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• Q&A: 'Rock star' Michelle Obama redefines book tour norms

  19-03-2019 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  How popular is Michelle Obama? Well, put it this way: Her current book tour events are held in sports arenas, not bookshops. The former first lady of the United States of America will be here for Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama on Thursday night at Rogers Arena. Currently The New York Times Best Sellers list topper, Obama’s memoir Becoming was released in late November and was Amazon’s top seller for all of 2018.
  On the eve of her stop here, I got some question
  
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• Co-workers sue Surrey man who won $1 million lottery prize

  19-03-2019 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Four co-workers are suing a Surrey man for what they claim is their fair share of a $1-million lottery prize.
  Ding Jiu Du, Haret Dagane, Elwood Prado and Tounkham Homsombath say that on Dec. 12, 2018, they gave Hung Sengsouvanh some money left over from a contribution to an upcoming potluck Christmas party at the lighting factory where they all worked.
  The co-workers say they each proposed to kick in $5 to buy a $25 ticket for the Lotto Max jackpot for Dec. 14 because it was such a large jackpot
  
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• Girl subject of Amber Alert north of Toronto found safe - Vancouver Courier

  19-03-2019 22:57
  Girl subject of Amber Alert north of Toronto found safe  Vancouver CourierMARKHAM, Ont. — A five-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert north of Toronto on Tuesday was found safe after a few hours.York regional police ...
  
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• Vancouver ranks in top 10 North American cities for dog owners - Vancouver Is Awesome

  19-03-2019 22:52
  Vancouver ranks in top 10 North American cities for dog owners  Vancouver Is AwesomeA new list has compiled the top North American cities for dog owners in 2019 and Vancouver made the top ten. Created by Technobark, the dog-friendly choices ...
  
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• B.C. prepares for wildfire season with $101-million budget

  19-03-2019 22:43 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — British Columbia’s forests minister says the province is preparing for the wildfire season with some new strategies and people living near forested areas should also do their part by safeguarding property against potential blazes.
  Doug Donaldson says a $101-million budget, up from $64 million last year, will allow for a more comprehensive prescribed burning program and new technology including night vision goggles to help with early detection of fires will be piloted this
  
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• Federal Budget 2019 aims to help first-time buyers and boost rental supply

  19-03-2019 22:38
  
  Liberals court Millennial vote with new interest-free first-time home buyer’s loan, increased Home Buyer’s Plan limit and more rental housing supply
  
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• Federal government pledges nearly $30 million a year to fight money laundering

  19-03-2019 22:34 via vancouversun.com
  Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberal government promised in its budget today nearly $140 million over five years to help fight money laundering, including to create a money-laundering task force, strengthen federal policing’s investigative capacity, and beef up financial intelligence gathering.
  That amounts to nearly $30 million a year.
  The Liberals are also promising to bring in new legislation to add an alternative requirement of recklessness to the offence of money laundering in the c
  
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• No one injured in Vancouver Harbour ship collision: Transport Canada - North Shore News

  19-03-2019 22:21
  No one injured in Vancouver Harbour ship collision: Transport Canada  North Shore NewsTransport Canada says two ships collided in Vancouver Harbour Sunday after one lost power, but no one was injured and no pollutants were released.
  
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• Coroners: Carfentanil detected in 13 of 90 overdose deaths in January

  19-03-2019 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s coroners say there were 90 suspected illicit-drug overdose deaths in the province in January, including more than a dozen in which they detected carfentanil.
  The synthetic opioid carfentanil, which began showing up in B.C.’s street-drug supply in late 2016, turned up in 13 illicit-drug overdose deaths in January, according to a B.C. Coroners Service update released Tuesday. Carfentanil was detected in 35 deaths in all of 2018 and 71 deaths in the last seven months of 2017. Car
  
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• First Nation supports B.C.’s plan to require pipeline operators to hold permits

  19-03-2019 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A coastal British Columbia First Nation that experienced a spill of thousands of litres of diesel in its waters is supporting the province’s efforts to create a permitting system for companies transporting hazardous substances.
  The B.C. Court of Appeal is hearing a reference case filed by the province that asks whether it can create such a system, which would require companies to file disaster management plans and agree to pay for any damages.
  Marilyn Slett, chief of the
  
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• West Vancouver police seek help in finding missing woman - North Shore News

  19-03-2019 21:49
  West Vancouver police seek help in finding missing woman  North Shore NewsWest Vancouver police are asking for the public to be on the lookout for a missing woman. Diana Baker, 35, was last seen in the Ambleside-Dundarave area ...
  
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• Michael Green: Personal health information has a value on the black market

  19-03-2019 21:28 via vancouversun.com
  To adapt to our increasingly just-in-time lives, the Canadian health care system is moving increasingly toward digitization. This necessary modernization of health care means better patient outcomes as well as improved insight into future health-care decisions. 
  Despite the personal and system-wide benefits of a digital health-care system, what cannot be ignored is that your health information has value to people wishing to take advantage or use the information inappropriately.
  The fact rem
  
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• B.C. Teachers' Federation elects Teri Mooring as new president

  19-03-2019 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The next president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation is an elementary school educator from Quesnel.
  Teri Mooring was elected Tuesday on the final day of the union’s annual general meeting in Victoria.
  Mooring has been a vice-president of the 43,000-member union for the last six years and is also one of its lead negotiators at contract talks with the province.
  Before joining the provincial executive, Mooring served for five years as president of the Quesnel District Te
  
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• Bat signal lights up Vancouver sky for ‘Batwoman’ TV series - North Delta Reporter

  19-03-2019 20:22
  Bat signal lights up Vancouver sky for ‘Batwoman’ TV series  North Delta ReporterThe art gallery has been transformed into XX of Gotham City.
  
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• New safety measures for B.C.'s craft brew industry

  19-03-2019 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s craft beer industry is hopping, but the rapid growth has been accompanied by an increase in workplace accidents.
  WorkSafeBC says in the last decade the number of craft breweries has swelled to 160 from 54, and during that time there were 284 accepted time-loss claims for injuries in that industry.
  The most common types of injuries include falls, overexertion and exposure to heat and cold. However the agency says the top concerns for the brewery industry is carbon dioxide exposu
  
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• Case of missing B.C. cowboy Ben Tyner 'may involve criminality': RCMP

  19-03-2019 19:27 via vancouversun.com
  The case of a rancher who has been missing in British Columbia since January is being treated as a suspicious disappearance by the RCMP.
  Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says members of the southeast district major crime unit have reviewed the evidence that has been collected since Ben Tyner went missing and have determined the case may involve criminal activity.
  Tyner, who is 32, was the manager of the Nicola Ranch, about 300 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, and was last seen on Jan. 26 as he rode out on
  
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• Vancouver police look to ID men from nightclub assault video

  19-03-2019 19:23 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police have released video of a brutal assault outside a Yaletown nightclub that left one man with with a life-altering head injury.
  The incident occurred almost one year ago, on March 31, 2018, outside Pierre’s Champagne Lounge at 1028 Hamilton Street.
  The nightclub staff called 911 at 2 a.m. to report that a fight had occurred outside the club and a man was unconscious.
  Officers located two victims — one with minor injuries and another, a 28-year-old man from Burnaby, wit
  
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• Trout School Lessons from a Fly-Fishing Master with Mark Hume

  19-03-2019 19:08 via vancouversun.com
  Trout School Lessons from a Fly-Fishing Master
  Mark Hume with Mo Bradley | Greystone Books
  208 pages, $22.95
  The rainbow trout found in the Kamloops region of B.C. possess behaviours so distinct that they were believed to be a different species for many years. While Salmo-Kamloops trout don’t really exist, per se, the characteristics of the trout in the area have been attracting fly-fishers since the 1800s to today. As far back as 1959, author F.H. Wooding’s the Angler’s Book o
  
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• Sonic Boom Festival set to blast off March 22-24

  19-03-2019 19:08 via vancouversun.com
  Sonic Boom Festival
  When: March 22-24, 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Pyatt Hall, Orpheum Annex
  Info and tickets: From $15, vancouverpromusica.ca
  That rite of Vancouver’s musical spring, the Sonic Boom Festival, runs four nights this year. It’s an annual proposition curated by Vancouver Pro Musica that defies easy classification; seemingly every type and subtype of new music is on offer. The festival format allows the widest possible selection from the broadest sample of what’s going on in t
  
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• SUN RUN: Tough to train when on the road for work

  19-03-2019 18:46 via vancouversun.com
  Every year, someone writing about their Sun Run training comments on the challenges of keeping up with the program while away on vacation. They post photos of themselves straining as they run along a beach in some lovely tropical destination. I have thought to myself on more than one occasion: That doesn’t look so hard.
  Well, this year, I have struggled at times between our weekly group run to fit in my two “homework” sessions. I have been spending a lot of time in Victoria car
  
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• Concert announcement: Death Cab for Cutie play Malkin Bowl in September

  19-03-2019 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  American indie-rockers Death Cab for Cutie will make a stop in Vancouver in September for a show at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl.
  The Bellingham, Wash. band is touring to promote their ninth studio album, Thank You For Today.
  General admission tickets for Sept. 5 outdoor concert are $59.50 (plus fees). They go on sale to the general public on March 22, 10 a.m., through TicketMaster. There also various pre-sale opportunities on March 20-21.
  American singer-songwriter Jenn Champion will open f
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly yelling racial slurs at New Zealand massacre vigil in Surrey

  19-03-2019 18:20 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP arrested a man after he allegedly yelled racial slurs at a prayer vigil held Sunday in Surrey for the victims of the New Zealand mosque massacre.
  The Independent Investigation Office of B.C. has been called in to investigate because the suspect was injured while in custody.
  The IIO is investigating after a man was arrested during a prayer vigil in Surrey for the New Zealand victims.
  The IIO says at around 4:30 p.m., Surrey officers attended the pre-planned vigil at 13400-block of 104
  
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• Vancouver cannabis retailers vying for early market dominance

  19-03-2019 17:07
  
  B.C. entrepreneurs and corporations are jockeying for advantage in the burgeoning cannabis retail niche.
  
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• Kids found playing darts with syringes in Vancouver Island park - North Delta Reporter

  19-03-2019 16:27
  Kids found playing darts with syringes in Vancouver Island park  North Delta ReporterChildren can be quite creative but when Saanich Police responded to a call Monday afternoon after reports of kids playing darts in a local park, they found ...
  
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• EU eyes June to begin membership talks with North Macedonia - Vancouver Sun

  19-03-2019 16:06
  EU eyes June to begin membership talks with North Macedonia  Vancouver SunBRUSSELS — The European Union's top diplomat says the bloc aims to begin membership talks with North Macedonia in June, after the country lifted the ...
  
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• Alberta Travel Bucket List: 8 (more) places you must see

  19-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Everyone knows that Alberta has spectacular mountain parks. Banff and Jasper National Parks are the top-visited national parks in Canada — with more than 4 million people heading to Banff and almost 2.5 million going to Jasper every year. You’ve also probably heard about  a couple of internationally renowned festivities — Edmonton’s Fringe Festival and the Calgary Stampede — as well as the thriving culinary and music scenes in the province’s two biggest c
  
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• 32 temperature records broken in B.C.

  19-03-2019 15:40 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. has gone from below zero to record warm temperatures in a week, with some regions a toasty 10 C above normal.
  Environment Canada says B.C. smashed 32 weather records on Monday, including the hotspots of Abbotsford and Squamish, which both hit 23 C.
  At 23.5 C, Squamish broke its record temperature of 18 C set in 1996, while Abbotsford beat its 1996 record of 18.2 C.
  White Rock also recorded a record 20.6 C.
  Parts of Metro Vancouver were 10 C higher than the March average temperature of 11 C,
  
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• Audain Prize for B.C. artists increased to $100,000

  19-03-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  When the first Audain Prize was handed out in 1994, artist Ann Kipling received $20,000.
  Michael Audain didn’t think it was enough. So he increased the lifetime achievement award for a B.C. artist to $25,000 and then $30,000.
  Now he’s raising it again, to $100,000.
  “We’re trying to put more of a spotlight on our artists,” said Audain, chair of the Audain Foundation. “We don’t want to be second-place to any other awards in the country because we have the
  
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• Seven things to do in Vancouver: March 22-28, 2018

  19-03-2019 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vince Staples: Smile, You’re On Camera with Jpegmafia
  When: March 22, 8 p.m.
  Where: Harbour Convention Centre
  Tickets and info: $35 at eventbrite.ca
  Easily one of the year’s most anticipated hip hop shows. Baltimore’s Jpegmafia (a.k.a. Barrington DeVaughan Hendricks) put out one of the most intense rap records of recent years with Veteran, showcasing an artist who is equal parts experimentation and righteous anger. Vince Staples is one of hip hop’s hottest properties rig
  
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• Kids found playing darts with syringes in Vancouver Island park - North Island Gazette

  19-03-2019 08:00
  Kids found playing darts with syringes in Vancouver Island park  North Island GazetteChildren can be quite creative but when Saanich Police responded to a call Monday afternoon after reports of kids playing darts in a local park, they found ...
  
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• prev Bobcats tie North Vancouver in provincial opener - Prince George Citizen

  19-03-2019 06:16
  prev Bobcats tie North Vancouver in provincial opener  Prince George CitizenAfter a month between meaningful games, it took the North East Bobcats a period and a half to get up to game speed.
  
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• Bobcats tie North Vancouver in provincial opener - Prince George Citizen

  19-03-2019 06:16
  Bobcats tie North Vancouver in provincial opener  Prince George CitizenAfter a month between meaningful games, it took the North East Bobcats a period and a half to get up to game speed.
  
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• A partnership made in fuel-cell heaven ahead of the 99th Vancouver International Auto Show

  19-03-2019 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  The province’s original car-sharing co-operative has teamed with a Korean automaker to offer hydrogen-powered vehicles to its membership.
  On Monday night, on the eve of the 99th Vancouver International Auto Show, Modo and Hyundai Canada announced a partnership that will see two 2019 Hyundai Nexo fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) enter the car-sharing company’s fleet in the coming weeks.
  “We’ve thought for some time that Modo would be a great platform to get people to ex
  
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• Altus report latest marker forecasting lower B.C. housing starts

  19-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  A new report from the research firm Altus Group reinforces expectations that B.C. housing construction, particularly in Metro Vancouver, will decline under the influences of mortgage stress tests, new tax measures and a slowing economy.
  The report, released Monday, estimates that housing starts in B.C. will fall to 37,475 units in 2019 and further to 36,925 in 2020 compared with 2018’s 40,875 units, perhaps adding to pressure on federal officials to change policies aimed at protecting firs
  
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• The Secret Lives of Salmon: International expedition returns to Vancouver

  19-03-2019 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  The Russian research vessel Kaganovsky returned to Vancouver on Monday with an unprecedented treasure trove of data about the little-studied lives of salmon in the open Pacific Ocean.
  Genetic testing on hundreds of salmon caught by an international group of fisheries scientists will determine the home rivers and streams of the winter salmon population in the Gulf of Alaska, especially the surprisingly numerous chum.
  Twenty-one scientists from Canada, the U.S., Russia, South Korea and Japan have
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: B.C. NDP poverty reduction very much a work in progress

  19-03-2019 01:45 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Ten years after New Democrat Shane Simpson first called for a B.C. poverty reduction strategy, the now cabinet minister released the first version of one on Monday.
  Together Now, as it is called, runs to more than 40 pages and lists dozens of measures large and small, some announced earlier, others still to come.
  Together, they are supposed to reduce the poverty rate in B.C. by 25 per cent and the child poverty rate by 50 per cent over the next five years.
  Cost? About $4 bi
  
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• Alphonso Davies doubtful for Canada game against French Guiana in Vancouver - North Island Gazette

  19-03-2019 01:26
  Alphonso Davies doubtful for Canada game against French Guiana in Vancouver  North Island GazetteCanada 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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• B.C. attorney general opens door to background checks for money transfer/exchange businesses

  19-03-2019 01:19 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby is considering a B.C. licensing system for money transfer and foreign exchange businesses, which are vulnerable to money launderers.
  Eby was responding Monday to a Postmedia investigation that found two dozen money-services businesses in Vancouver, Richmond and on the North Shore are run out of condos and homes, others are run by real estate firms and property developers, and many that have no public face at the street level or online.
  The investigation, published
  
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• Kelowna man charged after string of bank robberies

  19-03-2019 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  A Kelowna man has been charged with three counts of robbery after a string of bank heists in the Okanagan city.
  Cpl. Jesse O’Donaghey, of the Kelowna RCMP, said the first robbery occurred on Jan. 31, 2019, at the Rutland branch of Scotiabank. The second robbery was at the Mission branch of the Royal Bank of Canada on March 1, 2019.
  O’Donaghey said it was after the third robbery, on March 16 at the TD Canada Trust on Harvey Avenue in Kelowna, that police apprehended Gordon Martens, 56
  
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• Two men charged after drugstore robberies in Surrey and Delta

  19-03-2019 01:04 via vancouversun.com
  Two young men have been charged after a string of drugstore robberies in Surrey and Delta.
  According to the Surrey RCMP, Karman Singh Grewal, 26, of Vancouver and Gursimran Sahota, 21, of Surrey have been charged with three counts of robbery. Grewal is also charged with failing to stop for a peace officer, dangerous driving and obstruction of a peace officer. Sahota is additionally charged with committing an indictable offence with face covered and assault by threatening with a weapon. 
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• Hollywood screenwriter sued over alleged sexual assault in B.C.

  19-03-2019 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  A Hollywood screenwriter is being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage extra on a movie set in B.C. in 1994 and then luring her to Nova Scotia and Los Angeles where the alleged exploitation continued.
  Douglas Day Stewart, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, is named as the defendant in the lawsuit filed by the plaintiff in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
  “In one year, (the plaintiff) went from being an innocent 17-year-old high-schooler with no significant sexual experi
  
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• Alphonso Davies doubtful for Canada game against French Guiana in Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  19-03-2019 00:42
  Alphonso Davies doubtful for Canada game against French Guiana in Vancouver  North Delta ReporterCanada 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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• Vancouver condo developer's appeal of extradition order dismissed

  19-03-2019 00:25 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver condo developer Mark John Chandler has lost the latest round in his multi-year fight against extradition to the United States on fraud charges.
  In a decision released Monday, the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed Chandler’s appeal of last year’s decision by the B.C. Supreme Court that he be extradited. Immediately after Monday’s ruling, Chandler’s lawyers sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, the country’s final appeal court.
  Chandler is figh
  
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