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• Lone male driver on St. George’s & 18 Street had an alleged seizure and struck two parked vehicles. Attended to by… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 23:52 via twitter.com
  Lone male driver on St. George’s & 18 Street had an alleged seizure and struck two parked vehicles. Attended to by… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• District Hall will be closed this Friday, March 30 and next Monday, April 2nd for the Easter statutory holiday. We'… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 23:28 via twitter.com
  District Hall will be closed this Friday, March 30 and next Monday, April 2nd for the Easter statutory holiday. We'… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Another generous donation of clothes and food by the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment staff to our local community m… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
  Another generous donation of clothes and food by the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment staff to our local community m… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver's 'co-working' office space market 'feels like an arms race'

  28-03-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  Spaces, the co-working arm of Regus, has completed deals to add three large communal office spaces to Vancouver.
  The company is setting up locations in Gastown, Granville Street and Mt. Pleasant, adding 145,000 square feet of new co-working space to the market, the company announced on March 20.
  Spaces will open its first location in Gastown this summer in a five-storey, 35,000-square-foot building at 151 West Hastings Street.
  On Granville Street, Spaces has signed a lease for 70,000 sq. ft. in
  
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• The scaffolding and large tarp at the #FootofLonsdale have been removed, revealing the water feature underneath. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  The scaffolding and large tarp at the #FootofLonsdale have been removed, revealing the water feature underneath. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Liberal MLA Dan Davies injured in Fort St. John worksite accident

  28-03-2018 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  Liberal MLA Dan Davies has been injured in an accident at a concrete plant in Fort St. John.
  A statement by B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson issued Wednesday confirmed Davies had been injured a day earlier.
  “On March 27, Peace River North MLA Dan Davies was injured in an accident and was transported to Vancouver by air ambulance for definitive medical care at Vancouver General Hospital,” he said.
  “Dan and his family appreciate the hard work of first responders and medical s
  
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• Vancouver boy, who police say was abducted, found safe in Arizona

  28-03-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  A nine-year-old Vancouver boy, who police believe was abducted by his mother, has been found safe in Arizona.
  Emerson Cusworth’s father called police on March 9 after he went to pick up his son at school under the terms of his court-ordered parenting time, but Emerson was not there. 
  Vancouver police alleged the boy’s mother, Shawana Chaudhary, took her own son in contravention of the court custody order.
  Police said there were signs Chaudhary “made plans to be away f
  
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• Hockey player ordered to pay $34K to young man he punched unconscious in Delta

  28-03-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  A professional hockey player has been ordered to pay more than $34,000 to a young man he punched unconscious at a party in Tsawwassen last summer.
  Ryan Olsen, who was drafted by the National Hockey League’s Winnipeg Jets hockey team but now plays for the ECHL’s Colorado Eagles, was at a birthday party on July 16, 2017 when he punched 19-year-old college student Liam Griffin, leaving him unconscious, according to provincial court documents.
  The documents say that when Griffin left the
  
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• Vast Surrey villa re-listed for $28.8M, 10 times assessed value (PHOTOS)

  28-03-2018 21:29
  
  Surrey home’s previous record asking price hit headlines last year – and is now listed again at even higher number
  
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• Vancouver city council to deliver formal apology to Chinese community

  28-03-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  City officials will deliver a formal apology next month for the historic discrimination of Vancouver’s Chinese community.
  The apology will be read in both English and Chinese during a special council meeting hosted in Chinatown during Chinatown Culture Day on April 22.
  “This is an important day for council to come together in recognition of the historic discrimination that took place against Chinese residents,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson in a news release announcing the apolog
  
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• Have you given your feedback on proposed safety upgrades for E.29th St yet? If not, hurry! Survey closes April 3.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Have you given your feedback on proposed safety upgrades for E.29th St yet?If not, hurry! Survey closes April 3.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Former U.S. president Clinton will bring book tour to Vancouver

  28-03-2018 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will stop in Vancouver as part of a tour promoting his forthcoming novel, The President is Missing. 
  Bill Clinton and James Patterson have co-authored The President is Missing.
  A Conversation with President Clinton, featuring the 42nd President of the United States and the novel’s co-writer James Patterson, takes place June 29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  Patterson is a best-selling author whose works include Along Came a S
  
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• Coquitlam RCMP warn about parking lot fraud

  28-03-2018 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  If you hit someone in a parking lot with your car and that person asks for cash, call police.
  That’s the warning Wednesday from Coquitlam Mounties, who say they have had at least three instances of parking lot fraud in Coquitlam since December.
  Coquitlam RCMP Corp. Michael McLaughlin says the suspects are on foot and they will wait until a car is backing out of spot.
  Then the person pretends to get hit by the car and convinces the driver to pay cash — usually $100 or $200– inst
  
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• Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson repeats call for drug decriminalization

  28-03-2018 20:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the current approach to the national opioid crisis is not working and he believes decriminalizing illicit drugs would be a “lifesaving shift” in stemming the tide of opioid deaths in Canada.
  Grim figures released Tuesday by Public Health Agency of Canada indicated an estimated 4,000 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2017.
  That’s a 30 per cent jump over 2016 numbers.
  In a statement Wednesday, Robertson, whose own city acco
  
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• 12 cool concerts at the 2018 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

  28-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Twelve concerts are announced for Performance Works and the Imperial Series at the 2018 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Typically the edgier, younger emerging artists’ series, these are the shows for those who want deeper grooves, wilder solos or just plain music that defies categories.
  We have expanded on a few of the performances that would fall into the “do your best not to miss this” list when you are planning your jazz festival.
  Tickets are on sale at coastaljazz
  
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• Vision Vancouver seeks expressions of interest for mayoral candidate

  28-03-2018 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  Vision Vancouver will open nominations next week for city council, school board, and park board, but not for the top job.
  The party, which has dominated local politics for a decade, now finds itself at a crossroads, with some of its most high-profile politicians announcing they will not seek re-election this year, including three-term Mayor Gregor Robertson.
  Vision says although it will hold open nominations for other positions, it is not formally opening a mayoral nomination process at thi
  
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• The latest #LookThinkGo video reminds us the express lane doesn't exist just because you're 'in a hurry'. Always yi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The latest #LookThinkGo video reminds us the express lane doesn't exist just because you're 'in a hurry'. Always yi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with Metro Vancouver's board receiving a retirement allowance?

  28-03-2018 16:37 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s board of directors has voted to give its members a retirement allowance and a pay adjustment, in a move that has drawn criticism from advocates for lower taxes. The directors will receive the retirement allowance as a one-time payment when they cease to be an elected official in any Metro Vancouver member jurisdiction, which going forward will be about $1,500 per year of service. 
  For all the details, read Jennifer Saltman’s story here.
  What do you th
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy with some sunshine

  28-03-2018 15:11 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Wednesday’s weather in Metro Vancouver is expected to be mainly cloudy with some sunny breaks. Environment Canada says the rain will return tonight and will likely continue on Thursday and Friday. The temperature for the rest of spring break looks cool, with highs of 10 C on Wednesday, 9 C on Thursday, and 12 C on Friday. Looking ahead to the Easter long weekend, the sun is expected to make an appearance on Friday and Saturday, but the agency is forecasting a 60 per
  
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• Pacific Theatre announces 2018-19 Season

  28-03-2018 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  Since 1984, Pacific Theatre has been one of the most active mid-size professional companies in the Vancouver arts scene. One of the few to produce a full season at its own space, the company is known for presenting new, engaging and intimate theatre in its 128-seat alley-style theatre.
  Amid rumours of it going the way of most art spaces in this city, I am assured that the current location at 12th and Hemlock is secure for now. And that’s a good thing as the 35th season looks exciting.
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• VPD goes green, adds 20 electric vehicles to fleet

  28-03-2018 07:03 via vancouversun.com
  The VPD’s new fleet of electric vehicles is facing charges.
  In a news release Tuesday, the Vancouver Police Department announced the addition of 20 pure electric Ford Focus hatchbacks to its fleet.
  The electric cars, powered by a 33.5 kilowatt hour lithium-ion battery that takes five and a half hours to achieve an 80 percent charge, will replace 20 gas-powered vehicles, as the VPD makes moves to be as green as they are blue.
  “We work with the City of Vancouver to look for practi
  
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• Penticton teens build epic fort, get eviction notice

  28-03-2018 06:22 via vancouversun.com
  Every kid’s dream is to create the ultimate fort — a fort so good, you could practically live there.
  Last spring, 14-year-old Travis Britton and his friend did it. Over the 2017 spring break, the Penticton teenagers spent weeks building themselves a truly impressive fort of tarps, rope, and random pieces of wood they found. They erected the 30-square-foot hideaway, which included a cool rock path leading to a sign that read “Fort” — in the woods behind an undev
  
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• Richmond woman's petition calls for end of birth tourism in Canada

  28-03-2018 05:55 via vancouversun.com
  A petition by a group of Metro Vancouver residents is demanding Ottawa crack down on birth tourism in Canada. 
  Richmond resident Kerry Starchuk started the electronic petition. She has been campaigning on this issue for the last two years since discovering a neighbouring house was a so-called “birth house,” which caters to pregnant women who come to Canada to give birth so their child is automatically granted Canadian citizenship. 
  “It’s wrong. It’s j
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, Mar. 28

  28-03-2018 05:51 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, Mar. 28.Beth Ditto
  Formerly the lead singer of indie rock band Gossip, Beth Ditto took her absolutely gigantic voice and went solo in 2016. The self-described “fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas” released her debut solo album, Fake Sugar, in 2017, and it’s great, because of course it is. Beth Ditto is great. Fake Sugar is a bit more rootsy than her work with Gossip, but honestly, the genr
  
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• Michael Zwaagstra: Reading comprehension depends on content knowledge

  28-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Walk into an elementary-school classroom and you’ll probably see a lot of books on the shelf. Take a closer look and you’ll often find a coloured dot, a number or a letter on each book’s spine. Those dots, numbers and letters show the reading level of each book.
  Books are assigned levels so students choose books that will challenge them without being too difficult. Instead of having the entire class read the same book, students pick books from their designated reading levels. L
  
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• Layoffs at CKNW radio, newsroom to move to Burnaby

  28-03-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  CKNW, Vancouver’s long time talk and news radio mainstay, is getting a big shuffle.
  A trio of veteran voices, Jon Hall, Jeremy Lye and Tim Dickert, were let go on Tuesday. The station’s newsroom will no longer be downtown at the station’s TD Tower studios and will be integrated into Global B.C.’s operation in Burnaby.
  The station’s talk shows will continue to be produced downtown. The studio has occupied two floors at the TD Tower in recent years; how the smaller do
  
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• B.C. dismissed capital gains tax because it wouldn't help rentals, says minister

  28-03-2018 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s finance minister considered taxing the capital gains of real estate speculators but decided it would do little to improve the tight rental market in the province’s biggest urban centres like Vancouver.
  Carole James said Tuesday that while preparing tweaks to her government’s new speculation tax this week, she did seriously consider a capital gains tax to penalize those who flip investment properties and further drive up B.C.’s real estate prices. B
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver may find it tougher than he thinks to bring down government

  28-03-2018 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Green party leader Andrew Weaver continues to say he will force an election should the New Democrats proceed with liquefied natural gas development over commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  Weaver first aired the threat at the outset of the year, then honed it last week after Premier John Horgan announced a revised tax and regulatory framework for the multi-billion dollar LNG Canada project in northwest B.C.
  Emissions-heavy LNG development is not compatible with provi
  
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• By the numbers: B.C. to fund more MRIs

  28-03-2018 02:39 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government announced Tuesday enough funding to increase the yearly total of magnetic resonance imaging scans performed in B.C. by 20 per cent.
  According to health minister Adrian Dix, over the next year, 37,000 more scans will be performed versus the past year.
  All agencies in the province will see an increase, but both the Interior and Northern Health authorities will feel the greatest positive impact.
  An MRI can help diagnose a number of medical conditions, including abnorm
  
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• Metro Vancouver board gives itself retirement allowance, pay increase

  28-03-2018 02:21 via vancouversun.com
  Seven months before an election that could see many of the region’s mayors and councillors retire from politics or lose their seats, Metro Vancouver’s board of directors has voted to give its members a retirement allowance and a pay adjustment.
  It was a move that quickly drew criticism from advocates for lower taxes.
  “This is the sort of thing that makes people furious at politicians and politics,” said Kris Sims, B.C. director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
  The r
  
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• Appeal court rejects bid by first doctor ever thrown out of B.C. Medical Services Plan

  28-03-2018 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  An infamous Vancouver doctor won’t be able to resurrect his medical career after the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed his bid to overturn permanent de-enrolment in the Medical Services Plan.
  Dr. Gustavo Carvalho has a long and checkered history of disciplinary actions by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. and even a criminal conviction. He was the first — and only — B.C. doctor to have his enrolment in the taxpayer-funded Medical Services Plan permanently cancelled by
  
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• Vancouver police officers save drowning woman in Burrard Inlet

  28-03-2018 02:08 via vancouversun.com
  Four Vancouver police officers are being hailed as heroes after they swam into the waters of Burrard Inlet to save a drowning woman.
  On Saturday, the VPD received a report just after noon of a distraught woman walking out into the waters off CRAB Park in the Downtown Eastside.
  The woman, who police say was in her 30s, was floating about 50 feet from shore when the officers arrived on scene. VPD spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette says the four officers worked as a team to bring her back
  
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• 🚧 Construction alerts! There are a number of new projects underway, so you may need to plan an alternate route. De… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  🚧 Construction alerts!There are a number of new projects underway, so you may need to plan an alternate route. De… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver landlord sexually assaulted female tenant, jailed 2 years less a day

  28-03-2018 01:55 via vancouversun.com
  A man who sexually assaulted a woman in an apartment in downtown Vancouver that he had rented to her has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail.
  Jorge Alim Vega Ramirez, 35, rented the one-bedroom apartment on West Georgia Street out to the victim, an ESL student from Japan, in February 2013.
  In the early morning hours of May 5, 2013, the victim, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, was in her bedroom after an evening out socializing and drinking.
  As she lay asleep in bed,
  
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• Here's another cool construction photo! This one shows progress with the additional southbound lane being added to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 01:19 via twitter.com
  Here's another cool construction photo! This one shows progress with the additional southbound lane being added to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dashcam video shows car going wrong way before head-on accident near Massey Tunnel

  28-03-2018 01:04 via vancouversun.com
  Dashcam footage recorded Sunday afternoon captured a Volkswagen Golf travelling down the wrong side of Highway 99 before a multi-vehicle accident that sent three people to hospital.
  The accident happened near the Massey Tunnel.
  Related
  Large crash temporarily closed Highway 99 northbound in Delta Sunday
  RCMP traffic investigators say a 26-year-old Vancouver man suffered life-threatening injuries after his southbound Volkswagen Golf collided head-on with a Toyota RAV4 in the northbound
  
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• Are SRO rooms being lost in Gastown redevelopment? It depends on who's counting

  28-03-2018 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Housing says it will replace all 80 single-room-occupancy units that will be lost when the historic Stanley and New Fountain Hotels are torn down and replaced.
  But it isn’t that simple because a 1995 city document, Change in Downtown SRO Stock 1970-1994, listed the two hotels in Gastown as having 103 of the low-rent rooms, not 80.
  The City of Vancouver can charge a developer $125,000 for each SRO room lost through a redevelopment. This means B.C. Housing and its private partner in the
  
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• City to trial revised Yaletown parking plan

  28-03-2018 00:31 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver and Yaletown businesses have found a middle ground over how to re-arrange parking in the busy downtown neighbourhood in line with recent concerns raised by the fire department.
  After discussions between the city and businesses in Yaletown, angled parking on Hamilton and Mainland Streets is going to be retained instead of parallel parking stalls on the opposite side of the streets, which was the original plan.
  Keeping angled parking over parallel parking won’t initiall
  
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• Kelowna to fine those who donate empties near depots or give cash to intersection panhandlers

  28-03-2018 00:29 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — Well-meaning people who give away bottles and cans near recycling depots are only perpetuating poverty, Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran suggests.
  Rather than donate recyclables to others to claim the refund, people should financially contribute to organizations that try to help the homeless, Basran said Monday.
  “What we’re doing (by donating bottles) is we’re enabling the status quo,” Basran said. “I would rather people donate to a social agency that
  
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• Richmond man found guilty of using axe to murder his mother

  28-03-2018 00:18 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Supreme Court jury on Tuesday found a Richmond man guilty of using an axe to murder his mother.
  After less than a day of deliberations, the jury convicted Darwin Lescano of second-degree murder in connection with the gruesome slaying of his mom, 62-year-old Redelma Belissario.
  The accused showed little reaction as he sat in the prisoner’s dock in the Vancouver courtroom following the verdict. He will remain in custody pending sentencing.
  The trial heard that there had been a turbule
  
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