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• Nearly 1,000 new affordable housing units on the way for Vancouver

  04-05-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  The city of Vancouver has announced the Community Land trust is going to build almost 1,000 affordable rental units on city land. 
  
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• Immediate intervention needed to protect dwindling caribou herds in Alberta, B.C.: Feds

  04-05-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government says it is one step away from issuing emergency protection orders for dwindling caribou herds in Alberta and British Columbia.
  
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• Surrey RCMP seek to identify man allegedly walking with genitals exposed

  04-05-2018 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP is investigating an indecent act alleged to have taken place in Guildford last week.
  According to a news release, just after 6:30 p.m. on April 28, an adult male was witnessed walking with his genitals exposed and allegedly masturbating in Guildford Heights Park at 155 Street and 101A Avenue.
  A witness to the incident shared photos of a suspect with police. Mounties are now asking the public to help identity the man.
  He is described as a Caucasian male in his mid 30s, approximat
  
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• Celebrate cultural diversity and history at Pull of the Net

  04-05-2018 23:44
  
  This weekend, celebrate cultural diversity and the history of the west coast fishing industry at the second annual Pull of the Net Multicultural Festival.
  
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• Water woes in Peachland close a busy arterial road

  04-05-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  Some of the landslide debris has travelled down the ditch into the storm sewer system causing blockages.
  
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• Sellers, buyers and developers seek clarity about owing presale condo-related taxes

  04-05-2018 23:39 via vancouversun.com
  There is growing scrutiny of who is, and who is not, paying what taxes in Metro Vancouver’s presale condo market. 
  This part of the real estate market, which sells condos before they are built, has been exempt from the B.C. government’s foreign buyers tax and disclosure rules for “shadow flipping” — the assigning or selling of a sales contract by one buyer to another before a deal is finalized and officially registered at the land title office.
  In recent years,
  
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• A-peeling for attention: politicians to attend opening day of Trout Lake farmers' market

  04-05-2018 23:37
  
  One of Vancouver's favourite farmers' markets is back starting May 5.
  
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• Courage to Come Back Awards 2018: Josh Dahling

  04-05-2018 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  In this second installment, we highlight the winner of the addiction category: Josh Dahling.
  
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• Golf Guide: Vancouver Island Golf Trail is worth the hike

  04-05-2018 23:00 via theprovince.com
  Looking for a new option to consider when planning this year’s golf getaway with friends? Why not consider Vancouver Island?
  “We really pitch the region as ‘The Vancouver Island Golf Trail,’ a 250km-long trek featuring 13 signature golf courses where you can travel from one end to the other or you can break it out regionally,” explained Chris Elder of Golf Vancouver Island.
  Owned and operated by a collection of 13 courses, Golf Vancouver Island is a one-stop shop fo
  
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• Golf Guide: Sea to Sky corridor offers up some great golf options

  04-05-2018 23:00 via theprovince.com
  What if you could get similar scenery to playing a round of golf in Whistler but at a lower price?
  What if it took you roughly the same amount of time to arrive at the first tee for that scenic 18 as it would for you to log those swings in the city?
  Those options are real and they’re available in Squamish.
  “Here in Squamish, we’ve got the mountains, we’ve got the rivers and we’ve got the same views and the conditions just as good, if not better,” says Scott We
  
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• Golf Guide: Mackenzie Tour a launching pad for bigger and better things

  04-05-2018 23:00 via theprovince.com
  For many aspiring golfers, the road to the PGA Tour begins on the Mackenzie Tour, a 13-stop run of events in Canada that kicks off at the end of May with the Freedom 55 Financial Open at Point Grey Golf & Country Club in Vancouver.
  Just as young hopefuls in hockey and baseball work their way through minor league seasons and build towards prolonged runs playing with and against the best in the world, the same holds true for golfers at the highest level and the Mackenzie Tour has graduated wel
  
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• Golf Guide: Golf is no longer just ‘an old person’s sport’

  04-05-2018 23:00 via theprovince.com
  Over the last 20 years, the ages of the people you see trekking across well-maintained fairways and manicured greens have continued to get younger and younger.
  Once thought of as “an old person’s sport,” the rise of Tiger Woods and the emergence of the next generation of young, exciting talent across the sport has made getting into golf something more and more younger people are doing these days. Whether they’re hoping to be the next breakout star on the PGA Tour or simpl
  
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• This Week in History: 1892 A New West cop takes a chomp out of Vancouver

  04-05-2018 22:55 via vancouversun.com
  Lacrosse matches between Vancouver and New Westminster could be fairly rough in 1892. So it was probably no shock when a New Westminster policeman named Box claimed that he’d been jumped by some Vancouver lacrosse players at a dance.
  But the Vancouver World took exception to his tale, with a story headlined “Cannibalism Condoned.”
  “A great deal of wonder has been expressed at the fact that the Westminster Police Commissioners have made no investigation into the recent can
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Parents should beware mortgage helpers, says B.C. judge

  04-05-2018 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  Calling his ruling “a cautionary tale,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ward Branch has warned parents to take care supporting their kids in the Lower Mainland’s hyper-heated mortgage market.
  They must make sure to properly document the financing, he emphasized, or they may trigger a nightmare of spite-filled litigation.
  “For the sake of some mild awkwardness at the outset, years of misunderstanding, hurt feelings, grudges, estrangements, and expensive estate litigation may be
  
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• Vancouver Aquarium’s parrot sings along to Adele’s ‘Hello’

  04-05-2018 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  Cosmo, the blue-fronted parrot, lives in the Amazon Gallery at the Vancouver Aquarium, which is a recreation of South America's tropical rainforest.
  
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• Courage to Come Back: Josh Dahling

  04-05-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Josh Dahling was exposed to drugs and alcohol in his childhood – quickly turning to a life on the streets. But it was the death of a father he never really knew that would be his biggest challenge to overcome. And dealing with that grief opened his eyes to the power of healing. Lynn Colliar...
  
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• Vancouver to hand over seven land sites for development of 1000 affordable housing units - Toronto Star

  04-05-2018 22:17
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  Vancouver to hand over seven land sites for development of 1000 affordable housing units
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  VANCOUVER—The City of Vancouver has chosen several non-profit housing societies to develop seven sites of city-owned land into 1,000 units of affordable housing for Vancouver's “working class.” The seven sites, which are spread across the city and ...
  More than 1,000 affordable housing units to be built in VancouverVancouver Courier
  Vancouver announces big non-mar
  
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• Vancouver overdose calls shot up over 2017’s weekly average last week

  04-05-2018 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  2017 was the city's worst year for overdoses, seeing an average of one death per day.
  
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• City announces 1000 new units of affordable housing

  04-05-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson announcing what he is calling the largest single investment in non-market housing in Canadian history. The City is planning to build one thousand units on city-owned land. Our Jordan Armstrong has the latest.
  
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• Sellers, buyers and developers liable for presale condo-related taxes

  04-05-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  There is growing scrutiny of who is, and who is not, paying what taxes in Metro Vancouver’s presale condo market. 
  This part of the real estate market, which sells condos before they are built, has been exempt from the B.C. government’s foreign buyers tax and disclosure rules for “shadow flipping” — the assigning or selling of a sales contract by one buyer to another before a deal is finalized and officially registered at the land title office.
  In recent years,
  
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• The Canadian tuxedo gets its due at Jeans Day barbecue

  04-05-2018 22:06
  
  Annual fundraiser for B.C. Children's Hospital aimed to raise $1.1 million.
  
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• Realtor to donate massive commission from $13.8m listing to World Housing

  04-05-2018 22:06
  
  Seller of Shaughnessy house also donating huge sum, which together could pay for a 65-home community in a developing country
  
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• Water turbidity issues in West Kelowna; advisory issued

  04-05-2018 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  The water quality advisory from the city pertains to children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems living in about 7,000 residences.
  
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• Vancouver chiropractor resigns from college board over anti-vaccine video - CBC.ca

  04-05-2018 21:56
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  Vancouver chiropractor resigns from college board over anti-vaccine video
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  The College of Chiropractors of B.C. says it is now looking for an independent investigator to look into the actions of Vancouver chiropractor Avtar Jassal. Avtar Jassal created a Facebook video suggesting smoothies are more effective than the flu shot ...and more »
  
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• Comox Valley man killed in Peru most likely suspect in murder of shaman: Peru prosecutors

  04-05-2018 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  Prosecutors in Peru say evidence leaves little doubt that a Comox Valley man, whose brutal lynching was caught on video, killed a beloved elderly shaman in the remote Amazon rainforest.
  Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, was killed April 19 after villagers in the community of Victoria Gracia blamed him for the shooting death of 81-year-old Olivia Arévalo, a plant-healer from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe of northeastern Peru.
  Ricardo Jimenez, the chief prosecutor in Ucayali province, told The Associated
  
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• BC Hydro partners with cities to offer rebates on energy efficient appliances

  04-05-2018 21:51
  
  People have until June 15 to be eligible for $100 rebate.
  
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• Waterfront SeaBus terminal getting $17M seismic, accessibility upgrades

  04-05-2018 21:44 via vancouversun.com
  The 42-year-old Waterfront SeaBus station will be seismically upgraded and expanded as part of TransLink’s maintenance and repair program.
  The improvements to the station were announced this morning.
  “Our customers tell us they want reliable service, and to deliver we need to invest in our facilities, our fleet and our infrastructure,” said TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond. “These are the investments that keep our system running.”
  Upgrades will include one replacement el
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, May 4, 2018

  04-05-2018 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, May 4, 2018.
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs firing coach before RBC Cup latest in strange BCHL moves

  04-05-2018 21:22 via theprovince.com
  The good news for the BCHL at least is that the Powell River Kings’ firing of coach Kent Lewis doesn’t look quite so odd now.
  The Kings cutting ties with Lewis with 11 games left in the regular season and a seventh-place standing in the 17-team loop turned heads, especially considering it was his 18th season as their bench boss. It’s been passed on the surprise scale, though, by the Trail Smoke Eaters firing coach Cam Keith days after losing in the league semifinals to the even
  
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• How worsening wildfires fuel a discouraging trend for more flooding

  04-05-2018 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  Wildfires cripple our forests’ natural systems that absorb rain and melting snow, which leads to more flooding as B.C.’s fire seasons get progressively worse.
  Not only are the trees and absorbent organic material on the forest floor incinerated by intense forest fires, the burned material and ash cause water to bead on the surface, speeding its journey into swelling streams, said University of B.C. forestry Prof. Lori Daniels.
  The trend lines are far from encouraging.
  The summer of 2
  
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• Who is the man who poured gasoline inside a Salmon Arm office?

  04-05-2018 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  The man poured gasoline on the counter and in the waiting area of a Salmon Arm office building.
  
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• Cajeta Slide dessert cocktail to celebrate Cinqo de Mayo

  04-05-2018 21:08 via globalnews.ca
  Angie Quaale from Well Seasoned makes a special dessert cocktail in honour of Cinqo de Mayo.
  
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• 19 train cars derail north of Boston Bar

  04-05-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  The ministry received the report at approximately 7:45 p.m. Thursday.
  
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• Waterfront SeaBus terminal getting seismic, accessibility upgrades

  04-05-2018 20:51 via vancouversun.com
  The 42-year-old Waterfront SeaBus station will be seismically upgraded and expanded as part of TransLink’s maintenance and repair program.
  The improvements to the station were announced this morning.
  “Our customers tell us they want reliable service, and to deliver we need to invest in our facilities, our fleet and our infrastructure,” said TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond. “These are the investments that keep our system running.”
  Upgrades will include one replacement el
  
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• More than 1,000 affordable housing units to be built in Vancouver

  04-05-2018 20:51
  
  The Community Land Trust will develop seven city-owned sites
  
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• Vancouver to hire 1,500 people to help with October municipal election

  04-05-2018 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a job that won’t make you rich — but as an indispensable part of a healthy democracy, it comes with a certain cachet.
  The City of Vancouver is hoping to hire 1,500 people to help with the municipal election in October.
  The application process opened May 1 and, depending on the job you want, closes between June 30 and August 8, according to the city’s application website.
  Mandatory training sessions are held in September and you must be free to work between 7 a.m
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Adidas returns to the rank of sport shoe contenders

  04-05-2018 20:37 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  Modern day sport has served as a battleground for some of the biggest ongoing marketing wars on the planet. It has been the backdrop for the battle of the soft drinks (Pepsi vs. Coke) and the battle of beer (most recently Molson Coors vs. Anheuser-Busch Budweiser). Yet there has been no more intense competition in the business of sport in recent years than the battle of the sports shoe and all of the apparel and gear that comes with it.
  That’s why the reported North Ameri
  
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• 'Alarming' spike in overdose calls last week in Vancouver

  04-05-2018 20:32 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s first responders are reporting an “alarming” spike in drug overdose response calls last week following a tainted supply of street drugs.
  Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services reported 207 calls for the week ending Sunday, which city officials say is 74 per cent higher than last year’s weekly average. 
  Vancouver police suspect seven people died from illicit drug overdose deaths last week, raising the death toll this year to 108 suspected overdose fatalities,
  
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• B.C. man shot indigenous healer before lynching says prosecutor

  04-05-2018 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  Ricardo Jimenez is the chief prosecutor in the remote Ucayali province and says all evidence now gathered indicates Sebastian Woodroffe did kill an 81-year-old traditional healer.
  
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• B.C. man shot indigenous healer before lynching, Peruvian prosecutor says

  04-05-2018 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  A Peruvian prosecutor says Sebastian Woodroffe, a Canadian man killed in a brutal lynching in the Amazon, is believed to have shot and killed an esteemed indigenous leader days before.
  
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• Waterfront Station to undergo a major upgrade

  04-05-2018 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  The 42-year-old terminal will also undergo system maintenance heading into the summer.
  
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• Fab 5: Swim season

  04-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Yes, it may not quite be warm enough yet for weekends at Third Beach, but after such a long, legendary winter, we’ve cracked open the rosé a little earlier this year and are gearing up for some well-deserved warm-weather action.
  First up on the agenda? New swimwear.
  Like so much else in fashion right now, there’s a real hodgepodge of trends out there in the world of bikinis — which isn’t a bad thing when it comes to such a notoriously difficult, highly individual p
  
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• Daniel MacIvor play The Best Brothers explores grief with humour

  04-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Best Brothers
  When: May 8-19, various times
  Where: Kay Meek Studio Theatre, West Vancouver
  Tickets and info: $29-$45, kaymeek.comDeath, dysfunction and award-winning Nova Scotia playwright Daniel MacIvor’s signature dialogue all come together in the Kay Meek and Western Canada Theatre production of The Best Brothers. 
  In the play, a remounting of a successful Kamloops production, Kyle and Hamilton Best are brothers with issues. When their mother dies after an accident that falls f
  
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• Bears is a pipeline play from Alberta with claws

  04-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bears
  Presented by Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts and Punctuate! TheatreWhen: May 8-12
   
  Where: The Cultch
   
  Tickets and info: $22-$49, thecultch.com
  Bears is a play from Alberta about pipelines.
  That description probably has most picturing a musical where a chorus line of blond, blue-eyed Oilers cheerleaders stomp their field boots over a topographical map of B.C., with the big showstopper bitumen spurting out of a pipeline and showering down upon them.
  But Bears is an a
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week for April 28

  04-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for B.C. — Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  2. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  3. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  4. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).
  5. Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge &m
  
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• 5 things to know about Felix Cartal's Next Season album

  04-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver DJ and EDM producer Felix Cartal brings the beats straight out of New Westminster to the world. 
  Since his first release Skeleton on Dim Mak Records, he has toured the globe with related acts and released a few albums. His latest release is titled Next Season and dropped this week on Physical Presents. 
  There’s a good buzz around the album, owing largely to the single Get What You Give which is certified gold in Canada and has gained considerable popularity on streaming
  
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• Vancouver to hire 1,500 people to help with municipal election ... - Vancouver Sun

  04-05-2018 19:41
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  Vancouver to hire 1,500 people to help with municipal election ...
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  It's a job that won't make you rich — but as an indispensable part of a healthy democracy, it comes with a certain cachet.The City of Vancouver is hoping to hire 1500 people to help with the municipal election in October.
  City of Vancouver hiring over 1500 people to help with this year's municipal electionDaily Hiveall 2 news articles »
  
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• Final makeover for old landfill in West Kelowna

  04-05-2018 19:33 via globalnews.ca
  Work begins next week on the final rehabilitation of the old landfill in West Kelowna.
  
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• SOLD! Housing Forum

  04-05-2018 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  Is housing an investment or a human right? Following the launch of SOLD!, CBC Vancouver’s new original podcast, CBC Vancouver and Fairchild Radio are partnering to host a public forum on housing in Metro Vancouver. Moderated by Stephen Quinn, host of CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition, join us on Wednesday, May 9th as we...
  
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• 23 Vancouver concerts this weekend, May 4 to 6 - Straight.com

  04-05-2018 19:03
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  23 Vancouver concerts this weekend, May 4 to 6
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  FRIDAY: American rockers Rainbow Kitten Surprise perform tunes from new album How to: Friend, Love, Freefall at the Vogue Theatre. FRIDAY: Canadian heartland-rock singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane ("Life is a Highway") plays the Molson Canadian Theatre at ...and more »
  
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