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• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will run in Burnaby byelection

  08-08-2018 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  In search of a seat in the House of Commons, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced Wednesday that he will be running in the upcoming byelection in Burnaby South.
  Today I’m announcing my intention to run in the upcoming by-election in Burnaby South.From housing to healthcare, the people of Burnaby & all of Canada need solutions today – and the NDP will do everything we can to make a real difference, for more people. Here's why: #cdnpoli
  — Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeet
  
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• B.C. Wildfires 2018: 462 fires burning across province

  08-08-2018 23:33 via vancouversun.com
  Firefighters are bracing for more hot weather and lightning storms, as 462 wildfires burn across the province in all six fire zones.
  “We are looking at significant fire activity from one corner of our province to the other,” said Kevin Skrepnek, chief fire information officer with the B.C. Wildfire Service.
  Skrepnek said Wednesday there were 44 new fires, most of which were sparked by lightning. Twenty-five of the 462 fires burning are considered wildfires of note, and 28,000 firefig
  
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• Mortgage defaults in Metro Vancouver plunge, despite high home prices

  08-08-2018 23:23
  
  Delinquency rate in Vancouver CMA near historical low as Ottawa tightens mortgage access
  
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• Two more handed week-long jail sentence for protesting Trans Mountain pipeline

  08-08-2018 23:22 via vancouversun.com
  A local priest and a former pastor will each serve seven days in jail after being arrested during a Kinder Morgan protest.
  Emilie Smith, the parish priest at New Westminster’s St. Barnabas Anglican Church, and a former Mennonite pastor, Steve Heinrichs, were led from B.C. Supreme Court in handcuffs on Wednesday morning after their sentences were handed down.
  Both were arrested April 20 outside Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine Terminal during a multi-faith blockade.
  Smith will serve t
  
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• Air quality advisory issued for eastern parts of Metro Vancouver

  08-08-2018 23:20 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver has issued an air quality advisory for eastern parts of the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley due to high concentrations of ground-level ozone that are expected to persist until a change in weather.
  The advisory is in effect for Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge, and Pitt Meadows.
  Ground-level ozone, which is not emitted directly into the air, forms when nitrogen oxides (pollutants emitted when fuels are burned) and volatile organic compoun
  
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• We're seeking public input to assist in the creation of our Recreational Cannabis Policy. Let us know what you thin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  We're seeking public input to assist in the creation of our Recreational Cannabis Policy. Let us know what you thin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• HAPPENING NOW: We're at Parkgate Community Centre until 3pm talking about our proposal to allow short term rentals… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 22:31 via twitter.com
  HAPPENING NOW: We're at Parkgate Community Centre until 3pm talking about our proposal to allow short term rentals… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Looks like plenty of dry, hot days in the forecast. Please take a moment to learn how to keep yourself and your fam… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 22:22 via twitter.com
  Looks like plenty of dry, hot days in the forecast. Please take a moment to learn how to keep yourself and your fam… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver cyclists invited to vote for the city's next bike rack design

  08-08-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver cyclists are now invited to vote for the next bike rack to be installed throughout the city.
  After the design contest was launched earlier this year, some 450 submissions were received. Those were then culled down to about 30 designs and now, six finalists have been put forward for public consideration.
  The public is being asked to test the prototypes and then vote at one of four locations across the city. After voting is complete, a jury of six design and cycling experts will select t
  
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• High-profile B.C. businessman ordered to pay millions in fraud penalties

  08-08-2018 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Securities Commission has ordered a Metro Vancouver businessman, who promoted his political connections to investors before regulators found he committed dozens of acts of fraud, to pay millions in penalties.
  Paul Se Hui Oei used his various companies to divert 63 investments totalling more than $5 million, the commission found in December.
  In a decision delivered Wednesday, a BCSC panel ordered Oei and his company, Canadian Manu Immigration & Financial Services, to pay adminis
  
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• LIVE: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh expected to announce he'll run in Burnaby by-election

  08-08-2018 21:38 via vancouversun.com
  About 150 people have gathered at a meet-and-greet in Burnaby today where federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to announce he will put his name forward in the federal riding of Burnaby South in an upcoming byelection.
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  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to host meet-and-greet in Burnaby on Wednesday
  According to a Facebook invitation shared online, Singh was scheduled to speak on “how New Democrats are pushing the government for solutions people urgently need now.” Among th
  
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• Victoria removing Sir John A. Macdonald statue from city hall

  08-08-2018 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, will be removed from the steps of Victoria city hall, says Mayor Lisa Helps.
  Helps says the recommendation to remove the monument to one of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation is part of the city’s reconciliation process with First Nations.
  In an online statement, Helps calls Macdonald a “key architect of the Indian residential school system.”
  “We will remove the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald
  
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• Pamela Anderson calls for end to rodeo events at Chilliwack Fair

  08-08-2018 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  Celebrity Pamela Anderson has thrown her support behind the Vancouver Humane Society and its protest against the Chilliwack Fair.
  “Let’s end rodeo cruelty in Chilliwack,” tweeted the B.C.-born actress, model and animal rights advocate on Tuesday, linking to the Society’s online campaign. Anderson has more than a million followers on Twitter.
  The humane society has been urging organizers annually to drop what they call “inhumane” events such as calf-roping, ste
  
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• We're bringing some major talent to our live music stages @ ⚓ #ShippedFestival ⚓ this Saturday 🎵🔥. More info on Ban… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  We're bringing some major talent to our live music stages @ ⚓ #ShippedFestival ⚓ this Saturday 🎵🔥. More info on Ban… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Nearly half of B.C. boomers will downsize to help fund retirement: poll

  08-08-2018 20:20
  
  More than a quarter of province's 54- to 72-year-olds have more than half their retirement savings tied up in real estate
  
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• Child perched on ornamental railing saved by police in Abbotsford

  08-08-2018 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  ABBOTSFORD — A four-year-old British Columbia girl is safe and well, thanks to a timely late-night rescue by members of the Abbotsford Police Department.
  Sgt. Judy Bird says the youngster had climbed out an upper floor window of her condo unit in Abbotsford’s Clearbrook neighbourhood and was crying while sitting on the decorative railing just below the window.
  Bird says officers first tried to climb up to the child then they managed to enter the condo and pull her to safety through t
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think more restrictions on short term rentals would help the rental crunch on Salt Spring Island?

  08-08-2018 18:27 via vancouversun.com
  Salt Spring Island is experiencing a chronic housing shortage affecting the lower and middle class. The problem is being blamed on a high number of unlicensed short-term vacation rentals, and rising real-estate prices. While 0.04 per cent of the population is homeless in Greater Victoria, 1.25 per cent of Salt Spring Island’s population were identified as homeless in this year’s count — which means 131 people. It’s a 58 per cent increase since 2016.
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• Canada’s DFO crews spot orca, ailing but still alive off Vancouver Island

  08-08-2018 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  A young endangered orca has been spotted off the west coast of Vancouver Island by a research crew with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
  The four-year-old female killer whale, known as J50, is emaciated and lethargic, and scientists fear she has only days to live.
  Scientists in Canada and the U.S. have been working together to save her life. They became worried when her pod, last seen Friday, wasn’t spotted for several days.
  “It’s a great relief that she’s still alive,”
  
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• Have you seen these gorgeous street banners celebrating summer fun in the City? Thanks to local artist @OlaVee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Have you seen these gorgeous street banners celebrating summer fun in the City? Thanks to local artist @OlaVee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TODAY, 1-3 pm: Stop by Parkgate Community Centre, where we'll be answering questions and gathering feedback about o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  TODAY, 1-3 pm: Stop by Parkgate Community Centre, where we'll be answering questions and gathering feedback about o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. boomers keen to move on to smaller homes: real estate report

  08-08-2018 15:39 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly half of B.C. baby boomers plan to downsize, and 42 per cent would consider buying a condominium for their next home.
  Those are among the highlights of a Royal LePage survey of Canadians born between 1946 and 1964, released Wednesday. The real estate company’s survey found 17 per cent of boomers across the country plan to buy a new home in the next five years.
  Michael Trites, a managing broker at Royal LePage Northstar Realty and a boomer himself, said that in B.C. strata units
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Heat warning continues, highs of 34 C inland

  08-08-2018 15:34 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – A heat warning remains in effect Wednesday for Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada says it will be sunny with highs of 34 C inland and 27 C closer to the water. Dave Wray, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says while they don’t expect the temperatures to break any records they will come close.  The hottest temperature inland on record for this day was 35 C in 1960.The hot weather is expected to continue on Thursday, and then it should be slightly cooler
  
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• Humpback whales treat tourists to an early-morning show off B.C. coast

  08-08-2018 15:08 via vancouversun.com
  PORT HARDY — Tourists staying at a lodge on a Vancouver Island were treated to a spectacular show when a group of humpback whales visited for breakfast.
  Marg Leehane, co-owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. Saturday when the whales approached the docks.
  She shot a video that has been viewed more than 1.5 million times on Instagram and shows the whales leaping from the water mere metres from the tourists.
  Leehane says the video shows t
  
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• Man serving life for murder escapes from Mission prison

  08-08-2018 15:04 via vancouversun.com
  MISSION — RCMP are searching for an escaped inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder at a B.C. prison.
  The Correctional Service of Canada says staff at the minimum-security Mission Institution discovered that John Norman Mackenzie was missing during a count at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday.
  Mackenzie is 57 years old, five-foot-eight and 197 pounds, with a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair.
  He is also serving time for armed robbery and other offences.
  The federal agency says it
  
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• Yen Tan's moving 1985 opens 30th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival

  08-08-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Queer Film Festival
  When: Aug. 9-19
  Where: Various locations
  Tickets: queerfilmfestival.ca/tickets-passes
  This year’s Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) opens with filmmaker Yen Tan’s stunning and powerful film 1985.
  The film tells the story of a closeted young man named Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) who goes home for the Christmas holidays and tries to tell his conservative and deeply religious family that he is dying.
  Tan set the film in 1985, a year when AIDS was at
  
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• West Vancouver ‘Tree House’ condos a sign of things to come

  08-08-2018 15:00
  
  Council under no illusion about affordability, but approves project on grounds that it fills a need among wealthy local downsizers
  
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• Mourners pay tribute to slain seven-year-old Aaliyah Rosa of Langley

  08-08-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  Family and friends of Aaliyah Rosa wept openly Tuesday as they filed into the sanctuary at Christian Life Assembly in Langley to say goodbye to the seven-year-old who was slain on July 22.
  In the front row, a young girl wearing a kitten-ear headband sobbed. Teddy bears and a small stuffed monkey sat on stage, alongside pink roses and photos of Aaliya with her arms wrapped around her father Steve.
  Mourners wore bright pink and purple ribbons, Aaliyah’s favourite colours.
  Aaliyah was found d
  
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• David Williams: Will our kids prosper or be all right? That's up to us

  08-08-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  Will the kids be all right? Will they prosper?
  These are questions all parents ponder.
  For a child born today, their standard of living during adulthood will hinge upon the success of their parents’ generation in raising per capita gross domestic product (GDP per person). Small shifts in the trend growth rate in GDP per person lead to substantial differences in living standards over the course of a generation.
  Canada ranks No. 22 in the world by GDP per person, a testament to the efforts o
  
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• Labour shortage forces temporary closure of Vancouver bagel shop

  08-08-2018 03:58 via vancouversun.com
  A longtime Vancouver bagel shop is temporarily closing because its owner can’t find enough workers.
  Solly’s Bagelry on West Broadway has been operating on reduced hours for months, but has now been forced to shut for a few weeks to deal with what Leah Markovitch said was a crisis facing Vancouver.
  “You cannot build a city like a deck of cards and not have a foundation,” said Markovitch Tuesday, referring to the shortage of entry-level workers facing restaurants, food serv
  
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• Cyclist killed in traffic accident in Delta

  08-08-2018 03:53 via vancouversun.com
  A cyclist is dead following a traffic collision in Delta on Tuesday afternoon.
  Delta police say the accident happened at around 1:30 p.m. near Boundary Bay Airport. A vehicle travelling south on 72nd Street struck a cyclist who had been travelling on 36th Avenue.
  The driver of the vehicle remained on scene, and is cooperating with police.
  “Emergency Health Services attended, but unfortunately the cyclist did not survive the collision,” says Cris Leykauf, publ
  
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• Opinion: Average workers will ultimately pay for Horgan government’s new payroll tax

  08-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In a recent news release, B.C. Finance Minister Carole James called Medical Services Plan  premiums “unfair,” and argued her government’s new replacement Employer Health Tax is a “much fairer and progressive approach.” More broadly, the Horgan government’s rhetoric about the new tax suggests it will push the burden onto employers and away from workers.
  In reality, the new EHT, like the MSP premiums it’s supposed to replace, will cost average British
  
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• Letters: Saudi spat shows need for west-to-east pipeline

  08-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: The cost of landing on Saudi Arabia’s bad side will be big, Aug. 7 
  I have a great idea now that Saudi Arabia has broken trade relations with Canada. We should build a pipeline from the west to the Maritime provinces and supply Canadian oil to the east coast to remove their dependence on Arab oil. I think this makes so much economic sense for Canada.
  Eric Sykes, Richmond
  Canada’s self-righteous scolding is pot calling the kettle black
  It is sheer hypocrisy for the feder
  
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• Chris Gardner: Horgan's Building Trades deal not just discriminatory, it’s sloppy too

  08-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  What’s worse than a discriminatory Project Labour Agreement paying off political favours and forcing unionization on the 85 per cent of construction workers who have chosen to organize themselves differently than the NDP and old-school Building Trades unions want?
  How about a sloppily written agreement that contains various errors and claims to attract new workers to the trades by paying them less than minimum wage? The NDP and Building Trades, who for years have positioned themselves as t
  
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• Senior jailed for Trans Mountain pipeline protest regrets nothing

  08-08-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. senior jailed for protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project makes no guarantee she won’t wind up behind bars again for her activism.
  Laurie Embree, of 108 Mile Ranch, was arrested on June 19 for violating an injunction blocking protesters from interfering with work on the pipeline expansion. The 70-year-old grandmother was handed a seven-day jail sentence July 31 after pleading guilty to criminal contempt of court in B.C. Supreme Court. She spent four nights at the&nb
  
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• As B.C. drivers get sneakier, distracted driving violation tickets go down

  08-08-2018 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  The number of distracted driving tickets issued in B.C. has steadily fallen for the past three years, possibly because drivers are getting craftier when using their electronics.
  According to data from the Insurance Corp. of B.C., between 2010 and 2016 police handed out more than 300,000 tickets for distracted driving, that includes using an electronic device and emailing or texting while driving. Of those alleged violations, just over 280,000 resulted in convictions.
  In 2010, 21,300 tickets were
  
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• Yep, you can walk on water at the #FootofLonsdale in #NorthVan. 💗 #ILoveMyCity https://t.co/yP2q4tif1O

  08-08-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  Yep, you can walk on water at the #FootofLonsdale in #NorthVan. 💗 #ILoveMyCity https://t.co/yP2q4tif1O
  
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• Marine Harvest pursuing radical new salmon farm designs

  08-08-2018 00:47 via vancouversun.com
  Marine Harvest is proposing to build radical new salmon farms that could answer nagging concerns about sea lice infestations, virus transfer and escapes from conventional Atlantic salmon farms.
  The farms will be built in Norway, and technology that proves useful can then be deployed in B.C. and around the world.
  Ocean-based closed containment and semi-closed farms would avoid the massive energy requirements of land-based systems, with a goal of eliminating contact between farmed and wild salmon.
  
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• Missing Female Located bit.ly/2KAArAU #NorthVancouver https://t.co/xTppvVrdeL

  08-08-2018 00:41 via twitter.com
  
  Missing Female Locatedbit.ly/2KAArAU#NorthVancouver https://t.co/xTppvVrdeL
  
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• Flying With John: My unexpected seven-hour chat with the Premier of B.C.

  08-08-2018 00:26 via vancouversun.com
  John Horgan looked up at me. I looked down at him. And I suspect we both muttered “damn” under our breaths.
  What are the odds that aisle seat 16C on Air Canada Flight 117 from Toronto to Vancouver would put me beside the Premier of British Columbia?
  I suspect this would not have happened with former Liberal premier Christy Clark, criticized for flying charter jets to her Kelowna constituency. Horgan is the working-class hero from Victoria, with a razor-thin minority government, and o
  
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• South Korean fireworks judged the best at Vancouver's Celebration of Light

  08-08-2018 00:11 via vancouversun.com
  Team South Korea, which wrapped up 2018 Honda Celebration of Light on with a spectacular display on Saturday, has been crowned the winner of the annual Vancouver fireworks competition.
  Performing for the first time at the Honda Celebration of Light team South Korea, ted by Daehan Fireworks Co., took to the skies on the final night of the festival, and faced off against South Africa, represented by Fireworks for Africa, and Team Sweden, represented by Unique Pyrotechnics.
  The Celebration of
  
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• B.C. Wildfires 2018: Fire destroys 27 structures in Telegraph Creek

  08-08-2018 00:01 via vancouversun.com
  Wildfires have destroyed 27 structures in the Telegraph Creek area, representing 30 to 45 per cent of buildings in the small northwestern British Columbia community, says a local First Nation chief.
  Tahltan Band Chief Rick McLean said in a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday that the town has sustained significant damage, but fortunately no lives have been lost.
  “Our town has sustained significant damage but there is no life loss,” said McLean, in an emotional address. “You kno
  
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