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• Syrian family living a good life in Surrey

  30-03-2018 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  Fatima Sua’lfan takes after her father Bassam — she’s a communicator, she wants to understand and be understood. Like Bassam, she smiles a lot.
  “My name is pronounced Fat’ma,” she says, “but here everyone says Fateema. I don’t mind.”
  Since the Syrian family arrived in Canada in January 2016 as government-sponsored refugees, 14-year-old Fatima has become the voice of her family. She shoulders the responsibility of translating without a speck o
  
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• A colourful glimpse at Vancouver in the 1950s and '60s

  30-03-2018 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  In 1955 The Vancouver Sun became the first newspaper in Canada to have its own colour photo lab.
  “It started off initially because the Sun wanted to attract advertisers to colour, particularly Woodward’s,” said Charlie Warner, 88, who ran the lab and took most of the early colour photos.
  Alas, most of the colour shots from the ’50s and ’60s vanished somewhere along the line. But last week, we were cleaning out some old computer files and came across a motherlode of
  
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• Vancouver actress Kristin Kreuk denies she helped sex cult guru Keith Raniere recruit women

  30-03-2018 23:14 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver actress Kristin Kreuk denies she was part of the “inner circle” of the self-help group Nxivm, several days after leader Keith Raniere was arrested on sex-trafficking charges at a compound in Mexico.
  In a Twitter post on Thursday, the Smallville star said she left Nxivm five years ago and has had little contact with those still involved.
  “The accusations that I was in the ‘inner circle’ or recruited women as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false
  
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• Hop over to #HeywoodPark Saturday for the annual Easter Egg Hunt + fun activities for the kids. Details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-03-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  Hop over to #HeywoodPark Saturday for the annual Easter Egg Hunt + fun activities for the kids. Details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Town Talk: Juno participants celebrated beforehand

  30-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  ROCK ON: Among them, Bruce Allen’s firm Bruce Allen Talent, Sam Feldman’s The Feldman Agency and his and Steve Macklam’s Feldman Macklam Management handle many of Canada’s top musicbiz performers. Unsurprisingly, their joint Juno Awards party drew many such artists to Sportsbar LIVE! At Rogers Arena. Seeing Allen clients Bryan Adams and Michael Bublé together there, some likely remembered them and BTO leader Randy Bachman singing Happy Birthday at Allen’s 60t
  
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• Douglas Todd: How Canadian Christians view Easter in the era of Trump

  30-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  As Canada’s more than eight million Protestants mark the most holy time on the Christian calendar, many are appalled at what they see south of the border, where a notorious womanizer holds the nation’s highest office largely because of support from fellow Protestants.
  U.S. President Donald Trump maintains the loyalty of more than 70 per cent of white evangelical Protestants (and most mainline Protestants) despite an avalanche of allegations that he frequently engaged in sordid sex ac
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Selling sugar to kids

  30-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Does it ever seem to you that the marketing of food to kids is all about hooking them on sugar and watching the sales skyrocket; once you have them addicted, they’re a client for life.
  Indeed, that is what’s happening, and marketers are doing it intentionally. Sugar, sugar, sugar all the time and it has lifelong health effects on children.
  The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada wants the federal government to enact legislation that will put an end to the marketing of sugar ri
  
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• This Week in History: 1918 A B.C. rancher leads a heroic cavalry charge in the First World War

  30-03-2018 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  On April 1, 1918, the Vancouver World’s front page was filled with reports of savage fighting along the western front, where the Germans had launched a major offensive.
  “Fierce Cavalry Attack Clears Foe from Forest,” said a headline. “Horsemen Swoop Down Like Winter Snowstorm on Troops Concealed in Wood Near Moreuil.”
  The charge was led by a British Columbian from the interior, who died leading his men into a torrent of fire from German machine guns.
  Lt. Gordon
  
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• TransLink reviewing policies for public washrooms, pets

  30-03-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink’s board of directors will likely hear policy suggestions on the hot-button issues of public washrooms at stations and pets on transit within the next few months.
  “We’ve had requests and public comment on both issues for a long time, which is typical for transit authorities,” TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond said Thursday following a board meeting. “They’re difficult issues, they’re complicated issues, so we’re taking a very hard look at both m
  
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• Fab 5: The modern trench

  30-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Yes, trench coats have been around for over a century — though ownership of its invention is an ongoing source of contention between two British brands, Burberry and Aquascutum, with the latter’s assertion dating back to the 1850s — but this spring’s renditions are nothing if not modern.
  Deconstructed, in prints and hues ranging from pinstriped cream to pretty pastels, and in unique, non-traditional lengths, the trench coat is definitely back — and better
  
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• Update your Vancouver Sun app

  30-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  We’ve made some improvements to the way we deliver our mobile news to you. You need to update to the latest version of the app to get the optimal video experience on your phone. Look for the latest update in the Google Play Store on your device.
  
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• Reminder no Council Meeting Monday. Enjoy the Easter long weekend! Council's back April 9. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-03-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Reminder no Council Meeting Monday. Enjoy the Easter long weekend! Council's back April 9. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Green Party hired Aggregate IQ for election work; no data misuse found

  30-03-2018 17:53 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Green Party has told its supporters that their personal information was accessed by AggregateIQ, the Victoria tech company caught up in an international scandal.
  The Greens, which hired AggregateIQ to work on a new voter contact database and website in advance of the 2017 provincial election, said they have conducted a privacy review and found no evidence that the data of tens of thousands of voters was misused.
  AggregateIQ has told the party it destroyed all records containing vot
  
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• Disease linked to death of Esquimalt teen on rise in B.C.; officials don’t know why

  30-03-2018 17:44 via vancouversun.com
  An invasive disease linked to the death of a 13-year-old Esquimalt girl has been on the rise in B.C. over the past two years, and public health officials have yet to determine what’s causing a spike in cases.
  The incidence rate of invasive Group A streptococcal disease jumped to 8.4 cases per 100,000 people last year — the highest rate since reporting began two decades ago, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
  There were a total of 406 cases in 2017 and 303 in 2016.
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• Book review: The Reconciliation Manifesto — Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

  30-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Reconciliation Manifesto — Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
  By Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson
  James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Toronto
  $22.95
  What would you do, reader, if strangers arrived in your town, moved you out of your house and seized control of 99 per cent of the local wealth? What if the invaders’ next moves were to kidnap your children, rape and murder, and spread disease in a formerly healthy population?
  Indigenous residents of the Americas
  
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• Q&A: Darby Mills brings decades of rock experience to album, doco

  30-03-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Darby Mills Project
  When: April 7, 9 p.m.
  Where: Fairview Pub, 898 W. Broadway
  Tickets and info: $30, vtixonline.comOne of the most distinctive howls in Canadian hard rock history is back on the circuit again.
  After nearly four decades with various configurations of the Headpins, Darby Mills is redefining herself as a solo artist.
  With the release of The Darby Mills Project Live on True North Records, the singer is pleased to finally be the one “in the driver’s seat.” 
  
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• B.C. 15 Bestselling books of the week, March 24

  30-03-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  1. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC — Rob Shaw & Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  2. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams(Alicon Holdings Ltd.)
  3. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion – Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben(Greystone Books).
  4. Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge — Pat Ardley (Harbour Publishing
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy with some sunshine this afternoon

  30-03-2018 15:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Friday’s weather forecast is rainy, but clearing in the afternoon with some sunshine. Environment Canada says it will be windy near the water in the morning, but Metro Vancouver should reach a high of 13 C. The rest of the Easter long weekend looks like a mixed bag. The agency is predicting dry weather for Saturday, with some sunshine, but then likely more rain on Sunday.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of showers this morning, t
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week for March 24

  30-03-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Rising Sea — Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.
  2. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  3. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn.
  4. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  5. Fifty Fifty — James Patterson and Candice Fox.
  6. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate.
  7. An American Marriage — Tayari Jones.
  8. The Flight Attendant — Chris Bohjalian.
  9. The Kremlin Conspiracy — Joel C. Rosenberg.
  10. The Escape Artist &m
  
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• Reporter Gordon Hoekstra nominated for two CAJ awards

  30-03-2018 14:02 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Sun reporter Gordon Hoekstra has been named a finalist in two categories for the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, which recognizes outstanding investigative journalism.
  Hoekstra was nominated for a CAJ Data Journalism Award for his work delving into the murky world of political contributions and influence in B.C.
  Databases built from multiple sources, including Elections B.C., the province’s corporate registry and Canadian securities filings were used to show 
  
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• Douglas Todd: Here’s the next weapon in the battle for B.C. housing affordability

  30-03-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has made its first major move in the battle for housing affordability in Metro Vancouver and beyond by promising to raise the foreign-buyers tax to 20 per cent and institute a range of taxes to quell property speculation.
  Now it looks as if the B.C. NDP is preparing to take on a more thorny challenge to confront the housing crisis. It’s a tax-related problem that Liberal MLA Mike DeJong promised to address three years ago when he was finance minister, but never did. The
  
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• Surrey woman facing charges for $64,000 in alleged credit card fraud

  30-03-2018 07:36 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey woman is facing charges for allegedly defrauding three businesses in B.C. and Alberta with stolen credit cards.
  Surrey RCMP say Jennifer Moropito, 36, is facing five criminal charges related to fraudulent credit card transactions totalling more than $64,000.
  The seven-month investigation began on Aug. 8 last year when Surrey RCMP were contacted by police in Lethbridge, Alta., after two businesses there reported a resident of Surrey had made purchases using stolen credit card numbers.
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• Cancer and trauma lead causes of injury and death claims among firefighters: Study

  30-03-2018 05:40 via vancouversun.com
  Cancer is the leading cause for workplace fatality claims for Canadian firefighters, says a report from the B.C. injury and prevention unit and the University of the Fraser Valley.
  The report used injury and death data from the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada and WorkSafeBC for the years 2006 to 2015 for professional and volunteer firefighters.
  The data show that during that time cancer represented more than 86 per cent of all fatality claims, while traumati
  
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• Fabian Manning: Let's strengthen support for marine search and rescue

  30-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians have always been a seafaring people. Whether fishing for a living or merely relaxing, millions of Canadians spend time aboard boats on the country’s three oceans and countless lakes and rivers.
  As beautiful and serene as boating can be, it is also fraught with danger. On Canada’s West Coast, for example, the Maritime Search and Rescue program responded to more than 2,000 calls in 2015. Most of those — nearly 1,800 — came from pleasure-craft boaters, compared wit
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Lawyer in child-abuse case facing third strike for misconduct

  30-03-2018 03:09 via vancouversun.com
  A dad vilified in a high-profile custody case that rocked the B.C. government wants the mom’s lawyer punished and ordered to personally pay $500,000 for relying on a fraudulent expert witness.
  In submissions unsealed by the B.C. Court of Appeal after a legal challenge by Postmedia News and CKNW, the dad’s lawyer, Morgan Camley, said the mom’s lawyer, Jack Hittrich, has received such a rare rebuke twice before in unrelated cases in 2013 and 2017.
  As the judges did in those cases
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: 'Quality' NDP child care plan experiences a bumpy rash

  30-03-2018 03:03 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Making election promises is easy, governing much harder, as the New Democrats are discovering with their vow to deliver universal child care.
  The promise was simplicity itself: “We will bring in $10-a-day child care,” was near the top of the ambitious platform the NDP released before last spring’s election.
  The hedging began within weeks of them taking office in midsummer. Gone from the September budget update was the promised $175 million first instalment on t
  
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• Lawyer who said he was going to 'smash up' Surrey tow lot suspended for three weeks

  30-03-2018 02:58 via vancouversun.com
  A lawyer who said he was going to smash up a Surrey tow lot with a crowbar after his mother-in-law’s car was impounded has been suspended for three weeks for professional misconduct by the Law Society of B.C.
  In a recent decision, Thomas Harding was also ordered to pay $4,744 to cover the costs of his hearing, more than five years after the threat was made.
  On June 26, 2012, Harding, acting as his mother-in-law’s lawyer, went to the Unitow lot in Surrey to take photos of her car
  
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• TransLink board approves free trolley services in Port Moody, White Rock

  30-03-2018 02:57 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink’s board of directors has approved the operation of seasonal trolley and shuttle services in Port Moody and White Rock. It’s a move that’s delighted businesses in and around Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park, a summer hot spot that’s a destination for locals and visitors.
  “It’s a great addition to Rocky Point Park because in the last 10 years it’s been insane here,” said April Davis, manager at Rocky Point Ice Cream. “You can&rsquo
  
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• Billions in B.C. assets caught up in high-profile Chinese fraud case

  30-03-2018 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  China says the former chairman of Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group defrauded mom-and-pop retail investors of more than US$10 billion and the company used that money to buy trophy assets overseas, including prime office towers in downtown Vancouver and a major B.C. seniors’ care company.
  The allegation puts these B.C. deals, which each exceeded $1 billion, into the world of what is emerging as one of China’s biggest financial crime trials with pundits trying to parse out Beijing&r
  
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• Gordon Hoekstra nominated for two CAJ awards

  30-03-2018 02:23 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Sun reporter Gordon Hoekstra has been named a finalist in two categories for the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, which recognizes outstanding investigative journalism.
  Hoekstra was nominated for a CAJ Data Journalism Award for his work delving into the murky world of political contributions and influence in B.C.
  Databases built from multiple sources, including Elections B.C., the province’s corporate registry and Canadian securities filings were used to show 
  
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• Developers ask for exemption from B.C.'s speculation tax on development land

  30-03-2018 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s development sector is asking the B.C. government for an exemption to the new real estate speculation tax for bare land.
  Anne McMullin, CEO of the Urban Development Institute, said an unintended consequence of applying the new tax and additional school levies to bare land being stockpiled for future development is to increase the cost of new housing.
  McMullin said the UDI asked government for clarification on its concern last week, but hasn’t had a response.
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• Sex-assault victim frustrated his attacker avoids jail time

  30-03-2018 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  The victim of several sexual assaults that occurred nearly 25 years ago says he is frustrated that his attacker has managed to avoid jail time.
  The man, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, was commenting on the case after a recent decision by a three-judge panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissing the Crown’s appeal of a conditional sentence for Robert Edwin Cadman of Whistler.
  “I definitely think he should have gotten jail time, for sure,” the victim said of
  
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• Reminder: City Hall is closed Friday & Monday for Easter. We're back April 3rd at 8:30am. Lots of online services:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-03-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Reminder: City Hall is closed Friday & Monday for Easter. We're back April 3rd at 8:30am. Lots of online services:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver meatery serves up tasty dishes - North Shore News

  30-03-2018 01:05
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  North Vancouver meatery serves up tasty dishes
  North Shore News
  Burgers made with 60-day dry-aged beef are the unofficial signature dish being served up at The Shop. photo Cindy Goodman, North Shore News. Two Rivers The Shop05.JPG. The Shop at Two Rivers Specialty Meats is located at 180 Donaghy Ave. in North ...
  
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• West Vancouver police issue warning after dog becomes sick from PCP

  30-03-2018 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  Police in West Vancouver are warning dog owners to be cautious after a family dog became sick from ingesting the hallucinogenic drug PCP.
  According to a news release, a resident called police Wednesday to report that their dog became ill during a walk Sunday in forested area near Keith Road and Willow Creek Road.
  The dog collapsed and was taken for emergency veterinary treatment where blood testing revealed the drug Phencyclidine, or PCP, in the dog’s system. The pet is now recovering at h
  
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• Book review: Veteran civilian watchdog reports on the fight for non lethal policing

  30-03-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  Excessive Force: Toronto’s Fight to Reform City Policing
  Alok Mukherjee and Tim Harper | Douglas & McIntyre
  $22.95, 260 pages
  Sammy Yatim was aged 18 in 2013 when Toronto police officer James Forcillo fired eight 9 mm bullets from his Glock automatic into him, ending his life.
  Less than a minute had transpired between the arrival of officers at the corner of Dundas and Bellwoods, where Yatim’s erratic behaviour on board a #505 streetcar had alarmed other passengers. Despite the f
  
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• Worker dies from fall on North Vancouver building site - North Shore News

  30-03-2018 00:42
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  Worker dies from fall on North Vancouver building site
  North Shore News
  Work crews wait outside a 15th Street construction site Thursday morning, the day after their colleague was killed in a fall. WorkSafeBC is now investigating. photo Mike Wakefield, North Shore News. A construction worker has died in a fall at a North ...and more »
  
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• B.C. speculation tax: Royal LePage report says new real estate levies could hurt consumer confidence

  30-03-2018 00:40 via vancouversun.com
  A survey of 535 real estate professionals suggests that moves by the B.C. government to crack down on housing speculators will lead to a broader decrease in consumer confidence.
  The survey, released by real estate agency Royal LePage, found that 85 per cent of the professionals polled believe “the new tax policies have hurt consumer confidence in residential real estate across the province.”
  Additionally, 78 per cent of respondents think home sales will decrease within the next
  
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• Death of Esquimalt teen with strep infection stuns softball community

  30-03-2018 00:26 via vancouversun.com
  The death of a 13-year-old Esquimalt girl who was suffering from an invasive streptococcal infection has sent shock waves through Vancouver Island’s softball community.
  Robin Carey, who died Friday, was a rising star in the Victoria Devils Fastball Club.
  “It’s shock and disbelief,” said Robin’s coach, Luc Fournier.
  The Rockheights Middle School student was too sick to attend a softball practice on March 16, but was present at the next day’s practice, he said.
  
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