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• This Week in History: 1889 Two pioneer Vancouver photographers set up shop on Hastings Street

  01-12-2017 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  On Dec. 2, 1889, the Vancouver World carried a small ad for the grand opening of a new store at 227 Hastings, Bailey & Neelands.
  “Views of Vancouver and British Columbia in endless variety,” it stated. “Booklets for Vancouver with views of city and surrounding at prices from 10 cents upwards. Twelve views of Vancouver and B.C. mounted and bound in book form, for $1.50, just the thing to send east.
  “Also, a splendid assortment of Fancy Goods, Toilet Cases, Albums,
  
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• Charges stayed against Jamie Bacon in Surrey Six slayings

  01-12-2017 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A judge has stayed charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder against a man accused in the execution-style slayings of six men in Surrey.
  Jamie Bacon was accused of the first-degree murder of Corey Lal, one of six people murdered in a highrise apartment in October 2007.
  The B.C. Supreme Court released its ruling today in an application for a stay filed by Bacon.
  The evidence and reasons for the decision were sealed by the court.
  In 2014, Cody Haevischer and
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan learns through minority how to softpedal change

  01-12-2017 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan has a ready answer for New Democrats who say his support for proportional representation means the party will never again form a majority government here in B.C.
  “Well, we haven’t formed a majority government since 1996,” replied Horgan when I put that concern to him last week, having heard it voiced by several NDP supporters of late.
  Four consecutive election losses before the minority result this year. Three majorities in 15 tries und
  
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• And there is it. Will you be heading to the Shipyards to take a ride on the @mylowerlonsdale Sky Wheel this weekend… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-12-2017 23:17 via twitter.com
  And there is it. Will you be heading to the Shipyards to take a ride on the @mylowerlonsdale Sky Wheel this weekend… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. funeral chain creates program to underscore fentanyl dangers

  01-12-2017 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  LANGLEY — A funeral services chain in British Columbia is developing a program it hopes will cut the number of drug deaths related to fentanyl among children and young adults.
  Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services has created a fentanyl prevention program after a funeral home in the chain reported serving four to five families every month who had lost a loved one to an overdose in Metro Vancouver.
  The owner of the chain, Tyrel Burton, says the company felt it could no longer tolerate
  
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• Bulls&Bears: Canucks may be rolling, but Grey Cup runneth over

  01-12-2017 22:55 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It’s been a bullish week sports-wise for the country’s largest media market, with the Toronto Argonauts winning the Grey Cup last Sunday. They stunned the heavily-favoured Calgary Stampeders 27-24 in the snow at Ottawa’s TD Place — the best corporately-named football stadium in North America.
  Kudos, by the way, to the host Ottawa Redblacks, last year’s champions, who further cemented their bullish reputation as one of the three best-run franchises
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Supreme Court interveners speak for and against TWU law school

  01-12-2017 22:52 via vancouversun.com
  Humanists, atheists, lawyers, Evangelicals, Sikhs, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholic bishops, secularists, teachers, charities …
  The unprecedented list of interveners at the landmark Supreme Court of Canada hearing on freedom of religion went on and on.
  “Time for lunch,” quipped Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, after reading the lengthy docket of lawyers appearing before the nation’s highest court Friday. “We await your words of wisdom at five minutes each.”
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigate burning car

  01-12-2017 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties in Chilliwack are investigating after a burning car was discovered in the downtown core early Friday morning.
  RCMP say at around 7:15 a.m., officers received a report of a car burning in a parking lot in the 45000-block of Yale Road Chilliwack. 
  The area has been cordoned off and an investigation is underway by the Chilliwack RCMP Serious Crime officers, the Chilliwack Fire Department, and the Lower Mainland Integrated Forensic Support Team.
  Photos show a tarp over the vehicle
  
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• Join us as we kick start Christmas in the City tomorrow. Tons of free, festive family fun at the Shipyards +… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-12-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Join us as we kick start Christmas in the City tomorrow. Tons of free, festive family fun at the Shipyards +… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Holiday gift guide: The big bling

  01-12-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  No matter your budget, there’s a glinting, glamorous piece of jewelry worthy of gifting to your finest friend or loved one this holiday season. 
  While we’ve included gift-worthy options to consider individually, we’ve also broken down the buying into five overall trends. So, that way, when you hit the shops you can peruse the selections on offer with a style category in mind — rather one set item.
  Or, you could always use this roundup of recommendations as a literal
  
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• Holiday gift guide: Now smart speakers are talking back

  01-12-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  This holiday season a speaker can deliver the gift of music and more for the techie on your list.
  The newest smart speakers play music plus do everything from controlling the lights in the living room to telling you the weather forecast.
  Shopping is next on the agenda. Our American neighbours already have that service from Amazon; in Canada we’re waiting for the company to bring voice-controlled shopping across the border, rumoured to be soon.
  Meanwhile, there’s more choice for consu
  
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• Holiday gift guide: Canadian titles are a treat to receive

  01-12-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  You plan on giving the gift of books this year here’s a quick list to help narrow down the search for something to read for someone special.
  The titles here are from Canadian writers and were published in 2017.
  Memoirs
  Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home
  By Tom Wilson | Doubleday Canada
  When he was a little kid singer/songwriter Tom Wilson of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Lee Harvey Osmond and Junkhouse always wondered why his parents Bunny and Georg
  
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• Holiday gift guide: 3 tech toys to wrap up (or buy for yourself)

  01-12-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  The struggle is very real when it comes to buying presents. 
  These days, there are endless options to wade through — not to mention seemingly astronomical expectations for finding the perfect gift. 
  But, few things are sure to excite upon unboxing as a cool new tech gadget. While a laptop (so useful!), tablet (hello, Netflix) or a big-screen TV are surefire options, we’ve rounded up three buzz-worthy tech buys to pick up this holiday gifting season. No thinking outside of t
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner this year?

  01-12-2017 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  At holiday time, all the census stuff about changing families suddenly becomes real and personal.
  It’s the rare family now that is of the traditional kind (mom, dad and kids) with grandma and grandpa, uncles, aunts and cousins living nearby. Perhaps it’s why reading Dylan Thomas’s Child’s Christmas in Wales makes people of a certain age nostalgic and a bit weepy.
  “One Christmas was so much like another,” begins the poem, which is itself both nostalgic and hila
  
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• Adopt-A-School: Attendance Matters program serves breakfast to get kids to come to school

  01-12-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  Principal Angelo Morelli describes his North Surrey school as both fortress and sanctuary for the 606 children assigned to his care.
  The fortress consists of the locked exterior doors, the morning sweeps of the grounds to remove discarded needles and other unwelcome detritus, and the vigilance by staff to ensure a feeling of safety.
  Sanctuary, though, speaks of providing relief for both body and soul, and that requires far more than just locked doors.
  “In a trauma-sensitive
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Building Inspector. Click here to apply. ow.ly/GsTy30gXoHY

  01-12-2017 21:52 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Building Inspector.Click here to apply. ow.ly/GsTy30gXoHY
  
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• The Hall is officially decked! Stop by and check out all of the beautiful lights and other decorations in the atriu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-12-2017 21:24 via twitter.com
  The Hall is officially decked! Stop by and check out all of the beautiful lights and other decorations in the atriu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Girl, 9, dies after being hit by transit bus in Abbotsford

  01-12-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  A nine-year-old girl is dead after she was struck by a B.C. Transit bus in Abbotsford early Friday.
  Shortly before 8:30 a.m., Abbotsford Emergency Services responded to a collision at South Fraser Way and Hill-Tout Street involving a pedestrian who was struck at a crosswalk by a transit bus.
  Abbotsford police say when emergency crews arrived, they located a seriously injured nine-year-old girl, who was transported to hospital with critical injuries.
  The girl died in hospital shortly after a
  
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• Town Talk: Crystal Ball raises almost $3 million for children's mental health

  01-12-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  KIDS WIN: Jennifer Johnston, an interior designer and mother of three, chaired the 31st-annual Crystal Ball that reportedly raised $2,815,129 for the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation. That sum will help fund mental-health treatment at the hospital and aid physicians practicing elsewhere in B.C. The event’s west-coast-forest theme was fitting for Johnston who figuratively emerged from the bush to participate in and to chair her first gala. Raising a truckload of dough was also appr
  
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• Douglas Todd: How religion cuts into politics in B.C.

  01-12-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Did Christy Clark increase her popularity by 10 percentage points when she stopped attending Vancouver’s giant Pride parade?
  That’s one of the more spicy possibilities raised in a new book that delves into how religion makes a big difference in politics in Canada, even in unusually secular B.C.
  The authors of Religion and Canadian Party Politics, from UBC Press, devote a chapter to the ways conservative Christians have been a crucial factor in B.C.’s political dogfights, with a
  
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• Vancouver Aquarium says bacterial infection linked to Chester's death

  01-12-2017 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Aquarium says preliminary results from a necropsy show a false killer whale that died at the facility last Friday had a bacterial infection.
  An email statement from the aquarium says it appears Chester, the three-year-old false killer whale, died of erysipelas, an illness veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena says has resulted in the deaths of wild cetaceans and those in human care.
  Haulena says it is the first known case of the disease at the Vancouver Aquarium.
  Because it is infectious
  
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• Supreme Court: Interveners speak for and against Trinity Western University law school

  01-12-2017 20:47 via vancouversun.com
  Humanists, atheists, lawyers, Evangelicals, Sikhs, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholic bishops, secularists, teachers, charities …
  The unprecedented list of interveners at the landmark Supreme Court of Canada hearing on freedom of religion went on and on.
  “Time for lunch,” quipped Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, after reading the lengthy docket of lawyers appearing before the nation’s highest court Friday.
  “We await your words of wisdom at five minutes each.”
  
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• Verdict set for Dec. 20 in case of B.C. ex-Mountie charged with sexual assault

  01-12-2017 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia judge is expected to release his verdict on Dec. 20 in the case of a retired RCMP inspector charged with sexually assaulting a civilian employee in the workplace.
  Fifty-two-year-old Tim Shields, who was a high-profile spokesman for the RCMP in B.C., has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault.
  The provincial court trial heard the assault was alleged to have occurred in 2009 in a ground-floor washroom of the force’s British Columbia headquarter
  
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• Yep it's December! We're getting right into the festive spirit w/ Christmas carollers in #CivicPlaza 4:30-5:30pm to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-12-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Yep it's December! We're getting right into the festive spirit w/ Christmas carollers in #CivicPlaza 4:30-5:30pm to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• International: 15 bestselling books of the week, Dec. 2

  01-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. The Sun and Her Flowers — Rupi Kaur
  2. The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) — Jeff Kinney
  3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life — Mark Manson
  4. Wonder — RJ Palacio
  5. Origin — Dan Brown
  6. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  7. Feeding My Mother — Jann Arden
  8. Wonder Movie Tie-In Edition — RJ Palacio
  9. Turtles All the Way Dow
  
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• Holiday gift guide: Top 5 toys of the year

  01-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to get the award for coolest mom/dad/aunt/uncle/grandma/grandpa this Christmas? 
  Well, you may want to pay attention to this list then. Toy retailer Toys“R”Us has dished the details on the most in-demand toys for this holiday gifting season. Think of it as your personal cheat sheet for children’s presents — you know, to take all the guesswork out of the seemingly endless toy aisles. 
  From furry friends to creative creations, these are the five most
  
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• Fab 5: Cuddlesome cashmere

  01-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  ‘Tis the season for rich hot chocolate, waterproof boots, and cashmere. Sure, wool is warm, too, but you’ll find that a good cashmere, collected naturally from cashmere goats during their annual moulting season, is not only lighter and softer than wool, it’s also stronger and more insulating. It’s also beautiful, ultra-versatile, elevates everything from sweatpants to outerwear — and makes for the perfect gift. Rebecca Tay presents five fab cashmere styles.BLAC
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Revitalizing our city's alleys

  01-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Reimagine alleys in a major city for just a minute.
  Can you do it?
  They’re generally grungy, dark, dank places that you never want to enter let alone think about.
  Well, think again. Ackery’s Alley and Alley Oop are two back lanes that have been transformed from forgotten spaces where trash gets picked up and deliveries are made in the day and dumpster divers, drug users and sex workers roam at night.
  In downtown Vancouver there approximately 240 alleys — that&rsq
  
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• There were a LOT of rainy days in November ... 🌧️☔ twitter.com/ECCCWeatherBC/…

  01-12-2017 19:55 via twitter.com
  There were a LOT of rainy days in November ... 🌧️☔ twitter.com/ECCCWeatherBC/…
  
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• Day 2: Interveners speak for and against Trinity Western University law school

  01-12-2017 18:49 via vancouversun.com
  Humanists, atheists, lawyers, Evangelicals, Sikhs, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholic bishops, secularists, teachers, charities …
  The list of interveners at the landmark Supreme Court of Canada hearing on freedom of religion went on and on.
  “Time for lunch,” quipped Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, after reading the lengthy docket of lawyers appearing before the nation’s highest court Friday.
  “We await your words of wisdom at five minutes each.”
  The sea of bla
  
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• Not enough services for mentally ill kids, says family of struggling boy

  01-12-2017 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  A Mission family with a mentally ill nine-year-old boy is desperately worried about his future, saying there aren’t enough medical or community services to ensure he has a safe, healthy and fulfilling life. 
  “Would we not avoid self medicating and future issues of homelessness and joblessness, plus families being broken and children thrown into foster care, if we took child and teen mental illness more seriously?” Sue Potma asked in a recent interview.
  Her son Josh suffers
  
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• Join Mayor @DarrellMussatto tonight for the opening of the Park & Tilford Hi-Light Festival.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-12-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Join Mayor @DarrellMussatto tonight for the opening of the Park & Tilford Hi-Light Festival.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Laughing Stock Vineyards joins list of Okanagan wineries changing hands

  01-12-2017 17:01 via vancouversun.com
  David and Cynthia Enns were wrapping up their largest harvest ever at Laughing Stock Vineyards in the fall of 2016 when they came to the conclusion they were getting maxed out.
  Production at the boutique Naramata Bench winery in the Okanagan Valley had doubled to 10,000 cases since they started in 2003 and they were running out of room. Plus, managing the growing operation was taking a toll. They were looking for balance in their lives.
  This past February they discretely put out feelers, looking
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Dec. 2

  01-12-2017 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. The Haunting of Vancouver Island: Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side — Shanon Sinn (TouchWood Editions).
  3. Harry: A Wilderness Dog Saga — Chris Czajkowski (Harbour Publishing). 
  4. Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing — Jack Knox (Heritage House).
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• Daily Poll: Real or fake? What kind of Christmas tree will you put up this year?

  01-12-2017 16:23 via vancouversun.com
  It’s December! And that means the unofficial start to the jolly holiday season of decorating, drinking egg nog, and draping everything in twinkly lights. It’s also that time, for those who celebrate Christmas, to pick out a tree. Or as Clark W. Griswold says in the holiday film classic Christmas Vacation:
  “We’re kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter l
  
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• Vancouver Public Library librarians offer up books for gifts list

  01-12-2017 15:56 via vancouversun.com
  To help you share the gift of reading this holiday season, librarians from the Vancouver Public Library bring you this list of top picks for the whole family:
   
  Du Iz Tak by Carson Ellis.
  Du Iz Tak?
  By Carson Ellis
  Candlewick
  For little ones. The appearance of a small, green and unfamiliar sprout leads to excitement and intrigue in a community of insects. These bugs speak their own unique language and readers are encouraged to decipher the meaning of their words.
  Big Blue Forever by Anita M
  
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• 100 Christmas and holiday events around Metro Vancouver

  01-12-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  On The First Day of Christmas the Vancouver Sun and Province gave to me:
  20 Yule Dule Choirs
  35 Chinese Lanterns
  9 Christmas Craft Fairs
  One Messiah Concert
  Three Nutcracker Ballets
  13 VSO shows
  One Scuba Claus
  Five……. Million… Lights….!
  Four Pantomimes
  Three Carousels
  Two Christmas Trains
  And a Star on a Christmas Tree
  Hold onto your Santa hats and grab your calendar because you’re going to be busy this holiday season. Our list of 100 events includes Christmas
  
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• Ontario and B.C. lead employment growth in Canada

  01-12-2017 14:58 via vancouversun.com
  Canada’s unemployment rate in November fell to its lowest in nearly a decade, as Ontario and B.C. lead in employment growth, says Statistics Canada.
  The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage points to 5.9 per cent, the lowest rate since February 2008.
  The agency says 18,000 more people were employed in B.C. last month, up 3.8 per cent year over year.
  The province’s unemployment rate was little changed from the previous month at at 4.8 per cent, though stil
  
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• Five Things to Know: Police at Pride, renters considered, good riddance to November

  01-12-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Good morning. Police will march in plainclothes at next year’s Pride, renters are given their due consideration in Vancouver’s new housing strategy, and November was one of the rainiest ever in Metro Vancouver. Here are five things you need to know.
  Vancouver housing strategy focuses on rentals
  Much of the conversation surrounding Vancouver’s new housing strategy focuses on buying and selling land. But the strategy itself focuses more on renting it, reports Postmedia’s Da
  
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• North Vancouver residents in turf war with football club over proposed playing field - CBC.ca

  01-12-2017 07:33 via cbc.ca
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  North Vancouver residents in turf war with football club over proposed playing field
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  A proposed new sports field in North Vancouver is pitting soccer players against residents who don't want any more trees cut down in Lynnmour, a fast-growing neighbourhood near Lynn Creek. The District of North Vancouver says it will decide in early ...
  
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• Government considers cap on minor injury claims to 'fix' ICBC finances

  01-12-2017 03:19 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government is considering capping insurance claims on minor automobile accidents, as well as boosting eligible amounts for physiotherapy and other medical benefits, as it tries to stem rising financial losses at the Insurance Corp. of B.C.
  Attorney-General David Eby, who oversees ICBC, said a cap on the amount paid out by ICBC on minor injuries could be a key part of a suite of reforms he’s drafting to help prevent massive vehicle rate hikes from the monopoly Crow
  
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• Rentals a key focus of Vancouver's new housing strategy

  01-12-2017 02:44 via vancouversun.com
  While the buying, selling, and owning of Vancouver real estate has traditionally received greater attention, much of the city’s new 10-year housing strategy focuses on renting.
  Tenant protection measures in the new strategy, which council adopted Wednesday, were welcomed by housing advocates who say while renters make up slightly more than half of Vancouver households, they had previously been marginalized in conversations about the city’s housing crisis.
  “This strategy of
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Coleman casts for info on precarious promises to Plecas

  01-12-2017 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan was just settling into his chair in a committee room to defend the budget for his office this week when up popped Opposition leader Rich Coleman with an allegation that was as unprecedented as it was unsubstantiated.
  “I want to start with a quote,” began Coleman, who let fly with words attributed to “the member for Abbotsford South,” meaning Darryl Plecas, the former B.C. Liberal MLA now serving as Speaker of the Legislature.
  The
  
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• Van Live Year in Review: Our ten most viral stories of 2017

  01-12-2017 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  As the year winds to a close, the Van Live Team takes a look at ten of Metro Vancouver’s most viral and quirky stories in 2017. 
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  10 | Vancouver man shares possible photo of ‘The Lady in Red’, local ghost
  Is this a photo of the Hotel Vancouver’s famed Lady in Red?
  The Lady in Red, Vancouver’s most famous ghost, is said to haunt the top floors of the historic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. So when elevator mechanic Scott Graham took a picture of the buil
  
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• What happens when you realize the City #ChristmasFestival is only 2 sleeps away! ow.ly/ln3M30gVrP0 #NorthVan

  01-12-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  What happens when you realize the City #ChristmasFestival is only 2 sleeps away! ow.ly/ln3M30gVrP0 #NorthVan
  
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• South Surrey-White Rock a byelection battleground for Liberal Hogg, Tory Findlay

  01-12-2017 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  Advance voting opens on Friday for what promises to be an interesting byelection race between two former politicians in South Surrey-White Rock.
  “I think we have two very solid local candidates to choose from,” said University of the Fraser Valley political science professor Hamish Telford.
  Kerry-Lynne Findlay is running in the byelection for the Conservative party, and Gordie Hogg was acclaimed as the Liberal party candidate. The byelection is one of four taking place on Dec. 11, fo
  
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• Motown: The Musical coming to Vancouver Feb. 6-11

  01-12-2017 01:47 via vancouversun.com
  Motown: The Musical
  Feb. 6-11, Tues.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 7:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 2 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: On sale Dec. 11, 10 a.m. From $30.50 at ticketmaster.com, 1-855-985-5000
  Work Light Productions and Broadway Across Canada’s production of the hit Motown the Musical tours Canada in 2018. Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright (Dreamgirls, Blue) helms the musical jukebox show which had its Broadway premiere in 2013.
  Based upon Motown Records label founder Berry Gor
  
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• ICBC to ditch computerized assessments for drivers with medical issues

  01-12-2017 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  ICBC will soon ditch computerized assessments that help determine whether drivers with health conditions can safely continue to drive.
  Instead, the Crown corporation will opt for an enhanced on-road assessment, allowing drivers to use their own cars, upping the re-examination length from 75 minutes to 90, and allowing for a break and feedback partway through.
  The changes, announced Thursday, follow years of pressure from advocacy and seniors groups that say the computerized assessments add a lev
  
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