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• Man sanctioned by BCSC launches $480-million suit

  24-01-2018 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  A Port Coquitlam businessman who was fined nearly a decade ago by the B.C. Securities Commission has launched a $480-million civil claim for damages against the commission and others, including the Canada Revenue Agency.
  Michael James Savage’s suit is a counter-claim responding to a BCSC action filed in B.C. Supreme Court in late November 2017 to enforce payment of a $100,000 fine. That fine was issued to Savage by the BCSC in February 2008 for misrepresenting a telecom investment and
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP want to return lost camera to owner

  24-01-2018 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  If you snapped these photos of a pair of piñata smashers then the North Vancouver RCMP has your camera.
  The RCMP released two pictures from a found camera in the hopes the rightful owner will be identified and the camera returned.
  North Vancouver RCMP released two pictures from a found camera in the hopes the rightful owner is identified and the camera returned.
  The digital SLR camera was one of several items found lying on the side of a road in lower North Vancouver on Jan
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP want to return lost camera to owner - Vancouver Sun

  24-01-2018 22:55 via vancouversun.com
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  North Vancouver RCMP want to return lost camera to owner
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  If you snapped these photos of a pair of piñata smashers then the North Vancouver RCMP has your camera. The RCMP released two pictures from a found camera in the hopes the rightful owner will be identified and the camera returned. North Vancouver RCMP ...and more »
  
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• 14-year-old Delta baseball player dies of serious injuries

  24-01-2018 22:40 via vancouversun.com
  A memorial will be held Sunday for a talented Delta teen baseball player who died earlier this week due to serious injuries.
  In a letter sent to parents Monday, South Delta Secondary principal Terry Ainge said that student Kyle Losse, 14, “sustained a serious injury and is on life-support.”
  Ainge said no further details would be shared at the time, in respect of the family’s privacy. It’s unknown how he was injured.
  The B.C. Coroners Service, which can’t c
  
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• Police probing man's death after visit to Richmond trampoline park

  24-01-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond police are investigating after a man died following a visit to Richmond’s Extreme Air Park.
  The 46-year-old man from Victoria was visiting the indoor trampoline park, located in the 14000-block of Triangle Road, with his two children on Saturday when he was injured.
  In an emailed statement, Richmond RCMP Cpl. Dennis Hwang said the man was “allegedly performing a series of acrobatic manoeuvres prior to a fall that caused serious injury and cardiac arrest.”The man died a
  
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• Time is running out to apply for a Community Grant. See if your group/organization is eligible:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  Time is running out to apply for a Community Grant. See if your group/organization is eligible:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Retiring B.C. health officer Perry Kendall says opioid response has momentum

  24-01-2018 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  Provincial health officer Perry Kendall will call it a career next week, confident that the tools are finally in place to tackle the opioid overdose crisis that has ravaged this province for more than three years.
  Kendall has been among the chief architects of B.C.’s response to the deadly wave of powerful synthetic opioids that have largely replaced heroin in the illicit drug supply.
  Deputy provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will replace  Kendall, when he officially retires o
  
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• A clue in identifying found property! bit.ly/2GcZyc1 #NorthVancouver https://t.co/GoBcJ0gwtx

  24-01-2018 22:25 via twitter.com
  
  A clue in identifying found property!bit.ly/2GcZyc1#NorthVancouver https://t.co/GoBcJ0gwtx
  
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• Here are the 40-metre girders being hoisted into place on the new #Montroyal bridge last night, plus one showing th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 21:54 via twitter.com
  Here are the 40-metre girders being hoisted into place on the new #Montroyal bridge last night, plus one showing th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Blues rockers Mud Bay celebrate 40 years of making music

  24-01-2018 20:45 via vancouversun.com
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  Jan. 27, 8 p.m. | Eagles Hall, 33868 Essendene, Abbotsford
  Tickets and info: $15 advance at the Eagles Lounge, Long and McQuade, Freewhelin’ Records, Jazz-Ma-Tazz or fraservalleybluessociety.com. $20 at the door.Four decades of music making is a milestone few bands ever reach. With the exception of the Rolling Stones and a smattering of others, groups just don’t last that long, typically because the members can’t stand the sight of each other anymore.
  So how has Mud Bay
  
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• Nature calls for our little furry friends & he needs to go. Learn more about dog waste containers in the City… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Nature calls for our little furry friends & he needs to go. Learn more about dog waste containers in the City… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Surrey man charged after allegedly firing gun inside his home

  24-01-2018 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey man has been charged after he allegedly fired a gun inside his home while intoxicated last month and was found in possession of a number of stolen firearms.
  Around 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2017, Surrey RCMP were called to a home in the 8900 block of 156A Street after a neighbour heard a gunshot.
  Officers who responded found two homes that appeared to have been damaged by bullet holes.
  A 56-year-old Surrey resident was found intoxicated inside one of the two damaged homes. He was also found in
  
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• Photographer captured North Vancouver in flux - North Shore News

  24-01-2018 20:06 via nsnews.com
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  Photographer captured North Vancouver in flux
  North Shore News
  John Barber Holdcroft snapped this shot of the Vancouver waterfront fire in the summer of 1938. Many of his photos feature a foreground figure overwhelmed by a looming presence in the background. photo supplied North Vancouver Museum & Archives. He saw ...
  
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• Q& A: The 2018 eyewear trends to keep you looking cool in your glasses

  24-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The future is looking bright — at least when it comes to eyewear trends in 2018.
  Whether you’re a casual glasses-wearer, or happen to sport them all day, every day, you might be wondering what the big frame and lens trends are for the year ahead. 
  So, we asked Laura Wilson, the eyewear design manager at clearly.ca, some of the most hard-hitting questions that came to mind when it comes to top eyewear elements for the foreseeable future. Here’s what she came up with.
  Q. Wha
  
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• Teen baseball player, 14, in Delta dies of serious injuries

  24-01-2018 19:49 via vancouversun.com
  A talented teen baseball player in Delta has died due to serious injuries.
  In a letter sent to parents on Monday, South Delta Secondary principal Terry Ainge said that student Kyle Losse, 14, “sustained a serious injury and is on life support.”
  Ainge said no further details would be shared at the time, in respect of the family’s privacy. It is unknown how he was injured.
  Social media posts shared Monday and Tuesday suggested Losse had died a short time later and on Tu
  
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• Surrey man charged after firing gun inside his home while intoxicated

  24-01-2018 19:44 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey man has been charged after he allegedly fired a gun inside his home while intoxicated last month and was found in possession of a number of stolen firearms.
  Around 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2017, Surrey RCMP were called to a home in the 8900 block of 156A Street after a neighbour heard a gunshot.
  Officers who responded found two homes that appeared to have been damaged by bullet holes.
  A 56-year-old Surrey resident was found intoxicated inside one of the two damaged homes. He was also found in
  
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• Richmond woman, 81, struck by SUV dies in hospital

  24-01-2018 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  An 81-year-old woman is dead after she was struck by a vehicle in Richmond Wednesday evening.
  Richmond RCMP say the accident happened in the area of No. 1 Road and Tucker Road just after 6:30 p.m.
  The woman suffered critical injuries when she was hit by a late-model Mercedes SUV.
  She later died in hospital.
  Police say the driver, a 78-year old Richmond man, remained at the scene and was cooperative.
  Neither speed nor alcohol is considered a factor in the collision, Richmond RCMP s
  
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• Kasey Wilson: Recipes to help you channel your inner Southern cook

  24-01-2018 19:15 via vancouversun.com
   The American South rightfully has one of the most storied regional cuisines in North America, and I enjoyed channelling my inner Southern belle on a holiday visit to the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.
  It started — as so many good things do — with bacon. I baked a batch of brown-sugar coated, bacon-wrapped bread sticks for friends who were settling in to play cards, and they were such a hit that I had to skip the game and run to the grocery store for more bacon. Next time I&rsq
  
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• Delta police seek witnesses in hit-and-run investigation

  24-01-2018 19:04 via vancouversun.com
  Police are seeking witnesses to a hit-and-run Tuesday where a woman was hit by a car that then drove around her and left.
  A middle-aged woman was crossing 12th Avenue in the 5500-block around 6:30 p.m. in Tsawwassen when she was hit by a vehicle. The pedestrian was in a marked crosswalk at the time. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
  “Witnesses relayed that a Ford Ranger pickup truck, possibly dark green in colour, struck the woman,” said Cris Leykauf, spokeswoman for D
  
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• Condos approved for North Vancouver Telus site - Business in Vancouver

  24-01-2018 19:01 via biv.com
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  Condos approved for North Vancouver Telus site
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  A design rendering of the 179-unit residential development at 150 East Eighth St. as it will look upon completion | Image: supplied. North Vancouver city council voted this week to allow for 179 condo units at 150 East Eighth St. in North Vancouver ...
  City of North Vancouver approves new condos despite outcryVancouver Courierall 1 news articles »
  
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• Finning International to anchor new Great Northern Way office building

  24-01-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver-based Finning International is returning to a new False Creek Flats office complex that sits on lands the company once donated about 17 years ago.
  The world’s largest dealer of Caterpillar heavy machinery is moving about 180 staff to a new office project at 565 Great Northern Way that will also include tenants Samsung, Blackbird Interactive Game Studio, Spaces and others.
  The seven-storey LEED-Gold complex will include 160,000 square feet of Class-A office space designed for the
  
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• Think Purple next week for #Purple4PEDAW Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Your weight is not your worth #NorthVan https://t.co/hO8pGJX5G6

  24-01-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  
  Think Purple next week for #Purple4PEDAW Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Your weight is not your worth #NorthVan https://t.co/hO8pGJX5G6
  
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• Success! Last night's installation of six 40-metre girders for the new #montroyal bridge went off without a hitch,… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  Success! Last night's installation of six 40-metre girders for the new #montroyal bridge went off without a hitch,… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you support the Robson Square pot market arrests?

  24-01-2018 16:04 via vancouversun.com
  Earlier this week, Vancouver Police arrested and recommended charges against a number of individuals linked to the Robson Square pot market.
  A total of 11 charges have been recommended against five people for selling marijuana at the open-air square.
  Related
  Five people face charges after police bust Vancouver pot market
  On Monday, just hours after the first round of arrests, a few defiant vendors had returned to the square, saying they were willing to risk arrests in order to protest and promot
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Medicare trial showcases legal complacency

  24-01-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The much-delayed marathon constitutional challenge to Medicare, which began in September 2016 and has crawled through nearly 100 days of court time, now won’t resume hearing testimony until April.
  Adjourned late last year, the constitutional challenge currently NOT being heard in B.C. Supreme Court is an epic example of the legal culture of complacency denounced by the Supreme Court of Canada and the impotence of the public’s use of the judicial check on bad government.
  Justice John
  
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• New bikeshare outfit looking to bring green look to Vancouver streets

  24-01-2018 09:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s streets may soon have a new bike share program.
  China-based U-Bicycle is looking to bring self-locking bikes to Vancouver.
  They launched in Victoria last October.
  What will differentiate them from Vancouver’s already existing Mobi — run by the City of Vancouver and sponsored by Shaw Communicatins — is the bikes can be locked anywhere.
  Yes, just like Car2Go.
  So instead of only being able to park your Mobi at a designated station, you can lock up your bike at a
  
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• Slayer to rock Vancouver and Penticton one last time

  24-01-2018 08:02 via vancouversun.com
  Slayer, known as one of the “Big Four” of thrash metal rock and roll, are coming to Vancouver one last time.
  Along with Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax, Slayer are considered the greatest proponents of thrash metal, which grew to prominence in the early 1980s.
  “The End is Near… Slayer to tour the world one more time…” the band wrote on a video posted Monday to their official YouTube channel.
  “Slayer to make its exit with one, final world tour
  
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• B.C. Liberal leadership hopefuls square off in final leadership debate

  24-01-2018 06:29 via vancouversun.com
  Knives were out Tuesday night at the final B.C. Liberal leadership debate as candidates made last-ditch bids for the chance to defeat Premier John Horgan.
  With less than two weeks until 60,000 Liberal party members cast ballots to select a new leader, hundreds packed into the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver to cheer and jeer for the six candidates as they traded barbs over their platforms, experience and commitment to the party.
  Vying for the leadership are Dianne Watts, the popular former Co
  
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• Opinion: Canada slow to acknowledge punitive drug policy doesn't work

  24-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canada has been inching toward the legal regulation of cannabis for many years now. But the fears that have paralyzed our country for more than a century whenever talk turns to legalizing and regulating illegal drugs are still very much in evidence, despite decades of proof that none of the punitive policies we cling to help reduce drug-related harm.
  Increasingly, drug prohibition is understood as an issue of social justice and human rights by those who have fought for a better way. The history
  
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• B.C.'s NDP-Greens LNG fight: Five things to know

  24-01-2018 03:09 via vancouversun.com
  What started as a simmering political scuffle has come to a boil with B.C. Green party Leader Andrew Weaver warning Premier John Horgan in no uncertain terms that his government will fall if he continues “cheerleading” for a liquefied natural gas industry in B.C.
  What was said?
  “Lest there be any doubt, let me be perfectly clear: NDP government will fall in non-confidence if after all that has happened it continues to pursue LNG folly,” Weaver recently tweeted, addin
  
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• Search on for Nanaimo 13-year-old missing since Friday

  24-01-2018 02:51 via vancouversun.com
  A search is on for a Nanaimo teen who has not been seen since Jan. 19.
  According to a release from Nanaimo RCMP, 13-year-old Chaas Mearns has not been in contact with his family since Friday. He has many relatives across Vancouver Island and in Saskatchewan but he has not spoken with any of them.
  His family is extremely concerned for his well-being.
  He is 4-foot-10 and weighs 96 pounds, and has blond hair and blue eyes. His family says he is healthy and has no medical conditions.
  He was last see
  
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• Judge orders sale of Vancouver home fraudulently transferred

  24-01-2018 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has ordered the sale of a Vancouver home after finding that title to the property was fraudulently transferred by the owners, who had been implicated in a multimillion-dollar business fraud in Washington state.
  Mary Yang and her husband, Samuel Zhu, bought the property at 4885 Narvaez Drive near Prince of Wales Secondary in April 2003. In November 2008, they transferred title to the two-storey, six-bedroom home, which has a current assessed value of $6 million, to Yang’s then-14-ye
  
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• Attorney general slams predecessor for hiding report on ICBC finances

  24-01-2018 02:12 via vancouversun.com
  The former Liberal government wrecked the finances of public auto insurer ICBC by choosing to ignore recommendations delivered as early as 2014 on how to avoid a financial crisis, says Attorney General David Eby.
  Postmedia News obtained a copy of a Dec. 23, 2014, draft report commissioned by the government that included recommendations to stave off ICBC’s financial problems but were expunged from the final copy that was made public in March 2015.
  “It’s really, thoroughly distur
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan heads to Asia with Moody's triple-A credit score

  24-01-2018 02:04 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan and the NDP government last week gained a preliminary endorsement from Moody’s, the leading credit rating agency for B.C. and other Canadian jurisdictions.
  The province will continue to hold the vaunted triple-A credit rating ruled Moody’s Investors Service in an update issued on the six-month anniversary of the NDP taking office and the eve of the premier’s departure for an Asian trade mission.
  The rating means that B.C., under NDP lea
  
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• Put the TP away, Vancouver's got a portable toilet arson problem

  24-01-2018 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  It seems someone is setting portable toilets alight in downtown Vancouver.
  Between Dec. 9 and Jan. 19, Vancouver police report that seven portable toilets were burned in apparent arsons, all late in the evening or early in the morning.
  Several of the fires resulted in adjacent buildings catching fire. Police say no one has been injured in any of these blazes.
  Anyone who has a portable toilet on their property are advised to move their toilet away from structures, to make sure they are locked ove
  
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• One last reminder that Montroyal Blvd will close tonight at 8pm between Skyline Dr and Glencanyon Dr so we can deli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 01:15 via twitter.com
  One last reminder that Montroyal Blvd will close tonight at 8pm between Skyline Dr and Glencanyon Dr so we can deli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Invasive Alert: Help remove Himalayan blackberry, scotch broom, & other invasive species from Heywood Park on Janua… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-01-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  Invasive Alert: Help remove Himalayan blackberry, scotch broom, & other invasive species from Heywood Park on Janua… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Have you signed up for Rapid Notify yet? It just takes a minute! twitter.com/NorthShoreEMO/…

  24-01-2018 00:45 via twitter.com
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• Kerry Jang the latest Vancouver councillor to announce he won't seek re-election

  24-01-2018 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  Veteran Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang confirmed Tuesday his plan to retire from civic politics, becoming the latest in a series of local politicians to remove themselves from contention for October’s municipal election.
  On Tuesday, Jang said he decided before the last civic election, in 2014, that this term, his third on city council, would be his last.
  “I always knew this would be my last term, in fact I told Gregor that when I ran last time,” Jang said. “There were
  
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