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• UBC's water use, emissions plummet as sustainability solutions take hold

  31-03-2019 23:31 via vancouversun.com
  UBC has increased enrolment by 24,000 students over the last 20 years while reducing annual water consumption on the campus by 50 per cent, a whopping 272 million litres in total.
  That is a reduction of 69 per cent per-capita for the equivalent of about 47,000-plus full-time students, said Bud Fraser, the university’s water and zero waste engineer.
  With the completion of its hot water district energy system as a centrepiece accomplishment, the university is also on track to reduce greenhou
  
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• B.C. civil forfeiture office says it properly launched suit against alleged money launderers

  31-03-2019 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. civil forfeiture office says it acted properly in launching a suit for millions of dollars against a Vancouver couple allegedly involved in B.C.’s biggest-ever money-laundering scheme.
  The civil forfeiture office’s position responds to a petition by the two accused, Caixuan Qin and her spouse Jian Jun Zhu, who are seeking to have the civil forfeiture case thrown out, claiming the office waited more than three years to make an application to seize $2 million found during Oct.
  
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• Jacob Markstrom evolving into elite NHL goalie for Vancouver Canucks - battlefordsNOW

  31-03-2019 21:55
  Jacob Markstrom evolving into elite NHL goalie for Vancouver Canucks  battlefordsNOWVANCOUVER — Jacob Markstrom's quiet evolution into an elite NHL goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks hasn't surprised his teammate Alex Biega.
  
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• Boy missing in Abbotsford has been found

  31-03-2019 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  A 12-year-old boy missing from Abbotsford overnight has been located.
  According to the Abbotsford Police Department, Brandon Smitten is “safe and sound.”
  Smitten went missing on Saturday afternoon after his mom dropped him off near a skate park on the 3100-block of Clearbrook Road.
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• Jacob Markstrom evolving into elite NHL goalie for Vancouver Canucks - North Shore News

  31-03-2019 21:03
  Jacob Markstrom evolving into elite NHL goalie for Vancouver Canucks  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — Jacob Markstrom's quiet evolution into an elite NHL goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks hasn't surprised his teammate Alex Biega.
  
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• Sun Run training: Week 12

  31-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Walk 10K / Nordic Walk 10K Program
  (Easy Recovery Week)
  SESSION 1: 80 MINUTES
  Warm-up: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  Walk for 70 min.
  Cool-down: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  SESSION 2: 50 MINUTES
  Warm-up: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  Walk for 40 min.
  Cool-down: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  SESSION 3: 60 MINUTES
  Warm-up: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  Walk for 50 min.
  Cool-down: Walk slow and easy for 5 min.
  Learn To Run 10K Program
  (Easy Recovery Week)
  SESSION 1: 61 MINUTES
  Warm-up: Walk slow
  
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• Sun Run physio: Injured? There is still time to adjust your program

  31-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Sun Run is fast approaching. According to statistics, as much as 50 per cent of runners will have experienced an injury during the course of their program leading up to the race. If you are currently feeling pain during your trainings, there is still time to make things better before April 14.
  Most of the training has been doneTraining has been consistently increasing so far, and the efforts you have put in over the last few weeks will be paying off. At this stage, cutting your wor
  
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• Sun Run coaching: Power of positive visualization

  31-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The work is done now, everybody. It’s your last rest and recovery week before Event Week. Can you see yourself crossing that Sun Run finish line?
  The benefit of positive thinking is medically well-established. Creative visualization is a mental technique that uses the imagination to harness the power of positive thinking to make dreams and goals become reality.
  In my days as an Olympic track athlete, I would take the time to close my eyes and visualize everything about an event, including
  
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• Men's field-hockey Olympians join youth Team Allergy to fight allergies at Sun Run

  31-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What could be safer than pancakes for someone with a severe peanut allergy?
  But that’s the thing: If you’re allergic, you can never assume you’re safe.
  Twelve-year-old Eric Wittig is doing his second Vancouver Sun Run on April 14 to raise awareness and money for allergies research.
  He has severe allergies to peanuts, cashews, pistachios and a legume called lupin, which shares a protein with peanuts. It’s a well-known allergen in Europe and is starting to show up in more f
  
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• Boy missing in Abbotsford

  31-03-2019 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  Police are searching for a 12-year-old boy missing from Abbotsford.
  According to the Abbotsford Police Department, Brandon Smitten was last seen on Mar. 30 on the 3100-block of Clearbrook Road when he was dropped off by his mom at 3:30 p.m. to go to a skatepark.
  When she returned at 5:30 p.m. he was not there.
  Smitton is 5’1, weighs 100 pounds and was last seen wearing a white t-short with “Sacred Mission” on the back and “Mission B.C.” on the front, blue/green Adid
  
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• Shuttered Ambleside Youth Centre catches fire in West Vancouver - North Shore News

  31-03-2019 18:14
  Shuttered Ambleside Youth Centre catches fire in West Vancouver  North Shore NewsThe shuttered Ambleside Youth Centre caught fire late Saturday night. West Vancouver resident Alfie Waugh captured images of the blaze a few minutes after ...
  
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• Stats show signs B.C. cross-border shopping may be on the decline

  31-03-2019 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  There is a simple bellwether sign that Canadian cross-border day trippers, stung by a worsening currency exchange rate, are staying home a little more often, said Lynden, Wash. business representative Gary Vis.
  “It’s easy to find a parking spot at Costco,” said Vis, executive director of the Lynden Chamber of Commerce, with a laugh.
  “I wouldn’t say it’s huge,” Vis said of a recent decline in Canadian traffic, “but it’s definitely significant
  
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• We Are Hockey: Exhibition on players of colour challenges, inspires

  31-03-2019 04:08 via vancouversun.com
  ABBOTSFORD — A game-worn Vancouver Canucks jersey hangs in the oldest existing Sikh temple in North America.
  Part of a new exhibition at the Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, the Manny Malhotra jersey is unlike the artifacts that have previously been displayed in the small museum in the temple’s basement. But set against the white wood beams that were carried to the site on the backs of Sikh settlers in 1911, the jersey does not seem out of place in the least.
  It was a favourite of kids
  
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