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• Vancouver program provides ‘window of opportunity’ to addiction treatment - North Delta Reporter

  06-02-2019 22:56
  Vancouver program provides ‘window of opportunity’ to addiction treatment  North Delta ReporterA Vancouver emergency department has become the first in Canada to give overdose patients take-away packs of medication aimed at warding off withdrawal ...
  
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• Port Coquitlam now accepting cannabis retail applications

  06-02-2019 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Port Coquitlam is now open to the cannabis business.
  City council voted Tuesday to update zoning bylaws to allow the city to consider potential sites for cannabis retail outlets in a similar way to how it regulates liquor sales locations.
  The move comes nearly four months after Canada became the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana.
  “We’ve consulted the community extensively on this issue and have done our due diligence,” Mayor Br
  
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• Shortage of educational assistants forces some Greater Victoria students to stay at home

  06-02-2019 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  Students with special needs are being asked to stay home and miss school due to a shortage of educational assistants in the Greater Victoria school district, parents say.
  The parents say the ongoing practice discriminates against children with disabilities and violates their right to an education.
  Cristina Gage said she was called one day last week at 8:30 a.m. and asked to keep her six-year-old son with autism at home because View Royal Elementary was short on educational assistants and ha
  
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• City of Vancouver says fewer homes declared vacant since tax imposed

  06-02-2019 22:38
  
  Mayor Kennedy Stewart called the latest statistics on declarations “very encouraging.”
  
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• The City’s 2019-2028 draft Financial Plan will be presented to Council on Monday Feb 11. We invite you to review it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-02-2019 22:34 via twitter.com
  The City’s 2019-2028 draft Financial Plan will be presented to Council on Monday Feb 11. We invite you to review it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C. Liberal party recruiting candidates online

  06-02-2019 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  It’s common to see police or firefighters launch recruitment drives online, but political parties?
  For the first time, the B.C. Liberals are embarking on a recruiting drive for potential candidates from around B.C.
  Beginning Wednesday, those who want to be considered as a Liberal candidate can apply online at readytorunbc.ca.
  The party said, in a news release Wednesday, that women, millennials and B.C’s diverse communities are still under-represented in the legislature. They’re
  
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• Empty Nester-Moon

  06-02-2019 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  WAILEA, Maui — Something was missing. We’d taken up pampered residence at our pool-side cabana at the Fairmont Kea Lani an hour or so ago, yet despite the calming ebb and flow of warm Pacific trade winds, the fragrant scent of tropical flowers and the gentle kick of the Moloka’i Mule elixir, there was something unsettling about the scene.
  That’s when the shrill shriek of a six-year-old from a second-floor suite balcony startled me out from my puzzled funk and provided me
  
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• 'Lives are changed forever': Outpouring for families of B.C. train crash victims

  06-02-2019 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  A veteran Canadian Pacific Railway engineer says railroaders are supporting each other after a derailment in the Rocky Mountains this week claimed three of their own.
  “All the people I work with are incredible professionals and we take care of each other and watch each other,” Carl Schnurr of Calgary said Wednesday.
  A train carrying 112 grain cars was parked on a grade with its air brakes on before it started moving on its own around 1 a.m. Monday just east of Field, B.C.
  Engineer An
  
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• OD patients given medicine at Vancouver ER as part of unique program

  06-02-2019 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver emergency department has become the first in Canada to give overdose patients take-away packs of medication aimed at warding off withdrawal symptoms and getting them into treatment.
  Dr. Andrew Kestler, a co-lead of the program at St. Paul’s Hospital, says patients get a three-day supply of Suboxone and easy-to-understand instructions from a nurse.
  He says the idea is to prevent barriers to treatment because many patients are not able to even get a prescription filled at a pharm
  
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• How much have Metro Vancouver homes dropped in value? (INFOGRAPHICS)

  06-02-2019 21:04
  
  Visual representations of dollar values by which benchmark detached home and condo prices have fallen in a year
  
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• B.C. Hydro's deferral of expenses at $5.5 billion, says auditor general

  06-02-2019 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Auditor general Carol Bellringer says B.C. Hydro has deferred $5.5 billion in expenses that it plans to recover from ratepayers over time.
  Bellringer focuses on the deferred expenses in a report on the public utility’s use of rate-regulated accounting to control the prices it charges customers.
  She says rate-regulated accounting is used widely across North America, but cautions that Hydro has largely overridden the role of the independent B.C. Utilities Commission to regul
  
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• Today's the last day to submit your nomination for a Community Heritage Award. Know someone who is doing good work… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-02-2019 20:13 via twitter.com
  Today's the last day to submit your nomination for a Community Heritage Award. Know someone who is doing good work… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Free hot chocolate for Robson Square skaters until Feb. 15

  06-02-2019 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to make the most of this week’s cold snap in Vancouver? Head down to Robson Square ice rink for a spin and free hot chocolate this week.
  Beginning today through Feb. 15, the first 50 skaters to head down to Robson Square and lace up a pair of skates between 2 and 5 p.m. will receive a nice, warm cup of hot chocolate.
  Temperatures have been colder this week than what most Vancouverites are used to, with wind chills of about -14 degrees in the mornings and temperatures around 0 durin
  
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• Opinion: Mass speculation tax mail-out conjures up apparition of affordability

  06-02-2019 20:01
  
  “NDP claims about the impact of taxes on providing an affordable price point is the mirage it has created in the desert for buyers”
  
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• Valentine's Day: Six luxurious gifts to show a little love

  06-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to spoil a loved one in your life. Or, yourself.
  Whether you are single, engaged, coupled up, divorced — or any other variation of relationship status — one thing undoubtedly rings true: you could likely use a little glinting glamour in your life right about now.
  That’s why we’ve rounded up six super-luxe gifts to consider splurging on this Valentine’s Day. From statement-making rings to limited-edition timepieces, here are
  
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• Style Q&A: Canadian skin-care brand Veriphy eyes natural beauty while boosting women in STEM

  06-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s always encouraging to find a brand that dose double-duty, meaning an option that makes great products while also doing some good with a portion of its proceeds.
  One such brand that’s working to use customers’ dollars to give back is the new Canadian skin-care brand Veriphy.
  The company aims to create natural skin-care solutions — while also promoting women in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). We caught up with co-founders Alison
  
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• Classical music: La Bohème, 2019 edition

  06-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  La Boheme
  When: Feb. 14, 16, 19, 21 at 7:30 p.m. | Feb. 24 at 2 p.m.
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets: From $50, vancouveropera.caIs Puccini’s La Bohème the most romantic opera ever written? It’s certainly one of the very small handful of works that invariably pleases audiences — and sends them home in tears. Vancouver Opera’s latest mounting opens on the appropriate date of Valentine’s Day, the beginning of a five-performance run at the Queen Eliz
  
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• Are you saying yes to the dress? TLC star Monte Durham talks bridal gown shopping dos and don'ts

  06-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  “Are you saying yes to the dress?”
  Aside from being the tag line of the popular Say Yes to the Dress TV series on TLC, the question is often something a bride asks herself while shopping for a wedding gown.
  After all, this is the dress she will wear on her wedding day while standing opposite someone she loves, and will likely be the one she is photographed in more times on a single day than any other ensemble, before or after.
  So, how can a bride-to-be find a dress that truly is the
  
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• Aleks Paunovic hot on Cold Pursuit

  06-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Aleks Paunovic, Vancouver-based film, TV and stage actor.
  Vancouver actor Aleks Paunovic isn’t used to seeing eye-to-eye on set. That changed on his latest film, Cold Pursuit. At 6-foot-3, star Liam Neeson is nearly up to his height and pretty solidly built. It was a rare treat for the 6-foot-5 actor to play alongside someone his own size.
  A remake of the 2014 Norwegian black-action comedy In Order of Disappearance, Cold Pursuit is directed by Oslo-based Hans Petter Moland and opens Feb. 8
  
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• Hey City of #NorthVan: It’s utility bill time. 5% discount if paid by Feb 28. Find out what it pays for:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-02-2019 18:43 via twitter.com
  Hey City of #NorthVan: It’s utility bill time. 5% discount if paid by Feb 28. Find out what it pays for:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Here’s a great way to have fun, enjoy the outdoors, and do something great for the environment! twitter.com/DavidSuzukiFDN…

  06-02-2019 18:37 via twitter.com
  Here’s a great way to have fun, enjoy the outdoors, and do something great for the environment! twitter.com/DavidSuzukiFDN…
  
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• Weather alert: More snow in the forecast for B.C.'s South Coast

  06-02-2019 17:29 via vancouversun.com
  Environment Canada posted a weather alert Wednesday, saying more snow and icy cold temperatures are on the way for B.C.’s South Coast.
  The federal weather agency says snow is expected Thursday night and Friday, and “bitterly cold arctic outflow winds” on Friday night and Saturday.
  Beginning late Thursday, forecasters say more Arctic air will descend over the province, while increasing moisture will bring snow to most of the South Coast beginning Thursday night.
  The snow is expe
  
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• Smoke from wildfire is like a 'chemical soup,' says fire researcher

  06-02-2019 17:03 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Inhaling smoke from a wildfire can be equal to smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day depending on its thickness, says a researcher studying wildfires in Western Canada.
  Mike Flannigan, a professor with the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, said the smoke is like a “chemical soup” that can be trapped in the lungs and cause a number of health issues.
  “They are all kinds of particles, mercury, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,
  
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• 9 things to do (some dog-friendly!) during a weekend getaway to Edmonton

  06-02-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The snow started just as we hit Edmonton. We’d been racing the heavy snowfall warning — and watching the temperature fall — all the way up from Calgary. Edmonton, my hometown, was in for a proper cold snap with temperatures around -25 and a wind chill, just to keep it interesting.
  Back in the day, I’d get through the weekend — the whole winter, actually — in Adidas Gazelles and a down jacket that may or may not have been zipped up. But I wear proper winte
  
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• North Vancouver could host new brewery district - North Shore News

  06-02-2019 16:51
  North Vancouver could host new brewery district  North Shore NewsThere's something brewing in North Van. With at least five breweries either opened or on their way, the light-industrial area of Lower Lonsdale could become ...
  
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• Ryan Reynolds’ rainforest rapture: Hollywood star excited to tell IMAX story that hits close to home

  06-02-2019 16:43 via vancouversun.com
  Ryan Reynolds is thrilled he can actually take his two young kids to see his new movie.
  Unlike his Deadpool work, the new IMAX documentary Great Bear Rainforest is the perfect project to share with his two- and four-year-old daughters.
  Speaking from his home in New York City recently, Reynolds says he has seen a non-IMAX theatre version of the film but is really excited to see it in the big format with his family. Great Bear Rainforest hits IMAX theatres on Feb. 15.
  “I am mo
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny, but bone-chilling cold

  06-02-2019 15:56 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. –  The cold snap continues Wednesday in Metro Vancouver, with sunshine, wind gusts of up to 15 km/h, and a high of zero. Environment Canada says with the wind chill it will feel like – 14 C in the morning. Overnight the temperature dips back down to – 3 C with increasing cloudiness, and then the region could see some more snow flurries or showers on Thursday, with a high of 2 C. The agency is forecasting periods of snow overnight Thursday and on Friday
  
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• Vancouver program provides 'window of opportunity' to addiction treatment - North Shore News

  06-02-2019 09:00
  Vancouver program provides 'window of opportunity' to addiction treatment  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — A Vancouver emergency department has become the first in Canada to give overdose patients take-away packs of medication aimed at ...
  
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• Five examples of Metro Vancouver homeowners losing big in a plunging market

  06-02-2019 06:56 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a cottage industry emerging on Twitter, with various accounts and followers seeming to take delight in the financial woes besetting Metro Vancouver homeowners hoping to sell their homes, or selling their homes at crushing losses. Leading the charge are two handles — @mortimer_1 and @VanREflipflops — that have plenty of fodder with assessments plunging, sales down and values plummeting.
  Here’s a look at five examples highlighted on Twitter of homes in Vancouver and
  
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• Coquitlam widow jumps through hoops to exempt dead husband from speculation tax

  06-02-2019 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  An opposition MLA says one of her constituents has had to jump through a series of bureaucratic hoops to try to get her deceased husband exempted from the province’s speculation tax.
  Joan Isaacs, the Liberal MLA for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, said she has been helping a 78-year-old widow who was told she’s on the hook for her husband’s portion of the speculation tax for their condo — even though he died in September — because his name was still on the land-title docu
  
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• Ship involved in Vancouver crane collapse set to leave port

  06-02-2019 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  A vessel that struck and felled a ship-to-shore crane boom at the Port of Vancouver late last month is finally freed and expected to leave port on Thursday.
  On Jan. 28, at 4 a.m., the vessel Ever Summit was docking at the Global Container Terminal at 1300 Stewart Street when it made contact with the crane. The crane boom then collapsed on to a stack of containers at the back of the ship. There were no injuries and no other operations outside that terminal were impacted.
  Tugs were
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Much of expected new office space already pre-leased

  06-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly four million square feet of new office space is set to be built over the next four years in downtown Vancouver, but up to 46 per cent of that space is already spoken for, local commercial brokers say.
  Between 2020 and 2023, about 3.8 million sq. ft. of new office supply will be delivered to the market and roughly 1.2 million square feet of that has already been pre-leased, said Colin Scarlett, an office leasing specialist and executive vice-president with Colliers International in Vancouv
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Politicos ignore history when talking about future naming of BC Place

  06-02-2019 02:36 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When the New Democrats announced they were looking to sell the naming rights for BC Place Stadium this week, the cabinet minister in charge wanted to focus on the future, not the past.
  “I am not going to talk about previous deals,” said tourism minister Lisa Beare. “I am really excited to see what comes to the table. We’ll wait and see what happens.”
  Surprising that the minister didn’t want to turn over one particular bit of old ground, i
  
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• How Kamloops got ahead on recreational cannabis retail

  06-02-2019 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  Kamloops continues to be a leader in recreational cannabis-store approvals and those involved chalk it up to early planning and liquor stores.
  The south-central B.C. city was first in the province to have a brick-and-mortar store on Oct. 17, the day of federal legalization, when a government B.C. Cannabis Store opened in a strip mall.
  It has since approved two more government stores and received 15 private-store applications from the province for review, nine of which have gone back with a
  
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• Transparency watchdogs call for B.C. legislature reform

  06-02-2019 02:16 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The scandal-plagued B.C. legislature will soon be subject to the province’s freedom of information laws, as the fallout continues from a massive spending scandal inside the capital building.
  The government has agreed to change the law to force the legislative assembly to publicly disclose details about its budget, spending, expenses, staffing, security and other functions, said NDP house leader Mike Farnworth.
  The move ends almost two decades of reluctant foot-dragging fro
  
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• Calls for better crypto regulation after millions frozen at B.C. exchange

  06-02-2019 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  Cryptocurrency experts say a series of events that has locked users of a Vancouver-based currency exchange out of $180 million in digital assets is a wake-up call for Canadian investors and serves as a catalyst for improved regulation.
  The mess started when Gerald Cotten, the 30-year-old CEO and sole director of QuadrigaCX, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, died from complications linked to Crohn’s disease while visiting India, according to court documents file
  
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• Sounds like this chilly weather will be sticking around. There's a chance of ❄️ Thursday and into Friday. Are you s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-02-2019 02:00 via twitter.com
  Sounds like this chilly weather will be sticking around. There's a chance of ❄️ Thursday and into Friday. Are you s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Jens Wieting and Torrance Coste: Logging B.C.'s ancient forests adds to extinctions

  06-02-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Human destruction and disruption of the natural world have sped up the natural rate of species extinction by at least 100 times. A recent study found that globally billions of populations of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians have been lost in recent decades with habitat destruction as the leading cause, now exacerbated by global warming. They referred to the massive loss of wildlife as “biological annihilation.”
  Here in “Super, Natural B.C.,” we often celebrate our
  
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• Call for artists interested in this year's Vancouver Mural Festival

  06-02-2019 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  Artists wanting to participate in the Vancouver Mural Festival 2019 can now apply through the event’s website. The website is here.
  Last year, more than 700 local, Canadian, and international applications were received, with final selections being made by a group of four curators. This year, 25 official muralists will be chosen to participate.
  A woman takes a selfie in front of a mural by Jane Cheng at the Vancouver Mural Festival held in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver.
  Vancouver artist Sa
  
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• B.C. aims to reduce waiting times for Parkinson's patients needing brain surgery

  06-02-2019 01:45 via vancouversun.com
  At age 36, Gina Lupino felt her right arm and foot stiffening and tremors starting as she played a snare drum in a percussion band. She would see four neurologists over the next year and a half before learning she had Parkinson’s disease.
  Her most recent specialist recommended deep brain stimulation surgery last fall because she experienced extreme fluctuations in how her body responded to medication, which sometimes wears off too early and other times doesn’t absorb at all.
  On Tuesd
  
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• Gong Hei Fat Choy | Happy Chinese New Year City of #NorthVan! https://t.co/jcpy9cK47W

  06-02-2019 01:40 via twitter.com
  
  Gong Hei Fat Choy | Happy Chinese New Year City of #NorthVan! https://t.co/jcpy9cK47W
  
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• 12 steps to proper doctor physical examinations OK'd by B.C. college

  06-02-2019 01:37 via vancouversun.com
  Patients complaining about how their doctors conduct tactile examinations has prompted the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. to take a more emphatic line on the matter.
  The regulatory body for about 12,000 physicians has spelled out the required technique in a step-by-step video explainer on such checkups. A companion patient education bulletin has also been published for patients so they know what to expect.
  “Patients naturally expect their physicians to respect their c
  
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• B.C. First Nations asked to harvest seals for toxin tests before building industry

  06-02-2019 01:27 via vancouversun.com
  If local harbour seals are fit to eat, they could soon find themselves on the menu in fancy restaurants from Montreal to Beijing and beyond.
  First Nations hunters and fishermen up and down B.C.’s coast are being asked to harvest seals for lab tests that will determine if they are safe for human consumption.
  The Pacific Balance Pinniped Society is asking for samples of liver, heart, flesh and blubber for laboratory testing with an eye to selling into markets hungry for seal and sea lion mea
  
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• Richmond man pleads guilty to double murder in Coquitlam

  06-02-2019 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond man has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend and a friend of hers who was visiting from Israel.
  According to search warrant documents, at the time of the July 2015 slayings, Maurio “Mo” Salehi had recently broken up with Iryna Gabalis, 56, and was upset that her friend, Dmitri Faktorovski, had arrived in Vancouver.
  On Monday, Salehi pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster to the second-degree murders of Gabalis and Faktorovski.
  The pleas by Salehi,
  
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• Pedestrian dies in East Vancouver collision

  06-02-2019 00:53 via vancouversun.com
  A woman in her 70s is dead after being struck by a truck in East Vancouver early Tuesday.
  Vancouver police say it’s the second pedestrian fatality of 2019.
  At around 10:15 a.m. the woman was crossing East Hastings Street at Commercial Drive when she was struck by a red pickup.
  Investigators say the truck was travelling south on Commercial and collided with the pedestrian as the driver turned east onto Hastings.
  The driver of the truck, a 50-year-old man from Vancouver, remained at the scen
  
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• Improper paperwork: Vancouver pioneer lanes subdivided … 133 years later

  06-02-2019 00:43 via vancouversun.com
  Legal notices tend to be fairly dry. But last week a real zinger popped up in The Vancouver Sun.
  It was a notice from the City of Vancouver to the heirs of Israel Wood Powell, Charles Thomas Dupont and Annie Flater about some lots on or near Main Street, between 4th and 7th avenues.
  Powell and Dupont were prominent Victoria businessmen who invested heavily in Vancouver real estate when the city was incorporated in 1886, both individually and as investors in the Vancouver Improvement Company
  
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• Arts Club Theatre Company announces 56th Season

  06-02-2019 00:38 via vancouversun.com
  Arts Club Theatre Company artistic director Ashlie Corcoran describes the 2019-2020 season as her “sophomore album, so no pressure there at all.” At an announcement event Tuesday at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre, Corcoran outlined her second season curating a program of plays taking place at the company’s Stanley Industrial Alliance, Granville Island and Goldcorp at the BMO Theatre Centre stages.
  Among the highlights is the season opening A Thousand Splendid Suns by pla
  
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• Investigation: Vancouver's Bridgemark stock scandal rocks B.C. capital markets - North Shore News

  06-02-2019 00:35
  Investigation: Vancouver's Bridgemark stock scandal rocks B.C. capital markets  North Shore NewsKenneth Tollstam, then the City of North Vancouver manager, quietly moonlighted as a director, officer, and investor of at least a dozen low-quality start-up ...
  
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• Vancouver Art Gallery workers to strike after final offer vote forced

  06-02-2019 00:13 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Art Gallery remains open but operating with a skeleton staff after 200 unionized workers went on strike Tuesday morning.
  Workers, all members of Local 15 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, have voted 96 per cent in favour of a strike and gave the gallery strike notice last week, said union local president Warren Williams.
  On Monday, unionized workers took what is called “work to rule” job action, which means sticking to the letter of their contract, not working
  
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