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• Saudi student who assaulted B.C. bartender faces deportation

  22-03-2018 23:59 via vancouversun.com
  A Saudi man who was convicted of assaulting a bartender has lost his appeal of his sentence and faces deportation.
  In December, Nasser Eid Alsaad, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of assault causing bodily harm in relation to an October 2016 incident at a Prince George drinking establishment.
  An intoxicated Alsaad ordered some drinks and when they came, he complained to the female bartender about the price of the drinks, telling her he was not going to pay for them.
  The bartender tried to retriev
  
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• Daphne Bramham: B.C. landlords' systemic invasion of renters' privacy has to stop

  22-03-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  There’s nothing high-tech about it and, certainly, no need for Cambridge Analytica. With near-zero vacancy rates in Vancouver and other cities around B.C., landlords are routinely asking for and getting more personal information than they have a legal right to.
  Some applicants have been asked whether they might get pregnant within the next year. Others are required to complete behavioural questionnaires, submit to credit checks, or provide three months’ worth of bank statements, acco
  
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• Bob Lenarduzzi: Bend it like Zlatan? Star striker a huge signing for MLS

  22-03-2018 23:58 via theprovince.com
  Rumours have been buzzing for years that striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic could be on his way to Major League Soccer to play for the L.A. Galaxy. That day could be here.
  On Thursday, Ibrahimovic and Manchester United agreed to an early termination of his contract. Multiple sources say the deal with the Galaxy is imminent.
  After injuring his knee last April, Ibrahimovic has played only a handful of games, and his relationship with United manager Jose Mourinho had soured. This week Ibrahimovic had a new
  
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• Bizarre ‘sunset split’ over Kelowna leaves photographers spellbound

  22-03-2018 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  The split may have been due to a "terrain feature" that blocked part of the sun's rays.
  
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• Whitecaps’ foes Galaxy see optimism vanish in a black hole of injuries

  22-03-2018 23:25 via theprovince.com
  For years, the L.A. Galaxy have been the signpost club of MLS.
  Last season, they were like traffic cones.
  Defensively porous and offensively inexperienced, opposing teams navigated through and around them as they finished dead last in Major League Soccer for the first time in league history with an 8-18-8 record, setting team records in futility in the process. Their 67 goals against was the second most in MLS, they had the fewest points (32) and only won three times at home. Their 45 goals for
  
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• Moral victory? Canucks’ power play stepped up until Boeser went down

  22-03-2018 23:12 via theprovince.com
  CHICAGO — If you think the Vancouver Canucks have had it rough this year, just imagine this team without a power play.
  It shouldn’t be hard.
  In the two seasons leading up to this one, the Canucks had the least effective power play in the NHL. Maybe the world, but that’s a little more challenging to quantify.
  The Canucks lacked a defenceman who could shoot. They were missing a right-shot triggerman for the Sedins. And no one was a threat in front of the net.
  Is that all? No, not
  
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• Vancouver police looking for man after serious assault

  22-03-2018 23:08
  
  Police are looking for 25-year-old Thomas Joseph Lloyd Brown.
  
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• ART SEEN: Vancouver Art Book Fair moves to Emily Carr University

  22-03-2018 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Art Book Fair is moving to a new location.
  After six years at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the annual art book fair will move east to hold the seventh at Emily Carr University of Art + Design later this year.
  The VABF will take place Thursday, Oct. 18 to Sunday, Oct. 21 at the new ECUAD campus off of Great Northern Way.
  In a news release about the move, the VABF describes itself as Canada’s first and longest-running international book fair. The Toronto Art Book Fair, for exampl
  
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• Historic Leslie House to embark on (short) journey toward restoration

  22-03-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s historic Leslie House on Hornby Street near Pacific Boulevard will soon disappear from the lot it has occupied downtown for 130 years, but it won’t be going far.
  The tidy, yellow Queen Anne-style house at 1380 Hornby was built in 1888 as a home for tradesman George Washington Leslie’s family as one of the first workers’ houses in what was then a burgeoning Yaletown.
  For decades, it was better known as the homey front door to Umberto Menghi’s legendary Il
  
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• Phoney firearm leads to RCMP takedown in Richmond

  22-03-2018 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  A 26-year-old man is facing criminal charges after a BB gun was pointed at a store security guard in Richmond on Thursday.
  The incident occurred just after noon at a business near Sweden Way and Bridgeport Road.
  Richmond RCMP say a loss prevention officer had a firearm pulled on him while confronting a suspected shoplifter. Police say the gun-toting man then fled in a red Ford pickup truck which was believed to be carjacked with the owner inside.
  Within 15 minutes of the incident, an R
  
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• Police close streets near Surrey Tax Centre

  22-03-2018 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP are warning the public to avoid the area around the Surrey Tax Centre on King George Boulevard as officers deal with a “suspicious occurrence.”
  Police have taped off the area of 134 Street between 96th and 98th avenues.
  Avoid the area: 134 Street is closed between 96-98 Avenue as we investigate a suspicious occurrence in the area. pic.twitter.com/jq2oVo1poU
  — Surrey RCMP (@SurreyRCMP) March 22, 2018Emergency vehicles are on the scene and officers are wearing ga
  
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• Burnaby home operating as nine-bedroom Airbnb hotel

  22-03-2018 22:44
  
  A large Burnaby home south of Deer Lake Park, close to Metrotown, has been operating as a de-facto hotel.
  
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• Canada-wide warrant issued for B.C. man following St. Patrick’s Day stabbing

  22-03-2018 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  Brown is wanted for aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and assault causing bodily harm in relation to an alleged stabbing last week.
  
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• Richmond will only have one summer night market this year

  22-03-2018 22:15
  
  For the past few years, Richmond has had competing summertime night markets in operation, but for 2018, we now know just one of them will be coming back.
  
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• Opinion: Letter to Premier Horgan from ex-CEO of Canadian Western Bank

  22-03-2018 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  Subject: Proposed foreign speculation tax
  Dear Mr. Horgan,
  Having read much of the back-and-forth from both sides on this tax, and giving consideration to the macro-consequences of its potential, I felt compelled to share my views on your proposed “speculation” tax with the government before finalization of details and/or implementation of the tax (or some derivation of it).
  I have worked all across Canada throughout my career, and most recently retired in 2013 as CEO of Canadian Wes
  
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• B.C. Premier Horgan offers tax breaks for LNG industry

  22-03-2018 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan is offering to exempt liquefied natural gas projects from the provincial sales tax on construction, reduce the carbon tax and scrap an income tax surcharge levied by the former Liberal government, all in an attempt to sweeten the pot and entice LNG Canada to proceed to a final investment decision this year.
  But the decision might eventually bring down the NDP government, with a warning from its power-sharing partners the B.C. Greens that the plan could v
  
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• 3 years in jail, up to $100K in fines part of new effort to decrease wildfire risk in B.C.

  22-03-2018 21:55 via globalnews.ca
  The destructive 2017 fires displaced thousands of British Columbians and burned more than 1.2 million hectares.
  
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• VIDEO: Giant Pacific Octopus transferred to the ocean

  22-03-2018 21:43
  
  A team from the Vancouver Aquarium, transferred a female Giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) to the ocean off the coast of Bowen Island on March 16.
  
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• Police incident closes streets near Surrey Tax Centre

  22-03-2018 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP are warning the public to avoid the area around the Surrey Tax Centre on King George Boulevard as officers deal with a “suspicious occurrence.”
  Police have taped off the area of 134 Street between 96th and 98th avenues.
  Avoid the area: 134 Street is closed between 96-98 Avenue as we investigate a suspicious occurrence in the area. pic.twitter.com/jq2oVo1poU
  — Surrey RCMP (@SurreyRCMP) March 22, 2018Emergency vehicles are on the scene and officers are wearing ga
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: First quarter of 2018 UFC campaign looks damn good

  22-03-2018 21:26 via theprovince.com
  The first quarter of the UFC’s 2018 campaign is in the books and on the whole, it was pretty damn good.
  People are going to disagree with that assessment based on pay-per-view sales and the lack of major names that stepped into the Octagon, but if you focus on the actual fights and some of the biggest take-aways from the initial three months of the year, I think you’d have to agree that things have gone pretty well thus far.
  Jeremy Stephens delivered a pair of entertaining main-event
  
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• Premier Horgan offers up tax breaks for LNG industry

  22-03-2018 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan is offering to exempt liquefied natural gas projects from the provincial sales tax on construction, reduce the carbon tax and scrap an income tax surcharge levied by the former Liberal government, all in an attempt to sweeten the pot and entice LNG Canada to proceed to a final investment decision this year.
  But the decision could eventually bring down the NDP government, with a warning from its power-sharing partners the B.C. Greens that the plan could v
  
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• Junos drop into Vancouver, send music-biz ripples around the city

  22-03-2018 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  The 2018 Juno Awards, hosted by local darling Michael Bublé, drops into Rogers Arena on March 25, but the ripples from that big splash will roll all around Vancouver with increases in performances at clubs, hotel bookings and restaurant reservations.
  Besides the big-stage performance in front of some 14,000 fans at Rogers, the local host committee is staging dozens of performances by bands big, upcoming and small at venues ranging from the Biltmore Cabaret in East Vancouver to The Roxy on
  
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• RCMP presence at Surrey tax centre closes 134 Street between 96 and 98 Avenue

  22-03-2018 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  People are advised to avoid the area.
  
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• UPDATE: Police arrest suspect in Vancouver West Side assaults

  22-03-2018 21:09
  
  The Vancouver Police Department announced today the arrest of 39-year-old Colin Akwei of Coquitlam, who they said was responsible for four random assaults in early and late February on Vancouver’s West Side.
  
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• Kinder Morgan protester released from custody

  22-03-2018 21:08 via vancouversun.com
  A protester who was arrested at the site of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline project in Burnaby on Monday has been released from custody.
  During a court proceeding Tuesday, Suntree Johnson Larue was asked by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck whether he would sign a court undertaking that would allow him to be released from custody.
  Larue told a judge that he would not sign the undertaking, which stipulated that he comply with a court injunction against blocking work at the
  
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• Peace bond approved in case of Nanaimo city manager after threat allegations

  22-03-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  Tracy Samra was charged with one count of "fear of injury/damage by another person" after an incident on Jan. 31.
  
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• Surrey police seek two brothers wanted in violent kidnapping assault

  22-03-2018 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Police are searching for two brothers from Surrey who are wanted for a targeted kidnapping where the victim was held captive and violently assaulted.
  According to Surrey RCMP, Pavandeep Uppal is a 22-year-old South Asian man, about 6-foot-2 and 146 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Police have provided a photo of Pavandeep to the public.
  Jasondeep Uppal is a 19-year-old South Asian, about 6-foot-3 and 155 pounds. He also has black hair and brown eyes.
  The brothers are wanted in a March 6
  
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• The Pat-cast: ‘Loss’ Vegas

  22-03-2018 20:51 via theprovince.com
  The Pat-cast, powered as ever by Eagle Ridge GM, is back.
  The Canucks and the podcast duo of Jason Botchford and Jeff Paterson were in Las Vegas. How did Botch’s first Vegas NHL visit go? How amazing was the food?
  http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/patcast_loss_vegas/patcast_loss_vegas.mp3
  On the ice, the loss to the Golden Knights looked like so many other losses of late. How is the team’s mood?
  Why is Travis Green left to answer for all of this? Where
  
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• Victoria mayor quits the 'toxic chamber' known as Facebook

  22-03-2018 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  Saying it’s become a toxic echo chamber rather than a place for civil discourse, Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps is quitting Facebook.
  “When I started this job as mayor and when I was a councillor, Facebook was a civil place,” said Helps, whose savvy use of social media was seen as one of the keys to her razor-thin victory 3 1/2 years ago that claimed the mayor’s chain of office.
  “Over the past four years Facebook has changed and it’s become sort of a polarized echo
  
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• Steve Ewen: Benson shows Giants staying power, key part of team’s changing culture

  22-03-2018 20:36 via theprovince.com
  Tyler Benson will play his final junior hockey game in the playoffs with the Vancouver Giants. It’s been easy to wonder in the past whether that was how things would wind up.
  Benson, who helps lead Vancouver against the Victoria Royals in the best-of-seven opening round starting Friday (7:05 p.m., TSN 1040) at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, was cast as the face of the Giants franchise when they picked him first overall in the 2013 WHL bantam draft.
  He came with hype.
  
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• Vancouver police issue Canada-wide warrant following a stabbing at family gathering

  22-03-2018 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  A 25-year-old Vancouver man is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant in connection with a March 17 stabbing on Musqueam territory.
  Vancouver police say the assault occurred at a family gathering near Stautlo Avenue and Crown Street. A man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries when he was stabbed during a confrontation with another man.
  Thomas Joseph Lloyd Brown is wanted on charges of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and assault causing bodily harm.
  He is describ
  
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• B.C. landlords collect ‘unreasonable amount of personal information’ from tenants

  22-03-2018 20:30
  
  B.C.’s acting information and privacy commissioner has found that landlords in B.C. collect too much personal information from prospective tenants.
  
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• Canadian hockey hero Hayley Wickenheiser brings WickFest to Surrey

  22-03-2018 20:15 via theprovince.com
  Canadian hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser is bringing WickFest, her four-day female hockey festival, to Surrey.
  An annual event in Calgary for the last nine years, the 2017 Canadian Tire Wickenheiser World Female Hockey Festival attracted more than 100 teams and 2,000 players from around the world to participate in a tournament and skills workshops.
  Gabriella Lee, 8 years old, and Hayley Lee, 12 years old, of the Surrey Falcons sit and talk hockey and their ideas for WickFest Surrey with H
  
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• Giants and Royals snipers named to WHL West All-Star team

  22-03-2018 20:13 via theprovince.com
  VICTORIA — It is the junior hockey equivalent of Wyatt Earp versus Billy the Kid.
  Snipers Matthew Phillips of the Victoria Royals and Ty Ronning of the Vancouver Giants were named Western Conference all-stars ahead of their much-anticipated showdown in the opening round of the WHL playoffs beginning Friday and Saturday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.
  “It’s interesting because we play similar games, although (Ronning) is more of a pure shooter than I am,” said Phillips.
  
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• Man arrested for random, unprovoked assaults in Vancouver's west side

  22-03-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been arrested following a series of random, unprovoked assaults last month in Vancouver’s west side.
  Colin Akwei, a 39-year-old Coquitlam man, faces one count of assault and one count of assault with a weapon. Following up on a tip from the public, investigators tracked down Akwei and he was arrested just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday in Coquitlam.
  Const. Jason Doucette said Akwei remained in custody and that more charges are expected. A motive remains unclear and investigators are now
  
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• Price of gas hits all-time high of $1.55.9 in Metro Vancouver

  22-03-2018 20:06 via globalnews.ca
  Thursday’s price at the pump ties the record high set four years ago. As Jordan Armstrong reports, there’s no relief in sight.
  
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• B.C. premier reveals new ‘bombshell’ LNG plan

  22-03-2018 19:50 via globalnews.ca
  Keith Baldrey explains how Premier John Horgan and the BC NDP plan to offer incentives for LNG production in the province.
  
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• Canada’s 100 best restaurants for a night out according to OpenTable

  22-03-2018 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  Online reservations website OpenTable reveals the best places across Canada to eat based on user reviews.
  
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• Vancouver police arrest Coquitlam man in connection with unprovoked attacks on west side

  22-03-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  The incidents would see an assailant walk up to a victim and punch, elbow or push them, then walk away, police said.
  
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• Premier promises update to speculation tax in 'days ahead'

  22-03-2018 19:23
  
  NDP responding to backlash from owners of second homes in affected B.C. regions
  
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• B.C. increases fines, regulations to reduce wildfire risks

  22-03-2018 19:16
  
  Some penalties increased up to $100,000 with aim of helping prevent wildfires and discouraging irresponsible off-road vehicle use.
  
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• ‘We’re not giving away more money’: Horgan on LNG tax breaks

  22-03-2018 19:13 via globalnews.ca
  Premier John Horgan explains the difference between how the former government handled LNG investments in British Columbia and what’s being announced by the NDP.
  
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• Lifelong NDPer says it's not easy being orange these days

  22-03-2018 19:00
  
  Former MLA, and current Richmond councillor, Harold Steves finds himself at odds with his party
  
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• B.C. government offers PST exemption for LNG facility construction costs

  22-03-2018 18:54 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Premier John Horgan is making an announcement on B.C.’s climate change strategy and natural gas development.
  
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• Landlords are collecting too much personal info on renters: privacy commissioner

  22-03-2018 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  Where personal info is required, the specific purpose should clearly stated, the commissioner said in a report released Thursday.
  
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• Cannabis Substitution Project claims its free ‘care packages’ help opioid users kick

  22-03-2018 18:34
  
  Last Sunday, roughly 150 people lined up at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) building on East Hastings Street and waited their turn to be let in and given a free bag of cannabis products
  
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• B.C. government promises rebates to carbon tax and PST for LNG industry

  22-03-2018 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  The province has announced that it will provide a PST exemption on construction costs of any LNG facility.
  
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• Were you in a Dodge Ram 1500 near a Taser incident in Chilliwack? The IIO may want to talk to you

  22-03-2018 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  They want to talk to anyone who was in the car, be it a driver or an occupant.
  
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• Two Burnaby teens charged in connection with deadly overdoses in Saskatchewan

  22-03-2018 17:23
  
  Two Burnaby men are facing drug trafficking charges after a series of deadly overdoses from suspected fentanyl-tainted cocaine in Saskatchewan earlier this month.
  
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• 40K smoke alarms that may not detect smoke recalled in Canada

  22-03-2018 16:57 via globalnews.ca
  Two Kidde dual-sensor smoke alarm models are affected: PI2010CA and PI9010CA.
  
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