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• Rainfall warning in effect for Metro Vancouver

  18-11-2017 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  A rainfall warning is in effect for Metro Vancouver, with up to 80 millimetres of rain expected in some areas Saturday night.
  Environment Canada says the warning only covers some areas of the region, including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge and the North Shore, where heavy rain is expected throughout the evening.
  The agency said rainfall accumulations of 50 to 80 millimetres are expected to fall over Howe Sound, northern sections of Metro Vancouver, and southern sections of the Sunshine Coast.
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• Thousands expected in Abbotsford at memorial for fallen police officer

  18-11-2017 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  The streets of Abbotsford will be lined with blue on Sunday as thousands of police officers from across the country and around the world march in remembrance of their slain colleague.
  Police estimate about 12,000 people — including 8,000 first responders — will attend a memorial for Const. John Davidson.
  “It’s pretty important for us to come together as a family,” said Sgt. Judy Bird, spokeswoman for the Abbotsford Police Department. “Our family member was mur
  
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• Kids in the Hall, havin’ a ball. So much to see and do. Here till 4. #NorthVan https://t.co/SNmvK62ntJ

  18-11-2017 23:07 via twitter.com
  
  Kids in the Hall, havin’ a ball.So much to see and do. Here till 4. #NorthVan https://t.co/SNmvK62ntJ
  
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• Former Presentation House Gallery finds new North Vancouver home - CBC.ca

  18-11-2017 22:46 via cbc.ca
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  Former Presentation House Gallery finds new North Vancouver home
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  After nearly three decades in the making and a $20 million investment, the former Presentation House Gallery — which primarily showcases photography — is being reborn and renamed in a new North Vancouver home. The Polygon Gallery opens this ...
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• Former Presentation House Gallery finds new North Vancouver ... - CBC.ca

  18-11-2017 22:46 via cbc.ca
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  After nearly 30 years in the making and a $20 million investment, the former Presentation House Gallery gets a new home and new name in North Vancouver.
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• With Airbnb regulated, what are the tax implications for Vancouver hosts?

  18-11-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  As Vancouver becomes Canada’s first major city to regulate short-term home rentals, many prospective hosts have questions about how it could work for them.
  Thousands of hosts in Vancouver have been renting out rooms and entire homes, operating in a legal grey area through online platforms, the largest of which is Airbnb. But starting in April, Vancouver homeowners will have to become a part of the city’s new regulatory regime for short-term home rentals, approved by council last week
  
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• Oh it’s on! This party just got started. Kids in the Hall till 4pm. #NorthVan https://t.co/060DrWvT6g

  18-11-2017 22:31 via twitter.com
  
  Oh it’s on! This party just got started. Kids in the Hall till 4pm.#NorthVan https://t.co/060DrWvT6g
  
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• Metro Vancouver to light up blue in honour of fallen Abbotsford officer

  18-11-2017 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver will glow blue Saturday night to pay respect to Abbotsford police officer Const. John Davidson.
  Thousands are expected Sunday at a funeral for Davidson, killed in the line of duty in Abbotsford on Nov. 6.
  B.C. Place Stadium, the B.C. Legislature, the Bloedel Conservatory, the Canada Place sails, the Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver city hall, and the Peach Arch border are just some of the public spaces that will shine in blue lights.
  Tonight the lights at @BloedelConserv wil
  
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• So many holiday events coming up. Keep track of them with our handy calendar. Got an local event coming up? Add it… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  So many holiday events coming up. Keep track of them with our handy calendar. Got an local event coming up? Add it… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A kid who grew up in the projects is now in charge of reducing poverty in B.C.

  18-11-2017 21:46 via vancouversun.com
  The 350-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment is a cramped, no-frills space, but it provided a safe place for cabinet-minister-to-be Shane Simpson, his little sister and his mother when they desperately needed a home.
  As Simpson walks through the tiny unit in the large East Vancouver housing project, he recalls a frugal time when his single mother raised two kids there on welfare wages after leaving her husband in the late 1960s.
  “My dad beat my mom up. And one day, when my sister was ab
  
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• We’re busy setting up for Kids In the Hall. Come on over to City Hall 1-4pm. Tons of fun for kiddos and families.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 21:29 via twitter.com
  We’re busy setting up for Kids In the Hall.Come on over to City Hall 1-4pm. Tons of fun for kiddos and families.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The doors of the @_ThePolygon are officially open! 💃🏻. Mayor @DarrellMussatto welcoming the first arrivals.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  The doors of the @_ThePolygon are officially open! 💃🏻.Mayor @DarrellMussatto welcoming the first arrivals.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Makeup tutorial: How to enhance and enlarge the shape of your eyes

  18-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In this week’s makeup tutorial I’m showing you how to enhance and enlarge the shape of your eyes with the perfect smoky eye makeup, using the Tarte — Tartelette In Bloom eyeshadow palette.
  Step 1Start by priming the eye lid with a cream eyeshadow base. I’m using MAC Paint Pot in Stormy Pink. It’s a pinky-plum colour which really helps to enhance a green eye colour. Use it on it’s own for a more down-played and softer look.
  Step 2Using a fluffy blender brush, s
  
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• Council meets Monday at 6PM. Check out the discussion topics at cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/0DFjAXZCzO

  18-11-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  
  Council meets Monday at 6PM. Check out the discussion topics at cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/0DFjAXZCzO
  
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• Hey kids! Whatcha doin’ today? How about headin' over to Kids in the Hall 1-4pm. Free fun for the whole family.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Hey kids! Whatcha doin’ today? How about headin' over to Kids in the Hall 1-4pm. Free fun for the whole family.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Editorial: Vancouver's short-term rental rules should be in public interest

  18-11-2017 17:15 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council followed the lead of other major cities in the world this week in establishing a regulatory regime for short-term rentals, such as those advertised on Airbnb and other platforms. 
  The new rules effectively legitimize an activity that existed in a legal grey zone and eliminate uncertainty — a plus for both Airbnb, which is reportedly mulling an IPO, and Airbnb hosts, who no longer need to fear they are breaking the law.
  But the prohibition on renting out secondar
  
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• International: 15 bestselling books of the week, Nov. 18

  18-11-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) — Jeff Kinney
  2. The Sun and Her Flowers — Rupi Kaur
  3. Origin — Dan Brown
  4. Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson
  5. The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel — Lee Child
  6. Wisdom of Sundays — Oprah Winfrey
  7. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  8. Milk and honey — Rupi Kaur
  9. 5 Ingredients — Quick and Easy Food — Jamie O
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Nov. 18

  18-11-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion – Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books). 
  2. Harry: A Wilderness Dog Saga — Chris Czajkowski (Harbour Publishing). 
  3. The Haunting of Vancouver Island: Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side — Shanon Sinn (TouchWood Editions).
  4. Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing — Jack Knox (Heritage House).
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• Sold (Bought): Highlights of Shaughnessy home include indoor pool and wine cellar

  18-11-2017 15:47 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  4670 Connaught Drive, Vancouver
  Type: Five-bedroom, 10-bathroom detached
  Size: 9,723 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $11,246,000
  Listed for: $23,988,800
  Sold for: $18,500,000
  Sold on: June 21
  Days on market: 139
  Listing agent: Juliette Zhang at Macdonald Realty Westmar and Crystal Hung at Icon Marketing Inc.
  Buyers agent: Na An at Royal Pacific Realty
  The big sell: This bespoke Georgian-style estate boasts a plethora of highl
  
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• The Home Front: A 'pre-loved' approach to holiday decor and gift giving

  18-11-2017 15:38 via vancouversun.com
  What do you give someone who has everything? Attitude springs to mind. But if that sounds too confrontational, try originality — through creatively sourced second-hand goods from thrift stores, online sites like Kijiji, and vintage markets, says decor and lifestyle expert Janette Ewen.
  “What I love about giving second-hand is you can give things to people that tell a story,” Ewen says. “Even if you write a little story about it, and pop it in with the gift, it makes it al
  
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• Theatre review: Drunks and Children tell a painful comic truth

  18-11-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
  To Dec. 2 | Firehall Arts Centre
  Tickets: From $20 at www.firehallartscentre.ca 
  Last month, the Canadian government announced an agreement to pay up to $800 million in restitution to Indigenous people who, as children in the 1960s, were forcibly removed from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families for adoption or fostering.
  The Sixties Scoop, as it has come to be known, is one of the dark chapters in Canadian history that, along with resi
  
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• Customizable luxury at South Surrey's Pacific Heights

  18-11-2017 14:54 via vancouversun.com
  Pacific Heights by Foxridge Homes is a development of 28 luxury single-family homes with four or five bedrooms. And with units starting at more than 3,000 square feet, it may be surprising to think that many of the buyers at this emerging South Surrey neighbourhood will, in fact, be downsizers.
  “We’ve had young families and move-up buyers, as well as downsizers moving out of acreages with absolutely enormous houses on them,” said Diane Zarola, Foxridge Homes’ director of
  
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• Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is officially open - North Shore News

  18-11-2017 12:30 via nsnews.com
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  Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is officially open
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  The Polygon Gallery features a glass atrium on the ground floor in order to not obstruct views of Burrard Inlet. photo Cindy Goodman, North Shore News. Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is officially open_13. A wood frame showcases the space where a ...
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• Polygon Gallery creates art destination in revitalized Lower Lonsdale

  18-11-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Darrell Mussatto was elected in 1993 to council in the city of North Vancouver. The rookie politician’s first appointment was on the cultural committee that oversaw Presentation House and its museum, art gallery and theatre.
  At the time, all three cultural venues operated out of a ramshackle building on Chesterfield Avenue a few blocks up the steep hill from the waterfront. Starting out as a girls’ school in 1902, it later became the home of North Van’s city hall and police hea
  
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• East Vancouver sex assault by man in medical mask mirrors earlier attack

  18-11-2017 06:29 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are warning the public after a sexual assault in east Vancouver that bears similarities to a similar incident last month.
  According to a news release, a woman was assaulted by a man in a white medical mask Wednesday night after getting off the SkyTrain at Nanaimo station. As she walked near St. Lawrence Street around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, the woman was grabbed from behind and groped before the masked man fled the scene.
  The suspect is described as an Asian man between 20 and 30 y
  
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• Vancouver TED conference grapples with sex harassment accusations

  18-11-2017 03:27 via vancouversun.com
  By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Danielle Paquette
  SAN FRANCISCO — Vancouver’s spring TED conference is the latest hot spot for sexual harassment allegations, conference organizers acknowledge.
  At least five people, including a past main-stage speaker, have told TED officials they were harassed or groped during the organization’s flagship conference in Vancouver in April, according to interviews and email correspondence seen by The Washington Post.
  When Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox N
  
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• Opinion: Lights, camera, inaction — why B.C. must defend the status quo on film tax credits

  18-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s one of the defining — and most terrifying — scenes in the triple Oscar-winning movie The Revenant.
  Yet when Leonardo DiCaprio’s frontiersman character is attacked by a bear, the real star of the show is the brutal beauty of the location — British Columbia’s Squamish Valley.
  Actors and crew working on Hollywood’s toughest ever shoot endured temperatures of -40 Celsius, and told of how their eyes froze shut and their fingers and camera gear locked tog
  
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• Opinion: Increase irrigated land area to attain food security in B.C.

  18-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Home to two-thirds of British Columbians, the mighty Fraser River is the lifeblood of a vast watershed that stretches from the Rockies to the Pacific. The lower Fraser Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in Canada, is vital to B.C.’s long-term food security. 
  The Fraser drains one of the most diverse watersheds in North America — for example, its vast lands contain ten of B.C.’s 14 biogeoclimatic zones. Yet many of the Fraser’s 34 tributaries, or
  
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• Letters: Lack of money forces many to represent themselves in court

  18-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Not an ounce of quit in self-represented litigant, Ian Mulgrew column, Nov. 10.
  Ian Mulgrew writes sympathetically about the travails of former North Van councillor Joan Gadsby who has to borrow money to continue litigating adverse decisions resulting from her misfortunes in property investment. She appears to have fallen on hard times and one does feel for her. One must not lose sight of the fact that our courts are plugged with unrepresented litigants, many of whom are less educated and so
  
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• Editorial: Short-term rental regs should be in public interest

  18-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council followed the lead of other major cities in the world this week in establishing a regulatory regime for short-term rentals, such as those advertised on Airbnb and other platforms. 
  The new rules effectively legitimize an activity that existed in a legal grey zone and eliminate uncertainty — a plus for both Airbnb, which is reportedly mulling an IPO, and Airbnb hosts, who no longer need to fear they are breaking the law.
  But the prohibition on renting out secondar
  
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• B.C. review panel maintains custody rules on Allan Schoenborn

  18-11-2017 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A panel has decided against changing custodial conditions for a British Columbia man who killed his three children during a psychotic break.
  The B.C. Review Board released its decision on Friday, following an annual review of Allan Schoenborn’s case.
  It says the 49-year-old must stay at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, but could be allowed escorted visits into the community.
  Schoenborn was found guilty of stabbing his daughter and smothering his sons in the
  
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• This Is It. The @PolygonGallery opens tomorrow at 10am! Enjoy free admission Nov 18 &19. thepolygon.ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  This Is It. The @PolygonGallery opens tomorrow at 10am! Enjoy free admission Nov 18 &19. thepolygon.ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Greater Victoria harbour authority undertaking $7M project to moor larger ships

  18-11-2017 01:47 via vancouversun.com
  A modest increase in cruise-ship traffic will bring a major expense for the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority in 2018.
  According to GVHA chief executive Ian Robertson, the authority will spend about $7 million for a new mooring dolphin to accommodate larger ships at Ogden Point during next year’s cruise-ship season.
  The dolphin, a structure used to moor large ships, will be built in line with the existing dolphin at Pier B. It will initially serve the Norwegian Bliss, which is more t
  
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• Feds to spend $327m over five years to fight gun, gang violence in Canada

  18-11-2017 01:46 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is hoping to access new federal funding announced Friday to tackle ongoing gang and gun violence as quickly as possible.
  B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said in an interview that he was pleased to see his federal counterpart commit $327.6 million over five years to reduce gun crime and gangs across the country.
  Federal minister Ralph Goodale made the announcement at the RCMP’s headquarters in Surrey. He also committed $100 million a year after the initial fun
  
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• Pine beetles from Jasper National Park invading neighbouring commercial forest

  18-11-2017 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  A massive and uncontrollable buildup of mountain pine beetles in Jasper National Park is starting to explode into commercially valuable forests along its boundaries.
  Foresters along the park’s edge have seen a tenfold increase in beetle infestation in just months, and some scientists wonder if Parks Canada could have done more to control the invasion a few years ago.
  “They decided to consider the pine beetle a ‘native disturbance agent,”‘ said Allan Carroll, who has
  
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• North Vancouver condo proposal includes Cap U student housing - North Shore News

  18-11-2017 01:37 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver condo proposal includes Cap U student housing
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  An artist's rendering shows how new townhouses on Purcell Way may look if District of North Vancouver council approves a project now before them. photo supplied. District of North Vancouver council is considering a new condo project that, if approved, ...
  
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• Greens' Weaver convinced NDP will support Site C, an 'irritating' decision

  18-11-2017 01:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The future of the Site C hydroelectric dam is the subject of pointed questions from labour unions, environmental groups, Indigenous Peoples and high-ranking civil servants with the B.C. government who want answers about the projected costs of scrapping the $8.3-billion project.
  The New Democrats are poised to decide Site C’s fate by the end of the year after a review by the B.C. Utilities Commission, the province’s independent energy regulator, concluded the dam is o
  
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• Cruise-ship growth facing bottlenecks in Vancouver

  18-11-2017 01:29 via vancouversun.com
  The Port of Vancouver faces a number of bottlenecks as it tries to accommodate a burgeoning cruise-ship industry.
  Large, modern cruise ships will bring 840,000 passengers to Vancouver streets this year, but growing that number may not be possible without significant investments in infrastructure, according to Greg Wirtz, president and CEO of the industry group Cruise Lines International Association, North West and Canada.
  “The port authority opted to move the cruise business to Canada
  
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• Yep it's true. The 65 foot Sky Wheel is coming to the Pier Dec 2/3 thanks to the Lower Lonsdale Business Improvemen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 01:26 via twitter.com
  Yep it's true. The 65 foot Sky Wheel is coming to the Pier Dec 2/3 thanks to the Lower Lonsdale Business Improvemen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SUV driver injures senior in North Vancouver crosswalk - North Shore News

  18-11-2017 01:24 via nsnews.com
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  SUV driver injures senior in North Vancouver crosswalk
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  The intersection where and SUV driver struck a North Vancouver senior on Delbrook Avenue at Evergreen Place Thursday. image supplied, Google Maps. A North Vancouver senior suffered broken bones and a head injury after the driver of an SUV struck ...
  
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• North Vancouver filmmaker who criticized aquarium wins appeal - North Shore News

  18-11-2017 01:15 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver filmmaker who criticized aquarium wins appeal
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  North Vancouver filmmaker Gary Charbonneau and his lawyer Arden Beddoes speak to reporters outside B.C. Supreme Court in 2016. photo Jane Seyd, North Shore News. The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a North Vancouver documentary ...
  
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• Investing in Arts and Culture in North Vancouver - Canada NewsWire (press release)

  18-11-2017 01:05 via newswire.ca
  Investing in Arts and Culture in North Vancouver
  Canada NewsWire (press release)
  VANCOUVER, Nov. 17, 2017 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada supports Canada's creative industries by providing funding to creators and cultural entrepreneurs throughout the country. Canada's arts and culture sector is a $54.6-billion industry. It ...and more »
  
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• Harbour authority undertaking $7M project to moor larger ships

  18-11-2017 01:01 via vancouversun.com
  A modest increase in cruise-ship traffic will bring a major expense for the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority in 2018.
  According to GVHA chief executive Ian Robertson, the authority will spend about $7 million for a new mooring dolphin to accommodate larger ships at Ogden Point during next year’s cruise-ship season.
  The dolphin, a structure used to moor large ships, will be built in line with the existing dolphin at Pier B. It will initially serve the Norwegian Bliss, which is more t
  
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• Ferris wheel coming to North Vancouver for Christmas Festival - North Shore News

  18-11-2017 00:54 via nsnews.com
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  Ferris wheel coming to North Vancouver for Christmas Festival
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  Six-storey ride - a.k.a. the Sky Wheel - will run for two days Dec. 2 and 3 at the Shipyards. Andy Prest / North Shore News. November 17, 2017 03:51 PM. Sky Wheel. Lower Lonsdale Business Improvement Area executive director Greg Holmes spins a vision ...
  
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• Hey, potential #volunteers and outdoorsy types, don't forget about our "Free the Tree" event in Bridgman Park tomor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 00:27 via twitter.com
  Hey, potential #volunteers and outdoorsy types, don't forget about our "Free the Tree" event in Bridgman Park tomor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Teacher Daryl Mutz's legacy lives on in his students and his bequests

  18-11-2017 00:19 via vancouversun.com
  There were lots of days that Daryl Mutz was, frankly, terrified to enter the classroom at Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Secondary.
  It was the late 1950s and mid-1960s, and Tupper wasn’t just another high school. It was a dumping ground for kids who had been kicked out or didn’t fit in at other schools. There were gang members, criminals and kids with a wide array of emotional and mental problems.
  “Daryl was bird like. Slight,” says his close friend and Tupper colle
  
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• We'll play, explore & learn tomorrow at #KidsintheHall 1-4pm. Live music, snacks, prizes + more… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-11-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  We'll play, explore & learn tomorrow at #KidsintheHall 1-4pm. Live music, snacks, prizes + more… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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