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• New St. Paul's maternity clinic helps moms-to-be who don't have a family doctor

  12-05-2018 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  Born when the cherry trees outside St. Paul’s Hospital were in full bloom, baby Sakurako will be two weeks old on Mother’s Day.
  The newborn, whose name means “little cherry blossom” in Japanese, is the happy result of a challenging pregnancy that was handled by St. Paul’s new maternity clinic, which was created for women without a family doctor.
  Continuous care is important during pregnancy, said Dr. Ashley Smith, one of the doctors that helped to start the cli
  
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• 4/20 complaints flooded Vancouver’s 311 phone lines

  12-05-2018 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  Take 4/20 and add it to 311 and you get hundreds of calls from Vancouverites complaining about the annual gathering that organizers consider a protest against marijuana laws and detractors call an illegal pot party and trade fair.
  Vancouver’s 311 line installed a special “if you’re calling about …” option for those wanting to voice concerns about the latest 4/20 smoke-in at Sunset Beach.
  The city’s 311 operators logged 82 calls this year — all but 10 of
  
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• Who's going to be slip, slidin' down Londale this July? #FunCityFestival returns to #NorthVan featuring 1000 ft… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-05-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Who's going to be slip, slidin' down Londale this July? #FunCityFestival returns to #NorthVan featuring 1000 ft… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BC Flooding: Officials fear weekend hot weather could speed up melting snowpack

  12-05-2018 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Communities in B.C.’s southern Interior are bracing for more floods this weekend, as temperatures soar up to 30 C, causing a rapid melt of the snowpack.
  Days of heavy rain and unseasonably warm weather have swollen rivers, creeks and lakes to levels not seen in more than half a century, causing devastating floods and forcing thousands of residents to leave their homes.
  In the Okanagan town of Osoyoos, where an evacuation order was expanded by 30 properties late Friday, temperatures we
  
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• Makeover: The perfect birthday present

  12-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Diahann Hamilton wanted to refresh her look for her 70th birthday.
  Diahann has fine and naturally curly hair. She was finding it to be unmanageable and unruly and wanted to refresh her colour for summer. I love her as a red head so I applied slices of foils of both rich auburn-red lowlights and blond highlights. The lowlights are meant to create depth and dimension, while the highlights offer a brighter contrast. I applied a her background foundation colour to match her existing colour and to an
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunshine and blue skies for Mother's Day

  12-05-2018 18:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Metro Vancouver’s weekend weather is shaping up to be a scorcher, especially for Mother’s Day Sunday when temperatures are expected to soar to nearly 30 C in some areas. Environment Canada says Saturday will be mainly sunny and a little windy near the water, with highs of 19 C and 26 inland. Then on Sunday, the agency is forecasting a balmy 29 C inland and 23 C closer to the water. The hot sunny weather is expected to last through next week.Weather: Vancouver,
  
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• New @MetroVancouver lawn watering regulations are now in effect. Remember 1 hour/week is all you need for a healthy… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-05-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  New @MetroVancouver lawn watering regulations are now in effect. Remember 1 hour/week is all you need for a healthy… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fatal flashpoint: Gurmit Dhak's 2010 murder ignited a gang war that's still raging

  12-05-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Independent Soldiers founder Randy Naicker stopped outside a Starbucks on a warm June afternoon six years ago, he had no idea that a rival gang had fixed a tracking device to his SUV.
  Despite escaping earlier attempts on his life, Naicker ended up being an easy mark that day.
  Two masked gunmen blasted him at the busy Port Moody intersection of St. Johns and Queens, before running off and hopping into a getaway vehicle. A black handgun was left near the scene.
  Shocked onlookers saw Naic
  
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• Making a statement in Burnaby's Brentwood

  12-05-2018 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  While the world-famous wine region in south-western France is the inspiration behind the name Bordeaux, Solterra Group of Companies’ planned residential highrise in Burnaby, the developer’s creative team also took its cues from iconic French designers Pierre Balmain, Madeleine Vionnet and Olivia Putman.
  The one- and two-bedroom apartments in the 23-storey building slated for the site at 4488 Juneau Street (corner Willingdon Avenue) will have either the Pierre (black and light-oak) or
  
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• Sold (Bought): Yaletown condo goes for well above listing price

  12-05-2018 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1701 — 1001 Homer Street, Vancouver 
  Type: One-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment
  Size: 506 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $552,000
  Listed for: $549,000
  Sold for: $641,000
  Sold on: March 7
  Days on market: Eight
  Listing agent: Carole Lieberman and Luana Robertson at Dexter Associates Realty
  Buyers agent: Mike Marfori and Abhishek Mehta at Sutton Premier Realty
  The big sell: This one-bedroom-plus-den condo in Yaletown&rsquo
  
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• The Home Front: Getting comfy in the kitchen

  12-05-2018 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  If the different areas in our homes were ascribed personalities, surely the kitchen would be the most popular of them all. Often described by interior designers as the “hub” of the home, the kitchen often reflects what’s happening in modern culture, be it the way we’ve embraced smart technology or what we’re loving in terms of colour and design.
  For a quick look at what’s happening in kitchen design, The Sun caught up with kitchen specialists from  W
  
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• Excellence honoured at Ovation Awards

  12-05-2018 14:57 via vancouversun.com
  Adera Development Corporation emerged as the top winner at this year’s Ovation Awards, the annual award program that honours excellence in new-home construction, renovation and design in Metro Vancouver.
  Adera, which has built more than 10,000 detached homes, condos and townhomes over the last 45 years, walked away with four awards, including the Grand Ovation Award, Multi-Family Home Builder of the Year, at the sold-out event April 28 in Vancouver. The Ovations are an undertaking of the&n
  
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• 'Missing middle' competition offers residential housing solutions

  12-05-2018 14:54 via vancouversun.com
  Back-to-backs, brownstones, bungalow courts, clustered housing, plexes, maisonettes, row-houses, stacked towns and six-packs.
  Throughout the world, these low-density multi-housing forms provide affordable homes for millions of households. However, in British Columbia, most of our housing is either single-family homes or apartments.
  As a result, architects and planners are increasingly referring to these other “gentle density” housing solutions as “the missing middle”.
  Giv
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Court OK's jailing of hobbled First Nations woman who just came out of a coma

  12-05-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s top court has approved sending a 50-year-old First Nations woman to prison for a 2009 skid-row killing even though she only recently awoke from a nearly seven-year coma unable to walk, wash her hair or feed herself.
  The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the two-year federal prison stretch because provincial correctional facilities couldn’t accommodate Annalee Auckland’s many infirmities.
  “The issue for this court is whether in his decision to sentence the appellant
  
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• Different Mother's Day wish for B.C. moms working to save lives in fentanyl crisis

  12-05-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A group of B.C. women know exactly what they want for Mother’s Day, but their wishes cannot be fulfilled by their children.
  The grim reality is that each has lost a child to the province’s escalating overdose crisis, which is killing more than four people a day.
  These women have united in their grief with like-minded mothers across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to launch the international #listentomom campaign, which demands a more humane approach to drug addiction: removing the stigma
  
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• B.C. flooding: Evacuation orders issued in Osoyoos as lake levels continue to rise

  12-05-2018 04:55 via vancouversun.com
  OSOYOOS, B.C. — Residents of this desert town woke up to a shock Friday after Osoyoos Lake approached levels not seen in almost five decades, spilling onto quiet streets and into the basements of picturesque waterfront homes.
  Flooding from the lake led the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen to issue an evacuation order for 23 homes and an evacuation alert for more than 100 properties Thursday night, including the Coast Hotel. The town declared a state of emergency and orde
  
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• Dan Fumano: 'Very, very strange times' at the NPA, as rumours swirl and directors quit

  12-05-2018 04:34 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s oldest political party could be at a crisis point.
  The president of the Non-Partisan Association, however, disputes that characterization. He says it’s an “exciting” time for the party.
  Whichever description you prefer, it’s certainly been a busy week for the 80-year-old civic party, after the NPA board voted to reject their own sitting councillor’s mayoral nomination bid, and inter-party tensions spilled into public view.
  NPA Coun. Hector Bremner,
  
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• Camp Cloud opponents of Trans Mountain expansion not moving from Burnaby Mountain

  12-05-2018 03:33 via vancouversun.com
  They call it Camp Cloud, but the protest encampment outside the Trans Mountain pipeline tank facility is becoming more firmly rooted in the ground on Burnaby Mountain.
  It started last November as a single travel trailer parked at Kinder Morgan’s Westridge marine terminal on Burrard Inlet, but was moved in December to the corner of Shellmont Street and Underhill Avenue outside the tank farm’s gates.
  The camp has grown to include a small, lumber-sided cabin, an open-air fire pit and ki
  
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• Sheila Bouman: Tech-letics: Why technology and sport create a better B.C.

  12-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Next week’s #BCTECH Summit is taking place at a time when the public’s mistrust of technology is at an all-time high. From parents’ despair at their kids’ screen time to the effect of social media in determining foreign elections, even the most devout tech evangelist is most likely weighing the pros and cons of storing and sharing workout data with fellow cyclists and runners on the mobile app, Strava.
  Despite these challenges, technology continues to prove its worth by p
  
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• Opinion: B.C. universities prepare technology leaders to drive economy

  12-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  His name may not be familiar, but Devesh Bharadwaj represents the future of B.C.
  At just 24 years old, the University of Victoria engineering graduate is a thinker, an entrepreneur and a technology pioneer who is harnessing the abundance of the ocean to bring clean water to the developing world.
  Bharadwaj’s company, Pani Energy, has been incorporated for a year, yet has already assembled an impressive team that is developing economically accessible technologies for fresh water and clean en
  
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• Letters: Capacity issue makes compelling case to build pipeline

  12-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Government aid key to Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Opinion, April 30
  The spread between WCS (Western Canadian Select) and WTI (West Texas Intermediate) suggests we have a serious take-away capacity issue. Every other economist has acknowledged this but Robyn Allan makes no mention of it in her article. From an economic standpoint, this take-away capacity issue creates a compelling case to build more pipeline infrastructure. It seems in Canada that our problem is not economics but rathe
  
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• Editorial: A chaotic start to Vancouver's civic election campaign

  12-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The civic election is still five months away but it is already shaping up to be one of more unusual contests the City of Vancouver has seen in some time. Under normal circumstances, the dominant political parties — most recently, Vision and the Non-Partisan Association — would hold nomination meetings where paid-up members would cast a vote for the candidate they believed would be most successful in carrying the brand for the party.
  This time around, the field appears to be largely p
  
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• Palmer: NDP's grip-less pipeline tool box panders to environmentalists

  12-05-2018 02:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The NDP vow to use every tool to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion got another reality check this week, this time in a case management conference at the B.C. Court of Appeal.
  “What you seem to be asking for in terms of dates is too ambitious,” presiding Justice David Frankel advised the B.C. government legal team. “There are some assumptions built into your material that I do not necessarily agree with.”
  He challenged the government reading
  
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• Hard lessons for Kinder Morgan on First Nation rights in Trans Mountain pipeline project

  12-05-2018 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  Many First Nations in B.C. have declared projects on their traditional territories need their consent to get built, a major issue for developers most recently accentuated in the dispute over Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
  But the law in Canada does not say that projects need First Nation consent, even as governments in Canada adopt the United Nation’s declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples that calls for free and informed consent before a
  
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• Vision Vancouver offers scant details about who might run for mayor

  12-05-2018 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  On its deadline day for accepting nominations, there were scant details from Vision Vancouver or anyone else about who might run for mayor under its banner.
  Applications have been received and any further ones will be accepted by the party until one minute before midnight on Friday, confirmed Coree Tull, co-chair of Vision’s nominations committee.
  There’s keen interest because after dominating city politics for a decade, Vision doesn’t yet have a firm, public commitment by a ca
  
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• Wondering what's on tap for Monday's Council Meeting? ✅ Public Hearing: 365 East 2nd Street ✅ Bylaw: Election Sign… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-05-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  Wondering what's on tap for Monday's Council Meeting? ✅ Public Hearing: 365 East 2nd Street ✅ Bylaw: Election Sign… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP seek owner of this ‘totem,’ but they don’t know what it is

  12-05-2018 01:35 via globalnews.ca
  According to RCMP, the 203cm (80 inches) tall statue was left at the scene by a suspicious male who quickly drove off on a motorcycle.
  
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• Vancouver's allergy season now 200 days longer than a decade ago: report

  12-05-2018 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  April showers bring May flowers, according to an old adage. But for many Vancouverites, they really only bring allergies.
  Allergy season has typically been short, however. Seasonal allergy sufferers would sniffle, sneeze and swear their way through the bloom, but in a month or two, the symptoms would generally subside. 
  Unfortunately, this no longer appears to be the case. According to new data released Friday by London Drugs and aeroallergen monitoring firm Aerobiology Research Labora
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP looking for owner of 'very unique' statue ... - CTV News

  12-05-2018 00:21
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  Officers were investigating reports of a suspicious person who was seen with the wooden totem.
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