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• UPDATE: Hundreds without power after wind storm on Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  06-04-2019 22:27
  UPDATE: Hundreds without power after wind storm on Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteBC Ferries also forced to cancel several mid-morning sailings.
  
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• Letter: Richmond music scene better than getting burnt in North Vancouver - Richmond News

  06-04-2019 22:00
  Letter: Richmond music scene better than getting burnt in North Vancouver  Richmond NewsDear Editor, Re: “You Can't Stop the Music — except in Richmond, apparently,” Letters, March 29. To Donald Grant: I invite you to watch this newspaper for the ...
  
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• City of North Vancouver fast tracks Shipyards Brewery District - Vancouver Is Awesome

  06-04-2019 21:45
  City of North Vancouver fast tracks Shipyards Brewery District  Vancouver Is AwesomeCouncil has voted to fast track rule changes that will make it easier for a host of new breweries to open in a “brewery district” in Lower Lonsdale.
  
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• Wind warning in effect for parts of B.C.'s South and Central Coast, ferries cancelled

  06-04-2019 20:37 via vancouversun.com
  Environment Canada has posted a wind warning for parts of the B.C.’s South And Central Coast Saturday, with winds of up to 110 km/hr expected in some areas.
  B.C. Ferries was forced to cancel several morning sailings, including Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo, Crofton to Salt Spring Island, Comox to Powell River, and Cortes Island to Quadra Island.
  High winds are expected on much of Vancouver Island, including Greater Victoria, the Sunshine Coast, the Southern Gulf Islands, and the Central Coast.
  
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• Makeover: Expectant mother gets an updated hair cut

  06-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Neha Mahla is a 31-year-old dental assistant who is expecting her first baby and was looking for an updated hair cut.
  Mahla has very thick and naturally wavy hair. It was feeling drab and flat and wanted a haircut that would be easy to manage and work with her lifestyle. Her existing fringe was grown out and too sparse, and her length was not working for her beautiful face shape.
  I shampooed her hair with KMS — Moist Repair Shampoo and Conditioner for moisture repair and manageability. I a
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy and windy, with risk of a thunderstorm

  06-04-2019 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Saturday, March 6. Today’s weather is going to be cold, with rain, high winds, and there may even be a thunderstorm later in the day. Environment Canada is forecasting up to 10 millimetres of rain throughout the day, with winds gusting up to 70 km/h near the water, and a high of just 10 C. The rain, along with a possible thunderstorm, continues overnight, and then there’s a chance of showers on Sunday morning. The rain should ease up for a mainly cloudy afternoo
  
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• Amtrak's Coast Starlight offers the best way to view the west coast

  06-04-2019 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  When traveling by train you take the good (views) with the bad (views).
  And so it was on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Seattle to Los Angeles and back mid-February.
  I enjoyed jaw-dropping vistas of the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of California, the spray from the surf backlit by the sun as well as miles of nut trees planted neatly like so many crosses in a cemetery.
  Farmland, northern California.
  One night I awoke thinking I had somehow accidentally knocked the nigh
  
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• Your guide to getting around Los Angeles car free

  06-04-2019 16:20 via vancouversun.com
  LOS ANGELES – You don’t need a rental car and you don’t need Uber – Los Angeles has become transit-friendly that’s easy to get around.
  For a city that’s long been associated with grind-to-a-halt freeways, Los Angeles has done a remarkable job with its transit system in recent years, weaving a series of underground and over-ground lines that link far-flung areas of the city.
  Six Metro lines link far-flung areas of the city together.
  With six lines, vi
  
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• 5 hot home décor items for spring

  06-04-2019 15:26 via vancouversun.com
  Décor is alive with plants and flowers this season, inspiring furnishings and accessories throughout the home. Real, stylized or textural, florals look perfect in any room. Soft cherry-blossom pink is a particular favourite, springing up on pillows, throws, carpets and walls. Open your doors and let some spring fever into your home.
  No wallflowers allowedAdd some life to your wall with these geo-motif planters filled with plants galore. Buy the Terrecotta Wallscape Planter in multiples to
  
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• Float home living in the Lower Mainland

  06-04-2019 15:24 via vancouversun.com
  Here in Metro Vancouver, our land has natural and planned boundaries where homes can’t be built, such as parks and the agricultural land reserve. We’re also hemmed in by mountains, the U.S. border and bodies of water. In fact, the Lower Mainland is surrounded by water in the form of rivers, oceans and lakes.
  Are we ignoring this abundant supply of water that can offer more affordable home options in desirable locations? I’m not talking about a derelict sailboat bobbing on ancho
  
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• What you need to know to build your dream home

  06-04-2019 15:22 via vancouversun.com
  Many Canadians are choosing to build custom homes with special features to suit their lifestyles and tastes. A home construction mortgage can provide the financing you need to create the custom home you want.
  While building your own home can be a creative and exciting experience, it can also present financial challenges. Financing the construction of your home can be complex, and that’s where the expertise of a mortgage specialist comes in. You will need help and in-depth knowledge of cons
  
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• Belpark's Vancouver location offers green spaces and urban conveniences

  06-04-2019 15:20 via vancouversun.com
  Parks and golf courses, with their swathes of green space, enhance livability as cities become more dense and natural outlooks harder to find. Belpark, Intracorp’s 120-home development currently under construction on Vancouver’s west side, benefits from the Langara Golf Course to the north and Winona Park to the south.
  However, while the green spaces enhance the location at 375 West 59th Avenue, the development is only a block from Cambie Street and close to urban amenities including
  
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• Fort Langley: Charming community has a unique village feel

  06-04-2019 15:18 via vancouversun.com
  Not to be confused with the Township of Langley (of which it’s a part) or the City of Langley (of which it’s not), Fort Langley is the kind of idyllic village that is becoming extinct.
  Nestled on the banks of the Fraser River to the north and surrounded by agricultural land, the town has managed to keep its old-world charm. Instead of big-box stores and chains, residents and visitors shop and dine at independent shops and restaurants. In the town centre, a three-storey building is co
  
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• Brian Minter: How to create an artistic outdoor garden container

  06-04-2019 15:16 via vancouversun.com
  There’s an exciting trend today in outdoor containers. Rather than simply plants in a pot, containers are being designed more as an art form. This trend is part of a larger movement creating garden art. At the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle this past February, there was more emphasis on incorporating art into outdoor living spaces.
  One element critical to any art form is the focal point. Where does your eye go first when you look at a container? What demands your attention
  
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• Georgie Awards: Best in B.C. housing construction, design and development

  06-04-2019 15:14 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia-based builders and renovators are celebrating their wins following this year’s Georgie Awards.
  Held by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC on March 9 at the Hyatt Regency, the gala event saw 47 Georgies handed out, including seven Grand Georgies.
  Winner of the Grand Georgie Awards Residential Renovator of the Year: My House Design/Build Team Ltd.
  My House Design/Build Team Ltd. and Bercum Builders were among the top winners. Also bringing home multiple awar
  
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• Herschel Supply Company co-founder's art-filled refuge in North Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  06-04-2019 15:13
  Herschel Supply Company co-founder's art-filled refuge in North Vancouver  Vancouver SunLyndon Cormack's rustic refuge overlooks the beauty of Indian Arm.
  
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• Herschel Supply Company co-founder's art-filled refuge in North Vancouver

  06-04-2019 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  Lyndon Cormack’s laidback retreat overlooking Indian Arm evokes both a nostalgic and modern vibe. Kitchen dining chairs by Fritz Hansen; Blu Dot dining table; and over it all, the vintage canoe once paddled by the former owner, the artist Susan Macdonald.
  Like Alice falling down the rabbit hole—or, in this case, navigating an endlessly curving road through dense forests—one becomes “curiouser and curiouser” about Lyndon Cormack’s hideaway in North Vancouver&rs
  
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• Vancouver Art Scene: Works by Mowry Baden, Omer Arbel, Marleen Vermeulen

  06-04-2019 15:10 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Art Gallery
  Known for his participatory sculpture and installation works, Mowry Baden’s works have been commissioned as public artworks by cities across North America. From seat-belts and reconfigured industrial devices, to purpose-built rooms in which ping-pong balls ricochet off the walls, this exhibition welcomes visitors to test out the Governor General’s Award-winning B.C. artist’s sculptures dating back to the 1960s. The exhibition features 15 of his sculptural
  
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• City of North Van fast tracks Shipyards Brewery District - Vancouver Courier

  06-04-2019 15:00
  City of North Van fast tracks Shipyards Brewery District  Vancouver CourierThey're all but tapping the kegs in the City of North Vancouver. Council voted unanimously Monday night to fast track some rule changes that will make it easier ...
  
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• One Central an aptly named Surrey highrise

  06-04-2019 14:06 via vancouversun.com
  If there’s one thing people in Metro Vancouver know about Surrey, it is that it’s growing fast. One Central, Aoyuan Property Group’s imposing 550-home residential tower, is set to be a big part of Surrey’s transformation and a landmark on the city’s rapidly evolving skyline.
  The 44-storey building will be located right in the centre of the downtown core, hence its name.
  For Dan Kehler, who lives with his wife and two children in Langley and has bought a one-bedroom
  
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• B.C.'s worst wildfire seasons were in 2017 and 2018. What will happen in 2019?

  06-04-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ester Spye finally moved into her new home in October, 14 months after a relentless 2017 wildfire blew through the Ashcroft Indian Band, forcing residents to flee and devouring nine houses.
  Spye and her dog Sweets took refuge in a Cache Creek hotel shortly after the July 2017 inferno destroyed their house, and stayed there until it was rebuilt more than a year later.
  She is grateful to be back in her community, along with her cat Socks, who was missing for 52 days after the blaze. And she’
  
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• Wind warning issued across Vancouver Island - North Island Gazette

  06-04-2019 09:00
  Wind warning issued across Vancouver Island  North Island GazetteEnvironment Canada warns winds may rise to 70 km/hr, 90 km/hr near the water.
  
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• Concert Review: P!nk's Beautiful Trauma tour at Rogers Arena is a physical, musical powerhouse

  06-04-2019 07:26 via vancouversun.com
  REVIEW: P!nk Beautiful Trauma World Tour
  When: April 5 and 6, 8 p.m.Where: Rogers ArenaTickets and info: Ticketmaster.caThere are blast-off beginnings to a concert. Then there is the opening of P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma tour.
  Breaking right into her breakout Grammy-nominated hit Get the Party Started, the singer arrived on stage hanging from a giant chandelier, performing aerialist stunts as the stage exploded in dancers, musicians and props wheeling all around.
  It was hard to decide where t
  
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• Galaxy's Ibrahimovic shines as L.A. downs Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0 - North Shore News

  06-04-2019 06:08
  Galaxy's Ibrahimovic shines as L.A. downs Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — A difficult start to the Major League Soccer season is beginning to weigh on the Vancouver Whitecaps.Five games in, the 'Caps (0-4-1) are still ...
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: NDP gets Green scorn, Liberals' props for getting LNG to a finish line

  06-04-2019 03:38 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As the enabling legislation for the LNG Canada deal was approved this week, Finance Minister Carole James acknowledged New Democrats were answerable for how the terms matched principles they laid out in the last election.
  “Will we be held accountable for this decision? No question,” said James in the final moments of debate Thursday afternoon. “It’s why I felt so strongly about the four conditions that we put in place.”
  The conditions being the ones
  
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• Premier Horgan pledges province's capital plan to help boost value-added timber manufacturing

  06-04-2019 03:24 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan promised that the province will build a major modernization of the Royal B.C. Museum using mass-timber components as a first step to kickstart demand for made-in-B.C., value added products.
  Horgan, speaking at the Council of Forest Industries convention in Vancouver on Friday, offered the measure as an incentive for the industry’s co-operation in a process to revitalize the province’s Interior forest sector, which is grappling with the challenge of shrinking timbe
  
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• Andrew Petter: SFU public square community summit: Confronting the disinformation age

  06-04-2019 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  In an age of disinformation, it is not possible to point the finger of blame in any one direction. In advertising, on websites, through social media, we are bombarded with everything from self-serving distortions to outright falsehoods.
  Anti-vaccination myths compete for attention with misinformation from climate-change deniers. At the same time, political discourse is becoming increasingly fractured as partisans seek to drive public opinion based on fabricated facts and false narratives. Their
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, April 6, 2019

  06-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: UBC turns land into a river of gold, March 30.
  I am writing to protest your characterization of residents’ responses to UBC’s plans for new neighbourhoods on campus as “anti-growth.” As someone who has lived many years just off or now on campus, I have seen radical changes at the University of B.C. since the 1950s. I welcome sensible development.
  UBC residents have agreed to high-rises up to 22 storeys and higher density levels approved as recently as 2010 — hei
  
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• SFU Public Square’s 2019 Community Summit: full program

  06-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Wednesday, April 10
  A SPECIAL PHILOSOPHERS’ CAFÉ – 11 a.m.
  The SFU Philosophers’ Café invites people of all ages to an open and inclusive discussion about lies and mistruth in the modern age.
  COMPETING VISIONS OF CLIMATE POPULISM – 4 p.m.
  Shane Gunster (SFU), Bob Neubauer (SFU) and Paul Saurette (University of Ottawa) lead a discussion on how ecological populism and extractive populism compete in shaping the national debate about climate and energy.
  INNOVATI
  
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• Editorial: Trudeau risks losing fight over who Canadians trust

  06-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  “If a politician secretly records a conversation with anyone, it’s wrong. When that politician is a cabinet minister secretly recording a public servant, it’s wrong. And when that cabinet minister is the attorney-general of Canada, secretly recording the clerk of the Privy Council, it’s unconscionable.”
  With those words — and the phony, gravitas-attempting pauses between each sentence for which he is notorious — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried late T
  
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• Carol June Ogden: Our children need experienced primary teachers

  06-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many people are still concerned about students’ low results on language literacy and numeracy tests. One solution put forward suggests that teachers need better training. As an educator, I also believe that making better teachers is the answer. However, better training is only one change needed to improve teachers’ qualifications. Other necessary changes regarding primary grade teacher qualifications, include having a degree in English language or mathematics, being assessed annually
  
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• Canadian Arctic has all the mineral ingredients for prized blue gemstones

  06-04-2019 02:52 via vancouversun.com
  Baffin Island holds some of its treasures in plain sight, with rocks that produce rare gems sitting exposed to the elements, scientists say.
  A new study from the University of British Columbia shows the area is home to a mineral that is prized by jewellers and collectors.
  Study co-author Philippe Belley said in an interview that cobalt-blue spinel, “which is a ridiculously rare gemstone” gets a lot of interest from gemologists and jewellers, but there’s not enough supply.
  The m
  
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• North Vancouver shooting victim remembered as 'sweet' and loyal friend - Vancouver Is Awesome

  06-04-2019 01:57
  North Vancouver shooting victim remembered as 'sweet' and loyal friend  Vancouver Is AwesomeA childhood friend of a woman identified as the victim in a North Vancouver shooting says friends are shocked and at a loss to understand why someone ...
  
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• B.C. students to be provided with free menstrual products in schools

  06-04-2019 01:48 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has announced that all schools will provide students with free pads and tampons in washrooms, following a growing call for equal access to feminine hygiene products.
  By the end of 2019, all 60 of B.C.’s school districts will be required to provide free menstrual products for students, said Mitzi Dean, parliamentary secretary for gender equity, at a news conference in Vancouver on Friday.
  Shane Simpson, minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, announces in B
  
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• Don't expect a break on provincial gas taxes, says premier

  06-04-2019 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  One day after hinting that the provincial government could provide “relief” to drivers facing record-high gas prices, Premier John Horgan ruled out reducing gas taxes to do it.
  Despite Metro Vancouver having the highest pump prices in Canada, almost a third of which are taxes, Horgan said he is hopeful prices will come down without government intervention as supply pressures ease.
  “I want to be clear again,” Horgan said during a media availability following a speech Frida
  
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• North Vancouver School District trustees' reception - North Shore News

  06-04-2019 01:10
  North Vancouver School District trustees' reception  North Shore NewsSchool district human resources executive director Scott Stanley with trustee and board chair Christie Sacré and district superintendent Mark Pearmain.
  
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• ‘His memory is fading’: Family desperately seeks Vincent Che, missing North Vancouver father - Global News

  06-04-2019 01:05
  ‘His memory is fading’: Family desperately seeks Vincent Che, missing North Vancouver father  Global NewsSixty-year-old Vincent Che's son says his father, who's been missing since Tuesday, suffers from memory issues.
  
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• Live Concert Review: P!nk's Beautiful Trauma tour at Rogers Arena

  06-04-2019 01:00 via vancouversun.com
  REVIEW: P!nk Beautiful Trauma World TourWhen: April 5 and 6, 8 p.m.Where: Rogers ArenaTickets and info: Ticketmaster.caReading reviews of pop star P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma World Tour, you can’t help but get excited about the singer’s back-to-back concerts at Rogers Arena.
  During her 2013 tour, she put on one of the most imaginative and exceptionally staged arena performances of any musician at any time. Now, Variety reports: “In the history of travelling pop music outings,
  
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• Premier John Horgan says wood to be used in two B.C. megaprojects

  06-04-2019 00:23 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia is moving to help revive the provincial forest industry by requiring the use of engineered wood on the new St. Paul’s Hospital and the upgrade to the Royal B.C. Museum.
  Premier John Horgan told the Council of Forest Industries convention in Vancouver that he has also directed the use of engineered wood, where possible, for the $20 billion in public infrastructure being built, including schools and housing.
  The premier says the plan, which will focus on increasing value-add
  
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