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• Vancouver Sun Run: Three reasons to sign up for the Vancouver Sun Run InTraining Clinic

  11-01-2019 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  Things aren’t getting off on the right foot.
  On Saturday a dental appointment will keep me from attending my first 2019 Vancouver Sun Run InTraining Clinic session.
  I’m just plain gutted.
  Last year’s InTraining Clinic was my first time at doing any sort of organized group anything.
  And, I started out as a bonafide skeptic.
  The thought of spending weekend mornings making small talk with strangers about how a good warmup can help avoid “tight hammies” made my soul cha
  
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• Man gets life for his part in Whistler swarming death of 19-year-old Luka Gordic

  11-01-2019 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  A man found guilty of second-degree murder for his part in the swarming death of a teenager outside a Whistler convenience store has been sentenced to life in prison.
  Two other youths who were convicted of manslaughter in the death of 19-year-old Luka Gordic of Burnaby were sentenced to 18 months in custody and another 18 months on probation.
  The three men can’t be named because they were juveniles at the time of the death.
  Prosecutors said at the trial that up to 15 people swarmed Gordic
  
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• Growing calls to put teeth into B.C. health-care coverage

  11-01-2019 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  When Gabrielle Peters saw a video last month of federal health critic Don Davies challenging the health minister to improve access to necessary dental care, she wondered if her plea had been heard.
  Still sore from having the last four of her teeth pulled on Nov. 20 because she couldn’t afford any other option, Peters, a freelance writer in Vancouver, had taken to Twitter two weeks before the video was posted online to ask people why they felt dental care should be added to publicly fu
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Early NFL playoff ratings spike bodes well for weekend games

  11-01-2019 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  The NFL and its broadcast partners kicked off the 2019 Super Bowl tournament with one of the best-rated wild-card weekends in the past quarter-century. The average U.S. TV audience for the four wild-card games was an impressive 28.35 million.
  Those bullish TV numbers bode well for Super Bowl LIII. The math typically shows that the bigger the wild-card audiences at the start of the post-season, the higher the count come the NFL championship game on the first Sunday in February.
  
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• Prince George high school locked down after weapon found on school grounds

  11-01-2019 23:39 via vancouversun.com
  A Prince George high school was locked down early Friday morning, following the discovery of a weapon on school grounds.
  The incident occurred at the beginning of the day at Kelly Road Secondary School, where office staff were alerted to a safety concern within the building shortly after students began to arrive.
  In a letter to parents, principal Steve MacRae explained that “a threat within our school was identified” and a lockdown was ordered as required by the district’s emer
  
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• In The House podcast: Bold predictions for the upcoming year in B.C. politics

  11-01-2019 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  http://media.blubrry.com/ith/p/archive.org/download/ith_01102019/ITH_01102019.mp3
  Postmedia columnists Mike Smyth and Rob Shaw start 2019 by examining critical issues and predicting possible outcomes.
  Is former Premier Christy Clark ready to politics after time on the sidelines? Will rideshare giants Uber and Lyft drive away from B.C. after encountering a number of roadblocks? Can federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh actually win a seat in Burnaby? Smyth and Shaw explore these topics and more in th
  
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• Calf born to endangered Pacific Northwest orcas: researcher

  11-01-2019 23:05 via vancouversun.com
  SEATTLE — Researchers say there’s a new calf among the population of critically endangered killer whales that live in the waters between Washington state and Canada.
  Ken Balcomb, founding director of the Center for Whale Research, told The Seattle Times that staff first saw the calf Friday at the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
  He said the youngster looks healthy, but survival rates for baby orcas are only about 50 per cent.
  The whales have been starving amid a dearth of s
  
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• Decision on Allan Schoenborn’s request for limited release not immediately due

  11-01-2019 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  The lawyer for the man who killed his three children and was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder says a B.C. Review Board will need at least a month to decide the latest request for temporary absences from a psychiatric facility.
  Rishi Gill says Allan Schoenborn was before the review board Thursday requesting limited, staff-supported community outings.
  Schoenborn has been held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam since 2010, after being convicted of killing
  
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• Judge gives final instructions to jury in murder trial of 12-year-old B.C. girl Monica Jack

  11-01-2019 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Supreme Court judge says jurors will need to use their common sense in assessing the reliability of an alleged confession by a man accused of killing a 12-year-old girl.
  In final instructions to the jury, Justice Austin Cullen says an undercover police officer posing as a crime boss provided financial and social inducements to Garry Handlen but the man was never threatened.
  An undated photo of Garry Taylor Handlen, charged with first-degree murder.
  Jurors are expected to start deliberatio
  
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• January is Alzheimer Awareness month. You can help reduce stigma by being patient and offering help. Learn more:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-01-2019 22:00 via twitter.com
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• Our community's filled with wonderful people committed to helping make the DNV one of the best places to live, work… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-01-2019 21:50 via twitter.com
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• This Week in History: 1922: The Sun denounces the menace of horse racing

  11-01-2019 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  Horse racing has been around Vancouver since the pioneer days.
  On Oct. 29, 1888, a race between steeds like Coquitlam Jim, Slow Dick and Bryan O’Lynn attracted so many local politicians that a city council meeting was cancelled for lack of a quorum.
  In 1889 and 1890, the masses thronged the sidewalks along Howe Street to watch Dominion Day horse races downtown. Racing fans and owners then began to agitate for a civic racecourse, and on Sept. 15, 1892, one opened at Hastings Park.
  It’
  
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• Agenda for Monday's 7pm Council workshop is now online. Main item is a presentation to Council on the pace of devel… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-01-2019 21:08 via twitter.com
  Agenda for Monday's 7pm Council workshop is now online. Main item is a presentation to Council on the pace of devel… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Home prices holding firm in most Metro Vancouver areas, and for condos: report

  11-01-2019 21:02
  
  Price growth has dramatically slowed across region, but still rose 2.1 per cent overall in fourth quarter, says Royal LePage
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: What will 2019 bring for the wine world?

  11-01-2019 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  Today we look ahead to the year in wine, and 2019 begins with a promised B.C. government inquiry into its highly questionable position as buyer, seller and regulator of the liquor market.
  The challenge is that the market is so artificial and the field so tilted in the favour of government, it’s difficult to believe anything useful will come out of yet another investigation, independent or not, unless the outcome is a complete reset. Don’t hold your breath.
  The constant manipulation o
  
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  11-01-2019 20:15 via twitter.com
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• Arson probed as one Merritt church destroyed, second one damaged

  11-01-2019 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  MERRITT — A nearly 150-year-old church has been destroyed by a suspicious fire in British Columbia’s southern Interior, one of two blazes at Merritt-area churches early Friday.
  The historic Murray United Church on Highway 5A in the Nicola Valley was built in 1876.
  Merritt Fire Rescue Department Capt. Carl Johnston says the single-room building was engulfed in flames by the time crews arrived and the structure could not be saved.
  The Crossroads Community Church in Merritt was also dam
  
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• Prolific B.C. writer's story the topic of He Speaks in Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  He Speaks Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering
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  Writer Rebecca Wigod first started talking with two-time Governor General’s Award winner, Order of Canada recipient and former Poet Laureate George Bowering about his life and work back in 2011.
  Now, after seven years and many interviews with the 83-year-old Bowering, Wigod has delivered the first biography of the widely acclaimed B.C. author (he has 100 books across genres to his credit).
  Out now from Talo
  
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• Birks bets on new generation

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jean-Christophe Bédos is on a mission to modernize Birks.
  As the president and chief executive officer of the 139-year-old Canadian jewelry company, he’s attempting to reinvigorate the historied Quebec-based company. Throughout his past six years with the retailer, Bédos, who boasts a long history with the French jewelry purveyors Boucheron and Cartier, has overseen the introduction of more youthful, “eccentric” and affordable offerings including the Muse Rib
  
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• UPDATE on gas leak: the gas leak has been stopped. Local traffic back to normal. No injuries reported. Area is now safe!

  11-01-2019 19:51 via twitter.com
  UPDATE on gas leak: the gas leak has been stopped. Local traffic back to normal. No injuries reported. Area is now safe!
  
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• Natural gas leak in the 2000 blk of Curling Road (near Cap Road & Marine Dr). Construction equipment cut the gas li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-01-2019 19:32 via twitter.com
  Natural gas leak in the 2000 blk of Curling Road (near Cap Road & Marine Dr). Construction equipment cut the gas li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tiny coffeeshops help owners save on rent in high-cost Vancouver, Toronto

  11-01-2019 19:11 via vancouversun.com
  Customers who don’t work in the building that houses Kento Kitayama’s tiny cafe in Gastown better be prepared to settle for takeout. He can only take orders through a little window facing the sidewalk.
  Iktsuarpok Coffee Stand, which opened late last month, has no seating and sparse furnishings. Kitayama could likely stand in the middle of the roughly 17-square-metre shop and reach out to touch the sink, refrigerator and shelving unit, counter, and espresso machine that mark the shop&
  
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  11-01-2019 19:00 via twitter.com
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• We're recruiting for a regular, full-time Planner 1. Click here for more information and to apply: ow.ly/XMFh30nhkSZ #NorthVan

  11-01-2019 17:51 via twitter.com
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• Richmond realtor Morning Yu fined $18,000 for professional misconduct

  11-01-2019 17:08 via vancouversun.com
  The Real Estate Council of B.C. has fined Richmond realtor Chen (Morning) Yu $18,000 for professional misconduct in a pair of real estate transactions.
  The council says Yu advertised and operated under the name Team Morning Yu while working for Metro Edge Realty, a move that had not been approved by the council.
  She was reprimanded for failing to disclose important information to a potential buyer in Richmond and failing to document records. The council says she instructed the buyer’s agen
  
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• Five things to do at Mount Washington

  11-01-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sitting down to strap on my snowboard, I take a moment to soak in the dazzling winter scene at the 1,588-metre summit of Mount Washington. Trees are drenched in buckets of heavy snow, mountain peaks glisten as far as the eye can see, and the ocean sparkles in the distance. It feels like I’m on top of the world.
  The parade of skiers and snowboarders gliding off the Eagle Express chairlift tingle with excitement as they strap on their gear and spring into action.
  “Are you ready?”
  
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• First responders investigate fowl mystery as lost chickens roam near Victoria

  11-01-2019 16:42 via vancouversun.com
  NORTH SAANICH — Police and firefighters north of Victoria had to work hard not to ruffle any feathers during an unusual roundup involving dozens of chickens.
  Personnel were called to five different locations on the Saanich peninsula Thursday to catch 91 hens.
  Officials quickly hatched a plan to herd the birds into an available tennis court while waiting for animal control crews to arrive.
  Central Saanich Const. Ann Piper says civilians helped with efforts to capture the mislaid egg layers
  
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• Town Talk: Revisiting folk from 2009 who helped bring about today

  11-01-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  2009 began somewhat in reverse to 2019. Back then, newly inaugurated Barack Obama occupied the White House and signs of a severe economic recession were declining. Here in B.C., gang violence increased dramatically just as we celebrated being assigned the 2010 Winter Olympics. Principal bidder Jack Poole would die before those low-snow games began. Famed architect Arthur Erickson perished, too, as would two of the 35 folk (and one fast ferry) portrayed on this page. Still, they and the 33 others
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Entrepreneurs can change the world if we let them

  11-01-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Brainpower, initiative and vision are the backbone of entrepreneurship. And entrepreneurship is the backbone of the economy.
  Committed intellectual persistence coupled with a desire to meet the needs of society can — and does — change the world. Entrepreneurs create ideas that become companies that become jobs, economic activity and taxes.
  Canadian entrepreneurs understand their role and they are reshaping our country, our cities and our world. In science, technology,
  
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• Former B.C. health minister counts himself among the cannabis-curious

  11-01-2019 05:23 via vancouversun.com
  Plenty has changed since former B.C. health minister Terry Lake took a job in the cannabis industry in 2017 and recreational pot became legal last October.
  In his new role as vice-president of corporate social responsibility and communications for Quebec-based Hexo Corp., he is meeting more people who have turned to the plant for health and wellness or to just “add a little around the edges,” rather than alter their minds, he said.
  After plenty of contemplation and research, he now c
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline: NEB releases draft conditions on marine protection

  11-01-2019 04:53 via vancouversun.com
  The National Energy Board would require the creation of a marine mammal protection program for the Trans Mountain pipeline in a series of draft conditions it has laid out before it considers the project.
  The focus of the review is to apply the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Species at Risk Act to project-related marine shipping, the board says in the document.
  The conditions mitigate potential risks to the environment and protect the public, it says.
  Releasing these draft conditio
  
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• Deal reached in northern B.C. pipeline impasse

  11-01-2019 04:53 via vancouversun.com
  SMITHERS — Hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation have reached a deal with the RCMP to allow a natural gas company access across a bridge that had been blocked in their territory.
  Following several hours of meetings, Chief Na’Moks told reporters Thursday that the agreement is between the chiefs and the RCMP to ensure the safety of the First Nation’s members after 14 arrests were made on Monday when a court injunction was enforced by police.
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• British Columbians care about food, not service, willing to overpay for a good meal: poll

  11-01-2019 04:36 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbians go to restaurants for the food, according to a new Research Co.  poll of provincial dining habits.
  That’s a truism, of course, but it stands in stark contrast to the other aspects of the dining experience that fail to move the needle for those dining out in the province. Only one in twenty B.C. residents, or five per cent, would go back to a restaurant where the service is great but the food is terrible.
  On the flipside, more than half of British Columbians, at
  
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• Eby has no regrets over the handling or rejection of electoral reform

  11-01-2019 03:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The architect of last year’s referendum on electoral reform has defended it against complaints that a fairer process and a less confusing ballot could have produced a vote in favour of proportional representation.
  “I think it was done fairly and provided a good result,” says Attorney General David Eby, who oversaw the entire process from drafting the enabling legislation to crafting the two-question ballot.
  “The ballot was very clear and people were
  
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• B.C. gaming policy branch overhauling crisis services for problem gamblers

  11-01-2019 03:06 via vancouversun.com
  Almost 2,400 people were referred to counselling by the province’s crisis line for problem gamblers last year, but only half actually attended.
  The current crisis-line service provider 211 British Columbia Services Society fields 3,243 calls a year, or 62 per week, and referred 2,373 people to a problem gambling counsellor.
  According to the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch’s annual report, 1,269 people received those services. Early intervention services and clinical counselling
  
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• City of North Vancouver to consider 5 pot shop applications - North Shore News

  11-01-2019 02:33
  City of North Vancouver to consider 5 pot shop applications  North Shore NewsFive potential pot shop operators are now in line to see if they can turn their green into gold in the City of North Vancouver. Among them are a government-run ...
  
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• 13-year-old Asher Paglaro missing in North Vancouver - Vancouver Courier

  11-01-2019 02:29
  13-year-old Asher Paglaro missing in North Vancouver  Vancouver CourierAsher Paglaro, 13-years-old, was last seen Wednesday, Jan. 9, in the company of his girlfriend on Mahon Ave in North Vancouver. Asher is described as 5' 6”, ...
  
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• Deal reached in northern British Columbia pipeline impasse

  11-01-2019 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  SMITHERS — Hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation have reached a deal with the RCMP to allow a natural gas company access across a bridge that had been blocked in their territory.
  Following several hours of meetings, Chief Na’Moks told reporters on Thursday that the agreement is between the chiefs and the RCMP to ensure the safety of the First Nation’s members after 14 arrests were made on Monday when a court injunction was enforced by police.
  He said re
  
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• Roosters Country Cabaret set to close after sale to Surrey-based chain

  11-01-2019 01:52 via vancouversun.com
  Roosters Country Cabaret will close its doors for good this month after being sold to the Joseph Richard Group, a Surrey-based restaurant chain.
  The popular country and western-themed Pitt Meadows bar is inviting people to get on the guest list for its final weekend, and ride the mechanical bull one last time before it says goodbye on Sunday, Jan. 20.
  Extensive renovations will begin in the space the following month, as JRG, which has 25 restaurants in B.C. and Alberta, including
  
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• We're recruiting for a temporary full-time Project Coordinator. Click here to apply. ow.ly/XgFx30ngL2U #NorthVan

  11-01-2019 01:35 via twitter.com
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• The pop star prof: UBC retiree was the Ringo Starr of Czechoslovakia

  11-01-2019 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  Peter Petro spent almost four decades teaching European studies at UBC. But in a previous life, he was the Ringo Starr of Czechoslovakia.
  Honest.
  Petro was the drummer in The Beatmen, a Beatlesque quartet from Bratislava that took his native land by storm between 1964 and ’66.
  Western rock bands weren’t allowed behind the Iron Curtain in the early 1960s. So the band filled the void with the melodic guitar pop of songs like Let’s Make a Summer, Break It and The Enchanted Lie.The
  
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• Vancouver nightclub sex assault victim angry attacker gets two weeks

  11-01-2019 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  A young North Vancouver woman who was the victim of a brutal sexual assault during a pre-grad party is angry that her attacker will only spend two weeks in custody.
  The victim, who was 17 at the time of the incident and can’t be identified due to a publication ban, was attending the unsanctioned party at a Vancouver nightclub along with several hundred other young people, including the young offender, who was 16 and whose identity is also covered by the ban.
  The two went into a washroom st
  
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• Banksy artwork resurfaces in Whistler clothing store

  11-01-2019 01:27 via vancouversun.com
  Whistler has just increased its uniqueness quotient.
  In addition to having a luxury alpine village built on a garbage dump and so many Australians that it seems like a suburb of Sydney, it now can call itself home to an original artwork by English street artist Banksy.
  The work is called Bombing Middle England. The graffiti-style work isn’t in a traditional art gallery. It’s in a street-fashion clothing store called Jonathan+Olivia in Whistler Village.
  The art went up just before Chr
  
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• Police seek possible victims in voyeurism investigation at UBC campus

  11-01-2019 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  University RCMP are investigating a case of voyeurism in a public bathroom at the main University of B.C. campus and are hoping any other victims will come forward.
  On Jan. 3, an individual was using a public bathroom in the 6300-block of Agronomy Road around 10 p.m. when a cellphone was spotted coming over the top of the bathroom stall.
  “The cellphone was described as having a distinctive case – black with a cubed and striped pattern,” according to a University RCMP release.
  T
  
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• Major illegal gambling, money laundering investigation now in hands of Crown counsel

  11-01-2019 00:20 via vancouversun.com
  A major illegal gambling and money laundering investigation by B.C.’s anti-gang task force that resulted in nine arrests 18 months ago is now in the hands of Crown counsel.
  The Crown lawyers will determine whether to lay charges after police say they uncovered a network believed to be connected to illegal gambling houses and money laundering.
  The investigation, led by a group within the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C., also alleged the Lower Mainland-based organized c
  
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• Banksy art work resurfaces in Whistler clothing store

  11-01-2019 00:02 via vancouversun.com
  Whistler has just increased its uniqueness quotient.
  In addition to having a luxury alpine village built on a garbage dump and so many Australians that it seems like a suburb of Sydney, it now can call itself home to an original art work by English street artist Banksy.
  The work is called Bombing Middle England. The graffiti-style work isn’t in a traditional art gallery. It’s in a street-fashion clothing store called Jonathan+Olivia in Whistler Village.
  The art went up just before Ch
  
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