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• This week's #CityView e-news is ready for you. Get a quick update of the latest City headlines & events right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 23:40 via twitter.com
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• This week, Mayor Walton and Council presented an accomplished group of young people who are making a difference in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 22:27 via twitter.com
  This week, Mayor Walton and Council presented an accomplished group of young people who are making a difference in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Metro Vancouver transit mega project costs should be broken down, say experts

  03-05-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink must release more information about the specific costs involved in building a pair of multi-billion-dollar rail projects in Metro Vancouver, say public infrastructure experts.
  Otherwise, the public won’t trust the figures that are revealed and confidence in the projects could wane.
  “I’ve not been happy with the transparency of the process from the beginning,” said Patrick Condon, an urban design professor at the University of B.C.
  On Monday, TransLink released t
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Section Manager - Parks Operations. Click here to apply. ow.ly/PurW30jP2bv

  03-05-2018 21:29 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Section Manager - Parks Operations.Click here to apply. ow.ly/PurW30jP2bv
  
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• #SummerSessions concerts return July 14. Check out this year's lineup: cnv.org/SummerSessions #NorthVan https://t.co/GS4lFuBJRu

  03-05-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  
  #SummerSessions concerts return July 14. Check out this year's lineup: cnv.org/SummerSessions#NorthVan https://t.co/GS4lFuBJRu
  
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• This weekend's BMO Marathon, Fiesta Run launch May's wild run calendar

  03-05-2018 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re a runner, or a run-happy tourist, you’re probably well aware of Saturday afternoon’s inaugural La Gran Fiesta Run at Burnaby Lake and Sunday’s annual BMO Vancouver Marathon, which just topped the 17,000 entry mark — that’s amazing and a new record.
  I’ll be running in both epic events, and providing race-day photos and twisted tales from both. It promises to be an exciting and memorable weekend in the Lower Mainland. The weather forecasts are gr
  
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• New Douglas Coupland art installation unveiled this month at Vancouver Aquarium

  03-05-2018 19:09 via vancouversun.com
  Famous writer and local artist Douglas Coupland’s latest art installation, an interpretation of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch called Vortex, will be unveiled later this month at the Vancouver Aquarium.
  The Generation X author’s latest work, which will be open to the public May 18, is an exploration of Coupland’s evolving relationship with plastic, according to a news release from Ocean Wise and the aquarium.
  Aquarium CEO and Ocean Wise president John Nightingale said more tha
  
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• Have you shared your thoughts with @TransLink yet? Their survey closes on May 11. twitter.com/TransLink/stat…

  03-05-2018 19:09 via twitter.com
  Have you shared your thoughts with @TransLink yet? Their survey closes on May 11.twitter.com/TransLink/stat…
  
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• Carr picks up speed as choice for Vancouver mayor: poll

  03-05-2018 18:54 via vancouversun.com
  Green Party of Vancouver councillor Adriane Carr is gaining momentum as Vancouverites top pick for mayor, suggests a new poll.
  The Research Co. survey of Vancouver residents found more than a third of Vancouverites (35 per cent) think Carr would be a “good choice” for mayor, a nine-point increase since a Research Co. poll conducted in early April.
  You can catch up on who is running for mayor of Vancouver here.
  Following Carr, the favoured contenders, according to the poll, are Vision
  
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• Douglas Todd: Whether its sex or yoga, Canada's campuses increasingly divided

  03-05-2018 18:52 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian universities are being torn apart over gender, race and sexuality in ways that threaten their mission as forums for authentic discussion, maintains a new book by a noted dean of law and university president.
  Peter MacKinnon’s book says the public is bewildered by explosive campus incidents involving allegations of sexual harassment, racial genocide, transgender phobia, bullying, trigger warnings, censorship and even the banning of yoga.
  University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate
  
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• Longtime Vancouver Aquarium director John Nightingale to step down

  03-05-2018 18:49 via vancouversun.com
  After a quarter of a century, John Nightingale is leaving the Vancouver Aquarium a radically different organization than the one he came to in 1993.
  Only the second director in the aquarium’s 62-year history, Nightingale announced Thursday that he would be retiring at the end of 2018, triggering a global search for his replacement.
  “On the mission side, I will carry on my interest in oceans and ocean conservation. Some of how I work on that will change,” he said in an interview
  
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• Concert Announcement: Pink coming back to Rogers Arena in 2019

  03-05-2018 18:48 via vancouversun.com
  Pop star Pink, who will play Rogers Arena on May 12, has announced a return date to Vancouver in 2019.
  The singer has extended her Beautiful Trauma World Tour into 2019 with an additional 37 spring dates across North America including an April 5 stop back at Rogers Arena.
  Tickets, which range from $59.70 to $259.70 (plus fees), for the 2019 show go on sale through Ticketmaster on May 1 at 10 a.m. You might also like:
  
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• We've got #FilmBursaries for City youth to attend #IndieLab filmmaking camps this summer. Apply by May 27. More inf… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  We've got #FilmBursaries for City youth to attend #IndieLab filmmaking camps this summer. Apply by May 27. More inf… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver's Playland kicks off 2018 season on Saturday, May 5

  03-05-2018 16:52 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s favourite amusement park reopens this weekend. Playland has announced that it will officially kick off the 2018 season on May 5.
  That means you can ride the Wooden Roller Coaster, which taunts Vancouver residents with its promise of a wild and rickety good time all winter long, as early as this Saturday. 
  And you definitely should. TheWooden Roller Coaster, the oldest of its kind in Canada, turns 60 years old this year.
  It’s not the only PNE attraction celebrating a
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think there should be CCTV surveillance in Vancouver's Granville Entertainment District?

  03-05-2018 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver has decided against installing surveillance cameras in the Granville Entertainment District, like they do in other big cities such as London. 
  The downtown Granville strip has a history of public disorder problems, ad there has been a call for CCTV cameras for years. But the city says it won’t be able to conduct regular CCTV surveillance in the Granville Entertainment District while complying with B.C.’s privacy laws. Staff also cited cost implica
  
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• B.C. shellfish industry reeling from oyster-linked illnesses

  03-05-2018 15:56 via vancouversun.com
  A norovirus outbreak linked to people eating raw oysters from farms in south and central Baynes Sound has hurt B.C.’s entire shellfish industry, a growers’ association said Wednesday.
  Federal officials closed four farms as a precaution after the outbreak began in early March.
  But despite the fact the illness was traced to a limited geographic area, all B.C. growers have felt the effects of public health warnings, said Darlene Winterburn, executive director of the B.C. Shellfish Growe
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Another sizzler before rain on Friday

  03-05-2018 15:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It should be another balmy day in Metro Vancouver Thursday, with temperatures set to spike to 22 C inland, and 18 near the water. The toasty weather will likely take a turn tomorrow, with Environment Canada predicting rain and a cooler 14 C. The mercury is expected to climb back up on Saturday to highs of 18, but with a mix of sun and cloud, and then rain again on Sunday.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. High 18 C except 22 C inland. UV index 7
  
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• Rental-only zones in B.C. could result in lower land prices: experts

  03-05-2018 10:00
  
  "If you can pull all these (incentives) together … you can start to make rental and non-market rental a viable thing to build," says head of Union of B.C. Municipalities committee
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: From activist to Artful Dodger, Eby defends dysfunctional status quo

  03-05-2018 06:43 via vancouversun.com
  A once-celebrated activist speaking truth to power, since taking office B.C. Attorney-General David Eby has performed more like the Artful Dodger, tap-dancing around the dysfunctional status quo.
  His tactic is to concede there’s a problem, insist he’s working on it, and plead that it just takes time.
  “On the legal aid front, I certainly wouldn’t want to be in the job of defending our current system,” he said in an interview, as if that wasn’t precisely hi
  
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• Playland kicks off 2018 season on Saturday, May 5

  03-05-2018 06:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s favourite amusement park reopens this weekend. Playland has announced that it will officially kick off the 2018 season on May 5.
  That means you can ride the Wooden Roller Coaster, which taunts Vancouver residents with its promise of a wild and rickety good time all winter long, as early as this Saturday. 
  And you definitely should. TheWooden Roller Coaster, the oldest of its kind in Canada, turns 60 years old this year.
  It’s not the only PNE attraction celebrating a
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver says new housing taxes more cash cow than crisis solver

  03-05-2018 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The last time a B.C. NDP government brought in a tax surcharge on high-value homes, the move was both ideologically driven and wrong-headed.
  “We let our doctrinal beliefs about ‘the wealthy must pay’ blind us to reality,” wrote then-Premier Mike Harcourt in a memoir published after he left office. “The basic premise of why we were doing this had more to do with left-wing bias than shrewd political thinking.”
  The Harcourt government announ
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: From activist to Artful Dodger, Eby defends disfunctional status quo

  03-05-2018 04:08 via vancouversun.com
  A once-celebrated activist speaking truth to power, since taking office B.C. Attorney-General David Eby has performed more like the Artful Dodger, tap-dancing around the dysfunctional status quo.
  His tactic is to concede there’s a problem, insist he’s working on it, and plead that it just takes time.
  “On the legal aid front, I certainly wouldn’t want to be in the job of defending our current system,” he said in an interview, as if that wasn’t precisely hi
  
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• Five Things to Know: BMO Vancouver Marathon

  03-05-2018 03:45 via vancouversun.com
  The BMO Vancouver Marathon runs this Sunday, May 6, beginning at 8:30 a.m at Queen Elizabeth Park. 
  With $40,000 in prize money up for grabs, the road race, one of Vancouver’s signature events, will attract some of the top distance runners from around the world. 
  Jonathan Chesoo of Kenya enters the event with the strongest personal best among the field, having run the full marathon in 2:10:57 back in 2011. Chesoo also placed second in the 2015 Calgary Marathon befo
  
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• UBC professor gets ready for launch of mission to Mars

  03-05-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  A University of B.C. geophysicist is excited to be pulling an all-nighter to witness the launch of a historic mission to Mars. 
  Prof. Catherine Johnson and an international NASA team have been working for close to a decade on what would be the first interplanetary launch from the U.S. West Coast. 
  The mission is to put a spacecraft lander called InSight in the Elysium Planitia region in Mars’ northern hemisphere. Its goal is to test the interior of the red planet. 
  “We
  
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• B.C. SPCA to hold naming contest for Surrey-born foal

  03-05-2018 03:39 via vancouversun.com
  Got a good name for a horse, but don’t own a horse that you can name?
  The B.C. SPCA is set to hold a naming contest for a foal born to a mare recently at the society’s horse barn in Surrey.
  The society is hoping that the contest will also help raise awareness about horses needing adoption, the SPCA’s Lorie Chortyk said in an email.
  There are 28 horses in the SPCA’s care currently looking for homes. The B.C. SPCA seized 77 horses in 2017.
  The contest begins Thursday and wi
  
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• Former HA denies $500,000 payment was behind him becoming agent

  03-05-2018 03:30 via vancouversun.com
  A former Hells Angel denied a suggestion Wednesday by a lawyer for the notorious motorcycle club that he was motivated financially to turn on the club and become a police agent.
  David Atwell, who confirmed that he was paid $500,000 to become an agent and target the Hells Angels, made the comment while he was being cross-examined in court at the trial at which the B.C. government is seeking to forfeit three Hells Angels’ clubhouses.
  Joseph Arvay, a lawyer for the club, suggested to Atwell t
  
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• Vancouver moves forward with nightlife measures, but no CCTV

  03-05-2018 03:21 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver council moved ahead Wednesday with several liquor and nightlife-related measures, including booze in grocery stores, liquor-primary patios downtown, and front line anti-harassment workers at bars and clubs.
  But one idea that’s off the menu for now, following a comprehensive staff review, is installing surveillance cameras in the Granville Entertainment District.
  The downtown Granville strip, which includes a large concentration of liquor-primary establishments and a disproportion
  
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• Seven things to do May 4-10: Wet, Mamma Mia!, Playland, more

  03-05-2018 03:20 via vancouversun.com
  Wet
  When: May 8 -27, 8 p.m.
  Where: The Russian Hall
  Tickets and info: From $25, theatrewire.comThe mental, emotional and physical repercussions of war on civilians are well documented. But it’s really only recently that combatants have been put under the same level of observation. In playwright David James Brock’s play Wet, a Canadian soldier returns home from Afghanistan to her husband and young daughter and is anything but her old self. As the family unravels, things get much worse
  
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• Province wants new deal with cities for intersection-camera revenue

  03-05-2018 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government wants to renegotiate how it shares traffic-ticket revenue with municipalities as it prepares to generate even more money from new, automated, intersection speed cameras.
  The Union of B.C. Municipalities said Wednesday that the province has served it with formal notice to begin consultations to change the traffic-fine-revenue sharing program. That program has given town and city governments the net revenue from roadside tickets for offences like speeding and d
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, May 3

  03-05-2018 01:42 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, May 3.The Sorority: Pledge Tour
  The Sorority are an all-female hip hop quartet hailing from Toronto, and they’re great. As a recent CBC article explains, not only are they just generally excellent at music, but they’re working to “bring back femininity and solidarity amongst women in a historically male-dominated arena.” Check out the track below, then once you’re convinced of t
  
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• Got Poop? We've Got Bins, red ones, and even a map to show you where they're located. #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Got Poop? We've Got Bins, red ones, and even a map to show you where they're located. #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Uptick in B.C. Lyme disease cases attributed to new test, increased awareness

  03-05-2018 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  Confirmed and reported cases of Lyme disease in B.C. have at least doubled in just a few years, largely because of more sensitive diagnostic testing being used as well as greater awareness on the part of doctors.
  “When we saw the increase we were surprised and concerned so we spent time looking at it to try to determine if it’s due to a real increase or to a change in the methods and we concluded that it is mostly due to a change at the provincial lab wi
  
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• Surrey to organize community meeting to solve peacock problem

  03-05-2018 01:14 via vancouversun.com
  A muster of as many as 100 or more peacocks are continuing to rufflle feathers in the Surrey neighbourhood of Sullivan Heights.
  The peacocks have grown into a jurisdictional headache for government officials.
  The City of Surrey says it has taken action against people feeding the feral peacocks but legally, that’s about it.
  “Unfortunately, we don’t have the authority nor are we the experts to capture them and relocate them,” said Jas Rehal, the manager of public safety res
  
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• Katrina Koehn: Seniors with HIV face more stigma than those with other illnesses

  03-05-2018 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver was bustling with HIV-related researchers, community groups, politicians and people living with HIV from across Canada attending the 27th annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research this past weekend.
  Amid the usual throng of attention-grabbers, like new research on HIV vaccines, there was a quieter groundswell about something that remains surprising to many: People with HIV are getting old.  
  The evolution of the HIV epidemic in B.C. has brought us into uncharted territo
  
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