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• Coquitlam RCMP introduce traffic 'scarecrow' in bid to prevent speeding

  18-09-2018 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  COQUITLAM — The RCMP is borrowing an idea from the United Kingdom by using a cut-out of a police officer to try and slow down traffic in Coquitlam.
  The Mounties have dubbed the life-sized figure “Constable Scarecrow,” which will be used on roads in the community in a pilot project for the next two months.
  The metal poster cut-out shows a police officer in a bright yellow RCMP jacket holding up a laser speed-reader.
  Sgt. Quentin Frewing says in a news release similar cut-outs ha
  
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• Vancouver Airport Authority in crosshairs of Competition Bureau over airline food

  18-09-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The federal Competition Tribunal has set a date for hearings between the Vancouver Airport Authority and Canada’s competition watchdog, which has accused the airport operator of stifling competition among in-flight catering companies.
  In a case launched in 2016, the competition commissioner argued the airport authority had exploited its market position by denying new airplane catering suppliers access to the airport, resulting in higher prices and worse service.
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• Gaming giant Capcom shutters its Burnaby studio

  18-09-2018 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  Japanese video game giant Capcom closed its Burnaby studio Tuesday, leaving 158 people out of work.
  The studio, which first opened in 2005 as Blue Castle Games before being purchased by Capcom in 2011, was responsible for producing the popular Dead Rising franchise and the free-to-play Puzzle Fighter.
  Operations at Capcom Vancouver are being suspended immediately and projects are being moved to Japan, the company says.
  Unfortunately Capcom Vancouver shuttered today. I’m in a bit of a shock
  
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• Could the CN Rail Bridge be used for transit, walking or cycling? Learn why this option isn’t currently available t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-09-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  Could the CN Rail Bridge be used for transit, walking or cycling? Learn why this option isn’t currently available t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Homeowners feeling the sting of rising interest rates

  18-09-2018 22:48
  
  Many now paying "equivalent of one extra mortgage payment" per year
  
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• There's already a great deal of snowfall at Whistler Peak

  18-09-2018 22:04
  
  "It’s starting to look a lot like…we’ve skipped a season"
  
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• Family of Richmond homicide victim seek help to catch killer

  18-09-2018 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  It’s been a year since 41-year-old Joseph Lucien De Carvalho of Richmond was shot dead in a targeted hit, and there is still no arrest.
  His family is desperate to catch his killer, and on Tuesday made an appeal along with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team for help to solve the case.
  Joseph De Carvalho was killed one year ago in a targeted shooting in Richmond.
  His mother, Monica De Carvalho, read a tearful statement from the family saying the thought of “Joe”
  
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• Unprepared hikers spend cold night on North Vancouver mountain - North Shore News

  18-09-2018 20:49
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  Unprepared hikers spend cold night on North Vancouver mountain
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  Two middle-aged women who went for a hike Friday and veered wildly off course spent a cold wet night in the North Shore mountains before being helicoptered out Saturday morning. “I don't think they realized what they were getting into at all,” said Don ...and more »
  
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• B.C. resident charged with animal cruelty

  18-09-2018 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  Crown counsel has approved charges of animal cruelty against a resident of Pouce Coupe, a small town in northeastern B.C.
  The B.C. SPCA says Alexis Walker was charged after an emaciated Rottweiler, Kira, was taken into care in June 2016.
  “She was in very poor condition when she came into our care,” said Debbie Goodine, a B.C. SPCA senior animal protection officer, in a statement Tuesday.
  “Her body conditioning score was only one out of nine, meaning that she was extremely
  
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• Missed last night’s Council meeting? Wonder what happened? Watch it here: ow.ly/nT4l30lSa4y #NorthVan https://t.co/ZkSwm2UXtR

  18-09-2018 20:10 via twitter.com
  
  Missed last night’s Council meeting? Wonder what happened? Watch it here: ow.ly/nT4l30lSa4y #NorthVan https://t.co/ZkSwm2UXtR
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland: Keith Urban, Aida Cuevas and more

  18-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Keith Urban: Graffiti U World Tour
  When: Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Rogers Arena
  Tickets and info: ticketmaster.ca
  Graffiti U is the 11th studio album from Down Under country rock superstar Keith Urban. The world tour in support of the album kicked off on June 15 in Maryland Heights Missiouri, which is right in the land of hardcore country music fans. Of course, Urban has enjoyed crossover success as his brand of twang features pretty impressive guitar-testry and, well, yeah, he’s cute. Mr
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: New medical office space planned for Harry Jerome development

  18-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The developer of the newest office project in the City of North Vancouver says the 90,000-square-foot building will help to keep more medical doctors in the area.
  Darwin Properties is preparing to build The Offices at Harry Jerome, which will include about 15,000 sq. ft. of retail space at street level under about 75,000 sq. ft. of class-A office space tailored for medical, dental and other healthcare uses.
  The office project is part of the multi-phase redevelopment of the Harry Jerome Neighbour
  
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• 5 things to know about What R U Waiting 4? by Autogramm

  18-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Autogramm
  What R U Waiting 4? | Nevado
  Nobody in Vancouver’s Autogramm is a newbie to indie rock. That’s probably why they went from an idea to a group with a full-length debut on tastemaking Canadian indie label Nevado Records in less than a year.
  Guitarist Jiffy Marx, bassist C.C. Voltage and drummer The Silo have long histories in the local, Canadian and international music scenes. Among the past projects the members have been in are:
  • Jiffy Marx: Hard Drugs (Brooklyn), Bloo
  
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• Cargo being removed from grounded Haida Gwaii barge and fishing lodge

  18-09-2018 18:14 via vancouversun.com
  QUEEN CHARLOTTE — Crews say they’re making some progress and the weather is co-operating as they deal with a grounded and potentially explosive barge on Haida Gwaii.
  The barge carrying Westcoast Resorts’ Hippa Lodge broke from its moorings and ran aground on Lina Island, near the village of Queen Charlotte, on Sept. 8.
  The Council of the Haida Nation says in a release that removal of the cargo — a process known as lightering — began late Monday and that each step re
  
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• Cops For Cancer Ride Comes To North Vancouver bit.ly/2D4PiFj #NorthVancouver https://t.co/U8D1mZBjvt

  18-09-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  
  Cops For Cancer Ride Comes To North Vancouverbit.ly/2D4PiFj#NorthVancouver https://t.co/U8D1mZBjvt
  
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• Vision Vancouver confirms mayoral candidate Ian Campbell had an assault charge

  18-09-2018 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  Vision Vancouver has confirmed that former mayoral candidate Ian Campbell, who announced a week ago he was no longer running, had failed to disclose an assault charge.
  Campbell, a hereditary chief of the Squamish First Nation, announced Sept. 10 that he was withdrawing from the race, leaving Vision Vancouver without a mayoral candidate 40 days before the municipal election.
  At the time, Vision sent out a news release saying that he would not run, but did not provide any details about why. Campbe
  
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• Last Election 2018 video primer, Part 4: Voting & Taking office in BC General Local Elections. VIDEO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-09-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
  Last Election 2018 video primer, Part 4: Voting & Taking office in BC General Local Elections. VIDEO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. alleges Nanaimo councillor distributed private records

  18-09-2018 17:24 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s Attorney General Ministry has gone to B.C. Supreme Court to force a Nanaimo councillor and three citizens to return confidential documents to the city, remove them from the internet and to destroy any copies.
  Coun. Gord Fuller and Matthew O’Donnell (also known as Matt Hensock), Tim McGrath and Terry Lee Wagar are named by the province in the case. Allegations against them have not been proven in court.
  The matter centres on the distribution of two sets of documents.
  One is a M
  
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• Facebook ad criticizing Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps 'crossing a line'

  18-09-2018 17:08 via vancouversun.com
  Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps made headlines in March with her decision to delete her Facebook account, calling the social media platform a “toxic echo chamber.”
  That toxicity has been writ large with an attack ad on Facebook that all but called the mayor a money launderer.
  The advertisement super-imposes the headline: “Lisa Helps … Launder money?” over an older photo of the mayor.
  The accompanying post reads: Lisa Helps offshore millionaires clean their dirty money to
  
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• Penthouse at Vancouver House – with rooftop hot tub – re-listed for $10.88M (IMAGES)

  18-09-2018 16:40
  
  Wealthy buyers who missed out first time can snap up purchase contract on arguably one of city’s most prestigious condos
  
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• Daily Poll: Did you watch the Vancouver mayoral debate?

  18-09-2018 16:06 via vancouversun.com
  Eight mayoral candidates took to the stage at SFU’s downtown campus Monday night for a debate ahead of Vancouver’s 2018 election.
  Of the 21 mayoral candidates who officially submitted nomination papers, eight appeared at Monday’s event: Hector Bremner of Yes Vancouver, David Chen of ProVancouver, Fred Harding of Vancouver 1st, Ken Sim of the Non-Partisan Association, and Wai Young of Coalition Vancouver, as well as independent candidates Gölök Z. Buday, Kenn
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Restoring what we've ruined may be the best defence against climate-change disasters

  18-09-2018 15:23 via vancouversun.com
  There are few more conservative people than those who determine risk in order for insurance companies to set their rates.
  They don’t need to look at the current images of winds lashing the east coast of the United States or the mega-storm ripping across Asia and question whether climate change is real. They’ve already crunched the numbers and seen the trend lines.
  Property and casualty insurance payouts in Canada have more than quadrupled in the last nine years to an average of $1.8
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Another day of sunshine

  18-09-2018 14:49 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It appears Metro Vancouver will get another day of reprieve from the long stretch of rain in the forecast. Tuesday’s weather is expected to be a mix of sun and cloud with fog patches in the morning, and a high of 16 C, according to Environment Canada. Wednesday looks similar, though there is a chance of showers in the afternoon. And then the rain likely returns on Thursday and is forecast to continue through the weekend, with highs of 15 C on Friday and Saturday, an
  
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• Restoring what we've ruined may be the best defence against climate change disasters

  18-09-2018 13:00 via vancouversun.com
  There are few more conservative people than those who determine risk in order for insurance companies to set their rates.
  They don’t need to look at the current images of winds lashing the east coast of the United States or the mega-storm ripping across Asia and question whether climate change is real. They’ve already crunched the numbers and seen the trend lines.
  Property and casualty insurance payouts in Canada have more than quadrupled in the last nine years to an average of $1.8
  
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• Douglas Todd: Popular Canadian student visas leading to exploitation

  18-09-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Senior Indian politicians are warning tens of thousands of young Punjabis about the dangers of trying to take advantage of student visas to try to become Canadian citizens.
  Indian nationals — some of whom are using student visas primarily to work rather than study in Canada — are being exploited in both countries for their money and cheap labour, say South Asian media outlets and officials in both India and Canada.
  The Punjab’s education minister, Charanjit Singh Channi, says h
  
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• Vancouver election: Eight mayoral candidates pack stage at Monday evening debate

  18-09-2018 07:01 via vancouversun.com
  In an event billed as the first mayoral debate of Vancouver’s 2018 election, no fewer than eight candidates for the city’s top job packed the stage.
  The two-hour debate on Monday evening, organized by Glacier Media, drew a capacity crowd into a theatre at the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre downtown. Of the 21 mayoral candidates who officially submitted nomination papers to the city by last Friday’s deadline, eight appeared at Monday’s event: Hector Bremner of
  
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• Park board votes to consider Indigenous names for Vancouver parks

  18-09-2018 05:17 via vancouversun.com
  Some Vancouver landmarks may be getting new names after the park board voted Monday to identify traditional Indigenous place names within park jurisdiction as the next step toward reconciliation.
  Up for renaming are the westside beaches Spanish Banks, Jericho Beach, Locarno Beach and Kitsilano Beach, as well as communities around the edges of Stanley Park.
  “I’ve been told all along the banks of Burrard Inlet, there were either communities or gathering places or food collecting places
  
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• Shortage of YMCA swim instructors leaves Vancouver kids high and dry

  18-09-2018 03:52 via vancouversun.com
  School was out for the summer, now the pool is out for the fall.
  Some young swimmers in South Vancouver feel they’ve been left high and dry after a shortage of certified swim instructors caused the Langara Family YMCA to temporarily cancel its Wednesday and Sunday lessons.
  Brandee Barker, 38, whose eight- and three-year-old daughters were among those disappointed to have their Sunday lessons cancelled, said a staff member called her last week to break the bad news. The call came after regi
  
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• Malcolm Brodie and Heather Schoemaker: Moving to a zero-waste circular economy will put cash back into people’s pockets

  18-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Next time you see a loaded garbage truck headed for the landfill, imagine that it’s packed full of your hard-earned cash. In effect, it is. Every year, local governments in Canada spend approximately $3.2 billion managing 34 million tonnes of waste. You pay for it in municipal taxes that could be used for better purposes.
  It’s a global problem, but Canada leads the pack among developed nations in creating waste. According to the Conference Board of Canada, we produce more garbage per
  
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• Fire at Surrey propane recycling depot disrupts traffic

  18-09-2018 02:33 via vancouversun.com
  Firefighters were battling a major blaze at a propane recycling depot in the 13000 block of 116 Avenue in Surrey on Monday afternoon.
  Plumes of black smoke from the fire could be seen from as far as Coquitlam.
  One person was reportedly injured in the fire and had to be hospitalized but the extent of the injuries are not known. Witnesses also heard explosions when the fire started at about 1.20 p.m.
  Google maps show the area where a major fire broke out in Surrey.
  Traffic was earlier closed on Hi
  
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• Pot-shop startups don't 'just happen overnight': B.C.'s public safety minister

  18-09-2018 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s public safety minister says the province will meet demand for recreational marijuana with only one government-run shop and an online store when the drug is legalized next month.
  Mike Farnworth also defended the province’s approach to legalization Monday after it announced that only one brick-and-mortar B.C. Cannabis Store in Kamloops will be open when recreational pot becomes legal Oct. 17.
  “This is the largest public policy shift in this country in decades and it’
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Broadway Subway's half-a-billion dollar a kilometre estimate fraught with risk

  18-09-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The Ministry of Transportation has provided an explanation of sorts for the cost estimate of half-a-billion-dollars a kilometre for extending SkyTrain along Broadway in Vancouver.
  The budget for the 5.7-kilometre-long Broadway Subway was estimated at $2.83 billion when Premier John Horgan greenlit provincial funding for the project earlier this month.
  Presuming that number holds — count me as a skeptic — the Subway would cost almost four times as much per kilometre a
  
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• 2018 municipal election: Pre-campaigning attack ads under scrutiny

  18-09-2018 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  Parties across the political spectrum weighed in Monday on the propriety of third party advertising in the lead up to the municipal election period as attack ads fly in all directions from a range of often anonymous entities.
  Groups like United for Change Surrey and Vancouver Deserves Better Than Ken Sim have slammed candidates ahead of the Sept. 22 start to campaigning. That is the date that third party advertising rules under the new Local Elections Campaign Financing Act kick in and Elections
  
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• B.C. government cannabis workers could be barred from entering U.S.

  18-09-2018 01:42 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s solicitor general says he’s extremely concerned that the United States might bar provincial government employees from travelling across the American border because they work in the province’s new legal cannabis branch.
  Mike Farnworth said Monday he’s aware of a threat by U.S. border officials to deny entry to anyone involved in Canada’s marijuana industry, which will become legal Oct. 17.
  That’s raised the risk that hundreds of B.C. gov
  
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• 'Stop Trump:' 183,000 Americans living in Vancouver urged to vote in U.S. midterm elections

  18-09-2018 01:37 via vancouversun.com
  U.S. Democrats are hoping to rally the almost 200,000 Americans who live in Vancouver full- or part-time to vote in the U.S. midterm elections. They say Americans living abroad could tip the balance in tightly contested fights for seats for the U.S. Congress, the Senate and state governors.
  American Tammy Flynn Seybold doesn’t want to assume, as many did during the 2016 U.S. election, that Donald Trump couldn’t again come out on top during the U.S. midterm elections in November. So s
  
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• Your City Council meets tonight at 6pm. Can't make it to the meeting? Watch it live or stream it later.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Your City Council meets tonight at 6pm. Can't make it to the meeting? Watch it live or stream it later.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• North Vancouver becomes home to Colony Northwoods, the latest in a chain of Blueprint bars and restaurants - Straight.com

  18-09-2018 01:29
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  North Vancouver becomes home to Colony Northwoods, the latest in a chain of Blueprint bars and restaurants
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  Colony is crossing the bridge: After opening Colony Kitsilano and Colony Mainstreet, Blueprint has opened its third Colony location in North Vancouver. Colony Northwoods is at 2100 Dollarton Highway in Northwoods Village, an area that's rapidly growing.
  
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• B.C. transgender woman, denied Brazilian wax job, withdraws human rights complaint

  18-09-2018 00:41 via vancouversun.com
  A transgender woman in B.C. has withdrawn a human rights complaint filed against an esthetician who turned down her request for a Brazilian wax job.
  The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), whose lawyers represented the esthetician, said Monday that their client was vindicated and called it a “victory.”
  But the complainant, whose identity is shielded by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, said she withdrew the complaint because she felt she was being harassed by the lawyers
  
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