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• B.C. repair shops say new ICBC policy will cost them ‘hundreds of thousands’

  06-06-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  BC's Automotive Retailers Association is calling on ICBC to rescind a recent policy that would see repair shops pocketing less and the Crown corporation getting more.
  
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• Quadriplegic woman with newborn pleads with Immigration Canada for temporary visa for fiancé

  06-06-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  An Edmonton woman desperately wants to reunite her family. She gave birth to a baby boy June 5 but her fiance can't be with them because Immigration Canada has denied him a temporary resident's visa.
  
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• Sportsmens Bowl flood evacuees feel left in dark, evacuated for 1.5 months

  06-06-2018 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  “We have no idea what we're going to do with our property.”
  
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• Trans Mountain deal fails to change Suncor position on Canadian competitiveness

  06-06-2018 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  The CEO of Suncor Energy Inc. says it will continue to avoid spending on large growth projects in Canada despite the federal government's move last week to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  
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• Fentanyl test strips for sale at Vancouver dollar store

  06-06-2018 22:52 via vancouversun.com
  Overdose prevention advocate Sarah Blyth says the $1.25 strips are a small measure that could help keep some drug users alive, but worries there are still too many preventable overdose deaths.
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• ‘Silver Alert’ for missing seniors being tested in Canadian cities

  06-06-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Police are teaming up with health workers, social services and volunteers in a day-long training exercise to test out a new Silver Alert system.
  
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• Before and after: Once neglected and abused, these BC SPCA rescue dogs are loving life again

  06-06-2018 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  “You can tell he never had attention. He didn’t know the word ‘walk’ or ‘out’ and now he knows those words and he’s living a life that a dog should be living.”
  
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• IHIT seeks public’s help in identifying suspects in Gavinder Grewal murder 

  06-06-2018 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  As the December 23, 2017 death of Gavinder Grewal remains unsolved, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) is hoping the public will be able to help in the investigation.
  
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• MSC offers European-style in the Caribbean

  06-06-2018 22:25
  MSC Cruises recently took delivery of the sister-ship to its trendsetting MSC Seaside. Known as MSC Seaview, the 4,132-passenger ship is the largest cruise ship ever built in Italy.
  Like MSC Seaside, the massive MSC Seaview is loaded with onboard features that include 10 restaurants and 20 bars and lounges. There are also five waterslides onboard; a bowling alley; a Formula One racing simulator; a 4D cinema; a kids splash park; a pair of ziplines; and an outdoor movie screen.
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• Paras Atashnak dishes on Big Brother Canada

  06-06-2018 22:17 via vancouversun.com
  Big Brother Canada Season 6 winner Paras Atashnak dishes on life in front of the camera, behind the scenes gossip and everything that’s gone on since the end of the show.
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• B.C. lawyer disbarred for forging letter purporting jury tampering

  06-06-2018 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  A Victoria lawyer, who was convicted of public mischief and fabricating evidence, has been disbarred by the Law Society of B.C. for a second time.
  Malcolm Hassan Zoraik ceased practising law in June 2010, after he was given a a conditional 18-month jail sentence for forging a letter indicating that the jury process in a trial had been tampered with.
  The Provincial Court judge who presided at his trial ruled that Zoraik had “manufactured a letter which he knew was likely to become evid
  
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• Randomized ballot a go for Vancouver's 2018 civic election

  06-06-2018 22:13
  
  The City of Vancouver will switch from an alphabetical to a randomized name order on the ballot for the 2018 civic election.
  
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• City approves 46 temporary modular housing units for Little Mountain

  06-06-2018 22:10
  
  Homes part of $66-million plan to build 600 new units of temporary modular homes
  
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• Tower at former West Vancouver Earls site goes to the public

  06-06-2018 22:09
  
  Under newest iteration of proposal, the total unit count has gone up to 141 from 133
  
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• Man and his dog die in multi-vehicle crash in Maple Ridge

  06-06-2018 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  Ridge Meadows RCMP say four vehicles were involved in a crash on Golden Ears Way at 203 Street around 7:30 p.m.
  
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• Canadian students who use marijuana end up with poor health, grades: study

  06-06-2018 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  The study followed a cohort of 662 young people over 10 years.
  
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• Vancouver introduces randomized ballot order for municipal election

  06-06-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  Casting a ballot in October’s Vancouver municipal election will require a little more hunting and pecking after city council decided Wednesday to do away with alphabetical listing of names on ballots.
  The city voted to direct an additional $225,000  — $175,000 on communication and another $60,000 on additional staff at voting places — towards its 2018 election budget to introduce a randomized name order on ballots for city council and park board candidates in the 
  
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• Vancouver Mural Festival will expand to include outdoor concert in Mount Pleasant

  06-06-2018 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Mural Festival is expanding this year to include an outdoor concert in Mount Pleasant.
  The park board voted Monday to approve the new family friendly event that will take place on Saturday, Aug. 11 at Jonathan Rogers Park. It would cap off the week-long mural festival which is slated to begin this year on Aug. 6.
  Organizers for the festival – which is touted as the city’s largest free public art celebration – admitted that while the smaller musical aspects of prev
  
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• Okanagan digital company will soon be hiring more employees

  06-06-2018 21:17 via globalnews.ca
  A Kelowna digital company will soon be hiring more employees.
  
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• Legendary Vancouver broadcaster John Ashbridge remembered

  06-06-2018 21:00
  
  John Ashbridge is being remembered for his countless contributions to the community and the broadcasting industry.
  
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• High tech pillow for snoring

  06-06-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  Have a snorer in your life? This high tech pillow promises to help alleviate the problem.
  
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• Reported gunfire in Port Coquitlam turned out to be firecrackers: police

  06-06-2018 20:53
  Port Coquitlam police have determined that what neighbours thought was gunfire turned out to be firecrackers.
  RCMP were on site in the Hyde Creek area Wednesday from 4:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., even calling in the emergency response team to assist after several residents called to report what they thought were gunshots.
  Out of an abundance for caution, police searched the area to ensure no crime had been committed.
  Around 11 a.m., police issued a statement that said they had found signs to confirm t
  
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• 5 B.C. music festivals to attend this summer

  06-06-2018 20:09 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians like festivals. Like, we really like them and at any time of the year too. But there is something particularly appealing about the summer music festival. Typically taking place under the open skies as the sun shines, these group gatherings are notable for their camaraderie, above average mix of music and overall fun.
  Even those all-too-familiar moments like tearing across the site to share a tarp with a bunch of unknowns as the rain deluges down with enough force to drown out the metal
  
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• Wine Guy: Time to celebrate South African wines

  06-06-2018 20:00
  South Africa has always encompassed a unique spot in the world of wine.
  This is not just from a geographic perspective — though admittedly looking at South Africa on a world map points to its relative vinous isolation — rather, the uniqueness references the “Old World” wine sensibilities that meet “New World” wine growing approaches and production.
  This traditional-yet-different approach has seen many label South Africa as the “Middle World” of win
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland, June 8-14: Breakout Festival, Shaun Majumder, and more

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Breakout Festival 2018
  When: June 9-10, 2-10 p.m.
  Where: PNE Amphitheatre
  Tickets and info: From $99, breakout-festival.com
  This celebration of hot contemporary hip hop MC and DJ sounds has a truly impressive list of talent. Headliners include Tory Lanez, who is pretty much everywhere at the moment, as well as Migos, 6Lack and the awesomely named A-Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. Spinning sets are Wondagurl, Illyminiachi, 2Hunnit, and more. Shine up your best kicks and get ready for some lyric spitt
  
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• Restaurant review: Burnaby's Stem Japanese Eatery serves top notch food

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Stem Japanese Eatery
  Where: 5205 Rumble Street, Burnaby | 604-434-0250
  Open: Dinner daily, except Tuesday. facebook.com/StemjapaneseHe put Zest Japanese restaurant on the map but after nearly nine years at the helm, Tatsuya Katagiri broke out his own moves at his own place. Last December, he opened Stem Japanese Eatery in South Burnaby, taking Zest sushi chef Yoshiaka Maniwa along with him.
  Zest plotted its own course, too, rebranding to Yuwa with a new chef. 
  It seems the best arbiter
  
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• Pamela McColl: Trudeau government, senators fail Canadian children in push for pot

  06-06-2018 20:00
  My grandfather fought for Canada during the First World War, taking a bullet at Passchendaele. My father, he served in the Second World War as a tail-gunner assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force. Both of these individuals put everything on the line to defend their way of life.
  Globally, the past century saw more people prematurely die of tobacco-related deaths than all the lives lost in the two world wars and worldwide famines combined. It’s estimated that there will be a 10-fold increa
  
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• Letters, June 7: Premier John Horgan should stop fighting pipeline that taxpayers now own

  06-06-2018 20:00
  Thank you Premier John Horgan and Green party Leader Andrew Weaver. I always wanted to be part-owner of a pipeline. Not!
  The pipeline needs to be built. Stop your stalling tactics. Stop saying you’re speaking for all British Columbians because you aren’t.
  Horgan says we should refine oil here. I don’t disagree, but where would he build the refinery? He never mentions that part because no one wants it in their neighbourhood.
  So get the pipeline built and get on to other issues.
  
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• Five reasons to see Janelle Monáe

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Janelle Monáe
  When: June 12 at 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets: $85/59.50/42 at ticketmaster.ca
  1. Dirty Computer. Her first album since 2013’s Electric Lady, Dirty Computer has put Monáe back at the forefront of the modern R&B scene. It’s her third full-length, and full of funky pop jams like the very Prince-like Make Me Feel. Another track, PYNK, features former Vancouverite Grimes; the two first collaborated on the latter’s 2015 album Art A
  
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• Book review: Escaping the Rabbit Hole tells of B.C. woman's battle with depression

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Escaping the Rabbit Hole: My Journey Through Depression
  By Tracey Maxfield(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, February, 2018) Author Tracey Maxfield. 
  We all have our moments of sadness, but some of us live with crippling depression that makes simple life tasks nearly impossible, so steeped in sorrow and hopelessness that getting out of bed can be painfully daunting.
  Tracey Maxfield, a UK born and Okanagan Valley based nurse, has been one of those sufferers since August of 20
  
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• 5 music festivals to attend this Summer

  06-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians like festivals. Like, we really like them and at any time of the year too. But there is something particularly appealing about the summer music festival. Typically taking place under the open skies as the sun shines, these group gatherings are notable for their camaraderie, above average mix of music and overall fun.
  Even those all-too-familiar moments like tearing across the site to share a tarp with a bunch of unknowns as the rain deluges down with enough force to drown out the metal
  
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• Two suspects, vehicles identified in Grewal murder

  06-06-2018 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide investigators have released surveillance photos of two men believed to be involved in the murder last December of Brothers Keepers gang boss Gavinder Grewal.
  Cpl. Frank Jang, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said IHIT has “gathered significant evidence and is looking to identify individuals involved in the murder.”
  “Surveillance footage has identified two vehicles that investigators believe are associated to the murder of Mr. Grewal,” Jang said
  
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• RCMP investigating after reports of shots fired in Port Coquitlam

  06-06-2018 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  Police were asking residents to stay away from an area in Port Coquitlam after they received reports of shots fired early Wednesday morning. Paul Haysom has the latest.
  
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• Online map shows crabby crows dive bombing pedestrians in Metro Vancouver

  06-06-2018 19:24
  
  Cantankerous crows are dive bombing unwary pedestrians in Metro Vancouver as the annual example of avian helicopter parenting hits its height.
  
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• Jaspal Atwal to plead not guilty to charges of threatening radio host in B.C.

  06-06-2018 19:13 via globalnews.ca
  The man at the centre of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's troubled trip to India is set to plead not guilty to charges of threatening a radio host.
  
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• Free outdoor movies return to Stanley Park this summer

  06-06-2018 19:10
  
  Fresh Air Cinema is returning for a 2018 season of free outdoor movies in beautiful Stanley Park.
  
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• Speculation tax reducing price of B.C.’s recreational homes: survey

  06-06-2018 19:04
  
  B.C. one of only three regions expecting price declines, finds nationwide survey of recreation specialist realtors
  
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• Pitt Meadows man dies in four-vehicle accident

  06-06-2018 19:04 via vancouversun.com
  A 38-year-old Pitt Meadows man and his dog were killed in a four-vehicle collision Tuesday night on Golden Ears Way.
  Ridge Meadows RCMP say the accident occurred at 7:30 p.m. near 203rd Street.Witnesses say a Toyota Tacoma truck was travelling east at a high rate of speed when it crossed the centre line and collided with another car, which resulted in a chain-reaction of collisions.  The driver of the Tacoma — as well as a dog inside the vehicle — died at the scene.
  Police say t
  
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• Spirit of British Columbia back in service after mid-life upgrade

  06-06-2018 19:00
  
  One of B.C. Ferries’ largest ships, the Spirit of British Columbia, is back in service on the Tsawwassen to Victoria route starting June 6 after a series of upgrades.
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: 'Main Alley' transforming from old-school industry to high tech

  06-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Westbank Corp. and Ryan Holmes, the founder and CEO of local social media giant Hootsuite, are partnering to redevelop a full city block on Main Street.
  In addition to accommodating part of Hootsuite’s workforce, the space will house New York-based co-working company WeWork’s fourth Vancouver site.
  WeWork leased two floors of a renovated building at the “Main Alley” campus at Main Street, between East 4th and East 5th Aves. and Quebec St.
  The project will include renovati
  
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• “Global Fall TV Lineup”

  06-06-2018 18:35 via globalnews.ca
  TV Week’s Brent Furdyk fills us in on the highlights of Global TV’s new fall shows.
  
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• Global Fall 2018 TV lineup

  06-06-2018 18:35 via globalnews.ca
  TV Week’s Brent Furdyk fills us in on the highlights of Global TV’s new fall shows.
  
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• BCAA Play Here finalist: The Orca Bus

  06-06-2018 17:47 via globalnews.ca
  Beth Zroback from The Orca Bus explains why she hopes her project will be one of the winners of the BCAA Place Space Contest.
  
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• “BCAA Play Here Finalist #8”

  06-06-2018 17:47 via globalnews.ca
  Beth Zroback from The Orca Bus explains why she hopes her project will be one of the winners of the BCAA Place Space Contest.
  
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• Opinion: Rental-only zoning could end up a damp squib

  06-06-2018 17:31
  
  Experts say policy is a good idea in theory but in practice will only work in tandem with other incentives
  
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• Fireworks prompt large police response in Port Coquitlam amid reports of a shooting

  06-06-2018 17:05 via globalnews.ca
  Coquitlam RCMP say an ongoing police incident in Port Coquitlam is now over and the area has been deemed safe.
  
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• Legendary broadcaster John Ashbridge dies at 71

  06-06-2018 16:51 via globalnews.ca
  A well-known voice in Vancouver, John Ashbridge, has died at age 71. Paul Haysom is live in downtown Vancouver with more on the highlights of Ashbridge’s career.
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you live in the Big Brother house for a chance at $100K?

  06-06-2018 16:07 via vancouversun.com
  Port Coquitlam’s own Paras Atashnak, 23, took home $100,000 after winning the sixth season of Big Brother Canada last month.
  The popular reality competition show involves living under constant video surveillance for 70 days and competing for power while sharing living quarters with strangers.
  The law student told Postmedia she still hadn’t watched her own season yet because she didn’t want her opinion of her housemates to change if there were any less-than-polite soundbites.Tak
  
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• Vancouver weather: Let the sun shine through

  06-06-2018 15:27 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: June 6, 2018 – Wednesday’s weather promises to clear up, with temperatures warming back up to what we’ve become so used to in recent weeks.
  The Vancouver region will see some sun peeking through once clouds clear, with temperatures reaching as high as 20, and 24 inland.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly sunny. High of 20, except 24 inland.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy, low of 12.
  Tomorrow: Mainly cloudy, high of 19.
  Traffic: Lower Mainland
  Here’s a live tra
  
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• B.C. property markets starting to shift after tighter mortgage rules, tax changes

  06-06-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Three months into B.C.’s experience with tighter mortgage-qualification rules, layered in with provincial real-estate tax changes, property markets are starting to shift.
  However, parsing out the whether the provincial measures — the speculation tax on second homes, school surtax on expensive homes and raising the property transfer tax — are having a big, small or any impact on the housing market is an open question.
  “When we look at the overall downturn we’ve seen
  
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