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• Elections B.C. monitoring Canada Post dispute, no decision on extension of voting referendum

  21-11-2018 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  Elections B.C. is monitoring Canada Post job action daily but has made no decision on whether the province’s electoral reform referendum needs to be extended.
  Canada Post is dealing with a fifth week of rotating strikes by thousands of unionized workers as B.C. is in the midst of a mail-in referendum that asks voters whether they want to change to a proportional voting system or stick with first-past-the-post.
  On Wednesday, the federal government gave notice that they’re pr
  
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• Plenty of 🌧️☔️ in the forecast. How are the storm drains around your place looking? If you see a clogged drain, ple… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  Plenty of 🌧️☔️ in the forecast. How are the storm drains around your place looking? If you see a clogged drain, ple… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Have you seen this yet? It's a flyover video from @TranBC showing how you'll be able to drive from the Seymour area… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 23:15 via twitter.com
  Have you seen this yet? It's a flyover video from @TranBC showing how you'll be able to drive from the Seymour area… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Townhouse that houses controversial North Vancouver hostel appears to be up for sale - Globalnews.ca

  21-11-2018 23:02
  Globalnews.ca
  Townhouse that houses controversial North Vancouver hostel appears to be up for sale
  Globalnews.ca
  The infamous Oasis House Hostel in North Vancouver has another listing online. However, this time, it's not for short-term rentals. It seems owner Emily Yu is putting her townhouse up for sale. READ MORE: Neighbours of scofflaw North Vancouver hostel ...
  
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• Latest test of B.C.-wide emergency text alerts to take place Wednesday

  21-11-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  The latest test of a B.C.-wide emergency alert system will take place at 1:55 p.m. PST on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
  The national Alert Ready system was launched earlier this year. The system allows for broadcasts of emergency information about natural disasters and major emergencies through radio and television broadcasts, social media feeds and text messages to smartphones.
  British Columbians should be prepared for compatible smartphones, radios and TVs to chime with alerts on Nov. 28, when the lates
  
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• Police, search and rescue looking for missing New Westminster man

  21-11-2018 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  New Westminster Police and Coquitlam Search and Rescue are searching for Cameron Whyte, a 47-year-old New Westminster man who has been missing since Tuesday night.
  Police say Whyte left his home in the 500 block of Amess Street at 7:30 p.m. without his cell phone, wallet, keys, and vehicle. He has not been seen or heard from since.
  Whyte, an outdoors enthusiast, regularly walks the hiking trail north of Hume Park near the Brunette River.Police say he has previously gone out for an overnight
  
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• B.C. driver takes heavy hit to wallet after fast Alberta trip

  21-11-2018 22:40 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. woman who was caught driving 215 km/h on a northern Alberta highway has been given the maximum fine for speeding that any provincial court in Alberta can hand down.
  RCMP say Samantha Bookey, who is 30 and a resident of Aldergrove in the Lower Mainland, was ordered to pay $2,300 by a justice of the peace in Boyle provincial court in Alberta on Tuesday.
  Court heard Bookey was northbound in her Acura TL on Highway 63 on Aug. 14, 2017, when police radar tagged her going 105 km/h over the lega
  
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• B.C. driving up Canada's homicide rate

  21-11-2018 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  Canada hit its highest murder rate in almost a decade in 2017, driven by a significant increase in gun- and gang-related homicides in B.C. and Quebec.
  That’s according to the latest Statistics Canada data, which show that the firearm-related homicide rate increased 18 per cent last year from 2016, the highest rate since 1992.
  Two provinces drove the national increase: B.C. with 118 homicide victims, up 30 from 2016; and Quebec, which reported&nb
  
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• October was busiest month ever on transit in Metro Vancouver

  21-11-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  If you noticed more people riding the bus or SkyTrain last month, you were correct.
  October was the busiest month in TransLink history with more 39.65 million boardings, which smashed the previous record of 39.2 million boardings set in February 2010, when Vancouver was hosting the Winter Olympics.
  Related
  TransLink Mayors' Council votes to suspend Surrey light rail, start SkyTrain planningMost Metro Vancouver residents support SkyTrain to UBC, LRT in Surrey: pollVancouver council cand
  
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• You know recycling your food scraps is the right thing to do. Get #GreenBin tips for apartments & condos:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  You know recycling your food scraps is the right thing to do. Get #GreenBin tips for apartments & condos:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Coordinator - Community Services. Click here to apply. ow.ly/AdQN30mHTEc #NorthVan

  21-11-2018 21:12 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Coordinator - Community Services. Click here to apply. ow.ly/AdQN30mHTEc #NorthVan
  
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• This Saturday, we're removing invasive ivy from Wikenden Park, and we could use some company (and a little help)! V… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 20:51 via twitter.com
  This Saturday, we're removing invasive ivy from Wikenden Park, and we could use some company (and a little help)! V… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Sobeys, Loblaws pull romaine lettuce from shelves across Canada

  21-11-2018 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  The Sobeys and Loblaws grocery chains are pulling romaine lettuce off the shelves at all their stores across Canada in response to a E. Coli outbreak in the Ontario, Quebec and parts of the U.S.
  The Public Health Agency of Canada issued an public health notice Tuesday advising only individuals in Ontario and Quebec to avoid eating romaine lettuce and salad mixes containing romaine lettuce. The warning did not extend beyond those two provinces.
  “Currently, there is no evidence to sugge
  
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• Side Dishes

  21-11-2018 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  Stuffed mushrooms and memories
  To some of you, mushrooms stuffed with crab, shrimp and cream cheese might not resonate, but to all those who’ve kept The Teahouse going strong for 40 years, it’s emblematic of a birthday, a Valentine’s, marriage proposal, graduation, or a first date. The Teahouse opened in 1978 and to celebrate surpassing most restaurant life expectancies, it’s offering a special three-course prix fixe menu ($40) until Dec. 10. It’s a blast from the p
  
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• No answers yet about two dead whales found on B.C. coast

  21-11-2018 20:05 via vancouversun.com
  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says necropsies have now been completed on two whales found dead last week on separate beaches on B.C.’s coast.
  However, the reports are still being prepared and details of how they died have not yet been released.
  DFO spokesperson Janine Malikian says necropsies on the orca whale found on Nootka Island last Wednesday and the humpback whale found on Friday near the Tsawwassen ferry terminal causeway were completed Friday night.
  They were performed by
  
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• VISAFF promises a diverse collection of films from Bollywood and beyond

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival
  Nov. 22-25 | Various venues
  Tickets and info: visaff.caIf you love films and want to enjoy a taste of Bollywood glitz and glamour, the Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival (VISAFF) is your destination this weekend.
  VISAFF opens on Nov. 22 at Surrey City Hall with all the hype of a red carpet fanfare — cocktails, inspired conversations and a screening of the award-winning film Mehsampur. The film tells the story of a d
  
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• Vancouver comic's crash and burn life is focus of must-see WFF documentary

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story
  When: Nov. 29, 5:30 p.m., Village 8 Cinemas and Nov. 30, noon, Lil’wat Cultural Centre
  Tickets and info: Whistler Film Festival
  For a great example of karma you need look no further than Richard Lett.
  For years the Vancouver comic, fuelled by booze and drugs, didn’t just burn bridges he poured gas on the rivers that ran below and lit them on fire too.
  By the late 2000s he was spiralling out of control and found himself about as welcome at a
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland: Nov. 23 — 29: Museum of Anthropology, Richmond Dumpling Trail, more

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Marking the Infinite
  When: until March 31
  Where: Museum of Anthropology, UBC
  Tickets and info: moa.ubc.ca
  The paintings of the Australian Aboriginal artists on display in this milestone all-female exhibit — the first ever at MOA — visit subjects from the starry skies to grains of sand. Drawing upon one of the Earth’s oldest artistic traditions, these works represent an incredible depth of traditional Indigenous understanding and philosophy. But they are contemporary, current an
  
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• Restaurant review: Tacofino takes it up a tasty touch at new west of Main location

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tacofino Ocho
  8 East Fifth Ave., Vancouver
  604-709-0015; [email protected]
  Open daily for lunch and dinner.Three years ago, I talked to chef Stefan Hartmann about his study in carrots — braised, pureed, foamed and accented with goat cheese and candied pecans and about onsen eggs with watercress jelly, Jerusalem artichoke powder, Parma ham and more foam — that were part of his six-course tasting menu at Bauhaus restaurant as opening chef.
  “And then a gentle goodbye with a collag
  
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• No longer just an excuse to drink wine, Nice Horse gets real

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Nice Horse (opening for The Washboard Union)
  When: Nov. 29 at 8:30 p.m.
  Where: Commodore Ballroom
  Tickets: $29.50
  Originally meant as a fun project between four friends, Nice Horse has turned into a real band.
  “We were all just looking for something that was fun,” said drummer Krista Wodelet. “We thought, ‘Let’s form a band, drink some wine and play some loose gigs.’”
  Wodelet and the rest of the group come from disparate musical backgrounds. Along with N
  
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• Bach Collegium Japan to present a program of Vivaldi, Handel and J.S. Bach

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bach Collegium Japan
  When: Dec. 9, 3 p.m.
  Where: Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
  Tickets: from $18 chancentre.com
  It has been a particularly fruitful fall for Vancouver Early Music, but before its annual holiday extravaganza in late December, there’s another extraordinary program planned in the first ever visit of the celebrated Bach Collegium Japan, in a program of Vivaldi, Handel, and, of course, J.S. Bach.
  Most of us know that there is profound int
  
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• 5 Things to know about love by Michael Bublé

  21-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Michael Bublé
  love | Reprise
  Beloved Burnaby crooner Michael Bublé has had more on his mind the past two years than merely making music and his latest album reflects that. But where the very serious challenges the crooner and his family have faced of late might be expected to produce some grit, he might be at his very honey sweetest here.
  He’s working familiar territory on all 11 tracks and really not taking any of the chances he did on 2016s Nobody But Me. The album is a col
  
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• Missing your gold ring with diamond? It was turn into police after being found on a driveway in North Vancouver. If… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 19:34 via twitter.com
  Missing your gold ring with diamond? It was turn into police after being found on a driveway in North Vancouver. If… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Huge five-tower Coquitlam development raises traffic fears

  21-11-2018 19:24
  
  Project going to public hearing, but Coquitlam council worried about effect 1,519-unit development will have on already congested area
  
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• Squamish mixed-used project to included 27 purpose-built rental homes

  21-11-2018 19:11
  
  Commercial-residential building slated for Government Road will also have more than 13,000 square feet of office space
  
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• Vacancy control could be ‘death knell’ for 12,000 new rental units: survey

  21-11-2018 18:30
  
  Rental developers say linking rent control to units rather than tenants would put most new projects at risk and put existing homes and buildings into disrepair
  
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• Special prosecutor in B.C. legislature case urges patience

  21-11-2018 18:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – A special prosecutor assigned to oversee a police investigation into senior management at the B.C. legislature is urging public patience for the process to play out.
  Lawyer David Butcher, who is one of two special prosecutors overseeing the RCMP probe, said he could offer little public explanation as to why the two senior-most officials at the legislature – clerk Craig James and sergeant at arms Gary Lenz – were marched out of the building by police amid an RCMP prob
  
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• Residential Tenancy Branch’s much-needed resource injection reduces wait times

  21-11-2018 18:18
  
  More staff and online dispute resolution portal are dramatically reducing wait times for help, announces B.C. government
  
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• Do some good in your 'hood. Help #CityParkStewards give Mosquito Creek Park some TLC Nov 24th 9-noon rain or shine.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Do some good in your 'hood. Help #CityParkStewards give Mosquito Creek Park some TLC Nov 24th 9-noon rain or shine.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Rescue in the works for B.C. sea lion with thick plastic band around its neck

  21-11-2018 17:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Members of British Columbia’s marine mammal network are mobilizing to help a sea lion with a plastic packing band wrapped tightly around its neck.
  The creature was spotted last week in the Cowichan Bay area of southeastern Vancouver Island, where hundreds of sea lions have gathered to feed on spawning salmon.
  Fisheries and Oceans Canada marine mammal co-ordinator Paul Cottrell says the team was notified several days ago and monitored the sea lion to ensure it will stay in
  
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• Best places to play golf in Scotland: A five-day trip down the 'Golf Coast'

  21-11-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  This is the scene. It’s a sunny mid-May morning at Edinburgh airport, and after loading golf clubs and luggage into our hire car, we drive 15 miles east to Musselburgh Links, the oldest continuously played golf course in the world. This is the start of a five-day journey along Scotland’s Golf Coast, playing a half-dozen selection of the 22 top quality golf courses stretching through 30 miles of stunning East Lothian coastline, golden beaches and rolling countryside.
  Courses such as M
  
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• Daily poll: The latest poll shows dead heat in B.C. electoral referendum. Which option are you voting for?

  21-11-2018 16:51 via vancouversun.com
  With just days left to get a ballot in the mail for B.C.’s electoral referendum, a Research Co. poll shows a dead heat between those in favour and opposed to proportional representation.
  Read Gordon Hoekstra’s story here.
  Both sides are urging voters to mail a ballot no later than this week. Have you made up your mind which side to vote for? What did you choose? With the latest official poll showing an even split, let’s see how people vote on our more unscientific daily poll. L
  
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• Townhouse that houses controversial North Vancouver hostel appears to be up for sale - Global News

  21-11-2018 09:00
  Townhouse that houses controversial North Vancouver hostel appears to be up for sale  Global NewsThe infamous Oasis House Hostel in North Vancouver has another listing online.
  
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• Koi-munching otter avoids trap in Vancouver Chinese garden - North Island Gazette

  21-11-2018 09:00
  Koi-munching otter avoids trap in Vancouver Chinese garden  North Island GazetteThe wandering river otter with a taste for decorative and valuable koi carp has managed to elude a trap set Tuesday in hopes of removing it from a classical ...
  
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• Goodbye Vancouver: Canada’s great housing boom is shifting north thanks to LNG - Financial Post

  21-11-2018 09:00
  Goodbye Vancouver: Canada’s great housing boom is shifting north thanks to LNG  Financial PostForget Vancouver. British Columbia's housing boom is set to shift to the province's rugged north as Royal Dutch Shell Plc's US$31 billion liquefied natural gas ...
  
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• Please refrain from enjoying legal weed at the Vancouver Santa Claus parade

  21-11-2018 06:15 via vancouversun.com
  Santa Claus is no stranger to a hazy ride. After all, one of his reindeer has a glowing nose that, according to song, cuts right through a dense fog.
  Even still, the organizers of the Vancouver Santa Claus parade are asking parade-goers to refrain from smoking cannabis at the event.
  Enjoying recreational cannabis is not as naughty as it once was, of course. (In fact, some would say it’s downright nice.) But while it may be legal to smoke up at this year’s Santa Claus parade, the orga
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Police work to head off more violence after Wilson murder

  21-11-2018 04:42 via vancouversun.com
  Police are working hard to solve the Chad Wilson and head off any possible retaliation. They even appealed to his fellow Hells Angels to come forward and cooperate with the investigation.
  Here’s my follow up story:Police brace for fallout after Hells Angels murder in
  Maple Ridge
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: November 20, 2018Law enforcement agencies across the region are bracing for any potential fallout after a prominent Hells Angel was found murdered in Maple Ridge on the weekend.
  Cpl. Frank Jang o
  
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• Police brace for fallout after Hells Angels murder in Maple Ridge

  21-11-2018 03:17 via vancouversun.com
  Law enforcement agencies across the region are bracing for any potential fallout after a prominent Hells Angel was found murdered in Maple Ridge on the weekend.
  Cpl. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said his agency is coordinating with other gang enforcement teams in the Lower Mainland after the slaying of Chad John Wilson, a full-patch member of the Hardside Hells Angels.
  “IHIT will be engaging with our numerous partners from the gang enforcement units throughout t
  
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• Dan Fumano: Kennedy Stewart's promise of regular meetings with the press a big change at city hall

  21-11-2018 03:12 via vancouversun.com
  Kennedy Stewart has said he wants to do things differently around city hall. And when Vancouver’s new mayor provided an update Tuesday on the busy early days of his administration, he presented it in a different way.
  Tuesday was slated as the first of a series of regularly scheduled media briefings from the new mayor, as Stewart provided an update on last week’s packed agenda including council business, meetings with senior governments, and community events, before opening it up to r
  
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• Palmer: Don't expect answers soon from RCMP about legislature suspensions

  21-11-2018 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As the clock ran out on question period Tuesday morning, several members of the legislative chamber signalled reporters in the gallery above to stick around because something was up.
  Something big.
  Minutes later, NDP House leader Mike Farnworth interrupted the regular proceedings to move a bombshell motion.
  “That Mr. Craig James, clerk of the legislative assembly, and Mr. Gary Lenz, sergeant at arms, are placed on administrative leave with pay and benefits, effective
  
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• Ian Tootill: Political interference in setting speed limits shouldn't happen

  21-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Transportation Minister Claire Trevena set back motorists when she announced speed-limit rollbacks on nearly half of the 33 highway segments where speed limits were raised in 2014. Motorists, who have been travelling at safe and legal speeds following the 2014 Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review, will now encounter more police enforcement for politically set limits. This means more wasted police resources devoted to minor-offence violators, who aren’t the root problem on affected hi
  
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• Jury shown video of police recovery of remains in case of Merritt girl's murder

  21-11-2018 02:52 via vancouversun.com
  A jury has been shown a video of the police recovery of remains on a remote mountain near Merritt in 1995 that the Crown asserts were those of a murdered girl.
  Retired RCMP officer Steve Gehl told a B.C. Supreme Court jury that he was on his day off on June 2, 1995, when he got the call to join other officers investigating the discovery of the remains.
  Court has heard that 12-year-old Monica Jack went missing in May 1978 while riding her bicycle along Nicola Lake near Merritt.
  Garry Taylor Handl
  
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• River otter eating all the koi at Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden

  21-11-2018 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  A coy river otter that had weaseled its way into Vancouver’s walled Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden to feed on fish — koi to be specific — evaded park board trappers Tuesday and left officials guessing as to how it got inside.
  Staff at the garden first spotted the otter in its jade green pond while they toured visitors around the site Saturday. They learned it had been feeding on koi when they found piles of rose petal-shaped fish scales on the pond’s bank. And w
  
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• Jury shown video of RCMP recovery of remains in case of girl's murde

  21-11-2018 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  A jury has been shown a video of the police recovery of remains on a remote mountain near Merritt in 1995 that the Crown asserts were those of a murdered girl.
  Retired RCMP officer Steve Gehl told a B.C. Supreme Court jury that he was on his day off on June 2, 1995, when he got the call to join other officers investigating the discovery of the remains.
  Court has heard that 12-year-old Monica Jack went missing in May 1978 while riding her bicycle along Nicola Lake near Merritt.
  Garry Taylor Handl
  
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• Senior leadership at B.C. legislature put on administrative leave

  21-11-2018 02:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – The senior leadership of B.C.’s legislature was suspended Tuesday in an unprecedented shakeup within the legislative assembly that allegedly involves a police investigation and special prosecutor.
  NDP House Leader Mike Farnworth announced that clerk of the legislature Craig James and sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz were immediately being placed on administrative leave and being escorted out of the building.
  James is effectively the CEO of the legislature, in charge of staff, ML
  
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• Dead heat in B.C. referendum on proportional representation: poll

  21-11-2018 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  With just days left to get a ballot in the mail for B.C.’s electoral referendum, a Research Co. poll shows a dead heat between those in favour and opposed to proportional representation.
  The deadline to have ballots into Elections B.C. is Nov. 30, but the two campaigns are urging voters to mail a ballot no later than this week. Voters also have an option to fill out or drop off completed ballots at referendum centres throughout B.C. but those centres have day-time hours only.
  The latest po
  
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• Multiple vials of naloxone now required to resuscitate Metro Vancouver opioid users

  21-11-2018 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  Emergency first responders, hospital physicians and others trying to revive overdosed drug users are now having to give several doses of naloxone to counteract increasingly toxic concoctions including heroin, morphine, and fentanyl, B.C.’s top public health official says.
  Chief provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said even the free, Take Home Naloxone program kits are now being distributed with three vials since toxic street drugs require more intense antidotes — as
  
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• B.C.'s Class 4 licence requirement could deter ride-hailing drivers

  21-11-2018 01:37 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s proposed licence requirement for ride-hailing drivers will be among the most restrictive in the country, and could deter people from driving for companies like Uber and Lyft.
  On Monday, the provincial government introduced legislation to allow ride hailing companies to operate in B.C., likely by late next year.
  It also said all ride-hailing and taxi drivers will be required to have a Class 4 restricted licence instead of the standard Class 5 licence that most B.C. drivers have, and
  
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• The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver on Wednesday, Nov. 21

  21-11-2018 01:34 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Wednesday, Nov. 21.Vancouver Christmas Market
  The delightful Vancouver Christmas Market returns to Jack Poole Plaza for the holiday season, as a German Christmas village springs up around the Olympic torch. Beginning Wednesday and running through Christmas Eve, the Christmas Market promises more than 80 stands packed with snacks and sweets, seasonally appropriate gift ideas, and all manner of festive decor. Go for the
  
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• Hey families! Here's Mrs. Claus 🎅 with some tidings about the City Christmas Festival Dec 1st 4-7pm @ the Shipyards… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Hey families! Here's Mrs. Claus 🎅 with some tidings about the City Christmas Festival Dec 1st 4-7pm @ the Shipyards… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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