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• Expert: Police may still suspect crime after ruling out luring claim

  29-12-2018 23:19 via vancouversun.com
  Even though Vancouver police announced Friday that they had no evidence to corroborate a claim a six-year-old girl was lured from a school playground in early December, a criminologist says that doesn’t mean they have ruled out that some crime has occurred.
  Police initially reported that on Dec. 5, the girl was in the playground at Sexsmith Elementary School on Columbia Street and West 59th Avenue when she was approached by a stranger who lured her away from the school, and
  
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• B.C. Hydro customers affected by windstorm should have power Jan. 1

  29-12-2018 21:47 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — BC Hydro says all customers who lost power in a powerful windstorm in southwestern British Columbia earlier in December should have it restored by New Year’s Day, as the north and eastern parts of the province brace for more winter storms.
  Crews have restored power to more than 700,000 customers since the windstorm hit on Dec. 20 and about 650 customer on the Gulf Islands remained without power Saturday.
  BC Hydro says many of the southern Gulf Islands were the hardest hit
  
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• Don't toss them! Plastic bags, styrofoam packaging, Christmas lights, small appliances & old electronics can be rec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-12-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Don't toss them! Plastic bags, styrofoam packaging, Christmas lights, small appliances & old electronics can be rec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Fridays $39.5M Lotto Max jackpot ticket purchased in Delta, B.C.

  29-12-2018 20:05 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Lottery Corp. says the winning ticket for Friday night’s $39.5 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot was purchased in south Delta, B.C.
  The Crown corporation says the single winning ticket matched all seven numbers from across Canada.
  It says the specific retail location where the ticket was sold will be announced after the winner has come forward.
  All lottery winners have 52 weeks from the draw date printed on their ticket to come forward to claim their prize.
  The odds of winning a Lo
  
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• Makeover: Shorter hair provides sophisticated silhouette

  29-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Linda Levesque, 66, works in sales and was looking for a stylist to help her with a hair update.
  Linda has fine and naturally wavy hair, which is frizzy and often unruly.  She was looking for a style that would best suit her face shape and lifestyle.  I felt that her length was elongating her face and looked outdated and tired.  I wanted to create a shorter, more sophisticated silhouette to not only enhance her face shape but also modernize her style.
  I shampooed her hair using KM
  
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• 2018 B.C. books of the year: The top 20 titles

  29-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing Co.).
  2. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  3. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC — Rob Shaw (Heritage House Publishing).
  4. 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — Stephen Hui (Greystone Books).
  5. E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island — Robert Amos (TouchWood Editions).
  
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• Pedestrian struck by vehicle in Surrey in critical condition

  29-12-2018 19:44 via vancouversun.com
  A pedestrian is in critical condition in hospital after being struck by a vehicle early Saturday in Surrey’s Newton neighbourhood.
  Surrey Mounties initially said the collision happened between a transit bus and a pedestrian. However they later clarified that the pedestrian was struck by a “passenger vehicle” shortly before 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of 68 Avenue and 152 Street.
  RCMP say the pedestrian suffered potentially life threatening injuries.
  Traffic in the area is clo
  
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• Chinese court orders new trial for Canadian in drug case following tensions over Meng's arrest in Vancouver

  29-12-2018 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  BEIJING — A Canadian man convicted of drug trafficking in China faces the possibility of more serious charges after a court ordered a new trial amid tensions over Canada’s arrest of a Chinese technology executive.
  Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was tried in 2016 but his case has been publicized by the Chinese press following the Dec. 1 arrest in Vancouver of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei, on U.S. charges related to trading with Iran.
  Since then, China has
  
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• Winter storm warning in effect for some B.C. highways

  29-12-2018 18:16 via vancouversun.com
  Environment Canada has posted a winter storm warning for several major B.C. highways.
  Up to 30 centimetres of snow is expected to fall on the Trans-Canada Highway from Eagle Pass to Rogers Pass and up to 25 centimetres is expected on the Yellowhead Highway, from Tête Jaune Cache to the Alberta Border.
  The federal weather agency warns that the heavy snow will create hazardous driving conditions.
  The storm will also bring strong winds later this morning, the agency said, which may cause
  
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• Give life with the gift of blood this holiday season! Blood Donor clinic TODAY @ Queen Mary Elementary. Book online… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-12-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  Give life with the gift of blood this holiday season! Blood Donor clinic TODAY @ Queen Mary Elementary. Book online… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Scientist, business owner seeking Liberal nomination to take on NDP's Singh

  29-12-2018 17:42 via vancouversun.com
  A scientist and a small business owner are vying for the Liberal nomination in the riding of Burnaby South, where the winner will go on to challenge NDP leader Jagmeet Singh in a federal byelection.
  Liberal spokesman Braeden Caley says biotechnology scientist Cyrus Eduljee and Karen Wang, who operates several daycare centres in Burnaby, will be on the ballot at the party’s nomination meeting today.
  File: Karen Wang’s candidate mugshot for the B.C. Liberal party for the B.C. Election
  
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• Pedestrian struck by transit bus in Surrey in critical condition

  29-12-2018 17:34 via vancouversun.com
  A pedestrian is in critical condition in hospital after being struck by a transit bus early Saturday in Surrey’s Newton neighbourhood.
  Surrey Mounties say the collision happened between a Coast Mountain Bus and a pedestrian shortly before 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of 68 Avenue and 152 Street.
  RCMP say the pedestrian suffered potentially life threatening injuries.
  Traffic in the area is closed and will be for an undetermined time as officers continue their investigation.
  All south
  
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• B.C. ticket claims Fridays $39.5M Lotto Max jackpot

  29-12-2018 17:30 via vancouversun.com
  Friday night’s $39.5 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot was claimed by a single ticket that was sold somewhere in British Columbia.
  The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 4 will be approximately $10 million.
  The winning numbers in Friday’s Lotto Max draw for an estimated $38 million: 5, 13, 14, 16, 17, 29 & 49.
  Bonus 18.
  In the event of any discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail.
   
  
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• Exploring the streets of Dublin

  29-12-2018 17:23 via vancouversun.com
  Dublin is a very old city with a modern outlook and a young population. It has none of the stuffiness of formal cities like Vienna and Paris and while I adore both those cities – Dublin is different.
  I feel it the moment I arrive, it is a vibe that says casual, fun and make yourself at home. The atmosphere is uniquely Irish and friendly.
  I spent two weeks there in early September – lovely weather and for once the Irish were not complaining about the weather, they too were tanned, fro
  
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• The Home Front: The freedom of decorating for New Year's Eve

  29-12-2018 14:49 via vancouversun.com
  Decorating your home for New Year’s Eve entertaining is different to decorating for Christmas — and can be a lot more fun, says interior designer Kendall Ansell of Kendall Ansell Interiors.
  “Your best Christmas is more of a put-together event,” says Ansell. “But I feel like New Year’s Eve, you can kind of go crazy and mix everything together. That’s my decorating tip for New Year’s. It’s when you bring out all your really fun stuff, your ridi
  
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• Coal Harbour home includes all the extras

  29-12-2018 14:05 via vancouversun.com
  1302 — 1333 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 945 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,012,000
  Listed for: $1,299,000
  Sold for: $1,215,000
  Sold on: Oct. 27
  Days on market: 11
  Listing agent: Holly Wood at Sotheby’s International Realty Canada
  Buyers agent: Sheila O’Brien at ReMax Select Properties
  The big sell: Listing agent Holly Wood reports that all the high-end Restoration Hardware furnishings were included in the sale of this two-bed
  
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• Using archeology to understand the past, present, future of climate change

  29-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  A photo from the tragic “Camp Fire,” the most destructive wildfire in California history, shows a house burned down to its foundation. Such images are difficult to process, particularly with 86 people dead.
  The image got me thinking about what archeological research can tell us about disasters and climate change. As an archeologist, I seek to answer questions about the choices we make, and the things we own and love.
  The blackened clay pots in the image above mean a lot to the owners
  
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• Peter Fricker: Animal gene-editing technology a slippery slope

  29-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  A controversial gene-editing technology may soon be widely applied to animals, with the livestock and biotech industries claiming that animals will be better off as a result. The truth is more complicated — and perhaps more disturbing — than they would have us believe.
  A Chinese scientist stunned the world last month when he revealed he had created the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), a powerful new technology that can
  
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• Navid Karimi: What most Canadians don’t know about the Canada Health Act, but should

  29-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  When the Canada Health Act was passed in 1984 by the Liberal government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Health Minister Monique Begin, it contained ambiguities that to this day many Canadians are not aware of and believe the principles it held were the perfect alternative to their costly healthcare.
  Canadians don’t know that medical clinics — as well as doctor’s practices — are private businesses, which means doctors can choose when and where they want to work and can simply
  
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• Letters, Dec. 29: Rental units always a problem for strata homeowners

  29-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  We have been owner/residents in our complex for about 25 years and have spent many of those years serving on our strata council. The rental suites have sometimes produced all of the problems mentioned in your letters section.
  This is not a new issue. Proposals to increase the percentage of rentals in our complex comes up on the AGM agenda every two or three years, always generates a lot of discussion, and is usually voted down (I cannot remember precisely, but there was a small increase about 20
  
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• Karen Robson: Why won’t Canada collect data on race and student success?

  29-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Although the impact of income inequality and gender on education outcomes is much discussed in Canadian government-level policy debates, factors of race and racism are seldom measured or addressed.
  However, as an education researcher comparing student outcomes in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Chicago and London, I can see Canada’s policy-makers have a big knowledge gap because they don’t deal with or have access to information regarding race.
  Students are impacted by factors of incom
  
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• David Webster: China cites human rights in spat with Canada

  29-12-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  When China’s government recently protested the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou, it used something rarely heard from Beijing — the language of individual human rights.
  “The detention without giving any reason violates a person’s human rights,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
  In using this sort of “rights talk,” China is not simply jumping on the fact that Meng was in detention on the 70th anniversary
  
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• Charges stayed in another major B.C. international crime case

  29-12-2018 02:58 via vancouversun.com
  Charges have been quietly stayed in another major B.C. case allegedly linked to the international drug trade.
  In October 2017, the RCMP announced two Metro Vancouver residents had been charged with importing cocaine and trafficking fentanyl after a large drug shipment sent through the Port of Vancouver was seized.
  “These seizures would definitely have impacted the transnational organized crime networks involved,” RCMP Supt. Cal Chrustie said at the time.
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• North Dakota State vs. South Dakota, ppd. to Saturday - Vancouver Sun

  29-12-2018 02:52
  North Dakota State vs. South Dakota, ppd. to Saturday  Vancouver SunFARGO, N.D. — The Summit League opener between North Dakota State and South Dakota was postponed on Friday night due to winter weather and ...
  
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• Charges stayed in another major B.C. case

  29-12-2018 01:32 via vancouversun.com
  Charges have been quietly stayed in another major B.C. case allegedly linked to the international drug trade.
  In Oct. 2017, the RCMP announced two Metro Vancouver residents had been charged with importing cocaine and trafficking fentanyl after a large drug shipment sent through the Port of Vancouver had been seized.
  “These seizures would definitely have impacted the transnational organized crime networks involved,” RCMP Supt. Cal Chrustie said at the time.
  Yan Chau &ld
  
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• Reminder: City Hall will be closed December 31 & January 1. Enjoy your weekend! cnv.org/OnlineServices #NorthVan https://t.co/OzFQJPHPmJ

  29-12-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  
  Reminder: City Hall will be closed December 31 & January 1. Enjoy your weekend! cnv.org/OnlineServices #NorthVan https://t.co/OzFQJPHPmJ
  
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• Winter blast for central B.C.; 1,600 still without power on Gulf Islands after windstorm

  29-12-2018 00:52 via vancouversun.com
  Much of central British Columbia is bracing for the next winter wallop, as Environment Canada has posted snowfall or winter-storm warnings for areas from the north coast all the way to the Alberta border.
  Up to 30 centimetres of snow is forecast for some regions as the storm crosses the province, while travel on Highway 1 from Eagle Pass to Rogers Pass is expected to be particularly treacherous before conditions ease late Saturday.
  Up to 30 centimetres of snow is forecast for some regions as the
  
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• Man acquitted after brawl outside Vancouver strip club

  29-12-2018 00:38 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver man has been acquitted of aggravated assault after striking two people with a metal post outside a downtown strip club last year.
  Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Wilson Lee said he accepted the evidence of Joshua Aguirre, who testified that he feared for his life when he picked up the metal stanchion and began swinging it during a heated altercation.
  Lee said in his ruling, released Dec. 18, that “the actions of Mr. Aguirre were objectively reasonable in the circumstances&rdqu
  
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