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• Friday's your last day to visit our online survey to tell Council what you think about reuniting the District and… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 23:49 via twitter.com
  Friday's your last day to visit our online survey to tell Council what you think about reuniting the District and… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline protesters say progress made at shareholder meeting

  09-05-2018 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  Trans Mountain pipeline protesters are calling a Kinder Morgan shareholder vote asking for an annual sustainability report a victory.
  But Kinder Morgan says a resolution that passed Wednesday at a shareholder meeting in Texas will have no impact on plans to build the $7.4-billion expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline through B.C.
  Chief Judy Wilson of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, an anti-pipeline spokesperson, was in Houston Wednesday to try to convince Kinder Morgan shareholders at t
  
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• DYK there's a shuttle bus service to help seniors get to destinations such as pharmacies, grocery stores etc? It's… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  DYK there's a shuttle bus service to help seniors get to destinations such as pharmacies, grocery stores etc? It's… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 5 things to know about Nick & Astro's Guide to the Galaxy by Potatohead People

  09-05-2018 22:44 via vancouversun.com
  Nick & Astro’s Guide to the Galaxy
  Potatohead People | Bastard Jazz
  Potatohead People is duo Nick Wisdom and AstroLogical. The Vancouver-formed hip hop/electro project began when both the members were in high school and worked under different groupings until founding Potatohead People in 2008.
  According to the bandcamp website, they are another crew to relocate to culturally fertile and  more affordable Montreal.
  Following a series of digital EPs and many additional productio
  
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• Two women injured after chasing dog onto train tracks in Chilliwack

  09-05-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  Two women were injured after they chased their dog onto train tracks and were struck by a Canadian Pacific Rail freight train Tuesday night.
  RCMP responded to a report of a collision between two pedestrians and a train in the 51000-block of Yale Road at around 9 p.m. 
  When they arrived, emergency crews found two local women suffering non-life threatening injuries.  They were transported to hospital by B.C. Ambulance.
  RCMP say the women were walking their dog when the pet ran onto the r
  
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• And we couldn’t be happier. What a location. I❤️MyCity #NorthVan twitter.com/gwenfarley11/s…

  09-05-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  And we couldn’t be happier.What a location.I❤️MyCity#NorthVan twitter.com/gwenfarley11/s…
  
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• Guys, you have to come and see these new paintings by @jeffwilsonart in our Foyer Gallery... they're amazing! These… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 21:41 via twitter.com
  Guys, you have to come and see these new paintings by @jeffwilsonart in our Foyer Gallery... they're amazing! These… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Planner 2. Click here to apply. ow.ly/1vCt30jV1Hl

  09-05-2018 20:59 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Planner 2.Click here to apply. ow.ly/1vCt30jV1Hl
  
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• Concert announcement: Jerry Seinfeld coming to Vancouver in October for three shows

  09-05-2018 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Legendary stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld visits Vancouver in October for two nights at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
  Seinfeld will perform three times — a 7 p.m. show on Oct. 4 along with two performances (7 and 9:30 p.m.) on Oct. 5 — as his Just For Laughs tour rolls through Vancouver.
  Pre-sale tickets (pre-sale code: LIVE) went on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. through Ticket Master. General admission tickets, which range from $79 to $175 (plus fees), go on sale May 14 at 10 a.m.
  
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• We’re working with @TransLink on implementing the new Marine-Main B-Line. Your input is needed. Take survey online… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  We’re working with @TransLink on implementing the new Marine-Main B-Line. Your input is needed. Take survey online… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Kinder Morgan shareholders call for annual sustainability report

  09-05-2018 20:26 via vancouversun.com
  Trans Mountain pipeline protesters are calling a Kinder Morgan shareholder vote asking for an annual sustainability report a victory.
   
  But Kinder Morgan says a resolution that passed Wednesday at a shareholder meeting in Texas will have no impact on plans to build the $7.4-billion expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline through B.C.
   
  Chief Judy Wilson of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, and anti-pipeline spokesperson, was in Houston Wednesday to try and convince Kinder Morgan s
  
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• Restaurant review: First Nations food shines at Salmon n' Bannock

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Salmon n’ Bannock
  1128 West Broadway | 604-568-8971
  Open: Daily for dinner, salmonandbannock.netWhen Jane Fonda came to Vancouver and slipped into her Hanoi Jane mode in 2015 to protest against Big Oil, the first meal she had was at Salmon n’ Bannock on West Broadway.
  The First Nations food “was a first for me,” Fonda wrote on her website, “and the food, all Indigenous recipes, fresh and local, was delicious.” Owner Inez Cook recalls, “she went
  
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• Q&A: Twin sister act face the future with a first tour and new album

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fionn
  When: May 15
  Where: Fox Cabaret
  Tickets: $25 at ticketfly.com
  White Rock-raised twins Alanna and Brianne Fionn have been singing semi-professionally since they were 12, when they started out busking on Granville Island. Now 20, and calling themselves Fionn, the sisters have begun their career in earnest. They recently embarked on their first tour, opening for Canadian singer/songwriter Royal Wood. And, later this year, they’ll release their debut full-length album on 604 Records (Car
  
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• Q&A: Maximizing Canadian health

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution
  Andrew MacLeod | Douglas & MacIntyre
  $22.95, 240 pages
  Cover of All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution, by Andrew MacLeod.What’s the “next great health revolution”? It’s not any phytonutrient, fitness, or dietary regime, in Andrew MacLeod’s view. The research undergirding MacLeod’s latest book, All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution, led him to a couple of conclusions. For one
  
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• Lamb of God to burn the priest again at Slayer's final Vancouver show

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lamb of God at Slayer — Final World Tour
  When: May 16, 4 p.m.
  Where: Pacific Coliseum
  Tickets: From $77 at Ticketmaster.ca
  As Lamb of God heads out on the road as a support act for Slayer on the legendary thrash metal act’s farewell tour with additional support of Anthrax, Behemoth and Testament, the band is looking backwards. Before it was one of the biggest names in the new wave of American heavy metal movement, Lamb of God was known as Burn the Priest.
  Formed in 1994 at Virginia C
  
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• Freestyle skateboarders ride high at Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  World Freestyle Round-Up
  Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair
  When: May 18 to 21
  Where: Cloverdale Rodeo and Exhibition Grounds, Surrey
  Tickets and info: From $10, at cloverdalerodeo.com and at participating London Drugs and IGA outlets.Rodeos are all about bull riding and bucking broncos, right? Think again. 
  For the past seven years, the Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair has hosted the World Freestyle Round-up in the Cloverdale Curling Rink — an international skateboardin
  
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• Classical music: Vancouver Cantata Singers celebrate 60 years

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kantatefeire! A Cantata Celebration!
  Where: Christ Church Cathedral
  When: May 12, 7:30 p.m.
  Tickets and info: vancouvercantatasingers.comCompared with the longevity of Vancouver’s senior classical music groups like the Vancouver Women’s Musical Society (established 1905); Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (just turning 100); and the Vancouver Bach Choir (founded 1930), a mere 60th birthday season pales a bit.
  Still, the Vancouver Cantata Singers has a good deal to celebrate, and cele
  
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• Two people injured after being struck by train in Chilliwack

  09-05-2018 19:09 via vancouversun.com
  Two people were taken to hospital with unknown injuries after they were struck by a Canadian Pacific Rail freight train Tuesday night.
  The RCMP and CP have not released many details, but there are reports two women were struck.
  Patrick Waldron, a spokesman for CP Rail, confirmed the incident involved a CP train heading westbound on CN tracks shortly before 9 p.m. near Old Yale Road.
  He said two individuals were hit by the train at or near the Yale Street crossing. They were taken to hospitals by
  
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• Elderly pedestrian struck by car at crosswalk in East Vancouver dies

  09-05-2018 19:06 via vancouversun.com
  An elderly Vancouver man is dead after he was struck by a car Tuesday at a crosswalk at Victoria Drive and Kingsway Avenue.
  Vancouver Police say this is Vancouver’s fourth traffic fatality of 2018. In three of the four traffic fatalities this year, the victims have been pedestrians.
  Shortly after 2 p.m., first responders were called to Victoria Drive and Kingsway Avenue, where an 82-year-old man had been struck by a car.
  The man was taken to hospital, where he later died.
  VPD Collision inv
  
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• Hey #NorthVan it's time to #GetLoud for #MentalHealthWeek May 7-13. Mental health is about more than mental illness… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Hey #NorthVan it's time to #GetLoud for #MentalHealthWeek May 7-13. Mental health is about more than mental illness… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion will go ahead in Burnaby?

  09-05-2018 16:41 via vancouversun.com
  There are duelling news stories Wednesday concerning whether the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion will go ahead, with both sides expressing a confidence it either will or won’t be built. In a Canadian Press story, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says he is absolutely certain Canada and Kinder Morgan will come to a financial agreement that will convince the pipeline builder to proceed with the Trans Mountain expansion before the May 31 deadline.
  Read the CP story here.
  Meantime, Va
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy, but summery days ahead

  09-05-2018 15:02 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – While there may be rain in the weather forecast on Wednesday and Thursday, a warm stretch of sunshine begins Friday. Environment Canada says Metro Vancouver can expect rain in the morning Wednesday followed by a 30 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon with a high of 16 C.  Tomorrow looks like a similar weather pattern with rain int he morning, learning a bit in the afternoon, and highs of 15 C. Then, the federal weather agency  is predicting at least five
  
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• Fears of industrial exodus from Vancouver overstated, but solutions needed

  09-05-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  There is a theory among local commercial property stakeholders that Metro Vancouver’s rock-bottom industrial vacancy is going to push business away — probably to Calgary.
  There is another theory that Vancouver remains too crucial as a national shipping and distribution hub for that to happen.
  But what’s generally agreed upon is that the cramped local industrial property market is in need of creative solutions to keep moving forward.
  “I think Calgary is going to be a real
  
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• New poll shows mixed feelings about B.C. NDP government

  09-05-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many British Columbians feel uneasy about the direction of the province under the NDP government, yet Premier John Horgan enjoys the highest approval rating of all party leaders, according to the mixed bag results of a new Angus Reid Institute poll.
  The poll delved into how British Columbians feel about the minority NDP government’s performance, and found a province divided along political, generational and regional lines.
  “It’s certainly a province that is, I would suggest, as
  
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• Five Things to Know about Grimes, the Vancouver pop star dating Elon Musk

  09-05-2018 06:25 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver appears to be the hot new dating pool for international A-listers. 
  Just last February, ridiculously handsome movie star Idris Elba proposed to his girlfriend, Vancouver beauty queen Sabrina Dhowre. And if that wasn’t surprising enough, on Tuesday, we learned that billionaire businessman Elon Musk was dating Vancouver-born pop star Grimes. 
  The pair apparently bonded over some very heady wordplay, merging Roko’s Basilisk theory of an AI-controlled future with
  
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• Vancouver luxury property cooling fast: Real estate report

  09-05-2018 05:10 via vancouversun.com
  It’s tough times at the top for Vancouver’s priciest homes. 
  Prices in the top end of residential real estate in the city have dropped 7.6 per cent over a six-month period to March, making Vancouver the second-worst performer during that period among global cities, according to the Knight Frank Prime Global Cities Index, which monitors price growth of the top five per cent of the housing market in 43 cities.
  Only Stockholm performed worse than Vancouver, recording a nine pe
  
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• Back by popular demand, adults-only 'Playland Nights' return in June

  09-05-2018 05:07 via vancouversun.com
  Playland has already opened its doors for the 2018 season, kicking off another summer of amusement park fun last weekend.
  But the real fun begins next month, when Playland Nights returns.
  Back by popular demand, Playland’s special adults-only evenings will recommence this June, running every Friday from 7 p.m. to midnight from June 22 to July 27.
  More than 30 rides, such as the Atmosfear, the Flume and the Beast will be open to adults-only. Pacific Adventure Golf will be adults-only. The l
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, May 9

  09-05-2018 04:49 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, May 9.Horse Feathers
  No, not the Marx brothers comedy. (Although I’d recommend that too, if this event were a screening.) Horse Feathers, in this instance, refers to the Portland indie-folk outfit, touring in support of their sixth album, Appreciation, which was released just last week. The new material is a slight departure for the band, as it presents songs that are catchier and more singable than a
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Pension investments should stay in hands of pros, not politicos

  09-05-2018 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As finance minister in the last B.C. Liberal government, Mike de Jong relished those briefings with the credit rating agencies where he would be asked “tell us about your pensions.”
  The agencies were on the lookout for unfunded liabilities, brought on by politicians granting hefty taxpayer-financed retirement benefits to public sector workers while neglecting to fund those guarantees going forward.
  “Happily, that is not the story that we have,” de Jong wo
  
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• No surprise: New data shows B.C. has lots of renters — and lots of them are feeling the pinch

  09-05-2018 03:33 via vancouversun.com
  Data from the 2016 census shows that rental affordability in B.C. is a bigger issue than ever.
  According to data compiled by a national coalition of associations, credit unions, and municipal associations and published as the 2018 Canadian Rental Housing Index, 43 per cent of renters in B.C. are spending more than 30 per cent of their monthly income on rent and utilities.
  “Traditionally, spending 30 per cent or less of household income on rent has been viewed as the benchmark of what is co
  
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• Vision decision to seek mayoral nomination riles rivals on the left

  09-05-2018 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  Vision Vancouver’s decision to hold a nomination race for a mayoral candidate deals a potential blow to “unite-the-left” efforts of the city’s civic parties to avoid splits that would deliver rival Non Partisan Association candidates power in elections this fall.
  Part of the effort, being brokered by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, was to find an independent candidate that other participants, including the Green party, Coalition of Progressive Electors and One
  
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• Keith Sashaw: Insurance reforms should include proportional liability

  09-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In light of the provincial government’s decision to review insurance coverage and the handling of claims by ICBC, it’s high time to revisit joint and several liability — a long-contested legal principle that holds individual parties equally responsible for damages regardless of their share of liability.
  Under the current rules of joint and several liability, if a building were to fail as a result of faulty work, and the contractor responsible for 90 per cent of that work was un
  
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• Vision decision to seek mayoral nomination riles rivals on left of Vancouver politics

  09-05-2018 02:57 via vancouversun.com
  Vision Vancouver’s decision to hold a nomination race for a mayoral candidate deals a potential blow to “unite-the-left” efforts of the city’s civic parties to avoid splits that would deliver rival Non Partisan Association candidates power in elections this fall.
  Part of the effort, being brokered by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, was to find an independent candidate that other participants, including the Green party, Coalition of Progressive Electors and One
  
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• B.C. Nurses' Union boots boss; Gayle Duteil replaced as president by Christine Sorensen

  09-05-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  In a precedent-setting move, the B.C. Nurses’ Union has ousted its beleaguered president, Gayle Duteil, after receiving a confidential report by arbitrators Vince Ready and Judy Korbin.
   
  Christine Sorensen, who had been acting in the role since late last fall, is now president of the 47,000-member union and will remain in the position until the next election in 2020.
   
  Duteil had been placed on paid, administrative leave last fall after several allegations about improp
  
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• Carjacking suspect killed in police shooting at Nanaimo’s Departure Bay ferry terminal

  09-05-2018 01:52 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — One man is dead after a police-involved shooting at the Departure Bay ferry terminal Tuesday.
  The RCMP said in a release that officers were attempting to arrest a suspect in connection with a violent carjacking elsewhere in the province.
  Nanaimo RCMP and the Island District Emergency Response Team stopped a vehicle as it left the ferry and initiated a “takedown” of the suspect.
  “Initial information based on police accounts is that the male exited the vehicle wit
  
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• The biggest #CityFest yet! More than 5500 teens & tweens had a blast at CityFest last Saturday. The day was packed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  The biggest #CityFest yet! More than 5500 teens & tweens had a blast at CityFest last Saturday. The day was packed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dianne Watts outspent rivals, broke cap, in B.C. Liberal leadership race

  09-05-2018 01:25 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Former Surrey MP Dianne Watts was the top spender in the B.C. Liberal Party’s leadership race, far outspending winner Andrew Wilkinson and in the process violating her own party’s spending rules.
  Elections B.C. released financial reports from the Feb. 3 Liberal leadership campaign, showing how much the eight candidates spent. Wilkinson won on the fifth ballot of the race, earning 4,621 points (53 per cent of the total) over Watts, who finished with 4,079 points (47 p
  
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• Vancouver man acquitted in UBC sexual assault

  09-05-2018 01:13 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver man who was charged in connection with a terrifying sexual attack on three women on the UBC Endowment Lands has been acquitted.
  Yuan Zhi Gao, 25, was charged with break-and-enter with the intent to commit sexual assault in relation to the April 2016 attack in a ground-floor apartment on Birney Avenue.
  His co-accused, David Singh Tucker, 28, was charged with break-and-enter and three counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm but died later while in custody.
  At Gao’s trial, fa
  
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• Are fires and floods the new normal for B.C.?

  09-05-2018 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  Insurance payouts for water damage attributed to extreme weather have been on the rise across the country since the 1980s, with flooding recently passing wildfires as the main driver of damage.
  “We often talk about the future threat that climate change brings, but we should really be talking about the new weather reality that we face today,” said Aaron Sutherland, vice-president of the Insurance Bureau of Canada, Pacific Region.
  Payouts due to natural disasters have risen from just a
  
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• B.C. government seriously considering pre-registering youth to vote

  09-05-2018 00:13 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s Attorney General says he’s seriously considering recommendations from the province’s chief electoral officer to pre-register teens to vote in an attempt to improve their participation rate in elections.
  David Eby said Tuesday he likes the idea in a new report from chief electoral officer Keith Archer to pre-register 16- and 17-year-olds to vote, making it less of a hassle for them to actually vote when they turn of legal age at 18.
  “Getting younger
  
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• B.C.'s cannabis tax could reap $110 million or more in a few years: consultant

  09-05-2018 00:01 via vancouversun.com
  Give it a few years, but British Columbia might see a tax windfall of over $110 million per year from the sale of legal cannabis, if its experience is anything like Washington State.
  “When you’re three or four years into your market and pretty well established, I believe that’s within possibility,” said James MacRae, an industry consultant with the firm Straight Lines Analytics. 
  The figure MacRae calculated is $112 million, based on B.C. being about two-thirds the s
  
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