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• B.C. records second-highest monthly fatal overdoses so far in 2018

  22-08-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s coroners service says 134 people died of illicit-drug overdoses in July, a 25 per cent increase from June.
  The latest fatalities are the second-highest figures of any month so far this year, after an all-time monthly high of 162 deaths in March.
  The service says about four people fatally overdose every day in the province, which leads the country in illicit-drug deaths.
  Vancouver, Surrey, and Victoria experienced the highest number of overdoses last mont
  
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• Two birds test positive for West Nile virus in B.C.

  22-08-2018 23:54 via vancouversun.com
  KIMBERLEY — Two dead ravens in Kimberley have tested positive for West Nile virus.
  Interior Health says it’s the first evidence of West Nile virus activity in British Columbia this year.
  The health authority says no human cases have been reported and no positive mosquito pools have been identified.
  It’s working with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control and Canadian Blood Services to monitor virus activity, including screening the blood supply and reporting human and animal cases
  
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• Introducing the City's newest mural 'Laneway 45', created by our #StudiointheCity11 students and artist Mark Olling… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  22-08-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  Introducing the City's newest mural 'Laneway 45', created by our #StudiointheCity11 students and artist Mark Olling… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Malahat truck crash kills driver, spills sewage onto highway

  22-08-2018 22:23 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Police on Vancouver Island say the driver of a sewage truck that overturned on the Malahat Wednesday morning has died.
  The highway was closed in both directions after the 8:10 a.m. incident, which led to a sewage spill. The truck had been southbound, just north of Goldstream Provincial Park.
  West Shore RCMP said the crash involved the truck and an SUV, and happened near the Goldstream Boathouse. The SUV driver was assessed for injuries by paramedics. The driver was operating a t
  
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• B.C. Wildfires 2018: Air quality in Vanderhoof double hazardous levels

  22-08-2018 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  The air quality in Vanderhoof from B.C. wildfire smoke is more than double the level considered hazardous to health, according to the World Air Quality Index.
  According to Air Visual, which tracks the global levels with an interactive map, a hazard level of air pollution is an AQI level of 301. Vanderhoof, in central B.C., had an AQI rating of 619. Other B.C. communities with ratings far exceeding levels considered hazardous were Houston at 410 AQI and Burns Lake at 408 AQI.
  Vanderhoof Mayor Ger
  
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• Stats show declining bike thefts in Vancouver

  22-08-2018 21:49 via vancouversun.com
  Initiatives such as Project 529 have led to what looks like the fourth year in a row of declining bike thefts in Vancouver, according to statistics from the Vancouver Police Department.
  Data compiled by police show that there were 3,131 thefts city-wide in 2015. That dropped to 2,655 in 2016, and 2,199 in 2017.
  This year, there have been 1,200 bike thefts between Jan. 1 and July 31. That is a drop of six thefts from the same period last year.
  Project 529 is a bike registration and recovery progr
  
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• You're not throwing your ice cream containers in the garbage are you? They belong in your blue box or containers ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  22-08-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  You're not throwing your ice cream containers in the garbage are you? They belong in your blue box or containers ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TaiwanFest 2018 celebrates Aboriginal connections and ancestry

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  TaiwanFest Canada: Fete with the Philippines
  When: Sept. 1, 2, 11 a.m. — 10 p.m.; Sept. 3, 11 a.m. — 6 p.m.
  Where: Granville St. (W. Pender to Robson); Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza, The Annex at Orpheum
  Tickets and info: Taiwanfest.ca
  When TaiwanFest began its “dialogues with Asia” series in 2016 the five year plan was to focus on a different city or country’s connection to Taiwan each year.
  By digging deeper into the historic and cultural dimensions of these relatio
  
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• Style in the City: Katherine Lazaruk

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Katherine Lazaruk
  Occupation: Leadership consultant
  Personal style in one word: Mine
  Social media: @katherinelazaruk on Instagram
  Like Katherine’s look? Here are a few items to help you recreate it.The bag
  A black carryall like this Coach Dreamer bag is a worthwhile wardrobe investment that’s sure to stick around for years to come. While we like the silver accents on Katherine’s bag, we’re partial to the light gold hardware on this tote. The warm hue adds a touch of
  
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• Side dishes: Drags Benny brunch to raise money for LGBT support

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Everyone’s welcome and it’s gonna be fun, fun, fun. A pop-up brunch, started in Calgary, Drags Benny, comes to Vancouver on Sept. 1. It’ll be at Waterview, off False Creek, and headlined by New Yorker Yuhua Hamasaki, a star on the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race earlier this year.
  “I am super, duper excited to be coming to Canada,” says Hamasaki. “I love being a part of events like this that support local LGBT communities and I love to eat. Let&rsq
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland, Aug. 24-30: Jpegmafia, Durrah Alsaif: Jawahir Jewels, and more

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jpegmafia
  When: Aug. 29, 9 p.m.
  Where: Fortune Sound Club
  Tickets and info: $20.23, at ticketweb.ca
  Baltimore rapper and producer Jpegmafia (a.k.a. Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks) is a Jamaican-American who did a tour in Iraq with the U.S. air force, and that experience informs his fierce 2018 second album. Titled Veteran, the recording is a twitchy, glitchy, noisy and intense look at race and gender politics in the armed forces and society as a whole. With his MA in journalism put to use as it w
  
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• Restaurant review: Upscale fast food comes with a view at Popina Canteen

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Popina Canteen
  Where: Parking lot, west of Granville Island Public Market | 604-428-7518
  Open: Daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. popinacanteen.comWere Popina Canteen to live up to its name, it would be a scene. In ancient Rome, popinas were dens of iniquity with patrons behaving badly — drinking, eating, debauching — the whole darn mess. About 120 of these joints remain preserved for posterity in Pompeii should you care to visit.
  The Popina I speak of is on Granville Island, and the
  
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• No Home Land takes gig economy to its logical conclusion

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Movin’ On Up
  When: Aug. 25 at 7:30 p.m.
  Where: CBC Studio 700 theatre
  Tickets: $7/$17/$27 at staircasetheatre.com
  In the dystopian Vancouver of No Home Land, people don’t get out much.
  “Everything has gotten so expensive that people live where they work,” says writer Sabrina Auclair.
  Her play, which premieres in a staged reading at this year’s Movin’ On Up showcase, is about three employees of a bagel restaurant who live in that restaurant, and their stru
  
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• Kasey Wilson: A menu to help say goodbye to summer

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s always bittersweet to see summer coming to an end, but my consolation is the alfresco gathering my friends Bob and Chela host each August at their oceanfront cottage in Point Roberts, Washington, the 1,200-hectare U.S. community accessible only through Canada.
  Passports in hand, carloads of guests converge on the gorgeous spot for the party of the season. (Some of us leave early to pick up wine at half the price we would pay in Canada.)
  As Bob slowly barbecues whole salmon fillets on
  
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• Five reasons to check out The Cultch's street party — and bring the kids

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Brasstronaut, Peach Pyramid and Mark Mills
  When: Aug 26, 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
  Where: The Cultch
  Tickets: From $10, at thecultch.com
  1. It’s all-ages. According to organizer Meghan Robinson, “As friends grew older and started having kids I started hearing about how it was increasingly difficult to get out to see live music. So we started asking how we could present an uncompromised live music experience without any barriers for people who have kids at home.” The result: an all-ages str
  
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• Classical music: Opera and Arias at Bard on the Beach marks end of summer

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Operas and Arias: Bold and Beautiful
  Where: Bard on the Beach (Vanier Park)
  When: Aug. 27 & Sept. 3, 2. pm and 7:30 p.m.
  Tickets and info: From $24, bardonthebeach.orgIt’s been a remarkable summer but, as the back-to-school ads tell us, the end is in sight. For classical music fans nothing signals the end of our lazy (and, alas, increasingly hazy) summer than the annual Operas and Arias productions at Bard on the Beach.
  There is no complete show in 2018; rather, an evening of exce
  
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• Beauty Bar: Nest Cocoa Woods eau de parfum

  22-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: An eau de parfum from the brand Nest that features “warm and spicy” notes.
  The fragrance, which is said to be inspired by the works of 18th Century British artist Mary Delany, hits high notes with key elements such as bittersweet cocoa, Sequoia wood, white sandalwood, Tiare blossom and Thai ginger.
  Boasting a heady mixture that’s best described as “warm and sweet gorumands,” according to brand materials, the luxurious fragrance is moody and &ld
  
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• TOMORROW, 6:30-8:00pm: Bring the kids and come meet our local firefighters. There'll be activities, games, demonstr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  22-08-2018 19:20 via twitter.com
  TOMORROW, 6:30-8:00pm: Bring the kids and come meet our local firefighters. There'll be activities, games, demonstr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• What the heck are 'Elephant's Feet' anyway? It's all explained in this #LookThinkGo video created by film school st… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  22-08-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  What the heck are 'Elephant's Feet' anyway? It's all explained in this #LookThinkGo video created by film school st… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: Residents of Lower Post told to take refuge in Yukon as wildfire rages

  22-08-2018 17:24 via vancouversun.com
  Residents of a tiny British Columbia community near the Yukon boundary are the latest to be forced from their homes by a wildfire.
  Roughly 80 residents of Lower Post received evacuation notices Tuesday as the BC Wildfire Service warned a 40-square-kilometre blaze to the south has moved within five kilometres of the village and also threatens the enclave of Skooks Landing.
  DriveBC, the B.C. government’s online service for travellers, says nearby wildfires have closed Highway 97, the Alaska
  
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• Ocean, city, mountain, forest and lake views? All yours for $9.9M (PHOTOS)

  22-08-2018 17:00
  
  West Coast-style British Properties house has a bit of everything – plus a saltwater pool
  
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• Daily Poll: Does your community have a wildfire prevention plan?

  22-08-2018 16:41 via vancouversun.com
  Despite wildfires raging across all regions and fire zones of B.C., a majority of communities do not have a wildfire prevention plan in place, says a forestry expert.
  In this Canadian Press story, Lori Daniels, an ecology professor at the University of British Columbia’s faculty of forestry, said only about one third of B.C. communities have wildfire prevention plans though the risk of such disasters is increasing.
  She says community wildfire prevention plans would assess hazards, inc
  
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• Wildfires have potential to add touch of smoke to British Columbia wines

  22-08-2018 15:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Winemakers can only hope the scent of smoke that’s in the air across British Columbia from wildfires won’t swirl in the glass once this year’s vintages have been bottled.
  Smoke-shrouded grapes can give an ashy, bitter flavour to wine and tests have been developed to help growers assess the quality of their grapes, said researcher Matt Noestheden, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna.
  “For this season, time will tell. If
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Another hazy day

  22-08-2018 15:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s shaping up to be another smoky day for Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada says the weather on Wednesday will be mainly sunny, with highs of 24 C and 28 C inland, but with widespread smoke. That haze is expected to continue through the night and possibly stick around on Thursday. The weather pattern does appear to be changing though by the end of this week, which may provide some relief from the widespread smoke. Thursday’s forecast calls for cloudy skies
  
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• Langley Little Leaguers celebrating B.C.'s national success with 20-year reunion of run to Williamsport

  22-08-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  In a way, losing that heartbreaker to Japan 20 years ago taught Jordan Lennerton how to win.
  It’s two decades since the Langley All Stars – 14 boys aged 12 – did what no other Canadian team had done and went undefeated through 16 district, provincial and national championship games, then went undefeated through three games of international round-robin play at the Little League World Series in 1998 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
  Langley All Stars at the 1998 Little League World
  
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• UBC researchers have found a way to make donated blood universal

  22-08-2018 05:04 via vancouversun.com
  Researchers at the University of B.C. think they may have found a way to transform a very common type of human blood — type-A — in the universally usable type-O negative.
  This would make blood transfusions much easier, since donor and patient blood types must usually match, unless the donor’s blood is type-O negative. Using type-O negative blood in transfusions doesn’t lead to dangerous, possibly life-threatening, reactions in the patient.
  According to Canadian Blood Serv
  
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• Father-daughter fishing tradition thrives with solid sockeye run on the Fraser

  22-08-2018 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  She is the apple of her father’s sockeye.
  Each summer since she was four years old, Kirsten Jantunen has cherished days on the boat with her dad Roy, 55, helping work on the net, pick fish, drive, and whatever else a fisherwoman can do.
  The 28-year-old realtor and owner of a uniform company keeps a packed schedule, but each season since her teenage years she has set aside time for fishing with her dad. She plans to keep the tradition going for the foreseeable future, she said Tuesday,
  
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• B.C. SPCA cutting adoption fees in half if you adopt an adult cat

  22-08-2018 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to give a cat a good home?
  The B.C. SPCA says that many of their shelters are at capacity because of transfers from shelters closed because of wildfire threats. In all, 127 animals have been moved from shelters in the north of B.C., including 75 kittens and 34 cats.
  Because of these tight quarters, the B.C. SPCA, supported by corporate partner Hill’s Science Diet, are offering to cut adoption fees in half for anyone adopting an adult cat. The promotion runs until Aug. 31.
  “Th
  
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• Dan Fumano: New party tests Vancouver's appetite for 'indelicate' style of discourse

  22-08-2018 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  From amplifying disparaging messages calling homeless people “crackheads,” to publicly criticizing the wardrobe of a political opponent, senior members of the upstart Coalition Vancouver are bringing a new style of political discourse to the city’s looming municipal election.
  In a recent example, Coalition Vancouver’s mayoral candidate Wai Young used her official Twitter account to spread a negative message about Vancouver’s temporary modular housing program. Last w
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: When wildfires are out, fossil fuel development talks could flare up

  22-08-2018 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s long-standing way of estimating the annual budget for fighting wildfires is “laughable,” an exasperated Premier John Horgan said Tuesday.
  “Chose an arbitrary number, then put it in the books and hope for the best,” was the way Horgan described the process during a media stopover in Prince George.
  The process entails averaging the cost of managing wildfires over the previous 10 years, then slotting the amount into the budget for the curre
  
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• District #northvan firefighters continue to work alongside @BCGovFireInfo and ffs from around the world to extingui… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  22-08-2018 03:16 via twitter.com
  District #northvan firefighters continue to work alongside @BCGovFireInfo and ffs from around the world to extingui… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Smoke war: Spokane and Grand Forks plan duelling fan fests

  22-08-2018 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  Two cities, two countries, both smoke-filled.
  Residents of one city find a way to have a little fun with the haze: Let’s get a bunch of fans together.
  Residents of a city on the other side of the international border get into the fun of it and say, “Hey, let’s blow it back.”
  Talk about fanning the flames of discontent.
  Some residents of Spokane have banded together to organize a Facebook event called “Blow Spokane’s Smoke Away to Canada.”
  Winds over the
  
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• Letters: Massey Tunnel replacement a matter of public safety

  22-08-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Aging Italian works under scrutiny for failure; Bridge Collapse, Aug. 16
  The horrific bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, should be a loud wake-up call for Premier John Horgan and his partner in government, Andrew Weaver, that political grandstanding and prevarication around the replacement of the Massey Tunnel with a bridge already designed is foolhardy and reckless.
  Engineering data provided by independent reports confirm the tunnel is not safe in the event of even a minor earthquake. Further
  
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• 'Cube house' on Vancouver's Point Grey Road sold for $7.65 million

  22-08-2018 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  A cube-shaped house on Vancouver’s tony Point Grey Road which had raised some eyebrows due to its ultra-modern design has been sold.
  The 3,709-square-foot house sold last month for $7.65 million — about a year after it went on the market and down from its original list price of $14 million.
  Despite taking a year to sell, there was no lack of interest from potential buyers, said realtor Loren Dunsworth. But while the house appealed to a lot of people, the pool of serious buyers w
  
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• After 55 years, Coliseum staffer is retiring, sort of

  22-08-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  Vern Frick, who was born before rock ‘n’ roll and admits he didn’t really care for it, has probably been to more rock concerts than you have, including the Beatles and The Rolling Stones shows.
  The 80-year-old longest-serving employee of the PNE, who has been on shift as a part-time usher for virtually all the shows at the annual exhibition venues since the summer of 1963, is working his last shift on Labour Day.
  “It’s sad for me to be leaving. Working here is like
  
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• B.C. wildfires 2018: Residents near Burns Lake dig in to protect homes

  22-08-2018 01:57 via vancouversun.com
  Some residents south of Burns Lake ordered evacuated because of aggressive wildfires continue to dig in to protect their homes and properties but may not be able to receive desperately needed fuel and supplies.
  On Monday, a fuel truck organized by the Cheslatta Carrier Nation was prevented from getting on a B.C.-government run ferry across Francois Lake, the only way into the so-called south side, where several fires have burned hundreds of square kilometres of tinder-dry forest.
  “They don
  
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• 'It's a delicate situation:' Wildfire in Kent District burns on doorstep of farmland

  22-08-2018 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  AGASSIZ — Ash falling from the sky covered the front of Sam Dueck’s car as it sat parked on the road while he assembled a portable fire extinguisher.
  “If the fire makes it to the other side of the valley, they’ll have to start moving animals,” he said, pointing toward the Mount Hicks blaze burning nearby his family farm.
  Residents on Kamp Road in Agassiz received an evacuation alert Aug. 20 due to the increasing threat of a nearby wildfire. The area, close to the Se
  
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• Municipalities ask for changes to controversial B.C. speculation tax

  22-08-2018 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  Municipalities and regional districts across B.C. are asking the provincial government to leave it up to them to decide whether to opt in or out of the controversial speculation tax, or come up with their own levy on vacant properties.
  “This is a critical issue for British Columbians — it’s not just a housing issue, it’s directly tied to our economy,” said Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen, whose council has put forward a resolution on the topic that will be considered at t
  
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• Slight shaking felt in Port Hardy during magnitude 4.8 quake

  22-08-2018 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  Some north Vancouver Island residents woke up to a “lightly felt” earthquake early Tuesday morning.
  Natural Resources Canada says the magnitude 4.8 quake struck about 210 kilometres west of Port Hardy just after 6 a.m.
  There are no reports of damage and no tsunami is expected.
  The quake was based in the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate.
  Sidney-based earthquake seismologist Taimi Mulder says earthquakes occur regularly in the region, but most are not felt.
  She says this one was slightly la
  
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• Theatre review: A drag musical for the whole family

  22-08-2018 01:05 via vancouversun.com
  Pageant
  When: To Sept. 8
  Where: GO Studios, 112 E. 3rd Ave. Vancouver
  Tickets & Info: $25; pageantvanpremiere.brownpapertickets.com
  Once upon a time televised beauty pageants like Miss America, featuring young women in spike heels and bathing suits, were part of the cultural landscape. These days they may be best known for contestants’ complaints of bullying and abuse. 
  Pageant, a gently entertaining musical spoof of the genre, takes us back to that era. Set in 1989, the
  
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• B.C. Appeal Court orders new trial for Bountiful man in child bride case

  22-08-2018 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for the former leader of a religious sect who was acquitted of taking a 15-year-old girl across the U.S. border for a sexual purpose.
  The Crown appealed the verdict in the case of James Oler, the former leader of a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community in Bountiful, B.C., which practises polygamy.
  A B.C. Supreme Court judge acquitted Oler last year because he was not convinced Oler did anything within Canada’s
  
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• Former Vancouver police officer sentenced to 20 months after kissing girl, woman

  22-08-2018 00:39 via vancouversun.com
  The Crown prosecution service says a former Vancouver police detective who worked on the force’s counter-exploitation unit has been sentenced to 20 months in jail after kissing a teenage girl and a woman.
  James Fisher pleaded guilty to two counts of breach of trust and one count of sexual exploitation, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 90 days in jail.
  Before his arrest, he was a 29-year decorated veteran of the force and member of a team that investigates prostitution, crimina
  
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