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• Air quality warning issued after raging barge fire in Surrey

  10-08-2018 23:56 via vancouversun.com
  A massive fire on a barge in the Fraser River in Surrey filled the air over Metro Vancouver with acrid grey smoke Friday, prompting health officials to issue an air quality warning.
  The barge, east of the Pattullo Bridge, belongs to Schnitzer Metal, a recycling company, and was loaded with old cars and appliances ready for shipping.
  Surrey assistant fire chief Ben Dirksen said they received a call shortly after 4:30 a.m. about a large fire burning deep in a pile of scrap metal.
  As of 11 a.m., th
  
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• May there be the support needed and time to grieve for the family and friends of all the victims. twitter.com/rcmp_grc_edivc…

  10-08-2018 23:50 via twitter.com
  May there be the support needed and time to grieve for the family and friends of all the victims. twitter.com/rcmp_grc_edivc…
  
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• Road rage linked to deadly East Vancouver shooting

  10-08-2018 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are describing the city’s latest homicide as a case of road rage, after a man was shot to death early Friday morning under the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge.
  “The investigation is ongoing and we do have our homicide investigators working very hard to try to determine the motive of this, but … we do believe this was a road rage situation,” said Vancouver Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Robillard.
  Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the VPD received a call
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Red Sox jack up the bean(town) stock with superb season

  10-08-2018 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  On the first of 38 weekends of match play featuring its 20 clubs, the English Premiership kicks off as the premier European soccer league in terms of franchise enterprise values, annual revenues and global television reach.
  One of its biggest assets — the US$4.1-billion Manchester United, the second highest-valued franchise in the world behind only the US $4.8B Dallas Cowboys of the NFL and just ahead of the US$4B New York Yankees of Major League Baseball — opened t
  
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• The next General Local Election takes place on October 20, 2018. Are you registered to vote?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-08-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  The next General Local Election takes place on October 20, 2018. Are you registered to vote?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Metro Vancouver cops unveil Project Territory gang roundup details

  10-08-2018 22:52 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. law enforcement agencies believe Lower Mainland streets will be safer with the arrest of 14 gangsters linked to the Kang group and the Red Scorpions who have been involved in a violent conflict with rivals.
  The gangsters face 93 charges including working on behalf of a criminal organization, drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of firearms and even explosives.
  VPD Supt. Mike Porteous noted a number of unindicted co-conspirators are believed to be involved in the drug-trafficking orga
  
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• Road rage linked to deadly shooting under Vancouver bridge

  10-08-2018 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are describing the city’s latest homicide as a case of road rage, after a man was shot to death early Friday morning near an industrial area.
  Few details were available Friday as police said detectives were in the early stages of their investigation.
  Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the VPD received a 911 call about a man shot near Bridgeway Street, under the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge. A short time late police found a 33-year-old man Vancouver man, who had died from g
  
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• Removal of Macdonald's statue provides a focus for the debate

  10-08-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  Everything won’t suddenly be okay if we tear down statues and monuments, rename streets and schools, or even make apologies and payments to those who have suffered in the past.
  It’s not like we can erase history, any more than we can pretend that humans are anything but flawed.
  There are egregious exceptions where no debate is required: No one can seriously argue the merits of statues to Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. But it’s with the others that we find ourselves swimming in quick
  
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• Animal rights group calls off Chilliwack rodeo protest after threats received

  10-08-2018 22:37 via vancouversun.com
  CHILLIWACK — The organizers of a protest against a rodeo being held this weekend in Chilliwack say they are cancelling the demonstration after receiving threats.
  The Fraser Valley Animal Rights Association says members received “multiple threats of violence” after announcing the protest, which was to be held Sunday before the final rodeo exhibition at a fair in Chilliwack.
  In addition to the threats, the association says in a news release that it received word of a planned coun
  
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• Highway 7 between Agassiz and Hope closed again because of wildfire

  10-08-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Highway 7 between Agassiz and Hope was closed again Friday because of a wildfire burning in the area.
  Drive B.C. says the highway is shut down between Seabird Bluffs and the Johnson Slough rest area, as crews assess the wildfire.
  There is no estimated time of opening.
  The highway was also closed on Wednesday after the fire was sparked by a vehicle that had a flat tire.
  The Agassiz fire department and the B.C. Wildfire Service, with helicopters and water bombers, are fighting the blaze.
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• REAL SCOOP: Kangs, Red Scorpions charged after massive investigation

  10-08-2018 21:47 via vancouversun.com
  Sorry I am late reopening comments. I was digging into this case of arrests of significant Kang and Red Scorpion members after a major gang investigation headed by the Vancouver Police Department.
  Here’s my first story on the arrests, with a follow to be posted later this afternoon:
  Scorpion table base and bags of cash seized during gang investigationPolice probe leads to dozens of charges against Red
  Scorpion, Kang gangstersKIM BOLAN
  Updated: August 10, 2018
  A major Vancouver police inves
  
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• Legal action underway against short term rental owner to stop current use of townhouse @ 230 W13th. Process of insp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-08-2018 21:47 via twitter.com
  Legal action underway against short term rental owner to stop current use of townhouse @ 230 W13th. Process of insp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Here's the latest on the fire above Horseshoe Bay twitter.com/NorthShoreEMO/…

  10-08-2018 21:25 via twitter.com
  Here's the latest on the fire above Horseshoe Bay twitter.com/NorthShoreEMO/…
  
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• Check out this dream beach house on Boundary Bay for $4.3M (PHOTOS)

  10-08-2018 21:21
  
  Hamptons-style house has huge oceanfront deck with direct access to Boundary Beach
  
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• The new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre construction starts in 2020, completed by ‘23. The current facilit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-08-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  The new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre construction starts in 2020, completed by ‘23. The current facilit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A reminder as we head into the weekend that the fire danger rating is currently EXTREME, which means fires, smoking… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-08-2018 20:29 via twitter.com
  A reminder as we head into the weekend that the fire danger rating is currently EXTREME, which means fires, smoking… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Podcast: Coun. George Affleck on NPA future and upcoming Vancouver election

  10-08-2018 20:16 via vancouversun.com
  Two-term NPA Vancouver Coun. George Affleck visited the Vancouver Sun and Province newsroom to discuss the more theatrical parts of council business, his decision not to run this year for either the mayor’s seat or another council term, and whether he agrees with his own party’s “very confident” choice to run such a large slate of candidates in the October election.http://media.blubrry.com/theprovinceindepth/p/archive.org/download/indepth_08092018_-dan_fumano/InDepth_0809
  
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• In a world full of fillers, here's how to look like yourself

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Heard of a Lunchtime Facelift? How about a Lunchtime Lip?
  Long gone are the days when neuromodulators and soft-tissue fillers were treatments solely for the super-rich. These days, just about everyone has access to rejuvenation or pre-juvenation — nearly everywhere.
  “Cosmetic treatments are increasing in popularity,” Dr. Shannon Humphrey, dermatologist and medical director at Carruthers & Humphrey in Vancouver, says.
  So, what’s behind the shift? According to Hump
  
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• Five things to know about Action World Sports World Tour in Vancouver

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Action Sports World Tour
  When: Aug. 18 to Sept. 3, daily, 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
  Where: Pacific Coliseum
  Tickets and info: Free with admission at pne.caRick Bratman can’t pinpoint the exact date the extreme went mainstream. But the president of action sports event and television production company ASA Events says that it’s become a multi-billion dollar industry with a multi-generational fan base today.
  The Action Sports World Tour which comes to the 2018 PNE is a perfect example o
  
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• Erasure happy to tour a World Beyond

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Erasure World Be Gone Tour
  When: Aug. 15, 7 p.m.
  Where: Orpheum Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $39.50 at livenation.com
  Since Wonderland arrived in 1986, the synth-pop duo Erasure has been a fixture on UK and European pop charts.
  Having been a founding member of Depeche Mode and then forming groundbreaking combo Yazoo, keyboardist Vince Clarke was already a pop star when he conceived of a new project. When Andy Bell responded to a blind audition for the role of singer, there was no question as t
  
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• Bust A Move, Jungle Boogie and Safety Dance at the PNE's Summer Night Concerts in 2018

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  PNE Summer Night Concerts
  When: Aug. 18 to Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m.
  Where: PNE Amphitheatre
  Tickets and info: Free with admission. Concert tickets for reserved seats from $30, at pne.caCan you name another song by A Flock of Seagulls besides I Ran (So Far Away)?
  The Liverpool act fronted by Mike Score did log in a few other chart hits, but few beyond the most dedicated of fans would be familiar with any of them — even if you did like the whole idea of roller-skating through a department sto
  
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• Brian Minter: B.C.-grown cut flowers will brighten your day

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the great pleasures of summer is filling our homes and cottages with beautiful flowers, either cut from our own gardens or locally grown.
  It’s the only time of year you can find a wide selection of colourful outdoor varieties, ranging from sunflowers, veronicas and delphiniums to vibrant dahlias and so much more. The enjoyment cut flowers add to summer living can’t be overstated.
  Bob Pringle of United Flower Growers in Burnaby.
  According to Bob Pringle, CEO of Burnaby’s
  
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• Book review: Paula Wild offers up the truth about wolves

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence
  Paula Wild | Douglas and McIntyre
  $32.95, 256 pages“Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?” asks the defiant song. The answer would seem to be “much of the human race.”Wolves have played a fraught role in human consciousness for millennia. They were revered as the founders of Indigenous clans here on the Pacific coast and among the Pawnee in the American Midwest, and as the companions to the god Odin in Scandanavia. The fierce
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Celebrating wines from Argentina

  10-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  August is Argentina month with 60 select B.C. Liquor Stores offering free consumer tastings at select locations.
  Argentina’s image could use a boost because in many ways it’s becoming a victim of its own success. Like California, Australia and Chile before it, intense early interest in its wine (think Argentine Malbec), has attracted the wine world underbelly who find a way to track down all the bulk, low-level wines left in the country and get them to market, usually with hyped-up l
  
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• Tomorrow's #ShippedFestival will be headlined by JUNO-nominated indie-electronic duo, HUMANS + Spotify favourite Ma… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-08-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Tomorrow's #ShippedFestival will be headlined by JUNO-nominated indie-electronic duo, HUMANS + Spotify favourite Ma… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• West Vancouver builder denies claims of shadow flipping deal

  10-08-2018 17:59
  
  Owner of Brontes Homes says he’s shocked by recent lawsuit filed against him and his wife over 12,000sf mansion
  
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• Firefighters battling barge fire on Fraser River in Surrey

  10-08-2018 17:41 via vancouversun.com
  A fire burning on a barge in the Fraser River in Surrey filled the air over Metro Vancouver with acrid grey smoke on Friday morning.
  The barge, located east of the Patullo Bridge, appears to be loaded with old cars and the fire is contained to the industrial site. Surrey Fire crews are working to put out the blaze.
  Witnesses have posted photos on social media showing the fire sending a huge plume of black smoke in the air. Several people said it sounded like cars were exploding.
  The smoke i
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: New fires prompt evacuation orders, alerts as weather shifts

  10-08-2018 17:37 via vancouversun.com
  The number of potentially dangerous wildfires continues to mount across British Columbia and forecasts of lower temperatures ahead could end up being cold comfort for firefighters.
  Environment Canada says heat warnings in many parts of B.C. should be lifted as a cold front arrives, but that front will carry gusty winds that could kick up the flames.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service lists 31 fires of note among the nearly 500 wildfires burning, but several blazes that have not yet been added to the list
  
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• Town Talk: Indigenous feast kicks off Harmony Arts Festival

  10-08-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  WONG’S WAY: Cantonese opera master Hoi Seng Leong appeared at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden recently with Yuk Fung Cheung, who is a student at his Richmond-based academy. They performed the Fragrant Sacrifice finale from The Flower Princess, which some call China’s Romeo and Juliet story. As in Shakespeare’s day, Cantonese opera long had men play female roles. That spurred the garden’s artist in residence, Paul Wong, to add contemporary Asian drag performer
  
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• Conversations That Matter: The future of electric automobiles

  10-08-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Are electric care the future of individual transportation? The answer depends on who you’re talking to. Electric car enthusiasts say, “Oh, yeah”, but energy transition specialist Markam Hislop says, “maybe, maybe not.”
  The uncertainty arises because electric vehicles make up just two per cent of all automobiles in North America and much less than one per cent globally.  Modern electric cars were introduced more than 30 years ago, so why are sales so slow?
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• International team gives medication to sick killer whale at sea

  10-08-2018 15:31 via vancouversun.com
  SEATTLE — A team of whale experts has injected an ailing killer whale with antibiotics in a rare emergency effort to save her.
  NOAA Fisheries says the international team reached 3 1/2-year-old orca known as J50 Thursday in the waters near Washington state’s San Juan Island.
  Vancouver Aquarium’s head veterinarian, Dr. Martin Haulena, examined the orca. He and the team of experts gave her a dose of antibiotics through a dart and took a breath sample to help assess whether sh
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Last day of heat wave

  10-08-2018 15:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Friday is expected to be the last day of a heat wave on the South Coast of B.C. Environment Canada says the weather will be mainly sunny, with highs of 26 C and 30 C inland.
  The agency says while a heat warning remains in effect, significant cooling and a chance of showers are forecast for Saturday.
  Health officials say the risks during a heat wave are greater for young children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic illnesses and people working or e
  
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• 5 things to know about the Mythos Eros EP

  10-08-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Mythos
  Eros EP | Mythosmusic.com
  Vancouver’s Mythos was formed by Bob D’Eith (piano) and Paul Schmidt (guitar) in the mid-1990s to make music that was predominantly instrumental using guest singers to do vocalizations rather than perform lyrics. Among those who have worked with the band is Jasmin Parkin of Mother Mother.
  At the time, their music was described as New Age, although it also could be considered adult instrumental as well, with similarities to Enigma and others.
  The band
  
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• North Vancouver takes Airbnb hostel battle to court - CBC.ca

  10-08-2018 12:14
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  North Vancouver takes Airbnb hostel battle to court
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  City files petition asking B.C. Supreme Court to order Emily Yu to stop using her townhouse as a hostel. Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · Posted: Aug 09, 2018 7:58 PM PT | Last Updated: August 9. North Vancouver townhouse owner Emily Yu has been told by ...and more »
  
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• Police probe leads to dozens of charges against Red Scorpion, Kang gangsters

  10-08-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A major Vancouver police investigation has led to dozens of charges against members of the notorious Kang gang and their Red Scorpion associates, Postmedia News has learned.
  During the investigation, police seized illicit drugs, caches of restricted firearms and even a pressure cooker bomb that was intended “to endanger the life of person or persons unknown.”
  Charged with possessing the bomb, in Vancouver on July 19, 2018, are Csongor Szucs and Kyle Latimer – Red Scorpion assoc
  
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• Two-car crash in Cloverdale results in 'life-threatening injuries'

  10-08-2018 09:49 via vancouversun.com
  A crash at 184th Street and 40th Avenue in Surrey late Thursday night left the occupants of two vehicles with “life-threatening injuries.”
  Surrey RCMP were called to the south Cloverdale area at 10:39 p.m. about a collision in the intersection.
  “Indications are that there are serious, potentially life-threatening injuries involved in this two-motor-vehicle collision,” said Staff Sgt. Duane Honeyman in a release.
  Both north- and southbound lanes on 184th Street and east- a
  
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• Vancouver Mural Festival: Five things to know

  10-08-2018 05:51 via vancouversun.com
  In a way, Vancouver Mural Festival never really ends. The public art installations set to be unveiled next week are permanent, meaning you’ll be able to enjoy them long after the festival winds to a close.
  But in another way, the Vancouver Mural Festival ends six days after it begins, because it’s a six-day festival. And while the memories and murals are sure to last much longer than that, the tours, parties and other can’t-miss events will all take place between Aug. 6 and 11&
  
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• Keep cool folks. #NorthVan https://t.co/m8uMAyhfDx

  10-08-2018 04:56 via twitter.com
  
  Keep cool folks. #NorthVan https://t.co/m8uMAyhfDx
  
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• One dead after explosion in residential Abbotsford neighbourhood

  10-08-2018 04:39 via vancouversun.com
  One man is dead following an explosion in a residential neighbourhood in Abbotsford.
  According to Abbotsford police, the blast occurred at 4:18 p.m. in the 3300-block of Ponderosa Street, near Ponderosa Park on Abbotsford’s west side.Officers arrived in short order to find a home fully engulfed in flames.
  One man, whose name has not been released, is dead. Eight others — six adults and two young children — were able to escape the fire without injury.
  Samantha Riarh, who lives r
  
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• Vancouver neighbours upset after Douglas Fir tree is removed

  10-08-2018 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  Every day Roanna Zuker watches two bald eagles circling overhead with nowhere to land. They are looking for the 65-year-old Douglas fir where they used to perch, one on either side of the tree’s tip, surveying the city.
  No one can explain to the eagles why their tree was removed during construction of a laneway house in the Hastings Sunrise neighbourhood of Vancouver, and Zuker is having a hard time understanding too.
  Zuker, who lives near the house on the 2600-block of Trinity Street, has
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Aug. 10

  10-08-2018 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Aug. 10.Abbotsford International Airshow
  The Abbotsford Airshow gets underway Friday in the Fraser Valley, and if you love seeing cool stuff in the sky, you’re going to want to be in attendance. On opening night, visitors will be treated to aerial displays from both the Canadian Forces Snowbirds and the US Navy Blue Angels, plus a demonstration of the CF-18 Hornet and a spectacular fireworks display. The
  
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• Letters: Canada's criticism of Saudi Arabia upholds our international obligations

  10-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada applauds Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland for voicing the forbidden truth — that Saudi Arabia’s “emperor” has no clothes. Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has no new human rights policies. On the contrary, he has ramped up the brutal human rights record of previous Saud family regimes. Saudi Arabia routinely targets and jails human rights defenders who peacefully seek to improve rights in Saudi Arabia. Lengthy imprisonment a
  
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• Jordan Westfall: Getting us out of the overdose epidemic will require bold action from government

  10-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Solutions to B.C.’s overdose epidemic start with the provincial government acting on what it knows to be true: criminalization and current public policies are contributing to every death.
  Government policies that regulate illicit drugs have failed. They often leave people in an endless cycle of incarceration, heightened risk of overdose and, all too often, an early death.
  B.C.’s street drug markets are contaminated. The well is poisoned. People in British Columbia are dying every sin
  
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• Caroline Elliott: Don't believe proportional-representation supporters' claims

  10-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  As this fall’s referendum on electoral reform looms closer, one of the most-repeated claims made by advocates of proportional representation is that ‘every vote counts’ under each of their three proposed systems. A second claim is that pro-rep will end the days of disproportionality in B.C. politics.
  On the first point, the reality is that, far from making every vote count, pre-rep takes power away from voters and gives it to political elites.
  Under our present first-past-the-
  
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• B.C. securities regulator goes after assets linked to Vancouver financial fraudster who owes millions

  10-08-2018 02:18 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Securities Commission filed a claim Thursday against Vancouver financial fraudster Earle Douglas Pasquill and his wife to collect millions in penalties and repayments owed by Pasquill.
  The suit filed in B.C. Supreme Court is an effort to get access to assets held by Pasquill’s wife Vicki Irene Pasquill — five Vancouver residential properties assessed at $12.8 million.
  The suit also names other assets held by Pasquill and his wife, including investments, registered retirement
  
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• Sky's the Limit: Flying with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and fighting the G-Monster

  10-08-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  It’s 2 p.m., and Lt. Andre Webb of the elite U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerobatic team taxies his F/A-18 Hornet onto the searing-hot runway at Abbotsford International Airport.
  “Once we get to our flyway speed, 130 knots or so, we’ll start climbing away,” he explains from the front seat of the cockpit. “We’ll level off at 100 feet, accelerate to 300 knots, I’ll give you a ‘Ready, hit it,’ then we’ll just climb away at 45 degrees, nose high.&
  
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• #StudiointheCity 11 mural project is almost done and it's looking amazing! Talented local youth working with artist… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-08-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  #StudiointheCity 11 mural project is almost done and it's looking amazing! Talented local youth working with artist… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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