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• Canucks fans collect autographs at player meet-and-greet

  31-03-2018 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  Fresh off a fantastic hockey season themselves, sisters Lily and Marin Carlos were thrilled to score their favourite Vancouver Canucks autographs Saturday morning at a fan appreciation event outside Rogers Arena.
  The two girls, who play for the Powell River Pit Bulls, met Henrik and Daniel Sedin, as well as almost a dozen other players, making the long trip to Vancouver worth the trouble. SharePhotos: Fans line up to meet Vancouver Canucks playersTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail
  
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• Canucks fans collect autographs at player meet-and-greet event

  31-03-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  Fresh off a fantastic hockey season themselves, sisters Lily and Marin Carlos were thrilled to score their favourite Vancouver Canucks autographs Saturday morning at a fan appreciation event outside Rogers Arena.
  The two girls, who play for the Powell River Pit Bulls, met Henrik and Daniel Sedin, as well as almost a dozen other players, making the long trip from the Sunshine Coast worth the trouble.
  Ten-year-old Lily said she was excited to see the Sedins “up close,” while Marin, 8,
  
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• Sound of Dragon highlights diversity and collaboration in Asian music

  31-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  3rd Sound of Dragon Music Festival
  When: April 5-8 
  Where: Annex Theatre and Roundhouse Community Arts Centre
  Tickets: Starting at $25/$15 for students/seniors at soundofdragon.com
  Sound of Dragon is a biennial showcase of new and traditional Asian music. In each edition, local and national musicians collaborate with international players and ensembles on a mix of Western and Eastern instruments. This year’s event features local groups Turning Point Ensemble, 21 Strings
  
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• Makeover: An updated look for a busy grandmother

  31-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rosa Raso is a busy grandmother and while visiting Vancouver, she decided to update her look.
  Rosa has very thick and naturally straight hair. She regularly colours it and recently got a perm in hopes that it would add more body to her hair. Unfortunately, the perm did not turn out as she hoped and the over-processing damaged her hair.
  I wanted to create a multi-dimensional colour effect to her colour and applied foils highlights throughout. I used a silk-infused decolorizer to lighten her hair
  
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• Gord Kurenoff: Best leader pick provided light during darkest moments

  31-03-2018 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  Those of us enrolled in this year’s Vancouver Sun Run InTraining clinics received emails a few days ago suggesting that “hill-climbing week” would be our “toughest challenge” yet.
  Yeah, not quite.
  A second mail out requesting nominations for Leader of the Year easily trumps that. C’mon man, that’s like asking a mother of five to choose her favourite kid in front of the entire family. Or only eat one Lay’s potato chip!
  My W.C. Blair Langley clinic h
  
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• Majority of B.C. residents support private healthcare when provincial waitlists are too long: poll

  31-03-2018 19:16 via vancouversun.com
  A new poll suggests that a majority of British Columbians would like the option to pay for private healthcare when the waiting list is too long under the public system.
  The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, asked respondents whether they agree or disagree that the Canadian Charter “should allow patients who have been on provincial healthcare wait lists longer than the maximum recommended waiting period for their condition to pay for private treatment.&r
  
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• Canucks meet fans Saturday morning in Vancouver

  31-03-2018 19:10 via vancouversun.com
  Several Canucks players are meeting fans outside Rogers Arena on Saturday morning in advance of a special family game.
  Fans line up to meet #Canucks players at public meet & greet #Vancouver @VancouverSun pic.twitter.com/pT4Oju69YN
  — Glenda Luymes (@glendaluymes) March 31, 2018The players are expected to be at Gate 10 from 10-10:40 a.m. to greet fans of all ages. 
  At 1 p.m. the puck drops for a “family game” against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
  No tickets are required fo
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mostly sunny with a few clouds

  31-03-2018 18:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday’s weather looks dry, with plenty of sunshine and a few clouds. It’s a lovely start to the Easter long weekend in Metro Vancouver, however Environment Canada is calling for rain again on Sunday.  There’s also a 40 per cent chance of showers on Monday, with some sunny breaks.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. High 12 C. 
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Low 5 C.
  Tomorrow: Mainly cloudy. A few showers beginning
  
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• Know a community champion in environmental sustainability? Nominate them for a #LivingCityAward.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-03-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Know a community champion in environmental sustainability? Nominate them for a #LivingCityAward.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Obituary: For Samuel Belzberg, giving to community was a responsibility

  31-03-2018 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  It was never about the name on the building. For Vancouver businessman and philanthropist Samuel Belzberg, giving back to his community was an honour and a responsibility.
  Belzberg died Friday evening in Vancouver after a massive stroke several days earlier. The 89-year-old was at work when he collapsed and was rushed to hospital.
  “He was at his desk, just like he would have wanted,” said his daughter, Wendy Belzberg.
  An Officer of the Order of Canada, Belzberg was chairman and
  
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• Muscle car lovers mull electric vehicles at Vancouver Auto Show

  31-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey resident Harm Bhullar and his young nephew Nihaal have a tradition of hitting the Vancouver International Auto Show together.  
  “I like seeing all those fast cars. Bugatti. Lamborghini,” says Nihaal, rattling off his faves like the veteran he already is, at only 11 years old.
  This year, the two of them, along with other gas-guzzling aficionados, are also spending some time thinking about electric vehicles.
  For Harm, it’s both about being practical and philosoph
  
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• Corner Gas crew is back and they're animated

  31-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Corner Gas Animated
  When: April 2, 8 p.m.
  Where: Comedy Network
  For each of its six seasons CTV’s Corner Gas was Canada’s top sitcom.
  In 2014, that success translated into a feature film. Now, four years later, there is indeed a lot going on as the franchise has once again expanded. This time the gang from Dog River, Sask., are starring in an animated version of the show.
  Vancouver’s Brent Butt returns as the show’s creator, executive producer, showrunner and the voi
  
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• All in the family at The Links

  31-03-2018 15:34 via vancouversun.com
  The Links Residences, located next door to Surrey’s Guildford Golf and Country Club, has been proving to be attractive to to families with kids. One downsizing couple has a son in Grade Six who is mad about golf, while another couple is looking to upsize because they’re tired of being “held hostage” when their two teenagers have their friends over.
  Erica Enstrom said she and her partner don’t play golf, but are moving to a 2,900-square-foot townhome that overlooks t
  
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• B.C. firms shine at national residential competition

  31-03-2018 15:28 via vancouversun.com
  Eight B.C.companies — seven from Metro Vancouver and one from the island — stepped into the spotlight at a recent national competition honouring last year’s top performances in the residential construction and renovation industry.
  Winners of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association’s 2018 National Awards for Housing Excellence were announced at a gala event during the association’s 75th national conference in Victoria on March 24.
  It included categories for new
  
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• Sold (Bought): Renovated West Van home has impressive outlooks

  31-03-2018 15:21 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  2496 Ottawa Avenue, West Vancouver
  Type: Four-bedroom, six-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,635 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $5,192,000
  Listed for: $5,998,000
  Sold for: $5,500,000
  Sold on: Dec. 7
  Days on market: 50
  Listing agent: Ray Proc at Royal LePage Sussex
  Buyers agent: Steven Tse at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: Among the selling points of this beautifully crafted home in the heart of West Vancouver’s Dundarave neighbourh
  
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• B.C. government to compensate pre-1974 Woodlands residents

  31-03-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government is offering compensation to former residents of the Woodlands provincial mental institution in New Westminster who were shut out of a previous legal settlement.
  On Saturday, Premier John Horgan announced payments of $10,000 each for patients of Woodlands who were at the facility before 1974. The former “provincial asylum for the insane” was the site of horrific physical and sexual abuse, but government payments to former patients in 2010 only cove
  
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• Dan Fumano: Online 'electoral dirty tricks' could play role in local politics

  31-03-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Greg Moore has been travelling around B.C. recently, delivering a presentation to local governments that has been met, each time, with wide eyes and concerned questions.
  Moore, the chair of Metro Vancouver and three-term Port Coquitlam mayor, has researched online interference in global elections, and was recently asked to prepare a presentation examining whether the phenomenon could eventually reach the local level. His audiences have found the results, he said, to be “quite an eye-opener
  
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• Pipeline demonstrators make their way into Burnaby RCMP detachment after man's arrest

  31-03-2018 06:52 via vancouversun.com
  The Burnaby RCMP’s battle with pipeline protesters took another turn Friday, as demonstrators made their way into the detachment’s main lobby to protest the arrest of one of their own.
  On Thursday, Harry Johnson-Larue, 31, was arrested on an outstanding warrant related to the alleged assault of a Burnaby police officer last Sunday. Johnson-Larue initially resisted arrest, police said, but was taken into custody safely.
  According to police, that incident began when a man was arrested
  
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• Gordon Gibson: 'School tax' is confiscatory wealth tax on lifetime savers

  31-03-2018 05:36 via vancouversun.com
  Traditionally, finance ministers buy new shoes before a budget. Carole James ordered army boots.
  The first boot was called the “speculation tax.” Wrong words. It is a frontal attack on private property, hitting foreigners and Canadians equally. There is so much dust in the air that the outcome is unclear at the moment.
  For sure, thousands of ordinary British Columbians will have their family, work commute, vacation or retirement plans troubled by this one. With our declining dollar a
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters for Saturday, March 31, 2018

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The NDP government says tweaks will be made to ensure B.C. citizens will not pay the “speculation tax,” leaving only non-Canadians and Canadians who reside in other provinces as the targets.
  Can Premier John Horgan explain how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to these other Canadians? The provisions look crystal clear. 
  Section 6 (2) (a) says, “Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the right to mo
  
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• Larry Green: Anarchy or liminality?

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  “You want it darker” was the title of Leonard Cohen’s last album. He died just two days before Donald Trump won the U.S. election. The title song expressed what many of us feel but won’t acknowledge: a rumbling of terror beneath “business as usual.”
  I recall my mother saying, in the months leading up to her death, “I’m doing normal things — making the bed, sweeping the floor, emptying the wastebasket — in the hope that doing those thing
  
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• Editorial: Find a better way to handle Metro pay raises

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s hard to know what is more irritating about Metro Vancouver board members giving themselves a fat raise and new “retirement allowance” — that they did it or how they did it.
  First, consider their 15 per cent raise to cover changes in the 2017 federal budget that eliminated the non-taxable status of a portion of politicians’ salaries. Must be nice to be able to jack up one’s salary when hit by an increased tax burden.
  Metro chairman Greg Moore said “w
  
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• Beau Dick's revolutionary works featured at Audain Art Museum

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit
  When: To June 11
  Where: Audain Art Museum, Whistler
  Info: audainartmuseum.comKwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick returned to making masks of Dzunukwa, the wild woman of the woods, again and again. Each iteration was slightly different.
  What they all had in common were parted red lips so she could howl her eerie ‘hu!’ sound to scare children. And then there’s the cannibal woman’s masses of unruly dark hair: she’s so hirsute, it h
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Okanagan Falls headed to be B.C.'s second sub-GI

  31-03-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  Over the three plus decades I’ve been covering wine there has been no shortage of incidents involving less than scrupulous winery marketers appropriating important regional or geographic names to take advantage of someone’s hard work to jump start their labels in the marketplace.
  Gallo Hearty “Burgundy” comes to mind, as does the word “Champagne” on countless New World wine labels, and there are many more examples.
  Recently the Chianti Consortium representing
  
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• Vancouver landmarks get 2D treatment in local video game developer's upcoming feature

  31-03-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver is the Doug Jones of cities. Like the chameleonic Shape of Water actor, who is often unrecognizable under layers of prosthetics and makeup (he played the fish creature), Vancouver appears frequently in film, television and other media, but generally as a stand-in for somewhere else.
  The city is about to get its star turn, however, thanks to a new video game being developed by EggNut, a local, independent studio founded in 2016. Their first game, Backbone, is a pixelated, two-dimensiona
  
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• Douglas Todd: How Canadian Christians view Easter in the age of Trump

  31-03-2018 03:22 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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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver vows to bring down NDP if LNG climate plan fails

  31-03-2018 03:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — From a retired MLA comes a suggestion for how B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver could use the rules to bring the legislature to a halt in protest over the NDP drive to develop liquefied natural gas.
  “It’s a long time since I’ve read my MacMinn,” he wrote me this week, referring to the “bible” on Parliamentary Practice in B.C. by retired clerk of the house George MacMinn.
  “But if memory serves, a motion that ‘this house do now adjourn
  
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• Easter eats: Sweet and savoury recipes to serve up on this hoppy holiday

  31-03-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Easter is a holiday that means many different things to many different people.
  To some, it means celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ while, to others, it represents an opportunity to stage Easter egg hunts and eat candy. 
  But, regardless of one’s denomination or predilection for bunny-shaped chocolate, the long weekend presents the perfect opportunity to connect with friends and family over food. 
  “I’ve always felt a stew that simmers for the whole day, or a
  
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• Jogger 'disappointed' after lawsuit dismissed against 10-year-old Kamloops girl on bike

  31-03-2018 02:35 via vancouversun.com
  A former Kamloops resident was disappointed, his lawyer said Friday, to learn he was unsuccessful in his attempt to sue a 10-year-old girl after he jogged into her bicycle. 
  Rosario Perilli alleged the child was riding her bike “recklessly” when she veered into his path as he tried to pass her while out for a jog on a sunny August afternoon four years ago, causing him to fall and injure his shoulder.
  But, in a judgment this week, B.C. Supreme Court Justice S. Dev Dley dismissed
  
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• Six A&W workers in Esquimalt treated for irritation after chlorine mishap

  31-03-2018 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Six people were treated for exposure to chlorine gas after cleaning chemicals were mixed improperly at an A&W restaurant on Esquimalt Road Friday afternoon.
  The Capital Regional District hazardous materials team was on scene and two men dressed in neon protective suits entered the restaurant around 2 p.m., two hours after the A&W was evacuated.
  It’s like Hurt Locker but with fast food. Hazmat team prepares to enter A&W restaurant on Esquimalt Road after chlorin
  
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• Want to perform at #CityFest 2018? You've got one week to polish up your act, final audition is April 6. More @… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-03-2018 00:30 via twitter.com
  Want to perform at #CityFest 2018? You've got one week to polish up your act, final audition is April 6. More @… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Jordan, playoff-bound Knights 'joust' about unrivalled

  31-03-2018 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the week
  The Vegas Golden Knights were bullish on several fronts this week. They not only clinched a playoff berth in their first season as an NHL expansion franchise, but they accomplished in one year what it’s taken the Toronto Maple Leafs a century to do — reach 46 wins in a single regular season.
  In fact, while the Leafs celebrated  a franchise record 46th victory Wednesday night, Vegas was already at 48 and counting. Moreover, they endeared themselves further to th
  
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• Brian Minter: Time for Vancouver's cherry blossoms to shine

  31-03-2018 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cycling is an excellent way to see the beautiful canopy of cherry blossoms.
  Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
  When: April 3-29
  Tickets and info: vcbf.caWhen it comes to planting trees, Vancouver park board deserves a great deal of credit for their long-term vision of understanding the importance of green spaces in an urban area.
  Today there are over 130,000 trees planted along residential streets and medians and in parks and commercial zones.  SharePhotos: A history of cherry blossoms
  
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