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• Brian Minter: B.C. Home + Garden Show changes with the times

  16-02-2018 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Home + Garden Show
  When: Feb. 21- Feb. 25
  Where: B.C. Place
  Tickets and info: bchomeandgardenshow.comMany years ago, the B.C. Home + Garden Show was truly a home and garden show in the traditional sense.
  I know because we used to be there, creating large inspiring floral and garden displays, as were many other great folks in our industry. Times change.
  Gardening was at its peak in the 1970s, 1980s and even into the 1990s. It levelled out in the early 2000s, followed by a worldwide decl
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canada's psychologists urge marijuana vigilance

  16-02-2018 23:20 via vancouversun.com
  Apart from the #Metoo maelstrom and the housing crises in Toronto and Vancouver, few things stir up Canadians more than marijuana, which its promoters claim is the cure for everything from glaucoma to brain disease.
  Should private outlets sell recreational marijuana? Is it more enjoyable to smoke or swallow cannabis? Will I get rich on pot stocks? Is it possible to remove the criminal underground from Canada’s $6 billion-a-year cannabis industry?
  With the federal Liberals preparing to lega
  
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• We're doing the Winter Games #LoLo style with a co-ed 3 on 3 floorball tournament Feb 25 @TheShipyardsNV. Come cele… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  We're doing the Winter Games #LoLo style with a co-ed 3 on 3 floorball tournament Feb 25 @TheShipyardsNV. Come cele… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Douglas Todd: Psychologists urge marijuana vigilance, but say more study needed

  16-02-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  Apart from the #Metoo maelstrom and the housing crises in Toronto and Vancouver, few things stir up Canadians more than marijuana, which its promoters claim is the cure for everything from glaucoma to brain disease.
  Should private outlets sell recreational marijuana? Is it more enjoyable to smoke or swallow cannabis? Will I get rich on pot stocks? Is it possible to remove the criminal underground from Canada’s $6 billion-a-year cannabis industry?
  With the legalization of recreational marij
  
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• Town Talk: Richmond animal hospital opens with Year of the Dog

  16-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  PET PROJECT: The Year of the Dog started off encouragingly for Richmond cats. Dogs, too. What began in the 1990s as the Richmond Homeless Cats organization and grew into the Richmond Animal Protection Society or RAPS, recently opened RAPS Animal Hospital in a place known for horsepower. That’s the Richmond Auto Mall where Applewood Auto Group CEO Darren Graham donated a van and then six years of rent-free occupancy for the 6,000-square-foot hospital on its property. Mayor Malcolm Brodie an
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Independent TV's role in democracy

  16-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the challenges that mainstream television faces is sameness. We’ve all scrolled through the listings and been presented with an endless array of programming that fits into advertiser-supported shows.
  Advertisers want to speak to as large and as focused audience as possible. They have a product to sell and they want to place their product next to programming that appeals to a broad audience.
  Therein lies the problem when it comes to the production of programming that challe
  
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• Richard Wozny memorial service: "What is real?"

  16-02-2018 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  Some people have asked me to post my reflection at the Thursday evening memorial service/celebration of life in Vancouver for real-estate analyst Richard Wozny. I’ve written several pieces in the past few months about him, as he struggled with terminal cancer. It was a privilege to have the family ask me to speak, and to meet Richard’s many friends and family. Here are my notes:
   
  Marlene has asked me to say a few words.
  Unlike most of you, I knew Richard less than a year. It wa
  
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• Thanks for coming out to our Ideas Fair. Big turnout, great ideas! Want to share your ideas for the new Harry Jerom… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 20:29 via twitter.com
  Thanks for coming out to our Ideas Fair. Big turnout, great ideas! Want to share your ideas for the new Harry Jerom… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hey Zone #4, don't forget: we're coming to pick up your old garbage cans this weekend. Please leave them at the cur… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 20:17 via twitter.com
  Hey Zone #4, don't forget: we're coming to pick up your old garbage cans this weekend. Please leave them at the cur… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pattullo Bridge history: Built in 1937, the span was expected to last 50 years

  16-02-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan announced Friday that the B.C. government will spend $1.377 billion on a new bridge to replace the 80-year-old Pattullo Bridge.
  Built to last 50 years, the old bridge, which connects Surrey and New Westminster, does not meet current wind and seismic standards and may be vulnerable during an earthquake or hurricane-level wind storm.
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  Pattullo Bridge to be replaced with province-owned $1.4 billion bridge
  But as Postmedia’s John Mackie wrote, none of that was o
  
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• Today in #EdgemontVillage, a construction crane near the south east corner of Edgemont Blvd and Ridgewood Dr is bei… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 19:48 via twitter.com
  Today in #EdgemontVillage, a construction crane near the south east corner of Edgemont Blvd and Ridgewood Dr is bei… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LIVE: Pattullo Bridge to be replaced with province-owned $1.4 billion bridge

  16-02-2018 19:26 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government says it will go ahead with the replacement of the aging Pattullo Bridge and construct a new $1.4-billion bridge.
  The new four-lane bridge will be owned and operated by the provincial government, while TransLink will continue to operate the old Pattullo Bridge until the new one is complete in 2023.
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  Pattullo Bridge: B.C. premier to make major announcement todayPattullo Bridge history: Built in 1937, the span was expected to last 50 years
  Premier John Horgan made the ann
  
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• New charge against man at centre of Salmon Arm-area farm search where woman's body found

  16-02-2018 18:49 via vancouversun.com
  A new criminal charge of mischief laid against Curtis Wayne Sagmoen, whose family farm was at the centre of a massive police search last year, is related to some type of spikebelt allegedly used to try to damage a car, a prosecutor says.
  “The mischief charge alleges that Curtis Wayne Sagmoen on or about the 19th day of July, 2017, at or near Falkland, in Province of British Columbia, did commit mischief by wilfully placing spikes or nails on a board or spikebelt to damage the tires of moto
  
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• Missed #MagneticNorthVan Ideas Fair? No worries, you can still share your ideas for the new… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Missed #MagneticNorthVan Ideas Fair? No worries, you can still share your ideas for the new… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Good morning! #DNVsnow team reports about 2-4cm of snowfall at higher elevations this morning. Trucks are out clear… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 17:53 via twitter.com
  Good morning! #DNVsnow team reports about 2-4cm of snowfall at higher elevations this morning. Trucks are out clear… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hedley's management agency drops band amid sexual misconduct allegations

  16-02-2018 17:35 via vancouversun.com
  There’s more trouble for B.C. pop-rock group Hedley, which has already been dropped from performing at the Juno Awards amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
  On Friday, the band’s managers, Watchdog Management and the Feldman Agency, issued a statement saying given the multiple allegations against Hedley, they will be terminating their business relationships with the band “effective immediately.”
  Corus Radio, and several  other radio stations, have also suspended pla
  
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• LIVE: B.C. premier set to make major Pattullo Bridge announcement

  16-02-2018 17:30 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government will make an announcement Friday morning about the aging Pattullo Bridge.
  Premier John Horgan has said the province needs to get rolling on the Pattullo project, which is slated to be replaced by 2023.
  Horgan will be joined by Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Claire Trevena and Minister of Municipal Affairs Selina Robinson at 9 a.m. today at Westminster Pier Park to make an announcement related to the bridge.
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• Premier John Horgan to make Pattullo Bridge announcement today

  16-02-2018 17:16 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan and two of his cabinet ministers will be in New Westminster on Friday morning to make an announcement related to the 80-year-old Pattullo Bridge.
  TransLink, which owns and maintains the Pattullo, has plans to replace it because it has reached the end of its serviceable life. The structure, which opened in late 1937, was not designed to meet current wind and seismic standards and may be vulnerable during an earthquake or hurricane-level wind storm. Its lanes are also narrow an
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Feb. 10

  16-02-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  2. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books). 
  3. As a Dog Thinketh: Daily Words of Wisdom — Monique Anstee (TouchWood Editions).
  4. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  5. You Hold Me Up — Monique Gray
  
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• Daily Poll: Would allegations of sexual misconduct stop you from listening to your favourite band?

  16-02-2018 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. pop-rock group Hedley has lost radio airtime, a performance at the Juno Awards, and now its band manager because of online allegations of sexual misconduct. Many of the allegations concern entertaining underage girls after shows. Hedley calls the allegations unsubstantiated. None of the allegations has been proven in court. Do you think the measures against Hedley are fair? Would serious allegations of sexual misconduct stop you from listening to your favourite band? Take the poll and leave
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rain/wet snow for Metro Vancouver, snow alert for Whistler

  16-02-2018 16:13 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER – Friday’s weather for Metro Vancouver will likely be rainy in the morning, and then taper off to a mix of sun and cloud, and highs of 7 C. That might seem chilly, but it’s going to be warm compared with the next few days when the temperature is expected to plunge to zero on the weekend.
  Some higher elevations of the region like Port Moody or North Vancouver may see more snow falling Friday night. Environment Canada says the weekend evenings are going to be frosty. It
  
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• Brutality of UN, Red Scorpion gang war highlighted in year-long trial

  16-02-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  Kevin LeClair had just left the Browns Socialhouse in Langley’s Thunderbird Mall on a cold Friday afternoon nine years ago.
  He got into his pickup truck and began to drive off, when two gunmen started blasting him. Terrified shoppers ducked for cover. It was 4 p.m.
  As the killers took off, people nearby ran to help LeClair, his foot jammed on the gas of the revving pickup in front of the IGA grocery store.
  LeClair, a Red Scorpion gangster who was once aligned with the rival United Nations
  
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• Pet therapy: Raisins, grapes and sultanas a big threat to cats and dogs

  16-02-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Beware your dog’s sweet tooth: Raisin toxicity can kill.
  Have you ever been enjoying a piece of fruit cake or bunch of grapes, and wondered if your dog would enjoy a nibble too?
  The overwhelming opinion from the veterinary community is — don’t! And that if your dog does ingest a grape product, contact your veterinarian immediately for treatment.
  Intoxication in pets that have eaten fruits (grapes, raisins, sultanas and currants) from the common grape vine (vitis vinifera)
  
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• Olympic festival and street hockey tournament coming to North Vancouver Shipyards - North Shore News

  16-02-2018 11:53 via nsnews.com
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  Olympic festival and street hockey tournament coming to North Vancouver Shipyards
  North Shore News
  Jill Cameron from the City of North Vancouver gets trained up by floorball enthusiasts Eric Krafczyk and Taylor Seganfreddo in advance of the city's Go For The Gold street hockey tournament and Olympic festival Feb. 25. photo Mike Wakefield, North ...
  
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• REAL SCOOP: VPD investigating fatal shooting in Kerrisdale

  16-02-2018 10:22 via vancouversun.com
  I am away for a couple of days but wanted to put up a few details of Vancouver’s latest murder.
  Vancouver Police confirmed late Thursday that a Surrey man shot near Marguerite Street and West 49th Avenue earlier in the day had died of his injuries.
  Const. Jason Doucette said police received shots fired calls from the area just before 1 p.m.
  “Officers located a man on the street suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was rushed to hospital in critical condition and died hou
  
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• Man dead following targeted shooting on Vancouver's west side

  16-02-2018 07:49 via vancouversun.com
  A 32-year-old man from Surrey is dead following a targeted shooting in Kerrisdale on Thursday afternoon.
  Police say the victim was found suffering from a gunshot wound on Marguerite Street near West 49th Avenue just before 1 p.m. He was rushed to hospital, where he later died.No arrests have been made. This is Vancouver’s sixth homicide of 2018.
  VPD investigate a shooting at 49th and Marguerite in Vancouver, Feb. 15, 2018.
  VPD spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette said police have no addition
  
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• Bomb squad detonates hazard material from North Vancouver lab - North Shore News

  16-02-2018 06:00 via nsnews.com
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  Bomb squad detonates hazard material from North Vancouver lab
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  The RCMP's explosives disposal unit squad was called in to blow up a volatile substance left in a North Vancouver government lab Tuesday. According to District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue . . .and more »
  
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• B.C. gov't wants to seize properties linked to Vancouver company

  16-02-2018 05:49 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial director of civil forfeiture wants to confiscate six B.C. properties, as well as funds in a number of bank accounts associated with a controversial Vancouver financial company.
  In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the director claims that money for the purchase and maintenance of the properties came from unlawful activities of PacNet Services Ltd.
  In September 2016, the U.S. government identified PacNet as a “significant criminal organization” that a
  
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• Michelle Obama wows young crowd in Vancouver

  16-02-2018 05:30 via vancouversun.com
  Michelle Obama leaves the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday after speaking in Vancouver.
  Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of teenage girls were vibrating with excitement Thursday afternoon as they waited outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
  The focus of their feelings wasn’t Justin Bieber, or even Justin Trudeau, but rather former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama.
  The wife of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, was in Vancouver for two Greater Vancouver Board of Trade
  
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• Opinion: Time for B.C. to move beyond taxi monopolies

  16-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  A committee of MLAs this week made 32 recommendations on how to regulate ride-hailing services, paving the way for government to introduce legislation this fall to finally bring the in-demand service to B.C.   
  Last month, the committee held hearings in Vancouver and heard testimony from a range of interested parties such as TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond, the City of Vancouver, and local app operator Ripe Rides. In a surprising show of solidarity, all presenters agreed that ride-hailing
  
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• Opinion: A home for everyone

  16-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  We listened to Tuesday’s Throne Speech with great hope for the future of British Columbians. “Home is at the heart of belonging — to a neighbourhood, a community, a province or country,” read the Lieutenant-Governor. “Home is the place to hang our hat, to raise a family, to feel safe and secure.”
  Communities across the province are faced with insecurity and instability because there is a mismatch between housing need and what’s available. Our economies a
  
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• Letters: B.C.'s 'petty interference' irks Albertan

  16-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It is with dismay that we in Alberta see your premier inferring that his government will delay a pipeline which has cleared all regulatory hurdles. The Northern Gateway would also have been a boom for B.C. and your citizens but your previous representatives allowed special interest groups once again to hijack the agenda of a project of national interest.
  This petty interference in delaying the Trans Mountain project for the sake of keeping a shaky minority government in power is wrong and not of
  
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• Not your average Open House. We’re here till 8pm. #HarryJeromeCommunityRecreationCentre @hcma @NorthVanRC #NorthVan https://t.co/DuYQKAWkmZ

  16-02-2018 04:27 via twitter.com
  
  Not your average Open House. We’re here till 8pm. #HarryJeromeCommunityRecreationCentre @hcma @NorthVanRC #NorthVan https://t.co/DuYQKAWkmZ
  
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• B.C. ride-hailing report paves way for service later this year

  16-02-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  Josée Menard likes riding the HandyDart and is grateful that Vancouver cab companies have accessible vehicles in their fleets.
  But after ride-hailing services gained unanimous support from an all-party committee in the B.C. legislature on Thursday, Menard, who has progressive multiple sclerosis and uses a motorized wheelchair, said she hopes transportation network firms like Uber and Lyft make inroads to the province as soon as possible.
  The 57-year-old Vancouver resident said she ha
  
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• Laura Jones: B.C. plays dangerous game in pipeline ploy

  16-02-2018 03:47 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is playing a dangerous game by picking a fight with Alberta in the name of “using every tool in the tool kit” to block Kinder Morgan’s approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. 
  A key word worth repeating is approved. A smart millennial friend half-asked me yesterday: “the project was actually approved?” It was a good reminder that most people have lives that don’t involve following the complexities of big resource developmen
  
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• Transportation funding deal close between Metro mayors, province

  16-02-2018 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s mayors are “very close” to a deal with the provincial government to cover a funding gap for a transportation plan that includes a new Pattullo Bridge and rapid transit lines in Vancouver and Surrey, says Mayors Council Chair Derek Corrigan.
  Discussions, which must come to fruition within the next six weeks, are around how TransLink will find money for $60 million to $70 million in annual costs for the second phase of the mayors’ 10-Year Vision for r
  
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• It’s on! #MagneticNorthVan Ideas Fair underway shortly @ City Hall. Big turnout, big ideas already. We’re here ti… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 02:45 via twitter.com
  It’s on!#MagneticNorthVan Ideas Fair underway shortly @ City Hall. Big turnout, big ideas already.We’re here ti… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. health minister approves coverage for new round of rare drugs

  16-02-2018 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Health Minister Adrian Dix has approved limited coverage for a new round of rare and expensive drugs, funded out of savings the government achieved from a recent federal deal that drove down the price of generic drugs.
  Dix has approved coverage of Lemtrada (a drug for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis), Firazyr (for treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema), Zaxine (hepatic encephalopathy) and Ofev and Esbriet (both used to treat idopathic pulmonary fibrosis).
  Th
  
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• Man rushed to hospital following shooting on Vancouver's west side

  16-02-2018 01:33 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police say a man is in hospital following a shooting in Kerrisdale on Thursday afternoon.
  Police say the man was found suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wound on Marguerite Street near West 49th Avenue just before 1 p.m.
  The victim is in hospital and the extent of his injuries is unknown.No arrests have been made.
  VPD attend a shooting at 49th and Marguerite in Vancouver, Feb. 15, 2018.
  VPD spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette said police have no additional information to p
  
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• See you soon. #MagneticNorthVan Ideas Fair gets underway shortly @ City Hall. Stop by and share your ideas with us… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  See you soon. #MagneticNorthVan Ideas Fair gets underway shortly @ City Hall. Stop by and share your ideas with us… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two decade boil-water advisory ends for First Nations communities using UBC tech

  16-02-2018 01:24 via vancouversun.com
  Two communities in the Lytton First Nation have lifted boil-water advisories that have been in place for a generation, according to the nation’s lead water operator.
  Half a dozen of Lytton’s 56 reserves are too small to tap into federal infrastructure funds and have been boiling water in some cases, for more than 15 years and probably much longer
  “They’ve been boiling their water since I got here,” said Warren Brown, who runs nine water treatment systems for the Lyt
  
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• Attorney general says newly revealed ICBC report gives him valuable info

  16-02-2018 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Attorney General David Eby says he’s pleased that Postmedia News has released a confidential 2014 report into the Insurance Corporation of B.C. because it meant he could finally read recommendations that were scrubbed from the report and change his approach to fixing ICBC’s financial woes.
  “I’ve now had the opportunity to read the report that Postmedia made public,” Eby said Thursday. “I’m glad for the opportunity to read it.”
  Eby
  
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