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• Toronto police arrest Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard on sex charges

  23-07-2018 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  Rock singer Jacob Hoggard, frontman for the Vancouver band Hedley, has been arrested by Toronto police and is facing three sex-related charges.
  Hoggard, 34, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of sexual interference and two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm.
  Police say the incidents took place in 2016 and involve two women.
  Hoggard is scheduled to appear in a Toronto court room on Thursday.
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• Civic Plaza is the perfect spot to hang out this week. Plenty of shady spots to rest, a community toy box full of f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  Civic Plaza is the perfect spot to hang out this week. Plenty of shady spots to rest, a community toy box full of f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Controversial North Vancouver affordable housing development up for final approval - CBC.ca

  23-07-2018 23:02
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  Controversial North Vancouver affordable housing development up for final approval
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  The saga of North Vancouver District's Emery Village housing development is nearing its end as it heads for approval, with the project up for fourth and final reading at council on Monday evening. It has been a hotly contested project in recent months ...and more »
  
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• We're considering changes to our bylaws to allow retail sales of legal, non-medical cannabis in zones that permit l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 22:53 via twitter.com
  We're considering changes to our bylaws to allow retail sales of legal, non-medical cannabis in zones that permit l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Jennifer Siddon: Woodfibre LNG a good fit for Squamish

  23-07-2018 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  Contrary to what is suggested in the article “Industry and conservationists square off over B.C.’s Howe Sound” (July 21), the shipping of natural gas in its liquid form is safe.
  • Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that is very cold (-162 C), and is not stored under pressure. In the unlikely event LNG is spilled, unlike other fuels, it doesn’t mix with land or water. Instead, LNG returns to a gas state and dissipates.
  • LNG has been safely shipped around
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books for the week of July 21

  23-07-2018 22:30 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The President is Missing — James Patterson and Bill Clinton.
  2. The Good Fight — Elin Hilderbrand.
  3. The Outsider — Stephen King.
  4. .Spymaster — Brad Thor.
  5. The Perfect Couple — Elin Hilderbrand.
  6. All We Ever Wanted — Emily Griffin.
  7. Clock Dance — Anny Tyler.
  8. When Life Gives You Lululemons — Lauren Weisberger.
  9. There There — Tommy Orange.
  10. Shelter in Place — Nora Roberts.
  HARDCOVER NONFICTION
  1. Girl
  
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• Video: Port Moody family receives surprise visit from trio of bears

  23-07-2018 22:18 via vancouversun.com
  An Englishman living in Port Moody can now claim he’s had the full Canadian experience after a bear and two cubs crashed his backyard gathering on Sunday.
  Dave Dawson, who hails from Grimsby, U.K., was enjoying the weather in his backyard with friends and family on Sunday when a friend spotted a bear cub at the side of the home, trying to get into a locked garbage bin. The sighting set off a “major panic” and sent everyone fleeing inside.
  “My wife was the one that ran to
  
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• Hollywood North: Vancouver film duo Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame

  23-07-2018 22:17 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s own Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are among the 2018 inductees to Canada’s Walk of Fame for its 20th anniversary.
  The news came Monday and places Rogen and Goldberg alongside other Canadian stars such as astronaut Chris Hadfield, Olympic ice skating sweethearts Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, and B.C. entrepreneur and philanthropist Jimmy Pattison.
  Rogen and Goldberg, both born in Vancouver, will be inducted under the category of arts and entertainment.
  “Being Canadian
  
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• Raising Recovery: Mothers bring young children with them to drug treatment

  23-07-2018 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  When Jordan Veller had her son Jacob nearly three years ago, social workers immediately seized the baby because she had been a longtime heroin addict.
  “I’ve always wanted to be a mom and I was super in love with him, but the obsession to use drugs was just so strong,” recalled Veller, 29.
  She visited Jacob regularly in the neonatal ward and later faked drug tests so she could have supervised visits with him. But when social workers discovered she was still using opioids, she lo
  
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• If you smoke, please make sure you dispose your butts properly. A smoldering cigarette butt can easily start a fire… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 22:02 via twitter.com
  If you smoke, please make sure you dispose your butts properly. A smoldering cigarette butt can easily start a fire… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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  23-07-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
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• Family of five from Alberta hurt after driver falls asleep on Coquihalla Highway

  23-07-2018 21:28 via vancouversun.com
  Five members of an Alberta family have been injured in a crash on B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway.
  Merritt RCMP Const. Mike Halskov said the crash happened Sunday, in the northbound lanes of Highway 5, between Hope and Merritt.
  He said the driver of an Alberta-bound SUV fell asleep and woke up when the vehicle travelled onto the gravel shoulder. He overcorrected, sideswiped a transport truck, and the vehicle rolled several times.
  A woman was airlifted to hospital, while the driver and three chil
  
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• A look at the ‘Tree House’ condos planned for Cypress (IMAGES)

  23-07-2018 20:28
  
  Architectural landmark proposed for elevated mountain lot to contain 37 large West Coast-style homes
  
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• Blogging, jogging in the bog for peatland's sake well worth the effort

  23-07-2018 20:04 via vancouversun.com
  Brendan O’Brien didn’t say much Sunday morning, other than he was pretty happy to beat his mom in the annual Telus Jog for the Bog.
  His mother, Loreto, laughed and reminded the polite 12-year-old she wasn’t the only one eating his dust at Delta Nature Reserve.
  True dat.
  • FOR MY PHOTOS FROM THE JOG IN THE BOG, click HERE
  • FOR SUNDAY’S JOG IN THE BOG RESULTS, click HERE
  The fleet-footed youngster won the men’s 5K division in 19:04, which was impressive on
  
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• Vallea Lumina in Whistler makes walking in the woods at night the stuff of dreams

  23-07-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vallea LuminaWhen: Through Oct. 15
  Where: 4293 Mountain Sq. 211, Whistler
  Tickets and info: $29 adult, $24 youth and free for kids under five, vallealumina.comWalking through the woods after dark falls on a feelings scale of slightly unnerving to absolutely terrifying for the average person, but with the opening of Vallea Lumina on Whistler’s Cougar Mountain last week, it becomes the stuff of dreams — wonderful dreams.
  The latest immersive experience from Montreal&rsqu
  
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• Style Q&A: Lifestyle Over Luxury founder looks to remind people that 'memories are greater than materials'

  23-07-2018 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  Jeff Duke isn’t hoping to change the way you shop. He’d just like to get you thinking about it.
  And, as the founder of the Vancouver-based brand Lifestyle Over Luxury, he has a chance to do just that.
  The company, which specializes in creating a curated range of pieces for men and women crafted from “upcycled fabric waste,” was created with the hope that people will choose memories rather than material goods. Needless to say, it’s an interesting approach for a brand
  
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• Investigation into fatal collision concluded bit.ly/2LHC4hJ #NorthVancouver

  23-07-2018 18:13 via twitter.com
  Investigation into fatal collision concludedbit.ly/2LHC4hJ#NorthVancouver
  
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• Coroner's inquest called into death of B.C. RCMP officer in Dziekanski case

  23-07-2018 18:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A coroner’s inquest will be held into the suicide of an RCMP officer who was in charge of media relations in British Columbia when Robert Dziekanski was fatally stunned with a Taser at Vancouver’s airport.
  Pierre Lemaitre was 55 years old and a sergeant with the Mounties when he died by suicide at his home in Abbotsford in July 2013.
  At the time, Lemaitre was posted to the RCMP’s traffic services division but he was the officer in charge of RCMP media relations
  
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• Calling all #Yogis, meet at the Cates Deck - 6PM. #Free #Yoga #NorthVan, Namaste! cnv.org/CommunityEvents… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Calling all #Yogis, meet at the Cates Deck - 6PM. #Free #Yoga #NorthVan, Namaste! cnv.org/CommunityEvents… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Our thoughts and condolences are with the victims, families and friends of the shooting last night in #Toronto. Tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 17:30 via twitter.com
  Our thoughts and condolences are with the victims, families and friends of the shooting last night in #Toronto. Tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver weather: Above average temperatures today and all week

  23-07-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: July 23, 2018 – If you woke up thinking it wasn’t quite warm enough, you’re in luck. Everyone else, I have some bad news.
  Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement about an extended spell of “very warm weather” for the next week. Mind you, they’re not calling it a heat wave, but temperatures will be up to the mid-to-high 20s each day on the south coast. If you’re inland, those temperatures climb even higher, to the low to
  
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• Neil Moody: Speculation tax is no way to get to affordability

  23-07-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s called a speculation tax but one must ask: who are the speculators? That’s because British Columbia’s new housing affordability measure on secondary homes is actually hurting homeowners and aspiring homeowners, along with local economies, rather than just speculators.
  The tax, from our members’ perspective, is hitting tourism and non-tourism areas, inside and outside the boundaries of its targeted jurisdictions. The Canadian Home Builders’ Association B.C. has
  
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• Several injured in Coquihalla crash near Hope; Highway reopens southbound from Merritt after earlier collision

  23-07-2018 05:30 via vancouversun.com
  A pair of serious crashes on the Coquihalla Highway have left several people injured and affected traffic in both directions on Sunday evening.
  According to Drive BC, the northbound collision occurred at Exit 238. One person was taken to hospital via air ambulance in critical condition while four others were also transported to hospital.
  BCEHS paramedics attended and cared for patients involved in two MVIs on Hwy 5 #Coquihalla.1) South of Merritt – 1 patient transported in critical conditi
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Police concerned about rise of the HA puppets

  23-07-2018 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  I have written stories about so-called puppet clubs before – back in 2006 when the Outcasts and the Jesters were formed, then again in 2009 when several new ones like the Throttle Lockers and Handsome Bastards formed in the interior.
  But police are saying there are more of the support organizations than ever, including at least two that have opened within the last 18 months. They are concerned the puppet clubs extend the criminal reach or the Hells Angels.
  Here’s my story:Police conc
  
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• Slide the City another wet and wild success in North Vancouver

  23-07-2018 04:07 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands took part in Slide the City, North Vancouver’s annual waterslide party down Lower Lonsdale, on Saturday and Sunday.
  It’s the fourth year that 1,000 feet of temporary water slide has run down Lower Lonsdale, this year beginning at Victoria Park at Keith Road and ending in a splash pool at Fourth Street. It has been a two-day event for the past three years.
  There were 6,000 sliders and more than 100 volunteers, the city said, and perhaps as many as 4,000 onlookers.
  The w
  
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• Slide the City another wet and wild success in North Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  23-07-2018 04:06
  Vancouver Sun
  Slide the City another wet and wild success in North Vancouver
  Vancouver Sun
  Thousands took part in Slide the City, North Vancouver's annual waterslide party down Lower Lonsdale, on Saturday and Sunday. It's the fourth year that 1,000 feet of temporary water slide has run down Lower Lonsdale, this year beginning at Victoria ...
  
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• That’s another Fun City Festival all done 😢. Big success. 2 days, 1000 feet of waterslide, 6000 sliders, oodles of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 03:46 via twitter.com
  That’s another Fun City Festival all done 😢.Big success. 2 days, 1000 feet of waterslide, 6000 sliders, oodles of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• AFN candidates arrive in Vancouver for election of national chief

  23-07-2018 03:33 via vancouversun.com
  On Wednesday, chiefs from across the country will take to the Vancouver Convention Centre to vote for the Assembly of First Nations’ next national chief.
  Almost 640 chiefs or their proxies, collectively representing more than 900,000 First Nation communities, will choose the next leader of Canada’s largest national Indigenous organization from within five candidates — including incumbent National Chief Perry Bellegarde, who has faced criticism from his rivals of being too
  
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• Seth Klein and Vyas Saran: Debunking a red herring: Electoral reform will not enable the far right

  23-07-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  It is now clear that a core assertion the “No” side in the electoral reform referendum will endlessly repeat in the coming months is that proportional representation should be rejected because it will enable far-right or “extremist” political parties.
  It is a spurious claim.
  The likelihood that we will see extreme, right-wing parties gain a foothold in our province if British Columbians choose to embrace proportional representation this fall are virtually zero.
  Throughout
  
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• Wondering what's on tap for Monday's Council Meeting? ✅ Presentation & Report: Harry Jerome CRC ✅ Report: N. Van La… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-07-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Wondering what's on tap for Monday's Council Meeting? ✅ Presentation & Report: Harry Jerome CRC ✅ Report: N. Van La… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Carr wants green roofs made mandatory on new buildings in Vancouver

  23-07-2018 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city staff will be asked at Tuesday’s council meeting to come up with a policy to make green roofs mandatory on new buildings.
  Coun. Adriane Carr’s motion would apply to new commercial, institutional, industrial and multi-family residential developments, and renovations to older similar buildings.
  Carr, who has been lobbying for such a bylaw for years, said the motion fits with the city’s new Rain City Strategy.
  “I’ve been raising this for the last seven y
  
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