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• Trade war tips: How to stand up to an American bully

  20-06-2018 23:39 via vancouversun.com
  Are you ready for a fight?
  On July 1, Canada will impose tariffs on roughly $16.6 billion worth of American goods, our proportionate response to tariffs imposed last month on Canadian steel and aluminum.
  Those new charges — should they take effect — will drive up the retail price of U.S.-made goods from soy sauce and ketchup to hair lacquers and aftershave by roughly two to three per cent.
  “A tariff on the wholesale price doesn’t amount to much at retail, but if this thin
  
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• Police watchdog looking into single-vehicle crash in Kelowna

  20-06-2018 23:36 via vancouversun.com
  A crash involving a single vehicle and a concrete barrier is being looked at by the agency that investigates police conduct.
  According to the RCMP, the vehicle smashed into a wall along Hwy. 33 near Gerstmar Road around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning after being driven erratically and at high speed.
  A RCMP officer had spotted the vehicle earlier travelling at high speed and was following behind when he is said to have observed the vehicle veer across the oncoming lanes and hitting the barrier off the
  
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• Seniors and food: The dish on care home menus

  20-06-2018 23:07 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Nader Tabesh stands inside a massive walk-in refrigerator, surrounded by 30 dozen eggs, a stack of salmon fillets, and boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables, as he gets ready to make dinner for 100 seniors at Burnaby’s Normanna care home.
  “For most people at care centres, the biggest challenge can be the food. So we make sure visually it has to be good, nutrition-wise it has to be proper, and the food has to be edible so residents enjoy the meal,” says Tabesh, whose company
  
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• Cooking for one: How to cut costs and work, while keeping nutrition up

  20-06-2018 23:06 via vancouversun.com
  Most seniors in B.C. still live independently at home, where cooking — often for just themselves — can seem like a hassle.
  “That’s a challenge for many people, young and old alike,” said Rachel Murphy, an assistant professor at UBC’s faculty of medicine who has an expertise in aging and nutrition.
  Simple solutions, like eating a tin of soup with a piece of toast, won’t provide the nutrients needed for aging bodies. So, Murphy has some advice on how to co
  
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• A #PianoInThePlaza transformation #NorthVan. Who's up for a tune? https://t.co/NB1NCq5t0F

  20-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  
  A #PianoInThePlaza transformation #NorthVan. Who's up for a tune? https://t.co/NB1NCq5t0F
  
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• Proud to be part of one of the many Firefighter Unions in Western Canada that donated 1.2 million to Muscular Dystr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 22:12 via twitter.com
  Proud to be part of one of the many Firefighter Unions in Western Canada that donated 1.2 million to Muscular Dystr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Port Moody's Flavelle Mill masterplan a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’

  20-06-2018 21:54
  
  PoMo waterfront set to transform after council adopted OCP amendment to allow redevelopment of the Flavelle mill site
  
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• Former Vancouver massage therapist charged with sexual assault

  20-06-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  A former registered massage therapist and Vancouver singer has been charged with sexual assault.
  Bodhi Jones is alleged to have assaulted female patients between September 2016 and March 2017.
  Vancouver police say several women made the claims.
  Former massage therapist Bodhi Jones has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting clients. Jones is also a singer. This photo was taken from the YouTube video for his song Drink Like the World’s Gonna End.
  In March 2017, the VPD&rsquo
  
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• Abandoned vehicle found in Dease Lake a clue in mystery of missing Oregon family

  20-06-2018 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  Authorities in northern B.C. are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a family of four from Oregon, including two toddlers, after finding an abandoned vehicle near Dease Lake.
  Dease Lake RCMP say they found the vehicle on Monday near a power line, about 500 metres from the highway.
  The vehicle, a black 2018 Toyota Yaris with Oregon license plate 099KRW, had a sign on it indicating that the driver had possibly run out of fuel and had gone to get some.
  However, RCMP say all chec
  
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• Derelict Regent Hotel ordered closed, residents being moved into new homes

  20-06-2018 21:25 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly 80 people living inside the derelict Regent Hotel will be moved into new homes after the Downtown Eastside SRO was ordered closed by the City of Vancouver due to “unsafe conditions.”
  An order was issued Wednesday, directing that occupancy of the 105-year-old hotel at 160 East Hastings St. cease by June 28.
  The City of Vancouver’s chief building official determined the building had structural and life-safety deficiencies due to decades of under-investment a
  
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• This Vancouver kid taught Bollywood actor Salman Khan the Boom Floss

  20-06-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  Da-Bangg The Tour – Reloaded
  When: Sunday, July 1
  Where: Pacific Coliseum
  Tickets and info: $69.35- $378.65, goldspade.caFor Abir Matta, the Boom Floss has been a way to calm himself down when frustrated.
  So when the seven-year-old from Vancouver got a chance to face one of his favourite stars at a web conference recently, he asked Bollywood actor Salman Khan, “Can you do the Boom Floss?”
  “I wanted to see how he does it because he’s my favourite,” sa
  
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• As birth tourism climbs in B.C., health authority files $312,595 lawsuit over one unpaid childbirth bill

  20-06-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Record numbers of “birth tourists”, mostly from China, are expected at Richmond Hospital this year, but there are no plans to deter women from having their babies at the hospital in order to secure citizenship, according to Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), which has filed a lawsuit against a woman alleged to owe about $313,000 for her delivery.
  The lawsuit filed in April relates to a birth in 2012 that involved unforeseen complications and kept the lawsuit defendant, Yan Xia, and
  
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• Join us for the next 'You Me Us' event at at the North Shore Neighbourhood House June 23rd 1-4pm. Together we'll ex… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Join us for the next 'You Me Us' event at at the North Shore Neighbourhood House June 23rd 1-4pm. Together we'll ex… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Province to shine light on ‘hidden owners’ of B.C. real estate

  20-06-2018 20:16
  
  Publicly accessible ownership registry aims to reveal individuals behind shell companies and trusts – and ensure appropriate taxes are paid
  
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• Squamish-Lillooet district seeks way out of affordable housing 'crisis'

  20-06-2018 20:01
  
  Recommended changes to regional growth strategy document would encourage inclusionary zoning
  
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• This Just In: Philosophy Take a Deep Breath Eye, ORIBE Radiant Drops Golden Face Oil and Vichy Idéal Soleil Anti-Shine Dry Touch Lotion SPF 60

  20-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Philosophy
  Take a Deep Breath Eye
  They say: A cooling eye gel-cream featuring “clean-air technology” to boost oxygen levels to the eye area and revitalize skin.
  We say: Our tester tried this eye cream both day and night. The unscented lotion applied well and felt cool on the skin. A little goes a long way, and there is no tackiness on skin. While the product is targeted toward the 20-35 age group, our 60+ tester said her eyes looked subtly brighter and felt more hydrated.
  $42 |
  
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• Fierce Girls focus on female First Nations superheroes

  20-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fierce Girls
  When: June 21
  Where: fiercegirls.tv
  Fierce Girls is the first Indigenous superhero series created for Indigenous girls. The transmedia project, which runs across YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other platforms, aims to “spark change and empower young Indigenous women in Canada, New Zealand and around the world.”
  A co-production of TangataWhenua.com — an independent Maori news and information portal in Aotearoa — and with the Canadian Media Fund and
  
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• It’s 10:00am and #DeepCove parking lots are already full. If you are planning on visiting the park today please con… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 19:03 via twitter.com
  It’s 10:00am and #DeepCove parking lots are already full. If you are planning on visiting the park today please con… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. premier condemns U.S. policy on separating migrant children from parents

  20-06-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan is adding his voice to a growing list of world leaders condemning the U.S. in its actions allowing migrant children to be separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border and detained.
  In a statement Wednesday, on World Refugee Day, Horgan blasted the U.S. over this “unnecessary trauma.”
  “Our government condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the current U.S. government policy to separate asylum-seeking families from their children,&rdquo
  
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• One man dead after being struck by train in Abbotsford

  20-06-2018 18:06 via vancouversun.com
  One man is dead after being struck by a train in Abbotsford Tuesday night.
  The Abbotsford police were called out to assist emergency crews shortly before 10 p.m.
  The coroner confirmed it is investigating the death of an adult male on the railway tracks at the intersection of Essendene Avenue and West Railway Street in Abbotsford.
  The death has not been deemed as suspicious, said B.C. coroner spokesman Andy Watson.
  CP Rail said, in an emailed statement, that a CP train made contact with a person
  
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• Property taxes are due Tuesday, July 3. You can pay your taxes in person, but there are other convenient ways to pa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Property taxes are due Tuesday, July 3. You can pay your taxes in person, but there are other convenient ways to pa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver massage therapist charged with sex assault

  20-06-2018 17:51 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver registered massage therapist has been charged with sexual assault.
  Vancouver Police allege Bodhi Jones, an RMT working near West 7th Avenue and Burrard Street, assaulted female patients between September 2016 and March 2017.
  Police say several women made the claims, and they are now appealing to any other victims to come forward.
  In March 2017, the VPD’s Sex Crimes Unit began investigating allegations of sexual assaults against Jones. He has now been charged with four
  
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• Traffic signals at Mt. Seymour and Berkley are not functioning correctly. Crews are en route to repair, but expect… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 17:17 via twitter.com
  Traffic signals at Mt. Seymour and Berkley are not functioning correctly. Crews are en route to repair, but expect… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• UVic gaming expert feels WHO wildly exaggerates "gaming disorder."

  20-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Saying video games are potentially addicting is a sweeping generalization, like saying magazines or movies are potentially addicting, claims a University of Victoria professor.
  David Leach was reacting to a fresh announcement by the World Health Organization that it has created a new classification of addiction called “gaming disorder.”
  “The announcement didn’t necessarily surprise me because there is a feeling in the public consciousness that video games are addictive an
  
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• In powering the planet, even clean energy comes with environmental cost

  20-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  With 2.5 billion people on the planet having little or no access to energy, developed nations shouldn’t be so judgmental about how they manage to provide it to themselves, argues geologist and energy expert Scott Tinker.
  “This preconception of clean/dirty, good/bad is not helpful,” Tinker said to an audience at the Resources for Future Generations conference in Vancouver Tuesday.
  Tinker, co-producer of the energy documentary Switch and state geologist for Texas, spoke on a plen
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Heat wave warning lifted, but still toasty

  20-06-2018 14:51 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Wednesday’s weather is expected to be a mix of sun and cloud, with scattered showers in the morning, and highs of 24 C and 30 C inland. Environment Canada had posted a heat wave warning on the weekend for Metro Vancouver but that ended early Wednesday morning. On Thursday, for summer solstice, the weather will likely be similar with a mix of sun and cloud and highs of 23 C. Then there’s a chance of rain on Friday. Looking ahead, meteorologists are forecasting
  
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• Creep Off harassment text line pilot project aims to collect Vancouver data

  20-06-2018 07:10 via vancouversun.com
  Good Night Out Vancouver has announced its “Creep Off” project for reporting sexual harassment in the city.
  Victims or witnesses of harassment can text “creep off” to 778-800-3822, prompting a series of four questions that focus on the nature of the harassment, its location, and the age and gender identity of the individual reporting the inappropriate behaviour.
  Submissions are anonymous. The project, which began June 15, will run as a pilot program for 8 weeks.
  
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• B.C. Hydro forecasts record electricity usage during Vancouver heat wave

  20-06-2018 06:03 via vancouversun.com
  Have you heard about the heat wave that’s sweeping Vancouver? It has fans all over town.
  Electric fans, that is. Air conditioners, too, as locals try everything to beat the sudden heat.
  The result has been an increased demand for electricity that B.C. Hydro predicts could exceed the historical record for June.
  On Monday, the utility recorded the highest peak hourly demand of the season — at nearly 7,300 megawatts, it’s more than a 10 per cent increase over the previous Monday.
  
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• Dying With Dignity Canada gets $7 million donation from late Vancouver businessman

  20-06-2018 05:30 via vancouversun.com
  Dying With Dignity Canada announced Tuesday that the organization is preparing to receive the largest donation in the organization’s 38-year history — a contribution CEO Shanaaz Gokool has called “nothing short of transformational.”
  The donation, valued at approximately $7 million, comes from the late David Jackson, a retired Vancouver entrepreneur and ardent supporter of assisted dying.
  Jackson, who accessed medical assistance in dying on July 21, 2017 after a
  
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• Vancouver development fees ‘nail in the coffin’ for long-delayed project from mental health non-profit and developer

  20-06-2018 04:11 via vancouversun.com
  Tuesday marked the end of the road for a long-delayed East Vancouver development combining supportive housing, condos, and mental health facilities.
  Additional development costs expected to be imposed on the project would render it “financially unviable,” said the proponents, Boffo Properties and the Kettle Society (a non-profit supporting people with mental illness).
  Senior city officials and the project’s proponents both expressed disappointment in the news, but offered
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, June 20

  20-06-2018 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, June 20.M. Ward
  Singer/songwriter M.Ward brings his brand of lo-fi folk to the Imperial on Wednesday night. The Portland-born singer is touring in support of his latest solo album, More Rain, a collection of what Pitchfork called “sleepy, slouchy songs,” and described as “the kind of record you put on when the day is soaked in gloom and dimness.” So it’s a bit of a depressing l
  
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• Herbert Grubel: Getting politicians to accept the will of the people

  20-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The results of reliable surveys show that a majority of Canadians want changes in important government policies. For example, a survey by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, a not-for-profit organization, found that in 2016 out of 4,547 respondents 55.1 per cent indicated that Canada’s health care system needed fundamental changes and 8.6 per cent that it needed to be rebuilt completely.
  An Angus Reid poll taken in 2017 found 57 per cent of respondents supported the statement &l
  
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• B.C. government sets new 2022 deadline for coastal fish farms

  20-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government will not cancel provincial tenures for 20 coastal open-pen fish farms, instead giving the industry and its thousands of jobs a four-year reprieve while the province waits for Ottawa to take the lead on the issue.
  Agriculture Minister Lana Popham is expected to announce that the B.C. government will allow 20 provincial tenures for fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago to expire today, and then automatically renew them month-to-month until 2022.
  That’s
  
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• Capsized boat found, three men still missing after Tofino mishap

  20-06-2018 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The boat that capsized Friday with five men on board has been located, but three missing men have not yet been found, the RCMP said Tuesday afternoon.
  RCMP West Coast Marine and RCMP Underwater Recovery Team found the boat underwater near Duffin Passage, said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Tammy Douglas.
  “The boat has now been surfaced and will be held for investigation,” Douglas said.
  Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne said the boat was found in the area where two of the boaters wer
  
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• Eric Hamber students to get new seismically safe school in 2022

  20-06-2018 02:29 via vancouversun.com
  Students at Vancouver’s Eric Hamber Secondary are getting a new school.
  The Ministry of Education announced Tuesday it will spend $79.3 million to replace the existing westside school in what it called the largest seismic project in Vancouver’s history.
  The 56-year-old building near Oak and 33rd Avenue has been deemed high risk in the event of an earthquake. The new school will be built beside the existing school on the northwest corner of the site.
  Construction is slated to beg
  
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• Firefighters completed a successful Technical Rope and Swiftwater Rescue of two people today in the Cap River. Stoc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 01:54 via twitter.com
  Firefighters completed a successful Technical Rope and Swiftwater Rescue of two people today in the Cap River. Stoc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The new recording station at the City Library is now open. Access to the recording space and equipment is free with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  The new recording station at the City Library is now open. Access to the recording space and equipment is free with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ian Mulgrew : Ottawa lambasted for solitary-confinement appeal

  20-06-2018 01:18 via vancouversun.com
  Prolonged solitary confinement is considered torture — “the most individually destructive, psychologically crippling and socially alienating experience that could conceivably exist within the borders of the country.”
  The litany of side-effects includes anxiety, withdrawal, hypersensitivity, cognitive dysfunction, hallucinations, loss of control, irritability, aggression, rage, paranoia, hopelessness, a sense of impending breakdown, self-mutilation and suicide ideation
  
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• City of North Vancouver advances Harry Jerome project

  20-06-2018 01:04
  
  Council narrowly votes in favour of amendments to 802-unit development that will pay for new rec centre
  
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• B.C. ski resorts get free pass from speculation tax

  20-06-2018 00:43
  
  Ski communities’ tax exemption and improving economies point to stable – if not scorching – real estate sales
  
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• Have you had a chance to review the 2017 Annual Report yet? Council would like to hear your thoughts at their June… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 00:42 via twitter.com
  Have you had a chance to review the 2017 Annual Report yet? Council would like to hear your thoughts at their June… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. Ferries posts busiest year ever for vehicle traffic

  20-06-2018 00:18 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries says they’re busier than ever.
  Over the past year, B.C. Ferries says they set an all-time record for vehicles moved and the number of passengers carried was the highest total in 20 years.
  In a media release on Tuesday, the ferry company says during the most recent fiscal year, which closed April 1, net earnings were $59.9 million, a decline from the previous year due to a “one-time increase in fuel consumption, labour and training-related transition costs” bec
  
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• Public supports mixed-use Britannia Beach development

  20-06-2018 00:17
  
  Virtually all who spoke at a June 19 public hearing were supportive of 87-home project with commercial spaces
  
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• Herschel celebrates art, Vancouver — and backpacks — at new Gastown store

  20-06-2018 00:16 via vancouversun.com
  In recent years, retail insiders have struggled to find ways to entice shoppers back into their bricks-and-mortar stores.
  The rise of online shopping, coupled with steady climbs in commercial-property prices in many major cities, has created a perfect storm of sorts for the gradual decline, and potential demise of the industry.
  Shopping, it seems, has to be about more than merely buying something in order for retail stores to survive. It has to be about offering an experience.
  But, to Hersc
  
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