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• B.C. courier company secretly tests driverless vehicle in Metro Vancouver

  14-03-2019 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. courier company has been secretly testing driverless cars on the roads of Metro Vancouver.
  Richmond-based Novex Delivery Solutions announced Wednesday that they have been quietly experimenting with a Tesla Model 3, purchased last year by the company with an eye toward deploying the autonomous vehicle for its same-day deliveries in the future, as well as continuing to reduce its environmental impact.
  “Autonomous cars are the future, and we want to make sure when they’re here, w
  
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• North America's trail-map legend reflects on storied 30-year career - Vancouver Is Awesome

  14-03-2019 23:35
  North America's trail-map legend reflects on storied 30-year career  Vancouver Is AwesomeIf you fold open a Whistler Blackcomb trail map, you'll see his name, written amid the forest under the base of the Crystal Chair: James Niehues.
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP release video of slick mail thieves in action - CBC.ca

  14-03-2019 23:12
  North Vancouver RCMP release video of slick mail thieves in action  CBC.caNorth Vancouver RCMP have released a video of a team of practised mail thieves who made quick work of mailboxes in the lobby at 124 West 1st Street early in ...
  
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• Newest SeaBus is dubbed the Burrard Chinook

  14-03-2019 21:41 via vancouversun.com
  The latest addition to the SeaBus fleet has been christened the Burrard Chinook, TransLink announced Thursday.
  The official naming ceremony took place in January at the Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands, where the vessel was built.
  Since the SeaBus operates in the traditional territory of the Musqueam Indian Band and Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, TransLink said the word Chinook has been translated into the traditional language of the Musqueam, the Tsleil-Waututh and the Squamish. The tra
  
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• Douglas Todd: Who cares about 'winning' the immigration debate?

  14-03-2019 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  Politicians and corporations that want more immigrants in Canada are mounting marketing campaigns to “win the immigration conversation.”
  At least the CEOs, think tanks and civil servants are upfront about aiming to promote higher immigration levels, which aligns them with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals.
  Where, however, does this leave all the Canadians in the mushy middle? That’s where most Canadians are at, according to immigration department officials and othe
  
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• Vancouver pleased with short-term rental rules, but warns 'egregious' operators - North Shore News

  14-03-2019 21:35
  Vancouver pleased with short-term rental rules, but warns 'egregious' operators  North Shore NewsVancouver has seen an "incredibly high" number of property owners getting business licences for short-term rentals but there remain a number of people who ...
  
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• Mounting orphan B.C. oil, gas wells pose environmental, financial risks: auditor

  14-03-2019 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s auditor general says there are almost 7,500 inactive oil and gas wells in the province that have not been properly decommissioned.
  Carol Bellringer says in a report that contamination from oil and gas activity can affect human health, ecosystems, water and air quality and timely restoration of non-operating well sites reduces environmental risk and financial liability.
  Bellringer’s audit says the province’s energy regulator the B.C. Oil and G
  
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• Indigenous guardians sound alarm about impact of climate change

  14-03-2019 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Growing up in a small, remote First Nations community in northwestern British Columbia, Jarett Quock found he faced racism and stereotypes from non-Indigenous people whenever he left the reserve.
  The treatment took a toll on him, damaging his pride in his Tahltan Nation roots. It was only after he began work as an Indigenous guardian — monitoring the effects of climate change on his territory — that he recovered his confidence.
  “Being a guardian has helped me so much on a perso
  
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• David Sidoo steps down as president of East West Petroleum in wake of college scandal

  14-03-2019 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver businessman David Sidoo has stepped down as president from East West Petroleum in the wake of the U.S. college scandal.
  Sidoo was charged this week with conspiracy to commit fraud by hiring people to cheat on college entrance exams in the U.S. He is accused of paying $200,000 to have someone take the SATs for his two sons in 2011 and 2012.
  In a statement on its website Thursday, East West Petroleum says Sidoo is no longer president and CEO.
  “Mr. Sidoo has been named in
  
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• Alleged North Vancouver mail thieves caught on camera - Global News

  14-03-2019 20:39
  Alleged North Vancouver mail thieves caught on camera  Global NewsNorth Vancouver RCMP are investigating after a group of alleged thieves were caught on camera breaking into a panel of mailboxes in an apartment complex.
  
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• Alleged North Vancouver mail thieves caught on camera

  14-03-2019 20:39 via globalnews.ca
  "You can tell from the video that they've done this before," said police.
  
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• Federal government can’t solve housing affordability with policy measures: survey

  14-03-2019 19:48
  
  Ahead of next week’s federal budget, what can be done to help Canadians into homeownership?
  
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• Classical music: VSO's Otto Tausk’s dares to tackle Mozart trilogy

  14-03-2019 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  Tausk Conducts Mozart
  When: March 22 and 23, 8 p.m.
  Where: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
  Tickets and info: From $19.50 at vancouversymphony.caOne of the potentially most exciting Vancouver Symphony Orchestra projects of this season is a performance of Mozart’s last three symphonies conducted by Otto Tausk, the new VSO music director. It’s an unusual idea, innovative in significant ways.
  First, it breaks the tried-and-true (or merely tired?) concert model of opener/concer
  
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• Mountie arrested in series of indecent acts at Vancouver private school

  14-03-2019 19:19 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police have arrested a member of the RCMP in connection with a series of indecent acts near a private school for girls on Vancouver’s West Side.
  VPD spokesman Sgt. Jason Robillard says investigators are not releasing much information at this time about the alleged incidents at York House because charges have not been laid.
  “The VPD made an arrest in relation to a series of indecent acts near York House on Vancouver’s West Side,” he said, in an email Thursday.
  Th
  
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• B.C. man believed to be first Canadian to get intravenous gene therapy

  14-03-2019 19:01 via vancouversun.com
  CALGARY — A British Columbia man says he can eat his favourite foods and travel abroad without worry thanks to a clinical trial in which he was injected to treat a rare genetic disorder.
  Josh McQuillan was 12 when he was diagnosed with urea cycle disorder, a dangerous condition that causes ammonia to build up in the body.
  The 30-year-old has received experimental gene replacement therapy in the intensive care unit at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre.
  The therapy involves using modi
  
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• Road work suits Vancouver actor Sara Canning just fine

  14-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re an actor whose suitcase spends very little time tucked under a bed or stored in a closet, then you’re probably doing OK.
  Vancouver’s Sara Canning’s suitcase is one of those suitcases.
  “My dad jokes about it all the time when he calls me. He says: ‘Where are you? What’s happening with you?,’ ” said Canning who has been a working actor for over a decade. “It is one of the coolest things about this job, travelling. I love shootin
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP search for crowbar-wielding masked mail thieves

  14-03-2019 18:42 via vancouversun.com
  North Vancouver RCMP are asking the public for help in identify three masked men who were caught on video breaking into a panel of mailboxes at a condominium building during the early morning of Feb. 17.
  The mailboxes in the 13-storey Q building at 124 West 1st Street were forced open with a crowbar around 4:45 a.m.
  Police say the masked bandits, who were all dressed in black and wearing gloves, fled the scene in a silver SUV.“You can tell from the video that they’ve done this before
  
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• Suspect arrested after indecent acts at Vancouver all-girls private school - North Delta Reporter

  14-03-2019 17:52
  Suspect arrested after indecent acts at Vancouver all-girls private school  North Delta ReporterMeanwhile, RCMP say they are investigating an internal code of conduct breach by one of its officers.
  
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• 800-year-old Vancouver Island log ready for United Nations project - North Island Gazette

  14-03-2019 16:45
  800-year-old Vancouver Island log ready for United Nations project  North Island GazetteLanguage Revitalization Pole will be publicly carved, then delivered to the University of Victoria.
  
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• Concert Announcement: The Black Keys play Vancouver in November

  14-03-2019 16:34 via vancouversun.com
  The Black Keys will bring their Let’s Rock Tour to Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Nov. 24.
  The Black Keys play Rogers Arena on Nov. 24.
  The American two-piece rock band — singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach  and drummer Patrick Carney — will kick off the 31-city North American circuit on Sept. 23 in Denver. The band also headlines the Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas on, Sept. 21.
  The Vancouver stop, which also features Portland band Modest Mouse and indie rockers Shan
  
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• Today we remember Captain Harvey McKay who succumbed to job related cancer on this day in 2003 after a long and courageous fight.pic.twitter.com/y0EkP2SJMu

  14-03-2019 16:32 via twitter.com
  Today we remember Captain Harvey McKay who succumbed to job related cancer on this day in 2003 after a long and courageous fight.pic.twitter.com/y0EkP2SJMu
  
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• Hundreds of tiny tremors recorded between Victoria and Seattle

  14-03-2019 16:30 via vancouversun.com
  It’s not the type of tweet you want to read just before bedtime.
  “Several hundred tiny tremors (not felt) between Victoria and Seattle in the past 24 hours,” Earthquake guy posted Tuesday night. “Possibly the start of an early ETS? Stay tuned.”
  Earthquake guy, better known as Natural Resources Canada seismologist John Cassidy, said it will take a few days to see if the cluster of 200 to 300 tiny tremors is an ETS, a process known as episodic tremor and slip, or a li
  
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• In The House podcast: B.C. NDP shaky on education file in Vancouver, Surrey

  14-03-2019 16:17 via vancouversun.com
  This week on In The House, Mike Smyth and Rob Shaw discuss the latest in the SNC-Lavalin affair, as well as challenges facing Education Minister Rob Fleming on Surrey school portables and Vancouver school closures, as well as the future of the NDP minority government now that it has survived confidence votes on the throne speech and budget.
  
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• Arrest made in series of indecent acts at Vancouver private school

  14-03-2019 16:12 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police have arrested a person in connection with a series of indecent acts near a private school for girls on Vancouver’s West Side.
  VPD spokesman Sgt. Jason Robillard says investigators are not releasing much information at this time about the alleged incidents at York House because charges have not been laid.
  “The VPD made an arrest in relation to a series of indecent acts near York House on Vancouver’s West Side,” he said, in an email Thursday.
  The suspect wa
  
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• Okanagan wine tour: 12 new (and new-ish) wineries to visit in 2019

  14-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley never ceases to amaze. Every year, there are new restaurants, new sites and, of course, new wineries to visit.
  If you haven’t been to the valley for a few years, it may be a good time to plan a trip — especially if you enjoy fine wine. Okanagan wines have been winning major awards around the world, and there is literally something for every wine lover, from sparkling wines to whites, rosés to big reds.
  Here is a dozen new and new-ish (2
  
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• B.C.'s legal aid lawyers vote to strike

  14-03-2019 15:51 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s legal aid lawyers have voted to strike.
  The Association of Legal Aid Lawyers says 97 per cent of members who voted Wednesday night were in favour of job action, which will limit or suspend legal aid services effective April 1.
  The association says the B.C. government’s shrinking legal aid budget isn’t enough to meet the needs of vulnerable people in B.C.
  It says funding for legal aid has dropped 60 per cent since 1993, and as a result many people facing family, child-pro
  
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• Stolen golden retriever in Kelowna safely returned to overjoyed family

  14-03-2019 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — Atlas the purloined pooch is safe at home in Kelowna after being found in Penticton, more than 60 kilometres away.
  Okanagan-area RCMP had been searching for Atlas, a golden retriever, since March 9 when the 18-month-old dog was lured from its fenced yard in Kelowna’s Mission district by an unknown woman.
  The suspect ran off with the dog, prompting police to release surveillance video of the theft and appeal for help from the public.
  At the time, investigators said the theft
  
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• Spring Break 2019: 75 things to do around Metro Vancouver

  14-03-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spring Break is here again and our list of 75 events happening around Metro Vancouver is sure to keep the kids occupied. For the parents who need a break from Spring Break? We’ve included some adult-friendly happenings as well.
  READ MORE: 5 last-minute Spring Break travel deals from VancouverFAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENTS:
  Spring Break at the Vancouver AquariumDid you know that sloths can hold their pee for 156 hours? Or that male seahorses give birth to 150 babies every three months? Experience t
  
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• Real estate slowdown is main drag on B.C.’s economy: Central 1

  14-03-2019 14:00
  
  Housing starts and residential investment to decline, but strength in other areas will prevent overall recession, predicts credit union
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Cloudy, with a chance of rain

  14-03-2019 13:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Thursday, March 14. Today’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy, with a chance of showers and a high of 8 C. Overnight, there may be more rain and a low of 6 C. Then, on Friday, the region should see a bit of sunshine mixed with clouds, and a high of 12 C. Looking ahead to the weekend and early next week, the mercury is set to spike, according to Environment Canada, even hitting as high as 20 C inland on Monday. On Saturday, expect cloudy skies with a high of
  
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• Economic forecast to slow, with B.C. housing drag deeper than anticipated: Central 1

  14-03-2019 08:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver real estate watchers — from popular, but anonymous Twitter accounts to more-outspoken realtors — have been sharing snippets of real-time sales information recently that show some steep declines in prices for detached homes in more expensive neighbourhoods and also downtown condos, with some going for double-digit percentages below their assessed values.
  It’s stuff that’s outside “our standard custom sets of information or data,” said Central 1 Credit
  
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• Three suspects stealing from mailboxes in North Vancouver captured on video - Straight.com

  14-03-2019 08:00
  Three suspects stealing from mailboxes in North Vancouver captured on video  Straight.comOn February 17, three masked and gloved suspects entered a building lobby in North Vancouver.
  
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• North Vancouver ‘breakout’ burglar who hid in store ceilings found guilty - Global News

  14-03-2019 06:19
  North Vancouver ‘breakout’ burglar who hid in store ceilings found guilty  Global NewsThe man entered stores during business hours, somehow made his way into the ceiling and then hid there, sometimes for hours, until the store closed.
  
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• U.S. admissions scandal not entirely shocking, say Canadian specialists

  14-03-2019 04:16 via vancouversun.com
  The massive university admissions scam in the U.S. disturbs, but does not entirely shock, Canadian specialists in exam writing, career advancement and cheating.
  “It’s tricky. There’s the cynical side of me that says, ‘Yep, that doesn’t surprise me.’ Then there’s the other side of me that says, ‘That sucks. It’s just unfair,’” says University of B.C. geologist Brett Gilley, who takes a special interest in rooting out cheaters.
  In a
  
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• B.C. casinos could use loyalty programs to target problem gamblers

  14-03-2019 03:17 via vancouversun.com
  Artificial intelligence could be used to identify problem gamblers so casinos can withhold online ads, suggest gamblers take a break or suggest they get help before they reach a critical addiction stage, an artificial intelligence specialist predicts.
  “If someone who signed up for the loyalty program is exhibiting signs of problem gambling based on patterns identified in algorithms of problem gamblers who voluntarily self-excluded, you can cut out marketing and communications to that perso
  
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• Lori Loughlin allowed to continue filming in Vancouver after bribery indictment

  14-03-2019 03:04 via vancouversun.com
  Actress Lori Loughlin (centre) will be allowed to return to Vancouver to complete her contracted work on various Hallmark Channel projects. Pictured with her are daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli, left, and Isabella Rose Giannulli at the 2019 “An Unforgettable Evening” in Beverly Hills, Calif.
  Actress Lori Loughlin will be allowed to return to Vancouver to complete her contracted work on various Hallmark Channel projects.
  The former “Full House” star was in Vancouver Tuesda
  
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• Lori Loughlin allowed to continue filming in Vancouver after bribery indictment - The North Bay Nugget

  14-03-2019 02:56
  Lori Loughlin allowed to continue filming in Vancouver after bribery indictment  The North Bay NuggetLoughlin will be allowed to return to Vancouver to complete her contracted work on various projects after her arrest in college bribery scam.
  
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• Dan Fumano: Counting and hearing Vancouver's 'invisible people'

  14-03-2019 02:28 via vancouversun.com
  The young man, standing bent-over outside the emergency cold-weather shelter in the early morning dark, was sleeping, the street-sweeper said, and he had been in that position for a while.
  When the sleeping man was roused, gently, by Abi Bond, Vancouver’s director of homelessness services, his first reaction was to apologize. A sign in the window indicated the shelter was full.
  “I’m sorry,” said the man, who gave his name as Chase. “I shouldn’t be here.”
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Voters repeatedly said no, but politicos still pushing for electoral reform

  14-03-2019 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Despite a decisive defeat in the recent B.C. referendum, proportional representation is not dead, nor even resting.
  “We respect the result, but it doesn’t end here,” as B.C. MP Nathan Cullen, electoral reform critic for the national NDP, vowed after the 61 per cent rejection of proportional representation (PR) in his home province.
  “The desire to improve democracy in Canada remains strong,” was the post-mortem comment from Fair Vote Canada after spe
  
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• Private medical clinics get year-long reprieve as Victoria delays medicare amendment

  14-03-2019 02:04 via vancouversun.com
  Private diagnostic and surgical clinics have won another reprieve, this time from their nemesis — the provincial government, which would prefer to see them shut down.
  It means that doctors providing care to patients seeking expedited treatment at private clinics across B.C. can continue doing so for at least for another year, as long as they don’t double bill both the government and patients.
  The government has put off bringing into force a Medicare Protection Act amendment that woul
  
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• Letters, March 19: 'Opioid replacement therapy' is an oxymoron, reader says

  14-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: B.C. approach to opioid crisis means well, but is misguided.
  Letter writer Katherine Hammond is right — and not so right. It is true that one rarely reads that drug treatment and cure are goals in our current public policy. And it is helpful and appropriate to point to other jurisdictions where addiction treatment is mandatory and part of the social welfare system.
  But this failing local policy is guided entirely by power, ego and control. Some day someone might report that the provinc
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Local CBRE director breaks down 2019 property forecast

  14-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver commercial property investment appears headed for another robust year due to strong fundamentals in the office, industrial and retail markets that are fuelling record-low vacancies and never-seen-before rental rates, according to CBRE’s national 2019 market outlook.
  Norm Taylor, CBRE’s managing director in Vancouver, says local and global investors remain as hungry as ever for Vancouver’s maturing commercial property assets. Postmedia spoke with Taylor recently about
  
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• Voters repeatedly said no, but politicos pushing for electoral reform

  14-03-2019 01:53 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Despite a decisive defeat in the recent B.C. referendum, proportional representation is not dead, nor even resting.
  “We respect the result, but it doesn’t end here,” as B.C. MP Nathan Cullen, electoral reform critic for the national NDP, vowed after the 61 per cent rejection of proportional representation (PR) in his home province.
  “The desire to improve democracy in Canada remains strong,” was the post-mortem comment from Fair Vote Canada after spe
  
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• Sidoo sons grew up with advantages, made most of many opportunities

  14-03-2019 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  Buried deep in Dylan Sidoo’s Facebook site is a picture of the Hollywood sign, bright and white against the scrub of the Hollywood Hills.
  The photo, dated March 17, 2012, is captioned “I’ll c u soon.” 🙂
  Sidoo, then a senior at Vancouver’s St. George’s School, was on his way to Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
  Dylan and his younger brother, Jordan — the sons of Vancouver businessman, philanthropist and former Canadi
  
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• Vancouver film and TV worker dies near Britannia Beach

  14-03-2019 01:15 via vancouversun.com
  WorkSafeBC is investigating the death of a film and TV worker near Britannia Beach, south of Squamish.
  Andy Watson of the B.C. Coroners Service said a coroner was called to “a location near Britannia Beach” at noon on March 9 after a man from Vancouver in his mid-30s died.
  “The coroners service is in the early stages of this investigation,” said Watson, adding the RCMP and WorkSafeBC were involved.
  WorkSafeBC spokeswoman Gillian Burnett told Postmedia News that the agency
  
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• Former owner of Radio India has shooting charges stayed due to unreasonable delay

  14-03-2019 00:18 via vancouversun.com
  The former owner of a radio station who was charged in connection with a shooting outside a Surrey wedding nearly nine years ago has had those charges stayed due to an unreasonable delay.
  Maninder Singh Gill, then-owner of Radio India, was charged in August 2010 with a variety of weapons offences and aggravated assault in relation to the shooting of Harjit Atwal outside the wedding at the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple near 120th Street.
  In March 2016 B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Ball found Gill g
  
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