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• B.C. paramedic designs international translator for dealing with non-English speakers

  31-10-2018 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  One in 32 residents of British Columbia does not speak either official language as their mother tongue according to the 2016 census, and that doesn’t include all the tourists who don’t speak English.
  This makes it difficult when first responders are attempting emergency medical aid and are unable to communicate with patients.
  Sunshine Coast paramedic James Shearer thinks he’s come up with an answer, the Emergency Medical Translator.
  “The idea came through my lack of under
  
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• Federal government announces new measures for killer whale protection

  31-10-2018 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The federal government has announced the creation of new ocean sanctuaries and chinook salmon enhancements, directing an additional $61.5 million to protect endangered killer whales.
  Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the government is looking at creating new areas of critical habitat off the west coast of Vancouver Island for southern resident killer whales.
  Wilkinson says the protected areas of Swiftsure, in the Juan de Fuca Strait between Vancouver Island
  
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• Grouse Mountain Skyride will be out of service Nov. 1-12

  31-10-2018 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  If you plan on hiking up the Grouse Grind in the next couple weeks, you better be ready to hike down the mountain as well.
  Starting Thursday, Grouse Mountain Resort’s Skyride gondola, which many hikers use to descend the mountain, will be closed for maintenance until Nov. 12, along with all mountaintop facilities, including restrooms.
  During that time, the only way down Grouse Mountain will be via the BCMC trail, which can add an extra two hours of hiking time.Metro Vancouver reminds hiker
  
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• Woman who grabbed boy on bus not criminally responsible: judge

  31-10-2018 23:13 via vancouversun.com
  A Vernon woman who grabbed a boy on a bus and attempted to take the child away from his great-grandmother has been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
  On Oct. 11, 2016, Gabriel Hunter Gibson got on the B.C. Transit bus after Rebecca Johnson and her four-year-old great-grandson, who can only be identified by the initials D.G., had boarded the vehicle.
  During the bus trip Gibson spoke to Johnson, asked how old the boy was and where they were going.
  When the bus stopped at a
  
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• Vancouver anti-drone company granted injunction against competitor in technology case

  31-10-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver anti-drone technology company has been granted an injunction against a competitor and former employees it claims stole its technology.
  SkyCope Technologies has spent $1.5 million to develop technology that allows users to redirect rogue drones in unauthorized zones such as airports or helipads — a valuable technology given the rise in private drone use. The company plans to market its product in North America and China.
  In August, SkyCope filed a civil suit against Bluevec, a c
  
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• Industrial demand drives Metro Vancouver land prices sky-high

  31-10-2018 22:51
  
  Sales cresting over $120 million per month as developers battle for space
  
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• 🎃 Make sure your kids are safe & seen on Halloween. Walk w/ flashlights, reflectors or glow sticks. Remember, firew… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 22:01 via twitter.com
  🎃 Make sure your kids are safe & seen on Halloween. Walk w/ flashlights, reflectors or glow sticks. Remember, firew… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Alberta premier tells B.C. steelworkers that jobs at risk without Trans Mountain

  31-10-2018 21:43 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said it’s “just dumb” that the Canadian economy is losing millions of dollars a day because her province can’t get its oil to world markets.
  Notley took her message on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to steelworkers meeting in Kamloops Wednesday.
  She warned them that jobs across the country — including theirs — are at risk every day the Trans Mountain project doesn’t go ahead.
  She repeated her oft-made
  
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• Murdered Burnaby girl's mom gets interpreter but group questions why she had to ask

  31-10-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a 13-year-old girl murdered in Burnaby will get a Mandarin interpreter so she can understand what’s going on in the trial of the man accused of the crime, the Attorney General’s Ministry says.
  “In addition to the interpretation services, the family will continue to have access to support from victim services throughout court proceedings,” the ministry said in an email, adding privacy rules prevent it from disclosing specific services that have been provided.
  
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• B.C. looks to prescribed burns to fight wildfires, regenerate ecosystems

  31-10-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C.’s government says it supports starting its own fires to control wildfires.
  A report from the Forests Ministry says it now endorses controlled burns as a fire-fighting tool and plans are underway to allow its expanded use.
  The burns are part of a plan arising from an independent report that made 108 recommendations to overhaul disaster response practices after devastating wildfires and floods in 2017.
  Former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister George Abbott and Indigenou
  
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• Rock on: Six shows to catch this November and December

  31-10-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  The weather hasn’t really delivered the heavy-duty fall rains and overcast days, but it will. And when it does, that sense that it’s time to get into a concert hall or art space and out of the deluge will come.
  With only two months remaining in 2018, many have already started putting together their best shows of the year lists. We think that’s premature.
  Because there are still a number of key musical events remaining and, no, we’re not talking Christmas concerts. In fact
  
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• Looks like trick or treating will be a bit rainy tonight, so if you're out in your car, please drive slowly and car… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Looks like trick or treating will be a bit rainy tonight, so if you're out in your car, please drive slowly and car… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Douglas Todd: Probe launched on behalf of B.C. prof who exposed fake journals

  31-10-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  The association representing Canadian university faculty today launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University economist Derek Pyne has had his academic freedom violated.
  Pyne, who has been suspended since July by administrators at the Kamloops university, gained international media attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers after publishing in deceptive academic journals, also known as “predato
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP Thank Retiring Mayors! bit.ly/2SFfuKu #NorthVancouver https://t.co/sJlfY85NHV

  31-10-2018 20:04 via twitter.com
  
  North Vancouver RCMP Thank Retiring Mayors!bit.ly/2SFfuKu#NorthVancouver https://t.co/sJlfY85NHV
  
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• Douglas Todd: Investigation launched into possible breach of B.C. prof's academic freedom

  31-10-2018 19:26 via vancouversun.com
  The association representing Canadian university faculty today launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University economist Derek Pyne has had his academic freedom violated.
  Pyne, who has been suspended since July by administrators at the Kamloops university, gained international media attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers after publishing in deceptive academic journals, also known as “predato
  
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• Trick or treat on Cloverdale set of Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  31-10-2018 19:18 via vancouversun.com
  Neflix is offering a witchy treat to kids in Cloverdale this Halloween.
  The streaming service is filming parts of the second season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the latest adaptation of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic books which debuted last week, in a downtown Cloverdale storefront that has been turned into the Cerberus bookstore for the series.
  Trick or treaters can stop by the Cerberus set (5646 176 Street) between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. for candy handouts and a spook
  
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• The It List: Knix Catalyst bra

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The product: Knix Catalyst sports bra
  Why we love it: A good sports bra can be hard to find, especially if you have a larger chest. Some bras are too unsupportive, while others just serve to squish rather than support.
  That’s where the Knix Catalyst sports bra comes in.
  The bra reportedly took three years to develop and 42 prototypes were created. The designs were tested and perfected, according to the company, by three universities in three countries. Moulded cups keep breasts separated a
  
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• The Cultch's Ceasefire Series makes art not war

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Ceasefire Series
  When: Oct. 30-Nov. 17
  Where: The Cultch, Vancity Culture Lab, York Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $35 at the cultch.com/tickets
  A century ago, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, Germany signed the armistice declaring an end to hostilities on land, sea and air. The First World War officially ended.
  The “War to End All Wars,” it was erroneously named.
  It proved merely to be a more impressive war than those that preceded it in terms of death
  
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• Q&A: Lindsay Wong talks about her memoir The Woo Woo

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Woo Woo
  How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
  Lindsay Wong (Arsenal Pulp)
  $19.95 | 316pp
  From “red-eyed hockey fury” and oft-kilter personalities to lost minds and a “chubby wannabe gangster with pimples,” first-time author Lindsay Wong’s West Coast memoir is one hallucinatory cautionary tale about youth, parenting, and family gone wildly awry. By turns disturbingly brutal and utterly surreal, Wong’s unexpectedly comica
  
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• Knowledge Network documentary series offers view into North Van mental health facility

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Living in HOpe
  When: Nov. 6, 9 p.m.
  Where: Knowledge Network
  Knowledge Network’s new documentary series, Living in HOpe, is a bit of a surprise.
  Billed as a look inside the HOpe Centre in North Vancouver, the series isn’t a by-the-numbers talking head. There is no Vaseline on the lens here. Instead, Living in HOpe is an up-close, front row seat to the ups-and-downs and everything in-between at a psychiatric care facility.
  “We set up a bunch of cool artsy shots. But it brea
  
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• Kasey Wilson: These rib-sticking pasta dishes will keep you warm

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  With fall here and winter around the corner, my thoughts have turned to pasta — warm, rib-sticking pasta dishes that fuel and fortify us.
  One of my favourites is lasagne, both the classic version made with béchamel and a Bolognese ragu and variations with everything from roasted vegetables and butter chicken to tofu ricotta. (A spelling note: Lasagne is the plural term for the requisite broad noodles; lasagna is a single noodle — not a very satisfying portion.)
  My favourite no
  
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• EAT! Pastry event celebrates 'dessert elite' (with recipe)

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  EAT! Pastry
  When: Nov. 10, 2-4 p.m.
  Where: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront Ballroom (1133 West Hastings St., Vancouver)
  Tickets and info: $79 plus tax, $99 plus tax for VIP; eat-vancouver.com/eat-pastryIf you fancy all things sweet over savoury, then you’re in for a true treat.
  The EAT! Pastry event, which is part of the larger EAT! Vancouver food and drink festival, is set to highlight some of the “dessert elite” for an evening of delectable dishes and seasonal cocktails.
  Mor
  
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• Beauty Bar: Gucci Bloom Nettare di Fiori Eau de Parfum

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new fragrance addition to Gucci’s Gucci Bloom scent collection, Nettare di Fiori Eau de Parfum promises to be a release that “celebrates the intimate and authentic character of a woman.”
  The potent eau de parfum boasts top notes of ginger and rose; middle notes of Rangoon Creeper, tuberose and jasmine buds; and base notes of patchouli, musk and Osmanthus (a flowering plant also known as Devilwood).
  This iteration is billed as a “wood
  
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• Want a FREE snazzy pedestrian safety reflector? Get yours TODAY from North Vancouver Community Policing volunteers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
  Want a FREE snazzy pedestrian safety reflector? Get yours TODAY from North Vancouver Community Policing volunteers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pro-sports charities overspending, lack transparency, says Canadian fundraising watchdog

  31-10-2018 17:58 via vancouversun.com
  Canada’s fundraising watchdog has found that pro-sports charities, such as Vancouver’s Canucks For Kids, score low when it comes to financial transparency.
  Eight sports charities connected to the NHL, NBA and MLB teams were evaluated in a report by Charity Intelligence Canada.  The report concludes that sports fans may want to spend their charity dollars elsewhere.
  In 2017, Canadians gave $49.7 million to the eight charity foundations associated with professional sports tea
  
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• Stop by our #BTWW Celebration Station tomorrow from 4-6pm at Grand Boulevard and 19th St. Free refreshments, prizes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 17:01 via twitter.com
  Stop by our #BTWW Celebration Station tomorrow from 4-6pm at Grand Boulevard and 19th St. Free refreshments, prizes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Majority of British Columbians think drivers are getting worse: Poll

  31-10-2018 16:59 via vancouversun.com
  Whether they are texting, double-parked, or not using turning signals, a majority of British Columbians think drivers are getting worse.
  Those are the results of a new Research Co. poll, which found that 64 per cent of B.C. residents think drivers are worse than they were five years ago.
  The number was highest in B.C., followed by Atlantic Canada (59 per cent), Alberta (53 per cent) and Ontario (51 per cent.)
  Overall, half of Canadians drivers in their city or town are worse than they were
  
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• Daily Poll: What treats will you hand out this Halloween?

  31-10-2018 15:49 via vancouversun.com
  Children have been counting down the hours, carving pumpkins, and readying sacks to be filled with goodies galore. Parents, meanwhile, are making frantic last-minute trips to the grocery store for cheap boxes of candy, usually buying more than they need, just in case there are more kids than last year (wink, wink.) Or, they are determined not to stand in shop queues on Oct. 31 to buy endless amounts of junk food and have stocked up on packets of raisins, books and toys.
  Halloween is finally here
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Bone-chilling rain and fog make for frightful forecast on Halloween

  31-10-2018 13:51 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – You may feel a chill running down your spine tonight, as ghosts and ghouls gather for Halloween….No wait, that’s just the cold, wet weather. Yes, the Halloween forecast looks a bit grim this year. Trick-or-treaters might get a break in the rain, as Environment Canada is forecasting a 60 per cent chance of showers tonight, with a low of 9 C, and fog. During the day, expect mainly cloudy skies, with a chance of drizzle, and a high of 11 C. Overnight, the rain b
  
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• Douglas Todd: Bogus Vancouver academic conference erupts with outrage, police

  31-10-2018 04:10 via vancouversun.com
  All hell broke loose at an academic conference in Vancouver when legitimate scholars realized they were being exploited by deceptive organizers.
  Angry academics demanded their money back, forcing the organizer of the pseudo-technology conference to flee the event. The confrontation occurred when some scholars realized they had paid large sums of money to attend a suspicious symposium organized by the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET).
  The highly respected British publi
  
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• Risky drivers will be hit with hefty ICBC increases starting Nov. 1

  31-10-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  Beginning Thursday, risky drivers — those convicted of excessive speeding, impaired driving, distracted driving and other violations — will be hit with hefty penalty increases, Attorney General David Eby announced on Tuesday.
  ICBC says there will be a 20 per cent increase in the amounts charged for the Driver Risk Premium (DRP), charged annually to drivers who are convicted of dangerous driving offences, and the Driver Penalty Point Premium (DPPP), charged to drivers who have co
  
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• Referendum’s $14.5 million price tag is 65 per cent higher than 2011 vote

  31-10-2018 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  Elections B.C. will spend $6.5 million more for this year’s voting systems referendum than it did for the last province-wide referendum, held in 2011 on sales tax.
  The hike was due to several factors, according to B.C.’s chief electoral officer, including a mandate that the agency educate voters on the different voting systems and also fund the Yes and No sides to the tune of $500,000 each.
  The total budget for the voting systems referendum will be $14.5 million, up from $8
  
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• Mother of B.C. girl slain 40 years ago testifies at trial of accused killer

  31-10-2018 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a Merritt-area girl who was killed more than 40 years ago took the witness stand Tuesday to describe her last memories of her daughter.
  Madeline Lanaro, 78, told a B.C. Supreme Court jury that the day her 12-year-old daughter Monica Jack went missing in May 1978 began with the girl helping her siblings bake a cake for a birthday that one of their sisters was celebrating the following day.
  Testifying at the trial of Garry Taylor Handlen, who has pleaded not guilty to one count of fi
  
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• Ben Parfitt: Secret deals exempting some projects from environmental review need to stop

  31-10-2018 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office bills itself as a “neutral” provincial agency.
  But there is evidence that this is not the case, and that Environment Minister George Heyman — who is tasked with “revitalizing” B.C.’s environmental assessment law — needs to make serious reforms.
  When a public regulator makes major decisions behind closed doors that favour corporate interests and does not even notify the public, we have a problem.
  When that happ
  
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• Discrimination claim by pot friendly 'roommaid' dismissed by B.C. Human Rights Tribunal

  31-10-2018 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  At first it was ideal. Melissa Bahadur was into weed. And David Yacht was considering cashing in on canna-tourism in B.C.
  But after a spurned romantic advance, police were called to confiscate pot plants and the pair ended up before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. Bahadur had alleged Yacht discriminated against her in employment by sexually harassing her.
  The story began in February 2016 when Yacht saw an online ad by Bahadur seeking accommodation for reduced rent in exchange for help around the
  
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• Cash contributors to B.C.'s electoral reform referendum highlight partisan nature of fight

  31-10-2018 01:43 via vancouversun.com
  Monetary contributions to the Yes and No campaigns in B.C.’s electoral reform referendum break along traditional lines of support for the NDP and B.C. Liberals, according to an analysis by Postmedia.
  The finding underscores the partisan nature of the campaign to sway voters, which is unfortunate because a deeper debate would be helpful, say political scientists.
  “Very early on, this became a partisan party-based referendum, which is why you see contributors lining up the way they are
  
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• Vernon man, guilty of internet sex crimes against Filipina girls, jailed for 6 years

  31-10-2018 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  A Vernon man who was convicted of internet-related sex offences against five underage Filipina girls has been sentenced to six years in jail.
  The offences of Wayne Douglas Brown were committed online in the Okanagan community through the use of his computer, tablet and smartphone.
  “All victims were young, poor, vulnerable teenage girls, all under 18 years (old) located overseas in the Philippines,” provincial court Judge Monica McParland said in her ruling on the case.
  “Sometim
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Law Society legal-aid debate aborted

  31-10-2018 01:29 via vancouversun.com
  A much-anticipated debate on the self-representation and legal-aid crisis besetting B.C. courts and the strident concerns within the Law Society of B.C. about how to deal with it have been put on hold.
  Ironically, the important discussion about key access-to-justice concerns was cut off by access issues.
  Shortly after the start of the Law Society’s annual general meeting Tuesday, the computer system linking the various locations and allowing members to vote on resolutions crashed.
  Presiden
  
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• Richmond RCMP say stolen asbestos removal machine presents health risk

  31-10-2018 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond RCMP say a stolen piece of industrial equipment used to remove asbestos could pose a danger to the public — and to the thieves who stole it.
  The OmniAire 2000, a machine that filters asbestos and other hazardous airborne contaminants from demolition sites, was stolen Tuesday morning from a work site in the 100 block Westminster Highway. Structures at the site were scheduled for demolition and industrial equipment was brought in to assist in the process.
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• ART SEEN: Garry Neill Kennedy changed the art rules in Canada in the '60s

  31-10-2018 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  During the next few days, Garry Neill Kennedy will be finishing work on the latest iteration of an art project he started in the 1970s.
  Kennedy is remembering all the names of people he’s known and writing them on a wall of CSA Space on Main Street. Using a pencil, Kennedy prints or writes the names of artists, curators, friends and classmates.
  Sometimes he can only remember a first name so that’s all he writes.
  Kennedy’s art project is more complicated today than 40 years ago
  
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• Chilliwack First Nation writes its own cannabis law

  31-10-2018 00:22 via vancouversun.com
  The Kwaw-Kwaw-Apilt First Nation near Chilliwack has written its own cannabis law to replace the federal Cannabis Act and licensed its own cannabis store on reserve land.
  They are not alone.
  First Nations from B.C. to Nova Scotia are in a jurisdictional uprising over the manufacture and sale recreational cannabis on their lands, including the powerful Six Nations government in Ontario, where they are also drafting their own regulations.
  “First Nations reserve lands are not under provincial
  
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• Man charged in home invasion and assault on terminally ill Sicamous woman

  31-10-2018 00:11 via vancouversun.com
  RCMP have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with a home invasion robbery in Sicamous in which a terminally ill woman was assaulted at gun point.
  The incident which involved two male and one female suspect occurred Oct. 24.
  Sicamous RCMP say two men, both armed with handguns, forced their way into a residence and pointed a gun at the 59-year-old cancer patient and kicked her in the face.
  Robert Christopher Bomba was arrested in Nanaimo and charged with forcible confinement, disgu
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: 'I've never seen demand as high' for Vancouver office space

  31-10-2018 00:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver office leasing specialist Colin Scarlett recently got a request that doesn’t come along very often.
  “I got a phone call from somebody from San Francisco a week-and-a-half ago,” said the Colliers International executive vice-president. “A big-name company. They need 250,000 square feet (of office space) in Vancouver.”
  “I’ve only got that phone call once in my career,” he told Postmedia. “I’ve been doing this for 22 years a
  
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