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• Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC) - Vancouver Courier

  29-03-2019 23:32
  Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC)  Vancouver CourierSan Francisco is only city that's even less affordable than Vancouver, comparing home prices with typical incomes.
  
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• Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC) - North Shore News

  29-03-2019 23:32
  Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC)  North Shore NewsSan Francisco is only city that's even less affordable than Vancouver, comparing home prices with typical incomes.
  
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• Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC)

  29-03-2019 23:32
  
  San Francisco is only city that's even less affordable than Vancouver, comparing home prices with typical incomes
  
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• Hostage pronounced dead, hostage taker fatally shot by police in Surrey

  29-03-2019 23:26 via vancouversun.com
  Two people are dead following a hostage taking and shootout in Surrey’s Central City area early Friday.
  Called to a home at 100A Ave. and 133 St. on Thursday around 9:30 p.m., RCMP and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team tried to negotiate through the night with a man who was holding a woman hostage, barricaded inside the home.
  “I was here last night, I heard shots,” a neighbour who declined to give her name said as she walked by the area cordoned off by police, a stretc
  
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• The Lions on Vancouver's North Shore: Canadiana episode explores story of original Indigenous name - Straight.com

  29-03-2019 23:00
  The Lions on Vancouver's North Shore: Canadiana episode explores story of original Indigenous name  Straight.comDo you know the original name of the North Shore mountains known as the Lions?
  
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• The Lions on Vancouver's North Shore: Canadiana episode explores story of its original Indigenous name - Straight.com

  29-03-2019 23:00
  The Lions on Vancouver's North Shore: Canadiana episode explores story of its original Indigenous name  Straight.comDo you know the original name of the North Shore mountains known as the Lions?
  
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• Vancouver has the 2nd least affordable housing market in North America - Vancouver Is Awesome

  29-03-2019 22:42
  Vancouver has the 2nd least affordable housing market in North America  Vancouver Is AwesomeZoocasa recently conducted a study of the best and worst North American cities for affordable housing and Vancouver came second worst.
  
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• Two cases of measles reported in Greater Victoria

  29-03-2019 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Two cases of measles have been reported in Greater Victoria, according to Island Health.
  Both people became infected while travelling abroad and sought care at Royal Jubilee Hospital.
  “Based upon clinical management and prior immunization, we want to assure people that risk of transmission is extremely low,” said Dr. Richard Stanwick, Island Health’s chief medical health officer.
  These are the first two cases of measles on Vancouver Island, amid an outbreak of 19 cases on the L
  
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• Trial set for B.C. man accused of swimming naked in Toronto shark tank

  29-03-2019 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  TORONTO — A British Columbia man accused of stripping naked and jumping into a large shark tank at a Toronto aquarium last year is set to stand trial in September.
  Crown and defence lawyers agreed during a brief court hearing Friday to trial dates of Sept. 19 and 20 for David Weaver.
  The alleged incident took place on Oct. 12, 2018 at the city’s Ripley’s Aquarium, police have said.
  Around 10:30 p.m. a large crowd was sipping cocktails and mingling during a “jazz night&rdq
  
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• The Movie Minute: Dumbo

  29-03-2019 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  Will Tim Burton’s new live action, star-studded (Colin Farrell, Eva Green, MIchael Keaton, Danny DeVito) Disney Dumbo take flight? Check out our review in this week’s Movie Minute with Postmedia film critic Dana Gee and Arts & Life editor Aleesha Harris.
  
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• Fixed mortgage rates to drop this year: forecast

  29-03-2019 20:17
  
  Variable rates to hold steady but fixed rate mortgages likely to drop, according to B.C. Real Estate Association
  
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• REAL SCOOP: UN killer wants pay out for prison attack

  29-03-2019 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  I first reported on United Nations gang killer Michael Newman’s suit against the federal government back in 2014, alleging Kent Institution officers were negligent by placing him in an area where rival Red Scorpions could attack. He had said repeatedly that he would be in danger from the RS.
  Newman is clearly not the most sympathetic of characters – having been convicted in the brutal murder of Marc Rozen, a lawyer who had started working with troubled youth. Rozen was selling an eng
  
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• Two people killed during hostage taking in Surrey

  29-03-2019 19:09 via vancouversun.com
  Two people are dead following a hostage taking in Surrey’s Central City area on Friday.
  B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office, a civilian body that investigates all officer-related incidents that result in serious harm or death, says it has been notified of an “officer-involved shooting in Surrey.”
  At 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Surrey RCMP responded to a report of a “serious incident” at a residence in the 13300 block of 98A Avenue.
  Police say multiple efforts wer
  
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• Two more measles cases confirmed at Vancouver Island hospital - North Delta Reporter

  29-03-2019 19:06
  Two more measles cases confirmed at Vancouver Island hospital  North Delta ReporterIsland Health warns of possible exposure at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria.
  
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• Theresa Caputo on being the 'Long Island mom who speaks to dead people'

  29-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Theresa Caputo: The Experience
  When: April 7 at 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Abbotsford Centre (33800 King Rd.)
  Tickets and info: $39.75 to $89.75 (plus taxes and fees); Ticketmaster.caTheresa Caputo wouldn’t be offended if you were to tell her that you don’t believe in psychics, spirits or anything of the sort. Sometimes, she can’t quite wrap her head around it herself.
  “Listen, I’m the first one to say that what I do is crazy. Absolutely insane,” she says with a raucous
  
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• Review: Richard Van Camp gives readers the voice of a master storyteller

  29-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Moccasin Square Gardens
  Richard Van Camp | Douglas & McIntyre
  $19.95, 160 pp.
  Nietzsche argued that Athenian tragedy was born from the spirit of music and represented a fusion of Apollonian and Dionysian elements, resolving the vexed and persistent human dialectic between rational order and ecstatic release. So, too, it could be argued that written literature is born from oral traditions, the practices of story telling around the fire and around world that preserve memory and culture in shap
  
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• Fab 5: Midi life crisis

  29-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Show us a midi dress, and we’ll show you one of the hardest working pieces in the modern woman’s wardrobe.
  Whether it’s a power style for the office or a throw-on-and-go piece for the weekend, it’s the ultimate multi-tasking dress length — and generally a flattering one at that. From breezy linen to wear-with-everything chambray, Rebecca Tay presents five midi dresses to pull on for the new season.WHITE OUT
  A cute, round collar and slightly puffed sleeves never hurt
  
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• Daniel Kalla's new novel deals with the reappearance of the plague

  29-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Since he was a kid Dr. Daniel Kalla has had a bit of a thing for the Black Death.
  “We grow up as kids with nursery rhymes and stories about it. I was fascinated by it,” Kalla recently told Postmedia. “It still remains the biggest natural disaster in terms of lives lost.
  “That’s how a disastrous of an event it really was. I was culturally aware of it.”
  For the record the most common estimate is that the deadly disease killed off one third of Europe from 1347 to
  
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• Brian Minter: Kruckeberg and Chalker-Scott's book remains one of the best sources on native plants

  29-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  For many good reasons, there is a renewed interest in native plants. As we deal with changing weather patterns and the resulting stressors, particularly drought, our native plants seem more tolerant of these conditions.
  Last week I wrote about the importance of pollinator gardens, and native plants provide the diversity needed for all wildlife, especially pollinators. With the current awakening to the vital need to care for our planet, restoring native plantings is an essential environmental pra
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: There's nothing like the dawn of a new vintage

  29-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spring signals renewal for those who work the land. In wine it’s all about the vineyards and with early pruning chores all but complete across B.C. it’s only a matter of time before the buds of 2020 begin their “push” — in viticultural parlance — signalling the start of a new vintage.
  If we were to look at all the grapes produced in B.C. — and there are more and more each year — we could point to constant improvement in almost all of them. Over the
  
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• Interactive map shows biggest commercial real estate deals of 2018

  29-03-2019 18:44
  
  Vancouver fails to make the top five municipalities for average deal value in 2018, while Burnaby saw the highest average and total dollar volume in the region
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: B.C. government averts legal aid strike with interim deal

  29-03-2019 18:24 via vancouversun.com
  Attorney General David Eby and legal-aid lawyers have reached a truce that will give the bar a 25 per cent pay hike to prevent a threatened strike Monday.
  At a news conference Friday, Eby said a one-time grant of $7.9 million — $4 million from government and $3.9 million from Legal Service Society reserve funds — will ease the immediate crisis and provide time for the stakeholders to find a long-term solution to the access-to-justice crisis.
  “We recognize there is work to be do
  
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• B.C. Travel: 8 things to do on Salt Spring Island for nature lovers

  29-03-2019 17:56 via vancouversun.com
  My legs are burning and my hair is sweaty, but I know the end is near. The lush forest packed with moss, ferns and giant trees soon reveals the reason I convinced my parents to hike up a steep mountain for 1.7 kilometres — to witness the incredible birds-eye view of Salt Spring and Vancouver Island.
  “Holy mackerel!” says my father as he joins me on a cliff and soaks in the mind-blowing sight in front of him. Currents swirl in the Stewart Channel flanked by a string of velvety h
  
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• Sher Vancouver founder Alex Sangha of Delta honoured by Governor General - North Delta Reporter

  29-03-2019 17:30
  Sher Vancouver founder Alex Sangha of Delta honoured by Governor General  North Delta ReporterDelta's Alex Sangha was honoured with the Meritorious *Service* Medal this week for his work with Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society, a cultural support ...
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Paramedicine on the frontier

  29-03-2019 17:02 via vancouversun.com
  Life on the frontier in British Columbia is fantastic so long as you’re healthy. Get injured or worse suffer from a chronic condition and up until now, health care was usually a sirens-blaring ambulance trip to a hospital more than 100 km away.
  It was a problem – a big problem – for many reasons. Then one day, a solution emerged: members of the ambulance and paramedics union came up with a way of creating sustainable employment of ambulance paramedics in remote commun
  
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• Breaking: B.C. government averts legal aid strike with interim deal

  29-03-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government and the Association of Legal Aid Lawyers (ALL) have reached an interim agreement that will head off a province-wide strike scheduled for Monday.
  The Province and the Legal Services Society announced a one-time grant of $7.9 million to support the development of a new framework for legal aid funding.
  The money — $4 million from the government and $3.9 million from LSS — will be used to increase payments to legal aid lawyers for a six-month period from April 28 to O
  
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• ICBC 2.0: 'Generational shift' in B.C. auto insurance starts Monday

  29-03-2019 16:46 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. motorists who get in a car crash on Monday will find themselves test-driving the province’s radically changed auto-insurance system.
  A cap of $5,500 on pain and suffering claims for minor injuries in car accidents begins April 1. It’s part of the largest overhaul to auto insurance since the Insurance Corp. of B.C. was created in 1973.
  The goal is to save money. The Crown corporation is teetering on the verge of insolvency and is on track to lose almost $3 billio
  
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• Meet the missing on Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  29-03-2019 16:44
  Meet the missing on Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteThe BC RCMP missing persons page lists active missing persons investigations in BC RCMP jurisdictions. On Vancouver Island, there are 11 active ...
  
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• Police incident closes roads in Surrey's Central City area

  29-03-2019 16:29 via vancouversun.com
  A Thursday night police incident in Surrey has resulted in road closures on Friday.
  At 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Surrey RCMP, along with the Lower Mainland Emergency Team, reponded to a report of a “serious incident” at a residence in the 13300 block of 98A Avenue.
  A heavy police presence remained in the Central City area Friday morning.
  The RCMP are releasing few details but say there will be road closures in the area for a significant amount of time as the investigation is ongoing.
  The p
  
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• B.C. Ferries cancels two sailings between Vancouver and Nanaimo

  29-03-2019 16:16 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries cancelled two sailings between Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo’s Departure Bay terminal due to a mechanical issue on one of its vessels.
  The two sailings — 6:15 a.m. departing Nanaimo and 8:25 a.m. departing Horseshoe Bay — aboard the Queen of Cowichan have been cancelled due to a gearbox problem with the 43-year-old C-class ferry.
  “Engineers have the necessary parts on board and are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,” B.C. Ferries said in a
  
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• Someone smashed 18 car windows in an overnight spree in North Vancouver - Vancouver Is Awesome

  29-03-2019 15:18
  Someone smashed 18 car windows in an overnight spree in North Vancouver  Vancouver Is AwesomeNorth Vancouver RCMP are wondering who would go on an overnight window-smashing spree – and why.
  
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• Town Talk: A lot of to do about cars

  29-03-2019 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  HEARD INSTINCT: Vancouver International Auto Show executive director Jason Heard’s blood contains more than father Phil’s Y chromosome. There’s gasoline, too. Heard Sr. has been involved with automobiles since 1990, when he launched Vancouver’s Molson Indy races as general manager. He’d already staged boat, floating-boat and RV shows. Inheriting that know-how, Jason began staging successive design exhibitions in 2004. Having formed Heard Productions Inc., father and
  
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• Daily Poll: Are bare arms unprofessional?

  29-03-2019 14:52 via vancouversun.com
  On Thursday, a group of women — legislature staffers and some journalists working in the Victoria press gallery — protested a dress-code edict from B.C. legislature security by wearing sleeveless outfits on the job.
  The bare-arm protest came after at least three women working in the legislature were told by sergeant at arms staff that they needed to cover up in the hallways of the legislature.
  Related Women working in B.C. legislature told to cover their bare arms
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• Vancouver Weather: Weekend sun ahead

  29-03-2019 14:34 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Friday, March 29 — There is a lot of sun in the Metro Vancouver weekend weather forecast.
  Environment Canada says we can expect mainly clear skies Friday with a high of 14 degrees, with temperatures getting up to 19 further inland. The average high for this time of year is 11.2.
  Expect clear skies tonight and more sunshine in store for us on Saturday and Sunday.
  The temperature is expected to hover around 13-14 this weekend.
    Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Clea
  
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• UBC turns land into a river of gold

  29-03-2019 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  On a wide red-brick sidewalk that wends through UBC’s Wesbrook Village, kids on bicycles bomb past Robert Lee, the 85-year-old visionary whose plan to turn a commuter campus into a bustling network of family neighbourhoods has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
  Lee, who recently had a knee replacement, doesn’t wobble as the kids whiz past him. He’s determined to find a small, artificial lake nestled among the sculpted gardens, playgrounds and burbling water features of the de
  
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• Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC) - Richmond News

  29-03-2019 08:00
  Vancouver has second least affordable North American housing market (INFOGRAPHIC)  Richmond NewsSan Francisco is only city that's even less affordable than Vancouver, comparing home prices with typical incomes.
  
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• New court dates set for five accused in Vancouver police child sex sting

  29-03-2019 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  Nine months after their arrests and charges for obtaining the sexual services of a child, five of the seven accused have yet to enter pleas.
  Four of the men on Thursday and one on Wednesday had their cases adjourned until next month at Vancouver provincial court.
  Vancouver police arrested 47 men in total during a child sex sting over nine days from June to November where officers set up an online sting posing as a teen girl between 15 and 17 years old to arrange a sex act for money.
  Crown prosec
  
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• Port Moody mayor charged with sexual assault, takes paid leave of absence

  29-03-2019 02:56 via vancouversun.com
  Port Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov is taking a paid leave of absence after being charged with sexual assault relating to an incident alleged to have taken place four years ago.
  Vagramov has denied the allegation, but will also be standing down from the Port Moody Police Board until the case is resolved.
  “When the allegation surfaced during the election campaign last year, I was horrified and taken completely by surprise,” Vagramov told reporters on Thursday afternoon. “I want to be
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Weaver says taxpayers shortchanged by archaic well-drilling incentives

  29-03-2019 02:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Green leader Andrew Weaver is again questioning a well-drilling incentive for natural gas that has already reduced provincial revenues by billions of dollars, with billions more still to be claimed.
  His target is deep well credits. As an incentive to drill deeper wells, the province offers a discount on royalties for the natural gas produced from those wells.
  When the credit was created by the previous B.C. Liberal government in 2003, deeper wells were much more expensive to dev
  
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• Andrew McCredie: The coming buzzkill to the electric vehicle movement

  29-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you attended the recent Vancouver International Auto Show, you left with one overriding impression: the age of electric has arrived.
  No longer are electric vehicles mere novelties, bait-and-switch shiny objects trotted out by automakers to lure consumers into their displays only to hard-sell them on sport utilities. Nor are EVs mere marketing ploys, do-gooder sops to the environmental movement. The billions of dollars, euros and yen invested in EV powertrain research and development pay testa
  
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• A kayaker has drowned off the waters of Burnaby

  29-03-2019 01:27 via vancouversun.com
  A male kayaker drowned off the waters of Barnet Marine Park in Burnaby on Thursday.
  According to an RCMP news release, emergency services were called to the park at 2:15 p.m. with reports of a man overboard after his kayak had capsized. Three Canadian Coast Guard vessels, the Burnaby Fire Department and Vancouver Police Marine Unit attended the scene.
  The man’s body was recovered at 3:20 p.m. The tide was halfway in at the time.
  According to the Burnaby Now, the man had been crab fishing f
  
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• Port Moody mayor charged with sexual assault, takes leave of absence

  29-03-2019 01:17 via vancouversun.com
  Port Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov is taking a leave of absence after being charged with sexual assault for an incident alleged to have taken place four years ago.
  The charge was sworn in B.C. provincial court on Wednesday, and announced by the B.C. Prosecution Service in a statement on Thursday. Vagramov’s first court appearance is scheduled for April 25 in Port Coquitlam.
  The assault is alleged to have happened on April 1, 2015.
  Vagramov was first elected to council in 2014, and was voted in
  
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• Fatal Kootenay Pass tanker truck crash causes 'significant' fuel spill into Salmo River

  29-03-2019 00:56 via vancouversun.com
  Police say the driver of a tanker truck was killed and a “significant” amount of fuel was spilled in a single-vehicle crash on the Kootenay Pass Wednesday night.
  RCMP Cpl. Mike Halskov says the two-tanker truck was carrying gasoline and diesel, and the tankers ruptured as a result of the crash.
  RCMP investigators were called to the scene on Highway 3 at 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday.
  Drive B.C. says the bottom of Kootenay Pass was closed in both directions and is expected to open Friday.
  In
  
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• B.C. Ferries to increase sailings on minor and northern routes

  29-03-2019 00:56 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries will increase sailings on several minor and northern routes after they were cut in 2014.
  In a prepared statement, Claire Trevena, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, said the additional sailings were being restored after a request from the B.C. Ferry Advisory Committee.
  “Adding these additional sailings will be a huge help to people living in coastal communities who rely on ferries for day-to-day travel,” Trevena said. “Along with reducing and freezing f
  
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• Falling home prices not only in Vancouver, but also in markets around world

  29-03-2019 00:48 via vancouversun.com
  A five-bedroom home with panoramic ocean views on Mathers Avenue in West Vancouver was just listed for sale at $3.8 million, which is 21-per-cent below its assessed value.
  It was listed at the end of 2018 for nearly $7 million, then re-listed in January for $5.5 million and then in March for $4.9 million. That’s a dramatic slide, and there are other listings like this that have caught the attention of local market-watchers.
  “People are only selling if they are needing to sell,”
  
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• B.C. company cancels foreign exchange/money transfer registration with federal government

  29-03-2019 00:40 via vancouversun.com
  Lower Mainland property developer Bene Group has delisted a company registered with the federal government that allowed it to engage in foreign exchange dealing and money transferring.
  The move follows a Postmedia investigation that found a subsidiary of the property developer, Bene Financial Group Ltd., was a front for an unaffiliated operation. The Bene Group did not “actually” own Bene Financial, and it was, in fact, run by a man not listed on the corporate registry records who us
  
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• Firefighters were training today at Seaspan with @IAFF18 and @WestVanFireDept This is part of a shipboard firefighting course that will increase interoperability and improve our service to those in need of help in the harbour. @FireChiefReid @VanFireRes

  29-03-2019 00:24 via twitter.com
  Firefighters were training today at Seaspan with @IAFF18 and @WestVanFireDept
  This is part of a shipboard firefighting course that will increase interoperability and improve our service to those in need of help in the harbour. @FireChiefReid @VanFireRescue @MoreThanShipspic.twitter.com/oSRm5lDv0x
  
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