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• Here are some of our favourite features with iPhone's iOS 11

  20-09-2017 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  An expanded Control Centre, a better storage management system and the ability to record your iPhone screen are some of the new features included with the iOS 11 upgrade.
  You don’t need the new iPhone 8 or iPhone X to take advantage of all the bells and whistles included with Apple’s mobile operating system.
  Expanded Control Centre
  The iPhone Control Centre has been redesigned in iOS 11 to allowing for customized controls.
  You can choose from as many as 17 different functions —
  
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• Convicted B.C. gangster Jarrod Bacon arrested

  20-09-2017 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  At the time of his arrest, he was found with another man who is well known in the drug trade.
  
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• Housing minister: Vancouver’s modular housing pitch ‘at front of list’

  20-09-2017 23:39
  
  Housing Minister Selina Robinson says Vancouver is “at the front of the list” to receive some of the $291 million her government will dedicate to the construction of 2,000 modular housing units.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Jarrod Bacon back in jail after strip club incident

  20-09-2017 23:28 via vancouversun.com
  That didn’t take long.
  Just a few months after Jarrod Bacon was let out of prison on statutory release, he is back behind bars.
  While statutory release is virtually automatic for inmates who serve two-thirds of their sentence, the Parole Board of Canada can impose special conditions on that release.
  In Bacon’s case, he was ordered to stay away from criminals and establishments that serve liquor.
  And he breached both those conditions so is back in jail.
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• Vancouver police apprehensions under the Mental Health Act fall sharply after a long climb - Straight.com

  20-09-2017 22:39
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  Vancouver police apprehensions under the Mental Health Act fall sharply after a long climb
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  The number of apprehensions the VPD makes under the B.C. Mental Health Act has fallen sharply in the last year. Travis Lupick. For several years, Vancouver police officers' use of the B.C. Mental Health Act to detain people only went up. It was an ...
  
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• Judge throws out evidence seized during Vancouver meth lab raid due to police misconduct - Vancouver Sun

  20-09-2017 22:39
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  Judge throws out evidence seized during Vancouver meth lab raid due to police misconduct
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  Vancouver police and fire department hazardous materials section investigate a meth lab in the 2900-block East 15th Avenue on June 15, 2012. Drug and firearm charges against two people have been dismissed as a result of police misconduct during the ...
  
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• Judge throws out evidence seized during Vancouver meth lab raid due to police misconduct

  20-09-2017 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has thrown out evidence, including a loaded firearm, that was seized during a raid on a meth lab at a Vancouver home after finding police had violated the rights of two residents charged in the case.
  After B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nigel Kent concluded that the evidence was inadmissible, the Crown dismissed charges that had been laid against Shu Tshung Wong and Lena Truong.
  The accused were charged with seven drug and firearm offences following the discovery of the methamphetamine lab a
  
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• Fraser Health recalls ‘Original Kulfi’ ice cream produced in unlicensed Surrey facility

  20-09-2017 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  "This is a potentially hazardous product and the potential for cross-contamination."
  
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• Jarrod Bacon back behind bars for drunken strip club incident

  20-09-2017 22:18 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. gangster Jarrod Bacon has had his parole revoked after drinking in a strip club with another criminal and then providing police with a false identity.
  Parole document released Wednesday say that Bacon, who was released on parole earlier this year, was in the strip club in an unnamed city on July 10 with his “partner,” another woman and “a man who has a criminal record.”
  Bacon’s earlier parole conditions mandate that he not associate with criminals or enter a dr
  
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• New 'Savages' biker club riding out of Hells Angels' Island hangout, gang police say

  20-09-2017 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s anti-gang unit is monitoring a new motorcycle club called the Savages operating out of the Langford clubhouse previously used by the Devil’s Army.
  The Savages are believed to be a puppet club of the Nanaimo chapter of the Hells Angels, said Sgt. Brenda Winpenny, spokeswoman for B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, which targets organized crime groups.
  The Savages have set up headquarters at 2775 Spencer Rd., which was vacated by fellow Hells
  
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• Tech Talk

  20-09-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Mike Agerbo has the latest tech gadgets for your home
  
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• Privacy watchdog slams BC Liberals on information requests delays

  20-09-2017 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  Acting Commissioner Drew MacArthur said they saw consistently poor compliance rates and an increase in length of time it takes to process request.
  
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• Get minor accidents cleared faster from roadways, province told

  20-09-2017 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Two North Shore municipalities are calling on the provincial government to change the Motor Vehicle Act so that minor accidents may be cleared more promptly from provincial highways, bridges and tunnels.
  The call comes from the City and District of North Vancouver in the form of a resolution that will be considered at next week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities conference in Vancouver.
  City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto said the goal is to help relieve congestion on the Ironworker
  
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• Sake & Wine Pairing

  20-09-2017 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  Royal Dinette is hosting a special evening of “Sake & Wine & Everything Fine”. Wine Director Claire Saksun gives us a preview.
  
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• B.C.: 15 best books of the week, Sept. 23

  20-09-2017 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  1. Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations — Richard Wagamese (Douglas & McIntyre). 
  2. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  3. Hello Humpback! — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers (Harbour Publishing). 
  4. Harry: A Wilderness Dog Saga — Chris Czajkowski (Harbour Publishing). 
  5. Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey — Margriet Ruurs (
  
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• Seaspan's Vancouver shipbuilding budgets and schedules are under review by feds

  20-09-2017 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  By Lee Berthiaume
  OTTAWA — Canada’s multibillion-dollar plan to buy new warships for the navy isn’t the only federal shipbuilding project sailing in uncharted waters.
  Federal officials are reviewing the budgets and construction schedules of the Canadian Coast Guard’s new polar icebreaker and the navy’s two new resupply vessels, all of which are to be built in Vancouver.
  The review follows a delay in the construction of three new offshore fisheries science ships for
  
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• Site C project: Preliminary report due today from B.C. Utilities Commission

  20-09-2017 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Utilities Commission is working to meet a deadline today for a preliminary report on its review of the $8.8-billion Site C dam in the province’s northeast.
  Spokeswoman Katharine Carlsen says the report will be delivered to government and posted on the commission’s website.
  But she says the commission is working to a “tight timeline” and doesn’t anticipate it will be posted within regular business hours.
  B.C. Hydro says it has a
  
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• Nardwuar marks 30 years making waves on air

  20-09-2017 21:11
  
  Nardwuar will mark his improbably strange, hilarious and at times painfully awkward career with 20 hours of continuous programming on UBC’s CiTR Radio Sept. 21 and 22.
  
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• Stolen U-Haul

  20-09-2017 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  A young couple moving to Vancouver from New Brunswick has lost nearly all their belongs after their U-Haul van was stolen.
  
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• RCMP investigating shooting in Aldergrove

  20-09-2017 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Sept. 20: Langley RCMP are on scene of another shooting in the Aldergrove area. Police say an innocent bystander’s house was also struck.
  
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• Gone west: On Vancouver and one of the world's fastest growing fashion weeks - The Globe and Mail

  20-09-2017 20:48
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  Gone west: On Vancouver and one of the world's fastest growing fashion weeks
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  As Los Angeles solidifies its position as a fashion show hub, wooing the likes of Saint Laurent and Burberry to its sunny shores, another West Coast city, Vancouver, also hopes to attract international attention with its runway offerings. The 30th ...
  
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• All alerts, evacuation orders lifted as worst wildfire season eases in B.C.

  20-09-2017 20:43 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — For the first time in nearly three months, all wildfire evacuation orders and alerts have been lifted in British Columbia as the province begins to recover from its worst wildfire season on record.
  The Cariboo Regional District and Thompson-Nicola Regional District say final alerts affecting southern Interior properties have been rescinded.
  The alerts were lifted as the B.C. Wildfire Service reported a 1,900-square kilometre blaze that broke out near Ashcroft on July 6 and burn
  
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• Fraser Health issue recall for Original Kulfi ice cream sold in Surrey

  20-09-2017 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey ice cream shop that was previously closed due to pests is now the subject of a food recall for selling possibly contaminated Original Kulfi ice cream.
  Fraser Health officials inspected Surrey’s Supreme Ice Cream (7112 128 St.) and found that the business, which is only licensed to sell pre-packaged ice cream, had been selling homemade ice cream prepared in an unlicensed and unapproved facility.
  SURREY, B.C.: SEPT. 20, 2017 – Fraser Health Public Health officials are issuing
  
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• B.C. regulators order insurance firm, payday lenders to stop 'deceptive' sales

  20-09-2017 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — An insurance company has been ordered to stop selling policies through two payday lenders and provide refunds after an investigation by British Columbia regulators.
  The Financial Institutions Commission says it has issued a cease and desist order against Western Life Assurance Company to stop the sale of creditor group insurance through Venue Financial Ltd. and Cashco Financial Inc.
  It says the payday lenders aggressively and deceptively sold Western Life’s insurance prod
  
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• “It’s like a nightmare”: Mexico still digging out from deadly earthquake

  20-09-2017 20:27 via globalnews.ca
  “When the earthquake ends and you realize you are alive, it’s like a dream, but when you see the devastation left behind, it’s like a nightmare.”
  
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• Seaspan's Vancouver shipbuilding budgets and schedules are under review by feds - Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  20-09-2017 20:22
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  Seaspan's Vancouver shipbuilding budgets and schedules are under review by feds
  Saskatoon StarPhoenix
  Workers watch as the main girder of a new 300-tonne gantry crane is lifted into place at Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards in North Vancouver. The federal government is looking at possible cost overruns and delays on the vessels being built there. DARRYL ...and more »
  
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• Body of B.C. hiker who fell from cliff recovered on Oregon beach

  20-09-2017 20:10 via vancouversun.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Police say the body of a Vancouver Island hiker who fell from an Oregon cliff more than a week ago has washed ashore.
  Oregon State Police Sgt. Michael Berland says 51-year-old Joseph McDonald Lescene, who is from the Greater Victoria area, fell 800 feet (243 metres) into the ocean after losing his footing while hiking with his wife Sept. 11.
  Emergency responders from Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue quickly found Lescene’s backpack in the water, but his body was not dis
  
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• Q & A: New Forms Festival executive director Malcolm Levy - Vancouver Sun

  20-09-2017 20:01
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  Q & A: New Forms Festival executive director Malcolm Levy
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  Originally a showcase for what were the outside sounds of electronic music and arts, New Forms Festival now tries to showcase what's outside that electronic mainstream. Stuart Derdeyn More from Stuart Derdeyn. Published on: September 20, 2017 | Last ...and more »
  
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• Wine Guy: Shoulder season sippers

  20-09-2017 20:00 via theprovince.com
  I love this time of year in British Columbia. There is a palpable sense of transition in the air. The air is crisper, yet the sun’s rays are still charged with warmth. The berries and other peak fruit of summer have passed, but the harvest bounty still ripens in fields. Shorts are still passable, however it’s wise to pack a jacket. It’s officially shoulder season, and my thoughts have turned to a new crop of seasonal wines — bottles with a bump of oomph and richness that
  
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• UPDATED: Kerrisdale votes to reject agreement with Vancouver Park Board

  20-09-2017 20:00
  
  Kerrisdale community centre members Tuesday night voted overwhelmingly against signing the Vancouver Park Board’s joint operating agreement.
  
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• So you want to work in VFX or animation?

  20-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The visual effects, or VFX, and animation business in British Columbia generates a hefty portion of the province’s $2.4 billion film and TV production industry, an area that is prime for pursuing a career in.
  “The number of digital animation and effects projects I can share with you is that as of our year end of March 31, 2017, it’s up 33 per cent from 2016, and anecdotally, the average age is 28 years or so with a salary in the $60,000-plus range with ample opportunity for gro
  
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• River cruises made for cultural excursions

  20-09-2017 20:00 via theprovince.com
  I spent the last week or so cruising from Amsterdam to Nuremberg, Germany with Avalon Waterways and its beautiful, 166-guest Avalon Expression.
  River cruising never gets old for me; I think it’s one of the best ways to see Europe. Avalon, though, is kicking things up a notch with its new “Active Discovery” river cruises on the Rhine that focus more on soft adventure and off-the-beaten-path cultural experiences. I had the good fortune to sample some of these during my voyage.
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• Kerrisdale votes to reject agreement with Vancouver Park Board

  20-09-2017 20:00
  
  Kerrisdale community centre members Tuesday night voted overwhelmingly against signing the Vancouver Park Board’s joint operating agreement.
  
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• Journalist Carol Off's new memoir puts her in the story

  20-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey in the Lives of Others
  By Carol Off
  Random House CanadaAward-winning Canadian journalist Carol Off has had one of those big “J” journalism careers. She has delivered news features and documentaries from conflicts in every corner of the globe and since 2006 she has co-hosted CBC Radio’s As it Happens.
  Off is also a successful writer delivering books on the Canadian military, including The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle and&
  
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• Executive director Malcolm Levy talks New Forms Festival

  20-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  New Forms Festival 
  Sept. 28-30 | Centre for Digital Media and Western Front
  Tickets and info: From $25 at newforms.tickit.ca
  Founded in 2000, the non-profit New Forms Media Society has a mission to bring various creative communities together to explore the range and potential of digital media. Each year, the group presents the multi-day and multi-venue New Forms Festival. The event has become a forum for presenting cutting edge artists, especially those who work in electronic music.
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• Cartoonist draws on experiences as a refugee camp volunteer for graphic novel Threads

  20-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Art from Threads, British cartoonist Kate Evans’ graphic novel about the Calais refugee camp known as The Jungle. She talks about the book and her experiences at Chan Centre Sept 29.
  Kate Evans: Threads
  Sept 29 at 7:30 p.m. | Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre
  Tickets and info: from $20 at chancentre.com 
  In 2015 and 2016, Kate Evans visited The Jungle, a makeshift camp in Calais that was home to more than 8,000 refugees. The living conditions in the camp, the people shelter
  
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• The final piece of Onni’s master-planned community

  20-09-2017 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  WHAT: 220 homes in a 26-storey concrete high rise with 360-degree ocean and mountain views and more than 18,000 square feet of amenity space.
  WHERE: 300 Morrissey Road, Suter Brook Village, Port Moody
  WHEN: Construction begins in 2018; completion slated for 2021
  The inside scoop
  Residence size: 600 – 2,100 square feet
  Sales centre: 601 – 220 Brew Street, Suter Brook Village
  Hours: Noon to 6 p.m. daily, closed on Fridays
  Telephone: 604-552-0552
  Website: www.onni.com/thegrande
  Designed
  
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• Ed Willes: Canucks trying to find their way at training camp in China

  20-09-2017 19:54 via theprovince.com
  SHANGHAI — It is the end of Day 2 in the Vancouver Canucks’ great Chinese adventure and Travis Green has been asked a number of questions about the charms of Shanghai, without once being asked about the chances of Brock Boeser or Jake Virtanen making his team.
  For Green, there are some benefits to holding a training camp on the other side of the world. This might be his favourite.
  “I haven’t missed that,” says the Canucks’ head coach with a rueful smile.
  As fo
  
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• Giants look to youth in net, trade away two-year starter Kubic ahead of WHL opener Friday

  20-09-2017 19:47 via theprovince.com
  It’s a goalie gamble.
  Talk to any member of the Vancouver Giants’ brass, and they’ll tell you that it’s imperative that they make the WHL playoffs this season. On Wednesday, they decided they’re going to try to chase down a postseason spot with two young netminders helping the lead the way, as they dealt two-year starter Ryan Kubic, 19, to the Saskatoon Blades for a second-round pick in the 2019 bantam draft.
  If returning back-up David Tendeck, 17, and newcomer Todd
  
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• Flying Cloud: Set sail with CHANEL High Jewellery

  20-09-2017 19:35 via vancouversun.com
  In Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, nestled midway up a winding road, sits a stunning home with a long history. 
  Dubbed La Pausa, the spacious abode boasts a rustic charm, its fair share of ocean views and an abundant collection of mature olive trees. Essentially, it has just enough awe-inspiring extras to set it apart — even among the formidable collection of mansions that call this monied hillside community in the south of France home.
  But what really makes it special, i
  
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• Bazzie needed a ‘clear mind’ before returning to Lions from NFL oddyssey

  20-09-2017 19:28 via theprovince.com
  Alex Bazzie wanted to make sure he had shaken his NFL hangover.
  The defensive lineman signed a contract with the B.C. Lions through the rest of the season earlier this week, rejoining the CFL club where played from 2014 to 2016 before bouncing between three teams south of the border over a nine-month span.
  Some players who leave Canada in hopes of catching on in the NFL have a tough time readjusting when they return — be it spite, disinterest, having a chip on their shoulder or something e
  
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• Vancouver Canucks preseason: Top 5 players too risky to put on waivers - The Canuck Way

  20-09-2017 19:23
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  Vancouver Canucks preseason: Top 5 players too risky to put on waivers
  The Canuck Way
  The Vancouver Canucks have experimented with the waivers before and have learned a costly lesson not to risk losing young assets via the waiver wire. The beginning of the 2017-18 NHL season for the Vancouver Canucks means that it has been two years ...
  Canucks in China: Scenes from first practice in Shanghai (Gallery)Vancouver Sun
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• Young couple moving to Vancouver have all their belongings stolen from a U-Haul

  20-09-2017 19:21 via globalnews.ca
  A young couple from Moncton, New Brunswick, were hoping for a fresh start in Vancouver.
  
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• Loui Eriksson eager to atone for forgettable first season with Canucks

  20-09-2017 19:16 via theprovince.com
  Loui Eriksson’s first season with the Vancouver Canucks can pretty much be summed up by an unfortunate sequence in the first period of his first game.
  The effort was there. The results? Not so much.
  Fresh off signing a six-year, US$36-million free-agent deal in July 2016, the veteran winger was protecting the puck from four Calgary Flames on a delayed penalty in Vancouver’s opener when he threw a blind pass from centre ice back towards the Canucks’ zone.
  Eriksson was expecting
  
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• Shooting reported in Aldergrove

  20-09-2017 18:07 via globalnews.ca
  Langley RCMP are currently on scene at a home on 270B Street.
  
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• Moving on: Newly married couple lose everything they own after moving van stolen

  20-09-2017 18:06
  A handmade tool box and a quilt, which have tremendous sentimental value, are among some of the items lost.
  
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• Daily Poll: Was city council snubbed on Vancouver's Amazon bid?

  20-09-2017 18:05 via vancouversun.com
  Some Vancouver councillors have their noses out of joint over the city’s bid to become Amazon’s new home.
  The online retailing giant is looking to add a second North American headquarters, promising to spend more than US$5 billion to create a ‘full equal’ to its current Seattle hub.
  Earlier this month, the Vancouver Economic Commission announced its intent of putting forward a bid and Mayor Gregor Robertson said he would welcome the tech hub in Vancouver.Great n
  
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• Richmond RCMP still searching for missing teen Linhai Yu

  20-09-2017 18:04 via vancouversun.com
  The search for a missing Richmond teen continues.
  Linhai Yu, 17, was reported missing on Sept. 12. Investigators have since been able to speak with a car pool driver who saw Yu on the Knight Street Bridge near the Mitchell Island exit around 2:15 p.m. on Sept. 11.
  Investigators are searching for Yu through video canvassing, interviews with family and friends, search-and-rescue teams by land and boat, as well as through newer methods and technology such as aerial searches using drones.
  “All
  
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• Daily Poll: Was city council snubbed on Vancouver's Amazon bid? - Vancouver Sun

  20-09-2017 18:03
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  Daily Poll: Was city council snubbed on Vancouver's Amazon bid?
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  FILE - In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017, file photo, the Amazon logo is displayed at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. Amazon announced Thursday, Sept. 7, that it has opened the search for a second headquarters, promising to spend more ...and more »
  
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• Brent Furdyk – TV Week

  20-09-2017 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  Brent and Sonia discuss some upcoming TV releases
  
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