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• The cat came back … after a joyride for the ages

  24-06-2018 23:44 via vancouversun.com
  Lily, a pampered indoor pussy cat from Richmond, got the adventure of her lifetime after crawling into a car bumper Friday.
  The stowaway was returned to her frantic family safely on Saturday after her family’s information was recovered from a microchip implanted under her skin by the SPCA when she was adopted.
  “It’s just wild. How can a cat survive this?” said Lily’s owner Ruca Abbott. “She hung on for dear life.”
  The joyride began overnight Thursday whe
  
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• No Duncan-North Cowichan amalgamation in the plan after referendum vote

  24-06-2018 23:09 via vancouversun.com
  By Pedro Arrais
  Victoria Times Colonist
  Duncan and North Cowichan won’t be amalgamating, after Duncan citizens overwhelmingly rejected the idea.
  Preliminary results from Saturday’s vote show 68 per cent of Duncan voters were against amalgamating with their municipal neighbour, with 835 voting against and 395 voting in favour.
  In North Cowichan, 59 per cent of voters were in favour of amalgamating, with a vote of 3,051 for and 2,140 against.
  In B.C., amalgamation must be approved by m
  
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• Man dead in Surrey shooting identified as a father and minor hockey coach

  24-06-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after a shooting in Surrey on Saturday.
  The victim has been identified by friends and colleagues on social media as Paul Bennett, a minor league hockey coach.
  Cloverdale Minor Hockey Association president Marty Jones said Bennett’s hockey family is grieving.
  “A beloved member of our family has been taken from us, a husband, a father, a brother, a friend and a coach,” he wrote on the association’s Facebook page on Sunday.
  “Paul Bennett devoted much of t
  
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• We're working on a new Community Well Being Strategy. We want your input about social issues in our community. Host… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-06-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  We're working on a new Community Well Being Strategy. We want your input about social issues in our community. Host… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• It’s a busy day in #DeepCove today, and parking in the area is already maxed out. Please consider using our overflo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-06-2018 20:38 via twitter.com
  It’s a busy day in #DeepCove today, and parking in the area is already maxed out. Please consider using our overflo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• It’s a busy day in #lynncanyon and parking in the area is maxed out. If you’re visiting, please don’t park on local… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-06-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  It’s a busy day in #lynncanyon and parking in the area is maxed out. If you’re visiting, please don’t park on local… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A cassette, a concertmaster and a friendship that spanned continents

  24-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A couple of years ago Tamara Mills was walking down the street in Mount Pleasant and spotted a cassette tape on the ground.
  On the tape somebody had written “To Hyacinth, with love and best wishes, Adrian, Hong Kong, May 1991.” But she had no idea who they were.
  When she played it at home, it sounded a bit off.
  “I don’t think I knew how to use the tape player, so it kept playing at a super high speed,” she recounts, with a laugh. “And it was really unappealing
  
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• Man dead in Surrey shooting, IHIT investigating

  24-06-2018 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after a shooting in Surrey on Saturday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the homicide.
  At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Surrey RCMP got calls about shots fired in the 18200-block of 67A Avenue.
  “When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds who was taken to hospital,” police said in a press release.
  “Despite the best efforts of medical staff, the male victim succumbed to his injuries and IHIT was called in.”
  Cpl. Frank Jang
  
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• Firefighters battle a building fire at popular Langley strawberry farm

  24-06-2018 19:27 via vancouversun.com
  Langley firefighters battled a large fire in a building at Driediger Farms early Sunday.
  Fire Chief Russ Jenkins said workers arriving for their 5 a.m. shifts noticed smoke coming from a metal-clad building used for packaging berries.
  “It was fully involved,” said Jenkins. “There were combustibles — cardboard packaging and glue products.”
  Getting access to the building was a challenge, Jenkins said, because the heat and the smoke were not escaping the 24,000-square
  
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• Industrial land shortage looms as Abbotsford's farmland exclusion request denied

  24-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Agricultural Land Commission’s recent decision denying the City of Abbotsford’s request to remove almost 200 hectares from the agricultural land reserve for industrial development “tightens the vise” on companies already struggling to find space.
  “They’ll have to get creative,” said Kyle Dodman, a commercial broker with Frontline Real Estate Services who specializes in industrial sales and leasing in the Fraser Valley.
  “There’s a com
  
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• Wondering what's on tap for Monday's Council Meeting? ✅ Report: 2017 Annual Municipal Report ✅ Public Hearing: 127-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-06-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Wondering what's on tap for Monday's Council Meeting? ✅ Report: 2017 Annual Municipal Report ✅ Public Hearing: 127-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man dead in Surrey shooting after weekend shooting, IHIT investigating

  24-06-2018 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after a shooting in Surrey on Saturday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the homicide.
  At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Surrey RCMP got calls about shots fired in the 18200-block of 67A Avenue.
  “When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds who was taken to hospital,” police said in a press release.
  “Despite the best efforts of medical staff, the male victim succumbed to his injuries and IHIT was called in.”
  Cpl. Frank Jang
  
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• Municipal Election 2018: Vancouver launches effort to boost voter turnout

  24-06-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s wacky election season could boost voter turnout in October, says pollster Mario Canseco.
  With eight mayoral candidates and dozens more council, parks board and school board hopefuls jockeying for position, this year’s election is going to be pretty hard to miss, said Canseco, president of Research Co.
  But the sheer number of candidates may also lead to confusion, particularly given the new randomized ballots debuting in this election, he warned.
  “It’s a double
  
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• Evolution of the campfire: propane is safer, easier, cheaper and healthier than wood

  24-06-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Alice Fox’s carbon footprint is going through the roof. Through her pocketbook, too. And even into her lungs.
  Like so many British Columbians at this time of the year, the Surrey resident enjoys a wood campfire — in her case, while camping 10 days at Edgewater Bar, part of Derby Reach Regional Park, on the banks of the Fraser River in north Langley.
  For now, wood fires are legal. But it’s just a matter of time before the province and region becomes tinder dry, and authorities p
  
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• New Westminster Jeopardy! champion felt like Rocky after three-day win streak

  24-06-2018 06:51 via vancouversun.com
  After three days on top of the trivia world, New Westminster’s Ali Hasan saw his run as Jeopardy! champion come to a close on Friday night.
  Fittingly, the Guildford Park Secondary School teacher was dethroned by another Canadian, losing out to Ontario lawyer Jordan Nussbaum after a wrong answer on the last question of Double Jeopardy torpedoed Hasan’s chances in the final round.
  Host Alex Trebek posed the question, from the poets and poetry category: “He thought ‘Fou
  
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• Air India bombing victims honoured at emotional Stanley Park memorial

  24-06-2018 05:48 via vancouversun.com
  Ranbir Bhinder recalled Saturday how his entire family was “shattered” by the 1985 Air India bombing that left his pilot brother Satwinder dead.
  Bhinder, who is visiting from India, attended his first memorial to commemorate the 331 victims of the Air India bombings 33 years ago.
  “The 23rd of June 1985, as you all know, shattered the lives of hundreds of families and ours was one of them,” Bhinder said, standing in front of the stone wall that bears the name of his brothe
  
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• Google Street View images capture Metro Vancouver's homeless crisis

  24-06-2018 04:32 via vancouversun.com
  Local not-for-profit RainCity Housing has launched a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need for affordable and social housing in Vancouver.
  A new interactive website, vancouverstreetview.ca, allows users to toggle between Google Street View images taken in the last four years and, by juxtaposing snapshots from then and now, see how the homeless population has grown across Metro Vancouver.
  Statistics from Metro Vancouver show a 30 per cent increase in homelessness between 2
  
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• The beautiful game gets a boost of science from analytics at World Cup

  24-06-2018 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  It may not look it watching Saudi Arabia play, but there’s a whole lot of analytics being applied on those Russian pitches during the World Cup.
  It’s thought by some that analytics, while useful in baseball, football and basketball, aren’t of much use in fluid sports such as soccer or hockey, where goals are few and possession switches back and forth quickly.
  But that couldn’t be further from the truth, a Simon Fraser University professor says. European soccer, in particu
  
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• First Nation community not giving up on search for three missing fishermen

  24-06-2018 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. First Nation community is not giving up hope on finding three men whose boat capsized off Duffin Cove in Tofino more than a week ago.
  Tla-o-qui-aht fishermen Marcel Martin, Carl Martin Jr. and Terrance Brown Jr. have not been seen since their open six-metre boat sank without a mayday call in the early morning of June 15. Two others on the boat have been found.
  The search continues for three missing Tla-o-qui-aht fishermen, including Marcel Martin (L) whose boat capsized in the waters off
  
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• Ahhhh. 🎺🎷Jazz in the plaza. Just wrapped up jazzin’ to Franco Afro beat in Civic Plaza. Same time same place next… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-06-2018 00:37 via twitter.com
  Ahhhh.🎺🎷Jazz in the plaza.Just wrapped up jazzin’ to Franco Afro beat in Civic Plaza. Same time same place next… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• CRA scammers are 'exceedingly adept at manipulation,' says Vancouver victim

  24-06-2018 00:20 via vancouversun.com
  You are accused of lying on your tax forms, the police are on their way to arrest you, and it’s likely you will spend some time in jail.
  It sounds like a nightmare.
  This is how the Canada Revenue Agency scammers hook you. They play on your fears and lack of knowledge about filing your taxes until you are terrified to the point that you will pay whatever they want to avoid incarceration and a record.
  Police have issued warnings about the CRA scam, which is done by using Caller ID spoof
  
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• The countdown is on! Just 4 weeks to go until #FunCityFestival featuring #SlidetheCity. Don't miss your chance to t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-06-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  The countdown is on! Just 4 weeks to go until #FunCityFestival featuring #SlidetheCity. Don't miss your chance to t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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