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• Our 'Got Poop' bins were so popular we've added 20 more bins around the City. #GotPoop, no problem. Bin map + more… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-04-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  Our 'Got Poop' bins were so popular we've added 20 more bins around the City. #GotPoop, no problem. Bin map + more… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• MC50 presents Kick Out the Jams — the 50th Anniversary Tour

  03-04-2018 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  MC50 presents Kick Out the Jams — the 50th Anniversary Tour
  When: Oct. 17, 8 p.m.
  Where: The Commodore
  Tickets and info: $40 at  ticketmaster.ca, Red Cat Main and Red Cat Hastings streets
  Rock ‘n’ roll revivals, regroupings and specific album outings happen all the time. Some forever, not for the better.
  But the tour that surviving MC5 guitar-shredder Wayne Kramer has lined up for the 50th anniversary of the Detroit radical rockers’ 1968 debut album, Kick Out t
  
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• Please! - I Just Want The Pictures Back! bit.ly/2H5AUuE #NorthVancouver https://t.co/HsYFeUcw0C

  03-04-2018 22:41 via twitter.com
  
  Please! - I Just Want The Pictures Back!bit.ly/2H5AUuE#NorthVancouver https://t.co/HsYFeUcw0C
  
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• Scheduled test of B.C.-wide emergency text alerts to take place May 9

  03-04-2018 21:25 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C.-wide system that allows emergency alerts to be sent as text messages goes live on Friday, while the first test alert will be sent next month.
  The national Alert Ready system will be ready on April 6, according to a news release from the B.C. government. The system allows for broadcasts of emergency information about natural disasters and major emergencies through radio and television broadcasts, social media feeds and, beginning this week, text messages to smartphones.
  “Accurate and
  
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• North Vancouver man clocked doing 161 km/h on test drive

  03-04-2018 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  A North Vancouver man looking to drop some cash on a car on Sunday was instead slapped with a hefty ticket for excessive speeding.
  West Vancouver police clocked a four-door sedan travelling 161 km/h in a 90 km/h zone along Highway 1 near 22nd Street just before 2 p.m.
  The driver was pushing the pedal to the metal while test driving a car from a North Shore dealership. He even had a salesperson riding shotgun in the passenger seat.
  Const. Jeff Palmer, a West Vancouver police spokesman,
  
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• North Vancouver man clocked doing 161 km/h on test drive - Vancouver Sun

  03-04-2018 20:55
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  North Vancouver man clocked doing 161 km/h on test drive
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  North Vancouver man received a $461 ticket for doing 161 km/h while test driving a car. wayne leidenfrost / PROVINCE. Share Adjust Comment Print. A North Vancouver man looking to drop some cash on a car on Sunday was instead slapped with a hefty ticket ...
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• 1 week to next Seniors' Gathering April 10 @NorthVanCityLib. Topic: 'Technology Made for Seniors'. Come learn about… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-04-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  1 week to next Seniors' Gathering April 10 @NorthVanCityLib. Topic: 'Technology Made for Seniors'. Come learn about… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Counting Down The Final 4 Weeks Until The Vancouver Sun Run

  03-04-2018 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  As I headed to Brittania this week, we did the math, just 4 more weeks until the big day! Things just got real! The groups flipped through the InTraining booklet to see what week 9 would bring to determine our route. The last 4 weeks leading up to the big day is when muscle memory shows you what you are really capable of!
  Admittedly, my body doesn’t feel ready but it didn’t last year at this time either! My goal of shaving off 10 minutes from last years number didn’t seem achie
  
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• Beauty Bar: NARS Highlighting Powder Collection

  03-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new collection of highlighting powders featuring the NARS exclusive Seamless Glow Technology.
  The range of pressed-powder compacts features six skin tone-matching shades: Albatross (an opalescent gold); Fort de France (a champagne hue); Capri (a pink pearl); Ibiza (a yellow gold); Maldives (a rose bronze); and St. Barths (a warm bronze).
  The collection combines “micro-spherical powders” with light-reflecting “pearls” to provide a natural glow that melts &ldq
  
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• The last straw: Vancouver restaurants and bars going strawless

  03-04-2018 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  A growing crowd of clubs, bars and restaurants in and around Vancouver have reached their last straw.
  The watering holes and eateries, in locations that stretch from the ‘burbs to downtown’s Granville Strip, are ditching disposable, plastic straws amid a broader push by policy-makers and environmental groups to cut down on the reliance of single-use plastics. Some, like the Commodore Ballroom, have barred them entirely, while others like White Spot have made them available by request
  
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• 'China's Amazon' to start selling Canadian real estate

  03-04-2018 19:18
  
  Chinese consumers can now buy Canadian homes online like shoes, thanks to a new deal between real estate portal Juwai.com and mega-shopping site JD.com
  
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• Travel style: 4 top lifestyle influencers share their packing tips

  03-04-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no secret that influencers — those beautiful, fun-loving individuals likely filling your social media feeds — always seem to be on an exotic vacation.
  While you can sit there and groan and bemoan their good fortune at being able to frolic in the sand and swim in international waters on a regular basis, we’re more apt to envy their effortless sense of travel style.
  Instead of wondering “how do they do it?” we asked four Vancouver-based lifestyle tastemaker
  
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• Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson opens up about a life with depression and mother's suicide attempt

  03-04-2018 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  Megastar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has had bouts of depression during his life.
  The 45-year-old megastar and former wrestler, who was here in Vancouver and Surrey last summer filming Skyscraper, opened up about those dark times in a recent with the Express newspaper.
  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson meets with fans in Surrey on Oct. 14., 2017.
  Johnson told the U.K. outlet that he witnessed his mother’s suicide attempt when he was just 15 years old.
  He confessed that the bo
  
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• Demand for strata office space outstrips supply in Vancouver

  03-04-2018 18:39 via vancouversun.com
  If you worked at a big company in Vancouver about 80 years ago, chances are the owners of the business owned the building, too.
  In the decades that followed, institutional investors such as real estate investment trusts, corporate landlords and other investors took a major grip on big city North American office space.
  “You saw institutional investors say, ‘why can’t we own the real estate and lease it to IBM or Nabisco or GM or whatever,’” said Ross Moore, a broker
  
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• Found property turned into North Vancouver RCMP - assorted battery operated power tools. If the rightful owner can… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-04-2018 18:38 via twitter.com
  Found property turned into North Vancouver RCMP - assorted battery operated power tools. If the rightful owner can… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 🚧 Construction alerts! Lots of projects underway, so you may need to plan an alternate route. Details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-04-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  🚧 Construction alerts! Lots of projects underway, so you may need to plan an alternate route. Details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Movie Minute: Isle of Dogs

  03-04-2018 17:02 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia film critic Dana Gee and Arts Editor Aleesha Harris take a bit out of Wes Anderson’s new stop motion movie Isle of Dogs. The film stars,  or at least their voices star, Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Greta Gerwig, Akira Takayama, F. Murray Abrahms and Tilda Swinton and Akiro Ito.
  
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• Good skin is in (again!) for spring: Chanel beauty expert talks skin-care tips, colour trends

  03-04-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spring is the season for fresh starts. From quick closet clean-outs to full-on purges, it’s the season of letting go. 
  And, according to Julie Cusson, that fresh approach is also one we can expect to adopt for the season’s best beauty looks, too.
  “The mood for spring/summer 2018 is freshness,” Cusson, a makeup artist for Chanel, says.
  According to Cusson, it alls starts with bidding adieu to the mega-watt, Insta-glam highlighting and overdone brows of recent seasons
  
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• Deadline extended to raise $1 million for Rio Theatre purchase

  03-04-2018 16:09 via vancouversun.com
  The show must go on.
  Shortly after completing a 30-hour telethon, Rio Theatre operator Corinne Lea announced she had been granted an extension on the deadline to raise $1 million to buy the beloved East Vancouver theatre.
  “Good news! We are very excited to announce we have been granted an extension from our landlord, so we have more time to raise the funds and complete all the paper work needed to buy the Rio,” she shared in a post early Tuesday morning.
  The new deadline to
  
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• Daily Poll: How should Daniel and Henrik Sedin be honoured?

  03-04-2018 15:47 via vancouversun.com
  On Monday, Daniel and Henrik Sedin announced they would be retiring at the end of their current season with the Vancouver Canucks.
  After 18 years of playing together in Vancouver, the brothers said in a letter that it was time to focus on their families and life after hockey.
  The pair will play their final three games this week. Those games include two homes against Vegas Golden Knights and Arizona Coyotes, and one away game against the Edmonton Oilers.Take Our Poll
  
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• Vancouver weather: Rain and grey skies to clear in the afternoon

  03-04-2018 15:19 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: April 3, 2018 – While Tuesday’s weather will be a bit wet, it should clear up in the afternoon before rain returns in the evening.
  But that’s not much to rejoice over – there’s rain in the rest of the schedule this week as well. Grey skies and showers are the theme of the week, as well as a slight chill.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Showers end around noon, with clouds in the evening. High of 10.
  Tonight: Cloudy with periods of rain late in the ev
  
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• Style Q & amp; A: Pamela Card Jewelry mixes tradition, timeless style

  03-04-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you haven’t already heard of Pamela Card Jewelry, it’s safe to say you’ve been missing out.
  The Vancouver-based jewelry brand offers cool-girl (or guy!) medallion accessories that merge eye-catching accessories with an antique, tied-to-the-past feel. 
  We caught up with the brand’s designer/owner — Pamela Card — to chat inspiration, design and what makes her pieces different from the rest. Here’s what she had to say. 
  Q. When and why did you
  
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• Spring fashion: Must-buy style accessories from Vancouver makers

  03-04-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Accessories are one of the funnest — not to mention fastest — ways to update your wardrobe each season.
  A great shoe can add a pop to even the simplest ensemble, while a statement handbag can be a look-at-me addition to every outfit, all season long. 
  But, while we can all undoubtedly score a number of stylish options at any national and international (not to mention online!) retailers, we’ve opted to highlight 10 fashionable finds from local makers and brands.
  From chic s
  
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• 'They have big hearts': Sedins celebrated and thanked for efforts off the ice

  03-04-2018 05:42 via vancouversun.com
  Eric Baker, a Vancouver Island youth worker, figured he probably wasn’t the only lifelong Canuck fan to reflect Monday on Henrik and Daniel Sedin’s 18 years in Vancouver, and decide the Swedish stars’ efforts away from the rink mattered even more than their brilliant play.
  Just last month, Baker led a group of 15 First Nations youth and four chaperones from Port Hardy, a remote community on Vancouver Island’s northernmost tip, to Metro Vancouver for a four-day Indigenous
  
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• Last-ditch crowdfunding effort to raise $1m for Rio Theatre nears deadline

  03-04-2018 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  With hours to go before the deadline to raise $1 million to save the Rio Theatre, operator Corinne Lea hinted at a happy ending for the beloved East Vancouver theatre. 
  Lea is expected to make an announcement about the Rio before midnight Monday at the end of a 30-hour telethon. She kept the news mum Monday afternoon, but gave a clue: “I’ll be announcing good news.”
  Lea had been raising money to buy the property to ensure that the theatre — one of the city’s la
  
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• We're lit up blue for #AutismAwareness on #WorldAutismDay. #NorthVan https://t.co/7VmcnMKAyd

  03-04-2018 05:00 via twitter.com
  
  We're lit up blue for #AutismAwareness on #WorldAutismDay. #NorthVan https://t.co/7VmcnMKAyd
  
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• Opinion: We need to ban or limit smartphone use in schools

  03-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s 8:30 a.m. and I’m standing in front of a sea of teenagers huddled at their desks, their heads uniformly turned downward, the blue light of their smartphones illuminating their faces.
  For a moment, I feel like I’m living an episode of Black Mirror, a satirical Netflix series that takes place in the near future and provides an exaggerated take on the dangers of modern technology, including smartphones and social media.
  But I’m not an actor in a sci-fi series.
  
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• Opinion: MRI plan a welcome new direction for B.C. diagnostics

  03-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. lags behind much of the country when it comes to MRI wait times, with as many as one in 10 patients waiting more than 200 days for a scan. That is why the province’s recent action to increase public MRI capacity to cut waiting times is welcome.
  An accurate diagnosis is the first step to ensure a patient receives the right care. When stuck on a waiting list, a patient’s health can suffer, often leading to higher health costs.
  The government’s MRI strategy includes runn
  
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• Rio Theatre crowdfunding campaign to raise $1m nears deadline

  03-04-2018 03:20 via vancouversun.com
  The clock is ticking to save the Rio Theatre as it nears its $1-million, crowdfunding-campaign deadline. 
  The Rio is hosting a 30-hour telethon in a last-ditch, all-out bid to raise money to ensure the beloved East Vancouver landmark — one of the city’s last independent movie theatres — isn’t torn down and replaced by potential development. 
  The telethon, which kicked off Sunday, is scheduled to go until midnight Monday. 
  “It’s been growing so m
  
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• High lumber demand, soaring prices turn down volume on Canada/U.S. softwood dispute

  03-04-2018 02:53 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s major lumber producers continue to book substantial profits on near record lumber prices almost a year after the U.S. Department of Commerce first hit Canadian producers with punishing duties.
  The benchmark price for 1,000 board-feet of top-quality western Canadian two-by-fours hit US$540 about a month ago, according to the trade publication Madison’s Lumber Reporter, compared with US$315 at the start of 2017 before U.S. interests re-ignited the ongoing trade dispu
  
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• Langley woman speaks against new Walnut Grove truck route

  03-04-2018 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  A Walnut Grove woman is appealing to TransLink’s board of directors to stop the Township of Langley’s bid to turn 216th Street into a truck route.
  Geraldine Jordan, who brought her two young daughters to last week’s board meeting, said changing the street’s designation from a minor collector to a truck route after a new overpass and interchange are built at Highway 1 will cause serious problems for nearby residents.
  “Residents in north Langley living in proximity to
  
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• Victoria nurse barred from practice over sexual misconduct

  03-04-2018 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. nurse sexually assaulted a 73-year old patient he was supposed to be treating for a foot wound and can no longer practise as a registered nurse, according to the College of Registered Nurses of B.C. which has cancelled his registration.
  The college, whose mandate is to protect the public through the regulation of 40,000 registered nurses and nurse practitioners, is now warning the public that the former nurse, Gary Dromarsky, poses a potential public risk. He is a repeat offender and
  
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• Peter McKnight: Alzheimer Cafes address dementia patients' isolation

  03-04-2018 00:47 via vancouversun.com
  For many people, a dementia diagnosis represents the end. Not the end of life, or even the end of quality of life.
  But in contrast to other diseases, where a diagnosis is typically followed by a course of treatment and a deepening relationship with health care professionals, people with dementia often avoid further contact with the health care system, including their doctors. Indeed, a recent study from the University of Oxford found that 69 per cent of dementia patients remain unknown to their
  
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• Got a great idea to bring people together in your neighbourhood? Apply now and bring your idea to life! More info… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-04-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  Got a great idea to bring people together in your neighbourhood?Apply now and bring your idea to life!More info… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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