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• Man in custody for firearms offence following a vehicle stop on Hwy 1 W at Westview Drive. Some traffic delays. https://t.co/yxw2DgmqKB

  27-02-2018 23:03 via twitter.com
  
  Man in custody for firearms offence following a vehicle stop on Hwy 1 W at Westview Drive. Some traffic delays. https://t.co/yxw2DgmqKB
  
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• Peter Andrew: Vancouver companies double down on risky mine in Alaska

  27-02-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Last year, Bristol Bay Native Corporation board chairman Joe Chythlook wrote an opinion piece titled “Proposed Pebble Mine a non-starter for Alaska.”
  Chythlook outlined the concerns many Alaskans had about the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest and most productive commercial wild sockeye salmon fishery.
  Pebble Mine is a gold and copper deposit development being proposed by Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vancouver-bas
  
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• Beautiful day, great fun had by all at our #GofortheGold event at the Shipyards & Pipeshop on Sunday. Thanks for co… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-02-2018 22:46 via twitter.com
  Beautiful day, great fun had by all at our #GofortheGold event at the Shipyards & Pipeshop on Sunday. Thanks for co… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Virtue and Moir headline Stars on Ice at Vancouver's Rogers Arena

  27-02-2018 21:58 via vancouversun.com
  Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, fresh off their world-conquering ice dancing performances at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, are headlining the Stars On Ice 2018 Canada-wide tour that will stop in Vancouver on May 17.
  Virtue and Moir capped their Olympic careers with gold medals in the ice dancing competition last Tuesday in South Korea. The dynamic duo, who won their first gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games, also helped Canada to gold in the team skating competition in PyeongChan
  
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• Railway track replacement to close section of Scott Road this weekend

  27-02-2018 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  If you plan to travel in and out of Surrey this weekend via the Pattullo Bridge or Scott Road SkyTrain Station, be sure to plan ahead.
  A temporary closure of Scott Road between Old Yale Road and 110 Avenue has been scheduled for this weekend, to allow for a much-needed replacement of the Scott Road railway crossing.
  The closure extends from Old Yale Road up to 110 Avenue, and vehicle congestion in the area is possible.The closure begins Friday at 9 p.m. and is scheduled to end Sunday at 9 a.m.,
  
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• Who's lookin' for 5% off their 2018 utility bill? Just pay bill by Feb 28 & you'll get one. cnv.org/UtilityRates… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-02-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  Who's lookin' for 5% off their 2018 utility bill? Just pay bill by Feb 28 & you'll get one. cnv.org/UtilityRates… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Air Canada tech issues cause congestion at Vancouver Airport Tuesday

  27-02-2018 19:27 via vancouversun.com
  Technical issues affecting Air Canada’s computer systems caused a brief period of passenger congestion at Vancouver Airport on Tuesday morning.
  In a post shared Tuesday morning at 8:31 a.m., Vancouver Airport advised passengers to check directly with the airline for any updates on Air Canada flights before heading to the airport.
  At 9:20 a.m., the airport said passengers flying on Air Canada would be able to check-in at the counter, though self-check in kiosks were still down. By 9:40 a.m.
  
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• Abbotsford police create buy-and-sell zone for safer Craigslist sales

  27-02-2018 18:18 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to make a Craigslist sale but nervous you might be ripped off? Abbotsford Police has your back.
  The APD has created a designated buy-and-sell exchange zone in front of their detachment where buyers and sellers can park, meet and make their exchanges – all while under video surveillance and within reach of police if a sale goes sideways.
  The aim of the designated sale spot is to cut down on crime and the risk of making sales with an unknown seller from Craigslist, Kijiji or any othe
  
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• Survey says... it's time for your input. Be part of the vision for the new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-02-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Survey says... it's time for your input. Be part of the vision for the new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver cycling advocate Tanya Paz announces bid for city council

  27-02-2018 17:23 via vancouversun.com
  Cycling advocate and consultant Tanya Paz is the latest to seek Vision Vancouver’s nomination for city council.
  “The decisions we make in the coming years are crucial to shape the Vancouver we want to see,” said Paz in a statement announcing her bid.
  “I love our city. I’m also willing to ask tough questions and tackle difficult issues that we face together.”
  Paz has worked in active transportation, car sharing, bike sharing and community planning for two decad
  
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• Q&A: Celebrity hair secrets from stylist Bridget Brager

  27-02-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no secret that there’s often an army of beauty pros behind a celebrity look.
  From makeup artists to hair pros, and clothing stylists to manicurists — and virtually everything else in between — getting red-carpet glam as an A-list star typically requires a full-team effort to accomplish.  
  But, according to Bridget Brager, a celebrity stylist and Herbal Essences ambassador, achieving a comparable level of glam, at home, doesn’t have to feel completely
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think smartphones affect your enjoyment of a meal?

  27-02-2018 15:53 via vancouversun.com
  A recent University of B.C. study has found that diners who keep their phones by their side enjoy their meal less.
  Ryan Dwyer, lead author, study 304 people in 84 groups of three to five people at a Vancouver restaurant to come to his conclusion. He asked participants to either keep their phone on the table or put it on silent and in a container.
  Those who kept their phones on the table reported feeling more distracted and reduced enjoyment. Dwyer said the measurable effect was about a half poin
  
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• Vancouver weather: Rain to start, clouds to cap off the day

  27-02-2018 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: FEB. 27, 2018 – Tuesday’s weather is a bit of a return to the norm, with much of the Lower Mainland waking up to rain, and some snow further inland in the Fraser Valley.
  Showers will end late Tuesday morning and then it will be cloudy for the remainder of the day, with rains to return overnight. Temperatures are expected to remain on the side of positive until the weekend, with high of 8 and a low of plus 4 today.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Showers, followed by c
  
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• Andrew Cash: Public policy must create standards for independent workers

  27-02-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  So, let’s say you have a choice. It’s between a stable full time job with a pension, benefits and a salary that allows you to imagine building a life, a future, a family, maybe even buying a house—ok forget about that last one. The other choice is to cobble together a much lower paid living doing a variety of short term contracts, temp, freelance and part time work, none of which comes with the aforementioned benefits, pension, job security or labour law protections. Maybe you&
  
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• What B.C. Finance Minister Carole James is looking for in Tuesday's federal budget

  27-02-2018 04:24 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s finance minister wants to see more specifics around child care, housing and transportation in the federal budget set to be unveiled Tuesday. 
  Federal funding plays a big role in making the provincial budget work, said Carole James in Victoria on Monday. 
  “It’s critical because you can just get a better bang for your buck,” she said. “The individuals in our province expect their governments to work together.” 
  James said Ottawa had already
  
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• Renter anxiety on the rise in Metro Vancouver: SFU study

  27-02-2018 04:23 via vancouversun.com
  Renter anxiety is on the rise in Metro Vancouver, with eviction-related disputes and concerns spread throughout the region to suburbs such as Maple Ridge and Port Coquitlam, according to preliminary findings from a new Simon Fraser University study. 
  Researchers analyzed data from the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) and the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre (TRAC) to try to gauge the impact of the region’s housing affordability crisis on renters in the private rental sector —
  
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• Harry Jerome. What’s next? What do you want from the shiny new HJRCC ? Quick survey: ow.ly/fsJi30ivZkq… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-02-2018 04:22 via twitter.com
  Harry Jerome.What’s next? What do you want from the shiny new HJRCC ? Quick survey: ow.ly/fsJi30ivZkq… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan 'standing up for the coast' on all oil movement

  27-02-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — After last week’s backdown in the bitumen war, the B.C. New Democrats are moving this week to spell out their still significant intentions to regulate the movement of Alberta oil through B.C. and along the coast.
  Environment Minister George Heyman is scheduled Wednesday to propose provincial standards for minimum response times in the event of a spill, the mandatory resources for cleanup on land or at sea, and the necessary compensation for damage done to land, resources a
  
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• New Providence Health Care CEO hails from Britain's National Health Service

  27-02-2018 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  Fiona Dalton, a British hospital executive with a good grasp of publicly funded medical systems, will move into the St. Paul’s Hospital executive suite in April, just around the one-year anniversary of a record-setting, $75-million pledge from Jimmy Pattison for the new hospital.
  The False Creek Flats hospital redevelopment will likely consume much of Dalton’s time. The many-years-in-the-making business plan for the  $1 billion-plus project was
  
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• Jaspal Atwal told court Sikh community was proud of him for political shooting

  27-02-2018 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  Convicted B.C. gunman Jaspal Atwal claimed in 2010 that the Sikh community was proud of his 1986 assassination attempt on a visiting Punjabi cabinet minister and paid his legal bills as a result.
  Atwal, who posed with the Canadian prime minister’s wife in India last week, made the comments during testimony in a civil case he filed contesting the will of his late father Gurdev.
  At the time, Atwal was refuting claims by his sister-in-law Sukhraj and mother Pritam that he was disinherited in
  
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• Annual Heritage Awards at tonight’s council meeting. 🍪 #Sweet! #NorthVan cnv.org/CouncilMeetings https://t.co/c118rjdOzT

  27-02-2018 02:48 via twitter.com
  
  Annual Heritage Awards at tonight’s council meeting.🍪 #Sweet! #NorthVancnv.org/CouncilMeetings https://t.co/c118rjdOzT
  
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• Olympians happy to be back on home soil and share their medals with friends and family

  27-02-2018 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  If young freestylers were thrilled when Cassie Sharpe brought her X Games, first-place medal to Mount Washington two years ago, how will they feel when she takes her shiny, new Olympic gold to her home hill?
  “Do you want (to see) it?” she asked, after landing and clearing customs at the Vancouver airport Monday morning.
  Unlike other Team Canada athletes on the same flight from South Korea who wore their medals around their necks, Sharpe’s gold was stuffed in her front, right po
  
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• B.C. securities regulator quietly stays penalties of more than $35 million

  27-02-2018 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Securities Commission has stayed penalties of more than $35 million on nine cases as a result of a related B.C. Court of Appeal decision on a pump-and-dump scheme case.
  It wipes the penalties off the books for now, as they will only be re-visited, according to the securities commission, if a party makes an application to do so.
  The decision to stay the penalties comes as the province’s market regulator is under scrutiny for its poor penalty collection record.
  The orders to vary th
  
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• Prison staff intercepts package containing drugs at Mission Institution

  27-02-2018 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  Correctional Service Canada says it’s heightening security measures after a package containing nearly $92,000 worth of contraband was seized by staff at the Mission Institution on Sunday.
  The packaged, which was intercepted at the medium security prison at 8:50 p.m., contained two cell phones and an unspecified amount of drugs and tobacco. The CSC says total estimated institutional value of the seizure is $91,800.
  The CSC has set up a tip line (1‑866‑780‑3784) t
  
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• Have a look at what Council's discussing tonight: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings Meeting starts at 6PM. So see you there o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-02-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Have a look at what Council's discussing tonight: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings Meeting starts at 6PM. So see you there o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NDP housing plan double-counts thousands of Liberal units

  27-02-2018 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The NDP government’s ambitious plan to build a record amount of affordable housing will actually double-count almost 5,000 housing units that were funded under the previous Liberal administration.
  The new government promised the “largest investment in affordable housing in B.C.’s history” in last week’s provincial budget, with $6.2 billion allocated over 10 years to build 33,700 new units of affordable rental, student and supportive housing.
  But alm
  
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• Sechelt man who murdered mom gets life with no parole for 10 years

  27-02-2018 01:14 via vancouversun.com
  A Sechelt man who was convicted of murdering his mother was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 10 years.
  At the outset of his trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Donovan Michael Penner, 51, pleaded not guilty to the October 2014 second-degree murder of his mother, Denise Lachance, 67.
  But about a week into the trial, after several Crown witnesses had testified, Penner changed his plea to guilty.
  In imposing sentence on Penner, B.C. Supreme Court Justice David
  
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• Student with pellet gun leads to lockdown at Delta schools

  27-02-2018 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  Delta police are asking parents to talk to their kids about replica guns and safety after a student with a pellet gun led to a partial school lockdown Monday afternoon.
  Police say both Delview Secondary and Gibson Elementary were placed into a “code yellow” at noon after police received a report about a suspicious person spotted near the schools carrying what looked like a gun.
  The code yellow procedure allows the school to continue with a normal school day, but cancels all outs
  
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• Study finds using a phone reduces enjoyment of a restaurant meal

  27-02-2018 00:39 via vancouversun.com
  If you didn’t enjoy that restaurant meal the way you thought you would, maybe the reason wasn’t the food, décor, or your server.
  Maybe what made it less than a stellar experience was your use of your phone.
  A new study from the University of B.C. has found that people out for a meal at a restaurant with friends and family enjoyed it less if they were using their smartphone.
  Ryan Dwyer, the study’s lead author, said he wanted to explore the effects of smartphones on the e
  
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• We're recruiting for auxiliary Clerk Typist 2s. Click here to apply. ow.ly/svnB30iDcaH

  27-02-2018 00:24 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for auxiliary Clerk Typist 2s.Click here to apply. ow.ly/svnB30iDcaH
  
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• Tribunal rejects discrimination complaint against District of North Vancouver - North Shore News

  27-02-2018 00:15
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  Tribunal rejects discrimination complaint against District of North Vancouver
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  The BC Human Rights Tribunal has quashed the complaint of District of a North Vancouver council watcher and frequent critic who alleged the district was discriminating against him for being gay. Hazen Colbert, who ran for council in 2014, filed a ...and more »
  
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