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• LNG Canada names contractor to build B.C. export terminal in Kitimat

  27-04-2018 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  LNG Canada announced Friday it has named a main contractor for the $40-billion export terminal and pipeline it plans to build in Kitimat.
  A joint venture between the U.S.-based Fluor Corporation and JGC Corporation, headquartered in Japan, won the contract to be LNG Canada’s engineering, procurement and construction contractor, said Susannah Pierce, director of external relations for LNG Canada. 
  Pierce said the decision was based on the consortium’s plan for health, safety
  
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• TOMORROW: Come help us bust invasive species growing along Bowser Trail. We'll meet at the trail entrance off MacGo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 23:18 via twitter.com
  TOMORROW: Come help us bust invasive species growing along Bowser Trail. We'll meet at the trail entrance off MacGo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Meet the chef: Dan Vichitthavong's star is rising fast

  27-04-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Dan Vichitthavong’s passion for food has taken him across Canada. Beginning in Toronto, Dan worked the line as chef de partie at The Harbord Room and Monofuko Daisho, senior sous chef at Cambridge Mill and head chef at Café 13 Bar and Grill, all before moving to Vancouver in 2016 and landing a junior sous chef role at Ancora Waterfront. Dan joined the Tableau Bar Bistro team in 2017 ,and worked his way from sous chef to head chef in
  
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• Conversations That Matter: LNG in an age of uncertainty

  27-04-2018 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  The premier of British Columbia is standing on his head vowing to stop the increase in the flow of oil from Alberta. At the same time he is greenlighting the development of LNG in his own province.
  LNG is considered to be the cleaner alternative within the family of carbon fuels and the premier wants to see an increase in the amount of it produced in BC. When natural gas prices were high, the tax revenue from natural gas to the province was substantial.
  Then, just as it seemed the indu
  
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• Hey Skate Park users! We need your input to help us design a new skate plaza. We'll be at #CityFest May 5 from 11am… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 22:50 via twitter.com
  Hey Skate Park users! We need your input to help us design a new skate plaza. We'll be at #CityFest May 5 from 11am… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• REAL SCOOP: IHIT wants info on victim's whereabouts before slaying

  27-04-2018 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide investigators want the public to help them determine what Surrey’s most recent murder victim was doing in the hours before he was killed.
  Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Cpl. Frank Jang said Delta resident Amin Vinepal, 24, was found about 3:30 p.m. Thursday on the side of the road in the 17800-block of 12th Avenue. 
  Soon after Vinepal’s body was found, Surrey RCMP received a call about a burning vehicle in the 18700-block of 28th Avenue. 
  
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• Metro Vancouver lawn watering restrictions begin next week

  27-04-2018 22:33 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s lawn watering regulations will begin next week.
  The regional district says Stage 1 water restrictions will commence on Tuesday and remain in place until Oct. 15.
  The move, which is two weeks earlier than last year, is a bid to conserve treated drinking water during the hot and dry summer months. 
  Residents can water their lawn two mornings per week, down from three, with additional adjustments related to watering trees, shrubs and flowers with a sprinkler.
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• Man who shot student in case of mistaken identity gets 12 year

  27-04-2018 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey man who shot a university student in a case of mistaken identity has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
  In February, Saeed Mobeen Rana, 25, was convicted of the April 2016 attempted murder of the 19-year-old student, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban that was imposed to protect him.
  Rana’s trial heard that at the time of the shooting, he and his associates in the drug trade were involved in an escalating dispute with a rival drug group.
  Less than a week before t
  
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• This Week in History: 1988 The Socreds sell the Expo lands

  27-04-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  Thirty years ago, the B.C. government sold the Expo 86 site to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.
  The Social Credit government initially said it received $320 million for the 82-hectare site on the north shore of False Creek. This included a $50 million down payment, and a series of payments as the site was developed.
  But the NDP’s Bob Williams argued the real price was $130 million, because Li was making lump sum payments with no interest over an extended period of time. The government ev
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Communications Operator 3. Click here to apply. ow.ly/1J7a30jIJvw

  27-04-2018 22:19 via twitter.com
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Clerk III. Click here to apply. ow.ly/IB3h30jIGAg

  27-04-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Clerk III.Click here to apply. ow.ly/IB3h30jIGAg
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Vegas Golden Knights may be the biggest story in sports

  27-04-2018 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It was another good week for the Vegas Golden Knights, the impressive expansion franchise that has never lost a Stanley Cup playoff game — now a perfect 5-0 — and appears headed for Bulls of the Year territory as the biggest news of 2018, not only in hockey but in all of North American sport.
  Thursday was also a good night for current and former Pittsburgh Penguins goaltenders, with Matt Murray pacing the two-time defending champions past the Washington Capitals and
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of April 21

  27-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. After Anna — Lisa Scottoline.
  2. The Thief — J.R. Ward.
  3. Shoot First — Stuart Woods.
  4. The Sixth Day — Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison.
  5. I’ve Got My Eyes on You — Mary Higgins Clark.
  6. Red Alert — James Patterson and Marshall Karp.
  7. Circe — Madeline Miller.
  8. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  9. The Disappeared — C.J. Box.
  10. Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste Ng.
   
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week for April 21

  27-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC — Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  2. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  3. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  4. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  5. Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge &mda
  
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• Metro Vancouver board rescinds pay raise, retirement benefit

  27-04-2018 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  After facing significant criticism from the public, Metro Vancouver’s board of directors has rescinded a controversial retroactive retirement allowance and pay raise that its members voted to give themselves last month.
  At a meeting on Friday morning, board vice-chair Raymond Louie introduced a motion to reconsider amendments that were made to the remuneration bylaw.
  “As a result of, I would say, some significant feedback and response, some from the directors themselves, it is approp
  
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• Micro co-op design wins ‘missing middle’ housing competition

  27-04-2018 20:18
  
  Architectural firm's winning design proposes using single-family lots for three-storey "micro-op" schemes, under which households buy and develop a lot with friends
  
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• Yukon and First Nations food on the cusp of a big-bang moment

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Flying over the snowy landscape of Kluane National Park and Reserve in a Cessna 206, I have a close-up of nature’s staggering beauty. It made me hungry.
  Down there, there are no plants, no animals, no edibles but I saw whipped cream, meringue and marshmallow fields. Food stalked my mind because I was in Yukon to experience a First Nations Fire Feast, part of the Yukon Culinary Festival. Yukon isn’t yet a foodie destination, but moves are afoot. Both Yukon and First Nations food are o
  
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• Spa review: The DOUGLAS Body Wrap at Spa by JW Vancouver

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spa by JW Vancouver
  Parq Vancouver (17th floor), 39 Smithe St., 778-370-8700
  The treatment: The DOUGLAS Body Wrap, $235 on weekdays and $245 on weekendsWith summer just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to book in for a bit of full-body pampering. 
  Thankfully, there are a host of great spas in this city to do just that. One of the latest arrivals on the luxury spa scene in Vancouver is the aptly named Spa by JW Vancouver, located within the Parq Vancouver hotel and en
  
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• Peruvian road trip: Cacao’s team learns about Latin American food right from the source

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Some restaurateurs might take their staff on a field trip to a local market or nearby farm. Not Jefferson Alvarez. When he decided his team needed to learn more about the Latin American origins of the food they serve at Kitsilano’s Cacao restaurant, he took them all the way to Lima, Peru.
  “I wanted to show them what it was all about. I wanted to go deep into our roots,” says Alvarez. “If you’re going to learn to cook something, you have to know the best.”
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• Fab 5: Prairie tales

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie books, there’s something about this season’s prairie trend that will endear itself to you. If not, you’ll appreciate the fact that it’s one of the freshest, most interesting trends that’s come into fashion in awhile. With its pretty, ultra-wearable shapes and slight hippie vibe, there’s nothing we don’t love about this look — so whether you decide to go all out or just
  
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• Brian Minter: Itching to grow? Plant these vegetables now

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Few things in the gardening world bring more enjoyment than growing and harvesting fresh, flavourful food from your own garden. 
  Whether you have a traditional garden space, use raised beds, or grow in containers, you can enjoy the satisfaction of producing your own food. The abnormally non-stop, cold, wet weather we’ve experienced this year has certainly delayed the planting of our early cool-loving crops, but there’s still plenty of time.  
  The location of your garden and
  
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• Book review: Death, desire and poetry

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Some End/West Broadway
  George Bowering and George Stanley
  New Star Books | $18, 105 pp.In Some End/West Broadway, their just published “tumble book” from New Star, Canadian poetry icons George Bowering and George Stanley present a compelling argument for our continued attention to their currently unfashionable genre.
  The tumble book format is not entirely new, having a long history in the science fiction products of Ace books in the 60s and 70s. New Star revived this format when it p
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Bring back the tradition of the decanter

  27-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tradition is under assault across most of the wine business. In fact it’s becoming a tradition to bash tradition, especially among those certain the wine business needs to be democratized and — worst of all — de-mystified. If it’s not the snobs that must go, it’s those who fail to simplify the subject.
  After four decades of moving in wine circles I have met very few so-called snobs, at least no more than I have encountered in other areas of life. Typically, tho
  
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• Please note there will be single lane alternating traffic tomorrow (Saturday) from 9am to 5pm at the new #Montroyal… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 19:37 via twitter.com
  Please note there will be single lane alternating traffic tomorrow (Saturday) from 9am to 5pm at the new #Montroyal… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What historic features (buildings, landscapes, etc) make DNV special to you? Come show us! Mark your favourite pla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 19:12 via twitter.com
  What historic features (buildings, landscapes, etc) make DNV special to you? Come show us!Mark your favourite pla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Yep, it's baaack! #FunCityFestival featuring #SlidetheCity 1,000ft water slide down Lonsdale July 21 & 22. Slide ti… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  Yep, it's baaack! #FunCityFestival featuring #SlidetheCity 1,000ft water slide down Lonsdale July 21 & 22. Slide ti… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Yep. We know how to part-ay and we’re bringing back our Summer Fun Festival ‘waterslide central’ July 21 & 22. E… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 17:09 via twitter.com
  Yep.We know how topart-ay and we’re bringing back our Summer Fun Festival ‘waterslide central’ July 21 & 22.E… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver Weather: More sunshine Friday, then rainy weekend

  27-04-2018 16:31 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like Friday will be another gorgeous, sunny day in Metro Vancouver, with highs of 18 C by the water and 22 C inland. You may want to soak up some of that sunshine, as Environment Canada says rain is expected this weekend. The agency says the rain will likely start falling on Saturday morning, and the temperature will be cooler as well, with highs of 13 C. More showers are forecast for Sunday, with the temperature dropping again slightly to highs of 11 C. Don&rsqu
  
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• Town Talk: Canadian Cancer Society's $1.5-million ball focused on survival

  27-04-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  FULL BLOOM: The Canadian Cancer Society’s 22nd annual Daffodil Ball reportedly raised $1.54 million in the Hotel Vancouver’s Pacific Ballroom recently. It will support programs to aid post-cancer patients with physical, emotional and psychological difficulties. You could say that the ball ran like a Swiss watch or Tesla car (a visit to the firm’s California factory was auctioned off), but, as with all such endeavours, a year of committee meetings, auction-item soliciting and ti
  
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• Daily Poll: Are B.C.'s pot laws too strict?

  27-04-2018 15:43 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. tabled legislation on Thursday to pave the way for legal recreational cannabis later this year. The province said it expects to open its first government-operated retail store by late summer, followed by online sales.
  Some of the details include being at least 19 years old to buy pot, stand-alone public and private cannabis stores, which are not allowed to sell alcohol or tobacco alongside the cannabis, a provincial distribution network handled by the Liquor Distribution Branch and a p
  
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• West Vancouver senior defrauded of $800,000 in bank inspector scam

  27-04-2018 14:41 via vancouversun.com
  An elderly West Vancouver resident 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 de
  
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• Changes to recreational cannabis market in B.C. will come slowly

  27-04-2018 06:43 via vancouversun.com
  Who gets to sell legal recreational cannabis and where they get to sell it is about to change, but it won’t be like flipping a switch.
  Established cannabis growers and retailers have no intention of simply disappearing when provincially licensed retailers open for business, said cannabis activist and retailer Dana Larsen.
  “We are going to have a lot of confusion, chaos and civil disobedience,” he said. “You will see continued operation of unlicensed dispensaries for years
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Tankers aside, B.C.'s environmental tool box to be tested in court

  27-04-2018 06:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. New Democrats admitted Thursday their much-vaunted regulatory “tool box” does not include the power to stop tanker traffic in B.C. waters, increased or otherwise.
  This after NDP vows in the last election to use “every tool in the tool box” to stop expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline and an accompanying seven-fold increase in tanker traffic.
  The latest backdown on the supposed tool box is in the proposed legislation being referred to the B.C.
  
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• Opinion: Canada’s energy opportunity is bigger than a pipeline

  27-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Protests. Politics. Polarization. Pipelines are dominating our national discourse once again.
  Is it a serious issue? Certainly. And yet the time and attention it’s consuming risks distracting Canada’s business and political leaders from the much broader and deeper shifts occurring in the world’s energy system.
  Because just as social media upended communications, the transition to clean energy is rapidly undoing century-old expectations around transportation and, yes, oil.
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• Tankers aside, B.C.'s environmental tool box to be tested in court

  27-04-2018 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. New Democrats admitted Thursday their much-vaunted regulatory “tool box” does not include the power to stop tanker traffic in B.C. waters, increased or otherwise.
  This after NDP vows in the last election to use “every tool in the tool box” to stop expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline and an accompanying seven-fold increase in tanker traffic.
  The latest backdown on the supposed tool box is in the proposed legislation being referred to the B.C.
  
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• David Keane: We can build steel products for LNG — but not all of them

  27-04-2018 02:57 via vancouversun.com
  Eric Bohne and Ed Whalen are right to say, as they do in their April 25 op-ed, that “We can build steel products for LNG plants here in B.C.”
  Should a B.C. LNG industry become a reality, there will be job and contracting opportunities for Canada’s steel industry and steelworkers. In fact, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers estimates that the development of the natural gas wells alone for a B.C. LNG industry will require 10,000 tonnes of Canadian steel annually, equ
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, April 27

  27-04-2018 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, April 27.Post Malone
  Austin Richard Post, who goes by the stage name Post Malone, burst onto the scene with his August 2015 single White Iverson. On Friday, he finally releases his debut album, the eye-rollingly titled Beerbongs and Bentleys. And that same day, he performs at Rogers Arena. 
  And if Post Malone isn’t really your jam, go for his opener, SOB x RBE. The Bay Area hip hop ensemble just rel
  
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• Vancouver firm proposes concept for 'missing middle' housing

  27-04-2018 02:43 via vancouversun.com
  A local design company has come up with a way to gently densify neighbourhoods full of single-family houses without overwhelming them with condo towers.
  Vancouver-based Haeccity Studio Architecture was a winner of a competition run by Urbanarium, a local non-profit group that was looking for ways to plug the “missing middle.”
  Missing middle is the concept that there is more to housing than just houses or large condo developments. Architects, planners and academics say the concept mea
  
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• Dan Fumano: Unanswered questions as NPA party mayoral application deadline looms

  27-04-2018 02:01 via vancouversun.com
  Days before the deadline to apply for the Non-Partisan Association’s mayoral nomination, at least one candidate is still seeking clarity on the process, while simultaneously facing attacks seemingly from within his own party.
  The team behind NPA mayoral hopeful Coun. Hector Bremner, who won a seat in October’s byelection, has been seeking details on membership rules and how the “green-light” process will work. But as of Thursday, NPA president Gregory Baker said the
  
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• Last night City Hall lit up green in support of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  Last night City Hall lit up green in support of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: New pot laws are not in the spirit of legalization

  27-04-2018 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  In spite of trail-blazing by several U.S. states, Solicitor General Mike Farnworth seems intent on turning B.C.’s journey to cannabis legalization — a bright future of jobs, tax windfalls and the end of pernicious prosecutions — from a good trip into a bummer.
  The sprawling omnibus legislation the top cop tabled Thursday in the legislature continued the mishandling by both senior levels of government of the transition from nearly a century of enforcing a criminal prohibiti
  
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• Man drives over fire hose, posing risk to firefighters battling East Van blaze

  27-04-2018 01:04 via vancouversun.com
  A large fire at a print shop in East Vancouver is out but Vancouver firefighters find themselves reminding the public again about the risks posed when people interfere with fire hoses.
  The fire at Metropolitan Fine Printers on East Pender Street near Clark Drive flared up late Wednesday evening, forcing nearby streets to be closed. According to reports, no one was injured in the fire.
  The fire appears to have started in one of the printing machines.
  “Fast and careful work” prevented
  
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• Metro Vancouver mayors advocate for new way of looking at elected official remuneration

  27-04-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  If there’s one item municipal politicians dread seeing on a council agenda — even more than public art or welcome signage — it’s remuneration.
  The topic of remuneration, which includes everything from wages and benefits to pensions, is fraught with peril, making council members uncomfortable and drawing the ire of the public. 
  “We hear it all the time: ‘It must be nice to be able to vote on your own salary.’ I tell you, it’s not nice, it&rsquo
  
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• Man who killed and dismembered another man gets life in prison

  27-04-2018 00:44 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey man who murdered and then dismembered another man nearly 10 years ago has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 15 years.
  In April 2013, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Terence Schultes found Ernest Allan Hosack, 46, guilty of the July 2008 second-degree murder of Richard Falardeau, 54.
  Before the slaying, Hosack had been staying at Falardeau’s attic suite in a home on 88th Avenue in Surrey.
  Responding to a missing person’s report filed by the victim&rsq
  
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• Let's work together and change the Canucks' luck

  27-04-2018 00:33 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Canucks and their anguished fans have suffered mightily from bad luck in the NHL Entry Draft.
  Is there something we can do with chicken guts or burning sage to break this curse? Should we sacrifice in honour of Fortuna, controller of destinies?
  It couldn’t hurt.
  In 1970, our hapless hockey heroes lost a spin of the wheel that could have delivered franchise centre Gilbert Perreault and instant respectability. It was a 50-50 shot and they lost to the Buffalo Sabres. That is as
  
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• Manolo Blahnik may not love shoes — but he sure likes creating them

  27-04-2018 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes
  When: May 16 to Jan. 6 
  Where: Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor St. W, Toronto
  Tickets and info: $14 ($8 for students, $12 for seniors); batashoemuseum.caManolo Blahnik admits he doesn’t “love” shoes. 
  It’s a seemingly shocking confession coming from a man who has made a name for himself in the fashion world as one of the most respected footwear designers in the world. Not to mention one of the most prolific.
  Today
  
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• Kinder Morgan's $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion: what we know so far

  27-04-2018 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  Kinder Morgan announced on April 8 it needed to be given certainty that it could build the $7.4-billion expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline through British Columbia by May 31 or it was walking away.
  It pointed the finger at Premier John Horgan’s NDP government, which took power from the B.C. Liberals in 2017. Opposed to the project, Horgan’s government has vowed to restrict bitumen shipments from the Alberta oilsands through B.C. until the province is satisfied spills can b
  
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