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• ART SEEN: A few bright spots doesn't save disappointing David Milne exhibition

  17-08-2018 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  I hate to admit it but Jonathan Jones was pretty well spot on in his review of David Milne in The Guardian.
  The only reason I mention Jones’ review is that it was widely circulated on social media when it appeared. I remembered reading it back in February and thinking: ‘Another Brit getting Canada wrong.’ In fact, I was the one who was wrong.
  Jones was writing about the Milne exhibition when it opened at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. The same show is now at the Vancouv
  
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• Don't forget... this Sunday is all about the birds! Join us at Cates Park / Whey-ah-Wichen, 10am-2pm, as we celebra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 23:11 via twitter.com
  Don't forget... this Sunday is all about the birds! Join us at Cates Park / Whey-ah-Wichen, 10am-2pm, as we celebra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• It’s Friday – kick start your weekend @ the #ShipyardsNightMarket 5-10pm. Live music, food trucks, artisans + drink… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  It’s Friday – kick start your weekend @ the #ShipyardsNightMarket 5-10pm. Live music, food trucks, artisans + drink… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NBA extending global reach, NFL fumbling with players' protest policy

  17-08-2018 22:44 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  One week after crossing the 30-million follower mark on Instagram, the NBA continued to do what it does best: Give millennials and other young-minded fans more reasons to watch and engage.
  It announced this week that its NBA2K eSports league would expand from its first-season lineup of 17 teams to 21 for 2019. With the Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets coming on board the NBA2K loop next year, it means two-thirds of the NBA franchises a
  
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• Kelowna judge who cried during a victim statement won't recuse herself

  17-08-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — A provincial court judge who wiped away a tear during a victim impact statement in a sexual interference case says she won’t recuse herself from sentencing because there’s no reliable evidence of bias.
  Judge Monica McParland said in her decision Friday that just because a judge demonstrates human compassion, it doesn’t mean there’s judicial bias.
  She noted that her emotional reaction was “perhaps” overstated and sensationalized, but she sa
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: B.C. Hydro offers assistance to fire evacuees

  17-08-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Hydro is providing credits and waiving fees for some customers affected by the wildfires burning in all corners of the province.
  The crown utility corporation will provide account credits to residential and commercial customers to cover to cover the electricity consumed while they are out of their home or business due to evacuation order.
  B.C. Hydro will also waive charges from the last bills for any customers who have lost their homes in the wildfires.
  “Over the past several weeks, w
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: Province matching Red Cross donations

  17-08-2018 22:35 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Government says it will match all Red Cross donations, up to $20 million, to help people affected by this summer’s B.C. wildfires.
  “The Red Cross is on the ground, helping people and communities affected by the wildfires burning around the province,” said Jennifer Rice, parliamentary secretary for Emergency Preparedness. “The Province is supporting this critical work by matching contributions to the Red Cross, so donations will go even further.”
  The B.
  
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• Firefighters responded to a fully involved structure fire around 3am last night. Overhaul has just been completed a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 22:08 via twitter.com
  Firefighters responded to a fully involved structure fire around 3am last night. Overhaul has just been completed a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Seven arrested in connection with Port Coquitlam home invasion

  17-08-2018 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  Coquitlam RCMP arrested seven people following a home invasion in Port Coquitlam on Thursday.
  The robbery happened just after 1:30 p.m. at a house on Liverpool Street.
  There were two people inside the home at the time when police arrived and one of the victims was treated for a minor injury.
  An investigation led police to a home on Slatford Place in Maple Ridge where seven people were arrested and placed in custody.
  Charges have not yet been laid and the incident is still under investigatio
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: Families on edge and on alert in northern B.C.

  17-08-2018 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  David Luggi and his family are packed and ready to go at a moments notice.
  Their community of Stellako is located on the western edge of Fraser Lake, just outside an evacuation order area, one of several in north-central B.C. west of Prince George where tens of thousands of hectares of forest are burning.
  The fires are among more than 1,800 this season that have burned more than 4,300 square kilometres.
  One of those in north-central B.C. is the Shovel Lake fire just to the north of Fraser Lake,
  
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• We're recruiting for auxiliary Parking Bylaw Enforcement Officers. Click here to apply. ow.ly/2sHO30ls1nv

  17-08-2018 20:47 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for auxiliary Parking Bylaw Enforcement Officers.Click here to apply. ow.ly/2sHO30ls1nv
  
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• No matter how you use it, ALL of our water is treated drinking water. Please help conserve our drinking water durin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 20:43 via twitter.com
  No matter how you use it, ALL of our water is treated drinking water. Please help conserve our drinking water durin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Got your #KidCityMap yet? They're at City Hall, the City Library and online. It's a map just for kids & families t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Got your #KidCityMap yet? They're at City Hall, the City Library and online.It's a map just for kids & families t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: Kimberley on alert, other areas warned of extreme fire behaviour

  17-08-2018 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  Crews battling wildfires across British Columbia braced Friday for intense activity on some of the nearly 600 blazes in the province after the Wildfire Service issued a warning of extreme fire behaviour.
  The warning can be issued when high heat and a lack of rain combine to strip humidity from the air, said information officer Forrest Tower.
  “When (humidity) drops below a certain percentage that’s when we start to see increased fire behaviour as the fuels start to dry out. Because al
  
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• This Week in History: 1907 A group of Vancouver drunks is shanghaied to Chile

  17-08-2018 20:19 via vancouversun.com
  Getting drunk could be dangerous in Vancouver’s early days. When you sobered up, you sometimes found you’d been “shanghaied” onto a ship bound for a distant land.
  “Tipsy Men Shipped to Sea,” read a front-page headline in the Aug. 19, 1907 Vancouver World.
  “Six Loggers and Ranchers on Spree Woke to Find Themselves on Board Barque Chelmsford Bound to Valparaiso — One May Have Drowned.”
  The Chelmsford was a four-masted Scottish sailing ship that
  
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• Vancouver's 604 Records riding the comedy resurgence

  17-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  After a 33-year absence, the 2018 Juno Awards brought back the award for comedy album of the year. The return of the prize after more than three decades made clear something any casual observer with a Netflix account had already gleaned: Comedy is huge right now, and consuming it in recorded form is popular.
  Never one to miss where the money is to be made, Canadian label 604 Records — which bills itself as “Canada’s Greatest Indie Music Label” — appears poised
  
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• For small Nunavut community Pond Inlet, free fabric provides far more than warmth

  17-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Set 750 kilometres inside the Arctic Circle along the 72nd parallel, Pond Inlet, Nunavut, doesn’t have a typical summer.
  May through August, the sun never sets, but it’s far from balmy with the average temperature rarely exceeding 6 deg C. In a couple months from now, it’ll drop to around -23 deg C and the sun won’t rise for three months.
  This makes warm coats a year-round necessity, which is why on one afternoon in July, some 200 of the Inuit hamlet’s 1,300 residen
  
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• Editorial: Prof pays price for exposing questionable research

  17-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The origin of the expression “publish or perish” is uncertain as researchers have claimed first-references to it in journals from 1927, 1938 and 1942. But it was Marshall McLuhan who wrote of it most scathingly in a note to Ezra Pound in 1951 when, using Pound’s descriptor for universities as “beaneries” he remarked: ” ‘Publish or Perish’ is the beanery motto.”
  Unfortunately, publish or perish remains the prevailing credo at many universities
  
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• Brian Minter: Late perennial colour to take your garden into fall

  17-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  We still have lots of summer left to enjoy, but our recent spell of dry, excessively hot days has taken its toll on many of the annuals we count on for late colour.
  This weather pattern seems to be the new normal, so perhaps it’s time to rethink some of our plant choices in order to optimize and sustain colour in our gardens.
  Valleybrook Gardens in Abbotsford, owned by John Schroeder and his wife Kelly, is one of Canada’s premier perennial growers, and John is a strong advocate for &
  
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• Book review: The World in a Grain of Sand

  17-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
  Vince Beiser | Riverhead Books
  $37, 294 pagesThe opening chapter of this book by Los Angeles-based, Vancouver-raiser freelance journalist Beiser is titled The Most Important Substance on Earth. By the end of his well-researched study of the “something most of us barely ever thing about and yet can’t live without,” you are inclined to agree.Having covered everything from Middle Eastern politics to the wa
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Okanagan Falls is officially on the world wine map

  17-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Late last month Okanagan Falls became the second official sub-region, or sub-Geographic Indication (sub-GI) within the wider Okanagan Valley wine region.
  The Okanagan Falls certification that will soon appear on wine bottles produced inside the sub-GI will join the groundbreaking Golden Mile Bench sub-GI approved in 2015.
  Starting with historical, geographical maps that identified the broad geologic regions of the Okanagan Valley, soil scientist Dr. Scott Smith (in consultation with Dr. Pat Bowe
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: B.C. Hydro offers assistance to fire evacuees

  17-08-2018 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Hydro is providing credits and waiving fees for some customers affected by the wildfires burning in all corners of the province.
  The crown utility corporation will provide account credits to residential and commercial customers to cover to cover the electricity consumed while they are out of their home or business due to evacuation order.
  B.C. Hydro will also waive charges from the last bills for any customers who have lost their homes in the wildfires.
  “Over the past several weeks, w
  
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• Foreign buyers all but disappeared from Metro Vancouver real estate market: data

  17-08-2018 18:38
  
  Overseas nationals now make up just one per cent of Lower Mainland home buyers, finds finance ministry
  
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• TOMORROW, 10am-1pm: Join us in #Maplewood Creek Park as we continue to restore important fish and wildlife habitat.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 18:06 via twitter.com
  TOMORROW, 10am-1pm: Join us in #Maplewood Creek Park as we continue to restore important fish and wildlife habitat.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We are sorry to announce that the August 17 Family Movie Night in the Plaza has been cancelled due to poor air qual… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  We are sorry to announce that the August 17 Family Movie Night in the Plaza has been cancelled due to poor air qual… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Leisure complex proposed for Whistler includes bowling alley

  17-08-2018 17:33
  
  600-seat restaurant also part of the plan that goes to public hearing in September
  
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• Richmond residents: Geothermal condos come with costs

  17-08-2018 17:01
  
  Residents who are currently living in a geothermal condo in Richmond say the cost they are paying for their geothermal energy is not as cheap as what some developers have marketed it as.
  
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• Risky rescues disentangle B.C.'s ocean's giants from fishing gear

  17-08-2018 16:56 via vancouversun.com
  It could be as simple as an anchor or buoy line, a crab or prawn trap, or something bigger — a gillnet or longline fishing gear — floating unseen below the ocean surface.
  Then, one of the Earth’s largest creatures innocently swims past, becomes entangled, and a life-and-death situation begins — not acted out over seconds or even minutes, but potentially months or longer as the whale struggles to free itself.
  That whale has a fighting chance at survival on B.C.’s Pac
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: Kimberley on notice to leave as gusty winds fuel wildfires

  17-08-2018 16:55 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Kimberley in southeastern British Columbia has been placed on evacuation alert as wildfires fed by strong, unpredictable winds become more intense in several areas of the province.
  The alert covering roughly 4,500 Kimberley residents is in addition to an evacuation order for properties west of the city as a 56-square-kilometre wildfire pushes north.
  There’s also increasing concern about a 683-square-kilometre fire that has prompted evacuation orders or alerts from Fraser Lake a
  
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• Daily Poll: Is the PNE on your summer must-do list?

  17-08-2018 16:28 via vancouversun.com
  When the gates open on the 108th edition of the Pacific National Exhibition Saturday morning in East Vancouver, will you be there?
  This year’s concert series lineup includes performances from Boyz II Men, Goo Goo Dolls and Cyndi Lauper, while the Fair food menu has expanded to include such novel selections like cricket candy apples and kangaroo burgers.
  Related
  Concert announcement: PNE announces 2018 lineup for Summer Night ConcertsThe 108-year-old PNE fair offers a mix of new and oldCric
  
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• Town Talk: Fraser River salmon and two memorable rear-seat rides

  17-08-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  REAR SEAT ONE: My only previous Cadillac ride through the Fraser Canyon was in a titanic 1950s Coupe de Ville with the driver and a front-seat buddy enjoying cigars and a mickey of rye. No stogies or booze were consumed during a recent rerun with a former Niagara Regional police officer — my brother Don — at the wheel. Nor, apart from the Cadillac nameplate, Dueck dealership sticker and the refined air, did our five-door XT5 SUV resemble that old two-door.
  However, we did pass 28 bar
  
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• Conversations That Matter: The coming baby boomer tsunami

  17-08-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Over the past 20 years, the proportion of the provincial budget dedicated to health care has gone from 30 per cent to more than 40 and rising. Currently, it costs B.C. $19.5 billion annually.
  At some point soon the cost of health care will undermine the provincial government’s ability to provide education, social services, transportation and everything else in its scope of responsibilities.
  Universal primary care is designed to ensure everyone in British Columbia has a doctor. A docto
  
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• Vancouver weather: Sunny skies on our way this weekend

  17-08-2018 15:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Aug. 17, 2018 –  Environment Canada’s weather forecast for Vancouver calls for a mix of sun and clouds this morning with clear skies this afternoon.
  The smoke haze is still hovering over the Lower Mainland but the air quality advisory for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley is no longer in effect.
  It could be a sticky day out there today as the humidity at Vancouver International Airport clocked in at 94 per cent this morning.
  Expect a high of 23 degrees
  
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• Kelowna judge who cried during a victim statement to rule on recusing herself

  17-08-2018 15:01 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — A judge who cried during a victim impact statement is expected to release a decision today on whether she’ll disqualify herself from sentencing a man for sexual assault.
  The man’s lawyer told Kelowna provincial court Judge Monica McParland in July that she is incapable of delivering a fair sentence because she became emotional during the victim’s statement and she scoffed at the defence suggestion for a sentence.
  Defence lawyer Jacqueline Halliburn asked the jud
  
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• Harry Sterling: Nice-guy Trudeau faces world dominated by bullies

  17-08-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  “Nice guys finish last.”
  When baseball manager Leo Durocher reputedly coined that memorable phrase in 1946 he obviously had no way of anticipating the arrival on the American political scene of President Donald Trump, an increasingly controversial and divisive leader.
  Nor could he foresee the current controversy and tension gripping Canada following the unexpected trade and economic retaliation imposed on the government of Prime Minister Trudeau by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince M
  
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• Back to school food: Pies present the perfect, packable lunch options

  17-08-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  You sit down to lunch and unfold the top of the brown paper lunch bag. Peering down into the papery depths, you spot … a piece of pie?
  Believe it our not, the flaky, pastry-packed dishes can be the perfect, packable option for back-to-school menu planning.
  “They make very easy meals,” Jenell Parsons, the owner of The Pie Hole in Vancouver, says. “You can bake them from frozen — and not only will your house smell amazing with fresh-baked pies, th
  
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• Fire destroys North Vancouver home - North Shore News

  17-08-2018 09:00
  Fire destroys North Vancouver home  North Shore NewsInvestigators are working to find out what sparked a fire that destroyed a home in North Vancouver's Blueridge neighbourhood early Thursday morning.
  
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• Fatal crash in Surrey claims life of motorcyclist

  17-08-2018 07:41 via vancouversun.com
  A motorcyclist is dead after colliding with the centre median on Highway 10 on Thursday night.
  The accident occurred just before 8 p.m. as the motorcyclist, a 23-year-old male, was travelling eastbound in the 16000-block. Surrey Fire and B.C. Ambulance treated the man at the scene. He later died in hospital.
  Authorities remain at the scene and are investigating. Traffic is being rerouted at the following intersections: 168th Street and Highway 10 westbound; 152nd Street and Highway 10 eastbound
  
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• Chinese-Canadian moviegoers hope Crazy Rich Asians will dispel stereotypes

  17-08-2018 03:26 via vancouversun.com
  For moviegoers who showed up to see Crazy Rich Asians on its opening day in Vancouver, the Hollywood film with an Asian cast is more than just a movie — it’s a cultural moment.
  “I always longed to see people like me on screen, and I never did,” said Kay Ho, who came to the opening day screening at Scotiabank Theatre with her brother Justin and their parents. “Growing up, I only had (Disney’s) Mulan.”
  “I’m here with my family. We’re all
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: NDP taking express lane to rush changes for auto insurance rate hikes

  17-08-2018 03:05 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — From ICBC, some cautionary advice regarding just one of the changes in the coming makeover of auto insurance — the tale of Bill and Sue.
  Enter Bill: “A vehicle owned by Bill has basic insurance with one listed driver, Bill, and the vehicle is insured in the pleasure use rate class in Lower Mainland. Bill has 20 years of experience and no prior at-fault crashes. He pays an annual premium of $1,056.”
  Enter Sue: “Bill occasionally loans his vehicle
  
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• B.C. Wildfires 2018: Lots of devastation, says man whose family lost homes

  17-08-2018 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — Residents of a B.C. town ravaged by wildfire are determined to extinguish the flames and rebuild their community, family members say.
  Dan Edzerza Sr. and his daughter Kristina Michaud are collecting donations of money and dried goods for evacuees after a 360-square-kilometre blaze destroyed more than 40 homes and properties in Telegraph Creek.
  “There’s been a lot of devastation there,” said Edzerza, speaking from Prince George. “A lot of my fami
  
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• Police watchdog called in after man dies in Penticton jail cell

  17-08-2018 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. police watchdog has been called in to investigate the death of a man in a Penticton jail cell.
  Police say Keremeos RCMP arrested a 55-year-old man for outstanding warrants during a traffic stop on Thursday around 7 a.m.
  He was taken to a cell block in Penticton to await a court appearance later in the day.
  “During a routine check conducted just after 9 a.m., the man was found unresponsive in his cell,” said RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Janelle Shoihet in a statement. “Officer
  
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• Surrey plans to install cameras to catch illegal garbage dumping

  17-08-2018 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey wants to install surveillance cameras throughout the city to catch people illegally dumping garbage.
  A request for proposals calls for 10 or more outdoor surveillance cameras in locations still to be determined, said Ray Kerr, Surrey’s manager of engineering operations.
  He said illegal dumping isn’t only a problem in Surrey, but throughout Metro Vancouver and across the country.
  “It’s an unfortunate thing people do, given the other avenues they have to get rid of w
  
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• Metro Vancouver man sentenced to four years after sexual assault on Tinder date

  17-08-2018 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  A Lower Mainland man has been sentenced to four years in prison after a judge found him guilty of sexual assault on a Tinder date gone bad.
  Andrew Paul Grant, 39, was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman he had met on the dating app in behaviour the judge described as “treacherous and predatory.”
  Grant and the complainant, who is protected by a publication ban, met for the first time on Aug. 15, 2015, at the Vancouver Rowing Club, where Grant was a member and had moored his 35-fo
  
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• Over 7,500 enjoyed our new waterfront festival last weekend. You danced, sang, ate, drank, zipped, climbed and boun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-08-2018 01:45 via twitter.com
  Over 7,500 enjoyed our new waterfront festival last weekend. You danced, sang, ate, drank, zipped, climbed and boun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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