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• City intends to build modular homeless shelters near Olympic Village Station

  05-01-2018 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  An empty lot near the Olympic Village SkyTrain Station has been identified as the future site for a 50-unit, temporary, modular-housing project.
  In October, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson promised to build 1,000 new social and supportive housing units before the end of 2018 to address the immediate needs of Vancouver’s growing homeless population.The new homes, which will be managed and staffed by a non-profit housing operator selected by B.C. Hous
  
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• TransCanada keeps LNG pipeline to northwest B.C. alive

  05-01-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  TransCanada continues to keep alive its $6-billion Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project to transport natural gas from northeast B.C. by pipeline to the coast despite uncertain market and economic conditions.
  Just two weeks ago, the mega-project received approval from the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office for an amendment to its project certificate for two additional main construction camps, and a standby compressor unit at each of its eight proposed compressor stations.
  The proposed 900-kil
  
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• Taking down your Christmas tree this weekend? There are lots of #treechip events across Metro. Here's a local one t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-01-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  Taking down your Christmas tree this weekend? There are lots of #treechip events across Metro. Here's a local one t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Conversations That Matter: The infrastructure deficit

  05-01-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  We have a $570-billion infrastructure deficit in Canada. Yes, that’s right, a whopping $570 billion. So what do you say? Who cares?
  Well, you should care because that infrastructure is made up of roads, bridges, tunnels, terminals, power generation plants, hospitals, schools and so much more that are related to our ability to care for, educate as well as move products and people. Without them our ability to get our products to market diminishes and in so doing we restrict our abi
  
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• Be a recycling champion in your building & help your neighbours recycle more. Contact our #ZeroWaste Coach for help… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-01-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  Be a recycling champion in your building & help your neighbours recycle more. Contact our #ZeroWaste Coach for help… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 6

  05-01-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd).
  2. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books). 
  3. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  4. Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing — Jack Knox (Heritage House).
  5. The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvi
  
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• Core services (public safety, transportation, recreation) and new infrastructure are primarily funded by your tax d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-01-2018 21:14 via twitter.com
  Core services (public safety, transportation, recreation) and new infrastructure are primarily funded by your tax d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Town Talk: Reflections on a busy 2017

  05-01-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many are photographed, not all are chosen to appear in this column. Those seen here all hit 2017’s cutting-room floor but have been retrieved to get 2018 started.
  AFTER JACK: A usual, many journalism students attended the Jack Webster Foundation’s awards banquet in October. Some may have echoed past student-attendee Marina Percy’s opinion of big-time journalists at the microphone who “stood up and told us how good their careers were.” More likely hoped that today&rs
  
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• B.C. government hiring people for province's marijuana retail business

  05-01-2018 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government will soon be weeding through resumes as the province looks to hire the right people to run its marijuana sales business.
  The province will be the sole wholesale distributor of recreational marijuana through the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch when cannabis becomes legal across the country, which is expected to happen sometime this summer.
  The B.C. Public Service Agency is advertising two jobs — executive director and director of merchandising — for the BCLDB&
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Wines of Spain flourishing under new rules

  05-01-2018 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  The 40th Vancouver International Wine Festival returns next month for an eight-day celebration of wine and food (Feb. 24 to March 4 at the Vancouver Convention Centre).
  A total of 173 wineries will participate in 51 events across Metro Vancouver, and in 2018 the focus is on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, highlighting Spain (38 wineries) and Portugal (20 wineries).
  There will be big interest in the wines of Spain and Portugal, and special event tickets are sure to sell out quickly when they go
  
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• Goodbye Christmas, hello New Year. Don't miss the @NVCFD Tree Chip-Up tomorrrow 8:30am-4:30pm Park & Tilford Rona.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-01-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  Goodbye Christmas, hello New Year. Don't miss the @NVCFD Tree Chip-Up tomorrrow 8:30am-4:30pm Park & Tilford Rona.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tea time is all the time in Canada it seems

  05-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Once upon a time in China (around 3,000 BC or so), someone had the brilliant idea of pouring boiling water over the cured leaves of the Camelia sinensis plant, thus infusing a new beverage. So began our love affair with tea.
  Initially seen as a medicinal drink, today, it’s said to be the most widely consumed beverage on the planet, after water.
  Tea’s spread from Southwest China to the rest of the world shaped global trade and economics as well as developing entirely unique cultu
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 6

  05-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Origin — Dan Brown  
  2. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  3. Year One — Nora Roberts 
  4. The Midnight Line — Lee Child
  5. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng 
  6. The Wanted — Robert Crais
  7. The People vs. Alex Cross — James Patterson
  8. Artemis — Andy Weir 
  9. Tom Clancy: Power and Empire — Marc Cameron
  10. Hardcore Twenty-Four — Janet Evanovich  
  
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• Passenger ferry would link Sidney, Gulf Islands

  05-01-2018 19:40 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — An inter-island passenger ferry between the Southern Gulf Islands and Sidney could be coming soon.
  The Capital Regional District has issued a request for proposals, looking for a business case for a pilot project.
  “The results of the pilot project will be evaluated to determine if a multi-route passenger-only ferry service is viable and how it could be funded,” the request says.
  The service could include Salt Spring Island, North Pender Island, South Pender Isla
  
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• Brian Minter: Check for AAS designation before testing new plants

  05-01-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  With so many new plant introductions coming at us each year, it’s difficult to know how any one of these plants will perform in our particular region. Unless new plant trials are carried out, with impartial critiquing, we can’t be sure of a plant’s cold hardiness, tolerance to heat, performance in wet weather, disease and pest resistance and a wealth of other criteria that would help us decide if a plant will do well in our gardens.
  Back in 1932, Ray Hastings, president of the
  
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• Got a community project, program/idea & need funding? See if your group is eligible for a Community Grant:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-01-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Got a community project, program/idea & need funding? See if your group is eligible for a Community Grant:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Richmond, Coquitlam soldier on with decades-old ban on self-serve gas pumps

  05-01-2018 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  Two B.C. cities that mandate gas stations employ attendants to pump fuel are outliers in a nation where most citizens are accustomed to do-it-yourself fill ups.
  Richmond and Coquitlam have prohibited self-service stations for decades and against multiple waves of industry pushback, including a recent salvo by Chevron Canada Ltd. for Coquitlam to revoke its regulation.
  Their choice is once more in the spotlight as Oregon shifted this week to permit some gas stations to allow drivers to refuel the
  
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• Movie Minute: I, Tonya

  05-01-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  This week Postmedia News movie critic Dana Gee and Arts and Life editor Aleesha Harris talk about the crazy biopic, I, Tonya. Based on the story of figure-skating champion Tonya Harding, I, Tonya, deserves a gold medal.CLICK HERE to report a typo.Is there more to this story? We’d like to hear from you about this or any other stories you think we should know about. Email [email protected].</p
  
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• British Airways plane with 315 aboard sustains 'total system failure' in engine while landing at YVR

  05-01-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A British Airways Boeing 747-400 with 315 passengers and crew on board experienced an engine “total system failure” while landing at Vancouver International Airport, Transport Canada files on aviation incidents in 2017 reveal.
  The passenger jet was arriving from London, England, on Nov. 30 and preparing for landing when the crew informed air-traffic control of a “progressive loss of the number-one hydraulic system fluid.”
  The crew executed procedures outlined in the Quick
  
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• How much are Vancouver's best-known properties worth?

  05-01-2018 09:39 via vancouversun.com
  With property assessments for 2018 revealed this week, let’s take a look at what some of B.C.’s most notable properties are worth.
  The Marine Building 
  Marine Building – 355 Burrard Street
  Built in 1930, the iconic Marine Building sits on a 21,266 square-foot property at the foot of Hastings Street. 
  In 2017 the building and property are worth $99,487,000 ($82,928,000 is the land itself).
  That’s a rise of over $9 million over 2016, when it was valued at $90,025,
  
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• A heralded glimpse of Vancouver, before it was Vancouver

  05-01-2018 07:17 via vancouversun.com
  Few people have ever heard of the Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News, let alone seen a copy.
  But it’s an important piece of local history, the first item ever printed in the city on Jan. 15, 1886. It’s so early it was printed three months before Vancouver became Vancouver — the future city was then known as Granville.
  Rare book dealer Stephen Lunsford may have the only copy in existence. Thursday he sold it to UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections,
  
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• Twisted path for China-to-B.C. funds revealed in real estate deal

  05-01-2018 05:06 via vancouversun.com
  The CEO of a Chinese company moved $750,000 from China to Metro Vancouver for a real estate deal with the help of nine strangers who each brought $50,000 into Canada for “tourist purposes,” according to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment.
  The judgment sets out the method through which Hong Jie “Anita” Wang, an executive in Shandong, China, transferred money for the purpose of buying a five-acre Port Coquitlam property with a B.C.-based partner.
  The B.C. realtor who acted as th
  
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• Opinion: Opioid crisis seen through the lens of adverse childhood experiences

  05-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The opioid epidemic is the biggest public health crisis to hit B.C. in decades. Upwards of four people a day are dying of overdoses, usually due to fentanyl poisoning of the street drug supply.
  To date the B.C. government has committed $322 million to address the crisis, including opening more supervised consumption sites, providing naloxone kits, urging people not to use alone, and trying to stop tainted drugs from coming into B.C.
  Another potential response, in addition, could deepen our publi
  
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• Opinion: I should be allowed to live in a tiny home if I want to

  05-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  I want to live in a tiny home. It may not be everyone’s dream to live in less than 400 square feet, but as a university student studying environmental science in Vancouver it is my dream. I believe it’s the ultimate way to live sustainably and affordably in this city. There are many benefits to living a minimalistic lifestyle from decreasing your carbon footprint and utility bill to spending less time cleaning. Unfortunately, it is not currently possible to live in a tiny home in Van
  
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• Firefighters are on scene at a structure fire on Mt Seymour Parkway. Possible people trapped. #northvan

  05-01-2018 04:59 via twitter.com
  Firefighters are on scene at a structure fire on Mt Seymour Parkway. Possible people trapped. #northvan
  
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• This week, 5 new firefighters started their initial 8 weeks of training before they will be put on shift to serve c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-01-2018 04:39 via twitter.com
  This week, 5 new firefighters started their initial 8 weeks of training before they will be put on shift to serve c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Recovered cello brings delayed Christmas cheer in Mission

  05-01-2018 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  A late night police patrol uncovered a surprise package in Ridge Meadows on Tuesday: an electronic cello, addressed to a family in Mission.
  According to a release from the RCMP, a stolen Honda Civic was found in the 22300-block of St. Anne Avenue by a Const. Brisson, shortly after midnight on Jan. 2.
  In the trunk of the Civic, a large delivery parcel.
  The constable who made the discovery contacted the family and was told the package — which hadn’t been delivered — was an expens
  
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• Fraser Health warns about rise in flu cases in seniors' homes

  05-01-2018 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  After a recent rise in flu cases, public health officials are reminding people that most health issues can be dealt with away from the region’s busy emergency rooms.
  Over the last week, Fraser Health has confirmed five cases of the flu in local residential care facilities and suspects another four people are suffering from the flu as well.
  “While seasonal increases in flu activity are expected, we remind people that if they have a non-emergency health concern they have many options i
  
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• Opinion: Canada should establish in law a social contract with veterans

  05-01-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association, an all-veteran group, is gravely concerned about the current untenable legal situation in which Canadian vets are trapped.
  Recently, a B.C. Court of Appeals overturned an earlier ruling of the B.C. Supreme Court concerning a class-action lawsuit by veterans. The court’s claim is that there is no legislation that creates a social contract between members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Government of Canada. Their finding states in most si
  
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• B.C.'s LNG region experiences assessment deflation with projects on pause

  05-01-2018 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  In a province of mostly rising property assessments, the one-time LNG boom town of Kitimat in British Columbia’s north west is in its third year of assessment deflation as plans to develop natural-gas liquefaction plants in the region remain on hold.
  Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Terrace and Tumbler Ridge are all among the northern communities to see property assessments slide by about one to almost five per cent, according to data released by B.C. Assessment this week.
  Kitimat, however, the
  
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• Homicide detectives identify Metro Vancouver's first murder victim of 2018

  05-01-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  Police have identified 47-year-old Jwada Hedar-Kadhim as the victim in Metro Vancouver’s first homicide of 2018.
  On Tuesday, just before 9 p.m., Burnaby RCMP responded to a report of a fight inside an apartment building in the 6500-block of Telford Avenue near Metrotown Station.
  Hedar-Kadhim was found lying inside the lobby, suffering from wounds sustained in a violent confrontation.  
  Related
  Homicide investigators called to murder scene in Metrotown
  “Despite all
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: B.C.'s trailblazing digital justice delivering

  05-01-2018 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  A year-and-a-half into B.C.’s trailblazing foray into digital justice, Civil Resolution Tribunal chair Shannon Salter says the new electronic legal processes appear to be working.
  “So far, so good,” Salter enthused.
  In July 2016, the tribunal took over from the B.C. Supreme Court the burden of hearing strata disputes, and on June 1 of this year it assumed from the Provincial Court handling most small claims for damages amounting to $5,000 or less.
  Half a decade in gestation, th
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Social services, the courts fail another B.C. family

  05-01-2018 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  The Christmas Day deaths of two young girls in Oak Bay underscore how frayed this province’s social safety net has become and the dangers caused by the lack of family legal aid.
  Their 43-year-old father, Andrew Robert Douglas Berry, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in what appears to have been a preventable tragedy.
  Four-year-old Aubrey and six-year-old Chloe were found in Berry’s apartment after their mother Sarah reported he had failed to bring them home.
  Th
  
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• Finger Food creates holodeck for pipeline design

  05-01-2018 00:52 via vancouversun.com
  A Port Coquitlam company has created a holographic system that allows pipeline engineers to peer beneath the surface of the earth to assess stress points and changing geological conditions that can lead to spills.
  By combining sensor data from the pipeline with raw information about the movements of earth and water in three-dimensional images, Finger Food Studios has created a Star Trek-style holodeck that allows geo-hazard experts to “see” the pipeline and the forces acting on
  
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• Oak Bay father charged in deaths of daughters appears in court

  05-01-2018 00:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — An Oak Bay father charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his young daughters on Christmas Day appeared in Victoria provincial court Thursday under heavy sheriff presence.
  Andrew Berry, 43, a thin man of medium height with thick dark hair and blue eyes, looked around the courtroom filled with members of the media during his first court appearance. His hand was bandaged but no other injuries were visible.
  Berry, who is charged with murdering Chloe, 6, and
  
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• Man in hospital after alleged hatchet attack in Surrey

  05-01-2018 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  A 50-year-old man is in hospital after an apparent hatchet attack near Central City Shopping Centre in Surrey.
  Reportedly, the man stumbled into the mall’s food court around 12:45 p.m. Thursday.
  He was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  According to Surrey RCMP, a 34-year-old man was arrested nearby. The hatchet was also recovered by police.
  Police say the two men are known to each other and they are still working to determine what led to the al
  
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• Three months in jail for man who obtained nude photos of teen girl, threatened to share them

  05-01-2018 00:39 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — A former junior hockey goaltender who obtained nude photos from a 13-year-old Kamloops girl on Snapchat and then threatened to show them to her family members has been handed a three-month jail term.
  Connor Neurauter pleaded guilty to one count of sexual interference of a person under 16 and was sentenced in provincial court in Kamloops on Thursday to 90 days behind bars. The 21-year-old’s time in jail won’t begin until May, allowing him to complete his spring semest
  
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• Fertility clinic denies allegations in lawsuit filed by surrogate mom

  05-01-2018 00:08 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. fertility clinic is defending itself against allegations that it failed to get permission from a surrogate mom to use her ovum to impregnate another woman.
  The Olive Fertility Centre says in a court document filed recently that it obtained consent from Alicia Chonn for all of the treatments that she had at the clinic.
  Chonn claims that in 2011 she agreed to act as a surrogate to carry a child for a couple, only identified as Jane and John Doe, via invitro fertilization with the help of th
  
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• Smile! A look back at this #HAPPY video produced by City residents. Spot the City site & local faces. youtu.be/BxmRHLHNjyE #TBT #NorthVan

  05-01-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  Smile! A look back at this #HAPPY video produced by City residents. Spot the City site & local faces. youtu.be/BxmRHLHNjyE #TBT #NorthVan
  
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