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• Vancouver Island towns fearful over fishing closures

  08-07-2018 23:25 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — An invitation from Fisheries and Oceans Canada to discuss ocean areas that might be critical for killer whales has outraged community leaders from southwest Vancouver Island.
  Prompted by Mike Hicks, Capital Regional District director for the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area, community politicians, ocean anglers and chambers of commerce from Sooke to Tofino are objecting to the possibility of closing two ocean zones to sport fishing: Swiftsure and La Perouse banks. Such a closure, the
  
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• B.C. park ranger recovers in hospital after attack by mother grizzly bear

  08-07-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. park ranger is grateful to be alive after a terrifying grizzly bear attack outside his home in Bella Coola.
  Jordan Carbery says he saw something moving outside his house early Tuesday morning, and when he went outside he saw some cubs in a cherry tree.
  A branch broke and one of the cubs fell, catching the attention of the mother bear, who charged Carbery as he tried to run back to his house.
  Carbery says the grizzly tackled him to the ground, wrapped her jaws around his head and picked hi
  
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• Multiple BC Ferries sailings cancelled between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay

  08-07-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  BC Ferries has cancelled a number of Sunday sailings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay because of mechanical trouble on one of its ferries.
  According to the company, one of the the Queen of New Westminster’s controllable pitch propellers is having a problem and thus the ferry can’t sail until it’s repaired.
  The 8 a.m. sailing from Tsawwassen and 10 a.m. sailing from Swartz Bay were initially cancelled while engineers and technicians worked to repair the problem, and then perfor
  
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• What's up & coming up in YOUR City? Have Your Say: Cannabis Policy, Semisch Park Improvements, Sister City Students… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-07-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  What's up & coming up in YOUR City? Have Your Say: Cannabis Policy, Semisch Park Improvements, Sister City Students… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Riverdale: K.J. Apa, Ashleigh Murray perform with Kygo at Surrey's FVDED in the Park

  08-07-2018 20:20 via vancouversun.com
  Riverdale fans at FVDED in the Park this weekend got a nice little treat when stars K.J. Apa and Ashleigh Murray took to the stage to perform alongside Kygo.
  Apa, who stars as Archie Andrews, and Murray, who stars as Josie McCoy on the hit CW show, appeared with Kygo to perform the single It Ain’t Me on Saturday evening, the festival’s second and final night.
  The electronic dance music, hip hop, and R&B music festival took place at Surrey’s Holland Park and hosted some 40,0
  
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• Bear sighting closes Belcarra beach

  08-07-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  Officials have closed White Pine Beach in Belcarra after a bear was spotted in the area.
  The beach is part of Belcarra Regional Park, which is managed by Metro Vancouver.
  Don Bradley, spokesman for Metro Vancouver, said the beach was closed Saturday afternoon. Despite the efforts of Metro Vancouver staff to scare it, the bear returned to the beach several times.
  Conservation officers have been called in and have set up a trap for the bear.
  “The beach will be re-opened when it is safe to do
  
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• Are Vancouver's illegal RV parkers homeless or tourists?

  08-07-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Mark Rogers is so fed up with the illegal squatters around Vancouver’s Jericho Beach that he’s posted over 300 photos of their vehicles to social media over the past three months.
  Rogers says the vehicles, from trucks with plywood camper conversions to 60-foot air-conditioned RVs, camp overnight with impunity on Vancouver city streets and in parks board lots.
  Mark Rogers
  One night last week he counted 34 vehicles within three blocks of his house West Point Grey neighbourhoo
  
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• BC Ferries sailings cancelled between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay

  08-07-2018 19:57 via vancouversun.com
  BC Ferries has had to cancel the 8 a.m. sailing from Tsawwassen and the 10 a.m. sailing from Swartz Bay because of mechanical trouble on one of its ferries.
  According to the company, one of the the Queen of New Westminster’s controllable pitch propellers is having a problem and thus the ferry can’t sail until it’s repaired.
  “(The ferry) will have to undergo testing away from the dock this morning,” BC Ferries said in a statement. “Engineers and technician
  
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• It’s 10:00 am and the lots on Panorama are already maxed out. Consider parking at the overflow lots at Seycove High… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-07-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  It’s 10:00 am and the lots on Panorama are already maxed out. Consider parking at the overflow lots at Seycove High… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• U.S. says Canada delaying damning report on B.C. coal mine chemicals in border river

  08-07-2018 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  United States officials are accusing their Canadian counterparts of sitting on damning new data about toxic chemicals from southern British Columbia coal mines in water shared by both countries.
  In a letter to the U.S. State Department, Americans on the International Joint Commission say Canadian members are blocking the release of information on contaminants that are many times above guideline levels.
  “Canadian commissioners have not been willing to submit a report that addresses selenium
  
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• Don't miss #HotSummerNights July 12 @ Mahon Park! Fire truck, spray fans/hoses, games + giveaways w/ City firefight… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-07-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Don't miss #HotSummerNights July 12 @ Mahon Park! Fire truck, spray fans/hoses, games + giveaways w/ City firefight… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Communities still recovering a year after worst fire season on record in B.C.

  08-07-2018 06:51 via vancouversun.com
  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 fires and prompted the province to declare a state of emergency.
  Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta remembers 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 village office in about 20 minute
  
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• Exploding Salish Sea seal population sparks call for a cull

  08-07-2018 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  Tens of thousands of seals in the Salish Sea are devouring millions of adult and juvenile salmon, sparking renewed debate about culling the furry predators.
  Recent studies have linked high seal population density to troubled chinook runs and the decline of southern resident killer whales that feed on chinook in the summer.
  The U.S. federal government last week authorized a cull of sea lions that are decimating endangered chinook and steelhead populations in the Columbia River.
  The Oregon Departm
  
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• Croatian fans in Vancouver celebrate soccer, country in World Cup win

  08-07-2018 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the World Cup.
  Croatia is playing host Russia in a Saturday morning quarterfinal at jam-packed Fisht Stadium in Sochi.
  At the Croatian Cultural Centre on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, there’s a sea of red-and-white-checkered fans with the team’s colours on their shirts, hats, jackets, head bands, socks and scarves.
  It’s standing room only in one of the big rooms with two big-screen TVs. It’s full to capacity and so others must spill into two smaller rooms. Eve
  
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• Two-metre-long pet python named Gypsy missing in Ladner, police say

  08-07-2018 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  Police say a two-metre-long ball python is missing from a farmer’s field in Ladner.
  The dark caramel-coloured pet snake, named Gypsy, went missing on June 30, but the disappearance wasn’t reported to Delta police until Friday.
  Delta police first had contact with Gypsy and its owner on June 20, when a man was reported to be sleeping outside the Walmart in Tsawwassen Commons with the large snake.
  Police asked the man and his exotic pet to relocate to his nearby minivan, and police spok
  
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• Don't miss #HotSummerNights July 12 @ Mahon! Fire truck, spray fans/hoses, games + giveaways w/ @NVCFD firefighters… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-07-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Don't miss #HotSummerNights July 12 @ Mahon! Fire truck, spray fans/hoses, games + giveaways w/ @NVCFD firefighters… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man, 73, dies in crash with bus in Vancouver

  08-07-2018 00:59 via vancouversun.com
  A 73-year-old man is dead after the car he was driving collided with a bus early Saturday in Vancouver.
  Vancouver police say shortly before 9 a.m., a B.C. Transit bus was travelling east on East Hastings Street approaching Princess Avenue.
  Investigators believe the bus entered the intersection on a green light.
  The VPD says a car going north on Princess Avenue drove through Hastings and in front of the bus. The bus collided with the car, which spun out and hit an unoccupied parked vehi
  
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