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• Winter storm warning issued for parts of Fraser Valley

  10-01-2018 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  A winter storm warning has been issued for the eastern part of the Fraser Valley.
  Environment Canada says a colder air mass combined with the overriding moisture will create the potential for significant snowfall with the risk of freezing rain on Thursday in Chilliwack and Hope.
  “At the moment it’s not certain how far the Arctic front will push into the Fraser Valley, nor where the rain-snow boundary and the greatest risk for freezing rain will be on Thursday,” the federal
  
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• Rash of Thefts Overnight in North Vancouver bit.ly/2EsuRxV #NorthVancouver

  10-01-2018 22:22 via twitter.com
  Rash of Thefts Overnight in North Vancouverbit.ly/2EsuRxV#NorthVancouver
  
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• This Just In: Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Cream Ex, Dans un Jardin Mirabella Foaming Bath and KIEHL'S Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado

  10-01-2018 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  Sulwhasoo
  Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Cream Ex
  They say: The brand’s bestselling cream gets an upgrade in celebration of 50 years of ginseng research with the new “Ex” version. The formulation features Compound K and Ginsenoside Re to deliver both”physical anti-aging”  and “spiritual anti-aging.” Suitable for all skin types. 
  We say: If you’re looking for a rich face cream that doesn’t feel heavy on skin, this
  
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• Man convicted in gang-related kidnapping gets sentenced reduced

  10-01-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  A man convicted in a gang-related kidnapping in Vancouver has had his jail sentence reduced on appeal.
  Van Van Vu was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the November 2011 abduction of Eric Low, and kidnapping and assault causing bodily harm.
  In July 2015, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barbara Fisher sentenced Vu to four years and eight months in prison.
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence by about a month — 38 days — after finding that there was a mistake in calculating
  
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• Child pricked by discarded needle at Victoria McDonald's restaurant

  10-01-2018 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Police are investigating after a three-year-old child was pricked by a syringe Monday at a McDonald’s restaurant in Victoria.
  The parents, who said they were responding to their crying child in the eatery in the 900-block of Pandora Avenue, saw an uncapped syringe, said Victoria police spokesman Const. Matt Rutherford.
  The child was taken to hospital and has since been released.
  Dr. Murray Fyfe, Island Health medical health officer, said the child will likely undergo blood
  
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• Things to do in Metro Vancouver this week: SYML, The Dumpling King, We Hunt Buffalo, and more

  10-01-2018 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do? Check out our list of concerts, plays and family activities happening around Metro Vancouver between Jan. 11-17.
  OUR PICKS:1. SYML
  Jan. 12, 8 p.m. | The Cultch
  Tickets and info: From $22.50, tickets.thecultch.com
  Extra points if you knew that this moniker of Seattle-based singer/songwriter Brian Fennell translates as the Welsh for “simple.” As a founding member of the indie rock band Barcelona, Fennell saw a fair bit of success with pop song placement in
  
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• Masked robbers steal marijuana from licensed grow-op in Abbotsford

  10-01-2018 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating after three masked men robbed a licensed marijuana grow-op in Abbotsford early Wednesday morning.
  The call reporting the home invasion in the 2200-block of Windsor Street came shortly before 4:30 a.m.
  A resident called the police to report that he and his teenage son were sleeping when three masked men brandishing firearms broke into their home, and tied them up. 
  Police say the men robbed the dad and son of an undisclosed amount of marijuana and their 2011 white Fo
  
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• Passenger threatened with scissors on Vancouver SkyTrain

  10-01-2018 20:41 via vancouversun.com
  Transit police are hoping the public can help identify a man who allegedly threatened a SkyTrain passenger with a pair of scissors.
  Police say a 24-year-old man was confronted by a scissor-wielding assailant after boarding an eastbound SkyTrain at Nanaimo station at around 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 7.
  Transit police released a photo of a man alleged to have threatened a SkyTrain passenger with scissors on Dec. 7.
  “He looked up to see a man standing over him, allegedly with a pair of scis
  
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• Metro Vancouver home prices to jump in 2018, pushed by low inventory

  10-01-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  Home prices in Metro Vancouver are expected to rise again in 2018, as “exceptionally” low inventory pushes up cost, according to Royal Lepage’s latest market forecast.
  The real estate agency’s survey, released Wednesday, says prices increased in the fourth quarter of 2017, and predicts prices will continue to go up by 5.2 per cent by the end of the year.
  The survey found that the aggregate home price in Greater Vancouver increased 8.2 per cent to $1,267,769 in the three m
  
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• Vancouver police say Stanley Park stabbing death was premeditated

  10-01-2018 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police allege the stabbing death of a man on Vancouver’s Stanley Park seawall last February was premeditated.
  VPD Superintendent Mike Porteous spoke at a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday to address why the suspect in the homicide of 61-year-old dog walker Lubomir Kunik has been charged with first-degree murder.
  Porteous said investigators know a specific motive for the killing, but are withholding the information because the case is before the courts.
  “I cannot spe
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP search for missing man - Vancouver Sun

  10-01-2018 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  North Vancouver RCMP search for missing man
  Vancouver Sun
  Jutte, who had just recently moved to B.C. from Ontario, hasn't been heard from since he was last seen Sept. 8 on the North Shore. “Police and family are concerned about his well-being,” North Van RCMP said in a news release. Jutte, who was previously ...and more »
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP search for missing man

  10-01-2018 20:24 via vancouversun.com
  North Vancouver RCMP is investigating the disappearance of  20-year-old Andrew Jutte.
  Jutte, who had just recently moved to B.C. from Ontario, has not been heard from since he was last seen Sept. 8 on the North Shore.
  “Police and family are concerned about his well-being,” North Vancouver RCMP said in a release.
  Jutte, who was previously reported missing August, is described by police as a white male, 5-foot-5 and 125 pounds, with black hair and green eyes.
  Anyone with know
  
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• Tomorrow is the last day to apply for a small grant to activate a public space on Jan 27. ow.ly/XmcK30hyXRn… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  Tomorrow is the last day to apply for a small grant to activate a public space on Jan 27. ow.ly/XmcK30hyXRn… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Art Napoleon spills the beans on Moosemeat & Marmalade

  10-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Moosemeat & Marmalade
  Jan. 18 (season premiere) | APTN
  Now in its third season, Moosemeat & Marmalade asks the question: What happens when a First Nations Canadian cook gets together with a British-born chef? The APTN show features Art Napoleon and Dan Hayes as they travel, share cooking tips and eat. We talked to Napoleon about the show’s longevity, how he learned to cook and hearing his voice dubbed in French:
  Q: When you first started, did you think the show would last this long
  
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• Did you miss last night's public hearing on the #Maplewood Village Centre amendments? Video of the hearing is now a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 19:56 via twitter.com
  Did you miss last night's public hearing on the #Maplewood Village Centre amendments? Video of the hearing is now a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Have you seen Andrew Jutte? bit.ly/2Frmxjm #NorthVancouver

  10-01-2018 19:44 via twitter.com
  Have you seen Andrew Jutte?bit.ly/2Frmxjm#NorthVancouver
  
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• Please note that this is the RESCHEDULED date (the closure was originally planned for Jan 10, but had to be revised… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 19:42 via twitter.com
  Please note that this is the RESCHEDULED date (the closure was originally planned for Jan 10, but had to be revised… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Montroyal Blvd will be closed between Skyline Dr and Glencanyon Dr from Tue, Jan 16 at 8pm to Wed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 19:16 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Montroyal Blvd will be closed between Skyline Dr and Glencanyon Dr from Tue, Jan 16 at 8pm to Wed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Snowfall warnings posted for several B.C. highways

  10-01-2018 18:17 via vancouversun.com
  Drivers travelling on several B.C. highways are being urged to take caution because of snow. 
  Early Wednesday morning, Environment Canada posted special weather statements for several major routes, including Highway 3, and the Coquihalla and Sea to Sky highways.
  The federal weather agency says an approaching storm will move across southern B.C. on Thursday, bringing snow to many parts of the southwestern Interior and Kootenay regions, and highway mountain passes.
  Snow will begin overnight W
  
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• We've got new art in the #AtriumGallery at City Hall. Stop by Jan 17 for #ArtistTalk w/ Bev Ellis.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  We've got new art in the #AtriumGallery at City Hall. Stop by Jan 17 for #ArtistTalk w/ Bev Ellis.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• How stressed is your skin?

  10-01-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  How stressed is your skin? Well, you need only glance in the mirror to answer that.   
  “We wear our stress on our faces,” Dr. Mark Lupin of Cosmedica in Victoria, says. “And stress can wear us down, leading to a more tired look.” 
  Dr. Lupin says the overall effect of a prolonged period of stress, like the recent Christmas season, perhaps, or a single event such as buying or selling a home, can have similarly severe effects on the skin. 
  “Bey
  
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• Daily Poll: Should faith-based hospitals that receive government funding be required to provide assisted dying?

  10-01-2018 17:37 via vancouversun.com
  The debate over whether faith-based hospitals that are tax-payer funded should be allowed to opt out of assisted dying practices has been reignited. According to a Canadian Press report, a man being transferred last spring from St. Paul’s Hospital  in Vancouver was at risk of losing his capacity to consent to an assisted death. The man requested assistance on a Saturday but the paperwork was not filled out until four days later. According to the report, when the man arrived at Vancouv
  
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• Style Q&A: B.C.-based body-care brand goes big on natural beauty

  10-01-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  How healthy are the products you’re putting on your body?
  That’s a question more and more consumers appear to be asking as the natural-product industry continues to boom. And Canada has become a hot spot for all-natural options.
  K’pure naturals is one such homegrown brand. Based in Mission, the line offers organic and natural skin, baby and body-care products. Karen Johnson, the company’s founder, chatted with Postmedia News about her brand, going natural and wh
  
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• Lesbian and bisexual girls lack adequate information on safe-sex practices: UBC study

  10-01-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lesbian and bisexual teenage girls are not getting adequate information about safe sex despite facing an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections and adolescent pregnancy, says the author of a new University of B.C. study. 
  The study, which used data from online focus groups involving 160 lesbian and bisexual girls ages 14 to 18 in the United States, examined the reasons why girls are opting not to use barriers such as female condoms or dental dams to prevent STIs during female-to-
  
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• Black Boys show dives deep into queer black male experience

  10-01-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Black Boys
  Jan. 17-20, The Cultch
  Tickets: $22 | thecultch.com
  Black Boys want you to know what it’s like to be a queer black man.
  And you guessed it. It’s not easy.
  The Saga Collectif’s and Buddies in Bad Times’s timely and evocative show was first mounted at Toronto in the fall of 2016 and is now about to relaunch with a national theatre tour beginning in Vancouver, at The Cultch, on Jan. 17.
  Written and performed by Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah Ben M’Cart
  
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• Masked suspects steal marijuana from licensed grow-op in Abbotsford

  10-01-2018 16:38 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating after three masked suspects robbed a a licensed marijuana grow-op in Abbotsford early Wednesday morning.
  Officers were called out to the 2200-block of Windsor Street for a report of a home invasion shortly before 4:30 a.m.
  A resident called the police to report that he and his teenage son were sleeping when three masked men brandishing firearms broke into their home, and tied them up. 
  Police say the suspects robbed the dad and son of an undisclosed amount of mariju
  
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• Home prices in Metro Vancouver expected to rise in 2018

  10-01-2018 16:24 via vancouversun.com
  Home prices in Metro Vancouver are expected to rise again in 2018, as “exceptionally” low inventory pushes up cost, according to Royal Lepage’s latest market forecast.
   
  The real estate agency’s survey, released Wednesday, says prices increased in the fourth quarter of 2017, and predicts prices will continue to go up by 5.2 per cent by the end of the year.
   
  The survey found that the aggregate home price in Greater Vancouver increased 8.2 per cent to $1,267,769
  
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• Ice rink, hotel, restaurants highlight new Lower Lonsdale development

  10-01-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The opening of a hotel, two restaurants, shops and the region’s largest public ice rink at a North Shore development taking shape will complete Lower Lonsdale’s transformation into one of the region’s top gathering spots, says North Vancouver’s mayor and the developers of Lot 5.
  Located at the historic Shipyards District, Lot 5 is a $35-million, four-level commercial complex just east of the Lonsdale Quay Market and SeaBus Terminal.
  Being developed by Quay Property Manage
  
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• Dan Fumano: If foreign home ownership is a $45-billion 'tip of the iceberg,' Vancouver expert hopes 'we're not on the Titanic'

  10-01-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  If $45 billion in foreign-owned Metro Vancouver housing represents the “tip of the iceberg” — to use the recent words of one federal official — then Andy Yan is a bit worried about what’s under the water.
  Yan, director of Simon Fraser University’s City Program, spent the past three weeks “drilling deep” into gigabytes of raw data on Vancouver property ownership, released last month by Statistics Canada.
  Yan’s analysis shows that the
  
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• Emergency experts set on improving dismal odds of survival in highrises

  10-01-2018 05:20 via vancouversun.com
  Tony Fagan died precisely the same way his mom did many years earlier: from cardiac arrest after doing laps in a swimming pool. Both were rushed to St. Paul’s Hospital, except Fagan was successfully resuscitated by paramedics within three minutes of his heart stopping.
  En route to the hospital, paramedics actually shocked his heart numerous times to restart it.
  The Lafarge concrete-truck operator — now on medical leave — says in the minutes before his heart stopped, he was hype
  
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• Opinion: Nearly four decades after the Bentall Centre tragedy, construction workers continue to die

  10-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Thirty-seven years ago this week, four men said goodbye to their families, put on their tools and hardhats, and went to work building one of Vancouver’s legendary highrises.
  Their families would never see them again because a few hours later, they were dead.
  The four carpenters — Gunther Couvreux, Donald Davis, Yrjo Mitrunen and Brian Stevenson — were working on the top of the Bentall Centre IV tower when the fly form that supported them suddenly broke away, sending them 36 flo
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Bacon to remain in jail pending April trial

  10-01-2018 04:51 via vancouversun.com
  I wasn’t sure which way Justice Catherine Wedge would rule on Jamie Bacon’s bail application. After a two-day hearing in December, she reserved her decision until Tuesday morning.
  She laid out her reasons in a lot of detail, all of which is under ban.
  And then she denied Bacon bail. It is important to remember that despite Bacon’s notoriety, he is presumed innocent on the outstanding charge he faces. It is expected to be a jury trial.
  Here’s my story:Red Scorpions gangste
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Bellringer anxious to plug into B.C. Hydro's accounts

  10-01-2018 04:25 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Auditor General Carol Bellringer ended the year by securing the backing from two legislature committees for a full-blown audit of B.C. Hydro, a first for the independent watchdog.
  A budget increase of $600,000 spread over two years to hire additional audit staff is subject to formal approval in the spring session of the legislature.
  But that’s a foregone conclusion, given both the timely nature of the exercise and all-party support from both the public accounts and fi
  
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• Skier rescued after breaking leg in avalanche on Mount Seymour

  10-01-2018 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  North Shore Rescue says a man caught in an avalanche Tuesday afternoon on Mount Seymour suffered a broken leg.
  According to NSR social media, the skier was near the First Pump Ski Trail — not part of the Mount Seymour ski area but in Mount Seymour Provincial Park and maintained by B.C. Parks — when he was caught in a small avalanche. NSR initially classified it as “class 2,” meaning it could bury a person.
  The skier fell around 200 metres, hit a tree and broke one of his
  
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• Rescue underway after skier breaks leg in avalanche on Mount Seymour

  10-01-2018 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  North Shore Rescue say a man caught in an avalanche Tuesday afternoon on Mount Seymour suffered a broken leg.
  According to NSR social media, the skier was near the First Pump Ski Trail — not part of the Mount Seymour ski area but in Mount Seymour Provincial Park and maintained by B.C. Parks — when he was caught in a small avalanche. NSR initially classified it as “class 2,” meaning it could bury a person.
  The skier fell around 200 metres, hit a tree and broke one of his f
  
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• Emergency experts set on improving dismal odds of survival in highrise condos, apartments

  10-01-2018 02:51 via vancouversun.com
  Tony Fagan died precisely the same way his mom did many years earlier: from cardiac arrest after doing laps in a swimming pool. Both were rushed to St. Paul’s Hospital, except Fagan was successfully resuscitated by paramedics within three minutes of his heart stopping.
  En route to the hospital, paramedics actually shocked his heart numerous times to restart it.
  The Lafarge concrete-truck operator — now on medical leave — says in the minutes before his heart stopped, he was hype
  
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• Opinion: Column on girls' death in Oak Bay missed the mark

  10-01-2018 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  I am always dismayed when I see journalists misrepresenting the effect of court proceedings, particularly where they are clearly just capitalizing on trauma and sensationalizing misery. The murder of these two little girls on Christmas was an utter tragedy, and most certainly we wish someone had perceived in advance that it was preventable, foreseeable, or even conceivable. As it stands, however, it was none of those.
  Ian Mulgrew’s commentary published January 4 not only misses the mark; i
  
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• RCMP can access Craigslist documents: B.C. Court of Appeal

  10-01-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  Following a lengthy court battle, the B.C. Court of Appeal has released a ruling in support of a bid by the RCMP to get records from Craigslist related to a criminal offence allegedly committed in B.C.
  A Mountie went to the Provincial Court seeking the production order for the American Internet classified advertising service in connection with an investigation where it’s alleged an accused placed an online ad to attract clients to the accused’s criminal enterprise.
  The officer wanted
  
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• Food Scraps don't belong in your garbage. All these items go in your #GreenCan. cnv.org/GreenCan #NorthVan https://t.co/jeP8eWG230

  10-01-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  
  Food Scraps don't belong in your garbage. All these items go in your #GreenCan.cnv.org/GreenCan #NorthVan https://t.co/jeP8eWG230
  
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• Man charged in 2017 Stanley Park seawall stabbing death

  10-01-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  Charges have been filed in the stabbing death of a man on Vancouver’s Stanley Park seawall between Second and Third beaches last February.
  A dogwalker found Lubomir “Lubo” Kunik, 61, suffering from stab wounds around 11 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2017. He later died at the scene.
  Police said he was the second murder victim of 2017 in Vancouver.
  On Monday, Tyler Anthony Lagimodiere, 29, was charged with first-degree murder.
  Lagimodiere appeared at the Vancouver courthouse on Monday. H
  
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• Surrey residents oppose development at golf course

  10-01-2018 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  A group of Surrey residents who live near the Coyote Creek golf course say a proposed multi-family development will ruin the character of their neighbourhood, jamming up nearby roads and schools, and destroying wildlife habitat.
  “This development is not wanted in our community,” said Orval Baskerville, co-chair of the Coyote Creek Action Committee and vice-president of the Sequoia Ridge at Coyote Creek strata.
  The proposal from Anthem Properties is to build 325 homes — 46 duple
  
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