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• TransLink hopes to speed up transit service delivery

  15-03-2019 23:17 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is looking at whether it can deliver some of the services promised in the third phase of a 10-year transit plan sooner than expected.
  The regional transit authority is hoping that doing so will help address overcrowding on the system.
  “We’ve recognized that there are huge demands on our transit service here in Metro,” said New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Coté, who chairs the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation. “We’re seeing record rider
  
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• Battles of the best happen too early for some under NHL playoff format

  15-03-2019 23:13 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  If you’re one of those hockey fans who aren’t crazy about the NHL’s playoff format, you’re not the only one.More than one general manager and many players don’t like it because it can work against strong teams when there happens to be a cluster of good ones in the same division. Yet that doesn’t mean it isn’t working.
  The playoff structure that draws complaints from some corners is working the way alignment should work; fuelling ticket
  
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• Alleged B.C. money launderer challenging order to hand over bank records

  15-03-2019 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  One of the alleged operators of a massive Lower Mainland money-laundering scheme has launched a federal court challenge to quash a Canada Revenue Agency order for six banks to produce financial information.
  Caixuan Qin initiated the court action in relation to an investigation into potential criminal tax offences committed by herself and others linked to the underground bank Silver International in Richmond, according to the Federal Court of Canada filing. The Silver International operation alle
  
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• Trial of Seattle man in 1987 killings of Victoria-area couple to begin in June

  15-03-2019 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  The jury trial for a Seattle-area man charged with the aggravated first-degree murders of a young Saanich couple more than 30 years ago is scheduled to begin June 3.
  William Earl Talbott ll was arrested in May 2018 and charged with murder in the deaths of 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and 20-year-old Jay Cook, who were killed in November 1987. He has pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
  On Thursday afternoon, Talbott, a trucker in his mid-50s, appeared before trial judge Linda Krese in Snohomish
  
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• Vancouver mosque hosts vigil for victims of Christchurch terror attack

  15-03-2019 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  The Islamic Society of British Columbia has condemned the terrorist attack at two New Zealand mosques that left 49 people dead on Friday.
  The society is “outraged, saddened and sickened by the terrorist hate crime” at the mosques, the society said in a statement. “We unequivocally condemn this despicable and cowardly act.”
  In Vancouver, the Coalition Against Bigotry will hold a prayer vigil at the Al Masjid Al Jamia Mosque, on West 8th,  in solidarity with mosqu
  
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• Vancouver police want to speak with women who had contact with high-risk offender

  15-03-2019 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Police are asking women to come forward who may have had contact with a high-risk offender who was arrested Friday for violating conditions of his release.
  Trevor Leonard Smith, 45, who has convictions for sexual assault, possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, assault causing bodily harm, and failure to comply with a recognizance, moved to Vancouver in November 2017 after completing his sentence.
  At the time, Vancouver police issued a warning that Smith posed a h
  
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• College scandal: David Sidoo pleads not guilty during Boston court appearance

  15-03-2019 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  David Sidoo pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit fraud during a court appearance Friday in Boston.
  Sidoo was arrested last week in California in connection with what the U.S. Department of Justice called a “nationwide college admissions scam.” The Vancouver businessman, philanthropist and former CFL player was accused of paying $200,000 to have someone take U.S. college entrance exams for his two sons in 2011 and 2012.
  Sidoo was charged alongside dozens of othe
  
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• Wild salmon restoration fund unveiled by B.C., federal governments

  15-03-2019 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The federal and B.C. governments announced a five-year partnership program today to protect wild salmon habitat and restore stocks.
  Federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Premier John Horgan say the two governments will provide $142.8 million towards the program, with the federal government spending $100 million of the total amount.
  The B.C. Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund will be open to conservation, Indigenous and research groups to focus on projects aimed a
  
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• Islamic Society of B.C. condemns shooting at New Zealand mosques

  15-03-2019 20:22 via vancouversun.com
  The Islamic Society of British Columbia has condemned the terror attack at two New Zealand mosques that left 49 people dead Friday and will say a special prayer for the victims.
  The society is “outraged, saddened and sickened by the terrorist hate crime” at the mosques, the society said, in a statement Friday.
  “We unequivocally condemn this despicable and cowardly act.”
  Forty-nine people were killed and scores more injured after a gunman opened fire during prayers at a mo
  
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• North Carolina county declares itself 'gun sanctuary' - Vancouver Sun

  15-03-2019 20:12
  North Carolina county declares itself 'gun sanctuary'  Vancouver SunMURPHY, N.C. — Officials in North Carolina's westernmost county have voted to declare themselves a “gun sanctuary county.”The Cherokee Scout reports the ...
  
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• Jody Wilson-Raybould tells constituents she's sticking with Liberals for 2019 vote

  15-03-2019 20:05 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Jody Wilson-Raybould is telling her Vancouver constituents she intends to run for re-election this fall as a Liberal.
  The former justice minister and attorney general quit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet last month and has testified that he and his staff inappropriately pressured her to help engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid a criminal trial on corruption charges.
  In an open letter posted to her website on Friday, she says important questions haven’t been answ
  
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• Reconnecting The Dots! A Long Lost Friend Found Thanks To InTraining!

  15-03-2019 19:35 via vancouversun.com
  We are just over halfway through the Vancouver Sun Run InTraining and I’ve been struggling with what to write. Nothing about my weekly numbers on their own are going to motivate you to join the InTraining program but let me tell you, that one small choice on your part can change your life. No matter how big or how small, one decision, direction or conversation can change your life. You may not realize it but taking that step to sign up for the InTraining can be the gift that keeps giving!
  
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• Expensive apartment parking stalls are significantly underused: Metro Vancouver study

  15-03-2019 19:31
  
  Time to rethink parking supply – especially in buildings near transit, recommends report
  
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• The media message is the message as SHINY tackles beauty standards

  15-03-2019 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  SHINY
  Part of Vancouver International Dance Festival
  When: March 20-23, 5 p.m.
  Where: KW Production Studio
  Tickets and info: From $15, vidf.ca/ticketsChoreographer Kelly McInnes has stood up to the thing that caused her pain by turning it into art.
  Her new work SHINY is a multidisciplinary performance piece that takes to task the impossible beauty standards that the mainstream media bombards girls and women with every second of every day.
  Maggie McGhee rehearses a scene from SHINY.
  The
  
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• Fab 5: Now hair us out

  15-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  We saw scrunchies start to resurface last year after nearly two decades of dormancy, and we’re about to reach peak hair accessory craze. It was only a matter of time! Whether you go arty and conceptual or ‘90s baby and cute, there’s a barrette, headband, or hair tie for you. Rebecca Tay presents five to try right now.
  LOGO MANIA CONTINUES
  If you buy only one logo piece this season (a challenge in itself), consider making it this Gucci crystal-embellished barrette. Yes, it&rsquo
  
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• Author returns with the start of new series set in 1930s Singapore

  15-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Singapore-based author Ovidia Yu is back with her ninth novel, The Frangipani Tree Mystery. The new work from the award-winning author and prolific playwright (she has penned 30) is the start of a new series and is set in 1930s Singapore.
  Yu will be talking part in the Left Coast Crime convention’s humour panel on March 30 in Vancouver. The conventions runs March 28-31.
  We tracked down Yu before her Vancouver appearance to ask some questions about her new book and writing in general:
  Q: Wh
  
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• Oceanfront 'James Bond-style' house with jet skis relisted at $3M off (PHOTOS)

  15-03-2019 18:50
  
  Ultra-luxe West Vancouver home has waterfront infinity pool and three fire pits
  
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• Vancouver Island's soccer team takes shape in Tofino - North Island Gazette

  15-03-2019 18:20
  Vancouver Island's soccer team takes shape in Tofino  North Island GazetteWith the sun on their backs and sand in their toes, Vancouver Island's newly minted professional soccer team Pacific FC opened 2019 pre-season with a special ...
  
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• B.C. students join global school walkout for climate action

  15-03-2019 17:36 via vancouversun.com
  Several student-led climate change rallies are being held around B.C. Friday, as part of a global school walkout inspired by Swedish student Greta Thunberg.
  High school and university students from around Metro Vancouver will gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 1 p.m., while in Victoria a similar rally is being held at noon at the legislature.
  The students join thousands of schoolchildren around the world, who are calling on leaders to take tougher action on climate change.
  Thunberg, 16, who
  
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• Investigation: Dozens of money transfer/exchange businesses operating out of Metro Vancouver condos, houses

  15-03-2019 17:03 via vancouversun.com
  Lower Mainland property developer Bene Group has a company registered with the federal government that allows it to engage in foreign exchange dealing and money transferring.
  Called the Bene Financial Group Ltd., its office is listed as located in a strip mall on No. 3 Road in Richmond. The sole director of Bene Financial is Ming Nan Li, the head of the Bene Group, according to B.C.’s corporate registry.
  But the information is not correct.
  Ming Nan Li was never the owner of the Bene Financ
  
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• Movie review: Movie Minute — Gloria Bell

  15-03-2019 16:36 via vancouversun.com
  Julianne Moore plays a divorcee who loves to dance and who wants to find love and a life beyond her job and her kids. Find out if Moore manages to deliver the goods in this remake of Sebastián Lelio‘s earlier film Gloria in this week’s Movie Minute with Postmedia News film critic Dana Gee and Arts and Life editor Aleesha Harris.
  
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• Saskatchewan travel guide: 5 places to include on your itinerary

  15-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The endless wheat fields and bright yellow canola or purple flax blooms are the common images of Saskatchewan. It is, after all, the largest crop producing province in Canada. But beyond the fields lies the boreal forest and 100,000 lakes, the rolling landscape of Cypress Hills, and one lake in which you can never sink. Here are five places that will change your mind about the province that will forever be known as Canada’s bread basket, but is so much more.
  1. Lac La Ronge/Missinipe
  Long
  
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• North Macedonia: 16 jailed for parliament attack - Vancouver Sun

  15-03-2019 15:03
  North Macedonia: 16 jailed for parliament attack  Vancouver SunA court in North Macedonia on Friday sentenced 16 people, including a former interior minister, from 7 to 18 years in prison for their role in a mob invasion of ...
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Finding honesty in referendums

  15-03-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Referendums are strange instruments in a democracy. They present opportunities for the public to make a decision on a matter of great importance. In some cases, they are fundamental to our system of governance. In others, an issue is so red hot, government simply doesn’t want to own tit.
  How then do voters make an informed decision? Where do you they get information that is detailed yet comprehensible? Who can they trust?
  Take electoral reform in B.C. for example. In 2018, it was a me
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny and warm, with a few clouds

  15-03-2019 14:47 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Friday, March 15. It looks like the weather is warming up just in time for the weekend. Friday’s forecast is a mix of sun and cloud, with a high of 11 C, according to Environment Canada. On Saturday, the region should see a similar weather pattern, with partly cloudy skies and a high of 11 C, and 14 C inland. Then, the mercury begins to climb up into the teens. Expect sunshine and a high of 13 C, and 17 C inland, on Sunday. The sunny weather will likely continue
  
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• Are foreign bargain hunters fuelling West Vancouver luxury real estate recovery?

  15-03-2019 14:02
  
  China-based realty portal, local agents say rush of foreign buyers looking to snap up a deal could mean this sub-market has already hit bottom
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Kamloops facing deadly gang violence

  15-03-2019 10:25 via vancouversun.com
  Kamloops had three fatal shootings in the first six weeks of 2019 – a record for the small hub city. Contributing to the problem are bigger city gangs that have some control over the local Kamloops drug trade.
  Here’s my feature:Kamloops hit with unprecedented level of gang violenceKIM BOLAN
  Updated: March 14, 2019KAMLOOPS — Sonia Dhaliwal was working at the front desk of the Super 8 Motel on Jan. 23 when someone told her a man was lying in the parking lot outside.
  She hadn&rsqu
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Kamloops facing unprecedented gang violence

  15-03-2019 09:15 via vancouversun.com
  Kamloops had three fatal shootings in the first six weeks of 2019 – a record for the small hub city. Contributing to the problem are bigger city gangs that have some control over the local Kamloops drug trade.
  Here’s my feature:Kamloops hit with unprecedented level of gang violenceKIM BOLAN
  Updated: March 14, 2019KAMLOOPS — Sonia Dhaliwal was working at the front desk of the Super 8 Motel on Jan. 23 when someone told her a man was lying in the parking lot outside.
  She hadn&rsqu
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Man linked to Brothers Keepers shot at training centre

  15-03-2019 08:43 via vancouversun.com
  Just months after his brother Harb survived a Richmond shooting, Meninder Dhaliwal was wounded by gunfire outside a longshore workers training centre on Mitchell Island March 23.
  Both men, originally from Abbotsford, are linked to the Brothers Keepers gang, which is currently in conflict across Metro Vancouver with former allies-turned rivals in the Kang-Red Scorpion group.
  Richmond RCMP was called to the B.C. Maritime Employers Association about 9 a.m. Tuesday morning after reports that a man h
  
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• REAL SCOOP: James Vidal gunned down in Chilliwack

  15-03-2019 07:59 via vancouversun.com
  Just getting back to the blog after being up in Kamloops earlier this week to research a story on the gang violence that has plagued the community this year. So I have yet to post on the murder of James Vidal. He is of course the brother of Curtis Vidal and closely associated to Clayton Eheler and the Red Scorpion/Independent Soldiers faction in the now-years long drug war.
  James, 33, was gunned down about 6:30 a.m. Sunday. I hope to write more about his slaying in the coming days.
  Here’s
  
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• Book returned to Vancouver Island library 42 years overdue - North Island Gazette

  15-03-2019 03:25
  Book returned to Vancouver Island library 42 years overdue  North Island GazetteOn Monday, a book was returned to the Courtenay library. This is pretty normal for the branch, except that the book in question was 42 years overdue.
  
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• Vancouver punk legend Zippy Pinhead dies at 57

  15-03-2019 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  There were some great characters in Vancouver’s early punk scene. But there was no one quite like Zippy Pinhead, the friendliest punk rocker you could ever hope to meet.
  “I googled ‘happy-go-lucky’ and there was a picture of Zippy,” said Joe Keithley of DOA. “He had a lot of joy for life. He liked to party and meet with his friends, and he was a great storyteller. He loved an audience, and he would make you an audience with his stories, whether you wanted to b
  
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• David Sidoo in 'good state of mind' ahead of U.S. federal court appearance, lawyer says

  15-03-2019 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  David Sidoo was in a “good state of mind” ahead of his scheduled appearance Friday in U.S. federal court, his lawyer told Postmedia, adding the Vancouver businessman and former CFL player hopes to be able to return to his family in Canada soon.
  Sidoo, arrested last week in California in connection with what the U.S. Department of Justice called a “nationwide college admissions scam,” faces a felony charge which, if he’s convicted, could potentially result in jail ti
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: B.C. taxpayers could get drilled for huge costs to clean up orphan wells

  15-03-2019 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When Calgary-based Terra Energy Corporation shut down three years ago, the company left behind 175 abandoned gas wells in B.C. with unfunded restoration costs in the tens of millions of dollars.
  Stuck with the bill was the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, via its orphan wells fund. The fund was established to cover for companies that go bankrupt or just walk away from their cleanup obligations.
  Full restoration costs for Terra Energy’s 175 wells were estimated at $55 million.
  
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• Unclear how imposter allegedly wrote B.C. exam for David Sidoo's son

  15-03-2019 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  Dylan, left, and Jordan Sidoo at home in December 2017.
  Somehow, former U.S. college tennis player Mark Riddell was allegedly able to walk into a Vancouver school on June 9, 2012, sit down and write a provincial exam posing as teenager Dylan Sidoo.
  But which school allowed Riddell, who was 29 or 30 at the time, to take the exam is a mystery. How an adult was able to slip past exam supervisors and why his presence didn’t raise any alarms is, for now, unknown.
  Ultimately, Riddell, now 36, fo
  
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• Clive Leeman: It's the Age of the Elder in U.S. presidential politics

  15-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic candidate for U.S. president in 2020, is 77 — almost two years younger than Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who is second in line to succeed to the U.S. presidency.
  And Sanders is younger than three other American politicians who are qualified to be president, two of whom are considering a run for the office — former vice-president Joe Biden and former California governor Jerry Brown.
  Biden, 78, is a year older
  
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• 30 dead, butchered geese found in Pitt Meadows swamp

  15-03-2019 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  Conservation officers in Pitt Meadows are searching for suspects after 30 dead geese were discovered in a swamp with their breast meat removed.
  British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service says the carcasses were found near a boat launch at Pitt Lake.
  Officer Marc Plamondon says hunters are allowed to shoot the birds during open hunting season, but dumping the carcasses is not permitted.
  He says a month-long open season wrapped up on Sunday and the possession limit for geese is 30.
  Remo
  
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• B.C. Mountie charged with assault in 2013 stabbing at Edmonton drive-thru

  15-03-2019 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Mountie has been charged with assault in relation to a stabbing at outside an Edmonton fast-food restaurant six years ago.
  The RCMP said in a statement that the junior constable is currently posted to the detachment in Langley, and the incident dates back to before he joined the RCMP.
  The Edmonton Police Service said two victims sustained serious injuries, one of them “life-altering,” in a fight that broke out after a man allegedly approached a car waiting at a McDonald’
  
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• Richmond farm house families receive reprieve

  15-03-2019 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  A handful of Richmond farm owners who had their building permits rejected last month due to new provincial regulations may now be allowed to proceed with construction.
  One of those caught in limbo as a result of the legislative change was blueberry farmer Jag Johal.
  Johal applied last spring to build a 10,500-square-foot house on his parents’ eight-acre property in Richmond, so that he, his grandparents, his parents, sister and his uncle’s family could live together.
  He received noti
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Victims of children's ministry scandal step forward

  15-03-2019 00:46 via vancouversun.com
  The civil cases are piling up like cordwood against the B.C. Ministry of Children and Family Development over an Okanagan social worker’s misconduct.
  In a scandal that could involve as many as 90 vulnerable youths and hundreds of thousands of dollars, four new suits were filed alleging the ministry was aware of previous misconduct by Robert Riley Saunders, that his supervisors failed to detect his misdeeds in a timely fashion, and that the ministry maintained inadequate safeguards.
  The act
  
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• Kamloops hit with unprecedented level of gang violence

  15-03-2019 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Sonia Dhaliwal was working at the front desk of the Super 8 Motel on Jan. 23 when someone told her a man was lying in the parking lot outside.
  Cody Mathieu was found shot dead in the parking lot of the Super 8 Motel in Valleyview.
  She hadn’t seen him or heard any gunfire. She thought maybe the person, who was not a hotel guest, had fallen ill or was drunk.
  But Cody Marcel Mathieu, a 31-year-old Kamloops man well-known to police, had been shot dead.
  “Police came and j
  
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• Lori Loughlin dropped from Hallmark, production halted on several Vancouver-filmed projects

  15-03-2019 00:41 via vancouversun.com
  One day after receiving the go-ahead to return to Vancouver and resume filming her various Hallmark Channel projects, Lori Loughlin has been dumped by the company.
  Hallmark announced Thursday that it was cutting ties with the actress, a longtime star of the network’s Christmas movies, as well as its Garage Sale Mysteries TV movie franchise, and popular drama series When Calls the Heart. Production on all of Loughlin’s Hallmark projects, which are filmed in Vancouver, has been stopped
  
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• Sikh and Hindu refugees fleeing Afghan persecution arrive in Surrey

  15-03-2019 00:37 via vancouversun.com
  On the steps of the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Tirath Singh Khalsa, 11, and his sister, Jasmeet Kaur, 8, waved small Canadian flags and smiled as dozens of members of Surrey’s Sikh community surrounded them.
  The children, along with siblings Zorawer, 6, Fathe, 3, and parents Havinder Kaur Khalsa, 30, and Shamsheer Singh Khalsa, 40, had just arrived from India, part of a group of Afghan-Sikh refugees privately sponsored by the local community.
  Their family had been part of the very smal
  
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• Vancouver to host major North American conference on public transit this year - Daily Hive

  15-03-2019 00:34
  Vancouver to host major North American conference on public transit this year  Daily HivePublic transit planners and industry experts from around the world will be descending on downtown Vancouver this year for the 'Rail~Volution' conference.
  
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• One operator fined $20K for violating Vancouver’s short-term rental regulations

  15-03-2019 00:16
  
  Commercial operator had 35 listings in two properties.
  
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• Theatre review: The Great War from an explosive Aboriginal perspective

  15-03-2019 00:10 via vancouversun.com
  Redpatch
  When: To Mar. 31
  Where: BMO Theatre Centre
  Tickets & Info: From $29 at artsclub.comOne of the most common tropes of Canadian history is the idea that Canada “came of age” amid the mud and blood of Ypres, Vimy Ridge and other iconic First World War battlefields. In this telling, the success of Canadian fighters was a rite of passage that enabled the young country to achieve a kind of manhood independent of Mother Britain.
  The title of Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver&r
  
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• Belcarra Regional Park cabin residents get reprieve from eviction

  15-03-2019 00:04 via vancouversun.com
  Residents of six cabins in Belcarra Regional Park who were set to be evicted next month have received a temporary reprieve.
  Last March, Metro Vancouver served notice that it was ending a tenancy agreement with the Belcarra Preservation Society, so that it can open up the area for public use, repurpose six cabins as “interpretive landscape displays” and preserve historic Bole House. The use of a seventh cabin remains to be determined.
  The regional district is phasing out residences in
  
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