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• B.C. chicken-catching company denies neglect, cruelty accusations

  27-06-2018 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  The head of a British Columbia chicken-catching company under investigation for alleged animal neglect and cruelty says his employees have not done anything wrong.
  Elite Services president Dwayne Dueck says in a statement that the company, which loads birds onto crates for processing, follows all animal welfare guidelines according to industry standards.
  Dueck says the company is fully co-operating in the investigation.
  Marcie Moriarty of the B.C. SPCA has said investigators are examining claims
  
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• #SemischPark Open House TONIGHT 4-7pm. We'd like your feedback on our preliminary designs. Meet us at the park. If… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  #SemischPark Open House TONIGHT 4-7pm. We'd like your feedback on our preliminary designs. Meet us at the park. If… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Large-scale money laundering at B.C. casinos; system failure: 'Dirty Money' report

  27-06-2018 21:57 via vancouversun.com
  A long-awaited independent report into money laundering at B.C. casinos has been released with sweeping reforms recommended for the industry.
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby received the 247-page report called ‘Dirty Money’ by former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German in March. But the government didn’t make it public right away so it could review German’s 48 recommendations for any law enforcement and privacy concerns.
  The report paints a troubling pict
  
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• The first "Hot Summer Night" in the District is coming up July 5, 6:30-8:30pm at Cates Park. Kids (and parents) are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  The first "Hot Summer Night" in the District is coming up July 5, 6:30-8:30pm at Cates Park. Kids (and parents) are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver approves new cannabis shop designation, in advance of federal legalization

  27-06-2018 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver will change its current bylaw wording around marijuana businesses in anticipation of federal legalization expected this fall.
  City council approved a zoning and development bylaw amendment this week that replaces the current designation of “medical marijuana related use” with the new designation of “cannabis store”, effective Oct. 17, 2018.
  The federal government has said marijuana for recreational use will be legalized beginning on that date.
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• We're partnering with our colleagues from @CityOfNorthVan to learn more about our communities' needs. Share your t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  We're partnering with our colleagues from @CityOfNorthVanto learn more about our communities' needs. Share your t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Indecent Act’s Investigated By Police bit.ly/2tKi1Ho #NorthVancouver https://t.co/ppi1bgyltz

  27-06-2018 20:56 via twitter.com
  
  Indecent Act’s Investigated By Policebit.ly/2tKi1Ho#NorthVancouver https://t.co/ppi1bgyltz
  
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• Province to target criminal money in real estate after gaming reforms

  27-06-2018 20:35
  
  “It’s like whack-a-mole” – wherever people can pay with cash, money laundering follows, says Attorney-General
  
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• We're jazzin' up Civic Plaza again this weekend. Free concert Saturday 1-3pm featuring Coco Jafro.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  We're jazzin' up Civic Plaza again this weekend. Free concert Saturday 1-3pm featuring Coco Jafro.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Real estate ‘narrative’ pushing buyers into bidding wars: CMHC

  27-06-2018 20:03
  
  More than half Metro Vancouver homebuyers in 2017 entered a bidding war, “lacking self-control,” asserts housing agency
  
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• Take your lunch on the wild side in North Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  27-06-2018 20:01
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  Take your lunch on the wild side in North Vancouver
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  Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. 3735 Capilano Road, North Vancouver. Summer hours, 8 am to 8 pm. capbridge.com. Summer's arrived and with it, an incoming tide of visiting friends and couch-surfers. Time to be a tourist in your own city. If you find ...
  
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• Theatre review: Yeah yeah yeah! Beatlemania meets the Bard in joyous As You Like It

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  As You Like It
  When: To Sept. 22
  Where: Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park
  Tickets & Info: From $24; http://www.bardonthebeach.org
  For centuries scholars have debated whether William Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him. Some have proposed instead the Earl of Oxford or playwright Christopher Marlowe.
  Has anyone suggested John Lennon or Paul McCartney?
  Launching a summer of Bardlemania in Vanier Park, director Daryl Cloran seamlessly interpolates two dozen Beatles’ songs i
  
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• Take your lunch on the wild side in North Vancouver

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cliff House Restaurant
  Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
   3735 Capilano Road, North Vancouver
  Summer hours, 8 am to 8 pm. capbridge.com
  Summer’s arrived and with it, an incoming tide of visiting friends and couch-surfers. Time to be a tourist in your own city. If you find yourself at the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in North Vancouver, a true drama queen, here’s something to note. A new restaurant, Cliff House Restaurant and Bar, opened last February, in a nature-surrounde
  
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• Seven things to do June 29 to July 5: Metalocalypstick Festival, The Damned, and more

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Metalocalypstick Festival
  When: June 29-July 1
  Where: Lone Butte Community Hall, Lone Butte.
  Tickets and info: $51-$91, at metalocalypstickfest.rocks
  This incredibly cool community building festival celebrates women in heavy metal and rock. Organized by Kaija Kinney, who is in the band Anarcheon, the multi day event promises “mountains, camping and the Women of Metal.” We think that sounds pretty cool. Acts like Cabrakan, Del Desierto, Kosm, Obsidian and many more will be there
  
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• Rob Seeley: Time to talk climate facts, B.C.’s LNG opportunity and GHG targets

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Some environmental groups advocate that the development of liquefied natural gas in B.C. is incompatible with provincial greenhouse-gas reduction targets and our collective efforts to combat climate change. This is simply not true for the following reasons:
  First, if B.C. were to implement innovative carbon policies that deliver real GHG reductions instead of simply imposing the carbon tax, it would enable reduction targets to be met along with the goals for economic growth.
  Second, natural gas
  
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• Music in a summer mode

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  July is just around the corner, so it’s not at all too early to consider a number of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra initiatives indoors and out.
  For those wary of the West Coast’s changeable summer weather, there are two safe options inside the Orpheum. July 5 and 6 sees the latest instalment of the very successful Harry Potter films with live orchestral accompaniment: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, at 7 p.m., with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee on July 7. The next week, the VSO
  
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• Kasey Wilson: Dine out in style with this portable feast

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of my favourite summer memories is of a concert picnic at Bard on the Beach a decade ago. Since the 1990s, tents in Vanier Park on Vancouver’s waterfront have provided a stage for Shakespeare’s plays against a stunning backdrop of city, sea and mountains.
  Today, you can pre-order a picnic at Bard (from $11 per person), but back then we were inspired to pack our own warm-weather basket. Our no-cutlery dinner consisted of devilled eggs, hand-held meat pies and salad rolls, with a b
  
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• David Cross back on stage after Arrested Development controversy

  27-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  David Cross
  When: July 4, 2018
  Where: Vogue TheatreA lot of things have changed since comedian David Cross’s 2016 stand-up tour: Making America Great Again!
  Now whether they have changed for the better depends on your view of Donald Trump’s impact on America.
  “I think it has changed,” said Cross, who taped a Netflix special in April 2016 just before Trump was named the Republican presidential candidate.
  “I think it has changed for the worse. It was once just, &lsquo
  
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• Large scale money laundering at B.C. casinos; collective system failure: report

  27-06-2018 19:53 via vancouversun.com
  A long-awaited independent report into money laundering at B.C. casinos has been released with sweeping reforms recommended for the industry.
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby received the 247-page report called ‘Dirty Money’ by former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German in March. But the government didn’t make it public right away so it could review German’s 48 recommendations for any law enforcement and privacy concerns.
  The report paints a troubling picture o
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: New office tower coming to site beside train station

  27-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  A major transformation is coming for a key property next to Pacific Central Station in Vancouver.
  Rize Alliance is building a 13-storey office building at 1296 Station Street, the current site of the Party Bazaar.
  Called The Onyx, the Class-AAA tower will add about 260,000 square feet to the Vancouver office inventory when it is completed in the summer of 2021.
  It will also include about 8,700 square feet of retail at ground level.
  “(The project) has been granted a development permit and w
  
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• Beauty Bar: Charlotte Tilbury Bigger Brighter Eyes Filter

  27-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A four-colour eyeshadow palette (called a quad in beauty circles) that promises to provide the “biggest, brightest-looking eyes.”
  Said to be inspired by the “sparkling, eye-widening filters of social media,” the universal palette features four complementing shadow shades that are suitable for everyone.
  The shadow palette is broken down for easy application with a recommended Prime, Enlarge, Define and Pop shade. The made-in-Italy colours are also “curate
  
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• Don't forget! There's a BBQ in Lynn Valley today, 4-8:30pm, to raise funds for those affected by the Mountain Villa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 18:58 via twitter.com
  Don't forget! There's a BBQ in Lynn Valley today, 4-8:30pm, to raise funds for those affected by the Mountain Villa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Guess who's stopped by for a visit this weekend? #HMCSCalgary at the Pier, with free public tours 9am-4pm Sat & Sun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Guess who's stopped by for a visit this weekend? #HMCSCalgary at the Pier, with free public tours 9am-4pm Sat & Sun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Slack is down. It's not just your office

  27-06-2018 17:53 via vancouversun.com
  Hold up on calling your IT department.
  Slack, the popular workplace messaging tool, is experiencing a worldwide outage that is affecting more than 8 million daily active users.
  “‘We’ve received word that all workspaces are having troubles connecting to Slack. We’re currently investigating the issue, and will have updates shortly,” the company said on its website.
  The company says connectivity issues are affecting all workspaces.
  “We really
  
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• B.C. government to release casino money laundering report

  27-06-2018 17:16 via vancouversun.com
  A long-awaited independent report into money laundering at B.C. casinos is set to be released Wednesday morning.
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby received the 250-page report by former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German in April. But the government didn’t make it public right away so it could review German’s 48 recommendations.
  Details will be released at 9:30 a.m.
  German, a lawyer and author of the leading text-book on anti-money-laundering law, examined B.C.’s ant
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Cloudy and sunny

  27-06-2018 15:44 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Wednesday’s weather looks mostly cloudy, but the sun is expected to make an appearance at some point. Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 21 C. More rain is in the forecast this week, with a chance of showers beginning Thursday, and cooler high of 17 C. The mercury is expected to climb back up to 21 C on Friday with cloudy skies. Then, for the Canada Day long weekend, it will likely be rainy on Saturday, and a mix of sun and cloud on Sunday and Monday.Weathe
  
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• DOA says you need an a — kickin' right now

  27-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  D.O.A. First Annual Fight Back Festival
  When: July 6, 8 p.m.
  Where: Rickshaw Theatre
  Tickets and info: $20 at ticketfly.com
  Bon Jovi are 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. D.O.A. are not. Apparently, being legendary innovators of hardcore punk doesn’t matter as much as being Jersey pretty boys who only sing about being wanted; dead or alive.
  Joey Keithley doesn’t give a toss.
  The founder and only constant member of the Vancouver-based agit-rock institution has bigger thi
  
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• Train derailment in New Westminster closes Front Street

  27-06-2018 14:38 via vancouversun.com
  Front Street in New Westminster is shut down this morning, after a CN freight train derailed.
  There are no reports of injuries. It’s unclear what the train was carrying when six cars went off the track in the early morning hours Wednesday.
  Shortly before 3 a.m. police said Front Street was closed between Columbia Street and Begbie Street because of a CN Rail incident.
  CN has been contacted for more details
  More to come…
  Front Street is currently closed East and Westbound due to a CN
  
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• Adams River sockeye catches face 'significant restraint' to save endangered Cultus Lake stocks

  27-06-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fishermen who have been waiting four years to harvest the famous Adams River sockeye run on the Fraser River system could see their catches cut in half in an effort to save the endangered Cultus Lake sockeye.
  Only about 1,000 spawners are expected to return to Cultus Lake this summer.
  Because they are swimming with millions of sockeye headed further up the river system to the Shuswap area — about one-third to the Adams River — fishery managers may have to scale back harvests in the n
  
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• Huge new housing development creates division at North Vancouver district council - CBC.ca

  27-06-2018 09:00
  Huge new housing development creates division at North Vancouver district council  CBC.caA large Olympic Village-style development proposed for the District of North Vancouver, B.C., is creating division at city council. The Tsleil-Waututh First Nation is ...
  
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• New Westminster city council hearing disrupted by protests over modular housing

  27-06-2018 08:49 via vancouversun.com
  A New Westminster city council hearing for a proposed modular housing development intended for women who are either homeless or at risk of homelessness needed the intervention of police Tuesday night.
  New Westminster’s police chief, along with officials from BC Housing, Fraser Health and the Elizabeth Fry Society all spoke in support of the project.
  About 60 signed up to speak at the hearing.
  The proposed development is on city-owned land at 838 Ewen Avenue in Queensborough. This
  
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• HGTV home reno show looking for contestants in Greater Vancouver

  27-06-2018 05:00
  
  Worst to First will provide contribution worth $40,000 to successful applicants.
  
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• Burnaby's Michael Buble to get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

  27-06-2018 04:42 via vancouversun.com
  HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Crooner Michael Buble will be getting his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.
  The singer from Burnaby is one of the entertainers named by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for the honour.
  Others in the class of 2019 include actors Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Daniel Craig.
  Buble hosted the Juno Awards in Vancouver in March, where he announced that his wife, Luisana Lopilato, is expecting their third child.
  Michael Buble blows a kiss to fans as he arri
  
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• Nuthin’ like a long weekend in the City. Only 3 more sleeps. 🇨🇦 #NorthVan #I❤️MyCity https://t.co/o52tWovGHI

  27-06-2018 03:41 via twitter.com
  
  Nuthin’ like a long weekend in the City.Only 3 more sleeps. 🇨🇦 #NorthVan#I❤️MyCity https://t.co/o52tWovGHI
  
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• HIV prevention project a success, based on early results: Health minister

  27-06-2018 03:38 via vancouversun.com
  Just over 2,000 B.C. residents have taken medication to prevent HIV in the six months since it became publicly funded, Health Minister Adrian Dix says.
  The treatment is taken either before or after high-risk sex and is formally called pre- or post-exposure prophylaxis. The oral medication, Truvada, or an approved generic equivalent, can be prescribed to men having unsafe sex with other men. It can also be prescribed to men or women having sex with people who inject street drugs or with peo
  
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• Wendy Holm: Much ado about nothing: The story of the American bully and the Canadian cow…

  27-06-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  For Canada’s cows, finding themselves in the news is nothing new. Every time Canada sits down at a trade table, supply management makes the headlines. But under our rules-based global trading system, such challenges have been easily dismissed: Canada’s supply management system for milk, poultry and eggs matches domestic supply to demand, and its products do not disrupt international trade flows.
  Unlike wheat and canola, which are produced for export markets, the fragility and perisha
  
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• Future of Vancouver's Chinatown at stake, activist says, as plan set for public hearing

  27-06-2018 02:39 via vancouversun.com
  Dozens of speakers are set to appear Thursday evening at a public hearing, which experts say will have major implications for one of Vancouver’s most-historic neighbourhoods and the rest of the city.
  At issue are revisions to zoning policies for Vancouver’s Chinatown, and community activists say the stakes are high.
  “What’s at stake is the future of Chinatown,” said community activist Melody Ma, who heads the #SaveChinatownYVR campaign. “How do we make su
  
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• Five things to know about the new electoral reform referendum rules

  27-06-2018 02:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The campaign for B.C.’s referendum on proportional representation starts Saturday, but it could be a few more weeks before the official organizations are selected.
  Attorney General David Eby has set rules for who can apply for public funding to run educational campaigns for and against electoral reform before the mail-in ballot on Nov. 30.
  But Eby took so long to craft the regulations that he left Elections B.C. scrambling to set a deadline of July 6 for organiza
  
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• Surrey residents frustrated by continuing gun violence

  27-06-2018 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  Another day, another shooting.
  That’s the sentiment expressed by weary Surrey residents after news of yet another shooting that wounded one man inside a home in Clayton Heights, not far from where nurse and hockey coach Paul Bennett was shot Saturday.
  “People are losing faith. That’s the frustration. This is what the community feels — they’re fed up, and they’re saying, ‘Not another shooting,’ ” said Doug Elford, a longtime Surrey resident wh
  
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• Theatre Under The Stars gets the McQueen touch

  27-06-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  Theatre Under The Stars: 42nd Street and Cinderella
  When: July 4 to Aug. 18, various dates and times
  Where: Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park
  Tickets: From $20 at tuts.ca
  Robert McQueen is an multiple award-winning theatre director whose work has taken him from Broadway to Phnom Penh, New York to Tokyo. This summer, he is directing 42nd Street at Theatre Under The Stars. To say this is a major score for the popular family musical stage series is an understatement.
  McQueen has a history here, beginning w
  
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• We're planning improvements to #SemischPark. We'd like your feedback on our preliminary designs. Open House TOMORRO… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  We're planning improvements to #SemischPark. We'd like your feedback on our preliminary designs. Open House TOMORRO… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Next Tuesday, July 3 is your last day to pay your property taxes without penalty. Can't make it to District Hall to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 01:03 via twitter.com
  Next Tuesday, July 3 is your last day to pay your property taxes without penalty. Can't make it to District Hall to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coquitlam family returns home from Japan with adopted baby

  27-06-2018 00:53 via vancouversun.com
  Cheers greeted Ryan Hoag and Wiyani Prayetno when they arrived at Vancouver airport Tuesday, after weeks of being stuck in Japan waiting for a visa for their adopted baby girl.
  “It’s a little surreal for sure,” Hoag said of their re-entry to Canada. “It’s been a long time coming.”
  Hoag and Prayetno are one of five families who were stranded for weeks in Japan when the Canadian government stopped issuing visas for children adopted from the country.
  Ryan Hoag an
  
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• Douglas Todd: Boys and men disappearing from psychology

  27-06-2018 00:35 via vancouversun.com
  Males are disappearing from the field of North American psychology — both as research subjects and as psychotherapists.
  The evidence is overwhelming that psychological research is becoming heavily focused on girls’ and women’s issues, and that males are rapidly vanishing from psycho-therapeutic professions.
  The consequences of these dual trajectories, say specialists, is that the distinct emotional struggles of boys and men are largely being sidelined and that many psychotherap
  
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• Body Language reclaims Indigenous tattooing from colonial suppression

  27-06-2018 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  It’s an old photograph, dated 1881, but it reveals a lot about how much Indigenous culture was changed by colonization.
  It shows four high-ranking Haida men. On the far right is Chief Xa’na. He’s not wearing regalia over his torso so you can see the grizzly bear tattoo on his chest. What’s remarkable is that the tattoo is a smaller version of the grizzly bear design on the totem pole beside him.
  That made me stop in my tracks. For a moment, the photo created an image for
  
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