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• Vancouver's Serinda Swan gets real in new CBC drama Coroner

  05-01-2019 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  Coroner
  Where: CBC
  When: Jan. 7, 9 p.m.
  Info: cbc.caSerinda Swan felt there was more to her new TV character coroner Jenny Cooper than the study of bodily fluids, skin tissue and blood spray patterns.
  Swan felt Cooper, the lead in the new CBC drama Coroner, had an internal life that was also ripe for dissection.
  “I really want to keep her as human as possible. I don’t want her to be a coroner that happens to be a person. I wanted her to be a person who happens to be a coroner,&r
  
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• Mudslide cleared from track in White Rock, but Amtrak service remains suspended

  05-01-2019 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The company that operates a train corridor that was blocked by a mudslide near White Rock, B.C., says it has cleared the path of debris.
  BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas says crews used cranes to remove debris and were able to clear the way for freight train service to resume.
  He says Amtrak’s passenger service between Vancouver and Seattle remains suspended.
  The American passenger rail company suspended service on its Cascade line at noon on Friday, and says service is
  
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• Is a tent a home? B.C. judge rules OK to search homeless person's tent without warrant

  05-01-2019 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  A provincial court judge has ruled it was OK for police to search a homeless man’s tent for drugs without a warrant.
  In a voir dire hearing, Provincial Court Judge Wilson Lee had to determine whether alleged drug dealer Louis Andrew Picard’s tent, where he lives in Vancouver’s Railtown neighbourhood, is considered a home and whether the police should have obtained a warrant before they searched the tent.
  Picard is charged with three counts of possession for the purpose of traff
  
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• What another great year! Here are a few highlights from 2018 in the City. #NorthVan #ILoveMyCity 💗 https://t.co/brEY8MyryW

  05-01-2019 21:00 via twitter.com
  
  What another great year! Here are a few highlights from 2018 in the City. #NorthVan #ILoveMyCity 💗 https://t.co/brEY8MyryW
  
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• 2 Vancouver businesses open city's first legal pot shops - North Island Gazette

  05-01-2019 20:54
  2 Vancouver businesses open city's first legal pot shops  North Island GazetteEvergreen Cannabis Society and City Cannabis Co. have received all needed licenses to operate.
  
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• Meet the chef: Curtis Luk favours rustic Italian flavours

  05-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Curtis Luk prefers to stay true to his pedigree with rustic regional Italian cooking at Cibo Trattoria and UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar. Born in Hong Kong, Curtis started his culinary career young in Waterloo, Ontario, and then staging for chef Marc Lepine at Atelier in Ottawa. He joined Top Chef Canada runner-up Trevor Bird to help open Fable in 2012, before becoming the executive chef at The Parker and Bambudda. Chef Luk, too, was a contestant on the second and fifth seasons of Top Chef Ca
  
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• Demolished houses turned into roadbeds, fuel and furniture

  05-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The cabinetry and wood details in Adam Corneil’s renovations have a decidedly rustic feel, because the wood he uses can be 50 or even 100 years old.
  His renovation firm, Naturally Crafted, builds homes and furniture using wood reclaimed from demolitions.
  Depending on the client and the work site, the wood that Naturally Crafted takes out of a site during demolition goes straight back in when they build.
  In some renovations, 100 per cent of the wood they use is salvaged from the d
  
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• 2019 hair trends: Ravishing reds that make a statement

  05-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  While rich browns, copper red, ash blondes and intentional grey hair tones are still popular, vivid reds are trending strong for 2019.
  Red is more versatile than you think, but it definitely comes with commitment.  The good thing is that Goldwell has several incredibly effective options for consumers looking to make a change — and statement — with their hair.I created this multi-dimensional red colour by first placing foil slices of vibrant violet red throughout the hair using f
  
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• Vigilance urged for B.C. backcountry enthusiasts as avalanche risk remains

  05-01-2019 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The risk of a natural avalanche is decreasing in many parts of British Columbia but officials warn that human caused slides are still likely.
  Avalanche Canada says natural avalanche activity is expected to decline through this weekend for the Lower Mainland but the snowpack in the Sea to Sky area is still primed for human triggering and hazards are higher at alpine elevations along the south coast.
  The risk is higher on both sides of the Alberta boundary, where Parks Canada say
  
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• Nanaimo 'adventure' traveller detained in Syria, missing for more than a month

  05-01-2019 18:31 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man who went to Syria seeking adventure has been detained in the war-ravaged country, and Canada’s foreign ministry says there is little it can do to help him.
  The mother of the man from Nanaimo said he has not been in touch for more than a month and is pleading for help getting him home.
  Kristian Lee Baxter, 44, is seen in this undated handout photo. A British Columbia man who went to Syria seeking adventure has been detained in the war-ravaged country, and Canada’s foreign m
  
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• 🎄 It's time to bid farewell to your Christmas tree. @NVCFD Tree Chip-Up TODAY 8:30am-4:30pm Park & Tilford Rona. Ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-01-2019 17:00 via twitter.com
  🎄 It's time to bid farewell to your Christmas tree. @NVCFD Tree Chip-Up TODAY 8:30am-4:30pm Park & Tilford Rona. Ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Haven offers farmhouse chic in South Surrey

  05-01-2019 14:57 via vancouversun.com
  Park Ridge Homes is a local, family-owned construction company based in Surrey that’s been around for more than 30 years, and according to manager Brad Hughes, it has an excellent reputation in the industry.
  “We are very well known for delivering some of the highest quality of housing in the region, no matter what type it is,” Hughes said. “Quite often, a house that we built 20 or 25 years ago and will be put up for sale and it will say in the listing details that it&rsqu
  
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• The Home Front: Living colour

  05-01-2019 14:42 via vancouversun.com
  Colour preferences carry with them a lot of emotion, and this is especially true when it comes to decorating our homes, says interior designer Kendall Ansell.
  Pantone’s Colour of the Year is always big news in the design world — be it interiors, fashion or automotive — and its colour of the year for 2019, Living Coral. is one that has people talking.
  “It’s a bit of a weird colour for me, this year because I think it sends both a positive and negative messa
  
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• Cloverdale residence a roomy family home

  05-01-2019 14:29 via vancouversun.com
  5927 169A Street, Cloverdale
  Type: Four-bedroom, three-bathroom detached
  Size: 2,306 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $839,400
  Listed for: $999,900
  Sold for: $991,000
  Sold on: Oct. 13
  Days on market: 25
  Listing agent: Scott Moe and Toni Kelly at ReMax Treeland Realty
  Buyers agent: Dan Fontaine at Sutton Group — Seafair Realty
  The big sell: West Cloverdale is the location for this two-storey home that was built in 1987 on a tree-lined cul-de-sac. The interior has a natural flow starting with t
  
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• Vancouver Police Department swears in 19 new recruits from all walks of life

  05-01-2019 08:32 via vancouversun.com
  When Madison McCardell swore to uphold her oath as a constable in the Vancouver Police Department on Friday, she became the third generation in her family to serve with the force.
  And just as Staff Sgt. Percy McCardell, who joined the VPD in 1939, gave his son Jim his badge when he joined in 1985, so too will Jim give his daughter Madison her badge.
  “I wish everyone’s parents could give them their badge, it’s so special,” Madison said as her father stood beside her beamin
  
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• Douglas Todd: Half of Indian athletes who came to Canada failed to go home

  05-01-2019 06:00 via vancouversun.com
  Almost half the kabaddi players who come to Canada to play the rough sport don’t return to India.
  Instead, an internal Immigration Department report reveals more than 120 professional kabaddi players in a three-year period have either vanished within Canada, applied for refugee status or been able to obtain a work visa.
  The kabaddi players, most of whom come from village teams in the Punjab region of India, come to Canada to play for about $50,000 through a season of large tournaments, esp
  
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• Whistler Blackcomb sets December snowfall record

  05-01-2019 04:13 via vancouversun.com
  It was a December to remember at Whistler Blackcomb.
  Heavy snowfall in the final days of 2018 led to a record 384 centimetres of fresh snow in December, according to daily statistics compiled by the mountain, besting the 380 cm of snow that fell in December of 1994.
  “It was a phenomenal holiday period and we’ve got a great base to start the season, particularly given the snow we’ve had in the first days of January,” said Whistler Blackcomb spokesman Marc Riddell. &ld
  
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• Mark L. Johnson: B.C. joins jurisdictions across North America embracing CBA model - Vancouver Sun

  05-01-2019 03:02
  Mark L. Johnson: B.C. joins jurisdictions across North America embracing CBA model  Vancouver SunI've been watching with great interest the debate over Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) in B.C., and I really just have one thing to say: Congratulations!
  
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• This Week in History: 1889 — the first Granville Street Bridge opens

  05-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The first Granville Street Bridge opened on Jan. 4, 1889, which was 130 years ago Friday.
  “It started in a clearing and ended in a forest,” Vancouver archivist Major James Matthews noted on a photo of the bridge. “It was constructed to give access to a slit in the towering forest known as the ‘North Arm Road,’ now Granville Street south, and shorten (the) route via old ‘North Arm Road,’ now Fraser Street.”
  North Arm refers to the north arm of the F
  
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• Mark L. Johnson: B.C. joins jurisdictions across North America embracing CBA model

  05-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve been watching with great interest the debate over Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) in B.C., and I really just have one thing to say: Congratulations!
  But let me expand on that. Common throughout North America, CBAs are also known as Project Labour Agreements or Community Workforce Agreements. Essentially, they’re deals between governments and/or contractors and unions that ensure projects are completed in ways that provide value to taxpayers and positively invest in communit
  
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• Kory Wilson: Everyone must do more toward reconciliation

  05-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Core to the act of reconciliation is working together for the betterment of all through giving and sharing. In the midst of our holiday season I think it’s apt to reflect on where we have been — and imagine a new year’s resolution for all Canadians.
  It has been over 70 years since “Indians” were granted the right to leave their reserve without a pass and 58 years since we gained the right to vote federally. Thirty-six years ago the Canadian Constitution was amended
  
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• Editorial: Removing donation bins isn't the full answer to deaths

  05-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  With seven people dying in clothing donation bins in Canada, including five in B.C., since 2015, it’s no wonder that governments are taking action to remove or seal the potentially deadly containers — at least until it can be worked out how to make them safe. University of B.C. engineering students are currently working on designs that would prevent people from getting into the bins.
  Some might argue that shutting down a system that recycles donated items that would otherwi
  
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• UPDATE: Missing Vancouver Island teenager located - North Delta Reporter

  05-01-2019 02:52
  UPDATE: Missing Vancouver Island teenager located  North Delta ReporterBrianna Fisher had been missing since December.
  
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• Giving up booze for Dry January reaps benefits months later, study finds

  05-01-2019 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  Interested in sleeping better, feeling better, gaining energy, losing weight, having better skin and concentration skills, and saving money by doing just one thing this new year?
  That one thing, which is becoming increasingly popular in the U.K. since it was introduced five years ago, gave some of the participants all that and more, according to a new study from the University of Sussex.
  The simple act was giving up booze for a month, Dry January. Still interested?
  Researchers found participants
  
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• Lawyer for Peschisolido and Co. cited by Law Society of B.C. for assisting immigrant investor fraud

  05-01-2019 02:32
  
  Lawyer Yvonne Hsu, a former member of Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido’s law firm, has been cited by the Law Society of British Columbia for alleged incompetence.
  
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• Lawyer for Peschisolido and Co. cited by Law Society for assisting fraud against immigrant investors

  05-01-2019 02:32
  
  Lawyer Yvonne Hsu, a former member of Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido’s law firm, has been cited by the Law Society of British Columbia for alleged incompetence.
  
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• B.C. reduces or eliminates PharmaCare deductibles for many low-income families

  05-01-2019 02:21 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. has eliminated PharmaCare deductibles for families earning less than $30,000 and reduced deductibles for families earning between $30,000 and $45,000.
  Low-income seniors and other individuals will see co-payments eliminated, meaning their prescriptions will be fully rather than partially paid by the plan, if they qualify, said provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix.
  Before the new rules kicked in Jan. 1, families that qualified for PharmaCare would have to pay some of their prescription cost
  
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• Wedding anniversary proving ominous for securities fraudster

  05-01-2019 02:02
  
  For some five years, Dec. 12 marked the joyous occasion of Paul Oei’s wedding anniversary. But in 2017, it also became the day when a B.C. Securities Commission panel ruled he committed securities fraud.
  
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• Skier dies in avalanche near Pemberton

  05-01-2019 01:43 via vancouversun.com
  PEMBERTON, B.C. — A skier has died in an avalanche in the backcountry near Pemberton, B.C., as officials warn the risk of slides remains high to extreme across the province and Alberta.
  Mounties say a group of skiers were in the area of Pebble Creek on Thursday when the avalanche happened, burying one person.
  Sgt. Rob Knapton says the other skiers found the person using their emergency beacon, but the skier did not survive.
  He says after the group of skiers dug out the body, they went to a
  
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• Vancouver pot shop receives two provincial licences

  05-01-2019 01:34 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver cannabis outlet has received provincial licences for two locations, making it the first provincially licensed dispensary chain in British Columbia.
  City Cannabis Company, which has been operating a dispensary at 610 Robson St. since 2016, received a provincial licence for the downtown Vancouver location on Friday, one day after getting the go-ahead to open a second shop at 7289 Fraser St.
  The Fraser St. location does not yet have a projected opening date.
  Formerly
  
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• 🐾 DYK we've got over 30 'Got Poop' dog waste bins located around the City? Find bin locations here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-01-2019 01:30 via twitter.com
  🐾 DYK we've got over 30 'Got Poop' dog waste bins located around the City? Find bin locations here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Surrey woman says $39.5-million Lotto Max win an 'amazing blessing'

  05-01-2019 01:26 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey’s Michelle De Roma with her Lotto Max cheque for $39.5 million.
  After realizing she’d won a $39.5-million Lotto Max jackpot, Michelle De Roma did something most winners don’t — she put the ticket in an envelope in a safe place and waited a week to claim her prize.
  The mother of three from Surrey said she wanted to focus on enjoying the holidays and celebrating her husband’s birthday before their world shifted.
  “This will change our life,” she said
  
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• Park board, police investigating after vandals damage trees at Spanish Banks

  05-01-2019 01:18 via vancouversun.com
  Eight trees at Vancouver’s Spanish Banks beach have been intentionally vandalized, and the park board is seeking the public’s help in locating the culprits.
  Park board staff discovered the vandalized trees late Thursday while making their regular rounds. Some time in the past two weeks the trees, part of a grove of conifers at the foot of Tolmie Street, had their tops sawed off and limbs removed.
  The park board is now working with the Vancouver police to investigate what park board c
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Shock-and-awe Twitter campaign anticipated byelection

  05-01-2019 01:17 via vancouversun.com
  Before the Nanaimo byelection was called, the first shots across the bow of the NDP minority government were fired last month by a lawyer who followed with an hourly fusillade of targeted Twitter attacks.
  Veteran defence counsel Kevin McCullough initiated the campaign with a fiery Dec. 10 missive to the premier, finance minister and attorney general, denouncing the province’s lack of funding for legal aid.
  “As a long-time supporter of the policies advanced by the New Democratic Party
  
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• B.C. reduces or eliminates deductibles for many low-income families

  05-01-2019 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. has eliminated Pharmacare deductibles for families earning less than $30,000 and reduced deductibles for families earning between $30,000 and $45,000.
  Low-income seniors and other individuals will see co-payments eliminated, meaning their prescriptions will be fully rather than partially paid by the plan, if they qualify, said provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix.
  Before the new rules kicked in Jan. 1, families that qualified for Pharmacare would have to pay some of their prescription cost
  
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• Congratulations to Firefighters Ellsworth, Emmett, Pantages, Macdonald, and Kirkpatrick on the successful completio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-01-2019 01:11 via twitter.com
  Congratulations to Firefighters Ellsworth, Emmett, Pantages, Macdonald, and Kirkpatrick on the successful completio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Clothing-bin removal could mean lost jobs for people with developmental disabilities

  05-01-2019 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  The withdrawal of 146 clothing donation bins by Inclusion B.C. could result in lost jobs and reduced funds for the 15 community groups that benefit from the organization’s clothing recycling program.
  Inclusion B.C. decided to withdraw the bins after a 34-year-old man died in a bin in West Vancouver last Sunday. The bin collected donations to support the Community Living Society, an Inclusion B.C. member organization.
  On Friday, Inclusion B.C. executive director Karla Verschoor said mo
  
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• Caps' Cup party went long into Ovie-time, Raiders sink like Senators

  05-01-2019 00:40 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Year
  It was a bullish year for Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals, both on the ice (winning their first Stanley Cup) and off the ice (redefining the concept of post-game partying).
  Owner Ted Leonsis celebrated a new US$35-million per annum regional sports television deal that was double the value of its predecessor and a franchise record Forbes valuation of US$725M, up a league-high 16 per cent over the previous year.
  Meanwhile, the Vegas Golden Knights didn’t win the S
  
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• Someone sawed the tops off eight trees at a Vancouver beach - North Delta Reporter

  05-01-2019 00:12
  Someone sawed the tops off eight trees at a Vancouver beach  North Delta ReporterThe park board says it appears the trees at Spanish Banks were intentionally vandalized.
  
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  05-01-2019 00:00 via twitter.com
  
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