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• Thousands brave wind and rain in downtown Vancouver for women's march

  20-01-2018 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands gathered downtown Vancouver Saturday for the Women’s March 2018.
  In Vancouver, the event is organized by March On Vancouver, and it is one of hundreds of similar rallies being held around the world to empower women. It also marks one year since the historic Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president.
  The Vancouver march began at Jack Poole Plaza at 10 a.m. More than 2,000 women and supporters attended in the downpour,
  
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• Planning a small wedding in 2018? The Goldsworthy Gazebo is an affordable option, w/ amazing waterfront views. Capa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-01-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Planning a small wedding in 2018? The Goldsworthy Gazebo is an affordable option, w/ amazing waterfront views. Capa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Enderby mayor: Ride-hailing services could provide big benefit to small cities

  20-01-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  For Enderby residents without a car, a doctor’s appointment in Salmon Arm, where many medical services are located, can take a full day.
  A B.C. Transit bus departs the northern Okanagan city of 3,000 once a week on Wednesday mornings and doesn’t return until afternoon. A 20-minute car ride and a 15-minute appointment can easily turn into an eight-hour excursion, said Enderby Mayor Greg McCune.
  “It can be hard to get an appointment on a Wednesday — and afterward, you&rsquo
  
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• Thousands brave wind and rain to in downtown Vancouver for women's march

  20-01-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands have gathered downtown Vancouver Saturday for the Women’s March 2018.
  In Vancouver, the event is organized by March On Vancouver, and it is one of hundreds of similar rallies being held around the world to empower women. It also marks one year since the historic Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president.
  The Vancouver march began at Jack Poole Plaza at 10 a.m. More than 2,000 women and supporters attended in the downp
  
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• Gusts up to 100 km/h anticipated as wind warning issued for Metro Vancouver

  20-01-2018 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  A wind warning is in effect for Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island, with gusts of up to 100 km/h expected in some areas.
  Environment Canada posted the warning Saturday, saying southeast winds up to 80 km/h will develop late in the afternoon over the Sunshine Coast and East Vancouver Island, then spread to Metro Vancouver, the Gulf Islands and Victoria overnight.
  The federal weather agency says southerly winds up to 100 km/h will develop over western Vancouver Island overnight.
  The winds are ex
  
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• Pacific Coliseum greets dawn of next half-century without marquee tenant

  20-01-2018 21:17 via vancouversun.com
  The Pacific Coliseum has had a storied first 50 years, but its prospects in the decades ahead without a marquee sports tenant and with increased competition from new arenas is unclear.
  As a sports palace, the arena saw two Canucks Stanley Cup runs, a 2007 Memorial Cup win by the Vancouver Giants and golden glory for Canadian figure skaters and short-track speed skaters in the 2010 Olympics.
  The Giants – its last anchor team –  departed in 2016, however, leaving Pacific Coliseum
  
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• Pacific Coliseum at 50: The Rink on Renfrew in photos

  20-01-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  It isn’t as big as B.C. Place or as flashy as Rogers Arena. But the Pacific Coliseum will always hold a special place in the hearts of Vancouver sports and music fans.
  After all, it was the first home of the Canucks’ NHL franchise, and a beloved concert venue where Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and David Bowie all appeared.
  It has also been quite versatile. Over the years the Coliseum has featured in movies like Best in Show, Slam Dunk Earnest and Miracle on Ice. It’s hosted
  
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• LIVE — Thousands gather at rally in downtown Vancouver for women's march

  20-01-2018 20:33 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands have gathered downtown Vancouver Saturday for the Women’s March 2018.
  In Vancouver, the event is organized by March On Vancouver, and it is one of hundreds of similar rallies being held around the world to empower women. It also marks one year since the historic Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president.
  The Vancouver march began at Jack Poole Plaza at 10 a.m. More than 2,000 women and supporters attended in the downp
  
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• Meet the Chef: Adrian Beaty has a taste for local ingredients

  20-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Adrian Beaty has taken the road less travelled, a road that eventually led to a farm. Since moving on from restaurant cooking, Beaty is catering farm events and parties, teaching and sourcing unique local ingredients.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: My biggest inspiration comes from meeting and talking to producers. It’s their dedication and love of what they produce that motivates me. It really makes me focus on the ingredient, allowing it to shine!
  Q: How would you
  
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• Makeover: A lighter look for the colder days

  20-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Margot Watt is a 34-year-0ld event planner and wanted to lighten up her colour for the winter season. 
  Margot has medium textured, natural curly hair. She hasn’t coloured her hair in almost 15 years and wanted to incorporate natural looking highlights to brighten her overall colour. I opted for foil colour placement in her hair, which is a blend of fine weave foils around the face with hair painted ribbons throughout the rest of the hair. I used a high lifting colour formula to create
  
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• Thousands rally in downtown Vancouver for women's march

  20-01-2018 18:54 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands are expected in downtown Vancouver Saturday for the second annual women’s March On Vancouver.
  The March On event is one of hundreds of similar rallies being held around the world to empower women. It begins at Jack Poole Plaza at 10 a.m.
  A rainy morning for the Women’s March on #Vancouver, starting at 10 am at Jack Poole Plaza @VancouverSun
  — Glenda Luymes (@glendaluymes) January 20, 2018The organizers of March On Vancouver say this year there will also be a focus on
  
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• Chilliwack trustee Barry Neufeld rejects government's call for resignation

  20-01-2018 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld says he won’t bow to pressure after B.C.’s education minister and the school board called for his resignation over controversial “child abuse” remarks he made about transgender students.
  Evelyn Novak, the Chilliwack superintendent of schools, said in a statement that the board called for Neufeld to resign because of a loss in confidence in his ability to effectively perform the duties of a trustee.
  She said groups in the commun
  
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• This Week in History, 1966: LSD and marijuana hit Vancouver, police freak out

  20-01-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  On Jan. 17, 1966, The Vancouver Sun published a small story with an alarming headline, “Man Goes Berserk While Using Drug.”
  LSD had hit the city.
  “Police said they found the man, clad only in his pants, running around the 1600-block Yew shortly after 3 a.m., screaming that he was God,” said the story.
  “The man, aged 36, was frothing at the mouth, had a wild-eyed appearance and was completely devoid of reason, police said.
  “Police checked the man’s apartm
  
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• Sold (Bought): Surrey townhome close to schools, shops and transit

  20-01-2018 15:47 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver 
  24 — 6110 138 Street, Surrey
  Type: Three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 2,006 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $576,000
  Listed for: $629,000
  Sold for: $627,500
  Sold on: Nov. 11
  Days on market: 26
  Listing agent: Owen Bigland at Macdonald Realty Westmar
  Buyers agent: Lindy Leclair at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: Listing agent Owen Bigland reports that his clients were looking for a larger home with a backy
  
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• The Home Front: Emerging and established lighting design talent in Vancouver

  20-01-2018 15:35 via vancouversun.com
  Becoming a full-time lighting designer and manufacturer wasn’t something Dan Emery of Vancouver-based East Van Light ever planned on, but sometimes hobbies we’re passionate about become much more than that.
  Emery says that while living in Montreal, along with a successful career in film and television production, he spent 10 years flipping homes, purchasing rundown apartments and duplexes, gutting them “to the beams” and completely revitalizing them into fresh new sp
  
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• Customs House takes an iconic location on Victoria's Inner Harbour

  20-01-2018 15:01 via vancouversun.com
  Redesigning a building that sits alongside the Empress Hotel and the B.C. legislature — the “grand dames” of Victoria’s Inner Harbour — could be an intimidating exercise for any architect, even one as experienced as Paul Merrick.
  The renowned B.C. architect, whose honour-winning heritage projects range eclectically from the Orpheum Theatre and Pennsylvania Hotel in Vancouver to Victoria’s St. Ann’s Academy, knew there would be high expectations in an est
  
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• Wilkinson and de Jong strike deal to support each other in Liberal leadership race

  20-01-2018 13:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal leadership candidates Andrew Wilkinson and Mike de Jong have reached a deal to encourage their supporters to make each other their second ballot choices in the party’s leadership race.
  The agreement is the first in what’s expected to be a flurry of negotiations among contenders to try to lock up second, third and even fourth choices on the preferential ballots, in the likely event none of the six candidates wins a majority of first-choice votes on the in
  
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• REAL SCOOP: The violence continues with Abbotsford murder

  20-01-2018 08:46 via vancouversun.com
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is on the scene of a fatal shooting in Abbotsford tonight.
  A young man in his 20s, involved in the gang conflict according to my sources, was killed in the 3500-block of Promontory Court.
  The victim was found in a vehicle, right near police cameras set up on the street after a rash of gang shootings in the same area in 2015.
  One of those shootings led to the death of innocent 74-year-old bystander Ping Shun Au, who lived next door to the house targ
  
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• Man dies after targeted shooting in Abbotsford

  20-01-2018 06:37 via vancouversun.com
  A male in his mid-20s is dead following a Friday night shooting in Abbotsford.
  At 6:30 p.m., Abbotsford police responded to multiple 911 calls reporting shots fired in the 3500-block of Promontory Court, according to a news release.Police said they arrived to find a man in a van suffering from a gunshot wound in what appears to be a targeted incident. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called in to take over the investigation.
  An
  
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• Hollywood North: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Lifetime movie set to film in Vancouver

  20-01-2018 05:23 via vancouversun.com
  Cable network Lifetime is set to film a movie about the love story of Prince Harry and Canadian Meghan Markle in Vancouver.
  The movie, which will shoot from Feb. 13 to March 9, according to a Directors Guild of Canada production list, is titled Harry & Meghan: A Royal Love Story.
  That’s just silly. How is it not called When Harry Met Meghan?
  That wasted opportunity aside, Harry & Meghan really is the ideal Lifetime movie: it’s about a prince who falls in love. And Vancou
  
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• Opinion: Horse and carriage critics short on facts, devalue operators

  20-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  After almost 10 years working in the Victoria horse and carriage industry, I know its operators are caring, compassionate and completely committed to the health and well-being of their animals.
  So it saddens me when false statements are made on radio, in print, internet and over social media claiming the industry should be closed. In fact it’s because I love horses and care for their health that I say the industry really needs your support.
  It’s a different model from the one most do
  
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• Editorial: Mobility pricing another tax grab

  20-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Most everyone can agree that traffic congestion is a problem in Metro Vancouver. There is also a broad consensus that more public transit is desirable. Approaches to address these issues, however, could not be more contentious.
  The report from the Mobility Pricing Independent Commission released this week has proposed two options: congestion point tolls and charges based on kilometres driven. The first would charge drivers at busy locations and choke points like bridges and tunnels. The second w
  
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• Bit by Bitcoin: tax scammers using cryptocurrency prompt warning from North Vancouver RCMP

  20-01-2018 04:42 via vancouversun.com
  You cannot pay your taxes with Bitcoin, say North Vancouver Mounties.
  The cryptocurrency may be making great leaps forward in value — one Bitcoin currently equals about $14,730 Canadian — but the Canada Revenue Agency would still prefer you pay in regular reserve currency.  
  It’s a lesson one North Vancouver resident learned the hard way, after losing $3,000 in a telephone tax scam. 
  According to police, on Jan. 18, the victim received a phone call from a man all
  
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• Traffic woes forcing North Vancouver businesses to relocate - CBC.ca

  20-01-2018 04:41 via cbc.ca
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  Traffic woes forcing North Vancouver businesses to relocate
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  The Second Narrows Bridge is one of the main commuter arteries in and out of North Vancouver. Traffic congestion in the region is causing businesses to consider relocating elsewhere to make life easier for commuting employees. (Christer Waara/CBC). 52 ...and more »
  
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• Traffic woes forcing North Vancouver businesses to relocate - British ... - CBC.ca

  20-01-2018 04:41 via cbc.ca
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  North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce CEO Patrick Stafford-Smith says traffic issues are making it difficult for businesses in the region to attract employees and many are considering relocating as a result.and more »
  
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• Bitcoin: tax scammers prompt warning from North Vancouver RCMP ... - Vancouver Sun

  20-01-2018 04:38 via vancouversun.com
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  Bitcoin: tax scammers prompt warning from North Vancouver RCMP ...
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  With the price of Bitcoin going from US$1,000 on Jan. 1, 2017 to more than US$13,000 on the first day of the year in 2018, more companies and investors than ever are hungry for ways to participate in a phenomenon that's been called both a massive ...
  Bitcoin CRA Scam Warning Issued By BC Police After North Vancouver Man Falls For ItHuffPost Canadaall 7 news articles »
  
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• Bit by Bitcoin: tax scammers using cryptocurrency prompt warning from North Vancouver RCMP - Vancouver Sun

  20-01-2018 04:38 via vancouversun.com
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  Bit by Bitcoin: tax scammers using cryptocurrency prompt warning from North Vancouver RCMP
  Vancouver Sun
  With the price of Bitcoin going from US$1,000 on Jan. 1, 2017 to more than US$13,000 on the first day of the year in 2018, more companies and investors than ever are hungry for ways to participate in a phenomenon that's been called both a massive ...
  Bitcoin CRA Scam Warning Issued By BC Police After North Vancouver Man Falls For ItHuffPost Canadaall 7 news articles »
  
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• Maple Ridge street to be renamed 'Jim Robson Way' in honour of legendary Canucks broadcaster

  20-01-2018 04:25 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Maple Ridge will be renaming a section of 105th Avenue in honour of legendary Canucks announcer Jim Robson.
  On Saturday, Jan. 27, the Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey Association (RMMHA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary. As part of the event, the section of 105th Avenue that leads to Planet Ice and the Albion Fairgrounds will be rechristened Jim Robson Way.
  Fittingly, it will be the Canucks’ current play-by-play announcer, John Shorthouse, who acts as emcee for the event
  
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• Fire at South Vancouver sawmill contained, three taken to hospital

  20-01-2018 03:58 via vancouversun.com
  A major fire that broke out at South Vancouver sawmill has been brought under control.
  Vancouver Fire and Rescue said the fire broke out early Friday morning at Mainland Sawmills on Yukon Street near Kent Avenue.
  The mill employs roughly 150 people, and according to fire officials, there were about 70 employees at workwhen the blaze began.
  No one was seriously injured, but three workers were taken to hospital. Two were treated for smoke inhalation, and the third banged his head trying
  
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• Whisky seized in 'Prohibition era' raids of B.C. restaurants

  20-01-2018 03:30 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. liquor inspectors carted away tens of thousands of dollars of whisky on Thursday during a series of raids that bar owners are calling “heavy-handed” and reminiscent of the Prohibition era.
  Allura and Eric Fergie, owners of Fets Whisky Kitchen on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, said three B.C. Liquor Control and Licensing Branch (LCLB) inspectors showed up unannounced at the restaurant Thursday following up on a complaint and as part of an “undercover sting operation.”
  
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• Vancouver mayor's legacy on homelessness: A good try, but a promise not fulfilled

  20-01-2018 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  Sitting outside his buddy’s ramshackle hut in Oppenheimer Park, Chris Hawthorne speaks thoughtfully about Vancouver’s outgoing mayor and his decade-old promise to end homelessness.
  Hawthorne, who for two years has been living in a tent tucked away in a forest, said he’d like to shake Gregor Robertson’s hand for the work that city hall has done to combat the fentanyl overdose crisis.
  “But as far as ending homelessness, I laughed at the time he said that. Now it has j
  
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• Ex-gangsters gave same evidence of UN violence, Crown says

  20-01-2018 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  Four former United Nations gangsters who testified at Cory Vallee’s murder trial bolstered each other’s evidence by telling similar stories of the gang’s violent rampage, a prosecutor told B.C. Supreme Court on Friday.
  The Crown’s Alex Burton said in closing submissions that even though the men are unsavoury witnesses, they told consistent stories that prove there was a conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers and their fellow Red Scorpions.
  Burton told Justice Janice Dillon
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Equalization formula keeps potential leaders guessing

  20-01-2018 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Though thousands of members joined the B.C. Liberal party in the run-up to next month’s leadership vote, the newcomers are not likely to have as much of an impact as the near doubling of the rolls would suggest.
  The Liberals this week reported about 58,000 members in total, up from almost 34,000 at the outset of the campaign, with several thousands of prospective memberships still to be vetted and approved at party headquarters.
  Most of those newcomers were recruited by le
  
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• Meat industry cruelty cases driven by volunteer undercover investigators

  20-01-2018 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Every major investigation of cruelty at commercial animal-rearing operations in B.C. in recent years has been driven by the undercover work of Mercy for Animals.
  While the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals doesn’t encourage undercover investigations by volunteers, such operations do lead to criminal convictions, said Marcie Moriarty, chief prevention and enforcement officer of the society.
  SPCA probes are mainly driven by complaints from the public and more than 9,000 are lo
  
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• B.C. to speak on NEB decision over Kinder Morgan pipeline disputes

  20-01-2018 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government says it may appeal a decision by the National Energy Board that has established a process for the national regulator to adjudicate permitting disputes between Kinder Morgan and provinces and municipalities over the $7.9-billion Trans Mountain expansion.
  The decision, released Thursday, came after Kinder Morgan had put a motion forward over its complaints that permits were being unnecessarily delayed for the oil-pipeline project, pointing to issues in Burnaby, a municipality t
  
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• Vancouver expands public access to free wireless

  20-01-2018 01:55 via vancouversun.com
  It became easier for Vancouver mobile users to find free Wi-Fi on Friday with the activation of hundreds of hot spots throughout the city.
  But experts are warning against using public Wi-Fi for transmitting anything private.
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson boasted the eventual network of 600 free Wi-Fi locations would make the city tops for free connectivity across Canada, third in North America after New York and Washington, D.C., and among the top 10 cities worldwide.
  He told a news conferenc
  
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• Find out what Council will be discussing at the next meeting on Monday, January 22 at 6pm. Agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-01-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Find out what Council will be discussing at the next meeting on Monday, January 22 at 6pm. Agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Judge orders witness at double murder trial to testify behind screen

  20-01-2018 00:43 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has ordered that a key Crown witness who became distraught during her testimony at the trial of her husband on murder charges be allowed to continue to give her evidence behind a screen.
  Liane Leznoff encountered problems while she was on the stand Thursday during the trial of her husband, Surjit Singh Dosanjh, who has pleaded not guilty to the April 2015 second-degree murders of Leznoff’s mother, Elaine Leznoff, 66, and a teen who cannot be identified due to a publication ban.
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• Surrey man arrested for Walmart arson, grocery store robbery

  20-01-2018 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  A 34-year-old Surrey man is custody in connection with an arson fire and robbery that occurred last April at the Central City Shopping Centre.
  On April 20, 2017, police say a man started a fire on the second floor of the Walmart Surrey Supercentre in the 10100 block of King George Boulevard. 
  The incident happened just before closing time at 11 p.m.  
  About 10 minutes later, police believe the same man who set the fire used a gun to rob a nearby grocery store.
  “These tw
  
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