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• Persian community celebrates new year in West Vancouver - North Shore News

  20-03-2019 23:52
  Persian community celebrates new year in West Vancouver  North Shore NewsAmbleside Park was awash with people Tuesday night evening as the Persian community celebrated the beginning of the new year, also known as Norouz.
  
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• Surrey Man Allegedly Punched North Vancouver Soccer Mom in the Face at Game - VICE

  20-03-2019 23:46
  Surrey Man Allegedly Punched North Vancouver Soccer Mom in the Face at Game  VICEParents later surrounded the man's car so he couldn't escape.
  
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• North Vancouver School District to pay for increased costs of high school rebuilds - Western Investor

  20-03-2019 23:38
  North Vancouver School District to pay for increased costs of high school rebuilds  Western InvestorThe North Vancouver School District will likely end up footing a bill for an extra $4 million towards the rebuilds of Argyle and Handsworth secondary schools.
  
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• Cannabis consumption on the rise in Canada since legalization: Study

  20-03-2019 23:13 via vancouversun.com
  As expected, Canada is going to pot.
  Marijuana use has risen in the country since legalization, according to a new study from Western Canadian research company Insights West, which shows that nearly a quarter of adult Canadians consumed cannabis in the last few months of 2018.
  In an online study conducted from Dec. 13 to 21 among 1,001 adult British Columbians and 1,500 past-year cannabis users, 23 per cent of legal-age respondents reported using marijuana in one way or another since legalizatio
  
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• Conservation group says dead sea lion was found with gunshot wound in B.C.

  20-03-2019 22:17 via vancouversun.com
  HORNBY ISLAND — A conservation group says a dead sea lion that washed ashore in British Columbia this week had been shot in the head, amid calls from some fishermen for a cull.
  The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says in a news release that the flippered mammal was found on Hornby Island and alleges its crew has also observed abuse of the animals on the water.
  The society says the sea lions depend on herring runs for food and is calling on Ottawa to place a moratorium on commercial roe h
  
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• Police say Abbotsford woman carried gun into mall while under house arrest

  20-03-2019 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  An Abbotsford woman who was under house arrest faces several gun charges following an arrest Monday at the Sevenoaks Shopping Centre.
  Abbotsford police tracked the woman to the shopping mall by following the GPS signal on her electronic ankle bracelet.
  During the arrest, police say the woman attempted to hand a bag to a friend. The bag, intercepted by the arresting officers, was found to contain a loaded handgun, drugs and cash.
  Danielle Rigdon, 42, has been charged with carrying a concealed wea
  
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• Province to launch measles 'catch-up' campaign, offer shots at schools, clinics

  20-03-2019 20:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. has recorded 19 confirmed cases of measles this year and the province is responding by launching a measles-immunization catch-up drive next month, aiming to vaccinate 95 per cent of the province’s youth.
  Health Minister Adrian Dix says provincial data from 2018 indicates 82 per cent of seven-year-olds in B.C. have been immunized against measles, a number he says needs improvement.
  Dix says the catch-up program will run from April to June, protecting as many Kindergart
  
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• B.C. Indigenous leader Bob Chamberlin seeks federal NDP nod in Nanaimo riding

  20-03-2019 20:46 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — A high-profile Indigenous leader in B.C. intends to seek the NDP candidacy in the federal riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith.
  Bob Chamberlin is the long-serving chief counsellor of a First Nation based on Gilford Island in the Broughton Archipelago off northeastern Vancouver Island and is also serving his third, three-year term as vice-president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.
  In a news release announcing his bid for the nomination, Chamberlin says he has spent much of his life in t
  
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• B.C. overreaching in 'Trojan Horse' bid to regulate oil and gas shipments, court told

  20-03-2019 20:24 via vancouversun.com
  A lawyer for the federal government says British Columbia is overreaching with an unconstitutional effort to regulate oil and gas shipments through its lands and waters.
  The B.C. Court of Appeal is hearing a reference case that asks if the provincial government can create a permitting regime for companies that transport hazardous substances through the province.
  Lawyer Jan Brongers says the Canadian government agrees that environmental protection is of critical importance and that there’s
  
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• Mind of a Snail gets its weird on with Multiple Organism

  20-03-2019 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  Mind of A Snail: Multiple Organism
  When: March 19-23, 26-30, 8 p.m. Matinee, March 23, 24, 30, 2 p.m.
  Where: Vancity Culture Lab, the Cultch
  Tickets and info: tickets.thecultch.comMind of a Snail Puppet Co.’s Chloe Ziner and Jessica Gabriel have built an international reputation for their company, creating what they like to call “visual poems with narrative elements.”
  The description doesn’t do justice to the unique, sometimes bizarre, subject matter that turns up in perf
  
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• Police say phone scammers defrauded Vancouver seniors out of $3.1 million

  20-03-2019 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are warning the public about a phone scam that has defrauded local seniors of millions of dollars.
  The scam works like this: A fraudster, pretending to be either a jewelry store employee or police officer, calls a senior on a landline and convinces them that their credit card has been fraudulently used for a large purchase.
  The victim is then advised to hang up and call their bank or 911 immediately.When the victim picks up the phone again, they hear a dial tone and they place t
  
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• Metro Vancouver transit could benefit from federal gas tax transfer

  20-03-2019 19:29 via vancouversun.com
  A one-time increase in the amount of gas tax money transferred from the federal government to communities could lead to more transit investment in Metro Vancouver.
  Released on Tuesday, the 2019 federal budget allows for an extra $2.2 billion to be given to municipalities and First Nations over the next year through the federal gas tax fund to address short-term infrastructure deficits. This is two times what the feds transferred in 2018-19. It is not an increase to pump prices.
  That could mean a
  
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• This Just In: Whish Hand Cream & Lip Scrub Duo, Gillette SkinGuard Razor and Scentuals Vitamin C Facial Serum

  20-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Whish
  Hand Cream & Lip Scrub Duo
  They say: A hand cream and lip scrub duo from the brand Whish that exfoliates, moisturizes, restores and soothes hands and lips.
  We say: Our tester tried these products and was pleased with how they soothed her skin. The hand cream, which had a light, ginger scent, absorbed quickly and left hands feeling smooth. The lip scrub, which also boasted the ginger essence, had a body butter-like consistency with small exfoliating crystals to gently slough away dead s
  
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• Latest phone scam tricks Vancouver seniors out of $3.1 million - North Delta Reporter

  20-03-2019 18:15
  Latest phone scam tricks Vancouver seniors out of $3.1 million  North Delta ReporterPolice caution the public about using a landline phone.
  
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• $1M-plus Vancouver condo sales plunge by two-thirds: Sotheby’s

  20-03-2019 18:01
  
  As the decline in sales of detached houses starts to flatten, higher-end condos are next to be “caught in the same downdraft”
  
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• Two teens found dead as car recovered from river near Trail

  20-03-2019 17:30 via vancouversun.com
  NELSON — RCMP in B.C. confirm two teenagers died when the car they were in slid off a road in southeastern B.C., and tumbled into a frigid river.
  RCMP Sgt. Chad Badry said the Volkswagen Beetle was recovered Tuesday from the Pend Oreille River near Trail, about 600 kilometres east of Vancouver.
  “Tragically, both missing teens were located deceased,” Badry said in an update posted on the RCMP website early Wednesday.
  “Conditions were difficult and the recovery operation to
  
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• Ex-Kent prisoner says no addiction help available as he feared return behind bars

  20-03-2019 17:18 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Memories of vomiting, diarrhea and unrelenting stomach pain as he withdrew from opioids in prison had Rob MacDonald repeatedly asking for addiction treatment before he left a maximum-security facility but despite dozens of formal complaints, he says he didn’t get any help.
  “I was thinking, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I’m going out onto the street with this addiction,”‘ MacDonald said recently, a week after being released on supervision from t
  
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• Daily Poll: Should the B.C. government scrap Daylight Savings Time?

  20-03-2019 17:13 via vancouversun.com
  In the future, British Columbians may no longer need to spring ahead or fall back.
  More than two dozen U.S. states, including all three on the West Coast, are mulling proposals to simplify the twice-annual Daylight Savings time change by making daylight time a year-round thing.
  Postmedia columnist Vaughn Palmer reported Tuesday that B.C. Premier John Horgan recently wrote the governors of Washington, Oregon and California to suggest a coordinated effort.
  B.C. Premier John Horgan wrote the govern
  
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• Instagrammable places in B.C.: 10 unique locations to take a photo

  20-03-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  We’ve seen the crush of visitors at Joffre Lakes north of Pemberton — fuelled in part by people hiking into the area to take selfie photos. But consider these 10 spots that will make you a selfie star. The only trick is to get to most of them, which is why they are the next stars for B.C. travel photos.
  READ MORE: It’s a snap: 17 tips for taking the best vacation photos
  1. Mount Edziza Provincial Park
  Located in northwestern B.C., this park is both remote and mountainous in the
  
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• Confederate monument in North Carolina vandalized again - Vancouver Sun

  20-03-2019 15:31
  Confederate monument in North Carolina vandalized again  Vancouver SunSALISBURY, N.C. — A Confederate monument in a North Carolina city has been splashed with paint for the second time in seven months.News outlets report ...
  
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• International salmon research ship docks in North Vancouver - Vancouver Courier

  20-03-2019 14:00
  International salmon research ship docks in North Vancouver  Vancouver CourierAfter four weeks at sea, a group of international scientists who set out to find answers about the lives of wild salmon have returned with some surprising answers.
  
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• International salmon research ship docks in North Vancouver - North Shore News

  20-03-2019 14:00
  International salmon research ship docks in North Vancouver  North Shore NewsAfter four weeks at sea, a group of international scientists who set out to find answers about the lives of wild salmon have returned with some surprising answers.
  
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• Luxury realtor takes optimistic view in bearish Vancouver market

  20-03-2019 13:00 via vancouversun.com
  With sales at the most expensive end of Vancouver’s property market still declining and prices falling in the first months of 2019, one luxury realtor is trying a glass-half-full view in a market many see as half-empty.
  Sales over $4 million were down 50 per cent to 18 transactions, compared with 36 over the same period a year ago, according to a report released March 20 by Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.
  Throwing in all sales over $1 million, which is arguably pretty ordinary
  
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• North Macedonia: 7 plead guilty to joining, fighting for IS - Vancouver Sun

  20-03-2019 12:33
  North Macedonia: 7 plead guilty to joining, fighting for IS  Vancouver SunOfficials in North Macedonia say seven of the country's nationals have pleaded guilty to joining the Islamic State group and fighting with it in Syria and Iraq.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Roueche appeals for reduction in 30-year sentence

  20-03-2019 05:17 via vancouversun.com
  United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche wants the judge who sentenced him to 30 years back in 2009 to knock a few years off his sentence. Roueche is representing himself in trying to get his term lowered by eight years.
  He is saying that a 2014 change in the threshold for the amount of drugs in his case means he is eligible for the deduction. The U.S. Attorney in Seattle disagrees.
  Here’s my story:United Nations gang founder appeals 2009 U.S. sentenceUN gang founder Clay Roueche wants mor
  
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• First-time home buyers big winners in budget, but will incentives work in B.C.?

  20-03-2019 03:32 via vancouversun.com
  The federal budget offers incentives aimed at making housing more affordable for first-time buyers, but it remains to be seen whether they’ll work in the overheated B.C. housing market.
  “We’ll want to look at the details, we’ll want to take a look at whether it will assist people in communities where unaffordability really is a crisis and housing prices are very high,” said B.C. Finance Minister Carole James. “I think that will continue to be a challenge.&rdqu
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Pushing to make daylight time permanent without ticking off the masses

  20-03-2019 03:12 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — For the longest time, British Columbia debated the annual ritual of turning the clocks forward an hour in the spring, backwards in the fall.
  “Annual Battle Over Daylight Saving On,” was the headline in The Vancouver Sun 68 years ago this month. “Victoria favours 2 months, Vancouver 4, farmers none,” summarized the subhead.
  The article went on to detail how Vancouver city council was prepared to establish longer evenings for four months, the rest of the pr
  
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• Obituary: Judges couldn't tame legendary Vancouver lawyer Russ Chamberlain

  20-03-2019 02:31 via vancouversun.com
  As a prosecutor Wally Oppal had some epic battles with defence lawyer Russ Chamberlain.
  “He was a great courtroom lawyer: abrasive, at times rude, (and) aggressive,” said Oppal, who would go on to become B.C.’s attorney-general.
  “Extremely bright, great cross-examiner. (But) most of all he was honourable. He was very principled. If you had a trial against him, and I had a number of them when I was a special prosecutor, he gave you his word and he stuck to his word.”
  
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• Maple Ridge gym teacher punished for pushing student and calling him an 'asshole'

  20-03-2019 02:15 via vancouversun.com
  A Maple Ridge teacher has been suspended for three days without pay after pushing and verbally abusing a student.
  According to an agreed upon statement of facts issued by the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Gregory Norman Brock was teaching a Grade 11 gym class on Sept. 22, 2017, when the incident occurred.
  Brock has been a gym teacher since 2000, and in 2004 was given a “letter of expectation” after allegedly using profane language, inappropriate tone of voice and gestures
  
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• B.C. study uncovers deaths caused by medical device coatings coming loose

  20-03-2019 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  The deaths of at least three people who had hospital procedures in Vancouver were caused by coatings that sloughed off medical devices like catheters and scattered through blood vessels to major organs, a major study has found.
  Eight local researchers studied autopsy reports of hundreds of people who died at Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital from 2010 to 2016. They identified 110 who had died within 90 days of endovascular procedures, done by threading devices like cathete
  
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• United Nations gang founder appeals 2009 U.S. sentence

  20-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche says he is a changed man after serving a decade in a U.S. prison, and he wants his 30-year sentence for drug smuggling and money laundering reduced to 21 years and 10 months.
  Roueche filed his submissions to a Seattle judge last week, “asking for mercy.”
  In the 11-page document, he says he pleaded guilty in April 2009 “to end this chapter of my life that has brought my family so much grief.”
  “I never took into account that my
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Faster networks, smarter buildings to transform our cities

  20-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Construction industry executive Jeff Hansen-Carlson gestures toward his data chart on a big screen that depicts various industries and their adoption of new technologies, or lack thereof.
  “We’re right there, above hunter-gatherers,” he jokes, referring to the construction industry’s line, near the bottom of the page.
  “Smart cities are coming, whether we like it or not,” said Hansen-Carlson, the director of business development at EllisDon construction, which w
  
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• Anne McMullin: More must be done to create affordable communities

  20-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  As the provincial government approaches the halfway point in its mandate, it’s a natural time to take stock and assess its biggest commitment: To make housing in B.C. more affordable.
  The last two years have been marked by new housing taxes, policy changes and political promises regarding affordability. The result? Affordability remains a long way off for most British Columbians.
  You may hear that things are improving in Metro Vancouver, with home prices predicted to dip by 2.7 per cent th
  
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• Last time Pitt Meadows was this hot on March 19 was in 1914

  20-03-2019 01:59 via vancouversun.com
  Daily temperature records were smashed across B.C. on Tuesday, with Pitt Meadows breaking a record set in 1914.
  Environment Canada meteorologist Jonathan Bau said that as Pitt Meadows basked in 22.5 C, 36 other areas also smashed March 19 records.
  Among the record setters were Abbotsford, with 22.7 C, breaking a 1960 record; Chilliwack with 24.1 C, breaking a 1928 record, and Hope with 22.4 C, breaking a 1947 record. Vancouver reached 14.8 C, half a degree warmer than the record set in 2016. In
  
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• Vancouver Island cougar might have been shot with bow-and-arrow - North Island Gazette

  20-03-2019 01:54
  Vancouver Island cougar might have been shot with bow-and-arrow  North Island GazetteConservation officer *service* looking for animal near Port Alice.
  
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• Lower gas prices not driving all Canadians to the U.S.

  20-03-2019 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  Motorists buying gasoline five minutes from the U.S. border grumbled with resignation at the high prices and bristled at how fast they spiked “all of a sudden.”
  “Oh it’s insane,” said Ian Clarke of White Rock, as he filled up his 1962 TR4 at the Campbell River Store gas bar about five minutes from the U.S. border in South Surrey for $1.459 a litre.
  “We’re an oil-producing country and we’re paying $1.50 a litre now,” he said. “I don&rsqu
  
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• Federal government pledges $15 million a year to fight money laundering

  20-03-2019 01:45 via vancouversun.com
  Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberal government promised in its budget Tuesday nearly $70 million over five years to help fight money laundering, an issue of public concern in British Columbia.
  Just over $8 million will roll out this year, jumping to $15 million per year by 2020.
  The funding is meant to create a money-laundering task force, increase expertise in trade-based money laundering, and support financial intelligence gathering.
  Another $68.9 million over the next five years is earmark
  
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• Distracted Vancouver driver gets two separate $368 fines six minutes apart

  20-03-2019 01:42
  
  March is Distracted Driving Awareness month and officers are cracking down on people who aren’t focusing behind the wheel
  
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• Vancouver Aquarium announces winning name for baby killer whale - North Island Gazette

  20-03-2019 01:28
  Vancouver Aquarium announces winning name for baby killer whale  North Island GazetteThe aquarium asked the public for their help to name Springer's second calf.
  
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• First Nations' logging plans on Saturna Island prove controversial

  20-03-2019 01:06 via vancouversun.com
  Members of the Tsawout First Nation stepped in March 17 to block logging on the community’s reserve on Saturna Island, requesting clearer consultation with community members over the long-ago-approved plan.
  “We didn’t get in the way,” said Dan Claxton, a Tsawout member who lives on Saturna; they simply entered the property where logging has been taking place since Feb. 27 and operators shut down their machinery.
  Claxton said their request was to “respectfully ask th
  
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• Vancouver driver ticketed twice within 6 minutes for same offence - North Delta Reporter

  20-03-2019 01:05
  Vancouver driver ticketed twice within 6 minutes for same offence  North Delta ReporterThe man was written up by two different officers for using an electronic device.
  
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• B.C. prepares for wildfire season as residents urged to protect property

  20-03-2019 00:19
  
  British Columbia's forests minister says the province is preparing for the wildfire season with some new strategies
  
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