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• Border wait times in B.C. as long as 2.5 hours at Pacific Highway crossing

  30-03-2018 23:59
  And it's not much better at the Peace Arch crossing.
  
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• Syrian family living a good life in Surrey

  30-03-2018 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  Fatima Sua’lfan takes after her father Bassam — she’s a communicator, she wants to understand and be understood. Like Bassam, she smiles a lot.
  “My name is pronounced Fat’ma,” she says, “but here everyone says Fateema. I don’t mind.”
  Since the Syrian family arrived in Canada in January 2016 as government-sponsored refugees, 14-year-old Fatima has become the voice of her family. She shoulders the responsibility of translating without a speck o
  
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• A colourful glimpse at Vancouver in the 1950s and '60s

  30-03-2018 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  In 1955 The Vancouver Sun became the first newspaper in Canada to have its own colour photo lab.
  “It started off initially because the Sun wanted to attract advertisers to colour, particularly Woodward’s,” said Charlie Warner, 88, who ran the lab and took most of the early colour photos.
  Alas, most of the colour shots from the ’50s and ’60s vanished somewhere along the line. But last week, we were cleaning out some old computer files and came across a motherlode of
  
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• Long weekend border chaos

  30-03-2018 23:29
  Wait times at border crossings are nearing two hours southbound at the start of the Easter long weekend.
  
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• Foodie Friday: Dazzle your Easter dinner guests with this rack of lamb

  30-03-2018 23:29
  Hosting an Easter dinner? Try this mouth-watering rack of lamb on for size.
  
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• Jason Botchford: Sedins to reveal career plan within next couple weeks

  30-03-2018 22:59 via theprovince.com
  If you think you’re invested in wanting the Sedins back for another season, try being Sam Gagner.
  He spent most of this NHL season playing like he had been swallowed up by a black cloud. He couldn’t score.
  No, really. He went 25 games without a goal. He was supposed to be one of the offensive difference makers the Canucks acquired in the summer to ensure competitiveness.
  Instead, he was left wondering where it was all going wrong. He didn’t feel like he was playing any differen
  
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• Chinese site to start marketing new Vancouver condos to millions of potential foreign buyers

  30-03-2018 22:54
  Canadian real estate is particularly attractive for this site.
  
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• Chinese site to start marekting new Vancouver condos to millions of potential foreign buyers

  30-03-2018 22:54
  And Canadian real estate is particularly attractive.
  
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• Lake Country rabbit sanctuary temporarily ends public visits due to virus risk

  30-03-2018 22:52
  The danger posed by a virus that has killed rabbits elsewhere in the province has prompted an Okanagan bunny sanctuary to go into lockdown.
  
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• B.C. says it’s concerned about ‘birth tourism.’ It’s still not cracking down

  30-03-2018 22:51
  B.C. says it has concerns, but added that the issue is a problem the feds need to deal with.
  
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• B.C. jogger’s lawsuit against 10-year-old girl on bike dismissed

  30-03-2018 22:50
  "A momentary lapse in awareness may be expected from children; such a lapse does not result in a finding of legal responsibility."
  
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• ‘Save the Rio’ campaign down to final week to finance bid for famed East Van theatre

  30-03-2018 22:22
  "It's basically like every Muppet movie you've ever seen, where basically the odds are stacked against them but somehow they're going to buy the theatre," says Rio operator Corrine Lea.
  
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• Researchers capture rare sighting of sperm whale in inshore waters near Nanaimo

  30-03-2018 22:05
  Scientists aren't sure why the sperm whale was in these waters, but predict he may have been looking for food.
  
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• Town Talk: Juno participants celebrated beforehand

  30-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  ROCK ON: Among them, Bruce Allen’s firm Bruce Allen Talent, Sam Feldman’s The Feldman Agency and his and Steve Macklam’s Feldman Macklam Management handle many of Canada’s top musicbiz performers. Unsurprisingly, their joint Juno Awards party drew many such artists to Sportsbar LIVE! At Rogers Arena. Seeing Allen clients Bryan Adams and Michael Bublé together there, some likely remembered them and BTO leader Randy Bachman singing Happy Birthday at Allen’s 60t
  
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• Douglas Todd: How Canadian Christians view Easter in the era of Trump

  30-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  As Canada’s more than eight million Protestants mark the most holy time on the Christian calendar, many are appalled at what they see south of the border, where a notorious womanizer holds the nation’s highest office largely because of support from fellow Protestants.
  U.S. President Donald Trump maintains the loyalty of more than 70 per cent of white evangelical Protestants (and most mainline Protestants) despite an avalanche of allegations that he frequently engaged in sordid sex ac
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Selling sugar to kids

  30-03-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Does it ever seem to you that the marketing of food to kids is all about hooking them on sugar and watching the sales skyrocket; once you have them addicted, they’re a client for life.
  Indeed, that is what’s happening, and marketers are doing it intentionally. Sugar, sugar, sugar all the time and it has lifelong health effects on children.
  The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada wants the federal government to enact legislation that will put an end to the marketing of sugar ri
  
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• A senior drove onto a B.C. ferry Thursday night. No one has seen him since

  30-03-2018 20:46
  video footage shows an "elderly'' man driving the car through the ticketing booth at Swartz Bay, but no one saw him afterward.
  
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• This Week in History: 1918 A B.C. rancher leads a heroic cavalry charge in the First World War

  30-03-2018 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  On April 1, 1918, the Vancouver World’s front page was filled with reports of savage fighting along the western front, where the Germans had launched a major offensive.
  “Fierce Cavalry Attack Clears Foe from Forest,” said a headline. “Horsemen Swoop Down Like Winter Snowstorm on Troops Concealed in Wood Near Moreuil.”
  The charge was led by a British Columbian from the interior, who died leading his men into a torrent of fire from German machine guns.
  Lt. Gordon
  
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• Vancouver actress Kristin Kreuk denies she helped sex cult guru Keith Raniere recruit women

  30-03-2018 20:27 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver actress Kristin Kreuk denies she was part of the “inner circle” of self-help group NXIVM, several days after leader Keith Raniere was arrested on sex-trafficking charges at a compound in Mexico.
  In a Twitter post Thursday, the Smallville star said she left NXIVM five years ago and has had minimal contact with those still involved.
  “The accusations that I was in the ‘inner circle’ or recruited women as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false,&rdqu
  
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• Police search for older man missing from ferry to Vancouver from Victoria

  30-03-2018 20:16
  Delta Police say the missing 80-year-old man is believed to be from Victoria; he has a heavy build, brown hair and eyes, and was last seen wearing a grey sweater with dark grey or black pants.
  
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• TransLink reviewing policies for public washrooms, pets

  30-03-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink’s board of directors will likely hear policy suggestions on the hot-button issues of public washrooms at stations and pets on transit within the next few months.
  “We’ve had requests and public comment on both issues for a long time, which is typical for transit authorities,” TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond said Thursday following a board meeting. “They’re difficult issues, they’re complicated issues, so we’re taking a very hard look at both m
  
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• Kelowna’s mayor promises more consultation on controversial busking bylaw

  30-03-2018 20:03
  Kelowna’s mayor is promising more consultation in response to criticism that street performers weren’t consulted.
  
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• Fab 5: The modern trench

  30-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Yes, trench coats have been around for over a century — though ownership of its invention is an ongoing source of contention between two British brands, Burberry and Aquascutum, with the latter’s assertion dating back to the 1850s — but this spring’s renditions are nothing if not modern.
  Deconstructed, in prints and hues ranging from pinstriped cream to pretty pastels, and in unique, non-traditional lengths, the trench coat is definitely back — and better
  
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• If this dog could talk, she'd say 'Keep Easter treats away from pets'

  30-03-2018 19:11
  
  Anori thought Glosette Raisins were a treat. And then she had to be taken to the vet's.
  
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• West Kelowna Road reopens after flood damage

  30-03-2018 19:08
  The storm took out part of a sidewalk and knocked over a power pole.
  
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• Burnaby “hoarder house” blaze sends man to hospital

  30-03-2018 19:08
  Burnaby fire crews rescued a man from a house fire on Sumas Street in Burnaby overnight. Crews were faced with a difficult search due to the home’s contents, with the condition inside described as “unliveable”. Jordan Armstrong reports.
  
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• Update your Vancouver Sun app

  30-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  We’ve made some improvements to the way we deliver our mobile news to you. You need to update to the latest version of the app to get the optimal video experience on your phone. Look for the latest update in the Google Play Store on your device.
  
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• Update your Province app

  30-03-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  We’ve made some improvements to the way we deliver our mobile news to you. You need to update to the latest version of the app to get the optimal video experience on your phone. Look for the latest update in the Google Play Store on your device.
  
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• Fire at Burnaby ‘hoarder’s house’ sends man to hospital

  30-03-2018 18:56
  The Sumas Street house suffered extensive damage after the fire broke out around 1 a.m. Friday.
  
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• Isle of Dogs 12 Year Old Star Koyu Rankin

  30-03-2018 18:32
  Local 12 year old actor Koyu Rankin explains what it was like to play one of lead roles in Wes Anderson’s new animated movie
  
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• Bed sheets and pregnancy tests: Richmond RCMP crack down on retail theft

  30-03-2018 18:22
  
  Richmond RCMP and loss prevention officers blitz leads to 26 arrests over a two-day period.
  
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• Two men await sentencing in connection to 2016 drug bust

  30-03-2018 18:19
  
  $1.5 million in cash, firearms, fentanyl, 12 kilograms of cocaine, 4.5 kilograms of heroin and $100,000 worth of pills, including OxyContin, seized in Burnaby home
  
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• Two men await sentencing in connection to 2016 Burnaby drug bust

  30-03-2018 18:19
  
  $1.5 million in cash, firearms, fentanyl, 12 kilograms of cocaine, 4.5 kilograms of heroin and $100,000 worth of pills, including OxyContin, seized in Burnaby home
  
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• Movie reviews: “Isle of Dogs’ and “The China Hustle’

  30-03-2018 18:03
  Dana Gee lets us know what she thinks of “Isle of Dogs”, “The China Hustle” and “Ready Player One”
  
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• Coquitlam RCMP search for missing 89-year-old man

  30-03-2018 17:58
  Coquitlam RCMP are asking for the public's help in their search for an 89-year-old man who has gone missing.
  
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• B.C. Green Party hired Aggregate IQ for election work; no data misuse found

  30-03-2018 17:53 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Green Party has told its supporters that their personal information was accessed by AggregateIQ, the Victoria tech company caught up in an international scandal.
  The Greens, which hired AggregateIQ to work on a new voter contact database and website in advance of the 2017 provincial election, said they have conducted a privacy review and found no evidence that the data of tens of thousands of voters was misused.
  AggregateIQ has told the party it destroyed all records containing vot
  
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• Disease linked to death of Esquimalt teen on rise in B.C.; officials don’t know why

  30-03-2018 17:44 via vancouversun.com
  An invasive disease linked to the death of a 13-year-old Esquimalt girl has been on the rise in B.C. over the past two years, and public health officials have yet to determine what’s causing a spike in cases.
  The incidence rate of invasive Group A streptococcal disease jumped to 8.4 cases per 100,000 people last year — the highest rate since reporting began two decades ago, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
  There were a total of 406 cases in 2017 and 303 in 2016.
  In t
  
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• Richmond councillor apologizes for tweet on 'multiculturalism'

  30-03-2018 17:24
  
  Harold Steves' comment was accused of suggesting ethnicity-based division
  
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• Book review: The Reconciliation Manifesto — Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

  30-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Reconciliation Manifesto — Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
  By Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson
  James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Toronto
  $22.95
  What would you do, reader, if strangers arrived in your town, moved you out of your house and seized control of 99 per cent of the local wealth? What if the invaders’ next moves were to kidnap your children, rape and murder, and spread disease in a formerly healthy population?
  Indigenous residents of the Americas
  
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• Bill Clinton finds himself in Vancouver on June 29

  30-03-2018 17:00
  
  Former U.S. president on book tour for his new novel, The President Is Missing
  
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• Q&A: Darby Mills brings decades of rock experience to album, doco

  30-03-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Darby Mills Project
  When: April 7, 9 p.m.
  Where: Fairview Pub, 898 W. Broadway
  Tickets and info: $30, vtixonline.comOne of the most distinctive howls in Canadian hard rock history is back on the circuit again.
  After nearly four decades with various configurations of the Headpins, Darby Mills is redefining herself as a solo artist.
  With the release of The Darby Mills Project Live on True North Records, the singer is pleased to finally be the one “in the driver’s seat.” 
  
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• 5 things to do in Burnaby this Easter weekend

  30-03-2018 15:40
  
  Underwater Easter egg dive and miniature train ride some of the activities you can enjoy
  
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• B.C. 15 Bestselling books of the week, March 24

  30-03-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  1. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC — Rob Shaw & Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  2. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams(Alicon Holdings Ltd.)
  3. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion – Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben(Greystone Books).
  4. Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge — Pat Ardley (Harbour Publishing
  
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• Father at centre of 5-year custody battle wants $500K from ex and lawyer who relied on ‘fraudulent expert’

  30-03-2018 15:23
  "This is a rare case which calls for the sharpest of sanctions," reads the application for costs.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy with some sunshine this afternoon

  30-03-2018 15:17 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Friday’s weather forecast is rainy, but clearing in the afternoon with some sunshine. Environment Canada says it will be windy near the water in the morning, but Metro Vancouver should reach a high of 13 C. The rest of the Easter long weekend looks like a mixed bag. The agency is predicting dry weather for Saturday, with some sunshine, but then likely more rain on Sunday.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of showers this morning, t
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week for March 24

  30-03-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Rising Sea — Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.
  2. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  3. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn.
  4. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  5. Fifty Fifty — James Patterson and Candice Fox.
  6. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate.
  7. An American Marriage — Tayari Jones.
  8. The Flight Attendant — Chris Bohjalian.
  9. The Kremlin Conspiracy — Joel C. Rosenberg.
  10. The Escape Artist &m
  
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• Reporter Gordon Hoekstra nominated for two CAJ awards

  30-03-2018 14:02 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Sun reporter Gordon Hoekstra has been named a finalist in two categories for the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, which recognizes outstanding investigative journalism.
  Hoekstra was nominated for a CAJ Data Journalism Award for his work delving into the murky world of political contributions and influence in B.C.
  Databases built from multiple sources, including Elections B.C., the province’s corporate registry and Canadian securities filings were used to show 
  
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• Whitecaps Game Day: Vancouver braces for, faces a new Crew

  30-03-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver Whitecaps (2W-1L-1D, 1st West) at Columbus Crew (3-0-1, 1st East)
  Saturday, noon, Mapfre Stadium (CTV, TSN4/5, TSN1040)
  THE BIG MATCHUP
  Felipe vs. Federico Higuain
  The Whitecaps’ midfielder was their best player last week. Felipe had great ball distribution — he had team highs in successful passes (62) and chances (2) — and solid defence with a team-best four interceptions and four tackles. He’ll be up against one of the best offensive players in the game in &ld
  
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• Be careful on the roads this Easter weekend

  30-03-2018 14:00
  
  On average, 490 people are injured in 1,500 crashes every year in the Lower Mainland alone, ICBC says.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Here’s the next weapon in the battle for B.C. housing affordability

  30-03-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has made its first major move in the battle for housing affordability in Metro Vancouver and beyond by promising to raise the foreign-buyers tax to 20 per cent and institute a range of taxes to quell property speculation.
  Now it looks as if the B.C. NDP is preparing to take on a more thorny challenge to confront the housing crisis. It’s a tax-related problem that Liberal MLA Mike DeJong promised to address three years ago when he was finance minister, but never did. The
  
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