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• Five places where you can spend your B.C. Family Day

  31-01-2018 23:13 via vancouversun.com
  With life as busy as it is some days, it’s not always easy to get the family together for quality time – let alone an entire family vacation.
  If Family Day is the only day you’ve got, here are a few suggestions on one-day adventures across the Lower Mainland with the help of a few deals.
  Head up into the clouds on the Sea-to-Sky Gondola.
  Getting on a plane for a far-off destination might not be in the cards, but a quick trip up to Squamish for sky-high views is a decent day out
  
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• This afternoon, Mayor Walton is at a @nvchamber luncheon, reflecting on the importance of infrastructure upgrades a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 22:43 via twitter.com
  This afternoon, Mayor Walton is at a @nvchamber luncheon, reflecting on the importance of infrastructure upgrades a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• It’s utility bill time across the region. Here’s some info about your bill & how rates are calculated:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  It’s utility bill time across the region. Here’s some info about your bill & how rates are calculated:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Just announced: Kevin Hart, Luke Bryan, Chromeo, Frank Turner, Tom Cochrane, Ben Harper and more

  31-01-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  Open up your calendar app, here is a roundup of this week’s show announcements:
  Jessie ReyezColombian-Canadian singer-songwriter. Her single Figures peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Hot 100 in 2017. • Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St. • March 24, 9 p.m. • $25, ticketmaster.ca, livenation.com
  Pussy RiotFeminist protest punk band and activists from Russia perform a live show. • Rickshaw Theatre, 254 E. Hastings St. • March 25, 8 p.m. • $25, ticketweb.ca,
  
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• B.C. repair shops argue used parts are important piece in fixing ICBC finances

  31-01-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  One step in fixing ICBC’s battered finances should involve giving auto-body shops preferred access to used parts in repairs, the association that represents B.C.’s repair shops says.
  Local auto salvagers often find themselves outbid by out-of-province buyers when ICBC auctions off vehicles written-off after accidents, argued Ken McCormack, CEO of the Automotive Retailers Association of B.C.
  If his members could get access to more serviceable parts off of those vehicles, McCormack sai
  
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• Apply carbon tax to oil and gas industry methane emissions, Suzuki report says

  31-01-2018 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. oil and gas companies should be paying a carbon tax on methane emissions from inactive and active gas wells, according to the authors of a new report from the David Suzuki Foundation.
  “If the industry had to pay for their pollution, they would take steps to stop these emissions,” said senior scientist John Werring.
  Based on a survey of gas wells in B.C.’s Montney Basin, the report released this week found that 35 per cent of inactive wells are leaking methane and hydr
  
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• Man dead following targeted shooting in Chilliwack Wednesday

  31-01-2018 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  A man has died following an early morning shooting Wednesday.
  Chilliwack RCMP said 911 calls came in around 6:30 a.m. with people reporting hearing shots at a home in the 9200-block of Broadway Street.
  Officers found a man with life-threatening injuries. He was rushed to hospital but did not survive.
  Police have cordoned off the area near the home to begin their investigation. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has also been called to work with  Chilliwack RCMP.
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• Majority of B.C. seniors homes still understaffed: Seniors advocate

  31-01-2018 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  A vast majority of seniors care homes don’t receive enough funding to meet provincial staffing requirements, according to the third annual scorecard on the homes by B.C.’s seniors advocate.
  Only 15 per cent of care homes are staffed with enough workers to provide the 3.36 hours per resident in the 2016/17 fiscal year, according to the 2018 B.C. Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory released Wednesday.
  Seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie said the percentage improved over the
  
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• Our intrepid energy managers strike again! These improvements to Ron Andrews don't just make the facility more comf… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 21:53 via twitter.com
  Our intrepid energy managers strike again! These improvements to Ron Andrews don't just make the facility more comf… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Classical music: Pianist Janusz Olejniczak doubles up on Chopin

  31-01-2018 20:40 via vancouversun.com
  Two Pianos, One Chopin
  When: Feb. 2-3, 7:30 pm
  Where: Christ Church Cathedral
  Tickets and info: Sold out, tickets.ubc.caThe Vancouver Chopin Society and Early Music Vancouver start February with a landmark project at Christ Church Cathedral: two different evenings of Chopin and other early Romantic era composers.
  The pair of recitals feature Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak, a renowned exponent of the Polish master, and the ambitious plan is to use two intrinsically different instruments in each
  
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• Just announced: Kevin Hart, Luke Bryan, Chromeo, Frank Turner, Kip Moore, Ben Harper and more

  31-01-2018 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Open up your calendar app, here is a roundup of this week’s show announcements:
  Jessie ReyezColombian-Canadian singer-songwriter. Her single Figures peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Hot 100 in 2017. • Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St. • March 24, 9 p.m. • $25, ticketmaster.ca, livenation.com
  Pussy RiotFeminist protest punk band and activists from Russia perform a live show. • Rickshaw Theatre, 254 E. Hastings St. • March 25, 8 p.m. • $25, ticketweb.ca,
  
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• "Most tragic year ever:" 1,422 British Columbians died from illicit drug overdoses last year

  31-01-2018 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  Health officials say a record 1,422 B.C. residents died in 2017 from illicit drug overdoses, the vast majority linked to toxic amounts of fentanyl.
  B.C.’s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe, provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall, and Dr. Patricia Daly, executive director of the B.C. Overdose Emergency Response Centre, made the announcement in Victoria Wednesday.
  The number of illicit drug overdose deaths in 2016 was 922. 
  Lapointe said fentanyl was detected in 81 per cent of the o
  
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• We want to help you do some good in your hood. Today's the LAST DAY to to apply for a Community Grant.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  We want to help you do some good in your hood. Today's the LAST DAY to to apply for a Community Grant.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Style Q&A: Montreal-based brand offers natural products for men

  31-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Men’s grooming is becoming a big business. 
  From beard care to body wash, the days of guys only having one or two options for their self-care routine are long gone. 
  And, there is a welcome wave of homegrown Canadian brands joining the men’s product movement, too.  
  André Barsalou, the cofounder and vice-president of the Montreal-based company Wise Men’s Care, chatted with Postmedia News about what makes Wise different, why it’s a fit for Canadi
  
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• B.C. cardiac arrest survivor and his saviour hail a new app that beckons potential lifesavers

  31-01-2018 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  In a dressing room at Pitt Meadows Arena, after a recent hockey game in which he scored a goal and his “old-timers” team won, Rob Macdonald had a cardiac arrest and died.
  He was revived by a winger on the opposing team, one he had actually lined up against during the game. His saviour, Bruce Moffat, just happened to be an off-duty paramedic who administered chest compressions for about a dozen minutes, all of it in his underwear since he was summoned for the emergency while taki
  
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• 7 things to do in Metro Vancouver this week: JFK, Ruined, Taboo and more

  31-01-2018 19:36 via vancouversun.com
  The Jupiter Rebellion: A Zach Zultana Adventure
  When: Feb. 3 and 4, 7:30 p.m. 
  Where: Chilliwack Cultural Centre, 9201 Corbould St., Chilliwack
  Tickets: $25 at chilliwackculturalcentre.ca or 604 391-7469
  A big hit at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, creator Jeff Leard rockets you into a remote, 0ff-world mining colony on one of Jupiter’s moons where not all is well. Loaded with quick quips and sci-fi tropes you all know well played for maximum laughs. Leard’s hero, Zack Zultana, is
  
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• Three B.C. gangsters charged in 2012 murders of rivals to appear in court today

  31-01-2018 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  Hells Angel Larry Amero and two men from his Wolfpack gang alliance will appear in B.C. Supreme Court today charged in connection with the 2012 murders of rivals Sandip Duhre and Sukh Dhak.
  Amero,  Dean Wiwchar and Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil are on the court list for a 2 p.m. appearance at the Vancouver Law Courts.
  Amero, 40, was arrested in Ottawa Thursday and charged with two counts of conspiracy to kill Duhre and Dhak, who died months apart in targeted 2012 shootings.A new murder
  
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• Q&A: Next to Normal's Lee Mckeown talks about rocking out and mental illness

  31-01-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  Next to Normal
  When: Feb. 7-17
  Where: Studio 16
  Tickets: $30, at brownpapertickets.comNext to Normal is a rock musical about mental health. After opening on Broadway in 2008, it won three Tony Awards, including best performance by a leading actress in a musical and best original score (music by Tom Kitt, lyrics and book by Brian Yorkey), out of 11 nominations.
  The show also won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama, making it the eighth musical to earn that honour. West Moon Theatre’s producti
  
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• Here's a super cool timelapse video of the new #Montroyal bridge girders being installed last week. They made it lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 18:24 via twitter.com
  Here's a super cool timelapse video of the new #Montroyal bridge girders being installed last week. They made it lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Up for a 3KM Urban Walk on the Green Necklace Trail at lunch TODAY? We're walkin' rain or shine. Details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Up for a 3KM Urban Walk on the Green Necklace Trail at lunch TODAY? We're walkin' rain or shine. Details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• You are not alone! No one should feel ashamed to talk about mental health. #BellLetsTalk #MentalHealthAwareness https://t.co/NTpKOyjFM4

  31-01-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  
  You are not alone! No one should feel ashamed to talk about mental health.#BellLetsTalk #MentalHealthAwareness https://t.co/NTpKOyjFM4
  
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• The rise of Indigenous members of the Baha'i faith

  31-01-2018 17:52 via vancouversun.com
  As Canadian members of the Baha’i faith continue to bask in the glow of the 200th anniversary of the birth of their Persian founder, Baha’u’llah, they take particular pride in the many Indigenous people among their faith, which emphasizes the divine origins of all religions.
  To that end one of Canada’s most prominent Baha’i, Bob Watts, former chief of staff to the Assembly of First Nations, will be taking part in festivities and discussions on Thursday, Feb. 2, at t
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with B.C.'s proposal to restrict shipments of diluted bitumen from Alberta?

  31-01-2018 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is proposing to restrict expanded shipments of diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands until the province is satisfied spills can be successfully cleaned up. According to a Postmedia story, this creates a potential barrier for Kinder Morgan’s $7.4 billion Trans Mountain Expansion project.Take Our Poll
  
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• Urgent care centre to open in Surrey in 2019

  31-01-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  A new rapid-access care centre in Surrey — slated to open in 2019 — would streamline access to mental health and substance use services for patients and reduce wait-times to see specialists, says Fraser Health. 
  The Surrey Mental Health and Substance Use Urgent Care Response Centre would serve as the first point of contact for patients with mental health issues or drug and alcohol addiction and provide psychiatric assessments and crisis stabilization and support. 
  “We
  
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• Body of man wearing kayaking gear found at Gonzales Beach near Victoria

  31-01-2018 15:05 via vancouversun.com
    The body of a man wearing kayaking gear was discovered on Gonzales Beach around 3 p.m. Tuesday, near the 1800-block of Crescent Road.Police tape blocked off three access points to the beach as officers searched for clues
   
  Amid strong winds and rain, a search team with Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue scoured the water in case there was a second kayaker. A Canadian Coast Guard helicopter hovered over the area to help with the search. A second person was not found.
  The man
  
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• Vancouver could collect up to $29 million by taxing marijuana: Study

  31-01-2018 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  A new study suggests Vancouver pot smokers could generate up to $29 million annually for the province in additional tax revenue if marijuana was taxed at the same rate as cigarettes.
  The 2018 Cannabis Price Index, compiled by pot-tech startup Seedo, looked at the cost of cannabis around the world. The study then calculated how much additional tax revenue each city’s population of pot smokers might generate based on each city’s consumption and average marijuana and cigarette tax rates
  
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• City of Vancouver presses on with bid to host FIFA World Cup games in 2026

  31-01-2018 08:15 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver is one step closer to hosting what its staff have called “the biggest event on the planet” – the FIFA men’s World Cup.
  Councillors voted unanimously and enthusiastically Tuesday in support of a plan for the city to press on with its bid to host as many as five matches as part of the 2026 tournament.
  Vancouver is part of a “united bid” to have Canada, Mexico and the US jointly host the tournament. It is one of four Canadian cities sti
  
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• Douglas Coupland, Ocean Wise team up for plastics exhibition at Vancouver Aquarium

  31-01-2018 06:36 via vancouversun.com
  Internationally-acclaimed artist and novelist Douglas Coupland is teaming up with Ocean Wise for a new exhibition at the Vancouver Aquarium.
  What’s the theme? To borrow a phrase from The Graduate, just one word: plastics.
  Coupland’s exhibit will be “an immersive display of ocean plastic,” per a news release, with interactive elements aimed at highlighting the ways plastic has impacted our oceans and presenting a vision of more sustainable oceans in the future. &
  
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• BC Liberal leadership candidates gripe about Todd Stone membership sign-ups

  31-01-2018 05:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – Four of the B.C. Liberal leadership candidates have teamed up to complain about rejected memberships from rival Todd Stone’s campaign.
  The campaigns of Dianne Watts, Andrew Wilkinson, Mike de Jong and Michael Lee signed a joint letter to the B.C. Liberal Party on Tuesday demanding an explanation over Stone’s rejected memberships.
  “It is our understanding that the rules committee and the executive council of the BC Liberal Party deliberated on allegations r
  
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• Opinion: Shipbuilding, not ship-leasing, is the right choice for Canada

  31-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  In his Jan. 28 op-ed, National shipbuilding strategy is hobbling our Atlantic and Pacific fleets, Sen. Colin Kenny suggests that the National Shipbuilding Strategy is flawed and that the Government of Canada should gift more sole-sourced contracts to Davie Shipyards in Quebec.
  Kenny’s suggestions would be detrimental to the Royal Canadian Navy and to Canadian taxpayers.
  Under the National Shipbuilding Strategy, Seaspan Shipyards was competitively selected by the Government of Canada to bui
  
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• Opinion: 'Let’s talk' about mental health from a more diverse perspective

  31-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  On Jan. 31 the Bell ‘Let’s Talk’ campaign will once again bombard our news feeds. Bell will donate five cents toward mental-health initiatives for every social-media post that uses the hashtag #BellLetsTalk.
  Problematically, however, the campaign portrays a very narrow perspective of mental health that is predominantly male, white, upper middle class and able-bodied. If we’re going to actually talk about mental health in a productive way we need to diversify and broaden t
  
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• Opinion: Facts based on evidence serve best interests of children

  31-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  In past weeks, the quaint community of Chilliwack has transmogrified into Ground Zero for a one-sided debate on gender fluidity (the idea that gender is changeable and not determined by biological sex).
  At issue is the public school district’s forced acceptance of all aspects of the SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) curriculum put forth by the B.C. Ministry of Education. The overall goals are to provide a safe, bully-free, respectful and accepting environment for students of al
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Defence says key Crown witnesses are "worst" offenders

  31-01-2018 04:42 via vancouversun.com
  Cory Vallee’s three defence lawyers are finally getting to respond to eight days of Crown closing arguments in the long-running murder trial.
  Lead defence lawyer Eric Gottardi said Tuesday that the four ex-UN gangsters who testified for the Crown had no credibility and really couldn’t be used to convict his client of murder and conspiracy charges.
  Here’s my story:Defence attacks credibility of Crown witnesses at Cory Vallee trialFour former United Nations gang members who testi
  
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• REAL SCOOP: VPD announces more charges in gun case

  31-01-2018 04:28 via vancouversun.com
  In December, the Vancouver Police announced that charges had been laid against gang associate Derek Stephens after a five-month firearms investigation called Project Tactic.
  On Tuesday, the VPD announced a second man has now been charged.
  Here’s my story:Two men charged in Vancouver police gun investigation Project Tactic
  Vancouver Police say two men are facing dozens of firearms charges after a five-month investigation that started last summer.On Monday, investigators from the VPD’s
  
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• B.C. proposes spill regulations, could impact Trans Mountain Expansion

  31-01-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  The province vowed Tuesday to restrict expanded shipments of diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands until the province is satisfied spills can be successfully cleaned up, which puts a potential barrier in front of Kinder Morgan’s $7.4 billion Trans Mountain Expansion project.
  That restriction was included in a set of proposed spill response regulations unveiled Tuesday by the Ministry of Environment to be put out for consultation. They include requirements for spill response times,
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, Jan. 31

  31-01-2018 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, Jan. 31.VSO: Classical Mystery Tour: The Music of the Beatles
  2018 marks the 50th anniversary of The White Album, so it’s a great time for a Beatles tribute, although let’s be honest: any time is a good time for a Beatles tribute and every year seems to be a milestone anniversary for something Beatles-related. (Just a few years ago, this same concert was celebrating the 50th anniversar
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Liberals spin with fingerprints on ICBC serial botch-up

  31-01-2018 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — In the run-up to the last provincial election, the B.C. Liberals provided dramatic confirmation of the deteriorating financial situation at the Insurance Corp. of B.C.
  The government-owned automobile insurance corporation was poised to lose almost $700 million in the then-current financial year and more than $800 million over three years, according to financial statements tabled with the Feb. 21, 2017 provincial budget.
  The looming deficit did not go unnoticed by the NDP Op
  
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• Defence attacks credibility of Crown witnesses at Cory Vallee trial

  31-01-2018 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  Four former United Nations gang members who testified against alleged hitman Cory Vallee were trying to “save their own skin” and should not be believed, defence lawyer Eric Gottardi said Tuesday.
  At the start of his team’s closing arguments, Gottardi said the “linchpin” witnesses, who can be identified only as A, B, C and D due to a sweeping publication ban, “escaped punishment for murders” and got other perks by co-operating with the Crown.
  “They
  
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• Comic illustrates refugee family's bleak arrival in Vancouver and hope for the future

  31-01-2018 02:29 via vancouversun.com
  It was pouring rain in Vancouver, that day in October 2012, when Natalia Mokhovikova and her two young daughters stepped off a Greyhound bus with empty stomachs, a few bucks in their rumpled pockets, and no idea where to go next.
  The tourists from Russia had not planned to come to Vancouver. They spoke no English and knew no one here.
  They had been on a cruise, partly to forget the persistent racial bullying and violence inflicted on the family with a Russian Jewish mother and an Afghani Mu
  
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• Vancouver man enters surprise plea to being pimp for nine victims

  31-01-2018 02:28 via vancouversun.com
  In a surprise move, a Vancouver man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to being a pimp for nine victims, most of them underage girls who he had lured into prostitution.
  Just before his trial was to open in B.C. Supreme Court, Michael William Bannon pleaded guilty to 22 of 25 criminal charges that had been laid against him.
  Doug Jevning, a lawyer who had earlier been discharged by the accused but retained to cross-examine witnesses at what was expected to be a 13-week trial, told B.C. Supreme Court Justic
  
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• Coun. De Genova pushes for cheap rental housing

  31-01-2018 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  Non-Partisan Association Coun. Melissa De Genova wants to see at least one new building go up in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that is entirely comprised of core-need, rental housing. 
  In the motion presented to council Tuesday, De Genova called for staff to look at using budget surpluses, the city’s innovation fund, cash from the mayor’s office budget and unallocated development-cost levies, among other sources, to fund a 10- to 12-storey building on city-owned land in th
  
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• Bull-rider raises awareness of dangers of brain injuries a year after death of his friend, Ty Pozzobon

  31-01-2018 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  Tanner Byrne likes hard rock and golf, hardly your stereotypical cowboy pursuits.
  Now Byrne is going against the grain again, raising awareness of head injuries and fighting for better medical presence at bull-riding events a year after the suicide of his best friend, Ty Pozzobon of Merritt.
  “The biggest issue is we have no guaranteed money and we need to support our families,” he said. “If you don’t ride, you don’t make any money, and you’ve got to pay the bi
  
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• BC government stay charges on Mt Polley private prosecution

  31-01-2018 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Prosecution Service will not take on a private prosecution launched by a former First Nation chief to keep alive provincial charges in the catastrophic 2014 Mount Polley tailings dam collapse.
  The three-year time limit to lay charges under B.C.’s Environmental Management Act expired on Aug. 4, 2017.
  At the 11th hour, with the support of several environmental groups — including Mining Watch Canada and West Coast Environmental Law — former Xat’sull First Nation chi
  
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