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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Manager, Financial Planning. Click here to apply. ow.ly/ti5x30neVJt #NorthVan

  08-01-2019 23:14 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Manager, Financial Planning.Click here to apply. ow.ly/ti5x30neVJt#NorthVan
  
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• Burnaby asks companies to remove clothing donation bins

  08-01-2019 23:07 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Burnaby is asking all not for profit companies in the city to remove their clothing donation bins following several fatalities, including one in West Vancouver just over a week ago.
  City manager Lambert Chu said the city has sent letters to all the charitable organizations with bins on private property, asking they be removed until better safety measures are in place.
  Chu said the city does not allow donation bins on city property, except for the ones at the Eco-Centre recycling depo
  
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• DYK our #CityParkStewards have been making a difference in our community since 2001? Want to get involved? The next… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 23:00 via twitter.com
  DYK our #CityParkStewards have been making a difference in our community since 2001? Want to get involved? The next… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Xmas tree hanging around? Maybe it's time to kick it to the curb! To put it out with your green waste, cut it into… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 22:40 via twitter.com
  Xmas tree hanging around? Maybe it's time to kick it to the curb! To putit out with your green waste, cut it into… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Defence urges jury to find man guilty of manslaughter if it believes he killed B.C. girl

  08-01-2019 22:35 via vancouversun.com
  A defence lawyer says if jurors believes his client’s confession to killing a British Columbia girl more than 40 years ago, then they should conclude he snapped and didn’t intend to commit murder.
  Patrick Angly told a B.C. Supreme Court jury that if they accept Garry Handlen’s confession to a undercover police officer, they could make a finding of manslaughter in the death of 12-year-old Monica Jack in 1978.
  Angly continued to urge jurors to reject what he says was a false conf
  
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• Bridal style: Top five wedding trends for 2019

  08-01-2019 22:34 via vancouversun.com
  Fleur Luxury Wedding Show & Forum
  When: Jan. 13 
  Where: JW Marriott Parq Vancouver 
  Tickets and info: $40 plus taxes and fees; fleurvancouver.com Are rustic touches still en vogue for weddings in 2019? And is there a new ‘it’ hue?
  Planning a picture-perfect wedding can be tricky — without taking into consideration how quickly trends seem to change. So, to help guide you in your pre-wedding prep, we asked Aly Armstrong, the founder of 
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books for the week of January 5

  08-01-2019 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  1. Iron Road West: An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways — Derek Hayes (Harbour Publishing).
  2. On the Rocks with Jack Knox: Islanders I Will Never Forget — Jack Knox (Heritage House Publishing).
  3. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  4. The Hidden Life of Trees: Illustrated Edition — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books).
  5. E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island — Robert Amos (TouchWood
  
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• International: 15 bestselling books for the week of January 5.

  08-01-2019 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  Becoming, is the top selling book written by former First Lady Michelle Obama.
  1. Becoming  by Michelle Obama
  2. Brawl of the Wild (Dog Man #6)  by Dav Pilkey
  3. The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 13)  by Jeff Kinney
  4. Girl, Wash Your Face  by Rachel Hollis
  5. Homebody  by Joanna Gaines
  6. The Reckoning  by John Grisham
  7. The Point of it All  by Charles Krauthammer
  8. The Night Before Christmas  by Moore/Birmingham
  9. The Wonky Donkey  by Craig Smit
  
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• Surrey RCMP seeking dashboard camera video of suspect in assault

  08-01-2019 21:18 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey police are seeking possible dashboard camera footage of a person who hugged a woman from behind and tried to muffle her screams.
  On Jan. 3 around 5:30 a.m., a woman in her 20s was walking in the 12500-block of 72 Avenue when a man came from behind and bear hugged her.
  When the victim screamed, the man tried to cover her mouth with his hand. She then bit the man’s hand and was able to struggle out of his grip and run away.
  Surrey RCMP are now hoping members of the public will come fo
  
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• Video: Expert B.C. real estate predictions for 2019

  08-01-2019 20:49
  
  Glacier Media's real estate editorial director Joannah Connolly summarizes market forecasts live on City TV's BT Vancouver
  
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• Climate change doubled risk of B.C.'s record-setting 2017 wildfires: study

  08-01-2019 20:38 via vancouversun.com
  Research from Environment Canada says climate change at least doubled the risk for British Columbia’s record-setting 2017 wildfire season.
  The newly published study adds that global warming is likely to have increased the amount of land scorched in the fires by up to 11 times.
  Study author Megan Kirchmeier-Young says scientists are increasingly able to demonstrate the role that climate change plays in specific events.
  She says more researchers — using new statistical methods, better
  
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• Things could get a little messy today, with wet snow possible before the rain sets in. Our crews busy have been bus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 20:17 via twitter.com
  Things could get a little messy today, with wet snow possible before the rain sets in. Our crews busy have been bus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Check out this $18.6M luxury mansion, perfect for winter (PHOTOS)

  08-01-2019 20:09
  
  Indoor pool with ocean vistas and a sunroom with fireplace – this newly listed home knows the weather
  
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• Travelling Illusionists bring their magic to Vancouver - The North Bay Nugget

  08-01-2019 20:05
  Travelling Illusionists bring their magic to Vancouver  The North Bay NuggetThe Illusionists — Live From BroadwayWhen: Jan. 15-20Where: Queen Elizabeth TheatreTickets: starting at $30.50; BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca, ticketmaster.ca ...
  
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• Travelling Illusionists bring their magic to Vancouver

  08-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Illusionists — Live From Broadway
  When: Jan. 15-20
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets: starting at $30.50; BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca, ticketmaster.ca, and 1-855-985-5000
  On the heels of a multi-city tour and run on Broadway, The Illusionists is coming to Vancouver. Touted as “the world’s best-selling touring magic show,” it features five practitioners of the magic arts, including An Ha Lim, Colin Cloud, Adam Trent, Jonathan Goodwin, and Darcy Oake. Originally from W
  
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• Sibling bond strong for Kongos as they take control with 1929: Part 1

  08-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kongos
  1929 Tour, with guests
  When: Jan 13, 7 p.m.
  Where: Imperial
  Tickets: $25 to $265, at livenation.comKongos formed in 2003 in Phoenix, and put out their self-titled debut four years later in 2007. The sibling band — South African-born and raised brothers Johnny (accordion, keyboards, vocals), Jesse (drums, percussion, vocals), Dylan (bass, guitar, vocals) and Danny Kongos (guitar, vocals) — released Lunatic in 2012, topping the charts in their ancestral homeland with the single
  
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• Kasey Wilson: Make pasta magic with four simple ingredients

  08-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lidia Bastianich, the acclaimed Italian chef and author, was honoured at a wine dinner I attended a few years ago at La Terrazza restaurant.
  I was seated next to her at the head table, and because I arrived first some guests thought I was Lidia. When I told her later about the mistaken identity, she exclaimed, “That’s because we’re both so beautiful!” That evening spent in her charming company is one I won’t soon forget.
  One of Bastianich’s many roles is as a
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Commercial property values rise 18 per cent in past year: B.C. Assessment

  08-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s Pacific Centre shopping mall and several other major Metro Vancouver shopping centres have topped the list of most valuable commercial properties in the Lower Mainland, according to data provided by B.C. Assessment.
  The Cadillac Fairview-owned downtown Vancouver mall was valued at $2.24 billion by B.C. Assessment, which completes annual property value assessments used by municipalities to set property tax rates.
  Other Lower Mainland major shopping centres also topped the list.
  
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• Feds didn't fully assess requirements in B.C. towing vessel contract, tribunal says

  08-01-2019 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Canada’s International Trade Tribunal says the federal government should reassess its decision to award a contract for two emergency towing vessels off the coast of British Columbia.
  The $67-million contract was awarded by Public Services and Procurement Canada in August to Atlantic Towing Ltd. and the boats are now in operation.
  They are to be used on contract by the Canadian Coast Guard to improve its ability to tow away broken-down vessels in B.C. waters before they becom
  
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• Commercial real estate: New pop-up shops coming to two B.C. malls

  08-01-2019 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  Shoppers are going to be seeing several new pop-up shops at two B.C. malls after Ivanhoe Cambridge reached a deal with Storefront, an online service that matches retailers with short-term spaces for lease.
  The new agreement will include the online listing of idle shopping space at Guildford Town Centre in Surrey and Mayfair Shopping Centre in Victoria.
  The listing service, sort of like Airbnb for retail, makes available a variety of sizes and layouts, from large spaces and retail units to smalle
  
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• JFL Northwest 2019 adds Fred Armisen, Steve-O, Dave Attell

  08-01-2019 19:01 via vancouversun.com
  The JFL Northwest 2019 line-up just got bigger.
  Fred Armisen, Steve-O of Jackass fame and Dave Attell are among the names being added to the line-up for next month’s comedy festival.
  A Valentine’s Day live taping of the SuperMega podcast and a second live taping of the Girls Gotta Eat podcast have also been added.
  Armisen’s Comedy for Musicians but Everyone is Welcome show takes place Feb. 16 at 9:30 p.m. at the Vogue Theatre. He’s best known for his time on NBC’s S
  
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• Wet snow in the forecast for Metro Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  08-01-2019 18:15
  Wet snow in the forecast for Metro Vancouver  North Delta ReporterAccumulations will mostly be inland and at higher terrain.
  
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• Have you checked out your 2019 Recycling, Green Can & Garbage Guide? It's full of great info & tips. If you don't h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 18:11 via twitter.com
  Have you checked out your 2019 Recycling, Green Can & Garbage Guide? It's full of great info & tips. If you don't h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• With possible wintry weather and minor snow accumulations at upper elevations today, #DNVSnow crew spent last night… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 17:59 via twitter.com
  With possible wintry weather and minor snow accumulations at upper elevations today, #DNVSnow crew spent last night… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• What to do and where to eat in Crete

  08-01-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s late afternoon in olive country. We’re in the west of Crete, driving the twisting mountain road that links Paleohora on the south coast with Chania in the north. From the car windows, the dominant colour is a silvery green as far as the eye can see. Row after row of olive trees carpet the rocky slopes, their leaves shimmering in the sun.
  In Kandanos we stop for refreshment at a rustic roadside taverna where elderly Cretan men and women while away their time fiddling with worry b
  
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• Daily Poll: Are you registered as an organ donor?

  08-01-2019 16:26 via vancouversun.com
  Last month, Kelsey Kilburn Jordan, a local woman whose battle with kidney-related illness was first documented in The Province in 1985, died.
  Jordan was born with polycystic kidneys and other complicated medical issues, prompting doctors to tell her parents to be prepared for her death. Instead, Jordan survived two kidney transplants, meningitis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, shingles, whooping cough and congestive heart failure.
  Kelsey Kilburn and her husband Ian Jordan on their wedding day, flanke
  
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• Snowfall warning for parts of Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  08-01-2019 16:00
  Snowfall warning for parts of Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteIt was not a white Christmas for very many on Vancouver Island, but the wet white stuff may be coming to other areas today — including the Malahat.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Possible wet snow this afternoon

  08-01-2019 15:10 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Environment Canada posted a special weather statement Tuesday for Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and the Sunshine Coast, saying the regions could see snow this afternoon. The agency says rain will likely be mixed with snow over higher terrain and inland, though it’s unlikely any snow will stick around. Tuesday’s temperature is expected to reach around 4 C. More rain is expected overnight and on Wednesday, with the mercury expected to climb back up to
  
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• Blood moon to grace Vancouver skies Jan. 20

  08-01-2019 06:18 via vancouversun.com
  Celestial lovers mark Jan. 20 on your diary, or set a reminder, because a total lunar eclipse will be gracing the skies over Metro Vancouver starting at 8:41 p.m. that night.
  According to Gary Boyle, a columnist with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, a lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, earth and moon line up perfectly.
  This doesn’t occur every month, as the moon has a slight incline in its orbit and often misses earth’s shadow. A lunar eclipse is simply the full moon sliding
  
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• Company laundered up to $220 million, B.C. civil forfeiture office alleges

  08-01-2019 05:59 via vancouversun.com
  An illegal Richmond money business was laundering as much as $220 million a year, the B.C. civil forfeiture office alleges in a lawsuit launched to seize property and assets valued at more than $4 million.
  A couple linked to the money service business — Silver International — had criminal charges for money laundering stayed without explanation by federal prosecutors in November.
  Now, B.C. crown prosecutors are seeking to use the province’s civil forfeiture laws to sei
  
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• Safeway apology and gift card enough after woman was told sex joke in aisle: Tribunal

  08-01-2019 05:20 via vancouversun.com
  A Safeway management decision to provide an emailed apology and a $250 gift card was enough compensation for a shopper who was told a foul and sexually-charged joke by an employee, according to a recent B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling.
  The ruling states the incident occurred in mid-October 2017 when Brianne Duke and a family member were shopping at Burnaby’s Kensington Square Safeway.Duke said that she was approached by an employee who said to her “I have an inappropriate
  
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• History of HIV told by Vancouver artists in new gallery show

  08-01-2019 04:56 via vancouversun.com
  Since 1987, Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr has taken thousands of pills to keep HIV/AIDS at bay.
  In the process he has collected vast quantities of pill bottles that, considering the outsized role the medication had played in saving his life, has made their way into his work in a series of self-portraits.
  “I have cartons full of pill boxes and all that sort of thing collecting in my studio, so I tried to do something creative with them rather than have them accumulate in the landfill.”
  T
  
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• After 33 years of defying the odds, Kelsey Kilburn Jordan — mother, volunteer, lover of the stage — dies

  08-01-2019 04:51 via vancouversun.com
  Time, in the end, still doesn’t prepare you for the loss of a child.
  Kelsey Kilburn Jordan, a remarkable woman from Steveston whose early health struggles The Province documented from her birth in 1985, died Dec. 16 from kidney-related illness, leaving behind a husband and daughter in England, and parents and a brother in the Lower Mainland.
  “It’s a shock, it’s upsetting, we’re grieving,” Barb Kilburn said. “It’s a parent’s worst fear, it was
  
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• Fourteen people arrested after RCMP break down anti-pipeline checkpoint

  08-01-2019 04:48 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP have breached a gate that a northern B.C. First Nation had erected to block access to a natural-gas pipeline project.
  Officers broke through a blockade on Morice River Forest Service Road, southwest of Houston, on Monday afternoon to enforce a B.C. Supreme Court injunction order, arresting 14 people, said RCMP.
  A post on the Wet’suwet’en Access Point Facebook page claimed police broke through the checkpoint gate with “brutal force.” It said protesters
  
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• B.C. nurses negotiate pricey premium designed to force additional hiring

  08-01-2019 03:59 via vancouversun.com
  A tentative contract negotiated by the B.C. Nurses’ Union for over 50,000 nurses is rich with bonuses that could far exceed the contract’s $3.99 billion in base costs paid by taxpayer-funded hospitals and other health facilities.
  Details of the tentative agreement obtained by Postmedia show significant gains made by the BCNU. The deadline for ratification of the 2019–2022 contract by registered, psychiatric and licensed practical nurses is Jan. 21.
  While the base wages stick to
  
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• Local ride-hailing app Kater coming to taxis in B.C.

  08-01-2019 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  Kater cabs are coming to Vancouver.
  B.C.’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure revealed late Monday that the Vancouver Taxi Association has struck a deal with Kater — a Surrey-based tech company — to use its app-based technology “in some taxis in the Lower Mainland.” The technology is similar to Uber and Lyft, where a passenger uses an app on their smartphone to hail a cab and pays through that app.
  According to the government statement, the ministry
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: NDP efforts fail to clear B.C. protest camp peacefully

  08-01-2019 03:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — After taking great political credit for the $40-billion LNG Canada development, the New Democrats ran for cover Monday as police moved to clear a protest encampment that endangered the project.
  The Unist’ot’en encampment, organized by a holdout First Nations clan, sits squarely in the path of the proposed natural gas pipeline that would feed the giant LNG terminal in Kitimat.
  On the weekend, cabinet minister Doug Donaldson had made a courtesy call to the Unist&r
  
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• RCMP break up northern B.C. First Nation's pipeline checkpoints

  08-01-2019 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP have reportedly breached a gate that a northern B.C. First Nation had erected to block access to a natural-gas pipeline project.
  Reports say the officers broke through a blockade on Morice River Forest Service Road, southwest of Houston, Monday afternoon.
  The checkpoint was one of two manned by members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation.
  The first, which has been in place for almost a decade, was set up by the Unist’ot’en, a house group of the Gilseyhu clan. It in
  
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• Safeway apology and gift card enough after woman told sex joke

  08-01-2019 02:25 via vancouversun.com
  A Safeway management decision to provide an emailed apology and a $250 gift card was enough compensation for a shopper who was told a foul and sexually-charged joke by an employee, according to a recent B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling.
  The ruling states the incident occurred in mid-October 2017 when Brianne Duke and a family member were shopping at Burnaby’s Kensington Square Safeway.Duke said that she was approached by an employee who said to her “I have an inappropriate
  
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• Operations suspended at B.C.'s Mount Polley mine due to declining copper prices

  08-01-2019 02:25 via vancouversun.com
  WILLIAMS LAKE — Imperial Metals Corp. says it is suspending operations at its Mount Polley mine in south-central British Columbia due to declining copper prices.
  The gold and copper mine was the site of a 2014 tailings dam collapse that was one of the largest environmental disasters in the province’s history.
  Imperial Metals said in a news release Monday that the suspension plan includes milling of low-grade stockpiles which is expected to extend operations to the end of May 2019.
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• Recall campaign revs up against B.C. Speaker Darryl Plecas

  08-01-2019 02:14 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – A recall campaign targeting Speaker of the legislature Darryl Plecas from office will begin at the end of January, says the organizer.
  Robin Roy, who runs the BCrecall2018 Facebook page, said his group plans to submit recall paperwork to Elections B.C. in the last week of the month to target Plecas, the MLA for Abbotsford South.
  “If it gets approved, we’ll be starting as soon as the start of February and running for the 60 days to collect all the campaign signatures,
  
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• Richmond man who killed wife in 1994 seeks bail pending review of his murder conviction

  08-01-2019 02:13 via vancouversun.com
  A man who was convicted of murdering his wife in Richmond nearly 25 years ago was in court Monday seeking to be released on bail pending a review of his case ordered by the federal justice minister.
  In November 2001, Wade Skiffington was found guilty by a B.C. Supreme Court jury of the September 1994 second-degree murder of Wanda Martin, 20, his common-law wife, after confessing to the crime following an undercover police operation.
  The victim had been shot six times in the apartment of a friend
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP investigate illegal tree cutting on public land - North Shore News

  08-01-2019 02:03
  North Vancouver RCMP investigate illegal tree cutting on public land  North Shore NewsNorth Vancouver RCMP are stumped. Someone has been illegally cutting down trees in a wooded area next to Inter River Park. Police have been investigating ...
  
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• After 33 years of defying the odds, Kelsey Kilburn — mother, volunteer, lover of the stage — dies

  08-01-2019 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  Time, in the end, still doesn’t prepare you for the loss of a child.
  Kelsey Kilburn, a remarkable woman from Steveston whose early health struggles The Province documented from her birth in 1985, died Dec. 16 from kidney-related illness, leaving behind a husband and daughter in England, and parents and a brother in the Lower Mainland.
  “It’s a shock, it’s upsetting, we’re grieving,” Barb Kilburn said. “It’s a parent’s worst fear, it was certai
  
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• Cannabis business landscape evolving quickly in B.C.

  08-01-2019 01:43 via vancouversun.com
  Hundreds of businesses are springing up in response to the legalization of recreational cannabis and they will require thousands of employees.
  “At one point last year, we had more than 1,000 people on our waiting list to take our cannabis business courses,” said James McCartney, senior manager of emerging business at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
  KPU’s non-credentialed cannabis curriculum is going into its fourth year and requires constant tweaking as the business and r
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Clerk - Permits. Click here to apply. ow.ly/zdda30ne4jV #NorthVan

  08-01-2019 01:33 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Clerk - Permits.Click here to apply. ow.ly/zdda30ne4jV#NorthVan
  
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• No council meeting today. Council is back to business January 14th. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/Yp6QxWBjj2

  08-01-2019 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  No council meeting today. Council is back to business January 14th. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/Yp6QxWBjj2
  
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• Attn #NorthVan: 200 blk E8th/E9th are closed for filming 5AM - 5PM Tuesday January 8th. Ridgeway Parents: Please a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 01:16 via twitter.com
  Attn #NorthVan: 200 blk E8th/E9th are closed for filming 5AM - 5PM Tuesday January 8th.Ridgeway Parents: Please a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Prime Minister invited to brown bag lunch with Kamloops pro-development group

  08-01-2019 01:13 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — A resources advocacy group will serve bagged lunches on Wednesday outside the venue of a pricey fundraiser event hosted by the Liberal Party of Canada, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to drum up support before the Oct. 21 federal election.
  “The average person does not go out and spend $300 for lunch too often, but the average person does go and put their bagged lunch and put their work boots on and go to work — and that’s what we’re trying to
  
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