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• Paramedic says exposed syringe was placed at Vancouver hotel to injure someone

  06-03-2018 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  A Metro Vancouver paramedic says a syringe was hidden in the entrance of an East Hastings hotel with the intention of poking an unsuspecting visitor.
  As paramedics were responding to a call at the Lux Hotel at 7:20 a.m. on Monday they noticed an exposed needle from a syringe protruding from the wall close to the automated door button.
  Surrey paramedic Will Rogers called it a “near miss.”
  A Facebook post shared by Rogers said the syringe was “intentionally manipul
  
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• The North Shore Community Food Asset Map helps implement the North Shore Community Food Charter, creating a more in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  The North Shore Community Food Asset Map helps implement the North Shore Community Food Charter, creating a more in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Makeover: Charity hair donation gives birthday celebrant a new look

  06-03-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ella Jotie, 39, is the founder of Barre Fittness. She was celebrating her birthday and decided to cut 8 inches (20 cm) from her hair and donate it to charity.
  Ella has course and naturally wavy hair. After eliminating her length, we touched up her new growth using a permanent colour in her natural black-brown shade. We then applied a demi-permanent, ammonia-free colour to her mid-lengths and ends for colour balancing and as a conditioning overlay.  
  We shampooed her hair using KMS Colo
  
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• B.C. meal-kit delivery service to appear on Dragon's Den Thursday

  06-03-2018 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver-based, meal-kit delivery service is expanding its delivery area — right into the Dragons’ Den.
  Fuud Canada will appear on the CBC’s televised business-pitch gauntlet this Thursday at 8 p.m. seeking a $90,000 investment for 10 per cent of the company.
  “The thing about Dragons’ Den is that it’s kind of like a boxing match with eight people in the ring,” said Fuud co-found Thomas Buchan of their episode, which was filmed last April. “The d
  
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• 5 Things to Know about Jimi Hendrix's Both Sides of the Sky

  06-03-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  1 – Blues power
  Mannish Boy, Hear My Train a Comin’, Georgia Blues, Sweet Angel. Almost half of the album’s 13 tracks are straight up blues standards and do little more than remind listeners that underneath all the volume, Hendrix was a skilled guitarist in the genre who could really lay it down Delta style. The slide work on Things I Used to Do is excellent.
  2 – Rock action
  If not these exact recordings, a lot of the songs on the album are ones you’ve heard before
  
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• B.C. government preps legislation on ticket scalpers and bots

  06-03-2018 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C. will introduce legislation this fall to crack down on scalpers and bots that snatch up tickets to live events and gouge customers by reselling them for exorbitant prices, says the province’s solicitor general.
  Mike Farnworth said Tuesday the goal of the law “will deal with the issue of the ability of British Columbians to access tickets and what they see as the unfair way that scalpers get the tickets, bots get the tickets, it seems like anybody other than an or
  
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• Q&A: Kaitlyn Bristowe talks International Women's Day, #metoo, and being Unapologetically Her

  06-03-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Unapologetically Her
  When: March 9; 3 p.m. to midnight
  Where: Cascades Casino (20393 Fraser Highway)
  Tickets and info: $159; eventbrite.caKaitlyn Bristowe isn’t afraid to share what’s on her mind.  
  Kaitlyn Bristowe will be part of the Unapologetically Her event in celebration of International Women’s Day.
  Perhaps that’s part of what has made the former The Bachelorette star and current Off The Vine Podcast host so popular with her fans
  
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• Last call for chickens! If you're interested in keeping backyard hens and you want some advice to get started, come… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  Last call for chickens! If you're interested in keeping backyard hens and you want some advice to get started, come… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Great community spirit in raising safety awareness to help keep our kids safe around schools. ‘Think Of Me’ safety… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  Great community spirit in raising safety awareness to help keep our kids safe around schools. ‘Think Of Me’ safety… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Here's a very cool local opportunity for artists! twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…

  06-03-2018 21:11 via twitter.com
  Here's a very cool local opportunity for artists! twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…
  
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• Style Q&A: Sean Miller of Parkland has sustainability in the bag

  06-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no longer a stretch of the imagination to consider waste such as paper, plastic and even food scraps being given a second (often unexpected) life. 
  Yet, it’s still a bit of a leap to imagine a company creating an entire collection using only 100 per cent recycled plastics. But that’s exactly what the Vancouver-based accessories company Parkland has done for Spring 2018. 
  Postmedia News caught up with Sean Miller, sales and business development manager f
  
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• Illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C. up 25 per cent in January

  06-03-2018 20:49 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Coroners Service says the number of people who died from illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C. climbed to 125 in January.
  The coroner says the number equals about four deaths a day, and represents a 25 per cent jump in the number of overdose deaths from December.
  However, there were fewer fatalities than in January 2017, when there were 142 overdose deaths from drugs such as heroin, cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, illicit fentanyl, and prescription opiates sold on the street.
  The numbers
  
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• TransLink rolls out four new B-Line bus routes in Metro Vancouver

  06-03-2018 20:36 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink says it will roll out four new B-Line bus routes by the end of next year. 
  The four new B-Line routes include:
  Fraser Highway (Surrey Central to Langley Centre)Main-Marine (Dundarave to Phibbs Exchange)41st Avenue (Joyce-Collingwood Station to UBC)Lougheed Highway (Coquitlam Central Station to Haney Place) 
  TransLink says the limited-stop, high frequency bus routes will provide 10-minute or better frequency during peak periods, and 15-minute or better frequency duri
  
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• Fab 5: Cat fight over these kitten heels

  06-03-2018 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  Every few years, kitten heels emerge as one of the key shoe trends of the season, but for one reason or another, they never seem to truly take off. This spring, however, thanks to designers like Balenciaga and Prada, things are looking up. A little less pretty, a lot more edgy, but as practical as ever, with their mid heel and low-profile silhouette, Rebecca Tay showcases five kitten heels to step up your look.
  Shanghai buckled kitten heels, $80 at ASOS, asos.com
  BUCKLE UP
  The reign of the white
  
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• Finance Minister Morneau pressed on competitiveness by Vancouver business audience

  06-03-2018 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver business audience was more interested in grilling federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau on how government plans to deal with Canada’s competitiveness to attract business an resource development than discuss details of his most recent budget.
  Morneau spoke at a Business Council of B.C. breakfast meeting this morning on a Western swing to defend the government’s 2018 budget, with its $21 billion in additional spending as long-term investments to position Canada’s econ
  
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• ART SEEN: Maureen Gruben's materiality ranges from polar bear bones to bubble wrap

  06-03-2018 19:40 via vancouversun.com
  What caught my attention was the way the light made the little packets glow. A couple of dozen of them were hanging on a line strung at an angle across the southeast-facing window in the Libby Leshgold Gallery. It was an overcast day so the back lighting made the packages translucent and outlined the forms of the objects inside.
  Some were easy to recognize. On the far left, a charger for a phone. Others included coins, crayons, buttons and a yellow plastic condom with a red heart.
  But what was t
  
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• The latest #LookThinkGo video reminds us there's no express lane, even when you're in a hurry. Always yield to pede… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 18:09 via twitter.com
  The latest #LookThinkGo video reminds us there's no express lane, even when you're in a hurry. Always yield to pede… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver approves modular housing for Powell Street

  06-03-2018 18:03 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver will build more units of modular housing to help homeless people, this time in East Vancouver.
  The city has approved the development of temporary modular housing at 525 Powell Street.
  When it opens in May, the project will provide 39 units of housing for women. Each unit will be 250 square feet and include a bathroom and kitchen. 
  The project is part of a $66 million provincial plan to build 600 new units of temporary modular housing to address the immediate
  
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• Style in the City: Michelle Nguyen

  06-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Michelle Nguyen
  Occupation: Analyst at Vancity Credit Union
  Personal style in one word: Contemporary
  Social media: @mnguyennnn
  Love Michelle’s look? Here are a few items to help you recreate it: The jacket
  A chic leather jacket can add an unexpected edge to any outfit. Case in point: this simple (and simply chic!) look that Michelle has put together here. While her other outfit items are wardrobe staples that pair perfectly for work hours and after-hours, the addition of t
  
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• Beauty Bar: Benefit Cosmetics BADgal BANG! Volumizing Mascara

  06-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A volumizing mascara that promises to provide 36 hours of “full-blast,” “gravity-defying” results. 
  The mascara formula is created using “aero-particles,” which are said to be a space technology that allows the inky-black mascara to be super-lightweight on lashes. 
  The “slimpact!” brush is streamlined to provide complete root-to-tip coverage.
  Smudge-proof and water resistant, this volumizing mascara is also formulated using pr
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you support a high speed train connecting Vancouver and the Fraser Valley?

  06-03-2018 16:05 via vancouversun.com
  Lower Mainland housing prices have soared past incomes over the last two decades. Young people looking to buy a starter home would now need to look at places like Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and even as far as Hope, which is 155 kilometres away from Vancouver. Cities that used to draw first-time buyers like Surrey and Langley are no longer affordable.
  Read Matt Robinson’s story about housing prices and incomes  here.
  With affordable housing moving so far out of the metropolitan region, an
  
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• Vancouver Weather: A mix of sun, cloud and rain through the week

  06-03-2018 14:59 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. –  Tuesday’s weather in Metro Vancouver will be mostly cloudy with a high of 8 C. Environment Canada says the early morning rain should clear up in the afternoon. The mild temperatures (highs of 8 C or 9 C) are expected to continue through the week to the weekend, with a mix of sun and rain. Wednesday looks mainly sunny but with increasing cloudiness in the afternoon.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of showers early in
  
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• [Test] New JFK files

  06-03-2018 14:29 via vancouversun.com
  President Donald Trump ordered the release of more than 2,800 records related to the John F. Kennedy assassination on Thursday, but bowed to pressure from the CIA, FBI and other agencies to delay disclosing some of the most sensitive documents for another six months. Even so, the thousands of pages that were published online by the National Archives Thursday evening describe decades of spies and surveillance, informants and assassination plots.
  More than a dozen reporters and editors for The Was
  
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• North Vancouver City Council says no to blanket ban on smoking in public - Globalnews.ca

  06-03-2018 11:16 via globalnews.ca
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  North Vancouver City Council says no to blanket ban on smoking in public
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  The City of North Vancouver is rejecting a motion to ban smoking in public areas. City staff had already recommended that council deny the blanket restriction. The motion came forward after residents wanted to see smoking banned on West 1st Ave. Mayor ...
  
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• North Vancouver City Council says no to blanket ban on smoking in public

  06-03-2018 11:10 via globalnews.ca
  "Council had to make that tough decision to say 'do we do a bylaw that the police will only enforce when they're able to because they have other priorities?'"
  
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• North Shore Rescue saves skier lost in tricky out of bounds terrain near Cypress

  06-03-2018 07:36 via vancouversun.com
  A skier is on his way home after a cold evening north of the Cypress Mountain ski area.
  North Shore Rescue volunteers first responded to a call for help from a skier lost in the Montizambert Creek area.
  Using a helicopter from Talon Helicopters, rescuers were able to find the skier. Ground rescuers then made their way to him. Around 9 p.m., he was found. 
  Rescuers determined they would be able to ski out after getting the skier drinking some fluids and being warmed up.The area the skier was
  
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• North Shore Rescue rescues skier lost in tricky out of bounds terrain near Cypress

  06-03-2018 07:32 via vancouversun.com
  A skier is on their way home after a cold evening north of the Cypress Mountain ski area.
  North Shore Rescue volunteers first responded to a call for help from a skier lost in the Montizambert Creek area.
  Using a helicopter from Talon Helicopters, rescuers were able to find the skier. Ground rescuers then made their way to the skier. Around 9 p.m., the skier was found. 
  Rescuers determined they would be able to ski out after getting drinking some fluids and being warmed up.The area the skie
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: No way to match Barrett's legacy with electoral changes

  06-03-2018 06:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats staged two memorials for the late Dave Barrett on the weekend, one a formal sendoff in the provincial capital, the other a more down to earth “gathering of the clan” in Vancouver.
  Both featured lengthy tributes to a premier who accomplished much during a mere three years and three months, from the monumental — ICBC, the Agricultural Land Reserve, Pharmacare — to smaller actions that resonated for British Columbians of a certain age.
  Prem
  
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• Hopes for smoking ban in North Vancouver extinguished - CBC.ca

  06-03-2018 06:38 via cbc.ca
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  Hopes for smoking ban in North Vancouver extinguished
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  North Vancouver city council voted Monday night not to ban smoking on public lands citing foreseeable problems issuing tickets to those who light up. The decision follows a five-year battle with some residents who originally petitioned the city to ...
  
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• Home prices in the region far outstrip income all the way to Chilliwack and Hope

  06-03-2018 05:30 via vancouversun.com
  Suggesting young people buy a cheap starter home in the suburbs and later buy in the city, as their parents did, is still valid today — as long as you consider places like Chilliwack and Hope as suburbs of Vancouver.
  Those are among the few Lower Mainland municipalities with housing prices that appear not to have blown past incomes over the past two decades, based on a bit of back-of-the-envelope math using Landcor and Statistics Canada data. Meanwhile, cities like Surrey and Langley are s
  
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• Steve Rio: Designing a new approach to work

  06-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  We are entering an exciting era as the so-called “future of work” unfolds in real time. While artificial intelligence and automation capture the majority of headlines, a quiet revolution is taking place in homes, coworking spaces and coffee shops across the planet. Young people are starting careers independently, working with multiple companies, often while travelling or working on their own startups. A growing group of Gen-Xers are trading in their corporate jobs for the flexibility
  
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• Charges against former Burns Lake mayor shock community

  06-03-2018 03:38 via vancouversun.com
  The charges laid against former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold involve four victims, at least three of them under the age of 16, over the span of two years, new information reveals.
  Nineteen of the 24 offences are alleged to have occurred while Strimbold was mayor of the northern B.C. town of 2,000; the other five allegedly occurred after his abrupt resignation in September 2016.
  The identities of the victims and details of the alleged crimes are protected by a publication ban. The charge
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Legal system needs efficiency, more justice, says Storrow

  06-03-2018 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  Renowned Vancouver lawyer Marvin Storrow wanted to be a brain researcher.
  “I ran the electroencephalogram at St. Paul’s Hospital for a bit and got to know a little about the brain, not a lot,” he quips with a laugh.
  But the law drew him in.
  Storrow was president of the legendary UBC law school class of 1962 that included former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci, B.C. Chief Justice Lance Finch, Justice Bill O’Leary, Justice Robert Hunter, Justice Vaughan Hemb
  
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• Home prices in the region far outstrip income all the way to Chiliwack and Hope

  06-03-2018 02:27 via vancouversun.com
  Suggesting young people buy a cheap starter home in the suburbs and later buy in the city, as their parents did, is still valid today — as long as you consider places like Chilliwack and Hope as suburbs of Vancouver.
  Those are among the few Lower Mainland municipalities with housing prices that appear not to have blown past incomes over the past two decades, based on a bit of back-of-the-envelope math using Landcor and Statistics Canada data. Meanwhile, cities like Surrey and Langley are s
  
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• CRA ordered to pay more than $1 million for malicious prosecution

  06-03-2018 02:08 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has rebuked the Canada Revenue Agency and ordered it to pay more than $1 million in damages for maliciously prosecuting a Nanaimo couple for alleged tax evasion.
  In June 2008, Tony and Helen Samaroo, who operated a restaurant, a nightclub and a motel in the Vancouver Island community, were charged with 21 criminal counts of avoiding taxes.
  They were accused of skimming $1.7 million from their restaurant, the MGM, between 2004 and 2005, but in April 2011, following a 19-day trial, a Provi
  
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• Burnaby RCMP make arrest at Kinder Morgan

  06-03-2018 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  A 25-year-old man who had climbed atop a semi-trailer at the gates to Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby has been arrested by police.
  According to Burnaby RCMP, the man summited the vehicle sometime around noon on Monday.
  Video posted to social media shows officers attempting to convince the man to come down on his own but eventually climbed atop and arrested him. He was initially sitting atop the rear trailer — which appeared to be loaded with wooden pallets &mdash
  
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• Metro Vancouver reconsiders short-term rentals for Pitt Lake, Indian Arm

  06-03-2018 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver is reconsidering its stance against short-term rentals in two remote areas of the regional district.
  Metro is in the midst of developing an official community plan for Electoral Area A, which includes land-use designations and policies that set out the long-term vision for its communities. The unincorporated electoral area covers more than 800 square kilometres of Metro, and includes communities from Howe Sound to Surrey.
  The University of B.C. and its endowment lands are part of
  
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• Hey #NorthVan, wondering what's on tap for tonight's Council Meeting? ✅ Presentation: Pedestrian Plan ✅ Report: Dra… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Hey #NorthVan, wondering what's on tap for tonight's Council Meeting? ✅ Presentation: Pedestrian Plan ✅ Report: Dra… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Lance Berelowitz: Cape Town and Vancouver diverge on development

  06-03-2018 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a small world. On the same day recently that the City of Vancouver approved its new Northeast False Creek Plan (NFCP), on the opposite side of the world, the City of Cape Town announced the winning bid for a scheme to redevelop that city’s Foreshore Freeway Precinct. The two projects have much in common, addressing several of the same issues such as elevated freeways built as part of a larger network that was never completed, disconnections to the adjacent urban waterfront, the
  
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• Victoria man convicted in fatal shooting has sentence cut by a year

  06-03-2018 01:01 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has reduced by a year the sentence of a man convicted in connection with a fatal shooting in Victoria.
  Along with a co-accused, Samuel McGrath was initially charged with the March 2010 second-degree murder of Leslie Hankel, 52, who was mistakenly believed to be a drug dealer and was shot to death during a home invasion.
  McGrath, who was found guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter, was sentenced to 12 years in jail but had the sentence reduced to nine years, 345 da
  
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