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• Charges recommended against youth in 13-year-old's drug death

  30-08-2017 23:55
  
  Toxicology reports say teen died of a lethal overdose of MDMA, which they bought from drug dealer at SkyTrain station.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Natural catastrophes are the new reality — so why aren't we ready?

  30-08-2017 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbians — especially those still displaced by the wildfires or who are on evacuation notice — can readily empathize with Texans suffering in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
  Neither the B.C. wildfires nor the flooding are close to an end. Even when the immediate danger passes, the recovery and rebuilding will take decades.
  This is our new reality. We need to get used to it, and we need to start by being better prepared for these unprecedented disasters.
  Over the last 20 years
  
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• What needs to happen to keep ICBC from collapsing?

  30-08-2017 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  "You can stand by the ocean and order the tide not to come in... but it's coming in."
  
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• Park board kicks off annual fall tree sale

  30-08-2017 23:18
  
  The park board’s annual tree sale is part of effort to restore the city’s tree canopy, which has been on the decline since the 1990s.
  
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• Taxing gridlock: Vancouver looks to Singapore, Stockholm for cheap, high-tech congestion fix - CBC.ca

  30-08-2017 23:10 via cbc.ca
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  Taxing gridlock: Vancouver looks to Singapore, Stockholm for cheap, high-tech congestion fix
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  When Stockholm first tried out a new congestion tax — charging downtown drivers extra for using the city's core — most Swedes angrily rejected the tax, but opinion flipped one month into a pilot project after gridlock eased. "People saw with their ...
  
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• 40 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, August 31 - Straight.com (blog)

  30-08-2017 23:05 via straight.com
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  40 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, August 31
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  Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 40 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, August 31. CONCERTS. American folk-soul duo Johnny Swim, composed of husband-and-wife team Abner ...
  
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• Greyhound files application to discontinue 5 routes in B.C.

  30-08-2017 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  Greyhound Canada has filed an application to discontinue five routes in B.C., with four of them in northern B.C. and one on Vancouver Island.
  
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• CRA probe into Vancouver condo flipping - Vancouver Courier

  30-08-2017 22:08 via vancourier.com
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  Marine Gateway development in Vancouver is the focus of Canada Revenue Agency investigation of condo flipping. Photograph By Chung Chow. The federal government is taking the property developers behind the Marine Gateway project on Marine Drive ...and more »
  
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• Five reasons to see: Lionel Richie and Mariah Carey

  30-08-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  Lionel Richie, with Mariah Carey
  Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. | Rogers Arena
  Tickets and info: $40-$326+ at ticketmaster.ca
  1. She’s number one. Mariah Carey, who is opening the tour, is the solo artist with the most number-one hits in history. Make of that what you will.
  2. “Bizarre, entertaining.” The tour follows Carey’s well-publicized New Year’s Eve meltdown. According to a review of the Aug. 19 Madison Square Garden stop of All the Hits, Carey is still forging her own pa
  
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• CRA probe into Vancouver condo flipping

  30-08-2017 21:55
  
  The feds seek to ensure that assignment resellers are compliant with the Income Tax Act
  
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• Best dressed technology – the coolest back-to-school ‘wearables’

  30-08-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  How about a subwoofer on your arm or a heart rate monitor that fits in your ears – tech expert Mike Agerbo introduces us to the latest gadgets
  
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• Midfield brothers look to drive Clan to NCAA soccer title

  30-08-2017 21:51 via theprovince.com
  SFU Clan coach Clint Schneider shouldn’t have to worry too much about chemistry in the midfield with his men’s soccer team. He has plenty built in.
  Matteo Polisi was one of the prized freshman recruits for the Burnaby Mountain side this off-season, following a couple of campaigns with the Portland Timbers residency program. The Coquitlam native joins an SFU midfield contingent that includes his older brother Marcello, a red-shirt freshman who missed last year due to injury, as well a
  
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• Record-breaking rescue season for Vancouver Aquarium’s marine mammal centre

  30-08-2017 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  It's been a busy year for marine mammal rescues along B.C.'s coast.
  
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• Xeni Gwet’in First Nation chief charged with sexual interference

  30-08-2017 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  The First Nation's chief that made news in 2014 for a landmark court victory on behalf of the Xeni Gwet'in is facing a sex offence charge.
  
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• Dianne Watts to make decision on BC Liberal leadership run this week

  30-08-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Watts led Surrey from 2005 to 2014, and has since moved to federal politics where she sits as a Conservative MP for South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale. 
  
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• Dianne Watts to make decision on BC Liberal leadership “over the next week or so”

  30-08-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Watts led Surrey from 2005 to 2014, and has since moved to federal politics where she sits as a Conservative MP for South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale. 
  
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• B.C. marathon swimmer successfully crosses Juan de Fuca Straight

  30-08-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  Meet a Victoria woman who successfully swam the 30 kilometres across the Juan de Fuca straight.
  
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• Stricter mortgage rules may lower Vancouver's housing prices by 10%: TD Bank

  30-08-2017 21:20
  
  Real estate prices to be hit by imminent expansion of mortgage stress test.
  
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• 150 Play List Crew in Vancouver

  30-08-2017 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  Join ParticipACTION in celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday at one of the 150 Play List tour stops! You can find the 150 Play List crew in Vancouver at the Jack Poole Plaza as we challenge Canadians to complete as many physical activities from the 150 Play List as possible. Stop by to knock a few off...
  
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• Nakusp RCMP looking for possible victims in historic sex assault case

  30-08-2017 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  In August, 2016, Harry Charles Sadd, 70, was arrested in Victoria in connection with a series of alleged sex assaults.
  
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• Homicide investigators release name of Surrey's latest murder victim

  30-08-2017 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  A young Surrey man with gang links is the latest to die in a targeted murder.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a release that Pardeep Singh, 22, was shot to death in the driveway of his Cloverdale home Tuesday night.
  “Mr. Singh was known to police, and was associated to gangs.  Investigators are working to determine motive, but believe that Mr. Singh’s murder was targeted,” Cpl. Meghan Foster said in a news release Wednesday.
  “Investigators are
  
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• Surrey RCMP searching for missing teen girl

  30-08-2017 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  Taylor Minion was last seen around 7:30 a.m. on August 11, near 138th Street and 77a Avenue. 
  
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• North Van RCMP identify four suspects in egging that left boy with serious eye injury

  30-08-2017 20:39
  Suspects are co-operating and police are recommending a charge of assault causing bodily harm.
  
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• NPA and Vision Vancouver move closer to naming candidates ahead of October by-election - Straight.com

  30-08-2017 20:26 via straight.com
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  NPA and Vision Vancouver move closer to naming candidates ahead of October by-election
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  Hector Bremner, a former candidate for the B.C. Liberal party, is competing to represent the Non-Partisan Association in a Vancouver city council by-election scheduled for October 14. Hector Bremner. Vancouver is six weeks away from a by-election that ...
  
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• Suspect arrested and charged after man found dead in Downtown Eastside apartment

  30-08-2017 20:16
  
  The death is Vancouver's 13th homicide of the year
  
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• Vancouver is Canada’s hottest major city for jobs: report

  30-08-2017 20:05
  
  Vancouver is tops when it comes to job markets in the country’s major cities — defined as those with populations over 250,000 — according to an Express Employment Professionals report released Aug. 30.
  
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• Bounty of produce around for easy Labour Day meals

  30-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  All fun and food aside, Labour Day does have its roots in the labour movement.
  The short version is that in 1869 the Toronto Typographical Union requested a reduction in work hours from 12 to nine per day. They were ignored, and in 1872 the request escalated into a demand and the printers went on strike. They eventually won, though not without pain. Besides establishing a shorter workday, their victory gave us the Labour Day that was passed into law in 1894.   
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• Update: fire near Squamish 75% contained

  30-08-2017 19:55
  
  BC Wildfire Service crews continue to make progress on fire near Mamquam Forest Service Road
  
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• Sales clerks, warehouse packers among jobs headed for scrap heap

  30-08-2017 19:48
  
  A lot of current jobs are likely to be as obsolete in the future as horse-drawn carriage drivers, bowling-alley pin setters or streetlamp lighters are today.
  
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• Vancouver breaks 50-year-old temperature record and hot weather will return for long weekend

  30-08-2017 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver has broken a 50-year-old temperature record and while it's going to get cooler for the next few days, the hot and record-breaking temperatures are going to return for the weekend.
  
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• B.C.'s helicopter air ambulances to be equipped with night vision technology

  30-08-2017 19:10 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The organization that manages paramedic and ambulance services across British Columbia says night vision technology is being installed on three of its air ambulance helicopters.
  B.C. Emergency Health Services says the technology allows pilots to fly safely in low light or darkness and will help critical care paramedics reach more patients in need of emergency care and transport.
  A news release from emergency health services says patients in northern and coastal B.C. are expecte
  
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• Man charged with murder after dead body found in Vancouver apartment

  30-08-2017 18:52 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been arrested and charged after another man was found dead inside a Downtown Eastside apartment on Monday.
  Vancouver police announced Wednesday that Randall Whitworth Hill, 34, had been charged with one count of second degree murder.
  On Monday, police were called to a home on Princess Avenue near Alexander Street after a man’s body was found inside an apartment. The man’s death was found to be suspicious and VPD’s major crime investigators took over the case.
  Hill was
  
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• Canadian high schools see spike in international students, boards say

  30-08-2017 18:05 via globalnews.ca
  Though international students make up only a small fraction of high schoolers, administrators in Ontario and British Columbia say they've seen a spike in recent years, with some school boards reporting their ranks have doubled.
  
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• MADDEAUX: Amateur hour is killing true pros - in everything

  30-08-2017 17:55
  
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• Sniffer dogs deployed to find illicit drugs in Vancouver apartment buildings - Straight.com

  30-08-2017 17:49 via straight.com
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  Sniffer dogs deployed to find illicit drugs in Vancouver apartment buildings
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  German shepherds have been known to discover drugs in some unusual locations. Pfc. David Hauk. For many years, sniffer dogs have been detecting illicit drug labs in housing complexes around the world.
  Drug-sniffing dogs are being used by Vancouver landlords to keep buildings free of narcoticsCBC.caall 2 news articles »
  
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• Province won’t review property tax deferment program

  30-08-2017 17:14 via globalnews.ca
  Critics argue the program is offering ultra low interest rates to the wealthy.
  
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• Investigators to share updates today on man shot dead in Surrey driveway

  30-08-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide investigators are expected to provide updates Wednesday after a man was shot dead inside his car Tuesday evening in Surrey.
  At around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Surrey RCMP responded to a report of multiple shots fired in the 6300-block of 166 Street. When police arrived, they found the victim already dead in a car, which was parked in a driveway.
  Police say the initial signs point to this being a targeted shooting and are looking for a vehicle that may be linked to the incident.
  A light-col
  
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• Here's what you should be feeding your kids this fall

  30-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Back-to-school time undoubtedly calls for a lot of preparation — what with the need for new clothes, new tech gadgets, new textbooks, etc. — and one area that demands a bit of extra attention is food. 
  “Proper nutrition helps students show up to school prepared to learn,” Jennifer Brott, a registered holistic nutritionist based in Vancouver, says.
  While it may not seem like much of an issue to pack the kids off to the bus without a lunchtime snack or meal in tow
  
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• What to do if you have ‘ugly’ debt

  30-08-2017 16:50 via globalnews.ca
  Blair Mantin of Sands & Associates separates the good, bad and ugly when it comes to debts and explains what you can do if you find yourself with “ugly” debt.
  
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• First Nations, environmentalists occupy Alert Bay salmon farm

  30-08-2017 16:32 via vancouversun.com
  ALERT BAY — A group of First Nations and environmentalists are occupying a salmon farm near Alert Bay, B.C., and say they won’t leave until the provincial and federal governments revoke permits for the facility.
  Ernest Alfred, a traditional leader from the ‘Namgis, Tlowitsis and Mamalilikulla First Nations, said he and other protesters arrived six days ago at the farm owned by Marine Harvest Canada on Swanson Island and are now building a shelter.
  He said the farm is threa
  
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• Residents escape large house fire in Abbotsford

  30-08-2017 16:08 via globalnews.ca
  It is unclear at this time how many people were in the home on Martens Street, just off Marshall Road, when the fire broke out.
  
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• Daily Poll: What's the most pressing issue in the rental market?

  30-08-2017 15:59 via vancouversun.com
  This week, B.C.’s Housing Minister Selina Robinson vowed to review the formula used to determine the maximum allowed rent increases.
  According to the B.C. Tenancy Act, rent hikes are capped at two per cent plus inflation. Landlords are permitted to raise rents once every 12 months, and tenants must be given notice three months prior to the increase taking effect.
  For 2018, that increase has been set at four per cent.Housing advocates, however, would like to see the law changed so that the
  
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• Ultimate Frisbee team seeks ambitious investor to manage Vancouver franchise

  30-08-2017 15:51 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re looking for an investment in Vancouver, you could put a down payment on a condo or buy a fast-food franchise. But for less than either of those things, you could own a share in one of the city’s professional sports teams.
  That team is the Vancouver Riptide, one of 24 franchises in the rapidly growing American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL), a North American emerging pro sports league that plays Ultimate Frisbee.
  “It’s a combination of all the good things that you w
  
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• Surrey RCMP search for vehicle of interest following shooting

  30-08-2017 15:02 via globalnews.ca
  Reporter Jordan Armstrong is live in the Cloverdale area of Surrey this morning where it looks like there has been another targeted shooting. Police are now looking for a vehicle of interest.
  
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• Dan Fumano: A half-century old B.C. snapshot of a city about to 'take off'

  30-08-2017 14:59 via vancouversun.com
  The best thing I read this summer had a great-looking cover, but once I got into it, it really started to fall apart.
  A trip to the Sunshine Coast this past weekend produced an unexpected discovery inside the walls of a 1963-built cabin: a bundle of repurposed insulation providing a snapshot of a city on the verge of huge change and growth, when the newsroom was bigger and the city much smaller.
  A copy of The Vancouver Sun dated Thursday, April 11, 1963, found well-preserved and legible, bu
  
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