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• Daphne Bramham: Svend Robinson gambling that Burnaby voters are ready for a radical reprise

  14-02-2019 23:44 via vancouversun.com
  There were plenty of microphones and video cameras at Svend Robinson’s news conference where he called for the federal Liberal government to expand the eligibility for medically assisted dying to those who give advance consent.
  Despite 15 years away from Canada and Canadian politics, time doesn’t seem to have changed the veteran New Democrat.
  His appeal was passionate, personal and unyielding. He called the Liberal government’s current legislation “cruel, unjust and uncon
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Marathon medicare challenge is B.C.'s zombie trial

  14-02-2019 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  The marathon medicare trial has lurched back to life and plans to sail past its fourth anniversary of somnolent proceedings with a hearty, “Not dead yet!”
  After another languorous winter holiday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Steeves and the flock of lawyers decided this month that the plaintiffs will try to finish their case by the end of March — maybe, better add a week to make sure.
  “Given our history, I’m thinking April 8,” Steeves suggested for the inte
  
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• B.C. government putting alternative energy sector on ice

  14-02-2019 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  Dozens of solar, wind and run-of-river power projects have been indefinitely suspended by the provincial government in an effort to manage the cost of electricity from independent power producers.
  “That will have to change if B.C. is to pursue its CleanBC plans,” according to Jae Mather, executive director of Clean Energy B.C. By turning its back on alternative energy, B.C. is missing the opportunity to make electricity cheaper for consumers.
  “The price of wind and solar is the
  
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• TransLink testing seat reservation app on Bowen buses

  14-02-2019 23:41
  
  The company says it's still early days as the app's still in the first beta testing stage.
  
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• Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents The Empire Strikes Back In concert

  14-02-2019 22:54 via vancouversun.com
  As part of its Star Wars film concert series, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will present a screening of The Empire Strikes Back this summer while performing the scores of Oscar-winning composer John Williams live at the Orpheum Theatre.“Fans will be able to experience the scope and grandeur of this beloved film in a live symphonic concert experience,” the VSO said in a release.
  The Empire Strikes Back was released 40 years ago. The second and most critically acclaimed film of
  
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• Mission man charged with criminal negligence causing death after woman dies following crash

  14-02-2019 22:43 via vancouversun.com
  A Mission man has been charged with criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident — more than a year after the crash.
  The accident occurred on Feb. 1, 2018, when a pickup truck reversed out of a parking stall in a mall in the 23900-block of Dewdney Trunk Road. It struck another vehicle, then entered the drive-through of a fast-food restaurant, jumped a curb and hit a woman and her son. The woman was able to push her son out of the way b
  
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• Movie review: Movie Minute Alita: Battle Angel

  14-02-2019 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez team up for new futuristic, action thriller Alita: Battle Angel. Find out what Postmedia movie critic Dana Gee and Arts & Life editor Aleesha Harris have to say about the $260-million film in this week’s Movie Minute video.
  
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• B.C. proposes stronger security for witnesses testifying at criminal trials

  14-02-2019 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia is proposing changes to its witness protection program in order to strengthen security for people who could provide police with information on serious crimes.
  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says people with intimate details about organized crime, for example, should not feel their life will be in danger if they co-operate with police.
  He says in a release that proposed measures are expected to build on the federal witness protection program in cases that
  
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• SkyTrain delays continue, more snow in the forecast for Metro Vancouver

  14-02-2019 21:59 via vancouversun.com
  Travellers on SkyTrain are being advised to budget extra time as weather-related delays continue, and more snow is expected during the evening rush hour in Metro Vancouver on Thursday.
  TransLink says the Expo and Millennium lines continue to operate with reduced frequency due to the need to have staff on each train to watch for problems.
  There have been massive lineups at some SkyTrain stations over the last couple of days, as Metro Vancouver was hit with a winter storm and a huge dump of s
  
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• NDP MLA with taxi-driving dad seeks advice from B.C.'s conflict commissioner

  14-02-2019 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  Ravi Kahlon, the NDP MLA being hit with conflict of interest allegations because he sits on all-party committee reviewing ride hailing despite the fact that his father owns a taxi licence, is seeking advice from B.C.’s Conflict of Interest Commissioner.
  Richmond Liberal Jas Johal said Wednesday the member from North Delta should quit the select standing committee on Crown corporations, which is currently holding meetings and accepting submissions from representatives of the taxi and ride-h
  
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• VPD say wanted sex offender may be travelling in Mercedes SUV

  14-02-2019 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police believe a convicted sex offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant may have fled B.C. in a Mercedes-Benz SUV.
  A warrant was issued for 47-year-old Joseph Davis after he failed to return to his Vancouver halfway house on Monday night.
  In December 2007, Davis sexually assaulted a real estate agent in Winnipeg after luring her to his home. He was also convicted of assault causing bodily harm and forcible confinement in 2001 after he invited a female sex worker to his home.
  He was sta
  
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• MP Rachel Blaney argues for cell phone service along North Vancouver Island highway - North Island Gazette

  14-02-2019 21:47
  MP Rachel Blaney argues for cell phone service along North Vancouver Island highway  North Island GazetteThe inability to communicate on the highway is a safety issue for many commuters.
  
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• Charge recommended against Burnaby man accused of groping seven-year-old on SkyTrain

  14-02-2019 21:10 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver Transit Police say a charge of sexual interference has been recommended against a 57-year-old Burnaby man who they allege groped and made vulgar sexual comments to a seven-year-old girl.
  In a news release, Sgt. Clint Hampton says the suspect surrendered late Wednesday, the same day police issued a release asking for the public’s help in identifying a SkyTrain passenger.
  Hampton says the man is known to police and has been released on several conditions, including staying aw
  
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• In The House podcast: B.C. NDP hit populist note in throne speech

  14-02-2019 20:32 via vancouversun.com
  Mike Smyth and Rob Shaw answer all the important questions raised by the B.C. NDP government’s throne speech.Why all the populist measures?Can the B.C. government really act on changing your cellphone bill?What do allies and critics think of the speech?Smyth and Shaw also talk about Liberal MLA Linda Reid having to resign her assistant deputy speaker’s job and Premier John Horgan resisting calls for a public inquiry into money laundering.
  
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• Let's be blunt: Stunt work deserves Oscars recognition, film industry's full respect

  14-02-2019 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  When the 91st Academy Awards ceremony takes place in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Feb. 24, awards will be given for everything from best picture to best visual effects.
  But there won’t be any categories honouring the work done by stunt actors and co-ordinators. On the face of it, this seems ridiculous.
  From the moment French inventor Louis Le Prince captured consecutive moving action in 1888’s Roundhay Garden Scene to the epic fight sequences seen in such Oscar-nominated works
  
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• What’s the worst Canadian city for a single person to buy a home?

  14-02-2019 20:28
  
  No Valentine’s Day prizes if you figure it out – but can you guess where the best city is?
  
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• Rail expansion through Port of Vancouver aimed at hiking imports from Asia

  14-02-2019 19:35 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The federal government, CN Rail and the body that oversees trade through Canada’s busiest port have signed an agreement allowing CN to build a second railway track to move more cargo and increase trade through Vancouver’s harbour.
  CN says the project is part of a long-term strategy to double-track a four-kilometre section of rail that links expanding import and export terminals on the south shore of Burrard Inlet to the company’s national network.
  It says in a
  
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• Uptick in Bowen property crimes over past three months

  14-02-2019 19:16
  
  Police are reminding islanders to lock their doors and keep valuables out of sight.
  
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• B.C. transit police say man accused of groping seven-year-old girl surrenders

  14-02-2019 19:14 via vancouversun.com
  NEW WESTMINSTER — Metro Vancouver Transit Police say a man who allegedly made vulgar sexual comments to a seven-year-old girl before groping her has surrendered.
  In a message posted on social media, Sgt. Clint Hampton says the suspect turned himself in to police late Wednesday, the same day police issued a release asking for the public’s help in identifying the man.
  Hampton has not offered any further details but says in a tweet that more information will be provided in an upcoming m
  
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• Five things to know about NOVEL by NoV3L

  14-02-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver-based NoV3L includes (clockwise from top) Noah Varley, Bennett Smith, Isabelle Anderson, Jon Varley, Bryce Cloghesy and Mikhail Oreshkov. (Photo: Handout)
  NoV3L
  Novel | Flemish Eye
  A self-described “DIY-art-music collective,” Vancouver’s NoV3L has clearly studied the sounds that came out of the ’70s New York No Wave and post-punk Manchester scenes. This isn’t to say that the sextet sounds dated; rather that its taut, angular and driving material will hit a
  
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• Transit Police say man accused of assaulting young girl turns himself in

  14-02-2019 18:58 via vancouversun.com
  Update (02/14/2019): Metro Vancouver Transit Police spokesperson Sgt. Clint Hampton says a man wanted in connection with the alleged assault of a seven-year-old girl aboard a SkyTrain turned himself into police Wednesday night.
  Update – Suspect turned himself in to police yesterday evening. I will be providing further details in a #MediaRelease later this morning. https://t.co/B0hY2chuwg
  — Sgt. Clint Hampton (@SgtCHampton) February 14, 2019 
  Original post (02/13/2019): Transit P
  
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• Overseas real estate investors turn to industrial sector

  14-02-2019 18:43
  
  High demand in the Metro Vancouver industrial market means local buyers now face competition from beyond Canada
  
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• Second case of measles confirmed in Vancouver, says health authority - North Shore News

  14-02-2019 18:34
  Second case of measles confirmed in Vancouver, says health authority  North Shore NewsVancouver Coastal Health says the infected person is a minor and caught the disease locally, whereas the first case was acquired abroad. Photo Wikicommons.
  
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• Second case of measles confirmed in Vancouver, says health authority

  14-02-2019 18:34
  
  A second case of measles has been confirmed in Vancouver.
  
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• TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces the Roots

  14-02-2019 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  The Roots
  When: June 28, 8 p.m.
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $79, on sale Friday, Feb. 22, 10 a.m. coastaljazz.ca
  Grammy Award-winning hip-hop act the Roots will headline the 34th TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The official house band of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon are platinum-selling progenitors of live, organic rap music and legendary for its live show.
  This will be the first time that a contemporary hip-hop act has been the opening headliner fo
  
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• #DNVsnow team reports main and secondary roads 100% clear, currently working on local streets. There's a possibilit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-02-2019 17:09 via twitter.com
  #DNVsnow team reports main and secondary roads 100% clear, currently working on local streets. There's a possibilit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Carnaval de Quebec: What to do, see and eat at the famous winter festival

  14-02-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s 9 p.m. on a Saturday night in the middle of winter, and I’m standing on a street corner in the dark and cold. I have a glass of hot sweet booze (la ponce de Carnaval!) in one hand, and my camera in the other. And I’m surrounded by thousands of other people. It’s fun, cold and fascinating, with fireworks, stilt-walkers, fire-breathers, indigenous drumming and storytelling, life-sized puppets of Canadian animals, singing and dancing.
  Such was the eerily beautiful night
  
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• Petition calls for mandatory vaccinations in B.C. schools

  14-02-2019 16:55 via vancouversun.com
  An online petition is calling on the provincial government to make vaccinations mandatory in B.C. schools following a second reported case of measles in Vancouver, and an outbreak of that disease south of the border.
  The petition, which as of Thursday morning had more than 1,100 signatures, asks Premier John Horgan to amend B.C.’s current enrolment policy to include mandatory vaccines except with medical exemption.
  It was launched by local mom Katie Mary, who says one concern people have i
  
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• Douglas Todd: Why populism hasn't come to (English) Canada. Yet

  14-02-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Populism has arisen virtually everywhere in the West, but remains weak in English Canada.
  The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, resistance to high immigration in Australia, mounting European nativism and last year’s Quebec election are strong signs that growing centre-right white populism will be tenacious.
  It’s often said that people in the U.S. display “American exceptionalism,” the belief they’re uniquely committed to freedom. But there is also a “
  
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• Young B.C. families cut into retirement savings to make down payments: Report

  14-02-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jessica MacDonald and her husband bought a row house in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood about 2 1/2 years ago. It’s around 1,000 square feet and sits among nine other similar units, all with young families with one or two kids, she said.
  “We bought it to be our family home,” said Macdonald, a 30-year-old designer, who sold a condo she owned in Mount Pleasant while her husband has been renting out the downtown condo he owns.
  “We were in a very unique situation,&
  
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• Demand for minimum affordable housing could push up costs, says group

  14-02-2019 15:00
  
  City of Victoria's proposal to require all condo projects to include affordable rental units should be rethought, as policy could actually drive up prices, according to developers
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Another snowfall warning in effect

  14-02-2019 14:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – There’s more snow on the way for Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada has posted a snowfall warning for Thursday, saying up to 10 centimetres is expected. The agency says another low pressure weather system will move across the South Coast Thursday, while temperatures are expected to remain near the freezing mark. Snow will likely begin falling in the afternoon and transition to rain in some areas overnight or Friday morning. Some regions will see between five a
  
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• Canadians divided on trust in media, government, business, NGOs

  14-02-2019 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  If you are reading this, you may be among the growing number of Canadians turning back to traditional news as their primary source of information as trust in media, government and business rises, but you probably don’t represent the general population.
  The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer, being released today, found that this year, more Canadians trust four key institutions — non-government organizations, business, government and media — than in 2018. The online survey collected r
  
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• Vancouver Jewish school asks Shaw to ID anonymous e-mailer - North Shore News

  14-02-2019 09:00
  Vancouver Jewish school asks Shaw to ID anonymous e-mailer  North Shore NewsJewish independent school Talmud Torah in Vancouver is asking Shaw Communications to hand over the identity of a customer believed to be behind a ...
  
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• Valentine’s Day Vancouver 2019: 5 last-minute options to save the date

  14-02-2019 07:43 via vancouversun.com
  Thursday is Valentine’s Day, and if this is news to you, we sincerely hope it’s because you’re single.
  If not, then there’s a pretty good chance you’re about to be, unless you can make a quick recovery and put together a romantic plan on short notice.
  But don’t panic, because we’ve got you and your partner covered. You might have a hard time making a dinner reservation at the last minute, since everyone else already did that ages ago, but you may as
  
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• Thursday storm will bring rain and slush to Metro Vancouver

  14-02-2019 07:33 via vancouversun.com
  COQUITLAM, B.C.: FEBRUARY 13, 2019 – People enjoy the snowy landscape at Town Centre Park in Coquitlam, B.C. on Wednesday, February 13, 2019.
  Feb. 13, 2019 – Environment Canada has rescinded its snowfall warnings for the Metro Vancouver region but it says another winter storm is brewing for Thursday and Friday.
  The weather agency says a low pressure system will approach B.C.’s south coast late Thursday, bringing with it a mix of wintry precipitation.
  Wet snow is expect to hit t
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Witness recalls night of Karbovanec shooting

  14-02-2019 04:40 via vancouversun.com
  I was back at the Jamie Bacon trial today for the testimony of a woman who lived near the scene of the shooting back in 2008. Next week is when one of the former associates is expected to begin testifying.
  Here’s my story:Jamie Bacon trial hears from woman testifying she heard
  shots outside her Mission homeKIM BOLAN
  Updated: February 13, 2019Mission resident Tami Bullock testified in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday about hearing several bangs on the street outside her home more than a decade
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Ratepayers 'zapped' by Hydro report that reveals shocking interference

  14-02-2019 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Massive political interference by the B.C. Liberals in B.C. Hydro. Hydro’s estimates of its own electricity needs and the way it could obtain power manipulated by direct orders from the cabinet table.
  The independent B.C. Utilities Commission restricted in its ability to vet Hydro’s electricity needs and the prices it would be paying.
  Hydro bullied into buying private power that it didn’t need, at premium prices, locked in for decades.
  Hydro ordered, as we
  
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• Dan Fumano: The lowercase 'v' vision of Vancouver's new council

  14-02-2019 03:42 via vancouversun.com
  The staff report before council Wednesday bore the name of a single city block: 800 Robson.
  But the afternoon’s decision, of course, had wider implications.
  Council’s vote Wednesday to approve $5.3 million for a permanent plaza on the 800-block of Robson Street adds to our early understanding of the new mayor and council’s priorities, approach and vision — with a lowercase ‘v’ — when it comes to city-building.
  Robson Plaza is smaller, in terms of fi
  
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• B.C. Hydro's private power projects wasting billions, says new report

  14-02-2019 03:30 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro is losing billions of dollars because it was forced by the provincial government to sign contracts with private power producers for the wrong type of power at exorbitant rates, according to a new report.
  The independent report, commissioned by Energy Minister Michelle Mungall, concluded that the private power contracts will “cost ratepayers an estimated $16.2 billion over 20 years, the estimated period during which B.C. Hydro will likely not need the energy gove
  
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• Handlen confession to murder of second girl ruled inadmissible

  14-02-2019 03:25 via vancouversun.com
  The jury that convicted Garry Taylor Handlen of murdering 12-year-old Monica Jack did not hear during the trial that he had confessed to the slaying of another girl.
  When Handlen, now 71, was arrested in November 2014, he was charged with Monica’s first-degree murder from May 1978, as well as the September 1975 first-degree murder of 11-year-old Kathryn-Mary Herbert.
  During a police sting known as a Mr. Big operation, Handlen first confessed to undercover officers posing as members of a cr
  
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• Canada keen to support technology overhaul for salmon farms: fisheries minister

  14-02-2019 03:06 via vancouversun.com
  The federal government is keen to help transition B.C. salmon farms to designs and technologies that address nagging environmental concerns, says Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.
  The key is to address the huge cost difference between net-pen farms and alternative systems by supporting the development of sustainable farms, he said.
  “There may be levers we can pull to help close that gap in the same way that we did with solar and renewable energy over the past couple of decades,”
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019

  14-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The “remediation agreement” option SNC-Lavalin lobbied the feds to enact engages moral relativism. Economic benefits and wealth exempt — and render immune — from direct consequences those who would violate the rule of law to which ordinary Canadians would likely be subject.
  Recall KPMG’s Isle of Man tax sham secretly “remediated” by the CRA without any enforcement consequences compared to the $500 million in fines KPMG paid in the U.S., criminal con
  
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• Second case of measles reported in Vancouver

  14-02-2019 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  A second case of measles has been confirmed in the Vancouver area.
  It was transmitted locally, meaning the patient was not infected while travelling abroad, Dr. Althea Hayden of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority said at a news conference on Wednesday. She would not give details about the patient, but said the person is a school-age child.
  The first case, acquired abroad, was confirmed on Saturday but past the point of being infectious. Hayden said there is no clear link between the two
  
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  14-02-2019 02:43 via twitter.com
  
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• B.C. NDP MLA's taxi-driver dad should prompt committee resignation, say Liberals

  14-02-2019 02:42 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Opposition Liberals are calling for New Democrat Ravi Kahlon to resign from an all-party committee reviewing ride hailing for the province because his dad holds a taxi licence.
  Richmond Liberal Jas Johal said Wednesday the member from North Delta should quit the select standing committee on Crown corporations, which is currently holding meetings and accepting submissions from representatives from the taxi and ride-hailing industries.
  The committee is pre
  
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• Jamie Bacon trial hears from woman testifying she heard shots outside her Mission home

  14-02-2019 02:18 via vancouversun.com
  Mission resident Tami Bullock testified in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday about hearing several bangs on the street outside her home more than a decade ago.
  Bullock told jurors at the trial of alleged drug trafficker Jamie Bacon that she was concerned enough about the “seven or eight” bangs that she called 911 that night.
  Bacon is charged with counselling someone to commit a murder over several months in late 2008.
  Crown prosecutor Joe Bellows said in his opening submissions Feb. 4 tha
  
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• Fact-checking the throne speech: Inflated numbers on doctors and nurse practitioners at urgent-care clinics, gov't admits

  14-02-2019 02:17 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government’s throne speech contained misleading information about the number of doctors being hired for 10 urgent-care centres across the province.
  “These new centres will come with 200 more family practice physicians, 200 nurse practitioners and 50 clinical pharmacists and other health-care providers,” the speech stated.
  However, when questioned Wednesday about those inflated figures, the Ministry of Health acknowledged the speech “wrongly linked” 400
  
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