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• Blowing snow making travel difficult in North Dakota - Vancouver Sun

  03-03-2019 23:55
  Blowing snow making travel difficult in North Dakota  Vancouver SunBISMARCK, N.D. — Blowing snow is making travel difficult in parts of North Dakota.Transportation officials on Sunday extended a travel alert to north-central ...
  
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• Fortis B.C. upgrades will require road closures in Burnaby this week

  03-03-2019 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  If your morning commute takes you through Burnaby, you’ll need a bit of extra patience this week.
  Crews have started tearing up sections of Lougheed Highway to complete upgrades on a Fortis B.C. natural gas line. One eastbound and one westbound lane on Lougheed, between Kensington and Bainbridge avenues, were closed beginning Saturday.
  On Tuesday, the Madison Avenue-Lougheed Highway intersection will also be impacted, with southbound lanes closed on Madison from Halifax Street.
  Broadway an
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Law Society divided, access-to-justice fuse burns

  03-03-2019 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  After nearly two decades of a continuing access-to-justice crisis, the Law Society of B.C. remains divided on a solution and can’t agree on even token measures.
  The benchers have sent back for further study a seven-year-old proposal to allow licensed paralegals to offer cheaper legal services and rejected a suggestion to give a nominal educational credit to lawyers for doing charity work.
  “In that light and in my view, denying continuing professional development (CPD) credit for what
  
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• Digging up history through old bottles

  03-03-2019 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  Christian Laub recently shattered his heel. Holed up at home, he decided to put together an Instagram page about the old bottles he’s been digging up. He put it up two weeks ago, and has been amazed at the response.
  “It’s pretty crazy,” he said. “There’s literally people all over the world doing bottle digging, from Russia to the States to Japan. I’m talking to people all over the world now that do this.”
  The quick response may be due to
  
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• Rob Shaw: Andrew Wilkinson's rental comments damage B.C. Liberal credibility

  03-03-2019 23:27 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Andrew Wilkinson has spent his first year as B.C. Liberal leader trying to overhaul a tired party that’s drowning under the weight of scandals that piled up over 16 years in power.
  But all it takes is one misstep to wash out months of progress. Or, in the case of Wilkinson, 22 seconds during a recent budget speech in the legislature to seriously undermine the work he’s done presenting a fresh face for the party.
  B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson.
  “This is a
  
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• Supportive housing units open in Vancouver's historic Strathcona neighbourhood - North Shore News

  03-03-2019 22:59
  Supportive housing units open in Vancouver's historic Strathcona neighbourhood  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — British Columbia's housing minister emphasized the importance of different levels of government working together, as she announced a new ...
  
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• Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou suing Canada, its border agency and the RCMP

  03-03-2019 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou claims no one told her she was being arrested until after she had endured three hours of interrogation and searches by border agents, according to a civil suit filed Friday against the Canadian government, its border agency and the national police force.
  Wanzhou is now suing three unnamed Canada Border Services Agency officers, RCMP Const. Winston Yep and the Attorney General of Canada in a civil suit filed Friday in B.C. Supreme Court.
  “As the claim speaks fo
  
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• Abbotsford police seek witnesses in armed home invasion, car theft

  03-03-2019 20:09 via vancouversun.com
  Abbotsford police are seeking witnesses, as well as home surveillance and dashboard camera footage following a home invasion Saturday evening that saw four suspects flee in a stolen vehicle after a shot was fired.
  Around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police were called to a home near Maclure Road and Horn Street for a home invasion and report of a stolen vehicle.
  A man and a woman, both 54, told police they were at home when four men wearing hoodies suddenly forced their way into the house. At least one s
  
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• Small earthquake felt in the Shuswap Saturday evening

  03-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Shaking felt in the Shuswap on Saturday night was the result of a small earthquake.
  According to Earthquakes Canada, its monitoring station four kilometres northeast of Salmon Arm detected an earthquake at 8:39 p.m. on Saturday.
  The monitoring equipment picked up a 2.2-magnitude shake originating one kilometre below the Earth’s surface. According to Earthquakes Canada’s website, no damage was reported and none would be expected from a quake of that size.
  Residents from Sicamous to Ta
  
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• Beothuk 'genocide' remembered 200 years after kidnapping and murder

  03-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the saddest days in the history of colonialism and Aboriginal People is being remembered at an East Vancouver art gallery.
  Tuesday, March 5, marks the 200th anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of some of the last Beothuk in Newfoundland.
  On that day in 1819 a group of settlers captured a woman named Demasduit at Red Indian Lake. Her husband, Nonosabasut, went to defend her and was shot and killed. So was his brother.
  Demasduit was taken to St. John’s without her newborn ch
  
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• Six-month implant newest option to treat addiction amid opioid crisis

  03-03-2019 18:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Canadians addicted to opioids may be eligible for an implant that provides an ongoing low dose of medication for six months, with the potential for treatment for up to a year when a new implant is placed in the opposite arm.
  The procedure involves trained physicians inserting matchstick sized rods under the skin of the upper arm, each containing the medication buprenorphine.
  Health Canada approved the implant in April 2018, two years after it was granted approval in the United
  
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• Vancouver weather: Cloudy and dry for now

  03-03-2019 17:35 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: March 3, 2019 – Sunday’s weather will see some clouds early in the day but clearing as the day goes on.
  The rain will also hold off for a few days, while the sun continues to peek from behind the clouds. On Wednesday, a 40 per cent chance of showers is expected, followed by a 60 per cent chance of rain showers or flurries in the evening.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Cloudy, clearing late in the morning. High of plus 5.
  Tonight: Clear, wind up to 15 km/h, low of min
  
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• Zion is just one part of Utah's beauty

  03-03-2019 16:13 via vancouversun.com
  Imagine an epic landscape, a red-rock wonderland and wide-open skies. That’s southwest Utah.
  If you go from October through April, it’s like a best-kept secret: You avoid the summer crowds and most snowbirds are next door in Arizona or south of the US border.
  Most people visiting southern Utah head directly to Zion National Park, but we’re headed to Kanab first.
  Kanab is known as base camp for hikers: 80 miles south is the Grand Canyon, 70 miles east is Lake Powell and 30 miles
  
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• Craft zoning for craft beer: City of North Vancouver contemplates a brewery district - CBC.ca

  03-03-2019 14:00
  Craft zoning for craft beer: City of North Vancouver contemplates a brewery district  CBC.caWhile more than 70 different B.C. communities have their own breweries, the path from leasing an industrial building to getting all the necessary approvals can ...
  
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• West Van music man bridges cultures in collaboration with Squamish Nation

  03-03-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Yamaha grand piano, a gift to the West Vancouver Youth Band in 2010, is cleaned every day at its berth in the music room hall inside the West Vancouver community centre.
  “If Jimmy walked in here today and it didn’t look better than the day he donated it, he’d be really upset,” said Doug Macaulay, the band’s longtime principal conductor and executive director.
  Jimmy is Jimmy Pattison, a longtime friend of community youth bands since he began playing in the Kitsil
  
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• Two Vancouver Island workers airlifted to hospital after roof collapse - North Island Gazette

  03-03-2019 09:00
  Two Vancouver Island workers airlifted to hospital after roof collapse  North Island GazetteIncident took place in Errington; injuries called 'non-life-threatening'
  
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• Evacuation of Maple Ridge homeless camp has been completed: City

  03-03-2019 04:49 via vancouversun.com
  John Newton is seen behind police tape as he prepares to leave a Maple Ridge tent city ordered evacuated on Saturday, March 2.
  The evacuation of a Maple Ridge homeless camp that has seen three destructive fires in the past week was completed and the site secured Saturday, said the city.
  Tent-city resident John Newton told CP Saturday afternoon he was the last to leave after police and firefighters taped off “Anita’s Place” and relocated the campers.
  Leaning on a cart filled wit
  
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• New Westminster tenants rally against 'landlord who stole Christmas'

  03-03-2019 04:03 via vancouversun.com
  Despite tough new regulations to end “renovictions” in New Westminster, tenants of affordable rental buildings in the city are putting up a fight to keep their homes.
  On Saturday, about 40 people joined a rally and walking tour organized by the New West Tenants Union, during which they protested the eviction and displacement of renters for the purpose of renovations.
  The group’s outrage was mostly directed at Dinesh Chand, who is linked through land title and corporate records
  
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• Lawrence Sharpe guilty of manslaughter in Starbucks assault

  03-03-2019 03:45 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Supreme Court jury has found Lawrence Sharpe guilty of manslaughter after he punched another man inside a Starbucks coffee shop following a dispute between the accused’s girlfriend and the victim.
  The verdict came on Saturday afternoon, following just over a day of deliberations. The 12-member jury had begun their deliberations on Friday morning.
  The jury acquitted Sharpe’s girlfriend, co-accused Oldouz Pournouruz, of manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Michael Page-Vincell
  
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• Curious kids enjoy obliterating cookies, liquid sand at Science Games

  03-03-2019 01:44 via vancouversun.com
  It was all hands on deck Saturday morning as “Team Rock” — four excited eight-year-old girls — tested the permeability of sand in response to various liquids during the 2019 Science Games at the Telus World of Science.
  Baela Irving watched as her friend Madeline Okuma poured water mixed with cooking oil over a filter to see how quickly the liquid drained into a cup.
  “I’m sort of interested in science,” said Okuma. “It’s fun to try different t
  
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• Exclusive: Jody Wilson-Raybould 'overwhelmed, grateful' — and seeking re-election

  03-03-2019 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  Jody Wilson-Raybould says she is “overwhelmed and grateful” about an outpouring of public support since her scorching testimony in the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
  And despite a nasty internal backlash after her explosive appearance before the federal justice committee, she has no intention of quitting the Liberal caucus in Ottawa.
  “It really has been quite remarkable,” Wilson-Raybould said Saturday, in her first public remarks since her bombshell testimony.
  “I have heard f
  
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