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• Young man killed in targeted shooting in Langley Friday night

  10-02-2018 23:49
  The victim of a targeted shooting in Langley on Friday night has been identified as Tarek Ali Al-Romeshi, 23, of Surrey.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says at around 9 p.m., the Langley RCMP received reports of shots being fired at a townhouse complex in the 8200-block of 204B Street.  
  Victim of last night's fatal shooting in #LangleyBC identified as 23 y/o Tarek Ali Al-Romeshi of Surrey. A burning white Nissan 370Z was found nearby site of shooting. Believed related. #IH
  
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• Douglas Todd: Who are the most and least educated in Canada?

  10-02-2018 23:37
  Canadians of colour and children of immigrants tend to be far more educated than Canadian whites and aboriginals, according to two studies.
  “Canada’s white males are the least likely to hold university degrees in the knowledge economy,” says a report by Jack Jedwab, president of the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration.
  Only 24 per cent of white Canadian men between ages 35 and 44 have university degrees, according to Jedwab’s research. That is less than half t
  
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• Zero-waste movement goes mainstream in Vancouver

  10-02-2018 22:05
  2017 was a relatively wasteful year for Shia and Hanno Su, and it’s all Shia’s fault. 
  She broke a mug and a bowl — nearly doubling their annual waste output for the year, which fits in a one-litre jar. 
  The couple’s garbage includes thermal paper receipts, toothbrush bristles, a Band-aid, and plastic bits and bobs. 
  Shia Su and her husband Hanno Su live a zero-waste lifestyle, trying to reduce waste and minimize their ecological footprint.
  “At first
  
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• Someone in town has #Olympics fever. Go 🇨🇦!#TheLady🐪 #NorthVan https://t.co/DrfqXSF4z2

  10-02-2018 21:36 via twitter.com
  
  Someone in town has #Olympics fever.Go 🇨🇦!#TheLady🐪#NorthVan https://t.co/DrfqXSF4z2
  
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• See a City non-emergency problem that needs fixing? We've got an app 4 that #CityFix: cnv.org/CityFix.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-02-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  See a City non-emergency problem that needs fixing? We've got an app 4 that #CityFix: cnv.org/CityFix.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Friday night targeted shooting in Langley leaves one person dead

  10-02-2018 20:23
  One man is dead and homicide detectives have been called in after a targeted shooting in Langley Friday.
   
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says at around 9 p.m., the Langley RCMP received reports of shots fired at a townhouse complex in the 8200-block of 204B Street.  
  When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle.  He  was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  IHIT was called in and has taken conduct of the investigati
  
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• Jury makes 29 recommendations in Vancouver police shooting death of Tony Du

  10-02-2018 19:29
  A B.C. coroner’s jury has made 29 recommendations following an inquest into the police shooting of a mentally ill man in downtown Vancouver four years ago.
  The recommendations into the death of Phuong Na (Tony) Du are directed at several agencies, including the Independent Investigations Office, the Vancouver Police Department, the Ministry of Health and the City of Vancouver.
  Du was shot by Vancouver police officers on Nov. 22, 2014 at 41st Avenue and Knight Street. Du was swinging a 
  
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• Looking for things to do this #BCFamilyDay long weekend? Check out our community events calendar for ideas!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-02-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Looking for things to do this #BCFamilyDay long weekend? Check out our community events calendar for ideas!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Friday night shooting in Langley leaves one person dead

  10-02-2018 17:42
  One person is dead and homicide detectives have been called in after a shooting in Langley Friday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed Saturday it is investigating a shooting at a residence near 204B Street and 82nd Avenue.
  Investigators have not released much information, but say more is expected later Saturday.
  #IHIT in 8200 block of 204B ST, #LangleyBC for shooting from last night that has left 1 dead victim. News release & presser later today. Time/location to be announc
  
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• Why Olympic-calibre athletes need to maintain mental, as well as, physical health

  10-02-2018 17:00
  As Nola Mountain watches athletes competing in Pyeongchang over the next two weeks, the driven 14-year-old will have one thing on her mind: making it to the 2024 Summer Games in Paris as a member of the Canadian women’s softball team.
  And this whiz kid from Surrey has a game plan to get there: Her sprinting trainer is Canadian relay gold-medallist Robert Esmie; Team Canada softball player Larissa Franklin is her hitting coach; and her private instructor is Douglas College softball hea
  
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• Sold (Bought): Custom coach house noteworthy for striking finishes

  10-02-2018 15:40
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1838 Alma Street, Vancouver
  Type: Three-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 1,108 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,369,000
  Listed for: $1,498,000
  Sold for: $1,520,000
  Sold on: Nov. 27
  Days on market: 61
  Listing agent: Faith Wilson at Faith Wilson Group
  Buyers agent: Jannelle de la Torre at ReMax Select Realty
  The big sell: This three-bedroom strata-titled coach house was custom built in 2017 in Kitsilano, close to Jericho Beach
  
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• The Home Front: Interior design cheats for rental homes

  10-02-2018 15:35
  Just because you don’t own the home you live in doesn’t mean you can’t completely make it your own, says Vancouver interior designer and home stylist Laura Melling. 
  “More and more, Vancouver is just too expensive,” she says. “I think a lot of people are intentionally choosing to rent, and  just because it’s a rental, it doesn’t mean you should spend any less time or energy on a space because at the end of the day, it’s still t
  
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• Hensley an amenity-rich addition to Coquitlam

  10-02-2018 15:25
  The top level of Hensley, Cressey Development Group’s planned new residential tower in West Coquitlam, will accommodate upscale amenities rather than the more typical penthouse suites.
  Inspired by the success of the amenity space in the top two floors of its MThree tower, also in Coquitlam, the Hensley amenities are a big part of the buying decision for potential homeowners in the 33-level highrise at 430 Westview Street, says Jason Turcotte, Cressey’s vice-president of developm
  
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• North Vancouver teens' phones stolen during hockey practice - North Shore News

  10-02-2018 12:12 via nsnews.com
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  North Vancouver teens' phones stolen during hockey practice
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  Police are warning the public after a group of North Vancouver teens had their phones stolen while they were on the ice for a minor hockey practice. North Vancouver RCMP received a call around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday saying someone had let themselves into ...
  
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• Opinion: It’s time to fix B.C.’s broken democracy

  10-02-2018 06:19
  The day after an election, a majority — usually six out of 10 voters — effectively find themselves with a government in Victoria they didn’t choose.
  The result? The majority must live with what the minority has chosen. Not terribly representative or democratic.
  Since last May’s provincial election, public opinion polls have shown time and time again that most British Columbians think we need a new way to elect our government. That’s hardly surprising.
  For more than
  
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• Bowen Island water taxi abruptly ends service to dismay of daily commuters

  10-02-2018 06:06
  Bowen Islanders are sending out a distress signal after their water-taxi commuter service to Vancouver lost access to a public dock on Friday and made its final sailing hours later.
  The Bowen Land and Sea Taxi, which made three round trips between Snug Cove on Bowen Island and Coal Harbour every weekday, lost access to a public dock near the Vancouver Convention Centre after the Vancouver park board determined it requires repairs. 
  Mike Shannon, 43, owner and operator of Bowen Land and Sea
  
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• Watchdog admits it took too long to investigate police shooting of mentally ill man

  10-02-2018 05:38
  The delay in the investigation into the death of a man shot by Vancouver police was largely due to a backlog in lab work, a coroner’s inquest into the shooting of Phuong Na (Tony) Du heard on Friday.
  Du, who had lived with schizophrenia for over 25 years, was shot in November 2014 by an officer while yelling and waving a two-metre-long two-by-four board at 41st Avenue and Knight Street.
  It took 11 months for the Independent Investigations Office of B.C., an agency that investigates police
  
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• Opinion: New Canada Food Guide: Why We Must Get It Right this Time

  10-02-2018 05:00
  Soon Health Canada will unveil its new Canada Food Guide; the last version was released 10 years ago and the previous, 15 years earlier. The food we eat is a very important, if not the most important, factor affecting our health. The new guide will, therefore, have a profound, long-term impact on Canadians, so it is critical that we get it right this time.
  Canadians might be surprised to learn that the high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet, recommended by Heath Canada for the last 50 years has never b
  
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• Letters: B.C. LNG will aid global effort to reduce emissions

  10-02-2018 05:00
  Re: British Columbians deserve to hear the real cost of LNG, Opinion, Feb. 2.
  Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz say “we can only truly control what happens in our own backyard” as the justification for not developing a liquefied natural-gas (LNG) industry in B.C. Yet this is exactly the reason B.C. should develop an LNG industry.
  B.C. would be the only LNG-producing jurisdiction in the world requiring by law that LNG projects must be below a strict emissions-intensity benchmark. B.C.
  
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• Editorial: Retail cannabis plan mixes good with the bad

  10-02-2018 05:00
  There is much to praise in the B.C. government’s new retail regulatory regime for recreational cannabis. But there are also a few oddities which suggest Victoria hasn’t moved beyond reefer madness as far as we thought.
  Handing responsibility for licensing and oversight of private pot shops to the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch seems a prudent move to ensure an orderly transition of store fronts operating outside the law to legal status. Allowing the B.C. Liquor Distribution Bran
  
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• Bitumen floats longer than expected, Natural Resources Canada research shows

  10-02-2018 03:26
  To the question of whether diluted bitumen sinks or floats when it hits water, the short answer is it floats, most of the time, according to a growing body of research being compiled by Natural Resources Canada scientists.
  Answering whether bitumen sinks or floats and how to clean it up are key concerns that have B.C. considering restrictions on increased shipments of the product through B.C. that put Kinder Morgan’s $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline at risk.
  Researcher Heather Det
  
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• Burial urn with deceased father's ashes stolen from truck in Penticton

  10-02-2018 03:17
  Penticton RCMP is appealing to the public for help locating a burial urn stolen from a vehicle last weekend.
  According to a news release, police received a report of a theft from a black 2011 Dodge Ram pickup truck on Sunday night on Penticton’s Dafoe Street.
  Among the items stolen were prescription sunglasses, some baseball caps and, most importantly, an urn containing the ashes of the truck owner’s deceased father.
  The urn is described as square and beige in colour, with the inscri
  
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• Theatre review: Beware the Jabberwock

  10-02-2018 03:00
  Jabberwocky
  When: To Feb. 17
  Where: York Theatre
  Tickets/Info: From $22 at thecultch.com 
  In theatre as in life, there are things that seem like a good idea at the time. Jabberwocky, from Calgary’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop, must have been one.
  Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem that Carroll included in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, his 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice finds the poem written backwards, holds it up t
  
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• Fake guns can cause real harm, say Metro Vancouver Transit police

  10-02-2018 02:21
  Metro Vancouver Transit police officers are warning the public of the risk posed in bringing realistic-looking, replica-style handguns onto SkyTrain.
  In a news release Friday, Transit police said they responded this week to two separate incidents in two days involving fake guns “that closely resembled real firearms.”
  The first occurred on February 5, when Transit police received a text message from a SkyTrain passenger who said they witnessed a man drop a handgun to the floor on a tr
  
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• Okanagan winery event in Vancouver defies trade war, pairs B.C. wine with Alberta beef

  10-02-2018 02:16
  In the middle of a trade spat between Alberta and British Columbia, an Okanagan winery is doing its part to bring the food and wine community in both provinces together.
  Summerland’s Okanagan Crash Pad winery will host “Farm Friends,” an event pairing B.C. wine with Alberta beef in a show of support for both industries, on Feb. 22 at Granville Island’s Edible Canada.
  “The only beef is on the table,” reads the event’s slogan.
  Wineries slated to participat
  
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• Reminder: City Hall is closed Monday, Feb 12th for #BCFamilyDay. We're back Feb 13th at 8:30am. We're always online… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Reminder: City Hall is closed Monday, Feb 12th for #BCFamilyDay. We're back Feb 13th at 8:30am. We're always online… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A five vehicle pile up “rear ender” E/B on Highway 1. Just before Cap Road exit. Expect major delays. Always keep… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-02-2018 01:23 via twitter.com
  A five vehicle pile up “rear ender” E/B on Highway 1. Just before Cap Road exit.Expect major delays.Always keep… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Government to audit fish processing plants that release "bloodwater"

  10-02-2018 00:47
  The B.C. government will audit 28 fish processing plants after tests confirmed the presence of a contagious fish virus in the bloody waste water released into the ocean by at least two plants.
  The audit, which should be completed by the start of summer, will include inspection of the 28 facilities to ensure they are using the “best available technology” to deal with effluent. It will also review whether permits contain strong enough environmental protection provisions, according to a
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: B.C. missing boat on LNG demand despite 'supporting' it

  10-02-2018 00:45
  VICTORIA — From south of the border Friday came news that provided a telling perspective on Premier John Horgan’s support for developing an industry to export liquefied natural gas from B.C.
  “Cheniere energy seals long-term LNG supply deal with China,” read the headline in the Financial Times, drawing on an announcement earlier in the day out of Houston, Texas.
  China National Petroleum Corporation signed a 25-year contract to purchase up to 1.2 million tonnes of LNG annua
  
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• Valentine's Day: Seven recipes for sips and nibbles to serve your loved one

  10-02-2018 00:30
  Virtually every Vancouver café, bar and eatery is serving up some type of Valentine’s Day special this year.
  But, if you’d rather skip the whole hearts-and-flowers thing in front of a restaurant full of your closest, uh, strangers, we’ve got you covered.
  We asked a few of the city’s top chefs and mixologists to create a few tasty treats to cook up (together, of course) and enjoy (again, together, of course) on this loveliest of sorta-holidays. 
  From sweet cock
  
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• B.C. regulator takes steps to seize assets of financial fraudsters

  10-02-2018 00:25
  The B.C. Securities Commission has taken preliminary steps to seize the property and goods of financial fraudsters who owe nearly $70 million in unpaid penalties from the past decade.
  At least 10 collection orders — called writs of seizure and sale — were filed in B.C. Supreme Court immediately after a Postmedia investigation published in mid-November 2017 reported that the Securities Commission had collected less than two per cent of $510 million in penalties in the past decade.
  The
  
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• Douglas Todd: Who are the most educated in Canada? People of colour

  10-02-2018 00:01
  Canadians of colour and children of immigrants tend to be far more educated than Canadian whites and aboriginals, according to two studies.
  “Canada’s white males are the least likely to hold university degrees in the knowledge economy,” says a report by Jack Jedwab, president of the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration.
  Only 24 per cent of white Canadian men between ages 35 and 44 have university degrees, according to Jedwab’s research. That is less than half t
  
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• Vancouver ventriloquist Kellie Haines still projecting her childhood dreams

  10-02-2018 00:00
  A Birdy Told Me So
  Part of Vancouver International Puppet Festival
  When: Feb. 17, 10 a.m., 1 p.m.; Feb. 18, noon
  Where: Performance Works
  Tickets and info: From $12, vipuppetfest.comVentriloquist dummies have been horror film fodder forever. The skill to project one’s voice to animate an inanimate character is loaded with mystery, too. OK, it’s actually kind of weird.
  But what if the real story behind projecting your voice into another character was a way of breaking o
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Wine sustainability changing the face of Portugal's Douro Valley

  10-02-2018 00:00
  Later this month winemaker David Guimaraens will be in Vancouver as part of the Portuguese wine contingent attending the 4oth Vancouver International Wine Festival.
  The 42-year-old grew up in Oporto but worked in Australia, California and Oregon before graduating from Roseworthy Agricultural College in South Australia. After gaining additional work experience Down Under, Guimaraens returned to Oporto in 1990 to join the wine making team at Taylor Fonseca.
  It wasn’t long before Guimaraens f
  
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