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• North Macedonia says potential terrorist attack thwarted - Vancouver Sun

  15-02-2019 23:30
  North Macedonia says potential terrorist attack thwarted  Vancouver SunNorth Macedonian officials said Friday they have carried out a series of raids in an operation against suspected radical Islamic terrorists.The Interior Ministry said ...
  
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• NBA flexes marketing muscle as Canadian teams tone up for NHL playoffs

  15-02-2019 23:16 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It has been a much more bullish first three-quarters of the NHL regular season than most pundits and fans would have anticipated when the puck dropped last October.Who would have thought that three of the top four teams in the entire NHL, in February, would be Canadian-based?The Tampa Bay Lightning continue to be the class of the 31-team league, 15 points ahead (as of Friday morning) of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets, each with 75 points. Yet tho
  
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• Six fun ways to spend Family Day in Metro Vancouver - North Shore News

  15-02-2019 23:11
  Six fun ways to spend Family Day in Metro Vancouver  North Shore NewsIf you haven't made plans for Family Day yet, check out these ideas...
  
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• What's a traffic model and what is it good for? This one here is helping us make changes to Marine Drive to accommo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-02-2019 22:43 via twitter.com
  What's a traffic model and what is it good for? This one here is helping us make changes to Marine Drive to accommo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Billionaire Pattison, funnymen Rogen and Goldberg receive walk of fame stars in Vancouver

  15-02-2019 22:20 via vancouversun.com
  One of Canada’s richest men along with two of its funniest will be honoured Friday afternoon during a Canada’s Walk of Fame presentation at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  Evan Goldberg, left, and Seth Rogen are walk of famers.
  Businessman Jimmy Pattison and Hollywood comedy hitmakers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg  were officially inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto in December, but today the three Vancouverites will be guests of honour at a special&nb
  
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• RCMP in Kamloops say robbery and kidnap victim was found safe

  15-02-2019 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  The Mounties say a woman was found unharmed after she was kidnapped following a robbery in Kamloops on Thursday.
  Police say the woman and two men were robbed by two men carrying firearms before the alleged kidnapping.
  They say the woman was found unharmed on Friday in a vehicle that was taken from one of the robbery victims as it travelled from Kelowna to Kamloops.
  A man and a woman were arrested after the vehicle was stopped by police, who also took a robbery suspect into custody in Kelowna.
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• TransLink mayors' council votes Yes on SkyTrain to UBC

  15-02-2019 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  The TransLink Mayors’ Council has endorsed SkyTrain as the technology for the transit extension to the University of British Columbia.
  At a meeting Friday morning, the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation voted in favour of proceeding with planning for SkyTrain, with only two mayors opposed. The decision was in line with a recommendation made by TransLink staff in late January.
  Before the decision, Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said that in the interest of acting “
  
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• Classical music review: La Bohème goes big

  15-02-2019 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Opera’s latest staging of Puccini’s La Bohème — the 12th in the company’s history — is a handsome production of a perennial favourite. It’s also a sequel of sorts to last season’s lavish Turnadot by the direction/design team of Renaud Doucet and Andre Barbé, who have updated the story of love in the garrets of Paris to a vaguely 1920s mise en scène.
  This mild example of regieoper — where directorial concept becomes th
  
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• We're looking for a student to help research rodenticides and their impacts on local raptor populations. Are you an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-02-2019 21:19 via twitter.com
  We're looking for a student to help research rodenticides and their impacts on local raptor populations. Are you an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New St. Paul's Hospital gets green light from B.C. government

  15-02-2019 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government announced this morning that a new St. Paul’s Hospital will open for patients by 2026.
  Premier John Horgan said the new hospital will have 548 beds, 115 more than the hospital on Burrard Street, which was founded 125 years ago.
  The new hospital will cost $1.9 billion. It will be located at 1002 Station Street, next to the Via Rail Station, on the False Creek Flats.
  Horgan says the plan for the new hospital had stalled for 12 years, but the wait is over with the app
  
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• Theatre review: Comic theft and food for thought in The Shoplifters

  15-02-2019 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  The Shoplifters
  When: To March 9
  Where: Granville Island Stage
  Tickets and Info: From $29 at artsclub.com
  First, a clarification: Morris Panych’s play The Shoplifters and the Oscar-nominated Japanese film Shoplifters are completely different works, although both take a psychological and sociological lens to the netherworld of small-time theft.
  Playwright/director Panych’s comedy is also rich in the kinds of existential implication he has been exploring on stage for decades.
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: 2016 a great year for B.C. red blends

  15-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I can’t say enough about how impressed I am with the 2016 vintage in British Columbia, and especially with the quality of fruit we are tasting in many of the red blends.
  The notion of keeping track of the quality of vintages has been marginalized over the years by retailers and wineries who would suggest there is the knowledge and tools to make every year a great year.
  It’s true that a lot can be done to mitigate Mother Nature, but in the end there are still those special vintages th
  
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• St. Paul's Hospital replacement slated to open in Vancouver in 2026 - North Island Gazette

  15-02-2019 19:51
  St. Paul's Hospital replacement slated to open in Vancouver in 2026  North Island GazetteA replacement for the 125-year-old landmark St. Paul's Hospital is scheduled to open in 2026, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix and Premier John Horgan ...
  
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• 'Several' measles cases confirmed at Vancouver schools

  15-02-2019 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  Health officials confirmed Friday there are “several” cases of measles detected in Vancouver school children.
  Vancouver Coastal Health says they have identified several cases of measles at three French language schools: Two cases at École Jules‐Verne; One case at École Anna‐Hébert, and one suspected case at École Rose-Des-Vents.
  VCH spokeswoman Tiffany Akins said they are still gathering all patient information from parents and kids
  
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• B.C. home sales continue to slide in 2019, says BCREA

  15-02-2019 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  Home sales in B.C. were down 33 per cent in January, according to the British Columbia Real Estate Association, which blames the slump on the federal government’s mortgage stress test.
  The BCREA reported Friday that a total of 3,546 residential sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service last month, a decline of 33.2 per cent from the same month last year.
  The average price in the province was $665,590, a decline of 7.7 per cent from January 2018. Total sales was $2.36 billion
  
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• Concern over student vaping grows in Vancouver Island schools - North Island Gazette

  15-02-2019 19:45
  Concern over student vaping grows in Vancouver Island schools  North Island GazetteIsland Health officer says parents and educators have ample reason to be concerned.
  
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• A reminder that garbage and recycling collection has had some delays this week due to the snow. If your materials w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-02-2019 19:45 via twitter.com
  A reminder that garbage and recycling collection has had some delays this week due to the snow. If your materials w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C.’s ‘policy-induced’ housing slowdown gives chill to January’s market: BCREA

  15-02-2019 19:34
  
  Province’s real estate association lays blame for sluggish market and falling prices squarely at federal and provincial market interventions
  
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• Fourteen 'dream' homes ordered evacuated as sinkholes open in Sechelt

  15-02-2019 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  SECHELT — Residents of an upscale neighbourhood on the Sunshine Coast will officially be barred from returning to their dream homes today.
  Sinkholes throughout the subdivision have prompted the District of Sechelt to issue evacuation orders covering 14 properties.
  The homes, with views overlooking Sechelt Inlet, are similar to others in a nearby subdivision valued at over $1 million, although the B.C. Assessment Authority values most of the buildings in the Seawatch subdivision at zero.
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• Missing woman last seen on Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  15-02-2019 18:47
  Missing woman last seen on Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteHeather Anne Limer has been missing since Jan. 24.
  
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• 5 things to do on the North Shore this long weekend - Vancouver Courier

  15-02-2019 18:34
  5 things to do on the North Shore this long weekend  Vancouver CourierDon't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? Well don't let that be the case this weekend with a performance of Circle Game: ...
  
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• Vancouver Island Snowmageddon finally over? - North Island Gazette

  15-02-2019 17:07
  Vancouver Island Snowmageddon finally over?  North Island GazetteWet flurries possible, but school districts open, last night's dump probably the last gasp.
  
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• Good morning! #DNVsnow team reports that main roads are clear, and they're currently working on local streets. Loca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-02-2019 17:07 via twitter.com
  Good morning! #DNVsnow team reports that main roads are clear, and they're currently working on local streets. Loca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Champagne & Chateaux: Vacation in France's Champagne-Ardenne region

  15-02-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  “Remember, gentlemen, its not just France we are fighting for, its champagne.” — Winston Churchill
  “Champagne makes you feel like its Sunday and better days are just around the corner.” — Marlene Dietrich, German actress
  “Any man who drinks Dom Pérignon ’52 can’t be all bad.” — James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me
  “Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.” — Anistatia R M
  
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• The secret lives of salmon: B.C.-led international expedition to probe ailing Pacific stocks

  15-02-2019 16:41 via vancouversun.com
  An unprecedented international collaboration could revolutionize salmon science and fisheries management, return forecasting and even hatchery output.
  Nineteen scientists from Russia, Canada, the United States, Japan and South Korea are set to probe the secret lives of five Pacific salmon species with a four-week grid search and test fishery across the Gulf of Alaska.
  The expedition begins next week aboard the Russian research ship MV Professor Kaganovsky.
  “We know virtually nothing a
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Emergency preparedness through self-sufficiency

  15-02-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Amid myriad emergency preparation programs, an old idea emerges: namely self sufficiency, the ability to feed and house oneself without the support of electricity or gas. It’s an idea that brings with it an appreciation for the power of nature and our place in it.
  According to emergency preparedness expert Kim Fournier, if you know how to create a source of energy for cooking and warmth, where to find water and sanitize it, where to find edible food, and know how to keep you
  
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• B.C. Family Day 2019: 60 things to do over the long weekend

  15-02-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Young, old and everyone in between — our list of 60 things to do over the Family Day long weekend is sure to have something for everyone, including indoor and outdoor fun, concerts, stage productions, visual art shows and more.INDOOR FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENTS:
  Get your face painted at the Marpole Family Day Festival.
  Marpole Family Day Festival 2019Free family fun for all ages! Enjoy inflatables, balloon artists, face painting, games and play area, food concession and live entertainment. &bul
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Slushy

  15-02-2019 15:52 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Here comes the rain again, melting the snow, and turning the region’s sidewalks and streets into a slushy mess. Environment Canada is forecasting periods of wet snow mixed with rain Friday morning then a 60 per cent chance of rain showers in the afternoon and a high of 3 C. The weekend looks mainly sunny on both Saturday and Sunday, with highs of 4 C and 3 C, respectively. Then the sub zero temperatures return Sunday night with an overnight low of – 6 C. Monda
  
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• Whitecaps trade Vancouver snow for California sun with latest training trip - North Shore News

  15-02-2019 14:00
  Whitecaps trade Vancouver snow for California sun with latest training trip  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — Russell Teibert can't wait to get back to training with his Vancouver Whitecaps teammates — even if the field is covered with snow.A wintry ...
  
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• Eight cases of measles confirmed in Vancouver outbreak - North Delta Reporter

  15-02-2019 09:00
  Eight cases of measles confirmed in Vancouver outbreak  North Delta ReporterCoastal Health official say the cases stem from the French-language Ecole Jules Verne Secondary.
  
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• Review: Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods Tour in Vancouver

  15-02-2019 07:55 via vancouversun.com
  FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2017 file photo, Justin Timberlake performs at the Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival in Franklin, Tenn.
  Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods Tour
  When: Feb. 14, 15, 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Rogers Arena
  Tickets and info: ticketmaster.ca
  “Give your sweetie something fine for Valentine’s.”
  This was the suggestion from the beer hawker who had more basic motivation than romance fuelling their comments.
  There was no question that, as date nights go, Justin
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Lab cuts mean some crime guns go untested

  15-02-2019 07:35 via vancouversun.com
  I decided to follow up on the government’s Nov. 2017 report on illegal firearms in B.C. to see what has happened in terms of the implementation of recommendations. Over the last few days of research, I was surprised to learn some key recommendations haven’t been implemented. And what’s worse, despite continuing gang and gun violence, the RCMP has cut forensic lab services back, meaning some guns seized by police are not even getting tested or processed. That means fewer
  I know
  
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• Five Things to Know: Permanent plaza at 800 Robson Street

  15-02-2019 06:52 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s city council took another step towards the construction of a permanent plaza on the 800-block of Robson Street on Wednesday, voting to approve over $5 million toward the project.
  The presentation preceding that vote also gave the public its first look at council’s vision for a “city-serving public space with high social and cultural value.”
  What did we learn? Besides the fact that Robson Street will never be a through-road again, we now know that council&
  
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• Vancouver looks to budget for housing money, including for modular

  15-02-2019 05:51 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart did not hesitate when asked what he wants in next week’s provincial budget.
  “Housing, housing, housing.”
  The throne speech this week set out the broad strokes of the B.C. NDP government’s plans for 2019, which largely focused on improving affordability.
  “We’ve heard some good rumblings in the throne speech,” Stewart said Wednesday at Vancouver city hall. “But the budget will really tell us what kind of
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Suspicious delay after bells ring takes a toll on trust in B.C. legislature

  15-02-2019 05:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The precarious balance of power in the B.C. legislature, coupled with finger-pointing over the spending scandal, has the potential to disrupt even the most routine proceedings.
  Witness what happened this week, when NDP fumbling and B.C. Liberal opportunism brought a premature end to the annual debate on the speech from the throne.
  The debate was just getting underway Wednesday afternoon. Two New Democrats had spoken, followed by one Liberal, Andrew Weaver of the Greens, the
  
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• Tesla, Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi Outlander the big winners in B.C. zero-emission car stakes

  15-02-2019 03:31 via vancouversun.com
  Tesla, Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi Outlander were the big winners in B.C.’s zero-emission car stakes in 2018.
  According to Vancouver-based electric vehicle industry analyst Matthew Klippenstein, there were around 8,400 zero-emission vehicles sold in B.C. last year. Zero-emission vehicles include pure electric, fuel cell and electric/gas hybrids that have a plug-in to charge the battery. This does not include traditional non-plug in hybrid gas/electric vehicles like the Toyota Prius tha
  
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• Steve Sammut: Passengers, tourism, must be considered in railroad discussions

  15-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  With the May 2018 amendments to the Canada Transportation Act, the Canadian Transportation Agency initiated its first official investigation into a level-of-service dispute between shippers and railways in the Vancouver area. The two-day hearings took place in Vancouver on Jan. 29 and 30 and the discussion clearly focused on the movement of freight in and out of the region.
  It is important to appreciate that the railways provide a valuable service in delivering imported goods to our local commun
  
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• Douglas Todd: China scholars feeling the chill of intimidation

  15-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re a scholar whose specialty is China, you learn to be careful about criticizing the leaders of the world’s second major power.
  Yet such self-censorship has grown worse in the past year. Some China scholars are deciding to keep their mouths more or less entirely shut. Others are avoiding travelling to China.
  Most China experts have grown cautious because, naturally enough, they want to maintain access to the halls of power and universities in the planet’s most populous c
  
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• No longer alone: Vancouver Island woman to meet brother she never knew she had

  15-02-2019 02:23 via vancouversun.com
  Adele Bruce learned she had a half-brother and two half-sisters last November after seeing a picture on Facebook. Her half-brother is flying from Scotland to Vancouver on Monday to meet her. (Photo: Handout)
  Adele Bruce was scanning through an old friend’s Facebook posts one evening last November when she came across a name she recognized.
  A photo taken at a summer wedding in Scotland showed a woman in a blue-lace dress smiling on the arm of a man with a raised Champagne glass. It was capt
  
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• Judge orders sale of Abbotsford home in case where son tried to evict mom

  15-02-2019 01:52 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has ordered that an Abbotsford home be sold following a dispute in which a son tried to evict his estranged mother from the property.
  Margaret Anne Iberg, 75, and her son, Russell Gordon Claridge, 45, became embroiled in the spat when Claridge served an eviction notice on Iberg in February 2018.
  Claridge, a mill worker, claimed to have done so because he had a new child on the way and wanted to live in the larger upstairs suite, switching with his mother, an idea that he claimed she had
  
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• Our newest #Iaff Local 1183 and #Northvan IAFF 296 members enjoying the weather!pic.twitter.com/y3h3EYkmj4

  15-02-2019 01:43 via twitter.com
  Our newest #Iaff Local 1183 and #Northvan IAFF 296 members enjoying the weather!pic.twitter.com/y3h3EYkmj4
  
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• Our newest #Iaff Local 1183 and #Northvan IAFF 296 members enjoying the weather! https://t.co/y3h3EYkmj4

  15-02-2019 01:43 via twitter.com
  
  Our newest #Iaff Local 1183 and #Northvan IAFF 296 members enjoying the weather! https://t.co/y3h3EYkmj4
  
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• B.C. gun report recommendations not implemented despite ongoing violence

  15-02-2019 01:32 via vancouversun.com
  More than a year after a report by a B.C. government task force on illegal firearms, several key recommendations have not yet been implemented.
  Postmedia has learned that forensic testing of some guns used in suspected crimes is not getting done because of a lack of capacity in RCMP forensic labs.
  And border guards still don’t have access to a B.C. police database that would give them intelligence on organized criminals and gangsters who might be attempting to cross into Canada with firear
  
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