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• Government, teachers support SOGI, as opposing rallies staged in Victoria

  29-09-2018 23:10 via vancouversun.com
  Supporters and critics of a school program aimed at supporting gay, lesbian and transgender students rallied in Victoria Saturday.
  As protesters and counter-protesters gathered on the lawn of legislature, the B.C. government, teachers, and education partners issued a joint statement supporting the province’s sexual orientation and gender identity program, or SOGI, saying the resource materials are designed to guide teachers in helping LGBTQ students and to stop bullying that targ
  
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• Parole board revokes statutory release for Surrey sex offender and child kidnapper

  29-09-2018 21:48 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey child kidnapper and rapist serving a 14-year prison term has lost the statutory release granted to him last year.
  In August 2017, Brian Abrosimo was given a “one-chance statutory release” to live in a halfway house under special conditions, including a curfew. He was allowed to go outside the home unsupervised for one-hour periods, but prohibited from being near his victims.
  For the first 11 months, Abrosimo complied with guidelines “structured to supervise high risk/h
  
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• Meet the Chef: Lucais Syme keeps it simple, but satisfying

  29-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Lucais Syme almost went to law school. We are all relieved that he attended the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts on Vancouver’s Granville Island instead. From there Symes worked his way through some of Vancouver’s best kitchens at Blue Water Cafe and Cioppino’s and even trained with Chicago’s legendary Charlie Trotter. He opened La Quercia in 2008 and later La Pentola. Chef Symes currently operates the toney Cinara with Gill Book and in January opened pasta-focused
  
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• Makeover: A new look for busy mother of two

  29-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sara Goel, 35, is a nurse and a mother of two and feels like she has lost her sense of style. Her body and lifestyle has changed and she finds it hard to dress her petite and slender shape.Before
  Sara’s daily go-to look is yoga wear and running shoes. She tends to gravitate to colours like black and grey because it’s easy, but wants to be able to look stylish and current for when she goes out or travels with her husband. I wanted to inject a little personality to her wardrobe and sho
  
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• B.C. government and First Nation sign deal to manage declining moose populations

  29-09-2018 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government and a First Nations group in the B.C. Interior have signed a deal to manage the declining moose population.
  The agreement comes after First Nations called on the government to ban limited entry hunting of moose in their territories.
  In a news release Friday, the government said it will work with the Tŝilhqot’in Nation to ensure a sustainable moose population in the Chilcotin territory.
  B.C. Minister of Forests Doug Donaldson said the deal signed Friday recognizes m
  
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• So many FREE North Shore #CultureDays events this weekend: nvrc.ca/CultureDays #NorthVan #BCCultureDays… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-09-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  So many FREE North Shore #CultureDays events this weekend: nvrc.ca/CultureDays #NorthVan #BCCultureDays… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Cloudy and windy, then rain tonight

  29-09-2018 18:32 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like that long stretch of sunny clear weather has come to an end, as the rain it set to return for at least a week. On Saturday, Environment Canada says the region can expect increasing cloudiness throughout the day, and windy, with a high of 17 C. Then the rain begins later, with up to 15 millimetres expected overnight. The showers will continue on Sunday, according to the federal weather agency, with a high of 14 C. The wet weather is expected for much of next
  
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• A seat with a view, waiting for you! #ILoveMyCity 💗 #Megabench #NorthVan https://t.co/0oGhv82ZON

  29-09-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  
  A seat with a view, waiting for you! #ILoveMyCity 💗 #Megabench #NorthVan https://t.co/0oGhv82ZON
  
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• Winona on Cambie designed to reflect its occupants

  29-09-2018 15:01 via vancouversun.com
  Architects can sometimes run a gauntlet when they are designing residential buildings, trying to create an interesting looking structure from the outside without running afoul of design guidelines or compromising the interior space.
  That is the challenge that Andrew Emmerson and GBL Architects faced when they were asked to design Winona on Cambie, a new 38-unit building along the Cambie Corridor.
  “We wanted to create some energy and movement and cadence to the exterior expression of the bu
  
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• Sold (Bought): Rancher snapped up quickly for over asking price

  29-09-2018 14:53 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  2695 East 53rd Avenue, Vancouver
  Type: Five-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 2,410 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,725,600
  Listed for: $1,598,000
  Sold for: $1,650,000
  Sold on: June 12
  Days on market: Five
  Listing agent: Marty Pospischil and Adam Pospischil at Pospischil Realty Group
  Buyers agent: Non Member/No Agency
  The big sell: Listing agent Marty Pospischil reports that the buyers of this two-storey Killarney 
  
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• The Home Front: International design trends at IDS Vancouver

  29-09-2018 14:41 via vancouversun.com
  One of the best things about design shows like IDS Vancouver, which ran recently at the Vancouver Convention Centre West, is the international talent they attract.
  Detroit-raised, Wisconsin-based architect Michael Ford of BrandNu Design spoke and ran workshops at the show on a new form of architecture, which he’s termed “hip-hop architecture”.
  Hip-hop is made up of four elements, says Ford: the DJ, the MC, the graffiti artists and the break dancer, and hip-hop architecture
  
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• Building with illegal suites cited by District of North Vancouver - North Shore News

  29-09-2018 09:00
  Building with illegal suites cited by District of North Vancouver  North Shore NewsThis story has been amended since first posting. The District of North Vancouver has slapped a notice on title of a commercial property on West 14th Street to ...
  
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• How do your taxes and user fees compare to neighbouring cities? And how much more are you paying since the last election?

  29-09-2018 03:49 via vancouversun.com
  Homeowners in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and along the Sea to Sky Highway pay vastly different levels of property taxes and user fees, depending on where they live, to fund the services run by their municipalities.
  An analysis of provincial finance data for 29 cities shows how much the owner of an average detached house in each area would pay the municipality for standard items, including emergency services, parks, recreation facilities and road maintenance.
  We used this to determine whe
  
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• Treat cannabis legalization as work in progress, conference told

  29-09-2018 03:45 via vancouversun.com
  The public can’t let governments rest once recreational cannabis is legalized, according to an academic expert who has been advising the province on the process.
  Legalization is happening on such a short schedule that people can’t assume that governments will have things right at the outset, said Gerald Thomas, a University of Victoria scientist who specializes in substance use.
  “What I would invite you to invite government to do is set up a really systematic process to go back
  
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• West Coast Express locomotives due for multimillion-dollar overhauls

  29-09-2018 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  Five of the six locomotives used to pull West Coast Express trains between Vancouver and Mission need immediate overhaul and refurbishment, according to an assessment conducted earlier this year.
  TransLink contracted SNC-Lavalin, at a cost of $78,000, to conduct a mechanical and electrical assessment of its fleet of six locomotives in February, to prepare for planned repair work. Postmedia obtained a copy of the inspection report through a freedom of information request.
  “The mid-life refu
  
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• Letters, Sept. 29: Lowering cap on rent increases will cut housing supply

  29-09-2018 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Rental Housing Task Force has jumped on the rental housing market ignorance bandwagon with its recommendation to cut the annual rent increase cap. Between onerous lease rules favouring tenants and minimal rental increase caps that ignore local market conditions, our provincial governments have progressively made building rental housing in high demand markets in B.C. a spectacularly unattractive investment opportunity.
  Surprise, surprise, this has generated a massive shortfall in rental
  
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• New policy to include Canadian transgender student-athletes

  29-09-2018 03:04 via vancouversun.com
  A new policy allowing Canadian transgender student-athletes to compete on teams consistent with their gender identity and without hormone therapy is a welcome change, but more can still be done to make athletics inclusive of gender diversity, says a Vancouver trans athlete and consultant.
  U Sports, which governs university athletics in Canada, put its new policy into effect Thursday and says it affects student-athletes at all 56 of its member institutions. Athletes can only compete on teams
  
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• Genesa Greening: It's chilling that the fight for women's reproductive rights isn't over

  29-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  I exhaled mightily when the Conservatives pledged not to re-open the federal abortion debate. I suspect many Canadian women did. 
  However, this relief has no permanency. It’s an uneasy reprieve that has since given way to a bone-chilling concern that I can’t shake.
  That an abortion debate was even being considered should infuriate the 77 per cent of Canadians who believe in a woman’s right to choose. Today, I find myself wondering when the next threat to women will come an
  
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• Editorial: Surrey LRT project needs to proceed

  29-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The emergence of Surrey’s already green-lit LRT project as a top issue in that city’s municipal election campaign is a bit of a head scratcher.
  Former mayor Doug McCallum, seeking to win back the job he lost in 2005 as the Safe Surrey Coalition mayoral candidate, has vowed to kill the $1.65-billion, 10.5-kilometre, at-grade, light-rail transit line that would link the Surrey town centres of Guildford and Newton to the City Centre.
  But only four years ago, McCallum supported
  
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• Bob Plecas: Badly flawed electoral reform process is too controlled by politicians

  29-09-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan’s comments about this fall’s referendum on electoral reform at the recent Union of B.C. Municipalities annual convention are disturbing for three reasons.
  He said: “I’m going to campaign as hard as I can in the next month to convince other British Columbians to join with me and take a leap of faith on a change that works in jurisdictions around the world. Do not be put in a place of fear.”
  Obviously, the premier’s briefing notes were wrong.
  
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• K-12 union support staff in B.C. agree to three-year framework agreement

  29-09-2018 02:39 via vancouversun.com
  Unions representing public school support staff in B.C. have agreed to a provincial framework giving about 34,000 workers a two-per-cent annual wage increase for three years.
  The agreement covers maintenance workers, custodians, education assistants and clerical, accounting and information technology staff.
  The Presidents’ Council, comprised of Canadian Union of Public Employees local presidents, along with representatives of other support-staff unions, voted this week to endorse the frame
  
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• One last reminder: Our third and final coach house info pop-up is tomorrow (Sat, Sept 29) noon until 2pm at Lynn Va… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-09-2018 01:50 via twitter.com
  One last reminder: Our third and final coach house info pop-up is tomorrow (Sat, Sept 29) noon until 2pm at Lynn Va… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tonight's the final Shipyards Night Market of the season. Enjoy food trucks + music + vendors + fun 5-10pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-09-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Tonight's the final Shipyards Night Market of the season. Enjoy food trucks + music + vendors + fun 5-10pm.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Will leaders debate with poll showing a 'souring' on electoral reform?

  29-09-2018 01:25 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — With a little over three weeks to go before Elections B.C. begins mailing out ballots, British Columbians appear to be split three ways on the fall referendum on electoral reform.
  “Based on how you feel right now, if you were to receive a voting package, which way would you vote?” the Angus Reid Institute asked a panel of 800 British Columbians earlier this month.
  Result: 33 per cent would prefer a switch to proportional representation, 31 per cent would stick w
  
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• City of Surrey removes controversial light rail signs

  29-09-2018 01:25 via vancouversun.com
  City of Surrey crews were out Friday removing light-rail project signs that ran afoul of Elections B.C. advertising rules.
  The signs are part of a city communications plan intended to educate the public about the proposed 10.5-kilometre, $1.65-billion Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT project.
  According to the city, the signs bore the logos of the project funders — the federal and provincial governments, TransLink and the City of Surrey — and were placed near future light-rail stops.
  
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• Testimony of brother of accused challenged during cross-examination at murder trial

  29-09-2018 01:24 via vancouversun.com
  The brother of the man accused of murder in the death of a Japanese student testified on Friday he overheard William Schneider telling his ex-wife by phone that “I killed her” or “I did it.”
  But during cross-examination, he was told that because he only heard one-half of the phone call, he couldn’t have known what William was referring to.
  William and Warren Schneider were drinking together in Polson Park in Vernon on Sept. 28, 2016, the day William was arrested in
  
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• West Coast Express locomotives due for multi-million-dollar overhauls

  29-09-2018 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  Five of the six locomotives used to pull West Coast Express trains between Vancouver and Mission need immediate overhaul and refurbishment, according to an assessment conducted earlier this year.
  TransLink contracted SNC-Lavalin, at a cost of $78,000, to conduct a mechanical and electrical assessment of its fleet of six locomotives in February, to prepare for planned repair work. Postmedia obtained a copy of the inspection report through a freedom of information request.
  “The mid-life refu
  
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• Dan Fumano: A yellow Mustang, and two childhood friends who grew up to be election rivals

  29-09-2018 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  One spring night in 1989, a few teenage buddies were cruising around downtown Vancouver in a yellow 1980 Mustang, listening to Judas Priest, cranked up real loud.
  Two of the friends out that night, Kenny and Glen, had attended elementary school together in Vancouver and recently graduated from high school together. They didn’t know at the time they’d find themselves 29 years later as political opponents.
  Looking back after almost three decades, the former friends disagree on whether
  
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• Our map of building and infrastucture projects that may impact traffic has been updated for the weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-09-2018 01:06 via twitter.com
  Our map ofbuilding and infrastucture projects that may impact traffic has been updated for the weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 2 injured, dozens displaced in North Vancouver apartment fire | CBC ... - CBC.ca

  29-09-2018 01:02
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  Around 40 firefighters were called to fight a two-alarm fire at an apartment building in the Lonsdale area.
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Traffic Engineering Technician. Click here to apply. ow.ly/Ptvx30m1qIv

  29-09-2018 00:45 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Traffic Engineering Technician.Click here to apply. ow.ly/Ptvx30m1qIv
  
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• This Week in History: 1927: Boxing fans are enthralled and enraged by The Long Count

  29-09-2018 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  Baseball immortal Babe Ruth hit his record 60th home run on Sept. 30, 1927. But Vancouver sports pages barely paid any attention, because everybody was still arguing over The Long Count.
  It referred to a title match between boxing legends Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney on Sept. 22 at Soldier’s Field in Chicago. Tunney had beaten Dempsey the year before to take the heavyweight crown, and the rematch was one of the most hyped boxing matches in history — the crowd was initially estimated
  
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• Thank you Aux. Cst. Paul Reece for all your hard work and commitment to TourdeCoast! Well done! twitter.com/pcreece/status…

  29-09-2018 00:10 via twitter.com
  Thank you Aux. Cst. Paul Reece for all your hard work and commitment to TourdeCoast!Well done! twitter.com/pcreece/status…
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Tiger's triumph helped TV ace incredible ratings surge

  29-09-2018 00:09 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  There were two sides to the coin of sport business winners this week and both of them had NBC written all over them.In fact, they both contributed to a memorable Sunday that initiated a golden week for both Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour, and for the Los Angeles Rams and the NFL.
  Tiger came through in a big way to cap his personal comeback story, winning the Tour Championship despite coming in ranked 20th of the 30 golfers who qualified for Bellerive last week.
  The win gave
  
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