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• B.C. throne speech promises historic spending on housing and child care

  13-02-2018 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan’s government is promising the largest investments in affordable housing and child care in British Columbia’s history, as part of a throne speech Tuesday that offered a preview of next week’s provincial budget but few details on the timeline, scope or cost of the relief for British Columbians.
  “We begin this year by making a difference in the cost of child care for tens of thousands of families with the largest investment in child
  
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• Makeover: Vancouver project manager's dry, brassy hair gets a much-needed boost

  13-02-2018 23:26 via vancouversun.com
  Joanna Li, 34, is a project manager and was looking for a colour refresh as her hair was looking brassy and feeling dry. 
  Li has medium textured hair which was previously highlighted blond.  She hadn’t coloured it in several months, and felt like her ends were too bright and brassy compared to her natural colour.  She wanted to brighten her hair to a natural looking overall colour that would be easy to maintain.
  I opted for foiliage colour placement in her hair, which is a b
  
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• Fab 5: Resort wear for fun in the sun

  13-02-2018 23:08 via vancouversun.com
  If you can’t remember the last time you felt the effects of some good old Vitamin D, it’s time to chase the sun. Whether you book a last-minute vacay to L.A., Miami, Hawaii, or head for more far-flung shores, there’s no denying the benefits of a healthy dose of warm, humid air, bright sunshine, and the feeling of sand between your toes. Rebecca Tay presents five stylish resort pieces for your essential winter escape.
  Wilfred Rive romper, $135 at Aritzia, aritzia.com.
  ROMP AROUN
  
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• Calling all Xoro skill masters! Come show off your tricks at our Xoro contest #GoforGold event Feb 25 @… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Calling all Xoro skill masters! Come show off your tricks at our Xoro contest #GoforGold event Feb 25 @… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver police say increased foot patrols make DTES safer

  13-02-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police say the rate of violent crime in the DTES has decreased since the force beefed up foot patrols in the neighbourhood on Jan. 28.
  In the past two weeks, police say there have been two serious assaults — one which led to a death — and one robbery in the area, compared to an average of eight assaults and four robberies every two weeks in the six months leading up to the project.
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  Man critically injured in assault outside Astoria Hotel has diedVancouver police
  
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• Ultra Violet: Five fashion items to showcase the Pantone Colour of the Year

  13-02-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s official: Ultra Violet has been named the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2018.
  While the eye-catching hue may not be the easiest colour to add to your wardrobe en masse, its punchy properties make it a fun way to add a pop of pretty to any ensemble.
  With this idea of an outfit accent in mind, we’ve rounded up five fabulous fashion items to have you stepping out in the Ultra Violet trend in seriously good style. The boots
  Sock boots — or boots that have a stretchy uppe
  
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• Anne Williams: Never too old to start running — or be a 'guinea pig'

  13-02-2018 21:58 via vancouversun.com
  I work for a health benefits organization whose mission it is to improve health and well-being in B.C.
  Last December, my boss asked me if I could think of anyone at the office who used to be active and hasn’t exercised in awhile, who would be interested in training to run 10 kilometres. He added: “It’s a great clinic by SportMedBC and we cover the cost. Oh, and the person has to blog for The Vancouver Sun.”
  Any of you who work in co
  
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• B.C. to unveil affordable child care plan in throne speech

  13-02-2018 20:59 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s new affordable child care plan, which is expected to be announced in today’s government throne speech, is getting a $153-million infusion from the federal government to create new spaces that first focus on infant and toddlers from low-income and vulnerable families.
  The money, outlined in a new funding agreement between Ottawa and B.C., sets aside specific amounts, targets, and spaces based on priority.
  It offers an early glimpse at some aspects of the 10-yea
  
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• International migration drives Metro Vancouver population growth

  13-02-2018 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s population recorded “losses” during the previous Census year due to residents leaving for neighbouring areas, but also saw population growth due to international migration.
  According to Statistics Canada’s The Daily report, Vancouver saw 9,926 people leave its census metropolitan area (CMA) between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. Meanwhile, Toronto lost 36,755 and Montreal lost 10,325 residents.
  Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are the three largest CMAs
  
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• Nope, not a new bus stop. @TransLink is in #CivicPlaza today until 1pm. Board the bus, get a tour. Got compass card… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 20:43 via twitter.com
  Nope, not a new bus stop. @TransLink is in #CivicPlaza today until 1pm. Board the bus, get a tour. Got compass card… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Soup Season: A-peas-ing comfort from North Vancouver's Soup Meister - CBC.ca

  13-02-2018 20:32 via cbc.ca
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  Soup Season: A-peas-ing comfort from North Vancouver's Soup Meister
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  As winter continues and the cold weather rages on, you can always look to soup as a way to warm up. It's something that Ralf Dauns has been perfecting for 22 years at The Soup Meister at Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver, B.C.. "What I like most about ...
  
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• Dust off your snow shovels. Chance of ❄️ snow ❄️ in the forecast this evening. Our crews are ready. They're out bri… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Dust off your snow shovels. Chance of ❄️ snow ❄️ in the forecast this evening. Our crews are ready. They're out bri… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tomorrow, Feb 14, there will be single lane alternating traffic at #Montroyal bridge between 7am and 5pm as we inst… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
  Tomorrow, Feb 14, there will be single lane alternating traffic at #Montroyal bridge between 7am and 5pm as we inst… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Snow possible today for North Vancouver's higher elevations - North Shore News

  13-02-2018 18:06 via nsnews.com
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  Snow possible today for North Vancouver's higher elevations
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  Environment Canada warns snow is possible in higher elevations of North and West Vancouver Tuesday night. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. Winter isn't over yet. article continues below. Trending Stories. District of North Van approves ...and more »
  
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• #YouthAwards coming up. Review categories & nominate outstanding City youth by March 16. cnv.org/YouthAwards… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  #YouthAwards coming up. Review categories & nominate outstanding City youth by March 16. cnv.org/YouthAwards… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• This Just In: Beautycounter, BITE Beauty and Sothys Paris

  13-02-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Beautycounter
  Countermatch Intense Moisture Serum
  They say: A serum infused with two forms of hyaluronic acid to help boost moisture levels of skin immediately, as well as promote long-term hydration. This serum also includes vitamins C and E for antioxidant protection. 
  We say: This soothing serum leaves skin feeling — and looking — hydrated and smooth. Our tester subbed it out for her usual serum and was pleased with the noticeable results. The fast-absorbing formula noticeabl
  
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• Letters: Taseko Mine's defamation litigation wasn't a SLAPP

  13-02-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Legal lions seek B.C. anti-SLAPP law, Ian Mulgrew column, Feb. 8. 
  Ian Mulgrew implies that Taseko Mines launched litigation against the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) in order to “douse the committee’s campaign against the $1.5-billion mine,” (Taseko’s New Prosperity project), and that we did so in order “to silence critics on a matter of public importance.”          
  That was not our motivatio
  
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• Daily Poll: What do you think about the mansplaining swing dancer?

  13-02-2018 16:27 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver swing dancer failed to have his complaint heard by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal after he was accused of “mansplaining” to other dancers.
  Mokua Gichuru first filed a complaint with the tribunal early last year after he was banned from the Vancouver Swing Society, but the tribunal did not accept his complaint as the society was within its rights to ban a member.
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  Vancouver swing-dancer banned from club after 'mansplaining'
  Gichuru then filed an appeal alleging he h
  
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• Man who died in surfing accident near Tofino identified as UVic student

  13-02-2018 15:14 via vancouversun.com
  A 27-year-old University of Victoria PhD student from India has died in a surfing accident near Tofino, despite the efforts of bystanders who fought to save his life. The victim was identified by friends as Nijin John.
  Vincent Mallaley, 47, was walking on Long Beach on Saturday about 3:30 p.m. when he noticed a man in distress in the water, surrounded by other surfers. Mallaley walked toward the water’s edge and noticed that a Pacific Rim National Park employee was in the water trying to h
  
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• Why women are bucking the decline in cancer

  13-02-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cancer is in decline in B.C. and across the country, but women are bucking that 30-year trend.
  Adjusted for age, the overall incidence rate of all cancers for all Canadians is in decline, but when you focus on women alone, the incidence is still creeping upward, according to a 2017 report by the Canadian Cancer Society. For men, the “all cancers” rate is in steady decline.
  Those numbers encompass upward and downward trends for dozens of different cancers — melanoma is tren
  
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• Week 4 Sun Run InTraining schedule

  13-02-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER SUN RUN INTRAINING
  WEEK 4 | Feb. 10-16
  WALK 10K / NORDIC WALK 10K
  EASY RECOVERY WEEK
  (Session 1 — 40 minutes)
  Warm-up: Walk slow and easy for 10 min.
  Easy 20 min. walk
  Cool-down: Walk slow and easy for 10 min.
  (Session 2 — 30 minutes)
  Warm-up: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  Walk for 20 min.
  Cool-down: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  (Session 3 — 40 minutes)
  Warm-up: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  Walk for 30 min.
  Cool-down: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  RUN WALK 10K
  (Sess
  
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• Sun Run training at night? Latest gear helps make safety a priority

  13-02-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Some of this year’s running gear may look like it belongs at a 1990s’ rave but all those blinking lights and neon stripes can be lifesavers.
  For many runners, training during the light hours in the winter is near impossible. Late night or early mornings sessions have become the norm.
  But as ICBC has warned, 76 per cent more pedestrians in B.C. are injured from November to January when conditions are dark and weather is poor compared to June through August. In B.C., on avera
  
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• Schaefer: From guinea pig to running bug and loving every minute of it

  13-02-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  My 50-something body was ready to pack it in as I ran the uphill half of the Burrard Bridge during last year’s Vancouver Sun Run. My jog slowed to a shuffle, and the shuffle was about to become a stagger when I heard a voice at my side.
  “You got this,” said a fellow runner, a guy half my age, as he loped past me.
  I looked up as he pulled away. “Thanks,” I said, picking up a pace somewhere closer to a jog. He was one of thousands who would pass me that day.
  I was wor
  
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• Nutrition tips: Quick dinner ideas for busy runners, walkers

  13-02-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to making quick healthy meals, my No. 1 advice for runners is to choose nutritious and fast cooking ingredients that provide a combination of carbohydrates, good quality protein and healthy fats.
  Here are four dinner ideas that will make weeknight meals fun and tasty:
  1. Vegetarian Chili
  One-pot meals like vegetarian chili are easy to make, packed with quality carbs and fibre and make perfect leftovers.
  What you need: Chop sweet potatoes and onions and sauté with olive oil i
  
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• Lynn Kanuka's coaching advice: Lookin' for love in the right places

  13-02-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s Valentine’s Day this week as we head into Week 4 — a much-needed rest-and-recovery week — and I’m an incurable romantic, always noticing that love is truly all around us.
  People sharing a private chat or smile, those walking hand-in-hand along the beach where I live — and I can tell you I’ve sure seen many-a-romance grow out of the various run/walk groups over the years.
  There’s a lot of time spent out there at the nice easy talking pace you a
  
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• North Shore Rescue's 'busy' Family Day a chance to put their new doctors to the test

  13-02-2018 06:28 via vancouversun.com
  It’s still just over a month but a pilot project that has a group of local doctors adding to North Shore Rescue’s stable of expertise is already drawing good reviews.
  “It’s been really positive,” North Shore Rescue spokesman Mike Danks said of what’s being called the “advanced medical provider” group after a busy holiday Monday.
  The new group includes nine physicians and one emergency room nurse from across the region; all are volunteers. With ten
  
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• Chinatown leaders 'left behind' in Northeast False Creek plan

  13-02-2018 05:43 via vancouversun.com
  Some members of Vancouver’s Chinatown said the community is being left out in the Northeast False Creek plan which goes before council on Tuesday.
  The sweeping plan lays out the vision for a waterfront neighbourhood with mixed-used developments that would eventually be home to up to 12,000 people. But for some, the crux of the plan lies in two unassuming blocks between Prior and Union, east and west of Main Street — land expropriated in the late 1960s from Chinatown and Hogan’s
  
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• New Richmond animal hospital officially opens

  13-02-2018 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  After their original plan to open in January hit a snag, a new animal hospital in Richmond held their grand opening Monday.
  The RAPS Animal Hospital is a “full-service, community-supported veterinary hospital,” officials wrote in announcing their opening.
  Richmond mayor Malcolm Brodie and other dignitaries were on hand for the ribbon cutting at the new hospital, which will offer care for all kinds of animals.
  Operated by the Regional Animal Protection Society, a Richmond registered c
  
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• Opinion: Criticism of religious groups is good for religion

  13-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The fruits of the Liberals’ anti-Islamophobia motion, M-103, that called for study and recommendation on religious discrimination in Canada, were revealed Feb. 1. The committee overseeing the issue released their report “Taking Action Against Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination Including Islamophobia.”
  The report has just two recommendations that specifically focus on Islamophobia. The first echoes the report title saying the government should “actively condemn s
  
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• The Last Continent: Whaling continues despite the global ban

  13-02-2018 03:37 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 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.
  GRYTVIKEN, South Georgia — This was the heart of
  
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• Notley warns of further retaliation if Ottawa doesn't intervene in pipeline feud

  13-02-2018 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants progress within days from Ottawa in resolving the B.C. pipeline dispute or her government will look at further retaliatory measures.
  Notley said Monday she doesn’t want to escalate the feud, but she said B.C.’s actions on the Trans Mountain pipeline are illegal and must be reversed.
  “We do not seek an escalation, but if B.C. continues to insist that they have rights to attack Alberta’s economy that they don’t have, we wil
  
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• B.C. man dead after stopping to help with crash on Coquihalla Highway

  13-02-2018 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  MERRITT — A Good Samaritan has been killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the Coquihalla Highway near Merritt.
  RCMP say in a news release that the 35-year-old man from the Lower Mainland stopped to help in an initial collision on Highway 5 about 32 kilometres south of Merritt on Sunday afternoon.
  They say the unidentified man was stuck and killed by another vehicle.
  A 78-year-old man from Kamloops was airlifted from the scene with critical injuries, and police say his condition had improved b
  
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• Vancouver swing-dancer banned from club after 'mansplaining'

  13-02-2018 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has declined to hear a complaint by a Vancouver swing-dancer who says he was banned from his dance club after being accused of “mansplaining” by a younger female dancer.
  The tribunal first heard Mokua Gichuru’s complaint in February of last year and decided not to accept it because the Vancouver Swing Society was within its right to ban a member. Gichuru filed an appeal.
  In a decision dated Jan. 26, the tribunal outlines a heated dispute, whi
  
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• Therapy takes problem gamblers to the brink and back in virtual reality casinos

  13-02-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  Therapists can safely take their gambling addicted patients to the casino to test their willpower using virtual reality, Canadian researchers say.
  Psychologist Stephane Bouchard can convincingly recreate the sights, sounds and the action of gambling in virtual reality environments that trigger cravings and intense emotional responses in patients.
  “We needed to know that we can use these tools in therapy without triggering our patients so they leave the office and then gamble away their for
  
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• Citizens on alert: How to be the eyes and ears before the police arrive

  13-02-2018 01:50 via vancouversun.com
  The sketchy guy leaving your underground parking doesn’t look like he belongs and, sure enough, when you pull in there’s a car with its window smashed.
  The guy was wearing a dark hoody and jeans, but that tells the police nothing. His shoes, on the other hand, noticing their colour and brand is something a police officer can use.
  “Every single suspect wears a black hoodie and jeans,” Heather Ramsay said at a Vancouver Police Department seminar on identifying suspects and
  
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• No Council Meeting tonight, due to Family Day holiday. Council is back to business Feb 19. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  No Council Meeting tonight, due to Family Day holiday. Council is back to business Feb 19. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 3 rescues on the North Shore for Family Day

  13-02-2018 01:10 via globalnews.ca
  B.C's Family Day had great weather, and that meant more people headed into the mountains – upping the odds of an accident.
  
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• The Last Continent: Massive iceberg has been floating around Antarctica for 17 years

  13-02-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  SCOTIA SEA — Overnight, the Akademik Ioffe changed course. Instead of heading toward Elephant Island as was initially planned, we detoured to take a look at a massive iceberg.
  It’s called B15Z. It’s a tabular ’berg, flat-topped with steep, dirty grey walls, which makes it seem more island than iceberg. But in front of and behind it are smaller tabular icebergs that glisten white and blue.
  It is 24 kilometres long and 11 kilometres wide.
  It took nearly an hour to pass by i
  
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• Douglas Todd: Vancouver's rental and housing markets pressed by 'temporary' residents

  13-02-2018 00:01 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s young adults are increasingly competing with international students, foreign workers and financially supportive offshore parents to buy a home or find a place to rent.
  A Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report released this week shows international students and temporary workers under the age of 25 are responsible for 10 per cent of the mortgages issued by the country’s five largest banks to that age group in Toronto and Vancouver.
  Andrew Scott, a senior mark
  
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