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• Ian Mulgrew: Vancouver Island neighbours smear each other in dog excrement

  29-11-2017 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  Picture an idyllic summer afternoon around the old swimming hole on the historic Cowichan River in rural Duncan when two couples end up in a quarrel and covered with dog dirt.
  Okay, it’s not neighbourly — but in a time of scarce court time and judicial resources, did it really require a three-day trial involving several witnesses and a 17,500-word provincial court decision?
  “A significant theme within the evidence of both complainants and the co-accused related to dog faec
  
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• Burnaby RCMP make arrest after nine-hour standoff

  29-11-2017 23:37 via vancouversun.com
  Police arrested a 22-year-old man Wednesday morning following a nine-hour standoff at a Burnaby residence.
  Burnaby RCMP were sent to a home in the 7000-block of 21st Street at 11 p.m. Tuesday after receiving a report of a suspicious male with a firearm. Police say a man inside refused leave the residence and did not comply with police demands.The Lower Mainland integrated emergency response team and a negotiator were sent and nearby homes were evacuated.
  After a lengthy negotiatio
  
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• More Vancouverites commuting on public transit: census

  29-11-2017 23:11
  
  The number of people in Vancouver using public transit on their daily commute is on the rise, and increasing faster than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
  
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• Crown says ex-Mountie mistakenly believed woman consented to sexual activity

  29-11-2017 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The Crown says a retired RCMP inspector had a mistaken belief that a civilian employee consented to sexual activity in a washroom at the force’s British Columbia headquarters.
  Michelle Booker says Tim Shields did not take any steps to see if the woman provided consent for him to allegedly kiss and grope her in 2009.
  Shields was charged with one count of sexual assault in May 2016 and has pleaded not guilty in provincial court.
  Court has heard that the complainant, who can
  
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• 2016 Census: Transit use increases among Metro Vancouver commuters

  29-11-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  More Metro Vancouver commuters than ever are using public transit to get to work each day, according to the most recent release of data from the 2016 Census.
  The numbers, released on Wednesday by Statistics Canada, show that over the past 20 years, the proportion of commuters using transit in the Vancouver census metropolitan area (which stretches from Lions Bay to Langley) has gone up six percentage points — the largest increase of any census metropolitan area in Canada.
  Just over 20 per
  
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• Psst – we've checked and the Poo Fairy doesn’t exist. Bag it & Bin it & keep our City beautiful.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Psst – we've checked and the Poo Fairy doesn’t exist. Bag it & Bin it & keep our City beautiful.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Executive producer of local CW shows fired after sex harassment probe

  29-11-2017 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  Andrew Kreisberg, executive producer of several Vancouver-filmed CW superhero shows, has been fired following allegations of sexual harassment.
  Kreisberg was previously the executive producer for locally produced CW shows such as Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.
  Earlier this month, Deadline reported that “several staffers” on the team behind The Flash had come forward with complaints about Kreisberg’s conduct, with at least one source calling Kreisberg&rsquo
  
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• Anvil Centre seen as shifting New West core to a commercial downtown

  29-11-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  The owners of the Anvil Centre office tower in New Westminster say the building is now almost fully leased.
  Co-owner Suki Sekhon said recently that the 12-storey building is now 93 per cent leased, including a multi-floor deal with Douglas College.
  Completed in 2014 without pre-lease agreements, the Anvil Centre Office Tower is a 137,000-square-foot building at Columbia and Eighth streets originally developed by the city of New West. The office building sits atop the city-owned Anvil C
  
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• Repeat bad drivers in B.C. can expect dramatically longer prohibitions

  29-11-2017 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  Street racers and stunt drivers in British Columbia could lose their vehicles for up to 36 months as part of new penalties the province is imposing on bad drivers.
  The Ministry of Public Safety says starting Dec. 1 prohibitions ranging from three to 36 months will replace existing 15-day penalties for those drivers and other repeat offenders.
  The ministry says the same penalties could also be applied to a broader range of offences, including excessive speeding, driving without due care and atten
  
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• Grinches steal 50 Christmas trees from Surrey garden centre

  29-11-2017 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  The nursery at Hunters Garden Centre in Surrey is looking a lot less festive today following the theft of approximately 50 Christmas trees early Wednesday morning.
  Owner Miles Hunter says thieves made off with 50 noble firs, cleaning out his inventory, during an early morning heist at his east Newton garden centre.
  “Somebody jumped over our fence, dragged the trees over the fence and onto our neighbour’s property and then drove away,” Hunter said. “We know they dragged th
  
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• Sci-fi saga delivers a new hope for survivors in How Star Wars Saved My Life

  29-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  How Star Wars Saved My Life
  Dec. 6 to 10 | Performance Works
  Tickets and info: from $20 at starwarssavedmylife.com
  Nicholas Harrison is a local actor performing in his first one-man, self-written show. Presented by Some Assembly Theatre Company, and under the direction of Valerie Methot, How Star Wars Saved My Life is a first-person monologue in which Harrison talks about dealing with childhood trauma by following the philosophy in the Star Wars series. We talked to the 49-year-old actor about T
  
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• Here's how we're helping our youth learn about How Our City Works. ow.ly/CXIF306t9lF #CNV4ME #NorthVan @NVSD44 https://t.co/TWg5JtDVjQ

  29-11-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  
  Here's how we're helping our youth learn about How Our City Works. ow.ly/CXIF306t9lF #CNV4ME #NorthVan @NVSD44 https://t.co/TWg5JtDVjQ
  
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• Award-winning Zest rebrands as Yuwa

  29-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Yuwa Japanese Cuisine
  2775 West 16th Avenue | 604-731-9378
  Info: Open Tuesday to Sunday for dinner; yuwa.ca
  Why fix something that’s not broken? Zest Japanese restaurant had been an award-winner (four golds for Vancouver Magazine’s Best Japanese) when it closed to renovate and rebrand last June. 
  It resurfaced at September’s end, refreshed (newly upholstered bench seats, grey  green walls turned to taupe and a few other things) and under the new name, Yuwa and with a
  
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• Producer for Vancouver-shot TV shows fired amid sexual harassment allegations

  29-11-2017 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  An executive producer for several Vancouver-shot superhero shows has been fired following allegations of sexual harassment against him.
  Warner Bros. Television Group says it has terminated Andrew Kreisberg’s employment, effective immediately, after a “thorough investigation.”
  Kreisberg had been suspended from his work on “Arrow,” “Supergirl,” “The Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow” amid accusations of sexual harassment and inappropr
  
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• ART SEEN: West Vancouver Museum tells overlooked story of four brothers who became artists

  29-11-2017 19:35 via vancouversun.com
  In the image above, St. Nicholas has a sword in one hand and a shield in another. It’s Santa Claus as a warrior.
  He’s precariously balancing on his left foot. Is he about to fall over? Or go on the attack? It’s difficult to tell. 
  His opponent, by comparison, looks smaller but solid. His feet firmly are planted on some kind of rocky surface. He has a sword, much smaller than Santa’s, and a shield, also smaller. Wearing leggings and what looks like buckskins, he resem
  
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• Team Diabetes on mission to prevent disease spreading on the homefront

  29-11-2017 19:18 via vancouversun.com
  Kirstie McRae laughs out loud when asked Tuesday morning to “honestly describe” her enthusiastic colleague at the Diabetes Canada office on West 8th Avenue.
  “She’s definitely the crazier one,” McRae declares, pointing at a grinning Carling Watson, who declines to protest. “I mean, she just signed up to a do a 50K in Squamish (next August). Who does that on a whim?”
  Watson, looking around the third-floor Vancouver office that’s being renovated as yo
  
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• Vancouver council expected to vote on "bold" 10-year housing strategy

  29-11-2017 19:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council is expected to vote Wednesday on a 10-year housing strategy.
  The comprehensive Housing Vancouver strategy, more than a year in the making, seeks to address everything from combating homelessness and revitalizing low-density residential neighbourhoods, to taming real estate speculation and increasing rental housing stock.
  Related
  Supply alone won't fix Vancouver housing crisis, says chief plannerGlobal money hit Vancouver real estate 'like a ton of bricks,' Mayor'Sea change
  
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• Celebrate The Season - It's your one-stop for all City events and activities. Check it out: cnv.org/CelebrateTheSe…… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Celebrate The Season - It's your one-stop for all City events and activities. Check it out: cnv.org/CelebrateTheSe…… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C.'s mental health detention system violating charter rights: report

  29-11-2017 16:55 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A new report says British Columbia’s system for detaining people with mental health issues is violating their charter rights.
  Report author Laura Johnston, a lawyer with the Community Legal Assistance Society, says the problems with the provincial Mental Health Act include people in care being put in solitary confinement or involuntarily given treatments like electroconvulsive therapy.
  The report also found that female patients routinely have their clothes removed by male
  
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• Coquihalla reopens to southbound traffic from Merritt to Othello Tunnels

  29-11-2017 16:15 via vancouversun.com
  One lane is now open to southbound traffic on the Coquihalla Highway.
  Emergency Crews have been responding to a semi truck fire two kilometres west of the Carolin Mines exit.
  The fire had earlier closed both sides of the highway for several hours.
  According to the Ministry of Environment, an estimated 20,000 litres of corrosive liquid leaked from the semi truck. The liquid has been contained and is being cleaned up.
  The right-most southbound lane is closed 500 metres south of the Sowaqua ch
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you use an app that disables your smartphone while driving?

  29-11-2017 15:16 via vancouversun.com
  In the New Year, the provincial government and ICBC will test new technology that disables smartphones while driving. The pilot project is aimed at finding solutions to stop people from calling and texting, among other activities, while behind the wheel. For the program, set to launch in January, 200 volunteer ICBC customers will use phone apps paired with telematics that block the use of a hand-held device when the technology senses that the vehicle is moving. The end result could be that drive
  
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• Sample of B.C. farmed-salmon ‘blood water’ tests positive for virus: critic

  29-11-2017 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  Video of “blood water” being pumped into the ocean near Campbell River is prompting the province to take a look at the farmed-fish processing plant it came from.The video, recorded by photographer Tavish Campbell, shows red effluent going into the water near the Browns Bay Packing Company, which processes farmed Atlantic salmon, at its plant near Campbell River
  Campbell said samples taken from the site were analyzed by the Atlantic Veterinary College and tested positive for piscine
  
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• B.C. attorney general orders ICBC to investigate claims linked to casino money-laundering probe

  29-11-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby has ordered ICBC to investigate a number of car accident and injury claim cases after reviewing an investigative report provided by Postmedia News.
  Postmedia’s review of civil forfeiture cases involving a Vancouver used auto dealer, and numerous individual car accident and ICBC claims cases, points to a network of individuals with connections to Paul King Jin, the suspect at the centre of RCMP’s investigation into money laundering in B.C. casinos.
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• Live: Coquihalla reopens to southbound traffic from Merritt to Othello Tunnels

  29-11-2017 07:22 via vancouversun.com
  One lane is now open to southbound traffic on the Coquihalla Highway.
  Emergency Crews have been responding to a semi truck fire two kilometres west of the Carolin Mines exit.
  The fire had earlier closed both sides of the highway for several hours.
  According to the Ministry of Environment, an estimated 20,000 litres of corrosive liquid leaked from the semi truck. The liquid has been contained and is being cleaned up.
  The right-most southbound lane is closed 500 metres south of the Sowaqua ch
  
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• 'Time to move on and allow others to lead': PoCo mayor Greg Moore to step aside in 2018

  29-11-2017 06:47 via vancouversun.com
  Port Coquitlam will have a new mayor in 2018.
  Tuesday evening, Greg Moore, who’s sat in the mayor’s chair since 2007, announced who would not run for re-election in next year’s municipal poll.
  “I am excited to share that I will be moving onto a different career path using all that I have gained from this incredible experience. It has been 16 years that I will have served my community and Metro Vancouver — 6 years as a City Councillor, 10 years as Mayor, and seven ye
  
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• Dog walker rescued after two nights in Coquitlam back country describes ordeal

  29-11-2017 06:34 via vancouversun.com
  A Coquitlam woman who spent two nights in the backcountry is praising the people who put their lives on the line to save her and says she learned a valuable lesson she hopes will impact how others treat B.C.’s outdoors. 
  Annette Poitras, 56, was reported missing Nov. 20 after she hiked up Eagle Mountain in Coquitlam with a trio of dogs — a border collie named Chloe, a puggle named Bubba and a boxer named Roxy. Speaking by phone Tuesday evening, Poitras described the ha
  
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• Supply alone won't fix Vancouver housing crisis, says chief planner

  29-11-2017 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  As Vancouver real estate has soared out of reach of most locals in recent years, some high-profile figures have attested the only way to solve the problem is correcting the city’s housing supply shortage. Others have argued for interventions on the demand side. The debate has, at times, become heated.
  On Tuesday, Vancouver’s chief planner staked out a position, saying the city can’t build its way out of its housing crisis by focusing solely on increasing supply — it&
  
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• Opinion: Still a long way to go in managing mental illness

  29-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Despite remarkable advances, there is still no perfect art or science in dealing with mental health issues.    
  I grew up in India and our house was not too far away from what they called the Mental Quarters. We would regularly see patients travelling in a convoy of carts chained into seating positions, being transported to outings or other places for services. Onlookers saw them as people to be feared or ridiculed. The image always stuck with me. Many societies had special l
  
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• Opinion: Overcoming the cost of regulatory paralysis

  29-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  “Time is money” is a phrase you might hear when the boss is complaining about your productivity (or the lack of it). In that instance, you might understand it to mean: “Let’s not be standing around when we could be doing something productive.”
  But in economic theory, the same aphorism might be a reminder that it’s just as expensive to let your money stand around when it could be out earning a return. In that sense, people talk about the “time value of mo
  
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• Opinion: Investor confidence plummets for B.C.'s energy sector

  29-11-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Investor confidence in British Columbia’s energy sector is crucial, as the province is rich with vast natural gas resources. But according to this year’s Fraser Institute Global Petroleum Survey, B.C. ranks dead last among Canadian provinces in investment attractiveness in the oil and gas sector.
  With tanker moratoriums, LNG plant cancellations, calls for a fracking review, and a government dedicated to pipeline obstructionism, it’s not surprising that investors are deeply wary
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Budget surplus shrinking as NDP makes good on spending promises

  29-11-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Finance Minister Carole James started her update on provincial finances Wednesday with the good news that B.C.’s superior economic performance has continued under the early days of NDP government.
  “The most important piece that I want to begin with is the fact that this second quarter report shows continued stable economic growth in B.C.,” James told reporters gathered in the press theatre at the legislature.
  “If you look at jobs, if you look at exports,
  
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• Vancouver police issue sex offender warning

  29-11-2017 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are warning the public about 35-year-old Kristjon Otto Olson, a sex offender who is living in the city.
  According to a VPD media release, Olson “poses a significant risk for committing sexual offences against children.”
  The Correctional Services of Canada has assessed Olson at a very high risk of reoffending and says children and teenagers, both female and male, are at risk. Strangers, acquaintances, intimate partners and the general public are at risk.
  He is of abor
  
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• DYK, there's a Sky Wheel coming to The Shipyards Dec 2 & 3? Brought to you by the #LowerLonsdaleBusinessAssociation… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  DYK, there's a Sky Wheel coming to The Shipyards Dec 2 & 3? Brought to you by the #LowerLonsdaleBusinessAssociation… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Live: Coquihalla still closed to southbound travel from Merritt to Othello Tunnels

  29-11-2017 01:47 via vancouversun.com
  The Coquihalla Highway is closed to southbound traffic from Merritt to the Othello Tunnels, east of Hope, due to a vehicle fire.
  Emergency Crews are responding to a semi truck fire two kilometres west of the Carolin Mines exit.
  The fire had earlier closed both sides of the highway for several hours.Drive B.C. says there is no detour available at this time, but Highway 1 or Highway 3 could be used as an alternate route. 
  Check Drive B.C.’s website for the latest updates.
  Meanwhile
  
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• B.C. man ordered extradited to the U.S. on money-laundering charges

  29-11-2017 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has ordered a B.C. man to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges he laundered millions in drug profits.
  The extradition case involving Glenn Harley Scheck heard that there were 23 alleged transactions in which investigators with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a co-operating witness received and transferred large amounts of cash on instructions from the accused.
  It’s alleged that money was picked up at various locations in the U.S. and delivered to locations in Cali
  
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• B.C. government's surplus projection shrinks

  29-11-2017 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Finance Minster Carole James says she’s still optimistic her NDP government can afford to implement big-ticket election promises like $10-a-day child care, even though she’s had to dip into the province’s forecast allowance to keep the budget from sinking into the red.
  James unveiled the government’s second quarter financial results Tuesday, which project a $190 million surplus, down from $246 million in the NDP’s September budget update. Lower
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Learning from the past is as important as governments saying sorry

  29-11-2017 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  Over the years governments have made a number of apologies for past wrongs inflicted on minority communities. Tuesday’s apology by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the LGBTQ community is only the latest.
  Previously, Ottawa has apologized and compensated First Nations children who were forced into residential schools, as well as Japanese-Canadians rounded up and sent either to internment camps or to Japan during the Second World War.
  The B.C. government apologized and compensated former res
  
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• Rescue association blames B.C. wildfires for spike in songbirds hitting windows

  29-11-2017 01:04 via vancouversun.com
  The Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. in Burnaby is blaming summer wildfires for an unusual spike in the number of songbirds flying into office and residential windows and being brought in for medical care.
  The association suspects that the extensive wildfires may have pushed the songbirds off their normal migratory patterns, diverting them through Metro Vancouver and into the dangers of an urban metropolis. The wildlife rehab organization reports receiving 664 songbirds since August, whi
  
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• North Vancouver auto shop owner living her dreams - North Shore News

  29-11-2017 00:51 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver auto shop owner living her dreams
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  Red Seal certified auto technician Leah Gillanders is blazing a trail in the industry with her North Vancouver shop, Leah's Automotive. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. Leah's Automotive Awared o2.jpg. Leah Gillanders works on a car at her North ...
  
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• Ho Ho Ho. The City knows how to host a Christmas Festival. Join us tons of free family fun at The Shipyards Dec 2nd… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Ho Ho Ho. The City knows how to host a Christmas Festival. Join us tons of free family fun at The Shipyards Dec 2nd… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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