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• Check out the stone tile being installed around the boulders at the #FootofLonsdale. Amazing craftsmanship!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-02-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Check out the stone tile being installed around the boulders at the #FootofLonsdale. Amazing craftsmanship!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Makeover: Transforming a timeless classic look

  03-02-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  On Valentine’s Day, why not enhance your everyday black “Cat Eye” liner with a pop of copper-red? Here’s a look at how I transform a timeless classic look with shades from the Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Eyeshadow Palette. It’s a great way to transition from work to evening!Step 1
  You’ll want to start by applying your classic black eye liner. Using a blending brush, contour the eye with the shade Eden, which is a warm coral-orange shade. 
  Step 2
  Next, using a
  
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• B.C. Liberals will select a new leader Saturday night

  03-02-2018 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal Party members will elect a new leader tonight, ending months of campaigning by six candidates in a long, and at times, bitter race.
  The new party leader will be named at a convention in downtown Vancouver just after 6 p.m. The candidates are Mike de Jong, Michael Lee, Todd Stone, Sam Sullivan, Dianne Watts and Andrew Wilkinson.
  The Liberal party says almost 60,000 members will be eligible to vote, with roughly half its new members signed up by the candidates during
  
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• Motown: The Musical tells Berry Gordy Jr.'s story in song

  03-02-2018 18:16 via vancouversun.com
  Motown: The Musical
  When: Feb. 6-11, various times 
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $30.50 at ticketmaster.com or 1-855-985-5000
  On Jan. 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Tamla Records in Detroit. By April 14, 1960, the label was renamed Motown — a mix of motor and town in recognition of the city’s nickname. An African-American musical revolution began. 
  The small label would chart 79 top 10 records in the next decade and introduce such seminal artists
  
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• Did you see this fun display in Civic Plaza last Saturday? 'come on in, #winteraction raincoat project' encouraged… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-02-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Did you see this fun display in Civic Plaza last Saturday? 'come on in, #winteraction raincoat project' encouraged… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think email membership snafu will cost Todd Stone the Liberal leadership?

  03-02-2018 17:39 via vancouversun.com
  The team behind Todd Stone’s B.C. Liberal leadership bid has admitted 1,349 party memberships tied to the campaign had to be cancelled because they were using improper email addresses after concerns raised by auditors within the party. Stone’s campaign co-chair, Peter Fassbender, said Friday that a social media marketing company the campaign had contracted, called AggregateIQ, created domain names and email portals to attach email addresses to new members, who were mainly Chines
  
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• Takashi Murakami 'eats his own leg' at Vancouver Art Gallery

  03-02-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  An exhibition by Takashi Murakami, one of the world’s most-successful and recognized contemporary artists from Japan, opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday.
  Murakami is one of the rare artists who have broken out from the art world into popular culture. He’s done that by, among other things, working with major international brands such as Issey Miyake and Louis Vuitton. He’s also worked with high-profile musicians Kanye West — he made a video and the album cover
  
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• Sold (Bought): West Van home showcases a clean, contemporary look

  03-02-2018 15:42 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1388 Inglewood Avenue, West Vancouver
  Type: Five-bedroom, five-bathroom detached
  Size: 3,904 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $3,506,000
  Listed for: $3,998,000
  Sold for: $3,800,000
  Sold on: Sept. 11
  Days on market: 84
  Listing agent: Devon Owen at Royal Pacific Realty and Carleigh Hofman at Oakwyn Realty
  Buyers agent: Brock Smeaton at Royal LePage Sussex
  The big sell: This five-bedroom, five-bathroom home was designed by Mason 
  
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• The Home Front: A co-working space for creatives in Vancouver

  03-02-2018 15:09 via vancouversun.com
  The curiosity that’s sparked by the light, airy, storefront window of Mount Pleasant’s The Aviary was something co-founders Andrea McLean and Stella Boyland were counting on when they decided on the space for their co-working studio for creatives, which they launched two years ago.
  As designers, both McLean and Boyland were looking for a different kind of environment to work in. McLean was working from home, and Boyland for a large corporate firm, and they were inspired to creat
  
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• Buyers flocking to Concord Brentwood's Hillside East

  03-02-2018 15:06 via vancouversun.com
  The buyer response to Concord’s latest highrise offering in the newly emerging Brentwood town centre community has been brisk, with buyers taking numbers to line up for appointments with sales agents to purchase one of the 500 homes in the gleaming 55-storey tower.
  Grant Murray, Concord’s senior vice-president of sales, said the rush on the first of two highrises — together, the Hillside East phase of the Concord Brentwood 26-acre development — came as no surprise.
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• Theatre review: A comic love letter to the theatre

  03-02-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jitters
  When: To Feb. 25
  Where: Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
  Tickets/Info: From $29 at artsclub.com 
  The final scene of David French’s Jitters takes place the day after opening night of a new Canadian play. The reviews are in and one of the actors has been badly panned. (The critic is a pompous idiot. The paper is not The Vancouver Sun.) Bruised feelings lead to arguments and recrimination.
  The director, as usual, has to intervene: “Let’s sit down and talk about this
  
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• North Vancouver mayors tackle condos and commutes - Vancouver Courier

  03-02-2018 12:47 via vancourier.com
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  North Vancouver mayors tackle condos and commutes
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  City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto and District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton speak to Chamber of Commerce members at the annual Mayors' Luncheon January 31. Photo: Paul McGrath, North Shore News. North Vancouver's two mayors met ...
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• The Last Continent: Antarctic remains an enigma

  03-02-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia columnist Daphne Bramham crosses the notoriously rough Drake Passage from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia — known as the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — to Antarctica. Her daily reports from the 18-day expedition will cover issues from climate change and micro plastics in the ocean to Japan’s continuing whale hunt, the antics of penguins and the world’s wild race to tour, and exploit, this last frontier.PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A continent at the bott
  
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• North Vancouver District approves 3% tax hike - North Shore News

  03-02-2018 11:49 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver District approves 3% tax hike
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  Taxes in the District of North Vancouver are going up by an average of three per cent, but exactly how the hike will be applied to various property classes has yet to be determined. The tax hike is “the pie,” Mayor Richard Walton said at Monday's ...
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• Rio Theatre launches petition to save historic venue from redevelopment threat

  03-02-2018 05:55 via vancouversun.com
  The Rio Theatre has launched a petition aimed at demonstrating the community’s support for saving the East Vancouver venue, and at least one prominent filmmaker has stepped up to offer his assistance.
  A pamphlet advertising the property at Broadway and Commercial recently hit the internet, and Rio proprietor Corinne Lea swiftly confirmed that the building had been listed for sale. While she assured fans that the Rio has an eight-year lease and hopes to remain in operation, the petitio
  
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• Opinion: The case for electoral reform

  03-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Much ink has been spilled on the crisis of democracy in recent years. Across the globe, democracy seems to be on the defensive and appears to be in real trouble in states as varied as India, the Philippines, Brazil, Venezuela, Egypt and Turkey. Of course, one need look no further than south of the border to gain an acute awareness of the travails of representative democratic institutions under the now one-yearold presidency of Donald Trump. According to a 2014 study conducted by professors Marti
  
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• Opinion: In the push for better buildings, B.C. leads the pack

  03-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  In mid-December, with little fanfare, B.C. took a bold step toward a future in which every new home, school, office, store — the works — will be built to the highest possible level of energy efficiency.
  As builders who produce new homes that are more efficient than what the building-code now demands, we’re excited by this future — especially since it’s not actually that far off. In 2032, the province will require every new building to be designed and constructed so
  
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• Letters: Not so fast on transportation plan; it needs a rethink

  03-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Time to make a decision on Mayors Council transportation plan is now, Opinion, Jan. 28.
  Perhaps it’s also time to consider the fact that many municipalities pay more than their fair share to provide Vancouver with Cadillac transit services. The costs of building a subway are enormous — not only with tunnelling, but also track, rolling stock and station maintenance, servicing of electrical equipment, such as escalators and elevators, and the cost of security.
  And those costs carry
  
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• Editorial: Fixing ICBC is now NDP's burden

  03-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The New Democrat government has made much ado about the previous Liberal government’s mismanagement of the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, the Crown corporation responsible for auto insurance, driver-licensing and vehicle registration.
  Attorney-General David Eby blamed the Liberals for ICBC’s $1.3-billion shortfall this fiscal year, claimed they transferred more than $1 billion from the corp. to government coffers, and ignored warnings and recommendations by independent consulta
  
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• Dave Barrett recalled as a visionary progressive … and a great wit

  03-02-2018 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  Dave Barrett was magic onstage.
  “He could play an audience like a violin, and they sang back to him,” said a former colleague, Bob Williams.
  But Barrett was far more than just a gifted campaigner. Another former B.C. premier, Glen Clark, marvels at how much Barrett accomplished in his three years of power between 1972 and 1975.
  “I think he’s the most underestimated or underrated individual that I can imagine in British Columbia,” said Clark.
  “People don’
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Legacy of Dave Barrett lives on

  03-02-2018 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For a politician who exited the premier’s office more than 40 years ago,  Dave Barrett left behind him a long and, in many ways, a still living legacy.
  The lasting protection of agricultural land. Public auto insurance. Pharmacare.  Neighbourhood pubs. The Cypress Bowl recreation area. Robson Square. The B.C. Day public holiday.
  The list goes on. The Art of the Impossible,  a sympathetic account of the Barrett years, written five years ago by journalist
  
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• Nobel-prize-winning activist talks about rays of hope in dark times for nuclear disarmament

  03-02-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  Nuclear-disarmament activist Ray Acheson wouldn’t stand out in a crowd if you passed by her on the street, but meet her in person and she displays a focused intensity and the sharp-eyed gaze of someone with deep convictions aiming at extraordinary goals.
  Acheson, as a steering group member for the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, was part of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning effort last summer to get the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons passed at the United Nations.
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• Metro Vancouver Transit Police seek SkyTrain sexual assaulter

  03-02-2018 01:42 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver Transit Police have released a photo of man wanted in connection with a sexual assault on a SkyTrain.
  The incident occurred on a Millenium Line train at 2:30 a.m on Jan .1.
  Transit police say three women reported being harassed by three men after boarding a SkyTrain at the Broadway station.
  “The three men attempted to converse with the women in a manner that made the women feel uncomfortable,” Transit police spokesperson Anne Drennan said in a release. “The
  
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• 89-year-old woman sexually assaulted in her North Vancouver home - CBC.ca

  03-02-2018 01:33 via cbc.ca
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  89-year-old woman sexually assaulted in her North Vancouver home
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  Police are investigating after they say a North Vancouver woman was assaulted in her Lynn Valley apartment Thursday afternoon. The 89-year-old victim was home alone when a stranger came to her door asking to use the washroom. Police say the man was ...
  Senior assaulted in her North Vancouver retirement complexNorth Shore News
  Elderly woman assaulted by man posing as construction worker: RCMPCTV News
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• 89-year-old woman sexually assaulted in her North Vancouver ... - CBC.ca

  03-02-2018 01:33 via cbc.ca
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  89-year-old woman sexually assaulted in her North Vancouver ...
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  A North Vancouver woman was assaulted in her Lynn Valley apartment during the late afternoon hours of Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. A similar incident happened in 2014.
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• Council is ready to roll Monday 6PM for the weekly council meeting. See what on this week's agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Council is ready to roll Monday 6PM for the weekly council meeting. See what on this week's agenda:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two Vancouver men convicted of human trafficking and pimping crimes

  03-02-2018 01:28 via vancouversun.com
  Two Vancouver men have been convicted of multiple counts of human trafficking and pimping-related offences involving their exploitation of three young women, one of them an underage girl.
  Tamim Albashir, 26, and Kasra Mohsenipour, 25, were found guilty of 17 of 19 charges in connection with offences committed against the victims in Vancouver, Coquitlam and Edmonton. The crimes occurred from May 2013 to April 2016.
  The accused were also convicted of attempting to obstruct justice by conspiring to
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Surrey municipal corruption case was minimized

  03-02-2018 01:13 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey municipal corruption scandal was minimized and presented as a one-time bribe taken by a bad apple, even though the city knew other developers were involved and the wrongdoing stretched back years.
  Kelly Rayter, assistant city solicitor, told Postmedia the municipality has collected some of the money from the developers who cheated but would not say how much or how many were involved.
  Rayter said internal and external audits in 2010 revealed the extent of the scheme — which in
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Surrey developer asks city to open municipal corruption file

  03-02-2018 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  Developer-turned-whistle blower Jack Saran sat in front of reporters again Friday — four years after the sentencing of a former Surrey planner he fingered and found little satisfaction at finally being proven right.
  The 68-year-old large-scale builder, who immigrated from India in 1968, always insisted the wrongdoing by Akonyu Akolo was more extensive than one attempted bribe in 2010 and went back several years.
  “I have never wavered in my belief that there was much more to this issu
  
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• Justin Trudeau shouted down, people hauled off at raucous Nanaimo town hall

  03-02-2018 01:04 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke over jeers Friday at a rowdy town hall meeting in Nanaimo as he defended his government’s decision to support the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline through the province.
  Trudeau said the pipeline is a key component of the federal government’s approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which means Ottawa had to get a national agreement on carbon pricing that will allow Canada to meet its international commitments on climate
  
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• Todd Stone campaign admits to allegations of fake emails in membership sign-ups

  03-02-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Todd Stone’s campaign admits it had to cancel 1,349 Liberal party memberships it signed up with improper email addresses after concerns raised by auditors within the party.
  Stone campaign co-chair Peter Fassbender said Friday that a social media marketing company the campaign had contracted, called AggregateIQ, created domain names and email portals to attach email addresses to new members, who were mainly Chinese Canadians in Richmond and
  
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• Species-at-risk remain at risk despite government efforts

  03-02-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  An endangered caribou herd that rears its young deep in the B.C. backcountry was put at risk this winter by a covert construction project that was eventually foiled by natural resource officers.
  The scheme, which involved someone using heavy equipment to clear a deactivated forest service road that had been closed to protect the Klinse-Za caribou herd near Chetwynd, highlights the struggle to save at-risk species, which are threatened by habitat loss, recreational activities and invasive species
  
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• 89-Year-Old Woman Assaulted by a Stranger in her Home bit.ly/2rYUapQ #NorthVancouver https://t.co/pfSr32oeeb

  03-02-2018 00:20 via twitter.com
  
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• First NDP premier of B.C., Dave Barrett, dead at 87

  03-02-2018 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  Dave Barrett, a wisecracking and flamboyant left-wing populist from east Vancouver who became British Columbia’s first NDP premier, died this morning after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s.
  He was 87.
  “He care deeply about this province and devoted much of his life to trying to make it a better and fairer place to live,” his family said in a statement Friday afternoon. “His love of the province was surpassed only by his devotion to his family.”
  Barrett had a s
  
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• Mulgrew: Surrey developer asks city to open municipal corruption file

  03-02-2018 00:05 via vancouversun.com
  Developer-turned-whistle blower Jack Saran sat in front of reporters again Friday — four years after the sentencing of a former Surrey planner he fingered and found little satisfaction at finally being proven right.
  The 68-year-old large-scale builder, who immigrated from India in 1968, always insisted the wrongdoing by Akonyu Akolo was more extensive than one attempted bribe in 2010 and went back several years.
  “I have never wavered in my belief that there was much more to this issu
  
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