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• Simard guilty in Vancouver Island double murder - North Island Gazette

  18-03-2019 23:24
  Simard guilty in Vancouver Island double murder  North Island GazetteThe man accused of two counts of murder from an incident stemming from 2016 was found guilty of both counts Monday morning at B.C. Supreme Court in ...
  
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• Daphne Bramham: B.C. among the last to adopt gender-equitable budgets

  18-03-2019 22:34 via vancouversun.com
  Mitzi Dean recently took a ride on the bus along Highway 16 in northern B.C. and sat next to a mother and her child. They were taking a two-hour trip to visit Grandma.
  Until two years ago, when the provincial government began subsiding the bus that connects the communities from the Alberta border to Prince Rupert, the only way Grandma could get to see her grandchild was by hitchhiking along the route that’s become known as the Highway of Tears. At least 18 women have disappeared or been mu
  
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• Man shot in Surrey's Hawthorne Park

  18-03-2019 22:30 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP are searching for suspects after a man was shot in Hawthorne Rotary Park on Sunday.
  After responding to reports of a shooting, police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound walking in the area of 142A Street and 108th Avenue around 2:30 p.m.The man was treated for his injuries in hospital and released the same day. However, he was then taken into police custody due to outstanding warrants.
  RCMP believe the shooting resulted from an altercation between two groups.
  “Police ar
  
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• Safety board investigates after two ships collide in Vancouver Harbour

  18-03-2019 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  The Transportation Safety Board has sent a team of investigators after a bulk carrier and cargo ship collided in Vancouver Harbour.
  The safety board said Monday the collision occurred just after midnight on Sunday and involved the MV Caravos Harmony and the MV Pan Acacia.
  Board spokesman Chris Krepski could not say how serious the collision was nor what caused it, but he said there were no reports of injuries or pollution.
  “We sent two investigators, who are on site as we speak gathering i
  
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• B.C. argues it cannot stop Trans Mountain pipeline, but it can protect environment

  18-03-2019 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A lawyer for the British Columbia government says the province knows it cannot stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but it can enact environmental laws to mitigate the harm it may cause.
  B.C.’s Court of Appeal is considering a reference case filed by the province that asks if it has jurisdiction to regulate the transport of oil through its territory and restrict bitumen shipments from Alberta.
  Joseph Arvay, who represents B.C., told a panel of five judges on Monday
  
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• Alphonso Davies doubtful for Canada game against French Guiana in Vancouver - North Shore News

  18-03-2019 21:32
  Alphonso Davies doubtful for Canada game against French Guiana in Vancouver  North Shore NewsCanada will be without injured captain Scott Arfield and veteran Will Johnson and it doesn't look like teenage phenom Alphonso Davies will be available either ...
  
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• Port Hardy Reigns compete down island at Vancouver Island University - North Island Gazette

  18-03-2019 21:26
  Port Hardy Reigns compete down island at Vancouver Island University  North Island GazetteThe Port Hardy Reigns travelled down to Nanaimo to compete at a 15U Island Playday tournament that was held March 10 at Vancouver Island University (VIU).
  
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• Comment: Return of sub-$1M detached Vancouver house? Only three listed

  18-03-2019 20:25
  
  Despite the city’s average detached home price dropping, you still need a million-dollar-plus budget to buy one
  
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• Theatre review: Superb acting leavens a brutal prison drama

  18-03-2019 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  Gross Misconduct
  When: To Mar. 23
  Where: Gateway Theatre, Richmond
  Tickets & Info: $29 at gatewaytheatre.com
  Back in the days when Metro Vancouver boasted Oakalla and the B.C. penitentiary, prison plays were common on our stages. By the early 1990s, both notorious jails had closed and the genre has rarely appeared here since.
  Meghan Gardiner’s sharply intelligent new drama, Gross Misconduct, at first seems like a return to the old-style prison play. Brutally violent and full of vicious
  
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• Safety board investigates collision of two ships in Vancouver Harbour - North Shore News

  18-03-2019 19:57
  Safety board investigates collision of two ships in Vancouver Harbour  North Shore NewsRICHMOND, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board is deploying a team of investigators after a bulk carrier and cargo ship collided in Vancouver Harbour.
  
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• No injuries, pollution in Vancouver Harbour ship collision: Transport Canada - North Shore News

  18-03-2019 19:57
  No injuries, pollution in Vancouver Harbour ship collision: Transport Canada  North Shore NewsRICHMOND, B.C. — Transport Canada says two ships collided in Vancouver Harbour Sunday after one lost power, but no one was injured and no pollutants ...
  
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• B.C. unveils first poverty reduction plan

  18-03-2019 19:33 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s New Democrat government unveiled the province’s first poverty reduction plan Monday, a strategy it says can reduce overall poverty in the province by 25 per cent within five years and cut child poverty in half.
  Social Development Minister Shane Simpson said the plan “compromises programs, polices and initiatives across government, tying together investments made over three budgets into a thoughtful, bold and comprehensive plan to address poverty in B.C.
  
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• Avalanche Canada issues warning for B.C., Alberta mountains

  18-03-2019 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  Avalanche Canada has issued a special public avalanche warning for recreational backcountry users in B.C. and Alberta.
  The forecasting agency says the warmer temperatures expected this week will increase the likelihood of avalanches throughout the mountains. That same nice weather, combined with B.C.’s spring break, will also mean more people will be heading to the backcountry this week.
  The warning is widespread and applies to all mountain ranges in western Canada.
  A warning from Avalanch
  
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• Five things to check out at this year's Festival du bois

  18-03-2019 19:05 via vancouversun.com
  Festival du bois
  When: March 22 to 24
  Where: Mackin Park, Maillardville/Coquitlam
  Tickets: adult $22, seniors and students $15, children 5 — 12 $10 at festivaldubois.ca (free admission Friday March 22)
  1. Three decades. This year, Festival du Bois celebrates its 30th year of promoting Francophone culture, especially music, in Canada’s westernmost province. The festival is open to all ages and takes place in  Maillardville, the home of francophone culture in B.C. Most of the acti
  
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• Jayda G: Five things to know about DJ's Significant Changes

  18-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jayda G
  Significant Changes | Ninja Tune
  Moving between Vancouver and Berlin, DJ Jayda G has been building buzz across the European dance music landscape for a number of years. With her debut album out on the respected (and widely distributed) U.K. label Ninja Tune, it’s doubtless she’s going to get attention. Not that she doesn’t have plenty already.
  You don’t get four-week residencies at London’s club Phonox or have your name on the roster for festivals from Prima
  
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• Hit-and-run on Fraser Street sends two people to hospital

  18-03-2019 18:07 via vancouversun.com
  A hit-and-run accident on Fraser Street in Vancouver sent two pedestrians to hospital early Monday morning.
  The accident happened shortly after midnight on Fraser near East 20th Avenue.
  A 25-year-old Surrey woman and a 35-year-old Vancouver man, whose names have not been released, were both struck by a northbound vehicle.
  The driver of the vehicle did not stay at the scene.
  Vancouver police say the victims suffered non-life threatening injuries.
  The VPD’s collision investigations unit has
  
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• Metro Vancouver woman sexually assaulted near UVic

  18-03-2019 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  SAANICH — Police on Vancouver Island are investigating the sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman who was staying with friends in an area of Saanich known to be popular with University of Victoria students.
  Saanich police say the victim, a Metro Vancouver resident, was attacked by a knife-wielding man early Sunday morning in a townhouse complex in the Gordon Head neighbourhood not far from the university.
  Staff Sgt. Chris Horsley says police have learned that many of the condos and homes sh
  
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• Hike and seek: 5 family-friendly hikes along the Sea-to-Sky Highway to try this spring

  18-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  From a short stroll, to a full day of forested adventure, these family-friendly hikes, all located along the Sea-to-Sky Highway, provide the perfect setting for a game of hike and seek with the kids this spring.
  “Let’s all bundle up and go for a hike!” I proclaim enthusiastically as a stream of morning sunshine seduces me through the slightly-parted shutters of my living room windows. Sitting snuggled up in a heap on the couch, my children look up at me with apathy in their eye
  
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• Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray named to Justin Trudeau's cabinet

  18-03-2019 15:16 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s newest cabinet minister says she wants to move on from the controversy that has resulted in her appointment to president of the Treasury Board.
  “The past few weeks have been difficult, and I have expressed my confidence in our prime minister and our support for the work we are doing on behalf of Canadians,” said Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray, after she was sworn in at Rideau Hall.
  Murray signalled she wants to get past the curre
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny and warm

  18-03-2019 14:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Monday, March 18 — Vancouver is getting its first jolt of extended spring-like weather this week.
  Environment Canada says Metro Vancouver can expect mostly sunshine on Monday with a high of 14 C with temperatures rising up to 20 C further inland.
  We can look forward to sunny skies over the next few day with temperatures hovering around 15 C near the water and 21 C inland.
  Enjoy the sun while it lasts as things will take a turn for the wet later this week with showers
  
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• Trudeau fills SNC-triggered cabinet vacancy with Vancouver MP Joyce Murray - North Shore News

  18-03-2019 11:55
  Trudeau fills SNC-triggered cabinet vacancy with Vancouver MP Joyce Murray  North Shore NewsOTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turned Monday to erstwhile leadership rival Joyce Murray to fill the second void in his cabinet triggered by the ...
  
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• Rob Shaw: NDP government 'reviewing' a basic human right for girls

  18-03-2019 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Annie Ohana was in her classroom at L.A. Matheson high school in Surrey last week, when an all-too-common scene played out. A young woman ducked into her room after the final bell rang and quietly asked: “Ms. Ohana, do you have a tampon or pad?”
  “Teachers at schools and counsellors, especially as women, we do often keep a little stash of products,” said Ohana.
  So Ohana, the Aboriginal department head at the school, gladly reached into her own supply to he
  
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• North Vancouver RCMP search for crowbar-wielding masked mail thieves - Vancouver Sun

  18-03-2019 08:00
  North Vancouver RCMP search for crowbar-wielding masked mail thieves  Vancouver SunNorth 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 ...
  
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• Vancouver police arrest suspect following Friday night death of teenager - North Shore News

  18-03-2019 02:05
  Vancouver police arrest suspect following Friday night death of teenager  North Shore NewsVancouver police say they've charged an 18-year-old man in the death of another teenager following a Friday night assault. Police say the suspect was arrested ...
  
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• Shari Graydon: Women's voices still not being heard often enough in the media

  18-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  We hear a lot these days about how artificial intelligence is taking away jobs and making it easy for foreign powers to hack democracy. But some scientists are harnessing the power of big data analytics for social good.
  A new tool just launched by Informed Opinions is a case in point. We collaborated with a team of researchers at Simon Fraser University’s big data lab to develop a sophisticated digital monitoring system. It’s now measuring, in real time, the gender ratio of sources b
  
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• Michael Jasny and Scott Wallace: Saving the whales, and the whale watchers

  18-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’ve seen southern resident orcas in the wild, chances are you were not alone. Each summer, the orcas are mobbed like celebrities, with an average of 20 boats tracking them at any given moment. Unfortunately, all that attention is making it difficult for them to feed when they are literally starving.
  Last fall, the federal government committed to giving the whales a break, promising robust measures by spring to reduce threats from vessel traffic. Depressingly, the whale-watching indus
  
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• Jason Ellis and Catherine Carstairs: Educating parents about the safety and importance of vaccines is best policy

  18-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vaccines save lives. Over the past century infant mortality has plummeted, thanks in part to vaccines. But they only work if a significant number of people are vaccinated and if their vaccinations are complete. The recent measles outbreak in B.C. has re-invigorated the discussion over whether or not vaccination should be mandatory.
  The B.C. government has proposed a school-vaccine registry. It’s likely to work like this: At the beginning of the school year parents will have to submit docum
  
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• Gas prices and temperatures both on the rise in Metro Vancouver

  18-03-2019 01:42 via vancouversun.com
  Gas prices climbed to $1.51 a litre at some stations in Metro Vancouver on Sunday. And that’s the good news.
  Expect them to climb to $1.60 a litre by mid-April, said Dan Teague, senior petroleum analyst with gasbuddy.com.
  “Traditionally it’s this time of the year, in April, that prices go up,” he said. “So $1.60 should be the new normal for the rest of the summer. Unless someone can wave a magic wand to come up with a new supply for the Lower Mainland.”
  He sai
  
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• Vancouver police arrest suspect in targeted killing of teen

  18-03-2019 01:39 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police have arrested an 18-year-old man after a fatal incident on Friday night in the city’s Strathcona neighbourhood.
  Christopher Aiden Kematch was arrested early on Sunday morning in downtown Vancouver. He remains in custody and has been charged with manslaughter.
  His arrest follows the death of 19-year-old Dakota Saje Wildeman-McNeil, who was allegedly assaulted with a weapon at around 9:15 p.m. on Friday near the intersection of Keefer Street and Jackson Avenue. The victim wa
  
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• People of all ethnic backgrounds pull together in support of Muslim community

  18-03-2019 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  Asma Husseini had volunteered to help lay out 49 Islamic prayer mats at a public vigil for the victims of Friday’s mass shooting in Christchurch New Zealand. “Last night we found out we had to make it 50,” said Husseini, softly.
  Husseini laid red and white roses on the mats as Imams, dignitaries and members of the public gathered for the vigil at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday. “Hopefully this is the last 50. Hopefully this is going to end,” said Husseini.
  Naja
  
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• North Carolina gets No. 1 in Midwest, Kansas could await - Vancouver Sun

  18-03-2019 00:04
  North Carolina gets No. 1 in Midwest, Kansas could await  Vancouver SunKANSAS CITY, Mo. — North Carolina was rewarded for navigating one of the nation's toughest schedules, earning the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region after ...
  
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