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• Weekend house fire displaces North Vancouver family - Global News

  16-02-2019 23:18
  Weekend house fire displaces North Vancouver family  Global News"The family was very smart, they did what you are supposed to do."
  
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• 400-plus vehicles written off by ICBC since acid spills near Trail

  16-02-2019 21:28 via vancouversun.com
  ICBC says about 450 vehicles have been written off since sulphuric acid spilled along a busy commuter route near Trail in two incidents last spring.
  The public insurer says there have been more than 4,450 claims received after the spills but the vast majority of those vehicles were not damaged.
  It says it is still in the early stages of a lawsuit but no trial date has been set.
  The spills happened on April 10 and May 23, 2018, when tanker trucks owned and operated by Westcan spilled sulphuric ac
  
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• Shelby, a Grade 3 student, wrote Mayor @LindaCBuchanan a letter of congratulations on becoming the City's new Mayor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-02-2019 21:00 via twitter.com
  Shelby, a Grade 3 student, wrote Mayor @LindaCBuchanan a letter of congratulations on becoming the City's new Mayor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Classical music: VSO announces plans for 'fascinating' 2019/2020 season

  16-02-2019 20:38 via vancouversun.com
  Now is the time for many classical presenters to announce big plans for the year ahead.
  Otto Tausk.
  At the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, real change is in the air as music director Otto Tausk and his team have put together a fascinating season.
  At first glance the VSO is keeping most of its tried-and-true concert packages — Masterworks, Classics at the Chan, Surrey Nights and so on — but a closer look at content reveals another matter entirely.
  Right out of the gate there are some ve
  
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• Meet the Chef: Andrew Hounslow is keeping it local at Havana

  16-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Executive chef Andrew Hounslow has taken over the helm at Havana, a local favourite on Commercial Drive for more than two decades. Hounslow himself is something of a local product, too, beginning his career in 2002 at Earls Kitchen + Bar then obtaining his professional credentials at Vancouver Community College. He comes to a freshly renovated Havana from the highly regarded Belgard Kitchen.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: Seeing the enjoyment people get from eating my food
  
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• Makeover: A new look after a holiday in the sun

  16-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Janine Hewitt is a busy wife and mom of two kids. The 42-year-old recently returned from family vacation in the sun and her hair was feeling faded, dry and shapeless.
  Janine has thick and naturally wavy hair. Her colour was looking golden and faded from the sun. To refine her overall colour, I stared by applying a cool-brown shade to her background foundation in a permanent formula to create depth. I then applied a demi-permanent, ammonia-free colour in a beige-blond shade to her mid-lengths and
  
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• Health Canada seizes illegal eyewash product from Richmond store

  16-02-2019 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  Health Canada is warning the public about a potentially dangerous eyewash product seized from a health store in Richmond.
  In an advisory, Health Canada says consumers who bought “Kobayashi Aibon/Eyebon Eyewash” from Tokyo Beauty and Health Care on Westminster Highway in Richmond should stop using it because it contains a prescription drug called aminocaproic acid that may pose serious health risks.
  The product is promoted as an eyewash for contact lens users and for the preventi
  
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• Online tutorial set up to help protect whales in B.C.

  16-02-2019 18:54 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries, Ocean Wise, and the Vancouver Port Authority have created an online tutorial to help protect whales.
  The tutorial, called Whales in our Waters, is aimed at helping educate mariners about the local species and how to reduce interactions between ships and whales.
  Regional mariners, particularly those operating large vessels such as ferries, cargo ships or tug boats, are being asked to complete the tutorial before the summer season, when many whale species return to B.C. waters to fee
  
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• Work suspended on pipeline after ancient First Nation tools found at controversial work site

  16-02-2019 18:36 via vancouversun.com
  HOUSTON — Coastal GasLink says it has suspended pipeline work south of Houston while claims of the discovery of Indigenous artifacts on the site are investigated.
  The company says it has cordoned off the area, requested that a qualified archeologist visit the site and the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission will conduct another site visit to investigate the claims.
  Ancient First Nations tools have been discovered at the Houston site where 14 people were arrested in January.
  Related Hearing put ove
  
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• Wilson-Raybould resignation leaves veterans feeling betrayed by Trudeau

  16-02-2019 18:09 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Jody Wilson-Raybould’s resignation from cabinet this week has stoked long-standing frustration, disappointment and anger among Canada’s veterans, who say they have been ignored and betrayed by the Trudeau government.
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Canadian veterans following a ceremony at the Canadian Cemetery No. 2 near Vimy Ridge, France in 2018.
  The Liberals went out of their way during the last federal election to court former service members, a
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny and cloudy, with a slight chance of rain

  16-02-2019 17:49 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday’s weather is expected to be a a mix of sun and cloud, with a slight chance of showers, and a high of 4 C. Overnight the temperature is expected to drop down to – 1 C but with the wind chill it’s going to feel more like – 5 C, according to Environment Canada. Sunday looks sunny and breezy with a high of 5 C. But then overnight the mercury drops down to – 4 C. Looking ahead to next week, it looks like the frigid weather will continue.
  
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• B.C. Budget 2019: What we got last year, and what we want this year

  16-02-2019 17:16 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government’s new budget will probably look a lot like its old budget. That is deliberate, says Finance Minister Carole James, because the governing New Democratic Party’s priorities haven’t changed: affordable housing, child care and climate change.
  “What we’re looking at is budget 2019 basically building on what we did in budget 2018,” James said of the budget she’ll deliver on Tuesday.
  “We started off with a shift in approach from the pr
  
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• Options abound at Parkview Estates

  16-02-2019 14:59 via vancouversun.com
  Have it your way. That may well be an appropriate catch phrase for Foxridge Homes’ new single-family residential community in Surrey’s Fraser Heights neighbourhood.
  As is typical of the offerings by Foxridge, the Parkview Estates single-family home community will offer buyers a plethora of options.
  And that’s putting it mildly.
  The 64-unit development has more than 14 plans on offer, and buyers have the ability to choose finishes for everything from exterior stonework to paint
  
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• The Home Front: Expert advice at the BC Home + Garden Show

  16-02-2019 14:52 via vancouversun.com
  For those interested in renovating or building their own homes, the BC Home + Garden Show is a great place to go for expert advice and inspiration, says interior designer Sydney Carlaw of Purity Design, who will be speaking at the event.
  “Usually the people attending have some really great questions and are really trying to understand how to build, what makes sense, or want some great tips, which designers can provide,” she says.
  Carlaw says she’s looking forward to p
  
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• Sold (Bought): Large roof deck takes in impressive outlooks

  16-02-2019 14:17 via vancouversun.com
  321 — 1445 Marpole Avenue, Vancouver
  Type: One-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment
  Size: 610 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $527,100
  Listed for: $499,000
  Sold for: $490,000
  Sold on: Nov. 25
  Days on market: Six
  Listing agent: Janette Fricker at Rennie & Associates Realty
  Buyers agent: Steve Vallillee at Royal LePage Sussex
  The big sell: Vancouver’s iconic Hycroft Towers stands out on the corner of Granville Street and Marpole Avenue due to its distinctive modernist archi
  
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• Weekend house fire displaces North Vancouver family - BC - Global News

  16-02-2019 09:00
  Weekend house fire displaces North Vancouver family - BC  Global News"The family was very smart, they did what you are supposed to do."
  
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• Nixon got drunk and almost bombed North Korea - Vancouver Sun

  16-02-2019 09:00
  Nixon got drunk and almost bombed North Korea  Vancouver SunWhile he was in the Oval Office, tensions were high between Nixon and Communist-led North Korea. The hostility nearly peaked with a global nuclear war.
  
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• Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson dating digital media pioneer Shahrzad Rafati

  16-02-2019 07:10 via vancouversun.com
  It’s time once again for an update on Gregor Robertson’s love life.
  The 54-year-old former Vancouver mayor may be gone from city hall, succeeded by Kennedy Stewart after announcing in January 2018 that he would not seek re-election, but Robertson has still kept himself busy.
  Not working or anything — mostly just travelling and falling in love. Judging from twin Instagram posts shared on Valentine’s Day, Robertson appears to be seeing media and technology thought lead
  
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• Happy to host this iconic picture in our wonderful North Vancouver city! @NVanDistrict @CityOfNorthVan twitter.com/bcrcmp/status/…

  16-02-2019 06:04 via twitter.com
  Happy to host this iconic picture in our wonderful North Vancouver city! @NVanDistrict @CityOfNorthVan twitter.com/bcrcmp/status/…
  
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• Vancouver condo developer fights U.S. extradition on fraud charges

  16-02-2019 04:43 via vancouversun.com
  Almost four years after condo developer Mark John Chandler was arrested on allegations of defrauding real estate investors in Los Angeles, the latest chapter of his fight against extradition to the U.S. unfolded Friday in the B.C. Court of Appeal.
  Friday’s full-day hearing began with Chandler’s lawyer attempting, unsuccessfully, to have the proceedings postponed until after the resolution of B.C. regulatory enforcement against the developer for more recent allegations of real estate
  
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• Colleagues react after former B.C. premier Campbell accused of sexual assault in England

  16-02-2019 04:16 via vancouversun.com
  The Daily Telegraph (London) is reporting that former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell is the subject of a sexual assault investigation in England.
  The newspaper says Campbell is accused of groping a female London embassy worker in 2013 while he was serving as Canadian High Commissioner to Britain.
  The complaint has been passed to the British Foreign Office, which is facilitating discussions between Scotland Yard and the Canadian authorities.
  British government sources indicated that Canad
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver says NDP, throne speech lack vision, but votes to support both

  16-02-2019 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As the New Democrats were putting together the throne speech for the year, someone in the government must have decided their Green partners needed a hug.
  “A belief in people is at the core of the confidence and supply agreement negotiated with the B.C. Green party caucus, which provides strong and stable government for B.C.,” declared the speech, delivered by Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin, but written in the premier’s office.
  “This agreement, rooted in share
  
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• Our new members were out scenario training off of the #LynnCanyon suspension bridge in #NorthVancouverpic.twitter.com/kAThUZjRdu

  16-02-2019 03:36 via twitter.com
  Our new members were out scenario training off of the #LynnCanyon suspension bridge in #NorthVancouverpic.twitter.com/kAThUZjRdu
  
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• Health officials confirm measles outbreak at Vancouver schools

  16-02-2019 03:05 via vancouversun.com
  Health officials confirmed Friday there have been at least eight cases of measles detected in Vancouver schoolchildren this week and are officially declaring an outbreak.
  Vancouver Coastal Health said they have identified several cases of measles at three French-language schools: Two cases at École Jules‐Verne, one case at École Anne‐Hébert, and one suspected case at École Rose-Des-Vents.
  All eight cases are associated with École Jules‐Ve
  
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• Eight cases of measles confirmed in Vancouver outbreak - North Island Gazette

  16-02-2019 03:01
  Eight cases of measles confirmed in Vancouver outbreak  North Island GazetteCoastal Health official say the cases stem from the French-language Ecole Jules Verne Secondary.
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019

  16-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve never understood Canadians’ fixation with public inquiries. They are a huge waste of taxpayers’ money and never have real consequences.Instead, to address what is already understood and acknowledged as a huge criminal problem — money laundering — with very negative economic and social consequences, spend the necessary resources to aggressively prosecute everyone involved. Hire competent prosecutors, get convictions, and make sure that lengthy jail sentences are
  
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• James Kerr: Canada should not be shipping coal overseas for the U.S.

  16-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In these days of controversy regarding environmental concerns, pipeline unrest, carbon tax, trade wars, border security and heightening tariffs, there is one industrial activity that, from a Canadian perspective, just does not make any sense politically, economically or environmentally. This controversial practice should outrage most Canadians, whether they be pro- or anti-pipeline, pro- or anti-Trudeau Liberals or pro- or anti-B.C. NDP/Green coalition.
  The activity in question is the shipping o
  
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• Editorial: Public inquiry into money laundering not needed

  16-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  On Wednesday, Vancouver council joined the growing chorus of governments, organizations and individuals calling on the provincial government to hold a public inquiry into money laundering. Richmond council made a similar request Monday, as did Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West — all concerned about the role of dirty money in B.C. real estate, specifically in reducing affordability, and the opioid overdose crisis. The B.C. Government and Service Employees Union is also calling for an inqu
  
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• Beloved rhinoceros dies at age 49 in North Carolina zoo - Vancouver Sun

  16-02-2019 01:49
  Beloved rhinoceros dies at age 49 in North Carolina zoo  Vancouver SunASHEBORO, N.C. — The North Carolina Zoo says that a beloved rhinoceros named Stanley has died.The zoo said in a news release that the 49-year-old ...
  
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• NDP says Broadway subway will be subject to 'community benefits agreement'

  16-02-2019 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government opened the bidding process for construction of the $2.83-billion Broadway subway project Friday with an invitation for companies to submit their qualifications to design, build and finance the line under an NDP-mandated community benefits agreement.
  In a news release, the Ministry of Transportation said bids will be accepted until April, when up to three respondent teams will be selected to participate in the request for proposal stage. The Transportation Investment Corp
  
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• Pharmacist defends himself against allegations of misconduct in the DT

  16-02-2019 01:31 via vancouversun.com
  A pharmacist is defending himself against allegations of misconduct involving the administration of the drug naloxone to a patient experiencing an overdose in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
  In 2017, Amin Janmohamed was sued by the Labpharma pharmacy, where he had been a director and manager, over an incident that occurred in January 2013 at OnSite, a treatment facility on the second floor above the InSite supervised-injection site on East Hastings St.
  According to the pharmacy, Janmohamed
  
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• Two men in pimping and human trafficking case get lengthy jail terms

  16-02-2019 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  Two men convicted of multiple pimping and human trafficking offences against three young women have received lengthy prison terms.
  On Friday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice David Masuhara sentenced Tamim Albashir, 27, the leader of the enterprise to lure the victims into a life of prostitution, to 10 years in jail, reduced to five years and nine months after giving him credit for pre-sentence custody.
  Kasra Mohsenipour, 25, received a nine-year jail term, reduced to five years and five months after
  
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• Former B.C. premier Campbell accused of sexual assault in England

  16-02-2019 01:05 via vancouversun.com
  The Daily Telegraph (London) is reporting that former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell is the subject of a sexual assault investigation in England.
  The newspaper says Campbell is accused of groping a female London embassy worker in 2013 while he was serving as Canadian High Commissioner to Britain.
  The complaint has been passed to the British Foreign Office, which is facilitating discussions between Scotland Yard and the Canadian authorities.
  British government sources indicated that Canad
  
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• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh votes in advance in Burnaby South byelection

  16-02-2019 00:36 via vancouversun.com
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he is taking nothing for granted as he continues to work to win a byelection in Burnaby and gain a seat in Parliament.
  Singh made the comments after voting for himself in an advance poll on Friday ahead of the Feb. 25 byelection in Burnaby South.
  Asked whether recent Liberal government turmoil has helped his chances, he says Canadians are very disappointed with what’s happening.
  He says they’re troubled by the allegation that Prime Minister Justin Trudea
  
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• District Hall will be closed for Family Day next Monday, February 18. Our after-hours contact # is 604.990.3666. Fi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-02-2019 00:24 via twitter.com
  District Hall will be closed for Family Day next Monday, February 18. Our after-hours contact # is 604.990.3666. Fi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Report: Former B.C. premier Campbell accused of sexual assault in England

  16-02-2019 00:04 via vancouversun.com
  The Daily Telegraph (London) is reporting that former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell is the subject of a sexual assault investigation in England.
  The newspaper says Campbell is accused of groping a female London embassy worker in 2013 while he was serving as Canadian High Commissioner to Britain.
  A spokesperson for the 71-year-old Campbell denied the charge, telling the Telegraph that the “complaint was transparently disclosed and became the subject of a full due diligence investig
  
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