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• Extreme Metro Vancouver gas prices hit volunteer cancer-patient drivers

  02-05-2018 23:59 via vancouversun.com
  Extreme gasoline prices in Metro Vancouver are threatening the crucial service provided by 148 volunteers who drive thousands of cancer patients to their treatments.
  With the cost of a litre of regular gas now in the range of $1.60, Pauline Buck, a driver and coordinator for the Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society, said she doesn’t know if her non-profit group “will be able to raise enough money to pay the drivers’ mileage expenses.”
  The volunteer drivers, mostly senior
  
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• Coolest April for Metro Vancouver home sales in 17 years

  02-05-2018 23:45
  
  Metro region saw lowest number of April home sales since 2001; board admits “market conditions are changing” and points to diminished purchasing power
  
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• Future directors 14-19: #IndieFilmmakersLab applications open now. Spend your summer making movies. Need a bursary?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Future directors 14-19: #IndieFilmmakersLab applications open now. Spend your summer making movies. Need a bursary?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver teen to be sentenced as youth for grad party sex assault - North Shore News

  02-05-2018 22:57
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  North Vancouver teen to be sentenced as youth for grad party sex assault
  North Shore News
  A North Vancouver teenager found guilty last fall of aggravated sexual assault and forcible confinement of a teenage girl at an unsanctioned grad party in February 2016 will be sentenced as a youth – not as an adult. Judge Paul Meyers ruled Monday that ...
  
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• Three gangsters in Bacon murder plot slapped with stiff prison sentences

  02-05-2018 22:14 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — Three gangsters who admitted their roles in the 2011 murder plot that left Jonathan Bacon dead and three others wounded were handed lengthy prison terms in B.C. Supreme Court here Wednesday.
  Justice Allan Betton accepted a joint sentencing submission from Crown and defence lawyers for Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones.
  McBride pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and attempted murder, admitting he blasted an AK-47-like automatic rifle at Bacon and others
  
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• Vancouver cop wins award for his work with the LGBTQ2S+ community

  02-05-2018 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police Const. Dale Quiring may face barriers as a straight male cop working as the city’s first LBGTQ2S+ liaison officer, but he wants the community to know he’s in it for the long haul. 
  “I want to be someone they can trust,” said Quiring, who is in Ontario this week to accept a national leadership award for his work with Vancouver’s LGBTQ2S+ community and designing transgender sensitivity training for officers.
  “People in the community sa
  
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• Thoughts on reuniting the District and @CityOfNorthVan? Council is exploring the possibility. Take a quick online s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 21:52 via twitter.com
  Thoughts on reuniting the District and @CityOfNorthVan? Council is exploring the possibility. Take a quick online s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver's Four Seasons Hotel will be closing in 2020

  02-05-2018 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  The luxury Four Seasons hotel in downtown Vancouver will be closing for good on Jan. 31, 2020.
  In a statement, Four Seasons management says the hotel chain and its Vancouver landlord, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, will not be renewing the current lease, which is due to expire in 2020. 
  “Until Four Seasons ceases management, it is business as usual and employees will continue to provide the same legendary service guests have come to expect from Four Seasons,” Four Seasons spokes
  
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• The Home Front: High praise for clay

  02-05-2018 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  The picture that comes to mind when someone says “ceramic tile flooring” isn’t always a positive one, sometimes evoking thoughts of perpetually cold, salmon-coloured squares underfoot.
  That, however, doesn’t have to be the experience, says Catherine Bailey, creative director and owner of Heath Ceramics, the San Francisco tile and tablewares manufacturer that has been around since the late 1940s.  
  “Clay is one of the most versatile materials to work with,&rdquo
  
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• Kasey Wilson: The beauty of pesto

  02-05-2018 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Olwen Woodier’s new pesto compendium is a boon to cooks eager to inject spring freshness into their menus. Count me among them: When I saw a batch of fresh basil at Whole Foods at a good price, I couldn’t wait to get home and make pesto in my two-cup Ninja food processor (it actually holds three cups).
  In The Pesto Cookbook: 116 Recipes for Creative Herb Combinations and Dishes Bursting with Flavour Woodier explains that it’s not necessary to use a traditional mortar and pestle
  
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• Part of our Road Safety Day at Argyle is having students ‘walk the line’ wearing drunk simulator goggles. If you c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 20:51 via twitter.com
  Part of our Road Safety Day at Argyle is having students ‘walk the line’ wearing drunk simulator goggles.If you c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Get ready 4 #CityFest May 5! Tons of FREE fun 4 #youth music, dance, skateboard competition, longboard races + more… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Get ready 4 #CityFest May 5! Tons of FREE fun 4 #youth music, dance, skateboard competition, longboard races + more… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• This Just In: Oscar de la Renta Bella Blanca eau de parfum, Biossance Squalane + Antioxidant Cleansing Oil and TOO FACED Natural Face Palette

  02-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Oscar de la Renta
  Bella Blanca eau de parfum
  They say: Inspired by “nature’s beautiful delights” this scent features notes of sparkling pear, muguet blooms, orange flower, tuberose and creamy sandalwood and white orris. 
  We say: This elegant scent offers a perfect balance between fresh florals and powdery musks. Our tester enjoyed how it dried down to a soft finish that lingered throughout the day. 
  $112 for 100 mL | Hudson’s Bay Biossance
  Squalane +&n
  
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• Spring gardening: Designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan dish on the hottest patio trends

  02-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re looking to master the ABCs of this summer’s patio style, rest assured, you don’t have to venture too far down the alphabet in order to see the trends all spelled out. 
  Update your outdoor space with pops of fresh colour on functional pieces like these lanterns and baskets, both from Walmart Canada.
  “It’s all BBB — Bold, Burst of Bright for outdoors this season, especially with accessories,” Colin McAllister, one half of the Canadian d
  
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• Restaurant review: Aleph Eatery gives peace a chance

  02-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Aleph Eatery
  Where: 1889 Powell Street, 604-428-7975
  Open: Lunch and dinner, Wednesday to Sunday; alepheatery.comIt’s not just the yummy Middle Eastern food, the Instagram-ready white room punctuated by greenery, lively music and welcome feel; what truly endears Aleph Eatery to me is its big hearted philosophy.
  Owner Haitham El Khatib spent 11 years, until he was aged 18, in the world’s largest refugee camp in Lebanon thanks to the Gulf War and wars between Palestine and Is
  
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• We're recruiting for an auxiliary Electrical Inspector. Click here to apply. ow.ly/mQwf30jNzft

  02-05-2018 19:47 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for an auxiliary Electrical Inspector.Click here to apply. ow.ly/mQwf30jNzft
  
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• WeWork's Vancouver footprint continues to expand with third location

  02-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  WeWork, the New York-based office co-working company, has signed a deal to add a third location to Vancouver.
  The seven-year-old start-up will take over five floors at 333 Seymour St., adding over 1,100 desks to Vancouver’s quickly expanding co-working landscape.
  The new space on Seymour is expected to open in September and will increase the total number of desks WeWork has in Vancouver to 3,800, the company said.
  WeWork has been gobbling up office leases at a rate that probably has many t
  
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• Road Safety Day happening at Argyle Secondary School. Students attempting to walk & text while following instructi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  Road Safety Day happening at Argyle Secondary School.Students attempting to walk & text while following instructi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B-Line bus service is coming for Marine-Main corridor! Have your say on the new B-Line + related changes. Take surv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  B-Line bus service is coming for Marine-Main corridor! Have your say on the new B-Line + related changes. Take surv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily poll: Teen's Chinese prom dress: cultural appropriation or appreciation?

  02-05-2018 16:52 via vancouversun.com
  A Washington Post story about a U.S. teen’s prom dress was trending Wednesday, and again igniting a debate about whether a non Chinese teen’s decision to wear a traditional Chinese dress is cultural appropriation. Some argue, including the teen herself, that she was appreciating the culture by wearing the dress, a red cheongsam, also known as a qipao – the high-collared, form-fitting traditional Chinese dress. After Keziah Daum posted her prom photos online, critics were q
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Watch the gripping surveillance video showing the brazen shooting of Jonathan Bacon

  02-05-2018 16:29 via vancouversun.com
  We will learn Wednesday morning whether B.C. Supreme Court Justice Allan Betton will accept a joint sentencing submission for three gangsters who’ve admitted a role in the 2011 Jonathan Bacon murder case.
  Crown and defence lawyers for Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones were in negotiations for weeks on how to bring the long-running prosecution to a close. The accused agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges – McBride to second-degree murder and attempted murder, while
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Blue skies and balmy

  02-05-2018 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Wednesday’s weather in Metro Vancouver looks sunny and pleasantly warm, especially inland, where temperatures are expect to reach 20 C. Closer to the water the highs are 16 C, with plenty of sunshine for the region, according to Environment Canada. The agency forecasts more sunshine on Thursday with a few clouds thrown into the mix. Then rain on Friday before a sunny Saturday to kick off the weekend.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly sunny. High 16 C except 20 C
  
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• Surrey peacocks 'pushed me to the edge,' says homeowner who cut down nesting tree

  02-05-2018 15:23 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey homeowner’s decision to cut down a tree that was a popular roost for some of the more than 100 peacocks and peahens that call Sullivan Heights home has reignited debate about how to deal with the area’s burgeoning bird population.
  Parm Brar said that after years of dealing with the wailing, pooping birds in his yard, he had no choice but to fell the tree on Monday.
  “They pushed me to the edge. I tried everything,” Brar said.Every evening, about 40 peacocks and pe
  
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• Majority of daycare providers have applied for fee reduction program, says province

  02-05-2018 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  About 60 per cent of eligible daycare providers in B.C. have now applied for a program aimed at reducing fees for parents, according to new figures from the provincial government.
  But the plan continues to be plagued by delays and concerns from child-care providers, and parents who are frustrated they are not seeing the savings they had anticipated.
  The Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative is part of the province’s three-year, billion-dollar child-care plan, and is meant to cut daycare cost
  
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• Syrian refugees: Two years later, most are happy in B.C. — but are struggling financially

  02-05-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Two years after their arrival, government-assisted refugees from Syria are showing significant improvements with English, are more likely to find employment and are making friends, says a report released today by the Immigrant Services Society of B.C.
  The ISS study, conducted by phone in Arabic, followed 241 adult Syrian GARS and looked at employment, income, health, housing, language and education to get a sense of how they were doing. 
  “We’re trying to alert the public to how
  
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• Greg McConnell: Aviation safety: Action speaks louder than words

  02-05-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Transport Minister Marc Garneau frequently says safety is his top priority. I have no reason to doubt his sincerity. But his senior officials at Transport Canada are doing their best to make him look foolish when he declares that nothing else is more important.
  This reality was laid bare by last week’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) report on the crash that killed former Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and three others in October 2016.
  The TSB took issue with the fact that Transport Canada
  
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• Reactivated rail line a headache for Strathcona residents

  02-05-2018 04:31 via vancouversun.com
  Every couple of nights Su-Laine Brodsky is woken up by a giant crash outside her bedroom window.
  Brodsky lives beside a railway line in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood. For years it was barely used, but CN recently started using it for freight traffic.
  “We’ve got freight trains running through this predominately residential area 24-7,” said Brodsky.
  “Trains are running day and night, and they’re often doing really loud operations. It’s not just goin
  
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• Vancouver city council reconvenes following 'historic' housing protest

  02-05-2018 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  The protesters who shut down Vancouver City Hall on Tuesday morning called the action “historic.” Indeed, none of the elected officials, who were forced to hold a quick al-fresco council meeting in the city-hall garden, could remember a day quite like it.
  Tuesday’s blockade sought to shut down city-hall operations for the day, according to a statement early that morning from the organizers with the Our Homes Can’t Wait Coalition, citing their “demand” that an
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Guilty pleas entered in Jon Bacon murder plot

  02-05-2018 04:24 via vancouversun.com
  We will learn Wednesday morning whether B.C. Supreme Court Justice Allan Betton will accept a joint sentencing submission for three gangsters who’ve admitted a role in the 2011 Jonathan Bacon murder case.
  Crown and defence lawyers for Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones were in negotiations for weeks on how to bring the long-running prosecution to a close. The accused agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges – McBride to second-degree murder and attempted murder, while
  
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• Tax on high-value homes stirs protest, security concerns

  02-05-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson may have crossed a line when he encouraged homeowners opposed to higher school taxes to crash a community discussion that Attorney-General David Eby had planned for Tuesday night, says one political scientist.
  Eby cancelled the town hall meeting in his Vancouver-Point Grey constituency hours before it was slated to start, citing concerns that the meeting could not be held safely. Earlier, Wilkinson had sent letters to Vancouver-Point Grey residents who l
  
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• Vancouver homeless count sees small overall increase and a surge in people living on the street

  02-05-2018 03:46 via vancouversun.com
  A year after Vancouver saw a big surge in homelessness, growth in the city’s homeless population has slowed but data is also showing more people living on the street than ever.
  According to a Tuesday media release from the city, the official Homeless Count conducted on March 13 found 2,181 people were “facing homelessness,” 43 more than in 2017; 52 per cent of those counted reported they’d been homeless for less than a year. 
  That’s just a two per cent rise fro
  
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• Guilty pleas in 2011 gangland shooting that shook Kelowna

  02-05-2018 03:17 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — Three men who brought gangland terror to downtown Kelowna pleaded guilty Tuesday for their roles in the brazen 2011 execution of Red Scorpion boss Jonathan Bacon.
  Prosecutor David Ruse said the retaliatory attack targeting Bacon, Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach was made worse by where and how it happened — in front of the Delta Grand Hotel around 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2011.
  “It is difficult to imagine a more public place to attempt thi
  
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• Former Hells Angel testifies at clubhouse civil-forfeiture trial

  02-05-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  Before he became a member of the Hells Angels, David Atwell says his criminal activity was “minimal” and involved a “couple of assaults, some drug use.”
  “But as a full-patch Hells Angel, I was able to buy kilos of cocaine without being questioned why and where it was going,” Atwell told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies on Tuesday.
  Atwell, who first became involved in the notorious motorcycle club at Toronto in late 1999 and from 2005-07 acted as a polic
  
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• Sergio Marchi: Canada is not standing still on energy issues

  02-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The authors of an opinion piece, “Canada’s Energy Opportunity is Bigger Than a Pipeline,” published in The Vancouver Sun on April 27 contend that Canada is being diverted by the pipeline debate from focusing on other critical energy issues. They say this is undermining our transition to a cleaner future. I believe they are selling our country short.
  Canada is more than capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. Just consider some of the realities that define our
  
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• Josef Filipowicz: Province wants more rental units — but will municipalities follow through?

  02-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Horgan government recently introduced legislation aimed at housing affordability, which — among other things — would grant municipalities the power to zone for rental-only housing, ostensibly to preserve and expand the supply of rental units in the province’s tightest housing markets. Indeed, with Metro Vancouver’s vacancy rate consistently below one per cent, there’s a clear need to boost the rental stock as quickly as possible.
  However while this proposed refo
  
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• Look what @NorthVanCityLib is wheeling outside. It’s a bike library we call , wait for it.....‘Spokes n Words’.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 02:53 via twitter.com
  Look what @NorthVanCityLib is wheeling outside. It’s a bike library we call , wait for it.....‘Spokes n Words’.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. and Ottawa sign marijuana tax-sharing deal

  02-05-2018 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. has signed on to Ottawa’s tax for legalized marijuana, though the province has not yet decided whether to share the money with local communities.
  Finance Minister Carole James signed the “coordinated cannabis taxation agreement” with the federal government late last week, formalizing Ottawa’s offer to share 75 per cent of pot revenue with provinces and territories. The federal government had originally proposed a 50-50 split, but caved in December to
  
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• California firms cultivate cannabis investors at Vancouver forum

  02-05-2018 02:12 via vancouversun.com
  Canada and California have reached an interesting confluence of money and knowhow on the road to legalizing cannabis, stateside pot entrepreneur Steve DeAngelo argues.
  “I call it the powerhouse combination,” said DeAngelo, winding up his sales pitch for the investment conference his ArcView Group is hosting in Vancouver this week.
  “The biggest impact of legalization in Canada for us in the U.S., and really around the world, is opening up public (investment) markets to cannabis,
  
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• Buyers, be warned: fixed mortgage rates going up at Big Banks

  02-05-2018 02:07
  
  Bond yields at a seven-year high, which means buyers looking for fixed-rate mortgages need to act fast
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular part-time Sustainable Transportation Coordinator. Click here to apply. ow.ly/V0gD30jMFz0

  02-05-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular part-time Sustainable Transportation Coordinator.Click here to apply. ow.ly/V0gD30jMFz0
  
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• Maple Ridge man attempts world-record ride on SkyTrain

  02-05-2018 01:57 via vancouversun.com
  A Maple Ridge man will be trying to set a Guinness world record for the fastest time travelling the entire SkyTrain system.
  On Friday, Stephen Quinlan plans to ride to all 53 stations on the Expo, Millennium, Canada and Evergreen lines in under the three hours stipulated by Guinness and set a world record — the first — for travel on the Lower Mainland’s rapid-transit line.
  “We start at Richmond Brighouse at about 1:30 p.m., then we aim to be at VCC-Clark, hopefully, befor
  
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• Surrey peacocks 'pushed me to the edge,' says homeowner

  02-05-2018 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey homeowner’s decision to cut down a tree that was a popular roost for some of the more than 100 peacocks and peahens that call Sullivan Heights home has reignited debate about how to deal with the area’s burgeoning bird population.
  Parm Brar said that after years of dealing with the wailing, pooping birds in his yard, he had no choice but to fell the tree on Monday.
  “They pushed me to the edge. I tried everything,” Brar said.Every evening, about 40 peacocks and pe
  
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• So you gonna come slide with us? #FunCityFestival + #SlidetheCity return July 21 & 22. Tickets on sale now.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  So you gonna come slide with us? #FunCityFestival + #SlidetheCity return July 21 & 22. Tickets on sale now.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Review: Vancouver Opera Festival opens with two hits

  02-05-2018 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  Two anchor productions for Vancouver Opera’s second festival opened on the weekend, and both are hits.
  First up was The Overcoat, at the Vancouver Playhouse, a co-commission with Toronto’s Tapestry Opera. It’s a new work with a convoluted origin story. Back in the 1990s Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling created an extraordinary blending of music and movement — a live-action silent film, if you like — to evocative music by Shostakovich.
  This was the launching pad for t
  
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