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• Real estate 'headwinds' could slow retail, construction sales: BCBC

  19-01-2018 23:54 via vancouversun.com
  The province’s economy, which enjoyed a robust year in 2017, is expected to downshift in 2018, according to the Business Council of B.C.
  The residential real estate industry has driven so much growth across the B.C. economy in recent years. Now, with so-called “policy headwinds” in sight, there will also likely be an accompanying impact on retail sales and construction, says BCBC chief economist Ken Peacock, whose group analyzes economic prosperity and competitiveness.
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• Town Talk: Kabul's neurosurgical loss may be Vancouver's gain

  19-01-2018 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  AFTER KABUL: Ajmal Zemmer was six years old when he, his father Assadulah and his mother Shakilla left a Kabul café one evening. Minutes later, a rocket killed several patrons. Days later, Ajmal was urging university pharmacy teacher Shakilla that negotiations with a neighbour would make him late for kindergarten, when another rocket demolished a nearby gas station. Then Assadulah ran in, “paler than I had ever seen him,” to say that a third rocket had killed four children and
  
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• Global News & CKNW Health Series presented by Assured Naturals

  19-01-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Details about our upcoming health series on Global News and CKNW.
  
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• Education minister calls on controversial Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld to resign

  19-01-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  The minster of education has joined the Chilliwack School Board, Chilliwack Teachers' Association, and Chilliwack District Parents Advisory Council in calling for Neufeld to step down.
  
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• Better late than never for bridge re-opening

  19-01-2018 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  Extra bridge pilings had to be put in due to unexpected soil conditions.
  
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• Half of British Columbians concerned about housing, poverty: poll

  19-01-2018 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  The number of British Columbians who think poverty and affordable housing is the main issue in the province is on the rise, according to a new poll.
  The Insights West surveyed 829 B.C. adults from Jan. 15 to 17 for its annual B.C. government report card, released on Friday.
  Of those respondents, 50 per cent say housing, poverty and homelessness are the most important issues in the province.
  Just five years ago that number was only 16 per cent for the same question. The figure has stead
  
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• Abbotsford’s Jake Thiel set for Canada sevens bow

  19-01-2018 22:53 via theprovince.com
  If you know the Thiel family, you might not expect to learn that they may be about to add a second generation of national team sevens players.
  Your correspondent assumed that Jake Thiel, the Abbotsford-born-and-raised 20 year old set to make his Canada sevens debut next week in Sydney, would be the first Thiel (or Ross) to play the short version of the game at the international level.
  “Actually my dad has a sevens cap,” Thiel said this week, ahead of his squad’s departure for S
  
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• Two arrested at Vancouver restaurant following Richmond assault

  19-01-2018 22:24
  
  According to a witness a man with a gun stormed into Richmond's Pioneer Pub and assaulted a patron.
  
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• B.C. education minister, Chilliwack school board, call on Barry Neufeld to resign

  19-01-2018 22:23 via vancouversun.com
  The Chilliwack school board and B.C.’s education minister called on trustee Barry Neufeld to resign Friday over controversial “child abuse” remarks about transgender students.
  The move follows a motion of non-confidence in the board, passed earlier this week by the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association.
  Evelyn Novak, the Chilliwack superintendent of schools, said in a statement that the board called for Neufeld to resign because of a loss in confidence in his ability to e
  
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• $40,000 in whisky seized from Vancouver restaurant in ‘prohibition-style raid’

  19-01-2018 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  The whisky was purchased from a private retailer, a violation of B.C.'s liquor laws.
  
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• $40,000 in whisky seized from Commercial Drive restaurant in ‘prohibition-style raid’

  19-01-2018 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  The whisky was purchased from a private retailer, a violation of B.C.'s liquor laws.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Why most suburban Metro Vancouver politicians are mum on foreign ownership

  19-01-2018 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  Why have the great bulk of Metro Vancouver’s suburban politicians stayed quiet about the impact of foreign capital on the over-heated housing market?
  After the announced retirement of City of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, many commentators said the calamity of his otherwise useful decade in office has been his failure to solve the housing affordability crisis.
  But what does that say about the almost complete inaction of the more than 140 suburban mayors and councillors in Metro Vancouv
  
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• North Okanagan dial-a-dope arrests and seizures

  19-01-2018 21:47 via globalnews.ca
  Police seized cocaine, heroin and fentanyl packaged for street-level sale.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Friday, Jan. 19, 2018

  19-01-2018 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.
  
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• How to make delicious Italian arancini

  19-01-2018 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Yannick Cudennec, also known as Mr. Arancino, shows us how to make Sicilian-style fried risotto balls.
  
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• Theatre review: The Events attempts to find meaning in horror

  19-01-2018 21:28 via vancouversun.com
  The Events
  When: To Jan. 28
  Where: Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Ave. Vancouver
  Tickets/info: From $29; pushfestival.ca
  How does a mass murderer justify his actions? Can a deeply traumatized survivor of such horror ever understand the killer’s motivation? And how might those of us at a distance process and digest events like these without becoming damaged ourselves?
  Scottish playwright David Greig takes on these weighty questions in The Events. First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, with st
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Surrey teen found dead in Vancouver

  19-01-2018 21:28 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey teen who went missing last week was found dead in the trunk of a car parked in Vancouver Thursday.
  Sachdeep Singh Dhoot, 18, is Vancouver’s third murder victim of the year.
  Vancouver Police Const. Jason Doucette said officers were called to the area of Fairmont Street and Vanness Avenue just after 3 p.m. Thursday to investigate the discovery of a stolen vehicle.
  “Officers found Dhoot’s body in the trunk of the vehicle,” he said in a news release.
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• No, you can’t pay your taxes in Bitcoin: Mounties issue warning on new twist to CRA scam

  19-01-2018 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  "The CRA does not accept Bitcoin as a method of payment, first and foremost, people need to understand that."
  
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• Vancouver police issue urgent appeal to help solve Mount Pleasant homicides

  19-01-2018 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Detectives believe there are people who were in the area around the time of the murders who have not yet spoken with police.
  
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• South Vancouver sawmill fire under control

  19-01-2018 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  A major response from Vancouver firefighters after smoke and flames engulf a sawmill. Nadia Stewart reports from the scene.
  
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• Protesters roll up to Vancouver Tim Hortons in support of Ontario employees

  19-01-2018 20:47
  
  The Tim Hortons tiff that’s the talk of Ontario spilled over to Vancouver streets Friday morning.
  
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• $28M mansion on “Billionaire’s Row” is region’s priciest new listing

  19-01-2018 20:43
  
  Sprawling home on Belmont Avenue in Point Grey sits on 35,500-square-foot oceanview lot
  
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• Female filmmakers front and centre at Vancouver Short Film Festival

  19-01-2018 20:20 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Short Film Festival
  Jan 26 & 27 | Vancity Theatre
  Tickets: $12-$55  at vsff.comHere in B.C., female filmmakers have a strong and very timely ally in the Vancouver Short Film Festival. Of the 37 films in this year’s program 14 of those have female directors at the helm.
  “The female content this year was so strong. We’re really proud of that,” said Marena Dix, who co-directs the festival along with Zlatina Pacheva.
  “I did the happy dance a bunch of
  
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• Teen found in trunk of car is Vancouver's third murder victim of 2018

  19-01-2018 20:19 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police have identified 18-year-old Sachdeep Singh Dhoot of Surrey as the city’s third homicide victim of 2018.
  Dhoot’s body was found Thursday afternoon inside the trunk of a stolen vehicle that had been dumped in the area of Fairmont Street and Vanness Avenue.Dhoot had been reported missing to the Surrey RCMP last week.
  Police have not released the cause of death.
  “Based on the information collected so far, this does not appear to be a random murder,” Vanc
  
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• Vancouver expanding free public Wi-Fi network

  19-01-2018 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver residents looking to save a few dollars on their smartphone bills may be pleased to hear the city is expanding its free public Wi-Fi network.
  The expanded network will be among the largest in North America, the city said in a news release Thursday. Representatives from the city and Shaw Communications will announce details Friday morning.
  Vancouver first began installing free Wi-Fi in 2015 at six community centres and golf courses before expanding to 43 civic sites. Telus won
  
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• Skating rink violence could lead to vigilante retaliation

  19-01-2018 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  One of the three combatants was struck in the face by a skate and another hit by a hockey stick.
  
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• Missing Surrey teen victim of Vancouver homicide

  19-01-2018 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  Sachdeep Singh Dhoot of Surrey was reported missing by Surrey RCMP on Jan. 9.
  
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• ‘Cohousing lite’ focuses on creating community

  19-01-2018 20:08
  
  James Chamberlain and his husband, Jean-Marie Russell, want to live in a multi-generational environment.Their solution? A form of collaborative living they’ve dubbed “cohousing lite.”
  
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• ‘Cohousing lite’ enters the Vancouver housing conversation

  19-01-2018 20:08
  
  James Chamberlain and his husband, Jean-Marie Russell, want to live in a multi-generational environment.Their solution? A form of collaborative living they’ve dubbed “cohousing lite.”
  
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• VPD to hold pop up this weekend for witnesses of two homicides

  19-01-2018 20:04 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police will set up a mobile command centre on Saturday, in a bid to find witnesses to two homicides last week.
  Investigators believe there were lots of people in the area last Saturday near Ontario Street and East Broadway where innocent bystander 15-year-old Alfred Wong, and a 23-year-old drug dealer, Kevin Whiteside, were shot dead.
  They think some of those people have not yet spoken with police, and say any information could be critical to the investigation.
  So they will positi
  
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• Vancouver ranked North America's #2 film city by MovieMaker magazine

  19-01-2018 20:04 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver is the second best city in North America for filmmakers to live and work, according to MovieMaker magazine.
  The magazine, which scored each city based on film activity, film infrastructure in place,  population size, ease of transportation,  tax credits, and architectural and geographical distinctiveness, ranked Vancouver just behind Atlanta, Georgia.
  “Vancouver’s neo-Hollywood reputation is well-earned, with its blossoming infrastructure of 2.5 million squar
  
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• Updated: police identify man found dead in stolen vehicle's trunk in East Vancouver

  19-01-2018 20:02
  
  18-year-old Sachdeep Singh Dhoot of Surrey had been missing since last week
  
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• Breaking: police identify man found dead in stolen vehicle's trunk in East Vancouver

  19-01-2018 20:02
  
  18-year-old Sachdeep Singh Dhoot of Surrey had been missing since last week
  
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• Kristin Kreuk finds safe set for CBC drama Burden of Proof

  19-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Burden of Proof
  8 p.m. | CBC, CBC.ca
  Kristen Kreuk has grown up.
  The Vancouver native is now a more confidant actor who is looking to tell stories that have strong women at the centre. Case in point is the brand new CBC legal drama series Burden of Truth. Kreuk plays Joanna Hanley, a powerful lawyer that returns to her small prairie town to help solve a health crisis and face her mysterious family history. The show airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. or you can stream anytime at CBC.ca.
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• Whitecaps add speed, depth on back line in SuperDraft

  19-01-2018 19:55 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Whitecaps didn’t have to look far for their first pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.
  With the 17th overall pick, the Caps took University of Washington defender Justin Fiddes. A fleet-footed fullback, the 5-foot-11 San Diego native had four assists in 14 games. He was a second team All-Far West Region All-star and an All-Pac-12 honourable mention after a season that saw him start all 20 games.
  His speed — he finished first in the 2018 MLS combine speed test by running the
  
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• Resident dishes on life in Vancouver’s first cohousing development

  19-01-2018 19:54
  
  Almost two years ago, residents of the city’s first cohousing development — Vancouver Cohousing — moved in.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Here's how to end migration scams by the global rich in Canada

  19-01-2018 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  Canada could crack down in many ways on the scams performed by “ghost immigrants” who avoid paying their share of Canadian taxes while driving up housing prices in Vancouver and Toronto.
  Immigration and tax specialists are pressing Ottawa to adopt numerous proposals they believe would put an end to widespread illegitimate migration schemes, such as those employed by two rich families from China, whose tactics were exposed this month in B.C. Supreme Court. 
  The case of Fu versus
  
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• Confessions of an Uber driver: what’s it like to work for the ride-hailing giant?

  19-01-2018 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  Some drivers make money. Some make friends. Some pack a stun gun. What it's like in the driver's seat of an Uber.
  
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• Aerial view of the sawmill fire in Vancouver

  19-01-2018 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  Fri. Jan. 19: Footage from the Global BC chopper of the sawmill fire in Vancouver early Friday morning. The footage was shot early, around 6:30 a.m. and commentary is provided by Amber Belzer.
  
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• Half of British Columbians anxious about housing, poverty: poll

  19-01-2018 19:22 via vancouversun.com
  The number of British Columbians who think poverty and affordable housing is the main issue in the province is on the rise, according to a new poll.
  The Insights West surveyed 829 B.C. adults from Jan. 15 to Jan.17 for its annual B.C. government report card, released Friday.
  Of those respondents, 50 per cent say housing, poverty and homelessness are the most important issues in the province.
  Just five years ago that number was only 16 per cent for the same question, and has steadily cl
  
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• Vernon homeless encampment busted up for safety reasons

  19-01-2018 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  The ministry says the campers were forced to leave for safety reasons.
  
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• Moody’s reaffirms B.C.’s AAA credit rating ahead of provincial budget

  19-01-2018 18:55 via globalnews.ca
  The move keeps B.C. as the only province in Canada with a triple-A rating from all three international rating houses.
  
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• Stolen property recovered; Osoyoos man charged

  19-01-2018 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say a report of a break-in in late November resulted in a search warrant being executed at an Osoyoos hotel room.
  
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• Calgary police officer prepares to compete in 2018 Winter Olympics

  19-01-2018 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  Constable Joe Cecchini will soon be making the trip to South Korea in order to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  
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• Case of mistaken identity blamed for several arrests at Vancouver restaurant

  19-01-2018 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  Several men were arrested at a White Spot on Marine Drive Thursday night. Police allegedly mistook the customers for suspects wanted in another case.
  
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• Man beaten with a shotgun at Richmond pub

  19-01-2018 17:32 via vancouversun.com
   It was a tense night at a pub in Richmond last night, where witnesses describe a masked man barging in and assaulting a patron with the back-end of a shotgun. 
   
   Police cars surrounded the Pioneer’s Pub on No. 3 Road around 8 p.m., after reports of a man wearing a balaclava targeted a man inside the pub, according to freelance photographer Shane MacKichan.
   
  The victim was struck in the head by the end of the shotgun and the suspect fled in a car with three other
  
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• Movie review: Hostiles, 12 Strong, The Final Year

  19-01-2018 17:17 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC movie reviewer Dana Gee takes a look at the new releases hitting the Box Office this weekend, including Western “Hostiles’ starring Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike.
  
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• 2 men allege racial discrimination following arrest at Vancouver White Spot

  19-01-2018 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  The arrests appear to have been connected to an incident in Richmond where a masked man armed with a shotgun burst into the Pioneer Pub.
  
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• Letters: Road-pricing is just beginning of new taxes we can expect from NDP, reader says

  19-01-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  My comment to the provincial government about adding tolls at congestion points and charging by the kilometre is, “really?” Didn’t they just get rid of the tolls on thebridges?
  We all know that the shoe has to drop. When you take revenue away, you have to find it elsewhere. Wake up B.C.! Expect to pay more in other areas to make up for the millions of dollars lost when the tolls were removed.
  Road-pricing is just the beginning.
  Janice Goldring, Langley
  Freez
  
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• Joanne Banks, Bruce Bidgood and Eric Doherty: B.C. needs public highway bus service

  19-01-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  Greyhound is threatening to pull out of northern B.C. and many smaller communities across the province unless it gets a public subsidy. We think the best answer to their threat is to establish a publicly owned and operated highway bus network.
  A public bus company to connect communities is an old idea. In 1946, Tommy Douglas’s first Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government established the Saskatchewan Transportation Company, also known as Sask Bus. Sask Bus efficiently provided esse
  
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