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• This Week in History: 1961, RCMP raid the Vancouver Public Library over a notorious novel

  12-10-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  October 13th, 1961, fell on a Friday. And it was definitely unlucky for Vancouver fans of writer Henry Miller.
  “RCMP RAIDS LIBRARY IN HUNT FOR NOVEL,” screamed a giant front-page headline in The Vancouver Sun.
  “Royal Canadian Mounted Police swooped down on bookstores and the Vancouver Public Library Friday in a hunt for copies of author Henry Miller’s sex-in-Paris novel, Tropic of Cancer.
  “They were armed with a little-used blanket warrant called a ‘writ of as
  
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• Peace Arch border officer who was sexually assaulted can appeal for compensation: court

  12-10-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The board responsible for hearing grievances by federal government workers must reconsider a decision after the Federal Court of Appeal found it downplayed a sexual assault as a “prank,” and used its “own concept of logic” instead of assessing actual evidence.
  The case involves a grievance filed to the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board by a Canadian Border Services Agency officer working at the Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey.
  The of
  
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• Judge says B.C. government should fund interpreter for murdered teen's mom

  12-10-2018 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a 13-year-old girl found murdered in a park in Burnaby has asked for a Mandarin interpreter so she can understand court proceedings, and a judge has recommended the province pay for it.
  The mother’s lawyer, Esther Kornfeld, told court her client’s friend interpreted proceedings last month after a man accused of the crime made his first appearance.
  Ibrahim Ali, 28, was back in court Friday, but Marrisa Shen’s mother wasn’t in the gallery with people supportin
  
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• Charter bus, semi truck nearly collide in harrowing Revelstoke dashcam video

  12-10-2018 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  Just in time for Halloween, the Revelstoke RCMP has dropped what may be the scariest thing you’ll see this month.
  Mounties have released chilling dashcam video of a charter bus’s near head-on collision with a semi truck on the Trans-Canada Highway.In the video, filmed this past Sunday on an undivided two-lane portion of Highway 1 three kilometres east of Revelstoke, a passenger coach carrying eight travels eastbound along the roadway at approximately 3 a.m. when the lights
  
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• General voting day is Saturday, October 20 🗳️. Advance Voting is underway. Get info about the candidates and every… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  General voting day is Saturday, October 20🗳️. Advance Voting is underway. Get info about the candidates and every… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Fossil fuel pipelines 'the wrong direction,' says SFU author of UN climate report

  12-10-2018 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. is moving in the wrong direction if it wants to be a leader in curbing climate change, says a Simon Fraser University professor who co-authored a dire United Nations report this week on the impacts of global warming.
  “We are at a critical juncture. We need rapid and unprecedented changes across all aspects of the economy and society,” said Kirsten Zickfeld, a climate science professor at SFU’s Department of Geography.
  “Vancouver has done a great job with its gre
  
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• Judge says it's up to B.C. government to fund translator for murdered teen's mom

  12-10-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a 13-year-old girl found murdered in a park in Burnaby has requested a Mandarin translator so she can understand court proceedings, and a judge has recommended the province fund that request.
  The mother’s lawyer, Esther Kornfeld, told the court her client’s friend translated proceedings last month after a man accused of the crime made his first appearance.
  Ibrahim Ali was back in court today, but Marrisa Shen’s mother wasn’t in the gallery that was packed wi
  
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• Entire top floor of iconic Vancouver co-op listed for $17.3M (PHOTOS)

  12-10-2018 21:29
  
  We toured the West End beachfront penthouse, which has 3,000 square feet of ocean-, city- and mountain-view roof terraces with $3 million in upgrades
  
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• Are you interested in helping shape the community you live in? We are looking for experts from various areas of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 21:25 via twitter.com
  Are you interested in helping shape the community you live in? We are looking for experts from various areas of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Thanks for cutting back on your natural gas use. @FortisBC says its helping. Keep those thermostats down, cut back… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  Thanks for cutting back on your natural gas use. @FortisBC says its helping. Keep those thermostats down, cut back… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New Cyclone helicopter on first West Coast mission

  12-10-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The 250 women and men of 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron are training for a new mission: deploying the Cyclone helicopter aboard the frigate HMCS Regina.
  It will be the first of the new Sikorsky helicopters to fly from a Canadian navy warship deployed from the West Coast. The mission is scheduled for January.
  “Deploying on a seagoing mission is the epitome of our mission capability,” said Lt. Col. Travis Chapman, commanding officer of 443 Squadron, in an interview a
  
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• Groups ask Nanaimo council to delay tent-city eviction

  12-10-2018 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — Dozens of individuals along with advocacy and health groups have signed on to an open letter to Nanaimo council asking that it extend a deadline to close a homeless camp.
  The letter urges council to honour its commitment in Nanaimo’s action plan to end homelessness that it agreed to earlier this year.
  The B.C. Supreme Court gave the city an injunction last month due to be applied on Oct. 12, although the court said it was important that the dismantling occur in an orderly a
  
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• Colours of the City. #ILoveMyCity 💗 #Fall #FunAlley #NorthVan #PlayCNV https://t.co/V6zclIHFRT

  12-10-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  Colours of the City. #ILoveMyCity 💗 #Fall #FunAlley #NorthVan #PlayCNV https://t.co/V6zclIHFRT
  
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• ART SEEN: Curator's trip to Vancouver led to Gathie Falk's exhibition in London

  12-10-2018 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  The route to Frieze Masters in London for Gathie Falk came by accident.
  One of its starting points was an exhibition of Falk’s work at Equinox Gallery in 2016 called The Things in My Head. The survey exhibition had more than 70 paintings and sculptures as well as installation and video.
  It included several examples of the works that many have come to associate with Falk: luminous ceramic apples in piles and shoes in cabinets.
  The exhibition illustrated art works that Falk called the &ldquo
  
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• Surrey RCMP find evidence of fraud in municipal election mail-in vote applications

  12-10-2018 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  A police investigation into allegations of civic election voter fraud in Surrey has so far uncovered that 67 mail-in ballot applications submitted to the city were fraudulent.
  Surrey RCMP provided an update on their investigation on Friday morning, just eight days before the municipal election.
  Police are examining 73 applications to vote by mail that were identified by Surrey’s chief elections officer as having irregularities. To date, investigators have interviewed 69 out of 73 people wh
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Truck Driver/Swamper 2. Click here to apply. ow.ly/lwMn30md9J3

  12-10-2018 20:10 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Truck Driver/Swamper 2.Click here to apply. ow.ly/lwMn30md9J3
  
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• Susin Nielsen's new book No Fixed Address puts timely but unplanned spotlight on homelessness

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Writers Fest
  When: Oct. 15-21
  Where: Granville Island
  Info and tickets: writersfest.bc.caSusin Nielsen did not set out to make her new novel a commentary on the current Vancouver housing crisis but it worked out that way.Available now, the young adult novel No Fixed Address tells the story of bright, likable 12-year-old Felix Knuttson. His mother Astrid is raising Felix, a trivia whiz. Astrid loves her son but her unpredictable and hair trigger personality causes her to lose jobs,
  
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• Fab 5: Power pumps

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Blame it on the new season, or blame it on the current political climate — but it definitely feels appropriate right now to wear shoes that can really kick some butt. Whether you use yours to show you mean business or elevate off-duty outfits to knock-‘em-dead status, power pumps are the ultimate fall/winter 2018 must-have shoe. Rebecca Tay presents five pairs to strut around in right now.
  MUST-HAVE MULES
  On days when you’ve given yourself precisely 10 minutes to brush your tee
  
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• Book review: Sci-fi novel of Vancouver in 2145 AD an exciting read

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Tiger Flu
  By Larissa Lai (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
  $19.95  |  332 pp.“Even if she is our last doubler, I don’t want Auntie Radix to have Peristrophe Halliana’s eyes. Auntie Radix took Peristrophe Halliana’s liver a week ago, and one of her kidney’s four weeks before that.”
  Cover of The Tiger Flu.
  This ominous and enigmatic reflection is voiced Kirilow Groundsel, one of the protagonists in Larissa Lai’s resonant new cyber punk/queer/science
  
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• Book Review: Gord Hill tackles some difficult topics with The Antifa Comic Book

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
  Gord Hill | Arsenal Pulp Press
  $1.95, 127 pages
  Fighting Nazis is the right thing to do. At least, that was the perceived and often-broadcast consensus across the Western World following the Second World War.
  Or was it?
  In this informative and fascinating graphic novel history of fascism and those who fought it, Kwakwaka’wakw writer, artist and activist author Gord Hill (The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capita
  
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• Bacio Rosso pairs gourmet food with cabaret cirque at QE Park

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bacio Rosso
  When: Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, various times
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Park
  Tickets and info: From $149, at baciorosso.comWhen was the last time you headed to Queen Elizabeth Park for a gourmet meal served up inside an antique spiegeltent?
  Never?
  The production team behind Bacio Rosso are bringing the latest foodie entertainment concept  to town, pairing gourmet eats with high-flying feats. Attendees experience a three hour-long evening of entertainment drawing upon elements of vint
  
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• Asian dining festival takes place at Metro Vancouver restaurants

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A total of 24 Metro Vancouver restaurants are taking part in the region’s first Asian dining festival.
  Feast: Asian Dining Festival takes place not only at Chinese restaurants serving Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Sichuan cuisines. It also includes restaurants serving the cuisine of Afghanistan, Korea, Japan, and Punjab from north India.
  Participating restaurants will feature signature menu items during the festival, which continues until Sunday, Oct. 21
  “After a year and a
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Shelf the fear, B.C.'s wine industry should be just fine

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. grocery stores licensed to sell wine were handed a significant upgrade last week thanks to the new trilateral trade deal between Canada, Mexico and the United States. In what amounts to a side covenant between Canada and the United States, it was agreed that wine sold on B.C. supermarket shelves is no longer limited to local bottles.
  Wine sold on B.C. supermarket shelves is no longer limited to local bottles under the new USMCA deal.
  If you missed the implementation of one of the dumbest B.
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Lawyers told to get MADD

  12-10-2018 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  The trio of former attorneys general had a tough, hard-to-swallow message for lawyers concerned about the chronic underfunding of legal aid and the continuing crisis in the courts — governments don’t give a damn.
  In Vancouver last week for a conference on pro bono (free) law, the two ex-B. C. ministers and an erstwhile Ontario attorney general told their professional peers to drop their collective we-are-so-worthy lament and get MADD.
  “Be MADD not glad, would be my trite phrase
  
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• Tomorrow (October 13) is an advance voting day. You can vote between 8am and 8pm, at either District Hall or Parkga… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 19:14 via twitter.com
  Tomorrow (October 13) is an advance voting day. You can vote between 8am and 8pm, at either District Hall or Parkga… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The fourth & final @DNVFRS open house is TONIGHT, 6:30-8:00 pm at Fire Hall #5 Pemberton (1221 W. 15th St). Drop by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 18:24 via twitter.com
  The fourth & final @DNVFRS open house is TONIGHT, 6:30-8:00 pm at Fire Hall #5 Pemberton (1221 W. 15th St). Drop by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Smoke alarms alert you to fire in time to escape – test them monthly to make sure they're working!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Smoke alarms alert you to fire in time to escape – test them monthly to make sure they're working!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Some natural gas flows to curtailed B.C. customers after pipeline blast: FortisBC

  12-10-2018 17:28 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The long process of restoring natural gas service to industrial customers in British Columbia is underway after an explosion earlier this week near Prince George that shut down two pipelines.
  A statement posted on the website of FortisBC, the utility that distributes gas to about one million B.C. homes and businesses, says work to bring industrial customers back online began Thursday night and will continue, on a gradual basis, through the weekend.
  Specific businesses or locati
  
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• Daily Poll: How will you deal with skyrocketing gas prices?

  12-10-2018 16:21 via vancouversun.com
  An explosion earlier this week at a natural gas plant in Northern B.C. has sent gas prices in Metro Vancouver soaring, with analysts predicting the cost could hit an all time high of around $1.65 a litre on the weekend.
  Read Randy Shore’s story here.
  How will you cope with the pain at the pumps? Will you drive less, or park the car full stop and take transit? Maybe you will just continue to pay no matter the cost or perhaps it is time to invest in an electric car. We’d like to know y
  
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• Town Talk: Designer Chloë Angus fills the fashion catwalk

  12-10-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  DOWN AND AT ’EM: An otherwise-benign 2015 spinal tumour disabled fashion designer-manufacturer Chloë Angus. Not her career, though. By spring, 2017, her business had reportedly doubled. “I should try to tone it down,” Angus said then. That idea soon fizzled. Her recent runway show in Granville Island’s Performance Works featured 60 new designs, most of them womenswear. Many garment motifs were by Angus’s longtime Haida colleague, Clarence Mills, and Heiltsuk ar
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Why LRT? Why now?

  12-10-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Light rapid transit. LRT. Do we want it? Do we need it? Why would we want it and what are its benefits?
  Light rail transit is an idea whose time came and went, and it’s is trying to make a comeback.
  Vancouver used to have it: It was called the streetcar. As a transit system, it served the city well. Set out as a grid, it allowed riders to easily get from point A to point B — a grid that has helped shape many of the city’s favourite neighbourhoods.
  Streetcars put peopl
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunshine, clouds, and a little breezy

  12-10-2018 14:48 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s a mix of sun and cloud for Metro Vancouver Friday, as a long stretch of warm and dry fall weather continues. Environment Canada says it may also be windy near the water this afternoon, with a high of 15 C. The sunshine should continue through the weekend, and extend late into the week, until at least Thursday, according to the federal weather agency. The weekend looks warm and dry, with a high of around 15 C near the water and 18 C inland on Saturday and S
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Friday, Oct. 12

  12-10-2018 06:33 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Friday, Oct. 12.Fan Expo
  If you can’t get enough pop culture, you’re probably going to want to get down to Fan Expo this weekend at the Vancouver Convention Centre. (Truthfully, if you’re a real sucker for pop culture, you’ve probably already heard about this event, but I digress.) At Fan Expo, you can get an autograph or a photo with your favourite guest, and there are plenty to choose from, i
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Another fatal shooting in Surrey

  12-10-2018 05:44 via vancouversun.com
  A 30-year-old Surrey man was shot to death in a targeted murder Thursday afternoon.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said the victim, Sumeet Randhawa, was known to police.
  IHIT media officer, Detective Lara Jansen, said Surrey RCMP was called to the 6700-block of 130th Street just before 2 p.m.
  “Responding members located the victim and attempted life-saving measures until the B.C. Ambulance Service and Surrey Fire Department took over, however the male succumbed to his inju
  
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• B.C. government tries to seize limo after alleged sex assault in Vancouver

  12-10-2018 03:23 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. director of civil forfeiture has filed a suit against a limousine owner after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside the vehicle last month.
  The suit, filed this week at the Victoria Law Courts, says Sukhwinder Bassarpuri is likely to use the limousine to commit further crimes if it is returned to him. The government wants the vehicle forfeited.
  The civil forfeiture office says Bassarpuri owns Armani Limousine Inc. and is the operator of the 2007 Lincoln Navigator seized by Vanc
  
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• From seed to plant: How to grow your four legal cannabis plants

  12-10-2018 03:22 via vancouversun.com
  Adults in most provinces will be allowed to grow up to four cannabis plants per residence for personal use after legalization on Oct. 17.
  Grow expert Tom Ulanowski, president of Nextleaf Labs in Coquitlam, says the process isn’t too difficult and Canadians have plenty of good reasons to give it a try.
  “It’s a lot cheaper than buying from a store or LP (federally licensed producer), especially if your grow is low-tech or if you choose to grow outdoors,” said Ulan
  
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• Sahota lawsuit: SRO resident vows to keep fighting after ruling against class-action suit

  12-10-2018 03:20 via vancouversun.com
  Jack Gates has vowed to keep fighting.
  Gates, the Downtown Eastside resident behind a legal battle seeking compensation from slumlords on behalf of other tenants, said after a legal setback Thursday that he wants to take the fight to the country’s highest court.
  On Thursday morning, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Gates’ proposed class-action lawsuit against the Sahota family, owners of several notorious single-resident occupancy hotels, couldn’t proceed as proposed.&n
  
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• 'A sense of closure came over us': Missing plane found 31 years later

  12-10-2018 03:04 via vancouversun.com
  On June 20, 1987, Ernie G. Whitehead and Len Dykhuizen boarded a two-seater float plane from Eagle Bay in the Shuswap for a fishing trip. They never returned.
  Now more than 30 years later, a search for a different plane inadvertently led to the discovery of the missing Piper Super Cub, giving family a measure of comfort.
  “We were relieved, and a sense of closure came over us even though it’s been 31 years now,” said Whitehead’s niece Claire, who grew up flying and fi
  
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