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• Kids in the hall. Lots of inspired, involved, impressive youth at the #30Network Session talking youth civic engage… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-04-2018 23:29 via twitter.com
  Kids in the hall. Lots of inspired, involved, impressive youth at the #30Network Session talking youth civic engage… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 4 weeks 2 go! We're countin' down to #CityFest 2018, the largest #YouthWeek event in the Lower Mainland.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-04-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  4 weeks 2 go! We're countin' down to #CityFest 2018, the largest #YouthWeek event in the Lower Mainland.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C.'s hockey community mourns loss of fellow players in Saskatchewan bus crash

  07-04-2018 20:57 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s hockey community is mourning their fellow players who were killed in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan Friday.
  Fourteen members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team, including the coach, were killed and 14 others injured when a truck collided with a bus carrying the junior hockey team to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan.
  Among the victims was a former Surrey Eagles player from Edmonton, Jaxon Joseph. Eagles general manager Blaine Neufeld, who was Joseph’
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Thunderstorm and heavy rain

  07-04-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – A thunderstorm and heavy rain are in the weather forecast for Saturday in Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada says the region can expect up to 30 millimetres of rain and winds gusting up to 80 km/h. And it doesn’t look like the heavy rain is going to ease up over the weekend. The agency says another 10 to 15 millimetres of rain will fall overnight, and then up to 10 millimetres is expected on Sunday. Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
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• Want to have a block party, plan a neighbourhood nature walk, share craft skills, celebrate diversity or teach othe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-04-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  Want to have a block party, plan a neighbourhood nature walk, share craft skills, celebrate diversity or teach othe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hey Ocean! splashes back with Hurt of Happiness

  07-04-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hey Ocean! drifted apart in 2014. Ashleigh Ball (vocals/flute), David Beckingham (vocals/guitars) and David Vertesi (vocals/bass) had a decade together touring, recording and releasing three, full-length albums and four EPs. 
  With the exception of performing at the yearly #SingItFwd to raise awareness about the importance of youth musical education and funds for the ongoing work of the St. James Music Academy, which supports over 300 children on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the ban
  
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• Location, craftsmanship key to appeal of Edgemont Walk

  07-04-2018 15:09 via vancouversun.com
  Tarcisio Boffo founded Boffo Properties, a landscaping and construction business, more than 50 years ago and the company is now run by his children Daniel and Flavia. Although Boffo senior is officially retired, he is still involved when it comes to the landscaping of the company’s residential developments and hand picks all the plants – his lifelong passion.
  Boffo Properties’ latest project is Edgemont Walk, a collection of 24 row townhomes on the corner of Edgemont Boulevard
  
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• Sold (Bought): Coquitlam home has access to resort-style amenities

  07-04-2018 15:06 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  117 — 1150 Kensal Place, Coquitlam
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 818 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $476,000
  Listed for: $639,000
  Sold for: $620,000
  Sold on: Jan. 21
  Days on market: 11
  Listing agent: Gurv Saran at Amex Broadway West Realty
  Buyers agent: Rod Bahari at Sutton Group – West Coast Realty
  The big sell: Polygon’s Windsor Gate is a master-planned community that enjoys a park-like setti
  
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• Book review: Fear of a nuclear winter remains

  07-04-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  By Daniel Ellsberg
  Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney
  2017, $40, 420 pages
  What would you do if you were a young professional working at your dream job, and you discovered your employer was lying to the public, promoting a disastrous foreign war and steadily expanding a weapons program that threatened to destroy human life on earth? In 1971, that was the dilemma facing Daniel Ellsberg, a brilliant young ac
  
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• The Home Front: Furniture designers respond to a changing work landscape

  07-04-2018 14:38 via vancouversun.com
  Furniture makers are responding to changes in where and how people are working, says EQ3 creative director Thom Fougere, with offices increasingly being designed to feel more like home — relaxed, comfortable and open.
  “The landscape of how we work, and even what kind of work, generally, we do is changing,” says Fougere. “And I think a lot of people are seeing that change as well, so yeah, there’s a lot more working from home, and the home is kind of turning int
  
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• Opinion: If we want to keep eating fish we need to farm it — responsibly

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Salmon Farmers Association recently held community meetings in Campbell River and Nanaimo — two centres of our industry in this province. Over and over again we heard passion for the role B.C.’s salmon farms play in protecting wild salmon and helping feed a hungry world, but also frustration with the misinformation about our industry being perpetrated by a small, but loud, group of opponents.
  Here is one quote from a meeting that stood out: “I come from a long line of
  
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• Opinion: Glue traps a cruel way to control rodents

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Aneurin Bevan, a minister in the Britain’s postwar Labour government, once described his Conservative party opponents as “lower than vermin.”  It was perhaps the ultimate insult, considering that vermin are, as one dictionary puts it, “noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals collectively, especially those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control.”
  But vermin is just a label for wildlife, usually rats and mice, whose efforts to survi
  
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• Letters: Support teachers, not education bureaucracies

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Teacher unrest is never far from the political surface in B.C., and now in U.S. states as teachers walk out to get attention for social professional justice.
  I spent 35 years as an educator, largely in leadership roles as a school principal, supervisor of instruction and as a Chief Superintendent of Schools. I witnessed many of the inconsequential reform efforts usually led by bureaucrats in lonely offices in high towers in central places. External reforms to restructure, reorganize, c
  
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• Editorial: Confiscatory taxes aren't the answer to housing woes

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It turns out solving the housing-affordability crisis is more complicated than the NDP government may have thought. 
  Its inaccurately named speculation and school taxes, along with an increase in the foreign-buyers and the property transfer taxes, have generated a torrent of complaints and the government has responded with tweaks, adjustments and exemptions. 
  But the damage can’t be undone. Against a backdrop of rising interest rates, a cooling economy and more stringent mortgage
  
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• Editorial board: Uber says it's ready for B.C.

  07-04-2018 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  After a wave of highly-publicized scandals and turmoil among its leadership, Uber says it has done some soul-searching and is ready to work better with local governments including B.C., which plans to bring in ride-hailing later this year.
  Rob Khazzam, Uber Canada’s new general manager, and Michael van Hemmen, public policy manager, sat down with The Vancouver Sun’s editorial board on Friday to discuss the ride-hailing app firm’s hopes to improve transportation in B.C.
  The prov
  
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• It takes an army to turn convention centre into HQ for TED Talks 'community'

  07-04-2018 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  It takes an army to build the TED Talks community inside the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  The elaborate main theatre alone requires a crew of 225 — framers and finishing carpenters drawn from across the province — to assemble the “pop-up” structure of 8,000 Douglas-fir-timber components, a process that takes 154 hours, “give or take.”
  “It’s a pretty crazy schedule, but it seems to happen every year somehow,” said Patrick Wallain, the Vancouve
  
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• Movie Minute: Lean on Pete

  07-04-2018 02:23 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia movie critic Dana Gee and Arts Editor Aleesha Harris look at the new coming of age movie Lean on Pete. The film about a boy and horse goes well beyond that relationship and shows the struggling side of America. The film also stars Steve Buscemi and Chloë Sevigny. Be warned though this is a sad tale. 
   
  
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• Family of B.C. man shot by RCMP says independent investigator ’designed to fail’

  07-04-2018 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  The family of a B.C. man fatally shot by RCMP is asking questions about the office that investigates police-involved deaths across the province, saying its very structure makes it “designed to fail.”
  Peter de Groot was living on a homestead in southeastern B.C., when he was involved in a confrontation with RCMP in October 2014 and fled into the bush.
  The 45-year-old, described by his family as an accomplished scholar who had suffered a disabling brain aneurysm, was found in a cabin f
  
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• Metro Vancouver recommends B.C. limit house sizes on agricultural land

  07-04-2018 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver has recommended that the province restrict house sizes and residential footprints on agricultural land, in an effort to protect the region’s dwindling supply of farm land.
  The regional district has drafted a list of guiding principles and priority actions that, pending board of directors approval, will be sent to an advisory committee that is looking at how to revitalize the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) and Agricultural Land Commission (ALC). The committee is receiving f
  
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• Council is back to business Monday at 6pm. See what's on the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/n64yhfIMBA

  07-04-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  
  Council is back to business Monday at 6pm. See what's on the agenda: cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/n64yhfIMBA
  
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• Canadians urged to listen to Indigenous women's stories: 'How would they cope living a life like I’ve lived?'

  07-04-2018 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  Trudy Smith was born at sea on her father’s fishing boat 61 years ago, one of 12 children in an Indigenous family living a remote lifestyle on B.C.’s northern coast.
  But when she was six, authorities forced Smith’s parents to take her and her siblings to a residential school near Port Alberni. She can remember running after their departing truck, yelling “Mommy! Daddy!”, until a nun grabbed her roughly by the wrist and dragged her into the school. 
  “You a
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: B.C. industry crests first wine mountain

  07-04-2018 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. wine industry is going downhill fast, but it’s not what you think.
  After three decades of climbing the complex mountain of wine, local producers appear to have crested the first big hill and are beginning to gather momentum, moving at a speed few would have considered possible a decade ago. There will be many more hills ahead, but for the moment but it’s as if they are enjoying a bit of a breather riding downhill.
  The signs were sporadic at times, but they were all there. I
  
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• Court upholds securities regulator's renewal of $5-million penalty

  07-04-2018 01:05 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Supreme Court has upheld $3.9 million in penalties issued by the B.C. Securities Commission a decade ago against an Abbotsford resident for his role in a Ponzi scheme.
  With interest, the penalties now total $5.13 million.
  Daniel Eric Byer had not paid his penalties following a 2008 tribunal ruling, and the Securities Commission filed a renewed enforcement order last December to extend a 10-year deadline to collect payment.
  Byer had filed a counter claim for damages, arguing that the com
  
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• Style in the City: Tessa Lindsay Garcia

  07-04-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Tessa Lindsay Garcia
  Occupation: Founder of MACCS the Label and lifestyle blogger
  Personal style in one word: West coast 
  Get social: @tessalindsaygarcia on Instagram The dress
  A sweater dress can be a surprisingly versatile item in your wardrobe. Wear one like this Wilfred Free “Bianca” dress in the winter months with opaque black tights underneath and over-the-knee boots for a stylish, chill-ready look. Then, transition it into early spring like Tess
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of March 31

  07-04-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Accidental Heroes — Danielle Steel.
  2. The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel — Elizabeth George.
  3. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  4. The Rising Sea — Clive Cussler, Graham Brown.
  5. The Bishop’s Pawn — Steve Berry.
  6. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  7. The Woman in the Window — A J Finn.
  8. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo — Jill Twiss, with Marlon Bund
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week of March 31

  07-04-2018 01:00 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. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  4. Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge— Pat Ardley (Harbour Publishing).
  5. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion &
  
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• Have you heard? @TransLink is planning a new B-Line service to run between Dundarave and Phibbs Exchange in 2019. R… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-04-2018 00:45 via twitter.com
  Have you heard? @TransLink is planning a new B-Line service to run between Dundarave and Phibbs Exchange in 2019. R… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Sedins gave all they had for this city, and then some

  07-04-2018 00:19 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week 
  The sudden retirement of Henrik and Daniel Sedin from the Vancouver Canucks and the NHL is more than just a West Coast hockey story. It’s national, leaguewide and international when it comes to the global hockey community spanning North America and Europe.
  Just as the Edmonton Oilers’ superstar Connor McDavid is a generational talent as an individual player, the Sedins — as a pair of twin brothers collecting more than 2,000 points between them while play
  
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