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• New #publicart for you. Work on this new mural on the 2nd St Bridge should wrap up Friday. You're welcome to stop b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
  New #publicart for you. Work on this new mural on the 2nd St Bridge should wrap up Friday. You're welcome to stop b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• This week's #CityView eNews is packed with all the latest City news. #FunCityFestival, changes to lawn watering reg… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  This week's #CityView eNews is packed with all the latest City news. #FunCityFestival, changes to lawn watering reg… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• West Vancouver woman defrauded of $800,000 in bank inspector scam

  26-04-2018 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  An elderly West Vancouver woman has been defrauded of more than $800,000 in a new bank inspector scam.
  The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, began receiving phone calls earlier this year from individuals claiming to report fraudulent activity on a personal credit card, say investigators.  
  After a series of calls, the victim was then urged to call a second person identified as a bank fraud investigator, who then placed the victim into contact with a third person claiming to be a deput
  
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• Vancouver's Olympic cauldron to be ignited Saturday for day of mourning

  26-04-2018 21:29 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s Olympic cauldron in Jack Poole Plaza will be ignited on Saturday, to commemorate B.C. workers killed or seriously injured.
  WorkSafeBC says there will be 39 ceremonies around the province to mark a national day of mourning for employees killed on the job.
  Some of the speakers at the Vancouver event will include B.C. Minister of Labour Harry Bains, injured worker Jack Thomas, and Rosemarie Lachnit, whose 20-year-old son Nicholas died on a Surrey condominium construction site in 2
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Tree Worker. Click here to apply. ow.ly/aKQe30jHpii

  26-04-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
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• B.C. introduces recreational marijuana use legislation

  26-04-2018 20:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Marijuana users are getting more clarity about where, when and how they can purchase and consume legal cannabis, under legislation introduced Thursday by the B.C. government.
  Solicitor General Mike Farnworth tabled three bills in the legislature that will amend different B.C. laws to pave the way for legal recreational marijuana later this year. Although Ottawa, which has the most responsibility for marijuana, had said legalization could occur by July 1, it now appears likely to
  
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• Metro Vancouver housing market still ‘vulnerable’ – for eighth straight quarter

  26-04-2018 20:19
  
  CMHC’s quarterly assessment of region’s real estate correction risk is unchanged since Q3 2016 – and not optimistic
  
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• Peak millennial home buyers see living spaces shrink 12% in year

  26-04-2018 20:03
  
  Footprint that 25-to-32-year-olds can afford under new stress test is dramatically less in Greater Vancouver than a year ago, and shrinking across Canada
  
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• Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond appointed director of UBC's new Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

  26-04-2018 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s former representative for children and youth, is taking on a new role at the University of British Columbia.
  UBC has announced that the renowned judge and lawyer will be the inaugural director of the university’s new Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. 
  Turpel-Lafond is also a professor at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law.
  During her decade of advocacy for children and youth, Turpel-Lafond, who has both Indig
  
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Technical Services Specialist. Click here to apply. ow.ly/lx6g30jHfU3

  26-04-2018 19:08 via twitter.com
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• B.C. submits court reference to regulate oil flow from Trans Mountain pipeline

  26-04-2018 18:59 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has released some details about a court reference case that questions whether the province can regulate the flow of oil from the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Premier John Horgan says the government has sent draft legislation to the B.C. Court of Appeal, with a question about constitutional issues.
  “B.C. should have a say over whether we put our coast, streams, rivers, and tens of thousands of jobs, in harms way,” he said.
  The legislation wo
  
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• Douglas Todd: Bankers know why Metro housing costs the worst 'recorded in Canada.'

  26-04-2018 18:22 via vancouversun.com
  The Royal Bank of Canada quietly reported this month that housing costs in Metro Vancouver have reached “the worst affordability levels ever recorded anywhere in Canada.”
  In this city of relatively tepid wages, the RBC says owning a home requires an “astounding 85 per cent of a typical household’s income.” That compares to 75 per cent in Toronto and roughly 42 per cent in Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa.
  Royal Bank CEO David McKay last month became the latest bank head
  
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• Police investigate homicide of 38-year-old man near Coopers' Park on False Creek

  26-04-2018 18:07 via vancouversun.com
  One man is dead and Vancouver police have launched a homicide investigation at Coopers’ Park on False Creek.
  Shortly before 1:30 a.m. Thursday, a 38-year-old Vancouver man was found with serious injuries outside the Parq Casino at 39 Smithe Street. The man was taken to hospital and underwent surgery, but did not survive.
  The homicide is the eighth in Vancouver in 2018.
  Police cordoned off a large area of Coopers’ Park, near Marinaside Crescent and Cooperage Way, where it is
  
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• Time's running out to apply for a #LivingCity Grant. Help your small-scale parks/environmental project succeed. App… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Time's running out to apply for a #LivingCity Grant. Help your small-scale parks/environmental project succeed. App… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver Weather: A spring scorcher, with highs of 27 C inland

  26-04-2018 15:59 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – You might want to grab that sunscreen on the way out the door, as Thursday’s weather is toasty with a very high UV index. Environment Canada says inland Metro Vancouver could see temperatures soar to 27 C,  and highs of 19 C closer to the water.  The federal weather agency says the UV index is at eight, or considered “very high.” Looking ahead, Friday is also expected to be sunny and warm, with highs of 19 C, though the temperatures will s
  
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• Daily Poll: Will you drive less as gas prices in Metro Vancouver skyrocket?

  26-04-2018 15:49 via vancouversun.com
  With gas prices hitting $1.59 a litre in Metro Vancouver, and expected to go up, many families are looking at options on how to budget. For some, buying an electric car is an option, but for others reducing the amount of driving is also being considered.
  Read Derrick Penner’s story here.
  How will you cope with the high prices? We’re asking readers whether they will drive less because of the high price of gas. Perhaps that means cutting out that summer road trip, or taking transit, or
  
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• Traffic delays in East Vancouver because of warehouse fire

  26-04-2018 14:49 via vancouversun.com
  Traffic is delayed in parts of East Vancouver this morning because of a warehouse fire late Wednesday night on East Pender Street.
  The fire broke out sometime after 10 p.m. at a printing shop. So far, there are no reports that anyone was injured or inside the shop at the time.
  There are delays on East Hastings from Clark Street to McLean Drive and Pender Street is shut down between Clark and McLean, according to a News 1130 traffic report.
  Vancouver Fire and Rescue has been contacted, but there
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, April 26

  26-04-2018 07:33 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, April 26.Japandroids
  One of Vancouver’s best rock bands comes home to play Fortune Sound Club on Wednesday night in support of their new album, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life. That’s a great title, although I’d expect nothing less from this band. Japandroids is excellent. The duo boasts a heavy rock sound that could fill a stadium, so it’s downright nuts that they’re playin
  
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• Opinion: Will the City’s MOU with Airbnb be enough to curb short-term rentals?

  26-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver recently announced it had reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airbnb, the world’s largest short-term rental platform. After operating illegally for several years, the company has now agreed to work with the City to bring its short-term rental listings (STRs) into compliance with the new regulations. This move may be seen as a step forward in the City’s effort to regulate STRs, but the voluntary nature of the agreement raises questions.
  In the midst
  
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• More than 300 bikes up for grabs at Vancouver police auction

  26-04-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  More than 300 bikes and other items are up for sale to the highest bidder on Saturday in Surrey at the Vancouver Police Department Stolen Goods Auction. 
  
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• Vancouver to Seattle harbour float-plane service starts Thursday

  26-04-2018 03:45 via vancouversun.com
  Two float-plane companies are scheduled to launch their new Vancouver to Seattle daily service Thursday, a day after an invite-only inaugural flight that was a Cascadia corridor love fest.
  Politicians and business leaders on both sides of the border heaped praise on the new downtown-to-downtown service as a way to increase tourism and business traffic between the two West Coast cities, especially in the tech field.
  The Washington governor, Canada’s minister of innovation, Vancouver’s
  
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• Condo developers in B.C. asked for more information about hot presale market

  26-04-2018 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  Condo developers will be required by law to collect and report information on buyers who flip sales contracts for a higher price, according to legislation proposed by the B.C. NDP government.
  This is a segment of the real estate market that has been exempt from the dampening effect of the foreign-buyers tax and disclosure rules for so-called shadow-flipping.
  For now, the Ministry of Finance plans to collect the personal or business identity of all parties in an assignment agreement, including na
  
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• Commuters consider options with Metro Vancouver gas at $1.59 per litre

  26-04-2018 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  For Kevin Loh, driving past Metro Vancouver gas stations displaying $1.59-per-litre prices validates his family’s decision a month-and-a-half ago to replace one of two vehicles to go electric.
  “Every time we watch gas prices go up a penny or two, we go, ‘Wow, we made the right decision,’ ” said Loh, who runs a small video-production company with his wife, Vicki.
  With pump prices remaining persistently high, the Loh’s are among Lower Mainland consumers being pu
  
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• Bacchus Barua: We should stop demonizing private clinics—and the patients who need them

  26-04-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  On the heels of a new threat from the B.C. government to fine doctors who accept private payment for treatment already covered by the government-run health-care system, a trial — initiated more than seven years ago by a private Vancouver clinic led by Dr. Brian Day — resumed on April 9.
  Day, a former head of the Canadian Medical Association, is fighting to allow privately funded treatment for patients who the public system has failed.
  Just a few days later, data from the Canadian Ins
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan hanging pipeline hat on principle of unanimity

  26-04-2018 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan is downplaying the significance of the 33 B.C. First Nations that signed benefit-sharing agreements with builder Kinder Morgan on the Trans Mountain expansion project.
  “It’s not about majority rule here,” Horgan told reporters when asked during a recent media scrum what he would say to those First Nations.
  “When you are talking about an energy corridor from the border with Alberta to the Coast, you are dealing with dozens and dozens of
  
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• B.C. court orders fake 'doctor' to shut down, stop injecting Botox

  26-04-2018 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  A woman who allegedly forged a medical licence so she could buy drugs has been ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court to stop calling herself a doctor and to stop injecting Botox into the faces of customers.
  Licensed and adequately trained doctors, dentists and registered nurses or nurse practitioners under the supervision of doctors are the only health professionals permitted to perform such cosmetic procedures, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. .
  The College has tried to s
  
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• Whistleblowers to be protected under new B.C. government legislation

  26-04-2018 02:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government has introduced new whistleblower legislation that will protect civil servants from reprisal if they take concerns directly to the independent ombudsperson. But the proposed law offers few safeguards for those who might want to go public with their information instead.
  Attorney General David Eby said legislation he tabled Wednesday will make it illegal for the provincial government to demote, fire or discipline an employee who takes a matter of suspected wrong
  
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• Man accused of nightclub assault has charges stayed due to trial delay

  26-04-2018 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  A man who was accused in the assault of another man at a downtown Vancouver nightclub has had his case thrown out due to unreasonable delay.
  In June 2016, Christopher Irwin was one of five men charged with assaulting Huanghe Guo at the Playhouse Nightclub on New Year’s Eve in December 2015.
  The Crown alleges that Guo had just arrived at the club on Thurlow Street with his girlfriend when he was confronted by the accused and violently attacked.
  Irwin argued that the time between the charges
  
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• DYK money for #IndieLab youth in film bursaries is provided by Film Production in the City? Apply now:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 01:35 via twitter.com
  DYK money for #IndieLab youth in film bursaries is provided by Film Production in the City? Apply now:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• REAL SCOOP: HA win exclusion of Giles trial intercepts

  26-04-2018 01:22 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies sided with lawyers for the Hells Angels Wednesday in ruling that comments back in 2012 that Angel David Giles made to undercover officers should not be admitted as evidence the civil forfeiture case against the biker gang.
  Davies said that the judge that convicted Giles acknowledged he might have been lying in the recorded conversations when he talked of his gang brothers to undercover police.
  Giles was convicted on a series of charges and sentenced in Jan
  
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• Green thumbs descend on VanDusen for 40th annual plant sale

  26-04-2018 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  Margie Daniels was hard at work Wednesday morning helping to prepare the popular pot-luck group of plants for the VanDusen Botanical Garden Plant Sale.
  Part of what she was doing was writing down the common and Latin names for some of the pot-luck plants that are all donated. Unlike plants in the other tents at the sale where everything is carefully grouped by various categories, the plants in pot luck can be for all seasons and for specific conditions such as shade or sun. While they’re m
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Clerk Typist - Finance. Click here to apply. ow.ly/QzMz30jGkBE

  26-04-2018 01:18 via twitter.com
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• Who bound and dumped this poor kitty in the dumpster?

  26-04-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  A cat was left to die after being bound by zip-ties, stuffed inside a box and dropped into a dumpster in Pouce Coupe, and the B.C. SPCA wants to find out who did it.
  According to a news release from the SPCA, the cat — who they know is named Rosie because she has a tattoo and microchip — was found at about 11:30 p.m. Monday in a dumpster outside the Hillcrest Motel.
  A man who was out collecting bottles heard “a soft meowing coming from underneath the piles of garbage,” We
  
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• Richard Elliott: A chance to correct injustice — don’t squander it

  26-04-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  You didn’t transmit HIV. You had no intent to transmit. And indeed you didn’t do anything with your sexual partner that posed a statistically significant risk of transmission. In fact, you might even have used a condom, in keeping with standard safer-sex advice.
  And yet, if you’re living with HIV and someone with whom you’ve had consensual sex — even just once — accuses you of not disclosing your status, you could face prosecution for “aggravated sexual
  
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• Local mountains still snowy, unsafe for hikers despite sunny weather - NEWS 1130 news1130.com/2018/04/25/loc… via @NEWS1130

  26-04-2018 00:52 via twitter.com
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• We want to know: Should we expand our definition of 'heritage' to include such things as parks, trees, community sp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 00:47 via twitter.com
  We want to know: Should we expand our definition of 'heritage' to include such things as parks, trees, community sp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Province seeking pot enforcement czar

  26-04-2018 00:44 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government is seeking a director for its cannabis enforcement unit, which will investigate and shut down unlicensed dispensaries when recreational cannabis becomes legal later this year.
  The new drug czar will be tasked with ferreting out “willful non-compliance” by unlicensed cannabis shops and taking regulatory and criminal enforcement action against them.
  Recreational cannabis could be legal to possess by this August under federal law. In B.C., its sale will likely
  
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• Giant slip-and-slide returns to North Vancouver this summer - Vancouver Courier

  26-04-2018 00:36
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  Giant slip-and-slide returns to North Vancouver this summer
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  Grab an inner tube and slide down Lonsdale Avenue this summer as part of the ever popular Slide the City event in North Vancouver. The 1,000-foot waterslide spans four blocks from Victoria Park to Fourth Street in North Vancouver and will be open from ...
  
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• Giant slip-and-slide returns to North Vancouver this summer

  26-04-2018 00:36
  
  Grab an inner tube and slide down Lonsdale Avenue this summer as part of the ever popular Slide the City event in North Vancouver.
  
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• Federal government appeals immigration order releasing convicted gang gunman

  26-04-2018 00:33 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian government has appealed an immigration order allowing convicted B.C. gunman Aram Ali out of jail pending the gang associate’s deportation to his native Iraq.
  Last Friday, Immigration and Refugee Board member Laura Ko said she believed Ali should be allowed to stay with his family in Calgary until he is removed from the country for serious criminality.
  She ordered the 33-year-old United Nations gang associate released on $5,000 bail and a number of conditions.
  But a lawyer for
  
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• Vancouver is officially the ‘rattiest city in B.C.’

  26-04-2018 00:24
  
  Vancouver has been ranked the "rattiest city in B.C." for the second year in a row by pest control company Orkin Canada.
  
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