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• The beloved piano in the plaza is back! Beginners, pros and dabblers are invited to fill Civic Plaza with music all… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  The beloved piano in the plaza is back! Beginners, pros and dabblers are invited to fill Civic Plaza with music all… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Braking Vancouver’s housing market

  01-06-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s housing market is a political and financial minefield. Measures to create housing for those who can’t afford Vancouver’s sky-high real estate appear to have backfired. The target started out as offshore, namely mainland Chinese buyers who were investing in Vancouver real estate. The new rules and taxes, however, appear to be a rich versus poor tax grab.
  The City of Vancouver jumped in with both feet and created an empty home tax. Then the provincial govern
  
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• Where is Ben Kilmer? The love behind Island search

  01-06-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — It’s been more than two weeks since Ben Kilmer disappeared in the Cowichan Valley.
  A massive search has failed to find the 41-year-old father of two from Cobble Hill, and now his wife, Tonya, faces the prospect of marking their wedding anniversary today without him.
  “They were just an awesome, happy, outdoorsy family,” Tonya’s brother, Ryan Corry, said Thursday. “And it’s the most troubling, anguishing thing to watch a family member go through
  
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• Thanks for the support Save-on- Foods, much appreciated! Have a good ride S/Sgt. Phil Yong. Such a great cause. twitter.com/beingkulvir/st…

  01-06-2018 22:22 via twitter.com
  Thanks for the support Save-on- Foods, much appreciated! Have a good ride S/Sgt. Phil Yong. Such a great cause. twitter.com/beingkulvir/st…
  
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• Union files grievance over public school teacher shortage in B.C.

  01-06-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s teachers’ union has filed a grievance over the shortage of educators in the province.
  B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman says the ongoing shortfall of classroom teachers and specialists has been a problem all year and threatens to cause significant disruptions in September.
  A Supreme Court of Canada decision in 2016 forced the provincial government to restore staffing to 2002 levels after it ruled the former Liberal government improperly took aw
  
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• Supreme court dismisses former notary's appeal of $110-million Ponzi conviction

  01-06-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a leave to appeal by former Vancouver notary Rashida Samji of her criminal conviction for operating an $110-million Ponzi scheme.
  The decision by the high court not to hear Samji’s appeal was announced Friday.
  It means that Samji, who had been out on bail pending the decision, will now serve her six-year sentence handed down in B.C. Supreme Court in 2016.
  In her Supreme Court of Canada appeal, Samji had made similar arguments as she had at the B.C.
  
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• Cyclist killed in collision with dump truck in North Vancouver

  01-06-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  A cyclist is dead after colliding with a dump truck Friday morning in North Vancouver.
  The collision happened shortly after 7 a.m. at the intersection of St. Andrews Avenue and East Second Street, according to RCMP.
  Emergency crews responded but the 54-year-old North Vancouver man died.
  The man’s family has been notified but he has not been identified by RCMP.
  Police say the driver of the dump truck remained on scene. The cause of the collision is still under investigation.
  Anyone who witn
  
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• Two people confirmed dead in house fire near Vernon

  01-06-2018 22:20 via vancouversun.com
  RCMP investigators have confirmed that the remains of two people have been found in a house that caught fire near Vernon last week.
  On May 21, at around 4:15 a.m. the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP were called to assist the North Westside Fire Rescue with a home engulfed in flames located in the 300-block of Northernview Drive on the west side of Okanagan Lake, southwest of Vernon.
  The structure was destroyed and its two occupants were unaccounted for at the time.
  Mounties say scene examin
  
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• Three declare plans to challenge Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps

  01-06-2018 22:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — With about 140 days to go before the October municipal election, challengers are beginning to line up for a chance to unseat incumbent Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps.
  At least three candidates — businessmen Gary Beyer and Sean Leitenberg and self-described former academic and child poverty activist Rob Duncan — have formally announced their intention to challenge Helps for the job.
  “What I see out there is anger. I’ve lived in this town for 50 years and I
  
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• Bail money is now being posted and accepted at Park Royal Mall. Come on down! twitter.com/tourdecoast/st…

  01-06-2018 22:17 via twitter.com
  Bail money is now being posted and accepted at Park Royal Mall. Come on down! twitter.com/tourdecoast/st…
  
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• Dan Fumano: Will NPA go with 'stable,' 'fresh' or something completely different?

  01-06-2018 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  After dominating Vancouver politics for most of its 81-year history, the Non-Partisan Association finds itself at a crossroads Sunday, when party members choose the mayoral candidate they hope will lead them to victory this fall after a decade out of power.
  Two of the three men seeking the job are backed by different factions representing core pieces of the NPA’s history — the business community and the political establishment — while the third represents a shift in a star
  
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• Us cows clean up nice #moo #northvan https://t.co/nF9THJHHLS

  01-06-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Cory Vallee convicted of first-degree murder of Red Scorpion gangster

  01-06-2018 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  Accused United Nations gang hitman Cory Vallee was found guilty Friday of conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers and murdering one of their close friends.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon said the Crown had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt that Vallee was brought in to the UN conspiracy specifically as a hitman and that he was one of two shooters who killed Red Scorpion Kevin LeClair outside a Langley strip mall on Feb. 6, 2009.
  Dillon noted that the four key defence witnesses, k
  
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• Greater Vancouver home prices predicted to keep climbing – at slower rate

  01-06-2018 20:20
  
  Residential sales set to slow further this year but recover next year, with no drop in average prices, forecasts BCREA
  
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• Attending Blueridge Good Neighbour Day on Sunday? Bring a water bottle to refill at @MetroVancouver #WaterWagon, an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-06-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
  Attending Blueridge Good Neighbour Day on Sunday? Bring a water bottle to refill at @MetroVancouver #WaterWagon, an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of May 26

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Cast — Danielle Steel.
  2. 17th Suspect — James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
  3. The Fallen — David Baldacci.
  4. By Invitation Only — Dorothea Benton Frank.
  5. The High Tide Club —Mary Kay Andrews.
  6. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate.
  7. Twisted Prey — John Sandford.
  8. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  9. Warlight — Michael Ondaatje.
  10. The Crooked Staircase — Dean Koontz.
   
  HARDCOVER N
  
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• Film Q&A: Director Karina Holden's Blue delivers a sad message about our oceans

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  From literally choking on plastics to being wiped out by factory fishing, our oceans are in big trouble.
  The award-winning documentary film Blue is a stunning, sobering look at the state of our seas and some of the smart, brave, underfunded activists who are taking action and working to pull our waterways back from the dangerous precipice of complete failure.
  Filmed in Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, Indonesia and the South Pacific, Blue is being screened across the country on World Oceans D
  
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• Fab 5: The flat pack

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s an ugly fact, but it’s true. Warmer weather equals sweaty, swollen feet — not a pretty sight. Luckily, with this season’s crop of flat sandals, which are both cool and practical, you can avoid any ugly feet mishaps. From pool slides that show your designer allegiances to woven styles that really do work from boardroom to bar, Rebecca Tay presents five pairs of flat sandals you’ll want to step into this season.
  PICNIC, PLEASE
  Whether you actually like picnics or
  
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• Brian Minter: Japanese beetle invasion a serious threat to Vancouver

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I really appreciated receiving a call recently from Hedy Dyck, COO of the B.C. Landscape and Nursery Association, regarding a serious invasive and destructive pest.
  The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) has been detected in Vancouver, causing a great deal of concern in the local food, ornamental plant and turf industries.  This beetle has been established in the eastern U.S. and Canada for some time, but in those regions cold winter temperatures and other control measures keep it manageab
  
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• Bard on the Beach goes to hell and meets the Beatles

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bard on the Beach: Macbeth
  When: June 6 — Sept. 13, various dates, times
  Bard on the Beach: As You Like It
  When: June 12 — Sept 22, various dates, times
  Where: BMO Mainstage, Vanier Park
  Tickets and info: From $24 at bardonthebeach.org.
  Acclaimed Canadian actor Ben Carlson appears in the title role of Macbeth at Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival this year. He doesn’t hold back describing how the Scottish play differs from all the others. If King Lear takes tragedy right d
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Malbec a perfect barbecue wine

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The return of sunshine signals the official start of the barbecue season across the Lower Mainland.
  You get extra marks for cooking in the snow and rain but let’s face it, not having to put on rain gear or gloves to barbecue gives it a much wider appeal in June, and with luck that could last through September.
  Last week I caught up with Chilean Sebastian Cortez, a.k.a. The butcher of Dundarave and owner of Sebastian & Co. Fine Meats in West Vancouver. Cortez often recalls his first Can
  
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• 5 Things to know about Theatre Conspiracy's Victim Impact

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Victim Impact
  When: June 8-17, various times
  Where: The Historic Theatre at the Cultch
  Tickets and info: From $10, at tickets.thecultch.comIn 2016, Rashida Samji was found guilty on 14 counts of fraud relating to a Ponzi scheme that ran between 2003 and 2012.
  A total of $110 million was taken from investors and companies who believed their money was being invested into a planned winery expansion to South Africa and South America. The truth was the monies were being used by the accused for person
  
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• 5 Things to know about Bdice's Out'LandiSH EP

  01-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Brandon Cruz Bebe is a B.C.-based rapper and producer who works under the name Bdice. His latest EP, titled Out’LandiSH came out in May and the five tracks boast sharp-edged beats, an easygoing clear flow, and a refreshing message of brains and class over brawn.
  Bdice’s ability to cut quality jams didn’t come out of nowhere.
  Attending Kelowna’s Centre for Arts and Technology campus studying audio engineering, he began the Daily 16. That project went viral online and provi
  
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• Hiking in #LynnCanyon Park? Note that the Baden Powell Trail is closed Jun-Aug at Corner Pools for reconstruction o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-06-2018 19:50 via twitter.com
  Hiking in #LynnCanyon Park? Note that the Baden Powell Trail is closed Jun-Aug at Corner Pools for reconstruction o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Repair work this summer to cause travel delays at Joyce-Collingwood SkyTrain station

  01-06-2018 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  The westbound Expo Line SkyTrain will not stop at Joyce-Collingwood station in Vancouver for eight consecutive weekends beginning Friday.
  TransLink says crews are replacing the platform tiles as part of TransLink’s program to improve aging infrastructure
  For eight weeks of the 16-week project, work will take place Fridays from 9 p.m. until start of service Monday morning.
  During this time, westbound trains will not stop at Joyce-Collingwood. Those who need to get off the train at that stat
  
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• Fatal Collision between Cyclist and Dump-truck bit.ly/2J98Sif #NorthVancouver

  01-06-2018 18:56 via twitter.com
  Fatal Collision between Cyclist and Dump-truckbit.ly/2J98Sif#NorthVancouver
  
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• Did someone say FREE?! twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…

  01-06-2018 18:43 via twitter.com
  Did someone say FREE?!twitter.com/NorthVanRC/sta…
  
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• The City's working on a new Community Well Being Strategy, and we'd like to hear from you. Come see us tonight at t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-06-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The City's working on a new Community Well Being Strategy, and we'd like to hear from you. Come see us tonight at t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 5 things you need to know about Hells Angels in B.C.

  01-06-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Hells Angels arrived in B.C. in late 1970s, early 80s, forming four chapters and then adding five more, the most recent, the West Point chapter, in 2012. Provincial membership hovers around 100 members. Their power extends far beyond that, police say, through associates, prospective members and support clubs, including the Devils Army.
  Story: Hells Angels lawyers argue undercover evidence inadmissible in civil caseRelated
  Feds not doing enough to keep Hells Angels out of medical pot, B.C. mi
  
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• Two people confirmed dead in house fire in Vernon

  01-06-2018 16:55 via vancouversun.com
  RCMP investigators have confirmed that the remains of two people have been found in a house that caught fire in Vernon last week.
  On May 21, at around 4:15 a.m. the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP were called to assist the North Westside Fire Rescue with a home engulfed in flames located in the 300-block of Northernview Drive.
  The structure was destroyed and its two occupants were unaccounted for at the time.
  Mounties say scene examination has now been completed and two individuals have been confirme
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: What you need to know now just as complicated as the stuff after vote

  01-06-2018 16:11 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — When Attorney General David Eby crafted his recommendations for the fall referendum on electoral reform, he deliberately excluded the voters from having a say on key aspects of the proposed systems of proportional representation.
  Between four and a dozen issues would be decided after the referendum is over, depending on which — if any — of the three versions of PR chosen by Eby were to emerge victorious in the fall ballot-by-mail.
  Many of those matters would ha
  
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• Town Talk: Raising funds to identify deeply hidden cancers

  01-06-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  PET PEOPLE: An embroidered cushion in Hanna Hoyos-Molnar’s Shaughnessy living room reads: “Money isn’t everything but it sure keeps the kids in touch.” Two million dollars’ worth of it would also help keep kids alive. Adults, too. That sum is needed to upgrade a decade-old PET/CT scanner, a high-tech cancer-diagnostic device “that is a really critical tool,” according to B.C. Cancer medical oncologist Sharlene Gill. Gill was addressing donors who will ba
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy with sunny breaks

  01-06-2018 15:55 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Friday’s weather is shaping up to be mostly cloudy with some sunshine in the morning. Environment Canada says it will become more cloudy this afternoon, windy near the water, and then some possible showers overnight. Friday’s temperature should reach around 18 C. The weekend looks pretty much the same with a mix of sun and cloud on Saturday. The weather agency says the clouds should clear in the afternoon on Saturday, with sunny skies and a high of 20 C. Envir
  
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• North Vancouver cyclist killed in early morning crash - North Shore News

  01-06-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver cyclist killed in early morning crash  North Shore NewsA cyclist is dead following a collision with a dump truck at St. Andrews Avenue and East 2nd Street shortly after 7 a.m. Friday morning. He was 55. The North ...
  
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• Symphony lovers bid farewell to celebrated conductor Bramwell Tovey

  01-06-2018 08:00 via vancouversun.com
  Those who walked past the Orpheum late Thursday and heard the crowd inside could be forgiven for assuming a rock ‘n’ roll legend had taken to the stage.
  After 18 years of leading the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on a remarkable journey, 64-year-old conductor Bramwell Tovey stood at the podium saying thank you and goodbye. For two inspirational hours, the celebrated VSO music director kept his audience enraptured with an intimate night of performance (and some nostalgia) at a special
  
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• Alvin Singh: Focus on good jobs, not minimum wage

  01-06-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “The minimum wage has caused more misery and unemployment than anything since the Great Depression.” A few years later in 1987, the New York Times editorial board claimed that minimum wage increases “would price working poor people out of the job market,” concluding that the concept “is an idea whose time has passed.”
  In Alberta, the doom-and-gloom predictions came hard and fast when in May of 20
  
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• Surrey LRT plan revised to restore vehicle lanes on much of 104th Avenue

  01-06-2018 04:42 via vancouversun.com
  Prompted by public pressure, TransLink and the city have restored lanes of traffic along much of 104th Avenue as part of the design for the $1.65 billion Surrey light rail transit project, officials said in a technical briefing Thursday.
  Instead of crimping lanes of traffic down to one in either direction of tram tracks running down the centre of 104th Avenue, TransLink project director Stephan Mehr said there will be two lanes wherever the existing right-of-way will allow, which will be about 7
  
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• UN gang associate released pending deportation to Iraq

  01-06-2018 04:22 via vancouversun.com
  A Federal Court judge has ruled that a United Nations gang associate should be allowed out of immigration detention pending his deportation to Iraq.
  Chief Judge Paul Crampton sided with two immigration board members who decided earlier this spring that convicted gunman Aram Ali should be allowed to leave detention and live with his family in Calgary.
  Both board members placed Ali, 32, on strict conditions “to adequately mitigate” any risk Ali poses to the public.
  But Ali was never re
  
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• Mystery artist behind the BCPoliPortraits Twitter account revealed

  01-06-2018 03:59 via vancouversun.com
  For the past year, things have been a little sketchy in Victoria.
  In April of 2017, the Twitter account @bcpoliportraits appeared. It featured a steady stream of crudely drawn likenesses of the politicians and journalists who frequent the legislature — from Premier John Horgan to Postmedia’s Mike Smyth and Vaughn Palmer. And of course, Keith Baldrey, a frequent target of @bcpoliportraits. The Global TV political journalist has been drawn 12 times.
  All anyone knew was that the po
  
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• What you need to know now just as complicated as the stuff after vote

  01-06-2018 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — When Attorney General David Eby crafted his recommendations for the fall referendum on electoral reform, he deliberately excluded the voters from having a say on key aspects of the proposed systems of proportional representation.
  Between four and a dozen issues would be decided after the referendum is over, depending on which — if any — of the three versions of PR chosen by Eby were to emerge victorious in the fall ballot-by-mail.
  Many of those matters would ha
  
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• Expert warns B.C. embarking on democracy 'experiment'

  01-06-2018 03:03 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — One of the experts consulted by the NDP on proportional representation says he can’t understand why the government picked two obscure voting systems for the referendum, and warned that voters deserve to see clear maps showing how the proposals will work in the real world.
  Peter Loewen, the director of the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance, said B.C. runs the risk of experimenting with its core democratic system because two of the three op
  
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• Owen Charters: Take time to connect

  01-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  We all do it — answer a text during dinner, play one last game on our phone when we should be working, or compulsively check who has liked our latest post.
  As adults, most of us know that the technology at our fingertips — computers, phones, tablets — are meant to serve us rather than rule us … and we still find ourselves enthralled by the power of our screens.
  Yet for young people, especially teenagers, it’s even worse. We’re rapidly discovering that technol
  
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• Marvin Shaffer: Pipeline project is not a black-and-white issue

  01-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In the highly charged atmosphere of pipeline politics, it was inevitable that whatever the federal government decided on the Trans Mountain expansion project, it would generate furious debate.
  Had the government simply let the project die after Kinder Morgan decided to stop construction, opponents of pipeline expansion would have hailed this as a great, well-considered decision, while the proponents would have castigated it as pandering to radical environmental interests. And now with the govern
  
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• Tall timber architect Michael Green joins Silicon Valley construction disrupter

  01-06-2018 02:04 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver architect Michael Green has joined forces with the Silicon Valley design-build startup Katerra, a company that promises to shake up the construction sector just as technology has transformed other industries from taxis to accommodation.
  On Wednesday, Green said Katerra bought out the shares in his firm, MGA, but it will remain a stand-alone entity within the larger company as “a Katerra continuing to advance the cause of building more tall buildings using mass-timber materials.&r
  
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• Vancouver park board moves to end use of rodenticides

  01-06-2018 02:03 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver park board said Thursday it will ask its restaurant lease operators to stop using rodenticide in an effort to prevent secondary poisonings of other wildlife such as owls.
  Howard Normann, director of park operations, said in an interview the park board is telling restaurants in city parks that the current bait boxes can stay, provided lethal snap-traps are inside.
  The action follows a Postmedia News story in March revealing that parks are not refuges for wildlife, given the use
  
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• Vehicle crashes into Library Square dollar store, two taken to hospital

  01-06-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police have shut down a section of Robson Street after a car crashed into a store in Library Square on Thursday afternoon.
  According to VPD, the incident occurred just after 1:30 p.m, when the operator of a white SUV travelling north on Hamilton Street toward Robson lost control of the vehicle, driving onto the northwest sidewalk and crashing through the window of ABC Store Dollar and Gifts.
  There were no serious injuries, police said, although two people — the driver and a staff
  
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• Archivists fear CBC Vancouver's old film and video may be trashed

  01-06-2018 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  The CBC archives is a unique depository of local TV and film. In the vaults of the CBC building at Hamilton and Georgia Streets are an estimated 35,000 cans of 16-millimetre film, and 30,000 videotapes.
  “It’s the largest collection of film in Canada outside of the Ottawa/Montreal/Toronto triangle,” said retired CBC archivist Colin Preston. “There’s nothing in the Prairies (like it), there’s nothing in the Maritimes. We’re it.”
  But the future of the
  
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• All for a great cause. Thanks everyone! twitter.com/tourdecoast/st…

  01-06-2018 01:26 via twitter.com
  All for a great cause. Thanks everyone! twitter.com/tourdecoast/st…
  
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• A good reminder that the racetrack is the ONLY safe place for speeding. Great work everyone! twitter.com/icbc/status/10…

  01-06-2018 01:24 via twitter.com
  A good reminder that the racetrack is the ONLY safe place for speeding.Great work everyone! twitter.com/icbc/status/10…
  
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