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• Homicide detectives investigate fatal crash in Burnaby

  17-11-2018 22:20 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate a fatal crash in Burnaby on Friday night.
  The Barnet Highway remained closed in both directions Saturday near Texaco Drive, as Burnaby RCMP and members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team tried to figure out what happened.
  Shortly before 10 p.m., the Burnaby RCMP received a report of a single motor vehicle rollover in the  8000-block of Barnet Highway.
  When they arrived, they found an unconscious man in the vehicle and a woman
  
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• We know what you really want to do on this sunny weekend. Rake leaves and clear your storm drains 🎉! You know the r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-11-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  We know what you really want to do on this sunny weekend. Rake leaves and clear your storm drains 🎉! You know the r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tsawwassen First Nation hold ceremony for dead humpback whale

  17-11-2018 20:41 via vancouversun.com
  Tsawwassen First Nation held a ceremony to honour a dead humpback whale that washed up on shore Friday.
  The whale, which appears to be juvenile, was towed away by the Coast Guard for a necropsy. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating.
  It is unclear whether the whale, which washed up not far from the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, was hit by a boat, or whether it died from an illness.
  Andrea Jacobs, executive council for the Tsawwassen First Nation, said about six members gather
  
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• Enbridge says it's increasing gas flows to 85 per cent in repaired B.C. pipeline

  17-11-2018 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — Enbridge Inc. says it has increased flow of natural gas through a segment of a pipeline that ruptured and burned near Prince George more than a month ago.
  The company says it will increase pressure to 85 per cent of its full capacity, up from 80 per cent, on a 91-centimetre pipeline following an amendment order from the National Energy Board.
  The federal regulator had ordered Calgary-based Enbridge to limit gas flows at 80 per cent pressure levels from the blast site.
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• Makeover: Gearing up for the holiday season

  17-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Mimi Shewchuk is gearing up for some upcoming holiday work parties and events. She wanted to find new ways to dress her body type that will minimize her bust and tummy area and make her feel confident, relevant and comfortable in her clothing.
  Mimi Shewchuk’s wardrobe consisted of trousers, baggy tops and flowy cardigans.
  Mimi’s wardrobe consisted of trousers, baggy tops and flowy cardigans. Her go-to colour palette is very neutral and “safe” and consists of black, grey,
  
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• Barnet Highway closed after fatal crash in Burnaby

  17-11-2018 18:21 via vancouversun.com
  The Barnet Highway is closed near Texaco Drive while Mounties investigate a fatal crash in Burnaby Friday night.
  Burnaby RCMP confirmed investigators were at the site early Saturday of a fatal crash on the Barnet Highway, but would not disclose any details about what happened. There are unconfirmed reports a woman a died and a man is in hospital.
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• Who's up for a Plant Pullooza? Join City Park Stewards November 24. We'll be removing invasive plants at Mosquito C… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-11-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Who's up for a Plant Pullooza? Join City Park Stewards November 24. We'll be removing invasive plants at Mosquito C… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver lawyer who prosecuted Khmer Rouge leaders welcomes genocide verdict

  17-11-2018 17:31 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — A Vancouver lawyer who helped prosecute two of the Khmer Rouge’s most senior surviving leaders is breathing a little easier after a tribunal this week found the two elderly Cambodian men guilty of genocide and other crimes.
  Dale Lysak says he has been waiting more than a year for the joint UN-Cambodian tribunal’s ruling against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, and that the verdict ensures some accountability for one of recent history’s worst atrocities.
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny, but chilly, weekend

  17-11-2018 17:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s a spectacular sunny weekend for Metro Vancouver. But with the clear skies comes some cooler weather. Environment Canada says expect sunny weather and a high of just 8 C on Saturday and Sunday, while the mercury will drop overnight to lows of 2 C, and 3 C, respectively. The sunny, cold weather continues into next week on Monday and Tuesday, before the clouds roll in and the rain returns on Wednesday.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Sunny. High 8 C. UV index
  
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• The Home Front: Lighting designers find their success in the shadows

  17-11-2018 14:58 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to lighting design, invisibility is the true measure of success, says Uli Petzold, founder and CEO of architectural lighting company Apure.
  “The most important thing for us is that the light itself completely disappears in the architecture,” says Petzold. “If you walk into a room and you see 50 light fixtures in the ceiling, and you have very beautiful architecture and interior design and the attention is drawn away from it because you have all these hot spots on
  
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• Mosaic adds to Burke Mountain with Victoria

  17-11-2018 14:32 via vancouversun.com
  Finding just the right home can be a very competitive pastime in Metro Vancouver’s multi-family housing market, with some people even camping out nights before sales begin at some projects.
  Amanda Hung and Gordon Misner and their three-year-old daughter, Madeleine, were ready to brave the cold in a tent for four days last month to be first in line when Mosaic launched sales for its new Burke Mountain development in Coquitlam. Luckily, they were spared that hassle at the last minute.
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• Sold (Bought): Two-bedroom home has served as vacation property

  17-11-2018 14:24 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1509 — 1500 Hornby St., Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 1,090 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,185,000
  Listed for: $1,298,000
  Sold for: $1,250,000
  Sold on: Aug. 23
  Days on market: 22
  Listing agent: Marilou Appleby at Dexter Realty
  Buyers agent: Elisabeth (Lisa) Chandler at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: 888 Beach sits at the foot of Hornby Street in Yaletown’s Beach District, directly across f
  
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• REAL SCOOP: IS member and convicted killer charged in Manitoba

  17-11-2018 08:30 via vancouversun.com
  It looks like this blog is up and running after nine days, so I will post a few stories I have written in recent days.
  The first is about the B.C. links to the Manitoba investigation into a trans-national drug ring.
  Here’s that story:B.C. gangsters busted in Winnipeg have long histories
  with police
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: November 11, 2018
  Insp. Max Waddell of the Winnipeg Police Service’s organized crime unit displays some of the illicit drugs, cash and other items seized as part of an i
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018

  17-11-2018 03:33 via vancouversun.com
  The voting referendum seems an expensive scam by a party that promised it would hold one but doesn’t really want to as proportional representation would cut more into their voter base than into that of their major opposition. The referendum is supported by a minor party that hopes a new system will improve its election prospects. The major party needs the minor party’s support to maintain its ruling majority in the house, so it has to go through with the referendu
  
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• Stewart Muir: B.C. has a role to play in lowering global greenhouse gas emissions

  17-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  A new analysis from veteran economist Philip Cross starts to peel back the economic, environmental, and social impacts of the two liquefied natural gas projects on the books for B.C. We don’t yet know enough about LNG Canada’s Kitimat project or Woodfibre LNG’s Squamish projects to quantify all the impacts, but what we can glean already should cause all British Columbians to take notice.
  Cross, a senior research fellow at Resource Works since we launched in 2014 and a 34-year v
  
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• Daphne Bramham: A year into #MeToo, it's time to dismantle the barriers to reporting sexual assault

  17-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The past year has been dominated by women standing up to sexual predators and outing them in social media with #MeToo #IBelieveHer and #TimesUp.
  The outpouring of outrage and the sheer volume of the complaints reflect the tragic reality that while our society may have good laws, they’re easy to ignore because sexual assault is a criminal offence rarely reported or prosecuted.
  Reporting of sexual assault did increase last year in Canada. Still, it remains the most under-reported crime in th
  
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• Alex Hemingway: Employer health-tax refinements good for public services, non-profits

  17-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  For the most part, the B.C. government’s refinements to the employer health tax are good.
  The tax replaces the deeply unfair medical services plan premiums. By eliminating MSP premiums and replacing them with a payroll tax on employers, B.C. is catching up with most of the rest of Canada.
  We at the CCPA have long argued that MSP premiums are B.C.’s least fair tax and should be scrapped and the revenue replaced by fairer taxes. That’s because whether you make $45,000 or $450,000
  
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• REAL SCOOP: IS member and convicted killer charged after Winnipeg bust

  17-11-2018 02:38 via vancouversun.com
  It looks like this blog is up and running after nine days, so I will post a few stories I have written in recent days.
  The first is about the B.C. links to the Manitoba investigation into a trans-national drug ring.
  Here’s that story:B.C. gangsters busted in Winnipeg have long histories
  with police
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: November 11, 2018
  Insp. Max Waddell of the Winnipeg Police Service’s organized crime unit displays some of the illicit drugs, cash and other items seized as part of an i
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Hayer murder unsolved after 20 years

  17-11-2018 02:16 via vancouversun.com
  In the history of Canada, there has only been one journalist assassinated for his reporting and that is the late Surrey publisher Tara Singh Hayer.
  Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Hayer’s murder on Nov. 18, 1998.
  I have written this feature, interviewing his family, a retired police officer and the New-York-based Committee to Protect Journalists about this case.
  While police say that Hayer’s death was linked to his reporting on the suspects in the 1985 Air India bombing, investi
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Wolf Pack launderer gets 2 years in US jail

  17-11-2018 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  Omid Mashinchi, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a major Vancouver Police trafficking investigation in August, has now been sentenced to two years in a U.S. jail.
  Here’s my update:Former B.C. realtor sentenced to 2 years for money
  launderingOmid Mashinchi had been leasing condos to B.C. gangsters. Now he’s going to jail for money laundering.
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: November 16, 2018
  A B.C. man connected to the Wolf Pack gang alliance has been sentenced to two years in a U.S. priso
  
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• Big congratulations to Mayor @LindaCBuchanan , now the new Vice Chair of @MetroVancouver Board. It’s a big deal, bi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-11-2018 01:39 via twitter.com
  Big congratulations to Mayor @LindaCBuchanan , now the new Vice Chair of @MetroVancouver Board. It’s a big deal, bi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• How are grade 6 and 7 Montroyal Elementary School students doing their part to reduce how much trash goes to the la… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-11-2018 01:27 via twitter.com
  How are grade 6 and 7 Montroyal Elementary School students doing their part to reduce how much trash goes to the la… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Elections B.C. says 18 per cent of electoral reform ballots returned

  17-11-2018 01:18 via vancouversun.com
  Elections B.C. says 18 per cent of ballots for the referendum on electoral reform had been cast as of Friday, however, the office has changed how it is counting them for its reporting.
  About 597,300 ballot packages have been returned to Elections B.C., but that number doesn’t include ballot packages which have been received by Canada Post but not yet arrived at its office, according to a news release.
  Since Oct. 22, British Columbians have been voting by mail-in ballot to either keep the c
  
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• Remember when #CivicPlaza was all decked out for Christmas... in Sept? The #HallmarkChristmas Movie airs Dec 1.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-11-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  Remember when #CivicPlaza was all decked out for Christmas... in Sept? The #HallmarkChristmas Movie airs Dec 1.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TransLink issues $400-million first green bond

  17-11-2018 00:54 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink issued its first green bond this week, giving investors the opportunity to put their money into sustainable transit projects.
  The $400-million green bond was the transit authority’s largest bond issue to date, and the largest municipally issued green bond in Canada.
  “TransLink is committed to a sustainable future, and we’re lining up all our actions to reflect that,” TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond said in a statement. “Our customers, our community and our inv
  
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• Penticton couple uses vacation to help California wildfire evacuees

  17-11-2018 00:38 via vancouversun.com
  CHICO, Calif. — A British Columbia couple’s getaway to northern California has turned into a mission to help people fleeing deadly and destructive wildfires.
  Destinee and Paul Klyne of Penticton had planned a peaceful holiday in Paradise, Calif., but flames destroyed their Airbnb and much of the community before their arrival. They decided to go ahead with the trip anyway, channelling their vacation funds into relief for exhausted evacuees.
  “The funds we had allocated for our f
  
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• Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal elected new Metro Vancouver board chair

  17-11-2018 00:37 via vancouversun.com
  Longtime Burnaby city councillor Sav Dhaliwal is the new head of the board of directors for Metro Vancouver.
  Members of the board, which is made up of 40 elected officials from 21 municipalities, Electoral Area A and Tsawwassen First Nation, met on Friday for the first time since last month’s civic elections.
  The board of directors makes decisions involving drinking water, waste-water treatment, solid waste, air quality, urban growth, regional parks and affordable housing. The 2019 budget
  
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• Bettman stickhandles around concussions to spot in hockey's famed hall

  17-11-2018 00:31 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Give credit where credit is due: The legal strategy commissioner Gary Bettman deployed around the concussion lawsuit filed by former players appears to have paid off for the NHL and its owners — and not so much for those who claimed the league did not do enough to protect them from brain injuries.Attorneys for the players are recommending acceptance of a $19-million settlement with the NHL, which translates into $22,000 per player not including $75,000 of medical cov
  
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• Former B.C. realtor sentenced to 2 years for money laundering

  17-11-2018 00:23 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man connected to the Wolf Pack gang alliance has been sentenced to two years in a U.S. prison after admitting to international money laundering.
  Omid Mashinchi, a former Vancouver realtor who was leasing high-end condos to Lower Mainland gangsters, pleaded guilty in July to moving cash across the border for Canadian drug gangs.
  On Wednesday, he was sentenced in a Boston courtroom to 24 months in jail and ordered to pay almost $30,000 US in fines and damages.
  U.S. District Court Judge Nath
  
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• From zero dollars to a million: BlissCo's first year plan in the cannabis business

  17-11-2018 00:15 via vancouversun.com
  Shawn McDougall moves around inside the vault with a blue bucket full of dried cannabis and pauses so each visitor can get a whiff of the aroma.
  This type of cannabis is called Shark Shock, says the production manager of BlissCo Cannabis, a cannabis grower and processor in Langley. “This is one of the strains that has a lot of value for us.”
  The company opened its 12,000-square-foot production facility on Oct. 30 for a media tour. BlissCo is set up in an unmarked unit in a sand-colou
  
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• Vancouver Island First Nation holds ceremony for dead baby killer whale

  17-11-2018 00:07 via vancouversun.com
  Hereditary chief Jerry Jack led a chant to release and dispatch the spirit of a baby killer whale found dead Wednesday on Nootka Island.
  Several dozen members of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation gathered in Gold River for the ceremony on Thursday to honour the “wolf of the sea,” or kakaw`in in the Nuu-chah-nulth language.
  “We wanted to do a ceremony to take care of this whale,” said Jack. “These animals are really important to us, so we did some chants
  
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