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• Neighbours of scofflaw North Vancouver hostel operator claim she's still hosting guests - Globalnews.ca

  12-11-2018 23:55
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  Neighbours of scofflaw North Vancouver hostel operator claim she's still hosting guests
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  WATCH: Barely a month after a judge found a North Vancouver townhouse owner in contempt of court for renting out her unit as a hostel, neighbours say she's at it again. John Hua reports. X. - A A +. Listen. Neighbours claim the illegal Oasis House ...
  
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• Academy Award winning team's new film dedicated to doctors and nurses at Vancouver General Hospital

  12-11-2018 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  The film that Oscar-winning filmmaker Alison Snowden was working on when she nearly died last year has been completed and is winning awards around the world at animation film festivals.
  The animated short film is dedicated to the Vancouver General Hospital medical professionals who saved her life. In a few months, Snowden and her husband, David Fine – her creative partner in filmmaking will learn if Animal Behaviour, a humorous film about a disparate group of animals in psychotherapy group
  
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• Comic book legend Stan Lee had a Vancouver connection

  12-11-2018 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  Stan Lee, the 95-year-old creative genius behind Marvel Comics characters Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Black Panthers, died Monday.
  The Associated Press reported the 95-year-old Lee was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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  In his later years, Lee became a frequent visitor to Vancouver, where many of the big-screen adaptations of his super hero
  
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• B.C. natural gas sector faces challenges in stepping up electrification to reduce emissions

  12-11-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  The electrification of the upstream natural gas sector in northeast B.C. could open up a significant path for the province to meet its aggressive carbon reduction targets in the next decade and potentially allow for industry expansion.
  But it’s not an easy path — and one where there are challenges to widespread electrification, a switch from using natural gas to produce power, according to industry supporters and critics alike.
  B.C.’s new greenhouse gas-emission target calls fo
  
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• Parents needed: About 1,000 kids await full-time homes, being part of a family

  12-11-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking at the medical records of little Howie, you wouldn’t fault the Destobels from turning around and not adopting the seven-month-old baby. There were all sorts of warning signs of potential health issues, of things that could go wrong down the road because of his birth mother’s substance abuse.
  “Our fears evaporated as soon as we saw him,” Susanne Destobel said of her now 3-1/2-year-old son, whom she and her husband Shane call their Little Engineer because he’s
  
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• Theatre review: Refugee women storm the border — a 2,500-year-old story

  12-11-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  The Suppliant Women
  When: To Dec. 2
  Where: Jericho Arts Centre
  Tickets and Info: $22, $28; at unitedplayers.com
  And now for something completely different. A group of women fleeing male aggression look for refuge across a foreign border.
  Although this sounds like a current news story, Aeschylus wrote and staged The Suppliant Women nearly 2,500 years ago. It hasn’t been quite that long since a classical Greek play was performed in Vancouver outside a university, but it’s been a while.
  
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• Milkshake Murder: Daughter opens up five decades after mom's death

  12-11-2018 20:09 via vancouversun.com
  Fifty-some years of holding it inside.
  A half-century of not knowing the whole truth about who you are, of bottling up the horror your father inflicted on your mother, the horror he inflicted on you.
  Jeannine Castellani had had enough, she needed the world to know, she needed to know herself.
  She needed peace.
  Her story, and the sensationalism that surrounds it, has just been published by Vancouver writer Eve Lazarus as Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a C
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland: Nov. 16-22: The Art of Astonishment, Eastside Culture Crawl and more

  12-11-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  The Art of Astonishment and Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island
  When: Nov. 17, 1 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver International Film Festival and Centre, 1181 Seymour St.
  Tickets and info: viff.org
  A very cool double-bill looking back at some of the greats of earlier Hollywood special effects. Join film scholar Michael van den Bos discussing classic fx sequences from pre-digital days! Yes, they really did exist. Then follow up the documentary portion with director Cy Enfield’s 1961 adaptation of Ju
  
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• Facebook is down … it's not just you

  12-11-2018 19:10 via vancouversun.com
  Millions of Facebook users were unable to sign-in to their accounts Monday morning.
  The social media giant, the third most popular website in the world with 2.27 billion monthly active users, has been experiencing problems since 9:52 a.m. PST.
  According to downdetector.com, which detects and documents technology fails, Facebook’s outage is mostly affecting users in North America, South America and parts of Western Europe.
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• Murder charged laid in death of Port Coquitlam man

  12-11-2018 18:53 via vancouversun.com
  A Saskatchewan man faces a murder charge in connection with the Nov. 4 death of Jonathon Shingoose in Port Coquitlam.
  Coquitlam RCMP responded to a disturbance at a home in the 2300-block of Atkins Avenue at 5:44 a.m. Inside, police found Shingoose suffering from serious injuries. He later died after being transported to hospital by ambulance.
  On Friday, the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team arrested Elwood Terry Poorman. He’s since been charged with second degr
  
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• Vancouver company set to dive into the biggest underwater sinkhole in the world

  12-11-2018 16:30
  
  Aquatica Submarines is preparing for an epic, deep-sea dive into the bottom of Belize’s Blue Hole
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Enjoy a sunny Monday

  12-11-2018 16:24 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Nov. 12, 2018 – Environment Canada says we’re in for mainly sunny skies today, before things take a turn for the grey on Tuesday.
  Enjoy the sun while you can because the clouds will start rolling in overnight. Rain is expected to fall Tuesday morning.
  The soggy weather will stick around until late this week.
    
   Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Partly cloudy. Becoming sunny this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 10.
  Tuesday: Cloud
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018

  12-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Premier Screaming Lord Sutch
  I awoke the morning of the leaders’ electoral-reform debate, realizing that perhaps the authors of this debacle may have unintentionally provided years of mirth to brighten my retirement.
  Who can forget the whimsy that Mr. Peanut brought to the 1974 Vancouver mayoral election? Who does not chuckle at Britain’s Monster Raving Loony Party? And the way Amor De Cosmos pioneered absurdity in B.C. politics. Fun is in our DNA.
  I urge Premier John Horgan to forge
  
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• Frank Giustra: The United States needs leaders to bring together a divided America

  12-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  While the pipe bombs sent in recent days to vocal critics of the current U.S. administration failed to detonate, the act lodged itself firmly in the American psyche. Combined with devastating gun violence at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and a bar in California, these violent acts from within have left the U.S. even more divided, rattled and uneasy.
  Tuesday’s midterm elections — which saw the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representa
  
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• Neighbours of scofflaw North Vancouver hostel operator claim she’s still hosting guests - Global News

  12-11-2018 09:00
  Neighbours of scofflaw North Vancouver hostel operator claim she’s still hosting guests  Global NewsNeighbours claim the illegal Oasis House hostel is back in business even though a judge found the owner in contempt of court for using her townhouse for ...
  
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• Detailed election results show Vancouver's north-south political divide - Vancouver Sun

  12-11-2018 09:00
  Detailed election results show Vancouver's north-south political divide  Vancouver Sun"The big take-away is this shift away from the traditional east-west divide that we would have seen 10 years ago more prominently ... Now we're seeing a ...
  
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• Drs. Guylène Thériault and Wendy Levinson: Here's some good advice for cold and flu season

  12-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cold and flu season for many Canadians means getting ready to have their lives and routines thrown off by painful and annoying symptoms. This can mean days off work or school dealing with sore throats, nasal congestion and fever. For parents, it can be challenging to try to comfort young kids with fever, coughing or ear pain.
  As doctors, we know that both doctors and patients would love a quick fix — a magic bullet to deal with these symptoms. Patients want to get their lives back to norma
  
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• Douglas Todd: Five empirical reasons to lean to pro-rep

  12-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Maybe academics aren’t collectively the sexiest bunch. And it’s true that policy wonks can’t compete with movie or sports stars for the spotlight. Nevertheless, opinion polls consistently show that the public places some trust in professors.
  So why are scholars’ studies largely ignored in B.C.’s referendum over proportional representation?
  Researchers are often going through data to compare nations that use some form of proportional representation to those that use
  
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• B.C. gangsters busted in Winnipeg have long histories with police

  12-11-2018 02:18 via vancouversun.com
  Two B.C. man — one convicted in a high-profile 1982 slaying and the other as Independent Soldier gangster — have been charged in a major Winnipeg police investigation into a drug trafficking organization.
  Allan Ronald Rodney, 70, was convicted of manslaughter in the 1982 death of Sharon Bollivar, the wife of a supermarket manager kidnapped for ransom in Kitsilano and later shot to death. Mohammad Shakil Khan, 39, is an IS member who joined the Wolfpack gang alliance after it formed i
  
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• At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Armistice of Compiègne's 100th anniversary solemnly observed

  12-11-2018 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  Soldiers from Canada’s most recent war gathered with other veterans to remember the signing, 100 years ago, of the Armistice that ended the First World War on Sunday for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Grandview Park cenotaph on Commercial Drive.
  “The First World War was called the Great War for a reason,” mater of ceremonies Gerry Vowles said. “The horrors of that conflict had never been seen before.
  “With the war finally over, it was hoped a war of that s
  
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• Victoria naturopath who treated child with rabies-infected saliva surrenders licence

  12-11-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A naturopath who controversially used rabies-infected saliva to treat a child has surrendered her licence to the College of Naturopathic Physicians of B.C. However, Anke Zimmermann will continue to work as an unregulated homeopath.
  The college investigated whether Zimmermann “met the standard of care in her treatment of the young boy with lyssinum,” Howard Greenstein, the college’s registrar and CEO, said in a statement.
  The college also conducted an investigat
  
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