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• Code of conduct coming for union actors and workers in B.C.

  24-11-2017 23:54 via vancouversun.com
  The union representing professional actors in B.C. is looking to improve protections for young performers from sexual harassment.
  A task force is exploring how to improve safety and reduce barriers to reporting for vulnerable young actors, Sue Brouse, the union’s director of member services and human resources, said Friday.
  “We’re drafting a code of conduct that all of our members would voluntarily sign off on,” she said.
  “We know that students, brand new actors, ca
  
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• B.C. Ferries vehicle traffic highest ever this summer

  24-11-2017 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries had its highest vehicle traffic levels ever this summer, increasing 5.2 per cent over the same period last year.
  The company says in a statement that revenues for the quarter ending Sept. 30 are also up 3.5 per cent from the same period in 2016.
  Net earnings in the three months ending Sept. 30 were $98.4 million.
  CEO Mark Collins says the positive results reduce future pressure on fares and allows for continued investments in new vessels and terminal improvements.
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• Douglas Todd: A defence of coalition governments – in B.C. and beyond

  24-11-2017 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  Too bad those competing to head B.C.’s Liberal party can’t take full rhetorical advantage of the alleged crisis this week in Germany’s coalition government.
  The would-be Liberal leaders seem dead-set against British Columbians voting one year from now, in November 2018, for a new way of electing a government, which could include proportional representation.
  North American foes of proportional representation often argue it will lead to more minority and coalition governments &md
  
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• It's raining again... and that means it's a great day to check your home for "inflow and infiltration," an issue wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 23:23 via twitter.com
  It's raining again... and that means it's a great day to check your home for "inflow and infiltration," an issue wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• All the usual carols, cookies, crafting, Santa & festive cheer @ Christmas Festival Dec 2nd 4-7pm + Craft Market… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 22:35 via twitter.com
  All the usual carols, cookies, crafting, Santa & festive cheer @ Christmas Festival Dec 2nd 4-7pm + Craft Market… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Chester the false killer whale dies at Vancouver Aquarium

  24-11-2017 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Another cetacean has died at the Vancouver Aquarium and only one remains.
  Chester, a false killer whale, died Friday morning, more than three years after he was rescued as a calf after being found stranded at Chesterman beach in Tofino in July 2014, aquarium CEO John Nightingale said in a statement. 
  “The odds were stacked against him from the beginning,” Nightingale said.
  “He had less than a 10 percent chance of survival, but our Marine Mammal Rescue team transp
  
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• Town Talk: Gala raises $5.95 million for cancer care and a surgical robot

  24-11-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  STARS SHONE: Heading into the Vancouver Convention Centre West’s window-walled ballroom, Night of a Thousand Stars gala chair Nancey Nanji said she expected to raise “maybe $3.4 million” for the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. Husband Noordin Nanji, QC, chairs the foundation’s board. The 22nd annual event’s take was already earmarked for advanced cancer care and to help replace an aging surgical robot. By night’s end, a record $5.95 million was reportedly i
  
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• This Week in History: 1927 A 'Modified Spanish Renaissance' theatre opens on Granville Street

  24-11-2017 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  On Friday night, the City of Vancouver celebrated the 90th birthday of the Orpheum Theatre with an event hosted by Bill Richardson and Bramwell Tovey. So we dug into the files to see how the papers covered it in the past.
  The Orpheum was the last in a wave of movie-vaudeville palaces that were built in Vancouver between 1917 and 1927, beginning with the Pantages (1917), Allen (1920) and Capitol (1921).
  It was the fourth theatre to bear the Orpheum name in the city. The first Orpheum opened in 19
  
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• Throwing a holiday do? Knock ’em out with a killer punch

  24-11-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re wondering how to get your party started, it’s quite simple: Serve a bowl of punch.
  Now, we’re not talking sickly sweet kid stuff; nor would we consider the jet fuel you might remember from your college days. A proper punch is elegant and balanced, a sophisticated sipper, a hassle-free godsend for a harried host, and one of the great classic libations.
  “I think the best thing about it is it was a drink designed for sharing,” says Grant Sceney, the creative
  
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• Salut: Welcome family and friends for the holidays with deliciously shareable dips

  24-11-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  I don’t know about you, but after a year that seemed to wind its way endlessly through one depressing news story after another, all I want this holiday season is a little bit of comfort.
  I want to curl up by the fire, wrapped in a cosy blanket, the phone switched off, friends and family all around, sharing the foods that bring us comfort and, yes, joy.
  This is not the year for a formal affair with fiddly canapés and fussy ingredients. This is a year for simple pleasures that we can
  
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• Salut: Holiday table trends to serve your guests in style

  24-11-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Great food and drinks are an essential element of any dinner party.
  But, if you’re looking to ensure your holiday fete is a step above the rest, you’re going to want to put a bit of extra effort into the table setting. Because, no one wants a #basic holiday dinner, after all. 
  “You want to add some unexpected theatrical elements to the table,” Stephen Michlits, trend and design direction lead with the Home Collection at Real Canadia
  
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• Fab 5: Eye spy

  24-11-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re like us, all this cold winter air and overzealous office heating has started taking its toll on our skin. And while hopefully, you’ve managed to sneak in a facial (or two), it’s time for more serious action. First up on the list: a good eye cream. Gone are the days when you can rely on a summer glow to light up your face; right now, you need the power of cosmetology and skin care science. From serums to concentrates, Rebecca Tay unearths five eye creams worth investin
  
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• Rescued dog walker hopes to be released from hospital today, hubby says

  24-11-2017 21:57 via vancouversun.com
  Annette Poitras had no idea how big a deal her rescue had become when she was reunited with her husband after spending two days in the bush with three dogs she was walking. 
  Marcel Poitras told her he had already called her father in England to let him know she was OK.
  “And she said, ‘You called my father?” recalled Marcel on Friday with a chuckle before returning to the hospital room where his wife of 22 years was recuperating from her injuries.
  Annette was in good spirit
  
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• #CityParkStewards need your help tomorrow @ #HeywoodPark 9-noon. Grab your raincoat & boots. Everyone welcome, no… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 21:10 via twitter.com
  #CityParkStewards need your help tomorrow @ #HeywoodPark 9-noon. Grab your raincoat & boots. Everyone welcome, no… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Got game? @NorthVanCityLib hosts Wii tournament for tween/teens in grades 6-10 Nov 25th 1-3pm. Pizza + prizes! Regi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 20:35 via twitter.com
  Got game? @NorthVanCityLib hosts Wii tournament for tween/teens in grades 6-10 Nov 25th 1-3pm. Pizza + prizes! Regi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Put a (Christmas) cork in it: 6 holiday-themed wine bottle stoppers

  24-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The holidays are surely a time to eat, drink and be merry. 
  And what better way to accomplish two of those aforementioned tasks than by picking up a holiday-themed wine stopper for your next dinner party? Or, hey, even that solo evening sip of wine that happens to occur anytime between late November and mid-January, perhaps? 
  With these occasions, plus holiday gifting, in mind, we’ve rounded up five fun wine bottle stoppers to stick a cork in it this holiday season. Light br
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Nov. 25

  24-11-2017 20:00 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. Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir — Aaron Williams (Harbour Publishing). 
  4. The Haunting of Vancouver Island: Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side — Shanon Sinn (TouchWood Editions).
  5. Opportunity
  
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• Surrey RCMP bust mail theft ring, three arrested

  24-11-2017 19:53 via vancouversun.com
  Three people have been arrested in connection with a mail theft ring in South Surrey.
  After receiving a report that mailboxes in the Morgan Creek area were being targeted by thieves, Surrey RCMP investigated and spotted a parked minivan near Rosemary Heights Crescent and Rosemary Heights Drive.
  The minivan was full of stolen mail.
  The vehicle’s occupants, three Surrey men who were all known to police, were arrested without incident.
  Craig Davies, 35, Jordan Wardstrom, 22, and Jamie Ti
  
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• CP train derails near Hells Gate, fuel leaks into Fraser River

  24-11-2017 19:16 via vancouversun.com
  A rock slide in the Fraser Canyon caused a Canadian Pacific train to derail near Hells Gate Thursday morning.
  Fuel from the engine’s fuel tank has spilled into the Fraser River. 
  The Ministry of Environment says it has deployed an environmental emergency response officer to the site Friday morning. They will be working with Canadian Pacific Railway to monitor the spill response activities and assess environmental impacts. 
  A clean-up crew from NUCOR Environmental Solutions&n
  
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• Suspected Vernon drunk driver adds to woes after second incident as police look on

  24-11-2017 19:12 via vancouversun.com
  VERNON — A British Columbia woman doubled her trouble when she arrived at the RCMP detachment in the north Okanagan apparently under the influence.
  Police in Vernon say the 37-year-old woman had been called to the detachment on Wednesday to provide fingerprints for an impaired charge stemming from an incident in May.
  Const. Kelly Brett says officers could smell a strong odour of liquor as they dealt with the woman and advised her not to drive home.
  Brett says the woman promised to call a c
  
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• Police hunt man charged with two attempted murders in Victoria

  24-11-2017 19:08 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A man charged with two counts of attempted murder after allegedly driving a car at his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in Victoria has jumped bail and fled the country.
  A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the arrest of Sebastien Normandin. He is charged with breaching bail conditions by failing to report from Oct. 23 to Nov. 6.
  A source told the Victoria Times Colonist that on Nov. 6, the victim services office phoned Normandin’s ex-girlfriend and told her that Norma
  
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• TOMORROW: We're removing blackberry, periwinkle, and other #invasives along the walkway that joins Mahon Ave and Ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 18:54 via twitter.com
  TOMORROW: We're removing blackberry, periwinkle, and other #invasives along the walkway that joins Mahon Ave and Ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sparkly, beautiful, festive and fun – it’s the City’s Christmas Festival. Get festive with us Dec 2nd 4-7pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Sparkly, beautiful, festive and fun – it’s the City’s Christmas Festival. Get festive with us Dec 2nd 4-7pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Meet the Chef: The conceptual mind of Hopscotch Festival Vancouver's Juno Kim

  24-11-2017 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Juno Kim is the culinary mind behind the eats at Hopscotch Festival Vancouver, the city’s celebration of whisky that ends Nov. 26. This year, Kim is offering the ultimate street food — Korean-inspired hotdogs.
  Q:  What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A:  I came from the fashion industry, but I wanted to start giving people experiences, rather than material goods. Spending time to conceptualize a dish in your mind, sourcing, cooking, then presenting your crea
  
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• Water main break 100 blk W. 6th St. Emergency shut-down of water from 10am for up to 8 hrs. Surrounding areas may e… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 17:59 via twitter.com
  Water main break 100 blk W. 6th St. Emergency shut-down of water from 10am for up to 8 hrs. Surrounding areas may e… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Erratic driver hits 180 km/h on Vancouver Island; calls overwhelm 911 system

  24-11-2017 17:32 via vancouversun.com
  An erratic driver who reached speeds of 180 kilometres an hour on Highway 14 in Langford resulted in so many 911 calls Thursday, it overwhelmed the dispatch centre.
  Sooke RCMP are looking for witnesses who saw a red 2015 Jeep Wrangler speeding at about 1:20 p.m.
  “So many calls were received on 911 it overwhelmed the south Island communication centre,” said Sooke RCMP detachment commander Staff Sgt. Jeffrey McArthur.
  The Jeep was seen reaching speeds of 180 km/h and passing cars on th
  
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• Fraudsters in B.C. rarely face police investigation or jail time

  24-11-2017 17:05 via vancouversun.com
  Beginning in February 2007, Surrey resident Tom Williams masterminded a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of millions of dollars.
  When the scheme collapsed in 2010, Williams and a coterie of “associates” had raised $11.7 million from 123 people, including a nurse, a construction contractor, a 75-year-old retiree and a psychologist.
  As in all Ponzi schemes, some of the money had been used to pay back investors, a ruse that hid the fact there was no legitimate business carried out by&
  
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• Daily Poll: What do you think of Vancouver's housing strategy?

  24-11-2017 15:48 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver’s 10-year housing strategy, unveiled Thursday, touches on everything from creating affordable housing and taming speculation.
  The city’s goal is to build 72,000 new homes in Vancouver across all areas of the city. 
  City of Vancouver handout
  That number, 72,000, is almost a quarter of the roughly 284,000 total dwellings in the city as of 2016.
  As Postmedia’s Dan Fumano explains, the strategy includes a plan for the “transformation of lo
  
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• Five Things to Know: Casino crackdown, housing strategy, YVR socks

  24-11-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver has a new housing strategy, B.C. casinos are about to be watched more closely, and Hammy the deer is free of his hammock. Here are five things you need to know.
  Casino crackdown: BCLC gets more regulating and punishing power
  Attorney-General David Eby says the B.C. Lottery Corp. will be given more power to monitor casinos and hand out tougher punishments, reports Postmedia’s Sam Cooper.
  This will happen by way of an update to the agreement that the BCLC signs with provincial
  
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• District of North Vancouver files lawsuit against pot shop - North Shore News

  24-11-2017 12:42 via nsnews.com
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  District of North Vancouver files lawsuit against pot shop
  North Shore News
  The MMJ marijuana dispensary on Pemberton Avenue opened despite a municipal ban. District of North Vancouver is pursuing the shop's operators in court. photo Paul McGrath. The District of North Vancouver is going to fight another pot shop in the courts.
  
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• Dog walker missing for two days recovering in 'safe warm place'

  24-11-2017 07:30 via vancouversun.com
  A dog walker who spent two days lost in Coquitlam’s back country is recovering “in a safe warm place.”
  Annette Poitras posted a photo on Facebook Thursday night from her hospital bed, with husband Marcel Poitras.
  “Night 2 in a safe warm place … recovering but still a ways to go,” she wrote. “Love you all.”Poitras was found in a marshy basin in the Coquitlam Watershed area off Burke Mountain, north of where she’d been reported missing Monday
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Nov. 24

  24-11-2017 06:08 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Nov. 24.
  Orpheum 90
  The Orpheum celebrates a big anniversary on Friday with Orpheum 90, a tribute to 90 years of entertainment. As the building opened in 1927, Orpheum 90 is a roaring 1920s-themed birthday bash featuring silent film and live vaudeville accompanied by the Mighty Wurlitzer and grand piano. Plus other old-timey surprises! Hosted by Bill Richardson and Maestro Bramwell Tovey, it&rsq
  
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• It's just a belt, but for Cheryl, it held onto memories of her father

  24-11-2017 04:26 via vancouversun.com
  To anyone who came across the old brown belt laying on the ground, it might have seemed like nothing more than hastily-abandoned junk, an accessory no longer serving its primary function of holding up a pair of slacks.
  But to Cheryl Hutchinson, 47, it was a cherished heirloom, one that had helped her hold on tight to the memory of her father Philip after his death last Canada Day.
  Hutchinson, a Vancouver resident who is spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and who uses a power wheelchair, sa
  
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• Vancouver's housing strategy aims for "transformation" of residential neighbourhoods

  24-11-2017 03:50 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s new 10-year housing strategy, a plan more than 14 months in the making, covers a lot of ground.
  The Housing Vancouver Strategy, unveiled Thursday less than a year out from a civic election in which housing is expected to be the top issue, touches on everything from creating affordable housing and taming speculation, to expediting the approval process and combating homelessness.
  Of particular interest to observers is the city’s proposal for the “transformation of low
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: NDP pushes electoral reform, but keeping an 'open' mind

  24-11-2017 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — In preparing for public consultations on the coming referendum on electoral reform, the NDP government recently recruited a panel of academic advisers who were mostly critical of the status quo.
  One of the four was Max Cameron, director of the centre for democratic institutions at the University of B.C., who is on record as believing the current system is in need of reform.
  “It tends to create false majority government,” declared Cameron on the eve of a UBC-host
  
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• Black Friday: Find the best deals around Metro Vancouver (updated)

  24-11-2017 03:12 via vancouversun.com
  In America, Black Friday falls on the day after Thanksgiving. But in Canada, where we celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago, Black Friday is probably better described as the Friday before Cyber Monday. With Christmas just around the corner, and no more major North American holidays standing between now and then, the holiday shopping season begins in earnest this weekend.
  To stir your holiday shopping spirit, retailers all across Metro Vancouver are promising deals upon deals. We’ve done our
  
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• Opinion: B.C.’s liquor stores are the responsible way to retail cannabis

  24-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s late afternoon and you receive a text message: “Friends coming for dinner. Please pick up wine.” You pull into the neighbourhood liquor store, pick up a bottle of your favourite wine and head home. A familiar scene taking place across the province every day.
  When you go into your local liquor store, you have confidence knowing that you are buying a quality product in a secure environment, with stores conveniently located in every community across the province.
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• Add to your Vancouver-themed wardrobe with YVR socks

  24-11-2017 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver International Airport is probably best known for its flights, since that’s where all the planes go. But that’s not the only service YVR provides.
  They also have socks. The newly launched YVRsocks.ca offers three fun and flashy designs for the jet-setter who wants travel in style, while repping Canada’s second busiest airport.
  There’s the Frequent Flyer, a relatively low-key, dark grey sock dappled with airplanes in YVR’s signature colours; the Vancouve
  
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• B.C. New Democrats invite public electoral reform vote; Liberals cry foul

  24-11-2017 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbians are invited to help shape a referendum planned for next fall that could reform the province’s voting system in time for the next election in 2021.
  Attorney General David Eby said Thursday that the government has launched its How We Vote website, asking for public input on the question or questions that will be on the referendum ballot.
  The New Democrats promised electoral reform during last spring’s election campaign and last month introduced
  
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• Man targeted by Surrey Creep Catcher says he fears for his safety

  24-11-2017 02:08 via vancouversun.com
  A man who was targeted by the Surrey Creep Catcher group says in court documents that he fears for his safety since being confronted by the vigilantes.
  The man made the comments in an affidavit he filed as part of a complaint made to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C., which ordered the group to destroy a video posted online of the July 2016 confrontation in Surrey.
  He said in the affidavit that before the incident, he had responded to an online ad in the “Stri
  
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• #TBT snowy day at the Stoker home at 2801 Lonsdale Avenue. Last farm in the City of #NorthVan. #ThrowbackThursday 📷… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-11-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  #TBT snowy day at the Stoker home at 2801 Lonsdale Avenue. Last farm in the City of #NorthVan. #ThrowbackThursday 📷… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Record-breaking weather the latest in a series of extreme events

  24-11-2017 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  The Pineapple Express that brought record-breaking warm temperatures and torrential rain to the B.C. coast Wednesday is the latest in a string of extreme weather events that characterized 2017.
  As temperatures in many places pushed past 15 degrees, records fell along with the rain Wednesday afternoon. The rain triggered at least two mudslides, closing Highway 1 near Hope early Thursday.
  Related
  Mudslide near Hope closes Trans-Canada HighwayThe “atmospheric river” that caused the warm
  
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• We're recruiting for a Temporary Full-time Technical Assistant 1. Click here to apply: ow.ly/pffz30gMBof

  24-11-2017 01:43 via twitter.com
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• We're recruiting for a Temporary Full-time Labourer 2. Click here to apply: ow.ly/hKAd30gMBlK

  24-11-2017 01:42 via twitter.com
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• Updated: The best Black Friday deals around Metro Vancouver

  24-11-2017 01:33 via vancouversun.com
  In America, Black Friday falls on the day after Thanksgiving. But in Canada, where we celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago, Black Friday is probably better described as the Friday before Cyber Monday. With Christmas just around the corner, and no more major North American holidays standing between now and then, the holiday shopping season begins in earnest this weekend.
  To stir your holiday shopping spirit, retailers all across Metro Vancouver are promising deals upon deals. We’ve done our
  
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• Proposed wildfire monument sparking opposition, Kamloops mayor says

  24-11-2017 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Questions are being raised in the city of Kamloops over the issue of a monument honouring volunteers who helped thousands of people forced from their homes during last summer’s severe wildfire season.
  Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian says residents have been speaking out since the Thompson-Nicola Regional District announced last week that $100,000 will be set aside in the 2018 budget to commemorate the efforts of volunteers.
  Christian says he has also talked to several volunte
  
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• B.C. judge orders homebuyer who balked at foreign buyer tax to give up $180,000 deposit

  24-11-2017 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has found that a woman who had agreed to purchase a home in North Vancouver but failed to complete the sale after the foreign buyer tax went into effect had breached her contract.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lisa Warren also ordered Kyeonga Jeong, who is from Korea but has been living in Canada for a number of years, to give up her $180,000 deposit on the home at 515 Alpine Court.
  In June 2016, Jeong entered into a $2.6-million sales contract with Sandra Wilkie, the owner of the home, and
  
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