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• The Last Continent: Penguins, penguins everywhere

  08-02-2018 23:53 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.SALISBURY PLAIN, South Georgia — King penguin
  
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• Three vehicle pile up east bound Highway 1 just past the Lynn Valley exit on ramp. Emergency crews on scene. Expec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 23:18 via twitter.com
  Three vehicle pile up east bound Highway 1 just past the Lynn Valley exit on ramp.Emergency crews on scene. Expec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Abbotsford teen arrested on new drug charges while out on bail

  08-02-2018 23:10 via vancouversun.com
  An Abbotsford teen has been arrested and charged with possessing fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking while he was already out on bail for drug trafficking.
  Sukhjit Malhi, 19, remains in custody and is charged with breaching his current court order and possession for the purpose of trafficking fentanyl.
  During the investigation, officers seized amounts of cocaine, fentanyl, cell phones, $2,500 cash and two vehicles. The two vehicles are being considered for civil forfeiture.
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• Police warn public after sex offender moves to Vancouver

  08-02-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police say a convicted sex offender residing in Vancouver poses a significant risk to the safety of young women, particularly those 16 to 25 years old.
  Cameron Eugene Ratelle, 39, is a federal offender who was convicted of a sexual assault against a person under the age of 18, as well as university women living on campuses in Ontario. 
  Vancouver police say they were advised on Feb. 8 that Ratelle is currently out on statutory release and living in a Vancouver halfway hou
  
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• #TBT Feb 2010 crowds gather @LonsdaleQuay for Torch Relay event. #NorthVan https://t.co/o1GNhfeDXX

  08-02-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  
  #TBT Feb 2010 crowds gather @LonsdaleQuay for Torch Relay event. #NorthVan https://t.co/o1GNhfeDXX
  
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• REAL SCOOP: HA rapper offers help to get medical pot grow licences

  08-02-2018 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  Sorry for the delay in reopening Real Scoop comments. I have been battling the cold/flu that so many have. But I am back at work, though off on holidays next week.
  I wrote this story a couple of days ago – Hal Porteous offering help on his Instagram account to those wanting to get licences to grow their own medical cannabis. The medical system will remain in tact and parallel to the implementation of the recreational pot system this summer. The B.C. government announced our province’
  
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• Petition launched to protest incoming parking fees at Spanish Banks

  08-02-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  An online petition protesting parking fees at Vancouver’s Spanish Banks has garnered nearly 3,000 signatures in three days.
  Beginning this April, the city will charge $3.50 an hour, $13 daily or $87 for a seasonal pass for drivers to park at Spanish Banks during the summer months. The move, which was approved in November 2017, was thrown into the spotlight after an online petition was launched this week to fight the new fees.
  The Change.org petition was launched on Monday by a group called
  
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• Body found in Abbotsford identified as missing woman Deborah Ann Hycha

  08-02-2018 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  Human remains discovered in Abbotsford earlier this week has been identified as missing person Deborah Ann Hycha.
  It is not considered a suspicious death.
  “This is a tragic outcome for this missing person investigation,” read a police statement. “The Abbotsford Police Department extends its condolences to the family and friends of Deborah.”
  Hycha, 52, was last seen in May 2017 and was reported missing in June.
  On Monday afternoon, a citizen found human remains in a field
  
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• Highlights from week's #CityView eNews include: Harry Jerome Ideas Fair, Family Day fun, Youth Awards, great events… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  Highlights from week's #CityView eNews include: Harry Jerome Ideas Fair, Family Day fun, Youth Awards, great events… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Runners ready to trade sleep for fun at Fort Langley's Historic Half

  08-02-2018 21:07 via vancouversun.com
  Mitchell Hudson isn’t a superstitious kind of guy, which might be a good thing.
  Mitchell Hudson, race director of the PNE Donut Dash, is very excited about the Fort Langley Historic Half. (Gord Kurenoff photo)
  The enterprising race director of the 13th annual LHS Fort Langley Historic Half, who just survived a painful gallstones nightmare, is about to stage his second event of the young race season in a location made famous by pioneer traders — just as our agitated Alberta neighbours
  
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• B.C. to hike minimum wage to $12.65 in June, and $15 in 2021

  08-02-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has announced B.C.’s minimum wage will go up $1.30 to $12.65 an hour in June.
  Premier John Horgan says the plan is to reach $15 an hour in 2021. Additional increases will take place on June 1 of each year for three more years. By June 2021, B.C.’s minimum wage will rise to at least $15.20 an hour.
  “Regular, predictable increases to our minimum wage are one important way we can make life more affordable for people,” said Horgan on Thursday.
  He says the
  
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• Federal government will intervene if needed on Trans Mountain pipeline, minister says

  08-02-2018 20:43 via vancouversun.com
  Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said the federal government will step in when necessary to ensure the Trans Mountain expansion project gets built, but is giving few details on how it plans to do so.
  “The government of Canada, as this process plays through, will be absolutely alert to any attempts to delay this project,” Carr said Thursday at an announcement regarding the restructuring of the National Energy Board.
  “If there is an attempt by any government to infringe on fed
  
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• Vancouver Olympic Cauldron will be lit twice during Pyeongchang Games

  08-02-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  The Olympic Cauldron, which burned for two weeks straight during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, will be lit tonight to honour both the Canadian athletes competing at the 2018 Games and the host city PyeongChang, South Korea.
  The cauldron in Jack Poole Plaza at the Vancouver Convention Centre, which has been set ablaze occasionally since 2010 for events as varied as the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup to restaurant openings, will burn for two hours Thursday, 5-7 p.m., in advance of Fr
  
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• Style in the City: Anca Tantos

  08-02-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Meet stylish Vancouverite Anca Tantos.
  Name: Anca Tantos
  Occupation: Style Blogger
  Personal style in one word: Chic 
  Instagram: @gracefullyglamblog 
  Love Anca’s red-accented look? Here’s are a few pieces to help you recreate it. 
  The coatMake every winter and early spring outfit a statement look with a bold red coat like this oversized iteration in a wool-blend fabric. A fiery topper works well with most colour palettes, and can easily be dressed up or down. We love ho
  
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• Nadia Albano: Three ways to wear the baby bangs trend

  08-02-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the biggest hair trends for 2018 is baby bangs; a short, choppy micro fringe that starts a few inches above your eyebrows. 
  It’s definitely not for everyone, however it can really modernize a haircut and open up the face. It can be both edgy and soft and is a great alternative to creating a pixie look without committing to going short all over.
  This trend is influenced by the hairstyle of the 1920s, and was also made very popular in the 90s.  You’ll often see this fr
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Plan Checker 1. Click here to apply. ow.ly/nTxk30ihWaI

  08-02-2018 19:48 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Plan Checker 1.Click here to apply. ow.ly/nTxk30ihWaI
  
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• Majority of Canadians want laws to end gender pay gap: poll

  08-02-2018 19:32 via vancouversun.com
  A new poll finds that a majority of Canadians want new laws to end the gender pay gap.
  The Insights West survey conducted for Maclean’s found 82 per cent of  respondents believe there should be new federal legislation that guarantees equal pay for work of equal value in Canada.
  The poll also found that a majority (62 per cent) think men and women who do the same job and have the same skill levels are “definitely” or “probably” not paid equally. Women
  
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• We're working on a Child Care Strategy and we'd like to hear from you. Join us March 1 @NorthVanCityLib to share yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
  We're working on a Child Care Strategy and we'd like to hear from you. Join us March 1 @NorthVanCityLib to share yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Are you a young artist or performer looking for exposure? Or looking for a chance to log some volunteer hours? We'r… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
  Are you a young artist or performer looking for exposure? Or looking for a chance to log some volunteer hours? We'r… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Chutzpah! Festival premieres Salomé: Woman of Valor

  08-02-2018 18:15 via vancouversun.com
  Chutzpah! 2018
  Lisa Nemetz International Jewish Performing Arts Festival
  When: Feb. 15-March 15
  Where: Various venues
  Tickets and info: chutzpahfestival.comThere is a Wilde connection in the story of how acclaimed poet Adeena Karasick and Grammy Award-winning composer Frank London met. Both New York City-based artists — the firebrand wordsmith and and the trumpeter/composer — had issues with Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salomé.
  Misogynistic, antisemitic and loade
  
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• Lunar New Year: Michael Kors, Chinese star Yang Mi team up for special collection

  08-02-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  For Yang Mi, Lunar New Year is all about tradition.
  “It is the most important date for me,” she says. “My family, together, stays up late until midnight, when we (set) off firecrackers. Then, we go back home, make dumplings and have them all. It is very, very happy.” 
  Chinese actress Yang Mi is pictured with designer Michael Kors at the 2017 MET Gala.
  The Chinese multi-hyphenate — she’s an actress, fashion model and social media star boasting mo
  
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• Port Mann traffic cops nab dummy in HOV lane

  08-02-2018 17:55 via vancouversun.com
  Traffic police have nabbed a dummy speeding in the HOV lane on Highway 1.
  Officers with the Port Mann Traffic Services were on routine patrol Tuesday on Highway 1 through the Langley/Surrey border when a vehicle, allegedly traveling well over the posted speed limit, caught the officer’s eye.
  Police say the vehicle changed lanes without signalling and crossed over the solid white line into the HOV lane. Officers then stopped the vehicle.
  That’s when police noticed the man’s girl
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with B.C.'s tax deal with Airbnb?

  08-02-2018 16:22 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has announced that Airbnb will collect provincial sales taxes on all short-term rentals. The deal means the company will remit the eight per cent PST and the up-to-three per cent municipal and regional district hotel tax. The  government says the deal will bring in $16 million a year for the province and $5 million for local governments. 
  Read the story here.
  What do you think? Is this the way forward with how to deal with the sharing economy? Do you think B.C.
  
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• Pipeline protesters move to Port Moody to stop workers from taking boats to Kinder Morgan site

  08-02-2018 15:43 via vancouversun.com
  About 20 pipeline protesters have shifted their operations to Port Moody this morning, after learning that the company has been transporting its workers by boat.
   
  Demonstrators, who oppose Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, have been blocking the company’s Westridge Marine Terminal construction site in Burnaby for several weeks.  
  However, protester David Mivasair says they have learned that the workers have been driving to the Reed Poin
  
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• Rio Theatre operator says venue saved from redevelopment — for now

  08-02-2018 08:30 via vancouversun.com
  The operators of the Rio Theatre say the East Vancouver movie house is on the verge of being saved from redevelopment.
  “So… We did it. It’s happening,” the Rio posted to its Facebook page. “We made a creative offer and it was accepted by our landlord.”
  #SaveTheRio #WeDidIt Our offer was accepted – for now. We have it. We did it. But we are so totally not done yet! Part of the reason we got where we are now is because of the #EastVan #Vancouver #CDNfilm
  
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• After Alberta's wine ban, what should B.C. boycott in retaliation?

  08-02-2018 06:09 via vancouversun.com
  A trade war has broken out between British Columbia and Alberta, and it’s over two of mankind’s favourite liquids: oil and wine.
  In response to the B.C. government’s attempt to disrupt the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline by restricting bitumen shipments from Alberta, Alberta’s government announced Tuesday a ban on the import of B.C. wine.
  While B.C. premier John Horgan said he hopes “cooler heads on the other side of the Rockies will prevail,” things seem
  
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• Municipalities deciding how to respond to B.C.'s cannabis retail plan

  08-02-2018 05:33 via vancouversun.com
  Municipalities across Metro Vancouver are considering their options when it comes to allowing legal cannabis retailers in their communities, following the release of new provincial policy around licensing. 
  This week, the B.C. government said that under its proposed framework for the retail sales of non-medical cannabis, residents aged 19 and older will be able to buy cannabis through privately run or government-operated retail stores and online through the government once it is legalized i
  
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• The Last Continent: What does it mean to be a whale?

  08-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia columnist Daphne Bramham is on an 18-day expedition that crosses the notoriously rough Drake Passage from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia — known as the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — to Antarctica. ELSEHUL BAY, South Georgia — Humpback whales are the size of school buses. Minkes, by comparison, are small … for whales that is.
  All of which is to say that Ari Friedlaender’s work seems almost ridiculously dangerous. To get the data he needs, F
  
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• Opinion: Under-the-radar bylaw amendments could resuscitate Vancouver's ghost neighbourhoods

  08-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Few outside the architectural community talk about the beauty of Vancouver’s architecture. But it’s there: Look past the towering trees lining Vancouver’s leafy, pre-1940s neighbourhoods and you’ll notice a cacophony of architectural styles. Each of these homes was built in a slightly different era by a different builder following a different set of architectural ideals at a time when the details were paramount; the gables, the dormers, the handrails — there’s
  
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• Opinion: Trudeau needs to stand up to Premier Horgan

  08-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Senate of Canada recently held an emergency debate on the recent development in the ongoing saga over the $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project which, essentially, twins an existing pipeline between Alberta and B.C. 
  In my view, this major Canadian energy infrastructure project is good for business and it’s good for Canada. It will create good-paying, family-supporting jobs, boost our economic activity and increase the value of Canadian oil on the wo
  
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• Four vehicles run red lights in remarkable video from Richmond roads

  08-02-2018 04:36 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond driver has shared footage of what appears to be shockingly brazen behaviour on local roads. 
  A video posted by YouTuber am0s.x shows four vehicles running red lights in the span of ten minutes last week in Richmond’s east Cambie neighbourhood, and these aren’t just vehicles on the wrong side of a yellow light. In each of the instances, the drivers go well out of their way to cross an intersection, completely ignoring the visual command to sit tight and wait
  
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• Edible cannabis products most likely to send 4/20 revellers to poison control

  08-02-2018 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  Calls to the B.C. Drug and Poison Information Centre have surged on the annual 4/20 cannabis event in Vancouver in recent years, a report by provincial health officials shows.
  “The 4/20 cannabis calls represent a real spike, way over what we see on ordinary days,” said Dr. Tom Kosatsky, medical director of environmental health services for the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
  He acknowledged that the total number of calls remains small, but is nevertheless growing. His report is publ
  
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• Five things about the CMHC report: Lots of bidding wars for condos, big price hikes

  08-02-2018 03:32 via vancouversun.com
  It’s what CMHC is calling the “most thorough examination of house price patterns” ever done of the housing market in the country’s five largest cities, including Vancouver.
  Canada Housing and Mortgage Corp. on Wednesday released a 225-page report called Examining Escalating House Prices in Large Canadian Metropolitan Centres. It was completed to better understand how much prices rose between 2010 and 2016 (in Vancouver, a lot), factors that drove the hikes, why the hikes
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, February 8

  08-02-2018 03:22 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, Feb. 8.Fun Home
  Fun Home is a Tony Award-nominated coming-of-age musical based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Alison Bechdel (yes, the one behind the Bechdel test). The graphic novel is a memoir focused on Bechdel’s childhood growing up with her father, Bruce, a historical preservationist, funeral home director, distant parent, and closeted gay man, and Fun Home the musical is faithful to the s
  
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• Victim says her time with Vancouver pimp was "experience from hell"

  08-02-2018 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  A young woman who was lured into prostitution at the age of 17 by a Vancouver pimp has described it as an “experience from hell.”
  In a victim impact statement read into court Wednesday, the young woman, who is now 20, said that she suffers from severe anxiety, depression, sleeplessness and panic attacks as a result of being exploited by Michael William Bannon.
  The victim, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban imposed by the court, met Bannon, now 35, in March 2015 after h
  
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• B.C. regulator fines financial fraudster $600,000, but will she pay?

  08-02-2018 01:51 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Securities Commission has fined and permanently banned Vancouver-resident Lynne Rae Nickford from the province’s investment markets.
  Her penalties total $618,141, but it’s unclear whether the commission will ever collect a cent from Nickford.
  She declared bankruptcy in 2010 and none of the investors that she bilked have seen any funds returned.
  Nickford has told the Commission she is not in a position to pay any monetary sanctions because she has a limited income, no assets,
  
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• Not Sci Fi: Burnaby-based engineers bringing hand-motion controls to life

  08-02-2018 01:47 via vancouversun.com
  Goodbye computer mouse, hello computer wristband.
  Or something like that.
  A pair of engineers in Burnaby have launched a “gesture recognition wristband” called TENZR, which can be “used to control mixed reality environments, complex robotic systems, home appliances, and even medical equipment in operating rooms.”
  Lukas-Karim Merhi and Gautam Sadarangani are graduates from Simon Fraser University’s engineering science program and developed the wristband through their
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Legal lions urge B.C. to adopt anti-SLAPP law

  08-02-2018 01:46 via vancouversun.com
  A group of 15 legal luminaries and scholars — including two former Supreme Court of Canada justices and two erstwhile provincial attorneys-general — is calling on the B.C. government to pass anti-SLAPP legislation.
  In an open letter to Attorney General David Eby to be released Thursday, the blue-ribbon legal pride says the continuing presence of these abusive lawsuits threatens confidence in the legal system and can result in a significant waste of public and judicial resources. 
  
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• Drivers in Upper Capilano take note: @MetroVancouver advises they'll be conducting emergency repairs on the Cap Wat… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 01:40 via twitter.com
  Drivers in Upper Capilano take note: @MetroVancouver advises they'll be conducting emergency repairs on the Cap Wat… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'There's just going to be losers out of this': B.C.-Alberta border towns keep wary eye on pipeline dispute

  08-02-2018 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  As the battle of wills between the B.C. and Alberta governments over pipelines and rosés heats up, towns near the B.C-Alberta border are keeping a wary, if amused, eye on the escalating spat.  
  Gerry Taft, mayor of Invermere, said most of the reaction he’s heard from residents about the ongoing tit-for-tat between B.C. Premier John Horgan and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley are tongue-in-cheek, with hashtags like #marchonfernie and #bcresistance popping up on his T
  
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• Reminder: It’s utility bill time. 5% discount if paid by Feb 28. Find out what it pays for: cnv.org/UtilityRates… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Reminder: It’s utility bill time. 5% discount if paid by Feb 28. Find out what it pays for: cnv.org/UtilityRates… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Premier John Horgan refuses to retaliate on Alberta wine ban

  08-02-2018 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Premier John Horgan sought to cool a brewing trade war with Alberta on Wednesday, refusing to retaliate to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s ban on B.C. wine with a B.C. boycott of Alberta beef.
  “It’s not the government’s intention to respond in any way to the provocation,” he said of Notley’s move Tuesday to ban the import of B.C. wine. He added he hopes “cooler heads on the other side of the Rockies will prevail.”
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• Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some Vancouver-inspired greeting cards

  08-02-2018 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a week left before Valentine’s Day and if you’re still needing a card for that special someone, here are some Vancouver-inspired suggestions.
  If the love of your life is a political follower, let them know what you’ve got planned for the future.Let the (Port) Mann in your life know how they make your heart race!Love is a game for two and with this e-card, you can let them know you’re willing to lose your heart to them.Valentine’s Day can rack up a smal
  
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• Billions of viruses rain down on Earth every day: Study

  08-02-2018 00:31 via vancouversun.com
  A scientific study has added a new vector to the usual transportation of viruses and bacteria horizontally from person-to-person: they now can literally fall on you from above.
  Every day, more than 800 million viruses fall from the atmosphere and are deposited per square metre at a height of 2,500-3,000 m, the study found. That works out to about 25 viruses for every person in Canada, according to Curtis Suttle, a virologist at the University of B.C. and one of the senior authors of the paper.
  C
  
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• Questions persist after Vancouver Island man's body found 11 years later

  08-02-2018 00:03 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The decade-old mystery of the whereabouts of a 52-year-old Vancouver Island man who disappeared in May 2007 during a morning walk in the woods has been solved, but questions remain.
  The remains of Lake Cowichan’s Darreld Stanley Rayner, an experienced bushman who spent his life in the area, was identified by the B.C. Coroners Service. They were found on Dec. 22, 2017, in a steep and secluded area near South Shore Road, a forest service road.
  “We never did give up hop
  
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