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• It's FriYAH and there's nothing but 🌞 in the forecast 🎉! How do you plan to enjoy your City this weekend? #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 23:55 via twitter.com
  It's FriYAH and there's nothing but 🌞 in the forecast 🎉! How do you plan to enjoy your City this weekend? #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Planning a trip to #LynnCanyon? Note that the approach to the suspension bridge on the west side will be closed Sat… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 23:29 via twitter.com
  Planning a trip to #LynnCanyon? Note that the approach to the suspension bridge on the west side will be closed Sat… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• YVR rejects ads from passenger-advocacy company

  11-05-2018 23:22 via vancouversun.com
  A company that helps passengers seeking compensation from airlines is crying foul after it was rejected as an advertiser by the Vancouver airport.
  FlightClaim.ca sought to place ads through Astral Media, which has exclusive rights to advertising in the airport, and consulted with the Vancouver Airport Authority about the suitability of their ads.
  The ads were intended to make passengers aware of Europe- and U.S.-based airlines’ obligation to provide compensation to passengers when their fl
  
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• Meet the chef: Stanley Park Tea House's Adam Meade

  11-05-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Adam Meade started his career in Guelph, Toronto and Canmore before charting a path through Vancouver’s culinary scene, with stops at Black and Blue by Glowbal, the Fresh, Local, Wild food truck and Bridges. He continues to channel the reverence for great ingredients he learned working in his mother’s vegetable garden as a child as executive chef at Vancouver’s iconic Tea House in Stanley Park.
  Q:  What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: The food we eat every day, th
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Jets, Knights on NHL Cinderellas' collision course

  11-05-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  Sorting out the major winners and losers of this week — with a bottom-line twist — in the world of sports:
  Bulls of the Week
  Canadian James Paxton of Ladner pumped up the volume on his “Big Maple” moniker and tattoo by throwing a no-hitter at the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday at the Rogers Centre. The third no-hitter of the 2018 season was by far the most talked about, partly because of the backstory — a Canadian doing the deed in Canada against a Canadian-based team
  
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• Woman mauled by dog in Langley makes plea for owner to come forward

  11-05-2018 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  A Mission woman who was attacked by a dog in Langley Tuesday night and her sister are pleading with the animal’s owner to come forward.
  Shelby MacNeil, 45, had to have 85 staples put in her leg after the brutal mauling on Tuesday evening.
  Shelby MacNeil, of Mission, B.C. was attacked by a large dog in Langley on Tuesday. She needed 85 staples in her right leg. The mauling also left her with bites on the thigh and buttocks and bruises all over. [PNG Merlin Archive]Her sister Kim Tamminga sa
  
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• Attending the Public Hearing for 1200-1259 Emery Place on Tue, May 15? Here’s what to expect: ➡️ 5:30 pm - Doors o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 21:48 via twitter.com
  Attending the Public Hearing for 1200-1259 Emery Place on Tue, May 15? Here’s what to expect:➡️ 5:30 pm - Doors o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• City of Vancouver staff recommend ban on plastic straws

  11-05-2018 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city staff have recommended a ban on disposable straws in a revised report going to city council May 16.
  In the report on a single-use item reduction strategy, staff now recommend a ban on distribution of plastic straws by business license holders beginning Nov. 1, 2019.It also recommends staff consult with affected businesses, appropriate civic agencies, community health groups and other organizations and report back by December 31 on a plastic straw prohibition implementation plan.
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• Well, well, what do we have here? Looks like cars leaving Lynn Valley using the new lane under Hwy 1! Just a coupl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 20:58 via twitter.com
  Well, well, what do we have here? Looks like cars leaving Lynn Valley using the new lane under Hwy 1!Just a coupl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Break & Enter Interrupted By Home Owner bit.ly/2KVKZMf #NorthVancouver https://t.co/ZSYKAQGC3R

  11-05-2018 20:57 via twitter.com
  
  Break & Enter Interrupted By Home Ownerbit.ly/2KVKZMf#NorthVancouver https://t.co/ZSYKAQGC3R
  
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• Here's a short video from @PreparedBC on How to Build an Emergency Kit. After a disaster, your home emergency kit w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  Here's a short video from @PreparedBC on How to Build an Emergency Kit. After a disaster, your home emergency kit w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fab 5: Mom's the word

  11-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It can feel like you’ve bought your mother one of everything over the years — but the point of Mother’s Day, you see, isn’t necessarily to blow her mind with surprising gifts or even big-ticket ones, but simply to show your appreciation (and acknowledgement) for all she does for you, day in, day out. Of course, if you happen to wow, even better. From practical-yet-pretty presents to splurge-worthy styles she won’t be forgetting anytime soon, Rebecca Tay showcas
  
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• Brian Minter: Tomatoes are making up for lost time

  11-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The present-day popularity of tomatoes is quite a success story because, according to the U.S. National Garden Bureau, tomatoes suffered from bad PR for 300 years.
  Native to the Andean Mountains of South America, an area that, today, overlaps Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, tomatoes may have been eaten by the local Indigenous peoples, but no archaeological evidence indicates that they were cultivated. It seems, however, that animals enjoyed these native fruits because historians speculate that
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week for May 5

  11-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  2. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  3. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for B.C. — Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  4. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  5. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Obser
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: B.C.'s golden weekend for California wines

  11-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  BC Liquor Stores will celebrate California wines this weekend with a major release of some of best reds made in the Golden State, albeit at some staggering prices. Northern California — think Sonoma County and Napa Valley — is riding a series of warm, dry (drought) vintages that have been on an extended, high-quality run since 2012.
  Wine experts love to rate vintages, but the five years of 2012 to 2016 have been so good it’s difficult to know which will be the superior ones ove
  
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• Former CFL player Josh Boden charged again with assault

  11-05-2018 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  Troubled former professional football player Joshua Boden, who briefly played with the B.C. Lions, has again been charged with assault.
  New Westminster police say the 31-year-old New Westminster resident was arrested on Wednesday after an assault investigation. 
  On Sunday, police received a report of a domestic dispute that occurred between a man and a woman.
  Police say Boden was not there when the officers arrived. He was later located on 6th Street and arrested.
  Boden has been charged wit
  
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• Today is the last day to complete the reunification survey. Got 5-10 minutes? Tell Council what you think of them e… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 19:16 via twitter.com
  Today is the last day to complete the reunification survey. Got 5-10 minutes? Tell Council what you think of them e… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What Is It & Is It Yours? bit.ly/2G5nBZe #NorthVancouver https://t.co/9gKqPmD2JR

  11-05-2018 19:04 via twitter.com
  
  What Is It & Is It Yours?bit.ly/2G5nBZe#NorthVancouver https://t.co/9gKqPmD2JR
  
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• Town Talk: 'Underfunded' ovarian cancer research gets gala boost

  11-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  ON THE BALLS: It took fortitude for Barbara Fleming to press on knowing she had the most fatal women’s cancer and that it wouldn’t let go. Half of those diagnosed with ovarian cancer die within five years. Even so, research to identify and treat it receives only $16.9 million in Canadian Institute of Health Research funding annually compared to breast cancer’s $81.3 million. But press on six-year survivor Fleming did, raising tens of thousands in her Barb Fights Back campaign.
  
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• This Week in History: 1965 The second richest painter in the world hits Vancouver

  11-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  In 1965 one of the world’s most successful artists came to Vancouver for an exhibition.
  But his paintings weren’t at the Vancouver Art Gallery, they were at Eaton’s department store.
  Vladimir Tretchikoff made a fortune selling prints of his work in the ‘50s and ‘60s, when paintings like Chinese Girl, Dying Swan and Lost Orchid were a staple of middle class living rooms.
  He called his style “symbolical realism,” which meant they were realistic to a degree
  
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• Pyrrha pair powers on: Vancouver-based jewelry brand eyes environmental sustainability, a new studio

  11-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Danielle and Wade Papin first started their company Pyrrha in 1995, there wasn’t much of a “maker’s culture” going on in Vancouver.
  In fact, there wasn’t one at all.
  “It was very different than today with the whole maker culture,” Wade says. “Now, it seems almost obvious for someone to start making something.”
  “It wasn’t like that then,” Danielle agrees.
  “Back then, you were either someone who had a hobby, or were
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Brad Hayes

  11-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Now that the Premier of British Columbia has gone out of his way to accommodate the building of a massive LNG production facility in Kitimat we have to ask, where will the gas come from?
  The answer of course is, it comes from under the ground in both B.C. and Alberta.
  Natural Gas is the byproduct of decayed plant and animal life that was compacted and pressurized by layers of sand and rock over millions of years. Deep under the earth’s crust in temperatures that exceed 120 degrees Celsius,
  
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• Movie Minute: Life of the Party

  11-05-2018 18:41 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia film critic Dana Gee and Arts Editor Aleesha Harris take a look a the the new comedy Life of the Party. In the film a middle-aged mother, played by Melissa McCarthy, faces a sudden divorce by heading back to college. The college just happens to also be the same one her teen daughter is attending.
  McCarthy co-writes with husband and director Ben Falcone.
  
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• Riverdale: B.C.'s Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner vote yearbook titles

  11-05-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s own Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner – who play Sweet Pea and Fangs Fogarty on the CW’s Riverdale – sat down to chat with Postmedia this week.
  After discussing set life and how Riverdale changed their careers, we asked them to name names and vote different actors for Riverdale High’s yearbook titles. Here’s what they had to say.
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  Feature: B.C.'s Riverdale stars Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner spill on the Southside SerpentsCW's Riverdale
  
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• #MentalHealthWeek is the perfect time to check in on your own mental health. Take the bounce back quiz:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  #MentalHealthWeek is the perfect time to check in on your own mental health. Take the bounce back quiz:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C.'s Riverdale stars Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner spill on the Southside Serpents

  11-05-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  One doesn’t just saunter into the fictional town of Riverdale, “the town with pep.”
  B.C. actors Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner had both paid their dues, spending years auditioning for bit parts and playing smaller roles in other productions while frequently crossing paths at casting calls.
  “It was funny because we were always like, either Drew got it or I got it,” said Connor of the run-ins.
  Then the CW’s hit show Riverdale came along and tapped both actors
  
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• B.C. Flooding: More evacuations, road closures as flooding continues around province

  11-05-2018 16:38 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s rapidly melting snowpack and heavy rain has swollen rivers, creeks, and lakes to levels not seen in more than a century, causing devastating floods and forcing thousands of residents to leave their homes.
  Early Friday, thousands more residents were displaced in B.C.’s southern Interior. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary expanded an evacuation order Thursday night from Christina Lake through West Boundary, including areas of Grand Forks by more than 1,000 properties.
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• High-end crash? Vancouver mansion re-listed – at $15M lower (PHOTOS)

  11-05-2018 16:00
  
  Award-winning Southlands property with own lake was listed in 2016 at $38 million, put back on market this week for less than $25 million
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Summery weather for Mother's Day weekend

  11-05-2018 14:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. –  Get ready for some summer-like weather, Metro Vancouver! The Mother’s Day weekend looks toasty. Environment Canada is forecasting a mix of sun and cloud Friday, with highs of 17 C, and 21 C inland. Those balmy temperatures are expected to climb on Saturday with sunny skies and highs of 20 C and 26 C inland. And, it looks like it will be even warmer on Sunday for Mother’s Day with the agency predicting a summery 28 C inland, or 22 C closer to the water. T
  
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• Victoria Day 2018: 65 things to do around Metro Vancouver

  11-05-2018 13:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Victoria Day long weekend is nearly here. Gather up your friends and family and have some fun at one of the many events happening around town.
  FESTIVALS:
  Cloverdale Rodeo & Country FairOne of North America’s longest running and most entertaining rodeos returns for its 72nd year with more competitions, live entertainment food and fun for all ages. Some of the world’s best cowboys and cowgirls will compete for cash prizes in roughstock rodeo events like saddle bronc riding, bar
  
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• Acrow Bridge provides safe passage for North Vancouver fire station - Equipment Journal

  11-05-2018 10:54
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  Acrow Bridge provides safe passage for North Vancouver fire station
  Equipment Journal
  When the time came to replace the Montroyal Bridge over Mosquito Creek in North Vancouver, Acrow Bridge was recruited to furnish a modular steel panel bridge to provide temporary access. The old structure was a 60-year-old timber bridge which was both ...
  
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• Goat yoga: Yes, Abbotsford's Maan Farms is offering yoga … with goats

  11-05-2018 06:18 via vancouversun.com
  Yoga has all sorts of benefits. Increased flexibility. Stress relief. Strength. But it has its downsides, too. Too few goats, for instance.
  Fortunately, Abbotsford’s Maan Farms has found a way to combine all the benefits of yoga with the benefits of spending time with cuddly baby goats: goat yoga.  
  “This is exactly what it sounds like,” explains the organizer on the bizarre new venture’s Eventbrite page. “Yoga with goats.”
  Although it isn’t&nb
  
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• 'Welcome to the neighbourhood': Family thanks Okanagan Falls community for protecting new home from flooding

  11-05-2018 05:06 via vancouversun.com
  OKANAGAN FALLS, B.C. — As murky flood water lapped against the ankles of their gumboots outside their new home Thursday, Elsa Edwards and Chris Roger vowed to throw a block party for their neighbours when their ordeal was over.
  Nearby Shuttleworth Creek had breached the day before, sending water, sludge and debris cascading across a hayfield, through a vineyard and down a narrow alleyway between Maple and Brockie streets. Edwards and Roger’s property, at Brockie and 14th Av
  
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• Palmer: Decades in the making, pending B.C. treaty already challenged

  11-05-2018 04:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — There were congratulations all around in Prince George last Saturday, when federal and provincial negotiators initialled a tentative treaty settlement with a local First Nation, the Lheidli T’enneh.
  But the ceremony, coming as it did more than 20 years after the start of formal negotiations between the three parties, also served as a reminder of how even with the best of intentions, the B.C. treaty process is a long and difficult one.
  The Lheidli T’enneh, a nati
  
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• Dan Fumano: NDP MP steps into 'tumultuous' Vancouver political scene

  11-05-2018 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  Kennedy Stewart, the NDP MP for Burnaby South, seems pretty casual when discussing his arrest in March, the special prosecutor currently reviewing his case, and the impending possibility of a contempt-of-court charge. But when the conversation turns to the constantly shifting sands of Vancouver’s political landscape, Stewart describes that world as “tumultuous.”
  Stewart officially stepped into the tumult Thursday, kicking off his campaign to run as an independent candidate for
  
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• FOI minister Jinny Sims apologizes for using her personal email in government

  11-05-2018 03:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The minister in charge of B.C.’s records management apologized Thursday for using her personal email while on the job.
  Citizens’ Services Minister Jinny Sims told reporters she should never have used a personal email account to contact her staff, deputy minister and chief of staff to the Premier’s Office. The practice is generally not allowed under B.C.’s Freedom of Information rules because personal emails have in the past been used by some to circumvent
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, May 11

  11-05-2018 03:16 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, May 11.MGMT
  American dance-rock outfit MGMT visits the Orpheum on Friday night for what is sure to be an absolute party. MGMT makes some of the catchiest, most danceable music around, so if you’re planning to go, do some stretches beforehand: this music will make you move. MGMT is touring in support of their fourth studio album, Little Dark Age, released this February. It’s their first album of new
  
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• Douglas Taylor: Upgrading bitumen will free up pipeline capacity

  11-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The debate over the Kinder Morgan expansion project (KMX) has become polarized and politicized. The growing controversy is occurring while there is evidence that the additional capacity the KMX would provide is unnecessary and that Alberta’s diluted bitumen would not get a higher price if shipped to Asian markets.
  Alberta’s oilsands presently produce about 2.7 million barrels per day (bpd) of raw bitumen. Forty per cent of the raw bitumen is upgraded to a higher value product that ca
  
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• B.C. passes marijuana driving-impairment law, but confusion remains

  11-05-2018 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s top cop says he’s frustrated by Ottawa’s slow pace in selecting the roadside testing equipment that provinces will use to police drivers under the influence of soon-to-be-legal marijuana.
  Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said it was difficult for B.C. to pass new legislation this week that sets out a ticketing and policing regime for drivers and cannabis, because it still doesn’t have details from Ottawa on what will be considered the federal stand
  
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• Surrey First leadership candidate Tom Gill presses on despite flyers, rumours

  11-05-2018 01:36 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey Councillor Tom Gill says he’s undeterred from running for mayor, despite being the target of malicious flyers and potentially damaging rumours.
  “It’s ironic that all these things are coming six weeks before our leadership nomination for Surrey First, so there’s some concern,” said Gill.
  The flyers were distributed to people’s doorsteps and posted in some Surrey restaurants over the weekend. Then, rumours began to circulate on Thursday that Gill was bein
  
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• Home-care workers could help seniors with transportation barriers, seniors advocate says

  11-05-2018 01:36 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s existing system of home support could help seniors who don’t drive stay mobile and connected to the community, says B.C.’s Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie.
  In the report Seniors Transportation: Affordable, Appropriate and Available, MacKenzie notes that the number of people who have an active driver’s licence declines dramatically at 70 years of age.
  Only 44 per cent still drive by the age of 85, which leaves the majority of seniors dependent on transit, taxis or
  
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• #TBT last week's Youth Awards celebration at #CityHall. More than 50 impressive young adults were recognized for no… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  #TBT last week's Youth Awards celebration at #CityHall. More than 50 impressive young adults were recognized for no… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Shanghai court sentences Anbang founder to 18 years in jail for fraud and abuse of power

  11-05-2018 01:29 via vancouversun.com
  A Shanghai court sentenced Anbang founder Wu Xiaohui to 18 years in jail for fraud and abuse of power, sealing his fate, but leaving the future of billions of dollars in B.C. assets owned by the Beijing-based insurance group in limbo.
  This is a firm that controls a string of hotel, property and other assets around the world, including prime downtown Vancouver office towers and B.C.’s largest seniors’ care company.
  In 2016, Anbang’s wholly-owned Vancouver-based Maple Tree Financ
  
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• NPA calls Bremner's comments tying race to rejection of candidacy 'defamatory'

  11-05-2018 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s centre-right political party is firing back at a city councillor who suggested race played a part in the rejection of his candidacy for mayor.
  The president of the Non-Partisan Association, Gregory Baker, said in an emailed statement that Hector Bremner’s suggestion to Postmedia News that “race played a role” in the party board’s rejection of him as a mayoral candidate “are untrue, unfounded, and defamatory.”
  “The NPA will not tolerate
  
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• CBC-hosted forum debates state of region's housing

  11-05-2018 00:52
  
  Higher housing prices, rather than higher power, drew crowds to fill Brighouse United Church in Richmond Wednesday night
  
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