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• Bear cub plays with soccer ball in North Vancouver backyard - Globalnews.ca

  31-05-2018 23:32
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  Bear cub plays with soccer ball in North Vancouver backyard
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  It's bear season! A Global viewer in North Vancouver took this video of a black bear playing with a soccer ball in his yard. This guy seems to be having a lot of fun but it's important to take steps to avoid close encounters. Be sure to remove ...
  
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• Family mourns after Terrace teen dies in backyard fire pit accident

  31-05-2018 23:21 via vancouversun.com
  A family in Terrace is grieving after their teen daughter died last weekend after a backyard fire pit freak accident.
  Grace Peerless, 13, and her family were enjoying a fire in their backyard the evening of May 24 when Grace’s clothing and hair suddenly caught on fire.
  Her mom Lynn said she looked out her backyard window when she heard her daughter screaming and saw her hair on fire. She says she told her daughter to stop, drop and roll, while her son grabbed a hose to put out the fla
  
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• Theatre review: Human and heartbreaking, Anne Frank's diary still potent

  31-05-2018 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  The Diary of Anne Frank
  When: To June 23
  Where: Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Dr.
  Tickets & info: $20-$27; fightingchanceproductions.caAnne Frank never seems to be out of the news. The 15-year-old Jewish-German-Dutch girl died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945 after hiding with her family and four other Jews for two years in an Amsterdam apartment, where she compiled her famous diary.
  More than 70 years later, you can read a new book claiming to iden
  
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• Have you shared your thoughts with @TransLink yet about the new Marine-Maine B-Line? Their online survey closes tod… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-05-2018 22:13 via twitter.com
  Have you shared your thoughts with @TransLink yet about the new Marine-Maine B-Line? Their online survey closes tod… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• This week's #CityView is packed with all the City latest news. Get info about our new Community Well Being Strategy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-05-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  This week's #CityView is packed with all the City latest news. Get info about our new Community Well Being Strategy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• No shortcuts to get around East 1st Avenue closure

  31-05-2018 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  From Nanaimo Street to Rupert Street, traffic is currently reduced to one lane in each direction. This work began over the past weekend and is expected to take place until the end of July. A full closure of East 1st between Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street will take place from July 3 to August 31.
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• Fire spreads to four homes in East Vancouver

  31-05-2018 21:49 via vancouversun.com
  A big plume of black smoke could be seen rising over East Vancouver Thursday morning, as firefighters battled four homes on fire in the Strathcona neighbourhood.
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• Power line incidents involving 'weekend loggers' on rise: B.C. Hydro

  31-05-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  The number of people having close calls with power lines is up, according to a new B.C. Hydro report.
  B.C. Hydro says so-called “weekend loggers,” or homeowners doing yard work such as pruning trees and clearing gutters, has led to 400 dangerous incidents involving electricity since 2013.
  The agency also says many more go unreported and estimates as many as 7,500 British Columbians have had a close call with electricity while pruning trees or doing work on a roof, such as cleaning gu
  
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• Don't panic! Smoke seen Thursday on Whistler Mountain the result of wildfire training exercise

  31-05-2018 21:23 via vancouversun.com
  If you spot smoke coming from Whistler Mountain on Thursday, don’t panic.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service is training with Whistler and Blackcomb staff using a live fire and are letting the public know not to be worried by the smoke.
  “Once an orientation is complete, crews will be lighting the fire at about 10:30-11 a.m., and they anticipate having it cold and out by 4:30 p.m.,” read an update posted by the provincial wildfire agency.
  BC Wildfire Service will be training Whistler/Bla
  
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• Vancouver's Westward Music Festival adds to lineup

  31-05-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s Westward Music Festival, set to take over a host of downtown venues in mid-September, announced several more artists on Wednesday.
  Chicago rapper Saba, whose recent release, Care For Me, has been earning rave reviews, was announced Wednesday, as was reggaeton and hip hop artist Bad Gyal.
  New programming announced Wednesday also includes: Cigarettes After Sex, Jo Passed, Common Holly and Canadian singer-songwriter Louise Burns, who has twice been long-listed for the coveted Pola
  
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• We're recruiting for an auxiliary Truck Driver / Swamper 2. Click here to apply: ow.ly/BACY30khehK

  31-05-2018 20:29 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for an auxiliary Truck Driver / Swamper 2. Click here to apply: ow.ly/BACY30khehK
  
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• The Marine-Main B-Line survey closes today. @TransLink is proposing some changes to local bus service. Review chang… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-05-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  The Marine-Main B-Line survey closes today. @TransLink is proposing some changes to local bus service. Review chang… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Book review: Give Out Creek by J.G. Toews

  31-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Give Out Creek
  J.G. Toews | Mosaic Press
  $24.95
  What would you do if one of your friends was suddenly discovered dead?  
  Character Stella Mosconi finds out the answer to that unthinkable question in the book Give Out Creek by debut author J.G. Toews.
  Set in the author’s British Columbia town of Nelson, the crime thriller details the mysterious death of one of Mosconi’s friends and fellow book club members.
  Mosconi, a reporter at the small town’s ne
  
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• Winner of B.C.'s largest Lotto 6/49 jackpot allowed to stay anonymous

  31-05-2018 19:44 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Lottery Corporation is allowing the winner of B.C.’s largest Lotto 6/49 jackpot to remain anonymous.
  The winning ticket in the record $30-million April 25 draw was purchased at the IGA grocery store on Parkway Boulevard in Coquitlam.
  The winner, however, didn’t want their name to be made public — and the BCLC, despite having a policy that requires all winners to agree to have their name, photo and hometown published, granted their request.
  The lottery corpora
  
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• UBC report blames housing unaffordability on red tape

  31-05-2018 19:41
  
  Home-building restrictions are six times larger cause of housing crisis than speculation, reports professor
  
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• DJ Diplo headlines Lululemon SeaWheeze Sunset Festival

  31-05-2018 19:32 via vancouversun.com
  DJ, producer and music mogul Diplo will bring his globally-acclaimed beat making to Lululemon’s SeaWheeze Half Marathon and Sunset Festival at Stanley Park’s Brockton Oval on Sept. 22.
  The annual weekend of running and yoga, which is in its seventh year, draws in excess of 10,000 participants. The SeaWheeze Sunset Festival closing runs 4:30–11 p.m.
  Revellers can put all that weekend bendy work to good use as they let their backbones slip to the music of Diplo, Vancouver local J
  
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• Canada is said to have started marketing Trans Mountain pipeline sale

  31-05-2018 18:47 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian government has already sent out marketing materials for the Trans Mountain pipeline to several potential buyers with the goal of selling the project it only days ago agreed to buy, according to people familiar with the matter.
  Greenhill & Co., a New York-based investment bank, was the exclusive financial adviser to the federal government on its C$4.5 billion ($3.5 billion) purchase of the pipeline and is working on a sale ahead of an expected shareholder vote on the issue in lat
  
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• UBC president pens letter to Ottawa to help alumna jailed in Saudi Arabia

  31-05-2018 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  The president of the University of B.C. has penned a letter to the federal government asking for help for alumna Loujain Al-Hathloul, a women’s rights activist jailed in Saudi Arabia.
  Santa Ono wrote to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland asking that the Canadian government work with its Saudi Arabian counterparts to ensure Al-Hathloul’s release and to encourage Saudi Arabia to recognize the rights of Saudi Arabian women.
  Al-Hathloul, a 28-year-old women who attended U
  
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• It's official. Our Parklet will soon have a new home in Queensbury Village at the corner of 7th & Queensbury. This… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-05-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  It's official. Our Parklet will soon have a new home in Queensbury Village at the corner of 7th & Queensbury. This… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you understand the options to change B.C.'s voting system?

  31-05-2018 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  In a referendum to be held this fall, British Columbians will vote on whether to keep the first past the post system to elect politicians, or choose between three proportional representation options.
  Read Rob Shaw’s story here.
  The three alternatives for proportional representation are: Dual Member Proportional, which would involve large two-MLA districts where one politician is elected based on the most votes and the other by their party’s provincewide performance; Mixed Member
  
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• UBC study shows more housing will help solve affordability crisis in Metro Vancouver

  31-05-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government must address the supply side of Metro Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis, according to a study released Thursday by UBC’s Sauder School of Business.
  The report — Growing Pains: density, economic growth, sustainability and well-being in Metro Vancouver — states that government responses to the housing crisis have focused on demand, including increasing the property transfer tax, the new speculation tax, the school tax and an increase in
  
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• 10 tips to keep your furry friends safe in summer

  31-05-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  While it’s great to look forward to sunny days outdoors with your pets, the hot weather is just one of the risks that this season poses to pets.
  Here are safety tips for your dogs.Related
  ’It’s that unconditional love,’ food bank, clinics cater to Vancouver pets in needShould landlords be forced to accept pets? Most people say no, according to pollPets sickened by marijuana in Canada a growing, disturbing trend: veterinariansFollow and share breaking news,
  
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• Crews battle fire that spread to four homes in East Vancouver

  31-05-2018 16:58 via vancouversun.com
  A big plume of black smoke could be seen rising over East Vancouver Thursday morning, as firefighters battled four homes on fire in the Strathcona neighbourhood.
  Major fire in East Vancouver this morning #yvr pic.twitter.com/kDGmMgC6Mw
  — dangraham (@dangraham) May 31, 2018Vancouver Fire and Rescue spokesman Capt. Jonathan Gormick says firefighters were called at around 6 a.m. to a house fire in the 300-block of Prior Street between Gore Avenue and Malkin Avenue.
  When they arrived they
  
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• Douglas Todd: Why are Vancouver and Toronto so unhappy?

  31-05-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver and Toronto are Canada’s most unhappy cities. It’s worth figuring out why.
  Vancouver and Toronto feature the four factors most correlated with Canadian unhappiness, according to a groundbreaking study out of UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics and McGill University.
  Metro Vancouver and Toronto are known for the qualities that characterize the country’s least happy regions: Long traffic commutes, stratospheric housing prices, high population densities and l
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy, clearing in the afternoon

  31-05-2018 15:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Thursday’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy. Environment Canada says the skies should clear up by this afternoon with a high of 18 C. Those clouds will likely move back in overnight with a slight chance of rain. Then on Friday, the agency is predicting similar weather, with a mix of sun and cloud. That pattern is likely going to continue through the weekend, according to the federal weather agency, with a mix of sun and cloud on Saturday and a high of 19 C. T
  
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• Poll: Federal Liberals losing support in B.C. over past Kinder Morgan pipeline decisions

  31-05-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Most British Columbians felt uneasy about their tax dollars being spent on the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion even before the federal government announced this week that it would buy the project outright for $4.5 billion, according to a new poll.
  Research Co. surveyed 1,255 adults in B.C. between May 25 to 28 and found that 76 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement “I am uncomfortable with the idea of the federal government using taxpayer money to subsidize a foreign comp
  
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• Metro motorists warned: Don't take side streets to get past East 1st traffic barriers

  31-05-2018 14:58 via vancouversun.com
  Who doesn’t love a good shortcut down a side street?
  Lon LaClaire, that’s who.
  A major Fortis B.C. project that began this week will see parts of East 1st Avenue in Vancouver fenced off for months this summer, and that has sent drivers on the hunt for the speediest circuits around the key thoroughfare.
  Residents on quiet side streets near First Avenue say they are already feeling increased traffic flow, and that is something LaClaire, the city’s director of transportation,
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Lawsuit over smelly B.C. composting ranch tossed

  31-05-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  A nasty, eight-year-old, odoriferous dispute over an Interior composting site, which seems to epitomize the kind of litigation the NDP government wants to prevent, has come to a judicious end.
  In a stinging 103-page decision against the waste-disposal companies that launched the lawsuit, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nitya Iyer dismissed the allegations as unfounded.
  She awarded costs to the residents and a local committee that organized dissent, and that could amount to a substantial financial fil
  
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• Vancouver's Westward Music Festival adds Nick Cave, Saba to lineup

  31-05-2018 06:36 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s Westward Music Festival, set to take over a host of downtown venues in mid-September, announced several more artists on Wednesday.
  Perhaps the largest new name on the festival roster is the prince of darkness himself, Nick Cave, who will be performing an early show, along with his band, The Bad Seeds, at the Vogue on Sept. 13, the festival’s opening night.
  Chicago rapper Saba, whose recent release, Care For Me, has been earning rave reviews, was also announced Wednesday,
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, May 31

  31-05-2018 05:14 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, May 31.Middleditch and Schwartz
  You may know Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz from their work in the Hollywood comedy scene. Middleditch is probably best known for his starring role on HBO’s Silicon Valley, and then I think of Schwartz, I think of Jean-Ralphio from Parks and Recreation. But the pair are also distinguished improv actors, and on Thursday, they visit the Vogue performing their two
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Eby to keep electoral reform vote 'simple,' as in simply confusing

  31-05-2018 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When Attorney General David Eby crafted his report to cabinet on the public consultations for electoral reform referendum, he faced a problem.
  The consultations, though trumpeted by the NDP as “the largest in provincial history,” did not provide a clear direction on how the fall ballot-by-mail should be put together.
  “There was no consensus from the public engagement questionnaire on the ballot structure,” to quote the report issued Wednesday over Eb
  
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• Burnaby's Terry Beech, other Liberal MPs in B.C. face anti-pipeline pressure

  31-05-2018 03:42 via vancouversun.com
  Federal Liberals representing ridings with opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project are facing increasing pressure from frustrated residents after the Trudeau government’s announcement to buy the pipeline for $4.5 billion.
  One of those officials is Liberal MP Terry Beech, who represents the newly carved riding of Burnaby-North Seymour, home to what’s known as “ground zero” of the opposition movement.
  “He’s not going to get re-elect
  
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• Metro motorists warned: Don't take 'sidelines' to get past East 1st traffic barriers

  31-05-2018 03:38 via vancouversun.com
  Who doesn’t love a good shortcut down a side street?
  Lon LaClaire, that’s who.
  A major Fortis B.C. project that began this week will see parts of East 1st Avenue in Vancouver fenced off for months this summer, and that has sent drivers on the hunt for the speediest circuits around the key thoroughfare.
  Residents on quiet side streets near First Avenue say they are already feeling increased traffic flow, and that is something LaClaire, the city’s director of transportation,
  
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• 'Gag' Tom Thomson painting sells for $481,250

  31-05-2018 03:01 via vancouversun.com
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  A previously unknown Tom Thomson painting that turned up in Vernon sold for $400,000 at a Heffel auction in Toronto on Wednesday. After the commission was added, the final sale price was $481,250.
  Not bad, considering that owner Glenna Gardiner had no idea it was real until she sent the painting to her friend, Marit Mayne, as a gag 70th birthday present.
  Gardiner’s dad Jack was a bit of a joker, so she didn’t believe him when he talked about his Thomson pai
  
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• Rally held in support of former UBC student being held in Saudi jail for advocating women's rights

  31-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Friends and supporters of a women’s rights activist jailed in Saudi Arabia rallied in support of her at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Wednesday.
  Loujain al-Hathloul, who attended UBC from 2009-2014, was taken into custody on May 15 along with nine other women’s rights activists, three of whom have since been released.
  Al-Hathloul is being held in solitary confinement and has been denied access to a lawyer or family members. She was arrested mid-afternoon in her home, according to Alqs
  
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• Opinion: We want in: Proportional representation would give young voters a real voice

  31-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Politics as usual in B.C. is outdated and unfair. Our democracy is failing us.
  Over the past four decades, we’ve seen a steady decline in voter participation in our elections. We’re nearing the point where more people may sit out elections than actually vote.
  This is particularly pronounced among young British Columbians.
  Young people are cut out of the political process by the vested interests who have a lot at stake in the upcoming referendum on electoral reform. It’s time to
  
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• Letters: Economics of natural gas royalties misrepresented

  31-05-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Ben Parfitt: British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues, Opinion, May 27
  It is disappointing to read Ben Parfitt’s Op-Ed in which he cherry-picks data to prove his point, rather than provide a factual account of natural resource economics in the province, and the broad benefits it brings through well paying jobs for British Columbians and government revenues. Parfitt chose the most positive years for royalties on natural gas producti
  
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• Critics challenge Vancouver's plans to protect existing rental stock

  31-05-2018 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver is holding public hearings next week on proposals aimed at tightening protection for one of the cheapest housing options left: old rental stock.
  But the jury is out on what these will actually accomplish.
  The affordable rental units are usually found in low-rise, wood-frame buildings, built between the 1950s and 1970s — the antithesis to all the city’s shiny, new, skyscraping condos with granite countertops.
  The city wants to make it more difficult to tear down
  
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• Still no charges a year later in Chilliwack chicken farm abuse case

  31-05-2018 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  It has been nearly one year since shocking undercover footage of animal abuse at a Chilliwack chicken farm was released publicly and yet there are still no charges.
  The delay has the Vancouver Humane Society calling on B.C. Attorney General David Eby to act quickly before time runs out on any possible court proceedings.
  “We are concerned at this undue delay and any potential impact it might have on a successful prosecution proceeding,” reads a letter signed by Debra Probert, executiv
  
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• DYK there's a tax deferment program for families called the Families with Children Property Tax Deferment Program.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-05-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  DYK there's a tax deferment program for families called the Families with Children Property Tax Deferment Program.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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