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• Turn Up the Volume: Winsome Kind performs in the Vancouver Sun and Province newsroom

  27-07-2017 23:57 via vancouversun.com
  Folk pop duo Winsome Kind gave Vancouver Sun and Province viewers a sneak peek of their Aug. 11 show at the Harmony Arts Festival with an intimate Facebook Live concert Thursday.
  Winsome Kind — composed of husband and wife Scott Perrie and Leora Joy — will head back to the studio in August to record their second album.
    
   
  
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• BC Liberals’ claims they’re being shut out of wildfire info ‘just nonsense’: Public safety minister

  27-07-2017 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  “Just about every single one has my personal phone number," said Public Safety minister Mike Farnworth.
  
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• Beauty fans, there's a new shopping hot spot in Vancouver

  27-07-2017 23:33 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a good time to be a beauty fan in Vancouver.
  Luxury Canadian retailer Holt Renfrew recently pulled back the curtain on its newly renovated and expanded Beauty Hall. 
  The space, which is located on the lower level of the retailer’s flagship shop at 737 Dunsmuir St., sees the space housing the various prestige fragrance, beauty and skin care brands double in size to 16,000 square feet. 
  In addition to old favourites from Charlotte Tilbury, Cle de Peau, Hermes and La
  
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• Canada Revenue Agency cracking down on presale condo flippers

  27-07-2017 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  If you’ve made money flipping a presale condo in Vancouver, you may soon get a call from the taxman.
  
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• No immediate plans to log Bowen Island

  27-07-2017 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  The fir, hemlock and cedar trees of Bowen Island are safe for now.
  A week after the mayor of the 50-square-kilometre island just off West Vancouver expressed surprise at discovering government plans to potentially log 30 per cent of the picturesque island, B.C. Timber Sales said the plans have been taken off the table.
  Kerry Grozier, B.C. Timber Sales manager, issued a statement Wednesday.
  “BCTS-Chinook has decided to remove Bowen Island from its current Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP)
  
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• Drug intoxication a factor in Highway 33 crash that killed young Kelowna area woman

  27-07-2017 22:35 via globalnews.ca
  There's no indication excessive speed was a factor but the coroner found drug intoxication played a role in the fatal crash.
  
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• Presser: Williams Lake evacuation order lifted, here’s what returning residents need to know

  27-07-2017 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  Officials in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District are updating the public after the Williams Lake evacuation order was lifted.
  
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• City of Vancouver files 60 charges against owners of “disgusting” Dowtown Eastside SRO

  27-07-2017 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  The city says the hotel's owners failed to maintain walls, ceilings, floors, and plumbed facilities.
  
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• City of Vancouver files 60 charges against owners of “disgusting” Downtown Eastside SRO

  27-07-2017 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  The city says the hotel's owners failed to maintain walls, ceilings, floors, and plumbed facilities.
  
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• Vancouver files 60 civil charges against Balmoral owner

  27-07-2017 22:04
  But evacuating the building has lessened the city's power to compel rehabilitation and reoccupation of the building.
  
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• Update: Vancouver firefighters douse downtown blaze

  27-07-2017 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  UPDATE: The Vancouver Police Department says the fire in the 1000 block of Howe Street has been resolved and traffic has resumed. Howe Street between Nelson and Helmcken is now open, as @VancouverFireRescue have extinguished the fire.
  — Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) July 27, 2017
   
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  Vancouver fire crews are battling a fire in the 1000 block of Howe Street.
  Vancouver police are assisting and asking motorists to avoid the area, as Howe Street remains closed between Nelson
  
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• What hotel housekeeping wants you to know

  27-07-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Travel expert Claire Newell explains what drives hotel housekeepers crazy.
  
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• Playland ride to be inspected after accident at Ohio fair kills one

  27-07-2017 21:44 via vancouversun.com
  A Playland ride was shut down Thursday out of precaution after an accident on a similar ride at an American state fair killed one and left several others in critical condition on Wednesday evening.
  Tyler Jarrell, an 18-year-old Columbus, Ohio resident, was declared dead Wednesday at the Ohio State Fair after his bench seat on board an amusement ride fell and dropped him and others several metres to the ground below. Seven others were injured and sent to hospital.
  The ride is called the Fireball
  
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• Vancouver’s Playland temporarily shuts down ride after fatal accident in Ohio

  27-07-2017 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Playland's 'The Beast' is made by the same manufacturer as the Ohio ride that failed.
  
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• Balmoral Hotel and Sahotas face 60 charges for maintenance infractions

  27-07-2017 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  A total of 60 charges have been filed against the Balmoral Hotel and the Sahota family for violations of building maintenance bylaws.
  In a statement released Thursday, the City of Vancouver said the charges against the dilapidated hotel and its notorious owners related to 18 infractions found during a Jan. 31 inspection and another 42 found during an April 19 inspection.
  The charges stem from things such as failure to keep walls, ceilings and floors to an adequate standard and lack of maintenanc
  
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• Balmoral Hotel and Sahotas face 60 charges for maintenance bylaw infractions - Vancouver Sun

  27-07-2017 21:35 via vancouversun.com
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  VANCOUVER, BC., June 12, 2017 -- Vancouver police and city officials are pictured outside the Balmoral Hotel as residents leave the hotel for the last time pending renovations, in Vancouver, BC., June 12, 2017. NICK PROCAYLO / PNG. Share Adjust ...
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• Top Chef Canada star Nicole Gomes gives us a lesson on cooking salmon

  27-07-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  Top Chef Canda All Star Nicole Gomes gives a lesson on preparing and cooking salmon ahead of the Eat Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival.
  
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• Chinese soccer cash controversy involves Fredy Montero’s home club

  27-07-2017 21:31 via theprovince.com
  The controversy over how much Chinese soccer clubs owe to players and other clubs has a Whitecaps connection, if reports are to be believed.
  A report this week in Britain says a vast majority of clubs in the Chinese Super League had debts they needed to clear — accrued through either missed wages to players or getting behind on transfer payments — and are in trouble with the country’s top soccer body as a result.
  Thirteen clubs in the league have been warned by the Chinese Foot
  
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• Teacher who 'spooned' former student reprimanded

  27-07-2017 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  Two Cowichan Valley teachers have been reprimanded for hosting parties with former students where alcohol was served.
  Married high school teachers Bradley and Alanna Skene held the social gatherings at their home in 2013 and 2014, according to a recent decision by the Teacher Regulation Branch. Alcohol was provided to former students under the age of 19.
  Bradley Skene was also disciplined for engaging in “inappropriate conduct” with a former student in 2010. After a sports
  
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• Theatre review: Master Class a lesson in politics, music and megalomania

  27-07-2017 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  Master Class
  To Aug. 16 | Jericho Arts Centre
  Tickets & Info: $17.50 to $27 at ensembletheatrecompany.ca 
  Should there be any limits on artistic freedom? Is there ever a time when artists should subordinate their personal inspiration to the needs of the state? Do those questions become academic when the very notions of freedom and the state are embodied in a megalomaniacal dictator?
  British playwright David Pownall’s Master Class asks such questions in an imagined 1948 meeting bet
  
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• Williams Lake evacuation order lifted: residents can return home

  27-07-2017 21:11 via globalnews.ca
  Almost two weeks after Williams Lake was ordered to evacuate, that order has been lifted and residents can now return home.
  
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• Second safe injection site opens near Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park

  27-07-2017 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver is opening another legal safe injection site in the Downtown Eastside. Jordan Armstrong reports on how the new NDP Minister of Mental Health and Addiction, Judy Darcy, is handling her new portfolio.
  
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• Foul play ruled out in Okanagan Lake death of Kelowna man

  27-07-2017 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say his death is not suspicious and the investigation has been turned over to the Coroners Service.
  
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• Vancouver advocate for the homeless dies at 68

  27-07-2017 20:52
  
  Former Megaphone Magazine vendor Ron McGrath died July 16 after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 68.
  
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• Bags finally packed, North Van’s Zaruba heads back to NFL Eagles’ camp

  27-07-2017 20:47 via theprovince.com
  Adam Zaruba signed his contract to give NFL football a go on Monday.
  Then the whirlwind really started.
  After putting his name on the dotted line with the Eagles Monday afternoon in Philadelphia, the North Vancouver giant needed to return home to sort out his visa paperwork, but also get his affairs in Victoria in order.
  That turned out to be the easy part.
  He was scheduled to fly home from Philadelphia via Toronto on Monday afternoon. The plan seemed straightforward, the execution anything but.
  
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• To a boy, it was just a bike ride. Those searching for him were much more anxious

  27-07-2017 20:41
  
  Several hours after being separated from his family on Vancouver's seawall, nonplussed cyclist discovered in New Westminster.
  
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• To 11-year-old boy, it was just a bike ride. Those searching for him were more anxious

  27-07-2017 20:41
  
  Several hours after being separated from his family on Vancouver's seawall, nonplussed cyclist discovered in New Westminster
  
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• Hefty fine for Alberta man for his illegal campfire in Kelowna

  27-07-2017 20:39 via globalnews.ca
  The 20-year-old Alberta man was fined $1,150 under the Wildfire Act.
  
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• Elephant Hill wildfire breaks fire guard and grows

  27-07-2017 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  Thu, Jul 27: Footage of the Elephant Hill wildfire shows the flames are not slowing down.
  
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• Vancouver's third supervised injection site opens Friday in DTES

  27-07-2017 20:17 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Coastal Health will open the doors to Vancouver’s newest supervised injection site on Friday in the Downtown Eastside.
  The Powell Street Getaway, located near Oppenheimer Park at 528 Powell Street, will be the third such facility in Vancouver. The Dr. Peter Centre, an HIV-AIDS clinic, has offered supervised injection along with other services in Vancouver’s west end since 2002, while the Downtown Eastside’s Insite facility was the first sancti
  
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• B.C. appmaker brings ride-hailing service to Rwanda's motorcycle taxis

  27-07-2017 20:17 via vancouversun.com
  By Salmaan Farooqui
  In Rwanda, Canadian expat Barrett Nash says you don’t need a morning coffee if you take a taxi to work. That’s because most taxis are motorcycles and riding on one gives you enough adrenaline to wake right up.
  But three years ago, after Nash and his Kenyan colleague Peter Kariuki got in a serious crash while riding a motorcycle taxi, they came up with an idea: an Uber-like business called SafeMotos, with a focus on guaranteeing safe drivers.
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• Advocates push for no calf-roping, steer-wrestling at Chilliwack Fair

  27-07-2017 20:16 via vancouversun.com
  Animal welfare advocates are calling on a local fair to put an end to what they’re calling “cruel rodeo events.”
  The Vancouver Humane Society has launched a petition ahead of the 145th Annual Chilliwack Fair, which takes place Aug. 11 to 13, seeking a ban on calf-roping and steer-wrestling. The petition was addressed to Chilliwack city council and asks the Chilliwack Agricultural Society to “voluntarily” drop the two events from the rodeo program.
  The humane society
  
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• Excessive speed may be factor in fatal West Kelowna motorcycle crash

  27-07-2017 20:13 via globalnews.ca
  "The speeds at which the motorcyclist was travelling may have been a factor."
  
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• Vancouver's third supervised injection site opens Friday in DTES - Vancouver Sun

  27-07-2017 20:11 via vancouversun.com
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  Vancouver Coastal Health is opening a new supervised injection service at Powell Street Getaway in the Downtown Eastside to help stem the tide of the overdose crisis. Handout / PNG. Share Adjust Comment Print. Vancouver Coastal Health will open the ...
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• Coquitlam mayor writes sarcastic Facebook post about distracted walker

  27-07-2017 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart has created a social media stir with his recent post about a distracted walker.
  
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• Vancouver byelection to fill vacated council seat to be held Oct. 14

  27-07-2017 20:05 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s byelection to fill the council seat vacated by Geoff Meggs will take place in mid-October.
  The date for the upcoming byelection was shared this week after city council appointed City Clerk Janice MacKenzie as chief election officer. MacKenzie will be responsible for all aspects of the election.
  Meggs resigned after serving three terms as councillor for the City of Vancouver, to become new Premier John Horgan’s chief of staff.
  NDP Leader and at the time premier-design
  
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• Tamil migrants: B.C. court says four accused of human smuggling not guilty

  27-07-2017 20:04 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has found four Sri Lankan men not guilty of human smuggling.
  Justice Arne Silverman says the men were asylum seekers who had an air of reality to their claim of helping others aboard the MV Ocean Lady get to asylum on the B.C. coast in October 2009.
  Silverman says he wasn’t satisfied that the men — Francis Anthonimuthu Appulonappa, Hamalraj Handasamy, Jeyachandran Kanagarajah and Vignarajah Thevarajah — were knowingl
  
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• Should you really bring your dog to that?

  27-07-2017 20:04 via vancouversun.com
  The summer sunshine and longer days bring dogs and their owners outdoors in greater numbers than at any other time of year.
  Whether it’s a walk along the beach or attending a community event, people out and about with their pets are a popular sight.
  But, as the number of interactions between dogs and the public increase, so too does the potential for conflict — and subsequent calls to animal control, police and the British Columbia SPCA.
  Noisy, crowded public events are especially ov
  
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• Kaitlyn Bristowe joins RAW Beauty movement

  27-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no secret most people put their best face forward for social media.
  From snapshots of luxurious beach vacations, to perfectly lit selfies, the general perspective shared on the various streams is perfection. And, sometimes, it can be a tad difficult to stomach. 
  Erin Treloar, the CEO and founder of Raw Beauty Talks, hopes to start a conversation around the perception of people on social media, and make it more honest, with Raw Beauty Talks. Treloar recently chatted with Postmedia
  
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• Heirloom tomatoes pass the taste test

  27-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I first tasted heirloom tomatoes in the mid-1990s. They came from the limestone-laced soils at Stoney Paradise, an organic Kelowna farm owned by the legendary Milan Djordjevich. (These days you can find Djordjevich, a.k.a. The Tomato Man, at the western entrance of the Saturday Trout Lake farmer’s market and at the Kitsilano farmer’s market in September.)
  I had stopped buying bland supermarket tomatoes, and Djordjevich’s luscious, vine-ripened beauties were a revelation. Now I
  
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• B.C. Supreme Court finds 4 Sri Lankan men accused of human smuggling not guilty

  27-07-2017 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has found four Sri Lankan men not guilty of human smuggling.
  
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• Monte Lake wildfire behaviour subsides; covers 150 hectares

  27-07-2017 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  Thirty-one firefighters worked the blaze overnight with fresh crews being added Thursday.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks: Ranking their 5 biggest 2017-18 rivals - The Canuck Way

  27-07-2017 19:29 via thecanuckway.com
  Vancouver Canucks: Ranking their 5 biggest 2017-18 rivals
  The Canuck Way
  The Vancouver Canucks have seen their rivals change over time this decade. So which five teams stand out as their most heated foes entering the 2017-18 season? For the Vancouver Canucks, it seems like most of their rivalries these days only last for a ...and more »
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Longshoreman gets 7 years for drug smuggling

  27-07-2017 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  I have written a few stories over the last two years about a trio of longshoremen brothers. Alexis was convicted in California in 2008 of possessing 107 kilos of cocaine. When released, he got his job back at the  Port of Vancouver. Youngest brother Arun, who has no criminal record, just lost his court battle to get a security clearance to work on the waterfront. Now middle brother Alvin has also been sentenced in the U.S. for cross-border smuggling.
  Here’s my story:
  Vancouver longsho
  
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• New supervised injection service opens in Vancouver

  27-07-2017 18:38 via globalnews.ca
  It's called the Powell Street Getaway, and will be open from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. daily.
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: Millennials may learn there is no such thing as free money

  27-07-2017 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  Michael Levy reports borrowing costs could spell trouble for millennials.
  
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• City of Vancouver byelection to fill vacated council seat to be held Oct. 14 - Vancouver Sun

  27-07-2017 18:03 via vancouversun.com
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  City of Vancouver byelection to fill vacated council seat to be held Oct. 14
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  Vancouver's byelection to fill the council seat vacated by Geoff Meggs will take place in mid-October. The date for the upcoming byelection was shared this week after city council appointed City Clerk Janice MacKenzie as chief election officer ...and more »
  
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• B.C. wildfire status Thursday: wildfires grow, putting communities on edge

  27-07-2017 17:57 via globalnews.ca
  Wildfires continue to wreak havoc in the B.C. interior and more people have been forced to flee their homes.
  
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• Racist graffiti painted on Vancouver home facing demolition - Vancouver Courier

  27-07-2017 17:19 via vancourier.com
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  Racist graffiti painted on Vancouver home facing demolition
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  Offensive graffiti has appeared on a home that's slated to be demolished. Photo Dan Toulgoet. The racist undertones plaguing some of the debate around Vancouver's housing market have materialized in a message painted on a historic West Side home ...
  
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• Body of missing Crawford Bay teacher Alvin Dunic found in creek

  27-07-2017 17:16 via vancouversun.com
  The body of missing Crawford Bay teacher Alvin Dunic has been found, two months after his disappearance.
  On Wednesday, Creston RCMP received a call about a possible body that had been spotted in Crawford Creek. Police, along with Nelson Search and Rescue and B.C. Ambulance, responded to the scene and pulled a man’s body from the water.
  “At this time the Creston RCMP believe the body to be that of Alvin Dunic, of Crawford Bay, B.C., who went missing on May 29, 2017,” said Cpl. D
  
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