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• 2017: A year in classical music

  27-12-2017 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s burgeoning classical music scene had its hits and misses during 2017. There was also what seemed like an inordinate amount of administrative change, events that can’t help but shape the seasons to come.
  For sheer drama, the year at Vancouver Opera was something exceptional. The idea of an intensive Opera Festival in the spring had its strengths: the chance to hear Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and a rare (for Vancouver) performance of Verdi’s Otello. But vari
  
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• RCMP release sketch in alleged assault on South Surrey student

  27-12-2017 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  Police in Surrey have released a sketch of a suspect in an alleged assault on a student near Earl Marriott Secondary School last week.
  On Dec. 21, the 16-year-old girl was walking in Alderwood Park, in the 1700-block of Lilac Drive, when she was grabbed by an unknown man who appeared to have been following her.
  Alderwood Park in Surrey.
  She ran away from the suspect toward the nearby high school and police were called out to the area, but he managed to flee before they arrived.
  The RCMP special
  
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• Cowichan Search and Rescue needs new home

  27-12-2017 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  Cowichan’s growing search-and-rescue outfit needs a new home — but not because they’re growing.
  The real reason is somewhat ironic: prompted by the record-setting 2017 fire season, the Cowichan Valley Regional District decided they needed a better facility in case they needed an emergency operations centre.
  Cowichan Search and Rescue’s facility, which is at the regional district’s Bings Creek, solid-waste management facility, just at the northwestern edge of Duncan,
  
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• Okay now what? What do with the restless kids & visiting relatives? Check out our events calendar #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-12-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Okay now what? What do with the restless kids & visiting relatives? Check out our events calendar #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Capilano Road crash knocks out power for 1,300

  27-12-2017 21:38
  
  North Vancouver RCMP are investigating a head-on collision on Capilano Road that sent one driver to hospital Tuesday night, and knocked out power to more than a thousand homes.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks 2018 lookahead

  27-12-2017 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  Paul Chapman and Ed Willes talk about the year to come for the Vancouver Canucks.
  
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• #SnowAngels, time to don those wings again to clear & salt the sidewalks. #NorthVan #HelpaNeighbour #TistheSeason https://t.co/gOGtSqY1YA

  27-12-2017 21:01 via twitter.com
  
  #SnowAngels, time to don those wings again to clear & salt the sidewalks. #NorthVan #HelpaNeighbour #TistheSeason https://t.co/gOGtSqY1YA
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Industrial property market 'terrible' for tenants — 'I can't really sugarcoat that'

  27-12-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  In October, 2016, National Concrete Accessories started searching for an industrial space for a new branch in the Surrey-Langley area.
  It took six months to find a location near the Golden Ears Bridge that met their needs for warehousing, storage and showroom space. It could have taken much longer.
  The maker and distributor of concrete equipment was lucky to find a decent space in what is becoming a seriously constrained industrial property market, and one that stakeholders say will experience l
  
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• B.C. Lions year in review

  27-12-2017 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  Paul Chapman and Ed Willes talk about the year that was for the B.C. Lions.
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps year in review

  27-12-2017 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  Paul Chapman and Ed Willes talk about the year that was for the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks year in review

  27-12-2017 20:28 via vancouversun.com
  Paul Chapman and Ed Willes talk about the year that was for the Vancouver Canucks.
  
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• Cowichan Search and Rescue needs a new home

  27-12-2017 20:26 via vancouversun.com
  Cowichan’s growing search and rescue outfit needs a new home — but not because they’re growing.
  The real reason is somewhat ironic: prompted by the record-setting 2017 fire season, the Cowichan Valley Regional District decided they needed a better facility in case they needed an emergency operations centre.
  Cowichan Search and Rescue’s facility, which is at the regional district’s Bings Creek solid waste management facility, just at the northwestern edge of Duncan,
  
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• Own a business in the City? Don't forget to renew business licence by Dec 31. It's fast & easy to renew online:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-12-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Own a business in the City? Don't forget to renew business licence by Dec 31. It's fast & easy to renew online:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Style in the City: Cedar Atkins

  27-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
   Name: Cedar Atkins
  Occupation: Personal Wardrobe Stylist
  Personal style in one word: Modern-rocker-chic-edgy-masculine-glamour
  Social media: Instagram on @theedgeoflovely 
  Love Cedar’s look? Here’s how to recreate it. 
  The blazerA chic, tailored blazer gets a fresh new feel from a bold pop of colour. Wear this piece like Cedar has here with black and white separates to let it stand out, or, pair it with similar tones of red for a stylish, monochromatic look.
  $195
  
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• Conversations with Lee Maracle will make the reader think

  27-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  My Conversations with Canadians
  Lee Maracle | Book Thug Publishers
  $20, 170 pages
  Don’t call them Indians. They have their own distinct nations, languages and identities that do not depend on Columbus’s confusion. They are the descendants of this continent’s first peoples, the remnants of a much larger pre-contact population, survivors of both the military attacks and filthy epidemics that arrived with European settlement, the child abuse and cultural genocide of the residentia
  
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• Top 10 new restaurants in Metro Vancouver for 2017

  27-12-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’m usually speeding down the fast lane keeping pace with restaurants opening in a perilous industry, but at this time of the year I do a quick shoulder check.
  It’s been another year of cautious optimism, mostly casual affairs except when backed by a high-end hotel (Botanist at Fairmont Pacific Rim, venues at Parq Vancouver, Mott 32 at Trump International). But it’s in the casual arena that Vancouver finds its soul. It’s a matter of making it sing.
  Consider my favour
  
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• Changing tastes prompting new park designs in Coquitlam and other cities

  27-12-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cities across Canada are rethinking their park spaces as play changes, replacing teeter-totters, golf courses and baseball diamonds with space for cricket, pickleball and play structures for all ages.
  Coquitlam has set a goal of having a park or greenspace within a five-minute walk of all residents. The Metro Vancouver suburb recently redeveloped Rochester Park with a natural wood playground, zipline, trails, and sheltered picnic space in an example of how the city is trying to meet diverse need
  
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• Abbotsford mom-to-be has been missing for a year

  27-12-2017 18:53 via vancouversun.com
  It’s been exactly one year since Marie Stuart was last seen.
  Wednesday, Abbotsford Police put out a renewed call for information about the missing 39-year-old, who was last seen walking on South Fraser Way near Seven Oaks Mall at 3 p.m. on Dec. 27, 2016.
  Stuart was pregnant at the time and both the due date for the baby’s birth as well as her own birthdate have passed.
  “Obviously it’s been a trying time,” APD spokesman Ian MacDonald said Wednesday. “(Her famil
  
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• Wednesday morning snow may give way to afternoon rain in Metro Vancouver

  27-12-2017 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  Snow is falling across much of Metro Vancouver, and while it’s sticking for now, if you’re near the water it is likely to switch to rain later in the day.
  Environment Canada is predicting as much as five centimetres of snow will fall in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley during the day on Wednesday, with rain possibly developing in the afternoon.
  But a second wave of snow is expected to hit overnight, bringing as much as 10 centimetres of snow for higher elevations in Metro and as
  
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• Got new electronics for Christmas? Recycle your old ones for FREE at the Recycling Depot or a Return-it Depot.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-12-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Got new electronics for Christmas? Recycle your old ones for FREE at the Recycling Depot or a Return-it Depot.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Car accident in North Vancouver leaves hundreds in the dark on Boxing Day

  27-12-2017 17:27 via globalnews.ca
  About 1300 BC Hydro customers were in the dark overnight after a car accident resulted in damage to hydro poles in North Vancouver.
  
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• Law firm says expertise needed to track fraudster assets

  27-12-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  Collecting fines from fraudsters takes patience and a willingness to dig deeply, according to debt collections specialist Speigel Nichols Fox LLP.
  The Mississauga, Ont.-law firm has 29 years of experience collecting for financial institutions and other creditors and was hired last spring by the Ontario Securities Commission in a two-year pilot program to help boost the province’s collections of penalties from fraudsters.
  The OSC — as well as the B.C. Securities Commission — can
  
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• Vancouver musicians pay tribute to Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip on New Year's Eve

  27-12-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Metropolis Noir New Year’s Eve: An Evening of the Tragically Hip Songs
  Dec. 31/Rickshaw Theatre
  Tickets: $17 at ticketfly.com or 1-888-732-1682 (also at Highlife, Neptoon Records, Red Cat and Zulu Records)
  This past year marked the deaths of a number of influential musicians. Tom Petty, Chris Cornell and Chuck Berry, among others, died. For many Canadian music fans, though, the loss in October of Gord Downie weighs heaviest.
  David Cotton performed in a tribute to the Tragically Hip singer
  
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• Two sisters, ages 4 and 6, found dead in Oak Bay apartment

  27-12-2017 06:55 via vancouversun.com
  Two sisters, ages four and six, have been found dead in Oak Bay and their father is in police custody.
  The bodies of Chloe Berry, 6, and Aubrey Berry, 4, were found by police on Christmas Day in a ground-floor apartment at 1400 Beach Dr.
  Their father, Andrew Berry, 43, was taken to hospital, under police guard, with self-inflicted wounds. He was found by officers after they entered the apartment searching for the girls.
  The children’s mother, Sarah Cotton, was in a bitter custody batt
  
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• Two children found dead in Oak Bay double homicide: Police

  27-12-2017 06:55 via vancouversun.com
  Two children are dead and their father is injured in what police are investigating as homicides and an attempted suicide on Christmas Day. The young girls, ages four and six, were found dead in the ground-floor apartment at 1400 Beach Dr. around 5 p.m., when police entered the suite.
  The father was found with self-inflicted injuries in an attempted suicide, sources close to the family told the Times Colonist. The father was taken to hospital under police guard.
  The Vancouver Island Integrated Ma
  
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• Snow, freezing rain on the way for South Coast

  27-12-2017 03:16 via vancouversun.com
  Get ready for another drop of snow — and get extra ready for what comes after it.
  Environment Canada is predicting 5 to 10 centimetres of snow will fall in an area spanning from eastern Vancouver Island, to the Sunshine Coast, Whistler, Abbotsford and south to U.S. border beginning late Tuesday or early Wednesday because of a front advancing from the west.
  Later Wednesday, a second front, moving from the southwest, will move in to the region and could “re-intensify” the snowfal
  
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• Opinion: Taking the path less followed

  27-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  A month ago, I had the honour of sitting down with the NDP cabinet and Premier John Horgan. I gave a detailed presentation why proceeding with Site C would be costly and risky. Curiously, after the cabinet meeting the only followup involved questions from specific MLAs — not inquiries from the cabinet or their staff.
  Sadly, the most important issues were not addressed — the availability of billions of dollars from the sale of the Columbia River energy and capacity the province has in
  
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• Opinion: Populism and grizzly bears

  27-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The recent decision by the B.C. government to ban the regulated grizzly hunt to all but Indigenous hunters is a prime example of populism.
  The Cambridge Dictionary defines “populism” as: Political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people by giving them what they want.
  The ideas are often put forward in the absence of science or analysis of the long-term policy implications.
  The threshold for populism is often driven by “popular support”
  
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• Opinion: Branding takes risk in venturing into social issues

  27-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
   When company chief marketing officers and advertising agencies speak these days about changing the culture with the advertising they create, they come across as wanting to bite off more than they can chew.
  Truth is, culture has a way of shifting on its own over time and is often best observed through the rear view mirror of time. Occasionally, momentous social events might accelerate cultural change. But rarely does it happen at the behest of orchestrated marketing forces.
  Yet, some purvey
  
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• Bargain hunters work off the turkey with Boxing Day madness

  27-12-2017 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  For Bruce Lu, the hardest thing about Boxing Day shopping was trying to stuff a 65-inch TV into a cab. 
  Lu and friend Jeremy Grant came to the busy Best Buy in downtown Vancouver with an objective and a plan, which they executed like clockwork. 
  “We checked out the deals online, but came down in person so we can get our hands on the TV immediately,” said Lu, as Grant and the cab driver folded the back seat of the van to fit the bulky box in diagonally.
  Unlike the few dozen
  
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• See a City non-emergency problem that needs fixing? We've got an app 4 that #CityFix: cnv.org/CityFix .… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-12-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  See a City non-emergency problem that needs fixing? We've got an app 4 that #CityFix: cnv.org/CityFix .… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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