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• Is there ever something fun and entertaining NOT going on in our Civic Plaza?! Caribbean vibe happening till 5 this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  07-07-2018 23:48 via twitter.com
  Is there ever something fun and entertaining NOT going on in our Civic Plaza?! Caribbean vibe happening till 5 this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Communities still recovering one year after worst fire season on record in B.C.

  07-07-2018 21:41 via vancouversun.com
  CACHE CREEK, B.C. — Communities are still recovering from British Columbia’s worst wildfire season on record, one year after a fateful two-day period in July 2017 that sparked more than 100 new fires and prompted the province to declare a state of emergency.
  Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta recalls a fire breaking out on July 6 near the Ashcroft First Nation and sweeping across the countryside the following day, as strong winds propelled it from the horizon to directly opposite the villa
  
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• An East Van Greenway? Motion goes to council this week

  07-07-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  As Vancouver moves forward with the Arbutus Greenway expansion, one city councillor is pushing for a similar plan for East Vancouver.
  Andrea Reimer has put forward a motion calling for a greenway in the city’s northeast quadrant, which stretches from Main Street to Boundary Road, and Grandview Highway to Burrard Inlet.
  Reimer says most of the city’s green spaces are on the west side, for example the massive Arbutus Greenway, which is also on council’s agenda on Wednes
  
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• Just 2 weeks to #FunCityFestival July 20 & 21. Have you got your #SlidetheCity tix yet? 💦💦 cnv.org/FunCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  07-07-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Just 2 weeks to #FunCityFestival July 20 & 21. Have you got your #SlidetheCity tix yet?💦💦 cnv.org/FunCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Meet the chef: Dalina's Simona Bonelli favours simple, fresh ingredients

  07-07-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Simona Bonelli’s connection with food is generational. In her Italian hometown, Bonelli’s parents owned the butcher shop, her grandfather was a baker, and her grandmother worked at the deli. She began her journey in London, England, where she worked at Notting Hill’s The Ark and Carluccio’s Caffe. In Yorkdale, Bonelli helped launch Jamie’s Kitchen, and most recently served as executive chef for the Glowbal Group’s Italian Kitchen. Today, Bonelli is m
  
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• Makeover: A look that compliments mom's busy lifestyle

  07-07-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Leslie Biggar is a professional photographer in Vancouver, with two young kids that keep her busy. She was in desperate need of a hair and makeup update.
  Leslie has naturally thick and curly hair. She had grown out an asymmetrical hair cut and wanted to brighten up her colour.
  I started by applying slices of foil highlights throughout her hair using a silk infused decolorizer. The foils were placed in a starburst pattern around her head, which lightens the hair colour and requires less maintenan
  
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• Daily Poll: Should parents have the right to force their drug-addicted kids into treatment?

  07-07-2018 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  Parents of children and youth who are addicted to drugs in B.C. are frustrated because there are not enough recovery options. Some would like to force kids into treatment, especially given the deadly opioid crisis and the fear that they will overdose from fentanyl.
  Read Lori Culbert’s story about one mother’s struggle here.
  What do you think? what should parents do if their kids deny that they have a drug problem? What if they don’t want treatment? Should parents have the legal
  
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• Introduced sheep, goats, deer alter natural ecosystem of Gulf Islands

  07-07-2018 18:14 via vancouversun.com
  JEDEDIAH ISLAND — Larri Woodrow, a hunter, ties his aluminum punt to the Long Bay shoreline and walks across a border of green grass in search of prey.
  “Fresh footprints,” says the retired school teacher, eyes scouring the ground. “They were grazing here this morning.”
  We continue on through a soothing forest of big-leaf maple, western red cedar and Douglas fir, and come to the edge of a large meadow. “I hear them,” Woodrow whispers. “Right over th
  
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• Stop by the Caribbean Days Cultural Showcase TODAY 12-5pm in Civic Plaza. Try some Caribbean food and enjoy live mu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  07-07-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Stop by the Caribbean Days Cultural Showcase TODAY 12-5pm in Civic Plaza. Try some Caribbean food and enjoy live mu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The Home Front: Getting set for barbecue season

  07-07-2018 15:28 via vancouversun.com
  Cooking outdoors has become easier and at the same time, more stylish, say Canadian chef and television personality Michael P. Clive and national barbecue champion John Thomson.
  The Sun caught up with these grill masters to hear their insights into the latest barbecue technology and design, along with their tips for successful summer entertaining.
  Thomson says the most important thing to remember when it comes to choosing a barbecue is find one you’re comfortable with.
  “If you&r
  
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• The Crestline has eyes focused on Pemberton

  07-07-2018 15:24 via vancouversun.com
  While rent and housing prices can make it hard for all but the well-heeled to work or play in Whistler, up the road about 30 minutes, the village of Pemberton is fast becoming the home of choice for the more modest wage earner.
  That’s why The Crestline, a new development of 36 townhouse and garden apartments, has attracted a waiting list of some 350 people anticipating the July 22 sales launch, says Stephen Duke, executive vice-president of Alture Properties, the firm developing the projec
  
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• Sold (Bought): Vancouver penthouse has multiple selling points

  07-07-2018 15:05 via vancouversun.com
  A snaphot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  PH 3603 — 838 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
  Type: Three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment
  Size: 2,368 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $4,079,000
  Listed for: $4,580,000
  Sold for: $4,380,000
  Sold on: Feb. 9
  Days on market: 21
  Listing agent: Gregg Baker at Engel & Volkers Vancouver
  Buyers agent: Dave Jarvis at Royal LePage Wolstencroft
  The big sell: This three-level condo can claim a number of selling points. Not only is i
  
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• Striking design sets Linea apart

  07-07-2018 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  When Linea takes its place in Surrey City Centre, it will be a standout in more ways than one.
  Rising to 28 storeys, the 236-home project from developer Rize will have a look that the company’s Steven Cox says will distinguish it from its counterparts.
  “The tower provides for incredibly efficient floor plans and the exterior appearance of the building is quite striking and overwhelmingly organic,” said Cox, Rize’s head of creative. “There will be free-flowing, curve
  
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• Residents to weigh in on Coquitlam's height-pushing Austin towers

  07-07-2018 15:00
  
  Developer seeking variance that, if approved, would allow it to exceed the 25-storey cap set for the area
  
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• Concert review: Harry Styles brings '70s vibe — and a whole lotta love — to Vancouver

  07-07-2018 08:06 via vancouversun.com
  Harry Styles Live on Tour
  Where: Rogers Arena
  When: Friday, July 6, 8 p.m.Harry Styles kind of had it made rolling into Rogers Arena Friday night.
  When flashing the slightest grin across your face can have the crowd at an arena screaming, how hard do you need to work, really?
  Roaring onto the stage to the slicing riff of Only Angel, the luxuriantly coiffed singer sported a silver lamé shirt and high-waisted bellbottoms that were almost a spitting image of Neil Diamond’s mid-’7
  
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• Live concert review: Harry Styles at Rogers Arena

  07-07-2018 05:23 via vancouversun.com
  Harry Styles
  Where: Rogers Arena
  When: July 6, 8 p.m.It’s not quite etched in stone, but it appears that any time a boy or girl group with a rabid following decides to disband, only one of the members goes on to a successful solo career.
  One Direction’s Harry Styles looks likely to follow Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Paul McCartney down the arena aisles into megastardom.
  The singer is presently on tour in support of his well-received Top 10 self-titled debut, coming into the
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, July 7, 2018

  07-07-2018 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  The parting shot of Vision Vancouver, aimed at the long-standing and passionately cherished zoning bylaws of residential neighbourhoods, disgusts and outrages me.
  Yet the tactics of that party, in its dying gasp, typify the arrogant disdain for democratic process displayed by Vision Vancouver during its regime. The party has given us a vision of suffocation by densification. And it seeks to fulfil that vision by denying voters a chance effectively to interpose — or even express — the
  
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• Editorial: Trudeau should abandon Bill C-46

  07-07-2018 03:46 via vancouversun.com
  The Trudeau government has a piece of legislation quietly sliding through Parliament on its way to becoming law — reportedly just before Christmas — that will significantly impact the civil rights of Canadians. The citizens of this country should consider the implications of the proposed law and, if they are unhappy with the legislation, tell their MPs.
  Bill C-46 would change Canada’s impaired driving laws to allow police officers to randomly pull over any driver and demand a b
  
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• B.C. municipalities want a cannabis production moratorium on farmland

  07-07-2018 03:26 via vancouversun.com
  Three months before marijuana is legalized across the country, the Union of B.C. Municipalities has asked the provincial government to put a moratorium on the use of agricultural land to grow cannabis.
  The resolution, arrived at late the previous week but only made public on Friday, says the ban should remain in place until there is a comprehensive review and consultation with local governments.
  It would not apply to existing operations.
  In a presentation to a meeting of Metro Vancouver’s
  
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• Provincial government waits on giving another $50m to new Vancouver Art Gallery

  07-07-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government is considering whether to contribute another $50 million to the construction of a new building for the Vancouver Art Gallery.
  The extra $50 million would be in addition to $50 million already contributed in 2008 to the $350-million project for a new home on the empty lot across from the Queen Elizabeth Theatre at West Georgia and Cambie.
  Lisa Beare.
  Lisa Beare, minister of tourism, arts and culture, said in a statement that the VAG asked for the extra $50 million last y
  
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• Ravi Kahlon: To invest in girls, get them into sports

  07-07-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  School’s out and the kids are ready for sunshine and two months of summer adventures.
  Our community centres and parks are swarming with kids doing all kinds of sports — but if you look closely, you may notice something odd: The older the kids, the fewer girls you’ll see on the sports fields.
  Research shows that although boys and girls have the same innate physical abilities and start out equally active, girls’ athletic skills start falling behind after the age of seven. T
  
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• Josh Paterson: Would you trust the Trump administration with your kids?

  07-07-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Try to imagine a scenario that would prompt you to pack what you can carry and flee your home with your kids. Try to imagine the drive, determination and perseverance it would take to keep your kids safe during the most treacherous journey of your life, driven only by the idea — the hope — that somewhere, somebody would listen to your story, understand the danger you face and give you and your kids a chance at safety.
  Now, try to imagine that you arrive at the United States border, a
  
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• John Weston: How you can make a difference in health and fitness for Canada

  07-07-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Parliament adjourned last month. As MPs disperse to their 338 ridings, media will describe their upcoming summer as “time off” and that they will “do the barbecue circuit.” Canadians may wrongly conjure up the vision of buff, rested politicians, replete in their social and culinary summertime pursuits.
  In my experience as an MP, summer meant time in the riding — an intense, tightly planned period when I could meet with constituents whom I did not have time to see wh
  
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• Public payroll tax relief tilts James' promise for level playing field

  07-07-2018 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — After weeks of speculation, Finance Minister Carole James this week announced relief from the new payroll tax for public service providers like schools and hospitals as well as many charities.
  “The transition funding ensures public services will not be impacted,” said the ministry press release Wednesday. “This includes funding for colleges, universities, community-health and social-service providers, school districts and health authorities.”
  For cha
  
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• Fort St. John RCMP look to link convicted rapist to unsolved crimes

  07-07-2018 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  An Alberta man has been sentenced to eight years in prison in connection with a 1994 sexual assault in Fort St. John — but police there are not closing the book on the case.
  On March 23, 60-year-old Randolph Byron Dunlop was found guilty of sexual assault with a weapon, break and enter to commit and indictable offence, and forcible confinement.
  Court was told Dunlop was wearing a mask and brandishing a gun when he broke into a stranger’s home, tied a woman up and sexually assaul
  
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• A Mother's Struggle: If severe addicts don't want help, should the law allow forced treatment to try to save their lives?

  07-07-2018 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  Christian DeSousa has just entered a treatment centre in B.C.’s Interior after a horrendous eight-year journey with drugs that led him to the streets, hospitals and jails — and, his mother feared, would have ended at the morgue.
  Because for the last three years of Christian’s downward spiral, overdose deaths have risen sharply in B.C., caused by fentanyl being laced into street drugs.
  “Having a child who is addicted to opioids, or any drugs because everything is being lac
  
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• Jill is SUPER excited about this year's Fun City Festival | July 21/22 #Funtimes #NorthVan #GiantSlide More info at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  07-07-2018 01:15 via twitter.com
  Jill is SUPER excited about this year's Fun City Festival | July 21/22 #Funtimes #NorthVan #GiantSlide More info at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Okanagan fire bug likely a thrill seeker or revenge seeker, arson profiler says

  07-07-2018 01:13 via vancouversun.com
  A thrill seeker who starts fires as part of a secret game with investigators could be behind 29 wildfires believed to be arson in the Okanagan over the last four years, says an arson profiler.
  Dian Williams has interviewed hundreds of fire setters and fire bombers across the United States as CEO of the Center for Arson Research. While she’s done consulting work for the RCMP in the past, she said Friday she hasn’t been in contact with B.C. investigators.
  But listening to the deta
  
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• Police in Prince George say motorcyclist left hurt woman after crash

  07-07-2018 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — Mounties in Prince George say they are looking for a man who left a woman behind after the motorcycle the pair was on skidded along a road and over an embankment.
  Staff Sgt. Paul Collister says the woman may have been lying injured for a few hours near the Highway 97 intersection until a passerby heard her yelling for help at about 5 a.m. this morning.
  He says the woman’s main injury was a broken femur.
  Collister says RCMP believe the man who disappeared was the drive
  
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