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• Hunt for your North Shore home is over

  01-03-2019 23:30
  
  These perfectly designed condos and townhomes come at the North Shore’s most attainable price
  
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• B.C. NDP MP Nathan Cullen will not run for re-election

  01-03-2019 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  Nathan Cullen, the long-serving NDP Member of Parliament for Skeena-Bulkley Valley, announced Friday that he will not be seeking re-election.
  Cullen, who was first elected in 2004, currently serves as the NDP’s democratic reform and ethics critic.
  In a statement, Cullen said after 15 years serving in Ottawa, it is now time for someone else to represent Skeena-Bulkley Valley on the national stage.
  “To my caucus colleagues and leader, Jagmeet Singh, I wish you the very best in the comi
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Unprepared for death

  01-03-2019 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  The book “Death the Final Stage of Growth,” by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross details the fact that we are a death-denying society. That may be the case but as Stephen Garrett points out, there are more than 900,000 people in British Columbia over the age of 65 who are going to die — and pretty soon.
  “We’re woefully under-prepared,” Garrett says. “We’re under-prepared emotionally, psychologically and sociologically for the inevitable.”
  He says that me
  
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• Vintage BC Electric streetcar to be fully restored for North Vancouver | - Vancouver Is Awesome

  01-03-2019 22:26
  Vintage BC Electric streetcar to be fully restored for North Vancouver |  Vancouver Is AwesomeThe 1908 car, built by the John Stephenson Company in New Jersey, served most of its life working within the North Vancouver streetcar system. It was retired in ...
  
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• Free Solo peaks with Oscar honours, but free agents rope new pay grade

  01-03-2019 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  In rock climbing, you only have one chance to get it right, especially if you’re doing your thing without a rope or safety gear.
  That’s why it’s only poetic that Free Solo scored for the genre of sport movies in the one opportunity it had at the 91st Academy Awards last Sunday. The story of rock climbing fanatic Alex Honnold and his astonishing 3,200-foot ascent to the top of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park captured the Oscar for Best Documentary, edging
  
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• Tourism is economic force in British Columbia with 6.1 million visits: ministry

  01-03-2019 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s tourism industry is outpacing provincial economic growth, contributing $9 billion to the economy.
  Destination B.C., the Crown corporation that co-ordinates tourism marketing, released the latest figure from 2017, saying it’s a 6.7 per cent increase over the year before.
  The Tourism Ministry says in a news release that the industry generated $18.4 billion in revenue the same year, an 8.4 per cent leap in one year and over 41 per cent since 2007.
  It says statistics s
  
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• Dan Fumano: Minister 'monitors' Vancouver rental challenges, landlords want action

  01-03-2019 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s property assessment and tax system, which landlords large and small say increasingly threatens Vancouver’s stock of older, affordable rental homes, is apparently causing agreement in some unlikely corners.
  Patti Bacchus, the left-leaning former Vancouver school board chairwoman, is largely supportive of the B.C. NDP. But as a landlord expecting a big property-tax hike this year after her 50-year-old, 10 unit building saw a 38-per-cent assessment increase, Bacchus believes the
  
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• BBB releases Top 10 scams of 2018

  01-03-2019 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  Romance scams topped the Better Business Bureau’s national list of top 10 scams in 2018.
  While it used to be that seniors and new immigrants were the main targets of fraud, experts say with social media it is now everyone, including Millennials and Generation Z.
  Danielle Primrose, president of the BBB serving B.C. and Yukon, says there were more than 50,000 fraud reports across North America on the BBB’s scam tracker in 2018. Of those, around 2,000 were in Canada and more than 300 we
  
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• Movie review: Movie Minute featuring Greta

  01-03-2019 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  Filmmaker Neil Jordan, he of Crying Game, is back with his latest film, a horror/thriller Greta starring French acting legend Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz. Is it truly scary or goofy? Find out by checking out this week’s Movie Minute with Postmedia News film critic Dana Gee and Arts and Life editor Aleesha Harris.
  
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• Significant damage but no injuries in fire at Maple Ridge homeless camp

  01-03-2019 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  MAPLE RIDGE — For the third time in a week, flames have broken out at a tent encampment in Maple Ridge.
  First responders were called early Friday morning to the Anita Place homeless camp.
  A large area at the rear of the nearly two-year-old camp is believed to have burned and crews spent several hours dousing the fire and sifting through charred debris.
  There is no word of any injuries and the cause is under investigation.
  Maple Ridge fire department and bylaw officials, supported by the RC
  
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• Drs. Evan Wood and Keith Ahamad: Regulating heroin would improve public health and safety

  01-03-2019 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  As a result of the emergence of fentanyl into the heroin market, record numbers of our fellow British Columbians continue to die needlessly of overdoses while addiction to opioids continues to spread in the province because of the marketing practices and profit motive of organized crime.
  In a report released last week, the B.C. Centre on Substance Use is proposing a more effective approach to public health and safety for all British Columbians: Regulating and controlling the heroin market.
  As re
  
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• ‘Out-of-touch’ Liberal leader backtracks over dismissive renter comments

  01-03-2019 20:51
  
  Andrew Wilkinson, slammed for saying the challenge of paying rent is “fun,” takes to Twitter for some urgent damage limitation
  
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• ‘Out-of-touch’ Liberal leader backtracking over dismissive renter comments

  01-03-2019 20:51
  
  Andrew Wilkinson, slammed for saying the challenge of paying rent is “fun,” takes to Twitter for some urgent damage limitation
  
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• Theatre preview: Broadway vet Megan McGinnis on telling Come from Away's "epic" story

  01-03-2019 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  Come From Away
  When: Mar. 5-10
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets & Info: BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca
  Broadway Across Canada brings Come from Away to Vancouver next week for a run that has been sold out for over a month.
  Based on real people and events in the days just after 9/11 when 38 planes and nearly 7000 passengers and crew were grounded in tiny Gander, Newfoundland, Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s show is already the longest-running Canadian musical ever on Broadway.
  With fi
  
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• This was the coldest February on record in Metro Vancouver

  01-03-2019 20:22
  
  While Metro Vancouver saw a great deal of snow this February, the snowfall wasn’t the most exceptional component of last month’s weather.
  
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• Spring arts 2019: Music and drama hit the Vancouver stage - The North Bay Nugget

  01-03-2019 20:04
  Spring arts 2019: Music and drama hit the Vancouver stage  The North Bay NuggetAfter a winter theatre season dominated by comedies, the hot shows of this spring are plays with music and drama. Here are three hot prospects.
  
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• Millions of daffodils on Vancouver Island await warmer weather

  01-03-2019 19:07 via vancouversun.com
  Daffodils will be picked in March on the Saanich Peninsula — it’s just unclear exactly when.
  With traces of snow still visible between the rows, millions of ready-to-bloom flowers still have frozen stems, meaning they will stay in the ground for the time being while Peninsula farmers hope for warmth.
  “It’s pretty stressful on the crew and the flowers,” said Ryan Vantreight, general manager of Longview Farms, the largest certified organic farm on the Island.
  Vantreig
  
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• $2,056 for one-bedroom rental considered ‘affordable’ by City of Vancouver

  01-03-2019 19:00
  
  What Vancouver council deems affordable has gone from high to higher
  
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• B.C. MP Murray Rankin decides not to seek re-election in October

  01-03-2019 18:59 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Victoria MP Murray Rankin took a break Thursday from one of his busiest weeks ever in Ottawa to announce he will not run in this year’s federal election.
  The NDP justice critic, who has played a key role in probing the SNC-Lavalin affair, said there’s never a right time to make such a decision.
  “Obviously, I wasn’t taking into account in my calculation the serious constitutional crisis that we have right on us,” he said in a telephone interview. &ld
  
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• Significant damage but no injuries infire at Maple Ridge homeless camp

  01-03-2019 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  MAPLE RIDGE — For the third time in a week, flames have broken out at a tent encampment in Maple Ridge.
  First responders were called early Friday morning to the Anita Place homeless camp.
  A large area at the rear of the nearly two-year-old camp is believed to have burned and crews spent several hours dousing the fire and sifting through charred debris.
  There is no word of any injuries and the cause is under investigation.
  Maple Ridge fire department and bylaw officials, supported by the RC
  
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• Health tips from officials as herring egg harvest opens on Vancouver Island

  01-03-2019 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Health officials are offering some food safety advice as this year’s herring egg harvest opens along a section of Vancouver Island’s east coast.
  Hand-gathered herring eggs, known as spawn-on-kelp, are an important traditional seafood for many First Nations, but an outbreak of a cholera strain in 2018 forced closure of the harvest between French Creek and Qualicum Bay.
  Island Health says in a news release that lab tests confirm a small group of people contracted the v
  
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• This Week in History: 1933 – A giant ape climbs the Empire State

  01-03-2019 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  Eighty-six years ago a giant ape was unleashed on New York City.
  The premiere of King Kong was such a big event it was staged at the 6,200-seat Radio City Music Hall. Even that wasn’t big enough for the anticipated crowds, so the film was also shown at Radio City’s second theatre, the 3,500-seat New Roxy.
  An ad in the New York Times the next day said over 50,000 people had turned out opening day.
  “Seasoned picture fans sat fascinated, watching the most thrilling climax they had
  
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• Town Talk: Bacchanalia gala nets $229,500 for Bard on The Beach

  01-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  BARDY HEARTIES: The Bard on the Beach theatre company artistic director, Christopher Gaze, welcomed guests to the Vancouver International Wine Festival’s Bacchanalia gala with a line from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” That 16th-century monarch’s notion of goodness, of course, included having six wives and beheading two of them. Happily, the Bard company has not only kept its head but stayed on its feet aided
  
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• EU envoy urges North Macedonia factions to work together - Vancouver Sun

  01-03-2019 15:49
  EU envoy urges North Macedonia factions to work together  Vancouver SunA delegation of European Union lawmakers is visiting North Macedonia to urge its political leadership and opposition to work together on the country's goal to ...
  
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• British nautical maps from century ago help B.C. researchers chart kelp beds

  01-03-2019 15:26 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A serendipitous meeting between a professor and a colleague last year led to a treasure trove of historical maps indicating kelp bed locations off British Columbia’s coast, helping experts understand the changes in the ocean’s rainforests.
  University of Victoria geography Prof. Maycira Costa saw the squiggly lines on the yellowed, hand-drawn map in a picture frame above her colleague’s desk.
  The wall art was from 1903 and Costa said her co-worker had found it a
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Clear and cool

  01-03-2019 14:56 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Friday’s weather is expected to be mainly sunny in Metro Vancouver, with a high of 6 C. While there’s plenty of sunshine in the forecast over the next week, it looks like the frosty temperatures at night will persist into the first week of March, according to Environment Canada. Friday night looks partly cloudy with a low of zero. The weekend looks fairly cloudy, but dry, with some sunshine on Sunday. Saturday’s forecast is mainly cloudy and windy, with
  
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• Baby boomers are gluttons for power, twice as much as millennials

  01-03-2019 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Baby boomers seem to have it all. Big homes, hot tubs, built-in sound systems, and heated floors. They’re even more likely than some other generations to have beer-and-wine in the fridge.
  However, according to a B.C. Hydro survey released Friday, boomers don’t have perspective when it comes to other generations.
  Tanya Fisher, B.C. Hydro spokeswoman, told Postmedia News that the survey of 800 British Columbians found over half of boomers thought they used less electricity than millenn
  
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• Want to own a detached home with a yard in expensive Vancouver? Try sharing

  01-03-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A listing for a single-family house on Main St. in Vancouver is offering a 50-per-cent share in ownership, with an asking price of $748,888.
  For that, the buyer would get half the home — the first floor is 800 sq. ft. with two bedrooms and one bathroom, the second floor is 700 sq. ft. in unfinished basement space — as well as half the yard on a 65 x 90-ft. corner lot.
  “Why would you buy a townhouse when you can own (this)?” the listing asks.
  Listed by Vancouver realtors R
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: No easy way to boost ferry fleet without floating cash infusion option

  01-03-2019 05:01 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Transportation Minister Claire Trevena last week finally released the report from a $250,000 review of B.C. Ferries that she’d been sitting on for months, doing so at the same time she restored some ferry services cut by the B.C. Liberals.
  Blair Redlin, deputy transportation minister in the last NDP government, was hired in late 2017 to review ferry operations, finances and the arm’s-length regulatory framework established by the Liberals. He reported out last summer
  
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• North Vancouver School District embraces Sleep Out, in support of homeless youth - Vancouver Sun

  01-03-2019 03:19
  North Vancouver School District embraces Sleep Out, in support of homeless youth  Vancouver SunLike most young people, the students of the North Vancouver School District relish the opportunity to spend the day outside.
  
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• North Vancouver School District embraces Sleep Out, in support of homeless youth

  01-03-2019 03:19 via vancouversun.com
  Like most young people, the students of the North Vancouver School District relish the opportunity to spend the day outside.
  But last December, the senior leadership class at Carson Graham Secondary School took things one step further, throwing caution to the wind, not to mention the bitter cold, by spending the night outside on cardboard boxes as part of the Covenant House Sleep Out Movement.
  Sleep Out gives participants a glimpse into the life of a homeless youth, raising awareness and funding
  
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• The secret lives of salmon: Groundbreaking genetic tests completed at sea

  01-03-2019 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  The science team aboard the Russian research vessel Kaganovsky has employed genetic analysis of West Coast salmon while at sea for the first time.
  Biologist Christoph Deeg has linked salmon caught in a scientific test fishery to salmon stocks in the Stikine and Skeena river systems, and Puget Sound.
  Fin clippings take about two days to process using the new technique, but the payoff is substantial for fisheries science, said Dick Beamish, organizer of an international salmon research expedition.
  
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• Surrey schools plead for government money as portables increase

  01-03-2019 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The Surrey school board is pleading for more than $10 million from the provincial government to pay for extra portables needed for students next year.
  The board passed a motion this month asking for a special $10.5 million grant from the Ministry of Education to pay for 20 to 30 new portables needed to accommodate growing enrolment, said board vice-chair Terry Allen.
  “That $10.5 million comes directly out of our budget,” said Allen.
  “There’s no offset for
  
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• Asbestos removal contractor barred from industry by B.C. Supreme Court ruling

  01-03-2019 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  A longtime Lower Mainland asbestos removal company and its operator, who repeatedly violated the province’s worker safety rules, have been permanently barred from the industry.
  In a B.C. Supreme Court ruling released last week, Justice Francesca V. Marzari issued a decision that prohibits Seattle Environmental Consulting Ltd. and Mike Singh from carrying out asbestos removal work in any capacity for an indefinite period beginning April 15.
  “Seattle is responsible for repeated and egr
  
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• John Horgan tears up at event on funding increases for caregivers, foster parents

  01-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For the last 12 years, Selena Martin has cared for a man with developmental disabilities who requires around-the-clock care. During that time, the cost of living has steadily gone up while government funding for home-share providers has remained frozen.
  On Thursday, the 50-year-old Saanich woman became emotional as Premier John Horgan announced that the province will give more money to home-share providers, adoptive parents, foster parents and relatives of children in care who l
  
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• Granville Island suffering under 'burden of mismanagement', says Vancouver arts advocate

  01-03-2019 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  The founder of the Vancouver Writers Festival is calling for Granville Island to be managed by a non-profit group to preserve its unique character.
  Alma Lee said Granville Island has been “declining” for several years and blamed a series of recent vacancies on a “culture of fear and anger” created by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC).
  “They don’t understand the ethos and spirit of Granville Island,” she said of CMHC, which manages Granville Island
  
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• Daphne Bramham: First Nations' solution to a modern, medical crisis is a return to traditional ways

  01-03-2019 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  Ending Canada’s opioid overdose crisis will likely require much more than sophisticated drug therapies. In fact, it might mean following the lead of First Nations health-care providers and transforming how we think about and deliver medical services.
  First Nations people are dying of opioid overdoses at three times the rate of the general population. Hidden in that data are Canada’s most-neglected victims — Indigenous women.
  Unlike in the general population where men comprise 8
  
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• B.C. man convicted in major cross-border drug conspiracy gets 6 years

  01-03-2019 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man who was convicted of conspiring to ship large quantities of ecstasy to the U.S. in return for cocaine has been sentenced to six years in prison.
  Tarsem Singh Jawanda pleaded guilty to the drug-conspiracy count that occurred between January and August 2015. He also pleaded guilty to trafficking ecstasy in B.C. from February to August 2015.
  The offences happened in the context of an RCMP investigation into Jawanda’s suspected drug dealing and included the use of a police agent, un
  
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• Style Q&A: Eyewear brand Warby Parker sets up shop in Vancouver

  01-03-2019 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  A great pair of glasses can do much more than just help you see. They can elevate an outfit — not to mention provide insight into your personal style.
  Vancouverites now have the chance to check out a new eyeglasses option to find their perfect pair. New York-based brand Warby Parker has set up shop in the city (its first location in Western Canada), with a new shop at 2290 West 4th Ave.
  We caught up with Dave Gilboa, the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, to learn more about the brand,
  
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• Brewery founder's ultra-cool eco-house relisted at $1.2M off (PHOTOS)

  01-03-2019 00:16
  
  Stylish, contemporary home in Shaughnessy was listed in September for $12.98 million, put back on market last week for $11,775,000
  
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