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• Family outraged that loved one's killer is applying for prison leaves six months into sentence

  03-12-2017 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  The family of a Surrey man shot and killed in a 2004 dispute is outraged that his killer is applying for supervised leave from prison just six months into a six-year sentence.
  Amandeep Bath was 27 years old on Sept. 4, 2004, when he and a friend were out at a New Westminster nightclub and began receiving calls from Bhabjit Aujla and Parminder Basran requesting they meet up. Bath and his friend refused and headed home to Surrey, where they ran into Aujla and Baran near Bath’s house.
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• Vancouver Singing Christmas Tree celebrates 50th anniversary

  03-12-2017 23:44 via vancouversun.com
  Since 1967, thousands of people have basked in the warm glow and angelic voices of the Singing Christmas Tree at Broadway Church, whose deep roots in the Lower Mainland have helped the concert grow into a lively variety show now drawing close to 20,000 spectators each winter.
  Some of its cast and crew, like 83-year-old singer Lillian Hanson, have been involved since Day 1, when the branches could hold up to 47 singers and were made with freshly cut evergreen boughs stapled to planks. The ‘
  
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• Naughty or Nice? Holiday etiquette on… office holiday parties

  03-12-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the holidays and once you throw some rum in that egg nog, things can get a little messy at the family dinner table, the company Christmas party or even shopping at the mall.
  Sharon Schweitzer is an international etiquette and manners expert.
  Here’s our five-part series Naughty or Nice?, a holiday etiquette refresher with international etiquette and manners expert Sharon Schweitzer.
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  While your holiday office party likely isn’t the stuff movies are made of (case in p
  
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• Vancouver is smart and hopes $50 million grant will make it smarter

  03-12-2017 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver over the past five years has become “smarter” through digitalization and continues to develop digital solutions to offer services, according to the city’s chief technology officer.
  One sample of how city staff use data collection to improve services is the dashboard showing daily requests for services that city manager Sadhu Johnston regularly consults, Jessie Adcock told a Greater Vancouver Board of Trade meeting on smart cities on Friday.
  At a glance, Johnston can t
  
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• Surprise, awe, intensity: B.C. sculptor offers life-sized statue in the wild as a symbol of our ecosystem

  03-12-2017 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Artist Guthrie Gloag often thinks back to an encounter in the wild when he was a field student in biology, collecting climate change data with a scientist who studied flowering plants in the alpine. 
  The group had broken camp after an overnight excursion, and were hiking out to their vehicle. There had been a light rain and the wide, clawed impressions of grizzly bear tracks were clearly visible in the soft ground along the trail they followed.
  “We walked about seven kilometres knowin
  
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• Our community events calendar is packed festive events in the City. Don't see your local event? Submit it.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-12-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Our community events calendar is packed festive events in the City. Don't see your local event? Submit it.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Naughty or Nice? Holiday etiquette on… how to tip

  03-12-2017 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the holidays and once you throw some rum in that egg nog, things can get a little messy at the family dinner table, the company Christmas party or even shopping at the mall.
  Sharon Schweitzer is an international etiquette and manners expert.
  Here’s our five-part series Naughty or Nice?, a holiday etiquette refresher with international etiquette and manners expert Sharon Schweitzer.
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  It’s easy to buy gifts for family and friends that we know well, but what about the
  
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• Here's Jill to tell you about our next fun event at #CityHall. We're decking the Hall and filling it with elf fans!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-12-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Here's Jill to tell you about our next fun event at #CityHall. We're decking the Hall and filling it with elf fans!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Not flightless but homeless: Bird rescue desperately seeking new home

  03-12-2017 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  Squawk! Polly wants a cracker – and a new home.
  It appears Vancouver’s housing shortage has hit even our colourfully feathered friends at the Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary, where 100 parrots will be homeless unless rescuers can find a new home for their bird rescue.
  The sanctuary’s lease is up soon at month’s end and the east Vancouver warehouse they now call home will soon be torn down, according to Greyhaven spokeswoman Jan Robson.
  The 100 remaining birds arrived as p
  
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• What You Need to Know: Santa Claus is coming to Vancouver – today!

  03-12-2017 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you want to clock in some face time with Santa to make sure you’re on the nice list this year, you can do so this afternoon.
  That’s right – it’s time for the annual Vancouver Santa Clause Parade!
  When is it happening?
  The annual Vancouver Santa Claus Parade takes place this afternoon – Sunday, Dec. 3 – beginning at 12 p.m.
  Where does the parade start?
  Santa starts his journey at the North Pole, of course, but here in Vancouver, you can see him at the starti
  
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• Last chance to ride the Sky Wheel at The Shipyards 10am-8pm. Thank you @mylowerlonsdale. Rides by donation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-12-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Last chance to ride the Sky Wheel at The Shipyards 10am-8pm. Thank you @mylowerlonsdale. Rides by donation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Opinion: How do we bring about change in the age of Weinstein?

  03-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  So, now we are daily attending to the latest chapters in the Weinstein book on sexual predation. The #MeToo phenomenon has carried the sordid truth to likely unprecedented duration. And before all of this, among many too many other perpetrators relegated to history, was Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby and then Donald Trump. There are two important factors that are being missed in the media focus on each new revelatory incident and on the reactive voices.
  First is the reality th
  
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• It’s on. City Christmas Festival at the Shipyards underway. City Xmas tree lit. Oh what a night. 🎄🎉🎡. #NorthVan https://t.co/pFszZoiCeo

  03-12-2017 02:39 via twitter.com
  
  It’s on.City Christmas Festival at the Shipyards underway.City Xmas tree lit. Oh what a night. 🎄🎉🎡.#NorthVan https://t.co/pFszZoiCeo
  
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• Coroner takes issue with funeral chain program on fentanyl dangers

  03-12-2017 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Coroners Service is taking issue with a fentanyl prevention program created by a funeral services chain.
  Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services created the program, which uses “powerful, perhaps even controversial” visual aids, after one of the funeral homes in its chain reported serving four to five families every month who had lost a loved one to an overdose.
  The program includes a poster of grieving family members surrounding a coffin under a banner reading &ldq
  
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• Explore the proposed redevelopment options for the Harry Jerome Neighbourhood Lands, then take the survey. Info + s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-12-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  Explore the proposed redevelopment options for the Harry Jerome Neighbourhood Lands, then take the survey. Info + s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Rescued barge adrift off B.C. coast to be towed to Alaska, First Nation relieved

  03-12-2017 01:27 via vancouversun.com
  BELLA BELLA, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation is breathing a sigh of relief as a barge carrying millions of litres of fuel was removed from its harbour on the central coast.
  The barge broke away from a U.S.-registered tugboat, the Jake Shearer, southwest of Bella Bella last Sunday.
  Heiltsuk Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett says it’s “terrifying” to consider the damage that could have been caused if a spill occurred.
  The barge was carrying 12.5 million litres of diesel
  
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• B.C. Liberal leadership hopefuls debate plans for party's future

  03-12-2017 00:48 via vancouversun.com
  Several of the B.C. Liberals leadership hopefuls were on the defence as their fellow candidates picked apart their platforms during a heated debate in Kelowna on Saturday.
  Todd Stone and Andrew Wilkinson called out former Surrey mayor Dianne Watts for not having released her platform in the campaign that is set to wrap up in two months.
  “We are over half way through this campaign. We have yet to hear a single plan on a single topic including what your vision is,” Stone said to Watts.
  
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• Abbotsford's Islamic community rallies to support family of refugee girl killed by bus

  03-12-2017 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  Abbotsford’s Islamic community is rallying to support the family of Hala Albarhoum, the nine-year-old girl fatally hit by a transit bus in Abbotsford on Friday morning.
  A GoFundMe has been launched in collaboration with the Abbotsford Islamic Centre to support the Albarhoums, a family of Syrian refugees living in Abbotsford, where 160 refugees were resettled in 2016.
  Launched Friday night by Richmond resident Adnan Bhat, an active member of the Islamic Centre, the online fundraising c
  
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• Bombshell Jamie Bacon ruling breaks hearts of murder victims' families

  03-12-2017 00:22 via vancouversun.com
  The families of the two bystanders killed in the Surrey Six drug murders a decade ago have been left disgusted and broken-hearted after the B.C. Supreme Court threw out charges against Jamie Bacon, the man accused of being the mastermind behind the slaughter.
  Steve Brown, who lost his brother-in-law Ed Schellenberg, said Saturday that he felt numb when he heard news of the court’s ruling. He said that he is too “worn out” to be angry.
  “There is no trust lef
  
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• Folks the Christmas Festival starts in 1 hr. Grab the kids & head down to the Shipyards for some free festive famil… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-12-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  Folks the Christmas Festival starts in 1 hr. Grab the kids & head down to the Shipyards for some free festive famil… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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