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• We're recruiting for several auxiliary Communications Operator 1s. Click here to apply: ow.ly/zA7e30knrOa

  06-06-2018 23:44 via twitter.com
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• Hey DNVers, we'll be here too! This is a joint City/District project... come help us create a caring North Van. twitter.com/CityOfNorthVan…

  06-06-2018 23:42 via twitter.com
  Hey DNVers, we'll be here too! This is a joint City/District project... come help us create a caring North Van.twitter.com/CityOfNorthVan…
  
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• Let's talk about our new Community Well Being Strategy #YouMeUs. Next stop @SilverHarbourC June 7 9am-1pm. We look… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  Let's talk about our new Community Well Being Strategy #YouMeUs. Next stop @SilverHarbourC June 7 9am-1pm. We look… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Fentanyl test strips for sale at Vancouver dollar store

  06-06-2018 22:52 via vancouversun.com
  Overdose prevention advocate Sarah Blyth says the $1.25 strips are a small measure that could help keep some drug users alive, but worries there are still too many preventable overdose deaths.
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• Applied to work for the October 20 election yet? We have a number of paid positions available. Requirements are sim… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 22:23 via twitter.com
  Applied to work for the October 20 election yet? We have a number of paid positions available. Requirements are sim… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Paras Atashnak dishes on Big Brother Canada

  06-06-2018 22:17 via vancouversun.com
  Big Brother Canada Season 6 winner Paras Atashnak dishes on life in front of the camera, behind the scenes gossip and everything that’s gone on since the end of the show.
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• B.C. lawyer disbarred for forging letter purporting jury tampering

  06-06-2018 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  A Victoria lawyer, who was convicted of public mischief and fabricating evidence, has been disbarred by the Law Society of B.C. for a second time.
  Malcolm Hassan Zoraik ceased practising law in June 2010, after he was given a a conditional 18-month jail sentence for forging a letter indicating that the jury process in a trial had been tampered with.
  The Provincial Court judge who presided at his trial ruled that Zoraik had “manufactured a letter which he knew was likely to become evid
  
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• Tower at former West Vancouver Earls site goes to the public

  06-06-2018 22:09
  
  Under newest iteration of proposal, the total unit count has gone up to 141 from 133
  
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• #HotSummerNights return June 28! Fire truck, spray fans, hoses, games & fun w/ @NVCFD firefighters.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  #HotSummerNights return June 28! Fire truck, spray fans, hoses, games & fun w/ @NVCFD firefighters.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pitt Meadows man dies in four-vehicle accident

  06-06-2018 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  A 38-year-old Pitt Meadows man and his dog were killed in a four-vehicle collision Tuesday night on Golden Ears Way.
  Ridge Meadows RCMP say the accident happened at 7:30 p.m. near 203rd Street.Witnesses say a Toyota Tacoma truck was speeding east when it crossed the centre line and collided with another car, which resulted in a chain-reaction of collisions.  The driver of the Tacoma and his dog died at the scene.
  Police say two other drivers were taken to hospital, one with serious injuries
  
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• Vancouver introduces randomized ballot order for municipal election

  06-06-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  Casting a ballot in October’s Vancouver municipal election will require a little more hunting and pecking after city council decided Wednesday to do away with alphabetical listing of names on ballots.
  The city voted to direct an additional $225,000  — $175,000 on communication and another $60,000 on additional staff at voting places — towards its 2018 election budget to introduce a randomized name order on ballots for city council and park board candidates in the 
  
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• Vancouver Mural Festival will expand to include outdoor concert in Mount Pleasant

  06-06-2018 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Mural Festival is expanding this year to include an outdoor concert in Mount Pleasant.
  The park board voted Monday to approve the new family friendly event that will take place on Saturday, Aug. 11 at Jonathan Rogers Park. It would cap off the week-long mural festival which is slated to begin this year on Aug. 6.
  Organizers for the festival – which is touted as the city’s largest free public art celebration – admitted that while the smaller musical aspects of prev
  
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• Two suspects, vehicles identified in Grewal murder

  06-06-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide investigators have released surveillance photos of two men believed to be involved in the murder last December of Brothers Keepers gang boss Gavinder Grewal.
  Cpl. Frank Jang, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said IHIT has “gathered significant evidence and is looking to identify individuals involved in the murder.”
  “Surveillance footage has identified two vehicles that investigators believe are associated to the murder of Mr. Grewal,” Jang said
  
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• 5 B.C. music festivals to attend this summer

  06-06-2018 20:09 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians like festivals. Like, we really like them and at any time of the year too. But there is something particularly appealing about the summer music festival. Typically taking place under the open skies as the sun shines, these group gatherings are notable for their camaraderie, above average mix of music and overall fun.
  Even those all-too-familiar moments like tearing across the site to share a tarp with a bunch of unknowns as the rain deluges down with enough force to drown out the metal
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland, June 8-14: Breakout Festival, Shaun Majumder, and more

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Breakout Festival 2018
  When: June 9-10, 2-10 p.m.
  Where: PNE Amphitheatre
  Tickets and info: From $99, breakout-festival.com
  This celebration of hot contemporary hip hop MC and DJ sounds has a truly impressive list of talent. Headliners include Tory Lanez, who is pretty much everywhere at the moment, as well as Migos, 6Lack and the awesomely named A-Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. Spinning sets are Wondagurl, Illyminiachi, 2Hunnit, and more. Shine up your best kicks and get ready for some lyric spitt
  
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• Restaurant review: Burnaby's Stem Japanese Eatery serves top notch food

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Stem Japanese Eatery
  Where: 5205 Rumble Street, Burnaby | 604-434-0250
  Open: Dinner daily, except Tuesday. facebook.com/StemjapaneseHe put Zest Japanese restaurant on the map but after nearly nine years at the helm, Tatsuya Katagiri broke out his own moves at his own place. Last December, he opened Stem Japanese Eatery in South Burnaby, taking Zest sushi chef Yoshiaka Maniwa along with him.
  Zest plotted its own course, too, rebranding to Yuwa with a new chef. 
  It seems the best arbiter
  
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• Five reasons to see Janelle Monáe

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Janelle Monáe
  When: June 12 at 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets: $85/59.50/42 at ticketmaster.ca
  1. Dirty Computer. Her first album since 2013’s Electric Lady, Dirty Computer has put Monáe back at the forefront of the modern R&B scene. It’s her third full-length, and full of funky pop jams like the very Prince-like Make Me Feel. Another track, PYNK, features former Vancouverite Grimes; the two first collaborated on the latter’s 2015 album Art A
  
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• Speculation tax reducing price of B.C.’s recreational homes: survey

  06-06-2018 19:04
  
  B.C. one of only three regions expecting price declines, finds nationwide survey of recreation specialist realtors
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: 'Main Alley' transforming from old-school industry to high tech

  06-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Westbank Corp. and Ryan Holmes, the founder and CEO of local social media giant Hootsuite, are partnering to redevelop a full city block on Main Street.
  In addition to accommodating part of Hootsuite’s workforce, the space will house New York-based co-working company WeWork’s fourth Vancouver site.
  WeWork leased two floors of a renovated building at the “Main Alley” campus at Main Street, between East 4th and East 5th Aves. and Quebec St.
  The project will include renovati
  
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• Bike season is in full swing & there's a lot more cyclists on the road. Remember to #LookThinkGo and keep right whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 18:26 via twitter.com
  Bike season is in full swing & there's a lot more cyclists on the road. Remember to #LookThinkGo and keep right whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Opinion: Rental-only zoning could end up a damp squib

  06-06-2018 17:31
  
  Experts say policy is a good idea in theory but in practice will only work in tandem with other incentives
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you live in the Big Brother house for a chance at $100K?

  06-06-2018 16:07 via vancouversun.com
  Port Coquitlam’s own Paras Atashnak, 23, took home $100,000 after winning the sixth season of Big Brother Canada last month.
  The popular reality competition show involves living under constant video surveillance for 70 days and competing for power while sharing living quarters with strangers.
  The law student told Postmedia she still hadn’t watched her own season yet because she didn’t want her opinion of her housemates to change if there were any less-than-polite soundbites.Tak
  
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• Vancouver weather: Let the sun shine through

  06-06-2018 15:27 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: June 6, 2018 – Wednesday’s weather promises to clear up, with temperatures warming back up to what we’ve become so used to in recent weeks.
  The Vancouver region will see some sun peeking through once clouds clear, with temperatures reaching as high as 20, and 24 inland.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly sunny. High of 20, except 24 inland.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy, low of 12.
  Tomorrow: Mainly cloudy, high of 19.
  Traffic: Lower Mainland
  Here’s a live tra
  
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• B.C. property markets starting to shift after tighter mortgage rules, tax changes

  06-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Three months into B.C.’s experience with tighter mortgage-qualification rules, layered in with provincial real-estate tax changes, property markets are starting to shift.
  However, parsing out the whether the provincial measures — the speculation tax on second homes, school surtax on expensive homes and raising the property transfer tax — are having a big, small or any impact on the housing market is an open question.
  “When we look at the overall downturn we’ve seen
  
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• Victoria man Saeed Malekpour marks 10th birthday in Iranian prison

  06-06-2018 06:49 via vancouversun.com
  Regret haunts Maryam Malekpour — a nagging, irrational fear that she’s to blame for the decade-long imprisonment of her brother, Saeed Malekpour, in an Iranian prison.
  Her sin: Asking him to come to Iran to visit their father, who was dying of a brain tumour.
  “Sometimes I blame myself,” said Maryam, 37. “I was the one who told him he should come back, that if (father) dies he’s going to regret it.”
  Two days after he arrived at Iran in October 2008, Saeed
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, June 6

  06-06-2018 05:36 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, June 6.Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth
  You have the whole summer to get to a Bard on the Beach performance, but if you want to be there on opening night, you’d better hurry up and get tickets, because it’s tomorrow. Bard on the Beach runs through September at Vanier Park, with As You Like It, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Lysistrata on this year’s lineup. But the whole thing
  
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• Off the Rail honours Spirit of the West frontman with new craft brew

  06-06-2018 05:20 via vancouversun.com
  Off The Rail Brewing Company has launched a new pilsner in support of John Mann, the Spirit of the West frontman fighting Alzheimer’s.
  The brewer’s new “Spirit Lifter” Pilsner is intended to raise awareness and funds for Mann’s ongoing treatments, said Off the Rail in a news release on Monday.
  Over three decades, Spirit of the West built a reputation as one of Canada’s most influential and socially-conscious bands. But in 2014, Mann, then 51, receive
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Teens shot to death in Surrey in targeted murder

  06-06-2018 04:31 via vancouversun.com
  My colleague Stephanie Ip covered the tragic double murder of two teens in Surrey as I was out in Abbotsford at the University of the Fraser Valley for convocation ceremonies.
  Here is her story:
  They were just boys – Jaskarn “Jason” Singh Jhutty, 16, and Jaskaran “Jesse” Singh Bhangal, 17.
  One was in grade 10 and the other in grade 11. I can’t imagine what their families are going through today. It is beyond tragic. It is devastating.
  It is reminiscent of
  
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• Suspected international money launderer arrested in B.C. to be deported

  06-06-2018 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  A suspected international money-launderer who was arrested late last month at the River Rock Casino will be deported to his home country of Australia, an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in Vancouver determined Tuesday.
  The hearing found that Dan Bai Shun Jin, 55, was not admissible to be in Canada because he had outstanding warrants for passing about $1.4 million in bad cheques at several casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada dating back to 2014. He did not declare those charges in entering Canada
  
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• Chris Genovali: Trans Mountain is now Taxpayer Mountain

  06-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian government’s move to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline project from Texas-based Kinder Morgan is economically and environmentally dubious. With the decision to pour billions of tax dollars into purchasing the pipeline and building the expansion, Trans Mountain should now be renamed Taxpayer Mountain.
  There is a high probability this will end up as a case of buyer’s remorse on a grand scale.
  As a June 1 Vancouver Sun editorial pointed out, Kinder Morgan Canada’s asset
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Salmon and electricity at centre of Columbia River Treaty negotiations

  06-06-2018 02:58 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — With talks underway between Canada and the U.S. on the future of the Columbia River Treaty, the B.C. New Democrats have launched public consultations in the region most affected by the high-stakes negotiation.
  “We want to ensure Columbia basin communities are consulted, kept informed and have their voices heard,” said provincial cabinet minister Katrine Conroy via a press release announcing meetings this month in Castlegar, Golden, Revelstoke, Nakusp, Nelson and othe
  
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• Contentious parts of Vancouver Chinatown plan revised

  06-06-2018 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver council revised its Chinatown plan Tuesday, lopping some height off potential development sites and shrinking their width.
  The changes were recommended by staff so new developments “fit better with the historic and cultural character of the neighbourhood.”
  The proposals will be sent to a public meeting that will be scheduled at a later date.
  Under the existing plan, developers could build structures up to 120 feet in Chinatown South, an area between Quebec, Pender, Gore and
  
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• Great start runners! See you all at the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment at 2:30 tomorrow. We are all looking forwar… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 02:47 via twitter.com
  Great start runners! See you all at the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment at 2:30 tomorrow. We are all looking forwar… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Dog stolen from New Westminster SkyTrain station found in Downtown Eastside

  06-06-2018 02:01 via vancouversun.com
  A dog stolen from a New Westminster SkyTrain station last week has been safely located in Vancouver and returned to its owner.
  The dog, named Jackson, is an 11-year-old Brussels griffon/Chihuahua mix. Police say that he was dog-napped on June 1, around 6:15 p.m., at the New Westminster SkyTrain station.
  New Westminster police had shared a photo of a woman they say stole a dog, which helped lead to the dog being found.
  The woman, believed in her 40s, was caught by surveillance camera leaving
  
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• Woman says justice denied in death of her husband in Vancouver crash

  06-06-2018 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  “Where is justice?”
  That is the question Josephine Hui has been asking since last month when the man charged in connection with her physician husband’s death in 2015 was acquitted. It is a decision she says is “absurd and ridiculous” and that she now wants to see appealed.
  Alphonsus Hui died at age 68 after the driver of an Audi slammed into his Suzuki on Nov. 14, 2015 at the intersection of West 41st Ave. and Oak St. in Vancouver. Police estimated that the dri
  
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• It's Hog time, eHog that is. Claim it here: ow.ly/ic9O50hzVFM #NorthVan #HomeOwnerGrant https://t.co/iCRVHMozF2

  06-06-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  It's Hog time, eHog that is. Claim it here:ow.ly/ic9O50hzVFM#NorthVan #HomeOwnerGrant https://t.co/iCRVHMozF2
  
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• West Van real estate agent handed year-long suspension, immediately appeals

  06-06-2018 00:50
  
  Prominent realtor also ordered to pay Real Estate Council of B.C. costs of almost $59,000
  
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• #Montroyal bridge updates: Starting tomorrow, extended hours for single lane alt traffic at bridge (9am to 8pm). Al… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 00:50 via twitter.com
  #Montroyal bridge updates: Starting tomorrow, extended hours for single lane alt traffic at bridge (9am to 8pm). Al… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Exotic dancer who viewed businessman as 'sugar daddy' ordered by B.C. court to repay $1.3m

  06-06-2018 00:13 via vancouversun.com
  An exotic dancer who viewed her businessman friend as a “sugar daddy” during their eight-year relationship has been ordered to pay him $1.3 million in damages.
  “Sex for pay, opportunism, deception and false expectations form the backdrop to this litigation,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley said in the opening line of his ruling on the case.
  A lengthy trial heard that in July 2007, while commuting through Pearson Airport in Toronto, businessman Michael Alexander Norkum
  
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• Surrey bylaw officer assaulted after peacock complaint

  06-06-2018 00:03 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been arrested after a bylaw officer was assaulted as he attempted to fine the man for feeding a flock of feral peacocks that have been running wild in the Surrey neighbourhood of Sullivan Heights.
  Complaints from residents that the man was feeding the peacocks brought city officials to his property at 150th and 62 Ave. on Monday evening. The individual allegedly assaulted the bylaw officer, who decided to call for police backup.
  “He was definitely assaulted. He was
  
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