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• BC Egg Contest

  06-03-2019 23:53 via vancouversun.com
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• Theatre review: Come from Away is better than spectacular

  06-03-2019 23:17 via vancouversun.com
  Come from Away
  When: To March 10
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets & Info: BroadwayAcrossCanada.caWith all the hype preceding Come From Away’s arrival in Vancouver on its first North American tour — the fabulous reviews, multiple awards, great word-of-mouth — I expected the show to be spectacular.
  It’s not. It’s better.
  Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s musical about the airline passengers grounded in Gander, Newfoundland, on 9/11 and the locals who rece
  
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• 'Courage' key quality of B.C. suffragist, politician Jamieson in new biography

  06-03-2019 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  The Last Suffragist Standing by Veronica Strong-Boag. (Photo: Courtesy of UBC Press)
  Award-winning historian and author Veronica Strong-Boag’s new book The Last Suffragist Standing is a study of the life’s work of kick-ass suffragist and progressive politician Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882-1964).
  Jamieson was a tireless activist and the last suffragist to be elected to a provincial or federal legislature.
  Fittingly, the new book is officially out on March 8, International Women&rsquo
  
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• Vancouver police seek Good Samaritan who halted indecent act

  06-03-2019 22:36 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police want to speak with a Good Samaritan who stopped an indecent act in Marpole last month.
  A suspect has been arrested in the case, but police are still hoping the Good Samaritan will come forward to share his statement.
  On Feb. 21, around 7:30 p.m., a man allegedly exposed himself and began threatening a woman walking near Granville Street and West 71st Avenue. A Good Samaritan stepped in to stop the man, allowing the woman to continue home unharmed and undisturbed.
  The suspect, a
  
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• Extradition case for Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou put over to May 8

  06-03-2019 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  The Chinese executive whose arrest in Vancouver touched off an international furor appeared briefly in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday and had her case put over to May 8.
  It had been anticipated that the appearance of Meng Wanzhou, who is being sought for extradition to the U.S., would result in a date being set for her extradition hearing.
  But a lawyer for Meng indicated that there may be several applications that need to be dealt with before the hearing can go ahead. The case will come back to
  
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• B.C. cities among worst for air quality in 2018, wildfires to blame: report

  06-03-2019 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  Three B.C. cities were among the worst regions in the world for air pollution last summer thanks to thick smoke that choked the province during the wildfire season, according to an annual Greenpeace report.
  Overall, B.C. and Canada aren’t among the world’s top air-polluters cited in the 2018 World Air Quality Report.
  However, when broken down by month, B.C. made the top 10 list in August because of the smoke from the worst wildfire season on record. Smoke from fires in Washington sta
  
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• New fisheries closures announced near Vancouver to protect glass sponge reefs - North Shore News

  06-03-2019 22:09
  New fisheries closures announced near Vancouver to protect glass sponge reefs  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has announced eight marine refuges in the waters northwest of Vancouver, saying they will help protect ...
  
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• Anti-gang program to be rolled out in Vancouver schools

  06-03-2019 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  A highly successful anti-gang program will soon be rolled out in Vancouver schools.
  Vancouver police and the school board announced Wednesday that the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C.’s End Gang Life program would be introduced in 18 schools, reaching out to some 4,000 students.
  The program includes in-school presentations made by VPD gang-crime officers, followed by a “frank and open” talk by a former gangster to discuss his path in and out of gang crime, his t
  
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• Vancouver man charged with stealing wigs meant for kids with cancer

  06-03-2019 21:59 via vancouversun.com
  A 52-year-old career criminal has been charged in connection with the theft of 150 wigs slated for B.C. Children’s Hospital.
  The wigs, made with human hair and intended for kids with cancer, were stolen during a Sept. 7 break-in at Eva and Co. Wigs on West Broadway.
  Police said the wigs were worth about $2,500 each.
  Related Theft of wigs for kids with cancer is ’heartbreaking:’ Vancouver shop manager
  Martin Weigelt, described by Vancouver police as one of the city’s most
  
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• TransLink still losing millions to fare evaders but it’s not tracking numbers

  06-03-2019 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  Three years after spending $200 million to install fare gates at its SkyTrain and Canada Line stations, TransLink hasn’t collected any data to show they are cutting down on fare evasion. Meanwhile, the number of tickets related to fare gate offences has barely slowed.
  TransLink acknowledges it continues to lose revenue to fare evaders but hasn’t measured evasion since 2014, said spokeswoman Jillian Drews. She said TransLink is studying ways to track fare evasion including “manu
  
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• Feminist literary festival shows it’s got plenty of growing room

  06-03-2019 21:22 via vancouversun.com
  Growing Room Feminist Literary Festival
  When: March 8-17
  Where: Various Vancouver venues
  Tickets and info: roommagazine.comSince being published last October, Lindsay Wong’s memoir The Woo-Woo has made best-seller lists and is one of five books that have been chosen for CBC Radio One’s popular Canada Reads debates that take place March 25-28.
  Fashion guru Joe Zee will be defending Wong’s book in the CBC event.
  It’s clear that Wong now has a foot firmly in mainstream liter
  
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• Former BC Hydro chair's waterfront home listed for sale (PHOTOS)

  06-03-2019 21:12
  
  Ultra-luxe, energy-efficient, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house in West Vancouver is owned by clean-tech entrepreneur Mossadiq Umedaly
  
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• Metro Vancouver’s high-flying industrial real estate faces turbulence

  06-03-2019 20:00
  
  Rising costs, retail slump cloud sector posting Canada’s highest lease rates and sale prices
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: A 'transparent' office space in more ways than one

  06-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It has been nearly three years since law firm McCarthy Tetrault moved into an open-concept, transparent glass, “democratized” office space in downtown Vancouver.
  Gone are the dry walled-in perimeter executive offices, closed doors and ample private space of their former space. In place of those traditional design concepts are equal access to natural light, small glass interior offices, relaxing common areas and views of the downtown buildings, water and the North Shore Mountains.
  The
  
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• What it costs to build real estate in Canada

  06-03-2019 19:15
  
  Altus Group provides the hard construction costs for multi-family, industrial and commercial real estate projects – but no prizes for guessing the most expensive city
  
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• Extradition hearing date set for Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou

  06-03-2019 18:50 via vancouversun.com
  The Chinese executive whose arrest in Vancouver touched off an international furor is appearing in B.C. Supreme Court today where it is expected a date will be set for her extradition hearing.
  Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei, was taken into custody at the Vancouver airport on Dec. 1 on a provisional arrest warrant issued by the United States, which was seeking to have her extradited on allegations she participated in a scheme to bypass trade sanctions again
  
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• LETTER: B-Line bus crucial to West Vancouver growth - North Shore News

  06-03-2019 18:05
  LETTER: B-Line bus crucial to West Vancouver growth  North Shore NewsDear Editor, Re: John Cave's letter to the editor, Loss of Parking Space Means Hit to Ambleside Merchants, North Shore News Feb. 27 This is my response as ...
  
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• B.C. Travel: 3 ultimate road trips to the farthest reaches of British Columbia

  06-03-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you have more than a week off and want to explore northern B.C., Vancouver Island, or east to the Rockies, these trips will give you some ideas as to what awaits the ultimate B.C. road trip. We’ve geared these selections toward warm-weather travel, but we don’t begrudge the hearty traveller who undertakes the challenge in spring.
  READ MORE: B.C. Travel: 5 ultimate road trips if you have a week off   |  B.C. Travel Bucket List: 7 places you must see in beautiful B.C.
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• Pellet gun attack costs Nanaimo cat its leg and costs of care leave it homeless

  06-03-2019 16:12 via vancouversun.com
  PARKSVILLE — A two-year-old tabby cat on Vancouver Island is recovering from a leg amputation after someone shot it with a pellet gun.
  The B.C. SPCA says the male cat, named Onyx, was targeted recently near his home north of Nanaimo.
  The SPCA’s Parksville branch manager Nadine Durante says one of the cat’s remaining legs is also broken.
  Costs of the surgery and recuperation are estimated at about $1,800, and the society is appealing for assistance with the bills.
  Durante says O
  
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• Cyclist sues North Vancouver for crash during Slide the City - Vancouver Is Awesome

  06-03-2019 15:56
  Cyclist sues North Vancouver for crash during Slide the City  Vancouver Is AwesomeThe City of North Vancouver is being sued by a resident who blames his serious bicycle crash on the annual Slide the City waterslide event.
  
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• Province balks at condo Airbnb tax proposed by Victoria council

  06-03-2019 15:00
  
  New speculation and vacancy tax declaration form could provide a pathway to taxing condos being used as Airbnbs as commercial operations, says city councillor
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Chance of rain or wet snow

  06-03-2019 14:49 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like Wednesday’s weather will start out sunny and then become cloudier as the day wears on, with a high of 5 C. Environment Canada is also forecasting rain or even wet snow in some parts of the region. Overnight, there will likely be more rain, sleet, or snow, and a high of 1 C. Then it looks like the same weather pattern will continue through Thursday, with more rain or flurries and a high of 5 C. There could be a reprieve on Friday, as the forecast calls
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Seniors beef about NDP speculation tax cash cow, frustrating help line

  06-03-2019 06:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Meet the speculators, four unsuspecting British Columbians targeted by the half-baked mess that is the NDP’s speculation and vacancy tax.
  Walter Belcher, 93, is a retired civil engineer who owns a modest family cabin, designed and built by himself on land he purchased near Belcarra almost 50 years ago.
  He doesn’t use it much any more but his children, grand children and great grand children do.
  Though the place is neither vacant, nor rentable, nor being held for spec
  
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• Former Hydro chair puts energy-efficient West Vancouver mansion on the market

  06-03-2019 06:42 via vancouversun.com
  The waterfront energy-efficient mansion of former B.C. Hydro boss Mossadiq Umedaly in West Vancouver is on the market.
  Umedaly — the former chief financial officer for Ballard Power Systems, chair of B.C. Hydro and CEO of Xantrex Technology — had the home built for his family in the early 2000s.
  A key part of the sales pitch are the home’s energy-efficient features. The 8,000 square foot building is set on a 25,000 square foot lot with 100-feet of waterfront overlooking Burrard
  
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• Barack Obama brings message of hope to Vancouver

  06-03-2019 04:48
  
  ‘The world has never been wealthier… healthier, less violent, more educated, more tolerant’
  
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• Obama delivers message of hope to Vancouver Board of Trade

  06-03-2019 04:44 via vancouversun.com
  Former U.S. president Barack Obama spent much of a speaking engagement Tuesday in Vancouver dwelling on climate change and inequality, but left his audience with a message of hope.
  Obama spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Vancouver Convention Centre during the third stop in Canada of his “A Conversation with President Barack Obama” speaking tour, after visits to Calgary and Winnipeg.
  Grammy and Juno-winning musician Sarah McLachlan warmed up the crowd of 4,500 with a 20-minute set
  
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• Handwritten list of Gassy Jack's debts to be sold

  06-03-2019 03:19 via vancouversun.com
  Gassy Jack Deighton was apparently quite a storyteller. But he doesn’t seem to have been much of a businessman.
  When he died on May 23, 1875, the founder of Gastown left behind almost $5,000 in debt, the equivalent of about $115,000 today.
  A guy named John Brown was owed $4, Capt. John Irving of New Westminster was owed $500, and Deighton’s brother Thomas was owed $1,800.
  How do we know? Because a handwritten list of Gassy Jack’s debts from 1875 is being sold this Saturday at a
  
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• David Bain: Whale-watching boats are not a big problem for Southern Resident orcas

  06-03-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  On both sides of the border, the recent health woes of Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea have rightfully shone a spotlight on their plight.
  Most recently, Canada’s National Energy Board released its reconsideration report to the government, recommending that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project be approved, along with a number of noise-reduction measures for various vessels, including whale-watching boats.
  Unfortunately, the NEB’s report on these topics and the ensuin
  
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• B.C. Cancer agency president resigns, cutting short first term in office

  06-03-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Malcolm Moore will leave his post as president of the B.C. Cancer agency next month, well before the end of his sole term in office.
  The oncologist, researcher and clinical pharmacologist’s pending departure extends a pattern of revolving-door leadership at the province’s cancer research and care agency, an organization that was mired in internal controversies that went public not long before he took the job.
  Moore’s decision to leave was “based on personal or family need
  
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• West Van's B-Line bus brouhaha bumped ahead to next week

  06-03-2019 02:50 via vancouversun.com
  A vote on whether West Vancouver staff should look at shortening a proposed rapid bus route will have to wait, after dozens of people packed council chambers on Monday to say their piece about the controversial transit project.
  TransLink has proposed that the Main-Marine B-Line bus would run from North Vancouver to West Vancouver, with stops in West Van at Park Royal, 14th, 21st and 24th streets. The plan also suggests measures to improve traffic on Marine Drive, such as a bus-only lane, removin
  
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• Protesters rally outside court hearing for accused in Marrisa Shen murder

  06-03-2019 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  About two dozen people carried signs saying, “Hold Trudeau accountable” and, “No more victims” as they chanted “No bail!” outside a court hearing Tuesday for the man charged with the first-degree murder of Burnaby teen Marrisa Shen.
  For the third time outside a hearing for Ibrahim Ali, people rallied to show support for the family of the 13-year-old who was killed in July 2017 in-or-near Central Park in Burnaby.
  Inside Vancouver provincial court, Ali’s l
  
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• B.C.'s first hit of cannabis tax revenue much lower than expected

  06-03-2019 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s first hit from legal cannabis has fallen far short of the pre-legalization estimates written into last year’s budget.
  The provincial Ministry of Finance expects B.C.’s share of federal excise taxes on legal marijuana sales will be $68 million over the next three years, substantially less than the estimate of $200 million over three years that the province wrote into its 2018/19 budget.
  B.C. has received its first $1.3-million payment from the federal government as its 75
  
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• Parts of Hells Angels report ruled inadmissible at civil forfeiture trial

  06-03-2019 02:24 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Supreme Court judge has criticized an “expert” report about the Hells Angels filed by the Director of Civil Forfeiture as full of biased, unsubstantiated claims about the biker club.
  Justice Barry Davies ruled that several parts of the report are inadmissible in the director’s long-running civil case against the Hells Angels.
  Davies was also critical of the report’s author, retired Ontario Provincial Police Det. Staff Sgt. Len Isnor, who Davies said relied on his &
  
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• Feds give B.C. its first $1.3-million hit off cannabis excise tax revenue

  06-03-2019 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s first hit from legal cannabis has fallen far short of the pre-legalization estimates written into last year’s budget.
  The province received its first $1.3-million payment from the federal government as its 75-per-cent share of excise taxes on legal marijuana sales for the month of October, the Ministry of Finance confirmed this week, which officials have extrapolated to expectations of $68 million over the next three years.
  That is substantially less than the estimates governm
  
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• Tesla's three Metro Vancouver sales centres set to close

  06-03-2019 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  Tesla’s three Metro Vancouver sales outlets are at risk of closing after the electric-car maker revealed it was shifting to online sales only.
  In a Feb. 28 blog post on the Tesla website, it was stated that the electric-automaker would close most of its 378 stores. There are nine Tesla stores in Canada: three in Vancouver, four in Toronto, one in Calgary and another in Montreal.
  “Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only,” the blog-post stated. “You can now bu
  
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• Speaker's adviser involved in legal battle in housing co-op case

  06-03-2019 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  Alan Mullen, legislative Speaker Darryl Plecas’ special adviser, became involved in the case of a Victoria couple who are being evicted by a judge from a housing co-op.
  Mullen attended board meetings of the Craigflower Housing Cooperative in support of Karen Armstrong, Plecas’ administrative clerk, and her husband, Ron Armstrong, and represented them at a B.C. Supreme Court hearing in January.
  “Karen is a co-worker of mine, and also the Armstrongs are friends of mine,” Mu
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Legal-aid review falls flat

  06-03-2019 00:30 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government should radically change the way it delivers legal aid by opening community clinics staffed by lawyers and advocates to serve the needy, says a new review that lawyers immediately discounted.
  Jamie Maclaren, who conducted the three-month study, wants Victoria to embark on the ambitious plan and broaden the scope of Indigenous aid to include more preventive services that are “not premised on agreeing to state intervention or correction which imposes stigma.”
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