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• Indigo Chapters gets a Vancouver sequel

  01-11-2018 23:20 via vancouversun.com
  Almost four years after Chapters left Robson Street, the bookstore is back with a new flagship Indigo store on one of Vancouver’s most prestigious shopping strips.
  “We are thrilled to be back on Robson Street to share our new retail concept with our passionate customers,” Indigo CEO Heather Reisman said in a news release. “We are so looking forward to welcoming everyone again.”
  The two-level, 29,000 square foot store at 1033 Robson Street is hosting a grand-ope
  
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• B.C. families provide 33.1 million hours of unpaid care to people living with dementia a year. Learn how we're work… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 22:54 via twitter.com
  B.C. families provide 33.1 million hours of unpaid care to people living with dementia a year. Learn how we're work… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. police watchdog opens four investigations involving death or serious harm

  01-11-2018 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s police watchdog is investigating four separate incidents since Sunday involving police and people who have died or suffered serious harm.
  The first incident happened early Sunday in Nanaimo, where the RCMP notified the Independent Investigations Office that a male had died after interacting with officers who located an apparent impaired driver.
  The officers determined the male should be transported to hospital, but before Emergency Health Services arrived he went into me
  
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• 👍 NEW Community Woodworking Studio opens TONIGHT! Drop by for a tour, watch demos and meet the instructor 5-7pm. Lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  👍 NEW Community Woodworking Studio opens TONIGHT! Drop by for a tour, watch demos and meet the instructor 5-7pm. Lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Video surfaces of person throwing firecracker at homeless person in Chilliwack

  01-11-2018 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  Warning: Video contains language that some people may find offensive.
  Police are searching for a group of men who allegedly threw a lit firecracker at another person while driving around Chilliwack on Tuesday night.
  A video of the incident posted to Facebook shows a man lobbing a lit firecracker out the driver’s side window of a car at an apparently homeless person sitting in a doorway.Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Mike Rail said police received a report of a group of three or four men
  
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• November begins with rainfall and flood warnings in Metro Vancouver

  01-11-2018 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  The darkest days of the year are upon us – a fact that was underscored by a rainfall warning for Metro Vancouver Thursday, ahead of the end of daylight savings time Sunday.
  Environment Canada warned there could be flash floods and water pooling on roads Thursday as 50 to 80 millimetres of rain is expected over a 24-hour period across Metro Vancouver, Howe Sound and west and central Fraser Valley.
  Rainfall warnings are up for Metro #Vancouver! Rain at times heavy today & tonight with 50
  
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• Catch up on all the latest City news & happenings, in this week's #CityView eNews: ow.ly/ttPo30msPOA #NorthVan https://t.co/gPGWdtz48Q

  01-11-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  Catch up on all the latest City news & happenings, in this week's #CityView eNews: ow.ly/ttPo30msPOA #NorthVan https://t.co/gPGWdtz48Q
  
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• Liberals complain to B.C. conflict commissioner about Eby recall bill

  01-11-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s Opposition Liberals are asking the conflict commissioner to rule whether Attorney General David Eby is in a conflict of interest for trying to reform recall campaigns while a campaign is being organized against him in his own riding.
  Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson wrote to to independent conflict commissioner Paul Fraser on Thursday to ask him to rule on Eby’s situation.
  Eby introduced legislation this week to ban corporate and union donations from recall cam
  
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• Metro Vancouver sees world’s steepest plunge in luxury home prices

  01-11-2018 20:29
  Global quarterly index ranks 43 world cities for prime real estate price growth; Metro Vancouver comes last
  
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• Suspended B.C. prof who exposed fake journals welcomes investigation

  01-11-2018 19:52 via vancouversun.com
  The association representing Canadian university faculty has launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University has violated the academic freedom of economics professor Derek Pyne.
  He had gained international attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers by publishing in deceptive academic journals, also known as “predatory” publications.
  The investigating committee of the Canadian Association o
  
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• B.C. moves to bring back human rights commission 16 years after it was tossed

  01-11-2018 19:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government has introduced legislation that would bring back a human rights commission to the province.
  The former commission was dismantled in 2002, but Attorney General David Eby says given what’s happening around the globe, it’s never been more important for governments to do all they can to stand up for human rights.
  Eby says every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect and by re-establishing the commission, the government is creating a mo
  
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• David Bieber: Odds of B.C. Liberals winning Nanaimo byelection are low — but not impossible

  01-11-2018 19:12 via vancouversun.com
  What happens in Nanaimo does not always stay in Nanaimo. Is there any corner of the province where, for example, people are not delighted by the outrageously tasty coconut-custard chocolate square named for this pleasant Vancouver Island city? No, of course not. 
  And now, fixation upon the results of Nanaimo’s recent municipal race has spread across B.C. — and for good reason. The 16-month-old NDP minority government may collapse as a result. 
  Leonard Krog will be sworn in
  
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• In The Dark investigative reporter one of many highlights at Vancouver Podcast Festival

  01-11-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Podcast Festival
  When: Nov. 8-10
  Where: Various locations
  Tickets and info: vanpodfest.caIn February 2017, the people behind the APM Reports-produced In the Dark podcast got an email tip that very much piqued the interest of the Peabody Award-winning investigative team and gave them the topic for their second season.
  The email pointed out there was a man named Curtis Flowers who had been tried six times for the murder of four people in a Winona, Miss., furniture store in 1996
  
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• Chinese couturier Guo Pei exhibit highlights craftsmanship, design in Vancouver

  01-11-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Guo Pei: Couture Beyond 
  When: Oct. 13 to Jan. 20
  Where: Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby St.)
  Tickets and info: $30 general admission; $25 students/seniors; vanartgallery.bc.caGuo Pei’s business is one that’s built on patience. A lot of it.
  While the Chinese couturière now enjoys international recognition and a dedicated following of clients for her one-of-a-kind designs — not to mention is the only Chinese designer recognized by the Chamb
  
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• November begins with rainfall and flood warnings

  01-11-2018 18:42 via vancouversun.com
  Our sunny October is clearly over as a rainstorm ushers in a new month, with Environment Canada warning there could be flash floods and water pooling on roads Thursday.
  Rainfall warnings are up for Metro #Vancouver! Rain at times heavy today & tonight with 50 to 80 mm expected by Friday morning. Rain will taper off Friday morning.https://t.co/ivXxAq82Ph#BCstorm #BCwx
  — ECCC Weather British Columbia (@ECCCWeatherBC) November 1, 2018A rainfall warning said 50 to 80 millimetres
  
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• Well, hello November ☔🌧️. Rainfall warning issued for the Metro Vancouver 50-80mm expected today and tonight. Plea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  Well, hello November ☔🌧️. Rainfall warning issued for the Metro Vancouver 50-80mm expected today and tonight.Plea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• More than half of young families given up on single-family home dream: poll

  01-11-2018 18:29
  
  Just because young families are buying condos or townhomes, doesn’t mean they want to, reveals survey
  
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• B.C. post-secondary sector sets out cannabis policies

  01-11-2018 18:22
  
  There is still a lot of confusion at B.C. colleges and universities about where and when users will be able to light up — and which schools will lead the way in teaching about the drug.
  
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• Now that Halloween's over, what to do with that leftover pumpkin? Have you considered tossing it off a four-storey… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  Now that Halloween's over, what to do with that leftover pumpkin? Have you considered tossing it off a four-storey… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Numerous fireworks seized by police on Halloween night while on patrol and while responding to public complaints. M… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  Numerous fireworks seized by police on Halloween night while on patrol and while responding to public complaints. M… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• UVic study finds Victoria's homeless, vulnerable, finally get care when at death's door

  01-11-2018 17:31 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A University of Victoria study that followed 25 dying homeless or marginally housed people in Victoria finds many received the best health care available only when they had reached death’s door.
  Kelli Stajduhar, a professor at the university’s school of nursing and Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, says 13 people died during the study and she doesn’t know the status of the 12 who survived while the research was underway.
  Stajduhar says the study recommend
  
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• Riding your bike this week? Don't forget to stop by our Bike to Work Week Celebration Station TODAY 4-6pm at Grand… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  Riding your bike this week? Don't forget to stop by our Bike to Work Week Celebration Station TODAY 4-6pm at Grand… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Feds award $7B in contracts to three shipyards, including Seaspan Victoria, for navy ship maintenance

  01-11-2018 15:39 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The federal government has awarded contracts worth $7 billion to three shipyards for maintenance and repair work on Royal Canadian Navy frigates.
  Public Services and Procurement Canada today announced the advanced contract award notices to Halifax’s Irving Shipbuilding Inc., Seaspan Victoria Shipyards in Victoria and Davie Shipbuilding in Levis, Que.
  The contracts are to maintain Canada’s 12 Halifax-class frigates until the end of their operational life, estimated at a
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet new mayors of Surrey, Vancouver

  01-11-2018 15:26 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in B.C. Thursday, and will meet with the newly-elected mayors of Vancouver and Surrey.
  Trudeau is scheduled to meet Vancouver mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart and Surrey mayor-elect Doug McCallum shortly before 5:30 p.m. at the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver.
  Earlier Thursday, Trudeau will tour the TRIUMF particle accelerator centre at UBC for an announcement in the morning, and then later will deliver a speech at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with the B.C. government's hefty penalty increases for risky drivers?

  01-11-2018 14:45 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has announced that risky drivers — those convicted of excessive speeding, impaired driving, distracted driving and other violations — will be hit with 20 per cent penalty increases.
  Read Scott Brown’s story here.
  Attorney General David Eby says the move will make help make the roads safer and hold people accountable. The fees will be on top of the fines for infractions. What do you think? Do you agree with Eby that bad drivers should pay, or do you thin
  
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• Quake with a magnitude of 4.9 recorded in waters west of Vancouver Island

  01-11-2018 13:58 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A mild earthquake has been recorded west of Vancouver Island in the same area where three more powerful quakes struck about 10 days ago.
  The U.S. Geological Survey says the shallow quake had a magnitude of 4.9.
  It was centred about 250 kilometres west of Tofino and occurred just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night.
  The shaker was not strong enough to cause injuries or damage and did not generate a tsunami.
  Three quakes measuring 6.5, 6.6 and 6.8 were recorded in the same area on O
  
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• Vancouverites confident in property market in face of sales slowdown, survey finds

  01-11-2018 08:01 via vancouversun.com
  Most young families in Vancouver’s property market remain confident their property values will do as well or better than other investments, despite a recent slowdown in the market, according to a new survey commissioned by a property firm.
  In total, 79 per cent of Vancouver respondents to the Mustel Group survey of urban residents, ages 20 to 45, reported they “believe that financial gains on their home will outperform or be on par with financial investments over the next five years.
  
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• New palliative care hub opens in North Vancouver - North Shore News

  01-11-2018 08:00
  New palliative care hub opens in North Vancouver  North Shore NewsPeople experiencing a life-threatening illness shouldn't have to contend with their quality of life being threatened as well. That was the message delivered ...
  
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• Study finds SFU, Emily Carr U among top users of contract labour

  01-11-2018 05:01 via vancouversun.com
  Working at a university is no longer one of the most secure professions in Canada, according to a groundbreaking study of contract faculty at universities.
  The study, Contract U, found that more than half of all faculty appointments are now on contract: 38,681 or 53.6 per cent.
  The study is the first data-driven look at how many university faculty jobs across the country are on contract,where they’re located and the academic departments they’re likely to be found in.
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• B.C.'s first private cannabis store licensed in Kimberley

  01-11-2018 02:25 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s first private non-recreational cannabis licence has been issued to a former East Kootenays medical pot shop.
  Tamarack Cannabis Boutique in Kimberley will get its licence from B.C.’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch on Thursday. The store was the first medical cannabis dispensary in Canada to receive a business licence from its local government, even before Vancouver, after a vote by council in 2015.
  “I’m feeling a little thrilled right now,” sa
  
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• Happy Halloween 🎃! Stay safe #NorthVan https://t.co/8G4AVtJZtG

  01-11-2018 02:24 via twitter.com
  
  Happy Halloween 🎃! Stay safe #NorthVan https://t.co/8G4AVtJZtG
  
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• Brother of 12-year-old murdered in 1978 testifies about finding his sister's bicycle

  01-11-2018 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  The brother of a 12-year-old girl who was murdered more than 40 years ago described on Wednesday how he found his younger sister’s bicycle after she’d gone missing.
  Glen Jack, 58, was testifying at the B.C. Supreme Court trial of Garry Taylor Handlen, who has pleaded not guilty to the May 1978 first-degree murder of Monica Jack.
  He told a jury that on the day Monica vanished he called home after being at a party the previous night only to find that his sister had not returned home.
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• Man charged with murdering B.C. woman in Peru speaks out

  01-11-2018 02:01 via vancouversun.com
  A man accused of killing a B.C. woman, Kimberlee Kasatkin, is speaking out, insisting he is innocent and accusing the dead woman’s parents in Abbotsford of spreading misinformation.
  In two emails to Postmedia, Christopher Franz Bettocchi takes issue with the version of events presented by Kasatkin’s parents Al and Kathy Kasatkin who, with the help of Abbotsford police, have been dogged in their quest for justice for their daughter, who disappeared in November 2016.
  “Only one si
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018

  01-11-2018 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  In his Oct. 25 column, Ian Mulgrew suggested that Attorney General David Eby might end what Mulgrew calls a monopoly over the provision of legal work by lawyers as members of a self-regulating profession.
  Eby would be in an awkward position if he promoted among his cabinet colleagues the possibility Mulgrew suggests. The power to decide who might or might not practise law is left to self-governing lawyers — it is not a power exercised by government — in order to ensure the indep
  
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• Ottawa offers funding to help subsidize rural B.C. bus service

  01-11-2018 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Taxpayers could end up subsidizing passenger bus service in rural British Columbia as the federal and provincial governments struggle to fill gaps left by Greyhound’s departure.
  Federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau said Wednesday that Ottawa may have money — he did not specify an amount — available to help private companies operate bus routes to remote communities after Greyhound Canada ended service.
  “Where we have concerns about not abandoning v
  
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• B.C. looks to controlled burns to fight wildfires, regenerate ecosystems

  01-11-2018 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — People in B.C. will have to get used to the possibility that next summer’s smoky skies may be the result of fires started by the government, says Forests Minister Doug Donaldson.
  The provincial government is endorsing the expanded use of controlled burns as a firefighting tool and will work to amend laws and regulations that govern them, he said Wednesday.
  The Forests Ministry saysthe  burns involve the planned and controlled application of fire to a specific land are
  
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• B.C. prof who exposed fake journals welcomes new investigation

  01-11-2018 01:13 via vancouversun.com
  The association representing Canadian university faculty has launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University has violated the academic freedom of economics professor Derek Pyne.
  Pyne was suspended without pay in July by administrators at the Kamloops university. However, TRU restored his pay in August.
  He had gained international attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers by publishing in deceptive ac
  
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• Brother of murdered girl describes how he found his sister's bicycle

  01-11-2018 01:03 via vancouversun.com
  The brother of a 12-year-old girl who was murdered more than 40 years ago described on Wednesday how he found his younger sister’s bicycle after she’d gone missing.
  Glen Jack, 58, was testifying at the B.C. Supreme Court trial of Garry Taylor Handlen, who has pleaded not guilty to the May 1978 first-degree murder of Monica Jack.
  He told a jury that on the day Monica vanished he called home after being at a party the previous night only to find that his sister had not returned home.
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• Enbridge says repairs done on ruptured gas pipeline near Prince George

  01-11-2018 00:57 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — Enbridge Inc. says it has successfully completed repairs on the section of a natural gas pipeline that ruptured three weeks ago near Prince George.
  The company says following a comprehensive integrity assessment, it expects to begin safely returning the repaired segment to service within the next two days. It says it will gradually increase flows of natural gas through the repaired segment until it reaches 80 per cent of its normal operating pressure.
  A smaller pipeline nea
  
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• Q&A: The Selecter's Pauline Black talks punk, ska and 15th album Daylight

  01-11-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  The Selecterwith Rhoda Dakar
  When: Nov. 7, 7 p.m.
  Where: The Rickshaw Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $32.50, at ticketfly.comOf all the dynamic front persons to come out of the punk and ska movement of the late 1970s in the UK, few could match The Selector’s Pauline Black (born Belinda Magnus) for cool.
  Coming out of Coventry in 1979, the mixed-race band shared the B-side of the very first release on the budding 2 Tone Records label when its song, also called The Selecter, was the flip sid
  
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• Judge orders ballot recount in District of West Vancouver

  01-11-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  A provincial judge has ordered a recount of ballots in the District of West Vancouver in response to a complaint after a close election in which a mayoral candidate lost by 21 votes and a council candidate lost by 20.
  The court application was filed Monday by former mayor Michael Smith, who didn’t run for re-election, on behalf of the man he endorsed to replace him, lawyer Mark Sager. Sager came within 21 votes of former councillor Mary-Ann Booth who won the mayor’s seat.
  The applica
  
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• 💡 Brighter really is better. Being invisible is great if you're on a secret mission, but... cnv.org/LookThinkGo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 00:30 via twitter.com
  💡 Brighter really is better. Being invisible is great if you're on a secret mission, but... cnv.org/LookThinkGo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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