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• You've got mail 📨... from us. Our General Election brochure was delivered to City homes this week. Inside you'll in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  You've got mail 📨... from us. Our General Election brochure was delivered to City homes this week. Inside you'll in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're shaping the actions we'll take to protect our valuable #heritage homes, structures, parks, and landscape feat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  We're shaping the actions we'll take to protect our valuable #heritage homes, structures, parks, and landscape feat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Mahomes makes Chiefs, NFL must-watch TV, unlike Jays' sluggish season

  05-10-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Television ratings for the NFL continued to stabilize on the strength of another strong Monday Night Football matchup between the Denver Broncos (2-2) and the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs (4-0).
  Driving one of the best MNF audiences in three years was a divisional rivalry, a one-possession game inside the two-minute warning and the magic that is Chiefs’ rookie sensation Patrick Mahomes II. Heading into Week 5, NFL TV viewership in the United States is up one per cent to an
  
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• Vancouver's Hootsuite is exploring a sale for at least $750 Million

  05-10-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  (Bloomberg) — Hootsuite Inc., a B.C. startup that builds software to help marketers use social media, is said to be for sale.
  The Vancouver-based company, which has been an anchor of that city’s tech scene for years, has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to explore a sale at a valuation of at least $750 million, a person familiar with the deal said. The company could still opt to go public instead of selling itself, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the process is
  
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• Trend of low potency products expected in legal recreational cannabis market

  05-10-2018 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  As recreational marijuana legalization looms, some industry insiders are predicting a hot niche in the market for less-potent products.
  At the centre of the shift is an expected influx of new consumers more interested in dabbling than getting blitzed, creating demand for pot products with lower doses of psychoactive ingredients.
  A report by Deloitte forecasts that legalization on Oct. 17 will bring a consumer into the market who is more risk averse, older and less likely to consume the drug as r
  
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• Where is the North Shore’s most sought-after neighbourhood? (INFOGRAPHIC)

  05-10-2018 21:31
  
  Hot trends in local property searches and home prices revealed in this cool graphic breakdown
  
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• Recreational hockey player dies after ramming boards in Langley

  05-10-2018 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  A young B.C. hockey player who died after slamming into the boards during a game in Langley is being remembered by a teammate as a “gentle giant,” and “one of the best players out there.”
  Noah Trulsen, 22, was playing in an adult recreational league on Oct. 3 when team member Gerry Leiper says his friend may have caught an edge while rushing to the bench for a line change.
  Leiper says he saw Trulsen’s forehead hit the top of the boards and his face shield came down
  
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• B.C. adds 33,000 full-time jobs in September

  05-10-2018 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  Employment in B.C. was up last month, as the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in a decade.
  Statistics Canada said Friday that B.C. added 33,000 jobs in September, 26,000 of them full-time jobs.
  A Statistics Canada analyst, Marton Lovei, said gains were made in both the service and goods-producing sectors, with increases in manufacturing, and accommodation and food services. There were also more health care and social assistance, agriculture, and transportation and warehousing
  
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• Stem cell clinics in B.C. and elsewhere need more oversight by Health Canada, researcher says

  05-10-2018 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  Stem-cell clinics across Canada, including eight in B.C., are marketing “unproven treatments” directly to health consumers and charging thousands of dollars, a study concludes.
  Many of the approximately four dozen clinics are making claims of exaggerated benefits and minimizing potential complications, says the study by Leigh Turner, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. His study is published in a journal called Regenerative Medicine.
  Stem cell-based medicine is an
  
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• DYK there's a new North Shore Bike Map? It's been updated with new cycling routes including Spirit Trail and Green… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  DYK there's a new North Shore Bike Map? It's been updated with new cycling routes including Spirit Trail and Green… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Style in the City: Janelle Saccucci

  05-10-2018 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Janelle Saccucci
  Occupation: Marketing brand strategist for creative entrepreneurs and businesses
  Personal style in one word: Feminine-West-Coast-chic
  Social media: @janellesaccucci on Instagram
  Love Janelle’s look? Here are a few items to help you recreate it. The dress
  A printed midi- or maxi-length dress is a fun, fashionable way to show off a little colour during the grey days of fall. We love this Wilfred Beaune dress with long sleeves, which features an on-trend floral pr
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Back in the studio, Kennedy Stewart looks to his past and Vancouver's future

  05-10-2018 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  We all have favourite places. Those places suggest something about who we are and what we value. With that in mind, columnist Daphne Bramham has asked four of the front-runners in Vancouver’s mayoral race to meet her at their favourite places to talk about what’s special about it, what the place says about Vancouver and how it reflects their vision for the city.
  Back in 1991, a local band called State of Mind won CFOX’s ‘demo-listen derby,’ which gave it the chance
  
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• B.C. Ferries planning for five new vessels

  05-10-2018 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries is preparing to have five new major vessels built to run between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
  A call for expressions of interest has been issued.
  The competition is open to local and international shipyards.
  These ships would start to come into service in 2023.
  They will replace the Queen of Alberni, Queen of New Westminster, Queen of Cowichan and Queen of Coquitlam.
  “These vessels will be quieter and have a lighter ecological footprint than any we have ever built,
  
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• Salut: B.C. produce headlines forward thinking, delicious menus

  05-10-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  When Mara Jernigan decided to come back to Canada after more than six years as a resort manager and consultant chef in Belize, it was only natural that her path would lead to the Okanagan Valley.
  “I’ve always been farm to table and there’s a great selection of produce here,” says the former president of Slow Food Canada.
  “What’s interesting to me is, being one of the pioneers of the local food movement, coming back here it’s so easy to find local food no
  
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• We're looking for #volunteers to serve on a number of our committees. From the Advisory Design Panel to the Municip… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  We're looking for #volunteers to serve on a number of our committees. From the Advisory Design Panel to the Municip… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Salut! Five wine items to add to your bar cart

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to update — or even elevate — a few of the items on your bar cart? Well, you’re in luck.
  There are plenty of cool-and-quirky wine items on offer at big-box and specialty retailers, alike this season. So, to help you navigate the seemingly limitless selection, we sought out five interesting items to liven up any libation station.
  From chill buckets to cleaning tools, here are five wine items to stock up on this season.Bold bucket
  While rosé season is behind us, th
  
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• Salut: B.C. producers poised to make wine that matters

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In many ways, fall is the official start of the wine New Year because it’s the birth of a new vintage.
  As the harvest unfolds across B.C. wine country there is a level of anticipation and anxiety that is unmatched at any other time of the year.
  It’s been said that each year tells its story, especially when you are growing grapes as far north as we are, but over the last decade there is little doubt weather remains a major factor in determining the quality of the harvest.
  In British C
  
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• Fall fashion trends: Bold colours, big cuts and a little bit Western

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If pondering the winter season ahead conjures up images of grey days and even greyer fashion choices, well, you’re in for a surprise.
  This cold-weather season, it’s all about making a sartorial statement. And, as one might imagine, it all begins with outerwear.
  “This season we saw so many amazing coats on the runways — whether it was an oversized plaid jacket from Balenciaga or a shaggy, faux-fur coat from Dries Van Noten,” said Joseph Tang, the fashion director at
  
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• Brian Minter: Fall porch pots that will delight all winter

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve always admired fall and Thanksgiving decor on the steps and porches of homes in Eastern Canada and the United States.
  So many folks, particularly in Ontario communities, go all out to create a wonderful neighbourhood vibe by decorating with cornstalks, gourds, pumpkins, hay bales, fall foliage and colourful mums.
  In B.C., with a few exceptions, we’re happy putting a potted mum on the step and that’s about it. It’s true we have an early October Thanksgiving and then H
  
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• Book review: Keith Malliard's Twin Studies displays a lyrical beauty

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Twin Studies
  By Keith Maillard (Freehand Books, Calgary, 2018)
  $24.95 | 574 pp.Remember when people used to argue about who had written the Great American Novel? In an age before post-post-modernism, virtual reality and Netflix binging, it was a serious debate, and suggested that the novel was a high form of art, sturdy enough to bear an entire national identity, and that we could somehow find a consensus about who had written one.
  Let me suggest, perhaps perversely, that a great American novel
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Lake Breeze Pinot Noir named LG wine of the year

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you are of the mind that there are too many wine awards competitions you will be happy to know that there is one less in B.C. after a successful merger.
  Last year the Lieutenant-governor’s office was looking to step back from organizing its annual Lieutenant-governor’s Wine Awards but remain connected in some way to the competition. A decision was made to combine the long running B.C. Wine Awards, held during the fall Okanagan Wine Festival, with the Lieutenant Governor’s Wi
  
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• We’re recruiting for a regular full-time Assistant Supervisor, Operations (Streets). Click here to apply: ow.ly/deqV30m7k2U

  05-10-2018 18:15 via twitter.com
  We’re recruiting for a regular full-time Assistant Supervisor, Operations (Streets). Click here to apply: ow.ly/deqV30m7k2U
  
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• The City's Green Necklace is done! You can now walk, cycle or roll along the 7.5km loop that connects parks, public… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The City's Green Necklace is done! You can now walk, cycle or roll along the 7.5km loop that connects parks, public… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Monday is a stat holiday, which means your garbage and recycling collection day will change next week. Visit our we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Monday is a stat holiday, which means your garbage and recycling collection day will change next week. Visit our we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Notorious Vancouver slumlords linked to Burnaby rental 'shell game'

  05-10-2018 17:06
  
  Members of Sahota family, owners of several infamous hotels on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, suing the owners of Burnaby rental building
  
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• Town Talk: Book and gala greet South Asians' second century

  05-10-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  SECOND CENTURY: 100 local South Asian families were commemorated in publisher Rana Vig’s 100 Year Journey. It was released a century after 376 British subjects aboard the vessel Komagata Maru were denied entry to Canada in 1914. The book spurred an annual gala that funds copies for free distribution to B.C. schools, libraries and even Canadian senators who formally accepted it in 2017. Vig hopes a future edition will add to “the unlikely heroes who challenged the status quo and champ
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Brewing for success

  05-10-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Here’s an idea: why not open a coffee shop? Heck, why not a chain of coffee shops? After all, how hard can it be? You buy coffee, you brew it and you watch the money roll in!
  Then, l you look behind the counter and start to work your way through the myriad rules and regulations that stand in the way of simply brewing coffee and selling it.
  Fair trade coffee: is that organic? Does it mean it’s better coffee? The answer is no, but it’s a designation you have to be aware
  
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• B.C. dad says high school assignment suggests racism, misogyny are right-wing beliefs

  05-10-2018 15:44 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — An assignment that asked students at a high school in British Columbia to identify the political leanings of racists and immigration opponents showed a bias against people with right-wing views, says a father whose son was given the worksheet.
  Matt deFouw said he took his concerns about the worksheet to the Kamloops-Thompson School District, which launched an investigation.
  B.C.’s Education Ministry said in a statement Thursday the worksheet is not part of the school curri
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy start to long weekend then sunny

  05-10-2018 15:15 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Happy Friday and the start of the Thanksgiving long weekend! Friday’s weather looks mainly cloudy with a few showers beginning this morning, and a high of 13 C, according to Environment Canada. The national weather agency says the rain should clear up tonight, but with high winds near the water of up to 50 km/h. Then, Saturday looks lovely, with clear skies, sunshine and a high of 15 C. The rest of the weekend looks a little soggy and cold. The agency is foreca
  
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• Salut! Here's what you should (and should not) be doing at a wine tasting

  05-10-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  How should you hold a wine glass? How many wine tastes are too many? And should you spit?
  These are just a few of the questions that might arise when presented with the opportunity to attend a wine tasting. And, you’re likely not alone.
  Wine tasting is a wonderful way to sip, savour and learn about new wines and wineries. But the experiences, which typically include tasting a variety of wines including white, red and rosé options, can present a few sticky situations, should one imbi
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Gun violence continues with two Fraser Valley murders

  05-10-2018 09:34 via vancouversun.com
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is probing two new shooting deaths in Mission and Chilliwack.
  Gang-involved Varinderpal Gill, who was just 19, was shot to death Wednesday about 9 p.m. at Mission Junction Mall on London Avenue.
  IHIT spokesman, Cpl. Frank Jang, said Gill was pronounced dead at the scene.
  In August, Abbotsford Police issued a pubic warning about Gill, who was involved in the Lower Mainland gang conflict.
  While Gill was killed in Mission, a burning SUV believed to be
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Sentencing hearing for UN gang hitman continues

  05-10-2018 09:06 via vancouversun.com
  Cory Vallee was convicted of the first-degree murder of Red Scorpion Kevin LeClair last June, as well as of conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers and others in the RS. But Vallee has not yet been sentenced.
  While his murder conviction will result in an automatic life sentence with no parole for a minimum of 25 years, the Crown in the case also wants Vallee to get delayed parole eligibility on the sentence he gets for the conspiracy count.
  On Thursday, victim impact statements from LeClair’
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Ramos pleads guilty to aiding international traffickers

  05-10-2018 08:48 via vancouversun.com
  Thanks for your patience during the last few weeks as I have been off of work on leave.
  I am now back and have some updates on a few cases I have covered previously.
  For starters, Vince Ramos, who started Phantom Secure a decade ago to sell encrypted phones to criminals, has pleaded guilty in California to racketeering for aiding international drug traffickers by allowing them to communicate using his secure devices.
  Amazingly, the U.S. says the Vancouver man netted $80 million US through his il
  
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• City thinking about how to safeguard The Birds in Olympic Village

  05-10-2018 06:07 via vancouversun.com
  The Birds in Olympic Village need protection from the public.
  The much beloved giant male and female sparrows are caged by fencing so that a previously planned, protective 3M coating can cure properly.
  One of the birds also had to be repaired after a chunk on the outer shell was torn away.
  Eric Fredericksen, the City of Vancouver’s public-art program manager, said while the fencing is up, the city is taking the opportunity to figure out how to make the sculptures less attractive for people
  
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• World's deadliest mushroom prompts warning to urban B.C. fungus fans

  05-10-2018 05:50 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is advising mushroom lovers not to forage in urban areas of Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island because they could unwittingly reap a deadly harvest.
  It has issued an advisory saying death cap mushrooms are the deadliest on the planet and have been identified in 100 locations in the Vancouver area.
  B.C. Drug and Poison Control Centre pharmacist Raymond Li says the centre handled 30 mushroom exposure calls between June and August, but saw 16 in Se
  
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• Former Surrey church elder, Coast Mountain bus driver charged with sexual assault

  05-10-2018 04:50 via vancouversun.com
  A former Surrey church elder and longtime bus driver has been charged with sexual assault, Mounties announced Thursday.
  According to a news release, 72-year-old Brian Batke has been charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of sexual exploitation.
  The allegations stem from incidents that occurred in 2005, when the victim, whose name has been withheld, was a youth. The incidents were first reported to police in 2017.
  In 2005, Batke, then a member of Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Ch
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Leap of faith with Horgan on electoral reform has dark side for voters

  05-10-2018 04:23 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Lately the New Democrats are urging British Columbians to educate themselves on the options for the coming referendum on electoral reform, the better to make an informed choice when the ballots go out later this month.
  But that is not possible in several important respects.
  The New Democrats have withheld key information about how things would work if British Columbians opt for proportional representation over the status quo system known as first past the post.
  The New Demo
  
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• Homicide unit investigates fatal shooting in Chilliwack

  05-10-2018 04:13 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating a shooting on Yale Road in Chilliwack that has left one person dead.
  RCMP responded to reports of shots fired around 2:20 p.m. in the 46000-block of Yale Road and found someone who had sustained life-threatening injuries, Cpl. Mike Rail said in a news release.
  The victim was taken to hospital but later died. The shooting isn’t believed to have been a random act, Rail added.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was called in to take over the scene, which Mount
  
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• At least 681 youths are homeless according to Metro Vancouver count

  05-10-2018 02:36 via vancouversun.com
  At age 16, Dylan Cohen experienced homelessness for the first time.
  He was living in Manitoba and had been in foster care for three years before “inadequate” foster placements pushed him to homelessness.
  “It was traumatizing,” he said of the experience, which saw him couch surfing and staying in shelters. “I was without my family. I was without my sister. I was completely away from my community.”
  Cohen, who is now 23 and a youth organizer with Fostering Change
  
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• Ice age highway: First peoples may have used the B.C. coast as a route south, says researcher

  05-10-2018 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. coast may have been an ice age highway for ancient peoples migrating south from northeast Russia to the Americas, according to new research involving a University of the Fraser Valley scientist.
  At the end of the last ice age, the thick ice sheets that covered much of what is now British Columbia began to retreat, opening up routes that allowed the first peoples to enter the Americas, explained UFV professor Olav Lian. But while it has long been thought that people migrated via an
  
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• Andy Yan surveys his chain of history

  05-10-2018 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  Andy Yan showed up at The Vancouver Sun and The Province offices Friday with his chain and leather.
  But the mild-mannered planner wasn’t looking to start a brouhaha with rugby-playing city columnist Dan Fumano. He came in to show off his latest acquisition, a 33-foot surveyor’s chain that was used to measure city lots in the 1880s.
  He paid US$350 for the chain, which he found on eBay. He’d been looking for one for years.
  “It is one of the formulating instruments (that was
  
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• Why is walking, biking or rolling to school a great idea? Check out these great videos created by Carson Graham Sec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 01:40 via twitter.com
  Why is walking, biking or rolling to school a great idea? Check out these great videos created by Carson Graham Sec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Judges, lawyers urged to give more to solve justice crisis

  05-10-2018 01:11 via vancouversun.com
  Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner wants judges and lawyers to give back and do more to help solve the access to justice crisis plaguing the courts.
  In a speech opening the two-day National Pro Bono Conference in Vancouver, the country’s top judge continued a crusade championed by his predecessor, retired Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin — the fight to establish a robust legal-aid system and stem the tide of self-represented litigants swamping courtrooms.
  “Eve
  
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• Next Tue thru Fri, fire halls across the DNV will open their doors in support of Fire Prevention Week. Drop by, mee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 01:06 via twitter.com
  Next Tue thru Fri, fire halls across the DNV will open their doors in support of Fire Prevention Week. Drop by, mee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Lots of folks out enjoying Civic Plaza on this beautiful fall day. 💗☀️🍃 #NorthVan https://t.co/gUCjfR0BIj

  05-10-2018 00:50 via twitter.com
  
  Lots of folks out enjoying Civic Plaza on this beautiful fall day. 💗☀️🍃 #NorthVan https://t.co/gUCjfR0BIj
  
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• North Vancouver field hockey goalie gets the nod for Team Canada - North Shore News

  05-10-2018 00:48
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  North Vancouver field hockey goalie gets the nod for Team Canada
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver native Ethan McTavish was named to the 2018 Field Hockey Canada U-18 men's national team for the Youth Olympic Games starting this weekend in Buenos Aires, Argentina. McTavish is a member of the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club ...
  
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• Marijuana legalization challenging, new territory for everyone: Horgan

  05-10-2018 00:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan says the government will do its best to protect children and public safety while making sure demand is met when marijuana becomes legal later this month.
  Horgan says legalization is new territory for everyone and he expects daily challenges after Oct. 17.
  The premier says the government will do all it can to meet demand by bringing in as much supply as possible.
  There has been concern of a shortage of some strains of marijuana, and Horgan says he can’t
  
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• Gang conflict: Teen murdered in Mission was 'marked for death'

  05-10-2018 00:09 via vancouversun.com
  A teenager who policed warned was being targeted by gangsters was shot and killed in Mission on Wednesday night.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says 19-year-old Varinderpal Singh Gill was murdered in the parking lot of The Junction Shopping Centre.Varinderpal “VP” Singh Gill.
  RCMP were called to the scene at around 9 p.m. after receiving reports of a shooting and found Gill inside a pickup truck suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
  Gill, who was known as &ldq
  
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• Mom of Red Scorpion gangster still devastated nine years after son's murder

  05-10-2018 00:08 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of Red Scorpion gangster Kevin LeClair expressed her devastation at his fatal 2009 shooting in a victim impact statement read in B.C. Supreme Court Thursday.
  Crown prosecutor Elizabeth Rennie read the statement to Justice Janice Dillon at the sentencing hearing of LeClair’s killer Cory Vallee, a hitman for the rival United Nations gang.
  LeClair’s slaying “was just the beginning of the nightmare,” said the statement, signed only as “Kevin’s mother.&r
  
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