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• This is what a Craigslist rental scam looks like

  18-10-2018 23:39
  
  Scammers try to bait Vancouver Courier reporter into renting"too good to be true" suite in Olympic Village
  
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• B.C. teen gives away tickets to Ellen Degeneres show, plans O Canada welcome

  18-10-2018 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A 14-year-old girl’s quest to give away two tickets to Ellen Degeneres’s appearance in Vancouver has turned into an 82-ticket giveaway complete with all the “winners” singing O Canada before show time.
  Capri Everitt had planned to award two tickets to the “best Canadian fans” based on their performance of the national anthem with her outside Rogers Arena on Friday night.
  Everitt says she earned the money for the tickets by busking in downtown
  
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• B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger won't seek third term

  18-10-2018 23:33 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger has announced she will not seek a third term as leader of B.C.’s largest organization representing workers.
  Lanzinger says in a news release that she will not run for another two-year term when the federation holds its convention next month in Vancouver.
  The 63-year-old, who also served two terms as the federation’s secretary-treasurer in 2010 and 2012, was elected to the top job in 2014.
  Lanzinger is the first woman to hold the pos
  
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• We propose protecting our valuable heritage by increasing heritage education, improving access to heritage resource… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 23:22 via twitter.com
  We propose protecting our valuable heritage by increasing heritage education, improving access to heritage resource… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Update: New message from the City’s Chief Election Officer re campaign materials. ow.ly/YGt330mhZ4u #NorthVan

  18-10-2018 22:47 via twitter.com
  Update: New message from the City’s Chief Election Officer re campaign materials. ow.ly/YGt330mhZ4u #NorthVan
  
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• Greens agree ‘compromise’ with NDP on speculation tax changes

  18-10-2018 22:47
  
  In exchange for Green Party’s backing, NDP agrees to three key amendments to tabled legislation, including reduced tax rate for out-of-province Canadians
  
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• B.C. Greens and NDP government strike deal on speculation tax

  18-10-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s NDP government has struck a deal with its power-sharing partners, the B.C. Greens, to tweak the new speculation tax and assure its passage into law.
  Finance Minister Carole James and Green Leader Andrew Weaver announced the deal at the legislature on Thursday, ending any possibility the Greens and Opposition Liberals could join to change or defeat the speculation tax.
  Weaver had demanded the government agree to allow communities to opt-out of the tax, which was the
  
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• The blob is back off the B.C. coast

  18-10-2018 22:14 via vancouversun.com
  The blob, which is a popular term for a huge patch of warmer-than-normal water in the northern Pacific Ocean, has returned off the B.C. coast.
  It is a phenomenon that started showing up in 2013 and has been appearing off-and-on since then, said Armel Castellan, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
  Castellan said the blob, which covers about 2,000 kilometres, has returned after stagnant and unseasonably warm weather this summer and fall.
  “It’s not that the
  
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• Three new inter-city bus routes approved to replace Greyhound in B.C.

  18-10-2018 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  With Greyhound’s departure from B.C. less than two weeks away, three companies have received approval to operate new bus routes between Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna and the Alberta border.
  Greyhound announced in July that it will pull out of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northern Ontario at the end of October, after suffering millions of dollars in losses from a 46-per-cent drop in ridership since 2010. Only a bus route between Vancouver and Seattle will continue.
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• Only two more sleeps until election day! General voting starts on Saturday, October 20 at 8am. Did you know you can… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 21:32 via twitter.com
  Only two more sleeps until election day! General voting starts on Saturday, October 20 at 8am. Did you know you can… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Got a minute to vote today? Advance voting continues at City Hall today & tomorrow 12-6pm. Candidates profiles + in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Got a minute to vote today? Advance voting continues at City Hall today & tomorrow 12-6pm. Candidates profiles + in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report urges "rapid, far-reaching" changes to limit global w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 20:26 via twitter.com
  A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report urges "rapid, far-reaching" changes to limit global w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kamloops cannabis store had 800 customers on first day of legalization

  18-10-2018 20:09
  
  With a line of customers wrapped around the corner for most of Wednesday (Oct. 17), the province's first cannabis store processed more than 800 transactions on the first day of legalized marijuana.
  
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• The It List: Rado True Thinline Nature collection

  18-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The product: Rado True Thinline Nature Collection
  Why we love it: This watch is seriously stylish — and seriously low-profile.
  The suitably named True Thinline timepiece is crafted from high-tech ceramic so it’s lightweight and sits comfortably on the wrist. But what we really love about this new nature-inspired collection, are the cool colours the watches come in.
  Created in partnership with the Grandi Giardini Italiani, an organization that works to promote the rich herit
  
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• Brian Minter: Look to shrubs for fall colour

  18-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  As one of the true joys of autumn, brilliant fall foliage creates a dramatic show in many parts of the province at this time of year. We need to thank Mother Nature and the many park boards that beautify our communities with trees that have fiery fall colourations. We, too, can play our part by selecting trees and shrubs that light up our yards and gardens with colourful foliage.
  Eastern red maples are a good example of a tree that simply glows in autumn sunshine, and their colourful foliage can
  
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• Amber Heard talks beauty, feminism and red lipstick

  18-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Amber Heard wants you to stop apologizing. Right now.
  The Aquaman star and global ambassador for the brand L’Oréal Paris is tired of feeling like she, and the women around her, are expected to make some sort of amends for the way they look.
  “We need to challenge this notion and this long-standing concept that we, as women, have to implicitly apologize for how we look in some way,” she says. “We look too good to be taken seriously; we don’t look good enough to
  
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• Pedestrian struck by car dies in Vancouver

  18-10-2018 19:57 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after he was hit by a car early Thursday morning in Vancouver.
  Vancouver police say the collision occurred shortly after 6 a.m. on SE Marine Drive near Ross Street.
  A 43-year-old Vancouver man was driving a sedan east on Marine Drive when his vehicle struck a pedestrian who was crossing mid-block near Ross Street, according to police.
  Passersby gave the pedestrian first aid until paramedics arrived. The man was taken to hospital where he died.
  The VPD is working with the B.C. Coron
  
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• Most first-time buyers stretching to the max on home purchase

  18-10-2018 19:24
  Affordability is biggest concern, but consumer confidence in real estate remains high, finds survey
  
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• Start limbering up to get under your desk at 10:18AM today for #ShakeOutBC earthquake drill.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  Start limbering up to get under your desk at 10:18AM today for #ShakeOutBC earthquake drill.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Most Metro Vancouver residents support SkyTrain to UBC, LRT in Surrey: poll

  18-10-2018 18:36 via vancouversun.com
  Most Metro Vancouver residents support extending the SkyTrain to UBC and the proposed light rail in Surrey, a new poll suggests.
  The Research Co. survey found 82 per cent of Metro Vancouverites polled want the the extension of the SkyTrain Millennium Line underneath Broadway to Arbutus, while 68 per cent support the Surrey–Newton–Guildford Light Rail Transit (LRT) project.
  In Surrey, 62 per cent of residents are in favour of the proposed LRT project, while 34 per cent are not, accord
  
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• Spotlight on Buffy Sainte-Marie's activism and music in new biography

  18-10-2018 18:31 via vancouversun.com
  Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
  Andrea Warner | Greystone Books pp. 304In 1964, a dynamic singer-songwriter from the Piapot Cree First Nation in Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, released her debut album on the celebrated folk/jazz/blues label Vanguard Records.
  It’s My Way! was Buffy Sainte-Marie’s opening sonic salvo on the world, and contained the protest song Universal Soldier, as well as such controversial tracks as Now That the Buffalo’s Gone, My Country
  
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• Earth still moving in Old Fort but not above homes: geologists

  18-10-2018 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  FORT ST. JOHN — Crews from BC Hydro and the Transportation Ministry are being allowed into a cut-off neighbourhood in northeastern British Columbia to figure out how to restore service to 54 homes evacuated because of a slowly moving landslide.
  The Peace River Regional District issued temporary access permits on Wednesday for Old Fort, which is along the banks of the Peace River and at the bottom of a sharp hill below Fort St. John.
  Transportation Ministry crews are ready to start work on
  
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• Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell will probe costly Manitoba Hydro projects

  18-10-2018 18:19 via vancouversun.com
  WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has hired former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell to review two major hydro projects that have added billions of dollars to the provincial debt.
  Campbell will look at whether the Keeyask Generating Station and Bipole Three transmission line — projects built under the former NDP government — were based on sound economics.
  Among the issues Campbell will investigate is whether the projects were built long before domestic demand required t
  
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• We're getting ready for #ShakeOutBC. Drop, Cover, Hold On. 3 words that could save your life. Practice today at 10:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 18:10 via twitter.com
  We're getting ready for #ShakeOutBC. Drop, Cover, Hold On. 3 words that could save your life. Practice today at 10:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. Ferries gives thumbs-up to debit cards

  18-10-2018 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries is accepting debit cards on its Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen vessels.
  The corporation has started a two-month test of debit cards, beginning with the Spirit of British Columbia on Wednesday and expanding today to all vessels serving B.C. Ferries’ busiest route.
  Despite the widespread use of debit cards, B.C. Ferries has been accepting cash and credit cards only for purchases of food and merchandise on its vessels.
  “Customers have been asking about this [debit cards] as a pay
  
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• Douglas Todd: Condos changed Metro Vancouver forever, for better and worse

  18-10-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  It was the year the Beatles released Hey Jude, Pierre Trudeau was elected prime minister, and Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
  It was 1968 — the year that Metro Vancouver got its first condominium complex.
  A great deal has changed in the ensuing 50 years. Now roughly one out of three residents of the region live in a condominium. Metro Vancouver has about 600,000 condo units, with the city of Vancouver having 130,000 of those. The province in total has about 900,000 units, accordi
  
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• Police lay charges against B.C. man accused of jumping naked into shark tank

  18-10-2018 15:55 via vancouversun.com
  TORONTO — A British Columbia man is facing charges in two separate but related incidents in Toronto, including one where he’s accused of jumping naked into a shark tank at an aquarium.
  Toronto Police allege the first incident took place early Friday evening outside Medieval Times, where they say he assaulted a man.
  Two hours later, police allege the man went to Ripley’s Aquarium where they say he stripped off his clothes, vaulted a barrier and jumped into the tank.
  Videos poste
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Partly cloudy and pleasant

  18-10-2018 15:53 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Thursday’s forecast is much the same as Wednesday, as the long stretch of warm fall weather continues. Environment Canada says the region can expect highs of 15 C near the coast and 20 C inland today with some cloudy periods in the morning. Friday will again be sunny with a high of 15 C and 20 C inland, and then the weekend also looks dry but a little bit cooler. The federal weather agency is forecasting a mix of sun and cloud for Saturday and Sunday, with highs of
  
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• Lydia Miljan: The costs of changing the way British Columbians vote

  18-10-2018 10:00 via vancouversun.com
  Next week, British Columbians will begin voting by mail-in ballot in the province’s referendum on electoral reform, to decide whether B.C. should switch to a proportional representation voting system.
  A lot has been written about the so-called “fairness” of elections based on PR compared with our current majoritarian first-past-the-post system. While advocates claim that PR allows for more diversity in government, they have less to say about the policy consequences of PR. For e
  
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• Toxic mushrooms poison 2 dogs in North Vancouver, police say - CBC.ca

  18-10-2018 09:00
  Toxic mushrooms poison 2 dogs in North Vancouver, police say  CBC.caPolice confirm two reports of fatal dog poisonings, believe toxic mushrooms to blame.
  
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• North Vancouver trustee files complaint alleging a colleague sexually harassed her - The Province

  18-10-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver trustee files complaint alleging a colleague sexually harassed her  The ProvinceFour-term North Vancouver School District trustee Susan Skinner filed an official complaint Tuesday, at the last school board meeting before a new board is ...
  
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• North Vancouver developer proposes new 'demoviction' solution - BC - Global News BC

  18-10-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver developer proposes new 'demoviction' solution - BC  Global News BCWATCH: A North Vancouver developer wants to build prefabricated homes for the people who will be displaced by its new project. Catherine Urquhart reports.
  
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• Two charged with feeding Timbits to bears along the Alaska Highway in B.C.

  18-10-2018 06:14 via vancouversun.com
  Two people have been charged after B.C.’s Conservation Officer Service says they posted photos last year of them on social media hand feeding Timbits and hot dogs to bears.
  Conservation officer Sam Harris says it’s alleged the man and woman were feeding bears from their vehicle as they drove along the Alaska Highway.
  He says the charge under the Wildlife Act says a person must not intentionally feed or attempt to feed dangerous wildlife.
  The pair are due to appear in a Fort Nelson co
  
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• Attn. Voters: A message from the City’s Chief Election Officer. See notice: ow.ly/27wA30mhfQi #NorthVan

  18-10-2018 06:01 via twitter.com
  Attn. Voters: A message from the City’s Chief Election Officer. See notice: ow.ly/27wA30mhfQi #NorthVan
  
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• B.C. Cannabis: From 'ground zero of pot activism,' the start of a new world

  18-10-2018 04:57 via vancouversun.com
  It’s impossible to know how many times David Malmo-Levine has walked down the 300-block of West Hastings, up a familiar stairwell, and sat down to puff on a joint. But when he did it Wednesday morning, it was a bit different from those times that came before.
  While Canada drew the world’s attention Wednesday as the largest country to legalize recreational cannabis, for longtime activists like Malmo-Levine, the roots of the story are here in B.C.
  “This is ground zero of pot acti
  
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• North Vancouver developer proposes new ‘demoviction’ solution

  18-10-2018 03:28 via globalnews.ca
  The proposal would create temporary housing for tenants while the property is redeveloped, with the right to move into new rental when it's completed.
  
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• North Vancouver developer proposes new ‘demovicion’ solution

  18-10-2018 03:28 via globalnews.ca
  The proposal would create temporary housing for tenants while the property is redeveloped, with the right to move into new rental when it's completed.
  
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• Vancouver election: Bremner calls on Sim to apologize for NPA board's conduct

  18-10-2018 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  YES Vancouver’s Hector Bremner is seeking an apology from Non-Partisan Association rival Ken Sim over conflict-of-interest complaints made against him that have now been dismissed.
  Bremner, an NPA councillor who formed his own party after the NPA rejected his bid to be its mayoral candidate, said the conflict allegations were part of a smear campaign and were used by the party to justify booting him out of the mayoral race.
  “As leader of that party, (Sim) now has to take responsibili
  
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• Sell off of cannabis stocks no buzzkill for producers on Day 1 of legalization in B.C.

  18-10-2018 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s online Cannabis Store quickly started selling out of lower-priced varieties putting an exclamation point on the celebratory mood of licensed producers on Day 1 of recreational legalization in Canada.
  Coast-to-coast, the newly minted industry saw lineups outside the first store to open in St. John’s Newfoundland at midnight, a party in downtown Toronto and in B.C. 1,000 buyers flooded the online shop within the first hour.
  “The significance here is big and goe
  
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• Writer Nick Bantock's latest asks reader to really get involved

  18-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Writer Nick Bantock, the creator of the much loved Griffin & Sabine book series, is back with a new project.
  Made up of anagrams, picturegrams, number puzzles and wordplay Dubious Documents wants you the reader to put on your thinking cap and help a character named Magnus Berlin get to the bottom of something big.
  We tracked down Bantock and asked him a few questions about the new work and why he likes a good puzzle and a good letter.
  Nick Bantock Photo: courtesy of Chronicle Books
  Q: How do
  
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• Opinion: We #BelieveHer, but we need more than retweets — we need men to step up

  18-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  It has been a week since the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, but it’s still hard to stop reading about it all. The aftermath has left many emotionally drained, outraged, resigned, inspired, and sometimes a bit of all of these combined. At the beginning of this week, we also heard a sitting U.S. president declare on 60 Minutes that he doesn’t care if Kavanaugh’s accuser is telling the truth. This is especially ironic given that it is Week Without Violence, a global YWCA movem
  
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• Downtown Eastside trailblazer Mike Henry, Insite worker and co-founder of Vancouver's first needle exchange, dead at 74

  18-10-2018 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  If it happened in the Downtown Eastside, Mike Henry knew about it.
  “He had his eye on the community for so long, nothing happened that he didn’t know about,” said Coco Culbertson, senior manager of programs with PHS Community Services Society.
  “Mike Henry was an incredible person, such an innovator and advocate for drug users in the Downtown Eastside.”
  Henry died on Oct. 2 after a long battle with cancer. He was 74.
  Born in Trinidad in 1944, Henry moved to Cana
  
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• North Vancouver trustee files complaint alleging a colleague sexually harassed her

  18-10-2018 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  At the final North Vancouver school board meeting before Saturday’s elections, four-term trustee Susan Skinner filed a formal complaint alleging she has endured sexual harassment from a district colleague.
  “This is hard. It takes a lot of courage and I mean no ill will,” Skinner said at the end of Tuesday night’s meeting. “Prior to the meeting this evening, I did provide my report on the sexual harassment perpetrated against me.”
  Skinner identified her alleged
  
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• A patchwork of rules for legal cannabis stores in Metro Vancouver

  18-10-2018 02:10 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver residents shouldn’t expect to see fully licensed cannabis stores opening in their neighbourhoods any time soon, despite the fact that legalization took place Wednesday.
  Many municipalities in the region have decided to take their time, and leave the decision on how to deal with retail licensing until after mayors and councils have been chosen in this weekend’s municipal election.
  Some have prohibited them entirely — at least for now — while others are open
  
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• North Vancouver trustee files complaint alleging a colleague sexually harassed her - Vancouver Sun

  18-10-2018 01:57
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  North Vancouver trustee files complaint alleging a colleague sexually harassed her
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  Four-term North Vancouver School District trustee Susan Skinner filed an official complaint Tuesday, at the last school board meeting before a new board is elected on Saturday. Lori Culbert. Updated: October 18, 2018. North Vancouver School District ...and more »
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Equipment Operator 1. Click here to apply. ow.ly/dxCF30mhb9a

  18-10-2018 01:52 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Equipment Operator 1.Click here to apply. ow.ly/dxCF30mhb9a
  
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