16-11-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  “And we are still debating and still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of a natural process,” said Governor-General Julie Payette at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa on Nov. 1.
  Her thoughts were endorsed by Justin Trudeau. However, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer replied: “It is extremely disappointing that the Prime Minister will not support Indigenous peoples, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Christians, and other faith gro
  
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• New Chinatown BBQ restaurant evokes past values, but may be a business model for the future

  16-11-2017 05:21 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver resident May Tsang checks out the roasted duck and barbecued pork being chopped with a cleaver inside Chinatown BBQ.
  This is a new restaurant on East Pender in Chinatown. It evokes the Cantonese-style meat shops of the area’s past, but is also an example of how the city might, in the future, support so-called legacy businesses.
  Tsang heard that the owner of Chinatown BBQ hired staff — two servers, a chef and a dumpling maker — from a well-known and nearby restaurant,
  
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• Obituary: B.C.'s logger poet Peter Trower dies at 87

  16-11-2017 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  Peter Trower spent much of his youth working in logging camps. When he saved enough money, he’d come to Vancouver, blow it, then go back.
  It’s a standard tale of the B.C. woods from the 1950s and ‘60s. But Trower wasn’t a regular logger — he was a writer and artist.
  When he started publishing poetry and prose in the late ‘60s, he turned his experiences in the bush into subject matter for his work. He drew acclaim as an authentic voice from the woods, a true B.
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Longtime NDPers say Site C past point of no return

  16-11-2017 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — With the fate of Site C hanging in the balance, some longtime NDP supporters and advisers made the case Wednesday that the controversial hydro dam has indeed gone past the point of no return.
  Speaking first at the midday press conference in Vancouver, was Wayne Peppard of the Allied Hydro Council.
  The council has been the umbrella vehicle for the building trades since the W.A.C. Bennett era, when union jobs and no strike agreements went hand in hand on hydro construction project
  
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• Fault of Vancouver's short-term rental rules is enforcement

  16-11-2017 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  It’s one thing to dream up a regulatory framework for short-term rentals, but enforcing it is another thing entirely.
  As the City of Vancouver itself noted in a recent report, “the general consensus among policy-makers and academics” is that no city has effectively enabled and enforced short-term rental activity. Despite that disheartening track record, Vancouver on Tuesday became the latest municipality to try.
  Erez Aloni, an assistant professor at the University of B.C.&rsquo
  
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• Opinion: B.C. should pay more attention to South Korea

  16-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  SEOUL — By chance, U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to South Korea last week coincided with a major conference held annually to promote foreign investment in the country. But if the 2,500 participants at Invest Korea Week 2017 were feeling any uneasiness about Trump’s attack on a five-year-old free-trade agreement between the two countries that he described as “horrible,” they weren’t showing it.
  In fact, economics sat on the sidelines as the threat of a be
  
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• REAL SCOOP: UN gangster accidentally shot by associate

  16-11-2017 02:56 via vancouversun.com
  The former UN gangster known as “A” is still on the stand at the murder trial of Cory Vallee. At times, his testimony has been painful as he repeatedly says “I don’t know,” “I don’t remember” and “I don’t recall.”
  It’s been up to Crown prosecutor Elizabeth Rennie to pull answers from her witness by going over mountains of evidence related to the conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers.
  On Wednesday he related a few interesting
  
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• Three B.C. poets among finalists for 2017 CBC Poetry Prize

  16-11-2017 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  Three B.C. poets have been named as finalists for the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize.
  The five finalists for the prestigious award were announced Wednesday by CBC Books, together with partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada enRoute magazine, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
  They include Cornelia Hoogland of Hornby Island, Alessandra Naccarato of Salt Spring Island, Harold Rhenisch of Vernon, as well as Laboni Islam of Toronto and Sarah Kabamba of Ottawa.
  Hoogland
  
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• Abbotsford police deputy chief says his son gave him strength after colleague was killed

  16-11-2017 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  After spending time with the grieving family of slain Abbotsford Police Const. John Davidson last week, Deputy Chief Mike Serr returned home feeling overwhelming anguish, but was comforted by the caring words of his 19-year-old son, Aiden.
  “On Tuesday, I came home emotionally exhausted after spending two very difficult days with Constable Davidson’s family. I was emotionally spent, and finally my armour cracked and I fell apart. My son picked me up, held me in his arms and told
  
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• A million lights twinkle at Capilano Suspension Bridge park

  16-11-2017 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  When your middle and surname both translate as “light,” you were pretty much born to do what Marc Luc Lalumiere does.
  Lalumiere is one of two tree climbers who put those million or so twinkling lights 65 metres up in Douglas firs for the Capilano Suspension Bridge’s seasonal Canyon Lights spectacle.
  He’s part of a 12-person team that gets the park ready for Christmas, starting around Labour Day.
  “It’s a lot of fun, that’s why I do it,” Lalumiere sa
  
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• Deaths after cardiac surgery low but many patients readmitted to B.C. hospitals after heart procedures

  16-11-2017 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. has the highest rate in Canada of patients being rushed back to hospitals after angioplasty procedures done to open up blocked heart vessels.
  The average hospital readmission rate within 30 days of a percutaneous coronary intervention, commonly known as angioplasty, is 8.1 per cent. The national average for readmissions after such emergency or scheduled angioplasties is 7.4 per cent. 
  The hospital readmission numbers are a sharp contrast to B.C.’s impressively low death
  
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• Richmond cash starts design work on new Canada Line station

  16-11-2017 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond has sent $3.5 million to TransLink to pay for designing a new Canada Line station at Capstan Way.
  The city’s council approved the transfer at a meeting on Tuesday night.
  In 2012, Richmond signed an agreement with TransLink for Capstan station, which will be at No. 3 Road between the existing Aberdeen and Bridgeport stations. Capstan was one of four stations that were planned for the Canada Line to be built later when they were needed.
  Developers building near the proposed station
  
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• Yule Duel: Choirs set to descend on Gastown for carolling competition

  16-11-2017 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  It’s that (most wonderful) time of year again.
  Yule Duel, British Columbia’s largest outdoor carolling competition, is returning to Gastown for its third year.
  The seasonal “battle royale” will close down Gastown’s cobblestone streets — arguably the best type of streets for singing old-timey songs — on Thursday, Dec. 7, as more than 20 of Vancouver’s best choirs do battle to crown a new champion. Or perhaps a returning champion, as Saint James Musi
  
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