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• B.C. to build transition housing spaces for women, kids escaping violence

  25-10-2018 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A national group representing providers of shelters and transition houses says surveys of women and children escaping violence across Canada reveal most of them can’t get the help they need due to lack of capacity or resources.
  Women’s Shelters Canada executive director Lise Martin says surveys of a 24-hour period have been done every year since 2014, and the latest one found 404 requests for help, but only 100 women and children were taken into a shelter.
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• Ian Mulgrew: B.C. Law Society facing legal crisis showdown

  25-10-2018 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. lawyers are gathering Tuesday for a historic showdown over a crisis in the legal system triggered 16 years ago by former Liberal Attorney General Geoff Plant.
  The outcome of the annual general meeting of the Law Society of B.C. may very well serve to pass judgment on a generation of legal leadership that failed miserably to rise to the occasion — leaving anyone who uses the courts, but primarily the needy, to suffer.
  The roughly 12,000-strong profession has not gathered with so much a
  
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• Catch up on all the latest City news & events in this week's #CityView eNews... including: Election 2018 results, B… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 22:40 via twitter.com
  Catch up on all the latest City news & events in this week's #CityView eNews... including: Election 2018 results, B… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver park board chair apologizes to First Nations for 'misinformed statements'

  25-10-2018 22:35 via vancouversun.com
  The chair of the Vancouver park board has issued an apology to local First Nations for comments he made concerning the historical significance of Stanley Park.
  In a Sept. 18 Vancouver Sun article, Stuart Mackinnon was quoted as saying that there was no plan to rebrand Stanley Park with a traditional Indigenous place name because “the response we had from the Squamish people was that there was no reason to rename it because it never had a name. It was a forest.”
  The comments came
  
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• Community rallies around Vancouver woman injured by alleged shove from stranger

  25-10-2018 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s hospitality industry has rallied around a local restaurant manager who suffered a series of gruesome facial injuries after a headfirst fall that she says was caused by a violent shove from a stranger.
  The attack, which occurred on Oct. 7 at the corner of Main Street and King Edward, left Nomad’s Shawn Jones with four cracked teeth, a smashed eye socket, and a skull fracture.
  Shawn Jones was injured on Oct. 7, 2018 while walking on Main Street after work. She says, after b
  
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• Halloween Safety First - Treats & Fun Second bit.ly/2z6gOgg #NorthVancouver https://t.co/mJvULwiuh6

  25-10-2018 22:04 via twitter.com
  
  Halloween Safety First - Treats & Fun Secondbit.ly/2z6gOgg#NorthVancouver https://t.co/mJvULwiuh6
  
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• Halloween a good time to talk to kids about cultural appropriation: SFU prof.

  25-10-2018 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  Halloween is a good time to talk to kids about the harm some costumes can cause to people and cultures, says a Simon Fraser University professor.
  SFU archaeology professor George Nicholas said cultural appropriation goes on every day in the world of fashion or at music festivals, but it’s problematic at Halloween because of the anything goes attitude.
  “Halloween is a kind of cultural anarchy. You can be anything from cute and cuddly to bloody and gruesome,” he said.
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• B.C. man avoids mauling by shooting at charging grizzly in his yard

  25-10-2018 21:12 via vancouversun.com
  A man trying to scare away a female grizzly bear and its cubs foraging for food on his B.C. property narrowly avoided getting mauled by the charging animal.
  The scary scene, captured by the man’s wife from inside the family’s Bella Coola home, went viral after it was posted to YouTube in mid-October.
  Lawrence Michalchuk explained
  in the video’s caption that he and his wife had just returned home from a week-long trip. His in-laws, who were taking care of their children, told hi
  
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• B.C. ferry snags fishing net, and small boat, near Nanaimo

  25-10-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries says it will be speaking with Fisheries and Oceans Canada after a ferry snagged a partially submerged fishing net Wednesday in waters off Nanaimo.
  Ferry corporation spokeswoman Deborah Marshall says the Queen of Alberni was travelling between the mainland and Duke Point, south of Nanaimo, when it caught a net near Entrance Island.
  Marshall says about 75 boats were taking part in a fisheries opening in the area and although the captain slowed the ferry to ensure safe passage, one net
  
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• Halloween is just around the corner. If you plan to host a fireworks display in the District on October 31, don't f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 20:56 via twitter.com
  Halloween is just around the corner. If you plan to host a fireworks display in the District on October 31, don't f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TransLink plans to build more bike parkades for cyclists

  25-10-2018 20:47 via vancouversun.com
  For Erin O’Melinn, bike parkades at SkyTrain stations have made it way easier for her to get around Metro Vancouver by bicycle.
  O’Melinn, executive director of Hub Cycling, said her go-to bike parkade is at the Main Street-Science World station.
  She uses the parkade to mix modes — that is, she rides her bicycle to the station, parks and locks her bike in the parkade, and then heads off to a meeting on SkyTrain.
  “I often use it to get to meetings that are further away. My
  
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• Metro Vancouver housing market showing 'high degree of vulnerability' despite easing prices

  25-10-2018 20:47
  
  Although home price growth is moderating in Vancouver, evidence of overvaluation and overheating remains high for 2018's second quarter.
  
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• LOTS of ☔☔☔ in forecast today. Please make sure your storm drains are clear. Use #CityFix to report issues like flo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  LOTS of ☔☔☔ in forecast today. Please make sure your storm drains are clear. Use #CityFix to report issues like flo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Did you see anything suspicious in the 100 blk of East 1st Street during the morning hours of Wednesday, October 17… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 20:15 via twitter.com
  Did you see anything suspicious in the 100 blk of East 1st Street during the morning hours of Wednesday, October 17… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• This Just In: L'Oreal Paris Colour Riche Ultra Matte Highly Pigmented Nude Lipstick, Elizabeth Arden Stroke of Perfection Concealer and Givenchy L'Interdit eau de parfum

  25-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  L’Oreal Paris
  Colour Riche Ultra Matte Highly Pigmented Nude Lipstick
  They say: A collection of the perfect matte lipsticks that won’t dry lips. The product provides “intense hydration” and a “super matte finish” with full-on colour pigmentation.
  We say: These lipsticks go on seriously smooth. The shine-free formula gives a bold hit of colour that’s lightweight and not waxy. A nice alternative to some of the heftier matte options that leave lips fee
  
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• Style Q&A: Leon Bridges talks style, the holidays and Gap

  25-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cher, Future, Janelle Monae — American retailer Gap has boasted a long line of music superstars for its recent campaigns.
  So it should come as no surprise that this year, they’ve netted another noteworthy name for their Holiday 2018 push: Leon Bridges.
  We caught up with the Grammy Award-nominated R&B singer and songwriter in advance of the campaign announcement to talk style, his unique sound and his favourite Christmas memories.
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• Style Q&A: Erik Karlsson talks style, suiting and RW&CO. collaboration

  25-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Erik Karlsson is no stranger to suiting up.
  From hockey uniforms to off-ice outfits, the former Ottawa Senators captain and current member of the San Jose Sharks has proven time and time again that he knows how to dress.
  His sartorial skills made him the perfect partner for the Canadian brand RW&CO., following in the stylish footsteps of fellow NHL player P.K. Subban, who modelled for the brand (and even had his own menswear designs with the retailer) in 2015-16.
  Safe to say, he’s in p
  
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• Beauty Bar: Clarins SOS Primer

  25-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A collection of complexion-perfecting primers targeted to address different skin concerns.
  A special “High Lumitech complex” works to provide a blurring effect on skin, reducing the visibility of imperfections and fine lines, while also boosting skin’s overall brightness.
  The smoothing primers prep skin for makeup application, enhancing the overall finish and wear of products such as foundation and powder. Going beyond being just a makeup primer, this product a
  
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• Show Lynnmouth some love. Join the City Park Stewards at Lynnmouth Park this Saturday 9am-noon. We'll finish up the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
  Show Lynnmouth some love. Join the City Park Stewards at Lynnmouth Park this Saturday 9am-noon. We'll finish up the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Planning a community event in 2019? @NorthVanRC application period is now open. New events or events that have sign… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
  Planning a community event in 2019? @NorthVanRC application period is now open. New events or events that have sign… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Some residents of landslide-threatened Old Fort stage brief protest

  25-10-2018 18:25 via vancouversun.com
  FORT ST. JOHN — Residents of a British Columbia community who were ordered out of their homes nearly three weeks ago because of a slowly moving landslide briefly occupied a local municipal office, demanding answers about their situation.
  Wednesday’s protest at the Peace River Regional District office in Fort St. John was prompted by a Pacific Northern Gas decision to cut the natural gas supply to about 50 homes in Old Fort, barely a day after power had been restored to the Fort St. J
  
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• Prices easing but Canada's housing market still 'highly vulnerable': CMHC

  25-10-2018 17:29 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Despite an easing in prices, the Canadian housing market remains “highly vulnerable,” according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
  The federal agency says house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Hamilton are getting more in line with housing market fundamentals such as income, mortgage rates and population.
  But there still remains a “high degree of overall vulnerability” in these markets.
  CMHC says there continues to be overbuilding
  
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• Missing property from your outdoor garden shed? North Vancouver RCMP have recovered various stolen items from a sus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 17:29 via twitter.com
  Missing property from your outdoor garden shed? North Vancouver RCMP have recovered various stolen items from a sus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Power restored at YVR, still some flight delays

  25-10-2018 17:26 via vancouversun.com
  A power issue at Vancouver International Airport has been restored but is still causing problems and flights delays in the domestic terminal.
  According to YVR, the outage only affected services in the domestic terminal such as the gates and baggage system.
  UPDATE: Power is back in the domestic terminal building at YVR. We are working to get passengers on their way as quickly and safely as possible as we restore services. Huge thanks for everybody's patience this morning!
  — Vancouver Airpor
  
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• Power issue at YVR affecting domestic terminal

  25-10-2018 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  A power issue at Vancouver International Airport is causing problems in the domestic terminal.
  According to YVR, the outage is only affecting some services in the domestic terminal and passengers are still being processed through security.
  YVR says international and transborder terminals are operating as normal.
  The airport authority says it will provide more updates later.
  More to come…
  The power issue at YVR is impacting the domestic terminal only. Passengers are still being processed t
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with Doug McCallum's bid to build SkyTrain between Surrey and Langley?

  25-10-2018 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey mayor-elect Doug McCallum wants to cancel the $1.65-billion Surrey-Newton-Guildford light rail project in favour of a SkyTrain between Surrey and Langley. Several Metro Vancouver mayors say they will not go along with the plan as about $50 million has already been spent on planning and pre-construction work for light rail., while others, like Vancouver’s mayor-elect, Kennedy Stewart, say they might support McCallum’s bid.
  Read Jennifer Saltman’s story here.
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy and blustery

  25-10-2018 14:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like Thursday is gong to a soggy day in Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada is forecasting up to 20 millimetres of rain through the morning, and a high of 13 C. There may be a break in the wet weather in the the afternoon, though there is still a chance of showers. The agency says it will be windy near the water. The rain is expected to continue through the night and into Friday morning. It should clear up a bit on Friday afternoon, with a high of 15 C, and then
  
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• Seth Rogen's SkyTrain announcements return for a limited time only

  25-10-2018 04:51 via vancouversun.com
  Seth Rogen’s SkyTrain announcements are back, but for a limited-time only.
  For the next week, SkyTrain commuters will get to hear the Vancouver comedian’s iconic voice over the loudspeakers, as TransLink will air three new messages on the Expo and Millennium Line until the end of the month.
  Canada Line users will have to settle for the old messages, but that’s okay — they still have the newer trains.
  What’s Rogen saying in the new messages? According to TransLink&rs
  
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• Health Canada warns against cannabis use while pregnant, driving, adolescent

  25-10-2018 04:46 via vancouversun.com
  The Government of Canada may have removed the legal impediments to enjoying recreational cannabis, but don’t say they didn’t warn you.
  Much like cigarettes and other tobacco products, cannabis products sold in Canada will come packaged with one of several possible warning messages, as Health Canada does its best to educate the public about the potential risks of cannabis use. Let’s take a quick look at what Canada is saying to the canna-curious.
  This first batch of message
  
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• Dan Fumano: Incoming Vancouver mayor doesn't plan to be 'bull in a china shop'

  25-10-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  The last time Vancouver had a regime change, a decade ago, it was followed by a major shakeup of top city staff. But voices from Vancouver city hall of the past, present, and future agree they don’t want that happen this time, with a new mayor and almost entirely new council set to be sworn in next month.
  In the first year after Vision Vancouver swept into power in 2008, several senior city staff quit or were fired. The biggest story was the decision by then-new Mayor Gregor Robertson and
  
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• Dan Fumano: Incoming mayor doesn't plan to be 'bull in a china shop'

  25-10-2018 03:54 via vancouversun.com
  The last time Vancouver had a regime change, a decade ago, it was followed by a major shakeup of top city staff. But voices from Vancouver city hall of the past, present, and future agree they don’t want that happen this time, with a new mayor and almost entirely new council set to be sworn in next month.
  In the first year after Vision Vancouver swept into power in 2008, several senior city staff quit or were fired. The biggest story was the decision by then-new Mayor Gregor Robertson and
  
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• How much support does Doug McCallum need to proceed with SkyTrain in Surrey?

  25-10-2018 03:33 via vancouversun.com
  Several Metro Vancouver mayors say they will not support the Surrey mayor-elect’s push to change the region’s 10-year transportation plan to include a SkyTrain line in Surrey instead of a planned light-rail project.
  However, Doug McCallum may not need widespread support at TransLink’s Mayors’ Council to start the process.
  “It seems to me there’s certainly some room for deal making,” said Paddy Smith, a professor of urban studies and political science at
  
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• Man gets $66,000 in damages for injuries during takedown by sheriff

  25-10-2018 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been awarded more than $66,000 in damages for injuries he suffered during a takedown by a sheriff at the Victoria courthouse.
  On Sept. 5, 2014, Richard Sweeney showed up at the courthouse to file some papers about a residential tenancy matter but within a minute of entering the building and following an interaction with two sheriffs, he was forcibly escorted to the exit.
  As he was being removed, one of the sheriffs forced Sweeney to the ground.
  He suffered a cut to his forehead, a conc
  
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• Community rallies around Vancouver woman injured after alleged shove from stranger

  25-10-2018 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s hospitality industry has rallied around a local restaurant manager who suffered a series of gruesome facial injuries after a headfirst fall that she says was caused by a violent shove from a stranger.
  The incident, which occurred on Oct. 7 at the corner of Main Street and King Edward, left Nomad’s Shawn Jones with four cracked teeth, a smashed eye socket, and a skull fracture.
  Jones, 34, said she was leaving Locus Restaurant and Lounge around 10 p.m. after having a glass
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Larry Amero tries to get bail

  25-10-2018 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  I was in court Monday for the resumption of the civil trial between the Hells Angels and the director of civil forfeiture, who wants three biker clubhouses forfeited to the government. The case was caught up in some motions and applications so nothing worth writing a story about just yet. But I will continue to follow it through the fall as more witnesses are called.
  And I was back at B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday as a bail hearing for Hells Angel Larry Amero began. Due to a ban, I couldn’t
  
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• Greenhouse operators in B.C. concerned about rising costs in wake of pipeline explosion

  25-10-2018 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  Fortis B.C. will be challenged to manage the supply of natural gas, but will not run out as long as people conserve as they have been doing since an Oct. 9 rupture of the Enbridge pipeline north of Prince George, the company says.
  The firm estimates that supplies this winter will be half to 80 per cent of what they would normally be. But there shouldn’t be an immediate rate spike, said Sean Beardow, manager of corporate communications for Fortis.
  “We wouldn’t see the impact on
  
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• Spark Animation 2018 celebrates 10 years with 100 films

  25-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spark Animation 2018
  When: Oct. 25-28
  Where: various Vancouver venues
  Tickets and info: Sparkanimation.ca
  If you are 30ish or older and spent time in Vancouver you probably remember the polar bear exhibit in the Stanley Park Zoo.
  The sight of a constantly weaving Tuk in a concrete pit that looked more like a sad water park in a 1960s Brutalist Soviet Union tower block than an icy coastline of the Arctic Circle is probably one of those childhood memories which when reflected upon is actually quit
  
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• Five reasons to see Simple Minds

  25-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  An Evening with Simple Minds
  When: Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.
  Where: Orpheum Theatre
  Tickets: from $39 at livenation.com or 1-855-985-5000
  1: Don’t You (Forget About Me). Of course they’re going to play their biggest hit, which was actually written by producer Keith Forsey and songwriter Steve Schiff, and immortalized in the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club.
  2: Forty years and counting. In the sure-to-make-at-least-some-of-us-feel-old category, the band formed in Glasgow in 1977
  
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• Fall Festival of New Music

  25-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Modulus Festival
  When: November 2-8
  Where: The Roundhouse/CBC Studio 700/The Post at 750
  Tickets and info: Single tickets from $20; student tickets from $10 at musiconmain.ca.For a smallish organization, David Pay’s Music on Main isn’t afraid to think big. Last fall MoM was a partner in Vancouver’s biggest new music event, the ISCM Festival, which brought a wide selection of composers and new music aficionados to town for a veritable glut of concerts.
  This November brings the l
  
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• Down Under's Gravity and Other Myths back in Vancouver for acrobatic show

  25-10-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Backbone
  When: Oct. 30 to Nov. 4
  Where: Vancouver Playhouse Theatre
  Tickets: From $30 at tickets.thecultch.com
  Formed in Adelaide, Australia, in 2009, Gravity & Other Myths is built around a core of childhood friends who met in circus school. The last time the troupe came to town, in 2015, the company performed a sold-out run at the Cultch’s York Theatre. For Backbone, Gravity’s new show, ten acrobats toss each other around and just generally engage in what the press release
  
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• B.C. Hells Angel accused in murder conspiracy seeks bail

  25-10-2018 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  A high-profile Hells Angel is trying to get released on bail after being charged earlier this year with conspiracy to murder two rival gangsters in 2012.
  A three-day hearing began in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday to determine whether Larry Amero, 41, will be released into the community pending his trial. Evidence and submissions made during the hearing at the Vancouver Law Courts are covered by a routine ban on publication.
  Amero, a member of the West Point chapter of the notorious biker
  
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• B.C. multiple-murderer James Ruscitti granted full parole

  25-10-2018 02:01 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man who killed four people when he was a teenager — including his adoptive parents — has been granted full parole.
  James Rocco Ruscitti, 37, is serving a life sentence for four counts of first-degree murder for the killings in the family home near 100 Mile House, 500 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
  In June 1996, at the age of 15, Ruscitti and another teen shot and killed Rocco and Marilyn Ruscitti, Ruscitti’s brother’s 17-year-old girlfriend Christine Clarke, an
  
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• Q&A with 'priestess' of zero waste Bea Johnson

  25-10-2018 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  Bea Johnson has made it her life’s work to share the gospel of zero-waste living.
  Dubbed the “priestess of waste-free living” by The New York Times, Johnson travels around the world — toting a pint-sized jar containing the annual trash tally for her family of four — to preach the ethos of the 5R’s: Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot.
  Along the way, she’s inspired countless people to open package-free businesses, including Linh Truong, co-founder of
  
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• Planning an outdoor event at a City venue in 2019? Explore and book public spaces/venues here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-10-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
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