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• Woman who ran illegal hostel in North Vancouver fined $5K for contempt - Vancouver Is Awesome

  03-04-2019 23:45
  Woman who ran illegal hostel in North Vancouver fined $5K for contempt  Vancouver Is AwesomeThe North Vancouver woman who ran a hostel out of her three-bedroom townhouse has been ordered to pay a fine, but a B.C. Supreme Court judge stopped ...
  
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• Gibsons development company faces foreclosure

  03-04-2019 23:44
  
  Waterfront site of controversial proposed condo project Seaglass goes back up for sale
  
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• St. Paul’s Hospital Burrard Street site for sale

  03-04-2019 23:38
  
  Historic building has landed on several Heritage Vancouver Society watch lists
  
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• Prison guards seize drone and drugs at Agassiz's Kent Institution

  03-04-2019 23:17 via vancouversun.com
  More than $86,000 worth of contraband — including a drone, drugs, cellphones and a weapon — was seized at Agassiz’s Kent Institution last month when guards intercepted a package at the maximum security prison.
  The Correctional Service of Canada says the seizure happened on March 25.
  The drone and package were spotted on the perimeter of the prison.
  The contraband seized included 28.9 grams of heroin, 61.6 grams of THC concentrate, 108.2 grams of amphetamines, a ceramic edged we
  
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• RCMP in B.C. offer $55,000 reward for finding accused murderer

  03-04-2019 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  Police in B.C. have announced a new strategy, including a $55,000 reward, in the search for a wanted man.
  Brandon Teixeira was 27 when he was charged with first-degree murder almost seven months ago and police believe he remains on the run.
  The RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced it will partner with Crime Stoppers and the Bolo Program, a public-safety project to encourage citizens to be on the lookout for Canada’s most-wanted.
  The Bolo Program and Crime Stop
  
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• Sooke child who survived rare 2012 transplant battling cancer again

  03-04-2019 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A Sooke child with cancer who survived a rare transplant in 2012 is back in hospital with cancerous tumours in her brain, says her mother.
  After experiencing excruciating headaches, nine-year-old Hannah Day had diagnostic tests at Victoria General Hospital last week that showed tumours in her brain and spine, said Brooke Ervin.
  Hannah was flown to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver and on Monday underwent a biopsy to determine the type of tumours. “We know she has
  
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• The Ultimate Visitors Guide to Vancouver

  03-04-2019 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a reason Vancouverites like to say the west coast is the best coast. Our weather is mild, the ocean is right there and the mountains are right over there, and there’s no shortage of things to do and see.
  Welcome to the Vancouver Sun’s ultimate visitors guide.
  This post is updated regularly with new content.When should you visit Vancouver?
  Due to our mild weather, you’ll find a pretty regular stream of visitors almost any time of year. Here’s a
  
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• Report about violence against Downtown Eastside women calls for change

  03-04-2019 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  A group on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside says Indigenous women need to be included in leadership and decision-making positions in governments and other organizations if violence against women is going to stop.
  It’s one of 35 recommendations made in the Red Women Rising report released by the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre.
  The report is based on interviews with 113 Indigenous women and 15 non-Indigenous women.
  Co-author Carol Muree Martin says the National Inquiry into Missin
  
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• Victim on life support, still no arrests in North Van shooting - CTV News

  03-04-2019 21:34
  Victim on life support, still no arrests in North Van shooting  CTV NewsThere is still no suspect in custody the day after a woman was seriously injured in a daylight shooting in North Vancouver.
  
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• Impact of ban on realtor dual agency downplayed

  03-04-2019 21:28
  
  No disciplinary action yet under new realtor rules
  
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• Gas prices hit $1.61 a litre in Vancouver - North Island Gazette

  03-04-2019 20:42
  Gas prices hit $1.61 a litre in Vancouver  North Island GazetteTwo of B.C.'s major suppliers still under scheduled maintenance.
  
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• Gas prices hit $1.61 a litre in Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  03-04-2019 20:35
  Gas prices hit $1.61 a litre in Vancouver  North Delta ReporterTwo of B.C.'s major suppliers still under scheduled maintenance.
  
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• Man murdered in small northern B.C. village of Kitkatla

  03-04-2019 19:41 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP is investigating a murder in the remote village of Kitkatla, a First Nations community located on Dolphin Island off B.C.’s northern coast.
  Prince Rupert RCMP were called to a residence on the evening of April 1 after receiving a report of a possible sudden death.
  A 34-year-old man was found suffering from life-threatening injuries.
  Police called in an air ambulance from Prince Rupert, but the man died from his injuries.
  Kitkatla, which has a population of 490, is located 45 kilom
  
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• Missing person: 60-year-old male last seen in North Vancouver - Straight.com

  03-04-2019 19:23
  Missing person: 60-year-old male last seen in North Vancouver  Straight.comA North Vancouver resident has gone missing from Lynn Valley.
  
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• Spirit of Vancouver Island ferry returns from Poland after refit with LNG

  03-04-2019 18:53 via vancouversun.com
  The Spirit of Vancouver Island is expected to sail into B.C. Ferries’ refit facility in Richmond on Wednesday, a little over a month after it left Poland, where it was converted to run on liquefied natural gas rather than diesel only.
  The vessel was expected to pass by the Victoria pilot station early in the morning.
  It left B.C. on Sept. 14 for the mid-life refit at Remontowa Ship Repair Yard S.A. of Gdansk Poland. Work included installation of new engines and fuel system, new navigation
  
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• Surrey teacher who drank alcohol before a dry grad reprimanded

  03-04-2019 18:51 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey high school teacher who had a couple of drinks and engaged in inappropriate behaviour at a dry grad has been reprimanded for professional misconduct by the B.C. College of Teachers.
  Edward Robert Lefurgy was helping out at the school’s casino-themed dry grad — an event without alcohol — held in June 2017 in Vancouver.
  When he arrived, he met a parent and had two alcoholic beverages at the bar, according to an agreed statement of facts issued by the college.
  Lefurgy was
  
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• Are B.C. home values going to pot?

  03-04-2019 18:48
  
  Most Canadians think nearby dispensaries will lower their home value, but the data disagrees
  
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• RCMP in B.C. ready to unveil a new strategy in search for accused murderer

  03-04-2019 18:43 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY — Police in British Columbia are preparing to announce a new strategy in the search for a wanted man.
  Brandon Teixeira was 27 years old when he was charged with first-degree murder almost seven months ago and police believe he remains on the run.
  The RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a new tactic in the search is ready to be announced at the team’s headquarters in Surrey.
  A warrant for Teixeira was issued last September, after the October 2017 shooting o
  
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• A Letter to You. Words Of Motivation; Perseverance!

  03-04-2019 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  The last few weeks are upon us, we’re getting ready to gather as one massive group on Georgia Street on April 14th. Things are getting harder or maybe they’re getting easier! You’re pushing harder than before and you should be, these final weeks truly matter. You’re running longer than when we first started and maybe even a little faster! The path we are on is all about perseverance.
  Pepe Duarte of Britannia said to us one year, “running is the only sport where peop
  
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• Coquitlam mayor trashes litterbugs on social media

  03-04-2019 16:32 via vancouversun.com
  The mayor of Coquitlam is calling out litterbugs on social media, after he witnessed someone toss a Taco Bell bag out a car window.
  Fed up with those with little regard for keeping the city clean, Richard Stewart took the somewhat unconventional step of posting a message on Facebook Tuesday, identifying the type of car, a partial license plate number, and a message for the driver:
  “I will drop off your garbage and your full license plate number with Bylaw Enforcement; you can pick it up th
  
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• 11-screen VIP Cineplex opens in West Vancouver - North Shore News

  03-04-2019 15:00
  11-screen VIP Cineplex opens in West Vancouver  North Shore NewsAs the closing credits roll at one North Shore movie theatre, it's lights, camera, action at another. After 20 years without moving pictures in West Vancouver, ...
  
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• Vancouver convention focuses on forest industry challenges

  03-04-2019 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  The challenge of producing lumber from B.C.’s mountain-pine-beetle and wildfire-ravaged forests will be a top topic at the Council of Forest Industries’ annual convention in Vancouver on Thursday and Friday.
  For producers such as Canfor Corp. and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd, adjusting has meant reducing mill capacity in B.C. while continuing to buy and build mills where trees are more plentiful, such as the U.S. south and even Scandinavia.
  “Fibre availability is obviously critic
  
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• Supporters in Vancouver riding would back Wilson-Raybould as an Independent - North Shore News

  03-04-2019 10:11
  Supporters in Vancouver riding would back Wilson-Raybould as an Independent  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — Supporters of Jody Wilson-Raybould in her Vancouver Granville riding say they're disappointed she was ejected from the Liberal caucus but ...
  
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• Family of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry marks anniversary of Vancouver woman's murder - North Shore News

  03-04-2019 09:00
  Family of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry marks anniversary of Vancouver woman's murder  North Shore NewsSURREY, B.C. — The family of a woman found murdered in a southwest Vancouver park is making another appeal to the public on the tenth anniversary of her ...
  
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• Canucks 4, Sharks 2: Pearson proves a point in home-ice finale

  03-04-2019 07:15 via vancouversun.com
  Travis Green knew it wasn’t going to be easy because the incentive had to come from his players and not him.
  The motivational message for the Vancouver Canucks in their home-ice finale against a club sharpening its game for the postseason wasn’t scribbled on a whiteboard. It wasn’t going to come in a pep talk from the coach. It had to come from the players.
  “These are tough games,” Green admitted of facing the San Jose Sharks. “There are a lot of guys who have
  
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• Expelled by the Liberals, Wilson-Raybould could be courted by other parties

  03-04-2019 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  It was business as usual inside the Vancouver Granville constituency office of B.C. MP Jody Wilson-Raybould on Tuesday afternoon.
  But outside, a throng of media was set up seeking reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to expel Wilson-Raybould from caucus and deny her the right to run for re-election as a Liberal in the October federal election.
  Media gather outside the constituency office of Vancouver-Granville MP Jpdy Wilson-Raybould on April 2, 2019.
  “Trudeau has mad
  
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• Video: Grouse Mountain's grizzlies Grinder and Coola have emerged from hibernation

  03-04-2019 05:17 via vancouversun.com
  Grouse Mountain’s two grizzly bears emerged from hibernation on Tuesday morning, for the 18th time.
  Grinder and Coola were in their hibernation shed for 128 days and were monitored the whole time via an infrared camera placed inside their den. The livefeed can be viewed here.
  Grinder and Coola at play after emerging from hibernation at Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, B.C. on April 2, 2019. [PNG Merlin Archive]Dr. Ken Macquisten, refuge director and veterinarian, said the awakening of the two
  
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• Spirit of Vancouver Island ferry returns from Poland, refit with LNG - North Shore News

  03-04-2019 05:15
  Spirit of Vancouver Island ferry returns from Poland, refit with LNG  North Shore NewsThe Spirit of Vancouver Island is expected to sail into B.C. Ferries' refit facility in Richmond on Wednesday, a little over a month after it left Poland, where it was ...
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Kang cousin goes to jail for renting stash houses

  03-04-2019 05:02 via vancouversun.com
  The older cousin of Sameet, Gary and Randy Kang was sent to jail for a year Monday for assisting the gang by renting stash houses for them. He earlier pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly participating in the activities of a criminal organization.
  Here’s my story:
  Kang gang member gets a year in jail
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: April 2, 2019
  A member of the Kang criminal organization has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to helping the gang in the drug trade by renting stas
  
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• Liberals tweak NDP noses with rare win in B.C. legislature

  03-04-2019 04:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s New Democrat government suffered an embarrassing defeat in the legislature on a section of its marquee liquefied natural gas bill Tuesday night after its power-sharing partners, the Greens, walked out of a vote.
  MLAs were in committee phase, debating details of the NDP’s LNG Income Tax Amendment Act, which offers more than $6 billion in tax breaks to the $40-billion LNG Canada project in Kitimat.
  The Liberals proposed an amendment to one of the bill’s se
  
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• B.C. First Nation members plan new camp to block LNG pipeline path

  03-04-2019 04:27 via vancouversun.com
  HOUSTON — Members of a First Nation in northern British Columbia who oppose a planned pipeline through their traditional territory say they will build a new camp to block its path.
  A statement posted on Facebook on Tuesday says the Likhts’amisyu clan of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation is asserting its sovereignty by creating “a new, permanent land reclamation on their territory.”
  It says the camp will be “strategically located in order to impede the abilit
  
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• College of Physicians and Surgeons penalizes Vancouver doctor for not answering questions

  03-04-2019 04:01 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver doctor who was ordered to repay the provincial government $2 million in 2017 for overbilling has now been disciplined in another matter by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.
  Dr. Viem Chung Nguyen, a Vancouver physical and rehabilitation specialist, admitted that he failed to respond to multiple communications and correspondence from the college. He has been reprimanded and fined $7,500 by the college. He was also ordered to pay an additional $8,731 in costs after a consen
  
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• Kang gang member gets a year in jail

  03-04-2019 03:49 via vancouversun.com
  A member of the Kang criminal organization has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to helping the gang in the drug trade by renting stash houses.
  Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Reg Harris noted that Ranbir Kang’s assistance to a violent drug gang warranted time in jail even if his actions were not violent.
  “The spread of violence and drugs by organized groups must be stopped. A step in this direction is to impose a sentence indicating that those who aid criminal
  
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• Woman on life support after daylight shooting in North Vancouver's Central Lonsdale neighbourhood

  03-04-2019 03:47 via vancouversun.com
  A woman is on life support at Lions Gate Hospital after a shooting in broad daylight in North Vancouver’s Central Lonsdale neighbourhood on Tuesday morning.
  No arrests had been made as of Tuesday afternoon.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over the case.
  UPDATE IN NORTH VAN: #IHIT has conduct of the investigation. Female victim is currently on life support. Apologies for the misinformation.
  — IHIT (@HomicideTeam) April 2, 2019“Just before 11 a.m., North Vanc
  
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• Richmond housing is a gold mine for big Airbnb players – some live abroad

  03-04-2019 03:37
  
  974 Richmond Airbnb listings are reported, including 26 run by the same operator.
  
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• Vancouver Convention Centre expansion racks up $2.4 billion in impact versus $883 million start

  03-04-2019 03:34 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Convention Centre’s expansion, which opened in 2009 as an $883-million, budget busting gamble on the meetings and conferences business, more than holds its own a decade on, its operators contend.
  “Our real goal 10 years ago was to triple the capacity of our meeting business, and we’ve done that,” said convention centre general manager Craig Lehto, leading a 10th-anniversary tour to reacquaint the local media with what has become an admired presence on Vancou
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Eby's bumpy, make-it-up-as-you-go-along ride on challenging ICBC file

  03-04-2019 03:26 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Portrait of a cabinet minister making things up as he goes along:
  • Feb. 7: David Eby, wearing his cabinet minister for ICBC hat, reacts to news the government-owned auto insurance company missed its financial target for the first full year under the NDP.
  ICBC forecast a loss of $684 million. Instead it will lose $1.18 billion, not much less than the $1.296 billon it lost in the financial year shared with the departed B.C. Liberal government.
  Not to worry says Eby, still we
  
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• Dan Fumano: Vancouver hits housing targets for bottom and top, missing the middle

  03-04-2019 03:17 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver has created, a city news release announced Tuesday, a “record number of new homes” in the last two years. But while that headline may be true, it omits the fact that when it comes to certain kinds of homes, the city lags behind its own targets.
  As outlined in a presentation from city staff to council Tuesday, and in the 197-page data book accompanying it, Vancouver struggles to build enough rental homes that are affordable for families earning less than $80,000 a year.
  Buil
  
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• IHIT takes over North Vancouver shooting, says woman on life support - Toronto Star

  03-04-2019 03:16
  IHIT takes over North Vancouver shooting, says woman on life support  Toronto StarVANCOUVER—The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over an investigation of a shooting in North Vancouver that sent one woman to hospital ...
  
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• Susan Yurkovich: Forest industry helps grow one in 17 jobs in B.C.

  03-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The forest industry has long been known as a key driver in B.C.’s economy, but a new study reveals its economic impact is even more profound, in generating significant economic activity in all regions of the province including big cities, small towns and Indigenous communities.
  The study, conducted by PwC for the B.C. Council of Forest Industries, assesses the industry’s local economic impact in B.C.’s seven regions as defined by Statistics Canada: North Coast and Nechako, Nort
  
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• St. Paul's Hospital site in Downtown Vancouver up for sale

  03-04-2019 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  The St. Paul’s Hospital site in Downtown Vancouver has quietly been put up for sale. But details are hard to come by.
  The site is being marketed by CBRE, which declined to comment on the record because “it’s a deal in progress.” There is no dollar figure on a sales brochure for the property, but the 6.6-acre site has an assessed value of $784,054,000.
  The hospital takes up almost two blocks between Burrard, Thurlow and Comox streets and See-em-ia Lane, behind Davie Street
  
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• Family refuses to give up hunt for Wendy Ladner-Beaudry's killer

  03-04-2019 02:48 via vancouversun.com
  Ten years after the murder of his sister in Vancouver’s Pacific Spirit Park, Peter Ladner still feels her presence “haunting” the air when he walks through the woods.
  A poster offering a $30,000 reward for new information on the murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry is still pinned up on park bulletin boards near the site where the mother of two was murdered on April 3, 2009, but women still jog its wooded paths, often with headphones on, and some may be unaware of the brutal mur
  
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• Wildfire burning north of Vancouver suspected to be human caused - KelownaNow

  03-04-2019 02:22
  Wildfire burning north of Vancouver suspected to be human caused  KelownaNowSpring has only recently sprung and wildfire season is already making headlines in B.C.. A 15-hectare wildfire broke out northeast of Squamish Monday night, ...
  
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• Woman on life support after daylight shooting in North Vancouver's Central Lonsdale neighbourhood - Vancouver Sun

  03-04-2019 01:24
  Woman on life support after daylight shooting in North Vancouver's Central Lonsdale neighbourhood  Vancouver SunA woman is on life support at Lions Gate Hospital after a shooting in broad daylight in North Vancouver's Central Lonsdale neighbourhood.
  
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• North Vancouver shooting sends woman to hospital - Vancouver Is Awesome

  03-04-2019 01:23
  North Vancouver shooting sends woman to hospital  Vancouver Is AwesomeWoman clings to life after daylight shooting shatters North Vancouver  Times ColonistWoman on life support after daylight shooting in North Vancouver's Central Lonsdale neighbourhood  Vancouver SunWoman in critical condition after shooting in Lonsdale area of North Vancouver  CBC.caUPDATE: Woman on life support after daylight shooting in North Vancouver  Cloverdale ReporterView
  
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• New confirmed case of measles in the Lower Mainland

  03-04-2019 01:18
  
  Health officials warn infected person rode 323 bus and Expo Line on March 27
  
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• College of Physicians and Surgeons penalizes doctor for not answering questions

  03-04-2019 00:32 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver doctor who was ordered to repay the provincial government $2 million in 2017 for overbilling has now been disciplined in another matter by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.
  Dr. Viem Chung Nguyen, a Vancouver physical and rehabilitation specialist, admitted that he failed to respond to multiple communications and correspondence from the college. He has been reprimanded and fined $7,500 by the college. He was also ordered to pay an additional $8,731 in costs after a consen
  
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• Two men in hospital, five arrested following shooting and crash in Surrey

  03-04-2019 00:30 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP is trying to piece together a series of violent events that sent two men to hospital after a shooting and a crash in Surrey.
  Sgt. Kimberley Farlin says police responded to reports of shots fired at about 9 p.m. Monday in the 15300-block of 102A Street, in the Guildford neighbourhood. Just minutes later, officers were alerted to a multi-vehicle crash about two kilometres from the shooting, near the western edge of Tynehead Regional Park.
  A man with gunshot wounds was found at the crash s
  
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• Vancouver MP Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott kicked out of Liberal caucus: Trudeau

  03-04-2019 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Vancouver MP Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott have both been kicked out of the Liberal caucus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, moments after their fellow government MPs had gathered on Parliament Hill for an emergency meeting to determine their future with the party.
  Wilson-Raybould, whose explosive allegations of political interference by the Prime Minister’s Office appear to have deeply imperilled Liberal hopes of holding on to power in this fall’s
  
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• Baby hurt at Greater Victoria daycare airlifted to B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver

  03-04-2019 00:27 via vancouversun.com
  West Shore RCMP’s serious-crimes unit and Island Health are investigating after a baby suffered head injuries at a family daycare in Langford.
  Police were called Friday after the 11-month-old infant was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
  When the mother, Kate Haywood, picked up Sophie from daycare Friday, she discovered she had been vomiting, according to a GoFundMe page set up to support the family during the child’s recovery.
  The daycare operator told Haywood
  
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