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• Huge fire breaks out at Mitchell Island facility

  16-06-2017 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Crews are scrambling to contain a massive fire that's broken out at a mattress recycling depot on Mitchell Island in Richmond on Friday afternoon.
  
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• Fire burns at Mitchell Island mattress recycling plant

  16-06-2017 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  A large fire at a Richmond mattress facility is producing thick black smoke across Metro Vancouver Friday afternoon.
  
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• LIVE: Massive fire breaks on Mitchell Island

  16-06-2017 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Emergency crews have called to what looks like a massive fire on Mitchell Island between Richmond and Vancouver.Fire on Mitchell island @NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/PkhmadCSkC
  — chris leigh (@chrisleigh604) June 16, 2017
  Smoke and flames from the fire can be seen from several kilometres away.View from Capstan way in Richmond #MitchellIsland pic.twitter.com/w4Y4Xw1NHA
  — Matthew Anderson (@77SuperMatt) June 16, 2017
  MORE TO COME
  
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• Kinder Morgan has raised $5.5 billion for Trans Mountain pipeline

  16-06-2017 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd has raised $5.5 billion for its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the company said in a statement on Friday.
  
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• Kelowna’s new fire chief promoted from within the ranks

  16-06-2017 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  The city says Travis Whiting was selected for the top job after an extensive review of candidates from across the country.
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Supreme Court of Canada stands firm on timely trial rights

  16-06-2017 22:43 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to back away from hard trial deadlines imposed on lower courts last summer and reinforced its message that judges must manage proceedings.
  In a decision Friday that revisited the landmark ruling known as R. v. Jordan, seven justices unanimously emphasized that the current culture of legal complacency must end.
  “This appeal is yet another example of why change is necessary … every actor in the justice system has a responsibility to ensure that
  
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• 27 overdose deaths in Vancouver in May

  16-06-2017 22:02
  
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson urges the next provincial government to tackle the opioid overdose crisis after the city recorded 27 deaths in May.
  
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• Brian Minter: Garden Days should be celebrated all year in Canada

  16-06-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  As we look forward to celebrating 150 years as a country on July 1, there are numerous activities in which Canadians will be engaged and enjoying the many aspects of our gardens should be one of them! Gardens have always been part of our culture from sustainable food growing to creating beauty both in private and public gardens and parks. Tourism Canada has long recognized that gardens have been a significant visitor attraction from coast to coast. 
  In recent years the Canadian Garden Counc
  
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• Harbour porpoise Daisy, rescued in 2008, dies at Vancouver Aquarium

  16-06-2017 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  Daisy the harbour porpoise — one of the Vancouver Aquarium’s three remaining cetaceans — has died, it was announced late Thursday.
  The death comes in the midst of ongoing debate over the future of cetaceans at the facility, and on the same day the aquarium launched a legal challenge against a recently enacted bylaw banning cetaceans like Daisy.
  The porpoise was a month old when she was rescued by the aquarium in August 2008; she would have turned nine this summer. Harbour porpo
  
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• In wake of Trump, American companies open Vancouver subsidiaries

  16-06-2017 21:54
  
  The Canadian government has been keen to paint Canada as open for business in contrast to America-First rhetoric - and American companies are listening.
  
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• Organization clearing Vancouver tent city say site needed to build affordable housing

  16-06-2017 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lu'Ma Housing Society, who now has a 60-year lease on the tent city land, says site needs to be cleared for affordable housing to be built.
  
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• Lengthy prison sentence for gunman in Vernon park shooting

  16-06-2017 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jacob Lowes fired at least three shots while chasing two men who tried to rob him.
  
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• Vancouver man found guilty of 2014 murder of his mother

  16-06-2017 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Vancouver man was found guilty Friday of second degree murder in connection with the 2014 death of his mother.
  Barbara Whitlock, 61, was found dead in the backyard of her Dunbar home on Nov. 8, 2014. 
  Her 28-year-old son Brian Whitlock was arrested the next day at the house at 3171 West 23rd Ave following a lengthy standoff with police.
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  Vancouver man charged with murdering mother later confessed he had killed 'the witch'Man accused of murder deemed low risk for further violen
  
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• Masterchef Canada winner feeds an entire CFL team

  16-06-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  The BC Lions get a special post-practice treat. Masterchef Canada Winner David Jorge cooks for the team with the help of some very talented SuperChefs.
  
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• B.C. Crown files appeal to increase sentences in Chilliwack cattle abuse case

  16-06-2017 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Crown has filed an appeal with the B.C. Supreme Court asking for increased sentences for those involved in Chilliwack cattle abuse case.
  
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• Keremeos taxidermist charged with illegally shooting elk and other wildlife offenses

  16-06-2017 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  The investigation then brought officers to the premises of Similkameen Taxidermy where they allegedly found illegally possessed wildlife.
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: E-commerce giant makes brick-and-mortar investment with Whole Foods

  16-06-2017 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Amazon bought organic grocer Whole Foods in $13.7-billion deal.
  
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• Town Talk: B.C. Cancer Foundation event addresses inherited cancers

  16-06-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  Christian Chan donated $600,000 and Dr. Kim Chi spoke about inherited cancer at a B.C. Cancer Foundation Inspiration gala reception.
  SECOND-HAND CANCER: After raising $3.05 million at its 2016 Inspiration gala, the B.C. Cancer Foundation has received a $600,000 pledge for this year’s Nov. 4 event. Christian Chan of the philanthropic family announced that donation to guests at a VanDusen Botanical Garden reception. With millions raised later, it will help fund the B.C. Cancer Agency&rs
  
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• More jail time sought for three convicted in Chilliwack cow abuse case

  16-06-2017 20:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  Crown prosecutors are asking the B.C. Supreme Court to increase the amount of jail time handed down to three men convicted of abusing cattle at Canada’s largest dairy farm.
  In a media release issued Friday, the B.C. Prosecution Service announced it had filed an appeal with the court asking for a new sentence in the case against Travis Keefer, Jamie Visser and Chris Vandyke. The three men had pleaded guilty in April to causing distress to be in distress and permitting animals to be in distr
  
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• B.C.'s top doctor urges parents to talk to kids about opioid overdoses

  16-06-2017 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s medical health officer is urging parents to talk to their children about the dangers of potentially deadly illicit opioids before end-of-school celebrations.
  Dr. Perry Kendall has written a letter that will be distributed by schools that says 19 youths between the ages of 14 and 18 have died from overdoses since January 2016.
  Kendall says parents should discuss substance use and the risks of overdose because young people may experiment during the summer
  
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• Hungry slug becomes star of B.C. viral video

  16-06-2017 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  A hungry slug on Gabriola Island has become the unknowing star of a video uploaded to Facbeook that has now gone viral.
  
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• Canada 150: Malcolm Lowry, the literary 'genius' who lived in a squatter's shack

  16-06-2017 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.
  On Aug. 1, 1947, The Vancouver Sun ran a story headlined, “Wealthy Squatters Find Rent-Free Beach Haven.”
  “A successful novelist who could write a cheque for thousands is ‘king’ of the beach squatters of Royal Row at Dollarton, 10 miles east of Vancouver,” read the story. “Like hundreds of others in the Vancouver area, Malcolm Low
  
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• Bulls and Bears: NBA’s win Golden but Olympics’ business loses golden arches

  16-06-2017 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  Sorting out the major winners and losers of this week — with a bottom-line twist — in the world of sports:
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  Judging from both the actual production and the Big Apple hype around the new “Pride of the Yankees,” it was another astonishing week for rookie Bronx Bomber Aaron Judge. The slugger in pinstripes leads the American League in all three Triple Crown races; batting .335, hitting 22 homers — including a tape-measure 495-foot blast at Yankee Stadi
  
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• In her words: Why I chose a medically assisted death

  16-06-2017 20:33
  
  In the months before her death, Martine Partridge wrote a letter to family and friends explaining her decision to seek medical assistance to end her life.
  
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• Loud mouths and leather lungs required for Playland scream choir

  16-06-2017 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  Playland is looking for a few good screechers.
  Having an ear-piercing scream is no longer an unappreciated and ineffectual talent, Vancouver producer/composer Bob Smart and Playland at PNE are seeking some ‘decibel-ly’ blessed howlers to audition for the world’s first scream choir.To audition, you need to film yourself screaming along with the scream choir’s YouTube guide of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and then uploaded it to either Instagram (tag @pne_playland), Facebook
  
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• Eight under par sets the pace at Kelowna professional golf event

  16-06-2017 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Robby Shelton shot an eight under 63 Thursday to put him at the top of the leader board on the Mackenzie Tour event.
  
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• Flour power: Franco Pepe’s go-slow pizza touted as world’s best

  16-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  On a late spring evening the town of Caiazzo is a little jewel perched high up in the hills just outside the city of Caserta in Italy’s Campania region. In the fading daylight, its quaint little square lit with lamps greets visitors when they reach the entrance to this cobbled-street village. 
  Not far up the road and down a narrow alley is a man who makes magic with flour. His name is Franco Pepe.
  He’s not only famous locally for his unique pizzas — people line up past mid
  
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• 950 Main tent city residents receive second eviction threat

  16-06-2017 19:50
  
  A city application for an injunction to remove the camp was denied. Now the non-profit leaseholder has issued an eviction notice.
  
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• B.C.’s migrant farmworkers mark Father’s Day far from their kids

  16-06-2017 19:40
  
  Tradition a reminder of ‘sacrifice’ thousands make to send earnings home to families, say advocates — and a reminder of where much of our food comes from.
  
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• Kelowna woman charged in the serious assault of another woman

  16-06-2017 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Melody Myra Decoteau is accused of assault causing bodily harm, robbery and breaching an undertaking.
  
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• Vancouver Sun column's 'alarming' race rhetoric is ‘dangerous’: experts

  16-06-2017 19:15
  
  Controversy grows over ex-ambassador and Fraser Institute senior fellow’s warnings of ‘population replacement’ by ‘non-whites’ published by Postmedia this month.
  
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• Thieves prompt police warning: don’t drink and debit

  16-06-2017 19:09
  
  Intoxicated patrons of Vancouver's Granville Entertainment District are being targeted when they take money out of bank machines, VPD says
  
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• Pop star Lorde to hit Vancouver's Rogers Arena in March 2018 on world tour

  16-06-2017 19:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  Pop star and Taylor Swift squad member Lorde will perform at Vancouver’s Roger’s Arena on March 8, 2018 as part of her Melodrama tour.
  The news came just one day before her latest release, sophomore album Melodrama, which was out Friday and features the lead single “Green Light.”“Oh and North America I would never forget about u – let’s dance,” she tweeted on Friday.
  The New Zealand singer-songwriter was born Ella Yelich-O’Connor and rose to
  
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• Daily Poll: What do you think of the trespass order issued to the Main Street tent city?

  16-06-2017 17:51 via vancouversun.com
  
  On Thursday, the Lu’ma Native Housing Society issued a notice of trespass to residents at a tent city located at 950 Main St, ordering them gone by 7 a.m. on Friday.
  The lot is slated to be the site of 26 new units of social housing, managed by the society. All of the units are designated for aboriginal households.
  Lu’ma signed a 60-year lease with the city on the property Thursday, the same day the notice of trespass was issued.
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  Homeless campers ordered to leave Main Street
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Supreme Court stands firm on timely trial rights

  16-06-2017 17:41 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to back away from hard trial deadlines imposed on lower courts last summer and reinforced its message that judges must manage proceedings.
  In a decision Friday that revisited the landmark ruling known as R. v. Jordan, seven justices unanimously emphasized that the current culture of legal complacency must end.
  “This appeal is yet another example of why change is necessary…. every actor in the justice system has a responsibility to ensure that
  
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• BBQ tips – Grilled minute steaks

  16-06-2017 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Chef Josh McWilliams from Whiskey Six BBQ shows us how to make quick delicious steaks on the grill. And gives us a few different ways to serve them.
  
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• New movies opening this weekend June 16

  16-06-2017 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  From ‘Cars 3’ to ‘Book of Henry’, Dana Gee tells us which new movies to catch this weekend. There’s something for everyone in this lineup.
  
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• Kirk Jones, man who miraculously survived unprotected Niagara Falls plunge, found dead in Niagara River 14 years later: Report

  16-06-2017 17:17
  
  American Kirk Jones couldn't cheat deathagain after becoming the first person totake an unprotected plunge over NiagaraFalls more than a decade ago.
  
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• Brian Whitlock verdict expected in death of his mother

  16-06-2017 17:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Vancouver man accused of murdering his mother is expected to learn his fate today.
  
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• Brian Whitlock expected to be sentenced in death of his mother

  16-06-2017 17:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Vancouver man accused of murdering his own mother is expected to learn his fate today.
  
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• Letters: Odd that city officials could suddenly find room for Balmoral tenants

  16-06-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  
  The evictions of the Balmoral Hotel residents in Vancouver — and the miraculous finding of new places for them — shows what the government is really doing about homelessness. Absolutely nothing.
  The city failed to have repairs done at the owners’ expense and now the tenants were forced to move. Everyone from Premier Christy Clark to Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson kept holding news conferences to say they were doing what they could to find spaces for those in need, yet wh
  
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• B.C. Cancer Agency's 'Songcology' choir bringing health workers, patients together

  16-06-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Dr. Michael McKenzie first got the idea for Songcology from a YouTube video.
  After watching a BBC clip on the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, a group comprising health workers from two U.K. hospitals that pulled a Love Actually and managed a No. 1 single over Christmas 2015, McKenzie decided that the B.C. Cancer Agency should do something similar. 
  “It was a wonderful, morale-building effort and good PR for their two hospitals and also they raised a bunch of money,” McKenzie,
  
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• China-based Hytera returns with matching bid for Vancouver's Norsat International

  16-06-2017 16:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — Norsat International Inc., the Vancouver tech firm at the centre of duelling acquisition bids, says China-based Hytera Communications has matched a US$67.3 million rival takeover offer from an American fund manager.
  Hytera, which manufactures radio transceivers and radio systems, made its friendly takeover offer for Norsat last year and received clearance under the Investment Canada Act this month.
  But Privet Fund Management LLC — a U.S. company that already owns 17.6 per
  
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• Daisy the harbour porpoise rescued in 2008, dies at Vancouver Aquarium

  16-06-2017 16:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  Daisy the harbour porpoise – one of the Vancouver Aquarium’s three remaining cetaceans – has died, it was announced Thursday.
  The death comes in the midst of ongoing debate over the future of cetaceans at the facility, and the same day the aquarium launched a legal challenge against a recently enacted bylaw banning cetaceans like Daisy.
  The porpoise was a month old when she was rescued by the aquarium in August 2008; she would have turned 9 this summer. Harbour porpoises have a
  
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• Knowledge of game helps B.C.’s Steve Nash to finally get NBA championship ring

  16-06-2017 15:55 via theprovince.com
  
  It is the one thing that eluded two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash of Victoria during his starry basketball career. He may have revolutionized the game by making passes and assisting a high art on the court, but he never won a league championship as a player.
  But now the St. Michaels University School graduate has his elusive NBA championship ring. He was awarded one this week as a player development consultant with the 2017 champion Golden State Warriors.
  Not only did the Arbutus Junior High product n
  
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• Milk products recalled in B.C. due to 'harmful extraneous material'

  16-06-2017 15:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  OTTAWA — Quebec-based dairy giant Agropur is recalling some of its milk products distributed in British Columbia due to what the federal health agency calls “harmful extraneous material.”
  In a news release issued early Friday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency did not elaborate on the type of material that triggered the recall.
  The affected milk is sold under the Island Farms, Lucerne and Natrel names and includes skimmed, one per cent partly-skimmed, two per cent partly-skim
  
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• How New York Institute of Technology is helping to make Vancouver

  16-06-2017 15:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  When New York Institute of Technology opened its Vancouver campus over 10 years ago, the concept of “going green” was still in its infancy.
  Now, energy management has not only become a top priority due to global warming, it’s become an entire industry.
  Vancouver has long been trying to make itself a beacon of sustainability by setting the goal to be the greenest city in the world by 2020, which made offering a Master of Science in Energy Management in Vancouver an easy decision
  
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• Vancouver police warn public about using ATMs on Granville strip

  16-06-2017 15:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  They say fraudsters target intoxicated people late at night and since January, 2017, there have been nine incidents of theft involving thousands of dollars reported to police.
  
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• Overturned tanker truck closes Highway 4 between Port Alberni and Ucluelet

  16-06-2017 14:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Highway 4 between Port Alberni and Ucluelet remains closed Friday morning as crews work to contain a fuel spill from an overturned tanker truck.
  
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• Five Things to Know: Vancouver apartments are expensive, Liberals up to 'mischief'

  16-06-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver’s rental market is officially the worst, grocery stores can sell liquor, and B.C.’s political parties are still fighting over who should offer up a Speaker. Here are five things you need to know:
  Vancouver apartment prices are ridiculous
  The average rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver is $1,950, according to PadMapper. That makes Vancouver the most expensive rental market in Canada, with Toronto a close second at $1,790 per month.
  And heaven help you if yo
  
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