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• Squamish Nation referendum may lead to electoral process changes

  09-12-2018 23:06 via vancouversun.com
  While B.C. voters were being asked to say yes or no in a referendum on proportional representation, members of the Squamish Nation were wrapping up an electoral referendum of their own.
  The 3,000 eligible voters of the Squamish Nation were asked five questions on the ballot in the first attempt to revise election rules since 1981, including if candidates should be screened for criminal behaviour or any “conduct unbecoming a Squamish elected official.”
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• Sixties Scoop survivors sought for cash settlement

  09-12-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Michael Sadler was just an infant when he was taken from his teenage mother.
  Half Native, he was adopted by a Caucasian couple who knew next to nothing of his First Nations heritage.
  “My parents told me I was part First Nations, but they said Indian back in those days,” he said.
  Sadler’s biological mother was considered white, but her family shipped her off to live with her great aunt to separate her from her First Nations boyfriend.
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• Douglas Todd: B.C. coroner fails to release suicide data for international students

  09-12-2018 22:52 via vancouversun.com
  International students in Canada and around the world are not only under pressure to achieve high grades. Many are increasingly expected to become permanent residents in their chosen country so they can eventually sponsor their parents and siblings as immigrants.
  Given the intense expectations placed on many young students navigating existence in a foreign country, reports of suicide among them are rising in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Britain, their most sought-after destinations.
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• Burnaby mayor sets up task force to tackle housing crisis

  09-12-2018 22:41
  
  Mike Hurley sets the course for a new committee tasked with finding immediate and long-term answers
  
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• Police probe break-in at Vancouver home owned by Huawei executive

  09-12-2018 22:14 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are investigating an early morning break-in at the home of a senior Huawei official who was arrested on fraud allegations earlier this month.
  Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the China-based Huawei Technologies, was arrested Dec. 1 in Vancouver and is being sought for extradition to the U.S. on allegations of fraud.
  It’s alleged the Chinese tech giant used a subsidiary named Skycom to conduct business with an Iranian telecommunications company, a violation of U
  
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• Earthquake recorded west of Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  09-12-2018 21:03
  Earthquake recorded west of Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteDid you feel that? According to Earthquakes Canada, a small rumble was recorded 150 kilometres west of Vancouver Island around 8:20 a.m. Sunday.
  
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• B.C. trade mission to China suspended due to ongoing Huawei fraud case

  09-12-2018 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is suspending a trade mission to China due to an ongoing court case against a senior Huawei executive arrested earlier this month in Vancouver.
  Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, was arrested Dec. 1 at Vancouver International Airport while en route to Mexico and is being sought for extradition to the U.S. on allegations of fraud.
  It’s alleged the tech giant used a subsidiary named Skycom to conduct business with an Iranian telecommunicatio
  
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• Kelowna takes steps to preserve fire-damaged 147-year-old log house

  09-12-2018 18:14 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — The city of Kelowna is taking steps to preserve a 147-year-old log house built by one of the area’s first European settlers after it was damaged in a fire earlier this year.
  In a close vote last week, the city decided to earmark $29,000 for the construction of a temporary roof to protect Fleming House from the elements.
  The city’s website says Fleming House is a two-storey structure built from hand-hewn pine logs in 1871 by Frederick Brent. It says Brent also construc
  
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• This winter, while gas supply in BC remains restricted, reach for a sweater… or six… to help stay warm without turn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-12-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  This winter, while gas supply in BC remains restricted, reach for a sweater… or six… to help stay warm without turn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Small cannabis growers find roadblocks on path to microcultivation licences

  09-12-2018 17:57 via vancouversun.com
  Yan Boissonneault’s daughter was turning blue.
  Without warning, his baby had stopped breathing, and he frantically performed CPR while his friend James Gallagher called 911.
  Years later, the men still become emotional remembering that day. Boissonneault learned that his daughter had a rare disorder that caused epilepsy, and when pharmaceutical medications failed to cure her seizures, he turned to CBD oil, a non-psychoactive substance in marijuana.
  Yan Boissonneault, left, and James Gallagh
  
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• Coalition aims to put First Nations in the driver's seat on major projects

  09-12-2018 17:34 via vancouversun.com
  Tired of waiting for major construction projects to come to them, a growing coalition of First Nations is instead taking the lead on ventures to better control their economic futures.
  “We really are in a place looking to diversify our economies,” said Jasmine Thomas, a councillor of the Saik’uz First Nation in central British Columbia.
  “Really moving away from projects proposed and imposed on us, and changing that whole direction to projects that we’re leading, and
  
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• Celebrity Edge lives up to its hype

  09-12-2018 17:15 via vancouversun.com
  Celebrity Cruises is reinventing the wheel with its brand – new Celebrity Edge. I hopped aboard the megaship in Fort Lauderdale recently for one of its quick two-night preview cruises and discovered that Celebrity Edge more than lives up to its hype.
  There isn’t enough space in this column for me to accurately describe all of the features onboard, so I’ll summarize my favorites.
  First, there is Eden: a three-storey entertainment and dining venue that boasts some very inven
  
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• Vancouver man captures footage of thief stealing parcel from his porch

  09-12-2018 07:05 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver man has shared surveillance footage of another brazen daylight package theft.
  Rob Dhaliwal, who lives at Victoria and 49th in South Vancouver, was waiting on a delivery from Wayfair, the online home furniture store. It arrived on Friday.
  After receiving a notification that his package, had been delivered, Dhaliwal used his phone to check the surveillance cameras watching the front entrance to his home.
  But he didn’t see a package. Bewildered, he reviewed the surveillance footag
  
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• UGM serves up 2,500 Christmas dinners, says goodbye to 37-year-old building

  09-12-2018 04:10 via vancouversun.com
  Christmas came early this year at the Union Gospel Mission, as the Downtown Eastside charity held its annual holiday dinner on Saturday.
  UGM has been hosting the Christmas dinner every year since its founding in 1940, but this year’s was special, as it marked the final dinner that will be served at UGM’s current Women and Families Centre at 616 East Cordova.
  “This building used to be the main building of UGM,” said spokesperson Jeremy Hunka. “It’s been ar
  
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• Cycling advocate Arno Schortinghuis remembered with group ride

  09-12-2018 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  Arno Schortinghuis liked to tell people that he was born riding a bicycle. Last month, his life came to an end while he was pedalling one.
  Schortinghuis, 72, a steadfast, effective advocate for cycling in Metro Vancouver, fell from his bike while travelling through Vancouver on Nov. 30. His cause of death, linked to the fall, is still unclear.
  On Saturday, more than 70 friends and loved ones put on rain gear and met on Victoria Drive for a group ride in his memory. His partner, Je
  
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• Rare footage of humpback playing with log near Comox Harbour

  09-12-2018 02:20 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver-based non-profit has posted rare footage of a humpback having a “whale” of a time, playing with a log in B.C. waters.
  The four-year-old whale, named Lorax, was recorded doing the sea mammal’s version of the log driver’s waltz off Comox Harbour on Dec. 2.
  “Logging is a term referring to when whales and dolphins are resting,” said Peter Hamilton, Lifeforce Ocean Friends Director. “This rare type of ‘play logging’ adds to our knowled
  
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• West Van residents take to the street to protest B-Line along Marine Drive

  09-12-2018 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  About 150 angry West Vancouver residents turned out in the drizzle Saturday morning to protest against TransLink’s proposed new B-Line along Marine Drive.
  “We’re protesting the impact (a B-Line) is going to have on traffic in the local community and on merchants along Marine Drive,” said Joe Sutherland. “(A B-line) is not going to help traffic because the amount of traffic from Dundarave and Ambleside going to North Vancouver is minuscule. All the traffic going this
  
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• Victoria councillor wants less Christmas, more diversity, in seasonal decorations

  09-12-2018 00:40 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Victoria shouldn’t be decking public property with boughs of holly, lighting up Christmas trees or handing out poinsettias, says Coun. Ben Isitt, who has won council support for a review of the city’s seasonal decorations.
  Councillors agreed to have staff to report back on options for further secularizing or increasing the diversity of cultural elements in seasonal decorations.
  In suggesting the review, Isitt said that a poinsettia recently appeared on his desk at Vi
  
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• B.C. angler 'overwhelmed' at winning lake access case against billionaire ranch owners

  09-12-2018 00:07 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. angler who took on an American billionaire ranch owner in a David and Goliath battle for public access to a lake says he’s shocked at winning the case.
  “We are in disbelief right now but very happy,” Rick McGowan, director of the Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club, said the day after the B.C. Supreme Court ruled in the club’s favour.
  McGowan’s club took the Douglas Lake Cattle Company to court two years ago after the company in the 1990s blocked access to
  
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