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• Two vehicle crash - on Highway 1 and Dollarton on ramp east bound. Vehicles blocking traffic - traffic backing up.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-06-2018 23:43 via twitter.com
  Two vehicle crash - on Highway 1 and Dollarton on ramp east bound. Vehicles blocking traffic - traffic backing up.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time PRIME Reviewer. Click here to apply: ow.ly/BkUe30kF4dV

  25-06-2018 23:37 via twitter.com
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• Our condolences to the family, friends and brothers and sisters from Long Beach Fire. twitter.com/lbfd/status/10…

  25-06-2018 23:09 via twitter.com
  Our condolences to the family, friends and brothers and sisters from Long Beach Fire. twitter.com/lbfd/status/10…
  
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• Yep, it's true! There's FREE Tai Chi classes in #CivicPlaza Tuesdays @ 12pm to July 24. cnv.org/CommunityEvents… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Yep, it's true! There's FREE Tai Chi classes in #CivicPlaza Tuesdays @ 12pm to July 24. cnv.org/CommunityEvents… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Just a little California Dreamin’ in Civic Plaza. Piano in the Plaza is back! #I❤️MyCity #NorthVan 🎹 https://t.co/W2otNbxmPU

  25-06-2018 22:07 via twitter.com
  
  Just a little California Dreamin’ in Civic Plaza.Piano in the Plaza is back! #I❤️MyCity#NorthVan🎹 https://t.co/W2otNbxmPU
  
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• RCMP confirm investigation underway over Saturday evening shooting

  25-06-2018 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  Police confirmed they are investigating a shooting that appeared to have been targeted at a Surrey internet talk show host.
  Around 11 p.m. Saturday, RCMP were called to the 18400 block of Fraser Highway by a driver who said their car had been shot at.
  “Police attended and confirmed the vehicle had damage consistent with ballistic damage,” police said in a statement. “The occupants of the vehicle were not physically injured.”
  Traffic on the roadway was shut down Saturday e
  
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• 'Piggy yoga' helps Langley farm raise funds to cover vet bills

  25-06-2018 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  Yoga practitioners in Aldergrove had some unlikely company during a string of sessions on Sunday.
  Five pigs, a chihuahua and turkey wandered between mats, with one pig taking a bite out of a mat and others flopping down for some belly rubs.
  Diane Marsh, co-founder of Happy Herd Farm Sanctuary, says they organized the “piggy yoga” as a fundraiser for the sanctuary, which is facing a few large veterinary bills for some of its ill animals.The pigs — named Garth, Bif Naked, Moby, M
  
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• Saanich wants to stop monster houses from being built on farmland

  25-06-2018 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Saanich wants to see what it can do to restrict monster houses from being built on agricultural land.
  Councillors have unanimously endorsed a proposal from Coun. Dean Murdock to have staff review agricultural zones with regard to house size and location, and report back on options.
  “At the moment, with the exception of setbacks from your neighbour’s property and whatever you would need as a setback from your septic field or septic tank, there aren’t really any restrictions on h
  
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• B.C. to lower maximum fee for borrowing payday loans

  25-06-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government announced on Monday a series of measures to tighten rules on payday-lending practices, which includes reducing the maximum fee lenders can charge.
  As of Sept. 1st, payday lenders will only be able to charge $15 for every $100 borrowed, matching Ontario’s maximum fee, which was lowered back in January. B.C.’s current maximum rate sits at $17.
  The new regulations would also give the lender two business days to cancel the loan agreement, without penalty.
  Using
  
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• Emily Carr University names Gillian Siddall next president and vice-chancellor

  25-06-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  Emily Carr University has named Dr. Gillian Siddall their next president and vice-chancellor.
  “As the university begins writing the next chapter of its story, Dr. Siddall has the qualities, experience and track record to harness the best ideas from the ECU community and the leadership experience to put them into action,” said Kim Peacock, chair of ECU’s board of governors.
  Siddall was selected following a year-long search. She will succeed Dr. Ron Burnett, who has served as the
  
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• Can you solve the mystery of the golden locket?

  25-06-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  The boy in the black and white photo looks to be about eight or nine. The sun is glinting off his light-coloured hair and he’s looking happily at someone out of the frame. On the other side of the locket is a girl who is maybe 14, wearing a jacket over a white blouse, her dark hair framing a smiling face.
  Barb Decoteau, owner of Thrifty Bee’s thrift shop on Esquimalt Road, wants to identify the boy and the girl in the locket, and return what might be a heirloom to its rightful owner.
  
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• Don't forget to claim your Home Owner Grant by July 3rd. Grab your City tax notice and apply online:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-06-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  Don't forget to claim your Home Owner Grant by July 3rd. Grab your City tax notice and apply online:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Walking sticks, reconstructed bags and items of 'civilian accoutrement' make for Objects of Fancy

  25-06-2018 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  Objects of Fancy
  When: June 28 to July 29
  Where: Circle Craft Shop and Gallery
  Info: 604-669-8021
  In an upcoming show, two Vancouver craftsmen will display their individual work. But for one of the artisans, Lincoln Heller, it was important to collaborate with his co-exhibitor. The result is a walking stick for today’s urban male.
  For the sticks, the two have “used a lot of geometry,” said Heller, whose trade name is Fiveleft. “They’re very simple objects, but they
  
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• B.C. home sales forecast revised, predicted to drop 17.7%

  25-06-2018 20:36
  Prediction of 2018 total sales decline gets steeper, but prices will keep rising, according to CREA
  
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• Dermod Travis: Fewer rants, more listening needed to solve B.C. housing crisis

  25-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ever sense that you’ve been listening to one, or more, of these rants again and again over the past few years?
  “It’s foreign buyers. No, it’s not. Show me your proof. The CMHC said so. No, they didn’t. They said there wasn’t sufficient data to form a conclusion.”
  “It’s all about supply. Yeah, right, what supply? Every time you guys dream up a new condo project you sell it all through pre-sales in China and Singapore. You’re a xenophobe.
  
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• Artists & artisan vendors wanted for popular #SummerSessions concert series this summer. Apply now:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-06-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Artists & artisan vendors wanted for popular #SummerSessions concert series this summer. Apply now:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Drug resistance: The climate change of human health. Is Canada ready?

  25-06-2018 17:46 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian Press reporters travelled to South Africa and India to investigate the growing epidemic of drug resistance, which experts describe as the single greatest threat to human health on the planet. This is the first story of a six-part series exploring how the unfettered use of antibiotics pushes humanity closer to a post-antibiotic era in which common infections may be impossible to treat. The R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship helped fund the project.
  ALDERGROVE — Wendy
  
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• Riverdale's K.J. Apa spotted in new trailer for The Hate U Give

  25-06-2018 17:36 via vancouversun.com
  The new trailer for The Hate U Give has premiered, giving Riverdale fans a brief glimpse of K.J. Apa in his next film role.
  The film, which was adapted from author Angie Thomas’s young adult novel of the same name, stars Apa as the privileged boyfriend of a black student who is the only witness in her bestfriend’s murder by police.
  The student is played by Amandla Stenberg; the film also stars Regina Hall, Issa Rae and Common.
  Apa stars as Archie Andrews on the CW’s hit teen dr
  
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• Daily Poll: Are you registered to vote in Vancouver?

  25-06-2018 16:12 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver is already mobilizing to try and get the vote out for this fall’s municipal election.
  With a number of incumbents choosing not to seek re-election in 2018, the field of those jostling for Vancouver city hall has become crowded with new names and parties. That also means voters will have to do their research to ensure they’re familiar with the new choices that will be listed on their ballot this fall.
  According to reporter Cheryl Chan’s story:
  In 2014, vote
  
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• Vancouver weather: Thunder only happens when it's raining

  25-06-2018 15:19 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: June 25, 2018 – Don’t let Monday’s weather fool you. There may be clear skies in the morning but a 70 per cent chance of rain – and a risk of thunderstorm – throughout the day.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly cloudy with a 70 per cent change of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. High of 18.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of showers. Low of 13.
  Tomorrow: Mix of sun and cloud, high of 20.
  Traffic: Lower Mainland
  Here’s a l
  
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• Opinion: B.C. public pensions fuel climate change crisis

  25-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you have a public pension in B.C., your retirement savings are likely fuelling the climate change crisis.
  The pensions of over half a million British Columbians are administered by the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), formerly known as the bcIMC. It’s the fourth-largest pension fund manager in Canada and controls one of the province’s largest pools of wealth, totalling $135.5 billion.
  In 2016, Canada signed the Paris Agreement, acknowledging that global wa
  
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• Rob Shaw: NDP dig in for long and painful fight on speculation tax

  25-06-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s New Democrat government ended the spring session of the legislature thinking the worst was over when it came to the painful launch and scrambled retooling of its speculation tax.
  But a new flare-up of anger has opened up battles on several fronts that will test the political mettle of Premier John Horgan’s government, and could even threaten its very survival.
  West Kelowna continues its persistent fight to be exempted from the speculation tax, Green leader And
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Statistics Canada reveals First Nations filling Canada's prisons

  25-06-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  In spite of more than 20 years of rhetoric and hand-wringing about the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people in Canada’s prisons, the latest Statistics Canada report indicates the grim systemic racism is increasing at a sickening pace.
  In B.C., Aboriginals accounted for 30 per cent of the men and 47 per cent of the women imprisoned in 2016-17. That’s up from 20 per cent and 29 per cent, respectively, a decade ago!
  The numbers have been increasing every year for more than a dec
  
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• Seniors care aide hiring spree drains casual labour pool

  25-06-2018 06:07 via vancouversun.com
  When Health Minister Adrian Dix announced a $240-million cash infusion last February to hire care workers for seniors in residential care, Debra Hauptman wasted no time.
  The CEO of Langley Lodge Seniors Care has filled more than 13 full-time staff positions, which added 54 care hours per day, including new opportunities for recreation and physiotherapy.
  “It was long overdue, we haven’t had an increase in staffing in many years,” she said. “The government had announced new
  
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• Surrey shooting victim was hockey coach, nurse and father of two

  25-06-2018 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  A man shot to death outside a Surrey home was a father and husband who coached kids on the ice and cared for patients at his day job.
  Paul Bennett, 47, died of gunshot wounds after a shooting in his driveway in the 18200-block 67A Avenue at around 4 p.m. Saturday.
  Bennett coached nine to 11-year-olds with the Cloverdale Titans Atom C team last season. His death has sent his hockey family reeling, said Cloverdale Minor Hockey Association president Marty Jones.
  “He was a huge part of our com
  
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• Opinion: Managing public sector compensation crucial to balancing budget

  25-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  During last year’s election campaign, and in his first full budget as premier, John Horgan promised to balance British Columbia’s operating budget. If his NDP government remains committed to this promise, the coming negotiations on compensation with 183 public sector unions will be critically important.
  After all, at $29.1 billion, government employee compensation constitutes more than half of all provincial spending, so managing this area of spending is critical.
  Thus far, the Horga
  
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• Letters: Series on seniors resonated with readers

  25-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Navigating Seniors’ Care, Series June 16-23.
  I am a 76-year-old fitness instructor and cognitive fitness facilitator. I have worked with people with dementia for over 10 years and I have designed my own program called Mind and Body Fitness for People with Dementia. The main goal of the program is to focus on and strengthen the physical and mental abilities that the participants with early stage dementia already have — it’s more on what they can do, not what they can’t
  
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• Five B.C. families issued travel visas to bring adopted babies home from Japan

  25-06-2018 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  Five Canadian families who have newly adopted children but were grounded in Japan because of Canadian visa issues are finally on their way home.
  The families received notice from the Canadian embassy in Manila — there is no visa section at the Tokyo embassy — on Saturday that their children’s paperwork had been cleared and they could head for home.
  Ryan Hoag of Coquitlam immediately forwarded the message to his wife, Wiyani Prayetno, who has been staying in Japan with their dau
  
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• There's so much to love about our City. 💗 #ILoveMyCity #NorthVan https://t.co/WefdHoz9vU

  25-06-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  There's so much to love about our City. 💗 #ILoveMyCity #NorthVan https://t.co/WefdHoz9vU
  
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• Government seeks forfeiture of casino chips seized from suspected money launderer

  25-06-2018 01:09 via vancouversun.com
  The director of civil forfeiture has filed suit against an alleged international money launderer to get casino chips seized from him forfeited to the B.C. government.
  The lawsuit targeting $75,000 worth of chips taken from Dan Bai Shun Jin last month was filed June 13, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News.
  The RCMP arrested Jin at River Rock Casino in Richmond on May 25 — a day after the Canada Border Services Agency detained a woman arriving at Vancouver International Airport
  
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• Host of internet radio program says her car was shot at in Surrey

  25-06-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey-based internet talk show host says her vehicle was shot at Saturday night and she believes her outspoken views have made her enemies.
  Ashiana Khan, CEO of Media Waves Communications, which produces an internet radio show in Surrey, told Postmedia News that she was driving near 176th Street and Fraser Highway at 11 p.m. Saturday when she was the victim of a drive-by shooting.
  “Because of the police investigation I can only confirm that yes, my vehicle was shot,” Khan said Sun
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canadian officials battle dozens of migration scams

  25-06-2018 00:05 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian immigration officials around the world face a wave of immigration scams.
  Many of the schemes feature people claiming to be in marriages that turn out to be phoney. Others involve fraudulent letters about escorting Saudi Arabian princesses, counterfeit passports and forged job offers, or people pretending to be journalists.
  An internal Global Affairs Department document shows Canadian consular and customs officials invited anti-fraud experts from European countries to a meeting to learn
  
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