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• Tiger masters art of the comeback, unlike flash-and-crash Lightning

  19-04-2019 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Tiger Woods had one of the most bullish days of his roller-coaster career last Sunday at Augusta, Ga. He not only won his 15th major, fifth Masters and first major tournament in 11 years, he authored what could go down as one of the greatest comeback wins in golf history.It was an open debate as to whether the bigger redemption story pertained to Tiger the golfer or Tiger the person. Either way, it enthralled the entire golf world.Despite a weather-forced early start for the fi
  
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• 'Life is too short to miss anything,' says Sooke councillor facing brain tumour

  19-04-2019 21:12 via vancouversun.com
  For Sooke Coun. Brenda Parkinson, the fact that her brain tumour was diagnosed early was a gift.
  “I know that my time is limited and I’ve been given the opportunity to use it wisely and enrich the lives of those I truly love,” said the 63-year-old three-term councillor. Parkinson has decided to stay on as a councillor, even as she undergoes a six-week course of chemotherapy and radiation that began Wednesday.
  “There’s no quitting, there’s no sitting down,&rdqu
  
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• As Vancouver fights over 4/20, Seattle's Hempfest enjoys tolerance, some support

  19-04-2019 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  They both came from humble beginnings: small protests against marijuana prohibition where activists smoked weed in public, boldly defying what they considered an unjust law.
  But as Vancouver’s 4/20 and Seattle’s Hempfest grew into large-scale occasions with vendors, prominent musical acts and tens of thousands of attendees, the Canadian event has drawn scorn and opposition from elected officials, while American politicians have tolerated and even supported the gathering.
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• Lululemon plans 580,000-square-foot headquarters off Great Northern Way

  19-04-2019 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s chief planner Gil Kelley is recommending city council approve a rezoning application that would allow Lululemon Athletica to build mega complex in the city’s False Creek Flats neighbourhood.
  In the report that will go before council on Tuesday, the Vancouver yoga gear giant is asking the city to amend its Broadway Plan Interim Rezoning Policy to allow for the construction of 11 to 13-storey office building with a total floor area of 582,951 square feet.
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• This Week in History: 1903: Jones the Desperado is captured after three weeks on the lam

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Today, many people think of Desperado as a song by the Eagles.
  But in 1903, Vancouverites associated it with a couple of “notorious jailbirds” who broke out of the hoosegow and were on the lam.
  William Jones and John Clark escaped from the B.C. Pen in New Westminster by cutting a hole through “a two-inch solid wood cell-door” with a knife.
  Jones was serving a two-and-a half-year sentence for theft, while Clark was serving two years for an earlier jailbreak.
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• Style in the City: Krystin Tysire

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Krystin Tysire
  Occupation: Fashion and lifestyle blogger
  Personal style in one word: Edgy-but-feminine
  Social media: @krystintysire on Instagram
  What she loves about this look: “I love that this look is trendy, with the animal print dress and dad sneakers, but the added leather jacket gives it the edge I always look for. It’s comfy, cute and can be dressed up with heels for a night out.”
  Love Krystin’s look? Here are a few items to help you recreate it? T
  
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• Inside the interstellar, rocky world of astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Astrophysicist and author Elizabeth Tasker knows one thing for certain — if you stand next to her for long enough you are bound to hear some sort of planet fact.
  That’s just how she is.
  Tasker, who is a professor at Japan’s national space agency (JAXA), will be joining young adult author Ria Voros for the national speaking tour Passion for Astronomy: A Tale of Two Authors.
  Tasker’s fascinating book The Planet Factory and Voros’s latest novel The Center of the Univer
  
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• Fab 5: Woven wonders

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  So you’ve got a woven bag (or three), the perfect jean cutoffs, and more shell jewelry than you can count. The only thing missing now from your warm-weather wardrobe? The perfect pair of summer shoes. This season, it’s all about raffia and similarly tactile woven materials, but whether you choose slides, mules, strappy sandals or teetering high platforms — well, that’s up to you. Rebecca Tay discovers five pair of woven shoes to add to your wish list now.
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• Brian Minter: Garden clubs' plant sales deserve a (green) thumb's up

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A couple weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of speaking to the B.C. Council of Garden Clubs at its annual general meeting, marking its 75th year as an association.
  It made me realize how valuable individual garden clubs are to each community in our province. They maintain a connection to plants, teach gardening to folks of all ages and provide added colour and food to their respective cities and town. In addition, they provide scholarships to students in the field of horticulture, as well as pe
  
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• Book review: Claiming the Land tells the story of B.C. and the Making of a New Eldorado

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New Eldorado
  Daniel Marshall | Ronsdale Press
  $24.94It’s one of those stories you never heard about in school.
  In late August 1858, two unlikely fathers of Confederation met on a grassy benchland, south of Camchin (present-day Lytton), to negotiate a peace during the height of the Canyon War, a bloody skirmish between miners (mainly American) and Indigenous people (mainly Nlaka’pamux).
  Historian Daniel Marshall, winner of the 20
  
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• Backyard Farms: Okanagan chef serves up lesson on sustainability

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Road 13 Dinners with Backyard Farm
  When: May 4, July 27, Aug. 17, Sept. 28 and Oct. 5
  Where: Road 13 Vineyard | 799 Ponderosa Rd., Oliver
  Tickets and info: $149, plus taxes; road13vineyards.comCooking has had a place in Chris Van Hooydonk’s life for pretty much as long as he can remember.
  “I’ve been cooking professionally for 22 years. To be honest, I had never really thought about doing something else,” he says.
  It started as a daily activity early on in childhood. Growi
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: B.C. becoming a destination for international wine consultants

  19-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Four high-powered international wine consultants were working in British Columbia last month. In fact, the list of foreigners consulting and working in B.C. is growing almost as fast wineries are opening. If you consider how quickly the wine game in B.C. is changing it’s no coincidence the influence coming from outside of B.C. is very much a part of what is shaping what I like to term as the next wines of British Columbia.
  Alberto Antonini is the quintessential consultant, a winemaker or p
  
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• Two sent to hospital as Burnaby firefighters battle residential blaze

  19-04-2019 17:02 via vancouversun.com
  Two people are in hospital as result of a residential fire in North Burnaby early Friday morning.
  Burnaby firefighters are still on the scene of the three-alarm blaze in the 3700 Block of Pender Street.
  When firefighters arrived at scene of the house fire at 3 a.m, flames had spread to the house next door.
  The Burnaby fire department says the provincial Emergency Support Services is taking care of displaced residents.MORE TO COME
  
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• INQUIRING REPORTER: Should Vancouver still host its 4/20 protest? - North Shore News

  19-04-2019 16:37
  INQUIRING REPORTER: Should Vancouver still host its 4/20 protest?  North Shore NewsVancouver's annual 4/20 protest celebrates its 25th birthday this Saturday at Sunset Beach. Event organizers anticipate that attendance this year will exceed ...
  
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• Town Talk: Style show made big hair even bigger

  19-04-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  HATS OFF: Nobody expected Easter bonnets, fascinators or headgear of any kind when the Show It Off extravaganza filled the Vancouver Playh­­ouse recently. Hair alone was the attraction, and Avant Garde salon owner Jon Paul Holt and dancer-choreographer producer Viktoria Langton showcased plenty of it when the male and female show benefited B.C. Children’s Hospital. Stylist from the UK, across Canada and hereabouts created confections that, in most cases, were frothed up on models a
  
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• Conversations That Matter:  Looking ahead to 2030

  19-04-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  For more than 30 years, Roslyn Kunin has been accurately predicting the future of B.C. economy. We asked her about insights she has gleaned from researching a recent report she produced for one of her clients.
  The good news is the provincial economy looks robust. The bad news is the economy is so rosy, there may not be enough people to fill all the jobs. And she’s quick to point out that high technology won’t be coming to the rescue just in the nick of time either. In fact
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you support lowering speed limit to 30 km/h on Vancouver's residential streets?

  19-04-2019 15:48 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver will consider a proposal to lower the speed limit on local streets from 50 km/h to 30 km/h.
  Green Coun. Pete Fry wants the city to lobby the province to amend the Motor Vehicle Act to allow the change.
  Related Vancouver council to consider 30 km/h speed limit for local streets
  The proposed change would apply to only residential streets, the ones without centre lines, and not arterial thoroughfares like Broadway or Oak Street.
  It’s all in the name of safety, says Fry.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rain today, but the sunshine is coming

  19-04-2019 15:24 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Friday, April 10. It may be raining now, but Environment Canada says the future looks bright.
  Expect the rain the taper off later this morning and the skies to start clear late this afternoon.
  We are in for sunny skies and warm temperatures, a high of 15, on Saturday. Perfect weather for the Easter weekend, the Vaisakhi parade in Surrey, and the big 4/20 smoke-out at Sunset Beach.
  The good weather will continue on Sunday which will feature mostly sunshine and a high of 15.
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• Rising CO2 on declining nutrition in food is big issue, TED talk hears

  19-04-2019 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  Carbon dioxide is fuel that helps the plants humans require for food to grow, but researchers are learning that too much of it actually hurts the nutritional quality of rice, wheat and other crops so much of the planet depends on.
  Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are going to have profound implications for the future of agriculture and public health, epidemiologist Kristie Ebi told a Thursday audience at the TED Talks in Vancouver.
  Field studies have revealed that rice crops grown
  
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• Former youth track stars allege sexual abuse by high-profile coach

  19-04-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chris Dallin was a teenage track and field star who set two Canadian records in hurdles, won gold at the 1981 Canada Summer Games, and caught the eye of national coaches dazzled by his speed and strength.
  On the outside, Dallin was a tall, attractive athlete with an intense determination to succeed and a growing collection of medals. On the inside, he said, he was wounded, struggling to understand why he had been “sexually assaulted” by one of the most important people in his life.
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• Douglas Todd: The shadow of Philippines' strongman hovers over Canadian Catholics

  19-04-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, appears constantly on the 24-hour TV news channels playing in Filipino restaurants in Metro Vancouver.
  The autocratic anti-Catholic populist is also on the front pages of ethnic newspapers in Filipino grocery stores near the Joyce-Collingwood SkyTrain Station and other Filipino neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey and Richmond.
  The strongman’s rugged face jumps off the leaflets distributed in Vancouver this week by some Filipino-Ca
  
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• Five Things to Know about Vancouver 4/20 2019, the infamous 'protestival'

  19-04-2019 06:39 via vancouversun.com
  Forget Good Friday, and forget Easter Sunday. For Metro Vancouver cannabis aficionados, this weekend’s highest, holiest day falls on Saturday.
  That would be April 20, or 4/20, a special occasion for recreational marijuana users, as well as the date of Vancouver’s annual, long-running, “protest festival.”
  For the fourth year in a row, and despite the usual resistance from the park board, the 4/20 event will take over Sunset Beach in Vancouver’s West End. celebrating
  
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• After influx of 'fancy rats,' Vancouver pushes rodent adoptions

  19-04-2019 04:01 via vancouversun.com
  Are you looking to adopt a pet rat? The City of Vancouver is hoping you are, because they have too many, in large part because you have too few.
  Rat problems are not new to Vancouver. B.C’s largest city has also been named B.C.’s most rat-infested city for three consecutive years, according to an annual list released by Orkin Canada. This might explain why the critters have been popping up everywhere of late, most notably in a bowl of soup that caused a major uproar back in January a
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Horgan content to let senior official endorse 'no more pipelines bill'

  19-04-2019 03:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The federal government makeover for environmental reviews of the country’s energy projects has been called a move to “swap one broken system for another,” by Alberta’s outgoing premier Rachel Notley.
  Incoming Premier Jason Kenney called the aforementioned Bill C-69 the “no more pipelines bill” and “a sucker punch to an already reeling Alberta economy.”
  Newfoundland’s Dwight Ball fretted that “it will increase regulatory
  
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• City of Vancouver to consider six 'big moves' in response to climate emergency

  19-04-2019 03:14 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city staff are recommending city council respond to the world’s “climate emergency” by dramatically stepping up its green initiatives to ensure the city becomes carbon neutral before 2050.
  The city’s general managers of planning and engineering are recommending the city adopt six “big moves” by 2030 that would include:
  • Aim to have 90 per cent of its citizens live within an easy walk of their “daily needs.”
  • Accelerate its goa
  
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• Vancouver council to consider 30 km/h speed limit for local streets

  19-04-2019 02:57 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver council will consider a motion next week calling for a cut to the speed limit that would effectively treat all residential side streets as if they were school zones.
  Green Coun. Pete Fry is proposing the city lobby the province to change the Motor Vehicle Act to a default speed limit of 30 km/h, down from 50 km/hr,  for “local streets,” and to direct city staff to start considering a pilot project within the city.
  Local governments in Canada and elsewhere, among them V
  
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• Star witness at Bacon trial says he has clear memory of murder plot meeting

  19-04-2019 02:34 via vancouversun.com
  A key Crown witness at the Jamie Bacon trial testified Thursday that he clearly remembers a December 2008 meeting at Bacon’s Abbotsford home after which he was told he would have to kill Dennis Karbovanec.
  The man, who can only be identified as CD due to a publication ban, admitted to Bacon defence lawyer Kimberly Eldred that he didn’t remember some details related to the day of the meeting.
  He agreed with her that he had made contradictory statements to police about whether he drove
  
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• Congratulations to the retirement of one of our great ones, Cpt.Blair Murray! 29 years of service to #NorthVancouver. Best wishes for a healthy retirement.pic.twitter.com/bnZ921CR3o

  19-04-2019 02:28 via twitter.com
  Congratulations to the retirement of one of our great ones, Cpt.Blair Murray! 29 years of service to #NorthVancouver. Best wishes for a healthy retirement.pic.twitter.com/bnZ921CR3o
  
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• Rennie executive cites demographic reasons to build more Vancouver housing

  19-04-2019 02:06 via vancouversun.com
  As the local real estate market soared in recent years, experts were divided about why prices kept rising. And now, there is little agreement about what is needed as sales and prices fall.
  On Thursday, developers gathered for an industry lunch to hear Andrew Ramlo, vice-president of market intelligence at Rennie Group, talk about what he called real estate market myths, including the notion that “we have more than enough (housing) supply to satisfy demand.”
  Many observers believe the
  
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• Rennie executive cites demographic reasons to build more housing

  19-04-2019 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  As the local real estate market soared in recent years, experts were divided about why prices kept rising. And now, there is little agreement about what is needed as sales and prices fall.
  On Thursday, developers gathered for an industry lunch to hear Andrew Ramlo, vice-president of market intelligence at Rennie Group, talk about what he called real estate market myths, including the notion that “we have more than enough (housing) supply to satisfy demand.”
  Many observers believe the
  
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• Neighbours in uproar over planned use of biosolids on Chase ranch

  19-04-2019 01:46 via vancouversun.com
  Chase residents are raising a stink about a nearby ranch’s plan to improve an erosion-prone slope with biosolids, an organic material derived from human sewage.
  Conrad Schiebel, owner of Turtle Valley Bison Company, said he was asked to take the material by the company that has a contract to manage the City of Kamloops’ biosolids, after an agreement with a local First Nations band was put on hold.
  “At first, I had a lot of the same fears as the protesters,” he said T
  
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• TransLink, Seaspan vanpool pilot scrapped after no one signed up

  19-04-2019 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  A TransLink pilot project aimed at getting Seaspan employees to share rides to work was scrapped due to a lack of interest.
  The vanpool pilot, a first for Metro Vancouver’s transit agency, was launched in 2017 in partnership with car-sharing company Modo, with the idea of filling gaps in transit service with a more flexible option.
  TransLink had heard from mayors across the region that there were a number of areas that were hard to get to using existing transit services, such as Seaspan&rs
  
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• From Netflix to TED Talks, Hannah Gadsby breaks comedy to build connections

  19-04-2019 01:30 via vancouversun.com
  A later-in-life diagnosis of autism came as something of a relief for Hannah Gadsby, author of the now super-famous Netflix show Nanette.
  It gave her an answer to some of the things she hadn’t been able to understand about herself previously, she told a rapt audience at the TED Talks conference in Vancouver.
  “It was mostly good news because I thought that I couldn’t sort my life out like a normal person because I was depressed and anxious, said Gadsby. “But it turns out I
  
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• WestJet appeals to high court in legal action over anti-harassment promise

  19-04-2019 00:38 via vancouversun.com
  WestJet Airlines Ltd. is going to the Supreme Court of Canada in an attempt to have a proposed class-action lawsuit launched by a former flight attendant thrown out of court.
  The airline lost efforts to scuttle the action in both the B.C. Supreme and Appeal courts, but documents asking for leave to appeal filed with the high court say the case raises several questions of national importance.
  Mandalena Lewis worked for WestJet for eight years and alleges in her legal action that the employer brok
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Ottawa's response to medicare challenge is, be afraid

  19-04-2019 00:12 via vancouversun.com
  Ottawa has finally responded to the constitutional challenge to B.C.’s restrictions on access to private core health services, insisting they are needed to prevent the inequities of a two-tiered system.
  With the B.C. Supreme Court trial soon to celebrate its third anniversary, the federal government presented its position that the country’s unique health care system must be protected by the impugned measures in the provincial Medicare Protection Act.
  But the senior government offered
  
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