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• Three people with colour blindness now seeing the world through special glasses

  24-09-2018 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  This fall, for the first time, Jonathan Mark will be able to appreciate the bright reds, oranges and yellows that appear in the trees before they shed their leaves.
  “I’ve never seen the red in the trees,” Mark, 34, said. “There’s a vibrance. You wouldn’t see the vibrancy in that tree, it just wouldn’t be there before.”
  Mark, who is colour blind, took people’s word for it when they told him about fall colours. To him, everything looked dark an
  
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• Female, 17, charged after 16-year-old girl stabbed in Surrey

  24-09-2018 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  A 17-year-old female has been charged following a weekend stabbing in Surrey.
  Police say a 16-year-old girl was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries on Saturday.
  An RCMP news release says the 17-year-old was arrested and faces a charge of aggravated assault.
  Police say investigators believe the altercation was isolated and targeted as the alleged victim and the suspect know one another.
  The identity of the accused person is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
  
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• As sales of electric vehicles soar, B.C. adds $10M to clean energy vehicle incentive program

  24-09-2018 23:32
  The government's Clean Energy Vehicle Program provides a $5,000-credit toward the purchase price of electric cars or plug-in hybrids.
  
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• RDOS seeks injunction against illegal luxury vacation rental near Kaleden, B.C.

  24-09-2018 23:22
  The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen is cracking down on an illegal luxury vacation rental in the South Okanagan. Shelby Thom reports.
  
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• Task force calls for B.C. government to cut annual rent increase by two per cent

  24-09-2018 22:59
  
  Task force recommends B.C government cut the 4.5 per cent allowable rent increase for next year to 2.5 per cent but still give landlords ability to raise rents.
  
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• To get Trans Mountain built, Andrew Scheer says he would invoke constitutional powers, ban foreign funds

  24-09-2018 22:49
  Here is how the Conservative leader described his plan to get the pipeline built in a press conference on Monday.
  
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• B.C. cancer patient denied chemotherapy because of where he lives

  24-09-2018 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A cancer patient living in subsidized housing has been told he can’t receive chemotherapy because his living conditions pose a risk to his recovery.
  Terry Willis, 50, has a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that starts in white blood cells called lymphocytes.
  Since July 2017, he’s been living in supportive housing at 844 Johnson St., a building managed by the Portland Hotel Society that houses many people who previously lived in the tent city on the lawn of
  
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• Man accused of sending mail bomb to his brother in B.C. dies awaiting trial

  24-09-2018 22:31 via vancouversun.com
  WHITEHORSE — Yukon’s chief coroner says a man accused of mailing a bomb to his brother on Vancouver Island has died.
  Heather Jones says 73-year-old Leon Nepper went into medical distress at Whitehorse Correctional Centre on Sunday.
  Nepper was taken to hospital but died that afternoon.
  On Friday, two more charges were laid against him for a total of four charges including attempted murder, aggravated assault and possessing and sending an explosive device.
  Nepper’s brother, Roger
  
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• Canucks rookie Pettersson is Calder Trophy favourite: Bodog

  24-09-2018 22:23 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver hockey fans aren’t the only ones excited about Canucks rookie Elias Pettersson, the oddsmakers like him as well.
  According the gambling website Bodog, the 19-year-old Swedish forward is the 4-1 favourite to win Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League’s rookie of the year.
  Bodog has Pettersson, the fifth overall selection in the 2017 Entry Draft, just ahead 18-year-old defenceman Rasmus Dahlin of the Buffalo Sabres and 18-year-old forward Andrei Svechnikov of t
  
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• Here’s why you’ve been seeing this funky old bus driving around Vancouver lately

  24-09-2018 22:02
  
  Over the last couple of months, have you noticed an unusual old bus with trolley wires driving around Vancouver on the weekends?
  
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• Vancouver diner lands unlikely spot on Top 50 Cafes on Earth list

  24-09-2018 21:50
  
  Vancouver loves its coffee, from bean to cup. The city is packed with third wave coffee shops, where brewing is an art form, the graphic design on point and the Instagram opportunities bountiful.
  
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• Vancouver Opera – The Merry Widow

  24-09-2018 21:48
  The Vancouver Opera presents The Merry Widow at the Q.E. Theatre October 20 - 28! Get ready to indulge in the Viennese torte known as Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) in this wonderfully lavish Art Nouveau production directed by Canadian Kelly Robinson
  
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• B.C. to purchase two private MRI clinics to reduce wait times

  24-09-2018 21:47
  Health Minister Adrian Dix says the purchase includes clinic staff becoming health authority employees.
  
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• Persian speakers seek to add Farsi to B.C. public school language curriculum

  24-09-2018 21:32
  Farsi is spoken in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and some Persian Gulf states and the latest Canadian census shows in B.C. it is the mother tongue of more than 43,000 residents.
  
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• Vancouver Fall Home Show

  24-09-2018 21:30
  Get inspired at the Vancouver Fall Home Show at the Convention Centre West Building October 18 - 21!
  
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• Campbell Valley run captures fun spirits of those living on Cloud Wine

  24-09-2018 21:29 via vancouversun.com
  CAMPBELL VALLEY — Three wonderful women, putting the final touches on their “Sipping Beauties” outfits, asked what I thought as they whipped off their shirts Sunday morning.
  My coffee-craving brain immediately defaulted to the MC Hammer ditty: U Can’t Touch This!
  “We made Batman blush,” one roared with laughter as hundreds of others filed into the impressive High Point Equestrian Centre for the fourth annual 15K and 5K Campbell Valley Wine Run.
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• Canucks notebook: KHL demands more fitness, says Kovalchuk

  24-09-2018 21:05 via theprovince.com
  SALT LAKE CITY — After five years in the KHL, Ilya Kovalchuk is back in the NHL.
  “I achieved my goals that I put on myself,” he said of why he left his homeland for another kick at the North American hockey can. “I have some gas left in my tank so why not.”
  As has been a theme when discussing Elias Pettersson’s transition to the smaller rink of NHL hockey, Kovalchuk brings his own perspective, a story of there-and-back-again for ice surfaces.
  “The game i
  
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• BC Rental Task Force recommends cutting rent increase

  24-09-2018 21:00
  Looking for ways to ease the pressure on the housing crunch, B.C’s Rental Housing Taskforce is putting forward its first round of recommendations. The group is recommending the provincial government cut the annual allowable rent increase cap. Paul Haysom has the details on how the formula would change
  
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• Indigenous sport gallery to be unveiled at BC Sports Hall of Fame

  24-09-2018 20:58
  The BC Sports Hall of Fame is opening a gallery celebrating the impact of Indigenous athletes on the province’s sports history.
  
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• New home presentation centre moves location – literally

  24-09-2018 20:15
  
  Rather than demolish sales centre to make way for new tower, developer moves entire building to a different spot
  
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• Stamp-collage party degenerates into insults and treachery in Canadian classic

  24-09-2018 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Les Belles-soeurs
  When: Sept. 27-Oct. 6
  Where: Gateway Theatre
  Tickets: From $29 at tickets.gatewaytheatre.com
  Set during Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, Michel Tremblay’s 1965 play Les Belle-soeurs comes to us from another world. But it’s far from being a relic, says director Diane Brown.
  “One of the reasons we’re producing it is because it’s not a relic,” she said. “It’s extremely relevant.”
  The play premiered in 1968 to much controversy &
  
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• Race to watch: Demoviction debate animates the battle for Burnaby

  24-09-2018 20:11
  Housing is a hot topic everywhere in Metro Vancouver, but in B.C.'s third-largest city the debate is particularly fierce.
  
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• B.C. Rental Housing Task Force recommends cutting annual rent increase cap

  24-09-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  The BC NDP is being urged by a government task force to limit rent increases to the cost of living.
  The move, recommended by the B.C. Rental Housing Task Force, would do away with the current calculation that allows landlords to charge their tenants annual inflationary increase plus an additional two per cent top-up.
  Earlier this month, the Residential Tenancy Branch set the maximum allowable rent increase for 2019 at 4.5 per cent, the greatest jump since 2004. Coming a time when vacancy rates a
  
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• Opioid Crisis: Seven more dead from suspected overdoses in Vancouver

  24-09-2018 19:57 via vancouversun.com
  A total of seven people died of a suspected overdose in Vancouver during the week of Sept. 10, adding to grim tally that keeps rising and seems to have no end.
  The city of Vancouver says an estimated 265 people have died of suspected an overdose in Vancouver in 2018, putting it on par with 2017 figures, which saw 266 people die from an OD between January and the end of August.
  Suppliers and dealers continue to cut street drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine with potent adulterants
  
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• VIFF Sustainable Production Forum a global first

  24-09-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  VIFF Sustainable Production Forum
  When: Oct. 5 — 6, 9 a.m. — 5:30 p.m.
  Where: Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St.
  Tickets and info: viff.org
  The first thought that comes to mind walking by any location shoot in the Lower Mainland isn’t about the degree to which it is green and sustainable. Making movies is all about stuff, much of it single use only stuff. Zena Harris took notice of this.
  A Harvard MA in Sustainability and Environmental Management and president of the Green
  
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• Trial for man charged with murder of Japanese student Natsumi Kogawa to start

  24-09-2018 18:57
  Natsumi Kogawa, 30, came to Vancouver to study English but she was reported missing in September 2016.
  
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• What Vancouver can learn from Baku, Azerbaijan

  24-09-2018 18:54
  
  I was asked to respond to a Vancouver journalist’s question about the impact of the new duplex zoning on land values, while touring the extraordinary, transformative architecture of Baku, Azerbaijan.
  
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• Two recommendations made by B.C. rental task force

  24-09-2018 18:32
  At a press conference held Monday morning, Spencer Chandra Herbert makes recommendations that can help renters throughout British Columbia.
  
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• Indigenous eateries take centre stage in Canada thanks to increasing awareness

  24-09-2018 18:32 via vancouversun.com
  Since Paul Natrall started serving Indigenous cuisine from his Mr. Bannock food truck in Vancouver nearly a year ago, the chef has hired several employees for his in-demand fusion food business.
  In recent years, Indigenous-owned eateries like his have emerged in many Canadian cities serving traditional foods like bannock and buffalo. While it’s taken time to move into the mainstream, chefs say demand is high thanks to increasing awareness of Indigenous culture and desire for local foods.
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• Tilray, the latest pot stock darling, has its sleepy hometown abuzz

  24-09-2018 18:23 via vancouversun.com
  An $11 billion market capitalization doesn’t get you much of an office.
  The nondescript headquarters of Canadian pot producer Tilray Inc., whose market value briefly exceeded that of American Airlines Group Inc. last week, is a beige, two-story building with blue trimmings in sleepy Nanaimo, a two-hour ferry ride from Vancouver. It sits in an industrial area behind a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.
  But Tilray’s wild ride on Wall Street — one of the most remarkable yet
  
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• Rental Task Force to release recommendations for affordable housing in B.C.

  24-09-2018 18:06
  The Rental Housing Task Force will release its first recommendations after spending the past few months hearing from renters across B.C.
  
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• Rental task force recommends B.C. government change allowable rent increase

  24-09-2018 18:06
  The Rental Housing Task Force will release its first recommendations after spending the past few months hearing from renters across B.C.
  
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• Emergency crews deal with another sulphuric acid leak near Trail

  24-09-2018 17:57 via vancouversun.com
  For third time this year, emergency crews, including the RCMP, firefighters and industrial cleanup teams, were pressed into action Saturday near Trail after a tractor-trailer was spotted leaking sulphuric acid.
  The Trimac Transportation Ltd truck and trailer was contracted by International Raw Materials Ltd. (IRM) to carry sulphuric acid between Teck Trail Operations and the Quirk Siding Reload Centre in Waneta.
  In a statement from International Raw Materials, it was after the truck had unl
  
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• Daily Poll: If the Vancouver election was held today, which mayoral candidate would you vote for?

  24-09-2018 16:02 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver held a random draw Saturday to finalize the order of names on the ballot for the Oct. 20 municipal election.
  Related
  Random draw determines order on Vancouver's election ballotVancouver election: Here's who's running for mayor of Vancouver in 2018
  Including mayoral, council, school board and park board candidates, Vancouver voters will have 158 names to choose from.  If you spent five minutes scrutinizing each candidate’s platform, you’d keep yourself busy
  
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• Vancouver Weather: A week of sunshine ahead

  24-09-2018 15:48 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Sept. 24, 2018 – The weather man/woman says Vancouver is due to get a whole heap of sunshine this week. I’m actually paraphrasing there.
  Environment Canada’s seven-day forecast is calling for seven days of sunshine and mild temperatures — with highs nearing 20C near the water and up to 24C further inland.
  We’ll be waking to foggy conditions outside, but that should clear up later in the morning.
   
  Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly clo
  
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• Surrey mayoral candidate wants to press pause on LRT if elected

  24-09-2018 15:00
  Bruce Hayne said an Integrity Now council will push pause on LRT to analyze what technology would work best.
  
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• Five tips that will save you money this holiday season

  24-09-2018 13:00 via theprovince.com
  Q: My husband made the comment over dinner that “summer is over and Christmas will be here before we know it.” I thanked him for ruining dinner as he knows how stressed out I get worrying about how we’ll afford Christmas and the holiday season. As it is, we’ve just barely got over the shock of buying back-to-school clothes, shoes, backpacks and electronics for our two teenagers and now my husband is talking about Christmas! He’s right, even though I’m not goin
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Surrey voters choices are crucial to city's future, but also Metro's

  24-09-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  As Surrey continues its rapid and radical transformation from bedroom community to big city, its civic leaders will be making crucial decisions about the future of the city — but also about the future of Metro Vancouver.
  Regardless of where you live in the region, it matters who wins Surrey’s municipal election next month.
  Surrey’s rising influence is owed partly to geography. It is at the region’s centre, and with 316 square kilometres, it is twice the landmass of Vancou
  
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• Housing remains the top priority as mayoralty candidates debate the issues

  24-09-2018 05:15 via vancouversun.com
  With one month to go before the October election, six candidates vying for Vancouver’s top job pitched ideas and sparred over solutions to issues facing the city, including housing affordability and transportation.
  The race’s front-runners — independents Kennedy Stewart and Shauna Sylvester and the NPA’s Ken Sim — as well as YES Vancouver’s Hector Bremner, ProVancouver’s David Chen and Wai Young of Coalition Vancouver each had two minutes to address pre-
  
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• Vancouver’s Ovaltine Café wins international accolades

  24-09-2018 04:11
  The Ovaltine Cafe, known for its neon sign and classic diner interior, has been named of 50 best cafes in the world
  
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• Vancouver’s Ovaltine Café wind international accolades

  24-09-2018 04:11
  The Ovaltine Cafe, known for its neon sign and classic diner interior, has been named of 50 best cafes in the world
  
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• Unanimous reaction after luxury car impounded during charity rally

  24-09-2018 04:08
  The driver whose Porsche was seized after he was caught speeding on the Sea-to-Sky Highway was part of a charity rally raising money for the Pemberton Fire Rescue. Kristen Robinson has reaction.
  
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• Third sulphuric acid spill near Trail

  24-09-2018 04:08
  Frustration grows among Trail residents following the third sulphuric acid spill near the community. Tanya Beja reports
  
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• Campers sign petition to keep camping at a provincial park in Maple Ridge reservation-free.

  24-09-2018 04:04
  With the online reservation system set to go in effect next year, a petition to keep first-come first-serve process of camping at Golden Ears Park is growing. Grace Ke reports.
  
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• B.C. Man wins national memory championship

  24-09-2018 04:04
  Chilliwack man breaks several records to become the national memory champion after winning the Canadian Minds Sports Organization’s competition in Vancouver. Julia Foy reports.
  
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• Earl Thomas still unhappy with Seahawks after 2 interception game

  24-09-2018 03:49 via theprovince.com
  SEATTLE — Earl Thomas’ issues with the Seattle Seahawks front office aren’t going away, even as he continues to play like one of the best safeties in the NFL.
  How much longer the Seahawks are willing to put up with an unhappy star is now the big question.
  After a few days of uncertainty, Thomas was on the field Sunday creating problems for opponents in Seattle’s 24-13 win over the Dallas Cowboys. In what he acknowledged could end up being his last game in Seattle, Thomas
  
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• Wilson throws 2 TDs as Seahawks beat Cowboys 24-13

  24-09-2018 03:40 via theprovince.com
  SEATTLE — Russell Wilson threw for two touchdowns in the first half, Chris Carson added a 5-yard TD run in early in the fourth quarter, and the Seattle Seahawks avoided a 0-3 start with a 24-13 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
  Wilson hit Jaron Brown on an 16-yard touchdown early in the second quarter, and later hit Tyler Lockett streaking up the sideline on a 52-yard scoring pass as Seattle (1-2) built a 17-3 halftime lead and cruised past the Cowboys.
  The duo of Dak Prescott and Eze
  
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• Backlash over elimination of Golden Ears Park’s first-come, first-served campsites

  24-09-2018 03:37
  Some campers say that with their schedule, planning a trip months in advance is simply not possible.
  
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