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• Vaisakhi celebration serves up food for thought, feast for the senses

  20-04-2019 22:54 via vancouversun.com
  Josh Sidhu had one weighty goal Saturday: “Eat as much as I can.”
  The Coquitlam man was one of about 500,000 people expected to attend Surrey’s Vaisakhi celebration to mingle with friends, enjoy the parade and sample free food.
  As parade floats began to roll away Saturday morning from the Gurdwara Dashmesh Darbar Temple, the last of Friday’s rain clouds disappeared leaving brilliant blue skies.
  “I try to come every year,” Sidhu said as he enjoyed some curry. &
  
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• Makeover: A colour and cut before a holiday

  20-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Madeline Baldrey is a 25-year-old designer and student. She wanted a colour and cut to enhance her blond hair with low maintenance for her upcoming trip to London.
  Madeline has thick and naturally wavy hair. It was previously highlighted and hadn’t been touched up in several months. The mid-lengths and ends were looking and feeling dry and brassy and needed to be addressed. I started by strategically applying Foilyage foil highlights through out her hair to create a natural “lived-in
  
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• Ex-Marine arrested in North Korea embassy attack in Madrid - Vancouver Sun

  20-04-2019 19:36
  Ex-Marine arrested in North Korea embassy attack in Madrid  Vancouver SunWASHINGTON — A man suspected of involvement in a mysterious dissident group's February raid on North Korea's Embassy in Madrid was arrested in Los ...
  
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• Vancouver 4/20: Live updates and what you need to know

  20-04-2019 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  The annual Vancouver 4/20 event is upon us again.
  This Saturday’s event in Vancouver’s West End is the first to take place since recreational marijuana was legalized last fall and will see the addition of a major musical headliner.
  But while the federal laws around marijuana have changed, a lot has not – such as the ongoing dispute between 4/20 organizers and Vancouver’s city and parks officials.
  Here’s what you need to know, along with the latest updates from Satur
  
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• Daily Poll: Should Vancouver's 4/20 continue as an unpermitted event?

  20-04-2019 18:20 via vancouversun.com
  As many as 100,000 people are expected to roll into Sunset Beach today to take part in the 25th annual Vancouver 4/20 event.
  The celebration of cannabis culture started as a protest in 1995, when a 1,000 people met at Vancouver’s Victory Square Park for a smoke-up. The event was later held annually at the Vancouver Art Gallery before moving to its current location 2016.
  4/20 has grown to include both farmer’s market where vendors sell cannabis products, along with illicit drugs, and
  
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• Vancouver may give businesses breathing room on plastic straw, Styrofoam ban - North Delta Reporter

  20-04-2019 18:05
  Vancouver may give businesses breathing room on plastic straw, Styrofoam ban  North Delta ReporterA ban on the unnecessary use of plastic straws and Styrofoam takeout cups and containers in Vancouver may be delayed until next year to give small ...
  
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• Vancouver may give businesses breathing room on plastic straw, Styrofoam ban - North Island Gazette

  20-04-2019 17:31
  Vancouver may give businesses breathing room on plastic straw, Styrofoam ban  North Island GazetteA ban on the unnecessary use of plastic straws and Styrofoam takeout cups and containers in Vancouver may be delayed until next year to give small ...
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sun, sun, sun … here it comes

  20-04-2019 17:25 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Saturday, April 20. Environment Canada says it’s not going to rain on your egg hunt.
  The weather agency says we can expect mainly sunny skies for today and Easter Sunday.We should reach a high of 15 C today. Great weather for the Easter weekend, the Vaisakhi parade in Surrey, and the big 4/20 smoke-out at Sunset Beach.
  The temperature will be a little cooler on Sunday with a high of 13. Also the clouds will roll-in later in the day, setting up a rainy Monday. Weather:
  
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• ‘Feeling bionic!’ Disabled take big steps forward with Surrey’s robotic walker

  20-04-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s been 27 years since the car crash that profoundly changed Stephanie Cadieux’s life.
  The Liberal MLA and former cabinet minister was a passenger in a pickup truck that rolled off a highway near Bellingham, Wash.
  Cadieux, just 18 at the time, woke up in hospital, unable to move.
  “I was ejected from the vehicle, broke my neck and was completely paralyzed at first,” she recalled. “It was the start of a long journey back.”
  The journey included a halo brace to
  
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• Sold (Bought): Bowen Island property a short distance from the ferries

  20-04-2019 14:49 via vancouversun.com
  1101 Lenora Road, Bowen Island
  Type: Four-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 2,097 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $809,000
  Listed for: $898,000
  Sold for: $863,000
  Sold on: Feb. 27
  Days on market in this listing: 160
  Listing agent: Dee Elliott at Macdonald Realty
  Buyers agent: Frazer Elliott at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: This four-bedroom Bowen Island home was recently renovated with an eye on clean lines and large windows that frame the vistas. The two-storey house was built in 1976 wi
  
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• New West's Amira within reach of everything

  20-04-2019 14:22 via vancouversun.com
  Think of it as a modern-day version of Friends, the popular 1990s American sitcom, and you get the idea what Johnny Hoang was aiming for when he started looking for an apartment complex where he and two other couples could live side by side. The six of them think they may have found it in a new boutique-style apartment block called Amira in New Westminster.
  Hoang, a financial advisor with CIBC, had been looking on behalf of two other couples for the last two years. When the federally regulated s
  
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• The Home Front: Paris's new Champs-Élysées fountains

  20-04-2019 14:19 via vancouversun.com
  Brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are two of the hottest names in international design, known for their cutting-edge products  — furniture, tableware, textiles, ceramics and art objects — as well as urban design projects.
  Their latest, and perhaps most ambitious urban project to date, is the new Champs-Élysées fountains just unveiled in Paris, which they designed in collaboration with Austrian crystal manufacturer Swarovski.
  The six fountains (Rond-Point des Cham
  
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• Federal stress test caused up to $15M drop in new mortgages: economist

  20-04-2019 13:45
  
  Time to rethink the too-strict stress test, urges CIBC’s chief economist
  
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• Federal stress test caused up to $15B drop in new mortgages: economist

  20-04-2019 13:45
  
  Time to rethink the too-strict stress test, urges CIBC’s chief economist
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Legal regulator's self-interest showing

  20-04-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Law Society of B.C.’s battle with Jeremy Maddock of Victoria is an example of how it talks about access to justice but appears to care more about protecting its monopoly.
  Maddock is not a lawyer, but has a law degree from the University of Victoria, and for nearly a decade has provided research to lawyers and helped people with minor legal problems.
  “I sometimes appear as an agent in traffic court and have occasionally helped family, friends and others navigate the legal system,
  
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• North Van AI firm gets $3 million grant - Business in Vancouver

  20-04-2019 09:00
  North Van AI firm gets $3 million grant  Business in VancouverNorth Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson announced Thursday that Lower Lonsdale-based Ecoation Innovative Solutions will receive a $3-million grant aimed ...
  
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• Forget Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot set to shoot in North Vancouver - TheChronicleHerald.ca

  20-04-2019 09:00
  Forget Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot set to shoot in North Vancouver  TheChronicleHerald.caAnother FOX reboot is coming to Vancouver. Riding high on the success of the X-Files revival — and no doubt hoping to piggyback off the success of The CW's ...
  
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• REAL SCOOP: CD says he has clear memory of Bacon meeting

  20-04-2019 08:42 via vancouversun.com
  On Thursday at the Jamie Bacon trial, his lawyer Kimberly Eldred continued to question CD about his various statements to police over the years. NOTE: I am closing comments for the long weekend
  Here’s my story:Star witness at Bacon trial says he has clear memory of
  murder plot meetingA 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 Karbovane
  
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• 'Bodies everywhere': Dozens injured after deck collapses during Langley wedding party

  20-04-2019 08:38 via vancouversun.com
  Police say dozens of people were injured, some critically, when the second storey deck of a home in Langley collapsed Friday evening during a wedding celebration.
  The incident occurred at a home in the 5800 block of 268th Street, during a wedding party attended by more than 100 people. Reports say the second-storey deck broke away from the structure and collapsed, sending partygoers tumbling and causing multiple injuries.
  RCMP Cpl. Craig Van Herk said 911 calls started flooding in around 5:45 p.
  
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• Dozens injured after deck collapses during wedding party at Langley home

  20-04-2019 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  A deck collapsed at a home in Aldergrove on Friday afternoon, reportedly injuring dozens of people.
  The incident occurred at a home in the 5800 block of 268th Street, during a wedding party attended by more than 100, according to reports.
  Just after 5:30 p.m., the second-storey deck broke away from the structure and collapsed, sending partygoers tumbling and causing multiple injuries.
  Emergency crews responded to multiple 911 calls from the residence, with 19 ambulances and one air ambulance, as
  
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• Forget Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot set to shoot in North Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  20-04-2019 05:24
  Forget Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot set to shoot in North Vancouver  Vancouver SunSure, it's not the tony Los Angeles community identified in the show's title, but it has hills, and it's among the toniest of the Vancouvers. Harrison Mooney.
  
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• Forget Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot set to shoot in North Vancouver

  20-04-2019 05:23 via vancouversun.com
  Another FOX reboot is coming to Vancouver.
  Riding high on the success of the X-Files revival — and no doubt hoping to piggyback off the success of The CW’s Riverdale, which also films in the area — the TV network has announced plans to bring back the classic teen drama, Beverly Hills, 90210.
  Original stars Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling are all set to return to the titular postal code, at least in theory.
  In
  
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• Steve Cornish: Vancouver’s climate emergency response is ambitious and necessary

  20-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released last fall made a clear case for keeping average global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius if we want to mitigate its most devastating effects. This month, an Environment and Climate Change Canada report stated that Canada’s climate is warming twice as fast as the global average, and that the trend is “effectively irreversible.” The same week, federal Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand called upon Ottawa to mark
  
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• Letters, April 20: Federal attorney-general job too big for one person

  20-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians can thank Jody Wilson-Raybould for pointing out a serious problem in the Attorney-General’s Office, namely, that the job is too big for just one person.
  We need one attorney-general completely immune to political interference overseeing the enforcement of Canada’s laws. And another, responsible to parliamentarians, regarding new legislation, amendments to old legislation and constitutional questions.
  In the past, the line between the two roles has been murky and clandestine
  
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• Daniel Savas and Robin Prest: Can citizen connection fight misinformation and strengthen democracy?

  20-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  In a little more than six months, Canadians go to the polls to exercise their right to vote for an MP to represent them. In the normal course of events, this singular act of citizenship is held up as the key measure for health in our democracy, a sign of commitment to democratic values. Job done, at least until the next election. It’s time to push back hard against this simple narrative and accept that these aren’t normal times.
  Increasingly, democracies are coming under threat from
  
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• Dan Mathers: The internet of things requires secure fences to protect privacy

  20-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  I can unlock my front door and change the temperature of my house from my phone kilometres away. My insurance company can track how safe a driver I am by installing a device in my car. My city can track stormwater levels.
  The future is a world connected by the internet of things and the future is now. While we willingly connect our bodies, homes, cars, buildings and cities to a shared network to track, collect and store data, we need to ask what happens next?
  Before we go much further, I should
  
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• Brian Budd: Starving online trolls won’t stop far-right ideas from going mainstream

  20-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Facebook recently announced it is banning a number of Canadian far-right figures and groups from its platform. Those expelled from Facebook include the “alt-right” activist Faith Goldy and the hate groups Soldiers of Odin, the Canadian Nationalist Front, and the Aryan Strikeforce.
  The decision comes on the heels of the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, where a white supremacist killed 50 worshippers and injured 50 more at two mosques in the city.
  In a manifesto released
  
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• Surrey families to feed 500,000 during Vaisakhi celebration

  20-04-2019 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  Milk and butter could be in short supply in Surrey this weekend as families prepare to feed the 500,000 people expected to attend the city’s annual Vaisakhi celebration on Saturday.
  “We see a lot of foods disappearing from shelves right now,” said parade organizer Moninder Singh. “The impact on grocery stores … is massive over the month of April.”
  Food is a significant part of the annual Sikh harvest festival due to the tradition of “langar.” The
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Soccer fans' walkout fuels debate over predators in sports

  20-04-2019 01:37 via vancouversun.com
  In an unprecedented show of support for athletes alleging sexual harassment, abuse and inappropriate behaviour by coaches, Vancouver Whitecaps fans may have helped spark a much-needed revolution in Canadian sports.
  Why? Because without fans the whole sports house of cards falls down, whether it’s professional leagues or the Olympics.
  And nothing makes that house more vulnerable than the tragic truth that the safety and protection of vulnerable children and young adults from predators is no
  
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• Flight from Vancouver to Chicago makes emergency landing in Seattle

  20-04-2019 01:10 via vancouversun.com
  An airliner travelling from Vancouver to Chicago made an emergency landing Friday afternoon in Seattle after a tire blew out during takeoff.American Airlines Flight 397, travelling from Vancouver International Airport to Chicago O’Hare, diverted to Sea-Tac due to a suspected mechanical issue, the airline said in an emailed statement.
  “The flight landed safely at 1:58 p.m. PT, and is being inspected at the gate by our maintenance team,” American Airlines said.
  Allen Kenitze
  
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• Rats available for adoption in Vancouver - North Delta Reporter

  20-04-2019 01:00
  Rats available for adoption in Vancouver  North Delta ReporterIn a social media post the City of Vancouver says you can adopt a rat for $5.
  
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