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• B.C. launches new money laundering review in real estate sector

  27-09-2018 23:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. will conduct a second independent review into money laundering, this time focusing on whether illegal proceeds of crime have been used to purchase real estate, gamble at horse-racing tracks and buy expensive luxury cars.
  Attorney General David Eby announced the review Thursday, saying it will answer leftover questions into whether dirty money has distorted key sectors of B.C.’s economy, in particular the housing market.
  “We don’t know yet the extent of cri
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Sept. 28

  27-09-2018 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Sept. 28.Trevor Powers
  Idaho musician Trevor Powers is back, two years after bringing his Youth Lagoon project to a close. Youth Lagoon, a sort of neo-psychedelic outfit, saw Powers whispering most of his vocals, and burying them under all manner of sounds. Trevor Powers the solo act only sort of does that. His voice is at the forefront of this project, but there’s still a lot of vocal distortion an
  
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• #CityView eNews = your source for the latest City news & events. This week: You've Got Election Mail, Green Necklac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-09-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  #CityView eNews = your source for the latest City news & events. This week: You've Got Election Mail, Green Necklac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Looks like the sun might hang around until the weekend, which would make Saturday a great day to help us restore Ev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-09-2018 22:21 via twitter.com
  Looks like the sun might hang around until the weekend, which would make Saturday a great day to help us restore Ev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C.'s Tahltan First Nation won't be able to return home for months after wildfires

  27-09-2018 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  Members of a tiny First Nation in northwest British Columbia remain scattered across the province in hotels and relatives’ homes after fleeing destructive wildfires this summer.
  Tahltan First Nation Chief Rick McLean says it will take months to clean up the damage from the flames that ripped through Telegraph Creek and ensure it is safe for people to return.
  And now that winter is approaching, he says rebuilding the 21 homes that were destroyed will have to wait until spring when the groun
  
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• Illicit drug overdose deaths down in B.C. in August: coroner

  27-09-2018 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  The number of drug overdose deaths in B.C. was down in August, the B.C. Coroners Service said on Thursday.
  The coroner says there were 98 suspected drug overdose deaths in August,  a 27 per cent decrease from the 134 overdose fatalities in July. The number is also 20 per cent lower than in August last year.
  Also Thursday, the coroner released a 34-page report looking deeper into 872 illegal drug overdose deaths in 2016 and 2017.
  It found that more than half of those who died had report
  
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• Theatre review: Whimsical Mustard a serious, silly mishmash

  27-09-2018 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  Mustard
  When: To Oct. 20
  Where: Granville Island Stage
  Tickets  and info: From $29, at artsclub.comFor her second offering as the Arts Club’s new artistic director, Ashlie Corcoran has programmed a play in many ways resembling her first.
  Like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mustard is a surreal comic drama about an adolescent with parent problems. Instead of a boy with his father, it’s a girl living with her mother. This time dad has left home to be with someo
  
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• MLA Rick Glumac retracts endorsement of Port Moody mayoral candidate Rob Vagramov

  27-09-2018 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Port Moody mayoral candidate Rob Vagramov has lost the endorsement of his local MLA following a “deeply offensive” video taken four years ago of him offering a homeless person a sandwich if he shotguns a beer.
  In a Facebook post Wednesday, New Democrat MLA for Port Moody-Coquitlam Rick Glumac says the video of Vagramov was shown to him recently.
  “The content of the video was deeply offensive and inconsistent with views and values I hold about dignity and respect for all pe
  
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• Illicit drug overdoses down in B.C. in August: coroner

  27-09-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  The number of illicit drug overdoses in B.C. was down in August, according to the BC Coroners Service Thursday.
  The coroner says there were 98 suspected drug overdose deaths in August, which represents a 27 per cent decrease from the 134 overdose fatalities in July.
  The number also marks a 20 per cent decrease compared with August last year.
  Also Thursday, the coroner released a 34-page report looking deeper into 872 illegal drug overdose deaths in 2016 and 2017.
  It found that more than half of
  
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• Vancouver's port to welcome its largest-ever cruise ship this weekend

  27-09-2018 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  The largest cruise ship ever to visit Vancouver will arrive this weekend.
  The Norwegian Bliss is about the length of three football fields at 333 metres and is capable of carrying nearly 6,000 guests.
  The new ship will dock at Canada Place in Vancouver on Sunday for the first time and has several more scheduled stops in Vancouver for the 2019 cruise season.
  The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says in a news release that the Bliss will pick up 4,000 passengers for the final leg of a cruise that b
  
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• Amazon to lease 450,000-square-foot facility on Tsawwassen First Nation land

  27-09-2018 20:05
  
  The e-commerce giant will be the anchor tenant of a new business park in Delta
  
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• VIFF 2018: Kingsway the movie doesn't go in a straight line, just like the city street

  27-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kingsway
  When and where: Sept. 29, 5:45 p.m. (Rio Theatre); Oct. 1, 4:30 p.m. (International Village #9)
  Tickets and info: viff.orgWhen it came time to name his new movie writer/director Bruce Sweeney said he ran some ideas past his cast and crew.
  “I said The Love Life of Horvaths, and everyone I floated that out to said ‘that’s the worst title I’ve ever heard,’” said Sweeney, adding that Horvath is the family’s name in the film.
  “Then I
  
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• The It List: Tissot T-Wave watch

  27-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The product: Tissot T-Wave watch
  Why we love it: There are those who choose to skip wearing a watch, and instead tell time strictly on their phones. And then, there are those who continue to wear a wrist watch — whether for fashion or function.
  This Tissot watch is for those who desire both.
  Dubbed the T-Wave, the Swiss company’s design features several face and metal tone iterations. But we’re partial to this pretty rose-gold style. The design features refined details and
  
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• Beauty Bar: Conair Infiniti PRO Rainbow Titanium Curling Wand

  27-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A hot tool collection in a cool rainbow hue from the beauty brand Conair.
  In addition to standing out amid all the other black heat-styling tools you likely already have hiding out in your bathroom at home, the rainbow-tinted titanium metal featured on this collection’s tools aim to reduce frizz and shine, as well as provide “professional and desirable results,” according to a news release.
  The 1.25-inch Rainbow Titanium Curling Wand, which is exactly like a tr
  
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• Amazon to open 450,000 square-foot warehouse in Tsawwassen

  27-09-2018 19:49 via vancouversun.com
  Amazon will open a large shipping warehouse in Tsawwassen, the Tsawwassen First Nation announced Thursday.
  The online retailer will occupy more than 450,000 square-foot of space within Delta iPort, a new industrial park on First Nation land.
  The industrial park is developed by GWL Realty Advisors on behalf of project owner, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.
  TFN signed a 60-year lease agreement on the 23.3-acre parcel in 2017, according to TFN.
  In a news release, TFN called the agreeme
  
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• Stratas banking millions in anticipation of future repair costs

  27-09-2018 19:02
  
  Five years after depreciation reports were mandated, have they changed how condo buildings are managed – and viewed by potential buyers?
  
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• We're looking for new members for a number of our advisory committees. As a committee member, you'll provide inform… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-09-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  We're looking for new members for a number of our advisory committees. As a committee member, you'll provide inform… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Everything you need to know about how and where to vote in the City is right here: ow.ly/xyPo50jcPmt. Also wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-09-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  Everything you need to know about how and where to vote in the City is right here: ow.ly/xyPo50jcPmt. Also wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Douglas Todd: Would Saudi Arabia’s jailed blogger be accused of ‘Islamophobia’ in Canada?

  27-09-2018 17:07 via vancouversun.com
  Would jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi end up being accused of Islamophobia if he were released from his Riyadh prison cell and allowed to come to Canada?
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is taking contradictory symbolic stands.
  In August, it provoked a diplomatic dispute with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by tweeting support for Badawi, who was arrested in 2012 and flogged for criticizing the country’s hardline religious leadership. Canada has even offered citizenshi
  
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• MLA Rick Glumac pulls endorsement of Port Moody mayoral candidate Rob Vagramov

  27-09-2018 16:16 via vancouversun.com
  Port Moody mayoral candidate Rob Vagramov has lost the endorsement of his local MLA following a “deeply offensive” video taken four years ago of him offering a homeless person a sandwich if he shotguns a beer.
  In a Facebook post Wednesday, New Democrat MLA for Port Moody-Coquitlam Rick Glumac says the video of Vagramov was shown to him recently.
  “The content of the video was deeply offensive and inconsistent with views and values I hold about dignity and respect for all pe
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Some early fog then sunny and warm

  27-09-2018 15:11 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s shaping up to be another sunny day in Metro Vancouver Thursday. Environment Canada says there will be some early fog but that should dissipate later in the morning. The warm weather continues, with highs of 18 C by the water and 23 C inland. Friday looks much the same, though it may be slightly warmer with inland highs of 24 C. For the weekend, the clouds begin to roll in on Saturday, for a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 18 C. Then, it looks like the r
  
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• Seventy per cent of young British Columbians have slept with their smartphones: B.C. Hydro survey

  27-09-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  A surprising number of British Columbians would forgo a day with their spouses or a day of pay rather than give up their smartphones for a corresponding period, according to a survey commissioned by B.C. Hydro.
  “Willing to give up pay for a day seems a bit extreme to me, but it’s kind of interesting,” said B.C. Hydro spokeswoman Tanya Fish, adding that power data shows customers’ devotion to devices is changing how they use electricity.
  The survey of 400 adults found that
  
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• North Vancouver Realtor found guilty of unprofessional conduct - North Shore News

  27-09-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver Realtor found guilty of unprofessional conduct  North Shore NewsA longtime North Vancouver real estate agent has been found guilty of professional misconduct and of conduct unbecoming a licensee by a disciplinary panel ...
  
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• Surrey mayoral candidates square off over public safety, transit, cop

  27-09-2018 05:41 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey mayoral hopefuls squared off during an all-candidates’ meeting Wednesday, tackling issues facing B.C.’s fastest-growing city, including business growth, transit and public safety.
  In a recent survey, Surrey residents identified crime as their top concern — making it an outlier in a region where municipal concerns are dominated by housing and affordability issues.
  That concern was reflected in some of the candidates’ answers to the evening’s first question on
  
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• Childish Gambino Vancouver concert postponed due to rapper's leg injury

  27-09-2018 04:08 via vancouversun.com
  Just days before his This is America tour was set to reach its final destination in Vancouver, Childish Gambino (a.k.a. Donald Glover) has postponed the remaining dates due to an injury.
  The rapper was scheduled to conclude the tour, which began earlier this month in Atlanta, with a show at Rogers Arena on Sunday night. But on Tuesday, a planned show at the Forum in Los Angeles was postponed, followed by a Wednesday announcement that two of the remaining three dates — Oakland, Seattle, Van
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Monday may be moment of truth for economy changing LNG Canada project

  27-09-2018 03:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The day began with a mounting buzz about the prospects for Kitimat-based LNG Canada becoming the largest private sector investment in Canada and an economic boon to British Columbia.
  “Shell poised for LNG Canada decision with signs pointing to yes,” read the headline from the Bloomberg News service. It followed an encouraging report in the Wall Street Journal earlier in the week, pegged to an interview with the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, lead proponent on the pro
  
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• Jim Carr: Quick success of CETA shows why trade deals are good for Canada

  27-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Global trade impacts the lives of middle-class Canadians every day. From the blueberries you put in your oatmeal in the morning to the mackerel you cook at night for dinner, Canadians are very much a part of important global relationships that impact the lives of millions of people around the world every day.
  As we mark the first anniversary of the signing of the Canada European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, I would like to reflect how this agreement is creating more we
  
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• Licence approval comes last-minute for B.C.'s first gov't pot shop

  27-09-2018 02:57 via vancouversun.com
  Licence approval for B.C.’s first government recreational cannabis store hinges on a decision by Kamloops city council at a meeting less than 10 hours before Oct. 17 legalization.
  Six months before that date, council received a staff report on potential locations for non-medical cannabis stores, and a few weeks later approved a bylaw amendment allowing the shops. In July, the B.C. government announced that Kamloops would be home to the first provincially owned B.C. Cannabis Store, a 3
  
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• Former Victoria police chief Elsner hit with 'unprecedented' misconduct ruling

  27-09-2018 02:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Former Victoria police chief Frank Elsner will never wear a police uniform again.
  For the first time in B.C. the discipline imposed on a police chief under the Police Act would have resulted in his dismissal.
  “These findings and discipline measures are unprecedented in Canadian policing,” Police complaint commissioner Stan Lowe said in a news release Wednesday.
  Elsner, who was sworn in as police chief on Dec. 15, 2013, resigned in May 2017, but the discipline process
  
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• B.C. limits rent increases to 2 per cent, but tenants’ group wants more protections

  27-09-2018 02:37 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has chopped the annual rent increase that landlords are allowed to charge by two per cent but an advocacy group is calling for more changes to protect tenants in heated markets.
  That means that, in January, the rent hike will be limited to 2.5 per cent, based solely on the rate of inflation, instead of the 4.5 per cent that was going to be allowed under rules put in place in 2004 by the then Liberal government that allowed two per cent plus the rate of inflation.
  Premier John
  
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• Murder trial heard friend, boyfriend concerned when Natsumi Kogawa stopped texting

  27-09-2018 02:21 via vancouversun.com
  The day Natsumi Kogawa was last seen alive, she was supposed to meet with a new Canadian friend who had promised to get her a job at a Japanese restaurant where his cousin worked.
  Derek Manhas was going to pick up Kogawa at her North Burnaby homestay on Sept. 8, 2016, at 5:30 p.m., later changed to 6:30 p.m. They were planning to walk the Seawall and go to Miku near Canada Place so she could fill out a job application.
  But the message the 30-year-old Japanese student sent to Manhas, 35, confirmi
  
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• Three engineers to face disciplinary hearings in Mount Polley dam collapse

  27-09-2018 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  The regulatory body for engineers in B.C. is alleging negligence or unprofessional conduct by three engineers after the 2014 collapse of a tailings dam at the Mount Polley mine.
  Engineers and Geoscientists B.C. says disciplinary hearings against Laura Fidel, Todd Martin and Stephen Rice will take place next year.
  “The information released today marks the conclusion of a lengthy, independent investigation,” the regulatory body said in a statement Wednesday.
  “Engineers and Geosci
  
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• Trans Mountain CEO says pipeline construction could restart in 2019 on NEB timeline

  27-09-2018 01:32 via vancouversun.com
  CALGARY — The president and CEO of Trans Mountain Corp. says its sidelined pipeline project could be back on track by next year under a new National Energy Board hearing schedule, setting it up for a possible 2022 opening date.
  The timeline unveiled by the federal pipeline regulator Wednesday is “reasonable and fair,” said Ian Anderson, the former CEO of Kinder Morgan Canada, who became head of the resulting Crown corporation when Ottawa closed its $4.5-billion purchase of the
  
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• Over 55 FREE North Shore #CultureDays activities to enjoy this weekend! There are 2 activity hubs in the City.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Over 55 FREE North Shore #CultureDays activities to enjoy this weekend! There are 2 activity hubs in the City.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Thursday, Sept. 27

  27-09-2018 01:23 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Thursday, Sept. 27.Miguel
  R&B singer/songwriter Miguel returns to Vancouver for his Ascension tour, his second visit to the city since releasing and then hitting the road hard to promote 2017’s War and Leisure. He’s been busy in the meantime, releasing several singles, including standout soundtrack ballad R.A.N., funk-rock jam Python, and Spanish-language versions of Skywalker and Banana Clip. And now
  
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• Convicted hitman charged with murder in 2007 disappearance of B.C. teen Katelyn Noble

  27-09-2018 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  Police have laid a murder charge against a convicted contract killer in the 2007 disappearance of a 15-year-old B.C. teen in Saskatchewan.
  Katelyn Marie Noble was last seen on Aug. 27, 2007, in the Radisson area, northwest of Saskatoon.
  Eduard Viktorovit Baranec, a 41-year-old man who is serving time at a federal prison in B.C., was arrested Tuesday. He is charged with first-degree murder.
  RCMP Cpl. Rob King said he hopes the arrest will bring some level of closure or measure of comfort for Nobl
  
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• After 23 years, a rooftop garden opens at the VPL's Central Branch

  27-09-2018 00:50 via vancouversun.com
  By Saturday, Vancouverites will have a new public space downtown in the Central Library on West Georgia.
  The library opens the newly renovated top two floors, which now includes a rooftop garden.
  In the original design competition for the library building, architect Moshe Safdie imagined either a major public or private garden on the roof. But that never materialized, and the area became what was essentially a grassy green roof closed to the public.
  For more than two decades after the library op
  
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• When you vote on Oct 20, you’ll also be asked to vote 'yes' or 'no' on two non-binding questions... one about reuni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-09-2018 00:25 via twitter.com
  When you vote on Oct 20, you’ll also be asked to vote 'yes' or 'no' on two non-binding questions... one about reuni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Province cuts allowable rent hike to 2.5% in 2019

  27-09-2018 00:00
  
  Premier and housing minister announces adoption of rental housing task force recommendations
  
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• Province cuts allowable rent hike by 2%

  27-09-2018 00:00
  
  Premier and housing minister announces adoption of rental housing task force recommendations
  
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• B.C. government cuts allowable rent increase by two per cent

  27-09-2018 00:00
  
  Premier and housing minister announces adoption of rental housing task force recommendations
  
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