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• As Metro vacancy rates continue to plunge, rental costs skyrocket

  17-01-2018 23:48 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver is expected to experience North America’s second-highest increase to industrial property rental rates through 2019, while vacancy rates are expected to drop to 2.1 per cent in that same period, according to a new forecast from Cushman and Wakefield.
  In the period from 2017 to the end of 2019, Vancouver will experience an average annual rent rate increase of 8.5 per cent, the firm predicts in its North American Industrial Forecast Report, released last month.
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• Canada's solitary confinement law unconstitutional, B.C. Supreme Court rules

  17-01-2018 23:33 via vancouversun.com
  Canada’s use of prolonged solitary confinement in federal prisons is the equivalent of torture, doesn’t work and has been struck down as unconstitutional by the B.C. Supreme Court.
  In a landmark decision Wednesday, Justice Peter Leask said the legislation allowing such confinement fails to provide an independent review of segregation placements and deprives inmates of the right to counsel at segregation review hearings.
  He concluded the regime violated prisoners’ Charter of Rig
  
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• Vancouver's Canuck the crow now a sought-after film star

  17-01-2018 23:18 via vancouversun.com
  Canuck the crow, the East Van bird who rides SkyTrains when he’s not meddling in crime scenes, now finds himself flying in Hollywood circles.
  Canuck and I, a 2017 documentary that details the special bond between the crow and Vancouver resident Shawn Bergman, will be screened at the Snowtown Film Festival on Jan. 27 in Watertown, New York.
  The movie is being included in the festival as a loving nod to Viggo Mortensen, the Academy Award-nominated actor best known for playing the h
  
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• Do some good in your 'hood. Join our #CityParkStewards at #HeywoodPark Jan 27. Help remove invasive species. All we… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-01-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Do some good in your 'hood. Join our #CityParkStewards at #HeywoodPark Jan 27. Help remove invasive species. All we… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Carson Graham to host lacrosse academy in North Vancouver - North Shore News

  17-01-2018 22:37 via nsnews.com
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  Carson Graham to host lacrosse academy in North Vancouver
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  Koru Joseph, 12, Mavic Thorpe-Shaw, 12, Timo Joseph, 9 and Alexis Mellish, 17, are among the young North Shore lacrosse players who could take part in a lacrosse academy being launched in North Vancouver School District. Photo Cindy Goodman, North ...
  
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• Teenage pedestrian struck by car in Burnaby dies

  17-01-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties in Burnaby are investigating after a teenage pedestrian was struck by a car and died early Wednesday.
  A vehicle travelling north on Cariboo Road hit the 15-year-old girl shortly after 7 a.m. 
  Paramedics declared the girl dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and is co-operating with investigators.
  Investigators say they don’t yet know what caused the collision. The area around the 7200-block of Cariboo Road will remain closed as the investigation
  
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• Five reasons to check out Vancouver Opera's L'Elisir d'amore

  17-01-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)
  Jan. 21, 25, 27, various times | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: from $49, vancouveropera.ca1. L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love). In this 19th century comic opera, a poor and hapless young man attempts to win the hand of a small town beauty with the help of an elixir. L’Elisir d’amore premiered in 1832 in Milan, and was set in the Basque Country. For its production, Vancouver Opera moves the setting to a Cana
  
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• Pitchfork Social invites roots music fans to Saltspring Island

  17-01-2018 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  Pitchfork Social
  From April 26 | Salt Spring Island
  Tickets and info: pitchforksocial.comIf you ever sat in Jericho Park on a warm July night at sunset taking in the Vancouver Folk Music Festival,  you know how much the setting can add to enjoying the sounds. Festivals the world over select locations boasting both value and view for a reason.
  Here in B.C., we are blessed with many such venues. One of the coolest has to be the Pitchfork Social.
  Billed as a place “where singers, songwri
  
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• Geek Girls director Gina Hara sheds light on distaff side of nerd subcultures

  17-01-2018 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  Geek Girls
  Jan. 26-31 | Cinematheque
  Tickets and info: From $10,  thecinematheque.caGeek Girls is a new feature-length documentary that delves into the whys and wherefores of female nerds. In the film, Montreal-based director Gina Hara interviews gamers, cosplayers, bloggers and more, on subjects ranging from sexism to seeing Star Wars more than 100 times. Postmedia News talked to Hara about the film.
  Q: What is your entryway into geek culture?
  A: I’ve been interested in tech and comp
  
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• David Spade on the art of the not-so-easy laugh

  17-01-2018 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  Adam Sandler with David Spade, Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson
  Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m. | Orpheum Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $125 at ticketmaster.caIf there is one consistent feature to the characters that comedian David Spade has created, it’s their razor-sharp sarcasm. Whether firing off barbs as viper-tongued executive assistant Dennis Finch in Just Shoot Me or performing in skits on Saturday Night Live, the man has a way with his direct, deadpan delivery.
  To some degree, he shares this w
  
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• January is Alzheimer Awareness month. You can help reduce stigma by being patient and offering help. ilivewithdemen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-01-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  January is Alzheimer Awareness month. You can help reduce stigma by being patient and offering help. ilivewithdemen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Spice Girls: 20 years later, many things have changed — except the need for girl power

  17-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A lot happened in the 1990s.
  The Berlin Wall came down, Nelson Mandela got out of jail while OJ Simpson and Bill Clinton avoided jail, Princess Diana died, a cloned sheep was born and five young women from London told us that girl power was what they wanted. Really, really wanted.
  Yes, I’m talking about Mel C, Posh Spice, Baby Spice, Scary Spice and Ginger Spice, a.k.a. the Spice Girls.
  Now, don’t go scrambling to the back of your closet looking for your Union Jack mini-dresses. I&rs
  
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• Classical music: Vancouver Opera's L’Elisir d’amore a bel canto masterpiece

  17-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  L’Elisir d’amore
  Jan. 21, 2 p.m., Jan. 25 & 27, 7:30 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $49, at vancouveropera.caVancouver Opera brings Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore to the stage of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre this month in a three-show production, opening, non-traditionally, with a Sunday matinee on January 21.
  Elisir hasn’t been heard here for years, which is more than enough reason to revive the 1832 masterwork. It’s also a
  
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• B.C. byelection: Kelowna West voters will elect new MLA on Valentine's Day

  17-01-2018 19:42 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan has set a date of Feb. 14 for a byelection in the provincial riding of Kelowna West.
  The seat became vacant in July when former premier Christy Clark resigned as MLA and quit as leader of the B.C. Liberals after her party lost a June confidence vote in the aftermath of the provincial election, which had delivered a hung parliament.
  Clark had held the Kelowna West seat since winning a 2013 byelection which made necessary after her defeat in her home Point Grey riding
  
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• Man facing criminal charges after two Vancouver police officers injured

  17-01-2018 19:17 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been arrested after two VPD officers were injured during a violent confrontation early Monday morning in downtown Vancouver.
  One of the officers is still recovering in hospital.
  Police say shortly before 2 a.m., two officers were parked on Granville Street near Helmcken Street when they were confronted by a man in an agitated state.
  Police allege the man caused multiple injuries to the officers. One officer sustained a compound leg fracture and  the other sprained several fin
  
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• Got lunch plans? Join Bev Ellis TODAY @ 12:15pm for an Artist Talk presentation at City Hall.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-01-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Got lunch plans? Join Bev Ellis TODAY @ 12:15pm for an Artist Talk presentation at City Hall.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pedestrians struck in Burnaby, Surrey and North Vancouver on stormy Wednesday - Globalnews.ca

  17-01-2018 17:57 via globalnews.ca
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  Pedestrians struck in Burnaby, Surrey and North Vancouver on stormy Wednesday
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  Many emergency response vehicles were on scene, and police tape was up in the area. Cariboo remains closed in both directions above Highway 1 from Stormont Avenue to Briar Road. Traffic in the area is being rerouted. Story continues below. Police are ...and more »
  
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• Pedestrian struck by vehicle at St. George & E Esplanade - expect traffic delays. Reminder to both walk with reflec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-01-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  Pedestrian struck by vehicle at St. George & E Esplanade - expect traffic delays. Reminder to both walk with reflec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you visit Vancouver's Trump Tower following the president's racist remarks?

  17-01-2018 15:47 via vancouversun.com
  Bad Yelp reviews for the Trump Champagne Lounge at Vancouver’s Trump Tower have been pouring in since the U.S. president’s racist “shithole countries” remarks. Similar reviews have been posted for other Trump establishments, according to a post by Postmedia’s Harrison Mooney. So we’re asking whether Trump’s racist comments would affect whether you visit the Vancouver business.Take Our Poll
   
  
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• Body found in trunk of burnt out car near Trail

  17-01-2018 06:07 via vancouversun.com
  A body has been found inside the trunk of a burnt out vehicle, left abandoned and set ablaze on Highway 22 this past weekend, according to a release from Trail and Greater District RCMP.
  While details are scarce, the death is being treated as suspicious. It is unclear if it is a male or a female.
  Shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday, The Trail and Greater Regional Fire Department responded to a report of a vehicle fire just outside the Genelle Flats on the Southbound shoulder of Highway 22, approximat
  
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• 15-year-old bystander killed in shootout mourned by family and friends

  17-01-2018 05:48 via vancouversun.com
  The 15-year-old caught in the crossfire of a shooting along a busy Vancouver street Saturday night was remembered by those who knew him as a polite, respectful, church-going boy with a bright future. 
  Alfred Wong was struck by a stray bullet while riding in his parents’ car after a family night out. He died in hospital Monday after his family made the decision to take him off life support. 
  The Pinetree Secondary School student was a gifted student, according to one account poste
  
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• Opinion: Housing affordability? It’s time for province to offer both long-term promises and short-term solutions

  17-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  What should the B.C. government be doing to create more affordable housing in Vancouver? This is a question I, and many other so-called housing experts, are being asked daily as we await next month’s provincial budget.
  Given that the Liberal government lost the last election because it paid insufficient attention to housing affordability, British Columbians are hoping for many housing announcements in the budget. But really, what can, or should the B.C. government, be doing to make housing
  
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• Labour shortage suffocating 90-year-old North Vancouver restaurant - Globalnews.ca

  17-01-2018 04:01 via globalnews.ca
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  Labour shortage suffocating 90-year-old North Vancouver restaurant
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  WATCH: As B.C.'s restaurants struggle with a labour shortage, the industry is talking about changing the way it treats its employees to attract more workers. Jordan Armstrong reports. X. - A A +. Listen. The Tomahawk Barbeque in North Vancouver has ...
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Finding ways to toll, we mean pay, for transit projects

  17-01-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan was a study in caution Tuesday, reacting to some iffy proposals to reduce traffic congestion and pay for increased transportation services in Metro Vancouver.
  The proposals came in an interim report from the independent commission on mobility pricing, appointed by the regional mayors’ council in the wake of the last provincial election.
  Despite the massive length — 162 pages including four appendices — the commission only managed to nar
  
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• Vancouver's Trump Tower a 'shithole', say Yelp reviewers

  17-01-2018 03:40 via vancouversun.com
  According to a recent surge in Yelp reviews for the Trump Champagne Lounge at Vancouver’s Trump Tower, the place is a “total shithole.”
  Donald Trump made international headlines last week when racist comments he made about immigrants leaked out to the media. In a meeting, Trump asked why the United States should take in migrants from “shithole countries,” including Haiti and African nations, rather than overwhelmingly white nations like Norway.
  Trump said days
  
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• They called him Mr. Nightside: Former Vancouver Sun editor Bruce Smillie passes away

  17-01-2018 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  Newspapers could be pretty intense places in the 1970s.
  “People were still throwing typewriters and screaming at each other in the newsroom in those days,” recalls Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer. “It wasn’t exactly the pinnacle of kinder, gentler human-resources relations.”
  Recognizing that this might intimidate some young journalists, The Sun made Bruce Smillie the night city editor. A father of seven, his calm demeanour and easy way with people made him a f
  
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• Circumstantial evidence enough to convict in gangland shooting: Crown

  17-01-2018 03:23 via vancouversun.com
  A young man charged with attempting to murder gangster Matin Pouyan in 2015 had gunshot residue on his hands when he was arrested hours after the shooting.
  That is just one of the pieces of circumstantial evidence that should be used to convict Thomas Duong, Crown prosecutor Joe Bellows argued in closing submissions Tuesday.
  Duong is on trial in Richmond Provincial Court for attempted murder in the Aug. 21, 2015 shooting in Richmond’s Dover Park. A second accused, gangster Sahand Askari, d
  
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• Province announces funding for new affordable rental housing in Downtown Eastside

  17-01-2018 02:49 via vancouversun.com
  About 450 new units of affordable housing will be built in the Downtown Eastside over the coming years, the provincial government announced Tuesday.
  The units will be located in four new buildings and about 300 will be rented at the welfare rate of $375 a month. The others will be rented for up to $1,272 monthly, Housing Minister Selina Robinson said at a news conference Tuesday.The province committed $83 million for the four projects, two of which will be on Cordova Street and two on
  
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• Former Liberal government employee engaged in partisan politics: Crown

  17-01-2018 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  A former Liberal government employee used his public job to engage in partisan political activities in connection with the so-called Quick Wins scandal, a judge was told Tuesday.
  Brian Bonney, who was employed as a communications director for the government and at the same time had close ties to the B.C. Liberal party, in October pleaded guilty to one count of criminal breach of trust.
  RCMP launched an investigation following a complaint by the NDP in 2013 that Liberal government resources had b
  
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• Metro mobility pricing must fit into B.C. ‘affordability plan’: Horgan

  17-01-2018 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan has warned Metro Vancouver’s mayors that any decongestion charges proposed for the region will not be rubber-stamped by his government.
  “I want to see what they come back with and how it fits into our affordability plan for British Columbians,” Horgan told reporters Tuesday during a media availability in Victoria.
  “I don’t want to see inconsistent policies come forward from other jurisdictions. We’ll have to work, of course, with the Mayors
  
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• Five pop bottles for $7,000? Prices for Vancouver Olympics memorabilia are sky-high

  17-01-2018 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for a keepsake from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics? How about this set of five limited-edition aluminum Coke bottles? They could be yours for the low, low price of $6,899.99.
  Five special edition Coca-Cola bottles from the Vancouver Olympics were recently posted for sale on eBay for just under $7,000.
  That’s a lot to pay for five pre-owned bottles of soda, but you’ll be pleased to know that, in this case, “pre-owned” isn’t a synonym for “drank.” The
  
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• Wilkie, Sask. throws its support behind Fernie in Hockeyville contest

  17-01-2018 02:36 via vancouversun.com
  A small town in Saskatchewan is throwing its weight behind Fernie’s dream of being named Kraft Hockeyville for 2018.
  Kathy Heilman is one of two residents of the town of Wilkie, in southwestern Saskatchewan, behind the push.
  Wilkie made the top 10 in the 2017 competition; Heilman and her friend Helen Urlacher were driving forces behind the campaign.
  “The most exciting thing about getting that far was how the spirit of Hockeyville — it’s really hard to describe — it&
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, Jan. 17

  17-01-2018 02:36 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, Jan. 17.PuSh: Inside/Out
  The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, one of Vancouver’s signature events, kicked off this week, which means there are all sorts of great, unique events you can attend this week. Film, theatre, dance — PuSh has a little of everything. I’m intrigued, for instance, by Patrick Keating’s Inside/Out, a one-man show about Keating’s criminal history
  
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• Outsider status for Dianne Watts in Liberal race may be double-edged sword

  17-01-2018 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Former Surrey mayor and MP Dianne Watts says her outsider status as the only non-MLA in the B.C. Liberal leadership race has so far been an advantage, but may also come with a downside if her opponents unite in an anyone-but-Watts movement in the final weeks of the race.
  “I understand that there’s a group of people that have worked together that are friends and have had friendships for many, many years,” Watts said Tuesday. “They are going to work togethe
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Crown misleading Appeal Court, acquitted Canada Day terror plotters say

  17-01-2018 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  Federal prosecutors are trying to bamboozle the B.C. Court of Appeal to win a new trial against the Surrey couple acquitted of the 2013 Canada Day terror plot, their lawyers insist.
  In their response to Crown arguments Tuesday, the legal team for John Nuttall and Amanda Korody said prosecutors were relying on a “cherry-picked basket of tidbits” — facts, phrases and comments — taken out of context, some wrong but “baldly asserted,” to indict B.C. Supreme Court
  
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• When it’s safe, “elephant’s feet” mean you can ride through a crosswalk without dismounting. Remember to dismount a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-01-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  When it’s safe, “elephant’s feet” mean you can ride through a crosswalk without dismounting. Remember to dismount a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tonight at 7pm, bylaw amendments to create three new 'small lot infill areas' in the Upper Capilano area will be pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-01-2018 01:18 via twitter.com
  Tonight at 7pm, bylaw amendments to create three new 'small lot infill areas' in the Upper Capilano area will be pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Board of Trade adds second Michelle Obama event in Vancouver

  17-01-2018 01:17 via vancouversun.com
  The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is giving us double the Obama.
  After Michelle Obama’s talk next month sold out in a near-instant, organizers have added a second appearance by the former U.S. first lady.
  The original sold-out event is still a go for 5 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.
  The new event is slated for earlier on Feb. 15, at 1 p.m. at the same location. Tickets will go on sale to board members on Jan. 22 at 10 a.m.; tickets for the general public go on
  
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• Restaurant industry explores ways to deal with shortage of cooks and chefs

  17-01-2018 01:01 via vancouversun.com
  The owner of Solly’s Bagelry likes the idea of changing her company’s work schedule by introducing a four-day week of 10-hour shifts as a way to retain staff.
  Leah Markovitch said like many food service businesses, her three retail stores and one manufacturing outlet are dealing with a labour shortage. For her bakery and delicatessen, it is the lack of bakers, servers and workers in the kitchen. She has had to cut back hours because of the difficulty in finding and keeping people.
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