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• ICYMI, the delineators along the Lynn Valley Rd bike lane have been restored, just in time for Lynn Valley Days. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 23:34 via twitter.com
  ICYMI, the delineators along the Lynn Valley Rd bike lane have been restored, just in time for Lynn Valley Days. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Bulls and Bears: Mariners right their ship, but Blue Jays submerging

  15-06-2018 22:40 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  When eight-time all-star second baseman Robinson Cano — he of the US$240M contract that is among the top six in all of pro sport — was handed an 80-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s drug policy in the middle of May, many (including in this corner) thought the Seattle Mariners were done for the season.The thinking was the Mariners could not replace either the bat or the glove of Cano, the mainstay of the Seattle infield since 2014.Exactly th
  
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• We've installed new bike racks + a bike fix it station at the #FootofLonsdale. 🚴#NorthVan https://t.co/prIhWp5Glq

  15-06-2018 21:52 via twitter.com
  
  We've installed new bike racks + a bike fix it station at the #FootofLonsdale. 🚴#NorthVan https://t.co/prIhWp5Glq
  
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• Visiting #LynnValleyDays tomorrow? Come see us! Our "You Me Us" team will be there to chat about creating a caring… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 21:31 via twitter.com
  Visiting #LynnValleyDays tomorrow? Come see us! Our "You Me Us" team will be there to chat about creating a caring… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• #LynnValley Lions Club reports that, due to overwhelming community support, they are pausing donations of goods for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 21:03 via twitter.com
  #LynnValley Lions Club reports that, due to overwhelming community support, they are pausing donations of goods for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. home sales decline blamed on mortgage stress test

  15-06-2018 20:08
  
  Transactions across province are 28.7 per cent lower than a year ago, with every board reporting a slide
  
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• Douglas Todd tells his father's shock-therapy story

  15-06-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  Columnist Douglas Todd recounts his father’s experience at Riverview Hospital in the 1950s, where medical records reveal he underwent hundreds of electro shock therapies and lithium coma therapies.
  Todd’s original story about his father’s time in hospital prompted hundreds of readers to share their own stories with him.
  
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• Letters: Americans apologize for Trump's behaviour toward Canada

  15-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  My mother was a proud Canadian. She passed away some time ago but would have reminded me not to cast a belief on an entire people or race based on the actions of one of their members. I hope Canadians know most Americans are outraged by the behaviours of our elected leader. Our ongoing democratic experiment is imperfect, but one day a fat, green helicopter will escort him and his family off the White House grounds, hopefully sooner than later.
  Chad Jerky, Seattle
  Dear Canadians,
  Please know that
  
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• Five things to know about Scout by Calpurnia

  15-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  At just 15-years-old, Vancouver actor Finn Wolfhard is what’s known as a hot property in the entertainment industry.
  Not only is he cast as Mike Wheeler in the Netflix hit series Stranger Things, but he also played Richie Tozier in the 2017 reboot of Stephen King’s It. And watch for him turning up as Pugsley Addams’ voice in the 2019 reboot of The Addams Family that is presently in production.
  Not surprisingly, Wolfhard has musical chops to match his acting ones. He is the lead
  
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• Brian Minter: Vancouver, B.C. private garden tours beauties to behold

  15-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Our many great public gardens are a treat to see throughout the seasons, but how many private gardens do we get to discover?
  The creativity and artistry of an individual’s personal garden can only be enjoyed if you know the garden creator, or if you take advantage of some of the private gardens tours happening in our province over the next few weeks. Many of these events coincide with Canada’s “Garden Days,” which run from Saturday (June 16) to June 24.
  Recently I had the
  
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• Book review: Gathie Falk’s memoir paints a portrait of a world-class artist

  15-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Apples, etc.
  By Gathie Falk with Robin Laurence
  (Figure 1 publishing, 232 pages)In her new memoir, Vancouver visual artist Gathie Falk describes a telling moment in 1979.
  She had just been granted a divorce from her husband — an ex-con 20 years her junior, who’d heard her interviewed on CBC Radio while in the penitentiary and struck up a romance. When he got out of prison, he moved into her Kitsilano home.
  After a trying five years together, the marriage was finally over. As Falk lef
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Merlot the top grape for B.C's mainland wineries

  15-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Wine Grape Council issued it latest crop report on June 1, a full two years since the last update.
  The data is unaudited and produced for industry information only but the numbers are always of interest to industry watchers. Chair of the council and long time grape grower Lynn Bremmer assembles the results collected from mainland members (island wineries are grouped under the Wine Islands Grape Growers Association) who provide tonnage details including grower, vineyard location, varieta
  
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• How much will deferring B.C.'s school tax cost the homeowner?

  15-06-2018 19:23
  
  Data analyst creates interactive online calculator that takes all scenarios into account
  
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• Attn #NorthVan residents! We're looking to understand the well-being in our communities and neighbourhoods – and we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 19:05 via twitter.com
  Attn #NorthVan residents! We're looking to understand the well-being in our communities and neighbourhoods – and we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Audain Art Museum building wins accolades around the world for Patkau Architects

  15-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  From the street, the studio-office of what is arguably Canada’s most celebrated architectural firm is camouflaged by a green screen of leaves and ivy. You have to walk right up to the front door to see the name: Patkau Architects Inc.
  Inside is a medium-sized firm of 18 to 20 people led by founders John and Patricia Patkau. Although based in Vancouver for 35 years and located in the South Granville neighbourhood, the firm is better known across the country and around the world than at home
  
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• Search underway for 3 people in water near Tofino after boat capsized

  15-06-2018 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  Rescue crews and local residents are searching for three missing people in the water off the coast of Tofino after a boat capsized early Friday.
  Katelyn Moores, a spokeswoman with the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria, said crews were called out at around 3 a.m. after multiple 911 calls for help came in from people on the shoreline in the Duffin Cove area.Several Coast Guard boats and the RCMP responded, along with a Comorant helicopter from Comox and a Coast Guard helicopter.Sh
  
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• Next Monday, #LynnCanyon trails on the east side of Lynn Creek will be closed from Twin Falls north to the suspensi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
  Next Monday, #LynnCanyon trails on the east side of Lynn Creek will be closed from Twin Falls north to the suspensi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver bike share program moves further east

  15-06-2018 18:36 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver announced a pilot program Thursday aimed at making its bike-share system more affordable to low-income riders. An expansion to East Vancouver was also announced.
  Those eligible will be able to apply for the Vancity Community Pass, which will provide a yearly membership to the city’s Mobi bike program for $20. Annual passes cost $159 at the regular price.
  Read the full story here.
  
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• Tips for navigating seniors care in B.C.

  15-06-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  Do you have an aging relative who needs support to live at home, or might need residential care?
  In our series on seniors care, we try to help you navigate B.C.’s underfunded and problem-plagued system. And we look at what needs to be fixed in the future.
  Read the first part here.
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada rules against Trinity Western University

  15-06-2018 16:56 via vancouversun.com
  Societies governing the legal profession have the right to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at a Christian university in B.C., the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
  In a pair of keenly anticipated decisions Friday, the high court said law societies in Ontario and British Columbia were entitled to ensure equal access to the bar, support diversity and prevent harm to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students.
  The cases pitted two significant s
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with today's Supreme Court ruling against Trinity Western?

  15-06-2018 16:53 via vancouversun.com
  In a landmark ruling Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that law societies have the right to deny accreditation to a law school at Trinity Western University in Langley over its covenant requiring students to only engage in sexual intimacy if they are married and in a heterosexual relationship.
  Read The Canadian Press story here.
  The court said law societies in Ontario and British Columbia are entitled to ensure equal access to the bar, support diversity and prevent harm&nb
  
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• Town Talk: Canucks Autism Network gala nets $1,123,695

  15-06-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  QUIET KNIGHT: As he did at the Face The World gala’s 1990 founding, Sir Tom Jones co-hosted the recent running at Jacqui Cohen’s Point Grey waterfront home. Before $2,500-a-ticket attendees tucked into Gotham-restaurant-furnished beef tenderloin, butter-poached lobster and Le Vieux Pin and La Stella wines, Cohen announced that earlier events had generated more than $18 million for hundreds of local charities. As for Jones influencing those celebrations (the first raised $85,000), Coh
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Future-proofing our way of life

  15-06-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron says “there is no planet B,” meaning, of course, that we need to take care of the environment on planet A.
  It suggests we need to change the way we extract, use and burn the minerals, elements and fuels of the earth or face an uncertain and potentially dire future.
  The challenge of our time, however, lies in how to shift from where we are, to where we need to be. And dealing at the same time the pressure to maintain our lifestyle and pr
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny and warm weekend ahead

  15-06-2018 15:08 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – While Friday’s weather is expected to be partly cloudy in Metro Vancouver, the rest of the weekend looks clear and sunny. Environment Canada says Friday will be a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 20 C. Then on Saturday, the mercury is set to spike to a high of 23 C and 27 C inland. On Father’s Day Sunday, Metro Vancouverites can expect even warmer temperatures, with the federal weather agency forecasting blue skies and a high of 25 C near the water and 30 C
  
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• This Week in History: 1908 — An opera house opens in roller rink on English Bay

  15-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  There were a ton of live theatres in early Vancouver. But they’re virtually all forgotten, partly because many of them popped up in existing buildings, and were only in operation for a short time.
  A classic example is the Imperial, a theatre that opened on June 15, 1908, in a converted roller-skating rink at Denman and Beach streets, where the statues of the laughing men are today.
  The Imperial opened to great fanfare, taking out half-page ads in The Vancouver World and Province for its re
  
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• Douglas Todd: Why the Greens don’t attract ‘ethnic’ voters

  15-06-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Why do Green party candidates only win seats in ridings where the vast majority of voters are white?
  Federal and B.C. Green candidates have won election in only one concentrated region of Canada, on Vancouver Island and the adjacent Southern Gulf Islands, in ridings that have scant visible minorities compared to most of the country’s cities.
  In the Southern Gulf Islands — the heart of the region that has handed victories to the lone federal Green MP, leader Elizabeth May, and to B.C.
  
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• BCHL names former Canucks executive Chris Hebb as commissioner

  15-06-2018 06:37 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Hockey League announced Thursday that former Vancouver Canucks executive Chris Hebb is the league’s new commissioner.
  Effective immediately, Hebb will succeed John Grisdale in the office of commissioner, ending the longest tenure in league history. Grisdale oversaw the Junior A ice hockey league from 2003 to 2018, during which time the league saw unprecedented growth and success, with 67 players drafted into the NHL, including Kyle Turris and Justin Schultz. The BCH
  
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• Police need policy on 'grievous bodily harm' calls: B.C. coroner's inquest

  15-06-2018 05:06 via vancouversun.com
  Jurors who heard this week about a woman who spent four days paralyzed and dying inside her home in rural B.C. say police and their dispatchers need to review how they handle serious calls.
  A coroner’s inquest heard that two RCMP officers responded to a call about shots fired in Mission in 2008, but did not get out of their vehicles to investigate or contact the neighbour who called 911.
  Inside the home, 37-year-old Lisa Dudley and her boyfriend Guthrie McKay had been shot in an attack ove
  
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• Supernatural cast's 'tape ball' raises $30,000 for Vancouver charities

  15-06-2018 04:36 via vancouversun.com
  The cast of Supernatural had a ball last season. Now someone else has it.
  In keeping with an annual tradition from the set of the B.C.-filmed fantasy drama, one lucky fan has won of the most coveted pieces of memorabilia from the show: the SPN tape ball.
  The actors insist this is more than just a colourful ball of tape, although it is certainly that too: the SPN tape ball is made up of the colour-coded strips of adhesive used to mark a performer’s place in a scene. This is tape with a purp
  
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• Desperate Prince George mom needs your help in finding her missing boy in Vancouver

  15-06-2018 04:34 via vancouversun.com
  At the corner of Main and Hastings, a Vancouver intersection home to more than its fair share of agony and loss, Phyllis Fleury broke down sobbing Thursday.
  Her 16-year-old son, Colten Therrin Fleury, woke up early May 3 and left the Prince George hotel where she lives and works, just one day after being released into her care from a group home. She hasn’t seen him since.
  But last Saturday night, Fleury got word from family that Colten had been spotted in the Downtown Eastside at Oppe
  
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• Funeral held for murdered Surrey teen Jaskarn (Jason) Singh Jhutty

  15-06-2018 04:21 via vancouversun.com
  The wails and screams of Jaskarn (Jason) Singh Jhutty’s mother and sister pierced the air as the white casket bearing the teen’s body was slowly wheeled away after his funeral Thursday.
  The depth of his parents’ and siblings’ grief at the sudden and tragic loss of their 16-year-old son and brother was palpable to the hundreds who attended the hour-long service at a Delta funeral home.
  Jhutty, a Grade 10 student at Surrey’s Frank Hurt Secondary, was found dead on the
  
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• Funeral held for murdered teen Jaskarn (Jason) Singh Jhutty

  15-06-2018 03:06 via vancouversun.com
  The wails and screams of Jaskarn (Jason) Singh Jhutty’s mother and sister pierced the air as the white casket bearing the teen’s body was slowly wheeled away after his funeral Thursday.
  The depth of his parents’ and siblings’ grief at the sudden and tragic loss of their 16-year-old son and brother was palpable to the hundreds who attended the hour-long service at a Delta funeral home.
  Jhutty, a Grade 10 student at Surrey’s Frank Hurt Secondary, was found dead on the
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, June 15

  15-06-2018 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, June 15.Dita Von Teese & The Copper Coupe Burlesque Revue Tour
  International Queen of Burlesque Dita Von Teese returns to Vancouver with a new tour. The ‘Dita Von Teese and the Copper Coupe’ features a bunch of cool new acts, as well as special guest performers Gia Genevieve, Dirty Martini, Ginger Valentine, Jett Adore, Zelia Rose and more. The show will feature glimmering copper elements
  
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• RCMP Musical Ride charges into Burnaby's Swangard Stadium in August

  15-06-2018 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP Musical Ride returns to Metro Vancouver this summer, making a stop at Burnaby’s Swangard Stadium on Aug. 15.
  The iconic Canadian event features a troop of two dozen horses and their riders performing impressively choreographed cavalry drills set to music, from the famous “Dome” formation, once featured on the back of the Canadian $50 bill, to the “Charge” movement, where lances are lowered and riders launch into an intimidating gallop.
  Members of the R
  
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• Crown appeals acquittal of dangerous driving causing death in a Vancouver intersection

  15-06-2018 02:43 via vancouversun.com
  The Crown has filed an appeal of the acquittal of Ken Chung, who was charged with dangerous driving causing the death of Vancouver doctor Alphonsus Hui.
  Hui died at age 68 on Nov. 15, 2015, after a car slammed into his vehicle at the intersection of West 41st Avenue and Oak Street in Vancouver.
  Police estimate the driver who hit him had been travelling at more than 140 kilometres an hour in a 50 km/h zone before the accident.
  Ken Chung, then 35 and of Richmond, was tried for dangerous driving ca
  
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• Tax-reform task-force recommendations to be ignored again by B.C. government

  15-06-2018 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A task force that the B.C. government already ignored once when it replaced medical services plan premiums earlier this year has produced a second report full of other tax-reform proposals the province appears ready to disregard as well.
  The province should tax all non-alcoholic beverages (except “non-carbonated water and unflavoured milk”), eliminate the homeowner-grant program and replace the provincial sales tax with a new value-added tax similar to the harmonized
  
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• Lawyer gets $1 in defamation case judge says shouldn't have been filed

  15-06-2018 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver lawyer has been awarded just $1 in damages arising from a defamation lawsuit that a judge says the lawyer and the law firm she works with should never have filed.
  Kyla Lee, who provides legal services to Acumen Law Corp. as an independent contractor, represented a client in August 2017 seeking a review of a 90-day roadside driving suspension, according to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling.
  After an adjudicator upheld the driving ban, her client asked for a refund from Lee and the law firm,
  
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• Join us TONIGHT for the opening of the Ralph Bower photo exhibition 5:30-7:30pm at City Hall. His favourite 200 pho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  Join us TONIGHT for the opening of the Ralph Bower photo exhibition 5:30-7:30pm at City Hall. His favourite 200 pho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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