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• Abbotsford police seek man in connection with washroom gropings

  28-03-2018 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  Abbotsford police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a pair of washroom gropings at the University of the Fraser Valley.
  Police say the first incident occurred on March 20 when a male student said a man “brushed his genitals” in a washroom at the school’s Abbotsford campus. 
  The student managed to track down the alleged groper and snapped a photo of him aboard a bus.
  The assault was reported then to UFV security, which issued a warning to students.
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• Vancouver International Auto Show

  28-03-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Kaitlyn Herbst previews rare and classic cars from the Vancouver International Auto Show running until Sunday at the Vancouver Convention Centre
  
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• Vancouver's 'co-working' office space market 'feels like an arms race'

  28-03-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  Spaces, the co-working arm of Regus, has completed deals to add three large communal office spaces to Vancouver.
  The company is setting up locations in Gastown, Granville Street and Mt. Pleasant, adding 145,000 square feet of new co-working space to the market, the company announced on March 20.
  Spaces will open its first location in Gastown this summer in a five-storey, 35,000-square-foot building at 151 West Hastings Street.
  On Granville Street, Spaces has signed a lease for 70,000 sq. ft. in
  
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• Liberal MLA Dan Davies injured in Fort St. John worksite accident

  28-03-2018 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  Liberal MLA Dan Davies has been injured in an accident at a concrete plant in Fort St. John.
  A statement by B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson issued Wednesday confirmed Davies had been injured a day earlier.
  “On March 27, Peace River North MLA Dan Davies was injured in an accident and was transported to Vancouver by air ambulance for definitive medical care at Vancouver General Hospital,” he said.
  “Dan and his family appreciate the hard work of first responders and medical s
  
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• Liberal MLA Dan Davies injured in industrial accident in Fort St. John

  28-03-2018 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Liberal MLA Dan Davies is in hospital following a work place accident in Fort St. John.
  
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• Hockey player ordered to pay $34K to young man he punched unconscious in Delta

  28-03-2018 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  A professional hockey player has been ordered to pay more than $34,000 to a young man he punched unconscious at a party in Tsawwassen last summer.
  Ryan Olsen, who was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets hockey team but now plays for the ECHL Colorado Eagles, was at a birthday party on July 16, 2017 when he punched 19-year-old college student Liam Griffin, leaving him unconscious, according to provincial court documents.
  The documents say that when Griffin left the party around midnight, he and his
  
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• Decorated former VPD detective Jim Fisher pleads guilty to sexual exploitation, breach of trust

  28-03-2018 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  Detective Const. James (Jim) Fisher has pleaded guilty to three sex offence charges, two of them involving a minor.
  
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• Pro hockey player from Delta ordered to pay $34K for punch

  28-03-2018 22:05
  
  A professional hockey player from Delta has been ordered to pay more than $34,000 in damages for his role in an assault outside a Tsawwassen house party last July.
  
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• Vancouver boy, who police say was abducted, found safe in Arizona

  28-03-2018 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  A nine-year-old Vancouver boy, who police believe was abducted by his own mother, has been found safe and sound in Arizona.
  Emerson Cusworth’s father called police on March 9 after he went to pick up his son at school, as per his court ordered parenting time, but Emerson was not there. 
  Vancouver police alleged the boy’s mother, Shawana Chaudhary, abducted her own son contrary to a court custody order.
  Police said there were signs Chaudhary “made plans to be away
  
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• Cherry Blossom Festival returns to Richmond

  28-03-2018 22:00
  
  Enjoy traditional Japanese music, dance and food amongst 255 flowering trees on April 8
  
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• ‘The bears are awake. And hungry’: it’s the season for dumpster diving bears

  28-03-2018 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  "The bears are awake. And hungry," says a Tri-Cities resident in a tweet with a photo of a toppled over garbage bin, full of bear bait.
  
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• Vancouver police find missing boy and mother in Arizona

  28-03-2018 21:57
  
  Nine-year-old Emerson Cusworth was reported missing by his father on March 9.
  
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• B.C. boy, allegedly abducted by his mother, found safe in Arizona

  28-03-2018 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  In early March, police issued a release saying they were looking for nine-year-old Emerson Cusworth, believed to be with his mother, Shawana Puja Chaudhary.
  
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• Coquitlam RCMP Warn Drivers About Parking Lot Fraudsters

  28-03-2018 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Cpl. Michael McLaughlin with Coquiltam RCMP speaks to Jill Bennett about a scam in Coquitlam where a pedestrian pretends to get hit by a car and then demands money without going through the ICBC process.
  
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• Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, the billionaire buyer of Expo lands, set to retire

  28-03-2018 21:31
  
  The retirement of Hong Kong magnate Li Ka-shing is unlikely to renew Li family business interest in B.C., a Chinese-Canadian community leader said.
  
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• Vast Surrey villa re-listed for $28.8M, 10 times assessed value (PHOTOS)

  28-03-2018 21:29
  
  Surrey home’s previous record asking price hit headlines last year – and is now listed again at even higher number
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: 'Co-working' office space market 'feels like an arms race'

  28-03-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  Spaces, the co-working arm of Regus, has completed deals to add three large communal office spaces to Vancouver.
  The company is setting up locations in Gastown, Granville Street and Mt. Pleasant, adding 145,000 square feet of new co-working space to the market, the company announced on March 20.
  Spaces will open its first location in Gastown this summer in a five-storey, 35,000-square-foot building at 151 West Hastings Street.
  On Granville Street, Spaces has signed a lease for 70,000 sq. ft. in
  
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• B.C. Premier defends roll out of new child care plan

  28-03-2018 20:54 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Premier John Horgan spoke in Coquiltam Wednesday morning, defending the roll out of the BC NDP’s child care plan. Many parents and daycare operators say they have been frustrated by the process.
  
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• Vancouver city council to deliver formal apology to Chinese community

  28-03-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  City officials will deliver a formal apology next month for the historic discrimination of Vancouver’s Chinese community.
  The apology will be read in both English and Chinese during a special council meeting hosted in Chinatown during Chinatown Culture Day on April 22.
  “This is an important day for council to come together in recognition of the historic discrimination that took place against Chinese residents,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson in a news release announcing the apolog
  
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• Federal data predicts 4,000 opioid overdose deaths for 2017

  28-03-2018 20:50
  
  In a Tuesday media release, Canada’s health agency said it expects total opioid related deaths for 2017 to hit 4,000 people, a 45 per cent increase over 2016.
  
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• Port expansion opponents throw cold water on stats

  28-03-2018 20:44
  
  Opponents of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s expansion plans for Roberts Bank are throwing cold water on recent statistics that indicate strong container growth.
  
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• Alberta premier calls Burnaby appeal to Supreme Court over pipeline ‘showboating’

  28-03-2018 20:22 via globalnews.ca
  Rachel Notley says a decision by the city of Burnaby, B.C., to take its fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to the Supreme Court is showboating.
  
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• Rachel Notley calls Burnaby decision to go to Supreme Court a ‘show piece’

  28-03-2018 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Mar 28: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says Burnaby’s decision to go to the Supreme Court over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is a “show piece.”
  
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• Former U.S. president Clinton will bring book tour to Vancouver

  28-03-2018 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will stop in Vancouver as part of a tour promoting his forthcoming novel, The President is Missing. 
  Bill Clinton and James Patterson have co-authored The President is Missing.
  A Conversation with President Clinton, featuring the 42nd President of the United States and the novel’s co-writer James Patterson, takes place June 29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  Patterson is a best-selling author whose works include Along Came a S
  
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• Deep dive video shows what Howe Sound looks like 375 feet down

  28-03-2018 20:18
  
  Local conservationist John Buchanan put his submersible camera system — Howey 3.0 — on a deep dive under Howe Sound.
  
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• Vancouver lawyer wants solicitor general to change impaired driving laws he criticized in opposition

  28-03-2018 20:09
  
  Vancouver lawyer Kyla Lee is calling on Solicitor General Mike Farnworth to make changes he called for while in opposition.
  
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• New hotel proposed for Fairview Pub/Park Inn site on West Broadway

  28-03-2018 20:09
  
  Development team seeks public input on preliminary proposal for 13- and 11-storey “hospital-oriented” hotel and retail, prior to rezoning application
  
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• Artist wants to turn derelict boats on Sunshine Coast into 'Flotilla of Dazzle'

  28-03-2018 20:08
  
  Repurposed boats would pay tribute to ships of the First World War
  
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• Wine Guy: Remote Wine Guy

  28-03-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  There’s nothing like a little travel to broaden the wine sensibilities.
  Sure, this can come from firsthand explorations of wine regions, but even travelling through the wine aisles of a foreign locale provides exciting opportunities to learn more about wine.
  Such was the case with my recent trip to California, which didn’t involve any vineyard excursions as the Wine Guy turned family guy for Spring Break. Yet, the trip highlighted just how filtered a selection of Golden State bottles
  
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• Amid criticism, B.C. premier defending roll out of child care plan

  28-03-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  The discounts are kicking in for parents on April 1, even though the application deadline was moved back.
  
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• Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson repeats call for drug decriminalization

  28-03-2018 19:34 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson says the current approach to national opioid crisis is not working and believes decriminalizing illicit drugs would be a “lifesaving shift” in stemming the tide of opioid deaths in Canada.
  Grim figures released Tuesday by Public Health Agency of Canada indicated an estimated 4,000 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2017.
  That’s a 30 per cent jump over 2016 numbers.
  In a statement Wednesday, Robertson, whose own city accounted f
  
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• Local designer sets fashion week on fire with bold line

  28-03-2018 19:24
  
  A North Shore designer is going international with her bold designs and newest collection inspired by her love of history, with an ode to her favourite poem.
  
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• Jon McComb: Which Metro Vancouver politicians voted to give themselves a raise? No one wrote it down

  28-03-2018 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  Metro Vancouver politicians have quietly voted themselves some hefty perks, but we can't tell you who said yes to putting those extra tax dollars in their pockets. 
  
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• Coquitlam drivers hit with parking lot fraudsters

  28-03-2018 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  Pedestrians are targeting Coquitlam drivers in a recent parking lot scam.
  
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• Death of 6-year-old child in Port Alberni treated as suspicious

  28-03-2018 19:01 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say they believe there are people who have information about the boy's death who have not yet come forward.
  
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• 12 cool concerts at the 2018 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

  28-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Twelve concerts are announced for Performance Works and the Imperial Series at the 2018 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Typically the edgier, younger emerging artists’ series, these are the shows for those who want deeper grooves, wilder solos or just plain music that defies categories.
  We have expanded on a few of the performances that would fall into the “do your best not to miss this” list when you are planning your jazz festival.
  Tickets are on sale at coastaljazz
  
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• Burnaby balks at bill for pipeline protests as Alberta warns of 'political interference'

  28-03-2018 18:54
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says it's 'irresponsible' to not pay for extra RCMP time, but one lawyer argues it's really an 'accounting' matter, not a constitutional one
  
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• Metro vote gives more money to pols

  28-03-2018 18:49
  
  Regional district gives departing members a pension should they choose not to run or lose in this fall's election
  
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• The Morning Skate, March 29: Do or do not, there is no try

  28-03-2018 18:46 via theprovince.com
  Here’s the thing about tanking: it’s the outcome you’re after. It’s the details that are absurd.
  Following Tuesday’s 4-1 win, there was a lot of frustration aired by Canucks fans. Many look at the golden ticket that is Rasmus Dahlin and want their team to have the best shot possible at winning the right to pick him.
  That, of course, means piling loss upon loss, something that looked the most likely outcome over the season’s remaining games even just a week ago
  
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• Vision Vancouver seeks expressions of interest for mayoral candidate

  28-03-2018 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  Vision Vancouver will open nominations next week for city council, school board, and park board, but not for the top job.
  The party, which has dominated local politics for a decade, now finds itself at a crossroads, with some of its most high-profile politicians announcing they will not seek re-election this year, including three-term Mayor Gregor Robertson.
  Vision says although it will hold open nominations for other positions, it is not formally opening a mayoral nomination process at thi
  
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• A Visit from Star Wars BB-8

  28-03-2018 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  A visit from Star Wars’ BB-8. Star Wars fan favourite droid BB-8 joins Sonia and Paul in advance of the home release of The Last Jedi
  
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• Government extends deadline for daycare fee reduction

  28-03-2018 18:15
  
  Child-care providers now have until April 20 to opt into program.
  
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• Coquitlam RCMP warn about parking lot fraud

  28-03-2018 18:13 via vancouversun.com
  If you hit someone in a parking lot with your car and that person asks for cash, call police.
  That’s the warning Wednesday from Coquitlam Mounties, who say they have had at least three instances of parking lot fraud in Coquitlam since December.
  Coquitlam RCMP Corp. Michael McLaughlin says the suspects are on foot and they will wait until a car is backing out of spot.
  Then the person pretends to get hit by the car and convinces the driver to pay cash — usually $100 or $200– inst
  
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• Tips for Tax Time

  28-03-2018 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  Blair Mantin of Sands & Associates shares his three essential tips for making the 2018 tax season easier.
  
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• Helicopter crash near Smithers due to hydraulic system, pilot action: TSB

  28-03-2018 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  No one was hurt, but the crash left the helicopter badly damaged.
  
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• High enrollment forces Richmond elementary schools to limit new students

  28-03-2018 17:31
  
  Parents in catchment areas upset their children won't get in to neighbourhood school
  
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• Squamish council debates asking province for new housing taxes

  28-03-2018 16:58
  
  Councillors supportive of foreign buyers tax being extended to Squamish, to prevent investors "flocking" to area, but still deliberating on the speculation tax
  
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• Matthew Good B.C. concert delayed after singer collapses on stage in Edmonton

  28-03-2018 16:45 via globalnews.ca
  The band confirms he has been battling pneumonia and he was taken to the hospital.
  
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