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• Vancouver Thingery hopes to amp up neighbourhood sharing - MetroNews Canada

  25-08-2016 17:02 via metronews.ca
  
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  Vancouver Thingery hopes to amp up neighbourhood sharing
  MetroNews Canada
  Lending library of random stuff pops up in Grandview-Woodland, and hopes to expand into refurbished shipping containers around the city. Share on Facebook. Tweet. Reddit this! A. A. Report an Error. Share via Email. Print. Chris Diplock, co-founder of ...
  
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• Cooling red hot Vancouver real estate market healthier, says economist - CBC.ca

  25-08-2016 16:42 via cbc.ca
  
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  Cooling red hot Vancouver real estate market healthier, says economist
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  A new forecast by Central 1 Credit Union predicts B.C.'s hot real estate market will remain robust for the next two years, despite fears a tax on foreign buyers is chilling Metro Vancouver sales. But market overseers say the trend will even out and ...
  Is Vancouver's housing market a ticking time bomb? This analyst says that's just 'silly'bnn.ca
  Vancouver foreign tax slowing an already cooling home market, real
  
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• Summer Slump: Metro Vancouver house sales plummet after offshore tax introduced - Vancouver Sun

  25-08-2016 05:28 via vancouversun.com
  
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  Summer Slump: Metro Vancouver house sales plummet after offshore tax introduced
  Vancouver Sun
  A young married couple from Surrey, Stephanie and Corey Goudriaan, sold their condo last week and now they don't know whether to jump back into the real estate market, or wait for the fallout from the new offshore real estate tax which has frozen some ...and more »
  
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• Downtown Vancouver could lose one of its last gas stations - CBC.ca

  25-08-2016 04:11 via cbc.ca
  
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  Downtown Vancouver could lose one of its last gas stations
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  One of the last two gas stations in downtown Vancouver could close after Chevron Canada Ltd. announced it's seeking offers on the property — located in one of the hottest real estate market on the continent. Chevron spokesman Adrien Byrne said the ...
  Downtown Vancouver could lose one of its last two gas stationsGlobalnews.ca
  One of two downtown Vancouver gas stations closing, drivers left feeling burnedNews1130
  
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• Vancouver to remain a seller's market, credit union association forecasts - The Globe and Mail

  25-08-2016 03:33 via theglobeandmail.com
  
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  Vancouver to remain a seller's market, credit union association forecasts
  The Globe and Mail
  Over the next two years, Metro Vancouver's sky-high housing prices will continue rising – just not at this year's torrid double-digit pace – as the lack of supply and a strong local economy help offset a slowdown in sales prompted by the province's new ...
  Foreign-buyer tax to have short-term effect on Vancouver market: credit unionNews1130
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• Foreign buyers tax sending Vancouver house hunters to Toronto - CTV News

  25-08-2016 02:22 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
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  Foreign buyers tax sending Vancouver house hunters to Toronto
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  Vancouver's new tax on foreign homebuyers has some clients setting their sights to the east, to Toronto. The tax, which was passed in late July by the B.C. Liberals, forces foreign nationals to fork over an additional 15 per cent of the home's value in ...
  Vancouver region home sales continue to slide after foreign-buyer taxThe Globe and Mail
  BUSINESS REPORT: Tax axe falls on Metro Vancouver real estate pricesCKNW N
  
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• Injured skunk found in leg-hold trap in busy Vancouver ... - CTV News

  25-08-2016 01:13 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
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  Injured skunk found in leg-hold trap in busy Vancouver ...
  CTV News
  A $1,000 reward is being offered to help solve a troubling mystery: finding out who set a leg-hold trap to catch an animal in a busy area of South Vancouver.
  Vancouver woman shocked to find baby skunk in leg hold trap ...Globalnews.ca
  Reward offered after leg-hold trap left in East Vancouver - NEWS 1130News1130all 5 news articles »
  
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• Explosive device found in Vancouver storage locker, police say - CBC.ca

  25-08-2016 00:08 via cbc.ca
  
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  Explosive device found in Vancouver storage locker, police say
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  The Vancouver Police Department is investigating how an improvised explosive device got into a storage locker in a neighbourhood located close to downtown. In a statement released Wednesday, the VPD says officers were called to a storage facility at ...
  Vancouver Police investigate reports of possible explosivesGlobalnews.ca
  Several loud explosions heard after Vancouver city block evacuatedCTV News
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