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• Trudeau to exonerate Chilcotin's Tsilhqot’in warriors hanged in the 1860s

  24-03-2018 22:50 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to formally exonerate six Tsilhqot’in chiefs more than 150 years after they were hanged by B.C.’s colonial government following a deadly confrontation with a crew of white road builders.
  On Monday, Trudeau will absolve the Tsilhqot’in of guilt “in any way, shape or form” for the killing of 14 construction workers in 1864, said Chief Joe Alphonse in a video posted on the Tsilhqot’in National Government’s Facebook
  
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• Hundreds attend March for Our Lives rally in Vancouver

  24-03-2018 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  Several hundred people chanted “We want change!” as they marched past the United States consulate in Vancouver on Saturday morning to demand better gun control laws south of the border.
  The March for Our Lives event, which began with speeches at Jack Poole Plaza, was one of hundreds of similar marches across Canada and the United States over the weekend.
  March for Our Lives rally in #Vancouver @VancouverSun pic.twitter.com/kOxmuraM03
  — Glenda Luymes (@glendaluymes) March 2
  
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• Metro Vancouver refugees, kids hurt by federal summer grant change

  24-03-2018 22:18 via vancouversun.com
  For the past 12 years, the Living Hope Christian Fellowship church in Surrey has been receiving federal summer grants to hire two students to run a week-long camp and a drop-in centre for youths in the Whalley neighbourhood.
  But the programs are in jeopardy this year because funding from the Canada Summer Jobs program has been denied to any applicant, like the Living Hope church, that refuses to agree to a statement that in effect states support for abortion.
  The federal government has faced str
  
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• 'Black eye' on the birthplace of B.C.: Dispute divides Fort Langley

  24-03-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  On a postcard-perfect street lined with cafés and shops, a boarded-up storefront is bound to attract attention. In historic Fort Langley, six of them have become the talk of the town.
  Earlier this year, as the Township of Langley announced ambitious plans to develop several city-owned lots near the Fort Langley waterfront, developer Eric Woodward was in the process of withdrawing three development applications for projects along Glover Road, the village’s main street.
  In Februa
  
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• How the 2018 Juno judging process works

  24-03-2018 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Here’s a handy flow chart from the people who run the Juno Awards, explaining how the awards get handed out.
  To start with, there’s the question of becoming a judge or an academy delegate.
  To become a judge, you must be a “qualified music professional or artist.” (More info on the junosubmissions.ca website.)
  Ten judges are selected for all 34 categories; that’s 340 judges in al. You can’t judge the same category two years in a row.
  Academy delegates are
  
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• Lots of activity, lots of progress. Big changes over the last few weeks at #FootofLonsdale. More:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-03-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Lots of activity, lots of progress. Big changes over the last few weeks at #FootofLonsdale. More:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Makeover: A beautiful and timeless bridal look

  24-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  A few weeks ago, I demonstrated how to create a soft and natural day look using Glo Minerals makeup. This week, I’m showing how to enhance that simple day makeup into a beautiful and timeless bridal look by simply adding eyeliner and strip lashes.
  Step 1
  The first step for creating a beautiful bridal look is to create a natural day makeup with bronzed eyeshadow (as demonstrated in my Feb. 25 column)
  Step 2
  To transition your day makeup into a beautiful bridal look, you’ll want to sta
  
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• Five reasons to check out Spring Release Carnivale

  24-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spring Release Carnivale
  When: March 29 at 9 p.m.
  Where: XYYVR Club (1216 Bute St.)
  Tickets: $25 at eventbrite.ca
  1. Ndidi Cascade. The Vancouver songwriter/hip-hop vocalist has shared stages with such luminaries as Femi Kuti, Digable Planets, De La Soul, K-OS and K’naan. She is among the artists showcased at Spring Release Carnivale, a one-night-only event from a new group calling itself Artistic Revellers Tribe (ART). In addition to a number of local artists, the event features a silent
  
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• Hundreds expected at March for Our Lives rally in Vancouver

  24-03-2018 18:03 via vancouversun.com
  Several hundred people are expected at a March for Our Lives event in Vancouver Saturday morning to rally against gun violence in the United States.
  The march, which begins at Jack Poole Plaza at 10 a.m., is one of hundreds of similar marches happening across the United States and around the world. Survivors of the deadly shooting at a Parkland high school planned to lead thousands of students, teachers, parents and concerned citizens in a rally in the U.S. capital.
  The Vancouver event will focu
  
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• Join us, we’re switching things off at City Hall, Civic Works Yard facilities + City Library tonight at 8:30pm for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-03-2018 17:01 via twitter.com
  Join us, we’re switching things off at City Hall, Civic Works Yard facilities + City Library tonight at 8:30pm for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Moodyville houses get new life as recycled homes

  24-03-2018 17:00
  
  Three detached homes are destined for very different communities, one as far away as Washington, D.C.
  
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• Review: Political thriller Butcher tests limits of live theatre

  24-03-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Butcher
  When: Until March 31
  Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre
  Tickets: From $22 at thecultch.com
  Nicolas Billon’s Butcher is a mystery thriller with unusual political resonance, given some of the revelations of recent days. It may also be a better fit for the screen than the stage.
  After the London spy poisoning and the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal, Billon’s subversively clever 2014 play about the long arm of extra-judicial payback and political interference has a contempor
  
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• 2018 Juno Awards: Five songs we want to hear at Barenaked Ladies Canadian Music Hall of Fame induction

  24-03-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Who says good things don’t come from Scarborough? In 1988, Barenaked Ladies formed in the Ontario borough and in three years’ time had become Canada’s darlings. The band’s 1991 indie cassette went platinum in Canada with over 100,000 sales.
  It was the first indie tape to ever do so. You can ask your grandparents about what a cassette is.
  Over the years, the band would hit Diamond status — that’s 1,000,000 in sales — with its Sire Records debut Gordo
  
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• Dozens of North Vancouver tenants plead with council to save rental building - CBC.ca

  24-03-2018 15:06
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  Dozens of North Vancouver tenants plead with council to save rental building
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  Mosaic Homes wants to build more than 400 rental and strata units in North Vancouver. (District of North Vancouver). North Vancouver mother of four Kelly Bond sat next to her son in front of the district's mayor and council earlier this week and made a ...
  
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• On-site amenities a big draw at Fraser Commons

  24-03-2018 14:31 via vancouversun.com
  Serracan Properties founder Gino Nonni has been in the real estate business for 35 years and his company’s work spans nearly every type, whether mixed-use, commercial or residential. Serracan’s latest venture is Fraser Commons, a residential development in south Vancouver, the first under the company’s new Serracan City Living brand.
  “The single most important thing we’ve done over the years has been to really listen to the community and our customers about the thin
  
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• A celebration of excellence

  24-03-2018 14:19 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey custom homebuilder and renovator has topped the list by winning a total of five Georgie Awards at the recent annual gala honouring excellence in B.C.’s residential construction and renovation industry.
  More than 20 staff members — almost half of the entire workforce from My House Design/Build/Team Ltd. — led by company head Graeme Hueget, excitedly crowded on to the stage at the gala dinner of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of British Columbia to accept,
  
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• Huge Lynn Valley home has a long list of custom finishings

  24-03-2018 14:12 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1117 Dyck Road, North Vancouver
  Type: Six-bedroom, six-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,881 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $3,021,000
  Listed for: $2,999,000
  Sold for: $2,654,762
  Sold on: Dec. 21
  Days on market: 129
  Listing agent: Haneef Virani at Virani Real Estate Advisors
  Buyers agent: Julie Miller at Royal LePage Sussex
  The big sell: This three-level luxury Lynn Valley home was designed and built last year in collaboration with archi
  
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• This Week in History: 1923: The first 'super-picture' filmed in B.C. hits town

  24-03-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. film business has exploded, contributing a record $2.9 billion to the provincial economy last year.
  The current boom started in the 1980s, when American producers starting filming TV series like MacGyver, Wiseguy and 21 Jump Street in Vancouver.
  But the roots of the B.C. film business go back much further, to the 1920s. According to the reelingback.com website run by former Province movie critic Michael Walsh, the first major production filmed in B.C. was The Conflict, starring Priscill
  
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• The Home Front: Getting in the mood for patio dining

  24-03-2018 13:42 via vancouversun.com
  As we move into spring and the days get longer and warmer, our thoughts slowly turn to outdoor entertaining. Although we may be a few weeks away from dining on the patio, it’s not too early to start thinking of assessing and refreshing that outdoor décor.
  The season sees the continually popular soft, muted pastel shades of pink, green and blue carried forward in table linens, napkins, throws, pillows and the like, offset by bright, bold spring florals. Mix-and-match eclecticism is t
  
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• St. Paul’s Hospital music therapy relieves pain for palliative patients

  24-03-2018 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lying on his back in a hospital bed, George Frederick closed his eyes to listen. On the violin, Lucy Thomas played Amazing Grace.
  At one point, obviously moved, Frederick brushed away tears from both eyes.
  “What comes up for you, George, when you listen to Amazing Grace?” asked Thomas, a music therapist.
  “I think of my lady, Marion.”
  Later, after listening to the same song a second time, Frederick, 91, said it made him feel guilty for not loving his wife as much as he fel
  
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• Granville Island tour buses face new fees, rules to protect 'people place ambience'

  24-03-2018 07:16 via vancouversun.com
  A new policy that bans parking for tour buses on Granville Island and charges companies up to $500 per bus to drop off and pick up passengers has got the companies hotter than a non-air conditioned coach on a steamy summer’s day.
  The popular tourist destination says it’s got to do something to ease the glut of the oversized diesel vehicles on the tiny island.
  But bus companies complain the new rule has been rushed into without their input, is ill-conceived and costly, and will end up
  
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• Man with gang ties gets 12-year jail term for attempted murder: Police

  24-03-2018 06:17 via vancouversun.com
  A man with gang affiliations who was convicted of attempted murder in a 2015 shooting at Richmond’s Dover Park has been sentenced to 12 years in jail.
  Sahand Askari is also a suspect in the 2015 shooting, but gang police say he has likely left the country.
  The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. said Thomas Duong was found guilty of the attempted murder of Matin Pouyan on Aug. 21, 2015.
  The CFSEU investigation into a group of “well-known gang associates” also led t
  
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• Editorial: Uncertainty clouds child-care subsidy program

  24-03-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  Parents looking forward to a reduction in child-care costs under a subsidy program introduced by the NDP government in the B.C. budget in February may be disappointed. Many child-care providers plan to delay opting into the program — or not opting in at all — arguing that they’re uncertain about how the program will affect their business and that the deadline of March 27 to sign up for an April 1 start is too tight.  
  The way the program is supposed to work is that th
  
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• Letters: Ice-rink safety calls for more inspections, modern refrigeration

  24-03-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Deadly ammonia leak has experts scrutinizing inspections at ice rinks, March 19.
  While the investigation by the RCMP and WorkSafe B.C. continues into the tragic accident at the Fernie arena’s ammonia refrigeration system last October that took the lives of three workers, this article points out that annual inspections of such systems were eliminated in 2003 by the former B.C. Liberal government as part of its “red-tape reduction” strategy.
  At a minimum, irrespective of the
  
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• John Horan: The Vancouver Blazers have found a new home…. on eBay!

  24-03-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  While Vancouver has long established itself as a hockey city, one memory of the city’s pro hockey history seems only to be found these days on eBay. The auction site has ample listings of memorabilia of the Vancouver Blazers, the short-lived team of the World Hockey Association from 1973-1975. Though only lasting two seasons in Vancouver, the Blazers’ story is an interesting tale of hockey history and raises the question of what would have happened if they had been successful in poac
  
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• Brad McCannell: A barrier to people with disabilities is a barrier to making a profit

  24-03-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  A recent research report from the Conference Board of Canada has made a powerful business case for improving accessibility in the built environment. People with disabilities already represent 14 per cent of consumer spending, or $164 billion annually. By 2030, real spending by this group is anticipated to grow to 21 per cent of the total consumer market, or $316 billion annually.
  At the same time, there is a lack of meaningful access in Canadian workplaces resulting in chronic unemployment in th
  
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• Earth Hour participation in B.C. on the decline: Report

  24-03-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  Do British Columbians still care about Earth Hour?
  A new report released Friday by B.C. Hydro has found that participation in the annual energy-saving event has been on the decline in the province for years.
  British Columbians reduced their electricity use during Earth Hour by just 0.3 per cent in 2017, 15 per cent less than they did in 2008.
  And yet, seven in 10 British Columbians say they plan to participate this year. But what people say and what they do are two very different things. Af
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: No more Canada after April 1, no fooling

  24-03-2018 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  Regular readers of this space will have read several columns over the last thirty years lamenting the use of the word Canada on wine bottles containing foreign juice.
  My discontent was always about the wording and the positioning of these wines in wine stores. Labelling them as “Cellared in Canada” (CiC), allowed them to bask unfairly in the growing interest in Canadian wine and, more often than not, they were allowed to reside in the Canadian section of wine shops — or, at wor
  
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• Hollywood North: The Good Doctor in great health after first season

  24-03-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  The Good Doctor
  Where: ABC, CTV
  When: March 26, 10 p.m.It seems for a lot of TV viewers (around 10 million of them) The Good Doctor has been an antidote to today’s cynical world.
  The Vancouver-shot show focuses on a young doctor (Freddie Highmore) with autism and savant syndrome. Dr. Shaun Murphy is a nice guy, with great instincts and a big heart. You want him to succeed, in fact lives depend on him succeeding.
  Freddie Highmore plays Dr. Shaun Murphy in the hit ABC drama The Good doc
  
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• Harrison Mooney: The Sedins can't play here anymore. Put them in charge

  24-03-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  Daniel and Henrik Sedin have kept mum all year about their future plans.
  Asked at the beginning of the year if this was to be their farewell tour, they balked, no doubt virulently opposed to having an entire Canucks season revolve around their imminent departures.
  Derek Jeter(s), they are not. So it stands to reason that, if they intend for this year to be their last, we won’t know about it until the final moments, as the twins will close out their Hall of Fame NHL careers with the same cl
  
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• Community planting event at #HeywoodPark SAT 9am-noon. Help #CityParkStewards plant native species. All welcome, no… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-03-2018 00:30 via twitter.com
  Community planting event at #HeywoodPark SAT 9am-noon. Help #CityParkStewards plant native species. All welcome, no… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Public consultation coming on Metro Vancouver transit plan

  24-03-2018 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  In just over a month, members of the public will have the opportunity to give their feedback on a major transit and transportation plan for Metro Vancouver.
  Funding was recently finalized for the second phase of the 10-Year Vision for Metro Vancouver Transportation, which will see the construction of projects such as a Broadway subway line in Vancouver and at-grade light rail in Surrey, the purchase of more SkyTrain cars and station upgrades, bus and HandyDART expansion and road, pedestrian and
  
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• Super-cool Deep Cove waterfront home listed for $6.28M (PHOTOS)

  24-03-2018 00:20
  
  Retro-meets-modern six-bedroom house built in early 70s is second-priciest new North Van home listing of last week
  
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• Dan Fumano: Why did right-wing candidate 'abandon' NPA? No clear answers

  24-03-2018 00:17 via vancouversun.com
  What’s Wai Young up to?
  It’s hard to say. As the former Conservative MP prepares a Vancouver mayoral run this year, she appears to be accepting supporters’ donations, but not journalists’ questions.
  Senior officials in the Non-Partisan Association, Vancouver’s traditionally right-leaning civic party, have said they’re also not sure about Young’s plans, but acknowledged it won’t help their party’s chances of winning back city hall if she runs
  
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