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• Surrey RCMP seek man who tried to pull girl toward parked car

  27-02-2019 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey police are investigating after an unknown man allegedly tried to grab a teenager and walk her toward a parked car on Tuesday morning.
  According to RCMP, a 16-year-old girl was walking near 154th Street and 101A Avenue around 9:15 a.m. when she was approached by a man she did not know.
  The man allegedly grabbed the girl by her arm and tried to walk her toward a parked vehicle. The girl fought back and was able to get away.
  Police are now seeking the public’s help in identifying the a
  
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• B.C. First Nation affected by pipeline explosion files lawsuit against Enbridge

  27-02-2019 23:21 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — A B.C. First Nation near the explosion of a natural gas transmission pipeline owned by Enbridge has filed a lawsuit against the energy company.
  Chief Dominic Frederick of Lheidli T’enneh First Nation near Prince George says their B.C. Supreme Court civil lawsuit asks for a permanent injunction preventing Enbridge from operating the pipeline in their territory and reserves.
  The action also asks for a mandatory injunction requiring the company to immediately dismantle a
  
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• B.C. woman wrongfully held in hospital for almost one year without court order: Judge

  27-02-2019 22:59 via vancouversun.com
  A woman’s rights were violated when she was held in hospital for almost a year without being given written reasons for the detention or an opportunity for legal advice, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled.
  In a ruling released this week, Justice Lisa Warren describes the 39-year-old woman as “highly vulnerable,” who suffers from cognitive impairments, mental health issues and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
  The ruling says staff at the Fraser Health Authority had
  
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• West Vancouver police warn of crooks and ladders - North Shore News

  27-02-2019 22:57
  West Vancouver police warn of crooks and ladders  North Shore NewsWest Vancouver Police are telling homeowners to look up – way, way up to the second floors of their own homes – after criminals played a game of thieves and ...
  
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• B.C. internment camp brought to life in NFB project with writer Joy Kogawa

  27-02-2019 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  Joy Kogawa is giddy about the “miracle” of technology allowing people to learn about Canada’s racist past that forced thousands of citizens like her out of their homes and into internment camps during the Second World War.
  “It’s wonderful to me that the story that I lived through can be part of this generation’s knowledge,” the writer and poet says from her home in Toronto.
  Kogawa, 83, chronicled her family’s internment experience in the B.C. Inter
  
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• Plane crashed in B.C. in 2017, killing Alberta couple, during bad weather: TSB

  27-02-2019 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  The Transportation Safety Board says an Alberta pilot flew into deteriorating weather before his small plane crashed in southeastern B.C., killing him and his girlfriend.
  The board released its investigation report Wednesday on the aircraft that vanished in November 2017 and wasn’t found until the wreckage was spotted in September 2018 near Revelstoke.
  RCMP identified the remains found at the crash site as those of 28-year-old Dominic Neron and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Ashley Bourgeault
  
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• Hollywood North: Vancouver film industry revs up for TV pilot season - Vancouver Sun

  27-02-2019 22:29
  Hollywood North: Vancouver film industry revs up for TV pilot season  Vancouver SunNancy Drew, Frankenstein's monster and Batwoman will all be roaming the streets and solving crimes as the television pilot season gets rolling in Vancouver in ...
  
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• Hollywood North: Vancouver film industry revs up for TV pilot season

  27-02-2019 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  Nancy Drew, Frankenstein’s monster and Batwoman will all be roaming the streets and solving crimes as the television pilot season gets rolling in Vancouver in March.
  It will be a busy month for those working in B.C.’s film and television industry with 11 wannabe TV series shooting here.
  Here is a look at the 2019 TV pilot lineup in Vancouver:
  Batwoman
  The latest entry in The CW’s stable of Vancouver-filmed DC Comics series, which also includes The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl and Le
  
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• Ever-fewer Metro Vancouver homeowners behind on mortgage payments: CMHC

  27-02-2019 22:12
  
  Mortgage delinquencies steadily dropping, even as rising interest rates push up monthly payments
  
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• Cooling real estate market to hamper B.C. economy in next two years, says think tank

  27-02-2019 20:35
  
  Downward trend in home sales is offsetting gains made in energy sector, reports Conference Board of Canada
  
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• Woman wrongfully held in B.C. hospital for almost one year without court order: Judge

  27-02-2019 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  The Supreme Court of British Columbia says a woman’s rights were violated when she was held in hospital for almost one year without being provided with any written reasons for the detention or an opportunity for legal advice.
  In a ruling released this week, Justice Lisa Warren describes the 39-year-old woman as “highly vulnerable” and says she suffers from cognitive impairments, mental health issues and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
  The ruling says staff at the Fraser Health
  
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• Classical music: Vancouver Chamber Choir finds rewards in 92nd tour

  27-02-2019 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Music from Sea to Sea: The Farewell Tour
  When: March 15, 8 p.m.
  Where: Shaughnessy Heights United Church
  Tickets and info: From $38, vancouverchamberchoir.comWhat’s called the Vancouver Chamber Choir is actually a national treasure, an ensemble that has sung in a myriad of Canadian centres, big and small, as well as all around the globe.
  The choir embarked on its latest performance tour on Feb. 22 — the 92nd such tour and a farewell of sorts for founder Jon Washburn.  Vancouver
  
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• Five performances to check out at this year's Vancouver International Dance Festival

  27-02-2019 20:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International Dance Festival
  When: March 4 — 30
  Where: various venues
  Tickets: vidf.ca
  1. Pseudo human/Super human. After wowing VIDF audiences in 2015 and 2017, Dairakudakan is back. This time, the Japanese butoh ensemble performs a piece that exposes the faults in our reliance on technology. With iron and glass stage installations and an energetic techno score, Pseudo human/Super human promises to be intense, thought-provoking, and visually stunning.2. Varhung — Heart to
  
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• New theatre company taps into Chinese community with comedic Hitchcock adaptation

  27-02-2019 20:08 via vancouversun.com
  The 39 Steps
  When: March 1 to 10
  Where: Norman Rothstein Theatre
  Tickets: from $29 at circlebrightproductions.com
  In Patrick Barlow’s 2005 version of The 39 Steps, the serious spy story of John Buchan’s 1915 novel is played for laughs. Owing more to the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same title, Barlow’s stage comedy is written for four actors playing more than 100 roles. Circle Bright Productions is adding Mandarin surtitles to their upcoming production. We talked to direc
  
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• No health, safety risk after acidic spill into Columbia River: Teck Resources

  27-02-2019 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  TRAIL — The British Columbia Environment Ministry says an acidic solution spilled into the Columbia River from a fertilizer plant in southeastern B.C. but pH levels in the water returned to normal limits within hours.
  The spill occurred early Tuesday at the Teck Resources Ltd. plant in Trail and a statement from the ministry says the fertilizer plant was shut down.
  The acid, which hasn’t been identified, was diverted to an on-site reservoir and the ministry says the liquid will be ne
  
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• Restaurant review: Fort Langley's Little Donkey burritos are tasty … with a twist

  27-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Little Donkey
  Where: #125 9220 Glover Rd., Langley | 604-371-4775
  Open: Daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; littledonkey.caWhen Katerina Balaban decided to open Little Donkey two years ago, her friends and family were sure the restaurant would specialize in Greek food.
  “My kids were a little dumbfounded at first, like, ‘What? No Greek restaurant?'” she recalls with a laugh.
  Growing up in a Greek household, Balaban was much more familiar with souvlaki and taramasalata than Mexican
  
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• Growing art: EartHand Gleaners Society blends craft, ecology, people

  27-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Art, ecology, people. Those three words define the mission statement of EartHand Gleaners Society, a local non-profit group that is, literally, growing art in our midst.
  Working from the point of how to “be a producer without first being a consumer,” EartHand Gleaners instructs people on working with plants and more to keep ancestral skills alive using home-grown materials and byproducts. Workshops in everything from fence weaving to making natural dyes are run out of Mount Pleasant&
  
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• First Nations clam gardens at least 3,500 years old, B.C. study finds

  27-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  First Nations built and maintained shellfish gardens on Quadra Island beginning at least 3,500 years ago, according to a newly published study.
  The age and sophistication of this technology for shellfish cultivation is evidence of Indigenous management systems that long predate contact with Europeans, said SFU archeologist Dana Lepofsky, a co-author.
  The gardens improve the productivity of natural clam beaches and in many places create shellfish habitat where none had existed.
  “This firmly
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: No relief in sight for industrial vacancies

  27-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Lower Mainland continues to face an industrial space crisis that likely won’t go away on its own.
  Metro Vancouver’s industrial vacancy rate fell to 1.4 per cent at the end of 2018, down from 1.7 per cent a year earlier, according to a new report by commercial brokerage house CBRE.
  This mark represents the first time the region’s industrial vacancy has nearly matched the residential vacancy, said Chris MacCauley, a vice-president and development land specialist with CBRE in
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Failure of Payless and Home Outfitters further shakes retail real estate market

  27-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian retail market was hit with a double whammy in February as the impending closures of Payless ShoeSource and Home Outfitters were announced in the same week.
  In B.C. alone, the closures will shutter 31 Payless stores and five Home Outfitters locations.
  Payless locations are usually between 2,400 and 3,000 square feet in size, while Hudson’s Bay-owned Home Outfitters locations usually cover about 35,000 square feet. Together, the closures could vacate nearly 270,000 square feet i
  
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• Why living in North Vancouver is perfect for couples - Daily Hive

  27-02-2019 19:20
  Why living in North Vancouver is perfect for couples  Daily HiveDid you know that North Vancouver residents are some of the happiest in the region? Or that North Vancouver is widely regarded as one of the safest, cleanest, ...
  
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• Vancouver forecast calls for up to 4 cm of snowfall tonight - North Shore News

  27-02-2019 19:04
  Vancouver forecast calls for up to 4 cm of snowfall tonight  North Shore NewsThe Metro Vancouver weather forecast was calling for a chance of snow on Wednesday night, but now it calls for more snowfall than previously expected.
  
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• Vancouver forecast calls for up to 4 cm of snowfall tonight

  27-02-2019 19:04
  
  The Metro Vancouver weather forecast was calling for a chance of snow on Wednesday night, but now it calls for more snowfall than previously expected.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: More charges laid against Kang group after major gang investigation

  27-02-2019 17:06 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Police say four men have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder after a successful multi-agency investigation to disrupt gang violence on the Lower Mainland.
  Newly charged in the Project Territory investigation are Surrey resident Moeen Khan, 22, Abbotsford resident Pashminder Boparai, 30, and two Ottawa men – Mustapha Ali of Ottawa, 28, and Nobin Malonga-Massamba, 23.
  The Ottawa men, who are also facing additional firearms counts, are in custody but VPD Acting Insp.
  
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• Daily Poll: Should menstrual products be free at school?

  27-02-2019 17:01 via vancouversun.com
  Starting in September, tampons and pads will be available in women’s and universal washrooms in elementary, middle and high schools in New Westminster.
  The New Westminster school board passed the motion to install coin-free dispensers in all of its schools during a meeting Tuesday. The cost of installing the free dispensers is estimated at $10,000, while district staff say stocking them will cost about $7000 annually.
  Related New Westminster school board votes to provide free tampons in sc
  
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• B.C. Travel: 5 ultimate road trips if you have a week off

  27-02-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Take some time to explore this magnificent province — especially by road. These trips take you through the West Kootenay, the Interior, Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast or along spectacular Highway 99 north through Whistler. These trips are perfect for up to one week off. So book some time — preferably in spring or summer — and get to know B.C.
  1. Nelson
  Your final destination is the quaint city of Nelson on the shores of the west arm of Kootenay Lake and nestled in the Sel
  
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• New Westminster school board votes to provide free tampons in schools

  27-02-2019 16:25 via vancouversun.com
  The New Westminster school board has voted in favour of supplying free pads and tampons in restrooms at the district’s schools.
  Coin-free dispensers will be installed in all girls and universal restrooms in elementary, middle and secondary schools, making New Westminster the first and only school district in B.C. to fund free pad and tampon dispensers at all its schools.
  In a motion passed Tuesday, the school board hoped the move would “enhance the ability of students to manage
  
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• Vancouver weather: Cloudy with chance of snow tonight

  27-02-2019 15:27 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Feb. 27, 2019 – Metro Vancouver can expect some snow to fall Wednesday night.
  Environment Canada says we are in for a cloudy day with a daytime high of 3 degrees. The is a 40 per cent chance of flurries tonight with periods of snow beginning new midnight.
  The weather agency expects between 2 to 4 cm of snow to accumulate overnight.
  Another cloudy day is in the forecast for Thursday before the sun returns for the weekend.
  Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly cloudy. High
  
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• Late Vancouver Sun columnist James Lawton honoured at 'journalists' church'

  27-02-2019 15:07 via vancouversun.com
  By Mike Beamish
  James Lawton was in the throes of the creative process — a dissection of embattled Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho — in late September last year, when death came suddenly on a sunny afternoon at his villa in Italy.
  The former Vancouver Sun sports columnist, whose elegant and biting commentary was still being read in Canadian publications and websites, from the Toronto Sun to the Pincher Creek Echo, well into the 21st century, was half-way through his week
  
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• Dementia law report recommends better oversight on health care consent

  27-02-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jim Mann wants everyone to know that he’s more than his dementia.
  He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 12 years ago, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be involved in making decisions about his health.
  The distinction is important for Mann — and many others living with dementia. The Surrey resident is thinking a lot about consent these days after being part of an advisory committee on health care consent for people with dementia. Their report, Conversations About Care, was
  
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• District of North Vancouver goes back to residents for direction on long-debated piece of land - CBC.ca

  27-02-2019 13:00
  District of North Vancouver goes back to residents for direction on long-debated piece of land  CBC.caThe District of North Vancouver is heading back to the drawing board over a plot of land they've been trying to develop for over three years. Council passed a ...
  
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• On summit sidelines, North Koreans study Vietnam's economy - Vancouver Sun

  27-02-2019 12:23
  On summit sidelines, North Koreans study Vietnam's economy  Vancouver SunHANOI, Vietnam — Senior members of North Korea's delegation to Hanoi for Kim Jong Un's summit with President Donald Trump took a side trip Wednesday to ...
  
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• Innocence Project lawyer suffers serious injuries when van jumps curb in Vancouver

  27-02-2019 08:04 via vancouversun.com
  Two women are recovering in hospital after being struck by a van Monday evening on Burrard Street.
  According to a Vancouver police news release, two Vancouver women, ages 53 and 33, were walking on the west sidewalk just before 6:30 p.m. when a silver Dodge caravan travelling southbound toward the Burrard Street Bridge jumped the curb and struck the pair. Both pedestrians were transported to hospital with serious injuries, as was the driver of the vehicle, a man in his 60s.
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• B.C. communities get $1.5 million in funding for evacuation route planning

  27-02-2019 06:41 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s Ministry of Public Safety has approved approximately $1.5 million in funding for evacuation route planning to 60 local and regional governments and First Nations communities.
  Each of the communities and governments will be receiving up to $25,000 each through the province’s Community Emergency Preparedness Fund, bringing the total granted successful applicants all over the province to more than $17 million since September 2017.
  That’s just over halfway to the $33.5-milli
  
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• B.C. Greens call for public inquiry into money laundering

  27-02-2019 06:17 via vancouversun.com
  Andrew Weaver and the B.C. Green Caucus have added their voices to the growing chorus of British Columbians calling for a public inquiry into money laundering.
  In a statement released Tuesday, the Green Party leader called for an inquiry “to remove the investigation from partisan influence, protect the public interest and restore public trust.”Dirty money arrived at the forefront of B.C. politics last year, after a report by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force was leaked to t
  
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• Man shot at Kamloops hotel in January believed to be uninvolved bystander

  27-02-2019 04:05 via vancouversun.com
  Rex Gill, a Summerland father of four, was shot dead in what police are calling a “targeted” shooting amid drug wars plaguing Kamloops, but a close friend said there’s no way Gill was involved in anything criminal.
  ”He was the kind of guy who, if he met two guys in the parking lot, he would have made two new friends by the time he got to the store,” said Matthew Baran, Gill’s friend and motorcycle buddy for 10 years.
  ”The neat thing about Rex is everybod
  
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• King leads North Alabama over Jacksonville 69-55 - Vancouver Sun

  27-02-2019 03:46
  King leads North Alabama over Jacksonville 69-55  Vancouver SunFLORENCE, Ala. — Tavon King had a season-high 24 points as North Alabama beat Jacksonville 69-55 on Tuesday night.Jamari Blackmon had 12 points for ...
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: CBAs on just three public projects in B.C. will boost costs by tens of millions

  27-02-2019 03:21 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrats are continuing to drive up the cost of taxpayer-financed construction in the province, with more than $4 billion worth of projects already covered by union-friendly community benefit agreements.
  The CBAs require workers on designated projects to join one of 19 NDP-favoured unions within 30 days. They also include pay, benefits and other conditions that can add as much as seven per cent to the cost of construction, by the government’s own admission.
  Three
  
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• Innocence Project lawyer suffers serious injuries when van jumps curb, hits pedestrians

  27-02-2019 03:20 via vancouversun.com
  Two women are recovering in hospital after being struck by a van Monday evening on Burrard Street.
  According to a Vancouver police news release, two Vancouver women, ages 53 and 35, were walking on the west sidewalk just before 6:30 p.m. when a silver Dodge caravan travelling southbound toward the Burrard Street Bridge jumped the curb and struck the pair. Both pedestrians were transported to hospital with serious injuries, as was the driver of the vehicle, a man in his 60s.
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• Dan Fumano: 'It makes no sense' — concerns over ending Vancouver's renters' committee

  27-02-2019 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  Tenant advocates are alarmed and confused over a proposed move they say would reduce the voice of Vancouver’s renters at city hall, during a rental-housing crisis.
  Vancouver’s Renters Advisory Committee was established in December 2014 under the previous mayor and council “to advocate for renters and renters issues to the City of Vancouver and other levels of government.”
  By many accounts the committee was successful over the past four years in elevating the concerns of r
  
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• Rita Koutsodimos: With basic income, B.C. has the chance to pick up where Ontario left off

  27-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The cancellation of Ontario’s basic income pilot project was a major disappointment for the low-income participants who were counting on three years of secure income and for those who were counting on the research data evaluating the program’s success.
  It was a bold experiment, where people with low incomes in five communities received monthly payments of $1,416 as individuals or $2,000 as couples. The researchers would measure whether those funds would improve the recipients’
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Jagmeet Singh lives to fight another day

  27-02-2019 02:50 via vancouversun.com
  Jagmeet Singh won his seat in the House of Commons the old-fashioned way with shoe leather and a populist message that might have made Tommy Douglas proud.
  The federal NDP leader knocked on thousands of doors with a message that spoke to the economic anxieties and fears of many in the Burnaby South riding worried about housing affordability and the dearth of well-paid jobs.
  His win was decisive, with nearly 3,000 votes more than the second-place Liberal and nearly 3,700 more than the Conservativ
  
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• Methane-snacking crabs suggest they are adapting to climate change: report

  27-02-2019 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Crabs that have a normal diet of a type of plankton have been seen munching on methane-filled bacteria off B.C.’s coast in what experts say could be their way of adapting to climate change.
  Researchers with Oceans Networks Canada and Oregon State University discovered the snow crabs using other food sources because their main meal may be disappearing with a warmer climate.
  The crabs were previously thought to exclusively eat phytoplankton but researchers said in a study pu
  
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• Accused 'clocked' victim in Starbucks manslaughter case: Crown

  27-02-2019 02:44 via vancouversun.com
  Lawrence Sharpe punched a man inside a Burnaby Starbucks because the victim had been bullying his girlfriend, the Crown said Tuesday.
  Sharpe has pleaded not guilty to the July 2017 manslaughter of Michael Page-Vincelli, 22, at the coffee shop at the Kensington shopping mall.
  He testified that he and his girlfriend, Oldouz Pournouruz, followed Page-Vincelli into the Starbucks because he wanted to find out more about a dispute between Pournouruz and Page-Vincelli that preceded the fatal encounter.
  
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• Former Jamie Bacon associate gets grilled in cross-examination

  27-02-2019 02:12 via vancouversun.com
  A defence lawyer for Jamie Bacon suggested Tuesday that a key Crown witness was lying when he testified that Bacon was the man’s drug boss around the time another associate was targeted in a shooting.
  Lawyer Kevin Drolet directed the witness, who can only be identified as AB due to a court order, to statements he gave to police in 2013 about staying away from Bacon a few years earlier because he was a such a “heat score.”
  AB said what he told the officer six years ago was true,
  
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• Two women hurt after van jumps curb in Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  27-02-2019 01:01
  Two women hurt after van jumps curb in Vancouver  North Delta ReporterBoth women were rushed to hospital after incident near Burrard Bridge.
  
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• Five things to know about Burnaby South MP Jagmeet Singh

  27-02-2019 00:05 via vancouversun.com
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won the Feb. 25, 2019 byelection and will now represent the riding of Burnaby South in Parliament.
  He walked away with 39 per cent of the vote (8,884 votes), followed by Liberal candidate Richard T. Lee’s 26 per cent and Conservative Jay Shin’s 22.5 per cent.
  Here’s five things to know about Singh.In 2011, Singh lost his first attempt to enter politics.
  Singh’s first attempt to enter politics in 2011 was not successful. The longtime Toronto-area r
  
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• Death cap mushrooms proliferating in B.C., experts warn

  27-02-2019 00:01 via vancouversun.com
  The deadliest mushroom on the planet is expanding into urban and rural areas across B.C., so doctors are now being educated on recognizing the symptoms of poisonings.
  Poisonous death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) initially came to B.C. on the roots of European trees like hornbeam, beech, hazelnut, lindens, chestnut and oaks. They now grow under mature native trees as well and are putting serious and amateur foragers, children, pets, and others at risk. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is
  
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