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• Call for mandatory truck driver training in wake of report on crashes in B.C.

  12-12-2018 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  In the wake of a report on heavy truck crashes in B.C., the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce is calling for mandatory truck driver training.
  The chamber noted the B.C. Superintendent of Motor Vehicles requires only a pass on a written examination and a two-hour road test, combined with a 16-hour ICBC-approved course on air brake testing.
  “There are cases in Canada where people have applied for and obtained a commercial vehicle driver’s licence in as little as three days,” said cham
  
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• 🎄 🎶 Don't let the weather get you down! Come enjoy some upbeat, festive music with a Latin American vibe in Civic P… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-12-2018 23:10 via twitter.com
  🎄 🎶 Don't let the weather get you down! Come enjoy some upbeat, festive music with a Latin American vibe in Civic P… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kelowna council votes to end urban sprawl with limit on new homes

  12-12-2018 23:04 via vancouversun.com
  A revised urban growth scenario aims to significantly limit new home construction in Kelowna’s suburbs.
  City council on Monday embraced a plan that will dramatically change the official community plan. Some areas long designated for future residential development will instead be closed to new construction.
  The City of Kelowna will move to limit the construction of new homes in some suburban areas by changing the official community plan to remove the development potential of currently vacan
  
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• $10 million later, head of Telus' community board bids farewell

  12-12-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  Nini Baird has bid farewell to the Telus Vancouver Community Board after 13 years in charge and disbursing more than $10 million to environmental and social community groups in the city.
  Baird — formerly the first director of programming at the Knowledge Network — was the founding chair of the organization which has helped 836 community groups over the years, such as the Dream Rider program that educates children in zero waste strategies.
  “We started that in 2009 and it spread
  
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• Makeup tutorial: A holiday look for all ages and occasions

  12-12-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  Happy holidays! We’ve put together the perfect makeup look suitable for all ages and occasions. Follow these easy steps:
  Step 1:After evening out my complexion with Smashbox Priming Oil and Tarte Amazonian Clay Full Coverage Foundation, I used my Nadittude™ Cheek Enhancer brush and contoured my face with Glo Skin Beauty Contour Palette.
  Step 2:Using the Nadittude Highlighting Brush, I swept the highlighter from Glo Skin Beauty Contour Palette to enhance the high points of the face (c
  
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• ART SEEN: Inuit artist Elisapee Ishulutaq dies at 93 at home in Pangnirtung

  12-12-2018 21:59 via vancouversun.com
  Two years ago, Elisapee Ishulutaq was in Vancouver for an exhibition at the Marion Scott Gallery. She was a long way from home in Pangnirtung in eastern Nunavut – about 3,700 km as the crow flies.
  She was one of the few living Inuit raised in such a traditional way she didn’t learn to speak English. She spoke to me through her grandson Andrew.
  I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a weathered and wonderful face. Our photographer Arlen Redekop took some amazing photographs of
  
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• Vancouver police investigate alleged sex assault of 6-year-old girl

  12-12-2018 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Police Department is investigating the sexual assault of a six-year-old girl in south Vancouver.
  Police said it happened Dec. 5 near Sexsmith Elementary School on Columbia Street and West 59th Avenue.
  The girl was playing at the school’s playground when she was approached by a stranger, police said. He lured her away from the school and took her to a location close by where the alleged took place.
  He then walked her back to the school, said police.
  The suspect is describ
  
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• Sewage from Mexico spill flows north into California waters - Vancouver Sun

  12-12-2018 20:43
  Sewage from Mexico spill flows north into California waters  Vancouver SunIMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — Millions of gallons of raw sewage has spilled into Mexico's Tijuana River and is flowing north into California, fouling some beaches ...
  
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• Don't be fooled by this dry spell... there's still puh-lenty of rain on the way! If you haven't had a chance yet, p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-12-2018 20:29 via twitter.com
  Don't be fooled by this dry spell... there's still puh-lenty of rain on the way! If you haven't had a chance yet, p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Canadian confidence in housing market running low: poll

  12-12-2018 20:22
  Even though owning a home is still widely seen as an important life milestone, most people – even homeowners – don’t feel confident in today's real estate market
  
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• Strata offices will still sell, but expect more moderate prices, analyst says

  12-12-2018 20:16 via vancouversun.com
  Developers of future downtown Vancouver office strata buildings shouldn’t expect to capture the same sky-high prices as the most recent high-profile project, one brokerage house says.
  While still bullish on the overall downtown office market, JLL says the next wave of office strata projects will likely not approach $2,000 a square foot — the price reportedly earned by Bosa Development for its Bosa Waterfront Place office tower, which is now being built at 320 Granville St., across Co
  
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• Recipe: Roast Tandoori Turkey is a tasty twist on the traditional bird

  12-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  This year, we broke tradition a bit and went big on vegan-friendly food for our holiday recipe feature.
  But, that doesn’t mean we’re all going to pass on meat this festive season.
  That’s why we’re offering up this delicious recipe for Roast Tandoori Chicken from Vancouver-based food blogger and photographer Jennifer Pallian of the site Foodess.com. Pallian created this recipe using a common holiday classic, a Butterball turkey (though any turkey will work), with a ta
  
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• Mia Stainsby: A gender neutral steakhouse

  12-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Elisa Steakhouse
  1109 Hamilton Street,  604-362-5442
  Open for dinner daily. elisasteakcom
  An order for two vegetarian and two vegan meals from a table of four women is nothing unusual, especially in Vancouver. Except this time, it was in a steakhouse.
  And also unusual, when I visited Elisa Steakhouse, two foursomes of young women sat nearby; at another, a family celebrating a young girl’s birthday.
  It’s not a lie to say steakhouse menus and decor are  traditionally pitched
  
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• Maureen Washington returns, and an Aretha tribute at this year's Good Noise Gospel Christmas concerts

  12-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Good Tidings! A Good Noise Gospel Christmas
  When: Dec. 14 at 8 p.m., Dec. 15 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Christ Church Cathedral (Dec. 14 & 15) and St. John’s Shaughnessy (Dec. 17)
  Tickets: $30/$25 (students/seniors)/$10 (children 12 & under) at brownpapertickets.com
  Last year, Maureen Washington sang with the Good Noise Gospel Choir at its annual holiday shows. The Victoria-based guest was such a hit that the choir’s artistic director has invited her
  
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• John Grant comes to Vancouver to cast a spell with Love Is Magic

  12-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  John Grantwith guests Two Medicine
  When: Dec. 20, 7 p.m.
  Where: Imperial
  Tickets and info: From $21, at ticketfly.com and Red CatJohn Grant isn’t the first American indie artist to be better beloved beyond his homeland.
  Like Scott Walker and Sparks before him, the UK embraced Grant as one of their own. The 50-year-old has enjoyed strong sales, won multiple awards and sells out multiple nights from London to Leeds — and packs the most prestigious concert hall in Iceland, too.
  This isn
  
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• If singing in the rain is your thing, you're in luck! Plenty more rain 🌧️☔ is headed our way shortly. Please clear… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-12-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  If singing in the rain is your thing, you're in luck! Plenty more rain 🌧️☔ is headed our way shortly. Please clear… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Girl, 6, lured from elementary school, sexually assaulted: Vancouver police - North Island Gazette

  12-12-2018 19:56
  Girl, 6, lured from elementary school, sexually assaulted: Vancouver police  North Island GazettePolice are seeking dashcam footage from nearby Sexsmith Elementary School in South Vancouver.
  
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• Girl, 6, lured from elementary school, sexually assaulted: Vancouver police - North Delta Reporter

  12-12-2018 19:38
  Girl, 6, lured from elementary school, sexually assaulted: Vancouver police  North Delta ReporterPolice are seeking dashcam footage from nearby Sexsmith Elementary School in South Vancouver.
  
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• North Vancouver's Stefan Elliott traded to Ottawa Senators - North Shore News

  12-12-2018 19:36
  North Vancouver's Stefan Elliott traded to Ottawa Senators  North Shore NewsNorth Vancouver native Stefan Elliott was traded from the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Ottawa Senators in an NHL deal that was confirmed last week.
  
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• Huawei executive arrest could impact Vancouver real estate prices: Barron's

  12-12-2018 19:19
  
  Influential business journal suggests that arrest could chill Chinese migration
  
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• Surrey asks for Vancouver's help with replacing RCMP with municipal police force

  12-12-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY – Surrey has asked for help from Vancouver’s city staff and police force as it moves forward with a plan to replace its RCMP detachment with a municipal police service.
  Mayor Doug McCallum says in a news release that the Vancouver Police Department is internationally recognized as a best-practice, evidence-based force and Surrey hopes to create a similar model.
  He says Surrey wants a municipal police service that takes a leading-edge approach to preventing and solving crime an
  
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• Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island brace for onslaught of storms

  12-12-2018 18:29 via vancouversun.com
  Storm after storm after storm will lash Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island with heavy rain and bursts of wind for the next week, Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald said Tuesday.
  “We’ve seen a big change in the weather pattern. Last week, we were under Arctic air all week, delivering nice, crisp, sunny conditions,” said MacDonald.
  “The shift happened on Sunday. We’re now into a very active storm pattern. There’s a whole series of storms lined up
  
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• 'Tis the season to be festive. The City encourages everyone to think about celebrating in a sustainable manner. Get… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-12-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  'Tis the season to be festive. The City encourages everyone to think about celebrating in a sustainable manner. Get… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Our #DNVsnow crews were out over night, salting main roads, hills, and schools, as we had freezing in some areas. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-12-2018 17:30 via twitter.com
  Our #DNVsnow crews were out over night, salting main roads, hills, and schools, as we had freezing in some areas. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Brother's dogs kill North Carolina woman, injure 2 grandkids - Vancouver Sun

  12-12-2018 17:09
  Brother's dogs kill North Carolina woman, injure 2 grandkids  Vancouver SunMARIETTA, N.C. — Authorities say a North Carolina grandmother was killed and two grandchildren injured when they were attacked by four Rottweilers owned ...
  
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• Top 10 Christmas gifts for the traveller on your list

  12-12-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  We are all bitten by the wanderlust bug, whether it’s a quick trip to another province or halfway around the globe to explore other countries and cultures. With air travel being what is is with checkins and myriad security rules, it helps to pack wisely but not forgo the essentials.
  Here are 10 terrific items to help organize and simplify your traveller’s next trip.
  1. Platypus soft bottles
  In this age of hydration, why bother with a bulky plastic or metal container when you can pack
  
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• City of Surrey asks Vancouver for help with municipal policing transition - North Delta Reporter

  12-12-2018 15:38
  City of Surrey asks Vancouver for help with municipal policing transition  North Delta ReporterThe City of Surrey is asking Vancouver to assist in its transition out of RCMP in order to set up a municipal police force, according to a release issued Tuesday ...
  
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• North Vancouver schools ditching honour roll - North Shore News

  12-12-2018 15:30
  North Vancouver schools ditching honour roll  North Shore NewsIt's report card week in North Vancouver. But this year, there are fewer students than ever on the school district's honour roll. That's not because of a lack of high ...
  
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• Condominium market still 'a lot better' than normal in Vancouver suburbs

  12-12-2018 15:21 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A tempting bright-red advertisement for a new condo development in a Vancouver suburb circulated online this fall, sparking excitement from first-time homebuyers and concern among long-standing real estate observers.
  The developers of The Landing, a 78-unit complex in Langley, were offering to pay the mortgages for a year of the first 20 buyers and give remaining buyers a $10,000 discount.
  It looked like a sign of the times: had provincial and federal government measures to coo
  
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• These North Shore Christmas light displays will brighten your day (PHOTOS) - Vancouver Courier

  12-12-2018 09:00
  These North Shore Christmas light displays will brighten your day (PHOTOS)  Vancouver CourierThe North Shore News is trying to capture as many dazzling local light displays as we can this holiday season. Photographers Cindy Goodman and Paul ...
  
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• North Vancouver schools dropping honour roll system - Yahoo News Canada

  12-12-2018 09:00
  North Vancouver schools dropping honour roll system  Yahoo News CanadaThe North Vancouver school district is continuing its gradual elimination of the honour roll but said academic achievement will still be recognized. Last year, it ...
  
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• Mother, uncle of murdered B.C. woman lose last-ditch court battle on extradition to India

  12-12-2018 04:50 via vancouversun.com
  The mother and uncle of a young B.C. woman murdered in Punjab in 2000 have lost their last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to India.
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an application from Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha to have an extradition order against them stayed because they claimed there was an abuse of process.
  The two are alleged to have been involved in the so-called honour killing of Sidhu’s daughter Jaswinder “Jassi” Kaur, who ignored her fami
  
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• Vancouver council considers 2019 budget with 4.9 per cent property tax increase

  12-12-2018 03:19 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s new mayor and council, considering a proposed city operating budget of $1.5 billion and capital project budget of $371 million for 2019, heard from dozens of speakers Tuesday representing everyone from police to park rangers.
  The 2019 draft budget includes a 4.9 per cent property tax increase and a combined 8.7 per cent increase in fees for water, sewer, and solid waste. For a median single-family home, that would mean a combined 6.3 per cent hike over 2018 levels.
  About half t
  
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• B.C. Securities Commission expands criminal investigation team with regulatory fee increase

  12-12-2018 03:05 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Securities Commission will increase revenues by an estimated $7.6 million to boost enforcement and support and regulate new financial technologies such as crypto currency.
  The revenue increase, estimated at 16 per cent of the BCSC’s annual budget, will come from fee increases levied on financial advisors and regulatory filings for activities used to raise money in B.C.’s public and private capital markets.
  The fee increases — the first since 1994 — will go into e
  
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• Peter Estlin: UK's links to Vancouver are worthy of celebration

  12-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The history of Vancouver has been intertwined with the UK since the city’s foundations were first laid in the 19th century.
  In 1867, John Deighton — a Yorkshireman also known as Gassy Jack — built a makeshift tavern that attracted a settlement which eventually grew into the modern city.
  Since these distant origins, the partnership between the UK and British Columbia — and Canada more generally — has only gone from strength-to-strength.
  It is fitting, therefore, that
  
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• Beauty Bar: Elizabeth Arden My Fifth Avenue Eau De Parfum

  12-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new fragrance from Elizabeth Arden that is inspired by “a woman’s rightful ambition and limitless possibilities.” And, of course, by the bright, busy Fifth Avenue street in New York City it is named after.
  The scent opens with top notes of lemon, mandarin, fresh Ozonic and violet leaves; boasts heart notes of lotus flower and jasmine; and base notes of amber woods, musks, Orris flower and cedarwood.
  Overall, it’s meant to parlay the “sparkling sce
  
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• Aly Kanji: In defence of ICBC and Autoplan brokers

  12-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The narrative on ICBC has to change. It is disingenuous of folks like Don Forgeron, president and CEO of the Insurance Bureau of Canada, to say that  British Columbians pay the highest auto-insurance premiums in Canada, and that opening up auto insurance to competition is the answer.B.C. is the only full-tort jurisdiction left in Canada, which means that an injured person can sue to recover 100 per cent of their losses without any caps. You cannot compare premiums paid without comparing the
  
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• World juniors fever heating up in Vancouver, Victoria

  12-12-2018 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  One of Canada’s most feverishly followed holiday traditions is scheduled for Vancouver and Victoria this Boxing Day — and no, it’s not discount shopping.
  Rather, it’s the opening of the 2019 world junior hockey championship, with pucks set to drop at Rogers Arena and the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in the first games of the celebrated under-20 tournament. Ticket sales have been brisk and politicians and business leaders are eager to see financial spinoffs from
  
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• Vancouver hospital using new lifesaving device on bleeding-to-death trauma patients

  12-12-2018 02:21 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver General Hospital is the first in western Canada to deploy a new balloon-tipped catheter device to save the “sickest of the sick” patients who are at risk of bleeding to death following car accidents, stabbings and other injuries such as gunshot wounds.
  In the past few months, trauma teams at the hospital have been practising on cadavers and simulation mannequins, but they recently used the REBOA (resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta) on a gunshot victim
  
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• Assisted death transfers declining: local health authorities

  12-12-2018 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Coastal Health spokeswoman Carrie Stefanson says VCH does not allow publicly funded facilities to deke out of medical assistance in dying responsibilities unless they have a religious exemption.
  Local health regions are making significant progress in boosting the number of patients dying in place rather than being moved to facilities to obtain medical assistance in dying.
  The Fraser Health region, where palliative care hospices have been especially resistant to providing medical assist
  
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• Need help booking a Community Event? We've got a one stop guide for booking parks, fields, plazas and streets right… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-12-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Need help booking a Community Event? We've got a one stop guide for booking parks, fields, plazas and streets right… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A Century of Believing … or Not

  12-12-2018 01:28 via vancouversun.com
  It all began with a cartoon, so it’s only fitting that Garfield creator Jim Davis pens the introduction to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 100 Years.
  “For 100 years,” he writes, “this unique company has stirred the imaginations of millions around the globe, inciting awe, amazement and genuine disbelief.”
  He recalls that his ‘window to the world’ as a child growing up on an Indiana farm was the weekly Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Cartoon: “It
  
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• Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou ordered released on $10-million bail

  12-12-2018 00:24 via vancouversun.com
  The Huawei Technologies executive whose arrest touched off an international furor was ordered released on $10-million bail Tuesday in Vancouver.
  On the third day of her bail hearing, B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke said Meng Wanzhou had met the legal burden necessary for her to be released from prison pending her extradition hearing.
  The bail includes a cash deposit of $7 million and five or more sureties amounting to $3 million.
  There was loud clapping in the public gallery after the
  
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• SkyTrain could come to Surrey by 2025

  12-12-2018 00:23 via vancouversun.com
  If the region’s mayors give TransLink the go-ahead to start planning this week, SkyTrain could be running down Fraser Highway in Surrey in 2025.
  On Thursday, the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation will meet and consider whether to endorse a work plan that includes initiating project development for SkyTrain and refreshing a rapid transit strategy for south of the Fraser River.
  “The mayors, if they adopt the recommendations as proposed, will essentially give TransLink a
  
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• Letters, Dec. 11: NDP's climate action plan is too expensive and impractical, reader says

  12-12-2018 00:22 via vancouversun.com
  We just had a short visit to Victoria and to Europe, where politicians are promising a real rosy green outlook for the future. By 2030 or 2040, we will not import any diesel or gasoline vehicles — we will be all-electric. They are all wet in the pants over these announcements.
  These politicians must think they can just pull magic right out of the wires and transformers already in place in the areas where they want electric vehicles. In our area, if half the cars were electric, our electric
  
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• Vancouver radio host says Chinese community taking China's side in Meng case

  12-12-2018 00:13 via vancouversun.com
  Calls have doubled to Sunny Chan’s Cantonese dialect afternoon call-in radio show on AM1320 since the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
  Callers overwhelmingly support China’s calls for Meng to be released, they feel she has been poorly treated, and there is concern that Chinese-Canadian politicians can’t openly discuss the case without alienating members of the Chinese community, said Chan.
  “The Chinese community is very concerned,” he said. Most callers beli
  
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