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• We're considering changes to coach house permitting, and want to hear your thoughts. Review the proposed changes an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 23:56 via twitter.com
  We're considering changes to coach house permitting, and want to hear your thoughts. Review the proposed changes an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. premier apologizes for removal of 1950s totem pole at Canada-U.S. border

  21-09-2018 23:36 via vancouversun.com
  Three First Nations in British Columbia gathered today to raise a restored replica totem pole at a Canada-U.S. border crossing — a decade after it was removed by the province without notice.
  The Semiahmoo, Kwakwaka’wakw and Haida nations say the pole symbolizing the grizzly bear was raised near the Peace Arch crossing in the 1950s but taken down without consultation in 2008 to make way for a new tourism centre.
  Members of the three nations held a ceremony at Peace Arch Provincial Par
  
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• Browns break open the Buds after rare victory, but WADA fumbles again

  21-09-2018 23:33 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Being a sports fan can sometimes be a torturous experience.Nowhere has that been the case this past decade more than in Cleveland, where the NFL’s Browns have been the epitome of ineptitude.It’s one thing to field good or even great teams without winning a championship in a generation or two or three. It’s another to be bad enough to not win any games at all in almost two years.
  That’s why the Cleveland Browns — one of the most dysfunctional and be
  
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• ART SEEN: Incoming Rochelle Steiner learns about Vancouver Art Gallery collection from outgoing Ian Thom

  21-09-2018 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  On Thursday, Ian Thom did his last media preview as a curator for the Vancouver Art Gallery.
  But before Thom led the media on a tour of A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects, Rochelle Steiner said a few words in her role as the gallery’s new associate director and chief curator.
  She mentioned that Thom’s last curated exhibition as senior curator-historical would be the first in a series. During the next few years, the gallery will be presenting exhibitions that focus on the streng
  
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• This Week in History: 1914 — A father of seven is murdered after he tries to collect on a mortgage

  21-09-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  In 1914 Angelo Teti had a mortgage on a rooming house at 1374 Graveley St. But the owner fell behind in her payments, and Teti went to see her.
  “My grandfather said to her, ‘You’d better start paying on your mortgage or you’re going to lose your house,’ ” said Teti’s grandson Ramon Benedetti. “And (her boyfriend or husband) replied to my grandfather, ‘I’ll pay you in bullets.’ ”
  Teti ignored him. But shortly afterward,
  
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• Feedback wanted! Check out the Mahon Park open house boards online. Let us know what you think about our options fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Feedback wanted! Check out the Mahon Park open house boards online. Let us know what you think about our options fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Three dead, including one pedestrian, in separate Metro Vancouver crashes

  21-09-2018 22:34 via vancouversun.com
  Three people have died in separate collisions across Metro Vancouver in just over six hours.
  The driver of a truck was killed and two passengers are seriously hurt after the truck flipped on the Lougheed Highway through Burnaby at around 1 a.m. Friday.
  RCMP say heavy rain may have contributed to the crash.
  Dark, wet conditions and poor visibility may also have been factors in the death of a pedestrian in Surrey.
  Police say a man in his 50s was hit while trying to cross Highway 10 east of 152nd S
  
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• Insurance brokers see changes and limits in insurance coverage for Airbnb listings

  21-09-2018 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  There are signs it might be harder to get and keep insurance coverage for short-term rentals in Metro Vancouver, a market that has exploded in recent years but is being curbed with new regulations in some municipalities.
  According to several brokers, one major insurance company — Wawanesa — that had been offering coverage for Airbnb-style listings has stopped doing so, as of early July.
  It means some brokers in Metro Vancouver are left suggesting clients seek coverage for short-term
  
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• Judge gives campers 21 days to vacate tent city in Nanaimo

  21-09-2018 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has given people living in a tent city in Nanaimo 21 days to vacate land owned by the municipality.
  In a written judgment, Justice Ronald Skolrood says all the campers must leave the site in the city’s downtown and remove all personal property, structures, tents, shelters, shopping carts, stoves, rubbish and personal chattels.
  He also says the group must refrain from re-entering the property without permission from the city.
  After 21 d
  
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• It’s raining dead birds in Metro Vancouver

  21-09-2018 21:51
  
  It is raining cats at the SPCA in Penticton; however, it has been raining dead birds in Tsawwassen and it is creeping everyone out.
  
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• From now until Monday morning, expect 24 hour single lane alternating traffic at #montroyalbridge #DNVroads

  21-09-2018 20:56 via twitter.com
  From now until Monday morning, expect 24 hour single lane alternating traffic at #montroyalbridge #DNVroads
  
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• Populist housing ‘platitudes’ from mayoral candidates are ‘dangerous,’ warn outgoing officials

  21-09-2018 20:50
  
  Candidates in many municipalities claim they can solve housing crisis but plans may have “no credibility”
  
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• There isn’t one solution to deal with congestion. Learn more about the priorities for improving how we get around o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  There isn’t one solution to deal with congestion. Learn more about the priorities for improving how we get around o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Work continues on salvage of grounded barge on Haida Gwaii

  21-09-2018 20:20 via vancouversun.com
  QUEEN CHARLOTTE — The Haida Nation says the potentially dangerous work of removing cargo from a grounded barge on Haida Gwaii will continue for several more days.
  It says emptying the vessel has been complicated by sea water that flooded into part of the breached hull of the barge, which carries the Hippa Lodge, a 48-guest luxury fishing resort.
  The barge and lodge broke away from their moorings in high winds on Sept. 8 and ran aground on the east coast of Haida Gwaii near the village of Q
  
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• Dead and dying birds rain down in unexplained occurrence in Delta

  21-09-2018 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man who witnessed dozens of birds falling from the sky in Delta says he was horrified by the sight.
  “I called it birdageddon. It was really, really creepy,” Kevin Beech said Friday.
  The self-described animal lover was driving with a friend just off a busy highway in the community of Tsawwassen on Sept. 14 when the birds started hitting the ground around his vehicle.
  “They literally dove face-first into the pavement, it was brutal,” said Beech.
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• Legal society poster seeks complainants against two cops on Downtown Eastside

  21-09-2018 20:08 via vancouversun.com
  A legal advocacy organization on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is circulating flyers with pictures of two police officers and asking if anyone has been harassed by them.
  Lawyer Anna Cooper says the Pivot Legal Society became aware of allegations made against the officers after a video circulated that shows them seizing marijuana from a booth run by a program that offers the drug as an alternative to opioid users in the neighbourhood, one of the poorest in Canada.
  “We started to see a
  
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• This glorious colour in our Foyer Gallery comes courtesy of @northvanarts and BC artist Janet Strayer. Her painting… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  This glorious colour in our Foyer Gallery comes courtesy of @northvanarts and BC artist Janet Strayer. Her painting… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• VIFF 2018: Clara highlights the search for signs of life beyond Earth, loss and love

  21-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Clara
  Screening as part of 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
  When: Sept. 30 and Oct. 4
  Where: Various venues
  Tickets and info: viff.orgWhen you look up at the stars, what do you see? Or, perhaps more importantly, what do you dream?
  The search for signs of extraterrestrial life is at the epicentre of Toronto director Akash Sherman’s new film Clara. But, it’s not simply that search for signs of life that’s so grippingly examined in this film. It’s also the rea
  
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• The Whistleblower of My Lai part of VIFF's M/A/D stream

  21-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Whistleblower of My Lai
  When: Oct 1, 7:15 p.m., International Village 9 | Oct. 2, 1:45 p.m., Vancity
  Tickets and info: Viff.org
  On March 16, 1968, Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division of the United States military began a search-and-destroy mission against the 48th NLF Battalion of the North Vietnamese Army. The area Charlie Company was targeting was the village of My Lai and some other surrounding small settlements.
  What ensued became a turn
  
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• Fab 5: Sharpen your pencils

  21-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sharp and sleek, versatile and easy to wear, a good pencil skirt one can transcend time, trend and even temperature to become a mainstay in your closet. It’s also the perfect piece to transition between seasons — a simple switch-out of your accessories and you’re ready for a night out; add thick stockings and you’re ready for the dead of winter. From fun fringed styles to classic plaid or houndstooth, Rebecca Tay discovers five pencil skirts sure to be on heavy rotat
  
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• Brian Minter: Overwintering outdoor tropicals

  21-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Well, we’ve enjoyed the exotic look of tropical plants on our patios all summer, but we are moving closer to the cool nights of autumn … so, now what?
  How we overwinter the tropicals we have had outdoors depends on which plants we’re dealing with. My greatest concern is for the most tender ones — those rated zone 9 and 10. Plants like red bananas (Ensete ‘Maurelii’), and colourful foliage tropicals such as philodendrons, dracaenas, tender palms and hibiscus r
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: When smoke gets in your wine

  21-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s that time of the year when the words “smoke taint” creep into the lexicon of wine producers who have been living on the edge of wildfires or under their smoke during the last half of the growing season.
  To be clear not all producers want to talk about the effects of smoke and for good reason — their crops and livelihood are at risk and, frankly, in the case of smoky skies there is not always fire.
  Yet for more than a decade forest fires or bushfires have become a ser
  
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• Energy board review of Trans Mountain pipeline will include impact on orca

  21-09-2018 18:23 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The National Energy Board has less than six months to redo its environmental review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, this time taking into account the impact of additional oil tanker traffic off the coast of British Columbia.
  Three weeks after the Federal Court of Appeal overturned approval of the expansion project, Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi says the federal cabinet is giving the NEB 22 weeks to complete a thorough review of the environmental impact of addi
  
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• Come one, come all! We need all hands on deck for our Rivers Day event at Lynnmouth Park Sept 23 12-4pm. We've got… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Come one, come all! We need all hands on deck for our Rivers Day event at Lynnmouth Park Sept 23 12-4pm. We've got… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Daily poll: Do you agree with allowing duplexes in single-family home areas in Vancouver?

  21-09-2018 17:50 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council voted to allow duplexes in some areas of Vancouver zoned for single-family homes, in an effort to provide ore housing options. But not everyone is thrilled about the idea. Independent mayoral candidate, Sean Cassidy, wants to reverse the duplex upzoning decision if elected. He argues real estate developers, speculators and already high-income earners with high mobility will benefit the most, while low to middle income families and renters will be at risk of displacement.
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• Good luck to those braving the weather for our charity fishing derby!Proceeds benefit the Seymour Salmonid Society… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 16:44 via twitter.com
  Good luck to those braving the weather for our charity fishing derby!Proceeds benefit the Seymour Salmonid Society… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Short term rental owner fights lawsuit from city of North Vancouver - Vancouver Is Awesome

  21-09-2018 16:21
  Vancouver Is Awesome
  Short term rental owner fights lawsuit from city of North Vancouver
  Vancouver Is Awesome
  The North Vancouver woman accused of running a hostel out of her Central Lonsdale townhouse is pushing back against the city's attempt to have her shut down. The city filed a petition in court last month, asking for a declaration that Emily Yu was ...
  
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• Movie Minute: Life Itself

  21-09-2018 16:08 via vancouversun.com
  Does hit TV show This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman succeed at bringing his complicated, messy, box-of-tissues-needed view of life to the big screen? Find out in this week’s Movie Minute when Postmedia movie critic Dana Gee and Arts & Life editor Aleesha Harris take a look at the new movie Life Itself out in theatres Sept. 21.
  
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• Town Talk: B.C. Children's Hospital recognizes valued donors

  21-09-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  GRAND TIME: Sherry Doman, Tammi Kerzner and Jacquie Prokopanko staged a reception for B.C. Children’s Hospital Circle of Care at Parq Vancouver’s D/6 Bar and Lounge and its outdoor terrace. They were hosted by Parq’s part owner and Paragon Gaming Corp. board chair, Diana Bennett, who also manages the 10-year-old Bennett Family Foundation. The Circle of Care’s 270 individual, foundation and corporation members each donate at least $10,000 to the hospital annually. They got
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Can First Nations save Canada’s resource industries?

  21-09-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Kinder Morgan pipeline, like 263 court decisions before it, went in favour of the First Nations that opposed the project.
  One court decision after another is shaping the way Canada can and does develop its resources. The failure of governments and corporations to embrace First Nations as full partners is putting the brakes on development and it is affecting Canada’s reputation as investment friendly.
  Joe Dion, the CEO of the Frog Lake First Nation Energy Resource Corpora
  
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• Feds look at oil tanker traffic in bid to renew Trans Mountain pipeline approval

  21-09-2018 15:45 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The National Energy Board has less than six months to redo its environmental review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, this time taking into account the impact of additional oil tanker traffic off the coast of British Columbia.
  Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi is making the announcement this morning in Halifax, where Canada is hosting environment and energy ministers at a G7 summit meeting.
  An oil tanker passes a floating chain link fence topped with razor wire at t
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy, risk of a thunderstorm

  21-09-2018 15:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – The region can expect heavy rain early Friday, tapering to showers later in the morning. Then, in the afternoon, there is a risk of a thunderstorm with up to 20 millimetres of rain expected and a high of 15 C.
  Thursday’s rain warning for Metro Vancouver was downgraded Friday to a special weather statement from Environment Canada. The agency says periods of rain will continue to be heavy at times, with up to 40 millimetres expected through tonight. The agency sa
  
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• Raise-a-Reader wraps 2018 campaign with $500,000 boost from provincial government to support reading and literacy

  21-09-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Sun’s Raise-a-Reader annual literacy campaign officially winds up Friday with news of continued provincial funding to keep instilling the love of reading in British Columbians of all ages.
  “It’s really about helping young kids appreciate reading and about bonding with their parents,” said B.C. Education Minister Rob Fleming.
  Fleming announced on Friday the province would invest $500,000 to the campaign to enable the main providers of literacy programs to con
  
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• It’s the most wonderful time of the year.... #CivicPlaza #NorthVan @creativebcs 🎬 https://t.co/hrpUh7iNyT

  21-09-2018 04:25 via twitter.com
  
  It’s the most wonderful time of the year.... #CivicPlaza #NorthVan@creativebcs🎬 https://t.co/hrpUh7iNyT
  
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• TransLink sets emissions goals, aims to green its operations

  21-09-2018 04:01 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is considering some ambitious environmental goals, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent and using only renewable energy by 2050.
  The targets and the methods by which TransLink could achieve them are outlined in a staff report that will be considered at a Mayors’ Council meeting on Friday.
  “It really aligns with the path that we were already on,” said Sarah Buckle, TransLink’s director of enterprise risk and sustainability.
  In June, Vancouve
  
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• Developers, candidates and planners argue over Vancouver's move to allow duplexes

  21-09-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council’s vote to allow duplexes in most parts of the city’s single-family home areas could be easily reversed after the Oct. 20 election.
  One independent mayoral candidate, Sean Cassidy, is already calling on city council candidates to reverse the duplex upzoning decision if elected. “If we are to create more affordable housing choices for Vancouverites without tearing our city apart, we need to restore citizens’ trust with proper neighbourhood-level engag
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: SFU research flags costs, scrutiny, merits for B.C. transit projects

  21-09-2018 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As Gregor Robertson prepares to leave office after a decade as mayor of Vancouver, the timing underscores the soaring cost of his enthusiasm for extending transit across the west side of the city to the University of B.C.
  Back on the eve of the 2013 provincial election, Robertson, then in his second term, released a study — jointly funded with UBC — that made a jobs and economic development case for extending SkyTrain by subway along the Broadway corridor and ou
  
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• Search called off for small plane missing between Edmonton and Chilliwack

  21-09-2018 03:38 via vancouversun.com
  The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre says it has made the difficult decision to call off its search of a small plane that went missing in central B.C. one week ago.
  Over thepast seven days, military and volunteer civilian aircraft have spent about 320 hours flying in challenging weather conditions searching for the plane, its pilot and passenger.
  Rescuers concentrated in the region between Kamloops and Valemount, and covered more than 14,000 square kilometres in the area surrounding the last kn
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Sept. 21

  21-09-2018 03:20 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Sept. 21.The Wailers
  The finest reggae band in existence visits the Commodore Ballroom on Friday, as the Wailers, Bob Marley’s legendary backing band, takes to the stage for an evening of high-energy roots music. They may not have Marley as their frontman anymore, but the Wailers can still, well, wail. Plus they have guests: Mistah *D* & Friends, and DJ Tank Gyal. If you’re even a casual reggae
  
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• Alberta bus line seeks to link Metro Vancouver, Kelowna and Kamloops

  21-09-2018 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  An Edmonton-based bus line has applied to carry passengers between Vancouver and the two largest cities in the Interior — Kelowna and Kamloops — as well as making stops between the cities.
  The news was welcomed Thursday by the mayors of both cities.
  The application by Ebus, filed with B.C.’s Passenger Transportation Board, comes as Greyhound Canada plans to cancel all inter-city bus service in Western Canada by the end of October.
  “Hopefully we can offer a long-term solut
  
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• David Goodman: 12,000 planned rental units could evaporate if government hurts investment climate

  21-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  As Metro Vancouver residents gear up for municipal elections, the single most galvanizing issue all voters and politicians can relate to — yet seldom agree on — is housing, especially rental housing.
  Chronic rental supply shortages plague Vancouver and most of its suburban communities. Each year, CMHC’s Rental Market Report reaffirms to the frustrated aspiring tenant that finding a place to live almost anywhere in the Lower Mainland is frightfully difficult. Whether in Surrey,
  
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• Two artists from Canada and Zimbabwe collaborate to create work in Vancouver

  21-09-2018 01:33 via vancouversun.com
  Two indigenous artists separated by the distance between Canada and Africa have found themselves united over the importance of Mother Earth.
  Artists IceBear and Dominic Benhura are collaborating to create one sculpture meant to fuse their Ojibway and Shona traditions.
  Called Mother Earth, the sculpture rests on a boat resin base shaped like a drum to represent the drumming that is common to both cultures.
  The main vertical section features a tree-like form with branches made from lightweight liq
  
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• As legalization looms, Vancouver's pot shops stay open for business

  21-09-2018 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  Two wonderfully stocked vending machines line up against the walls, almost every conceivable pot product sits under glass at the counter, varieties of weed – from bulk supplies that cost as little as $5 a gram to premium product that goes for $11 a gram – sit in beakers, stoppers keeping their rich aromas from perfuming the shop.
  And what will become of it all come Oct.17, when the federal Cannabis Act comes into force? Who knows.
  “I don’t think anyone knows what will hap
  
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• #TBT a look back at Rivers Day 2017. Join us this Sunday, September 23rd 12-4pm at Lynnmouth Park for our planting… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  #TBT a look back at Rivers Day 2017. Join us this Sunday, September 23rd 12-4pm at Lynnmouth Park for our planting… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• North Vancouver realtor faces disciplinary action for threatening another house agent - Straight.com

  21-09-2018 01:26
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  North Vancouver realtor faces disciplinary action for threatening another house agent
  Straight.com
  More than four years ago, veteran North Vancouver realtor Trevor Inglis called another house agent. It was a female realtor, his co-listing agent for a house on sale. Inglis, a realtor since 1986, left a message that said, “So if you really want to get ...
  
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• Alberta company hopes to replace Greyhound on routes from Vancouver to Okanagan

  21-09-2018 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  One bus door closes and another opens.
  An Edmonton-based bus company has applied to operate passenger buses between Vancouver and the two largest cities in the Interior — Kelowna and Kamloops — as well as between those two cities.
  The application, filed this month with the province’s Passenger Transportation Board, by Ebus noted that Greyhound Canada announced in July that it was pulling its inter-city bus service from across Western Canada by the end of next month.
  “The
  
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• Labour body backs Kennedy Stewart for Vancouver mayor as campaign period begins

  21-09-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  The labour council representing more than 100 Vancouver unions is standing behind a decision to distribute 100,000 flyers promoting mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart before the campaign period begins on Saturday.
  A loophole in B.C.’s new Local Elections Campaign Financing Act has led to the proliferation of advertising and attack ads ahead of Sept. 22, the date when Elections B.C. begins regulating and limiting third-party advertising.
  The Vancouver and District Labour Council endorse
  
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