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• ART SEEN: How Patricia Piccinini's transgenic 'homeless' creatures came to Vancouver

  12-09-2018 23:12 via vancouversun.com
  It’s because of the connections of Marcello Dantas, one of the senior curators for the Vancouver Biennale, that an exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s works is opening Friday, Sept. 14 at the Patricia Hotel.
  Dantas was curator of the phenomenally popular exhibitions of Piccinini’s works in Rio de Janeiro two years ago. ComCiência was seen by 444,425 people, making it one of the top exhibitions of contemporary art in 2016. Taken together with two other exhibitions of Piccin
  
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• Looks like we've got rain in the forecast for at least another week. ⛈️🌧️☔ Please help keep storm drains clear to p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Fall Arts 2018: A theatrical fall of dark comedy, working-class angst and beautiful music

  12-09-2018 22:17 via vancouversun.com
  The fall theatre season is already in full swing: a lively Fringe Festival, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Arts Club), Kim’s Convenience (Pacific Theatre), Marion Bridge (Kay Meek), The Life of Galileo (United Players). Indigenous plays Kamloopa (Cultch) and Tales of an Urban Indian (Presentation House) open later this month. These four might be the best of the rest.
  Les Belles-soeurs plays Sept. 27-Oct. 6 at Gateway Theatre, Richmond.
  Les Belles-soeurs
  When: Sept. 27-O
  
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• Patricia Piccinini's transgenic creatures pay a visit to the Patricia Hotel

  12-09-2018 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  Curious Imaginings
  Where: Patricia Hotel
  When: Sept. 14 to Dec. 15.Tickets and info: From $11, imcurious.ca
  Looking into Room 107 from the hallway of the Patricia Hotel, all you can see is the back of something not quite human lying on its side a white bedspread.
  Once inside the room, you can see it’s a mother and her offspring. Despite the otherwise domestic scene, the effect is to create an altogether unsettling feeling, not only because you’re looking at several transgenic human-a
  
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• Vancouver Island man's fingertips 'blown off' by mail bomb

  12-09-2018 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  A Port Alice man suffered serious injuries after a mail bomb exploded in his hands on Tuesday.
  The victim, identified as Roger Nepper, was taken to hospital.
  Nepper’s wife, Shirley Bowick, told CHEK News that the package exploded when her husband opened it in their home.
  “He picked up the package and he comes home, I’m right beside him and he opened it up and it’s a bomb,” she told CHEK. “His fingertips were basically blown off.”
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• Canadian pricing for new iPhones ranges from $1,029 to $1,999

  12-09-2018 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians will have open their wallets wide and dump out all the contents if they hope to purchase one of Apple’s three new iPhones.
  Related
  Apple ups the screen size with iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max
  CEO Tim Cook showed off the Apple XS, which has a bigger screen (5.8 inch) than the one on last year’s dramatically designed model, the iPhone X. A bigger version will be called the iPhone XS Max, which is about the size of the iPhone 8 Plus, though the 6.5-inch screen size is much bigger.
  
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• We're looking for #volunteers to help plant native plants along Hastings Creek this Saturday. In exchange for your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 21:39 via twitter.com
  We're looking for #volunteers to help plant native plants along Hastings Creek this Saturday. In exchange for your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New subway will transform Vancouver's Broadway corridor

  12-09-2018 20:55 via vancouversun.com
  The confirmed new subway line along Vancouver’s Broadway corridor will provide a welcome boost for property owners, but the city’s moratorium on rezonings in the area will tamp down speculation in the area for at least the next two years, commercial brokers say.
  On Sept. 4, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier John Horgan and TransLink confirmed the funding for the Broadway subway line extension that would add 5.7 kilometres of track and six stations to the SkyTrain Millennium Line
  
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• Province open to municipalities' cannabis tax proposal: Solicitor General

  12-09-2018 20:51 via vancouversun.com
  WHISTLER — B.C.’s solicitor general says the province is considering a request from municipalities for 40 per cent of the provincial share of federal excise tax revenue from cannabis.
  “They’ve made it clear right from the get go that they would like to have revenue sharing in excise tax,” said Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth. “They’ve given a number and right now that issue is with the Ministry of Finance.”
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• Officials considering rescuing ailing killer whale for medical treatment

  12-09-2018 20:37 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Officials are considering rescuing an extremely ill endangered orca for a hands-on physical exam if she is ultimately separated from her family unit or stranded on a beach because treating her at sea has been unsuccessful.
  If the orca known as J50 is rescued, officials say they would focus on giving her medical care and then release the whale back into the wild.
  If experts who assess J50 in the field determine that she cannot be treated or rehabilitated, teams would return her
  
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• We're jazzing up Lynnmouth Park, adding more plant species and improving the habitat. Want to help? Join us at our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  We're jazzing up Lynnmouth Park, adding more plant species and improving the habitat. Want to help? Join us at our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Six injured in Port Moody bus crash

  12-09-2018 20:13 via vancouversun.com
  Six passengers sustained minor injuries early Wednesday after a truck collided with a transit bus.
  Port Moody police say the crash happened at around 8 a.m. when a transit bus and a truck crashed on St. Johns Street at Williams Street.
  Port Moody Fire and Rescue removed a portion of the side of the bus to remove one of the passengers.
  St. Johns was closed while crews cleared the crash but it has since reopened.
  St Johns St at Williams St is now completely cleared up after a truck collided with t
  
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• Hey bargain hunters, don't forget about our upcoming garage sale this Sunday and Monday at the old Delbrook communi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 20:07 via twitter.com
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• Search and rescue teams looking for two women missing near Lions Bay

  12-09-2018 20:02 via vancouversun.com
  LIONS BAY — A search is underway in the mountains above Lions Bay for two women overdue on what was supposed to be a day hike.
  Lions Bay Search and Rescue spokesman Sandro Frei says the women are both believed to be 19 years old.
  He says their families reported Tuesday night that they had not returned from the hike.
  Their vehicle has been located in the small lot in Lions Bay that Frei says is used as the starting point for hikes to West Lion Peak and other popular routes overlooking Howe
  
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• Mia Stainsby: Pepino's Spaghetti House the resurrection of Nick's in East Van

  12-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Pepino’s Spaghetti House
  Where: 631 Commercial Drive | 604-254-5633
  Open: Seven days a week 5 p.m. to late for dinner/ Mon-Fri 11:30 a.m. — 2 p.m. for lunch.All that’s missing is Dean Martin crooning That’s Amore (bells will ring, ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling!) and maybe some Brylcreemed duck tails and backcombed beehives.
  And for folks of a certain age, bells will ring. The whoosh of time hits like a big pizza pie and you’re yanked back in time upon stepp
  
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• Fall Arts 2018: Dinosaurs, wild animals and the Peanuts gang entertain all ages

  12-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What gets kids’ imaginations fired up? Dinosaurs, of course — which is one reason the upcoming Vancouver debut of National Geographic Live is exciting. Wild animals, Charlie Brown and friends, and Al Simmons are also surefire crowd-pleasers among the younger set. (And don’t forget, Science World’s The Science Behind Pixar continues until Jan. 6, 2019.) The next few months offer plenty of entertainment options for families; here are a few.
  A teen encounters wild life as sh
  
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• Beauty Bar: Olay Foaming Whip Body Wash

  12-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new line of body washes from Olay that has a unique sensorial shakeup — foam.
  The Olay Foaming Whip Body Wash collection features three scents: White Strawberry and Mint; Shea Butter; and Birch Water and Lavender.
  The whipped formula is designed to “change everything you think you know about foaming body wash,” according to the brand. The formulas lather instantly into a thick foam that “envelops skin in a rich lather.”
  What we say: Our tester was
  
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• Exactly how unaffordable are Metro Vancouver’s detached homes? (INFOGRAPHIC)

  12-09-2018 19:01
  
  Study reveals $299,660 chasm between median income earned and income needed for typical West Vancouver house purchase; $160,991 gap in North Van
  
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• Board finds man unfit for trial in fatal stabbing of Abbotsford high school student

  12-09-2018 18:41 via vancouversun.com
  The British Columbia Review Board has again found Gabriel Klein unfit to stand trial on account of a mental disorder for the murder of an Abbotsford high school student.
  The board released its decision saying Klein will continue to be detained at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam.
  Klein’s lawyer, Martin Peters, says it’s expected his client will receive a new medication and could make further court appearances if his mental state improves, but it’s uncertain if or
  
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• Chelsea Handler says cannabis has changed her life

  12-09-2018 18:40 via vancouversun.com
  A Civilized Conversation With Chelsea Handler
  When: Sept. 21, 8 p.m.
  Where: Chan Centre
  Tickets and info: $58-$105, chelsea.civilized.life
  The state of U.S. politics didn’t drive Chelsea Handler to drink, but it did encourage her to consume cannabis.
  “I was re-introduced to cannabis once Trump was elected because alcohol was a little bit too on the nose for me and I already abuse it. So I started to use cannabis again because it was becoming legal in the state of California,&rdq
  
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• Severe gap between income and house prices in all Metro Vancouver markets: report

  12-09-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  How unaffordable is the Metro Vancouver housing market? A report from a real estate referral service has found the gap between housing costs and income is tens of thousands of dollars in most cities in the region.
  The report from Zoocasa looked at the minimum income required to a buy a house in a neighbourhood compared with residents’ median income.
  It found that there isn’t a single market across Metro Vancouver where a household earning the median income can afford houses
  
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• Think trucks are the main problem? Trucks make up only a small share of the total traffic volume leading into the N… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
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• Police, students, and Speed Watch are out at Westview Elementary School this morning reminding all drivers about Di… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 17:43 via twitter.com
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• Impact of diluted bitumen on young sockeye salmon deadly, says Guelph study

  12-09-2018 16:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A spill of diluted bitumen puts the survival of young salmon at risk even if the fish end up in clean water following exposure to the oil product, says new research from the University of Guelph.
  Researchers said they made the conclusions after exposing four groups of sockeye salmon eggs to four different amounts of water soluble diluted bitumen and observed the young fish after the eggs hatched for up to eight months in clean water.
  “We saw a lot of changes during the exp
  
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• Daily Poll: Who should replace Ian Campbell as Vision Vancouver's mayoral candidate?

  12-09-2018 16:05 via vancouversun.com
  Andrea Reimer is now considering a run for the city’s top job, after Ian Campbell stepped aside as Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate. And some have suggested independent candidate Kennedy Stewart should be the party’s new mayoral candidate.
  Read Matt Robinson and Jennifer Saltman’s story here.
  The nomination period for the 2018 municipal elections is open until Friday, meaning there is still time for Vision to nominate a new mayoral candidate.
  What do you think? Would
  
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• Crews 'aggressively' fight wildfire that threatened Trail hospital

  12-09-2018 15:59 via vancouversun.com
  TRAIL — Wildfire crews in southeastern B.C. hope to make short work of a blaze that broke out late Tuesday and burned within a few hundred metres of the hospital in Trail.
  The Kootenay Boundary Regional District says four BC Wildfire Service air tankers, a helicopter and a total of 36 firefighters from local fire halls and the wildfire service “aggressively fought the blaze” and made good progress by nightfall.
  The wildfire service says the roughly two hectare fire followed the
  
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• Barter-based commerce app expands cryptocurrency to Vancouver

  12-09-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The popular Toronto-founded bartering network known as the Bunz Trading Zone is expanding a new cryptocurrency element of the platform to its Vancouver users, the company announced today.
  Bunz started in 2013 as a Facebook group of like-minded friends trading what they had for what they needed. In January 2016, it launched as a smartphone app, said Ayaz Virani, lead of marketing, culture and business development for Bunz.
  The organization saw an opening to create a “medium of exchange&rdqu
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy, risk of thunderstorm this afternoon

  12-09-2018 14:57 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like Wednesday’s weather will be mostly cloudy, with a slight chance of showers and a high of 17 C. There is also a risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and again in the early evening, according to Environment Canada. The agency is forecasting rain for the rest of the week and into the weekend, when the temperature is expected to dip again down to a high of 14 C on Saturday and Sunday.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chanc
  
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• Crosstown residents fed up with needles, waste in Vancouver park

  12-09-2018 06:24 via vancouversun.com
  North False Creek residents fed up with discarded needles, open drug use and what they say is increased violence in their neighbourhood are issuing a desperate plea for help.
  Fern Jeffries, who has lived in Vancouver’s Crosstown neighbourhood near Andy Livingstone park said the situation has deteriorated in recent years.
  “We have seen over the past while a tremendous increase in the level of violence and desperation around drug use and addiction,” said Jeffries.
  “We&rsquo
  
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• Vision's Andrea Reimer mulls run for mayor after Ian Campbell drops out

  12-09-2018 04:10 via vancouversun.com
  Ian Campbell’s decision to step aside as Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate left city councillor Andrea Reimer mulling her own run at the city’s top job and two others voicing support for independent candidate Kennedy Stewart.
  The nomination period for the 2018 municipal elections is open until Friday, meaning there is still time for Vision to nominate a new mayoral candidate. The party could instead choose to endorse or enlist an independent, or stay on the sidelines.
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• Vaughn Palmer: Hydro called on secrecy, but have they learned their lesson?

  12-09-2018 04:08 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. Utilities Commission has lately documented in embarrassing detail how B.C. Hydro secrecy contributed to a pattern of failure and evasion regarding a $200 million information technology program.
  Hydro committed to the expensive SAP software a decade ago, maintaining it would save money and improve its business in the areas of finance, human resource and project management.
  But the regulatory commission, in a report released last week, found that the leadership at Hy
  
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• Convicted rapist walks away from Vancouver halfway house

  12-09-2018 03:57 via vancouversun.com
  A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a convicted sex offender after he failed to return to a Vancouver halfway house Monday night.
  James Allan Pike, 46, is serving a long-term supervision order following a violent sexual assault of a Penticton woman in 2001.
  In 2007, after finishing his prison sentence and while he was bound to a long-term community supervision order, Pike was found guilty of uttering threats and possessing a weapon — a knife — as well as assaulting of
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: New subway will transform Broadway corridor

  12-09-2018 03:05 via vancouversun.com
  The confirmed new subway line along Vancouver’s Broadway corridor will provide a welcome boost for property owners, but the city’s moratorium on rezonings in the area will tamp down speculation in the area for at least the next two years, commercial brokers say.
  On Sept. 4, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier John Horgan and TransLink confirmed the funding for the Broadway subway line extension that would add 5.7 kilometres of track and six stations to the SkyTrain Millennium Line
  
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• Tickets for our charitable fishing derby are now sold out! Looking forward to raising some money for two great char… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 03:04 via twitter.com
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• Sun letters to the editor for Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018

  12-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: “Buckle up for the Broncos, mother urges”, Opinion, Sep. 10.
  This appeal to make seatbelt use mandatory in highway buses will save some lives, but does nothing to prevent such tragedies.
  Aerial photos show that the Broncos’ bus crashed into the side of the double-trailer freight truck.
  How many hours-in-service had been logged by the bus driver prior to the collision? Was the coach driver fatigued? Was the bus driver on his smart phone or fiddling with the entertainment sys
  
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• Ira Glass having a gas touring Seven Things I Have Learned

  12-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Seven Things I Have Learned: An Evening With Ira Glass
  When: Sept. 22, 8 p.m.
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: ticketmaster.ca
  In 1995, WBEZ and its parent company Chicago Public Media began broadcasting a show called This American Life. In 2018, the program’s weekly American listenership was 1.8 million. Add in the international audience — CBC picked up This American Life in 2011 — and well over two million people tune in to hear the show. There are also about
  
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• B.C.'s largest cities on a spending spree for last decade: report

  12-09-2018 02:50 via vancouversun.com
  Less than six weeks before municipal elections, a new report is criticizing B.C.’s cities and towns for jacking up both spending and property taxes by 43 per cent between 2006 and 2016, during a time when the province’s population increased by just 12 per cent.
  The report, from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, ranks 152 B.C. municipalities on their operational spending, which includes costs such as policing, parks and transportation, but does not include capital expen
  
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• Passenger Transportation Board to allow taxi licensees to increase fleets

  12-09-2018 02:47 via vancouversun.com
  WHISTLER — B.C.’s Passenger Transportation Board has decided to allow taxi companies to apply to expand their fleets by 15 per cent in an effort to provide better service to the public.
  Board chair Catharine Read outlined the board’s decision on increasing the number of taxis and two other changes to regulations on Tuesday to elected officials at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler.
  “People at the board really do believe it’s time for an u
  
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• Work underway to release fuel trapped in barge at Haida Gwaii

  12-09-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  QUEEN CHARLOTTE — The Canadian Coast Guard says crews are working carefully to release gas that accumulated inside a barge carrying a fishing lodge that beached after it broke away from its anchorage at Haida Gwaii.
  Westcoast Resorts’ Hippa barge came loose from its mooring Saturday night and drifted for several hours toward Skidegate Inlet near the village of Queen Charlotte.
  Canadian Coast Guard Incident Commander Tim McCann says crews inspected the barge hull Tuesday and used air
  
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• B.C. government abruptly replaces top forestry official

  12-09-2018 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The abrupt departure of the B.C. government’s top forestry official could signal a change in policy direction by Premier John Horgan and an expectation that turbulent times remain ahead for the sector.
  Tim Sheldan, the deputy minister of forests, lands, natural resource operations and rural development, was removed from the job on Monday by Don Wright, the head of the civil service and Premier John Horgan’s deputy minister.
  Sheldan’s replacement, John Allan, is
  
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• TransLink ordered by high court to reconsider pro-life group's ad

  12-09-2018 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s highest court has ordered TransLink to reconsider its denial of an advertisement from an anti-abortion group.
  In January 2015, the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform made inquiries about placing an advertisement on TransLink buses.
  The non-profit society’s proposed ad included images of fetuses and the words “ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN.”
  TransLink’s advertising agent refused to place the ad.
  About a month later, John Beaudoin, TransLink’s director of c
  
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• Wait, what?! It’s a local election year? Yup. Saturday, October 20th. If you’re running, voting, registering get th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Wait, what?! It’s a local election year? Yup. Saturday, October 20th. If you’re running, voting, registering get th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Project Coordinator. Click here to apply. ow.ly/JsOw30lMw32

  12-09-2018 01:22 via twitter.com
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• VPD investigating after wigs destined for sick kids stolen

  12-09-2018 00:24
  
  More than 100 wigs stolen in early morning break in
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Harm reduction just one part of Portugal's war on drugs

  12-09-2018 00:22 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 — It’s only af
  
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• Theatre review: A Fringe full of revelations

  12-09-2018 00:20 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Fringe Festival
  When: To Sept. 16
  Where: Various venues
  Tickets & Info: $15; vancouverfringe.com
  Where else but at the Fringe can you see every kind of off-the-wall self-penned hour-long solo show as well as the kind of substantial full-length work you might see on Broadway or at the Arts Club, but done on a shoestring?
  Forget Me Not — The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit, is playing at The Revue Stage, Granville Island.
  Forget Me Not — The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit
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• Thief steals 150 wigs set aside for cancer patients at B.C. Children’s Hospital

  12-09-2018 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police says 150 wigs, set aside for children battling cancer, were stolen last Friday during an early-morning break-in at a Vancouver wig store.Police were called to Eva and Company Wigs at 950 West Broadway just after 3:30 a.m. after an intruder alarm was tripped.
  At least 150 wigs, all made from real human hair and valued at approximately $2,500 each, were reported stolen.
  The wigs had been set aside for cancer patients at B.C. Children’s Hospital.
  The suspect ha
  
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• Private MRI clinics get reprieve while B.C. government clears wait lists

  12-09-2018 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  Private clinics offering MRI diagnostics will be allowed to bill patients directly for six more months while the provincial health care system ramps up its own MRI services.
  Extra billing by doctors for medically necessary treatments is set to end Oct. 1 when the Medicare Protection Act comes into effect, with the notable exception of MRI imaging.
  Private clinics can continue to bill patients for those diagnostic services until April1, 2019, to help clear lengthy wait lists for the procedure.
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