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• Service resumes at Sea Island Canada Line stations following power outage

  02-10-2018 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  Power has returned to Canada Line Stations on Sea Island following an earlier power failure.
  The failure at Canada Line stations on Sea Island affected lighting, escalators and elevators on Tuesday afternoon.
  The escalators and elevators where briefly affected while lighting was reduced during the outage.
  Around 1:30 p.m., TransLink announced power had returned to the Sea Island stations and operations had returned to normal.
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• The 2018 Municipal Election takes place on Saturday, October 20. Here's Clare with some info about why it's so impo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-10-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  The 2018 Municipal Election takes place on Saturday, October 20. Here's Clare with some info about why it's so impo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Communications Officer. Click here to apply. ow.ly/Fmru30m4sZd

  02-10-2018 22:11 via twitter.com
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• #StudiointheCity youth did another amazing job of adding some AWESOMENESS to a #Lolo Lane! 👏… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-10-2018 21:36 via twitter.com
  #StudiointheCity youth did another amazing job of adding some AWESOMENESS to a #Lolo Lane! 👏… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On October 20, voters will be electing one mayor, six councillors, and four school trustees. Visit our website for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-10-2018 21:17 via twitter.com
  On October 20, voters will be electing one mayor, six councillors, and four school trustees. Visit our website for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP looking for suspect wanted for defrauding 17 banks - Daily Hive

  02-10-2018 20:51
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  North Vancouver RCMP looking for suspect wanted for defrauding 17 banks
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  North Vancouver RCMP are asking for the public's help in finding a man wanted on a BC-wide warrant after he allegedly defrauded 17 banks. Police said that over a three-month period, Terrelle Robert Talbot attended various banks throughout the Vancouver ...and more »
  
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• Region's home sales plummet 43.5% in September

  02-10-2018 20:37
  
  Detached homes in West Vancouver see Metro Vancouver's biggest annual price slide
  
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• Missed last night’s Council meeting? Wonder what happened? Watch it here: ow.ly/fpk530m4kvc #NorthVan https://t.co/Lg1ELzEMCy

  02-10-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  Missed last night’s Council meeting? Wonder what happened? Watch it here: ow.ly/fpk530m4kvc #NorthVan https://t.co/Lg1ELzEMCy
  
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• Style Q&A: Vancouver boutique Secret Location launches clothing line

  02-10-2018 20:24 via vancouversun.com
  Every now and again, a fashion capsule collection comes along that is so good, it leaves you fervently wishing that it will become a permanent collection.
  The new line from Secret Location is one such release.
  The limited collection from the Vancouver-based retailer features cool-girl pieces such as an asymmetrical Italian-twill blazer and pyjama-inspired separates, each one boasting an element of seriously cool style.
  We caught up with Carey Melnichuk, the store owner and mastermind of the
  
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• Police are investigating alleged dog poisoning in North Vancouver - Daily Hive

  02-10-2018 20:19
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  Police are investigating alleged dog poisoning in North Vancouver
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  Police are investigating an alleged dog poisoning that took place at a North Vancouver park. Over the past weekend, an Australian Shepherd was treated for unknown toxic ingestion. Meaghan Lind-Petersen, the registered veterinarian technologist (RVT ...
  
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• VIFF 2018: Kid Koala presents Satellite as part of Live program

  02-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kid Koala presents Satellite
  When: Oct. 5-7, various times
  Where: The Annex, 823 Seymour
  Tickets: viff.orgInnovative DJ Kid Koala is no stranger to film. Over the course of his career, he has delivered conceptual performances incorporating live music and onscreen storytelling, complete with comfy pillows and recess breaks.
  He has also tried to break down all walls between performer and punter, though never before to the degree he’s doing it in Satellite.
  This interactive event taking part
  
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• Q&A: Jain declares war on growing global bigotry with new album

  02-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jain
  When: Oct. 12, 7 p.m.
  Where: Vogue Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $26.50, at ticketfly.comFrench pop singer Jain blasted onto the international scene with the infectious tracks Come and Makeba. Taken from her 2015 debut Zanaka, the songs were bursting with multicultural rhythms, club savvy production and hooks that you could groove to for days.
  With a mother from Madagascar and a youth spent growing up in Dubai, Congo and France, Jain was set on a path of true world music from an early poin
  
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• Looking back at the fools we were, and will be again in Krapp's Last Tape

  02-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Krapp’s Last Tape
  When: Oct. 5-26
  Where: Tyrant Studios, 1019 Seymour St.
  Tickets: $26, at seventyrants.comIn Krapp’s Last Tape, the title character indulges in his annual ritual: looking back on his life while listening to a recording made by his younger self.
  But even as the 69-year-old Krapp listens to and judges his 39-year-old self, so too do we hear the 39-year-old Krapp judging yet a younger version of himself.
  “He looks on his past self with disdain: ‘Foolishness,
  
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• Five things to check out at the 2018 Vancouver International Improv Festival

  02-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International Improv Festival
  When: Oct. 10-13
  Where: Various venues, including the Granville Island Revue Stage, Performance Works, and Havana Theatre
  Tickets and info: vancouverimprovfest.com
  1. The Wadsworth Constant. Urbandictionary.com defines the Wadsworth Constant as “the idea that the true meaning of a video, conversation, or comment approaches importance after approximately 30 per cent of it has been skipped over.” It is also the title that Philadelphia-based impro
  
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• Clashing ideas about feminism fuel hit Quebec comedy Baby-Sitter

  02-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Baby-Sitter
  When: Oct. 9-13, 8 p.m. (English surtitles Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday)
  Where: Studio 16
  Tickets: $26-30, at seizieme.caIn Baby-Sitter, Cédric’s sexist joke goes viral and he loses his job Hydro-Québec. Seeking more time to write a book inspired by the incident with his journalist brother, Cédric and his partner hire a babysitter. But the baby-sitter has her own ideas about political correctness in the #metoo era.
  Postmedia talked to director Phi
  
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• Passing off steel washers as toonies = arrest warrant! bit.ly/2P4WLWs #NorthVancouver https://t.co/fTHxByc9xj

  02-10-2018 19:49 via twitter.com
  
  Passing off steel washers as toonies = arrest warrant!bit.ly/2P4WLWs#NorthVancouver https://t.co/fTHxByc9xj
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of September 29

  02-10-2018 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  Lethal White by Robert Galbraith.
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Lethal White — Robert Galbraith
  2. Juror #3 — James Patterson and Nancy Allen
  3. Time’s Convert — Deborah Harkness
  4. Shadow Tyrants — Cussler/Morrison
  5. In His Father’s Footsteps — Danielle Steel
  6. Leverage in Death — J.D. Robb
  7. Sea Prayer — Khaled Hosseini
  8. Texas Ranger — James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle
  9. Where the Crawdads Sing — Della Owens
  10. The Forbidden Doo
  
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• Letters, Oct. 2: The only 'wasted vote' is the one that isn't cast, reader says

  02-10-2018 19:14 via vancouversun.com
  The various voting systems each have their supporters and arguments in favour, and Douglas Todd offers a number for proportional representation in his Sept. 25 column. But it’s dismissive to categorize the current system as consisting of wasted votes.
  Political parties have always adopted policies from other parties that were popular. For example, the CCF/NDP has never formed a federal government, yet many of its policies have been adopted. The Greens have pushed the major parties to claim
  
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• Port Moody OKs 512-unit housing agreement for Suter Brook site

  02-10-2018 19:00
  
  Proposal for final parcel of land will have 512 units in two highrises with 50 affordable rental homes
  
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• We've been working to shape the actions we'll take to preserve and protect our valuable heritage resources, and now… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-10-2018 18:32 via twitter.com
  We've been working to shape the actions we'll take to preserve and protect our valuable heritage resources, and now… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Trudeau calls LNG project in B.C. the biggest private investment in Canada's history

  02-10-2018 18:13 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is celebrating the single largest private investment in Canadian history to build the $40 billion liquified natural gas export terminal on B.C.’s north coast.
  Trudeau was in Vancouver Tuesday morning at a news conference to formally announce the giant energy project’s go ahead, along with Premier John Horgan and LNG Canada.
  LNG Canada was given final approval late Monday night to move to construction by a consortium o
  
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• Beyonce and Jay-Z want you to get in formation for tonight's concert at B.C. Place

  02-10-2018 18:05 via vancouversun.com
  Time to prove to Beyonce and Jay-Z you’ve got some coordination.
  The couple’s On The Run II tour hits B.C. Place tonight and there’s a few things to know.
  Arrive early.
  Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and 40,000 guests are expected. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.
  There are also multiple events taking place in the area so there will be additional traffic in and around the venue. Give yourself plenty of time to make your way to the stadium.
  Public transit is recommended as there is very li
  
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• Engineer relieved eye surgery will be allowed at a Vancouver private clinic because of 11th hour deal

  02-10-2018 16:17 via vancouversun.com
  Pete Moore, a Nanaimo engineer scheduled for cataract surgery later this week, was one happy patient Monday. And that’s before he’s even had the procedure to improve his vision.
  As a result of a last-minute consent order by the B.C. government, Moore’s procedure at the Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver will take place Oct. 5. This, after Moore received a phone call from his doctor’s office a few weeks ago advising him that because of the court battle between the provinci
  
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• Vancouver Weather: A few showers, risk of a thunderstorm

  02-10-2018 14:53 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Tuesday’s weather is expected to be rainy and windy in the morning with a risk of a thunderstorm, and then mainly cloudy later in the afternoon with a high of 13 C. And, it looks like that cooler fall weather is going to stick around, with Environment Canada predicting a high of 14 C for the rest of the week. There should be some sunshine this week though, as there is a mix of sun and cloud in the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday. The rain returns on Friday, and
  
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• LNG Canada project in Kitimat given green light to build by shareholders

  02-10-2018 09:34 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The largest project in B.C.’s history, LNG Canada, was given final approval to move to construction late Monday night by a consortium of oil and gas companies headed by Royal Dutch Shell.
  The $40 billion liquified natural gas export terminal will be built in Kitimat, ending a development cycle that spawned several years, two B.C. governments, and multiple delays due to world natural gas prices.
  “The final investment decision taken by our joint venture participants sh
  
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• Park board to test out liquor sales at two Vancouver beaches

  02-10-2018 07:27 via vancouversun.com
  Want a cold beer on a Vancouver beach in the summer sunshine?
  You can next year, but only at roped-off areas at two Vancouver beach concessions.
  On Monday, the Vancouver park board approved a concession strategy which includes a two-year pilot to allow liquor sales at the English Bay and Kitsilano Beach concessions from May to September. 
  “This is the first step,” said commissioner Sarah Kirby-Yung.
  It’s a bold step because it’s the first for the park board but &ldqu
  
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• Engineer relieved eye surgery will be allowed at a private clinic because of 11th hour deal

  02-10-2018 06:21 via vancouversun.com
  Pete Moore, a Nanaimo engineer scheduled for cataract surgery later this week, was one happy patient Monday. And that’s before he’s even had the procedure to improve his vision.
  As a result of a last-minute consent order by the B.C. government, Moore’s procedure at the Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver will take place Oct. 5. This, after Moore received a phone call from his doctor’s office a few weeks ago advising him that because of the court battle between the provinci
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Liberals and NDP open fire in first period of the fall session

  02-10-2018 04:08 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For the first question period of the fall session, the B.C. Liberals and New Democrats taunted each other for overruns on public construction, not a topic on which either side has especially clean hands.
  Opposition leader Andrew Wilkinson started by challenging the New Democrats for a fuller costing of union preferences on the Pattullo Bridge replacement and other infrastructure projects.
  The New Democrats have already admitted that the so-called community benefits agreement acc
  
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• A&W Canada cuts processed cheese from menu; Beyond Meat burger back in B.C.

  02-10-2018 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.-based A&W Canada says it is the first national burger chain to eliminate processed cheese from its menu.
  As of Monday, the fast food franchise says all A&W menu items featuring cheese are being served with real Canadian cheese, made without artificial flavours, colours, or preservatives.
  “Year-after-year A&W has made substantial changes to meet the needs of our guests. What’s better than a Teen Burger topped with real Canadian Cheddar?” said Susan Senecal,
  
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• B.C. NDP and Liberals fight for credit on LNG industry, while Greens fume

  02-10-2018 03:31 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s New Democrat and Liberal parties are jockeying to take credit for a new $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat, even before it’s been officially announced.
  MLAs returned to the legislature Monday for the first day of the fall session, and immediately began politicking over the LNG Canada project. The export terminal and pipeline would be the largest capital project in B.C.’s history, and is expected to be officially announced later this wee
  
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• Wine, dairy producers in B.C. brace for changes in U.S.-Canada trade deal

  02-10-2018 03:11 via vancouversun.com
  More choice for wine lovers in grocery stores means more competition for B.C. wineries.
  That’s among the impacts on wine consumers and producers in B.C. of a newly negotiated trade agreement between the United States and Canada.
  The deal is called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and is intended to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
  Miles Prodan, president and CEO of the B.C. Wine Institute, said the new agreement would mean consumers have more choice
  
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• Investigation into alleged Surrey voting-fraud scheme continues

  02-10-2018 03:05 via vancouversun.com
  The official overseeing Surrey’s municipal election next month said his office contacted police last week over suspicions of “unlawful activity” in connection with mail ballots, although he emphasized that the electoral process hasn’t been compromised.
  Last Friday, a local group called Wake Up Surrey publicly shared a letter of complaint to the Surrey RCMP, outlining what they called “a well-co-ordinated election fraud scheme underway within the South Asian com
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018

  02-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The various voting systems each have their supporters and arguments in favour, and Douglas Todd offers a number for proportional representation in his Sept. 25 column. But it’s dismissive to categorize the current system as consisting of wasted votes.
  Political parties have always adopted policies from other parties that were popular. For example, the CCF/NDP has never formed a federal government, yet many of its policies have been adopted. The Greens have pushed the major parties to claim
  
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• North Vancouver gets a sewage treatment plant after opposing bus depot and Costco - Daily Hive

  02-10-2018 02:42
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  North Vancouver gets a sewage treatment plant after opposing bus depot and Costco
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  This is a tale of NIMBYism. Once upon a time, not too long ago, a 7.6-acre vacant industrial site near the North Vancouver waterfront was considered the best location of a much-needed new bus depot to serve TransLink's bus services across the North Shore.
  
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• North Vancouver gymnastics club losing home due to rec centre redevelopment - Globalnews.ca

  02-10-2018 02:38
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  North Vancouver gymnastics club losing home due to rec centre redevelopment
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  WATCH: A North Vancouver gymnastics club claims the city is forcing them into a venue that's too small for them. But as Catherine Urquhart reports, the club is being accused of playing politics. X. - A A +. Listen. A local gymnastics club says it is ...and more »
  
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• Kitimat residents prepare for good and bad to come from LNG Canada announcement

  02-10-2018 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  Residents of the small coastal B.C. town of Kitimat are contemplating the future of their northern community as they wait for an announcement that LNG Canada will proceed with its export terminal mega-project.
  Two of the international consortium’s five partners announced approval of their investments last week. But as of press time no official announcement has been made from all the partners.
  Cor Rhode has seen big projects come and go in Kitimat, though nowhere near the scale of LNG Canad
  
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• Humpback whale cracks boat window with its head near Comox

  02-10-2018 02:33 via vancouversun.com
  COMOX — Two humpback whales that circled a boat in the waters off Comox were a curious sight — until one of them got too close and cracked a window on the vessel with a bang of its head.
  Peter Hamilton, director of the animal-rights group Lifeforce, was on the boat last Thursday and said the experience with the bus-sized whales was a bit unsettling.
  He posted a video of the close encounter on YouTube, and it shows the whales near the boat before one of them leaps into the air and sma
  
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• B.C.'s tree seed bank plants hundreds of millions of seedlings each year

  02-10-2018 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  The seeds of an idea from the 1950s took root in Duncan and today has branched out to a massive operation in South Surrey that has the goal of planting replacements for every lost tree in the province, and more.
  “We’re a full-service facility that process cones and seeds,” Dave Kolotelo, cone and seed improvement officer at the B.C. Tree Seed Centre, said.
  “We store seeds and prepare seeds for nursery sowing in British Columbia.”
  That someone has a job title such as
  
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• How the new USMCA deal will affect you

  02-10-2018 02:07 via vancouversun.com
  After a year of often heated negotiations, a new trade agreement has been reached between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Here are the some key details of the trade pact that replaces NAFTA that will have an impact on Canadian consumers.
  What’s the deal with NAFTA and what’s going on?
  NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canadian, U.S. and Mexican politicians have been negotiating for months over what to keep, what to lose and what to compromise within the agreeme
  
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• Two Victoria-area mayors told: Seek public inquiry if you don’t like ex-police chief report

  02-10-2018 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is encouraging two Greater Victoria mayors to ask for a public inquiry if they have a problem with its report that says the politicians mishandled harassment allegations made against a former police chief.
  Rollie Woods, deputy police complaint commissioner, says his office would be happy to provide documents backing up its claims that Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins rushed to conclude an internal inves
  
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• Psst #NorthVan, #FirePreventionWeek is coming up next week. Here's a tip for you: Today’s homes burn faster than e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-10-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Psst #NorthVan, #FirePreventionWeek is coming up next week. Here's a tip for you:Today’s homes burn faster than e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TransLink looks at issuing green bonds to finance capital projects

  02-10-2018 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s transit authority is exploring the possibility of issuing green bonds, which would allow investors to put their money into environmentally friendly projects, such as rapid transit and electric buses.
  TransLink’s chief financial officer, Rob Malli, is in New York this week at the Canadian Fixed Income Conference, where on Tuesday he will participate in a panel on green bonds.
  Malli said the experience will allow him to speak with investors about TransLink and its env
  
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• Opinion: Will the speculation tax proceed or fail this fall session?

  02-10-2018 00:42
  
  With the B.C. legislature now in session, all eyes are on the fate of the controversial speculation tax proposed legislation
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week of September 29

  02-10-2018 00:31 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.). 
  2. 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — Stephen Hui (Greystone Books).
  3. E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island — Robert Amos (TouchWood Editions).
  4. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography — Andrea Warner (Greystone Books).
  5. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).  
  6. A Sorrowful Sanctu
  
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• Housing minister expects homeless to leave B.C. campground by Tuesday

  02-10-2018 00:29 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Housing Minister says she’s confident a group of homeless people who pitched tents in a provincial park near Victoria will move into government-approved shelters and living spaces by Tuesday’s deadline.
  Selina Robinson says people started moving out of Goldstream Provincial Park Monday and she’s convinced all members of the group of about 20 campers will be in new living spaces by Tuesday.
  She says the campers are being transported to t
  
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• Man pleads guilty in series of arsons in Vernon

  02-10-2018 00:26 via vancouversun.com
  VERNON — A Vernon man has pleaded guilty to arson just as his trial was about to start.
  A jury trial was set to begin Monday for 56-year-old William Munton; instead he pleaded guilty to seven counts of arson in B.C. Supreme Court.
  The plea comes after a series of deliberately set fires at Vernon in 2014.
  Dan McLaughlin, a spokesman for the B.C. Prosecution Service, says one of the fires Munton admitted to starting destroyed the grandstands at a former horse-racing facility, while other fir
  
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• North Vancouver strata seeks contempt of court ruling against townhouse-turned-hostel owner - Globalnews.ca

  02-10-2018 00:25
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  North Vancouver strata seeks contempt of court ruling against townhouse-turned-hostel owner
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  WATCH: A North Vancouver strata corporation is taking action against a townhouse owner who is using her property as a hostel, and is ignoring all demands to shut it down. X. - A A +. Listen. A North Vancouver townhouse owner who has turned her home ...
  
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• Daphne Bramham: A reason for hope in the coroner's analysis of overdose deaths

  02-10-2018 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  Buried within a tragic litany of data describing the dead, there is a grain of hope in the coroner’s analysis of 872 investigations into British Columbia’s illicit drug overdose deaths during 2016 and 2017.
  It’s hidden within the particularly discouraging statistic that four of every five had been in contact with the health-care system within a year before dying. When they sought help, the system clearly failed them.
  But what if we had better-trained doctors, and substance user
  
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• One teen dead, three injured after crash in Keremeos

  02-10-2018 00:14 via vancouversun.com
  Grief counsellors were on hand at Similkameen Elementary Secondary School on Monday to help students and staff cope with the death of a student killed in a single-vehicle accident Sunday in Keremeos.
  The accident happened just before 2:30 a.m.
  Keremeos RCMP responded to a single-vehicle rollover in the 2400-block of Upper Bench Road.
  Attending officers located two people, the 17-year-old male driver and a 15-year-old female passenger, who had been ejected from the vehicle.
  Police don’
  
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