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• 21-year-old facing drug trafficking charges after 9 people overdosed

  14-09-2017 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Nine young people overdosed within a 20-minute span in September 2016 at four different locations.
  
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• Surrey RCMP looking for information following assault at Buckley Park

  14-09-2017 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  A woman, who had been walking her dogs at the time, says a male had attempted to assault her, but she managed to fight him off and flee.
  
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• Bob Lenarduzzi: Rooney’s return to Old Trafford will likely be a rough one

  14-09-2017 23:20 via theprovince.com
  There are several big games in the Premier League this weekend including undefeated sides Watford and Manchester City clashing on Saturday, and a London derby on Sunday between Chelsea and struggling Arsenal. Sunday’s final match, though, is something special, as Wayne Rooney returns to Old Trafford to face his old club when Everton visits Manchester United.
  Looking at how these two teams are doing, it’s hard to believe that Everton outscored United last season. The Red Devils sit to
  
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• Sex offender pleads guilty to 2014 murder of Surrey teen

  14-09-2017 23:12 via vancouversun.com
  A man who told his parole board hearing that he feared harming someone if he was released from prison has now pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of a Surrey teenager.
  Raymond Caissie, 43, entered the plea Thursday before Justice Gregory Bowden in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.
  Caissie served his entire 22-year sentence for a violent sexual assault and kidnapping in Abbotsford, and had been out of prison for just 18 months in September 2014 when he was charged with the slaying of
  
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• Woman fights off attacker in Surrey park

  14-09-2017 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP is investigating an assault on woman in Buckley Park on Wednesday evening.
  The woman was out walking her dogs along a trail near 19600 block of 48th Avenue at around 6:15 p.m. when a man attempted to assault her. She told police she was able to fight the attacker off and retreat to safety.
  The man was last seen leaving the area on foot.
  “The woman was not physically injured but she is understandably upset by the incident,” Surrey RCMP Staff Sgt. Dale Carr s
  
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• Bullying report shadows Vancouver School Board election

  14-09-2017 22:27
  As election approaches, NPA and Green candidates call on all former trustees to release unredacted versions of the report.
  
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• Kelowna tops Canada for rate of opioid hospitalizations

  14-09-2017 22:15 via globalnews.ca
  "The rate of hospitalizations over the past few years is very troubling and points to the deepening of the opioid crisis across Canada."
  
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• No appeal after child-killer Allan Schoenborn wasn’t designated ‘high-risk accused’

  14-09-2017 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  This means Allan Schoenborn will have yearly hearings to determine if he should get more freedom.
  
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• Raise-a-Reader: Literacy program in South Vancouver leads to career options for mom

  14-09-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  The first time Joselyn Cortado brought her daughter to the literacy program at South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, there was no doubt about it: little Khloe loved the whole experience.
  Despite being the first time the three-year-old was with a group of strangers, she didn’t hold back at all. She loved playing with new friends and listening to stories read from a book. She loved eating fruit during snack time and drawing art.
  “She was never scared,” Joselyn said about Khloe.
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• Man faces drug charges following string of overdoses in Delta

  14-09-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  A 21-year-old man is facing drug trafficking charges in connection with a string of fentanyl overdoses that occurred earlier this month in Delta.
  In a 20-minute span on Sept. 1,  Delta police received separate reports overdoses from four separate locations. Delta firefighters and ambulance attendants treated a total of nine people, who were all experiencing respiratory breathing problems. One person was suffering a full cardiac arrest.
  Naloxone, a drug used to reverse the eff
  
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• Traveling after Hurricane Irma

  14-09-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Travel consultant Claire Newell on adjusting your vacation plans after Hurricane Irma and what pilots want to you to know about airplane safety.
  
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• B.C. man who feared he'd harm again if freed from prison pleads guilty to murder

  14-09-2017 21:46
  Raymond Caissie, 43, pleaded guilty to the murder of Surrey teen Serena Vermeersch in 2014.
  
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• Lions legend, now Hall of Famer Geroy Simon never expected to be in Canada for long

  14-09-2017 21:44 via theprovince.com
  By Dan Ralph
  When Geroy Simon first came to Canada, he wasn’t expecting to stay long.
  After being released by the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, Simon joined the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1999 figuring Canada was a means towards kick-starting his pro career south of the border.
  But Simon never left. He has a permanent residence in his adopted homeland and is now one of the headliners of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017.
  “I thought I’d be here for a year
  
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• RCMP searching for hit-and-run suspect who previously caused fatal crash

  14-09-2017 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  Batraki is charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and theft of a motor vehicle.
  
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• B.C. mumps outbreak a problem for young adults

  14-09-2017 21:35 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver Coastal Health is warning teens and young adults to ensure they are protected against the mumps as cases of the viral illness continue to swell.
  
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• Greater Vancouver Citywide Food Drive

  14-09-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is holding it’s second annual massive food drive. CEO Aart Schuurman Hess tells us how they hope to raise 100,000 lbs of food this coming Saturday.
  
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• Partners pull plug on Aurora LNG project near Prince Rupert for economic reasons

  14-09-2017 21:23 via vancouversun.com
  CALGARY — The partners developing the $28-billion Aurora LNG project pulled the plug on the project Thursday after four years of examination, dealing another setback for B.C.’s liquefied natural gas export industry.
  Nexen Energy, a Calgary-based subsidiary of Chinese oil giant CNOOC Ltd., said it has decided with Japanese partner INPEX Gas British Columbia Ltd. to stop work on a feasibility study on the proposal.
  The company said in a statement posted on its website that the current
  
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• ‘Class photo’ captures 31 babies born to parents during the B.C. wildfire evacuations

  14-09-2017 21:22 via globalnews.ca
  One photo, captured by Williams Lake photographer Laureen Carruthers shows 31 babies born to mothers who were evacuated from their homes due to the B.C. wildfires.
  
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• Average rental cost for one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver is $2,020

  14-09-2017 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  The average rental price of a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver has gone up yet again in what some might call the least surprising piece of news this week.
  The cost of a one-bedroom rental in Vancouver in August was $2,020, up 1.5 per cent from the previous month, according to the latest rankings released by PadMapper. Meanwhile, the rent for a two-bedroom apartment actually went down 4.3 per cent to $3,160.
  That’s little solace for most renters in Vancouver, which held on to its top spot
  
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• Curtis Dickson proving to be a thorn in Salmonbellies side

  14-09-2017 21:07 via theprovince.com
  If the New Westminster Salmonbellies are going to get back in the Mann Cup, among the things they’re going to have to do is neutralize Curtis Dickson.
  And, unfortunately for them, Dickson feels right at home at Queen’s Park Arena.
  The Peterborough Lakers carry a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven Senior A box lacrosse national championship into Game 6 at Queen’s Park on Friday (7:30 p.m.) and Dickson, a Port Coquitlam product who played a Junior A season in New Westminster, is a maj
  
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• Review: The Sound of Music is still great after all these years

  14-09-2017 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  The Sound of Music
  Sept. 12 — Sept. 17 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and info: $30.50-$145, ticketmaster.ca
  The first act of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 masterpiece The Sound of Music packs in so many classic show tunes that you could leave after it and still be fully entertained. The second act is key to the story, but with the exception of Edelweiss, the song offerings are almost all reprises of the first act’s mega hits. 
  That you’re quite happy to hea
  
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• Vancouver health authority calls for immunization after mumps outbreak

  14-09-2017 20:48
  There were 13 new cases of mumps in Vancouver Coastal Health over the past month.
  
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• Dad ordered to pay $522,408 in support to Vancouver Island ... - Vancouver Sun

  14-09-2017 20:46 via vancouversun.com
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  Dad ordered to pay $522,408 in support to Vancouver Island ...
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  A Langley man who failed to disclose his soaring income has been ordered to pay more than $500000 in retroactive child support for his two Vancouver Island ...and more »
  
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• Dad ordered to pay $522,408 in retroactive support to Vancouver Island daughters

  14-09-2017 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  A Langley man who failed to disclose his soaring income has been ordered to pay more than $500,000 in retroactive child support for his two Vancouver Island daughters.
  The man, who did not show up in court, failed to report dramatic increases in income over many years, Justice Barbara Young said in a decision released in B.C. Supreme Court in Courtenay this week. Names were not published in the decision.
  “It is clear to me that the respondent [father] in this case is guilty of blameworthy
  
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• Experience the freedom of urban country lifestyle

  14-09-2017 20:36 via vancouversun.com
  The prestigious collection of eight single-family homes comprising the new McCleery & Magee development by TCD Group is Vancouver’s last subdivision, and an opportunity for owners to experience the freedom of an urban country lifestyle.
  That’s because the homes are located in Southlands, the equestrian-oriented community with quiet streets, riding rings and trails — genuine country in the middle of the city. “McCleery & Magee is a unique project for us,” say
  
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• How do I know if I have mumps? Health authority warns of outbreak

  14-09-2017 20:20 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re between the ages of 18 to 33, live in a dorm or with roommates, or enjoy making out — be on the lookout for mumps.
  The Vancouver Coastal Health authority is warning of a possible mumps outbreak, after recording 13 new cases in the VCH region in the last month. All recently reported cases were in individuals between the ages of 18 and 33, with the average age of 25.
  To date, there have been 80 cases since February of this year, compared to 86 for all of 2016. Previously, VCH
  
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• Drivers miraculously walk away from fiery crash near Chase

  14-09-2017 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  According to RCMP a car and a logging truck side-swiped each other, which caused both vehicles to spin out of control just before 6 a.m.
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: An 87 cent Canadian dollar next year? Could be

  14-09-2017 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Could the Loonie see another surge in 2018?
  
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• 8 Great Autumn events around the province

  14-09-2017 20:14 via theprovince.com
  Fall in B.C. may be the best time to explore the province. The trees turn brilliant colours, the salmon run attracts wildlife to rivers, and festivals celebrate B.C.’s bounty of food, drink, and fun. Here are some upcoming events worth planning an autumn trip around.1. CornucopiaWhistler, November 9th to 19thCornucopia is Whistler’s celebration of food and drink. At Crush, the flagship event, you’ll sample wines from B.C. and beyond during this liv
  
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• Opinion: Megaprojects like Site C bankrupt power utilities

  14-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  While the recently elected NDP government has kicked the controversial Site C hydro dam to the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) for review, the project is part of a larger disease afflicting public power utilities: megaprojects. If the track record of megaprojects is anything to go by, B.C. electricity customers should be very nervous.
  The Site C dam exhibits many of the same traits afflicting other megaprojects: an undermining of the regulatory system that was explicitly put in plac
  
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• Miraj Hammam: Vancouver spa stays true to tradition

  14-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  On the south side of the Granville Street Bridge, nestled in the street-level floor of a multi-purpose brick-and-concrete building, there’s a Middle Eastern-inspired establishment that will leave your skin glowing, your soul relaxed — and your body, well, a whole lot happier than it was when you walked in. 
  Dubbed the Miraj Hammam, the unassuming establishment has long been a local favourite, renowned for its fair prices, fabulous service and friendly staff. Oh, and its also ho
  
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• Fab 5: Major blazer

  14-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Checked blazer, $69.90 at Zara, zara.com.
  No matter your age, or even how many years it’s been since you graduated, September always signals the start of something new — it’ll forever be ‘back to school’ time. Style speaking, for us grown-ups, this means a new 9-to-5 wardrobe, and for once, thanks to the resurgence of blazers as a fun fashion item, we’re not groaning inside. Whether you like oversized, mannish cuts or prefer more feminine, fluid shapes, R
  
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• Vancouver park commissioner wants to ban balloons in parks, beaches and community centres - Straight.com

  14-09-2017 19:58 via straight.com
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  Vancouver park commissioner wants to ban balloons in parks, beaches and community centres
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  Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon says deflated balloons are often mistaken by animals for food. SIRAANAMWONG/GETTY IMAGES. A Vancouver park board commissioner is floating an idea that may not sink well with many.
  
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• Guilty plea in the 2014 Surrey, B.C. slaying of Serena Vermeersch

  14-09-2017 19:41 via globalnews.ca
  The man facing charges in relation to the 2014 death of teen Serena Vermeersch has pleaded guilty in relation to her killing.
  
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• 10 BC events for the fall

  14-09-2017 19:41 via vancouversun.com
  Fall in B.C. may be the best time to explore the province. The trees turn brilliant colours, the salmon run attracts wildlife to rivers, and festivals celebrate B.C.’s bounty of food, drink, and fun. Here are some upcoming events worth planning an autumn trip around.
  Teams compete to rebuilt Barkerville in an amazing race.
  1. The Amazing Race to Rebuild BarkervilleBarkerville, September 16, 2017
  Watch as teams race through a series of challenges in an attempt to rebuild Bark
  
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• Bordeaux: Where the wines and rivers flow

  14-09-2017 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  Fall harvest is a great time to visit any wine region. And if the upcoming annual release of Bordeaux wines on Oct. 14 has you dreaming of France’s fifth-largest city and its surroundings in the Gironde region, now is a great time to start planning a trip.
  Voted Lonely Planet’s No. 1 place to visit this year, Bordeaux is the world’s major wine industry capital, producing wine in the region since the 8th century.
  Much like Marseille, the once gritty city (previously re
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: Jon ‘Bones’ Jones busted

  14-09-2017 19:28 via theprovince.com
  Jon Jones is the most gifted, most dominant fighter I’ve ever seen compete inside the Octagon. He has a natural feel for fighting that is uncanny and from very early on, he has known how to translate his physical tools into powerful weapons.
  Even in those early UFC appearances, before he headed to Albuquerque to join forces with the Jackson-Wink crew and light the fuse on his first of many rivalries and divisive moments, you could see his immense talent. You could see that Jones had the po
  
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• B.C. filmmaker Twyla Roscovich missing for more than a week

  14-09-2017 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  There is growing concern about a popular B.C. filmmaker who has now been missing for more than a week.
  
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• Seven things to do, Sept. 15-21: Vince Staples, Salman Rushdie, Taeyang and more

  14-09-2017 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vince Staples
  Sept. 16, Doors at 6:30 p.m. | The Vogue Theatre
  Tickets and info: ticketfly.com
  Vince Staples is at the top of his game right now. The Long Beach rapper gave us his second album, Big Fish Theory, on June 23, 2017, and it’s one of the best hip hop albums of the year so far. Now he’s touring in support of the release: The Life Aquatic Tour brings him to Vancouver, where he’ll be spitting bars at The Vogue along with guests Charlotte Day Wilson, Busty and
  
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• Vancouver police looking for Toyota Camry following hit-and-run in August

  14-09-2017 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  Police say around 2 a.m., just hours after the final night of the fireworks, a 22-year-old man was walking in traffic when he was hit by a vehicle driving southbound in the far left lane of the bridge.
  
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• Restaurant review: Delhi 6 serves up Indian food with a light touch

  14-09-2017 17:52 via vancouversun.com
  Delhi 6 Indian Bistro
  1766 West 7th Avenue | 604-742-3311
  Open: daily for lunch and dinner; delhi6.ca
  Two winters ago, I ate at Indian Accent in New Delhi, voted the best restaurant in India by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.
  It involved a Keystone Cops cab ride taking an hour and a half to go a half kilometre in gridlocked traffic; the driver couldn’t read our phone map or any map at all and started asking random strangers for directions, taking us to and fro and back and forth and
  
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• B.C. home sales stayed strong in August but experts predict change is coming

  14-09-2017 17:52 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The association representing realtors in British Columbia says home sales remained healthy across the province in August, but it expects to see a change over the coming months.
  The B.C. Real Estate Association says 9,162 residential properties were sold in August.
  That’s a 2.4 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.
  The total dollar value of all sales climbed significantly to $6.2 billion, a 22 per cent jump from August 2016, while the association says
  
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• Warrant issued for man charged following hit-and-run crash

  14-09-2017 17:45 via vancouversun.com
  An arrest warrant has been issued for a Langley man involved in a hit and run earlier this year.
  Mark Sameer Batraki, a 42-year-old Langley man, is wanted in relation to an April 6 hit-and-run crash in South Langley. He has been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and theft of a vehicle.
  Batraki is described as a Middle Eastern man, about 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes.
  He was last known to be living in Kelowna, but his current whereabouts are unknown.
  
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• How Canadian craft products are making their mark on the business world

  14-09-2017 17:27 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a revolution going on in Canadian industry and small business, and it’s taking the world by storm. It’s the craft revolution, and by making quality products and using the Internet’s reach to market them, young and creative entrepreneurs like Métis Sean McCormick and the beer-making Beauchesnes are carving a new niche in Canada’s industrial landscape.
  McCormick started Manitobah Mukluks out of Winnipeg a decade ago. Its core product is not only quintes
  
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• Pot to dominate talk as justice ministers meet in Vancouver

  14-09-2017 17:05 via globalnews.ca
  Marijuana legalization will be at the top of the agenda when Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould sits down with her provincial and territorial counterparts in Vancouver today.
  
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• Will marijuana be legalized by July 1, 2018?

  14-09-2017 17:04 via globalnews.ca
  Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is in Vancouver Thursday, meeting with her provincial and territorial counterparts to discuss the timeline for legalizing pot.
  
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• Car fire closes Highway 1 in both directions near Chase

  14-09-2017 16:49 via globalnews.ca
  Drive BC says the highway is closed three kilometres west of Chase due to a collision.
  
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• No change in housing market from July to August: B.C. Real Estate Association

  14-09-2017 15:54 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. Real Estate Association is predicting housing demand will be tempered for the rest of this year by rising prices and mortgage rates.
  
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• Creating a comfortable haven at home

  14-09-2017 15:53 via theprovince.com
  While there are plenty of reasons to downsize from a long-time family home — economics, easier maintenance, children grown and gone, to name a few — buyers are not always ready to make dramatic compromises in the shift to condo life.
  For Andrea Finlay, the designer who worked on the interiors at Foster Martin in White Rock, meeting these high standards involves working to transform a condominium into a comfortable haven by considering homeowners’ daily contact with tactile, sen
  
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• Japanese nuclear disaster didn't affect fish or human health: B.C. oceanographer

  14-09-2017 15:38 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Radioactive contamination following a nuclear power-plant disaster in Japan never reached unsafe levels in the north Pacific Ocean for either marine life or human health, says a British Columbia scientist.
  Chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen of the University of Victoria has monitored levels of contamination from radioactive isotopes, used in cancer therapies and medical imaging, since the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011 following a tsunami trigg
  
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