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• Holt Renfrew seeks liquor licence for patio events in Vancouver

  26-01-2019 23:48 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council will vote this week on a report recommending upscale retailer Holt Renfrew be granted a liquor licence to hold events at its downtown Vancouver store.
  The store is requesting a 60-person liquor licence for booked events to be held on an outdoor and indoor patio located on the top floor at 737 Dunsmuir St.
  The report says the proposed venue would have minimal impact on the surrounding area and will only be in operation during events such as fashion shows and product la
  
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• US Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina enters hospice care - Vancouver Sun

  26-01-2019 23:19
  US Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina enters hospice care  Vancouver SunRALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican congressman who has represented North Carolina for over two decades has entered hospice care.A news release issued ...
  
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• Test your recycling sorting skills with #CitySort. Sort materials correctly and win items to build your own digital… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-01-2019 21:00 via twitter.com
  Test your recycling sorting skills with #CitySort. Sort materials correctly and win items to build your own digital… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Holt Renfrew seeks liquor license for patio events in Vancouver

  26-01-2019 19:04 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city council will vote this week on a report recommending upscale retailer Holt Renfrew be granted a liquor license to hold events at its downtown Vancouver location.
  The department store is requesting a 60-person liquor license for pre-booked events to be held on an outdoor and indoor patio located on the top floor at 737 Dunsmuir Street.
  The report says the proposed venue would have minimal impact on the surrounding area and will only be in operation during pre-booked events suc
  
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• B.C. byelection tests NDP's slim minority as provincial focus on Nanaimo

  26-01-2019 17:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The slim hold on power Premier John Horgan’s minority NDP government has in British Columbia will be tested Wednesday in a byelection on Vancouver Island where a Liberal win would leave the legislature deadlocked.
  Nanaimo has been a New Democrat stronghold, but a Liberal win would give the party 43 seats, tying it with the 43 seats held by the NDP and the Green party, which signed an agreement in 2017 allowing the New Democrats to form a minority government.
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy, with sunshine around noon

  26-01-2019 17:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy, though there should be some sunny breaks in the afternoon, with a high of 7 C.  Sunday is also mainly sunny, with some fog in the morning, and a high of 8 C. Looking ahead to next week, Monday and Tuesday are looking clear and sunny, but a bit cooler with highs of 6 C and 5 C, respectively. Environment Canada is forecasting the rain will return on Wednesday with a chance of showers and a high of 6 C.
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• Got some free time this AM? Want to get some exercise + fresh air + do good in your 'hood? Then head to Mosquito Cr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-01-2019 17:00 via twitter.com
  Got some free time this AM? Want to get some exercise + fresh air + do good in your 'hood? Then head to Mosquito Cr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Russia urges North Africa to bring Syria back to Arab League - Vancouver Sun

  26-01-2019 15:49
  Russia urges North Africa to bring Syria back to Arab League  Vancouver SunTUNIS, Tunisia — Russia's foreign minister is pressing North African countries to support Syria's return to the Arab League, now that President Bashar Assad is ...
  
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• The Home Front: Simplifying your home, thoughts and life

  26-01-2019 14:49 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to your home’s interior, pick a single idea and go with, says Vancouver interior designer and architect Andrea McLean.
  “Make your material selection really concise,” she says, “and carry it through the entire interior so you’re not complicating things.”
  When you start mixing up your colours and materials, every room will start to feel like “you’re transitioning from different experience to different experience,” she says.
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• The Grand at Willow Creek takes an amenity-rich location in Aldergrove

  26-01-2019 14:29 via vancouversun.com
  The lack of affordable housing options in the Lower Mainland is no longer news. It’s a problem that has been spreading throughout the region in recent years, with families, businesses and communities all feeling the effects. But Ray Vesely, principal owner and CEO of Apex Western Homes, believes he’s found an affordable neighbourhood in Aldergrove in the Township of Langley.
  It’s here that Vesely is building The Grand at Willow Creek, an apartment building of 47 one-to-three be
  
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• Sold (Bought): Huge Maple Ridge home was builder's residence

  26-01-2019 14:13 via vancouversun.com
  12335 267 Street, Maple Ridge
  Type: Seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom detached
  Size: 6,300 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $2,472,000
  Listed for: $2,900,000
  Sold for: $2,755,000
  Sold on: Oct. 15
  Days on market: Seven
  Listing agent: Pat Drummond and Shannon Drummond at Keller Williams Elite Realty
  Buyers agent: Sandra Tilbury and Nelson Tilbury at Mission City Realty
  The big sell: McFadden Creek Estates is an enclave of high-end West Coast-style homes that were built in 2017 in Northeast Maple Ridge. T
  
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• Banks offer little on how B.C. man with criminal record could allegedly launder money in real estate

  26-01-2019 07:18 via vancouversun.com
  A pair of financial institutions, named in a B.C. civil forfeiture suit that alleges a Richmond man laundered money in real estate, would not answer questions about how a man with a lengthy criminal record and no “legitimate” income could obtain mortgages and a home equity line of credit.
  In a civil claim filed on Jan. 4, Stephen Hai Peng Chen, also known as Hoy Pang Chan, is accused of using money obtained from drug trafficking to pay for properties in Vancouver and Richmond.
  The B.
  
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• Dr. Brian Day: Governments ignore Charter, support laws that see patients suffer, sometimes die on wait lists

  26-01-2019 06:09 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government’s approach to ride-hailing has much in common with its approach to medicare. Politicians have, in both policy areas, accepted “bribes” — political donations — to maintain near monopolies, eliminate choice and cause deaths.
  In 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that patients die as a result of waiting for care. Restricted access to ride-hailing has similar results.
  In 2015, 35,092 people died and 2.4 million were injured in road accidents in
  
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• Prince Rupert downgrades boil-water advisory, plans ’lessons learned’ report

  26-01-2019 04:26 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Prince Rupert has lifted a boil-water advisory that left 12,000 residents without potable tap water for six weeks, and says it’s working on a “lessons learned” report for the future.
  The city says Northern Health gave it approval to downgrade the notice to a water-quality advisory, which means some risk remains for sensitive individuals.
  Under a water-quality advisory, newborns, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are still encouraged to boil tap wat
  
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• Fraser Health issues warning over 'large quantities' of fake Xanax

  26-01-2019 03:32 via vancouversun.com
  The Fraser Health authority is warning anyone who uses drugs that fake pills are being sold on the street as pharmaceutical Xanax that are tainted with a synthetic opioid and cannabinoid.
  Fraser Health said in a public drug alert that it tested pills at the Safepoint supervised consumption site in Surrey and detected the synthetic opioid U-47700 as well as a synthetic cannabinoid. People who use the drug could potentially overdose or die.
  “Reports indicate there may be large quantities rea
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019

  26-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  When I worked for the B.C. public service after the 2008 recession, there were many top-down messages around reducing spending, specifically on travel.
  Some of my supervisors applied this directive universally. They encouraged me to stop all spending despite knowing I was a youth counsellor working with some of the most vulnerable youth in the Lower Mainland. My spending consisted of ice cream and hot chocolate receipts for the kids (sometimes even a Subway dinner when I was pretty sure the
  
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• Jen Lyle: Reducing workplace injuries important to maintaining heath-care staffing levels

  26-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In a Jan. 19 column, Christine Sorensen of the B.C. Nurses’ Union said staffing shortages are an issue for the health sector. She’s right. But missing in this conversation is that workplace injuries are a huge contributor to staffing shortages. Continuing-care workers — those working in long-term care and home care and community health support — have one of the highest injury rates of all professions in B.C.
  While there has been some progress, the injury rate is still fou
  
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• Editorial: Audit of legislative spending could prove embarrassing for many

  26-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Last month, this newspaper argued in an editorial that British Columbians deserved to know what was behind the “mysterious criminal investigation of legislative clerk Craig James and sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz, as well as their suspensions from their jobs.” We cannot abide secrecy at the heart of our most important democratic institution — the B.C. Legislature.
  Now we know. And thank goodness.
  This week, Speaker Darryl Plecas released a 76-page report revealing what he say
  
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• Canadian animation Oscar nominations spell more business for Vancouver studios

  26-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver-made animation is showcased in this year’s Oscar nominees.
  Ralph Breaks the Internet features the work of Vancouver born-and-raised Benson Shum. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was produced at Sony Pictures Imageworks, whose head office is in Vancouver’s downtown core. Previous Oscar-winners Alison Snowden and David Fine are up in the Short Film (Animated) category for the National Film Board of Canada-produced Animal Behaviour.
  The implications of this kind of recognitio
  
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• Squatters refuse to leave English Bay apartment tower grounds

  26-01-2019 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouverite who said he’s been threatened by a man visiting a tent behind his English Bay apartment tower says he’s been given the runaround by the city and Vancouver police in trying to have the small encampment removed.
  Max Pederson has been trying for months to get his complaints about a semi-permanent tent that’s tucked in a corner behind his building on Bidwell and Burnaby streets in Vancouver’s West End taken seriously.
  He said the tent and its occupants of at le
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: There may be a trust in Justin, but NDP favoured in Nanaimo byelection

  26-01-2019 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Though next week’s Nanaimo byelection has implications for the entire province, the first issue at an all-candidates’ meeting Thursday was local backlash over two modular housing projects.
  Neighbours living near the two were “run roughshod over,” charged B.C. Liberal challenger Tony Harris, citing lack of consultation beforehand and lack of protection afterward.
  He noted how one of the two sites was a short distance from the Beban Park auditorium, wh
  
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• Small percentage of odour complaint enforcement costs recovered through fees

  26-01-2019 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver spent almost $1.5 million responding to odour complaints over the past two years, but recovered just one-third of that cost through regulatory fees.
  It is the kind of discrepancy the regional district hopes to remedy when it re-examines its odour bylaw and regulatory fee system this year.
  In 2017, Metro Vancouver, which regulates air quality in the region, spent $833,864 responding to and investigating 3,725 complaints about odours. The next year, it spent $654,707 to respond to
  
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• Public meeting alert. Join us for a presentation on the results of the Cloverley neighbourhood traffic calming meas… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-01-2019 01:30 via twitter.com
  Public meeting alert. Join us for a presentation on the results of the Cloverley neighbourhood traffic calming meas… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• We're recruiting for a regular full-time Cashier/Accounting Clerk. Click here to apply. ow.ly/IyLU30nsrTa #NorthVan

  26-01-2019 01:17 via twitter.com
  We're recruiting for a regular full-time Cashier/Accounting Clerk.Click here to apply. ow.ly/IyLU30nsrTa #NorthVan
  
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• Cannabis edibles seller says he knows who used his company name to distribute pot-laced candies

  26-01-2019 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver man who sells cannabis edibles online says he has figured out who used his company name to distribute pot-laced candies outside a trade show earlier this month.
  Adam Osborne, owner of Earth’s Edibles, said he has spoken to the people behind the candy handout and told them he doesn’t appreciate that they used packaging with his company’s name on it without his knowledge or permission.
  The business that Osborne says distributed the candy does not show up on corporate
  
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• Mountain Hwy at Charlotte Rd in Lynn Creek will be single lane alternating traffic until about 6pm today, due to in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-01-2019 00:41 via twitter.com
  Mountain Hwy at Charlotte Rd in Lynn Creek will be single lane alternating traffic until about 6pm today, due to in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. nurses approve new collective agreement with pay increase, workload changes

  26-01-2019 00:24 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. nurses have narrowly voted in favour of a new three-year contract with the B.C. government’s standard two per cent annual wage increase.
  But the deal between the Nurses’ Bargaining Association and the Health Employers’ Association of B.C. also includes wage premiums if employers don’t meet staffing levels they have agreed to. Starting on April 1, 2020, nurses will receive an additional $5 an hour if they are working on a short-staffed unit, depa
  
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• Lawsuit over Saanich washroom videos can go ahead, judge rules

  26-01-2019 00:20 via vancouversun.com
  A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Red Barn Market at Mattick’s Farm and a former assistant manager who allegedly video-recorded employees using the washroom is moving forward.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Brian MacKenzie lifted a stay of proceedings this week on the claim by two former Red Barn Market employees. It had been imposed when the former assistant manager, Matthew Schwabe, filed for bankruptcy on April 24, 2018.
  Schwabe had a monthly deficit of $50 and his total debts amo
  
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• Metro Vancouver's chief administrative officer Carol Mason to retire in July

  26-01-2019 00:14 via vancouversun.com
  After almost seven years at the helm of B.C.’s largest regional district, Metro Vancouver’s top bureaucrat is calling it quits.
  Chief administrative officer Carol Mason officially notified Metro Vancouver’s board of directors at an in-camera meeting on Friday afternoon of her decision to retire at the end of July.
  “It doesn’t get bigger or better than this job,” said Mason, following the announcement.
  “This has just been a really special opportunity for
  
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• The Right Fit matches wheelchair users with limited number of accessible rental suites

  26-01-2019 00:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sean Haffey likes being able to cook again in his new apartment.
  His last one just wasn’t designed for someone like him in an electric wheelchair. Living there meant he was reduced to microwave meals. Despite its limitations, he had no choice at the time but to move in.
  After suffering a stroke that paralyzed him on his left side when he was in his mid-40s, Haffey spent six months in rehabilitation at GF Strong. When that came to an end, he spent a short while in transition housing before
  
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