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• Thousands protest Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in Burnaby

  10-03-2018 23:14 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Burnaby for the Protect the Inlet demonstration against the $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 
  The rally went ahead despite an injunction granted to Trans Mountain Friday in B.C. Supreme Court to stop activists from protesting at the company’s two terminals in Burnaby. The injunction restricts protesters from coming within 50 metres of the work site.
  Many Indigenous activists said the injunction would no
  
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• Have you heard of a #Thingery? The City is getting and organizers want your input. Join them for workshop March 21s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Have you heard of a #Thingery? The City is getting and organizers want your input. Join them for workshop March 21s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• One man dead in Friday night shooting in Surrey

  10-03-2018 21:58 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide detectives have been called in after one man was shot dead in Surrey on Friday night.
   
  Surrey RCMP say that shortly after 7 p.m., officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 6500-block of 137A Street.  
   
  A man suffering from gunshot injuries was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries.
   
  Investigators believe the shooting was targeted. No arrests have been made.
   
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over the inves
  
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• Two New Westminster schools to receive seismic upgrading

  10-03-2018 21:29 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government says two schools at a high risk for earthquake damage in New Westminster will undergo seismic upgrades.
  Construction on Richard McBride and Lord Tweedsmuir is scheduled to begin this summer, and expected to be complete in fall 2020.
  The New Westminster School District already has replaced seismic high-risk John Robson with the new École Qayqayt Elementary, and has recently completed a seismic upgrade at F.W. Howay Elementary. When Lord Tweedsmuir and Richard
  
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• Have an idea to bring people together in your neighbourhood? Apply for a Neighbourhood Small Grant by April 9. More… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Have an idea to bring people together in your neighbourhood? Apply for a Neighbourhood Small Grant by April 9. More… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LIVE: Hundreds protest Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in Burnaby

  10-03-2018 20:33 via vancouversun.com
  Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Burnaby for the Protect the Inlet demonstration against the $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 
  The rally is going ahead despite an injunction granted to Trans Mountain Friday in B.C. Supreme Court to stop activists from protesting at the company’s two terminals in Burnaby. The injunction restricts protesters from coming within 50 metresof the work site.
  Many Indigenous activists said the injunction would not stop
  
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• SFU study concludes no adverse effects to B.C. coast from Fukushima

  10-03-2018 19:17 via vancouversun.com
  A Simon Fraser University researcher has determined that no serious damage was done to B.C.’s coast following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in Japan seven years ago.
  SFU chemist Krzysztof Starosta analyzed soil and salmon samples, after concerns were raised that radioactive waste from the accident might taint the fish people consume.
  Starosta and his team used high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy to search West Coast soil and salmon for signs of radioactive isotopes Ces
  
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• Luke Skywalker's iconic lightsaber on display at Vancouver's Science World

  10-03-2018 18:43 via vancouversun.com
  Science World became Science Fiction World on Friday, unveiling a rare item from a galaxy far, far away.
  For the next ten days, the science centre will be home to the original lightsaber used by Luke Skywalker in 1977’s Star Wars and 1980’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back. 
  It’s the lightsaber from Skywalker’s iconic duel with Darth Vader on Cloud City — the one he loses when the villain cuts off his right hand, moments before we learn (spoiler alert!) that
  
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• The North Shore Arts Crawl is ON this weekend 10am - 5pm. See what's happenin' in your hood:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The North Shore Arts Crawl is ON this weekend 10am - 5pm. See what's happenin' in your hood:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny all weekend

  10-03-2018 17:55 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s a good weekend to get outside, as Saturday and Sunday’s weather looks fantastic. Environment Canada says Metro Vancouver can expect sunshine and highs of 9 C on Saturday, warming up to 12 C on Sunday, and 15 C inland.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Sunny. High 9 C, and 12 C inland.
  Tonight: A few clouds. Low 2 C.
  Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High 12 C, and 15 C inland.
  Traffic: Lower Mainland
  Here’s a live traffic map of what’s happe
  
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• One man dead in Surrey shooting Friday night

  10-03-2018 17:30 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide detectives have been called in after one man was shot dead in Surrey Friday night.
   
  Surrey RCMP say shortly after 7 p.m., officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 6500-block of 137A Street.  
   
  A man suffering from gunshot injuries was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.
   
  Investigators believe the shooting was targeted and that both the suspect and victim knew each other. No arrests have been made.
   
  The Inte
  
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• Automation vs. jobs and human contact

  10-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  In the future of retail, it is likely that bricks-and-mortar stores and online commerce will merge into a seamless and convenient entity, says Vancouver tech entrepreneur Igor Faletski. 
  As CEO of the Vancouver-based online-commerce platform Mobify, Faletski has had a front-row view of the trend toward using technology to create a “frictionless transaction” that maximizes convenience for consumers while minimizing the amount of time they spend waiting in line.
  “The days of
  
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• Canopy offers park-side living on a grand scale

  10-03-2018 15:48 via vancouversun.com
  At Canopy, StreetSide Developments’ new residential community in north Surrey, the townhomes include the design elements that make them increasingly popular in the Lower Mainland — individual entries, garages and private outdoor spaces — but the project also has an extra. The huge 302-unit community is surrounded on two sides by green space.
  That green space is Tynehead Park, 642 acres of meadow and forest on the banks of the Serpentine River headwaters. The park is a habitat f
  
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• The Home Front: The line between public and private spaces blurs in downtown Vancouver

  10-03-2018 15:27 via vancouversun.com
  As downtown Vancouver becomes more densified, the line between private and public spaces is becoming increasingly blurred, with new thoughts surrounding “community in urbanism” emerging, says architect Michael Leckie, co-founder and principal of Leckie Studio Architecture + Design Inc. 
  “I think what we’re starting to see, particularly in downtown in neighbourhoods like Yaletown,and Gastown, where we’re getting higher-density residential combined with commercia
  
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• Burnaby bungalow has easy access to multiple amenities

  10-03-2018 15:23 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  4101 Oxford Street, Burnaby
  Type: Four-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 1,778 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,212,100
  Listed for: $1,348,000
  Sold for: $1,300,000
  Sold on: Nov. 7
  Days on market: Five
  Listing agent: Andrew Hasman at ReMax Andrew Hasman
  Buyers agent: Justin Li at Metro Edge Realty
  The big sell: Burnaby’s Vancouver Heights neighbourhood has always enjoyed a sense of community, and access to myriad ameniti
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Fatal shooting in Surrey Friday night

  10-03-2018 09:57 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP says a man shot about 7 p.m. Friday has now died of his injuries.
  Local Mounties were called to a report of shots fired in the 6500-block of 137A Street and found the man suffering from  gunshot wounds. He was transported to a local hospital but did not survive.
   
  “Officers are conducting neighbourhood canvassing and speaking with witnesses to obtain further information,” Sgt. Andrea McKinney said in a news release. “The investigation is still in its early
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Vancouver company trafficked, aided Sinaloa cartel, U.S. says

  10-03-2018 07:35 via vancouversun.com
  I was tipped to this interesting story late Wednesday and spent a day and a half tracking it down before finding the U.S. charging documents early Friday morning.
  Vancouver encryption company, Phantom Secure, owned by Vincent Ramos, has been aiding international drug traffickers for years, including the notorious Sinaloa cartel headed by El Chapo, the U.S. says.
  Ramos is now in jail south of the border facing a series of charges. His home and business was raided here Wednesday, though the RCMP w
  
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• Owner of Vancouver encryption company trafficked drugs, aided cartel, U.S. says

  10-03-2018 07:18 via vancouversun.com
  The owner of a Vancouver company that sells encrypted BlackBerrys popular with B.C. gangsters is facing charges in the U.S. of racketeering, conspiracy and drug trafficking.
  Vincent Ramos, who started Phantom Secure in 2008, is even alleged in U.S. court documents to have sold his specialized devices to “some members of the (Mexican) Sinaloa (drug) cartel.”
  Ramos, 41, was arrested in the U.S. on Wednesday, as police in Metro Vancouver raided his business and home.
  U.S. court document
  
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• Tom Mayenknecht: Paralympians plan to inspire the world in Pyeongchang

  10-03-2018 05:19 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  There is a golden spotlight on the world’s Paralympians beginning this weekend in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  Basking in the afterglow of the 201 Winter Olympics that closed out two weeks ago are 570 athletes from 49 countries who have no shortage of amazing stories of courage and determination. If you’re looking for inspiration, the next nine days of 80 events in six Para sports are for you.It’s also a bullish time for rugby with B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver
  
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• Luke Skywalker's iconic lightsaber unveiled at Science World

  10-03-2018 05:09 via vancouversun.com
  Science World became Science Fiction World on Friday, unveiling a rare item from a galaxy far, far away.
  For the next ten days, the science centre will be home to the original lightsaber used by Luke Skywalker in 1977’s Star Wars and 1980’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back. 
  It’s the lightsaber from Skywalker’s iconic duel with Darth Vader on Cloud City — the one he loses when the villain cuts off his right hand, moments before we learn (spoiler alert!) that
  
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• Editorial: Delay B.C. speculation tax for a year

  10-03-2018 05:03 via vancouversun.com
  The best that can be said for the NDP government’s so-called speculation tax is that it isn’t in effect yet.
  The measure introduced in the February budget isn’t a speculation tax at all, of course, it’s a second homes tax. Anyone who owns a property that is not lived in full time in designated areas — namely the Capital, Nanaimo, Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regional districts, plus the municipalities of Kelowna and West Kelowna — may be subject to the ta
  
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• Opinion: Respect science and protect our steelhead and salmon

  10-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many West Coast Indigenous people call themselves the “salmon people” — because salmon are so integral to their culture, diet, community, and way of life. In a larger sense, all British Columbians are salmon people. The silver flash of leaping coho, the long struggle of spawning sockeye, the spectacle of bears flipping chum onto a stream bank and orcas streaking after a school of Chinook are central to us all.
  But today, our salmon and other sea-going fish are not only in deep
  
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• Elizabeth Murphy: B.C. undermines municipal tax base and affordability

  10-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The province recently introduced their budget, the first, full-year budget for the new NDP government. They claim it “puts people first, makes life more affordable for British Columbians.” Although there are many aspects to the budget that are a welcome shift from the previous administration, the proposed provincial infringement into the municipal property-tax base is particularly problematic.
  There are a number of valid measures to curb foreign speculation and capital used to purcha
  
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• NHL '94 tournament comes to Vancouver for iconic video game's 25th birthday

  10-03-2018 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  The greatest hockey video game of all time turns 25 this fall.
  NHL ’94, the third game in EA Sports’ iconic and long-running franchise, was released in October 1993. A quarter-century later, it remains as popular as ever, even as every single skater in the game has since retired. (The last, 46-year-old Jaromir Jagr, played what was likely his final NHL game in January.)
  That popularity will be on full display at the third King of 94 tournament, which will be held in Vancouver th
  
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• Original trilogy Star Wars Lightsaber on display at Science World

  10-03-2018 04:16 via vancouversun.com
  From the archives of Gary Kurtz, who produced Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope and Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, this Lightsaber was constructed from a vintage 1930s Graflex camera flash gun and the handle still has the original Graflex logo etched into it.
  Edward Meyer, VP of Exhibits & Archives for Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, acquired the piece at the Profiles in History Hollywood Auction on June 28, 2017, for a staggering $450,000.
  The Lightsaber is on display M
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan to pay it forward with projects for trade unions

  10-03-2018 03:21 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A grateful Premier John Horgan this week assured the B.C. Building Trades they will be guaranteed a piece of the action on billions of dollars worth of publicly funded construction under the NDP government.
  Introduced to the conference by the organization’s executive director Tom Sigurdson as “my friend John Horgan,” the premier lost no time laying out his working class bona fides to the 17-member consortium of construction unions and thanking members for their
  
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• North Vancouver's Emily Young fights her way to the Paralympic Games - Times Colonist

  10-03-2018 03:15
  Times Colonist
  North Vancouver's Emily Young fights her way to the Paralympic Games
  Times Colonist
  North Vancouver's Emily Young, a former elite wrestler, is off to the Paralympic Games to compete in cross-country skiing and biathlon. Photograph By Cindy Goodman, North Shore News. NORTH VANCOUVER — If you want to know how Emily Young has made it ...
  
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• March 12th is the last Council meeting before Spring Break. See what's on the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  March 12th is the last Council meeting before Spring Break. See what's on the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Vancouver International Wine Festival an extraordinary week

  10-03-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking back on the week that was the 40th Vancouver International Wine Festival was a good one, although I can’t help but think just when locals were beginning to feel comfortable in their wine knowledge they ran up against a barrage of unpronounceable grapes, and in some cases unknown wine styles, that had them cruising the internet between tasting tables.
  It was a classic and humbling demonstration of the more you learn about wine, the less you know.
  It’s clear the Europeans respe
  
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• Dan Fumano: On Vancouver visit, federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh talks pipelines and drugs

  10-03-2018 02:56 via vancouversun.com
  Despite being drenched on an inclement west coast evening, Jagmeet Singh adeptly avoided complaining about the Vancouver rain.
  “It’s warmer than Toronto right now, so I’ll take that any day,” said Singh, the leader of the federal New Democrats. “A bit of rain, it’s all good. That’s why it’s so green out here.”
  It’s green out here in more ways than one. The NDP leader has been hearing all week from British Columbians, he said,
  
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• 'Riverdale' gets academic conference at University of the Fraser Valley

  10-03-2018 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  Riverdale has accomplished a lot in its first two seasons. 
  The teen drama from CW and Netflix has reintroduced the popular Archie Comics characters to a new generation of fans. It’s made stars of many of its cast members, including Cole Sprouse as Jughead and Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper. 
  And now it’s inspired its first academic conference. Riverdale: A Land of Contrasts, takes place this weekend at the University of the Fraser Valley, just a few kilometres from where th
  
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• Brian Minter: Potatoes a popular, nutritious and tasty food crop

  10-03-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  If you are considering doing a little food gardening this year, you may want to add the humble potato to your list.
  Potatoes are the world’s fourth largest food staple after wheat, corn and rice, and they’re grown commercially in 125 countries.
  China is the world’s largest producer, and it’s estimated that the average global citizen eats about 33 kg of potatoes each year. Top consumers are Germans at over 90 kg per person annually.
  Potatoes offer great return on your
  
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• Alberta can punish B.C. with oil restrictions, but Canada would be collateral damage

  10-03-2018 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  Alberta might want to punish British Columbia by threatening to restrict oil and gas shipments to the province, but the rest of Canada would suffer collateral damage, according to one legal opinion.
  Premier Rachel Notley, on Thursday, raised the spectre of curbing its oil and gas shipments to defend Alberta’s interests over B.C.’s obstruction of Kinder Morgan’s $7.9 billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project.
  Alberta does have the power to do that, according to Universit
  
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• Surrey opens new facility that turns organics into natural gas

  10-03-2018 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  The big disposal trucks that trundle through Surrey neighbourhoods picking up organic waste each week will soon be powered by the grass clippings and food scraps that they collect.
  The 65,000 tonnes of organics that Surrey residents leave at the curb each year will be turned into renewable natural gas at the new Surrey Biofuel Facility, which officially opened in the Port Kells industrial area on Friday.
  “This latest project, I believe, shows that the City of Surrey is a leader when it com
  
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• Attn E. 29th St users! We've identified a number of options for improving safety for for all users. The City &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  Attn E. 29th St users! We've identified a number of options for improving safety for for all users. The City &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Help us reward and celebrate our youth. Know some awesome youth? Nominate them for a #YouthAward! We’ve got 6 nomin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  Help us reward and celebrate our youth. Know some awesome youth? Nominate them for a #YouthAward! We’ve got 6 nomin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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