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• Letters, March 23: Free sanitary products needed so young women worldwide can go to school

  23-03-2019 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  Re: NDP reviewing basic human right: free tampons, pads in all schools.
  The school system takes a basic need and complicates it to the point where, as reporter Rob Shaw so succinctly notes, “you couldn’t create a more cumbersome and humiliating system if you tried.”
  I am part of a large international organization striving to provide reusable sanitary kits to young women around the world so that they can go to school regardless of the day of the month. In many developing countri
  
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• B.C. government announces $18.6 million in search and rescue funding

  23-03-2019 22:14
  
  The funding will help ground search and rescue groups with operations, training, equipment and activities
  
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• New funding for B.C. search and rescue groups

  23-03-2019 20:27 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has announced $18.6 million in one-time funding for ground search and rescue groups over three years.
  Mike Farnworth, the province’s minister of public safety and solicitor general, made the announcement Saturday in Coquitlam.
  He says the funding will help the B.C. Search and Rescue Association and the province’s 80 search and rescue groups bolster training, provide administrative support and renew equipment.
  Farnworth says he has heard from the groups, which have
  
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• New portable digital signs aim to reduce traffic congestion on the North Shore

  23-03-2019 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  The signs let drivers know about traffic delays, lane closures and incidents in real time, allowing drivers to pick an alternate route.
  
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• Makeover: Fragile hair needs a helping hand

  23-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tara Kalmek is a 31-year-old nurse and needed help with reviving her damaged hair due to over use of hot tools. Tara has very fine hair and naturally curly hair, which was feeling extremely dry and brittle. Her ends were very fragile and while she wanted to maintain the length, it needed to be cut due to severe breakage.
  I started by shampooing her hair with KMS Moist Repair Shampoo and Conditioner for moisture and manageability. I applied KMS Moist Repair — Revival Cream onto her ends, as
  
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• Glory shines a light on the Preston Rivulettes, and little-known chapter of Canadian sports history

  23-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Glory
  When: March 29 & 30 at Kay Meek Arts Centre
  Tickets and info: $48/45/19 (adult/senior/student) at kaymeek.com
  When: April 4 to 13 at Gateway Theatre
  Tickets and info: from $29 at tickets.gatewaytheatre.com
  Tracey Power grew up a hockey fan. But, like most Canadians, the playwright had never heard of the Preston Rivulettes.
  “Then I was looking through a book of old Canadian photographs and there was a black-and-white photo of a women’s hockey team from around 1920, and I was
  
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• Dashcam footage shows Bentley speeding in wrong direction on B.C. highway (VIDEO)

  23-03-2019 18:41
  
  A Bentley was filmed speeding the wrong direction down the Coquihalla Highway
  
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• SkyTrain delays down, customer satisfaction up

  23-03-2019 18:35 via vancouversun.com
  The Expo and Millennium SkyTrain lines set their best on-time performance record last year, along with seeing a significant decrease in major system delays.
  According to the latest figures from TransLink, the two train lines were on time 96.4 per cent of the time in 2018, and performance exceeded the target of 95.4 per cent almost every month.
  Delays of between 16 and 30 minutes were down 34 per cent compared to 2017, from 70 incidents to 46, and delays of greater than 30 minutes were down 30 pe
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Showers, then mix of sun and cloud

  23-03-2019 16:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Saturday, March 23. Today’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy with a chance of showers this morning and early this afternoon then a mix of sun and cloud. Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 14 C. Overnight, expect a few clouds and a low of 4 C. On Sunday, the weather looks similar to Saturday, with a chance of showers in the morning and then a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 14 C. Looking ahead to the final week of spring break, Monday is expecte
  
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• Vail's Epic pass gets you on Heavenly mountains in Sierra Nevada

  23-03-2019 16:11 via vancouversun.com
  I’m in no danger of making any downhill enemies on this blustery mid-February morning at Northstar California Resort near Lake Tahoe. After several days of non-stop blizzard-like conditions, more than enough fresh ‘pow’ has fallen for everyone on this popular hill located midway between one of North America’s funkier mountain towns and one of the world’s most picturesque alpine lakes.
  So much fluffy white stuff, in fact, that this February is now the snowiest on rec
  
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• Disappointment on the most luxurious train in the world

  23-03-2019 15:59 via vancouversun.com
  Having been on Kenyan safaris, road trips in South Africa, and cruises along the east coast of the continent, we were ready to see the less visited Africa – in comfort.
  The Rovos Rail trip from Dar Es Salaam to Cape Town was to be a dream trip with friends. The voyage was to take us through much of Africa that is not seen by travellers such as we were: not too adventurous! We looked forward to taking it all in from the windows and observation areas of the train as we made our way south thr
  
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• Driver dead after two-vehicle collision in north Toronto - Vancouver Sun

  23-03-2019 14:49
  Driver dead after two-vehicle collision in north Toronto  Vancouver SunToronto police say a driver died following a two-vehicle crash in the city's north end early Saturday morning.Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook says officers received ...
  
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• Excellence recognized at Georgie Awards

  23-03-2019 13:46 via vancouversun.com
  My House Design/Build/Team Ltd., has led the list of winners at the Georgie Awards, walking away with a total of eight awards, a total that matches the top number the firm has received in previous years.
  The awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in residential construction and renovation in B.C., were presented by Todd Talbot, co-host of the television series Love It or List It Vancouver, at recent gala in Vancouver attended by a sold-out audience of more than 650 industry professiona
  
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• Sustainability key to the draw of Duet

  23-03-2019 13:29 via vancouversun.com
  Adera has been in operation for 50 years and the company is celebrating the milestone with the launch of Duet, a 72-home project that will be noteworthy for sustainability in multi-family residential living. Eric Andreasen, Adera’s vice-president of marketing and sales, says the quality of the building is set to be a big selling point.
  “We’ve always been a leader in sustainability and we’ve only built in wood in 50 years,” he said. “We’re taking that con
  
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• The Home Front: Artful interiors

  23-03-2019 13:18 via vancouversun.com
  Most interior designers will tell you that the easiest way to create in an impact in your home or change the feel of a space, is by introducing some art work, be it paintings, drawings or sculpture.
  When it comes to what’s currently proving popular in art for the home, there is a growing interest in the work of female artists, says Troy Seidman, of online art marketplace Caviar20.
  “People are becoming a little more conscious of how many women artists they have in their collection and
  
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• West Van apartment sells in under a week

  23-03-2019 13:02 via vancouversun.com
  58 – 2212 Folkestone Way, West Vancouver
  Type: One-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment
  Size: 833 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $581,100
  Listed for: $599,900
  Sold for: $585,000
  Sold on: Feb. 3
  Days on market: Five
  Listing agent: Iain Edmonds at Royal LePage Sussex
  Buyers agent: Ina Ervin at Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty
  The big sell: West Vancouver’s aptly named Panorama Village complex features three levels of homes that have panoramic views from Mount Baker in the east to Vancouver Island
  
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• Houses of the Holy: In Vancouver, a union of church and real estate

  23-03-2019 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver’s places of worship, which sit upon more than $3.4 billion of real estate, are getting into the housing game more than ever before, scaling projects skywards in an attempt to benefit both their congregations and a community facing a housing crisis.
  Religious groups have long provided housing. In past generations, those efforts focused on helping vulnerable populations with shelter beds for the homeless, refuges for women and children fleeing abuse, and housing for low
  
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• 'Pardon Truck' pushes for expungement of minor cannabis convictions

  23-03-2019 06:08 via vancouversun.com
  A cross-Canada, mobile campaign calling for government to wipe clean minor cannabis convictions has hit the road again after making a first stop Friday in Vancouver.
  The “Pardon Truck,” run by the Cannabis Amnesty campaign and licensed cannabis producer DOJA, parked outside the Vancouver Public Library where its small crew of petitioners geared up to collect 10,000 signatures to take to Ottawa.
  They spoke with passersby near their ornately decorated “jam van” about their
  
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• Vancouver Island surgical team making a difference in Guatemala

  23-03-2019 03:56 via vancouversun.com
  On a medical-assistance trip to rural Guatemala seven years ago, Victoria anesthesiologist Dr. Brent Caton and his daughter Natasha watched a plastic surgeon operate on Mayan children who had been severely burned falling into their family cooking fires.
  On this reconstructive plastic surgery mission, Caton learned that Dr. Lourdes Santizo is one of only a few plastic surgeons in the small Central American country who offers care to some of the country’s main burn victims. The Catons saw fi
  
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• Appeal Court reserves decision on B.C. pipeline law that would impact Trans Mountain

  23-03-2019 03:46 via vancouversun.com
  A British Columbia Court of Appeal hearing on proposed provincial legislation that would impact the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has concluded and a panel of five judges has reserved its decision.
  B.C. filed the reference case to ask the court whether it can create a permitting system for companies that wish to increase the amount of heavy oil they are transporting through the province.
  The system would allow a provincial public servant to impose conditions on permits, which B.C. says would
  
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• Canada should expel Chinese athletes in canola trade dispute: Former ambassador

  23-03-2019 02:12 via vancouversun.com
  China has stopped all new purchases of Canadian canola seeds in what some see as retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei.
  The Canola Council of Canada said late Thursday exporters are reporting Chinese importers are unwilling to purchase the seeds at this time.
  In 2018, China bought about 40 per cent of Canada’s canola exports for a total of $2.1 billion.
  Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said Canada’s government n
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, March 23, 2019

  23-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: NDP reviewing basic human right: free tampons, pads in all schools.
  The school system takes a basic need and complicates it to the point where, as reporter Rob Shaw so succinctly notes, “you couldn’t create a more cumbersome and humiliating system if you tried.”
  I am part of a large international organization striving to provide reusable sanitary kits to young women around the world so that they can go to school regardless of the day of the month. In many developing countri
  
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• Jody Paterson: Open procurement policies put community social-services groups at risk

  23-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  I work in the non-profit community social-services sector. If your eyes glazed over when you read that, that nicely demonstrates the kind of PR problems besetting the sector now.
  We’re in all your lives, though you likely don’t know us by that “community social-services” tag. We’re your daycares, your home care, your crisis line, your social housing. We’re treatment services, counselling, mom-and-tot groups, immigrant settlement, supports for people with speci
  
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• Dr. Jan Hajek: No person should die from 'treatable and preventable' tuberculosis

  23-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  March 24 is World TB Day, when we can take time to reflect on the impact tuberculosis has had and where we are in our fight against this infectious disease.
  TB is a treatable bacterial infection. Although it can affect every organ, TB usually affects the lungs and causes cough, fever and weight loss. It spreads through the air; someone sick and coughing with TB can transmit the infection to other people in the same room.
  In Canada, many people believe that TB no longer exists. However, worldwide
  
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• Catherine Roome: The 'internet of things' takes public safety to the next level

  23-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Passenger safety is not just important in the world of planes, trains and automobiles. It is also critical in our day-to-day lives on public conveyances such as elevators and escalators. There are 23,000 elevators and escalators in B.C. — escalators, alone, can move 3,000 people an hour. When we enter an elevator, it is making more than 800 trips a day to transport people to and from their homes, work or appointments. As the pace of high-rise and commercial development increases and we add
  
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• Stolen Bentley filmed travelling the wrong way on Coquihalla Highway

  23-03-2019 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  A video shared to YouTube by a Vancouver driver shows a luxury vehicle driving the wrong way on the Coquihalla Highway.
  In the dash-cam video filmed Thursday, March 21, YouTuber Jonathan Corrigan captured footage of what appears to be a silver Bentley travelling north in a southbound lane, about five kilometres north of Exit 186, the Othello Lake Road exit.Corrigan only has a moment to change lanes as the car approaches at high speed, nearly colliding with the vehicle on the wrong side of the di
  
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• Feds forgive treaty loans, but will it revive painfully slow process?

  23-03-2019 01:40 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — After accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to the federal government to finance treaty negotiations, B.C. First Nations learned this week that Ottawa is forgiving all of it.
  The news came on federal budget day, with Finance Minister Bill Morneau announcing $1.4 billion to forgive loans currently owing and reimburse others that have already been repaid.
  More than $900 million in outstanding loans to bands engaged in negotiations will be cancelled in the current fi
  
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• "Pardon Truck” pushes for expungement of minor cannabis convictions

  23-03-2019 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  A cross-Canada, mobile campaign calling for government to wipe clean minor cannabis convictions has hit the road again after making a first stop Friday in Vancouver.
  The “Pardon Truck,” run by the Cannabis Amnesty campaign and licensed cannabis producer DOJA, parked outside the Vancouver Public Library where its small crew of petitioners geared up to collect 10,000 signatures to take to Ottawa.
  They spoke with passersby near their ornately decorated “jam van” about their
  
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• Rating agency keeps wary eye on Metro Vancouver's highly leveraged homeowners

  23-03-2019 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  The steadily inflating rate of Canadians leaning on home-equity lines of credit to bolster their finances has one bond-rating agency casting a wary eye on the real estate market, particularly high-priced Metro Vancouver and Toronto where sales have declined and prices have slid.
  In a recent report, Dominion Bond Rating Service said it “remains concerned over highly leveraged Canadian consumers and elevated home prices.”
  The amount of borrowing that Canadians have done using lines of
  
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• Book review: Captivating debut from Richmond author follows Vietnam theme

  23-03-2019 00:55 via vancouversun.com
  The Forbidden Purple City
  Philip Huynh (Goose Lane Editions, 2019)
  $22.95 | 263ppAs an image, a story, an experience, or a remote homeland, Vietnam permeates the nine stories of The Forbidden Purple City, though in varying degrees.For his subtle and captivating debut, Richmond-based Philip Huynh builds tales often set in New World cities (Vancouver, New York, L.A., Winnipeg) but inhabited by men and women for whom Vietnam informs their outlooks, social status, or actions.
  For them, that place an
  
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