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• Missing woman's parents plead for help: 'Who would want to spend Christmas wondering where their girl is?'

  06-12-2017 23:56 via vancouversun.com
  For the sake of her three young children, the parents of missing woman Nicole Bell are begging for answers about their daughter’s whereabouts so the family can have peace this holiday season.
  “Who would want to spend Christmas wondering where their girl is? My grandchildren deserve to know one day where their mother is. Nicole’s dad and I love her and miss her,” Bell’s mother Jane Aubertin said in an emotional letter released Wednesday.
  “I am asking anyone wit
  
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• Metro Vancouver weather: Think sun, sun, sun for two straight weeks

  06-12-2017 23:36 via vancouversun.com
  It’s beginning to look a lot like sunshine, everywhere you go — at least for the next couple weeks around Metro Vancouver.
  The long-range forecast is for a lengthy period of high pressure, bringing bright, sunny skies and cool but comfortable temperatures across the Lower Mainland and eastern Fraser Valley.
  Daytime highs are expected around 7 to as high as 10 degrees Celsius in Vancouver, with overnight lows around the freezing mark.
  The Weather Network shows the trend continuing for
  
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• Here are B.C.'s 14 top restaurants according to a cross-Canada ranking

  06-12-2017 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  The west coast is the best coast – and maybe the most delicious coast, too?
  A total of 14 B.C. restaurants are ranked among the best 100 dining rooms across the country, according to a new year-end list. The ranking was compiled by online reservation system OpenTable and were based on more than 500,000 restaurant reviews submitted by diners for more than 2,000 Canadian restaurants.
  “Canada has truly come into its own as a global dining destination and that is evident in the cali
  
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• Impressive turnout at the 2017 Builders Forum for discussions around the new Energy Step Code regulations.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  Impressive turnout at the 2017 Builders Forum for discussions around the new Energy Step Code regulations.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 5 Things to Do in Metro Vancouver: Dec. 8 to 14

  06-12-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  How Star Wars Saved My Life
  Dec 6 — 10, 8 p.m.; Dec. 9, 10, 2 and 8 p.m. | Performance Works, Granville Island
  Tickets and info: From $21.69 at starwarssavedmylife.com
  As a child, Nicholas Harrison suffered serious trauma after sexual and physical abuse from priests. In this show directed by Valerie Methot and presented by Some Assembly Theatre Company, Harrison draws on his own experiences of how the film Star Wars was key to his coping and healing. The play’s ultimate message is t
  
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• Did you miss last night's public hearing for a proposed townhouse development at 1031-1045 Ridgewood Drive? Video f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 21:28 via twitter.com
  Did you miss last night's public hearing for a proposed townhouse development at 1031-1045 Ridgewood Drive? Video f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver police unveil massive seizure of guns, drugs and bombs

  06-12-2017 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  Police have made a significant seizure of guns, drugs, explosive devices and stolen property from suspects allegedly involved in the Lower Mainland gang conflict.
  Vancouver police and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit hosted a news conference Wednesday morning where they unveiled the seizure of weapons and stolen property. Other items that were found included marijuana plants and bulletproof vests.
  No charges have been laid and no suspect names have been released.
  Guns seized in VPD/C
  
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• Top 20 Christmas songs for your seasonal mixtape

  06-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In early November, the local Starbuck’s by the office started playing a Christmas mix. The net effect of this is that by the time Dec. 25 rolls around I won’t want to hear George Michael’s breathy Last Christmas, Paul McCartney’s revolting saccharine Wonderful Christmas Time or any version of Jingle Bell Rock ever again.
  As for Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, it may somehow seem to fit the season, but a moratorium should be declared on that track for at least a few gene
  
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• Today is the day! Join us to discuss the proposed options for the Harry Jerome Neighbourhood Lands tonight 5:30-8:3… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Today is the day! Join us to discuss the proposed options for the Harry Jerome Neighbourhood Lands tonight 5:30-8:3… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• This Just In: Hard Candy Fierce Effects Daring Lip Kit

  06-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hard Candy
  Fierce Effects Daring Lip Kit
  They say: A lip kit packaged in a cute studded tin, this offering includes a Lip Artiste Lip Liner and dual-ended Fierce Effects Lipstick Duo.
  We say: Lip kits continue to be a hot commodity in the beauty world — after all, who wouldn’t want a perfectly matched lipstick-and-liner combo? Our tester was pleased with how smooth the liner applied. No broken lines or chalky feel here. The double-ended lipstick, which features a matte and
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Gifts for the wine lover

  06-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Still looking for an exceptional wine gift. Marquis Wine Cellars has some terrific ideas featuring a Bollinger Gift Set with Champagne Flutes. The beautiful looking package or box contains a stellar bottle of Bollinger Special Cuvee NV Champagne and two wine-glass-like modern champagne flutes. Special Cuvée first appeared on Bollinger labels in 1911. In any definition of a non-vintage house style in Champagne, Bollinger’s ‘Special Cuvée’ is it. The tiny bubbles a
  
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• A special Ground Blessing Ceremony for the 'Strength & Remembrance Pole Project'. The carving of the totem pole can… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 19:43 via twitter.com
  A special Ground Blessing Ceremony for the 'Strength & Remembrance Pole Project'. The carving of the totem pole can… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. politician's legacy lives on in $25M hospital donation

  06-12-2017 19:24 via vancouversun.com
  The family of former B.C. politician Phil Gaglardi has donated $25 million to the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation.
  The massive donation will go toward the foundation’s Future of Surgery campaign to pay for expanded surgical services and new operating rooms.
  Tom Gaglardi, the grandson of the late Phil Gaglardi and his wife Jennie, represented the Gaglardi family at an event Wednesday where the donation was announced.
  “It is vital for our city and province to deliver progressive health
  
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• Fresh faces, filmic score add new flavour to Gateway's A Christmas Carol

  06-12-2017 19:09 via vancouversun.com
  A Christmas Carol
  Dec. 7-24 | Gateway Theatre
  Tickets and info: from $29 at gatewaytheatre.com and 604-270-1812
  Including Gateway Theatre’s, at least three different versions of A Christmas Carol are playing on Vancouver stages this month. (The other two are Bah Humbug! at SFU Woodward’s and Little Dickens at the Cultch.)
  For the Gateway production, award-winning Vancouver director Rachel Peake is overseeing a cast that includes veteran stage actors (including Russell Roberts, Linda
  
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• #December6 City Hall flags at ½ mast today #NorthVan. ow.ly/YECZ306Ljzb #MyActionsMatter#NorthVan https://t.co/I4kRiOcXMS

  06-12-2017 18:02 via twitter.com
  
  #December6 City Hall flags at ½ mast today #NorthVan. ow.ly/YECZ306Ljzb #MyActionsMatter#NorthVan https://t.co/I4kRiOcXMS
  
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• Fab Five: Gifts she'll love

  06-12-2017 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  With just over two weeks to go until Dec. 25, we’re hoping you have a solid idea of what you are gifting your loved ones this Christmas — especially the women on your list. If not, you’d better start asking for some serious hints. Luckily, there’s been plenty to covet this season, so chances are, there is still a trendy, must-have item, or key piece she hasn’t bought into just yet. From easy-to-love classics to lifelong investments, Rebecca Tay shows five gifts for
  
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• Police investigating alleged racist attack Monday on Canada Line

  06-12-2017 17:18 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating an alleged racist attack that took place on the Canada Line and which has since been detailed in a viral Facebook post.
  A Richmond woman’s Facebook post, shared Tuesday morning, explained how she had just boarded the Canada Line at Waterfront Station when a man suddenly got up and began screaming insults and threats at her.
  Noor Fadel, who wears a hijab, said the man begin talking about how he was going to kill “all Muslims” and then “raised his h
  
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• Opinion: Christmas music is for December (and only December)

  06-12-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  I remember the first time I heard Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime. I didn’t care for it.
  I remember the last time I heard it, too. It was the first week of November, 2017, and I didn’t care for it then either. But I was especially troubled by the timing. November? Not that there’s any good month for this song — it’s the worst — but that’s the wrong month, for sure.
  Christmas music is for Christmas. Christmas is in December. Christmas music
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you support B.C.'s guidelines on recreational weed?

  06-12-2017 16:22 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government unveiled its plans Tuesday for how it would regulate recreational weed once it is legalized next year.
  The minimum age for possessing, buying and consuming recreational weed will be 19, and the province plans to oversee distribution in the same way they do for liquor in B.C.
  Related
  B.C. government unveils plan to regulate recreational potPublic and private retailers will also be allowed to sell recreational marijuana, and it will be up to each city to figure out how that wil
  
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• Police investigating after shots fired in Surrey, one man injured

  06-12-2017 15:36 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey police are investigating after a man was injured in a shooting late Tuesday evening.
  Around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Surrey RCMP were called to the intersection of 148 Street and 64 Avenue for a report of shots fired in Newton.
  Early investigation suggests one man was hit and that a dark coloured sedan was spotted fleeing the area westbound. Police have not yet shared any details about a possible suspect or suspects.
  “Officers are conducting neighbourhood canvassing and speaking with witn
  
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• Half of Canadian women experience workplace sexual harassment, says new poll

  06-12-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Half of women working in Canada say they have experienced sexual harassment over their careers, according to a new poll from Insights West.
  Facebook timelines lit up with #MeToo posts last month, as more and more women felt comfortable speaking about sexual misconduct they’ve experienced, often in the workplace. At the height of that social media movement, it became clear that the majority of women have had these experiences.
  These numbers, from an online study conducted among 451 Can
  
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• Dan Fumano: Experts say tax system 'incentivizes free-riding,' while Vancouver considers change

  06-12-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The idea of a property surtax linked to income taxes was proposed almost two years ago by several local academics as a way to bring more fairness to the famously unaffordable world of Vancouver real estate.
  Proponents say the surtax would be good for those who live and work here. The people forced to pay more under the change, they say, would mostly be wealthy foreign owners who purchase Vancouver real estate to stash their money or those who avoid paying Canadian taxes in various ways.
  The
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Man injured in Surrey shooting

  06-12-2017 09:28 via vancouversun.com
  A man was injured in a shooting in Newton about 8 pm Tuesday, Surrey RCMP said in a release.
  Mounties responded to a report of shots fired in the intersection of 148 Street and 64 Ave. 
   
  “The initial investigation has revealed that a male has been shot and a dark-coloured sedan was seen fleeing the area westbound.  There are no other suspect descriptions available at this time,” Sgt. Steve Pebernat said.
   
  “Officers are conducting neighbourhood ca
  
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• Longtime B.C. judge Jim Jardine remembered as 'a lawyer's lawyer'

  06-12-2017 07:59 via vancouversun.com
  A longtime Surrey judge who successfully prosecuted two of B.C.’s biggest terrorism cases has died after a short illness.
  Jim Jardine, 70, was a well-known Vancouver prosecutor and defence lawyer before being appointed to the B.C. Provincial Court in 1997.
  He prosecuted the so-called Squamish Five from 1983 to 1985, winning convictions against members of the Direct Action group for two 1982 bombings that caused millions of dollars in damage and left several people injured.
  The self-s
  
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• B.C. government unveils plan to regulate recreational pot

  06-12-2017 04:29 via vancouversun.com
  Recreational marijuana will be available for sale at private and public retail outlets to people age 19 and older once the drug becomes legal next year, said the B.C. government. 
  With legalization looming in July 2018, Solicitor-General Mike Farnworth unveiled details Tuesday on how B.C. plans to deal with the distribution and sale of non-medical pot — a move that would require amending or introducing 18 bills in the legislature. 
  “There’s a lot of work that needs to
  
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• Huge turnout tonight. Thanks for coming out, builders, contractors and designers. We’ll have the materials online… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 03:54 via twitter.com
  Huge turnout tonight.Thanks for coming out, builders, contractors and designers.We’ll have the materials online… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal to get $250-million overhaul

  06-12-2017 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  With the Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo run as popular as ever and population estimates showing an explosion in future demand on the Langdale service, B.C. Ferries is set to propose a $250-million project to rebuild the West Vancouver terminal while also hoping to avoid fare increases.
  In a wide-ranging discussion Tuesday with the editorial board of The Vancouver Sun and Province, B.C. Ferries CEO Mark Collins admitted “we’ve got a serious infrastructure challenge at Horseshoe Bay.”
  
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• B.C. woman saved after falling from vehicle, spending 12 hours clinging to cliff

  06-12-2017 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  VERNON, B.C. — A British Columbia woman is expected to “be just fine” after spending a night outside when her vehicle drove off a North Okanagan highway early Monday afternoon.
  Rescue crews pulled the woman to safety Tuesday morning, at least 12 hours after her SUV left Highway 6 about 100 kilometres east of Vernon.
  Leigh Pearson, a manager with Vernon Search and Rescue, says the woman’s husband went looking for her after she failed to turn up for dinner and eventually sp
  
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• Opinion: Violence against women concerns us all

  06-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canada was shaken 28 years ago by the violent mass murder of 14 young women at École Polytechnique, generating awareness on the ongoing social issue of gender-based violence and misogyny.
  On Dec. 6, we commemorate and honour the lives of everyone who has died from gender-based violence and the intersection of systemic discrimination such as homophobia, poverty, and racism, including discrimination against Indigenous Peoples. Today is also about asking why acts of violence against women ar
  
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• Opinion: Vancouver needs more public pools, not fewer

  06-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Flabbergasted: to be overcome with surprise and bewilderment.
  On Dec. 11 the Vancouver park board will meet to consider its “VanSplash” aquatics strategy. While VanSplash contains many exciting elements, at least 4,000 flabbergasted swimmers have already communicated to the parks board their bewilderment over its plan to reduce neighbourhood recreational opportunities by demolition of the Lord Byng and Templeton pools.
  How can a city that aspires to be the world’s “greene
  
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• Victim's family outraged as Whistler killer gets seven-year jail sentence

  06-12-2017 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  Members of Luka Gordic’s family are outraged at the seven-year prison sentence meted out to the killer of the Burnaby teen, storming out of a Vancouver courtroom in anger Tuesday as Arvin Golic learned of his fate.
  At the outset of her ruling, after B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mary Humphries announced she was sentencing Golic to seven years in prison for the manslaughter of the 19-year-old Gordic, there was a commotion in the high-security Vancouver courtroom.
  People began shouting and
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver comes up dry drilling NDP over deep well credits

  06-12-2017 02:29 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For the final question period of the fall legislature session, Green leader Andrew Weaver challenged the New Democrats over continuing some hefty subsides for natural gas drilling that were inherited from the B.C. Liberals.
  “Every year the B.C. government doles out hundreds of millions of dollars to oil and gas companies to subsidize horizontal drilling in the northeast of our province,” Weaver began, citing the credits offered to encourage drilling of deeper we
  
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• It's looking very sparkly & twinkly down here at City Hall with our 12 foot Christmas Tree all decked out. Stroll d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 01:45 via twitter.com
  It's looking very sparkly & twinkly down here at City Hall with our 12 foot Christmas Tree all decked out. Stroll d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Opinion: Trudeau learns hard lesson on disappointing trip to China

  06-12-2017 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  The unexpected setback in agreeing to begin negotiations on an eventual bilateral trade deal between Canada and China is a vivid reminder that for such negotiations to eventually succeed, both sides must see such an agreement being beneficial to their interests and long-term needs.
  Unfortunately, many believe that the Trudeau government and pertinent Canadian trade negotiators, simply failed to properly understand some of the attitudes and long-term goals underlying the policies of the ruling au
  
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• Former Fraser Health chief Dr. Nigel Murray facing fraud probe in New Zealand over expense claims

  06-12-2017 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  Dr. Nigel Murray, the former chief executive officer of Fraser Health who resigned three years ago from his high-paid post in B.C. to take a similar job in New Zealand, has resigned again and remains under a cloud of suspicion there over excessive, unauthorized expense claims.
  Murray was the highest paid ($444,000 total compensation) health authority CEO when he worked in B.C. from 2007 to 2014. He then moved back to his native New Zealand but resigned as the chief of the Waikato district b
  
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• Man convicted in fatal swarming of Luka Gordic receives seven years

  06-12-2017 01:08 via vancouversun.com
  Members of Luka Gordic’s family are outraged at the seven-year prison sentence meted out to the killer of the Burnaby teen, storming out of a Vancouver courtroom in anger Tuesday as Arvin Golic learned of his fate.
  At the outset of her ruling, after B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mary Humphries announced she was sentencing Golic to seven years in prison for the manslaughter of the 19-year-old Gordic, there was a commotion in the high-security Vancouver courtroom.
  People began shouting and
  
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• Abbotsford police selling T-shirts to raise funds for family of Const. John Davidson

  06-12-2017 01:03 via vancouversun.com
  Abbotsford police are selling T-shirts in memory of Const. John Davidson, the officer killed in an exchange of gunfire with a suspect on Nov. 6.
  Proceeds from the sale will go to support his family.
  “Part of the idea behind the shirts came from the #abbystrong T-shirts that were created after the Abbotsford Senior stabbing incident,” Const. Ian MacDonald, spokesman for the Abbotsford Police Department, said in an email.
  “Initially we thought APD members and staff would wan
  
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• Did you miss yesterday's regular Council meeting? Video of the full meeting is available on our website. ow.ly/nZek30h2uhs #NorthVan

  06-12-2017 00:23 via twitter.com
  Did you miss yesterday's regular Council meeting? Video of the full meeting is available on our website. ow.ly/nZek30h2uhs #NorthVan
  
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• We know you've been waiting for it! The 2018 Garbage / Recycling Guides are in & being distributed to you. Looking… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  We know you've been waiting for it! The 2018 Garbage / Recycling Guides are in & being distributed to you. Looking… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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