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• Can B.C. grow LNG and meet the Greens' climate action ultimatum?

  23-03-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  A thriving liquid natural gas industry in B.C. would require a 50-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from every other sector of the economy in order to meet the province’s 2030 climate goals, according to Green party leader Andrew Weaver.
  “Emissions would have to be cut, not just by industry, but in every part of the economy,” said Weaver in a radio interview. “I do not believe that is possible.”
  LNG Canada is proposing to build a $40-billion LNG pipelin
  
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• Sense of inevitability around arrest of MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart at Kinder Morgan protest

  23-03-2018 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no surprise that B.C. MPs Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart got themselves arrested Friday at the gate of the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby on Friday.
  Indeed, it was almost inevitable. There was “almost an expectation” that the pair of pipeline opponents had to take decisive action, said Max Cameron, a UBC political scientist. “The province has provided a kind of political cover for this with its opposition.”
  May, the national Green leader, and Stewart, th
  
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• Will protest escalate in Kinder Morgan pipeline fight?

  23-03-2018 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  On Wednesday, a day that began cool and overcast, a protest slowly unfolded on Burnaby Mountain against Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
  Organized, peaceful and scripted, it resulted two hours later in the arrest of a dozen people by more than three dozen RCMP officers.
  The protesters — including a pair of retired opera singers — were arrested because they violated a B.C. Supreme Court order not to block the gates into Kinder Morgan’s ta
  
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• 🐾 Happy #NationalPuppyDay! 🐾 Big, small, fluffy or sleek - the City loves them all! See where dogs can play:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 22:41 via twitter.com
  🐾 Happy #NationalPuppyDay! 🐾 Big, small, fluffy or sleek - the City loves them all! See where dogs can play:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. police watchdog lacked training during fatal shooting probe: report

  23-03-2018 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. agency that investigates police lacked clear procedures and training for its investigators, says a former RCMP superintendent who reviewed the agency’s operations.
  Doug Kiloh said in a report that the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. did not have a disciplined structure in a case where a 48-year-old distraught man was shot by police in the parking lot of a casino in New Westminster on Nov. 8, 2012. It was just two months after the civilian investigations office was set up.
  
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• LIVE: B.C. MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart arrested at Kinder Morgan protest

  23-03-2018 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  A pair of B.C. MPs were arrested at Kinder Morgan’s tank farm in Burnaby on Friday after joining a protest in opposition to the construction of the federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May, the member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, and New Democrat member of Parliament Kennedy Stewart were arrested for allegedly violating a court-imposed protest-free zone around certain Kinder Morgan properties in Metro Vancouver.
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• Ismaili community exceeds pledged one million hours of service in just over six months

  23-03-2018 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  The Shia Ismaili Muslim community volunteered a total of 1,127,549 hours of service across Canada in just over six months.
  Volunteers from Metro Vancouver provided “a total of 193,711 service hours in the Lower Mainland alone,” according to a news release. The community provided voluntary services in partnership with the Surrey Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Club, the YWCA and Habitat for Humanity among others.
  The “one million hours” pledge is the cornerstone of the Ismai
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Tiger makes the PGA Tour must-watch TV

  23-03-2018 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It’s been another bullish week for Tiger Woods, who turned in his second consecutive top-five finish — something he hasn’t done in more than five years — and made the PGA Tour must-watch TV for the second straight Sunday. That is gold for CBS and the Masters, the first major of the year next month in Augusta, Georgia.
  Meanwhile, Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg rink are a perfect 10-and-0 going into the weekend at the Ford World Women’s Curling Cham
  
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• Province could take over Golden Ears Bridge to fund Metro Vancouver transit plan

  23-03-2018 20:59 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is seriously considering taking over ownership of the Golden Ears Bridge to relieve TransLink of its annual debt repayments and cover almost half of the regional transit funding shortfall.
  The province, TransLink and the Mayors’ Council announced on March 16 that they had come to an agreement to take care of the approximately $70-million annual regional funding gap for the second phase of the mayors’ transit and transportation plan for Metro Vancouver.
  That plan i
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week for March 17

  23-03-2018 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  2. The Last Jedi (Star Wars) — Jason Fry.
  3. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  4. Fifty Fifty — James Patterson and Candice Fox.
  5. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn.
  6. The Kremlin Conspiracy — Joel C. Rosenberg.
  7. The Escape Artist — Brad Meltzer.
  8. Burn Bright — Patricia Briggs.
  9. An American Marriage — Tayari Jones.
  10. Before We Were Yo
  
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• Town Talk: Museum of Vancouver's Haida Now exhibition fêted

  23-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  HAIDA’S TOUCH: The Museum of Vancouver’s new CEO, Mauro Vescera, got his 100-kilowatt smile to Kitsilano Point just in time to open the Haida Now exhibition that will run to June 15. Guest curated by Kwiaahwah Jones with the MOV’s Viviane Gosselin, the 450-work exhibition opened with singing and dignified conduct that pleased Haida leader and Officer of the Order of Canada Miles Richardson. Thanking organizers for the “proper ceremony,” he said: “Ceremony and
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canadians are more happy than xenophobic

  23-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Immigrating to Canada makes people happier, according to the United Nations’ 2018 World Happiness Report, which confirms Canadians are among the most tolerant and welcoming people in the world.
  The Happiness Report reveals Canada is “the fourth most accepting country for migrants.” That’s out of 117 nations for which data is available, behind only Iceland, New Zealand and, surprisingly, Rwanda. It’s basically an A+ grade for Canadians.
  Despite the media frequently r
  
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• Sea-sponge derivatives able to inhibit, attack growth of HIV in infected cells: SFU study

  23-03-2018 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  Half a dozen novel compounds derived from sea sponges are able to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in infected cells, according to a newly published study from Simon Fraser University.
  These compounds attack HIV’s ability to grow in a way that is different from available drugs, which helps identify weaknesses of the virus that could be exploited by some future therapy, said lead author Ian Tietjen.
  “The more we know about retroviruses, the better we can find ways to ki
  
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• Don't sleep in too late today! #YouthUnlimited Mobile Drop-in @ #CivicPlaza 12:30-2pm today. Snacks, boardgames, ar… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
  Don't sleep in too late today! #YouthUnlimited Mobile Drop-in @ #CivicPlaza 12:30-2pm today. Snacks, boardgames, ar… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Metro to explore hydro plants at North Vancouver dams - Vancouver Courier

  23-03-2018 19:29
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  Metro to explore hydro plants at North Vancouver dams
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  Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver could one day be rigged with a hydroelectric plant. file photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. Metro Vancouver is taking another look at whether the regional government should start using the North Shore's two dams to ...and more »
  
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• Don't just turn off the lights for #EarthHour March 24 @ 8:30pm, unplug electronics as well. Appliances, alarm cloc… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 17:01 via twitter.com
  Don't just turn off the lights for #EarthHour March 24 @ 8:30pm, unplug electronics as well. Appliances, alarm cloc… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Recycling depots want milk containers in B.C.'s deposit-return system

  23-03-2018 16:56 via vancouversun.com
  Recycling depot operators want to see milk jugs included in the province’s deposit-return system as a way to increase the number recovered for recycling.
  The move would remove milk jugs from the curbside recycling system, but add a financial incentive for consumers that would encourage people to save and return them in rural areas, according to B.C. Bottle and Recycling Depot Association.
  “People in small communities might have to drive 30 minutes each way with their plastics an
  
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• Style Q&A: Meet Vancouver-based accessories brand Mary Rich

  23-03-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’ve ever searched for a handbag that seamlessly merges fashion and function, you’ve likely noted it can feel like an impossible task. 
  Some bags can be stylish, but too cavernous, while others can boast all the functionality of a Swiss Army Knife, but look too — utilitarian.
  Thankfully, a Vancouver-based accessories brand called Mary Rich is looking to create products that provide the perfect balance between good style and usability. 
  We caught up with the brand
  
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• Sous-vide cooking technique is back in food spotlight

  23-03-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  There’s admittedly not much that’s new when it comes to cooking foods using the sous-vide style. 
  The technique, which translates in English to ‘under vacuum,’ involves placing food in a vacuum-sealed package, then cooking it in a water bath using what chefs refer to as a “very specific” temperature.
  Unlike other cooking techniques for finicky food products — meats, mostly — such as grilling and frying, sous vide basically breaks down the prop
  
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• Vancouver Aquarium gave their new octopus a GoPro – because why not?

  23-03-2018 15:34 via vancouversun.com
  Giant Pacific octopus have a lifespan of three to five years. So seeing that the young cephalopod at the Vancouver Aquarium is part of the ‘selfie generation’ then why not hand her a GoPro? Heck, give her eight.
  Aquarium staff recently let their octopus experiment with cinematography in the Treasures Of The B.C. Coast gallery.
  Give an infinite number of octopuses and infinite number of GoPros and they will produce Gone With The Wind — or at least Waterworld.
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, March 17

  23-03-2018 15:00 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. The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvie
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Showers, hail and thunderstorm all part of Friday's forecast

  23-03-2018 14:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: March 23, 2018 – The weather forecast for Metro Vancouver today is all wet — with showers beginning this morning.  In a special weather alert, Environment Canada says there is also risk of a thunderstorm later this morning and this afternoon.  It might even hail.
  So that’s fun. 
  “A cool and very unsettled airmass has settled over the south coast this morning. Widespread showers will occur today along with the possibility of thunde
  
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• Vancouver-raised Tom Rachman travels to 1950s Italy for his latest novel

  23-03-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver raised, award-winning author Tom Rachman, the author behind the best-selling 2010 novel The Imperfectionists, is back with his fourth literary offering – The Italian Teacher.
  Released March 24 the new novel tells the story of the son of a great painter who tries to get out of his larger-than-life father’s shadow and create his own story. Beginning in 1950s Rome and travelling ahead decades to London the novel is a crisp, bright read of family dynamics that is both mela
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: K-a-a-ching! Seven-figure legal bill upheld

  23-03-2018 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  A legal bill in excess of $1.4 million in a dispute reminiscent of the Thirty Years War has been upheld by the B.C. Supreme Court, even though the lawyer took annual pay hikes beyond the retainer’s range.
  In reasons for judgment a decade ago, on May 2, 2008 now-retired Justice Elizabeth Arnold-Bailey wrote that “this matter has a somewhat protracted history before the court.”
  “Nine and a half years later, that protracted history continues,” Master Robert McDiarmid s
  
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• North Vancouver bistro showcases creative flair - North Shore News

  23-03-2018 10:59
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  North Vancouver bistro showcases creative flair
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  Chef Louis Gervais sautées a pan of vegetables at his bistro on Harbourside Drive in North Vancouver. Gervais says watching his family prepare traditional Québécois meals as a child inspired him to cook. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. North ...and more »
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: 'Sweetheart' port tax deal questioned by North Vancouver - North Shore News

  23-03-2018 10:59
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  EXCLUSIVE: 'Sweetheart' port tax deal questioned by North Vancouver
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  Flanked by B.C. Liberal candidates Naomi Yamamoto and Jane Thornthwaite, and Fibreco's Henry Zea, then-B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark got up close to the pile of wood pellets at Fibreco during a campaign stop in April 2017. file photo Mike Wakefield ...and more »
  
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• New play takes Leiren-Young back to faith

  23-03-2018 05:41 via vancouversun.com
  Bar Mitzvah Boy
  When: March 23 to April 14
  Where: Pacific Theatre
  Tickets: $20-$36.50 at pacifictheatre.org or 604-731-5518The idea behind Bar Mitzvah Boy, Mark Leiren-Young’s new play, has been with the writer for years. But it’s taken decades for all the pieces to fall into place.
  “Back when I was in my teens I remember a friend of mine saying he never was truly Jewish because he had never had a proper bar mitzvah,” the 55-year-old Victoria-based playwright said. &ldquo
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Mar. 23

  23-03-2018 05:05 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Mar. 23.JUNOfest
  With the Juno awards in town this weekend, and seemingly every Canadian artist here to attend, it only makes sense that there would be performances all over on Friday and Saturday night. The shows are all part of what’s called JUNOfest, which has shows at pretty much every venue possible: The Fox Cabaret, the Biltmore, Fortune Sound Club, The Rickshaw, The Imperial, The Roxy, Celebrities
  
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• Marc Lee and Alex Hemingway: In defence of B.C.’s new 'speculation' tax

  23-03-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  Among the housing measures announced in B.C. Budget 2018, the new speculation tax has caused the most uproar.
  Some of this stems from a lack of clarity on how the tax will be applied. Details are being worked out by the Ministry of Finance and in their absence there’s been some confusion and alarm.
  The term “speculation tax” is also a misnomer. A speculation tax as conventionally understood would heavily tax the capital gains from rapidly rising property values, especially thos
  
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• Double bobble: Canucks to hand out Sedin collectibles at Rogers Arena

  23-03-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  Through their 17 seasons with the Canucks, Henrik and Daniel Sedin have been joined at the hip. Their bobbleheads can be joined at the base.
  The Vancouver Canucks are reminding fans that Sedin bobblehead nights begin next week, as the franchise celebrates the twin accomplishments of the twin superstars, who this season became the first set of brothers to each record 1,000 NHL points.
  The bobbleheads will be handed out on consecutive Tuesday nights.
  The first 8,000 fans in attendance for the Canu
  
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• Mexico, U.S. the top destinations for Canadians seeking real estate abroad: Study

  23-03-2018 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  As Vancouverites continue to fret about the impact of foreign buyers on both the local and national real estate markets, it bears mentioning that Canadians often purchase homes abroad as well.
  A new study from international real estate search portal Point 2 Homes ranks the top 30 home-buying destinations for Canadians.
  The research is based on Canadian users’ Google searches conducted from January 2017 to January 2018, using keywords regarding homes in the Americas for sale abroad. Th
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Greens duck, dodge and 'Weaver-ing' when pressed on LNG

  23-03-2018 02:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The day began with an invitation to come to the press theatre in the legislature for a technical briefing and then “join Premier John Horgan as he makes an announcement about B.C.’s climate change strategy and natural gas development.”
  Natural gas development? As in liquefied natural gas development? Surely not, given what the New Democrats used to say when Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals trumpeted the possibilities of an industry based on the expor
  
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• Vancouver man develops bizarre lump on hand after dental checkup

  23-03-2018 02:08 via vancouversun.com
  After a routine trip to the dentist, a Vancouver resident developed a deadly heart infection, as well a bizarre, bulging lump on his right hand.
  The curious case was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine by UBC doctors Bashaar K. Alibrahim and George Wharmby.
  The 27-year-old was diagnosed with endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart’s inner lining that is caused by bacteria. Just one in 30,000 people come down with the infection every year in the UK and U.S.&
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canadian Hindus struggling with Sikh activism

  23-03-2018 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  What do Canada’s more than 500,000 Hindus think about recent Sikh political activism in India and across this country?
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s problem-prone trip with Sikh MPs to the world’s most populous country, combined with revelations about federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s links to activists who want a separate Sikh homeland in India, have been front-and-centre in the news for almost two months.
  Canada’s mainstream media, as well as social media, are
  
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• Christianne Wilhelmson: Who's in charge of Vancouver’s waterfront?

  23-03-2018 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  Billionaire and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, introduced something novel seven years ago: legislation in the form of a Comprehensive Waterfront Plan to manage and protect the city’s waterfront. It was enacted based on recommendations from a network of 900 organizations that were working to create a harbour that could be vibrant and relevant to not just a few citizens, but to everyone in the city’s communities.
  It might surprise you to learn that the management of
  
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• Our community events calendar is packed with Spring Break fun & Easter events. cnv.org/CommunityEvents. Don't see y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Our community events calendar is packed with Spring Break fun & Easter events. cnv.org/CommunityEvents. Don't see y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver's waterfront stressed and in need of cooperative relief: report

  23-03-2018 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s waterfront is under stress on a lot of fronts, a new report led by the conservation group Georgia Strait Alliance has found, which will require more co-ordinated attention to help relieve it.
  The stress is from the loss of industrial land for residential use, from increasing numbers of people trying to squeeze into crowded beaches and natural spaces and the ever-present threat of rising sea levels due to climate change.
  “(Vancouver) is fantastic about talking about the gr
  
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• B.C. Premier John Horgan offers tax breaks to boost LNG industry

  23-03-2018 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan offered billions of dollars worth of tax breaks to liquefied natural gas producers Thursday in a move to entice the construction of an export facility in Kitimat.
  Environmental groups called it a reckless abandonment of the NDP’s climate promises and Green Leader Andrew Weaver said he might withdraw his support of the minority NDP government.
  Horgan said he hopes the exemptions, which forgo up to $6 billion in potential government revenue over 40 years,
  
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• Daphne Bramham: B.C. landlords' systemic invasion of renters' privacy has to stop

  23-03-2018 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  There’s nothing high-tech about it and, certainly, no need for Cambridge Analytica. With near-zero vacancy rates in Vancouver and other cities around B.C., landlords are routinely asking for and getting more personal information than they have a legal right to.
  Some applicants have been asked whether they might get pregnant within the next year. Others are required to complete behavioural questionnaires, submit to credit checks, or provide three months’ worth of bank statements, acco
  
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• Streets reopened after 'suspicious occurrence' near Surrey Tax Centre

  23-03-2018 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey’s 134 Street  has reopened to traffic after a “suspicious occurrence” at the Canada Revenue Agency building.
  According to a news release, Surrey RCMP were called to the CRA complex in the 9700 block of King George Boulevard after a threat to an employee at approximately 10:15 a.m. Thursday morning.
  A search of the area turned up a suspicious package in the parking garage. Concerned about a potential explosive device or chemical agent, police quickly taped off the ar
  
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• Industry welcomes B.C. LNG tax breaks, awaits key decision from Ottawa

  23-03-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  Industry representatives welcomed tax breaks for liquefied natural gas projects announced Thursday by the B.C. NDP government, calling the new measures a major step forward.
  And now, LNG proponents say they’ll await one more decision from Ottawa they say is crucial for the viability of a major project in Canada.
  Premier John Horgan unveiled a series of tax breaks foregoing up to $6 billion in potential revenue to taxpayers, based on government projections, a move intended to
  
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• North Vancouver students seek rainbow crossing - North Shore News

  23-03-2018 00:01
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  North Vancouver students seek rainbow crossing
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  Chloe Talman, Nicole Milton, Parker Gilson, Reese Findler and Arlo Pritchard, members of Seycove's Gender and Sexuality Alliance Club, are hoping to add a rainbow crosswalk at their school. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. A group of Seycove ...
  
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