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• ART SEEN: Artists create mobile galleries in response to skyrocketing real estate

  14-04-2018 23:37 via vancouversun.com
  Saturday, April 14 update: Kent Lins and Sally Buck are on the move again with their shows in vangalleries.com To see their work, go to 420 Robson @ Homer by Vancouver Public Library Central Branch where their two panel vans will be parked today to 5 pm.
  Two Vancouver artists are bypassing the traditional route of showing their work in a stationary art gallery by going mobile in vans.
  Frustrated by the lack of affordable venues, artists Kent Lins and Sally Buck have created a temporary art galle
  
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• Wanted 75 youth volunteers (11-17)! Want to help make this year's #CityFest the best yet? Sign up here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-04-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Wanted 75 youth volunteers (11-17)! Want to help make this year's #CityFestthe best yet? Sign up here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The 10 priciest home listings in Metro Vancouver right now

  14-04-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  What are you looking for in a Vancouver home? Is it 10 bedrooms? 13 bathrooms? Probably not. But those homes exist, and all you need to do to purchase one in the area is win the lottery, and then, perhaps, win it again.
  The price of a home in Vancouver continues to skyrocket — so much so that not one of the top 10 residential listings in Metro Vancouver is listed below $20M anymore. It’s a real buyer’s market, presuming you’re the sort of buyer unsure of what to do with a
  
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• Scents of spring: 10 new fragrances to spritz on this season

  14-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If your fragrance selection was feeling a tad too stale or predictable by winter’s end, now is the perfect time to lighten up your go-to notes.
  “While some people enjoy having a signature scent, more and more people like to experiment with new scents, or change with the seasons,” Melissa Karis, the director at Coty Canada, says. 
  So, where should you start your scent search? 
  “When the weather turns warmer, floral scents are always popular choices,” Karis
  
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• Makeover: The French Twist in a few easy steps

  14-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The French Twist never goes out of style and this week, I’m showing you how to achieve this classic upstyle in a few easy steps.Step 1
  You’ll want to the style by creating a soft bend in the hair. I did this by first spraying the hair with a heat protection spray then curling it with a curling wand.Step 2
  Next, take a tail comb and start back combing the crown section. It’s always a good idea to spray a little KMS Hair Stay — Working Spray at the base of the hair for extr
  
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• B.C. student wins Amnesty International Youth Media Award for 2018

  14-04-2018 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. student has won the 2018 Amnesty International Youth Media Award for her work on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
  Ashley Hyshka won the award for her story No More Stolen Sisters, which was published in February in The Runner, a student-owned newspaper at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. 
  Amnesty International says she is the first young person from B.C. to win the award. 
  Rick McInnes-Rae, former journalist and one of the award judges, said Hyshka’s s
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of April 7

  14-04-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Red Alert — James Patterson and Marshall Karp.
  2. The Disappeared — C.J. Box.
  3. Accidental Heroes — Danielle Steel .
  4. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  5. To Die but Once — Jacqueline Winspear.
  6. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  7. The Woman in the Window — A. J. Finn.
  8. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate.
  9. The Rising Sea — Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.
  10. The Punishment She Deserves — Elizabeth
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week of April 7

  14-04-2018 19:00 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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• Douglas Todd: When racism and mental illness intersect

  14-04-2018 18:44 via vancouversun.com
  One wonders how much mental illness is behind recent high-profile race-based incidents in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
  Facebook went viral this year when a Burnaby woman, Anika Vassell, posted a smartphone video of an elderly white woman with a German accent telling her: “I see that you are black and you’re not like the rest of us.” But when journalists followed up and talked to the woman’s son, Christian Chiribelea, he said his mother was schizophrenic.
  When an out-of-con
  
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• Securely shred your confidential info + help raise money for @NorthVanCityLib! TODAY 10am-2pm Queen Mary parking lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-04-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Securely shred your confidential info + help raise money for @NorthVanCityLib! TODAY 10am-2pm Queen Mary parking lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Cloudy with rain beginning late Saturday afternoon

  14-04-2018 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like the rainy weather may hold off long enough for Vancouver’s Vaisakhi parade Saturday morning. Environment Canada says the morning will be mostly cloudy with highs of 11 C. The rain is expected to begin late in the afternoon.  Metro Vancouver might see some sunshine on Sunday, but the agency is also predicting a 60 per cent chance of showers.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly cloudy. Rain beginning late this afternoon. High 11 C. 
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• The Residences on Marine offers prime location, single-family luxury

  14-04-2018 15:23 via vancouversun.com
  When you’re moving from a large, single-family home in West Vancouver, possibly one that you’ve been living in for many years and where you raised your children, it’s natural for you to think very carefully about your next move. Atti Group, a family company behind a new development of 16 homes in West Vancouver, is targeting just this type of discerning homebuyer.
  The Residences on Marine is a three-storey building of 16 luxury condos and four retail spaces at 13th Street
  
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• Sold (Bought): Point Grey home showcases recent updates

  14-04-2018 15:20 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  4450 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 1,246 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,366,000
  Listed for: $1,398,000
  Sold for: $1,381,000
  Sold on: March 2
  Days on market: Eight
  Listing agent: John Dean at Engel & Volkers Vancouver
  Buyers agent: John Dean at Engel & Volkers Vancouver
  The big sell: Sasamat Gardens is a 41-unit development in the heart of Point Grey with proximity to th
  
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• The Home Front: French tech products for the home on the rise

  14-04-2018 15:14 via vancouversun.com
  Good design, we are often told, solves some problem that we encounter in our everyday lives, relieving us of some discomfort.
  When it comes to tech products for the home that make our lives easier and more interesting, France seems to be taking the lead, says Emmanuel Plat, director of merchandising for MoMA Retail at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
  “We travel the world,” Plat says. “We go to trade shows, we go to Paris twice a year, we go to London, we go to Milan, we g
  
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• Daphne Bramham: B.C.'s addictions treatment laws need a quick fix

  14-04-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The holes in British Columbia’s addictions treatment regulation and enforcement regime are on full display in a neighbourhood drama playing out in Osoyoos.
  Michelle Jansen and her son Nicholas plan to open a treatment centre there in a residential neighbourhood — one of four planned for the Okanagan.
  Each is called the Brandon Jansen Memorial Recovery Centre in honour of Michelle’s son Brandon, who died of a drug overdose two years ago in the Sunshine Coast Health Centre in Pow
  
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• Pickup driver backs into police car near VPD headquarters in 'intentional collision'

  14-04-2018 07:15 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are trying to figure out why a man in a pickup truck suddenly reversed it and rammed into a cop car near VPD headquarters on Friday night.
  Spokesman Const. Jason Doucette said the truck slowly pulled up in front of the Vancouver Police Department building on West 5th Avenue at Cambie around 7:30 p.m. before speeding off around the block.
  He said the “intentional collision” occurred when the driver stopped in front of a marked police vehicle on West 5th, put his picku
  
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• Thomas Sisk: Science is a casualty of the Trans Mountain pipeline debate

  14-04-2018 05:39 via vancouversun.com
  Until now, I have hesitated to criticize the environmental policies of the Trudeau government because of its public commitment to improving transparency, re-establishing the role of science in policymaking, and advancing a pan-Canadian climate plan. But the showdown over Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline has exposed the fact that science has become a casualty of the policymaking process, making resolution of this dispute – and protection of the environment – less
  
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• The 10 priciest listings in Metro Vancouver right now

  14-04-2018 05:28 via vancouversun.com
  What are you looking for in a Vancouver home? Is it 10 bedrooms? 13 bathrooms? Probably not. But those homes exist, and all you need to do to purchase one in the area is win the lottery, and then, perhaps, win it again.
  The price of a home in Vancouver continues to skyrocket — so much so that not one of the top 10 residential listings in Metro Vancouver is listed below $20M anymore. It’s a real buyer’s market, presuming you’re the sort of buyer unsure of what to do with a
  
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• April is Daffodil month and our North Vancouver RCMP Cops for Cancer riders were out at the Quay today promoting th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-04-2018 05:04 via twitter.com
  April is Daffodil month and our North Vancouver RCMP Cops for Cancer riders were out at the Quay today promoting th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Letter: Northern mayors say future of B.C. must include LNG

  14-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Two weeks ago, seven mayors from northern British Columbia travelled to Ottawa to express our support for the development of an LNG export industry in the province. All of us who participated in the trip feel confident in stating that our message was well received in Ottawa.
  The development of an LNG export industry is a provincial and national imperative. British Columbia’s vast amount of low-carbon natural gas is losing market share and value. This is because our only customer – th
  
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• Anthony Britneff: We need more boots on the ground to protect our forests

  14-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It is often said that the only certainty is uncertainty. And in the face of uncertainty, it always pays to be careful.
  When I first became a professional forester in 1974, “climate change” was rarely, if ever, discussed.
  As the years advanced, we came to see that when it came to climate change and our forests the biggest issue in British Columbia was water. Just like real estate is all about location, location, location, climate change in B.C. is all about water, water, water.
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• Anthony Gismondi: Golden State cashing in on wine sustainability

  14-04-2018 04:30 via vancouversun.com
  A large portion of the California wine industry was in Vancouver this week to kick off a countrywide tour under the 38th California Wine Fair banner.
  The Canadian landscape has changed dramatically since those early days when California was the leader of New World wine producers, led by the incomparable Robert Mondavi. Back then B.C. was still a decade or more from producing its first VQA, or 100 per cent locally grown wine, and Europe (read France) dominated import wine sales.
  The Californians
  
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• TED Talk introduces potential for DNA printing to launch next Industrial Revolution

  14-04-2018 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  Biological teleportation sounds like something futuristic, but it’s something bio-engineer Dan Gibson has already done and continues to refine, which he laid out in a presentation Friday for the TED Talks conference in Vancouver.
  Teleportation is the term Gibson’s team came up with to distil 15-years worth of science that has gone into decoding genomes — the DNA instructions in living organisms — then taking the code to write out fully functioning synthetic versions of th
  
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• Letters: Pipeline crisis exposes risk of fringe-party power

  14-04-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Laura Jones: Trudeau must act forcefully to ensure pipeline can be completed, Opinion, April 10.
  The escalating problems caused by the B.C. NDP’s passive-aggressive resistance to the formally approved Kinder Morgan pipeline are only a taste of what is to come if our electoral system is pushed into proportional representation later this year.
  It’s clear that Andrew Weaver’s small group of Greens is the tail wagging Premier John Horgan’s minority dog, and that after the
  
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• Editorial: Ottawa must exert authority to bring B.C. into line

  14-04-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Since Kinder Morgan’s announcement Sunday that it would suspend all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the political rhetoric has only grown more extreme.
  It seems improbable that the pro- and anti-pipeline forces will bury the hatchet before the May 31 deadline set by the company to end the uncertainty.
  Premier John Horgan had the effrontery this week to say, “All of a sudden, when the shareholders in Texas issue a press release, there&rsqu
  
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• Environmentalists 'red-wash' their fight against pipeline, First Nation chief says

  14-04-2018 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  Cancellation of the Trans Mountain pipeline would cost B.C. First Nations hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, job training, and employment and business opportunities, according to Cheam Chief Ernie Crey.
  Crey has emerged as a leading voice for the First Nations that stand to benefit from the project, calling out environmentalists for “red-washing” their fight against the $7.4 billion expansion of the pipeline between Edmonton and Burnaby.
  “We have a vigorous environmen
  
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• Palmer: NDP faces calendar crunch to get things done as promised

  14-04-2018 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As Premier John Horgan prepared to head out to Ottawa for the pipeline summit this week, the legislature adjourned with less than half the days remaining on the sitting schedule and much still to be done on the NDP’s ambitious agenda.
  Only a dozen or so bills have been tabled so far. Yet to come are promised legislation to reform auto insurance, critical to cabinet minister David Eby’s vow to cap claims and rein in costs at the troubled Insurance Corp. of B.C.
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• Brian Minter: Lots of heart and beauty at Bradner's 90th Flower Show

  14-04-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  Bradner Flower Show
  When: April 13-15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  Where: Bradner Community Hall, 5305 Bradner Road, Abbotsford.
  Tickets and info: $2, bradnerhall.caSomething very special is happening soon in scenic and historic Bradner, a unique community on the outskirts of Abbotsford.
  Over 400 varieties of unique and beautiful narcissus will be featured at Bradner Flower Show.
  Bradner Flower Show, celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, is one of the most charming events in B.C. to honour the
  
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• Douglas Todd: When racism intersects with mental illness everyone's tested

  14-04-2018 02:18 via vancouversun.com
  One wonders how much mental illness is behind recent high-profile race-based incidents in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
  Facebook went viral this year when a Burnaby woman, Anika Vassell, posted a smartphone video of an elderly white woman with a German accent telling her: “I see that you are black and you’re not like the rest of us.” But when journalists followed up and talked to the woman’s son, Christian Chiribelea, he said his mother was schizophrenic.
  When an out-of-con
  
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• Reimer calls for random, not alphabetized, ballot lists of candidates

  14-04-2018 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  Of all the things, it’s often the “ABCD bias” that gets debated after many a municipal election.
  Do last names beginning with the first few letters of the alphabet have an edge? Could it be that an Aaron Appleby has an unfair advantage over a Zack Zenin because voters are more apt to pick from the top of an alphabetized list?
  Along with others, Vancouver city Coun. Andrea Reimer thinks the answer is yes.
  And now that she isn’t running in the next election and can’t
  
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• PM's weekend meeting with B.C., Alta premiers on pipeline critical

  14-04-2018 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  To avoid further escalation in the fight over the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, Ottawa and Alberta could join a B.C.-led court test of the province’s ability to restrict bitumen shipments, according to political scientists in B.C.
  Political scientist Max Cameron, of the University of B.C., says no magical resolution should be expected from the Sunday meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier John Horgan and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.
  “I do think
  
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• Lawsuit involving alleged partisan political ads dismissed by judge

  14-04-2018 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  A class-action lawsuit alleging that the then-B.C. Liberal government was spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars on partisan political ads has been dismissed by a judge.
  Last year, before the provincial election, a White Rock man filed suit claiming that the Liberal government had spent up to $15 million on such ads and that the Liberals had consistently engaged in partisan advertising since being elected in 2013.
  Both the government, which was ousted in the election, and the B.C. Liberal
  
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• Kits Pool the third-sexiest pool in the world, says Red Bull

  14-04-2018 01:36 via vancouversun.com
  The third-sexiest pool in the world opens on May 19.
  That’s the date all of Vancouver’s outdoor pools reopen to the public for the summer, including the 137-metre Kits Pool, which recently placed third on a RedBull.com list of the world’s sexiest pools to train in. 
  Third place. That’s a bronze medal in Olympic terms or, as Canadians accustomed to third-place finishes often say, “Canada gold.”
  What does Red Bull know about pools, you ask? Maybe nothing. B
  
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• B.C. police officers arrested in Cuba could be forced to remain in Caribbean for months

  14-04-2018 01:32 via vancouversun.com
  Two Lower Mainland police officers detained while vacationing in Cuba could be forced to spend much longer than they planned on the Caribbean island as their case is investigated by authorities.
  On its website, Global Affairs Canada warns travellers that Cuban police do not lay charges until an investigation is complete. “Canadians who have been arrested, even for a minor incident, should expect long delays to resolve their cases and may not be allowed to leave the country.”
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• Looking to see what's on tap for the Council Meeting Monday? It's all right here cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/8Uj1Vfn9mK

  14-04-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  Looking to see what's on tap for the Council Meeting Monday? It's all right here cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/8Uj1Vfn9mK
  
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• A reminder that the first @TranBC open house for upcoming Highway 1 improvements is tomorrow, 10am-1pm. twitter.com/TranBC/status/…

  14-04-2018 00:50 via twitter.com
  A reminder that the first @TranBC open house for upcoming Highway 1 improvements is tomorrow, 10am-1pm. twitter.com/TranBC/status/…
  
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• This Week in History: 1903 A pioneer Labour leader is shot, killed on waterfront

  14-04-2018 00:40 via vancouversun.com
  On April 14, 1903 Vancouverites woke to the headline “Innocent Man Was Shot.”
  “Mr. Frank Rogers is lying at the point of death at the city hospital as a result of a bullet wound from some person unknown,” reported the Vancouver World.
  “The shooting occurred at the foot of Abbott Street and the closest inquiry today shows no reason, or justification, for it.”
  Rogers wasn’t just any uninvolved bystander. He was one of B.C.’s most prominent labour lea
  
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• Ever dreamed of living in a float home? (PHOTOS)

  14-04-2018 00:37
  
  Now could be your chance, with this float home near Lonsdale Quay listed at less than $800K
  
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• Blueberry pollinator pays $40,000 for killing bears attracted to Pitt Meadows bee hives

  14-04-2018 00:07 via vancouversun.com
  A commercial pollinating company has agreed to pay $40,000 for shooting two black bears attracted to its honey bee hives on a blueberry farm in Pitt Meadows.
  Caspian Aviaries was contracted to set up the bee hives to pollinate blueberry fields, but over time “bears were causing damage to the hives” and were killed, according to the Ministry of Environment’s latest quarterly summary report on environmental offenders.
  The case against Caspian was diverted from the traditional cri
  
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• Another mortar shell found and detonated near North Vancouver trails - North Shore News

  14-04-2018 00:06
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  Another mortar shell found and detonated near North Vancouver trails
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  Explosives experts have found and detonated another mortar shell on the former Blair Rifle Range lands. Department of National Defence contractors have been searching the former military site on Mount Seymour Parkway for explosives as the property ...
  
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• Q& A: CAFA's Vicky Milner on Canadian fashion taking centre stage

  14-04-2018 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to considering Canadian fashion, we’ve come a long way from puffy coats, red plaids, fur hats and so-called “Canadian tuxedos.”
  Need proof? Look no further than the impressive roster of nominees and honourees at this year’s Canadian Arts & Fashion Awards (April 20). From A-list favourite brands such as Greta Constantine, to streetwear men’s collections from Vancouver’s own Reigning Champ, the list of homegrown brands, designers and onlin
  
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