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• #CityView eNews = your source for the latest City news & events. This week: New Mayor & Council, details on Inaugur… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-11-2018 23:50 via twitter.com
  #CityView eNews = your source for the latest City news & events. This week: New Mayor & Council, details on Inaugur… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Notorious child abductor Randall Hopley living in Vancouver

  08-11-2018 23:24 via vancouversun.com
  Convicted child abductor Randall Peter Hopley is living in Vancouver and police are warning the public that they believe he poses a risk of significant harm to the safety of young boys.
  Randall Hopley
  In 2011, the 53-year-old Hopley snatched sleeping three-year-old Kienan Hebert from a second-floor bedroom in Sparwood. He kept the child for four days before returning him physically unharmed after Hebert’s parents made a public plea.
  Hopley, who had previous convictions for abduct
  
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• Mountie 80 per cent to blame in high-speed collision: Judge

  08-11-2018 23:06 via vancouversun.com
  An RCMP officer is 80 per cent to blame for a high-speed collision that destroyed two vehicles, a B.C. judge has concluded.
  In July 2014, Const. Chad Gorman was attending a call at an elementary school in Langley when he was notified of a 911 call that came from a man claiming he was being chased by someone with a gun.
  Gorman activated the lights and siren on his police cruiser and proceeded westbound along Fraser Highway at speeds of over 140 km/h. Another police cruiser was responding at the s
  
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• B.C. to end contract-flipping wage cuts at senior care homes

  08-11-2018 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C. is moving to ban the practice of contract flipping at seniors care homes and other health facilities, where employees are laid off and rehired at lower wages.
  Health Minister Adrian Dix introduced legislation Thursday that ends a practice that allows unionized workers to be fired en masse by contracted employers, and then rehired for their same jobs under weaker contracts for less pay.
  “What it will do both in the public sector, for example a big public sector contrac
  
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• Here’s the debris flow mechanism along Thames Creek directly after last weekend’s heavy rains. This gate collected… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-11-2018 22:39 via twitter.com
  Here’s the debris flow mechanism along Thames Creek directly after last weekend’s heavy rains. This gate collected… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver Art Gallery celebrates record year for attendance

  08-11-2018 22:31 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Art Gallery says it has set a new attendance record of more than 600,000 in 2017-18.
  The gallery says the figure beats last year’s attendance by close to 100,000. Membership passed 37,000, it said in a news release.
  “Looking back, it has been, by all accounts, a milestone year for the gallery marked by exceptional programs, record attendance and revenue,” Kathleen S. Bartels, VAG director, said in the release.
  The VAG’s numbers include attendance at the gall
  
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• Surrey family wins $1 million Lotto Max prize

  08-11-2018 21:12 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey family that won $1 million from the Lotto Max draw last month plans to invest in real estate and give the rest of the winnings to their children.
  “I was thinking if I ever won the lottery I would invest with my kids and get them a townhouse,” Ram Singh said in a statement released by the B.C. Lottery Corporation.
  Singh is described as a “business owner who says he works seven days a week” and is “still absorbing the good news. ‘My wife said
  
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• Americans in Vancouver plan downtown protest on Thursday evening

  08-11-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  American citizens in Vancouver are planning a protest Thursday following the firing by U.S. President Donald Trump of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
  Plans are for a protest to be held at 5 p.m. in front of the U.S. consulate at 1075 West Pender St.
  It will be linked to similar “massive ’emergency’ protests” in Toronto and Victoria as well as some 900 other cities across North America, according to organizers.
  “The firing of Sessions is widely viewed as a possible a
  
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• Superstar crooner Michael Bublé to kick off cross-Canada tour in Vancouver next April

  08-11-2018 20:28 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian crooner Michael Bublé shown on stage at the Juno Awards in Vancouver, Sunday, March, 25, 2018.
  Superstar crooner Michael Bublé will kick off a cross-Canada tour with a concert in his hometown on April 12 at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.
  The “Don’t Believe the Rumors” tour will hit 11 cities, including Toronto on July 26, and end in Quebec City on August 3.
  Grammy award-winning Bublé returned to the stage this past August after a lengthy absence,
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Deputy Director, Finance. Click here to apply. ow.ly/MUrg30my9wf #NorthVan

  08-11-2018 20:04 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Deputy Director, Finance. Click here to apply. ow.ly/MUrg30my9wf#NorthVan
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of Nov. 3

  08-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Reckoning, a novel by John Grisham.
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Reckoning — John Grisham
  2. Every Breath — Nicholas Sparks
  3. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven — Mitch Albom
  4. Ambush — Patterson/Born
  5. Holy Ghost — John Sanford
  6. A Spark of Light — Jodi Picoult
  7. Unsheltered — Barbara Kingsolver
  8. Vince Flynn: Red War — Kyle Mills
  9. Alaskan Holiday — Debbie Macomber
  10. Winter in Paradise — Elin Hilderbrand
   
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• Home sales across B.C. to bounce back next year, claims forecast

  08-11-2018 20:00
  
  “Strong economy, favourable demographics” will push market to recovery, asserts B.C. Real Estate Association
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week of November 3

  08-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography — Andrea Warner (Greystone Books).
  2. Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer — Eve Lazarus (Arsenal Pulp Press).
  3. Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love and Resilience — Women of the Comox Valley — edited by Lou Allison, with Jane Wilde (Caitlin Press).
  4. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  5. One Eagle Soa
  
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• B.C. to ban contract-flipping at seniors care homes

  08-11-2018 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C. is moving to ban the practice of contract flipping at seniors care homes and other health facilities, where employees are laid off and rehired at lower wages.
  Health Minister Adrian Dix introduced legislation Thursday that ends a practice that allows unionized workers to be fired en masse by contracted employers, and then rehired for their same jobs under weaker contracts for less pay.
  “To truly make a difference for patients and seniors in care, we need to focus on t
  
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• Buying typical Metro Vancouver home requires $100-163K income (INFOGRAPHIC)

  08-11-2018 19:25
  
  Gap between average income and income needed to buy a home ranges from $15K to $98K
  
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• Measles exposure at Surrey school means unvaccinated students must stay away

  08-11-2018 19:08 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY — Students at Fleetwood Park Secondary School in Surrey are being told to stay away from class if their measles immunization is not up to date.
  The warning comes from the Fraser Health authority in response to a possible measles exposure at the school between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2.
  A letter posted on the school’s website from the authority advises that students or staff who were born in 1970 or later will not be allowed to return to the school until Nov 26 if they have not been v
  
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• Vancouver police investigate pedestrian death in east Vancouver

  08-11-2018 18:58 via vancouversun.com
  An 83-year-old Vancouver woman was walking across East 30th Avenue near the east side of Main Street on Wednesday morning when she was hit by a black pick-up truck making a right-turn at a low speed.
  Paramedics took her to hospital where she died a short time later.
  This is the city’s sixth pedestrian fatality of 2018, according to a statement from Vancouver Police.
  The driver of the truck is cooperating with investigators. The VPD’s Collision Investigation Unit is asking anyone with
  
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• Superstar crooner Michael Buble to kick off cross-Canada tour in Vancouver next April

  08-11-2018 18:11 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian crooner Michael Buble shown on stage at the Juno Awards in Vancouver, Sunday, March, 25, 2018.
  Superstar crooner Michael Buble will kick off a cross-Canada tour with a concert in his hometown on April 12 at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.
  The “Don’t Believe the Rumors” tour will hit 11 cities, including Toronto on July 26, and end in Quebec City on August 3.
  Grammy award-winning Buble returned to the stage this past August after a lengthy absence, doing shows in Dublin
  
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• With a break in the rain ⛅, City crews have been busy cleaning up leaves. Please help us by clearing leaves & debr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-11-2018 18:08 via twitter.com
  With a break in the rain ⛅, City crews have been busy cleaning up leaves.Please help us by clearing leaves & debr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A tour of the Millionaire Lottery’s Grand Prize Vancouver penthouse (PHOTOS)

  08-11-2018 16:32
  
  Two-level False Creek condo with epic views is one of seven prize-home packages – and we were invited to take a peek
  
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• B.C. woman who assaulted boy, faces deportation can re-appeal her sentence

  08-11-2018 15:10 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Supreme Court has given a woman who was convicted of assaulting a four-year-old boy a chance to fight potential deportation.
  Feng Eng, who has permanent resident status but has not become a Canadian citizen since immigrating to Canada from China in 1992, pleaded guilty in June 2016 to one assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon.
  The offences related to an incident on July 1, 2015 when the boy and his grandmother were in the backyard of a B.C. residence where Eng, a mother
  
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• Export economist predicts China to surpass U.S. as B.C.'s top timber market

  08-11-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canada’s key export-support organization boldly predicts China will surpass the United States as British Columbia’s top market for forest products within 12 years, if long-term trends hold.
  “This is really about differential growth in the markets,” said Peter Hall, chief economist for Export Development Canada. “China has long and strong potential growth and the U.S. is a fully developed economy.”
  That projection appears to counter a short-term decline in lumb
  
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• Suspect in apparent hate crime incident on SkyTrain arrested by transit police

  08-11-2018 07:14 via vancouversun.com
  Transit police have arrested a suspect in an apparent hate-crime incident that occurred in late September. A video was released of him getting off the SkyTrain after allegedly assaulting and harassing two men who were on-board.
  Two young men got on the SkyTrain at Waterfront Station in Downtown Vancouver at about 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28, according to a statement from Metro Vancouver Transit Police.
  As they boarded, “another man kicked the foot of one of the young men and then left h
  
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• Nanaimo candidate wants Vancouver Island to separate from B.C.

  08-11-2018 04:09 via vancouversun.com
  The first thing the leader of the Vancouver Island Party promises to do if he wins the provincial byelection in Nanaimo in the new year is work toward making Vancouver Island its own province.
  Canada’s 11th province would be called VanIsle and as such would get its fair share of public money from Ottawa, said Robin Richardson, a Harvard-trained economist, minutes before officially launching his candidacy in Nanaimo on Wednesday.
  “We would be 10 times, not 10 per cent, 10 times better
  
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• Giant winter festival coming to Vancouver's Concord Pacific Place

  08-11-2018 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  A winter carnival, complete with an outdoor skating pond and 60-foot ferris wheel, is coming to Vancouver this holiday season.
  Described as a “large-scale interactive holiday experience,” the Aurora Winter Festival will set up in Concord Pacific Place, the old Expo site on the north shore of False Creek, from Nov. 23 to Dec. 30.The family-friendly festival will offer elements inspired by the North Pole including mystical characters, Santa’s workshop and carnival rides.
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• Nanaimo candidate wants Vancouver Island to separate

  08-11-2018 03:42 via vancouversun.com
  The first thing the leader of the Vancouver Island Party promises to do if he wins the provincial byelection in Nanaimo in the new year is work toward making Vancouver Island its own province.
  Canada’s 11th province would be called VanIsle and as such would get its fair share of public money from Ottawa, said Robin Richardson, a Harvard-trained economist, minutes before officially launching his candidacy in Nanaimo on Wednesday.
  “We would be 10 times, not 10 per cent, 10 times better
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: B.C. children's representative, First Nations kept in dark about teens at risk

  08-11-2018 03:19 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth and the First Nations community have been kept in the dark about a government social worker accused of defrauding possibly dozens of youths out of benefits and leaving them homeless and vulnerable.
  Despite her legislative mandate, Jennifer Charlesworth said she still does not know the scope of the alleged misconduct, how many young people in government care may be involved, or their current circumstances even though initial concerns apparently a
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018

  08-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  How disgusting is it that on the eve of Remembrance Day, Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan admits his department shortchanged veterans, and those who were cheated will not see restitution before 2020? Even more revolting is that almost half of these vets have passed away, and there is no rush to compensate those still living.
  O’Regan dismissed the situation by saying that the maximum paid would be a couple of thousand dollars. It is indeed the reality these days at Veterans Af
  
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• John Hansen: PR campaigners are social reformers seeking pricey 'European-style utopian welfare state'

  08-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The mantra of the proponents of proportional representation is that it is “fair” because the number of seats in the legislative assembly would be somewhat proportional to the votes garnered by the various parties. Does this mean better government, which, in the end ought to be the objective? It does not! Let’s look at some of the implications of going down the PR road, and let’s understand what is really driving the move for PR.
  It is a demonstrated fact that PR voting sy
  
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• NDP MLA Mable Elmore expensed $61 a day in food during $19 welfare challenge

  08-11-2018 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s parliamentary secretary for poverty reduction billed taxpayers $61 a day for meals during a welfare food challenge in which she’d promised poverty groups she’d live on only $19 a week.
  Mable Elmore, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Kensington, quickly announced Wednesday that she would repay $244 in meal allowances she claimed in November 2017 when she had voluntarily signed up to a welfare food challenge and agreed to try to live like others at the poverty lin
  
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• Incorrect data put Simon Fraser University in top spot in study

  08-11-2018 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  Data showing Simon Fraser University with the highest percentage of contract faculty in the country at almost 78 per cent is inaccurate, according to one of the two co-authors of a study on precarious employment in Canadian universities.
  Chandra Pasma said SFU provided incorrect information in response to a Freedom of Information request for information about contract faculty at the university. The data was published in a study Pasma was a co-author of called Contract U: Contract faculty appoint
  
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• B.C. premier squares off with Liberal leader in electoral reform debate Thursday

  08-11-2018 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The leaders of B.C.’s two main parties square off Thursday in a debate on electoral reform, which experts say arrives after decades of electoral dysfunction that produced lopsided victories and made losers out of popular-vote winners.
  Voters need to mail in their ballots by the Nov. 30 deadline to either support moving to a form of proportional representation for the next election or to keep the current first-past-the-post system. A majority of 50 per cent plus one is need
  
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• Pipes at VGH burst, sending dirty water into operating rooms while patients had surgery

  08-11-2018 02:16 via vancouversun.com
  A full complement of 18 to 20 operating rooms at Vancouver General Hospital will finally be back in use Thursday after a burst water sprinkler pipe caused unsterile water to leak into multiple operating rooms through lights and air vents while surgeries were taking place.
  Postmedia has learned that midway through long, complex cancer and other urgent surgeries on Oct. 30, medical teams noticed water dripping from a handful of operating room (OR) ceilings, potentially compromising the safety of p
  
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• B.C. woman who assaulted boy, faces deportation can reappeal her sentence

  08-11-2018 02:04 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Supreme Court has given a woman who was convicted of assaulting a four-year-old boy a chance to fight potential deportation.
  Feng Eng, who has permanent resident status but has not become a Canadian citizen since immigrating to Canada from China in 1992, pleaded guilty in June 2016 to one assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon.
  The offences related to an incident on July 1, 2015 when the boy and his grandmother were in the backyard of a B.C. residence where Eng, a mother
  
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• Burnaby man watched live video of crooks breaking into his condo

  08-11-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  Burnaby RCMP is asking for the public’s help identifying two men caught on video breaking into a Metrotown condominium.
  The incident happened on July 13 but police are now spreading photos of the suspects in hopes someone recognizes them.
  The owner of the condo wasn’t at home at the time of the break-in but he alerted police while he watched live video of the crime on his cellphone using a home surveillance app.
  A person working in the building, who was also made aware of the br
  
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• The City Remembers. November 11 @ Victoria Park Cenotaph, followed by Veteran Parade. Event info:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-11-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  The City Remembers. November 11 @ Victoria Park Cenotaph, followed by Veteran Parade. Event info:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New water buffalo milk gelato described as 'buttery and velvety'

  08-11-2018 01:10 via vancouversun.com
  Buffalo Lemon water buffalo gelato isn’t just the newest flavour to arrive at a gelato store in Kitsilano.
  It’s the only gelato of its kind in the country and described as part of a new trend in food.
  The draw is that it can be tolerated by people with an allergy to cow’s milk, said James Coleridge, the award-winning gelato master at Uno Gelato.
  “It’s richer, healthier and has a totally different protein that people with lactose intolerance can have,” Coleridg
  
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• Meet “Henry” – the new target for luxury condo builders

  08-11-2018 01:10
  
  "High earner not rich yet" 18- to 34-year-olds seen as the prime demographic to market high-end condos
  
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• Pressure mounts in Canada and U.S. to ban whale-watchers from southern resident orcas

  08-11-2018 01:04 via vancouversun.com
  Pressure to ban commercial whale-watchers from endangered southern resident killer whales is mounting in Canada and the U.S.
  Five Canadian conservation groups petitioned the Government of Canada in January to ban commercial vessels from pursuing the whales that make their summer feeding grounds in the waters off Washington state and B.C.
  Now, a task force created by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has recommended a three- to five-year moratorium on commercial and recreational whale-watching on the so
  
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• Vancouver condos’ price-per-square-foot survey sparks realtors debate

  08-11-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver condo prices continue to be the highest in Canada despite decreases over the last year, according to a nationwide study by realtor Century 21.
  That’s not surprising, but the price-per-square-foot calculations Century 21 cited in its press release Wednesday sit higher than what some other realtors are starting to discuss in a fast-changing market.
  Century 21’s annual price-per-square-foot survey pegs downtown Vancouver condos as some of the most expensive properties in the c
  
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• Transit police seek help in identifying suspect in SkyTrain hate crime

  08-11-2018 00:16 via vancouversun.com
  Transit police are asking for help in identifying the suspect in an apparent hate-crime incident and have released a video of him getting off the SkyTrain after allegedly assaulting and harassing two men who were on-board.
  Two young men got on the SkyTrain at Waterfront Station in Downtown Vancouver at about 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28, according to a statement from Metro Vancouver Transit Police.
  As they boarded, “another man kicked the foot of one of the young men and then left his se
  
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• NPA Coun. Hardwick wants Vancouver city council to reconsider duplex bylaw

  08-11-2018 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  New city councillor Colleen Hardwick of the NPA has put forth a motion to reconsider the recently passed bylaw allowing duplexes in most of Vancouver’s single-family neighbourhoods by returning the discussion to a public hearing.
  The bylaw was approved in a majority vote with support from former Mayor Gregor Robertson and five of his Vision Vancouver councillors just before leaving their positions at City Hall.
  Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr and NPA Coun. Melissa DeGenova, who are part of
  
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