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• Whooping cough confirmed at Vancouver Island high school - North Island Gazette

  08-03-2019 23:00
  Whooping cough confirmed at Vancouver Island high school  North Island GazettePertussis can be nagging and uncomfortable for teens, serious or even fatal for infants.
  
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• Science mentoring program empowers Vancouver high school girls

  08-03-2019 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver teenagers Ruini Xiong and Crystal Zheng have gone from being slightly intimated by science to empowered young women on their way to successful careers in bio-medical engineering.
  The Grade 12 students at Templeton Secondary recently won a regional science fair for their work on developing a plastic substitute using material from shellfish and silk worms.
  Their award-winning project was highlighted Thursday on International Women’s Day by the Open Science Network, which aims to cr
  
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• This Week in History, 1939: Two pals from New West set out to join the RAF in England, by bus

  08-03-2019 22:40 via vancouversun.com
  Muriel Honey’s mother, Isabella, passed away on Jan. 2 at the age of 96. Going through her stuff, she found an unusual piece of ephemera: a Pacific Stage Lines travel itinerary from New Westminster to New York City, dated March 9, 1939.
  But it wasn’t for Isabella or her husband, Howard Godfrey. The itinerary was for her father’s friend, William Radcliffe, who was on his way to England to join the Royal Air Force.
  “I think my dad and Bill Radcliffe probably went over toget
  
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• There won't be a casino in North Vancouver anytime soon - Vancouver Is Awesome

  08-03-2019 22:13
  There won't be a casino in North Vancouver anytime soon  Vancouver Is AwesomeThere will be no casino or slot parlour coming to the North Shore anytime soon, says BCLC.
  
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• Vancouver Island poet Patrick Lane dies at 79

  08-03-2019 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Award-winning poet and novelist Patrick Lane has died.
  Harbour Publishing, which published several of Lane’s collections, said he died Thursday after a long illness. He was 79.
  Yvonne Blomer, Victoria’s poet laureate from 2015 to 2018, said Lane’s death is huge loss to Canadian letters.
  Blomer said she met Lane 30 years ago when she was a first-year creative-writing student at the University of Victoria. It was the beginning of a long and supportive relationshi
  
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• 99 days at sea: Art exhibition explores the haunting bride ship Tynemouth

  08-03-2019 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  In 1862, 60 young women and girls, some just 12 years of age, arrived in Victoria after 99 days at sea.
  During their arduous journey, almost all of them were confined to the bottom level of the ship where they had no windows, no fresh water, no fresh food, no sanitation. They washed themselves with sea water. Many had boils when they landed.
  They left England thinking they would end up as brides in a new land. Two of the wealthier ones became tutors.
  The newcomers were greeted by a mob of drunke
  
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• Legendary radio reporter George Garrett, who was hard to beat, finally tells his own story

  08-03-2019 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  For four plus decades if there was something worth reporting on CKNW, George Garrett was there.
  A kind of Zelig of B.C. news reporters, Garrett was on the ground level for pretty much all the big stories from the mid-1950s until the end of the 1990s.
  “It was a lot of luck, but I guess also I might have had an intuition on some things. Others were just pure serendipity that I happened to be there at the right time,” said Garrett recently about his habit of being there when the bi
  
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• Town Talk: Pamela Anderson scored $30,000 for former Whitecap's artwork

  08-03-2019 21:28 via vancouversun.com
  Actress Pamela Anderson hoped that a Raphael Mazzucco artwork would fetch $30,000 at a Vancouver Club auction and thus benefit her foundation’s efforts for human, animal and environmental rights.
  OFF THE BALL: Actress Pamela Anderson, who was “discovered” at a B.C. Lions football game, recently sought $30,000 for art created by a former Vancouver Whitecaps soccer player. That was Coquitlam-born Raphael Mazzucco who, as an international fashion photographer, has portrayed severa
  
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• Salmon habitat to recover from Trans Mountain pipeline work within 2 years: DFO

  08-03-2019 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  Work on a Trans Mountain pipeline crossing in a Chilliwack stream altered habitat for young salmon, but the creek is expected to return to normal in one to two years, says Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
  Two biologists with the department visited Stewart Creek on Jan. 30 after receiving a complaint from Mike Pearson, a biologist with 30 years of experience who raised concerns about the work done by Trans Mountain Corp.
  Pearson said in January that the placement of 17 metres of articulated concrete
  
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• Metro Vancouver real estate not alone as prices slide across prime global cities

  08-03-2019 20:19
  London, Sydney, Hong Kong and more seeing price declines over past year, reports The Economist – a correlation that could herald a global recession
  
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• Renowned Island poet Patrick Lane dies at 79

  08-03-2019 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Award-winning poet and novelist Patrick Lane has died.
  Harbour Publishing, which published several of Lane’s collections, said he died Thursday after a long illness. He was 79.
  Yvonne Blomer, Victoria’s poet laureate from 2015 to 2018, said Lane’s death is huge loss to Canadian letters.
  Blomer said she met Lane 30 years ago when she was a first-year creative-writing student at the University of Victoria. It was the beginning of a long and supportive relationshi
  
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• B.C., we need to talk about measles vaccinations

  08-03-2019 19:14 via vancouversun.com
  Dr. Jane Finlay had measles as a child, but in a sense she was lucky.
  She did not get pneumonia. She did not go deaf nor suffer brain damage from encephalitis. She did not die.
  “I had a high fever and photophobia, so I was in a dark room with a terrible cough,” she said. “Pneumonia and ear infections are quite common because measles suppresses the immune system and one in a thousand gets encephalitis.”
  Today, Finlay spends a good deal of time persuading parents that they
  
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• Alberta RCMP officer charged after off-duty assaults alleged in Whistler

  08-03-2019 19:06 via vancouversun.com
  EDMONTON — An Alberta Mountie is facing charges in Whistler.
  Const. Vernon Hagen is facing two counts of assault and one count of obstruction of a peace officer.
  Hagen, a member of the Alberta RCMP federal serious and organized crime unit, appeared in court Wednesday in Whistler.
  RCMP say he was off duty when the alleged incident happened in Whistler on Jan. 28.
  A spokesman says Hagen has been reassigned and will not resume operational duties until the charges against him are resolved.
  
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• Chris Atchison: B.C. launches builders code with aim to make skilled construction workforce 10 per cent women by 2028

  08-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  International Women’s Day is today and it’s a chance to celebrate the immeasurable contributions women make to all aspects of life in Canada, and to note how far we still need to progress before we can proudly say that all Canadians are treated as equals wherever they live and work. As a society we are slowly improving gender parity in corporate boardrooms, offices and other workplaces, but when it comes to construction jobsites, too many of the 11,797 tradeswomen in B.C.’s con
  
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• Dan Fumano: As Vancouver's 600th modular home fills up, city looks for next 600

  08-03-2019 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  Sometimes, after a formerly homeless person has moved from living in parks, shelters or on the streets, and into a temporary modular-housing unit, they’ll sleep on the floor for the first little while.
  “That’s because they don’t want to get comfortable in a bed, because they don’t believe it’s going to last,” said Tanya Fader, interim director of housing for the PHS Community Services Society, which operates four Vancouver modular-housing sites. “I
  
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• B.C. premier checks time change mood with U.S. neighbours

  08-03-2019 18:22 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he checking with the province’s neighbours in the United States about possibly moving to a unified time zone.
  Horgan says as B.C. prepares to shift its clocks to daylight time on Sunday, he wants to explore the possibility of California, Washington, Oregon and B.C. being on the same time all year long.
  He says he’s written to the governors of the three states asking for updates on their views about time changes.
  Horgan says the issue is a mat
  
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• North Macedonia's ex-secret police chief jailed over vote - Vancouver Sun

  08-03-2019 16:06
  North Macedonia's ex-secret police chief jailed over vote  Vancouver SunNorth Macedonia's former secret police chief has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of unlawfully influencing a local election in 2013.
  
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• Town Talk: Artwork at auction missed Pamela Anderson's $30,000 reserve price

  08-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  OFF THE BALL: Actress Pamela Anderson, who was “discovered” at a B.C. Lions football game, recently sought $30,000 for art created by a former Vancouver Whitecaps soccer player. That was Coquitlam-born Raphael Mazzucco who, as an international fashion photographer, has portrayed several supermodels on Sports Illustrated swimsuit-edition covers. Although not among them, Ladysmith-born Anderson achieved swimsuit fame herself in the Baywatch TV series. Her visit to the Vancouver Club wa
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Ethanol, the forgotten alternative fuel

  08-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ethanol is the cleaner alternative fuel that got shoved aside through a series of unfortunate events. It was the fuel the Model T was designed to burn. It was the fuel that all auto manufacturers designed engines to run on. It burned far cleaner than kerosene, cleaner than oil-based fuels, it was in demand and it was abundant.
  The U.S. government, however, saw it as a cash cow when it was in need of a tax plan that would help pay for the Civil War — a tax that increased the price
  
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• B.C., we need to talk about vaccinations

  08-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Dr. Jane Finlay had measles as a child, but in a sense she was lucky.
  She did not get pneumonia. She did not go deaf nor suffer brain damage from encephalitis. She did not die.
  “I had a high fever and photophobia, so I was in a dark room with a terrible cough,” she said. “Pneumonia and ear infections are quite common because measles suppresses the immune system and one in a thousand gets encephalitis.”
  Today, Finlay spends a good deal of time persuading parents that they
  
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• Alberta RCMP officer charged after alleged off-duty assaults in Whistler

  08-03-2019 15:07 via vancouversun.com
  EDMONTON — An Alberta Mountie is facing charges in Whistler.
  Const. Vernon Hagen is facing two counts of assault and one count of obstruction of a peace officer.
  Hagen, a member of the Alberta RCMP federal serious and organized crime unit, appeared in court Wednesday in Whistler.
  RCMP say he was off duty when the alleged incident happened in Whistler on Jan. 28.
  A spokesman says Hagen has been reassigned and will not resume operational duties until the charges against him are resolved.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Snow flurries or rain then sunny breaks

  08-03-2019 15:04 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Friday, March 8. While Environment Canada has lifted the snowfall warning for the northeast Metro Vancouver, there still may be a few flurries or rain this morning. The agency says the wet weather should clear up this afternoon, however, for a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 7 C. Overnight, the temperature again dips down below zero, and then Saturday is expected to be sunny and clear with a high of 9 C. Sunday also looks sunny with a high of 8 C. Looking ahead to next week,
  
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• City of Victoria wants province to change assessments on short-term rental condos

  08-03-2019 15:00
  
  Change proposed by city council would see such units assessed as commercial, not residential, for tax purposes
  
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• Highway 1 reopened in Burnaby following crash involving flipped semi-truck

  08-03-2019 07:06 via vancouversun.com
  Highway 1 has been reopened in Burnaby following an earlier crash that flipped a semi-truck onto its side.
  Earlier in the day, traffic heading westbound on the Trans Canada Highway through Burnaby was halted after the semi-truck flipped at a turn just east of Willingdon Avenue.
  The truck flipped onto its side and was blocking three westbound lanes on the highway. Traffic was later allowed through once an HOV lane was cleared.
  Big truck flipped over on highway 1 westbound, about 100m west of Doug
  
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• Witnesses sought after woman hospitalized in assault with a weapon at UBC

  08-03-2019 07:05 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties at UBC are seeking witnesses to a violent incident at the university on Thursday afternoon that sent a woman to hospital with serious injuries.
  According to University RCMP, officers responded to a report of an assault with a weapon in the university’s Forest Sciences Centre shortly after 4 p.m.
  There, officers discovered the victim, who told police she was injured when she tried to break up a fight between a man and woman, and was assaulted by the man in the basement of the build
  
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• China calls US-North Korea summit an 'important step' - Vancouver Sun

  08-03-2019 04:18
  China calls US-North Korea summit an 'important step'  Vancouver SunBEIJING — The U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam last week was an “important step” toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, China's foreign ...
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Hammering out rules for perks like booze, gifts, prime parking stalls

  08-03-2019 03:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Embarrassed by the spending scandal at the B.C. legislature, the three main parties are working with staff to slam the door, albeit belatedly, on the openings for abuse.
  Many items on the to-do list, discussed this week during a meeting of the legislative assembly management committee (LAMC), were prompted by the well-documented outrages in recent reports from Speaker Darryl Plecas.
  They range from long overdue changes that are sure to be readily accepted to some unexpected item
  
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• Sarah McLachlan: A performer since her teens, singer-songwriter feels she's blossoming in her 50s

  08-03-2019 03:08 via vancouversun.com
  “I just turned 51 and I’ve never been happier, felt more fulfilled, been more in my self, and liking myself and being happy and content with what I’ve done and where I’m going. There’s a solid comfort in that,” says musician Sarah McLachlan.
  In some traditional mythological systems, there are three stages of life for women: maiden, mother, crone. In the year 2019, it’s clear there should probably be another stage between mother and crone, but what to cal
  
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• From brewing to building a future: Marking International Women's Day

  08-03-2019 03:07 via vancouversun.com
  It’s not a memory Nancy More relishes.
  For four decades she has been a brewmaster, the first woman accepted as a head brewmaster in the modern era, she said, and some of her early colleagues in the male-dominated beer industry had some trouble adjusting.
  “The guys were taught that if a woman went into the fermentation cellar where the yeast was and she had her period, the yeast would quit fermenting,” More said. “I was told by people I was a heretic if I expected men to w
  
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• Laird Cronk: Men need to be 'more than a bystander' in standing up for women's rights

  08-03-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  March 8 is International Women’s Day and while we celebrate women’s achievements on this day, I urge men to join me in thinking about how our actions, individually and collectively, and the traditional power we’ve held in society affect women.
  I’m fortunate to have an exceptional work partner, B.C. Federation of Labour secretary-treasurer Sussanne Skidmore, with whom I’ve had many valuable and insightful conversations about finding ways to achieve a greater gender b
  
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• Building ferry vessels in the province would mean higher fares: B.C. Ferries CEO

  08-03-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries would prefer to build its vessels locally, but in order to keep fares affordable it has little choice but to use foreign shipyards, according to chief executive Mark Collins.
  During a 35-minute address to the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, in which Collins laid out how the corporation tries to weave its values into its day-to-day operations, he emphasized that affordability governs much of what they do.
  “In the next six years, we will probably place contracts for $1 bil
  
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• Fraser Health discharged patients to Chilliwack homeless shelter: Mayor

  08-03-2019 02:45 via vancouversun.com
  The exterior of Surrey Memorial Hospital.
  Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove is demanding answers from the Fraser Health Authority after a 76-year-old woman with mobility issues and severe incontinence was discharged from Surrey Memorial Hospital and sent by taxi to the Chilliwack Salvation Army shelter early last month.
  The woman, who is originally from Surrey, arrived at the women’s shelter with a “walker and some significant health concerns, including incontinence,” said the mayor.
  
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• An epic cereal pop-up is coming to North Vancouver this month - Daily Hive

  08-03-2019 01:58
  An epic cereal pop-up is coming to North Vancouver this month  Daily HiveVancouver's resident cereal pop-up, Saturday Morning's Cereal is returning for a St. Patrick's Day event on March 17 from 11 am to 3 pm.
  
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• Real-life inspirations for hit musical Come From Away to reunite in Vancouver

  08-03-2019 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  An American man will reunite in Vancouver this week with the Canadian family that hosted him when his plane was re-directed to Newfoundland on the morning of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
  Entrepreneur Kevin Tuerff’s plane was one of 38 sent to Gander, N.L. on Sept. 11, 2001, prompting school administrator Mac Moss to turn the College of North Atlantic’s Gander campus into a makeshift refugee shelter for the redirected travellers. Moss’ wife Nellie oversaw the collection of
  
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• Richmond farmer's home construction stymied by new regulations

  08-03-2019 01:29 via vancouversun.com
  Jag Johal’s plan to build a home where he could live with his extended family on their Richmond farm has been put on hold indefinitely thanks to new provincial regulations.
  “Now, pretty much, I’m left without a house,” he said.
  Johal, whose family owns Johal Berry Farms, applied last spring to build a 10,500-square-foot house on his parents’ eight-acre blueberry farm. The plan was for Johal, his grandparents, parents, sister and his uncle’s family to live in t
  
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• Highway 1 re-opened in Burnaby following crash involving flipped semi-truck

  08-03-2019 01:16 via vancouversun.com
  Highway 1 has been re-opened in Burnaby following an earlier crash that flipped a semi-truck onto its side.
  Earlier in the day, traffic heading westbound on Trans Canada Highway 1 through Burnaby was halted after the semi-truck flipped at a turn just east of Willingdon Avenue.
  The truck flipped over onto its side and was blocking three westbound lanes on the highway. Traffic was later allowed through once an HOV lane was cleared.
  Big truck flipped over on highway 1 westbound, about 100m west of
  
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• B.C. didn't meet rights of involuntarily detained mentally ill patients: report

  08-03-2019 01:11 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government failed to meet the legal rights of mentally ill patients who were involuntarily detained in psychiatric facilities during a one-month review, sometimes without admission forms being completed, a new report says.
  Jay Chalke, the province’s ombudsperson, said Thursday he was “taken aback” by the findings from an investigation into whether legal documentation was being obtained to ensure proper procedures are followed under the Ment
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Krog slams former colleagues on legal aid

  08-03-2019 01:08 via vancouversun.com
  The man who should have been attorney-general, former NDP justice expert-turned-mayor of Nanaimo Leonard Krog shakes his head in dismay.
  “I had expected when we became government that we would be doing the right thing and we haven’t,” lamented Krog, the party’s caucus chair until he resigned in 2018.
  “This government, my government, is really no different than the former government. Legal aid rates should be increased.”
  The continuing legal-aid crisis that has
  
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• Three Eric Hamber Grade 12 students suspended over online list

  08-03-2019 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  The students from Eric Hamber Secondary School involved in an online bullying list should be expelled from the school, says the sister of one of the students identified.
  Natasha Free Roussopoulos said she was told that three Grade 12 students have been suspended for their role in publishing a list identifying 100 fellow Grade 12 students as homosexual. They were named using an offensive term for gay, she said.
  She said the list was published privately online on Google Docs.
  Roussopoulos said her
  
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• Spring-time festival features 40000 cherry blossom trees in Metro Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  08-03-2019 01:00
  Spring-time festival features 40000 cherry blossom trees in Metro Vancouver  North Delta ReporterIn less than a month, Vancouver will be bursting with pockets of pink when its 43,000 cherry trees blossom their delicate buds, celebrating the arrival of spring.
  
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• Response to civil forfeiture case claims abuse by B.C. attorney-general, law enforcement agencies

  08-03-2019 00:20 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man facing a forfeiture case for millions of dollars claims the case against him is a result of the “improper and abusive” direction of B.C.’s Attorney-General David Eby.
  Also named as acting improperly are law enforcement agencies and the province’s civil forfeiture office, according to Hoy Pang Chan’s response to the civil forfeiture suit filed in B.C. Supreme Court.
  Chan, also known as Stephen Hai Peng Chen, was identified in 2015 by the RCMP’s E-Pir
  
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