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• Redevelopment threatens mobile home parks in Metro Vancouver

  08-09-2018 23:31 via vancouversun.com
  Despite assurances that her home is safe from redevelopment, Tina Craig doesn’t believe it.
  Craig lives in Breakaway Bays in south Surrey near White Rock. She’s lived there with her husband, Bud, for 25 years.
  It’s called a manufactured home park in B.C. law, though many people know of them as mobile home parks or even trailer parks. But the homes don’t have wheels and they’re no more mobile than any other single family house.
  A few years ago, she said, the par
  
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• One dead in fiery car crash in Surrey

  08-09-2018 21:25 via vancouversun.com
  On person is dead and another person is in hospital after a fiery car crash in Surrey Saturday morning.
  Surrey RCMP say they were called out shortly after 8 a.m. to the 14500-block of 100th Avenue.
  An initial investigation found that the driver of a Honda Accord travelling eastbound on 100th Avenue crossed the centre line and smashed into an SUV travelling westbound.
  Both cars caught on fire in the crash. The driver and sole occupant of the Accord died, while the driver of the SUV, a Toyota RAV,
  
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• Metro Vancouver's best tacos: And the winner is …

  08-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Next up on our list of Metro Vancouver’s best eats (check out the first in the series, highlighting the best burgers here) is another hand-held option.
  We’re talking about tacos.
  The traditional Mexican eats, which include a variety of meat-and-vegetable fillings typically enveloped by a corn or flour tortilla, have proven especially popular in this city for a few years now. And, after a seemingly long drought of good taco shops in the area, it now seems we have an abundance of delic
  
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• Makeover: Side Dutch braid is perfect for start of the school year

  08-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s hard to believe we’re already transitioning from Summer to back to school. So to make it fun, I’m demonstrating how to create a lovely side Dutch braid for the start of the school year! This style will definitely get top marks for style!
  Start by brushing the hair to ensure there are no knots. To create a thicker and fuller braid, I suggest pre-curling the hair for added texture.Step 1
  Take a 1 to 2-inch section of the hair (starting above the arch of the left eye) and spl
  
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• Rents could rise up to 4.5 per cent next year

  08-09-2018 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  Housing costs are expected to rise for renters next year as the Residential Tenancy Branch set the maximum allowable rent increase for 2019 at 4.5 per cent, the greatest jump since 2004.
  Coming a time when vacancy rates are at an all-time low and rents are already high, the news caused a stir on social media.
  “We’re in the middle of an affordability crisis and the government just decided to raise your rent more?” tweeted the Vancouver Tenants Union. “This is what happens
  
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• This is the most your landlord can hike your rent in 2019

  08-09-2018 19:37
  
  The rate for the maximum allowable rent increase has now been set for B.C. in 2019
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mostly cloudy Saturday, rain on Sunday

  08-09-2018 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like the weather Saturday will be mostly cloudy with possible sunny breaks and a chance of showers in the afternoon. Environment Canada says the region will see heavier rain on Sunday, with 20 to 30 millimetres expected. The temperature is expected to drop slightly from the 20s to around 18 C and 17 C on Sunday. Looking ahead to next week, you may want to keep those rain boots handy. Environment Canada is forecasting a long stretch of this wet weather, with rain
  
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• Guildford Walmart reopens after Legionnaires' disease scare

  08-09-2018 19:12 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey Walmart reopened Saturday, after it closed Friday because water-cooling towers at Guildford Town Centre tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease.
  Fraser Health confirmed seven cases of Legionnaires’ disease in patients who were in the Guildford area in the past two weeks. Officials spoke to them and their family members about possible sources of exposure, said Dr. Aamir Bharmal, a medical health officer with the authority.
  After confirming
  
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• Our community events calendar is the place to find out what's happening in the City. See what's happening or post y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-09-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Our community events calendar is the place to find out what's happening in the City. See what's happening or post y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Stand Up to Cancer. #NorthVan @su2c_ca https://t.co/ImvAS8KvXh

  08-09-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  
  Stand Up to Cancer.#NorthVan @su2c_ca https://t.co/ImvAS8KvXh
  
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• Customer loyalty powers sales at Kentwell

  08-09-2018 14:41 via vancouversun.com
  You only have to look at the numbers to see that Polygon is a huge player in residential development in British Columbia: the company has built more than 27,000 homes in the Lower Mainland. That kind of experience is likely to earn you a loyal following and Goldie Alam, Polygon’s senior vice-president of marketing, said this is particularly true of Kentwell, the company’s latest townhome development in Coquitlam.
  “We’ve built more than 4,700 homes in Coquitlam already and
  
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• The Home Front: Furniture design inspired by the past

  08-09-2018 14:34 via vancouversun.com
  Anything that represents simplicity and coziness in the home seems only to be growing in popularity, so it makes sense that the farmhouse modern trend is still going strong.
  Furniture-maker, designer and artist Jonah Meyer, whose company Sawkille Co. produces handmade furniture and artwork in Rhinebeck, N.Y., breaks down the origins and evolution of modern farmhouse modern for us.
  “The Windsor chair is where it all begins,” he says. “All these very simple elements, the dov
  
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• Sold (Bought): Vancouver duplex has seamless linear look

  08-09-2018 14:22 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  4236 Inverness Street, Vancouver
  Type: Three-bedroom, three-bathroom half duplex
  Size: 1,238 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,061,000
  Listed for: $1,099,000
  Sold for: $1,030,000
  Sold on: July 29
  Days on market: 25
  Listing agent: John Dean at Engel & Volkers Vancouver
  Buyers agent: Jessica Smith at ReMax Crest Realty
  The big sell: This architecturally designed side-by-side half duplex was built in 2012 on a west-facing lot in
  
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• Lakestone introduces its newest phase: The Highlands

  08-09-2018 14:18 via vancouversun.com
  After effectively selling out its first two phases, the developers of Lakestone, a resort-like residential development with panoramic views of Okanagan Lake, are now launching their next phase, The Highlands.
  A total of 109 single-family lots ranging from 2,500 to about 6,000 square feet are planned for the Highlands phase. The first phase, Waterside, rapidly sold out a few years ago, while about 95 per cent of the second phase, The Benchlands, has been sold to date, said Don Erdely, spokesman f
  
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• B.C. Wildfires 2018: Provincial state of emergency ends, some campfire bans lifted

  08-09-2018 06:03 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has ended the provincial state of emergency that it declared in August because of an intense summer of wildfires.
  In a statement on Friday, Emergency Management B.C. said the decision to cancel the order is thanks to cooler weather and progress in containing the hundreds of wildfires.
  The state of emergency was declared on Aug. 15, 2018, and extended once. It was the second year in a row that wildfires prompted the B.C. government to declare a provincewide state of emerg
  
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• Despite fires, floods and issues, update on B.C. finances encouraging

  08-09-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Two weeks ago Finance Minister Carole James closed the books on the financial year the new NDP government shared with the departing B.C. Liberals.
  Worst wildfire season in B.C. history. Bridge tolls abolished. Head start on phasing out medical service premiums, paying down mess Liberals left behind at B.C. Hydro and ICBC. Still, budget in surplus, debt down by $1 billion.
  Friday, James delivered an update on the current financial year — the first with the New Democrat
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week of Sept. 1

  08-09-2018 03:44 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  2. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  3. 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — Stephen Hui (Greystone Books). 
  4. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  5. E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island — Robert Amos (TouchWood Editions).
  6. The Hidden Life of Trees: Illustrated E
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018

  08-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In the spirit of assigning blame for harm caused by human-made products such as tobacco and opioids, I suggest the provincial government sue automakers for producing vehicles capable of being driven at more than 200 km/h over the highway speed limit and for promoting speeding and reckless driving in their advertising.
  Drivers are addicted to speed and, as a result, more than 300 people die in vehicle accidents every year in B.C. There are an astounding number of crashes in our province; in 2016
  
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• Vancouver council candidates talk timeline for SkyTrain extension to UBC

  08-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to transit in Vancouver, there’s one thing most candidates agree on: Rapid transit should be built all the way to the University of B.C. campus in Point Grey.
  How and when that should happen, however, is up for debate.
  Funding from three levels of government was reconfirmed and the business case approved this week for the 5.7-kilometre, six stop, Broadway subway – an extension of SkyTrain’s Millennium Line that will run from VCC-Clark station to Arbutus through a
  
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• Surrey council candidates continue to debate LRT versus SkyTrain despite LRT being fully funded

  08-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  It should be a done deal.
  The prime minister, premier and head of the regional transportation authority have agreed: The money is committed, procurement has started and light rail is coming to Surrey.
  However, the debate about whether the city should continue with its $1.65-billion at-grade light rail project or change course and build a SkyTrain somehow continues.
  Surrey First, the reigning party on council, has been the strongest advocate for at-grade light rail south of the Fraser.LISTEN: Pos
  
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• Calvin White: Parents must discuss marijuana with their kids

  08-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Oh, parents, how can I reach you? As schools start this year and you send your kids into the thrall of us secondary caregivers how can I get your attention? When our lives have become so fast, so distracted, and so filled with abbreviated communication how can any urgency other than a raging fire in our vicinity make us stop and take notice?
  On October 17, our country will legalize marijuana. Marijuana is now a “product”. The term “recreational user” sits e
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week of September 1st

  08-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  2. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  3. 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — Stephen Hui (Greystone Books). 
  4. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  5. E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island — Robert Amos (TouchWood Editions).
  6. The Hidden Life of Trees: Illustrated E
  
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• Province seeks to seize cars, cash from Metro gangsters

  08-09-2018 02:58 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has filed civil forfeiture challenges against gangsters alleged to be involved in a violent Lower Mainland conflict.
  Last month, the director of civil forfeiture filed a lawsuit again Amandeep Kang, of the Brothers Keepers, seeking to seize over $2,000 in Kang’s possession when he was stopped by Vancouver police in August 2017.
  Other gangsters and drug traffickers currently facing charges have also been named in civil forfeiture cases, a review of new cases shows.
  Kang
  
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• 'Mom to a whole bunch of people:' DTES market director hopes to expand

  08-09-2018 02:52 via vancouversun.com
  The new head of the Downtown Eastside market has big plans for the city-designated vending space, despite a vow by one Vancouver mayoral candidate to shut it down.
  Constance Barnes, a former Vancouver park board commissioner, said she has taken a no-nonsense approach to running the market since she was appointed executive director a few weeks ago, likening it to “being Mom to a whole bunch of people.”
  She recently directed a vendor who was found selling stolen rollerblades to return
  
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• Liberia's top doctor, who was born under a tree, says Canadian ambulance will get pregnant women to hospitals

  08-09-2018 02:39 via vancouversun.com
  Liberia’s chief medical officer was born under a tree on a rural rice farm in 1965, because his pregnant mother had no way to get to the medical clinic in nearby Karlokeh.
  So it seemed like a personal gift on Friday when a Vancouver charity gave him a used ambulance which will be shipped to Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia in West Africa, to start the country’s Emergency Medical Service — one that will help patients, like his mother, get to a hospital.
  “In many insta
  
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• Guildford Walmart closes after Legionnaires' disease scare

  08-09-2018 01:18 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey Walmart was closed on Friday after seven people got ill and water cooling towers at Guildford Town Centre tested positive for the bacteria that causes legionnaires’ disease.
  Fraser Health confirmed seven cases of legionnaires’ disease in patients who were in the Guildford area in the past two weeks. Officials spoke to them and their family members about possible sources of exposure, said Dr. Aamir Bharmal, a medical health officer with the authority.
  After confirmi
  
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• Highway sign acknowledges contributions of Japanese-Canadian workers

  08-09-2018 01:03 via vancouversun.com
  An old photo of a dozen men sitting by a work truck in rural B.C. is marked with a scribble dating it to June 1942, about 6 months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the U.S. into the Second World War.
  What happened to over 22,000 people of Japanese descent living in B.C. after that military strike is a well-known part of Canadian history that was commemorated last year on its 75th anniversary.
  Japanese-Canadians were declared a threat to national security and called “enemy aliens
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Decriminalization is no silver bullet, says Portugal's drug czar

  08-09-2018 01:01 via vancouversun.com
  In the 1990s, Portugal was in the throes of a national crisis, averaging 360 drug overdose deaths a year in a country of 10 million. Today, it has one of Europe’s lowest rates of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and the number of overdose deaths in 2016 was 26. In a weeklong series from Portugal, Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham looks at the lessons to be learned from the country’s radical approach to addiction treatment. 
  LISBON, Portugal — Almost every day,
  
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• Nike embraces Just Do It motto by standing out for kneeling Kaepernick

  08-09-2018 00:11 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Nobody had a more bullish week than former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
  Now almost two years into what appears to be a “forced retirement” from the NFL, Kaepernick was introduced as a starring face in the 30th anniversary of Nike’s Just Do It campaign.That gave his version of social justice advocacy — created out of almost nothing two years ago when he first sat and then kneeled during the national anthem at NFL games to protest
  
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