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• Horgan hopes to avoid ’hot potato’ of Victoria's Sir John A. Macdonald statue

  28-02-2019 23:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier John Horgan is keeping his hands behind his back as the City of Victoria mulls where to pass the political “hot potato” of its Sir John A. Macdonald statue.
  City council discussed the possibility of donating the statue to the provincial government at a recent budget meeting and directed staff to identify any prohibition on donating it to another entity.
  The statue of Canada’s first prime minister and member of Parliament for Victoria fr
  
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• TransLink releases another batch of Compass Card wristbands

  28-02-2019 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is selling another batch of the popular Compass wristbands.
  Compass Wristbands work the same as Compass Cards — tap in and out when travelling on transit and reload online, at a Compass Vending Machine, by phone or in person.
  The wristband is TransLink’s first wearable payment option, allowing transit-users to load passes or fares onto the wristband instead of a Compass card.
  The transit authority tested customer demand in December by releasing 2,000 wristbands and they sol
  
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• B.C. Liberal MPs mainly mum on ex-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's explosive testimony

  28-02-2019 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  Most B.C. Liberal MPs are avoiding public comment one day after Vancouver Granville Liberal MP and former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould testified before a House of Commons justice committee that she received “veiled threats” from senior members of the federal government in the SNC-Lavalin affair.
  Postmedia has sought comment from 17 Liberal members of parliament in B.C. and the Vancouver Granville Liberal riding association since Wilson-Raybould testified, and has received th
  
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• Panel weighing impact of various arterial routes through Strathcona

  28-02-2019 22:42 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver has to choose a new east-west arterial route to connect Main Street to Clark Drive in East Vancouver after the Georgia-Dunsmuir viaducts come down.
  For years, city planners, business owners and community groups have hotly debated where this should go.
  Now, a community panel, put together under the previous city council and made up of 42 residents and business representatives, is hashing out the pros and cons of a few options with the goal of making a recommendation to the c
  
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• Move that heritage house: Three Victoria-area homes bound for demolition get new life

  28-02-2019 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — It’s a bit like having a baby.
  You nervously anticipate the delivery date. You know the package will arrive at dawn after hours of hard labour, and when it finally appears, it is fully formed and ready for loving care.
  But this is not a baby.
  This remarkable delivery involves an entire house and it arrives thanks to the delivery crew of Nickel Bros., a company that has been giving new life to homes for more than half a century.
  This home on Newport Avenue in Oak Bay will s
  
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• Richard Fowler: Horgan government must support 'meaningful access to justice' by properly funding legal aid

  28-02-2019 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. has an access-to-justice and legal aid crisis. The recent provincial budget does nothing to address this crisis; up to eight pilot-project legal clinics is a band-aid on a severed limb. The government’s response to this crisis is to fill potholes when the bridge to access to justice collapsed a long time ago.
  Every day, hundreds of our province’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged, including the mentally ill, people with disabilities and those who are socially and educationally m
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Witness AB admits dislike of Karbovanec

  28-02-2019 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  AB is still under cross-examination at the Jamie Bacon trial. But he likely won’t be back on the stand until at least next week after the case was adjourned Thursday due to an issue that arose.
  Here’s my Wednesday story:Bacon trial witness admits he disliked shooting victimKIM BOLAN
  Updated: February 28, 2019
  A defence lawyer for Jamie Bacon suggested Wednesday that a key Crown witness had more conflict with their former associate Dennis Karbovanec than Bacon did at the time Karbovan
  
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• Kids join forces to rescue eight-year-old boy dangling from Grouse Mountain chairlift

  28-02-2019 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  Five quick-thinking boys are being hailed as heroes for rescuing a screaming eight-year-old child dangling from a chairlift at Grouse Mountain ski resort in North Vancouver.
  Video obtained by Global News shows a group of boys in action as they grab a piece of orange netting used as fencing and rush beneath the ski lift while a man above clings to the boy as he hangs from the chair.
  Other kids are seen rushing to scene to help by grabbing on to the netting under the chairlift as the boys tell the
  
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• Mass-timber, modular laneway homes aim to fill a housing need

  28-02-2019 20:44
  
  Sustainable, precision-built, time-saving, modular “accessory dwelling units” on display at B.C. Home + Garden Show
  
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• B.C. intervenes in Victoria/Esquimalt police funding feud

  28-02-2019 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has stepped into a police funding feud in Victoria and ordered two local councils to hire six new officers.
  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says he’s using provincial powers to force Victoria and Esquimalt to hire the officers even though Esquimalt council voted against the plan.
  Farnworth says the government’s Police Services Division sent a letter to the mayors of Esquimalt and Victoria saying that policing in the two cities wi
  
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• Merritt RCMP seek dashcam footage in search for missing cowboy

  28-02-2019 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  Into their fifth week investigating the disappearance of 32-year-old Nicola Ranch manager Ben Tyner, Merritt RCMP is hoping dashcam footage may hold some clues to the cowboy’s whereabouts.
  Tyner was last seen Jan. 26 when he rode out of the ranch, possibly to search for cattle in the surrounding hills.
  His rider-less horse was discovered two days later wandering a logging road off Highway 97 near the Nicola Ranch. The horse was unscathed with nothing to indicate how it had lost its ri
  
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• Port of Vancouver breaks cargo record as imports jump, exports still lead

  28-02-2019 20:13 via vancouversun.com
  Crude petroleum and barley showed the most growth in volume shipped through the Port of Vancouver in 2018, according to statistics released on Thursday.
  The Cargo Statistics Report says that cargo shipped through the Port of Vancouver reached a record 147 million tonnes in 2018, a 3.5-per-cent jump from 2017.
  The bulk of material that goes through the port are exports — 115.6 million tonnes compared to 31.5 million tonnes of imports in 2018. However, the data showed imports grew by almost
  
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• This Just In: Kora Organics Noni Glow Sleeping Mask, Nanette de Gaspé Bain Noir Cannabis Sativa Bath Soak Treatment and Nude by Nature Touch of Glow Highlight Stick

  28-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
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  Noni Glow Sleeping Mask
  They say: A face mask from supermodel Miranda Kerr’s brand Kora Organics that features Silver Ear mushroom, coconut milk and caviar-lime extract to deliver “smoother, plumper-looking skin” while you sleep. The product is said to be suitable for all skin types including normal, dry, combination and oily.
  We say: Our tester loved the way this gel-texture mask left her skin looking hydrated and “bouncy” in the mornin
  
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• The It List: Swarovski One Collection

  28-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The product: Swarovski One Earrings
  Why we love it: Statement earrings are forecast to be a style staple this spring and summer. Whether opting for bold hoops or a down-to-the-shoulder design, style insiders are calling for all eyes to be on your ears once the weather warms up.
  Perhaps that’s why we’re so enamoured with these stunning earrings from Swarovski. It’s never too early to get in on an accessories trend, after all.
  From the brand’s new One Collection,
  
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• Beauty Bar: JOICO Defy Damage collection

  28-02-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new hair care range from the salon brand JOICO that aims to stop damage before it occurs.
  The Defy Damage Protective collection, which includes a shampoo, conditioner, masque and shield, has a professional and a Home Care selection of hair-repairing products.
  “The at-home system protects all hair types from the ravaging effects of daily heat styling, UV exposure and environmental pollution that lead to dry, dull, lacklustre locks,” according to a press release.The &ldqu
  
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• Talks to begin in Victoria on new home for John A. Macdonald statue

  28-02-2019 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The City of Victoria and local First Nations are mulling over what to do about the mothballed Sir John A. Macdonald statue.
  The statue of Canada’s first prime minister and member of Parliament for Victoria from 1878 to 1882 was removed from the steps of Victoria City Hall last August.
  Critics said Macdonald’s role at the head of a government that created the Indian Act and established the residential school system made the statue inappropriate.
  A statue of Sir John A
  
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• Montreal travel guide: Exploring the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood

  28-02-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Plateau Mont-Royal may no longer be Montreal’s “hippest” neighbourhood. That title has passed on to the Mile End. But no neighbourhood typifies Montreal as much as “Le Plateau” — it is still the part of town Montrealers and foreigners (most of them expat Parisians) aspire to live in.
  It is attractive, liveable, and trendy, a neighbourhood of historical three-storey buildings, swirling staircases, and tree lined streets. It has the city’s most beautif
  
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• Daily Poll: Should Prime Minister Trudeau resign in wake of SNC-Lavalin affair?

  28-02-2019 16:28 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was rocked Wednesday by testimony from former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould.
  Testifying before a House of Commons justice committee, Wilson-Raybould said she came under relentless pressure — including veiled threats — from Trudeau, his senior staff, the top public servant and the finance minister’s office to instruct federal prosecutors to prevent construction giant SNC-Lavalin from being prosecuted in a bribery case.
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• Vancouver Weather: Clouds ahead of a sunny weekend

  28-02-2019 16:08 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Feb. 28, 2019 – Environment Canada says we can expect a mainly cloudy Thursday for Metro Vancouver, but there is lots of sunshine on the way this weekend.
  Expect the clouds to start clearing this afternoon. There is a 30 per cent chance of showers or flurries today.
  Sunny skies and mild temperatures are in the forecast for Friday until Tuesday.
  Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today:Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries or rain showers this morning. High plus 5.
  Tonight: Pa
  
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• Douglas Todd: Is B.C. immigration program a back door for millionaire house buyers?

  28-02-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  How did it come to pass that thousands of people who came to Metro Vancouver through a provincial immigration scheme bought pricey houses?
  A Statistics Canada report shows 2,370 people who recently arrived in B.C. through a provincial immigration program have bought single-family houses worth an average of $2.38 million in Metro Vancouver, which is $800,000 above the norm for Canadian-born house buyers.
  It’s a startling figure, in part because politicians often trumpet how the relatively s
  
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• Will B.C.'s Northern Sea Wolf ferry be ready at last? Uncertainties hurting tourism

  28-02-2019 15:50 via vancouversun.com
  Fingers are being crossed that the budget-busting Northern Sea Wolf ferry will be ready to run between Port Hardy and Bella Coola as planned this summer, but in the meantime Cariboo and Chilcotin tourism operators say they are losing bookings because there’s no guarantee.
  Sailings are supposed to start on June 3. If Northern Sea Wolf, with space for 35 vehicles and 150 passengers and crew, isn’t ready, the 110-foot-long Nimpkish, with capacity for only 16 vehicles, will be used.
  
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• Port of Vancouver breaks cargo record

  28-02-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Crude petroleum and barley showed the most growth in volume shipped through the Port of Vancouver in 2018, according to statistics released on Thursday.
  The Cargo Statistics Report stated that cargo shipped through the Port of Vancouver reached a record 147 million tonnes in 2018 — a 3.5 per cent jump from 2017.
  The bulk of material that goes through the port is exports (115.6 million tonnes compared to 31.5 million tonnes of imports in 2018), however, the data showed imports grew by almos
  
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• Jody Wilson-Raybould: British Columbians react to her testimony

  28-02-2019 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  Jody Wilson-Raybould is being hailed for her courage by some B.C. voters and politicians who followed her stunning testimony on Wednesday.
  At a hearing of the Commons justice committee, Wilson-Raybould described a “consistent and sustained effort” to prevent construction giant SNC-Lavalin from being prosecuted in a bribery case. The former justice minister accused senior ranks of the federal government, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, of targeting her with “veiled thre
  
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• No rental zoning for Port Moody

  28-02-2019 04:01
  
  Port Moody won’t be restricting four multi-family properties in the city to rental only after all.
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Manoeuvring to short-circuit lawsuits against hydro power development

  28-02-2019 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Not often does a government press release lay out two options in such dramatic contrast as the one this week on the high-stakes legal battle over Site C.
  “The provincial government, B.C. Hydro, West Moberly First Nations and Prophet River First Nation have agreed to enter into confidential discussions to seek alternatives to litigation related to the Site C dam project,” it began.
  But meanwhile, the fallback option of litigation would be proceeding down a parallel tr
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019

  28-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Blaming B.C. Assessment for jeopardizing the city’s stock of “affordable rental homes” is misleading and disingenuous. Rents of $854 a month in older West End buildings are the result of long-term rent controls. Those taking advantage of those rents are the long-time renters.
  A young person moving into the area isn’t going to be able to take advantage of these “affordable rental homes” and a long-time renter may have an income far in advance of the c
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Legal Aid scrambles to ready for walkout

  28-02-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  With lawyers threatening a strike, honcho of the Legal Services Society Mark Benton was waiting for the next shoe to drop: Victoria still had not finalized his budget.
  “Can’t worry about it, contingency plans, that’s the priority at the moment,” he said with a shrug.
  “I found out last week (about the job action). So we’re scrambling a bit as we try to develop plans to address that if it happens. But we’ve had strikes before.”
  Lawyers say they will
  
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• Naramata Bench winemaker Tait's tipping point led to a life among the vines

  28-02-2019 02:56 via vancouversun.com
  Val Tait, general manager and winemaker at Bench 1775 on the Naramata Bench.
  A glass of wine played a pivotal role in Val Tait’s route to becoming winemaker and general manager of Bench 1775.
  At the time, she was studying plant biochemistry and molecular genetics at Simon Fraser University and working at the Summerland Research and Development Centre. That was when she discovered she didn’t like working in a lab.
  What she did like was going to Okanagan wineries and collecting grape v
  
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• B.C. government’s union ‘friends’ labour deal challenged in court

  28-02-2019 02:46 via vancouversun.com
  Lawyers squared off in court Wednesday over the issue of how best to proceed with a legal challenge to a labour agreement of the NDP government that critics say favours B.C.’s trade unions.
  A coalition including contractors and building associations has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court seeking to strike down the government’s labour framework for building public infrastructure projects.
  The framework calls for workers on public projects such as the new Pattullo Bridge to become
  
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• One of two new measles cases reported was in Vancouver daycare facility

  28-02-2019 02:28 via vancouversun.com
  Two new cases of measles have been confirmed in Vancouver, one of which was reported at a Kitsilano daycare for toddlers.
  The cases announced Thursday bring the total number of infections in the area up to 15.
  According to Vancouver Coastal Health, one of the two cases was in a toddler attending St. James Day Care Centre, located at 3214 West 10th Ave.
  VCH spokeswoman Tiffany Akins confirmed to Postmedia on Thursday that the toddler picked up measles after being exposed to an infected student at
  
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• Bacon trial witness admits he disliked shooting victim

  28-02-2019 02:26 via vancouversun.com
  A defence lawyer for Jamie Bacon suggested Wednesday that a key Crown witness had more conflict with their former associate Dennis Karbovanec than Bacon did at the time Karbovanec was targeted in a 2008 New Year’s Eve shooting.
  In cross-examination, lawyer Kevin Drolet repeatedly asked the admitted drug dealer, who can only be identified as AB due to a court order, about his animosity toward Karbovanec.
  “You didn’t like Mr. Karbovanec, did you?” Drolet asked AB.
  Replied A
  
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• B.C. government’s unions ‘friends’ labour deal challenged in court

  28-02-2019 02:03 via vancouversun.com
  Lawyers squared off in court Wednesday over the issue of how best to proceed with a legal challenge to a labour agreement of the NDP government that critics say favours B.C.’s trade unions.
  A coalition including contractors and building associations has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court seeking to strike down the government’s labour framework for building public infrastructure projects.
  The framework calls for workers on public projects such as the new Pattullo Bridge to become
  
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• B.C. auditor general says urban ambulance response times miss targets

  28-02-2019 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Ambulances only made their times target to reach people in life-threatening conditions half the time they were dispatched in B.C. urban areas, the provincial auditor general said in a report released Wednesday.
  Carol Bellringer said the response is well below the B.C. Emergency Health Services’ target times and could harm patient care.
  The missed response targets, by almost one hour in some cases, are significant because urban areas account for 86 per cent of B.C.’s&
  
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• Essence of Vancouver Island beach distilled and turned into world's 'best contemporary gin'

  28-02-2019 01:28 via vancouversun.com
  Jason and Alayne MacIsaac were walking along French Beach, close to the site of their upstart Sheringham Distillery on Vancouver Island, when they were overcome by the beauty of the smells around them.
  It was the summer of 2015.
  “The sweet sea air, the smell of the forest, and the Nootka roses blossoming along the path,” recalled Jason. “It was all these things — the beautiful sweet sea air we smell any time of the year in this area. With the combination of everything we
  
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• Two more cases of measles reported in Vancouver

  28-02-2019 00:56
  
  Vancouver Coastal Health says both new cases are linked to the outbreak at Francophone schools
  
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• Company fined $350,000 for depositing damaging substance in Fraser River

  28-02-2019 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  Environment and Climate Change Canada says a dredging company has been fined $350,000 for depositing a damaging substance into water frequented by fish in B.C.
  The department says in a news release that Fraser River Pile and Dredge (GP) Inc. pleaded guilty to the Fisheries Act violation and a B.C. provincial court imposed the fine last week.
  The release says the company was dredging in Deas Slough in the Fraser River in February 2014 when its vessel punctured a submerged water main carrying chlo
  
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• Two more measles cases in Vancouver area, bringing total to 15 infections

  28-02-2019 00:41 via vancouversun.com
  Two new cases of measles have been reported in Vancouver, bringing the total number of infections in the area to 15.
  Vancouver Coastal Health said both new cases are related to the outbreak centred on two French-language schools.
  It says both individuals had been receiving follow-up care as they were known to have been exposed to people with measles infections.
  Of the 15 measles cases in the Vancouver area, 12 are related to the school outbreak that began when one child acquired the disease whil
  
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