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• RCMP look for inmate who walked away from Pitt Meadows work crew

  13-06-2018 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  Police are looking for an inmate who walked away from a supervised work crew in Pitt Meadows on Wednesday.
  Ridge Meadows RCMP are searching the area around Southgate Road and Airport Way for the prisoner who was serving time at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre.
  The provincial facility houses offenders who have been sentenced to two years less a day.
  The escaped inmate’s name has not been released but B.C. Corrections says the man is a low-risk offender who was serving time for
  
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• Just in time for Father's Day, the 1st Annual North Shore Band Festival at the Shipyards. Take a load off Dad & tak… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Just in time for Father's Day, the 1st Annual North Shore Band Festival at the Shipyards. Take a load off Dad & tak… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Christine Bradstock: More physiotherapists need to be trained to meet growing demand

  13-06-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  The national shortage of physiotherapists announced in the Conference Board of Canada’s report earlier this month shows the hard reality of gaps in the health-care system. B.C. is particularly impacted by this shortage, making physiotherapy not a ‘nice-to-have’, but a ‘have-to-have’ in our health-care system.
  One of the greatest needs is on orthopedic-surgery wait lists, with a focus on hip and knee replacements in particular. Currently, B.C. is rated as having one
  
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• Regarding the tragic fire in Lynn Valley; fire investigation is still ongoing. Cause of fire has not been determine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  Regarding the tragic fire in Lynn Valley; fire investigation is still ongoing. Cause of fire has not been determine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Slime conference a theatre coup for Vancouver's humans and animals

  13-06-2018 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  Slime
  When: June 15-24
  Where: Russian Hall
  Tickets: $25, at theatrewire.comForget TED Talks and the Amazon expansion; in a real coup, Vancouver is getting the 3rd annual Slime conference.
  And, though the conference itself isn’t real, the world premiere of a play by a major international playwright is.
  Sophia Wolfe in Slime.
  Slime, which brings humans and animals together in a discussion of the future of the planet, is by Bryony Lavery, the British playwright who wrote the 1998 Tony-nominat
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland, June 15-21: Kevin Hart, Dita Von Teese, Fierce Queen and more

  13-06-2018 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  Kevin Hart: The Kevin Hart Irresponsible Tour
  When: June 16, 6 p.m.
  Where: Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
  Tickets and info: Livenation.com
  One of the most popular contemporary humorists, Hart is beloved for his zany antics and rapid-fire, manic delivery. He’s also a New York Times Bestseller list top author after his memoir I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons entered at No. 1 and remained on the top 10 list for the next 3 months. He’s on a tour that takes him around the world with h
  
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• Richmond Night Market evolving into multicultural experience

  13-06-2018 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond Night Market
  8351 River Rd. 
  Open until Oct. 8, 7 p.m. to midnight, Friday to Sunday
  richmondnightmarket.com
  Operators call the Richmond Night Market the biggest in North America, bigger than the one in Hong Kong and Taipei. I know it’s definitely bigger than a one-time experience and I’m just talking about the food, not so much the trinkets, electronic doodads and socks.
  Asian countries started night markets as a clever way to outsmart the daytime heat. I’ve visi
  
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• Supt. Chris Kennedy of the North Vancouver RCMP helping out at the Lynn Valley Library as an ‘Honourary Librarian’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 21:51 via twitter.com
  Supt. Chris Kennedy of the North Vancouver RCMP helping out at the Lynn Valley Library as an ‘Honourary Librarian’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're busy getting Civic Plaza ready for all the fun, free events happening this summer. Live & Local Culture Serie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  We're busy getting Civic Plaza ready for all the fun, free events happening this summer. Live & Local Culture Serie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Today's lawn sprinkling reminder is brought to you by the expected return of dry, sunny weather! Under… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  Today's lawn sprinkling reminder is brought to you by the expected return of dry, sunny weather! Under… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro calls Vancouver's McLeod's Books "heaven"

  13-06-2018 20:46 via vancouversun.com
  McLeod’s Books, the beloved musty mess on Pender Street that has become a landmark for Vancouver bibliophiles, received a visit from a Hollywood heavy hitter on Tuesday.
  Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-winning Mexican director behind The Shape of Water, this year’s Academy Award-winner for best picture along with the fantasy classic Pan’s Labyrinth and comic book adaptation Hellboy, documented his trip to the downtown bookstore on his Twitter account.
  Had a moment free
  
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• Moving home more stressful than starting a family: poll

  13-06-2018 20:11
  
  Stress levels among British Columbians moving home is skyrocketing, and the worst in Canada
  
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• Theatre review: Victim Impact explores all-too-common Vancouver tradition

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Victim Impact
  When: Until June 17
  Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre
  Tickets and info: $10-$34; thecultch.com
  B.C. has often been called Canada’s Wild West for its relatively unregulated financial dealings. The current run of questionable real estate transactions and shadow flipping has plenty of precedent. Remember the Vancouver Stock Exchange, once dubbed “the scam capital of the world” by Forbes Magazine?
  Then there was Rashida Samji. The Vancouver notary public ran a Ponzi
  
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• The bold Brunette: Vancouver entrepreneur building an empire, one sweatshirt at a time

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  For Miriam Alden, success in the fashion industry has been a relatively slow, steady climb.
  While her “Brunette” and “Blonde” sweaters from her brand Brunette the Label can now be spotted virtually everywhere — from the racks of Nordstrom to the scrolling photo feeds of social media — she admits her label was anything but an overnight success.
  “I would say it was a bunch of little things,” she says when asked to pinpoint the so-called ‘a
  
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• Meet the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival's very own Rainbow

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Seeing Brazilian tropicalia legend Caetano Veloso and Japan’s searing noize rockers the Boredoms on the same night convinced Rainbow Robert that the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival was extremely special. This year marks her first time programming the massive multi-venue event after founding artistic director Ken Pickering announced his retirement after 33 years in the position.
  Robert started working with the festival in 1998, “a quick 20 years ago.”
  Hailing from Montr
  
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• Kasey Wilson: One-pot meals are a hit with campers

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  When I was in my 20s, a group of us — survivalists with standards — travelled to Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, commonly known as Long Beach. It’s hard to believe today, but we parked our cars on the sandy 16-kilometre beach and camped for three nights under a starry sky on a perfect July 1 weekend.
  We caught Dungeness crabs and grilled steaks over a campfire. We set up a bar in the trunk of my Firebird and stocked it with cold beer (thanks to dry i
  
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• Five reasons to check out Global Soundscapes

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Global Soundscapes
  When: June 16-27
  Where: Waterfront Theatre, Orpheum Annex and Surrey Arts Centre
  Tickets: $18-45 at vi-co.org
  1. Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. Formed in 2001, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (a.k.a. VICO) showcases new music and collaborations between musicians and composers from different cultural and artistic communities in the Lower Mainland. Global Soundscapes is the group’s annual music festival, now in its fifth year.
  2. From kamancheh to santur. Globa
  
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• Did you miss last night's public hearing concerning development applications at 340 Mountain Highway and 1552-1558… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Did you miss last night's public hearing concerning development applications at 340 Mountain Highway and 1552-1558… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Classical music: Ian Hampton pens an insider's guide to the profession

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ian Hampton Book Launch
  When: June 22, 7 p.m., Langley Community Music School;, June 23, 4 p.m., Canadian Music Centre
  Tickets and info: porcupinesquill.caOne of Vancouver’s musical treasures — cellist, teacher, and administrator Ian Hampton — is about to reveal a new side to his creative persona.
  In late June, Ian Hampton, author, will release Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music (Porcupine’s Quill, 2018), an unorthodox book addressing the profession of music from th
  
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• 2018 Jazz Festival pays tribute to Jesse Zubot's Drip Audio label

  13-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Drip Audio Night
  Part of 2018 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival
  When: June 29, 9:30 p.m.
  Where: The Imperial, 319 Main St.
  Tickets and info: From $23, ticketfly.com, coastaljazz.caIn 2003, violinist/mandolinist Jesse Zubot won his first Juno Award for the Roots and Traditional Album of the Year playing in Zubot and Dawson.
  Zubot has been stacking wins up ever since as a member of Great Uncles of the Revolution (2004), Fond of Tigers (2010), and playing with Tanya Tagaq (2015), among
  
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• There is a community meeting tonight for residents impacted by the fire in #LynnValley. Please note that attendance… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 19:21 via twitter.com
  There is a community meeting tonight for residents impacted by the fire in #LynnValley. Please note that attendance… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver First Nations' heroics in 1886 to be celebrated at Great Fire event

  13-06-2018 18:12 via vancouversun.com
  On June 13, 1886, the nine-week-old city of Vancouver was wiped out in the Great Fire.
  “The fire started by the area where the Roundhouse is now and got into the debris (of slash piles), because they were doing a lot of logging,” said Lisa Smith, author of an acclaimed history of the inferno, Vancouver is Ashes (Ronsdale Press).
  “There had been a three-week dry spell with no rain, so everything was just bone dry. The fire got into (the debris) and was totally out of control, an
  
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• Heads up, nighttime delays for motorists on the Lions Gate Bridge: • 1 lane each direction – 8PM - 10P… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Heads up, nighttime delays for motorists on the Lions Gate Bridge:• 1 lane each direction – 8PM - 10P… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Longest running Surrey councillor Judy Villeneuve won't seek re-election

  13-06-2018 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  Judy Villeneuve, who has served as a Surrey city councillor for nearly three decades has announced that she is not seeking re-election in October.
  In a statement Wednesday, Villeneuve said she is stepping down from her role to spend more time with her family.
  “My 29 consecutive years on council have given me a tremendous opportunity to watch our city evolve and mature, and while I know there’s still plenty more to be done in the years ahead, I also know I want to spend more time
  
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• Coroners inquest ordered in 2016 death of Stanley Cup rioter

  13-06-2018 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Coroners Service has scheduled a public inquest into the death William Ryan Fisher, a Stanley Cup rioter who died just days after beginning a three-year prison sentence.
  Fisher, 30, died Feb. 25, 2016 at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, four days after being transferred from the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Maple Ridge where he been found in medical distress.
  Fisher was admitted to a custodial sentence at North Fraser Pretrial Centre on Feb. 19, 2016. He was tak
  
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• Daily Poll: How do you feel about Vancouver not being a host city for the 2026 World Cup?

  13-06-2018 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  Early Wednesday FIFA announced that Canada would co-host the 2026 men’s World Cup soccer tournament along with the U.S. and Mexico. Vancouver, however, won’t be one of the cities to stage a game after B.C. backed out of the bid earlier this year.
  The city of Vancouver said it was disappointed in the province’s decision not to try for the world’s largest sporting event, but the provincial government said FIFA’s financial demands were too much of a risk. Now that Cana
  
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• Canada to co-host World Cup soccer in 2026, but Vancouver not among host cities

  13-06-2018 15:36 via vancouversun.com
  FIFA’s World Cup soccer is coming to Canada, but Vancouver is not among the host cities after B.C. backed out of the bid for the games earlier this year.
  The Associated Press reports that FIFA’s member associations voted 134 to 65, with one no-vote, Wednesday in favour of the joint North American bid by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to host the 2026 World Cup men’s soccer tournament over that of Morocco.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated the Canadian cities, which inclu
  
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• Vancouver Weather: A soggy few days but sunny weekend ahead

  13-06-2018 15:16 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like Wednesday’s weather will be wet in Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada is forecasting rain in the morning, tapering off around noon, and then mostly cloudy with a chance of more showers in the afternoon and a high of 17 C. More rain is expected on Thursday before the weather dries up just in time for the Father’s Day weekend. The federal weather agency is forecasting a mix of sun and cloud for Friday, with a high of 20 C, and then Saturday and Su
  
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• Speculation tax doomed to fail, hurts B.C. reputation, says panel

  13-06-2018 15:00
  
  Politicians from left and right at Victoria event say new tax is helping destroy province's standing as a place to do business
  
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• Half of colorectal cancers detected after they've already spread, despite screening programs

  13-06-2018 09:01 via vancouversun.com
  Colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths, has already spread in half of all cases by the time it is diagnosed, a national report released on Wednesday shows.
  That’s despite publicly funded screening programs across the country.
  When colorectal cancer is diagnosed at Stage 1, 90 per cent of patients are still alive after five years. But when diagnosed at Stage 4, survival plummets to under 15 per cent, according to the report by the Canadian Cancer Society, in partn
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Harcourt calls housing crisis a permanent condition, confused by taxes

  13-06-2018 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Former NDP premier Mike Harcourt has some provocative advice for the current crop of New Democrats as they deal with what many regard as a “housing crisis” here in B.C.
  “It is not a crisis, it is a permanent condition,” says the former Vancouver mayor in addressing shortages of affordable, rental and social housing. “You have to address supply. You have to speed up approvals.”
  Indeed supply, supply and supply would pretty much constitute
  
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• Aluminum tariffs the latest in U.S. protectionist squeeze that has caught B.C. business

  13-06-2018 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  For B.C.’s forestry sector, the latest round of American protectionist trade sanctions against steel and aluminum means getting to welcome a new group of targeted business to a club they wish they didn’t want.
  “I don’t think it’s helpful at all to have more sectors of the economy hit by protectionist tariffs,” said Susan Yurkovich, president of the B.C. Lumber Trade Council, the province’s key lobbying group for trade issues.
  While the U.S. tariffs on fo
  
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• B.C. Ferries removes fuel rebate amid dispute over provincial funding

  13-06-2018 02:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Ticket prices are going up for B.C. Ferries passengers after the provincial government and ferry corporation failed to come to a deal over additional funding.
  B.C. Ferries announced Tuesday it is removing the current “fuel rebate”, which had lowered ticket prices 2.9 per cent on major routes and 1.9 per cent on minor routes since spring of 2016.
  The move, effective June 27, will raise the price of a passenger ticket from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen by 50 cents, to $17.2
  
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• Vancouver could be next for dockless bike and scooter shares

  13-06-2018 02:44 via vancouversun.com
  The companies behind dockless-bike and scooter-share programs that have proven both popular and problematic in major cities across the U.S. are expanding rapidly, and Vancouver is in their sights.
  “Vancouver is kind of primed for this,” said Euwyn Poon, co-founder and president of bike- and scooter-share firm Spin, and a former Vancouver resident. “It’s a great urban mobility hub.”
  Companies such as Spin, Lime and ofo have rented dockless bikes and e-bikes — w
  
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• 'T' is for Tax Time. Property taxes are due on July 3. Learn the many ways to pay @ cnv.org/tax… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  'T' is for Tax Time. Property taxes are due on July 3. Learn the many ways to pay @ cnv.org/tax… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Sex offender wins new trial after right to interpreter breached

  13-06-2018 01:28 via vancouversun.com
  A man who sexually assaulted and threatened a woman he was living with has had his convictions overturned and a new trial ordered after arguing that the trial judge had failed to understand his testimony and should have had an interpreter involved.
  In September 2014 Marius Mitroi was convicted in relation to an incident that had happened in his home in October 2013. At the time, Mitroi and a woman who can only be identified by the initial R due to a publication ban were living together.
  R testif
  
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• Funding gap may mean no summer camp for deaf students with special needs

  13-06-2018 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  All Keira Ratzlaff wants to do this summer is go to a unique camp with other deaf youngsters.
  But if the Family Network for Deaf Children doesn’t find another $30,000, special needs children such as Ratzlaff may not get a chance to spend time with other deaf youths on Hornby Island.
  Heather Ratzlaff, Keira’s mother, said Keira isn’t eligible for other summer camps because her special needs, which include cerebral palsy and ADHD, require one-on-one care.
  The Deaf Youth Today pro
  
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• North Vancouver fire survivor: 'I wish they got out instead of me'

  13-06-2018 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  When flames rushed through the front door into the hallway of the family townhouse, 14-year-old Sohail Koshkoye Delshad ran to the master bedroom, alongside his mother and brother.
  Fire eventually engulfed the interior of the apartment. Sohail cracked open a bug screen in order to jump out the window and fall onto the trampoline below.
  “I took my brother and tried to push him onto the trampoline … (but) he whipped his head back, because he was scared,” Soha
  
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• B.C. Supreme Court sides with West Van in $5.3M waterfront property dispute

  13-06-2018 00:52
  
  District, which appropriated lot "for public use" in 2015, will not have to pay higher amount previous owner demanded
  
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• Man wounded in shooting in busy Kamloops intersection

  13-06-2018 00:10 via vancouversun.com
  A man suffered multiple gunshot wounds in a daylight shooting Monday at a busy Kamloops intersection — a crime police believe was likely a targeted attack involving rival drug dealers.
  And the case may be linked to another shooting earlier that day.
  Police said masked men inside a Cadillac Escalade opened fire on the occupants of a silver car stopped at the intersection just before 1:30 p.m. on Monday.
  The shooting put a 56-year-old Kamloops man to hospital. He is expected to survive. Anot
  
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