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• BC Liquor Stores raise nearly $300k for booze-free grad parties

  11-04-2018 22:38
  
  BC Liquor Stores have raised $278,158 to support the glitz, glam and fun times that are part of high school graduation.
  
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• After summer fireworks, speeding boat created night of havoc, Victoria court hears

  11-04-2018 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — It was the long weekend in August 2015. The fireworks show at Butchart Gardens had just ended and about 200 kayakers and paddleboarders were leaving Tod Inlet, Crown witness Kent Lindahl told B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday.
  “We were taken aback because quite a few did not have lights. It was a dark night and to be travelling at night in the dark was an accident waiting to happen,” Lindahl said.
  As small boats putted out of the inlet, Lindahl, who was observing th
  
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• B.C.'s children's representative to retire after just 16 months in the job

  11-04-2018 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. children’s representative Bernard Richard will retire early from the key position of advocating for vulnerable youth in the child welfare system, after less than two years in the high-profile role.
  Richard, a former New Brunswick politician and children’s advocate, said that when he was hired in November 2016 it was as a “transition representative,” taking over from Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond who held the post for a decade. Turpel-Lafond’s scathing reports on the
  
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• Mark your calendar: The first info session for upcoming Hwy 1 improvement projects is this Saturday. twitter.com/TranBC/status/…

  11-04-2018 22:17 via twitter.com
  Mark your calendar: The first info session for upcoming Hwy 1 improvement projects is this Saturday. twitter.com/TranBC/status/…
  
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• Police in Washington state reveal new details in 1987 murder of young Victoria couple

  11-04-2018 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  EVERETT, Washington — For more than 30 years, the families of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook have waited for answers in their unsolved murders.
  The young Victoria-area couple was visiting Washington state in November 1987 when they were found slain in two separate locations.
  On Wednesday, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office released new details of a description of the person they believe was behind the  killings of Van Cuylenborg, 18, and Cook, 20.
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• #putyourstickout at Vancouver's Score on Davie and they'll donate to Humboldt

  11-04-2018 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  Popular West End hangout the Score on Davie has a new look of late.
  Hockey sticks are lining up along the full length of the patio fence as the restaurant management encourages patrons to get behind the #putyourstickout movment to show support for the victims, families and residents of Humboldt, Sask., following the tragic crash that claimed the lives of 15 after a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior A hockey team collided with a semi truck on Friday, April 6.
  “For every stick le
  
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• Surrey councillors considering run for mayor's seat

  11-04-2018 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  In the wake of Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner’s announcement that she will not be running in the fall municipal election, at least three councillors are considering making a run for the top job.
  Two-term councillor Bruce Hayne was the first to go public, speaking with RedFM radio personality Harjinder Thind on Wednesday morning, just 13 hours after the news broke about Hepner.
  “There are a number of people who have asked me if I will,” Hayne said. “I’m seriously consider
  
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• Victim of CRA scam today believed the number displayed on the phone was the 'North Vancouver RCMP'. That is called… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 21:43 via twitter.com
  Victim of CRA scam today believed the number displayed on the phone was the 'North Vancouver RCMP'. That is called… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• This Saturday, join DNV staff and our merry band of volunteers as we remove invasive plants from Hunter Park and re… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 20:59 via twitter.com
  This Saturday, join DNV staff and our merry band of volunteers as we remove invasive plants from Hunter Park and re… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• How do the Canucks replace the Sedins?

  11-04-2018 20:47 via vancouversun.com
  Adam Gaudette and Elias Petterssen will get every opportunity to play here next season, Olli Juolevi may get the chance to patrol the team’s blueline, and wherever the 26th overall team ends up in the draft they may get a player who can step right into the lineup. Paul Chapman and Ed Willes discuss the possibilities.
  
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• A close look at the NHL playoffs

  11-04-2018 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  He spent eight years covering the Jets and Ed Willes has no problems letting his unabashed Winnipeg bias shine through when discussing the post-season with Paul Chapman.
  
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• Mark your calendar #FunCityFestival + #SlidetheCity return July 21 & 22. cnv.org/FunCityFestival #NorthVan https://t.co/yvPs2Kjrkn

  11-04-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  Mark your calendar #FunCityFestival + #SlidetheCity return July 21 & 22. cnv.org/FunCityFestival #NorthVan https://t.co/yvPs2Kjrkn
  
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• Restaurant review: Ex-jailhouse rocks, culinarily, with monthly pop-up

  11-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews monthly pop-up
  Where: No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews, accessed through alley
   Reservations, info: gaolersmews.comIt’s the most unprofitable dinner in the city. In fact, the restaurant loses money and L’Abattoir chef and owner Lee Cooper either has a whacko business sense, or something else is at work.
  I’m talking about the monthly No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews dinner held in the private dining room across a cobblestone courtyard from the restaurant in what
  
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• Contemplating War and Peace with the Tallis Scholars

  11-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  War and Peace — The Tallis Scholars
  When: April 21, 7:30 p.m. (pre-concert talk 6:45 pm)
  Where: The Chan Centre at UBC
  Tickets and info: earlymusic.bc.ca
  That celebrated British vocal ensemble The Tallis Scholars makes a much-awaited return to Vancouver this month. Founded in 1973 by a very young Peter Phillips, the Scholars has since sung all over the world, won almost every award imaginable, and issued many definitive recordings.
  Many of us would probably head out to the Chan Centre to h
  
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• Surrey Coun. Bruce Hayne considers run for mayor's seat

  11-04-2018 19:59 via vancouversun.com
  In the wake of Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner’s announcement that she will not be running in the fall municipal election, at least one councillor is considering putting his name forward.
  “There are a number of people who have asked me if I will,” Coun. Bruce Hayne told RedFM radio personality Harjinder Thind on Wednesday morning. “I’m seriously considering it.”
  Hayne said he will make his decision in the coming weeks, in consultation with his party, Surrey First.
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• LIVE: Washington State police reveal new suspect details in 1987 murder of Victoria couple

  11-04-2018 19:59 via vancouversun.com
  EVERETT, WASHINGTON — For more than 30 years, the families of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook have waited for answers in their unsolved murders.
  The young Victoria-area couple was visiting Washington State in November 1987 when they were found slain in two separate locations.
  Today, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office is holding a news conference in Everett, north of Seattle, to provide new information into the brutal killings of Van Cuylenborg, 18, and C
  
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• TONIGHT: We're talking District heritage at @NorthVanMuseum and would love to hear your thoughts on ways we could c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 19:52 via twitter.com
  TONIGHT: We're talking District heritage at @NorthVanMuseum and would love to hear your thoughts on ways we could c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ‘Coin Con Man’ attended a local bank to exchange numerous rolls of steel washers disguised to be over $2600 in toon… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 19:51 via twitter.com
  ‘Coin Con Man’ attended a local bank to exchange numerous rolls of steel washers disguised to be over $2600 in toon… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver short-term rentals to display licence in deal with Airbnb

  11-04-2018 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver and Airbnb have signed a deal that will require short-term rental hosts to display a business licence.
  The city says under the deal, Airbnb will include a field for all hosts to list their short-term rental business licence, and new hosts will be required to include a business licence as part of their profile.
  Existing hosts have until Aug. 31 to obtain a short-term rental business licence from the city and include it on their online listings.  After that, Airbnb will de
  
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Survey Assistant 1. Click here to apply. ow.ly/UU4v30jrojB

  11-04-2018 19:37 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Survey Assistant 1.Click here to apply. ow.ly/UU4v30jrojB
  
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• Washington State police to reveal new suspect details in 1987 murder of Victoria couple

  11-04-2018 17:12 via vancouversun.com
  EVERETT, WASHINGTON — For more than 30 years, the families of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook have waited for answers in their unsolved murders.
  The young Victoria-area couple was visiting Washington State in November 1987 when they were found slain in two separate locations.
  Today, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office plans to release new information about a suspect in the brutal killings of Van Cuylenborg, 18, and Cook, 20.
  Relatives of the young victims will
  
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• Power restored to South Granville after early morning outage

  11-04-2018 16:46 via vancouversun.com
  Power has been restored to most of the nearly 2,000 BC Hydro customers in the area of Granville Street.
  BC Hydro reported early Wednesday morning that the power was out north of King Edward Avenue, west of Oak Street and south of 5th Avenue because of a wire down.
  The power is out because of a fallen line in a section of South Granville Wednesday morning. [PNG Merlin Archive]Nearly 2,000 BC Hydro customers were affected by the outage, however as of 7:30 a.m., power had been restored to most. BC
  
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• Lights out for South Granville during early morning commute

  11-04-2018 16:46 via vancouversun.com
  Power has been restored to most of the nearly 2,000 BC Hydro customers in the area of Granville Street.
  BC Hydro reported early Wednesday morning that the power was out north of King Edward Avenue, west of Oak Street and south of 5th Avenue because of a wire down.
  The power is out because of a fallen line in a section of South Granville Wednesday morning. [PNG Merlin Archive]Nearly 2,000 BC Hydro customers were affected by the outage, however as of 7:30 a.m., power had been restored to most. BC
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with CTV's decision to fire its news anchors?

  11-04-2018 15:44 via vancouversun.com
  CTV has fired longtime TV news anchors Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart as part of a shakeup in the newsroom. 
  Read Scott Brown’s story here.
  Many people commenting on the story say they are upset with CTV’s decision to let go of the popular duo, while others agree it is time for change. What do you think? Take our poll and leave your comments below. Take Our Poll
   
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy today, sunny tomorrow

  11-04-2018 15:13 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Wednesday’s weather forecast for Metro Vancouver calls for more rain. Environment Canada says periods of rain are expected throughout the day, with highs of 10 C. Thursday, however, looks lovely. The federal weather agency says it will likely be sunny for most of the day, though there is a chance of some showers at higher elevations in the afternoon. Looking ahead to the weekend, Environment Canada is forecasting rain for both Saturday and Sunday, with highs of 9 C
  
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• Ottawa spends $5.7 million on deer eradication in Haida Gwaii featuring New Zealand sharpshooters

  11-04-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The federal government is spending $5.7 million over three years to eradicate introduced deer on six islands on Haida Gwaii  — including the hiring of New Zealand sharpshooters to fire from helicopters, boats and on the ground with tracking dogs.
  The program, which enters its second year of eradication this spring, is designed to allow vegetation on the islands to recover from foraging by Sitka black-tailed deer, which were introduced to Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands,
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Harm reduction not enough to end B.C. overdose crisis

  11-04-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  As in many other jurisdictions, there are no regulations in B.C. for addictions treatment centres, no standards for addictions services and no requirement for outcomes to be reported or monitored.
  They operate under the same legislation that regulates daycares and homes for the elderly, which means that only the facilities are inspected, not the programs or services within them.
  B.C. recovery homes don’t have to be licensed, although they are required to be registered if they offer three o
  
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• #HumboldtStrong 🏒#NorthVan https://t.co/KkiKDA7wBD

  11-04-2018 07:02 via twitter.com
  
  #HumboldtStrong🏒#NorthVan https://t.co/KkiKDA7wBD
  
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• VPD introduces Jocko and Gibbs, the newest members of the K-9 unit

  11-04-2018 06:40 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Police Department has two new officers, and they are both very good boys.
  On Tuesday, the VPD introduced its two newest police dogs, Jocko and Gibbs, who are clearly made for their new jobs. They already sound like mismatched partners in a buddy cop movie. 
  Police Service Dog GIBBS looks into the lens of Dan Touloet at the VPD dog training facility in Vancouver, BC., April 10, 2018.
  The dogs arrived in Canada from Europe last week. Gibbs is from Slovakia. Jocko is from the Net
  
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• Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner to call it quits when term ends

  11-04-2018 06:03 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, who leads B.C.’s second-largest city, will not be running for re-election in this fall’s municipal election.
  Hepner, who is in her first term as mayor, made the announcement in an emailed statement Tuesday evening. She is the ninth Lower Mainland mayor to say she will not run in October’s municipal elections.
  According to the statement, after some soul searching, Hepner realized that she needed to make her family a higher priority than the city. 
  
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• Att: City skate park users. How you gonna ride/use ride your new City skate plaza? Saturday: a Skate Design Worksho… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 05:40 via twitter.com
  Att: City skate park users. How you gonna ride/use ride your new City skate plaza? Saturday: a Skate Design Worksho… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Harry Sterling: Easing of tensions between North and South Korea in Canada's interest

  11-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The international community, including Canada, owes a debt of gratitude to Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s president.
  At a time when many countries were increasingly fearful that escalating warlike threats being made by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons development could erupt into actual military conflict with international consequences, Moon played a pivotal role in attempting to lessen the tension.
  Fully aware of the disast
  
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• Colleen Fuller and Seth Klein: A welcome second chance for B.C. Medicare Protection Amendment Act

  11-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s taken over 14 years, but British Columbians will finally be protected against unlawful charges for medical services — just like all other Canadians.
  In 2003, the B.C. government brought in the Medicare Protection Amendment Act (Bill 92) to prevent unlawful extra billing as required by the federal Canada Health Act. These provincial and federal laws ban doctors and private clinics from charging patients for medically necessary surgeries and other procedures covered by our public
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Heyman proves to be artful dodger on Kinder Morgan file

  11-04-2018 03:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For the second day running, Premier John Horgan insisted Tuesday that the New Democrats are only doing what they promised to do regarding the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
  “We campaigned to ensure that we were going to defend our coast, and that’s exactly what we’re doing,” he told the legislature. “We’re doing that through the courts. We are asserting that we have jurisdiction on areas of the environment
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Fentanyl dealer gets 2 years in jail

  11-04-2018 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey man with no prior record has been sentenced to two years for trafficking fentanyl. That is in the middle of the range that the B.C. Court of Appeal established last year for street-level dealers in the deadly drug. Some have gotten off easier – Ajay Joon got probation and no jail time.    
  And Walter McCormick got a 14-year-sentence in January 2017 for a much larger quantity of fentanyl.  
  Here’s my story on the latest sentencing:Surrey fentanyl
  
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• Opening TED Talk puts attendees on spot with invitation to move toward equality

  11-04-2018 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  In the moment of #MeeToo awareness about sexual harassment, American actor Tracee Ellis Ross offered two invitations to start making change to an audience at TED Talks Tuesday in Vancouver to.
  “Time’s up on women being responsible for men’s bad behaviour,” said Ellis Ross.
  So to men in the audience, she invited them to to become “allies as we work together toward change,” to be accountable, self-reflective and supportive of women in the effort to achieve equal
  
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• 2018 Celebration of Light schedule announced

  11-04-2018 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  The Honda Celebration of Light will return to Vancouver’s skies again this summer for the 28th year.
  Tuesday the organizers behind the fireworks show — who say their show is the world’s longest-running offshore fireworks competition — confirmed the schedule, which will once against take place over three nights inside a week in the height of summer.
  On July 28, South Africa will be represented by Fireworks for Africa.
  On Aug. 1, Sweden’s Unique Pyrotechnic will take
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, Apr. 11

  11-04-2018 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, Apr. 11.Electric Six
  Electric Six is a tough band to define. Their style has been defined as rock, but with elements of garage, disco, punk rock, new wave, and metal. In short, they’re a mixed bag — but a goody bag. (Which is, I guess, also technically a mixed bag. But I digress.) They’re also a very hard-working group, with 14 studio albums since 2003, the latest of wh
  
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• Here's Angela to tell you what we've got planned for our #EarthDay event at #EastviewPark on April 22. It'll be a f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Here's Angela to tell you what we've got planned for our #EarthDay event at #EastviewPark on April 22. It'll be a f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver junior team will stop using its bus in wake of ... - Vancouver Courier

  11-04-2018 01:21
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  North Van Wolf Pack joins hockey community in grieving and offering support for Broncos.and more »
  
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• Oops: North Vancouver schools have pro-D day scheduled for 4/20, but it's a coincidence, they insist

  11-04-2018 01:11 via vancouversun.com
  North Vancouver school administrators have sent out an email to parents of high school students to clarify that their scheduling decisions do not endorse the use of marijuana.
  Students at five of North Vancouver’s eight secondary schools are scheduled to have a day off from classes on April 20 while their teachers have a professional development day. April 20, of course, is also known as “4/20,” a day where marijuana use and culture is celebrated.
  In an email sent to parents at
  
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• Surrey fentanyl trafficker caught with 1,000 pills sentenced to two years

  11-04-2018 01:09 via vancouversun.com
  A young Surrey man has been sentenced to two years in jail after being caught with a stash of fentanyl-laced pills that a judge said amounted to “over 1,000 potential death sentences.”
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nigel Kent said that Jasondeep Johal was more than a street-level dealer given the volume of the deadly drugs he possessed when arrested in 2015.
  And he said that Johal, 26, needed a substantial jail sentence for his conviction last November on three counts of possession for
  
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• David Hutniak: Renters bear additional cost of taxes imposed on owners

  11-04-2018 01:01 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s government recently introduced significant bold new taxation strategies to address housing affordability. One tax, however, is being imposed regressively on renters. The progressive increase in the property transfer tax, at a rate of 5% on any part of the purchase price above $3 million, is designed to target luxurious residential properties. Shockingly, it also applies to the thousands of purpose-built rental buildings which tens of thousands of British Columbians call
  
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• Hari Kondabolu responds to The Simpsons response to The Problem With Apu

  11-04-2018 00:53 via vancouversun.com
  As a kid in Queens, N.Y. Hari Kondabolu loved The Simpsons.
  He thought it was great that there was a brown person (even a cartoon brown person) on TV.
  Yes he liked Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the convenience store owner that is until he grew up and took a critical look at the cartoon Apu.
  As Kondabolu became a comic he too dove into the murky waters of stereotypes for a laugh. Then 9/11 happened and suddenly those stereotype jokes were no longer funny to him. Apu was no longer funny to him.
  A p
  
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• B.C. court reference question on Kinder Morgan still not ready

  11-04-2018 00:44 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A court reference the B.C. government promised to file, to end Alberta’s wine ban amid the ongoing dispute over the Kinder Morgan pipeline, has still not materialized after almost two months.
  Environment Minister George Heyman said Tuesday his government is still waiting for the independent lawyer it hired, Joseph Arvay, to draft a reference question on B.C.’s jurisdiction to restrict new oil flow from the proposed twinning of the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Arvay must a
  
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• Report by witness of a male with a rifle on his back walking near Larson Elem. School put on lock down. Extensive p… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 00:41 via twitter.com
  Report by witness of a male with a rifle on his back walking near Larson Elem. School put on lock down. Extensive p… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa undertakes massive cetacean survey off B.C. coast to ensure continued fish exports to U.S.

  11-04-2018 00:29 via vancouversun.com
  The federal government will undertake the most comprehensive survey to date for whales, dolphins and porpoises off the Pacific coast this summer in response to an American demand for evidence showing that B.C. fish exports to the U.S. are sustainable.
  “It’s a major undertaking, a big deal,” said Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, head of cetacean research for Fisheries and Oceans Canada on the west coast. “It is unprecedented in size and scope and effort on this coast.”
  An art
  
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• Jim Pattison company gets $4.9 million refund for faulty LED lights

  11-04-2018 00:29 via vancouversun.com
  A company operated by businessman Jim Pattison has been awarded a $4.9-million refund for faulty LED lighting units installed on thousands of outdoor advertising billboards across Canada.
  Between 2010 and 2013, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, which had been using halogen lighting fixtures to illuminate its billboards, ordered and installed 8,222 LED fixtures from Zon LED LLC, a Michigan-based company.
  Zon had promoted its lighting retrofit packages by promising reduced operating costs, higher-qual
  
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• B.C. Premier John Horgan launches rental housing task force

  11-04-2018 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, a long time advocate for renters, will head up a new task force looking at issues in the rental housing market.
  Premier John Horgan, joined by Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson, announced Tuesday that Chandra, who is MLA for Vancouver-West End, will be joined on the task force by Green MLA for Saanich North and the Islands, Adam Olsen, and NDP MLA for Courtenay-Comox, Ronna-Rae Leonard.
  The task force “will advise on how to
  
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