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• Public hearing for Richmond Centre development postponed until after election

  16-10-2018 23:12
  
  One council candidate says he'd like to see at least 60 per cent of the units be slated for rental
  
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• Are you planning improvements or maintenance work for the exterior of your heritage property? We can help! Apply fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 23:12 via twitter.com
  Are you planning improvements or maintenance work for the exterior of your heritage property? We can help! Apply fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Rising property tax leads to closure of Dulux Paints on West Broadway

  16-10-2018 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  Dulux Paints on West Broadway is closing its doors at the end of October because of increasing Vancouver property taxes.
  Dulux said in a news release that it saw its property taxes at 2091 West Broadway increase 12 per cent from $187,000 to $209,000 between 2017 and 2018. The store was facing another eight per cent, or $16,000 increase for 2019 to $225,000.
  “This makes it impossible for our business to continue to afford the space and operate profitably,” said Dave Rimmer, Dulux Pain
  
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• It's a beautiful fall day! Have you tried the new #SpiritTrail connection through the Mosquito Creek Marina? How ab… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 23:10 via twitter.com
  It's a beautiful fall day! Have you tried the new #SpiritTrail connection through the Mosquito Creek Marina? How ab… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New Westminster police look for high-risk missing person

  16-10-2018 23:04 via vancouversun.com
  New Westminster police are asking for the public help in locating a missing person described as “high risk.”
  Alex Lekei, a 39-year-old man, was last seen Oct. 13 at around 1 p.m. near Coburg Street in New Westminster.
  “We are asking the public to help us locate this man to ensure his well-being,” said New Westminster police Sgt. Jeff Scott. “We believe he may be in the Vancouver area.”
  Lekei is white and stands six feet tall with a thin build, blue eyes, shave
  
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• Surrey man charged after 13 kilograms of heroin seized at border

  16-10-2018 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  A 39-year-old Surrey man is facing drug charges after Canada Border Services Agency officers discovered 13 kilograms of heroin at the Peace Arch border crossing last year.
  Gurpreet Singh Mand has been charged with one count of importing a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
  The seizure occurred on Aug. 18, 2017 when Mand was returning to Canada from the United States.
  During an inspection of Mand’s vehicl
  
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• Police say expensive bikes stolen from shipping container in Delta have shown up in Ontario

  16-10-2018 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  DELTA — Police in Delta are investigating the theft of a large shipping container of high-end bikes worth up to $800,000, and say some of them have surfaced in Ontario.
  Police say in a release that boxes of the unassembled 2019 models of Rocky Mountain bikes arrived in Delta on Sept. 24 but the container was removed that evening by a semi-truck that is believed to have been stolen from nearby Richmond.
  The Delta Police Department says the 160 bikes retail for between $3,000 to $6,000 each
  
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• Did you know transportation accounts for more than 50% of carbon emissions in the District? We're working to reduce… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 20:56 via twitter.com
  Did you know transportation accounts for more than 50% of carbon emissions in the District? We're working to reduce… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Majority of B.C. office employees want pot restrictions at work: survey

  16-10-2018 20:36 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. office workers are more opposed to smoking weed during work hours than their provincial counterparts, suggests a Colliers International survey.
  The survey, released Tuesday, comes one day before the recreational use of cannabis is legal in Canada.
  The real estate firm surveyed 1,062 office workers last month in buildings that it manages in Alberta, Atlantic Canada, B.C., and in Ontario.
  Overall, 38 per cent said marijuana should be strongly restricted in the workplace with zero tolerance, w
  
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• Act to create Employer Health Tax by Jan. 1, introduced in B.C. legislature

  16-10-2018 20:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is pressing ahead with its plan to eliminate Medical Services Plan premiums and replace them with an employer health tax.
  The Employer Health Tax Act, which sets a tax of 1.95 per cent on the payroll of businesses with revenues over $500,000, was introduced in the legislature Tuesday and would take effect on Jan. 1.
  The government says in a news release that fewer than five per cent of businesses in B.C. will pay the full tax, overall it will cuts
  
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• (UPDATED) B.C. launches speculation and vacancy tax, with new name following criticism

  16-10-2018 20:19
  
  The newly titled “speculation and vacancy tax” will apply to owners of second homes in applicable areas of B.C., as of December 31
  
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• B.C. launches speculation and vacancy tax, with new name following criticism

  16-10-2018 20:19
  
  The newly titled “speculation and vacancy tax” will apply to owners of second homes in applicable areas of B.C., as of December 31
  
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• Terry Fox 'long run': Tri-Cities students raise $38,000 for cancer research

  16-10-2018 20:17 via vancouversun.com
  Some 200 Tri-Cities students from 15 schools have raised nearly $38,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation in an event called Running Terry’s Money Home.
  The so-called “Terry Fox long run” involved students running from school to school — covering a distance of up to 15.5 kilometres — picking up donations from about 2,000 students.
  “Once you throw this kind of idea out there, you suddenly get people that want to be involved,” said Frank Pearse, principal at Se
  
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• Restaurant review: Kobe Japanese Steakhouse got its concept right 50 years ago and it's still going strong

  16-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kobe Japanese Steakhouse
  Where: 1042 Alberni St.
  Open: Mon.-Thur., 5-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 4:30-10 p.m.; Sun., 4:30-9 p.m. koberestaurant.com 604 684-2451In 1968, businessman Michael Burser established a new style of steak house in downtown Vancouver on Alberni Street. The Kobe Japanese Steakhouse was modelled on Japan’s rural country inns, roadside eateries where cosy cuisine was prepared using traditional teppanyaki-hibachi methods, which is grilling on a hot iron plate.
  That kind of p
  
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• Kasey Wilson: Get savvy with salads

  16-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Salads can quickly clue you into the quality of a restaurant kitchen.
  Not long ago, while having lunch with a friend at a Yaletown restaurant, I ordered the signature Caesar salad and was disappointed to receive an ice-cold wedge of romaine lettuce marred by rust-coloured streaks that indicated it had been improperly stored.
  Salad geek and cookbook author Ilene Rosen.
  Happily, at other restaurants, I have been delighted by salads that reveal the freshness and variety of ingredients and the ingen
  
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• Drew Barrymore, Savannah Guthrie and Atomic Cartoons bring Princesses Wear Pants to TV

  16-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Princesses Wear Pants is best-described as an antidote for all those treacly role models for young girls. Co-authored by NBC Today Show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and educator Allison Oppenheim, the book about the adventures of Princess Penelope Pineapple gives readers an alternative view on what royalty can do in lieu of tripping over trains and being weighted down with tiaras.
  Published in September 2017, the rhyming story about rescuing the castle cat went on to become a New York Times book l
  
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• B.C. government tables legislation on speculation tax

  16-10-2018 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s finance minister is charging ahead with the NDP government’s speculation tax, while dismissing calls from local mayors for exemptions.
  Carole James introduced enabling legislation on the tax Tuesday, though it did not appear to contain any major changes municipal governments had called for.
  James said that while she’s heard the concerns of mayors that the tax might deter local development projects, the speculation tax remains a critical part of her
  
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• Will new cannabis laws affect your home’s value?

  16-10-2018 19:24
  
  Sentiment on smoking and cultivating marijuana at home, and on local dispensaries, still largely negative, finds survey
  
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• Letters, Oct. 16: Recent explosions affecting energy supply show need for more pipelines, argues reader

  16-10-2018 19:23 via vancouversun.com
  In recent days, there have been two major calamities affecting Canada’s energy sources: the Saint John refinery explosion and the gas pipeline explosion in B.C. Both will affect the delivery of energy supplies to Canadians.
  These two incidents reinforce the need for Canada to build pipelines so that we can get Alberta oil to refineries and have energy sources that will ensure Canada becomes self-reliant. The twinning of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and construction of the Energy East pipeli
  
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• It's a beautiful day to get out and vote! Advance polls are open today @ The Pipe Shop from 10am to 6pm today. Find… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 19:03 via twitter.com
  It's a beautiful day to get out and vote! Advance polls are open today @ The Pipe Shop from 10am to 6pm today. Find… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Daily poll: Is it OK to have a puff at lunch and go back to work?

  16-10-2018 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  Ask many an office worker if it’s OK to have a glass of wine or beer at lunch before heading back into the office, and for sure some will agree it’s no big deal. But what about pot? With the legalization of cannabis for recreational use happening tomorrow, Colliers has released a survey of office workers in Canada. The poll found only 38 per cent of those surveyed think there should be tough restrictions when it comes to weed in the workplace, while the rest either think there should
  
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• The landfill has no space for e-waste. If it has a battery or plug, you can recycle it. Go to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 18:13 via twitter.com
  The landfill has no space for e-waste. If it has a battery or plug, you can recycle it. Go to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Majority of B.C. office workers say pot not OK at work: survey

  16-10-2018 18:08 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. office workers are more opposed to smoking weed during work hours than their provincial counterparts, suggests a Colliers International survey.
  The survey, released Tuesday, comes one day before the recreational use of cannabis is legal in Canada.
  The real estate firm surveyed 1,062 office workers last month in buildings that it manages in Alberta, Atlantic Canada, B.C., and in Ontario.
  Overall, 38 per cent said marijuana should be strongly restricted in the workplace with zero tolerance, w
  
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• General voting day is this Saturday, October 20, 8am to 8pm. You can vote at any of the 20 voting locations through… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  General voting day is this Saturday, October 20, 8am to 8pm. You can vote at any of the 20 voting locations through… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Earth samples show dust from B.C. pipeline blast not a health threat: Enbridge

  16-10-2018 16:08 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The company that owns the natural gas pipeline that ruptured and burned one week ago in central British Columbia, says the dust that settled on homes near the blast site does not pose a health threat.
  The latest post on the Enbridge website says earth sampling near Prince George shows mineral and metal composition is well below provincial and federal standards for urban and residential areas.
  Enbridge also says construction of an access road to the damaged line continues and re
  
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• Vancouver Island records highest rate of assisted death in Canada

  16-10-2018 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  The rate of medically assisted deaths on Vancouver Island is about five times higher than in the rest of Canada, a new report from Island Health shows.
  Researchers determined there were 504 deaths on the Island in the two years after medically assisted dying became legal on June 17, 2016.
  The total accounted for 3.6 per cent of expected deaths over the same time period compared with a rate of less than one per cent across the country.
  The rate is even higher now at about four per cent, the repor
  
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• Fresh data shows Vancouver voters concentrating in higher density neighbourhoods

  16-10-2018 15:15 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s distribution of voting-aged citizens has shifted heavily in recent years, suggesting the electorate that goes to the polls this Saturday could be different than the one that preceded it, new data suggests.
  From 2006 to 2016, some of the city’s lowest density neighbourhoods saw outflows in voting aged citizens, while heavily populated neighbourhoods saw their ranks of voters swell, according to analysis by Andy Yan, the director of Simon Fraser University’s City
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny with a high of 21 C inland

  16-10-2018 14:48 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Tuesday’s weather in Metro Vancouver is expected to be sunny and warm with highs of 21 C inland, and 16 C closer to the water. Environment Canada is forecasting the sunshine to continue until at least next Monday, with some cloudy periods. Wednesday will be much the same as Tuesday with highs of 21 C inland and 17 C near the shore. Then, Thursday through Saturday there may be some clouds rolling in, but it looks like it will remain dry. The weekend is expected to be
  
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• Will B.C.'s legal weed prices be low enough to draw consumers from underground?

  16-10-2018 03:29 via vancouversun.com
  How much of a dent British Columbia’s legal sales of recreational cannabis will make in the black market for weed after Oct. 17 remains an open question while the province keeps retail pricing under wraps.
  Based on the information B.C.’s Liquor Distribution Branch has made available on wholesale pricing, however, operators in the legal market may find it tough to take market share from illicit dealers.
  “(A lot) depends on how fast and how accessible a system is created for the
  
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• 'Silver Economy' offers business opportunities, SFU aging expert says

  16-10-2018 03:23 via vancouversun.com
  Scientists using digital games to help seniors stay socially connected were happy to see immediate results when they organized a Wii bowling tournament at 14 senior centres across Canada.
  Not only were the participants connecting with each other for the weekly virtual games broadcast but “massive numbers of people would come out every week to cheer them on,” said SFU gerontology Prof. David Kaufman.
  “It helps bring people together,” he said.
  Using technology to help impro
  
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• Giant Vancouver poster collection goes to Simon Fraser archives

  16-10-2018 03:21 via vancouversun.com
  Perry Giguere put up posters in Vancouver for four decades. And he tried to keep at least one copy of every poster he ever put up.
  But he often had duplicates, and collected more posters from events he didn’t do. Which is why at one point he had about 250,000 posters in the basement of his house in Mt. Pleasant.
  When he had to move the collection, it took six weeks to sort it out. But there was a last-minute hitch.
  “The (moving) guy filled out the truck about two-thirds full and said
  
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• ‘Dysfunctional’ North Vancouver school board started in 2014: internal emails

  16-10-2018 03:17 via vancouversun.com
  Hundreds of pages of internal emails between North Vancouver School District staff and trustees reveal some of the reasons why an external consultant concluded earlier this year that there were “dysfunctional interpersonal trustee relations” on the board.
  Many names and specific allegations are omitted from the heavily edited emails, released over the last three days in response to a Freedom of Information request, but they give a sense that the seven-member board has struggled from
  
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• Ex-transport minister Todd Stone pans 'gaps' in study showing more fatalities with higher speeds

  16-10-2018 03:10 via vancouversun.com
  Todd Stone, the Kamloops MLA who, as provincial transportation minister, brought in higher speed limits on 1,300 kilometres of rural highways, says new research that implicates the increases in more motor vehicle crashes, fatalities and injuries, is “full of gaps.”
  The federal government-funded study by a University of B.C. team was published in the journal Sustainability. The team of researchers was led by emergency physician Dr. Jeff Brubacher, one of Canada’s most prolific r
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018

  16-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In recent days, there have been two major calamities affecting Canada’s energy sources: the Saint John refinery explosion and the gas pipeline explosion in B.C. Both will affect the delivery of energy supplies to Canadians.
  These two incidents reinforce the need for Canada to build pipelines so that we can get Alberta oil to refineries and have energy sources that will ensure Canada becomes self-reliant. The twinning of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and construction of the Energy East pipeli
  
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• Brian Owen: The numbers don't lie — North Vancouver residents interested in amalgamation

  16-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Most people are familiar with political polling as a means of gauging support for politicians, both incumbents and aspirants.
  As widespread as this practice is, critics have long complained that it turns politics and leadership into a popularity contest, a horse race that emphasizes style over substance.
  Recently, our firm was involved in a project in the District of North Vancouver in which the issue, and not the individual, was the focus of the research.
  Commissioned by the district’s co
  
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• TransLink testing shows tire socks not as durable as anticipated

  16-10-2018 02:35 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is looking at expanding the use of tire socks during snowy days this year, in spite of having some issues with durability last winter.
  TransLink developed a Snowy Weather Action Plan after the winter of 2016/17, which saw numerous snow storms disrupt transit service across the region. A key component of last winter’s plan was testing tire socks — fabric tire covers that have Kevlar threads running through them — on buses that run up and down Burnaby Mountain.
  TransLin
  
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• Accused in murder of Japanese student admits he interfered with body

  16-10-2018 02:33 via vancouversun.com
  A man accused in the murder of a Japanese student pleaded guilty Monday to interfering with the victim’s dead body.
  The surprise move came just before the Crown and defence delivered final submissions to the jury in the case of William Schneider, 51, who has pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder of Natsumi Kogawa, 30.
  During his final submissions, defence lawyer Joe Doyle told the jury that his client, a homeless, drug-addicted man who had dated Kogawa several times, had placed he
  
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• Love Your City? Join a Committee! We're accepting applications now for residents to join our committees. Current co… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-10-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Love Your City? Join a Committee! We're accepting applications now for residents to join our committees. Current co… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Chip Wilson writes the 'unauthorized' story of his stretchy black pants and Lululemon

  16-10-2018 01:10 via vancouversun.com
  Is it inevitable that a radical company that takes the world by storm, one such as Lululemon, grows so big it consumes the very culture that made the company a success in the first place?
  Chip Wilson isn’t sure.
  “It seems to be,” Lululemon’s founder and still biggest shareholder, said in his Gastown office that looks out at Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains.“Unless … if I look at Phil Knight at Nike or Kevin Plank at Under Armour, they came in at a
  
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• Police chiefs say they're ready for cannabis legalization

  16-10-2018 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  Police agencies across the country are ready for the legalization of recreational cannabis this week, Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer said Monday.
  Palmer, speaking as president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, said enforcement of the new rules surrounding marijuana will be shared by police, municipal bylaw officers and provincial regulators depending on the circumstances involved.
  As of Wednesday, if you smoke pot in a city park or on school property, you could get ticketed by
  
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• We’re recruiting for a regular full-time Police Clerk. Click here to apply: ow.ly/b0fZ30mffIj

  16-10-2018 00:53 via twitter.com
  We’re recruiting for a regular full-time Police Clerk. Click here to apply: ow.ly/b0fZ30mffIj
  
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• Which hot trends will affect the real estate market in 2019?

  16-10-2018 00:47
  
  Social needs, blurring of live-work boundaries, disruptive tech and short-term rentals among factors influencing how we buy and build homes
  
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• Sea lion suffering from gunshot wounds to the head brought to Vancouver Aquarium

  16-10-2018 00:34 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A sea lion suffering from gunshot wounds to the head has been taken to the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre for treatment.
  A male sea lion suffering from gunshot wounds to the head is shown in this recent handout photo.
  The aquarium says this the second time in the span of 18 months that it has responded to such an incident.
  It says in a news release that on Thursday a team of seven people went to a beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island, where an adult male
  
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• Five things to know about Trespasser by Art d'Ecco

  16-10-2018 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  Trespasser
  Art d’Ecco | Paper Bag RecordsStraight out of the Gulf Islands, it’s rocker Art d’Ecco.
  Complete with the requisite heavy eyeliner and kabuki makeup, swinging Sixties bob wig and velvet prints, the artist’s debut packs 10 tunes that really fit the glam genre.
  This is some really perfectly rendered music that references a bygone era while bringing it into the present. That the work is from a single musician doing it all is incredibly cool.
  There are, of course,
  
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