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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time CPIC Operator - Clerk. Click here to apply. ow.ly/zxv530k4OHJ

  18-05-2018 23:54 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time CPIC Operator - Clerk.Click here to apply. ow.ly/zxv530k4OHJ
  
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• Homeowners fighting B.C. speculation tax hire lawyer for possible class action suit

  18-05-2018 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  A group of homeowners crowdsourcing to raise money to fight B.C.’s new speculation tax on empty homes has retained a lawyer for a possible class-action lawsuit.
  The group Canadians Against the B.C. Speculation Tax has started a Go Fund Me page with plans to sue the government to stop the levy.
  As of Friday morning, organizers had raised just over $8,500 of a $300,000 goal. The group says the funds will go to a public advocacy campaign to pressure the government to withdraw the pr
  
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• Planning to visit #DeepCove or #LynnCanyon? New parking and access rules to help reduce the impacts of large volume… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Planning to visit #DeepCove or #LynnCanyon? New parking and access rules to help reduce the impacts of large volume… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #CampIgnite is a youth firefighter mentorship program for girls in grade 11/12. Apply by June 1st:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  #CampIgnite is a youth firefighter mentorship program for girls in grade 11/12. Apply by June 1st:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Advocate says research on tainted street drugs proves need for safer alternatives

  18-05-2018 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Advocates for people who use drugs say new research showing an overwhelmingly tainted street-drug supply proves the dire need for government to crush the deadly illicit market by distributing safer substances.
  Jordan Westfall, president of the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs, said the pilot study shows the pressing need for safer drugs.
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• Washington police announce arrest in 1987 murder of Victoria couple

  18-05-2018 22:24 via vancouversun.com
  A 55-year-old SeaTac man has been arrested and charged in connection with the 1987 murder of a young Victoria couple.
  Families of Jay Cook, 20, and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, were present at an Everett news conference Friday where the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office announced the break in the case.
  William Talbott II was arrested as he was leaving work earlier this week.
  DNA from Van Cuylenborg’s murder matched that of a relative of Talbott’s when forensic experts created a pr
  
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• Theatre review: Arts Club's Mamma Mia! delivers feel-good vibes

  18-05-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Mamma Mia!
  When: To Aug. 12
  Where: Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
  Tickets & Info: From $29; artsclub.com
  Here we go again. That’s the subtitle of the new Mamma Mia! prequel movie, opening in July.
  And here we go again at the Stanley with the Arts Club mounting the stage musical that 60 million people have seen since its 1999 premiere, a show that, along with the 2008 movie, has helped keep all those addictive ABBA tunes bouncing around in our brains.
  The Arts Club is betting on
  
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• District Hall will be closed next Monday, May 21 for the Victoria Day stat holiday. Our after hours emergency conta… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  District Hall will be closed next Monday, May 21 for the Victoria Day stat holiday. Our after hours emergency conta… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tom Mayenknecht: Franchise owners could double down on sports betting

  18-05-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It was an enormously bullish week for the sports betting industry in the United States, where Monday’s Supreme Court ruling caused a seismic shift everywhere outside of Nevada. Within weeks, states such as New Jersey — which won the judgement — will begin accepting sports bets.
  By year’s end, almost half of the 50 American states are expected to be regulating, licensing and promoting sports betting. It will result in new revenues for all North American s
  
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• Five things to know about DJ Forest Walker Project Arbutus: Transcend

  18-05-2018 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  DJ Forest Walker, a.k.a. Vancouver’s Jordan McQuaig, is most certainly a West Coast electronic producer. The sound he conjures on the second release under his Project Arbutus moniker does indeed seem like something anyone could enjoy listening to while walking through a green coastal rainforest.
  For music that is crafted digitally, the results are deeply resonant with the natural world.
  Here are five things to know about Project Arbutus: Transcend.
  1: Part two of a concept. The first Proje
  
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• Q&A: Vera Wang of Indian bridal wear Shyamal Shodhan talks fashion, his latest collection and more

  18-05-2018 21:38 via vancouversun.com
  Summer wedding season is almost upon us (not to mention Royal Wedding fever is in full swing), and when we talk weddings, top of our minds is what the bride will wear for the momentous occasion.
  While the dress-shopping decisions are no different for a South Asian bride — she wants the best she can get — she also has to plan for far more functions than in any other culture.
  I can count at least six: engagement, mehendi, when the bride (and sometimes the groom) get henna tattoos a cou
  
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• Join us at #MagneticNorthVan Info Session May 23rd 5:30-8pm 123 E 23rd St. Drop by to find out how you've influence… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Join us at #MagneticNorthVan Info Session May 23rd 5:30-8pm 123 E 23rd St. Drop by to find out how you've influence… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vancouver company is changing the way we eat frozen pizza

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Frozen pizza has long been considered the affordable, less delicious alternative to a takeout pie.
  While restaurants have steadily upped their collective pizza ingredient and flavour games, incorporating inventive toppings, sourcing local cheeses and creating dough with near-scientific precision, the frozen pizza situation has remained relatively undercooked.  
  But, one Vancouver company is looking to change that — one perfectly crispy pizza at a time.  
  “With the
  
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• Tiffany & Co. embarks on a new direction

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  NEW YORK —  On a stage suspended above the crowd gathered inside the Fifth Avenue flagship store of Tiffany & Co., rapper A$AP Ferg performs his hit song Plain Jane.
  The Harlem-raised hip-hop star, who is a member of the rap troupe A$AP Mob, pauses his party performance to mention how, not long ago, he thought he’d never be able to walk in the venerated jeweller’s doors, let alone close out an evening of celebrations honouring the launch of the company’
  
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• Regarding the over night fire in the City of NV. Clarifying it was in the Memorial Community Rec Centre - 125 East… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Regarding the over night fire in the City of NV. Clarifying it was in the Memorial Community Rec Centre - 125 East… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hey parents, the Walk and Roll School Challenge starts next Tuesday! Find out how to help your child's school PAC w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Hey parents, the Walk and Roll School Challenge starts next Tuesday! Find out how to help your child's school PAC w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Getting jazzed up about Jo Passed Their Prime

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jo Passed Their Prime release party with DUMB and Little Sprout
  When: May 25, 9 p.m.
  Where: Red Gate Arts Society, 855 E. Hastings
  Tickets and info: jopassed.bandcamp.com
  Jo Hirabayashi says jazz didn’t play a part in naming his new band Jo Passed. While he is certainly aware of the legendary jazz guitarist Joe Pass, it’s more because of Pass’s drubbing on Jimi Hendrix in a Downbeat blindfold test. 
  “Honestly, the name comes from some stupid thing me and my friends s
  
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• Fab 5: RSVP in style

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If, like us, your invitation to the much-hyped nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got lost in the mail, you’ll be following along on TV instead, watching every move, shedding a tear or two, and awing at all the pomp and circumstance (or perhaps silently high-fiving Meghan and Harry for managing to convince the palace to do away with some of the more antiquated rules).
  Clearly, this is the wedding of the season — but chances are, you’ve got a few others already pencilled
  
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• Brian Minter: Heat-seeking vegetables can be planted now

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Well, this is it. Right across our country, Victoria Day weekend is the official kickoff to the garden season. Now the days are longer and the night temperatures are more consistently near 10 C, so it’s time to plant the majority of our heat-loving vegetables.
  If your garden is not ready yet, or if where you live is still too cool at night, hold off and concentrate on cool-loving vegetables until you are comfortable with setting out heat dependent vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppe
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Your must-try summer list of the best of B.C. varietals

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Today it’s over to the judges of the 2018 B.C. Best of Varietal Awards & Competition held earlier this month at the 24th Spring Okanagan Wine Festival.
  The competition attracted 572 wines slotted into 34 categories by grape varietal. Eighteen judges narrowed the field to a quarter of the entries before re-tasting and declaring an overall winner in the main classes: white wines under $19 and over $19, and reds under $26 and over $26, each with a minimum 10 entries.
  Sparkling wine in B.C
  
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• Homeowners fighting B.C. speculation tax hire lawyer for potential class action suit

  18-05-2018 19:58 via vancouversun.com
  A group of homeowners crowdsourcing to raise money to fight B.C.’s new speculation tax on empty homes has retained a lawyer for a potential class-action lawsuit.
  The group — called Canadians Against the B.C. Speculation Tax — has started a Go Fund Me page with plans to start a class-action lawsuit against the government to stop the levy.
  As of Friday morning, organizers had raised just over $8,500 of a $300,000 goal. The group says the funds will go to a public advoca
  
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• Two-thirds of speculation tax payers will be B.C. residents

  18-05-2018 19:34
  
  With lower rate, British Columbians will contribute a third of the overall tax revenues
  
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• Five things: Scammers are more devious than ever

  18-05-2018 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  The gentle pleas for cash in emails from Nigerian fraudsters with their freeform spelling seem so gentle and nostalgic by comparison. Scammers are getting increasingly pushy, and some of their ploys are designed to scare the crap out of you.
  Police are on their way. You’ve been accused of tax fraud. Your bank account has been hacked. An unauthorized purchase was made with your PayPal account. You are about to be deported. This purchase was made with your Apple ID.
  But fraudsters may also a
  
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• #StudiointheCity = youth opportunities to apprentice in the arts in the City. Apply now: cnv.org/StudiointheCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 19:25 via twitter.com
  #StudiointheCity = youth opportunities to apprentice in the arts in the City. Apply now: cnv.org/StudiointheCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Vancouver book bike goes 'library viral' - North Shore News

  18-05-2018 19:08
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  North Vancouver book bike goes 'library viral'
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  The folks at the North Vancouver City Library knew that their book bike idea was a winner the moment they first rolled their new prize out of the delivery truck. A few librarians took photos of the bike and posted them to their personal feeds, and the ...
  
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• A quick reminder that there will be night work tonight at the #LynnValley Road underpass, as we do the last of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
  A quick reminder that there will be night work tonight at the #LynnValley Road underpass, as we do the last of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A large black bear has been confirmed to be in the area of North Vancouver Lynnmour Elem. School - 800 Forseman Str… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
  A large black bear has been confirmed to be in the area of North Vancouver Lynnmour Elem. School - 800 Forseman Str… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Heading to #LynnCanyon today? Please note that the suspension bridge is closed for maintenance, as is the Lynn Cany… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Heading to #LynnCanyon today? Please note that the suspension bridge is closed for maintenance, as is the Lynn Cany… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A fire overnight in the basement of Harry Jerome Rec Centre has been extinguished. No major damage. No one in the b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  A fire overnight in the basement of Harry Jerome Rec Centre has been extinguished. No major damage. No one in the b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Town Talk: Courage To Come Back Awards honour five, raise $3 million

  18-05-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  ALL THE WAY: For its 20th annual running, Coast Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back Awards banquet dramatically moved forward. The Vancouver Convention Centre event drew 1,800 attendees compared to 1,500 in 2017, and reportedly almost doubled revenue to $3 million. Thirteen-year chair Lorne Segal praised awardees Ingrid Bates, Josh Dahling, Alisa Gil Silvestre, Jim Ryan and Suzanne Venuta’s “sheer determination to persevere in the face of all that life has placed before them.&
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Why we want the Trans Mountain expansion

  18-05-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline is the most divisive issue in Canada, with the potential to tear at the fabric of our Confederation. The federal government, B.C. government, Alberta government and First Nations governments are all in a titanic battle.
  A number of First Nations along the pipeline route do not want to see it built while others are OK with oil flowing through their territories. The Frog Lake Nation of Alberta owns and operates an energy company and it says that without
  
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• Daily Poll: Will you watch the royal wedding on Saturday?

  18-05-2018 15:32 via vancouversun.com
  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tie the knot Saturday in England at noon, which means if you want to see it on the West Coast of Canada you’re going to have to get up at 4 a.m.
  Read a National Post run down of events for the royal wedding here.
  Will you set an alarm and get up early on Saturday to watch the couple say I do, or will you sleep in and catch the highlights on the news? Maybe you have no interest at all in the celebration. We’d like to hear what you think. Take our po
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Chance of showers for long weekend

  18-05-2018 15:04 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s probably not the weather forecast long weekend campers were hoping for, with Environment Canada forecasting a chance of showers. Friday looks like a mix of sun and scattered showers, with a high of 20 C. Then on Saturday and Sunday, the agency says there is a chance of rain, with highs of 20 C on both days. The holiday Monday looks lovely though with a mix of sun and cloud and highs of 20 C.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent c
  
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• North Vancouver homeowner fined for creek contamination - North Shore News

  18-05-2018 12:27
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  North Vancouver homeowner fined for creek contamination
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  A District of North Vancouver homeowner has been fined after careless construction work on their property led to a sediment spill in Hastings Creek. Area resident Graham Smith was out walking his dog in Princess Park on Friday when he noticed a cloudy, ...
  
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• Hamilton man pleads guilty to attempted murder of Hells Angel

  18-05-2018 07:13 via vancouversun.com
  A Hamilton man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a B.C. Hells Angel at the Vancouver airport.
  Knowah Ferguson, 21, also pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit the murder of an unknown person in June 2015.
  The guilty pleas came after a judge dismissed an application by Ferguson’s lawyers to exclude evidence due to police breaching the accused’s rights. Ferguson’s trial was to have started May 28 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
  Court heard th
  
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• Homicide investigators called in after body found in Richmond

  18-05-2018 05:59 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide investigators have taken over an investigation in Richmond after mounties discovered the body of a dead man.
  The deceased, who has not been identified at this time, was found shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday when Richmond RCMP were called to the 16000-block of Dyke Road for a report of a dead body.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) will conduct the investigation in partnership with the Richmond RCMP, police say, indicating that foul play is suspected.
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• UBC gets its field of dreams

  18-05-2018 05:56 via vancouversun.com
  UBC debuted its newly refurbished ball park this season. It came in at a price tag of $5 million, what with its upgraded artificial turf, big-league dugouts and new grandstand. The spruced-up former practice field is steps away from the $4-million indoor training centre and all its slick, high-tech tools that started up in late 2015.
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• Deadpool 2's Vancouver contributions even include T.J. Miller's glasses

  18-05-2018 05:50 via vancouversun.com
  Hotly-anticipated sequel Deadpool 2 is a Vancouver movie through and through. Its star, Ryan Reynolds, who plays the titular hero, was born here. The entire film was shot here. Even the glasses worn by Weasel, T.J. Miller’s character, were made here.
  Weasel’s spectacles in Deadpool 2, a thick, black, rounded frame, are the handiwork of Sara Moshurchak, the framemaker behind Gastown’s boutique glasses shop, Mosh. 
  According to Mosh, the creative team behind the Marvel
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, May 18

  18-05-2018 05:15 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, May 18.Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair
  The Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair returns for its 72nd year on Friday, running through the weekend, and as with all weekend events, I recommend going on opening day, before everybody else figures out it’s on. At the Cloverdale Rodeo, you’ll see all the good stuff you normally see at rodeos: saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, bull riding — mo
  
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• VPD's anti-gang operation leads to arrests, seized guns

  18-05-2018 05:01 via vancouversun.com
  A violent Lower Mainland gang was contracting itself out to commit murders for larger, more-established organized crime groups, Vancouver Police Supt. Mike Porteous said Thursday.
  But the “Gill group”, headed by 21-year-old Taqdir Gill, has now been dismantled after a months-long investigation that resulted in seven arrests and the seizure of four guns, Porteous said.
  Gill, Walta Abay, 23, Hitkaran Johal, 19, are all charged with conspiracy to commit murder between Oct. 5 and 27, 201
  
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• Men's health: A primer on prostate cancer

  18-05-2018 04:50 via vancouversun.com
  The prostate is a small gland that produces a milky fluid that forms a large portion of semen. It is located under the bladder and wraps around the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder through the penis. 
  The universally positive message is that prostate cancer moves slower than other cancers, and that the medical community has made great strides over the decades in diagnosing and treating the disease.
  Read reporter Larry Pynn’s full account of his own fight with pros
  
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• Rolls-Royce unveils Cullinan, a new luxury SUV you probably can't afford, in Vancouver

  18-05-2018 04:34 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to buy a place in Vancouver, but you don’t have a million dollars? Have you considered living in your car?
  Sure, it may not seem like the height of luxury, but that depends on the car. For only about half a million, for instance, you could make your home inside a brand new, Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Provided you intend to live in it, that’s a steal.
  Cullinan was unveiled Thursday afternoon in a lavish launch at the brand’s new Vancouver showroom, on Burrard Street’s l
  
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• Parachutist saved after getting stuck on Stawamus Chief

  18-05-2018 04:17 via vancouversun.com
  A BASE jumper who was spotted hanging on the side of the Stawamus Chief on Thursday afternoon has been flown to safety by a Squamish Search and Rescue helicopter crew.
  Paramedics are still examining the parachutist, but Squamish Search and Rescue manager Landon James told reporters he was conscious and speaking with rescuers.
  The BASE jumper has not been identified. Neither has the cause of his situation been explained, although it’s likely he became entangled in the cliffsi
  
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• 'The recovery effort will take years': Southern Interior gets military help amid flooding

  18-05-2018 03:20 via vancouversun.com
  Michelle Regnier was housing 27 people — nine adults and 18 kids — in her two-storey home when the first round of floods ravaged Grand Forks, B.C. just last week. 
  She managed to turn the three-bedroom home into a seven room space to accommodate for those who had lost their homes to the water. They used the kitchen in shifts for lunch and supper. 
  “We’d do it again in a heartbeat,” she said.
  And she may have to. The second surge of floods is expected to br
  
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• Most Vancouverites support Empty Homes Tax, housing strategy: new poll

  18-05-2018 02:03 via vancouversun.com
  New polling data shows most Vancouverites support some of the city’s recent moves to deal with the housing crisis, including the Empty Homes Tax.
  The new data, provided exclusively to Postmedia, examined public opinion on some of Vancouver’s recent housing policies, and comes five months out from a municipal election where housing figures to be the most prominent issue by far.
  The poll of 400 Vancouver residents between April 6 and 10 was commissioned by the City of Vancouver and con
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Young gangsters charged in murder conspiracy

  18-05-2018 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Several young gangsters who Vancouver police say were particularly violent are now facing 20 serious charges from conspiracy to commit murder to possession of prohibited firearms and conspiracy to commit arson.
  The alleged leader of the group is Taqdir Gill, who is only 21. His “cell” was aligned with the Kang faction of the Brothers’ Keepers, but then switched to the rival United Nations gang. In fact, some in the Gill group were apparently hunting the Kangs when the VPD arres
  
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