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• B.C. government expands farmers market coupon program

  05-05-2018 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has expanded a coupon program that helps lower-income residents and expectant mothers buy food at their local farmers market.
  On Saturday, Health Minister Adrian Dix and Agriculture Minister Lana Popham announced an additional $750,00 investment into the B.C. Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program, which will provide eligible households weekly coupons worth $21, up from $15. The ministers expect more than 3,900 participants by 2020, up from the current 3,708. 
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• CityFest. Til 4pm. City Skate Park. Your City celebrating youth in a big way. cnv.org/CityFest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 21:51 via twitter.com
  CityFest. Til4pm. City Skate Park.Your City celebrating youth in a big way. cnv.org/CityFest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Aaaand, they’re off! Longboard race at CityFest is ON! Tons going on here till 4pm @ City Skate Park.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  Aaaand, they’re off! Longboard race at CityFest is ON!Tons going on here till 4pm @ City Skate Park.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• THE youth event of the year is underway! Don't miss #CityFest TODAY until 4pm @ City Skate Park.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  THE youth event of the year is underway! Don't miss #CityFest TODAY until 4pm @ City Skate Park.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What a transformation #FootofLonsdale before & after. cnv.org/FootofLonsdale #NorthVan https://t.co/ReO2w2AXQd

  05-05-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  
  What a transformation #FootofLonsdale before & after. cnv.org/FootofLonsdale #NorthVan https://t.co/ReO2w2AXQd
  
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• Adera's Crest to take its place in Central Lonsdale

  05-05-2018 15:16 via vancouversun.com
  Rhys Leitch liked the design of Adera’s new Crest residential development in North Vancouver’s Central Lonsdale district so much he decided to buy a unit in the complex.
  There’s nothing unusual about that, until you learn that Leitch is a principal and lead project designer for Crest’s architects, Integra Architecture Inc.
  “I am most proud of the fact that I want to live there — and will be living there,” said the Aussie transplant. “I have done a
  
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• The Home Front: Home-made to self-made, the evolution of the craft industry

  05-05-2018 15:09 via vancouversun.com
  When Andrea and Robert Tucker, owners of East Hasting’s London Fields Shoppe, first launched Got Craft in 2007, they had 20 vendors and 500 attendees. Robert says the craft show, which runs today and tomorrow at East Vancouver’s Maritime Labour Centre, now includes over 80 vendors and attracts a crowd of over 5,000, and reflects the way the craft industry has changed over the past 10 years.
  “Over the last decade, the quality, and what people are making, has chang
  
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• Sold (Bought): Cloverdale townhome attracts plenty of interest

  05-05-2018 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  105 — 18777 68A Avenue, Cloverdale
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 1,301 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $473,000
  Listed for: $529,900
  Sold for: $560,000
  Sold on: March 5
  Days on market: Six
  Listing agent: Scott Moe, Toni Kelly and Joseph Poulin at ReMax Treeland Realty
  Buyers agent: Natasha Marjanovic at Oakwyn Realty
  The big sell: Listing agent Scott Moe, reports that 11 offers were submitted for this two-b
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Ex-Angel has chippy exchange with govt lawyer

  05-05-2018 08:52 via vancouversun.com
  Fred Widdifield was clearly not happy to be brought from prison to testify for the Director of Civil Forfeiture in its case against his former biker gang.
  He had a few testy exchanges with Brent Olthuis who was questioning Widdifield about the decades he spent as a member of the Nanaimo Hells Angels – one of three defendants in the director’s bid to get three clubhouses forfeited.
  Here’s my story:Former biker brought from prison to testify at Hells Angels case A founding m
  
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• Melody Ma: Amazon not a 'big win' for the Vancouver technology sector

  05-05-2018 05:57 via vancouversun.com
  Amazon announced that it will open a new satellite office with 3,000 new technology jobs in Vancouver. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Gregor Robertson heralded the announcement, with the mayor saying it was a “big win for the Vancouver economy.” But it isn’t. Not only will Amazon’s influx of jobs add more strain to the housing affordability situation, it will also strain our technology labour market, potentially negatively impacting the very sector that it is sup
  
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• Vancouver Sun reporters win coveted NNA Award for year's best project

  05-05-2018 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  Journalists Dan Fumano and Matt Robinson of The Vancouver Sun won National Newspaper Awards Friday in recognition of their achievements in investigative reporting.
  Fumano and Robinson won for Project of the Year for their extensive probe into the case of Phillip Tallio, a Bella Coola man who has been in prison for 34 years for a murder he says he didn’t commit.
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  Fumano and Robinson’s in-depth series followed Tallio’s appeal of his 1983 conviction in the
  
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• Stephen Hunt: Send in the Sedins to solve pipeline impasse

  05-05-2018 03:32 via vancouversun.com
  In case you haven’t been following along on your phones, the next great UFC pay-per-view will not be a rematch of Mayweather-McGregor. Nor will it be Trump versus Comey. Or Stormy. Or Mueller. Or Kim Jong-un. Or Mexico.
  It may well be, representing the NDP, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley versus, also repping the NDP, British Columbia Premier John Horgan, in a battle to build a Kinder Morgan pipeline.
  Things are so bad between B.C. and Alberta that Prime Minister Trudeau had to mediate
  
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• Former biker brought from prison to testify at Hells Angels case

  05-05-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  A founding member of the Nanaimo Hells Angels suggested Friday that he had been unfairly convicted in an extortion case because of his membership in the notorious biker club.
  Robert “Fred” Widdifield was brought from prison as a witness in the civil trial to determine if three Hells Angels clubhouses in east Vancouver, Nanaimo and Kelowna should be forfeited to the B.C. government.
  When asked by government lawyer Brent Olthuis if he had a criminal record, Widdifield said: “I wa
  
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• Busy days at Canada Place signal potential limits to growth of cruise sector: industry association

  05-05-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s cruise terminal at Canada Place will experience its first ‘full house’ of three ships Sunday in what is expected to be a banner year, but the cruise business might be hitting its limits, an industry association warns.
  This season the Port of Vancouver is expecting 32 ships to make 241 separate calls on Vancouver with 895,000 passengers, a seven per cent jump from 2017. But it is a volume that is starting to squeeze existing facilities, said cruise industry represent
  
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• Thanks to $400K from @Richardson_INTL, we have a gorgeous new water feature at the Foot of Lonsdale Plaza. Mayor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  Thanks to $400K from @Richardson_INTL, we have a gorgeous new water feature at the Foot of Lonsdale Plaza. Mayor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tamara Vrooman: Aga Khan Network strives to improve lives

  05-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  At a conference earlier this year, I moderated a panel on the role that values-based banks and credit unions can play in gender inclusion and equality.
  The conversation was at times discouraging — showing just how much work there is to be done on this issue around the world — but what stood out for me was a story of both courage and inspiration.
  It was about a bank in Afghanistan that opened the country’s first ever women-only branch. There are constant barriers in Afghanistan
  
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• Editorial: Amazon expansion in Vancouver a mixed blessing

  05-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  There is much to applaud in the announcement this week that online retailer Amazon will occupy 415,000 square feet of new office space to be built as part of the redevelopment of the Canada Post building on West Georgia Street in Vancouver. Plans call for two towers to be built on the existing structure, adding 1.1 million square feet of office space while preserving the character of the heritage building. Amazon is expected to employ 3,000 high-tech workers at the site. 
  The announcement b
  
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• Andrew Weaver: 20th century solutions won't solve 21st century challenges

  05-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Despite the Trudeau government’s mantra that “the economy and the environment go hand in hand,” its public policy on fossil fuel projects like Kinder Morgan still suggests we must trade one for the other. The federal climate plan, for example, fundamentally hinges on a quid pro quo of fossil-fuel development for climate action. By perpetuating this notion, Canada is missing out on the opportunity to truly unify our economic and environmental objectives, by pairing innovation in
  
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• Palmer: LNG terminal on verge of approval under John Horgan: who knew?

  05-05-2018 02:36 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats continue to see hopeful developments on the liquefied natural gas front, confounding expectations of some of their critics and perhaps even a few of their friends.
  “Canadian LNG plant selects contractor, edges closer to reality,” was the headline on a recent story from the Reuters news agency, initially datelined out of Tokyo.
  “Shell’s LNG Canada nudges ahead,” was the way Bloomberg put the news — adding, mindful of discourag
  
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• Roundhouse Radio sold, will cease broadcasting on Sunday

  05-05-2018 02:33 via vancouversun.com
  Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver has announced that it will cease operations this weekend.
  Per a news release, Roundhouse — call letters CIRH — has accepted an offer from an outside company to take over the station.
  Pending CRTC approval of the deal, Roundhouse Radio will go off the air for good at 6 p.m. on May 6, 2018.
  Curiously, Roundhouse was actually set to go off air last week due to a desperate need for more cash flow in the form of investors. But on Monday afternoon, station C
  
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• Vancouver announces big non-market housing project

  05-05-2018 02:28 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver is beefing up its long-term rental stock by allowing development of 1,039 co-op homes on seven city-owned sites, from the Downtown Eastside to the new River District south of Marine Drive.
  And the non-profit developer is touting this model as the answer to Metro Vancouver’s rental housing shortage.
  The co-op housing, styled after the co-op rentals built in the 1980s and ’90s, but self-sustaining, will provide homes for 2,000 Vancouverites who are part of househo
  
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• Hey #Youth! Don't sleep too late Saturday, #CityFest starts at 11am! Live music, skateboard comp, longboard races,… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Hey #Youth! Don't sleep too late Saturday, #CityFest starts at 11am! Live music, skateboard comp, longboard races,… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Some @TranBC and DNV road work projects in May could have significant impacts: Lynn Valley/Highway 1 underpass (ni… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 01:26 via twitter.com
  Some @TranBC and DNV road work projects in May could have significant impacts:Lynn Valley/Highway 1 underpass (ni… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sellers, buyers and developers seek clarity about owing presale condo-related taxes

  05-05-2018 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  There is growing scrutiny of who is, and who is not, paying what taxes in Metro Vancouver’s presale condo market. It’s not only sellers but also developers and buyers who have to consider if they are liable, or complicit, in avoiding taxes.
  This part of the real estate market, which sells condos before they are built, has been exempt from the B.C. government’s foreign buyers tax and disclosure rules for “shadow flipping” — the assigning or selling of a sales c
  
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• New plaza ready to make a splash on North Vancouver waterfront - North Shore News

  05-05-2018 01:15
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  New plaza ready to make a splash on North Vancouver waterfront
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  The Foot of Lonsdale plaza on the City of North Vancouver waterfront is ready for action just in time for the first Shipyards Night Market tonight at Shipbuilders' Square. article continues below. Trending Stories. North Van shopper awarded $755K for ...
  
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• Larson Creek trout near Horseshoe Bay may have been wiped out

  05-05-2018 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  A construction accident at a provincial highway project may have wiped out a genetically distinct population of cutthroat trout in Larson Creek near Horseshoe Bay.
  “It looks like a war zone, like you would see in the movies, with fish lying everywhere after a beach attack,” said John Barker, president of the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society. “It’s a ghastly feeling to see that.”
  Waste water from a pressure test by Keller Foundations at the site of a new
  
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• Soaring health costs for B.C. cities when employer health tax replaces premiums: UBCM survey

  05-05-2018 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  A Union of B.C. Municipalities survey suggests that property taxes will increase and at least a dozen local governments will see health costs double when a new provincial employer health tax replaces current premiums.
  The survey, which in April gained input from financial officers for 77 of the province’s 189 municipalities, looked at how local governments will be affected by the new tax when it is implemented in 2019 and medical service plan premiums are eliminated in 2020. Businesse
  
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• Delta family finds creative housing solutions for two generations

  05-05-2018 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  Kathleen and John Higgins stand in front of a building site in North Delta with a cardboard model of the four homes their family is creating on the same single-family, suburban lot they have called home for three decades.
  The 1970s rancher in which the couple raised their family has been demolished and the foundation is being poured for two new duplexes with a total of four units, each with its own land title.
  Kathleen and John, who are in their 60s, will live in one unit, allowing them to stay
  
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• Our City of #NorthVan waterfront just got even more amazing. Mayor @DarrellMussatto , Cllrs @HollyBackNV &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-05-2018 00:36 via twitter.com
  Our City of #NorthVan waterfront just got even more amazing. Mayor @DarrellMussatto , Cllrs @HollyBackNV &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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