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• Ta da! The Green Necklace is now complete. It's the perfect day to get out and enjoy this off-street multi-use path… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-10-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Ta da! The Green Necklace is now complete. It's the perfect day to get out and enjoy this off-street multi-use path… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Makeover: Fabulous fall hair trends for 2018

  06-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fall is in the air, and likewise in the hair!
  Shadow roots
  Women are looking for ways to update and soften their summer blond locks without losing out on the time and investment it took them to achieve a light colour.  Enter the trend of shadow roots.
  This trend allows you to embrace your natural root colour and blend it into your highlight in a seamless and effortless way.  Add a cropped cut to the mix, styled with a little body and texture, and your seasonal update is complete.The te
  
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• Fab 5: Knit wit

  06-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a definite chill in the air, which means the time has probably come to give in to stockings, ankle boots, and wearing a jacket every single day. The good news? This season’s cardigans are as stylish as they are practical, which means that wrapping up warm isn’t all that bad after all. From oversized chunky knits to statement hues, Rebecca Tay discovers five cardigans you’ll want to button yourself into this season.
  ORANGE YOU GLAD
  It’s easy to reach for a ba
  
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• Homeless campers invade vacant Nanaimo school

  06-10-2018 19:56 via vancouversun.com
  Just hours after the province announced it would provide 170 units of supportive housing for residents of Nanaimo’s tent city, homeless advocates occupied an empty school for a “schoolhouse squat.”
  About 30 people from Nanaimo’s DisconTent City entered the school and by Friday evening, they were standing on the roof of Rutherford Elementary School, looking at RCMP officers below.
  The group “opened the door” to get into the school, said Sophie Wending, a tent c
  
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• Vancity's online banking system still down after three days

  06-10-2018 19:34 via vancouversun.com
  Vancity’s online banking system is offline for a third straight day — and the credit union’s says there is no ETA as to when it might be up and running.
  Since midnight Thursday, Vancity’s core banking system, online platforms, mobile apps and IT system have been down.
  Automatic teller machines, credit cards, and point of sale purchases are still functional, but customers are not able log into their online accounts, check balances, pay bills or complete electronic money tr
  
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• Need fresh veggies for your Thanksgiving feast? Pick some up at the #LoutetFarm market today 10-noon.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-10-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Need fresh veggies for your Thanksgiving feast? Pick some up at the #LoutetFarm market today 10-noon.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• RCMP suspect foul play in disappearance of Kamloops man

  06-10-2018 17:53 via vancouversun.com
  RCMP suspect foul play in connection with the disappearance of a 35-year-old Kamloops man.
  Troy Gold was last seen at his Kamloops home at 3 p.m. on Monday. Police say he has not contacted his family or friends since then.
  On Friday, Kamloops RCMP said they received information indicating that foul play was a factor in his disappearance.
  “At this time, the RCMP are pursuing various investigative avenues in numerous locations around Kamloops,” Mounties said in a release.
  Police, along
  
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• Child in B.C. hospitalized after eating cannabis-infused gummy bears

  06-10-2018 17:53 via vancouversun.com
  COURTENAY, B.C. — RCMP in British Columbia say a young child has been hospitalized after eating marijuana-infused gummy bear candies she found while in the back seat of a vehicle.
  Police say the girl’s parents took her to hospital when she showed signs of medical distress and she was airlifted to another hospital for further medical treatment.
  Const. Monika Terragni of the Comox Valley detachment says the girl’s condition brings to light the dangers of edibles made with cannabi
  
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• Daily Poll: What is your favourite thing about Thanksgiving?

  06-10-2018 17:15 via vancouversun.com
  Thanksgiving weekend is upon us. It’s time to undo the belt, shove food in our mouths, tolerate relatives and watch some football/hockey.
  Though the harvest has been celebrated in Canada for several hundred years, Thanksgiving wasn’t proclaimed a national holiday in Canada until 1879, during Sir. John A. Macdonald’s second term as prime minister.
  Some historians credit English explorer Sir Martin Frobisher and his crew as being the first Europeans to celebrate a Thanksgiving ce
  
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• Project looks to restore North Vancouver mudflats where First Nations once harvested seafood - CBC.ca

  06-10-2018 17:02
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  Project looks to restore North Vancouver mudflats where First Nations once harvested seafood
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  A restoration project in North Vancouver is looking to clean up the area to bring back marine life after decades of industry logging and dredging put an end to the bounty. The waterfront at Maplewood Flats, east of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, was ...
  
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• Vancouver Weather: It'll be a sunny Saturday but rain is on its way

  06-10-2018 16:40 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Oct. 6, 2018 – Thanksgiving weekend in Vancouver will start with a sunny Saturday but the rest of the weekend is pretty much a turkey, weather-wise anyway. 
  Environment Canada says we can expect sunshine today — once the morning fog burns off – with a high of 15 degrees. The clouds will roll in over overnight, however, and we can expect rain Sunday which will continue through to Thanksgiving Monday.
  Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mostly sunny. Fog pa
  
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• Sold (Bought): PoCo townhome has plenty of living space

  06-10-2018 14:38 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1102 O’Flaherty Gate, Port Coquitlam
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 1,461 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $537,000
  Listed for: $659,000
  Sold for: $645,000
  Sold on: July 8
  Days on market: 26
  Listing agent: Rod Hayes at Park Georgia Realty
  Buyers agent: Steven Pecchia at Park Georgia Realty
  The big sell: This half-duplex-style townhome is tucked away at the foot of Citadel Heights in Port Coquitlam’s Sum
  
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• Concord Pacific's amenity-rich Park George will be big on smart design

  06-10-2018 14:20 via vancouversun.com
  There are not many places where a new condo comes with access to two private swimming pools, an outdoor hot tub theatre, a tennis court, a work lounge, a sports social lounge, a virtual spin studio and a video conferencing room. Park George, the latest offering from Concord Pacific in Surrey, is one such place.
  Part of the reason for the extraordinary range of amenities on offer at Park George is because residents will be able to make use of the facilities that are already in place at Park Avenu
  
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• The Home Front: Local lighting competition draws international talent

  06-10-2018 14:04 via vancouversun.com
  The lighting design industry in Canada is a relatively small one, says designer Christian Lo, of Toronto design studio ANONY, so taking part in Vancouver-based lighting competition LAMP held great appeal for Lo and her studio partner David Ryan.
  “We’ve been following the competition since it started,” says Lo of LAMP — lighting architecture movement project — which just ran for a fifth year. The competition draws international submissions and is judged by
  
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• Douglas Todd: The ups and downs of highrise living

  06-10-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rob McDowell thought a condo on the 29th floor of a Yaletown highrise would be the route to contentment.
  “It had a beautiful view of Burrard Inlet. It had everything I wanted. But I soon realized I felt like I was in a gilded cage. I saw people in the elevator, but that was about it. I realized I wanted to be around people more.”
  So two years after he bought into the tower at 501 Pacific Boulevard, McDowell moved into a unit that opened onto that building’s leafy courtyard. The
  
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• 'Irreplaceable' instruments stolen from B.C. rock band 54-40

  06-10-2018 07:20 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. rock band 54-40 says it was robbed of seven “irreplaceable” instruments ahead of shows in Vancouver Friday and Saturday night.
  In a pair of statements posted to the group’s Facebook page, the band says the instruments were stolen from a rented cube van Friday morning in New Westminster.
  The seven stringed instruments include a blond 1957 Fender Esquire electric guitar, a 1974 Fender Jazz bass, a 1966 Fender Stratocaster, a 1966 Gibson Trini Lopez Standard, a 1954 Gibson Fl
  
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• Will municipal election be an 'awakening' for B.C's millennial candidates and voters?

  06-10-2018 05:37 via vancouversun.com
  Josh Reynolds sees his age as an asset.
  But it’s also one of the hurdles the 25-year-old graduate student needs to clear to convince Abbotsford voters to give him a council seat on Oct. 20.
  An opponent recently implied via Twitter that Reynolds doesn’t understand “fiscal discipline.” 
  “Young people are told they’re not qualified, they’re not ready, and they don’t have a voice,” said Reynolds. “That needs to change. I&rsqu
  
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• SUV driver dies in crash into semi-trailer on Highway 15 in Surrey

  06-10-2018 05:19 via vancouversun.com
  The driver of an SUV has died after he slammed into the back of a semi-trailer on Highway 15 in South Surrey.
  Surrey RCMP were alerted to the fatal crash by a number of 911 callers at about 3:30 p.m. Friday.
  The SUV was reported heading north on the highway (176th Street) just south of 32nd Avenue when it rear-ended the northbound tractor-trailer ahead of it.
  “The driver of the black SUV, a male resident of New Westminster in his 50s, was extricated from the vehicle, but attempts to revive
  
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• Expansion of LNG production in B.C.'s climate plan could prove tricky

  06-10-2018 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Amid the celebrations this week over B.C. getting its first major LNG project, provincial officials indicated that LNG Canada might also be the last of its kind.
  The obstacle to further expansion is one that critics said should frustrate the development of even one LNG terminal: meeting the province’s legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
  The New Democrats are struggling mightily to reconcile the emissions from LNG Canada with the province’s
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Another Alkhalil brother murdered – this time in Mexico

  06-10-2018 03:30 via vancouversun.com
  I was off when I heard the news in August about Nabil Alkhalil getting killed in Mexico, five years after he left Canada on a fake passport.
  I know people have been asking me to do a story on his demise even though time has passed. Mexican news reports were referring to him as a Palestinian businessman and claimed the murder was over the sale of some cars. But I have heard it was a cocaine deal gone bad. One man has been arrested. A second suspect left the country, according to Mexican news repo
  
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• Former Vancouver gangster murdered in Mexico after brothers killed in B.C.

  06-10-2018 03:10 via vancouversun.com
  For years, former Vancouver gangster Nabil Alkhalil fought to stay in Canada, his adopted country, after being threatened with deportation over a cocaine trafficking conviction.
  Then he disappeared in 2013, after his brother Robby was charged with the Vancouver murder of a longtime rival Sandip Duhre.
  Nabil Alkhalil recently resurfaced in Mexico, where he was shot to death in August in a luxury car dealership. One man has been arrested in the murder and another suspect has left the country, acco
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018

  06-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Conservatives’ petty, party line snivelling and posturing over the new U.S.-Canada-Mexica trade deal is extremely upsetting. The opposition parties should get behind the government on this particular issue and show a unified country to the Americans.  
  The government negotiators went down to the wire with the U.S., and at this stage it sounds to me like they struck a pretty fair deal. Canada gets to keep Chapter 19 in the trade agreement, which was critical. Sure they gave up
  
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• Miranda Orth: It's very hard to find a job in Vancouver if you have intellectual challenges

  06-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  I wish to express my opinion on Special Olympics athletes with intellectual challenges like myself who are working on finding a suitable job in Vancouver.
  My start in sports began with the Richmond Therapeutic Equestrian Society and I was featured in an article as a horse rider in The Vancouver Sun on Dec. 21, 1999.
  It is historic that 2018 is the 50th anniversary of the Special Olympics. But I have a concern regarding athletes and others in Vancouver with intellectual challenges who are finding
  
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• Kelly Anne Monjazeb: Kavanaugh story reveals destructive nature of alcohol consumption in teens

  06-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  I want to share my thoughts on what transpired at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee when Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh made their opening statements. I will not attempt comment on the political agendas, nor any reference to swaying of party-line outcomes that both sides may or may not be embroiled in.
  What I found to be the most glaring issue that underpins this entire case, is the denial of alcohol consumption fuelling dysfunctional, violent and immature sexual behaviour (as a soc
  
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• Editorial: Lots of praise to go around on LNG mega-project

  06-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Congratulations are deserved all-around to the various parties responsible for this week’s announcement that LNG Canada is proceeding with its long-awaited liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remarked — several times, with a big grin — at $40 billion, the project is the largest private investment in Canadian history.
  The former provincial government of Christy Clark identified LNG as a tremendous opportunity for B.C., the NDP gover
  
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• Alex Hemingway: Private schools receive public funds while special-needs students go without

  06-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  As the B.C. government consults on how it will allocate money in its next budget, a potentially easy win awaits on the education front.
  Every year, the provincial government provides hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to private schools, including elite prep schools. Given that B.C.’s public education system has been severely underfunded for most of the past two decades — and is still failing to adequately support students with special needs — this use of pu
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Gun violence continues with two Fraser Valley murders – UPDATED

  06-10-2018 02:31 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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• Reminder: City Hall will be closed Monday, October 8 for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the holiday weekend with family and fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-10-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Reminder: City Hall will be closed Monday, October 8 for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the holiday weekend with family and fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• North Vancouver trustee candidates talk enrolment pressures, student mental health - North Shore News

  06-10-2018 01:15
  North Shore News
  North Vancouver trustee candidates talk enrolment pressures, student mental health
  North Shore News
  Promoting inclusivity for all students, tackling mental health, sorting out dysfunction on the board and refusing to sell any more school land were among the issues touched on at an all-candidates meeting for North Vancouver city school trustees hosted ...
  
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• Obituary: Charlie Warner took the iconic Miracle Mile photograph, pioneered colour photos in Canadian daily newspapers

  06-10-2018 01:10 via vancouversun.com
  Charlie Warner wasn’t scheduled to work that Saturday afternoon, but he went to Empire Stadium anyway to shoot what’s come to be known as the Miracle Mile.
  In its first issue, Sports Illustrated would call the race the “most widely heralded and universally contemplated foot race of all time,” and Warner captured its most telling moment.
  England’s Roger Bannister and Australia’s John Landy had each broken the almost-mythical four-minute barrier for the mile and
  
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• A reminder that District Hall will be closed on Monday for Thanksgiving. We'll be back to serve you bright and earl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-10-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  A reminder that District Hall will be closed on Monday for Thanksgiving. We'll be back to serve you bright and earl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Book review: Keith Maillard's Twin Studies displays a lyrical beauty

  06-10-2018 00:42 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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• SkyTrain and SeaBus riders unable to use Compass cards will continue to have free access to service

  06-10-2018 00:15 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink riders unable to use their hands to tap a Compass card will continue to have free access to SkyTrain and SeaBus stations using the Universal Fare Gate Access Program.
  Sam Turcott, executive director of the Disability Alliance of B.C., applauded TransLink’s commitment to making its services as accessible as possible to people with disabilities. He said the feedback the alliance had received about the fare gate access pilot program was very positive.
  “It means that peopl
  
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