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• Pitt Meadows bus stop voted worst in North America

  15-09-2018 23:48 via vancouversun.com
  Maybe if you worked at the landscaping company across the highway or the beef farm down the road you’d use this bus stop, voted the “sorriest” of its kind in North America.
  Otherwise, you’d need to be dropped off by cab just to get to the TransLink stop on the Lougheed Highway at Old Dewdney Trunk Road in Pitt Meadows.
  Readers of StreetsblogUSA voted 58 per cent to 42 per cent, in an NCAA bracket-style vote-off, to hand the Pitt Meadows stop the dishonour of being sorrier
  
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• B.C. to get just a single cannabis store on day one of legalization

  15-09-2018 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  Don’t count on more than one legal recreational cannabis store to open its doors in B.C. on federal legalization day next month.
  The B.C. government has said the opening of new cannabis stores “won’t happen overnight” on Oct. 17, when the federal Cannabis Act comes into force. But a survey of local governments and cannabis consultants reveals it may actually take up to 18 months before potential operators have trudged through the rigorous process of municipal rezoning, co
  
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• Happy Birthday City Library! It's been 10 years since we broke ground, and built our much loved state-of-the-art Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Happy Birthday City Library! It's been 10 years since we broke ground, and built our much loved state-of-the-art Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Makeover: A refreshing new look for retired high school teacher

  15-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Michelle Hall is a 58-year-old retired high school teacher. She was feeling “old” and decided to treat herself with a style refresh.
  Michelle has fine and naturally wavy hair. It was previously coloured and had faded to a brassy copper-red tone. I wanted to keep her colour in the warm family but refine it to suite her complexion and eye colour.
  I applied foils highlights around her face and strategically throughout her hair to brighten around it up. I then tapped in a cool, copper-br
  
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• Chef Joseph Thomas brings passion to Seasons in the Park

  15-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Joseph Thomas has had a passion for food for as long as he can remember, and was especially inspired as a child by the culinary feats of his aunts. Education has played a huge role in his life mission, with a bachelor’s degree in hotel and restaurant management and a Red Seal Certificate in cooking and baking, as well.
  Before landing as the executive chef at Seasons in the Park, Thomas worked all over Canada with turns catering for the Vancouver Whitecaps and preparing meals for the R
  
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• 10 years ago, the City built a stunning new library. And today there’s a big ol birthday party @NorthVanCityLib… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 19:36 via twitter.com
  10 years ago, the City built a stunning new library.And today there’s a big olbirthday party@NorthVanCityLib… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver's 'mini-mega' church pastor probes the blessing and curse of his ambition

  15-09-2018 19:10 via vancouversun.com
  I probably shouldn’t get in the habit of publishing guest blog posts and book reviews in which people get the chance to praise a favorite local spiritual leader. It could get out of hand. But in this case, mostly since Jason Byassee is an accomplished writer, I’m pleased to offer his admiring thoughts on one of the city’s successful Christian leaders.
  I’ve written about Tenth Avenue Church Pastor Ken Shigematsu, who is finding creative ways to bridge the often-awkward gap
  
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• Police will be able to toke, but must be fit for duty

  15-09-2018 18:47 via vancouversun.com
  Provided they show up at work fit for duty, your local police officers will be free to smoke a joint with the neighbours when recreational cannabis becomes legal under federal law on Oct. 17.
  While members of the Canadian Armed Forces must refrain from using cannabis in the eight hours before they report for duty and for 24 hours before handling a firearm, regulations for police officers don’t appear to be as tight.
  The Vancouver Police Department won’t apply any specific time restri
  
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• Stop by the City Library TODAY from 9:30am-3:30pm for 10th anniversary party with pirate-themed activities for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 17:30 via twitter.com
  Stop by the City Library TODAY from 9:30am-3:30pm for 10th anniversary party with pirate-themed activities for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Canada says B.C. Indigenous basket making an event of historic significance

  15-09-2018 16:53 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Matilda Borden liked to pour a cup of tea to display her basket making expertise, proving her cups made from material gathered in British Columbia’s forests were watertight, says her granddaughter Brenda Crabtree.
  Not one drop would leak, recalls Crabtree, who is also a basket-making artist and Aboriginal programs director at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.
  “She was showing off and it’s really, truly the mark of a master weaver,” she
  
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• Hudson Place One to be a standout in Victoria

  15-09-2018 14:33 via vancouversun.com
  While Townline’s 25-storey Hudson Place One residential tower will stand out as the tallest building in Victoria when completed in 2020, a 30-foot-high illuminated installation on top of the structure will be an unmistakable beacon for locals and visitors to the province’s capital city.
  “We wanted to really elevate the architectural design and living experience and the signature vertical light feature will make this an iconic building,” says Chris Colbeck, Townline’
  
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• The Home Front: The design show loved by designers

  15-09-2018 14:28 via vancouversun.com
  For the past four years, furniture designer and maker Kate Duncan has assembled what she believes to be the best of Pacific Northwest design — in everything from furniture to textiles, metal work to lighting, ceramics, artwork and more — and presented it in a highly stylized vignettes through her design show ADDRESS.
  The show, curated by Amber Kingsnorth of Mak Interiors, has become a favourite within the design community and is back for a fifth year, opening with a Meet th
  
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• Gilmore Place to be a 'live, work and play community'

  15-09-2018 14:19 via vancouversun.com
  The Onni Group’s Gilmore Place is the third of a trio of master-planned communities launched over the last three years as part of Burnaby’s ambitious plan to foster residential development along the backbone of the SkyTrain Millennium line running through its Brentwood and Lougheed town centres.
  Gilmore Place, which is being built around the SkyTrain station of the same name, will join Concord Pacific’s Brentwood community and Shape Properties’ massive City of Lougheed fu
  
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• Sold (Bought): Dozens of would-be buyers check out Maple Ridge home

  15-09-2018 14:16 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  26742 98 Avenue, Maple Ridge
  Type: Four-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 1,934 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,007,200
  Listed for: $1,399,000
  Sold for: $1,367,500
  Sold on: May 17
  Days on market: 65
  Listing agent: Shannon Drummond and Pat Drummond at Keller Williams Elite Realty
  Buyers agent: Amanda vandenBrink at Royal LePage — Brookside Realty
  The big sell: According to listing agent Shannon Drummond, more than 100 p
  
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• Growth, density lead the debate in most council races in Metro Vancouver

  15-09-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  As next month’s municipal elections draw closer, debates around development are a common theme throughout Metro Vancouver.
  But the nature of the debate varies by municipality, as each faces its own unique challenges. On the North Shore, the focus is the effect of growth on traffic. South of the Fraser, municipalities are struggling to develop without sprawling into rural lands. In Vancouver proper, there are fears of densification leading to the mass bulldozing of residential neighbourhood
  
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• Vancouver Municipal Election 2018: Who's running?

  15-09-2018 08:29 via vancouversun.com
  The nominations for Vancouver’s municipal elections on Oct. 20 closed Friday with six contenders vying for mayor, 29 candidates for city councillors, 12 for the park board commissioner and nine for the school trustees.
  Vancouver voters will elect a mayor and 10 councillors for Vancouver City Council, seven commissioners for the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and nine school trustees for the Vancouver School Board.
  Here’s a list of all the candidate w
  
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• Horgan confident hurdles will be cleared to build Kitimat LNG terminal

  15-09-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan was in an inspirational mood Friday when he addressed the annual convention of the Union of B.C. Municipalities in Whistler.
  He thanked key players for rising to the occasion on the year’s fires and floods, pledged to listen to local government — not saying if that would extend to complaints about the speculation tax — and used the platform to campaign for a Yes vote in the referendum on proportional representation.
  Near the end, Horgan
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018

  15-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Journalists have a powerful tool in their ability to expose failed policies. Columnist Daphne Bramham is to be congratulated on her excellent series “Addiction: Winning The War”.
  I doubt that any Vancouverite believes that the chaos in the Downtown Eastside has been a success, evidenced in the desperation of souls cannibalized by the ruthlessness of addiction. The Portugal model may not work for us, but we do need a system that is more than just a hodgepodge of services loosely cobbl
  
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• This Week in History: 1942: Corty the Kitten, Fifth Columnists and Watching The Clock While You Talk

  15-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Second World War was in its third year by September 1942. On the home front, businesses showed their patriotism by taking out war-themed ads.
  Some were pertinent, others slightly ludicrous. Seventy-six years later, though, they are all pretty interesting.
  A good example is B.C. Tel’s “Watch The Clock While You Talk” ad, which featured a man telling a friend he was “rationing my phone calls until after the war.”
  “The Telephone Company is having quite a time
  
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• John Redekop: PR proponents wrong to say current voting causes 'dictatorship'

  15-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Maria Dobrinskaya’s Sept. 7 column, “Proportional representation worth your vote”, highlights some benefits of proportional representation, but also contains serious errors.
  The statement that a majority government “gets a four-year dictatorship” is false. Every government is checked by constitutional restraints, the Charters of Rights, court rulings, the Official Opposition, pressure groups, and the media. The Trudeau government’s major judicial setback
  
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• Elizabeth Murphy: Vancouver city hall is slamming through destructive new zoning without giving citizens a say

  15-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Recent information on the costs of transit and utility upgrades for growth raise concerns and questions. What is becoming clearer is how much the public is being asked to subsidize the transit providers and development industries that benefit from these plans while making life less affordable, livable and sustainable for people.
  Neighbourhoods are being rezoned in an incompetent, mad rush to accommodate this growth agenda — most of which is unaffordable and unnecessary to meet population g
  
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• Editorial: Voters need to think about out-of-control municipal spending before casting their ballots

  15-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business released the 11th edition of its annual municipal spending report this week, examining the growth in operational spending by municipal governments in B.C.
  The report finds that “overall real municipal spending” increased by 43 per cent between 2006 and 2016 — a period when the province’s population only grew by 12 per cent. That means that local politicians in 152 B.C. city halls were, on average, spending your money at near
  
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• 5 things to know about Bob Moses Battle Lines

  15-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bob Moses
  Battle Lines | Domino
  Vancouver’s Bob Moses is the duo of Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance who blew up with their Days Gone By album and its ear worm single Tearing Me Up.
  The duo’s mix of both classic rock song structure and EDM textures and rises made it instantly appealing to fans in both camps and they toured heavily in support of the album. Last year, Bob Moses was nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Electronic Music Awards.
  They will be hitting the tour circuit hard
  
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• Our map of major public works, infrastructure, and private construction projects that may impact traffic flow has b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 02:19 via twitter.com
  Our map of major public works, infrastructure, and private construction projects that may impact traffic flow has b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Video: Vancouver police seize cannabis from opioid replacement kiosk

  15-09-2018 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  An unlicensed pop-up cannabis dispensary in city’s Downtown Eastside that supplies drug users with free cannabis to reduce dependence on powerful opioids such as heroin and fentanyl was raided by Vancouver police Friday morning.
  Sarah Blyth, a Vancouver city council candidate and founder of the front-line Overdose Prevention Society, says VPD officers entered the site at 62 East Hastings Street just after 10 a.m. Nobody was arrested, but police took all the cannabis that was on d
  
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• TransCanada signs all elected First Nations along $4.7-billion gas pipeline route through B.C.

  15-09-2018 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  TransCanada has completed benefit agreements with all 20 elected First Nation bands along its Coastal GasLink pipeline route from Dawson Creek to Kitimat.
  The pipeline would feed the Shell-led LNG Canada gas plant should it go ahead, with TransCanada saying it’s ready to build.
  There has been heightened anticipation recently that LNG Canada is gearing up to make a final investment decision on the up-to $36-billion export terminal in Kitimat.
  The company has announced major contracts and ha
  
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• Whitehorse man, 73, arrested in relation to Vancouver Island mail bombing

  15-09-2018 01:34 via vancouversun.com
  WHITEHORSE — Police have arrested a 73-year-old Whitehorse man in relation to a mail bombing in Port Alice earlier this week.
  Whitehorse RCMP made the arrest Thursday and also asked residents of an apartment building to evacuate while they conducted a search, “out of an abundance of caution.”
  Residents were allowed to return home later that evening.
  On Sept. 11, an explosion injured a retired pulp mill worker when a mail bomb went off after he opened a package at his home.
  Shan
  
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• BBQ in the rain anyone? ☔️ With the return of rain and cooler temperatures, the fire hazard rating is now LOW. Fire… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  BBQ in the rain anyone? ☔️ With the return of rain and cooler temperatures, the fire hazard rating is now LOW. Fire… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Thank you @canadapostcorp for honouring firefighters with the newly unveiled stamp. We are proud to be serving our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 01:26 via twitter.com
  Thank you @canadapostcorp for honouring firefighters with the newly unveiled stamp. We are proud to be serving our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hey, don't forget, we're selling all kinds of cool stuff at our old Delbrook Community Centre garage sale - office… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 01:18 via twitter.com
  Hey, don't forget, we're selling all kinds of cool stuff at our old Delbrook Community Centre garage sale - office… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Nike sees stock swoosh upward, while Melnyk's video just doesn't do it

  15-09-2018 01:14 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  For the second consecutive week, “Just Do It” has been among the most bullish rallying cries in North American professional sport.
  It made headlines 10 days ago when Colin Kaepernick was unveiled as a key face of the Nike advertising campaign to promote the 30th anniversary of the iconic slogan.The polarized response of the marketplace was punctuated by a few days of social video showing some fans burning their Nike shoes and a $2 billion dip in market capitali
  
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• Cannabis legalization, taxation, wildfires dominate local government convention

  15-09-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  WHISTLER — Premier John Horgan said he has travelled across the province during the past year to meet with elected officials and discuss their concerns, to get an idea of what’s important in their communities.
  “We have been trying to engage with councils, with mayors, with regional district directors, so that we actually hear you, not just listen to you,” Horgan said on Friday in an address to delegates at the close of the Union of B.C. Municipalities annual conference.
  H
  
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• Green activist admits he was wrong about age of Surrey trees

  15-09-2018 00:29 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey resident who wants to save a stand of trees admits he was wrong about their age.
  Richard Landale says the trees are about 63 years old — and not 300 plus old growth trees as he originally claimed.
  “Okay, so I’m wrong,” Landale said.
  “That doesn’t actually negate what the high value of these trees as a standing grove could give to the development. I said one thing based upon available information — that definitely misled me. They’re not old
  
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• Raise-a-Reader: Literacy class helps Afghan refugee and family

  15-09-2018 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  Fatemeh Zamani knew she was one of the lucky ones in her family when she came to Canada in 2007 from war-torn Afghanistan, via Iran, with her husband and his family.
  It was a trip she realizes not only led her to a country where she can freely get an education, but likely saved her from the tragedy that befell other members of her family.
  Her father was a mullah at a mosque in her hometown of Kabul — where she and her five siblings grew up — and was targeted by Taliban terrorists, sa
  
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