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• Community holds vigil for trees removed from park by YVR

  30-03-2019 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond group fighting to save its local park from being destroyed by an airport expansion project held a vigil Friday for more than a dozen trees that have been chopped down.
  Melissa Gervais, a Burkeville resident for 22 years and a spokesperson for Save Templeton Park, says they were caught off guard when YVR crews removed 13 trees in Templeton Park earlier in the week.
  She says some of the trees were 50 to 75 years old.
  So about 50 people from the community of just over 300 homes gathered
  
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• Young B.C. boy attacked by cougars expected to recover

  30-03-2019 22:20 via vancouversun.com
  A Lake Cowichan boy who was mauled by two cougars Friday afternoon has been released from hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
  “His injuries weren’t particularly threatening,” B.C. Conservation Insp. Ben York said Saturday. “It’s claw and puncture marks, bite marks on the back of the head, one of his arms and a little bit on the back of the neck.”
  The boy, who is between the ages of six and 10 years, was attacked around 3:30 p.m. in the yard of hi
  
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• B.C. hazelnut growers beat blight with disease-resistant trees

  30-03-2019 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. hazelnut growers are being encouraged to swap out dying trees with disease-resistant varieties in an effort to rebuild the industry following a devastating outbreak of blight.
  Last fall, farmers removed 3,025 old trees and replanted 8,254 blight-resistant trees on 15.4 hectares (38 acres) across the province.
  The B.C. government has committed $300,000 over the next three years to help with the renewal process. The program is accepting applications for the coming fall until July 15.
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• Illustrated novel explores life and times of former West Vancouver socialite - North Shore News

  30-03-2019 21:30
  Illustrated novel explores life and times of former West Vancouver socialite  North Shore NewsLike all of us, she contained multitudes. It was 1983 and Michael Kluckner, history writer, artist and president of the Vancouver Historical Society, was busy ...
  
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• Metro Vancouver's best sandwich: And the winner is…

  30-03-2019 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  The latest food group to be featured in our “best-of” series is sandwiches. (Click here for Metro Vancouver’s best pizza, best burger and best taco).
  It’s hard not to love a meal that revolves around two fresh pieces of bread with any number of ingredients stacked between them. Not to mention one that is best served with crunchy potato chips and a crisp soda on the side.
  And, according to our call-out on social media, our readers say the best place to get such a dish in V
  
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• This Rain falls mainly in Massey Theatre

  30-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Singin’ In the Rain
  When: April 4 to 20
  Where: Massey Theatre
  Tickets: $49 adults, $39 seniors/students, $19 children 13 under at ticketsnw.ca
  Royal City Musical Theatre’s production of Singin’ In the Rain marks the 30th anniversary of the New West company. Dedicated to mounting large-scale musicals, RCMT is overseen by Valerie Easton, now in her 10th year as artistic director. For Singin’ in the Rain, the company employs a cast of 16 (including leads Andrew Cohen, Tessa
  
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• Meet the Chef: Doug Stephen is keeping it on the Downlow

  30-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Doug Stephen started his career in the front of house at fine dining establishments in Vancouver and Toronto, he eventually found a passion for cooking and slid into the kitchen at Merchant’s. That’s where his famous hot chicken was born, first as a special and then as a secret off-menu item for industry insiders, who kept it on the DL. Today it is served to all at his Downlow Chicken Shack.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  Chef and co-owner of the Downlow Chicken Shack,
  
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• Makeover: Three lip colours for spring that everyone can wear

  30-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  With spring in full swing, I’m sharing my top three favourite lips colours that I can’t live without, and that everyone can wear!Natural
  For a fresh and natural option, I love Dior Lip Glow in Ballet Pink. It’s a universal lip balm that is designed to enhance and revive your natural underlying lip colour.
  Tip: Apply a cream blush, in a sheer berry tone, like Glo Skin Beauty in First Love to slightly fever the cheeks and create a healthy glow with a dewy finish. It’s a gre
  
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• Five reason to check out the 2019 Vancouver International Burlesque Festival

  30-03-2019 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International Burlesque Festival
  When: April 4 to 6
  Where: Bill Reid Gallery (April 4) and Vancouver Playhouse (April 5 & 6)
  Tickets: individual tickets/weekend passes at vibf.ca/tickets
  1. Headliners. Big names at the 14th Vancouver International Burlesque Festival include Inga, Miss Exotic World 2018; Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière, a Mohawk woman from Montreal and Queen of Burlesque 2018; and Pillow. The Anchorage, Alaska dancer began her career in 1976 and was a pioneering
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunshine for the weekend

  30-03-2019 16:42 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Saturday, March 30. Today’s weather looks splendid, with clear skies, sunshine and a high of 19 C inland, or 14 C closer to the water. Environment Canada says the region can expect a few clouds overnight and a low of 6 C. Then, it looks like another sunny day on Sunday, with highs again of 19 C inland and 14 C by the coast. The sunshine continue on Monday, the first day of April, with a balmy high of 20 C inland, and 14 C near the water. Tuesday looks cloudy, but
  
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• B.C. weather in 2019 has been just plain weird

  30-03-2019 16:10 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s January was unusually warm, February was brutally cold and March is threatening to rewrite the record books for drought.
  “There has been a lot of huge fluctuation,” said Armel Castellan, a meteorologist for Environment Canada.
  Fort St. John has received a minuscule 0.8 per cent of its normal precipitation.
  “Just a trace has fallen,” he said. “They normally see 24 millimetres, which isn’t much, but this has been easily the driest March so far on re
  
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• Exhausted and beat on a Ugandan mountain – Ruthie calls for the African helicopter

  30-03-2019 16:08 via vancouversun.com
  Uganda – It never occurred to me that my dream of hiking with silverback gorillas would end with me being carried off the mountain in what is basically a wicker basket.
  The mountain beat me.
  I had been dreaming of a hike to see the silverback gorillas for years. I read hundreds of articles and blog posts. I watched dozens of YouTube videos. I worked out. I broke in new hiking boots. I prepared and then prepared some more. And I dreamt of the day when I would meet a silverback on his turf &
  
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• Why they aren't throwing parties in the streets of Paraty, Brazil

  30-03-2019 15:23 via vancouversun.com
  It’s difficult to move quickly in Paraty. The streets in the 17th-century Brazilian colonial town are paved in uneven cobblestones that were laid out in a deliberate fashion. Designed by the Portuguese to sit below sea level, they allow the ocean tide to come and go, cleaning the streets on a regular basis. Laid by slaves at haphazard angles and grades, they aided in the escape from slavery, as owners would struggle to find footing in pursuit, or a level surface to fire weapons.
  Paraty, pr
  
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• MODE designed to speak to its historic roots

  30-03-2019 13:48 via vancouversun.com
  MODE, Wesgroup Properties’ new residential tower in Vancouver’s River District, will evoke the neighbourhood’s rich heritage by featuring industrial-inspired materials in the architectural design and incorporating historic artifacts – reminders of the sawmills that once dominated the area – in the building’s elegant lobby.
  The 25-storey building, to be built on the aptly named Sawmill Crescent, is part of the second phase of the 130-acre master-planned communi
  
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• Sold (Bought): Ladner residence showcases one-level living

  30-03-2019 13:36 via vancouversun.com
  6339 Brodie Road, Ladner 
  Type: Three-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 1,873 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $940,000
  Listed for: $899,900
  Sold for: $882,000
  Sold on: Dec. 7
  Days on market (in this listing): Zero
  Listing agent: Aileen Noguer at ReMax Progroup Realty
  Buyers agent: Grace Cruz at HomeLand Realty
  The big sell: This home in Ladner’s Holly neighbourhood is a three-bedroom rancher with more than 1,800 square feet of one-level living with some big-ticket upgrades already complet
  
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• The Home Front: Another man's treasure

  30-03-2019 13:05 via vancouversun.com
  Good business ideas often originate from some frustration or need not being met, and that certainly was the case for Benjamin Hyman, co-founder and CEO of vintage rug retailer Revival Rugs.
  When Hyman was newly married, he and his wife set out to buy a rug for their home.
  “We were having trouble finding a rug that we could afford that was unique and had some character to it,” he says.
  A trip through Turkey on their honeymoon had them link up with ex-colleagues from time spent working
  
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• In celebration of wood

  30-03-2019 13:03 via vancouversun.com
  A few years ago, I was having a conversation with an acquaintance regarding The Lagoons, a condominium development at the entrance to Granville Island. He was certain his third-floor apartment was in a concrete building. I told him it was a wood-frame building with a lightweight concrete topping on the floor.
  “Do you want to bet a bottle of scotch?” he asked. I told him it would be an unfair bet since I was part of the project’s development team and had watched it being built.
  
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• David Sidoo's B.C.-based company in default with Securities Commission

  30-03-2019 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  While Vancouver businessman David Sidoo faces a felony charge in the U.S. after being implicated in what American authorities allege was a massive college admissions scam, closer to home, his Vancouver-based company has been put on notice by B.C.’s securities regulator.
  Sidoo stepped down earlier this month as CEO of East West Petroleum, after his arrest in the U.S., but he remains a director of the publicly traded oil and gas company. Coincidentally, just days before news of Sidoo’s
  
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• Daphne Bramham: It's back to court for convicted polygamist charged with unlawfully taking his under-aged daughter to U.S.

  30-03-2019 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  A convicted polygamist and former bishop of Bountiful will return to B.C. Supreme Court on April 1 to be tried for a second time for the unlawful removal of a child from Canada.
  James Marion Oler is charged with having taken his 15-year-old daughter to Mesquite, Nevada, in 2004 where she was subsequently “placed” in a marriage to a 24-year-old man.
  It’s an arcane offence that pre-dates Canada’s child trafficking laws and that had never been used before Oler’s earlie
  
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• Capilano Rugby takes on Vancouver Rowing Club (PHOTOS) - North Shore News

  30-03-2019 08:00
  Capilano Rugby takes on Vancouver Rowing Club (PHOTOS)  North Shore NewsCapilano Rugby Club's premier men took on the Vancouver Rowing Club at West Vancouver's Klahanie Park Saturday March 30. The Rowers pulled out a ...
  
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• Great to train shipboard specific firefighting with @IAFF18, @WestVanFireDept, and @NVCFD as we work to provide the best service possible for our citizens. #NorthVanpic.twitter.com/gqVqg7Yjzu

  30-03-2019 04:37 via twitter.com
  Great to train shipboard specific firefighting with @IAFF18, @WestVanFireDept, and @NVCFD as we work to provide the best service possible for our citizens. #NorthVanpic.twitter.com/gqVqg7Yjzu
  
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• Combat boots representing D-Day soldiers begin cross-country trek from Vancouver

  30-03-2019 03:39 via vancouversun.com
  Veterans Affairs Canada launched a campaign on Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War by sending a pair of combat boots on a cross-country journey.
  Canadian military personnel carry boots aboard a train in Vancouver to kick off commemoration of the D-Day, on June 6, 1944.
  After a ceremony and the unveiling of a poster, the black boots were carried by military personnel onto a train leaving Vancouver’s central train station.
  The boots
  
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• Four-year-old airlifted to hospital after cougars attack near Cowichan Lake

  30-03-2019 03:31 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A four-year-old boy was mauled by a cougar at Lake Cowichan on Friday afternoon and was flown to hospital in Vancouver.
  “His arm was chewed up, but he’s going to be OK,” said Lake Cowichan Mayor Rod Peters, who was at the scene.
  He said the attack happened about 3:30 p.m.
  Peters said conservation officers had shot two cougars in the area by about 6 p.m.
  “They’re still in the area with their dogs,” he said early Friday evening. “They thin
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Once outstanding in their field, NDP bill makes B.C. farmers unpersons

  30-03-2019 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When is a person not a “person”? When they are a farmer, applying to remove their own land from the agriculture reserve under the NDP government’s new legislation.
  It’s all there in Bill 15, tabled in the legislature earlier this month.
  The New Democrats are cancelling the right of individual owners of farmland to apply to the provincial Agricultural Land Commission on their own initiative for exclusions from the reserve.
  The change is not all that great
  
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• Cougar mauls child on Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  30-03-2019 02:35
  Cougar mauls child on Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteThe child was taken to hospital in serious condition.
  
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• Cougar attack on Vancouver Island sends child to hospital

  30-03-2019 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  A child has been seriously injured in a cougar attack near Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Lake.
  The incident occurred Friday afternoon near the Lakeview Park campsite, with land and air ambulance units dispatched to the scene around 3:30 p.m.
  The child, reportedly under 10 years of age, was airlifted to hospital with injuries to the head, neck and arms.
  It is believed that more than one cougar was involved in the attack, according to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.
  Police and conservat
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, March 30, 2019

  30-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  I hope many people read Elizabeth Murphy’s op-ed Monday about saying “No” to SkyTrain to UBC.
  The drive to build high-rise development, as already experienced in other parts of the city, by pushing SkyTrain technology along the heavily used trafficways to UBC seems rushed and blinkered. The end should not justify the means.
  Murphy points out how little consideration has been seriously taken of other jurisdictions which have shown better and more cost-beneficial transit options,
  
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• Sen. Elaine McCoy: Bill C-48 divides Canadians and betrays the promise of Confederation

  30-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  As senators, we have heard from thousands of Canadians for and against Bill C-69, an act that promises the modernization of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. That’s a good thing.
  But an eerie silence prevails around Bill C-48.
  That’s odd because Bill C-48 is far more dangerous. It proposes to ban oil tankers off most of Canada’s western coast. The bill threatens national unity severely and significantly by pitting one region agains
  
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• Peter Dent: The cost of a home in Vancouver and Toronto is criminal

  30-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  Look no further than Vancouver’s real-estate market to know that housing costs are criminally high. There is dirty money in Canada’s housing market and we have no way of assessing its magnitude.
  This vulnerability to nefarious transactions allows criminals to use the anonymity of a private company to launder large sums of money through real estate. This makes Vancouver and Toronto — with their sky-high real estate values — attractive destinations for those looking to park
  
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• Editorial: NDP has developed balanced policy on vaccinations

  30-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  With several outbreaks of preventable, infectious diseases in B.C. in recent years, including the current flare-up of measles, it’s clear that vaccination rates in the province are too low.
  Medical experts say that 90 to 95 per cent of people within a population must be vaccinated to prevent outbreaks of communicable disease. This achieves “herd immunity,” where so many people are immune to a virus that it can’t spread.
  Unfortunately, some vaccination rates around B.C. ar
  
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• Andrew Weaver: LNG isn’t the economic future that B.C. deserves

  30-03-2019 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  No one said this would be easy.
  The B.C. Liberals and the B.C. NDP have both pushed liquefied natural gas with abandon. Both try to sell the public on the line that the only way to a prosperous economic future is through investments in the fossil-fuel industry. This neglects both the challenges and opportunities facing our province.
  The economy of tomorrow will be no more structured around fossil fuels than ours is around the horse and buggy or the stone and chisel. The rest of the world already
  
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• Combat boots representing D-Day soldiers begins cross-country trek from Vancouver

  30-03-2019 01:58 via vancouversun.com
  Veterans Affairs Canada launched a campaign on Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War by sending a pair of combat boots on a cross-country journey.
  Canadian military personnel carry boots aboard a train in Vancouver to kick off commemoration of the D-Day, on June 6, 1944.
  After a ceremony and the unveiling of a poster, the black boots were carried by military personnel onto a train leaving Vancouver’s central train station.
  The boots
  
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• ICBC claims pour in as April 1 changes loom at the auto insurer

  30-03-2019 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  As major changes to the way ICBC does business are about to go into effect April 1, hundreds of insurance claims have been pouring into court registries.
  There are normally between 20 and 30 ICBC notices of civil claim related to motor vehicle accidents filed daily at the Vancouver Law Courts. But in the past week, there has been a significant increase in the number of lawsuits filed, with registry officials on Friday processing about 200 files.
  The changes coming on Monday include a $5,500
  
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• Once outstanding in their field, NDP bill makes B.C. farmers unpersons

  30-03-2019 01:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When is a person not a “person?” When they are a farmer, applying to remove their own land from the agriculture reserve under the NDP government’s new legislation.
  It’s all there in Bill 15, tabled in the legislature earlier this month.
  The New Democrats are cancelling the right of individual owners of farmland to apply to the provincial Agricultural Land Commission on their own initiative for exclusions from the reserve.
  The change is not all that great
  
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• More than 150,000 speculation tax declarations still outstanding

  30-03-2019 00:09 via vancouversun.com
  About 10 per cent of property owners in B.C.’s larger urban areas have yet to file declarations related to the province’s speculation and vacancy tax as the deadline approaches this Sunday, March 31.
  Despite some complaints about the process being onerous, more than 90 per cent of homeowners have managed to complete a form in a few minutes, according to the Ministry of Finance.
  It is expecting there will be a last-minute spike in declarations in the next few days with over 150,000 fo
  
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