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• Rescue crews search for 4 lost hikers at Mount Seymour

  19-05-2018 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  The North Shore Search and Rescue Team is looking for four lost hikers at Mount Seymour.
  There are not many details, but a tweet from the NSSR says they are lost in the Suicide Creek area.
  North Shore Search and Rescue says 2018 is shaping up to be the busiest year yet.
  So far, the team has been called out 42 times, compared with 29 at the same time last year. 
  More to come…
  NSR is responding to a call for 4 lost hikers in the Suicide Creek area of Mount Seymour. Crews are staging at
  
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• It’s 12pm and Lynn Canyon parking lots are completely full on the west side and the service road is 60% full. Pleas… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 21:11 via twitter.com
  It’s 12pm and Lynn Canyon parking lots are completely full on the west side and the service road is 60% full. Pleas… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• B.C. Flooding: Residents along Fraser River could be forced out of their homes soon

  19-05-2018 20:20 via vancouversun.com
  Residents of more than 200 properties on evacuation alert in Langley could be asked to leave this long weekend, as warm temperatures and a rapidly melting snow pack cause the Fraser River to rise.
  On Saturday, Roeland Zwaag, the director of public works for the Township of Langley, said the river was measuring 5.9 metres and rising.
  He said based on the forecast the river is expected to rise to 6.1 metres on Sunday, at which time the water could start flooding low lying roads in Glen Valley and
  
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• Stop by @LonsdaleArtisan Farmers Market TODAY 12-4pm to chat with @TransLink about the new Marine-Main B-Line or gi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  Stop by @LonsdaleArtisan Farmers Market TODAY 12-4pm to chat with @TransLink about the new Marine-Main B-Line or gi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Makeover: Getting back under control

  19-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Josephine Watson is a 55-year-old artist and musician. She felt that her hair was out of control and needed it be reshaped and styled.
  Josephine has medium and naturally wavy hair. Her natural colour is gorgeous so we left it and opted for a really great haircut instead.
  I shampooed her hair using KMS Moist Repair Shampoo and Conditioner, for added moisture and manageability. I applied KMS Moist Repair — Revival Crème, as a leave-in conditioner, and started her cut at the nape.
  I cr
  
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• Good morning! For your convenience, park rangers will be tweeting real-time traffic updates from #DeepCove and… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  Good morning! For your convenience, park rangers will be tweeting real-time traffic updates from #DeepCove and… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Beauty Bar: Live Clean Sport Mineral Sunscreen Spray SPF 30

  19-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A spray-on format mineral sunscreen from the Canadian brand Live Clean.
  This broad-spectrum sunscreen (it provides protection from UVA and UVB rays) was created with “active adults” in mind. The water-resistant, non-greasy formula is 98-per cent naturally derived and it won’t leave skin looking chalky with residue. 
  The Zinc Oxide sunscreen is also “reef-safe”, free of parabens phthalates, fragrance and dyes, contains biodegradable ingredients, is h
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mix of sun and scattered showers

  19-05-2018 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – The weather for the rest of the long weekend in Metro Vancouver looks like a mix of sun and cloud with some showers. Environment Canada says Saturday will be mainly cloudy with scattered showers and a high of 20 C. There is more rain in the forecast for Sunday and then Monday looks mostly sunny with some clouds and a high of 20 C. Looking ahead to next week, Tuesday will likely be another mix of sun and cloud and then the warmer weather returns on Wednesday with sunny ski
  
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• Hey sliders, #FunCityFestival & #SlidetheCity return July 21/22. Take advantage of early bird pricing from $20. Get… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Hey sliders, #FunCityFestival & #SlidetheCity return July 21/22. Take advantage of early bird pricing from $20. Get… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Switching over to 'beast mode' to conquer Vistas Run, Whistler weekend

  19-05-2018 16:51 via vancouversun.com
  They have an annual Fashion Challenge, Runway Show and Oktoberfest costume contest but, according to one over-the-top Ridge Meadows Hospice Society booster, my low-budget running outfits are not worthy of those quality events on the “more creative side of the (Fraser) river!”
  Despite dressing as a goofy cowboy two years ago for the challenging Vistas Run, and having tackled recent races dressed as a moose, pirate, bear, elf, Spanish sloth, super hero and turtle, the so-call
  
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• Island getaway? Try this $20M, resort-style Bowen estate (PHOTOS)

  19-05-2018 15:58
  
  More than 21,000 square feet of living and leisure space and 14 acres of coastal woodland, with breathtaking indoor pool
  
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• Calling all heritage-home enthusiasts

  19-05-2018 15:49 via vancouversun.com
  The New Westminster Heritage Preservation Society’s 39th annual Heritage Homes Tour takes place on May 27, featuring a selection of impressive architectural styles, from an Arthur Erickson-inspired mid-century classic to a charming Victorian-era Queen’s Park cottage.In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the society will honour the city’s wartime honour roll by featuring special tributes at select homes. The Royal Westmins
  
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• Novel design showcased at 1555 West Eighth

  19-05-2018 15:21 via vancouversun.com
  Edwin Kenstone, whose development company built the 1555 residential project just off South Granville at West 8th Avenue, says he started his search for a design for the property with the question: What about a building of penthouses?
  What emerged five years later was a small collection of 20 single-level homes in two buildings that command compelling views of Vancouver’s cityscape, welcome lots of natural light into the homes and don’t share walls with neighbouring suites. Stepping
  
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• The Home Front: Thrifty design

  19-05-2018 15:18 via vancouversun.com
  Most people are comfortable with the idea of picking up the odd secondhand item to decorate their homes, interior designer Jamie Banfield says.
  But when it comes to large renovation projects — such as ripping out a kitchen and installing a shiny new one — and using secondhand sinks, countertops and cabinets, that’s a new concept for many, he says. Nonetheless, Banfield says it’s one worth getting your head around.
  “You’re going to save money, right off,”
  
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• Sold (Bought): Burnaby condo snapped up for well above list price

  19-05-2018 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  118 – 1955 Woodway Place, Burnaby
  Type: Three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 1,149 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $418,800
  Listed for: $550,000
  Sold for: $626,000
  Sold on: March 12
  Days on market: Seven
  Listing agent: Calin Ambrus at AWM Alliance Real Estate Group
  Buyers agent: Ina Ervin at Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty
  The big sell: Space is in abundance in this three-bedroom condo in Burnaby North’s Douglas
  
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• Wonderful, royal and historic Windsor

  19-05-2018 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  Some people, like Wallis Simpson, are less than fascinated about the Royal Family.  She famously said, “That a whole nation should preoccupy itself with a single family’s comings and goings –and not too exciting ones at that—seemed to me incomprehensible”. However, the whole world will have had the opportunity to be occupied on May 19th at noon Windsor time when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry.
  I’m more interested in royal history and I recently
  
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• Hotel suites fit for a king and queen

  19-05-2018 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  With the world’s attention focused on today’s Royal nuptials between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, a stunning restoration at an iconic Vancouver hotel is all the more relevant.
  That’s because Harry’s great grandparents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, stayed at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver during its grand opening in 1939, taking up residence on the 14th floor that had been specifically designed for the royal couple.
  This spring, in anticipation of
  
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• All things big and small, expensive and economical

  19-05-2018 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  They say variety is the spice of life. Certainly, it’s the spice of this column this week. There’s been so much interesting cruise news as of late that it’s tough to cover it all, and it affects ships big and small, expensive and economical.
  First, on the bucket-list side of things: Viking Cruises (cruise.center/vikingsea) recently announced the longest continuous World Cruise itinerary in the history of the industry. Starting in London on Aug. 31, 2019, guests will sail aboard
  
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• Wine and Recline in the Okanagan

  19-05-2018 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Discover for yourself what everyone is talking about; BC’s ever-changing wine scene.  Stay at the beautiful Summerland Waterfront Resort & Spa on the shores of Okanagan Lake, tour Summerland or Naramata Bench wineries (shuttle incl) and indulge in a gourmet lunch. From $305 per night for two adults.  www.SummerlandResortHotel.com
   
   
  
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• Two Indigenous protesters ordered to end occupation of B.C. fish farm

  19-05-2018 05:58 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Fish farming company Marine Harvest says the B.C. Supreme Court has ordered two Indigenous protesters, who have occupied the company’s houses and dock at Swanson Island for months, to leave by Saturday evening pending an upcoming hearing.
  Marine Harvest says the court also ordered them not to board or interfere with any of Marine Harvest’s salmon farms operating in the area.
  It says the order is pending a June 25 hearing of an application by Marine Harvest for a bro
  
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• Mayoral hopeful annoyed after NPA suddenly postpones nomination meeting

  19-05-2018 05:44 via vancouversun.com
  At least one potential candidate for the NPA is unhappy that the civic party suddenly cancelled a nomination meeting that had been slated for late May.
  The Vancouver municipal party abruptly nixed its planned May 29 meeting late Friday afternoon.
  In a brief phone conversation around 6 p.m., NPA president Gregory Baker confirmed the decision had been made within the past two hours, and said the date had been changed because of “technical difficulties.”
  He wouldn’t go into more d
  
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• Letters: Only citizens should have right to vote

  19-05-2018 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Vancouverites mixed on giving vote to permanent residents, poll finds, May 12
  I am surprised to learn that there are “slightly” more residents in Vancouver who support giving permanent residents the right to vote in a civic election. Although I was not one of the respondents polled by Research Co., I want to voice my objection to this proposal by the City of Vancouver, or for that matter, any level of government!
  Voting is both a right and a duty for citizens in any dem
  
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• It’s Friday night in the City of #NorthVan ! 💃🏻#ShipyardsNightMarket #I❤️MyCity https://t.co/rlMH61RDJ3

  19-05-2018 03:05 via twitter.com
  
  It’s Friday night in the City of #NorthVan ! 💃🏻#ShipyardsNightMarket#I❤️MyCity https://t.co/rlMH61RDJ3
  
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• Opinion: May is Child Care Month in B.C.: Finally, something to celebrate

  19-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lower parent fees well underway. Next priorities — improve educator wages, more licensed spaces.
  May is Child Care Month in B.C. This year, we have something big to celebrate — a government commitment to high quality, affordable child care for all who choose it and a budget and a plan to start implementation. With the initial steps underway, parent fees are starting to go down, not up, for the first time in almost two decades.
  Action started in February when the B.C. government relea
  
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• Kevin Gardner: Can spill response organizations clean up diluted bitumen?

  19-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  If a diluted bitumen spill happens on Canada’s West Coast, is it possible to clean it up? Yes, it is. We know that because we have already successfully responded to a diluted bitumen spill in these waters. It’s what we continue to train and prepare for every day.
  In 2007, Western Canada Marine Response Corp. (WCMRC) was activated to respond to an oil spill in Burrard Inlet after a backhoe ruptured a pipeline beneath Barnet Highway in Burnaby. The pipeline rupture primarily released o
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of May 12

  19-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The 17th Suspect — James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
  2. The Fallen — David Baldacci.
  3. Twisted Prey — John Sandford.
  4. The Forgotten Road — Richard Paul Evans.
  5. Adjustment Day — Chuck Palahniuk.
  6. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate.
  7. The Hellfire Club — Jake Tapper.
  8. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  9. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn.
  10. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
   
  HARDCOVER NON
  
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• Editorial: Pipeline politics frame irreconcilable differences

  19-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s announcement this week that Ottawa would indemnify Kinder Morgan against losses arising from delays in construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project that are “politically motivated” moved the needle a little.
  It prompted B.C. Premier John Horgan to switch his animus for “Texas boardrooms” to a “Toronto-based finance minister,” shifting the geopolitical focus from Houston to Ottawa — or, rather
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week of May 12

  19-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  2. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  3. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  4. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for B.C. — Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  5. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observ
  
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• Archer slight noted with fairness of electoral reform vote in question

  19-05-2018 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Late last year B.C.’s chief electoral officer, Keith Archer, learned that if he wanted a second term as the independent watchdog on elections, he would need to reapply for the job and take his chances alongside other prospective candidates.
  The news was communicated to Archer on behalf of an all-party committee of the legislature, charged with unanimously recommending a candidate to fill the position that runs through two provincial elections plus one year.
  Archer mus
  
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• REAL SCOOP: DNA match leads to arrest in 1987 double-murder

  19-05-2018 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  It was just last month that we were reminded of the horrific details of the 1987 murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook.
  The case had gone unsolved for more than 30 years. Until this week.
  Investigators announced Friday that they had made an arrest after using a public genealogy website to find relatives that matched the DNA found at the crime scene three decades ago.
  NOTE: I am closing comments for the long weekend as I will be out of town.
  Here’s my story:Washington police announce
  
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• REAL SCOOP: More violence with double shooting/murder – UPDATED

  19-05-2018 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Police are investigating a double-shooting that left sent two people to hospital early Friday.
  Const. Jason Doucette said the targeted shooting happened just before 6 a.m. in a building on Industrial Avenue near Scotia Street.
  A 31-year-old pregnant woman lost her unborn child after being shot. She remains in hospital in critical condition. The woman managed to call 911.
  Officers arrived minutes later to discover a 23-year-old Langley man had also been shot in the same apartment.
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• Landmark Maynard's neon sign destroyed while being removed

  19-05-2018 02:03 via vancouversun.com
  The red neon Maynard’s Auctioneers sign has been a Vancouver landmark since it went up in the mid-1950s.
  No more. The sign was accidentally destroyed Monday while it was being removed from Maynard’s former location at 1837 Main St.
  Maynard’s is moving to Richmond because its old location at 2nd and Main is being torn down for condos. The sign was supposed to be removed, refurbished and then erected at the company’s new location.
  But the sign crew that was supposed to take
  
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• Happy long weekend everyone! So many reasons to love your City, this weekend and every day. Get out and enjoy! 💗… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  Happy long weekend everyone! So many reasons to love your City, this weekend and every day. Get out and enjoy! 💗… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• West End Community Centre reopens after ammonia leak prompts evacuation

  19-05-2018 01:50 via vancouversun.com
  The West End Community Centre has reopened after the building was evacuated on Friday afternoon because of an ammonia leak.
  After the leak was detected around 12:30 p.m., Vancouver Fire and Rescue’s hazmat team was called in and the building was ventilated. 
  The West End Community Centre hosts a number of community programs and boasts several facilities, including the Joe Fortes branch of the Vancouver Public Library, racquetball courts, a fitness centre, and an ice rink, which u
  
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• Reminder: City Hall is closed Monday May 21 for #VictoriaDay. Enjoy your long weekend #NorthVan! Plenty of online s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Reminder: City Hall is closed Monday May 21 for #VictoriaDay. Enjoy your long weekend #NorthVan! Plenty of online s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Iranian-Canadian widow barred from leaving Iran hospitalized for three days

  19-05-2018 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  The wife of an Iranian-Canadian professor who died two months ago while in Iranian custody was hospitalized in Tehran this week after suffering serious anxiety attacks, her son says.
  Ramin Seyed-Emami, who lives in Vancouver, said his mother, Maryam Mombeini, has been living alone since authorities barred her from leaving Iran on March 7. The trauma stemming from her husband’s death on Feb. 8 has caused her extreme physiological distress. 
  “She’s been going through so much
  
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• This Week in History: 1912 Moral reformers see red over brothels on Alexander Street

  19-05-2018 00:51 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s first red light district was on Dupont (now East Pender) in Chinatown. But in 1911, it shifted to the 500 and 600 blocks of Alexander Street in Japantown.
  In the 1913 Henderson’s directory, there were 27 female names listed in the 500 and 600 blocks, including Lily White and Pearl Gray. Some of the madams were so successful they built their own brothels.
  This did not sit well with reformers who had been trying to rid the city of vice. Among them was Minister Wright of the
  
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• #NorthVan you can recycle these at the Recycling Drop-off area at the North Shore Transfer station. twitter.com/RecycleBC/stat…

  19-05-2018 00:49 via twitter.com
  #NorthVan you can recycle these at the Recycling Drop-off area at the North Shore Transfer station. twitter.com/RecycleBC/stat…
  
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• TransLink asks Metro for increase to its borrowing limit to fund transit plan

  19-05-2018 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is asking Metro Vancouver’s board of directors to support a bid to increase its borrowing limit by $1.5 billion so the transit authority can pay for capital investments in its 10-year regional transportation plan.
  TransLink’s chief financial officer and vice-president of policy and planning appeared before Metro Vancouver’s finance and intergovernmental committee on Friday to discuss the proposal.
  TransLink’s borrowing limit is $4 billion, but that would ne
  
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• Dan Fumano: An especially busy, and at times wacky, week in Vancouver politics

  19-05-2018 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  This week, one longtime local political insider, who has worked on several election campaigns, commented that Vancouver’s 2018 mayoral race is already “the most bizarre and wide-open election I’ve ever seen.”
  And election day is still more than 150 sleeps away.
  But while the next couple of weeks may or may not be any less crazy, we should at least be able to get more clarity on a few key issues.
  The Non-Partisan Association made headlines over the last two weeks as i
  
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