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• Psst! There's a new festival comin' to town. The #Shipped Waterfront Festival Aug 11 @ #TheShipyards. Live music fe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
  Psst! There's a new festival comin' to town. The #Shipped Waterfront Festival Aug 11 @ #TheShipyards. Live music fe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• .@TransLink is planning a new Marine-Main B-Line service, Dundarave to Phibbs Exchange, which will contribute to sh… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 23:25 via twitter.com
  .@TransLink is planning a new Marine-Main B-Line service, Dundarave to Phibbs Exchange, which will contribute to sh… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Live: Thousands of homes evacuated, highways closed in B.C. because of flooding

  10-05-2018 23:09 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands of homes have been evacuated in B.C.’s southern Interior, and several highways have been closed, as rapidly melting snowpacks and heavy rain cause flooding throughout the province.
  Evacuation orders were issued Thursday for the approximately 1,500 properties covering a large area along the Granby, Kettle and West Kettle rivers, as well as in the Carmi region south of Big White Mountain.
  The flooding washed out major roads and some highways, leaving Ministry of Transportation
  
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• Judge in pipeline protest case rejects "defence of necessity" argument

  10-05-2018 22:33 via vancouversun.com
  The judge hearing the case of protesters arrested at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project on Thursday rejected the argument of a protester who claimed he was compelled to disobey a court injunction to prevent a greater crime.
  Tom Sandborn, who was arrested at the Burnaby work site March 19 and is accused of criminal contempt of court, applied to be able to use the so-called “defence of necessity” during his trial scheduled for June.
  He told the judge that c
  
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• Five reasons to check out the Arts Club's production of Mamma Mia!

  10-05-2018 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  Mamma Mia!
  When: Until Aug. 12 (opened May 10)
  Where: Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
  Tickets and info: from $29 at artsclub.com
  1. Timing. In a tweet datelined April 27 from Stockholm, ABBA announced that the four members had gone into the studio to record two new songs. It’s the first new material from the Swedish pop band since 1983. A digital version of the quartet, dubbed “Abbatars,” will perform one of the tracks, I Still Have Faith in You, on a TV special later this ye
  
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• This week's #CityView eNews is ready for you with all the latest City news, including #FootofLonsdale transformatio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 21:55 via twitter.com
  This week's #CityView eNews is ready for you with all the latest City news, including #FootofLonsdale transformatio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Thousands of homes evacuated, highways closed in B.C. because of flooding

  10-05-2018 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands of homes have been evacuated in B.C.’s southern Interior, and several highways have been closed, as rapidly melting snowpacks and heavy rain cause flooding throughout the province.
   
  Evacuation orders were issued Thursday for the approximately 1,500 properties covering a large area along the Granby, Kettle and West Kettle rivers, as well as in the Carmi region south of Big White Mountain.
   
  The flooding washed out major roads and some highways, leavi
  
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• Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart to run as independent for mayor of Vancouver

  10-05-2018 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  Kennedy Stewart, a federal NDP Member of Parliament for Burnaby South, announced Thursday that he will run as an independent candidate for mayor of Vancouver this year.
  Stewart, who will step down as MP, said he’s “totally stoked” to kick off his campaign to be the next mayor of Vancouver.
   
  He said he’s running as an independent instead of seeking the nomination of Vision Vancouver or any other political party. He added that if he becomes mayor he would continu
  
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• March second highest in deaths from illicit drug overdoses in B.C.

  10-05-2018 20:51 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. coroner says there were 161 suspected illicit drug overdose deaths in the province in March, the second-highest monthly total.
  That’s a 24 per cent increase over the March 2017 total of 130 deaths, and a 58 per cent increase over last month’s suspected total of 102.
  The March number almost equals the 162 illicit drug overdose deaths in December 2016.
  Fentanyl was detected in 83 per cent of cases. Seven in every 10 of those who died were aged 19 to 49 years, and most died ind
  
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• Toss that floss in the garbage. Keep stringy things like floss and hair out of our sewers to avoid disastrous clogs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 20:29 via twitter.com
  Toss that floss in the garbage. Keep stringy things like floss and hair out of our sewers to avoid disastrous clogs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Planner 1. Click here to apply. ow.ly/L1UJ30jW66Q

  10-05-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Planner 1.Click here to apply. ow.ly/L1UJ30jW66Q
  
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• Review: The Boy on the Beach contains lessons for humanity as a whole

  10-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home
  Tima Kurdi | Simon & Schuster
  $32, 272 pages
  In September of 2015, when the body of two-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on the shores of Turkey, his heartbreaking photo went viral, galvanizing support for Syrian refugees.
  In the aftermath of the tragedy, we learned that his grieving aunt, Tima Kurdi, lived here in Coquitlam. She stepped into the spotlight to tell her nephew’s story. And now, in The
  
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• Just a few days left to check out the 'The Art of Caring' exhibition in the Atrium Gallery at City Hall.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  Just a few days left to check out the 'The Art of Caring' exhibition in the Atrium Gallery at City Hall.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Metro Vancouver needs to fix housing affordability, GVBoT scorecard shows

  10-05-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver is an attractive place to live, but the region needs to deal with stratospherically high housing costs and make taxes more competitive for business to keep it that way, according to a new scorecard report from the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.
  The Conference Board of Canada compiled the 2018 Scorecard Report on behalf of the board of trade comparing Metro Vancouver with 19 other city regions around the world on 38 economic and social factors, including tax competitivenes
  
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• Majority of Vancouverites agree with ban on corporate and union donors in municipal politics: poll

  10-05-2018 17:59 via vancouversun.com
  A majority of Vancouverites are happy with a ban on big money in municipal politics, according to a new poll.
  The Research Co. poll found 87 per cent of Vancouver residents agree with the legislation enacted by the B.C. government to ban corporate and union donations in local election campaigns, and establish a limit of $1,200 on an individual’s donations to a party and its candidates.
  Research Co. president Mario Canseco says the poll shows residents across all demographics and
  
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• Realtors and developers brace for sustained downturn

  10-05-2018 16:48
  
  'Fear, not fundamentals' causing Metro Vancouver market slowdown, says real estate marketer
  
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• 'Fear, not fundamentals' causing Metro Vancouver market slowdown

  10-05-2018 16:48
  
  Realtors and developers brace for sustained downturn in both presale and resale sectors
  
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• Douglas Todd: Amazon’s Vancouver 'news' lacks facts on jobs, migrants coming this way

  10-05-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s flashy announcement that Amazon has promised to bring 3,000 more high-tech jobs to Vancouver in the next few years has a surreal quality, which grows more mysterious for lack of facts and context.
  Trudeau’s April 30 event, at which he boasted about “Amazon’s commitment to recruiting top talent from our universities,” raises more questions than answers, particularly about the role played by Canada’s migration policies in producin
  
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• Man killed at Nanaimo ferry terminal was wanted for carjacking and shooting

  10-05-2018 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  The man fatally shot by police at the Departure Bay ferry terminal in Nanaimo Tuesday morning was wanted in connection with a violent carjacking in Penticton the night before, and might be connected to a shooting in Vernon.
  The victim of the carjacking suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, RCMP said Wednesday.
   In a statement, the RCMP outlined events that might be connected to the confrontation at Departure Bay.
  On Monday, just before noon, RCMP in Vernon were called to a sh
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Scattered showers with sunny breaks

  10-05-2018 14:47 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Thursday’s weather in Metro Vancouver is a mixed bag of scattered showers, cloudiness and sunshine. Environment Canada is forecasting a 40 per cent chance of showers in the morning, but that should clear up in the afternoon, with temperatures reaching highs of 17 C near the water and 21 C inland.  Tomorrow looks mostly cloudy with sunshine in the afternoon again, and then the weekend looks spectacular, just in time for Mother’s Day on Sunday. The fed
  
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• Vancouver basement set brings crowd, characters closer in postwar Wet

  10-05-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  WET
  When: May 8-27
  Where: Basement of The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave.)
  Tickets: $29/25 (students/seniors) at theatrewire.com
  When audience members come out for Wet, the latest production from local company Itsazzo, they may be surprised by one of the sets.
  “We’ve really built a basement apartment,” said Chelsea Haberlin, the co-artistic producer of Itsazoo who, along with Sebastien Archibald, is directing the play.
  “There’s a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, a li
  
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• Vancouver the second most 'youthful' city in Canada: report

  10-05-2018 06:55 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver is the second most “youthful” city in Canada, according to a new national index.
  The Youthful Cities 2018 Canadian Index, published Wednesday by Toronto-based Youthful Cities, measures how attractive 13 major Canadian cities are to youth — defined as people between the ages of 15 to 29. 
  The Youthful Cities index aims to show where cities can improve their appeal to youth and where they are excelling. Youthfulness, after all, is strongly tied to things like innov
  
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• China sentences founder of Anbang — which owns billions in B.C. assets — to 18 years in prison

  10-05-2018 06:00 via vancouversun.com
  SHANGHAI — Chinese state media say a court in Shanghai has sentenced the founder of the Chinese insurance company that owns billions in B.C. assets to 18 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to fraudulently raising billions of dollars from investors.
  The Xinhua News Agency said the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court handed down the sentence Thursday against Wu Xiaohui, the former chairman of Anbang Insurance Group.
  Wu, who founded privately owned Anbang in 2004, has been a
  
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• Longtime Kelowna residents call for dredging as flood warning called for Mission Creek

  10-05-2018 04:49 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — On the south bank of Mission Creek, near Spiers Road, Eugene and Barb Filice watched Wednesday as logs the size of telephone poles smashed and splintered against a short bridge as fast-moving water surged beneath.
  The Filices have lived a short walk from the bridge, on Parsons Road, since 1968 and in the ’80s had a couple of “bad” years of flooding — but only once were they ever advised to evacuate, they said. By the end of that decade, they had the h
  
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• The B.C. landscape through the eyes of Emily Carr, Mattie Gunterman and Ian Thom

  10-05-2018 04:18 via vancouversun.com
  Ian Thom’s first job at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1976 was cataloguing Emily Carr paintings.
  “I basically had to go down into the vault and measure every painting, look at them all and record all the inscriptions, where they were signed and all that kind of stuff,” he recounts. “So (Carr’s paintings) have been in my consciousness since 1976.”
  Forty-two years later, Thom is retiring from the gallery, where he has been the senior curator of historical art sin
  
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• Failed NPA mayoral candidate Hector Bremner claims race played role in his rejection

  10-05-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  The Non Partisan Association’s rejection of high-profile mayoral candidate Hector Bremner shows the party lacks transparency, is stuck in an old “backroom” boys mentality and has displayed anti-immigrant bias, say opponents to its candidate approval process.
  Bremner, who is currently an NPA councillor, said he was approved by the party’s Green Light Committee but unexpectedly blocked from running for mayor under its banner by the party board, suggesting the racial identit
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, May 10

  10-05-2018 03:56 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, May 10.7th Annual Dish ‘n Dazzle
  Looking for something to do on Thursday night? What if you, I don’t know, ate food? People love food, and there will be plenty served up at the 7th annual Dish n’ Dazzle at Vancouver Convention Centre East. You can enjoy tasty bites from a star-studded roster of local culinary talent, and then you can enjoy tasty wine samples from another star-studded roster
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Watts, Lee flouted spending rules in failed leadership bids

  10-05-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Just in time for the anniversary of the 2017 election came the release this week of the fundraising and spending reports from the B.C. Liberal leadership race.
  The campaign was the last to be conducted before the province’s new fundraising regime kicked in, leaving the Liberals free to accept big-ticket donations from individuals and raise sizable amounts from corporations.
  Together the six candidates raised and spent about $4 million, of which perhaps half came from
  
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• B.C.'s emergency cellphone test doesn't quite go as planned

  10-05-2018 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  A test of a new emergency alert system saw plenty of glitches Wednesday, as some people got the alerts on their mobile phones but many others didn’t.
  At 1:55 p.m., a test was sent out over the system by Emergency Management B.C.; those that received it were alerted on their phone by a loud sound and a text message on the screen explaining it was a test. 
  Guys it worked. pic.twitter.com/sZWUAVBBia
  — Patrick Johnston (@risingaction) May 9, 2018But many users reported not receiving
  
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• Victor Godin: Will cooling the housing market kill jobs?

  10-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government coalition has made it unequivocally clear that its intention is to cool the housing market and lower sales prices. What isn’t so clear is what economic impact assessment has been done in terms of job impacts.
  Housing construction is a job bonanza for skilled trades. In April, B.C. celebrated Skilled Trades Month and the province’s post-secondary institutions promoted their growing skilled-trade programs. Students are increasingly attracted to these education optio
  
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• Emergency cell phone test doesn't quite go as planned

  10-05-2018 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  A test of a new emergency alert system saw plenty of glitches Wednesday, as some people got the alerts on their mobile phones but many others didn’t.
  At 1:55 p.m., a test was sent out over the system by Emergency Management BC; those that received it were alerted on their phone by a loud sound and a text message on the screen explaining it was a test. 
  Guys it worked. pic.twitter.com/sZWUAVBBia
  — Patrick Johnston (@risingaction) May 9, 2018But many users reported not receiving a
  
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• Kinder Morgan protester argues that 'defence of necessity' excused court defiance

  10-05-2018 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  One of the protesters arrested at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project argued Wednesday that it was necessary for him to act to prevent what he called a bigger crime from being committed.
  Tom Sandborn, who was taken into custody after allegedly violating a court-ordered injunction at the company’s Burnaby work site and faces a criminal contempt of court charge, said he wants to be able to use the defence of necessity at his upcoming trial.
  He told B.C. Supreme Co
  
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• Parking lots get mural makeover for new Granville Island public space

  10-05-2018 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  Single-purpose parking lots are being transformed into a multi-purpose area for the public on Granville Island.
  The new public area, directly underneath the deck of the bridge on Anderson Street, is marked with dramatic murals that depict Coast Salish weaving patterns and salmon on two bridge pillars by Musqueam artist Debra Sparrow.
  Debra Sparrow’s bridge murals mark the start of the new Chain & Forge public space on Granville Island.
  Next to the pillars is the former Canada Chain and
  
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• Vancouver police issue warning about ‘virtual kidnapping’ scheme

  10-05-2018 01:50
  
  Suspects are targeting international students studying in Vancouver
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Pipeline deadline 'too ambitious', Trans Mountain constitutional case hears

  10-05-2018 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  Kinder Morgan may have a May 31 drop-dead date for the Trans Mountain Pipeline, but the B.C. Court of Appeal will not be moving quickly to answer the province’s constitutional reference question.
  Presiding at the first case-management conference, Justice David Frankel said government lawyers led by Vancouver’s Joseph Arvay were getting ahead of themselves.
  The top court first must decide who will participate in the hearing, he explained, quipping that despite its submission
  
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• MP Kennedy Stewart to make an announcement about Vancouver mayoral election Thursday

  10-05-2018 01:45 via vancouversun.com
  Kennedy Stewart, NDP MP for Burnaby South and a vocal opponent of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project, is set to make some sort of Vancouver mayoral race announcement on Thursday morning.
  Last week, Stewart said he was seriously considering making a run at the mayor’s chair, calling it a “dream job.”
  A poll said that 10 per cent of respondents liked the idea of him as mayor of Vancouver, fifth-most among the options presented.
  He told the National Post that he
  
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• #FunCityFestival returns July 21& 22. Have you got your ticket to slide yet? Take advantage of early bird pricing f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  #FunCityFestival returns July 21& 22. Have you got your ticket to slide yet? Take advantage of early bird pricing f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• City of North Vancouver passes election sign bylaw - North Shore News

  10-05-2018 01:10
  North Shore News
  City of North Vancouver passes election sign bylaw
  North Shore News
  Despite what you may have seen on a few bike racks: the City of North Vancouver's 2018 municipal election has not yet begun. City council was discussing new election signage regulations at Monday's meeting when Coun. Rod Clark noted that campaign ...
  
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• Downtown Vancouver newspaper boxes flipping to 'free little libraries'

  10-05-2018 00:58 via vancouversun.com
  Where once Downtown Vancouver residents and visitors could find free newspapers, they will now find books to share. 
  The Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association and students from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts have collaborated to convert 11 former newspaper boxes into “Free Little Libraries,” miniature lending libraries that people can take, borrow or donate from books “in the spirit of community sharing.”
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