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• Future of suspended B.C. legislature staff remains in limbo

  27-11-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – A last-ditch effort for clarity over the suspension of the legislature’s highest-ranking officials failed to pass Tuesday and leaves the future of the staff in limbo.
  Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson tried to introduce a motion to have government review its Nov. 20 unanimous vote to suspend clerk Craig James and sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz. He’s argued MLAs were not given all the information by Speaker Darryl Plecas, and were unaware the speaker and his aide Alan Mulle
  
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• 🎅 Ho Ho Ho. The City knows how to host a Christmas Festival 🎄. Join us for tons of FREE family fun at The Shipyard… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-11-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  🎅 Ho Ho Ho. The City knows how to host a Christmas Festival🎄. Join us for tons of FREE family fun at The Shipyard… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Industrial strata market continues to climb

  27-11-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Greater Vancouver developers are building and planning for more strata industrial projects than ever before as the sales price for strata units in the region continues to climb.
  In the third quarter of this year, there were 13 industrial strata projects in the Greater Vancouver region planned and another 10 under construction, for a total of about 2.4 million square feet, according to JLL’s Industrial Strata Market Report.
  Since 2016, Metro Vancouver’s weighted average price per squa
  
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• Search for missing Edmonton man shifts to West Vancouver

  27-11-2018 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  West Vancouver police have joined the search for a missing Alberta man after his car was found abandoned near Lions Bay.
  Stuart Barclay, 40, was last seen leaving an Edmonton home on Nov. 20.
  Edmonton police have since determined Barclay attended a business in the Park Royal area of West Vancouver on Nov. 23.
  The next day, a car that Barclay was last seen travelling in — a white Chevrolet Equinox with Alberta plates — was recovered unoccupied on Highway 99 near Lions Bay.
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• Surrey man arrested for murder of 87-year-old Vancouver woman

  27-11-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey man has been arrested and is awaiting charges in connection with the murder of an 87-year-old Vancouver woman.
  Elizabeth Poulin was found dead in her east Vancouver apartment near Kingsway Avenue and Kerr Street on Saturday morning by a family member. Vancouver police classified her death as a homicide — the city’s 15th of 2018.
  On Monday, police arrested a 23-year-old man in Surrey. Police say the man’s identity can’t be released until charge
  
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• RCMP credit 'Const. Scarecrow' for slowing speeders in Coquitlam

  27-11-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  A life-size cut-out of a radar-gun-toting Mountie is being credited for slowing down lead-footed drivers in Coquitlam.
  Coquitlam RCMP say the bright-yellow-clad figure, dubbed “Const. Scarecrow,” has been a more effective deterrent than they anticipated since it was first deployed Sept. 18 for a two-month pilot project on local roads.
  “Perhaps the biggest surprise so far is that even after two weeks in one spot, people were still slowing down in the presence of Const. Scarecrow
  
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• Airport death of immigrant set off health change for B.C. RCMP officer, inquest hears

  27-11-2018 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  The family doctor of an RCMP officer who died by suicide says the Mountie had no thoughts of taking his own life in the 16 years he was his patient.
  Dr. Cameron Smith told an inquest into Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre’s death that he had prescribed antidepressants and anxiety medication related to traumatic experiences the officer had endured on the job.
  Smith says Lemaitre was also dealing with stress at home and expressed concerns about caring for his disabled wife, saying she had indicated thoug
  
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• B.C. First Nations carry huge debts after fighting to save homes from wildfires

  27-11-2018 20:49 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Many British Columbia First Nations that stayed behind to stop wildfires from destroying their communities in 2017 and 2018 are still waiting to be reimbursed by the provincial and federal governments for hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses.
  Indigenous groups say they can’t afford to pay for training and equipment for firefighters before a crisis strikes, so they have to take on enormous debts to protect their homes as flames approach.
  The Nadleh Whut’en in
  
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• 7-Eleven now accepts Chinese mobile payment systems Alipay and WeChat

  27-11-2018 20:32 via vancouversun.com
  7-Eleven has become the first convenience retailer in Canada to accept Chinese mobile payment systems Alipay and WeChat at participating stores.
  The convenience store chain says the Alipay and WeChat is now available at 35 select locations in Metro Vancouver and Toronto, with plans for expansion in the next few months.
  “This expansion of 7-Eleven Canada’s payment options is an exciting way to better service Chinese travellers, 65% of whom use mobile payment platforms w
  
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• Boy, that was some rain storm! Nice to have a short unexpected break from the ☔. PLEASE stay away from all rivers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-11-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Boy, that was some rain storm! Nice to have a short unexpected break from the ☔.PLEASE stay away from all rivers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver launches opioid emergency task force

  27-11-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver has launched its opioid emergency task force to gather recommendations on how to deal with the ongoing crisis.
  The task force, which includes health experts, Indigenous leaders, and people with experience, was approved unanimously by city council on Nov. 14. and launched Tuesday.
  Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the group will “rapidly” gather the best recommendations from experts on the front lines of this crisis.
  “More than 30 people every month are dying. These are
  
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• Vancouver Sun music reviews Dec. 1, 2018

  27-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Alex Henry Foster
  Windows in the Sky | Hopeful Tragedy Records
  Those who watched the Canadian music charts the week of Nov. 9 were scratching their heads when Alex Henry Foster’s debut album came in at #6 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart. SoundScan reporting for Quebec sales over the next two weeks showed the Montrealer hitting top spot in the charts and reaching #3 nationally just behind powerhouses Muse and Imagine Dragons.
  So who is this guy?
  Well, apparently his old band is big i
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland: Nov. 30 — Dec. 6: Bombay Black, Dawn Pemberton, more

  27-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bombay Black
  When: Dec. 5 to 15, various times
  Where: Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova
  Tickets and info: From $20 at firehallartscentre.ca
  Anosh Irani’s play about contemporary India finds a mother (Nimet Kanji) charging men to watch her daughter (Arshdeep Purba) perform exotic dances. The arrival of a blind man (Munish Sharma) whose hidden confidences could rend their worlds apart sets in motion an intense and gritty story. Award-winning director Rohit Chokhani has reimagined the play
  
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• Imagination’s the thing in Pacific Theatre’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  27-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  When: Nov. 30 to Dec. 29
  Where: Pacific Theatre
  Tickets: $20-36.50 at pacifictheatre.org
  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been through the big-budget Hollywood ringer, as well as numerous stage interpretations. Usually, a lion is a lion — or at least, a CGI facsimile or someone in a costume. But in Pacific Theatre’s version of C.S. Lewis’ 1950 novel, the story is stripped down to two actors, the set, and some stagecraft. You’ll
  
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• Catherine Evans: Municipal electoral reform is badly needed

  27-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In some B.C. municipalities, certainly in Vancouver, last month’s municipal election attracted some choice descriptors: “crazy” and “confusing” are among the more charitable. As a candidate for Vancouver city council, like other candidates I made the best of what most agreed was a mess.  
  At one point during the campaign, I made an effort to explain the at-large voting system to a newly-arrived B.C. resident and tried to convince her to vote in the Vancouv
  
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• ICBC cuts ad budget in favour of traffic enforcement

  27-11-2018 19:57 via vancouversun.com
  The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is slashing its advertising budget in half and redirecting the funds toward police traffic enforcement.
  Attorney General David Eby says high risk drivers are ignoring the corporation’s road safety messages.
  He says channelling advertising funds directly to enforcement will offer the chance to deliver the message directly to risky drivers.
  Starting in the next fiscal year, the insurance corporation will add $2.4 million to enhanced traffic enfor
  
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• Metro Vancouver condo prices to plunge 26% by 2021: analysis

  27-11-2018 19:28
  
  Condo market will take three years to slump to average price of $550K, but will be back up to peak prices three years after that, predicts analyst
  
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• Comedian Aziz Ansari to headline Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival

  27-11-2018 19:07 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s Just For Laughs Festival has announced that Aziz Ansar will headline the February festival.
  The Just For Laughs Festival runs from Feb. 14 to Feb. 23. Ansari will perform at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver on Feb. 15. at 7 p.m.
  General sale for tickets start at 12 p.m. on Friday. Tickets range between $45.50 to $89.50 plus taxes and service charges.
  Ansari got his start in the television series, NBC’s Parks and Recreation. In 2015, he became one of the only
  
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• Many mortgage renewers can expect better rate in 2019, despite recent hikes: poll

  27-11-2018 18:24
  
  Most homeowners renewing mortgages in 2019 will find recent hikes won’t push their new payments higher, says RateHub.ca
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainfall warning lifted

  27-11-2018 18:19 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Environment Canada has lifted a rainfall warning for Tuesday for Metro Vancouver.
  The agency posted the warning Monday and early Tuesday morning because of the heavy rain expected, but it has since been rescinded. Weather stations received various rainfall amounts ranging from 30 millimetres to more than 120 millimetres near the mountains, according to Environment Canada.
  More rain is expected overnight, however, with up 40 millimetres expected in some areas by Wednesday
  
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• Hey #NorthVan, did you miss last night's Council Meeting? We've got it recorded for you right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-11-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  Hey #NorthVan, did you miss last night's Council Meeting? We've got it recorded for you right here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Surrey homicide victim a 'caring and compassionate' Bhangra promoter, say friends

  27-11-2018 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  A man shot to death in Surrey Monday has been identified by friends as Raj Sangha, a much-loved member of the community and a Bhangra dance promoter.
  Sangha was killed in what’s believed to be a targeted hit in Surrey’s Newton neighbourhood.
  Longtime friend Suki Pangalia said he was heartbroken over the loss of such as “caring and compassionate” and cherished member of the community.
  “He would go out of his way to help anyone, especially young people,” said Pa
  
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• Man suffers life-threatening injuries after being hit by motorhome in Victoria

  27-11-2018 17:23 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A pedestrian has been rushed to hospital in Victoria after what police say was a serious, early morning collision.
  Const. Matt Rutherford says in a news release that the unnamed man was hit by a motorhome.
  It happened just before 6:30 a.m. on Douglas Street, a main route through downtown Victoria.
  Few other details have been released but Rutherford says the pedestrian has life-threatening injuries.
  Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
  Several blocks of busy Doug
  
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• Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum 'dismayed' by $514 million city debt

  27-11-2018 17:07 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum says he is “deeply dismayed” by the state of the city’s finances and has instructed staff to launch what he calls a “pay as you go” system to cut down the debt.
  McCallum, who served as Surrey’s mayor between 1999 and 2005, was re-elected in October and says he was “shaken to the core” when he learned about the red ink on city books.
  He says the current debt totals $514 million.
  McCallum is confident the planned pay-as-you
  
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• Which Caribbean island is best for you? From Carnival to Cuban cigars tours, you have choices

  27-11-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The mix of cultures and races give the islands of the Caribbean a unique style in cuisine, music, architecture, customs and language. Whether you are climbing the Pitons in Saint Lucia, drinking rum with locals in Barbados or listening to the sounds of steel pan in Trinidad, the Caribbean is jam-packed with a rich array of varied experiences and activities. Here are 10 of the best … ShareThe Caribbean IslandsTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail GALLERY:The Caribbean IslandsTh
  
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• Daily Poll: Should Uber drivers be required to have a commercial driving license?

  27-11-2018 16:19 via vancouversun.com
  A new poll has found that a majority of Vancouver residents believe people wanting to drive for Uber, Lyft or other ride-hailing services should require a Class 4 driver’s licence that requires more training.
  Read Scott Brown’s story here.
  What do you think? Do you think it’s a bad idea and that the requirement would deter drivers from signing up for a ride-hailing service? Or do you like the idea that as part of the commercial license, the driver would undergo a criminal recor
  
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• Latest rain storm swells B.C.'s south coast rivers, dumps heavy rain

  27-11-2018 16:06 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Drenching rain that has deluged British Columbia’s south coast since Sunday night should begin to relent over the next 24 hours, although Environment Canada says another 40 millimetres of precipitation is expected across parts of the region by Wednesday.
  Rainfall warnings remain posted for the east coast of Vancouver and the inner south coast all the way east to the Fraser Canyon, but wind warnings were dropped Monday night.
  The weather office says as much as 120 millimet
  
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• Syrian man stranded for seven months at Kuala Lumpur airport arrives in Vancouver

  27-11-2018 15:25 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A Syrian man who was stranded for seven months at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport arrived in Vancouver on Monday night.
  Hassan Al Kontar thanked his friends and his lawyer in a video posted to Twitter for helping him leave Malaysia.
  He says he videotaped the message at the Taiwan International Airport as he waited to board a flight to Vancouver, which he described as his final destination.
  On his Twitter account, Al Kontar says Canadian volunteers gave him hope after he
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainfall warning still in effect

  27-11-2018 15:11 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Environment Canada has posted a rainfall warning for Tuesday for Metro Vancouver. The agency says an intense frontal system will continue to bring heavy rain to the B.C. south coast this morning.
  Weather stations have received various rainfall amounts ranging from 30 millimetres to more than 120 millimetres near the mountains, according to Environment Canada. The agency says the system will shift east today, but rain will continue through tonight, with up 40 millimet
  
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• Victoria has to move beyond 'duty to consult' on indigenous issues

  27-11-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lasting reconciliation in B.C. requires the provincial government to move beyond its current minimal “duty to consult” with Indigenous nations, according to a report being released Tuesday.
  The province should adopt a new approach that would lead to “obtaining free, prior and informed consent” from First Nations in anything to do with their title and rights, the report states.
  The report, released by the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alter
  
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• Police release sketch after teen girl sexually assaulted in Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  27-11-2018 09:00
  Police release sketch after teen girl sexually assaulted in Vancouver  North Delta ReporterGirl was pulled into the bushes after getting off bus.
  
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• North Vancouver’s Dazzling Canyon Lights Is Now Open (PHOTOS) - 604 Now

  27-11-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver’s Dazzling Canyon Lights Is Now Open (PHOTOS)  604 NowCanyon Lights and its endless magic has once again transformed Capilano Suspension Bridge Park into a winter wonderland to make your way through.
  
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• North Vancouver's Caitlin Shaw named Player of the Match in historic World Cup win - North Shore News

  27-11-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver's Caitlin Shaw named Player of the Match in historic World Cup win  North Shore NewsNorth Vancouver's Caitlin Shaw was named Player of the Match as Team Canada scored a historic win at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. On Sunday ...
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Mike Plante testifies at civil forfeiture case against Angels

  27-11-2018 08:45 via vancouversun.com
  It was interesting to see Micheal Plante back on the stand in B.C. Supreme Court. Of course the former RCMP agent testified in several criminal trials against Hells Angels stemming from the massive E-Pandora investigation in the mid-2000s. Now he is a witness for the B.C. Director of Civil Forfeiture, who wants 3 clubhouses forfeited to the B.C. government as instruments of criminal activity.
  Here’s my story:East End agent takes the stand at Hells Angels civil
  forfeiture trialA man who inf
  
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• Update: Stanley Park Causeway cleared following accident

  27-11-2018 04:20 via vancouversun.com
  Update: The accident that closed Vancouver’s Stanley Park is now clear and both lanes have been reopened to traffic.
  Drive B.C. says drivers heading to the North Shore via the Lions Gate Bridge can still expect delays due to a traffic congestion.
  CLEAR – #BCHwy99 Vehicle incident in the #StanleyPark Causeway is now clear. Expect heavy delays due to congestion. Please drive to conditions.#LionsGateBridge #Vancouver
  — Drive BC (@DriveBC) November 27, 2018 Original: An accide
  
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• Woman claiming part of slain millionaire's estate goes on trial

  27-11-2018 03:35 via vancouversun.com
  A woman who is claiming a portion of the estate of a slain West Vancouver millionaire began her testimony in court Monday.
  The woman, who can only be identified as Mother 1 due to a publication ban, is claiming that she gave birth to a child with Gang Yuan, 42, whose body was found chopped up into 100 pieces in the businessman’s British Properties home in May 2015 and who died without a will.
  She told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers that she met Yuan in China in May 2004 when she
  
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• East End agent takes the stand at Hells Angels civil forfeiture trial

  27-11-2018 03:06 via vancouversun.com
  An agent who infiltrated the East End Hells Angels more than a decade ago described in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday how he overheard a biker tell a prospect in the clubhouse to “take care” of someone believed to have robbed him.
  Micheal Plante testified that he then helped the prospect, Randy Potts, hunt for the suspect by waiting outside the man’s house for weeks.
  Plante told Justice Barry Davies that he and Potts had “the intent of shooting him. We both had weapons with
  
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• Blaize Horner Reich and Antony Hodgson: Proportional representation is better for business community

  27-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  As professors who teach about entrepreneurship, we’re always considering where a new enterprise should set itself up. Given B.C.’s strong knowledge economy, it’s clearly a solid place to do business. But we could be so much better.
  What makes a particular place a good place to invest in has a lot to do with government policy, particularly regarding infrastructure, tax and regulatory policies. From the business perspective, the more predictable and broadly-accepted these policie
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Speaker Darryl Plecas has one more day to dodge reporters' questions before winter break

  27-11-2018 02:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As Speaker Darryl Plecas tells it, there was never an investigation run out of his office by special adviser Alan Mullen into the now-ousted legislature clerk and sergeant-at arms.
  “The notion that he was hired as an investigator of any kind is utter nonsense,” said Plecas, via a statement released on the weekend.
  “The notion that he has engaged in any form of ‘investigation’ beyond doing due diligence on concerns expressed to, or observed by, my of
  
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• Tentative deal reached for 44,000 nurses across British Columbia

  27-11-2018 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The Health Employers Association and The B.C. Nurses’ Union bargaining group have announced a tentative agreement for the province’s 44,000 nurses.
  The agreement falls under the B.C. government’s sustainable services negotiating mandate, which in 2019 includes a general wage increase of two per cent in each year of a three-year agreement.
  The mandate also allows for the ability to negotiate conditional funding, but no details of the agreement will be released u
  
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• As B.C. moves to electric vehicles, TransLink will need to replace gas tax

  27-11-2018 01:47 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government’s move to require all new vehicles sold in the province to be zero emissions by 2040 should be a wakeup call to the region’s transit authority to wean itself off the gas tax, according to experts.
  Legislation that the B.C. NDP plans to introduce, in partnership with the B.C. Green caucus, will set targets for zero-emission light-duty cars and trucks at 10 per cent of all vehicle sales by 2025, 30 per cent by 2030, and 100 per cent by 2040. Zero-emission vehicles i
  
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• Hey #NorthVan, council is convening at 6PM for their weekly meeting. No need to get wet, #livestream it here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-11-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Hey #NorthVan, council is convening at 6PM for their weekly meeting. No need to get wet, #livestream it here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Dozens of students arrive at Langley Secondary with no food; meal program struggles to stay afloat

  27-11-2018 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  Each month, kitchen staff at Langley Secondary serve more than 2,000 breakfasts to students arriving at school hungry, many of them refugees, immigrants, or from local families struggling with poverty.
  About 120 students a day come to school looking for food.
  But a loss of funding is threatening Langley Secondary’s breakfast program, said Brad Hendy, a community school coordinator.
  “These are the neediest kids. The principal doesn’t know what he’s going to do unless we ca
  
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• Gas pump goes mobile as Vancouver land prices force out conventional stations

  27-11-2018 00:58 via vancouversun.com
  For Vancouver drivers wondering how they are going to fill the gas tanks of their cars as service stations disappear around them, there’s now at least one mobile option.
  Think of it as a delivery service similar to Skip the Dishes or Amazon, but for gasoline. Consumers order a tankful of fuel delivered to their location by a tank-equipped pickup truck from a company called Filld.
  Fuelling a car is “increasingly becoming more of a pain point for consumers,” Filld CEO Michael Buh
  
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• Las Vegas in the footsteps of locals

  27-11-2018 00:42 via vancouversun.com
  Most people visiting Las Vegas for the bright lights and casinos head to the Strip, but the locals don’t.
  On weekends, they head for Red Rock Canyon. In about 30 minutes from downtown, we were in the middle of scenic desert with Spring Mountains in the background. Red Rock isn’t monumental like that other canyon, but hiking well-maintained trails (do stop at the information centre first) through its serene beauty is a respite from the city.
  Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
  
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