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• Come celebrate the launch of the Lower Lonsdale Thingery. Date: Saturday, February 9th | Time: 10 - 1 PM | North Sh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-01-2019 23:30 via twitter.com
  Come celebrate the launch of the Lower Lonsdale Thingery. Date: Saturday, February 9th | Time: 10 - 1 PM | North Sh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• By the numbers: TransLink's Commercial-Broadway station upgrades

  29-01-2019 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  We’re now arriving at the newly upgraded Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station.
  The long-awaited upgrades to TransLink’s busiest station in Vancouver will finally open to the public on Saturday, Feb 2.
  “People who use Commercial-Broadway to get on or off SkyTrain or switch between the Expo and Millennium lines know this is one of the most congested spots in our entire transit system,” said TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond.
  “These upgrades will help alleviate that pressure
  
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• Lunar New Year 2019: Where to celebrate in Metro Vancouver

  29-01-2019 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  Lunar New Year is upon us!
  The celebration marks the beginning of a new year according to the Chinese calendar. This year, the date falls on Feb. 5, 2019, heralding the Year of the Pig.
  Here’s a quick roundup of some family friendly Lunar New Year events around Metro Vancouver.The 46th Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Parade
  Feb. 10, 2019 at 11 a.m.Vancouver’s ChinatownFREE ADMISSION“This signature event of Vancouver’s Chinatown will feature lion dances, cultural dance
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week of January 26

  29-01-2019 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  1. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  2. Iron Road West: An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways — Derek Hayes (Harbour Publishing).
  3. Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature — Margriet Ruurs, art by Robert Bateman (Orca Book Publishers).
  4. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  5. On the Rocks with Jack Knox: Islanders I Will Never Forget —
  
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• Recycling just got a lot more fun. Test your recycling sorting skills w/ our new game, CitySort:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-01-2019 21:30 via twitter.com
  Recycling just got a lot more fun. Test your recycling sorting skills w/ our new game, CitySort:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kamloops RCMP seeking suspect in laundromat robbery

  29-01-2019 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  Police in Kamloops are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a laundromat robbery.
  On Monday around 11:30 a.m. a man entered the McCleaner’s laundromat on Seymour Street brandishing a knife and a hammer.
  The man went to the cash register, took an unspecified amount of cash and then fled. The laundromat clerk wasn’t hurt.
  Police say the suspect is a white or First Nations man about 5-foot-10. The suspect was wearing a grey hoodie with stripes on the lower sleeves
  
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• Northern B.C. Lheidli T'enneh elder and Indigenous language teacher passes away

  29-01-2019 21:22 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — The oldest elder of a northern British Columbia First Nation and one of the few speakers of its language has died.
  Students, colleagues and Indigenous leaders are remembering Mary Gouchie for her efforts to ensure the language lives on.
  Gouchie was just weeks short of her 98th birthday when she died on Thursday and flags at Prince George City Hall and the College of New Caledonia have been lowered in her honour.
  The Lheidli T’enneh elder was a teacher and keeper of th
  
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• Mountie who investigated 'Surrey six' gang murders pleads guilty in B.C. court

  29-01-2019 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  A primary investigator in British Columbia’s largest gang-related mass murder has pleaded guilty to failing to maintain law and order under the RCMP Act.
  David Attew was described as a star in B.C. Supreme Court for his work on major investigations, including the so-called Surrey six execution-style murders of six men in October 2007.
  The former staff sergeant was one of four Mounties charged in relation with the investigation and last week one of them was handed a conditional sentence to
  
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• 27 horses rescued from Lower Mainland property in terrible condition

  29-01-2019 21:20
  
  The BC SPCA is seeking homes and care for the horses that were seized during an animal cruelty investigation
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of January 26

  29-01-2019 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Liar Liar by James Patterson and Candace Fox
  2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Della Owens
  3. Turning Point by Danielle Steel
  4. The Reckoning by John Grisham
  5. Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks
  6. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
  7. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci
  8. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
  9. Target: Alex Cross by James Patterson
  10. The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke
   
  HARDCOVER NON-F
  
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• Metro Vancouver housing affordability still deteriorating: National Bank

  29-01-2019 20:52
  
  Despite market slowdown and even in detached sector, ownership cost vs income is getting worse, finds nationwide study
  
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• It's a wrap everyone, filming finished up early & Lonsdale Ave to 112 E 1st is open. #NorthVan #CNVFilming twitter.com/CityOfNorthVan…

  29-01-2019 20:25 via twitter.com
  It's a wrap everyone, filming finished up early & Lonsdale Ave to 112 E 1st is open.#NorthVan #CNVFilming twitter.com/CityOfNorthVan…
  
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• Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou makes brief appearance in Vancouver court

  29-01-2019 19:22 via vancouversun.com
  The Huawei executive who was arrested in Vancouver last month and is being sought for extradition to the United States on fraud charges appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since she was released on bail.
  Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the company, was seeking to vary the conditions of bail imposed by B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke following a three-day hearing in December.
  In what was a brief appearance, Ehrcke approved an application to switch one of the s
  
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• Chinese New Year 2019: Where to celebrate in Metro Vancouver

  29-01-2019 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  Chinese New Year is upon us!
  The celebration marks the beginning of a new lunar year according to the Chinese calendar. This year, the date falls on Feb. 5, 2019, heralding the Year of the Pig.
  Here’s a quick roundup of some CNY events around Metro Vancouver.The 46th Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Parade
  Feb. 10, 2019 at 11 a.m.Vancouver’s ChinatownFREE ADMISSION“This signature event of Vancouver’s Chinatown will feature lion dances, cultural dance troupes, marching
  
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• Union issues 72-hour strike notice to Vancouver Art Gallery - North Delta Reporter

  29-01-2019 19:03
  Union issues 72-hour strike notice to Vancouver Art Gallery  North Delta ReporterDiscussions include cuts to sick leave, scheduling changes.
  
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• Think Purple for Eating Disorder Awareness Week February 1-7. jessieslegacy.com/pedaw #Purple4PEDAW #loveourbodies… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-01-2019 18:40 via twitter.com
  Think Purple for Eating Disorder Awareness Week February 1-7. jessieslegacy.com/pedaw #Purple4PEDAW #loveourbodies… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Housing Matters podcast: The year ahead in Metro Vancouver real estate

  29-01-2019 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Sun and Province today launched Housing Matters, a weekly podcast about real estate trends in Metro Vancouver. The first episode, featuring Michael Ferreira of Urban Analytics and reporter Joanne Lee-Young in conversation with host Stuart McNish, reflects on the sales upheaval of 2018 and offers predictions for the year ahead.Here are excerpts from the conversation with Ferreira.
  Ferreira on the significant impact of the federal government’s mortgage stress test and provincia
  
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• TransCanada hires RBC to help sell up to 75% stake in Coastal GasLink pipeline

  29-01-2019 17:23 via vancouversun.com
  TransCanada Corp. hired RBC Capital Markets LLC to manage the sale of its majority stake in the $6.2 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline in what would be the company’s biggest divestment yet.
  If TransCanada moves forward with a sale, joint venture partners could end up owning as much as 75 per cent of the conduit, the company said in a filing to the National Energy Board dated Jan. 25.
  Calgary-based TransCanada has sold various assets in the past few years as it strengthens its balance sheet
  
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• Vancouver Art Gallery employees' union issues 72-hour strike notice

  29-01-2019 17:11 via vancouversun.com
  The union representing more than 200 employees at the Vancouver Art Gallery has issued 72-hour strike notice.
  Local 15 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees served the notice on Monday following unsuccessful talks with gallery managers and what the union is calling “significant concession demands.”
  “After months of bargaining, Gallery managers continue to pursue major concessions, and two-tier working conditions and scheduling models,” said CUPE 15 president Warren Wi
  
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• Vancouver city council to consider joining call for public inquiry into money laundering

  29-01-2019 17:01 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver city councillor is expected to push Tuesday for B.C.’s largest city to officially join the call for a public inquiry into money laundering in the province.
  NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova has a motion on the agenda for Tuesday’s Vancouver council meeting which seeks, among other things, to direct city staff to work with provincial and law enforcement authorities “to identify a system where the City of Vancouver can share pertinent information with the appropri
  
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• Valentine's Day idea: Surprise your sweetie with a romantic weekend in Victoria

  29-01-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  “We definitely need to do this more often,” my husband said as he squeezed my hand and leaned over my lap to look out the window. Soaring above the ocean in a Twin Otter float plane, we were heading home after a relaxing weekend getaway to Victoria. With three young kids at home, and two overloaded work/life schedules, it had been far too long since our last sojourn sans kids.
  With friends and family scattered throughout the Island, Victoria is a place that we visit often, but when w
  
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• Daily Poll: Will you attend Squamish Constellation Festival?

  29-01-2019 15:50 via vancouversun.com
  A new music festival will take up residence in Squamish this coming summer.
  The Squamish Constellation Festival was announced last week and hopes to see a maximum of 7,500 patrons in its first year. Organizers have said they’re aiming for a more intimate and sustainable festival and plan to cap attendance and manage growth, learning from the former Squamish Valley Music Festival.
  The Squamish Valley Music Festival ran from 2010 to 2015 before folding in 2016. Headliners over the years incl
  
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• 🚧 Heads up! Full road closure E 1st St (Lonsdale Ave to 112 E 1st) from 7am-1pm, TODAY. If you see a traffic accide… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-01-2019 15:30 via twitter.com
  🚧 Heads up! Full road closure E 1st St (Lonsdale Ave to 112 E 1st) from 7am-1pm, TODAY. If you see a traffic accide… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver weather: Sunny with fog patches

  29-01-2019 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Jan. 29, 2019 – Tuesday’s weather will see patches of fog earlier in the day but those are expected to dissipate to allow for sun to shine through this afternoon.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly sunny, some fog patches. High of 7.
  Tonight: Cloudy overnight, low of plus 1.
  Tomorrow: Mainly cloudy, high of 7.Traffic: Lower Mainland
  Click below to launch a live traffic map of what’s happening across the region’s roads.UPDATE – #BCHwy1 WB Crews ar
  
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• Cordova's condo cash cluster: Most of B.C.'s 10 most expensive apartments in a 600-metre stretch

  29-01-2019 14:47 via vancouversun.com
  Eight of B.C.’s 10 most expensive condos per square foot — with a combined value of $187.4 million — are along 620-metre stretch of Cordova Street. Hover over the dots on the map for details on these luxury condos. 
  In Vancouver’s Kitsilano, Point Grey Road is known as the “golden mile” for its collection of the city’s priciest single-family homes. In Coal Harbour, the equivalent for strata properties is West Cordova Street where eight of
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Murder conspiracy charge stayed against UN gangster

  29-01-2019 09:04 via vancouversun.com
  There have been several stays in high-profile criminal cases in B.C. courts in recent months. I was surprised when I learned that Calgary gangster Billy Ly would not be going to trial after all for conspiracy to kill rival Red Scorpion gangsters and the Bacon brothers more than a decade ago.
  The charge against Ly, laid in January 2016, was recently stayed. And like in the other cases in which charges were stayed or dropped, prosecutors are not saying much about the reason why.
  Here’s my st
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Former accused in money laundering case deny allegations

  29-01-2019 08:53 via vancouversun.com
  Last month, the B.C. Director of Civil Forfeiture filed a lawsuit against Silver International Inc. and Vancouver residents Caixuan Qin,and Jian Jun Zhu – just a month after criminal charges against them had been stayed. Now the couple has filed its response, denying the allegations made by the B.C. government agency.
  Here’s my story:Former accused in B.C. money laundering case file
  defence in civil forfeiture suitKIM BOLAN
  Updated: January 28, 2019
  Two Vancouver residents linked to
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Earth Edibles' owner says someone misused his logo

  29-01-2019 08:42 via vancouversun.com
  Earth’s Edibles is selling cannabis-infused frozen dinners online, as well as various strains of marijuana. What the company is not selling, owner Adam Osborne says, are the pot candies left on vehicles outside a trade show on Jan. 13.
  I wrote an update on The Sun’s earlier story:Cannabis edibles seller says he knows who used his
  company name to distribute pot-laced candiesKIM BOLAN
  Updated: January 25, 2019
  A Vancouver man who sells cannabis edibles online says he has figured out wh
  
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• U.S. levels 13 charges against Huawei for stealing secrets, evading sanctions

  29-01-2019 05:46 via vancouversun.com
  A luxury home in Vancouver’s Dunbar neighbourhood was ground zero in an international political dispute Monday, after U.S. authorities announced a string of criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and executive Meng Wanzhou.
  Meng has been living in her home in the 4000-block of West 28th Avenue since Dec. 11, 2018, when she was released on strict conditions after her Dec. 1 arrest at the Vancouver airport.
  She was detained at the request of the U.S. government, despite no charge
  
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• Accused in Vancouver child-sex bust takes pass on court appearance

  29-01-2019 03:09 via vancouversun.com
  One of the first seven men charged in a sting operation targeting dozens of men allegedly arranging to have sex with teenage girls did not appear in person in court Monday.
  Mehran Arefi was to attend Vancouver provincial court to schedule his next appearance. But, instead, a representative from his law firm, articling student Matthew James, appeared on his behalf in Courtroom 307 at 222 Main St. on Monday afternoon, and set the next appearance for Feb. 21.
  Arefi is among the 47 people arrested i
  
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• B.C. transportation minister denies ride-hailing app Kater given unfair advantage

  29-01-2019 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s former transportation minister is suggesting that local taxi-based ride-hailing app Kater may have been afforded a “back-door opportunity” to enter the market before companies like Uber and Lyft.
  Liberal MLA Todd Stone said there are a lot of unanswered questions about how the company, which has partnered with the Vancouver Taxi Association, has managed to get itself in a position to launch before ride-hailing is allowed this fall.
  “We certainly welcome the innovat
  
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• Lead and mercury poisonings in herbal products prompt Surrey clinic shutdown

  29-01-2019 03:03 via vancouversun.com
  Cases of lead and mercury poisoning in consumers using toxic herbal products have led to clinic shutdowns, Health Canada seizures and recalls, consumer warnings and new B.C. rules for labs performing urine and blood testing.
  On Monday, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) said Fraser Health has shut down a Surrey business called A1 Herbal Ayurvedic Clinic Ltd. after an inspection that also resulted in Health Canada seizing illegal products, ingredients from India and equipment on the prem
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Victoria loses compensation fight, legislature not beyond judicial scrutiny

  29-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, former B.C. representative of children and youth.
  The B.C. government and legislature have lost a legal battle in which they claimed the right of officials such as the suspended Speaker Craig James to be beyond judicial scrutiny.
  B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson dismissed Victoria’s attempt to end a lawsuit over alleged commitments James made to the former representative of children and youth by drawing down the curtain of parliamentary privile
  
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• Charge of conspiracy to kill Red Scorpion gangsters stayed

  29-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. prosecutors have stayed a conspiracy to murder charge laid against a Calgary gangster who was allegedly part of a United Nations plot to slay rivals in B.C.’s Red Scorpions gang.
  Billy Ly had been out on bail since the charge was laid in January 2016. But earlier this month, he learned that the case would no longer be going to trial in April 2019.
  The reason given for the stay was that the Crown no longer had the same amount of evidence against Ly.
  “I can advise that the conspir
  
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• Former accused in B.C. money laundering case file defence in civil forfeiture suit

  29-01-2019 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  Two Vancouver residents linked to an unlicensed Richmond money business say police violated their Charter rights while conducting searches of their offices in October 2015.
  And Caixuan Qin, a director of Silver International, and her spouse Jian Jun Zhu deny that millions in cash and property seized by police at the time were obtained with the proceeds of criminal activity.
  Lawyers for the couple, as well as Qin’s businesses — Silver International and The Style Travel Inc. &mdas
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Expectations high for NDP in this week's byelection

  29-01-2019 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — From the outset of the Nanaimo byelection, Premier John Horgan was clear about the stakes for himself and his NDP government.
  “It is pivotal, it is critical, that we succeed,” he declared at the Jan. 5 opening of the campaign office for NDP candidate Sheila Malcolmson. “We need to win Nanaimo to continue the government. It’s that simple.”
  Maybe not quite that simple.
  If the New Democrats were to lose Nanaimo to the B.C. Liberals on Wednesd
  
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• Reminder no Council meeting today. Council is back in session February 4. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/DVSeO51Fo7

  29-01-2019 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  Reminder no Council meeting today. Council is back in session February 4. cnv.org/CouncilMeetings #NorthVan https://t.co/DVSeO51Fo7
  
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• Nice work Conner 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 twitter.com/firechiefreid/…

  29-01-2019 01:17 via twitter.com
  Nice work Conner 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 twitter.com/firechiefreid/…
  
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• 'You ripped away the life of a young girl': Monica Jack's killer gets life in prison

  29-01-2019 01:12 via vancouversun.com
  Several members of Monica Jack’s family delivered tearful victim impact statement at the sentencing of the girl’s killer on Monday.
  Earlier this month, Garry Taylor Handlen, 71, was convicted by a jury of the May 1978 first-degree murder of 12-year-old Monica, who went missing while riding her bicycle near Merritt.
  First-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
  In imposing sentence on the accused, B.C. Supreme Court Justice
  
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• Vancouver mayor returns to Ottawa to build bridges with former opponents from across the aisle

  29-01-2019 01:05 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart gleaned no clear commitments for big-ticket items from Liberal cabinet ministers or the prime minister during his first trip back to Ottawa as a big-city mayor rather than a sitting MP.
  At least, none that Stewart would announce on a conference call with reporters Monday morning after meetings last weekend at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Big City Mayors’ Caucus. Stewart also came away from the meetings with his mind on the looming 2019
  
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• U.S. levels 23 charges against Huawei for stealing secrets, evading sanctions

  29-01-2019 01:02 via vancouversun.com
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice is formally levelling 23 criminal charges against Chinese tech juggernaut Huawei Technologies, multiple subsidiaries and chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.
  The charges allege, among other things, that the company misrepresented its ownership of a Hong Kong-based subsidiary to circumvent American sanctions against Iran, and stole telecommunications technology, trade secrets and equipment from U.S. cell provider T-Mobile USA.
  Acting Attorney Gen
  
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• The next phase of Highway 1 improvements is coming soon! twitter.com/TranBC/status/…

  29-01-2019 00:46 via twitter.com
  The next phase of Highway 1 improvements is coming soon! twitter.com/TranBC/status/…
  
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• Speaker offers to rescind gag orders on fired B.C. legislature staff

  29-01-2019 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Employees fired in recent years from the legislature for trying to blow the whistle on a spending scandal may soon have their gag orders lifted by Speaker Darryl Plecas.
  But that clemency won’t extend to political staffers who might have noticed wrongdoing inside their parties or by their MLAs, because of limitations to the Speaker’s power.
  House Speaker Darryl Plecas, right, arrives with chief of staff Alan Mullen for the Legislative Assembly Management Committee me
  
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• Vancouver mayor puts subway extension to UBC on Trudeau’s ‘radar’

  29-01-2019 00:00
  
  Mayor Kennedy Stewart and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Monday in Ottawa where they discussed transit and affordable housing. No funding commitments were made.
  
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