North Vancouver news

• BC race driver optimistic as 2018 series begins in Florida

  07-03-2018 23:57 via vancouversun.com
  OpenRoad Auto Group driver Remo Ruscitti is optimistic about the year as the 2018 series begins in Florida.Starting with go-karts at the age of eight Ruscitti is no stranger to the track, and at the age of twenty-three is looking forward to this year’s IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Canada single-make racing series starting with round one on March 15 at the Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida.
  
  Read more

• Daphne Bramham: Thanks to #MeToo, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work

  07-03-2018 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  Targeted by the #MeToo movement, high-profile men have quit jobs and careers, been forced out of companies and non-profits that they started, and retreated from the public eye.
  Scarcely a week goes by before there’s another one because those first few women who spoke out empowered others to tell their stories. The sheer volume has made it impossible to look away or pretend that sexual assault, harassment and exploitation don’t exist in almost every workplace.
  Naming and shaming &mdas
  
  Read more

• Remember, no matter it’s colour, separate glass from your containers. cnv.org/Glass #Grey4Glass #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
  Remember, no matter it’s colour, separate glass from your containers. cnv.org/Glass #Grey4Glass #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• We're recruiting for two regular full-time Communication Operator 2s. Click here to apply. ow.ly/cbqm30iOLlh

  07-03-2018 23:22 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for two regular full-time Communication Operator 2s.Click here to apply. ow.ly/cbqm30iOLlh
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• As San Francisco goes, so goeth Metro Vancouver?

  07-03-2018 23:18
  
  Almost 16,000 people left the U.S. tech hub because of affordability challenges, report says
  
  Read more

• #LynnCanyon suspension bridge will be closed periodically between 8am and 4pm, next Monday-Friday, for routine main… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 22:39 via twitter.com
  #LynnCanyon suspension bridge will be closed periodically between 8am and 4pm, next Monday-Friday, for routine main… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Classical music: Sea and Sky trio to showcase dances with a difference

  07-03-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sea and Sky
  with special guest Bill Richardson
  When: March 8, 2 p.m., March 9, 7:30 p.m., March 16, 8 p.m.
  Where:  West Point Grey United Church, Vancouver Community College
  Tickets and info: From $12, vettamusic.comThe March programs of the long-running Vetta Chamber Music series present Sea and Sky, a clarinet trio featuring violinist Joan Blackman, pianist Jane Hayes, and clarinetist François Houle, in a particularly well thought-out program of new and/or new to Van
  
  Read more

• Look! @NVArtsCouncil just dropped off some amazing new paintings from Kathy Daley's #Umbrellamovement. They look ev… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 21:56 via twitter.com
  Look! @NVArtsCouncil just dropped off some amazing new paintings from Kathy Daley's #Umbrellamovement. They look ev… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Coquitlam police seek victims of man who dated women, stole their cash

  07-03-2018 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  If you’ve had your heart — and cash — stolen by this man, Coquitlam police want to speak with you.
  Reza Moeinian, 37, remains in custody, charged with wooing women and developing a relationship with the goal of stealing “substantial amounts of money.” Investigators are now releasing Moeinian’s photo (albeit one less flattering than those likely on his dating profile) in hopes other victims will come forward.
  “We also want to reassure potential victims th
  
  Read more

• Finance minister: Canada’s response to Trump tariffs will be ‘appropriate but firm’

  07-03-2018 20:47
  
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s says Canada’s response to possible tariffs by the U.S. will be “appropriate but firm,” adding that Canada is a key partner to the United States supply chain.
  
  Read more

• More than 2,000 owners to be taxed under Vancouver's empty homes tax

  07-03-2018 20:43 via vancouversun.com
  A total of 2,132 residential properties will be taxed under Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax.
  The city had extended its declaration deadline to March 5, to allow homeowners extra time to declare whether their property was occupied or unoccupied during 2017.
  According to the results shared Wednesday, a total of 183,911 property status declarations were submitted, representing more than 98 per cent of the city’s homeowners.
  Of those, a total of 177,562 were occupied either by an owner or a
  
  Read more

• Special prosecutor appointed in case against former Burns Lake mayor

  07-03-2018 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  A special prosecutor has been appointed to review the sex-related charges against former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold.
  Strimbold, 28, was arrested Feb. 3 and faces charges of 24 offences related to sex assault, sexual touching with a person under 16, sexual interference and sexual exploitation. Of the four victims involved, three were under the age of 16 at the time of the offences.
  The offences span a period of two years, with at least five taking place after Strimbold’s abrupt re
  
  Read more

• Kasey Wilson: Free up room in your freezer for this fabulous feast

  07-03-2018 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a little early for spring cleaning, but how about a late-winter freezer cleanse? If your home freezer is like mine, it’s a magnet for leftovers that I don’t want to throw out but never end up using.
  Once it’s purged and organized, you’ll have room to freeze any or all of today’s dishes: superb Italian meatballs, a simple yet complex tomato sauce, and a yummy no-bake cheesecake.
  Recipes
  A16 Meatballs
  San Francisco’s A16 restaurant makes the best meat
  
  Read more

• Comedian Mike Birbiglia won't say what he's talking about in his new show

  07-03-2018 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  Mike Birbiglia’s The New One
  When: March 9, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
  Where: Vogue Theatre
  Tickets: $39.50, jflnorthwest.comMike Birbiglia has a certain familiarity to him. It’s like, well, he’s one of us — Canadian.
  The American comedian will be doing two shows on March 9 at the JFL Northwest comedy festival in Vancouver.
  “That’s really funny,” said Birbiglia over the phone from New York when his Canadian sensibility was pointed out. “Is it becaus
  
  Read more

• Not Everyone Read The Signs! bit.ly/2FqYVek #NorthVancouver https://t.co/QZ0sjugm2C

  07-03-2018 20:29 via twitter.com
  
  Not Everyone Read The Signs!bit.ly/2FqYVek#NorthVancouver https://t.co/QZ0sjugm2C
  
  Read more

• B.C.'s police watchdog seeking key witnesses in man's Chilliwack death

  07-03-2018 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  Investigators are hoping key witnesses who drove by a police incident in Chilliwack on Feb. 24 will come forward.
  Around 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, Upper Fraser Valley RCMP were called to Vedder and Well roads in Chilliwack for a possible parental kidnapping. When the father resisted arrest, an officer used a Taser on the man, who suffered a “medical emergency” and died a short time later.
  Related
  Police watchdog probes man's death after he was Tasered in attempted parental kidnapp
  
  Read more

• Duncan couple charged in 'profoundly shocking' case of animal cruelty

  07-03-2018 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver Island couple has been charged with animal cruelty in what the BC SPCA calls one of the most “profoundly shocking” cases of abuse and torture of a dog.
  Anderson Joe and Melissa Tooshley of Duncan are facing the charges after BC SPCA officers seized an emaciated, chained dog in critical distress on Feb. 16.  Despite emergency treatment the dog died two days later.
  “This is one of the most profoundly shocking and disturbing cases of abuse we have ever witnessed,&
  
  Read more

• Restaurant review: Chinatown's Kokomo spreading the vegan love

  07-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kokomo
  Where: 611 Gore Ave.
  Open: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., heykokomo.caSometimes suffering is a good thing. Positive people find the silk linings in profoundly terrible times. For Katie Ruddell, who operates Kokomo restaurant in Chinatown, it was a mystery malady that hammered her life.
  She’d been suffering migraines once a year, losing body feeling, losing sight, and suffering splitting pain.
  Katie Ruddell, owner of Kokomo at the resta
  
  Read more

• Know an amazing young person in the City? Nominate them for being fabulous. Deadline March 16.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Know an amazing young person in the City? Nominate them for being fabulous. Deadline March 16.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Majority of Canadians still worried about identity theft: poll

  07-03-2018 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  While half of Canadians are confident shopping online, a strong majority still fear thieves might steal their personal information.
  Those are the findings of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada’s annual fraud survey, which found 71 per cent of Canadians are concerned about identity theft, up from 66 per cent last year.
  Sixty-eight per cent of those surveyed believe electronic payment methods, such as tapping debit and credit cards or using smartphone apps make it eas
  
  Read more

• Want to perform at #CityFest 2018? Auditions take place March 9 & April 6. We're looking for youth performers of al… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Want to perform at #CityFest 2018? Auditions take place March 9 & April 6. We're looking for youth performers of al… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Half of B.C.'s reserved agricultural land lying unused, report shows

  07-03-2018 17:20 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government’s consultation on the future of the Agricultural Land Reserve will have more than opinions to weigh this spring, as Kwantlen University’s Institute for Sustainable Food Systems has released a white paper detailing the forces that continue to chip away at the province’s farmland.
  About 50 per cent of ALR land is lying unused, in part due to B.C.’s failure to ensure the economic viability of the food sector, according to the authors of Protection is
  
  Read more

• Vancouver gas prices highest in North America

  07-03-2018 17:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver gas prices hit 150.9 cents a litre at some stations on Wednesday, and according to a prominent petroleum analyst, it’s likely to go up.
  GasBuddy.com analyst Dan McTeague says the price has spiked 20 cents over the last couple of weeks. And, while this is not the highest price Vancouver has seen (it jumped to 156 cents a litre in July 2014,) it is the highest in North America.
  McTeague says there are several factors contributing to the skyrocketing costs, including the declining C
  
  Read more

• Q&A: The Sleep Shirt founder gives back

  07-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  We all know it feels good to get a good night’s sleep. 
  But, what if what you wore to bed could also give back to those in need? Well, it would be safe to say that would make the whole sleep experience that much better. 
  Now, you can do just that thanks to an initiative by the B.C.-based brand, The Sleep Shirt. (yes, the very same luxury-sleepwear brand that counts Gwyneth Paltrow and Oprah Winfrey among its fans). 
  Alexandra Suhner Isenberg, the brand’s founder,
  
  Read more

• RBC issues warning over foreign money in real estate

  07-03-2018 16:00
  
  Bank CEO says overseas funds parked in Canadian homes is bad for the country, but adds there are also other factors at play
  
  Read more

• Daily Poll: Do you agree with B.C.'s plan to ban ticket scalpers, bots?

  07-03-2018 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government plans to introduce legislation that cracks down on ticket scalpers and bots that often make it very difficult for customers to buy tickets to live shows. Outrage surfaced after Live Nation admitted that two-thirds of the tickets sales for the Tragically Hip farewell tour were bought by brokers and bots.
  Read Rob Shaw and Nick Eagland’s story here.
  The government also plans to consult residents before it makes any final decisions. What do you think? Is a ban on scalpers
  
  Read more

• Vancouver Weather: Sunny today and then rain until the weekend

  07-03-2018 14:45 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like the weather will be mostly sunny Wednesday in Metro Vancouver. Though Environment Canada says the clouds will increase throughout the day, with highs of 8 C, leading up to rain in the evening. Showers are expected to continue through Thursday and Friday before the sunshine comes out again just in time for the weekend. Saturday looks gorgeous with clear, sunny skies and highs of 10 C. And, the federal weather agency is forecasting some warmer weather next wee
  
  Read more

• B.C. women feel more stress over finances than men: Vancity report

  07-03-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  For Naomi Alexander, every day is a mission to make ends meet. 
  A single mother of two boys, aged seven and 13, Alexander worked hard to get herself through a culinary program and get off welfare. But her struggle continues. 
  “It’s stressful,” said the 36-year-old. “Every day is a mission of trying to find out where our next meal is coming from or how the next bill is going to get paid.” 
  After going from job to job in the male-dominated restaurant in
  
  Read more

• Police make another arrest outside Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaby

  07-03-2018 07:11 via vancouversun.com
  For a second day in a row, Burnaby RCMP have made an arrest outside Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine Terminal.
  On Monday, Mounties arrested a man who had climbed atop a semi-trailer that was making a delivery to the facility; on Tuesday they arrested a woman who was blocking the path of another vehicle.
  According to a media release from Burnaby RCMP, officers spent Tuesday morning outside the terminal, where “a number of demonstrators were blocking work vehicle access to the terminal
  
  Read more

• Mark Mayo: Diversity helps build better products faster

  07-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  In 2015, McKinsey & Company argued that businesses perform better when they have a more diverse workforce. Many companies have since ramped up their hiring of women and ethnically diverse individuals.
  At Mozilla, we’ve experienced that not only does it feel right to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, it actually helps us build better products faster.
  Last December in Austin, Tex., this mantra came true and blew our minds. This is when, fuelled by a week’s worth of bar
  
  Read more

• Mario Canseco: On housing and the budget

  07-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the things that makes my job as a public-opinion researcher so compelling is having the chance to test how the population will react to a particular issue or decision. A recent opportunity arrived with the perceived outcry from individual homeowners to the changes in taxation that were announced by the B.C. government in the latest budget.
  An Insights West poll conducted earlier this month showed that more than four-in-five British Columbians thought three items included in the budget wer
  
  Read more

• Harry Sterling: Trump's disdain for climate policy should concern us all

  07-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The late former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once described living next door to the United States as like sleeping with an elephant — no matter how friendly and even tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
  That the US influences global events for better or worse is a reality current PM Justin Trudeau and other international leaders increasingly face as they find themselves confronting President Donald Trump’s disruptive and reckless policies. 
  His threat
  
  Read more

• Guilty plea entered in 2016 shooting death of Maple Ridge man

  07-03-2018 04:39 via vancouversun.com
  Eighteen months after 32-year-old Maple Ridge resident Jonathen Patko was gunned down, a guilty plea has been entered in relation to his death.
  Deane Sahanovitch, who was originally charged with murder, pled guilty to manslaughter with a firearm on Friday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed the news in a media release on Tuesday afternoon.
  “IHIT investigators, supported by the Ridge Meadows RCMP, worked diligently in order to secure the evidence in this investigation,&rdq
  
  Read more

• Surrey’s Stacey Roy ‘cheers’ as only Canadian in global streaming game show

  07-03-2018 03:42 via vancouversun.com
  From the outside, the only clue the Surrey townhouse in Clayton Heights isn’t an ordinary home comes from the windows on the second floor, sealed up with cardboard and labelled “camera left” and “camera right.”
  This is the home of Stacey Roy and Mike Parkerson and their production company Whabam Media. They’ve transformed the kitchen and garage into two studios where they film four live shows a week broadcast on Twitch, a live-streaming video platform where ho
  
  Read more

• Youth camp out to raise awareness of food security issues for street youth

  07-03-2018 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  For Vancouver’s homeless youth, a bed is sometimes just a piece of cardboard. Food, if found at all, might be scrounged from a dumpster. 
  On Wednesday night this week, Vancouver’s Directions Youth Services is hosting a fundraiser to raise money for their hot meals program. 
  Directions provides between 40 and 80 hot, nutritious meals at 8 p.m. every night to homeless youth out of a warm, friendly kitchen at their drop-in centre on Burrard Street just north of Davie.
  Directio
  
  Read more

• REAL SCOOP: Man gets 4 1/2 years in fatal shooting

  07-03-2018 03:26 via vancouversun.com
  A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a gang associate in Maple Ridge in 2016 has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail.
  Deane Sahanovitch appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster March 2 to plead guilty to manslaughter for the slaying of Jonathen Patko, 32. A murder charge he was facing was dropped.
  He was also handed a lifetime firearms prohibition.
  Patko was found shot to death about 2 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2016 in the 24300-block of 102 A
  
  Read more

• Hells Angels convictions should be part of forfeiture case, government says

  07-03-2018 02:47 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. director of civil forfeiture wants criminal convictions against several Hells Angels admitted as evidence in an upcoming civil trial over the seizure of three biker clubhouses.
  Lawyer Brent Olthuis, representing the government agency, argued in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday that admitting the biker convictions and related court rulings would be appropriate in the civil case.
  Olthuis told Justice Barry Davies that the convictions are relevant to show the reputation of the Hells Angels, w
  
  Read more

• Google seeks to lift B.C. court injunction blocking access to websites

  07-03-2018 02:16 via vancouversun.com
  A lawyer for Google was in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking to lift an injunction that was imposed more than three years ago to block a number of websites that are allegedly operating illegally and harming a B.C. company.
  The case involving the Internet giant relates to a dispute between Burnaby-based Equustek Solutions Inc. and another company, Datalink Technologies Gateways Inc., which is accused of trademark infringement and unlawful appropriation of trade secrets.
  In 2014, the B.C. Supr
  
  Read more

• UBC acquires rare U.K. edition of first Harry Potter novel

  07-03-2018 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  Librarians at the University of B.C. have waved their magic wand and conjured up a rare U.K. first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
  But there was a fair bit of gold dust on the wand. The book cost US$36,500. In today’s exchange rate, that’s the equivalent of about $46,490 Cdn.
  And as strange as that may sound, UBC got a good deal.
  Chelsea Shriver, UBC Rare Books and Special Collections librarian, said the university had been watching one rare book auction wh
  
  Read more

• Wondering what happened at last night's Council Meeting? We've got the video for you right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Wondering what happened at last night's Council Meeting? We've got the video for you right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• B.C. plan to publish complaints about illegal child care and seniors facilities

  07-03-2018 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. will begin posting more information about inspection and complaint reports for child care and seniors facilities, under proposed new legislation tabled Tuesday.
  The changes to the Community Care and Assisted Living Act would see local health authorities disclose substantiated complaints and summary inspection reports for both legal and illegal child care, assisted living, community care, hospice and mental health facilities for the past five years.
  While some health authori
  
  Read more

• Commercial Real Estate: Industrial vacancy rates plummet in Victoria and Kelowna

  07-03-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  It is becoming just as tough for companies in Victoria and Kelowna to find industrial space as it is in Metro Vancouver, according to a new report from Colliers International.
  The industrial vacancy rate in the Greater Victoria region fell from 4.9 per cent to 2.2 per cent by the end of 2017, according to the firm’s national assessment of urban centres with populations of less than one million.
  In the Thompson-Okanagan region, the industrial vacancy rate also fell to 2.2 per cent at the en
  
  Read more

• Commercial Real Estate: Building commercial strata only realistic option for Mount Pleasant

  07-03-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sky-high land values in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood means developers getting into that market today will likely have no choice but to build commercial strata, further tightening the commercial leasing market, said a panel of local stakeholders.
  Developing purpose-built commercial rental space won’t make sense for land bought today, said Matthew MacLean, a vice-president with Cushman and Wakefield in Vancouver.
  The subject was raised at an Urban Development Institute pane
  
  Read more

• Vaughn Palmer: Readers stunned by impact of B.C.'s new 'speculation tax'

  07-03-2018 00:57 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When the New Democrats launched their tax on real estate speculation last month, Premier John Horgan was adamant about not treating British Columbians as speculators in their own province.
  The tax was aimed at foreigners and residents of other provinces. Even if people lived in one part of B.C. and owned recreational property in another, they would not be captured so long as they already paid provincial income taxes.
  “If you pay tax in B.C., you are not speculating fr
  
  Read more

• Vancouver homebuyer forum to tackle creative, risky buying strategies

  07-03-2018 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  With Metro Vancouver home prices far outpacing local incomes, some residents have considered or used creative, complicated, and in some respects riskier buying options to get a foothold on the property ladder.
  Some buyers are purchasing with friends and family using shared equity models, while others are looking at pre-sales, lock-off suites and rent-to-own homes, or gambling on downtrodden ‘hoods.
  Ask a guy like Bob de Wit, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Associatio
  
  Read more

• You have been forewarned! “Police Ahead - Stay Off Your Phone” - we are out at Capilano and Marine in full force! D… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 00:21 via twitter.com
  You have been forewarned! “Police Ahead - Stay Off Your Phone” - we are out at Capilano and Marine in full force! D… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

Follow @NorthVancouver_ on Twitter!