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• Vancouver 4/20: 'Urgent' park board motion takes aim at Cypress Hill show

  13-04-2019 22:33 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver park board commissioner wants to keep the band Cypress Hill off the grass.
  John Coupar said he will introduce an ‘urgent’ motion at Monday’s board meeting telling staff to contact organizers of next week’s 4/20 cannabis event and “request a cancelation” of a planned performance by hip-hop stars Cypress Hill. The intent is “an effort to control crowd size and possible damage to Sunset Beach Park,” as been the unsanctioned site of Vancouv
  
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• Island and coastal officials in B.C. meet to debate oil, gas lawsuit

  13-04-2019 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  Officials from Vancouver Island and coastal B.C. communities will meet during the weekend to explore the idea of suing oil and gas companies to help offset the cost of preventing and cleaning up damage from events linked to climate change, such as flood and wildfire.
  The Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities will gather in Powell River to look at a resolution put forward by the City of Victoria, which would ask the Union of B.C. Municipalities to consider litigation — a c
  
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• Langara arson suspect remains in jail after bail denied

  13-04-2019 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  A 23-year-old student facing several charges after fires sparked an campus-wide evacuation at Vancouver’s Langara College during the last week of exams was denied bail on Friday.
  Nasradin Abdusamad Ali appeared in Vancouver provincial court to apply for his release. He has been in custody since his arrest in Surrey on April 1.
  Ali is charged with arson and possessing an incendiary device related to two fires that were set in the science building on campus. He is also charged with assault f
  
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• Squamish Nation expects debate over plans for 3,000 housing units at Burrard Bridge

  13-04-2019 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  The Squamish Nation’s plan for a housing project with some 3,000 units on land adjacent to the Burrard Bridge and Vanier Park is destined to be one of the most interesting examples in the debate over the needs of future residents and that of existing residents.
  “I think there is going to be an important conversation about what kind of housing we are going to build for the city,” said Khelselim, a Squamish council member. “What do local residents need against the future of
  
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• Bus flips over on road to Big White Ski Resort, injures 6

  13-04-2019 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  Six people were taken to hospital after a bus flipped over on Big White Road east of Kelowna on Saturday.
  The road, which is the route to Big White Ski Resort, was closed at approximately the four-kilometre mark, according to an RCMP release shortly before 10 a.m. However, it has since reopened.
  “A bus has flipped on its side and is blocking the road.  No significant injuries reported,” the release said.
  Sgt. Mike Cooke said there were 22 passengers and a driver on the bus. Six
  
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• Playing a real person adds another layer to actor's approach

  13-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ali Skovbye’s role in Breakthrough came with the added pressure of having to play a real person, a person she didn’t get to meet until half way through the making of the movie.
  “It’s hard because you want to do them justice and represent them and their story accurately, as well as possible. You want to do them proud,” said Vancouver’s Skovbye about Emma, the teenager she plays.
  Breakthrough revolves around the story of John Smith (Marcel Ruiz) a teenager who f
  
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• Meet the Chef: Butter's Rosie Daykin cooks family favourites

  13-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rosie Daykin has been baking since she was six years old and so realized a lifelong dream when she opened Butter Baked Goods in Vancouver. Her first two cookbooks Butter Baked Goods and Butter Celebrates! came loaded with sweet treats. Her newest, Let Me Feed You: Everyday Recipes Offering the Comfort of Home, is a collection of family favourite recipes (mostly) from the other side of the spectrum:
  Rosie Daykin, owner of Butter Baked Goods Bakery and Café, has released her latest cookbook
  
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• Makeover: A fresh and vibrant look for a recent retiree

  13-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cindy Hite is a 55-year-old retiree and wanted to update her style to feel fresh and vibrant.
  Cindy has thick and naturally wavy hair, which was previously colour treated. Her background foundation colour was very dark and one-dimensional and needed to be broken up and lighten to soften her complexion. She was finding her haircut shapeless and hard to manage and her fringe needed to be thickened as it was too sparse for her face shape.
  I applied foil slices of highlights in a starburst formation
  
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• Five reason to check out the rabbit-themed exhibit Mind the Rambling Hares

  13-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Mind the Rambling Hares
  When: April 17 to May 2 (opening reception April 20 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.)
  Where: Visual Space Gallery
  Info: visualspace.ca
  Mariko Ando’s Morning Timbre will be on display along with other rabbit-themed prints at Visual Space Gallery April 17-May 2.
  1. Mariko Ando. Much of the Japanese-Canadian illustrator’s work features wildlife, including fish, birds and, in her latest exhibit, rabbits — just in time for Easter. “My work has an element of fun and I h
  
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• Bus accident closes road to Big White Ski Resort

  13-04-2019 19:12 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties in Kelowna say six people have been taken to hospital after a bus flipped over on Big White Road east of Kelowna on Saturday.
  The road, which is the route to Big White Ski Resort, is closed at approximately the four-kilometre mark, according to an RCMP release shortly before 10 a.m.
  “A bus has flipped on its side and is blocking the road.  No significant injuries reported,” the release said.
  Sgt. Mike Cooke said there were 22 passengers and a driver on the bus. Six were
  
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• In Bangkok avoid the roads – use the canals and skytrains instead

  13-04-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bangkok – Traffic is barely moving, the drivers stuck sitting in the six-lane gridlock in temperatures well above thirty degrees, green taxis and pink tuk-tuks and the endless, impatient flow of mopeds, all of them leaning on their horns.
  I descend to a platform down just ten steps from the road; it feels like a secret stop.
  Trip through Bangkok canals down the Chao Phraya river on longtail boat
  A long, low boat with a blue hull and green canopy—glides out of the greenery down the ca
  
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• The Home Front: Vancouver lighting designers at Euroluce

  13-04-2019 14:04 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver lighting designer Lukas Peet’s career has been a bright and shiny one. He graduated at the top of his class at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009 and has been recognized as an international talent since launching lighting design and manufacturing company ANDlight six years ago with partners Caine Heintzman and Matt Davis.
  Exhibiting internationally is not new for Peet. What is new is being accepted to show his latest collection at the international lighting exhibition Euroluce.
  
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• Sold (Bought): Vancouver home is walkable to everything

  13-04-2019 14:03 via vancouversun.com
  5696 Elm Street, Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, three-bathroom half duplex
  Size: 2,506 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,536,000
  Listed for: $1,499,000
  Sold for: $1,462,000
  Sold on: Feb. 2
  Days on market in this listing: 12
  Listing agent: Gary Serra at ReMax Crest Realty
  Buyers agent: Jason Pope at Team 3000 Realty
  The big sell: This 1980’s half-duplex home occupies a position on the corner of 41st Avenue and Elm Street in Vancouver’s amenity-rich Kerrisdale community within walking distance
  
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• Top-ranked Canadian trampolinist speaks openly, hopefully about having cancer at age 22

  13-04-2019 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Weeks after winning a silver medal in double-mini trampoline at the 2017 World Games, Tamara O’Brien felt a strange lump under her chin while watching TV in her mother’s Coquitlam duplex.
  She received an ultrasound and a biopsy, but life went on as usual for the 20-year-old athlete who continued to train and then flew to Spain for another international competition, where she won silver again. After she returned home, she was summoned to her doctor’s office.
  It was Friday, Oct.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Skipper with history of smuggling arrested again

  13-04-2019 07:33 via vancouversun.com
  I haven’t written about John “Phil” Stirling since 2013 when he was convicted in Florida of cocaine smuggling and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Now he has been arrested again after allegedly continuing to smuggling drugs into Canada again.
  Here’s my story:
  Notorious B.C. drug smuggler arrested again
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: April 12, 2019John “Phil” Stirling in a 2000 file photo
  Less than a year after B.C. skipper John ‘Phil’ Stirling wa
  
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• Concert review: Michael Bublé moons and croons for hometown crowd in Vancouver

  13-04-2019 07:10 via vancouversun.com
  Michael Bublé in his hometown rink for his first live show in years is something to get the locals out in their Friday finest.
  OK, Bublé’s from Burnaby, but he got his start in PNE talent shows and crooning to the cocktail crowd at Babalu in the old Nelson Hotel. Both of those are west of Boundary so, there you go.
  The 43-year-old with the multi-platinum pipes last graced a stage at Rogers Arena as host of the 2018 Juno Awards.
  It’s been four years since his last tour,
  
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• Child-bride trial: Woman testifies about life in B.C. polygamist community

  13-04-2019 05:21 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK, B.C. — A former member of a fundamentalist sect testified Friday about growing up in a British Columbia community that practises polygamy at the trial of a man charged with the alleged removal of a girl from Canada in 2004 to marry a man in the United States.
  The Crown witness told B.C. Supreme Court she left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bountiful seven years ago.
  “The only honourable way to leave the FLDS is to die, and I’ve know
  
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• Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

  13-04-2019 03:53 via vancouversun.com
  The Nanaimo bar, arguably B.C.’s most famous contribution to the pantheon of sweet treats, has received the stamp of approval from Canada Post.
  The Crown corporation plans to release stamps of the West Coast confection and four other Canadian desserts from across the country next week.
  “Rich and chocolatey Nanaimo bars have been associated with their namesake Vancouver Island city since the no-bake recipe first appeared there in the 1950s,” Canada Post announced on its website
  
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• Adanna Shallowe: Disinformation is raising the stakes

  13-04-2019 03:16 via vancouversun.com
  There is no doubt that we were all seduced by Silicon Valley — buzzing with innovation and creativity we all wanted to participate in its hypnotic hum. Platforms sought to gather people around a screen to share photos, recipes and causes. Tech companies branded themselves as a force for social good. We ignored the fact that human nature has a dark side too — tools that allow billions to connect can also be used to corrupt. We were naïve.
  Here we are more than a decade after the
  
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• B.C. in no big rush to conclude Columbia River Treaty talks with U.S.

  13-04-2019 03:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government put out another deliberately bland statement this week after negotiators, meeting in the provincial capital, wrapped up the sixth round of talks on the future of the Columbia River Treaty.
  Canada and the U.S. have been talking for the past year on ways to modernize the 55-year old treaty governing flood control and electric power generation on the Columbia.
  “Negotiators had an honest exchange of views and perspectives as they worked to find common groun
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, April 13, 2019

  13-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Affordable rental housing is achievable, but Vancouver’s new magic bullet, the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, misses that mark.Developers are the greatest beneficiaries, encouraged by a slew of city incentives. In return, 20 per cent of these oversized buildings are supposedly for affordable rentals, but the program simply doesn’t have the teeth to achieve that goal. It was hurriedly slapped together by the former council just before the election.
  MIRHPP is new. Our fl
  
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• Timothy Caulfield: Are we enabling harmful wellness woo?

  13-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Should you inject fruit juice directly into your veins? Fruits are healthy and “natural,” after all. And alternative practitioners — including those recognized and legitimized by provincial governments — routinely recommend injecting massive quantities of vitamins via an intravenous drip. So, infusing your body with nutrient-filled produce could only be a good thing. Right? Bring on the IV fruit juice!
  The answer, of course, is no.
  You should not mainline fruit juice. One
  
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• Alex Hemingway: Even higher taxes on wealthy, businesses needed for tax fairness and public investments

  13-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Changes to personal B.C. taxes over the past year and a half — including elimination of Medical Services Plan premiums — mean the vast majority of households are seeing their tax bills fall while the richest one per cent are paying more.
  This means that taxes are becoming fairer in B.C., ensuring that we pay taxes based on our ability to contribute. The richer you are, the higher your tax rate.
  Taxes are only part of the story, however. Investments in high-quality, universal public s
  
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• Long careers rewarded with big awards from UBCP/ACTRA

  13-04-2019 02:58 via vancouversun.com
  The Union of British Columbia Performers (UBCP/ACTRA) has announced this year’s winners of the Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award.
  The honourees are Danny Virtue and P. Lynn Johnson.
  Named for Sam Payne, the late actor, the award is given to people with an outstanding body of work in the performing arts industry.
  Danny Virtue is currently working as stunt coordinator on AppleTV’s big ticket series See.
  Virtue’s resume is long and storied and packed with giving back. He a succ
  
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• Vancouver 4/20: 'Urgent' park board motion takes aim at Cypress Hill show - The North Bay Nugget

  13-04-2019 02:36
  Vancouver 4/20: 'Urgent' park board motion takes aim at Cypress Hill show  The North Bay Nugget'There's been a significant change in the size and scope of the event. … It's a commercial venture now.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Just quit telling women what to wear

  13-04-2019 01:25 via vancouversun.com
  Oh boy. Women in the Canadian armed forces can now sport ponytails instead of buns and braids. They can wear flat shoes instead of pumps or oxfords. And (gasp) they can throw away their “nylons.”
  Yes, nylons. I hadn’t heard that word for at a couple of decades. But I guess it would be undignified for the men who run the military to say pantyhose.
  The reason for the change is that the men at the top want women to have “greater control over personal appearance” which,
  
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• Have a beer, connect with your ancient ancestors: Victoria profs profess

  13-04-2019 01:20 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Long ago, before football on TV, propane barbecues and local pubs, there was beer. Now, two Vancouver Island University archeologists are renewing that ancient taste.
  Prof. Marie Hopwood, of the VIU anthropology department, and Melissa Ayling, a fourth-year BA student, have come up with some ancient Mesopotamian ingredients for Love Shack Libations, a Qualicum Beach brewer, to recreate flavours from the past.
  “We want to use beer as a tool to bridge the gap of all these mi
  
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• Notorious B.C. drug smuggler arrested again

  13-04-2019 00:44 via vancouversun.com
  Less than a year after B.C. skipper John ‘Phil’ Stirling was released from a U.S. prison where he served seven years for cocaine smuggling, the controversial sea captain is back behind bars.
  Stirling, 65, was arrested off the Oregon coast April 9 on a sailing vessel allegedly carrying 28 seven-gallon jugs containing liquid methamphetamine.
  According to U.S. court documents, Stirling deliberately overdosed on fentanyl after U.S. Coast Guard boarded his boat.
  He told them he didn&rsquo
  
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• Surrey RCMP: Investigation finds no fraudulent absentee ballots issued

  13-04-2019 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP say an investigation into allegations of voter fraud during the 2018 civic election turned up 67 fraudulent applications for absentee ballots, but none of the ballots were mailed out.
  The detachment’s Major Crime Section launched its probe in September last year after Surrey’s chief elections officer noted “irregularities” in the mail-ballot registration process, Sgt. Chad Greig said in a news release Friday.
  Investigators found that 67 applications for absent
  
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• Alleged gang associate accused of fentanyl trafficking released on bai

  13-04-2019 00:16 via vancouversun.com
  An alleged associate of the Red Scorpions gang who is accused of numerous drug offences, including trafficking in fentanyl, has been ordered released on house arrest.
  Jacob Pereira, 26, who was charged with the offences in August last year following a major Vancouver police investigation that resulted in dozens of charges being laid against at least 14 people, was released Friday on $150,000 bail.
  Due to a publication ban of the kind routinely imposed at bail hearings, the reasons for the releas
  
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• REAL SCOOP: CD begins cross-examination at the Bacon trial

  13-04-2019 00:14 via vancouversun.com
  I haven’t been in the Bacon trial since Wednesday but hope to be back Monday and Tuesday where the cross-examination of witness CD will continue. He is expected to be on the stand for several more days.
  Here’s my last story:Jamie Bacon trial: Key Crown witness says his crew was
  named for ‘loaded guns’KIM BOLAN
  Updated: April 11, 2019
  A key Crown witness at the Jamie Bacon trial admitted Wednesday that he started in the drug trade as a 16-year-old, working on others’
  
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