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• This Week in History: 1961, RCMP raid the Vancouver Public Library over a notorious novel

  12-10-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  October 13th, 1961, fell on a Friday. And it was definitely unlucky for Vancouver fans of writer Henry Miller.
  “RCMP RAIDS LIBRARY IN HUNT FOR NOVEL,” screamed a giant front-page headline in The Vancouver Sun.
  “Royal Canadian Mounted Police swooped down on bookstores and the Vancouver Public Library Friday in a hunt for copies of author Henry Miller’s sex-in-Paris novel, Tropic of Cancer.
  “They were armed with a little-used blanket warrant called a ‘writ of as
  
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• Peace Arch border officer who was sexually assaulted can appeal for compensation: court

  12-10-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The board responsible for hearing grievances by federal government workers must reconsider a decision after the Federal Court of Appeal found it downplayed a sexual assault as a “prank,” and used its “own concept of logic” instead of assessing actual evidence.
  The case involves a grievance filed to the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board by a Canadian Border Services Agency officer working at the Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey.
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• Judge says B.C. government should fund interpreter for murdered teen's mom

  12-10-2018 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a 13-year-old girl found murdered in a park in Burnaby has asked for a Mandarin interpreter so she can understand court proceedings, and a judge has recommended the province pay for it.
  The mother’s lawyer, Esther Kornfeld, told court her client’s friend interpreted proceedings last month after a man accused of the crime made his first appearance.
  Ibrahim Ali, 28, was back in court Friday, but Marrisa Shen’s mother wasn’t in the gallery with people supportin
  
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• VIDEO: This is how mobile voting stations work on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

  12-10-2018 23:51
  
  The City of Vancouver hit the streets this week setting up mobile voting stations in homeless shelters, drop-in centres and parks in the Downtown Eastside and throughout downtown.
  
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• Delta mayoral candidates have their say on transportation, change at city hall

  12-10-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Delta mayoral candidates answer questions on transportation, housing, a change at city hall and any other important issue they think should be addressed.
  
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• VIDEO: Black bear chases deer out of yard on Sunshine Coast

  12-10-2018 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  Gary Bahr still can't believe what he witnessed from his deck on the Sunshine Coast earlier this month.
  
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• Charter bus, semi truck nearly collide in harrowing Revelstoke dashcam video

  12-10-2018 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  Just in time for Halloween, the Revelstoke RCMP has dropped what may be the scariest thing you’ll see this month.
  Mounties have released chilling dashcam video of a charter bus’s near head-on collision with a semi truck on the Trans-Canada Highway.In the video, filmed this past Sunday on an undivided two-lane portion of Highway 1 three kilometres east of Revelstoke, a passenger coach carrying eight travels eastbound along the roadway at approximately 3 a.m. when the lights
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Bruins' boss believes H-Town is Next Big Thing for NHL

  12-10-2018 23:18 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It could be a long season for haters of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  The country’s largest sport market is abuzz and bullish not only on the strength of a 4-1-0 start to the new NHL campaign but because of how the Leafs have done it, with record-setting offensive production by Auston Matthews (nine goals), Mitch Marner, free-agent stud John Tavares and even freewheeling Morgan O’Reilly, whose 12 points in five games are the most by an NHL defenceman in 100 years of acti
  
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• Black bear chases deers out of B.C. yard

  12-10-2018 23:02 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC viewer Gary Bahr still can’t believe what he witnessed from his deck on the Sunshine Coast earlier this month.
  
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• Acton Ostry Architects marks 25 years making the ordinary extraordinary

  12-10-2018 22:48
  
  Vancouver firm known for 'always striving for the simplest essence of things'
  
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• Highway north of Chetwynd reopens after mudslide

  12-10-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Highway 29N, 20 kilometres north of Chetwynd, B.C., is now open to single-lane alternating traffic following a mudslide.
  
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• Open House: Find your design style

  12-10-2018 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  Finding a design style that works for you and your home can take some serious soul searching. Kaitlyn Herbst has more.
  
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• Fossil fuel pipelines 'the wrong direction,' says SFU author of UN climate report

  12-10-2018 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. is moving in the wrong direction if it wants to be a leader in curbing climate change, says a Simon Fraser University professor who co-authored a dire United Nations report this week on the impacts of global warming.
  “We are at a critical juncture. We need rapid and unprecedented changes across all aspects of the economy and society,” said Kirsten Zickfeld, a climate science professor at SFU’s Department of Geography.
  “Vancouver has done a great job with its gre
  
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• Leadership Series: Ed Hervey

  12-10-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC’s Squire Barnes interviews Ed Hervey, general manager for the BC Lions and former CFL player.
  
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• Judge says it's up to B.C. government to fund translator for murdered teen's mom

  12-10-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a 13-year-old girl found murdered in a park in Burnaby has requested a Mandarin translator so she can understand court proceedings, and a judge has recommended the province fund that request.
  The mother’s lawyer, Esther Kornfeld, told the court her client’s friend translated proceedings last month after a man accused of the crime made his first appearance.
  Ibrahim Ali was back in court today, but Marrisa Shen’s mother wasn’t in the gallery that was packed wi
  
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• Surrey RCMP find evidence of fraud in municipal election mail-in vote applications

  12-10-2018 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  A police investigation into allegations of civic election voter fraud in Surrey has so far uncovered that 67 mail-in ballot applications submitted to the city were fraudulent.
  Surrey RCMP provided an update on their investigation on Friday morning, just eight days before the municipal election.
  Police are examining 73 applications to vote by mail that were identified by Surrey’s chief elections officer as having irregularities. To date, investigators have interviewed 69 out of 73 people wh
  
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• Long promised modular housing finally set to open in Maple Ridge

  12-10-2018 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  People living in the Anita Place camp and others living on the streets in Maple Ridge will soon be able to move into new supportive homes and shelter spaces.
  
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• Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki headline Supernatural Vancouver

  12-10-2018 21:29
  
  Convention dedicated to dark fantasy TV series takes place Oct. 19 to 21 at the Westin Bayshore
  
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• Entire top floor of iconic West End co-op listed for $17.3M (PHOTOS)

  12-10-2018 21:29
  
  We toured the penthouse at Ocean Towers, which has 3,000 square feet of ocean-, city- and mountain-view roof terraces with $3 million in upgrades
  
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• Professional bull rider Cody Coverchuk ranked third in Canada

  12-10-2018 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  Sonia Sunger sits down with Cody Coverchuk, who has recently been ranked the third top rider in the country.
  
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• How to make basic crêpes

  12-10-2018 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. egg farmer, and author of ‘Mennonite Girls Can Cook,’ Lovella Shellenberg demonstrates the different ways you can serve French pancakes.
  
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• New Cyclone helicopter on first West Coast mission

  12-10-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The 250 women and men of 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron are training for a new mission: deploying the Cyclone helicopter aboard the frigate HMCS Regina.
  It will be the first of the new Sikorsky helicopters to fly from a Canadian navy warship deployed from the West Coast. The mission is scheduled for January.
  “Deploying on a seagoing mission is the epitome of our mission capability,” said Lt. Col. Travis Chapman, commanding officer of 443 Squadron, in an interview a
  
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• Groups ask Nanaimo council to delay tent-city eviction

  12-10-2018 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — Dozens of individuals along with advocacy and health groups have signed on to an open letter to Nanaimo council asking that it extend a deadline to close a homeless camp.
  The letter urges council to honour its commitment in Nanaimo’s action plan to end homelessness that it agreed to earlier this year.
  The B.C. Supreme Court gave the city an injunction last month due to be applied on Oct. 12, although the court said it was important that the dismantling occur in an orderly a
  
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• ART SEEN: Curator's trip to Vancouver led to Gathie Falk's exhibition in London - Vancouver Sun (blog)

  12-10-2018 20:25
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  ART SEEN: Curator's trip to Vancouver led to Gathie Falk's exhibition in London
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  One of its starting points was an exhibition of Falk's work at Equinox Gallery in 2016 called The Things in My Head. The survey exhibition had more than 70 paintings and sculptures as well as installation and video. It included several examples of the ...and more »
  
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• ART SEEN: Curator's trip to Vancouver led to Gathie Falk's exhibition in London

  12-10-2018 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  The route to Frieze Masters in London for Gathie Falk came by accident.
  One of its starting points was an exhibition of Falk’s work at Equinox Gallery in 2016 called The Things in My Head. The survey exhibition had more than 70 paintings and sculptures as well as installation and video.
  It included several examples of the works that many have come to associate with Falk: luminous ceramic apples in piles and shoes in cabinets.
  The exhibition illustrated art works that Falk called the &ldquo
  
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• Kelowna cannabis company delivers its first buds

  12-10-2018 20:20 via globalnews.ca
  Flowr Group expects to fulfil marijuana order to BCLDB by Oct. 17th, when cannabis becomes legal nation-wide.
  
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• Man dies in targeted shooting in Surrey

  12-10-2018 20:19
  
  The man was shot in the mid-afternoon
  
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• B.C. municipal election digest Oct. 12: This week’s top stories

  12-10-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  "The next Surrey Council will have four years to shape the future, and not just of 316 square kilometres south of the Fraser, but as the second largest voting bloc on the Metro Vancouver regional board."
  
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• 2 teens arrested in Burnaby tire-slashing spree

  12-10-2018 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP said approximately 100 vehicles were damaged.
  
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• UBC is on the World’s Most Innovative Universities list

  12-10-2018 20:06
  
  The list "identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science"
  
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• Susin Nielsen's new book No Fixed Address puts timely but unplanned spotlight on homelessness

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Writers Fest
  When: Oct. 15-21
  Where: Granville Island
  Info and tickets: writersfest.bc.caSusin Nielsen did not set out to make her new novel a commentary on the current Vancouver housing crisis but it worked out that way.Available now, the young adult novel No Fixed Address tells the story of bright, likable 12-year-old Felix Knuttson. His mother Astrid is raising Felix, a trivia whiz. Astrid loves her son but her unpredictable and hair trigger personality causes her to lose jobs,
  
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• Fab 5: Power pumps

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Blame it on the new season, or blame it on the current political climate — but it definitely feels appropriate right now to wear shoes that can really kick some butt. Whether you use yours to show you mean business or elevate off-duty outfits to knock-‘em-dead status, power pumps are the ultimate fall/winter 2018 must-have shoe. Rebecca Tay presents five pairs to strut around in right now.
  MUST-HAVE MULES
  On days when you’ve given yourself precisely 10 minutes to brush your tee
  
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• Book review: Sci-fi novel of Vancouver in 2145 AD an exciting read

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Tiger Flu
  By Larissa Lai (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
  $19.95  |  332 pp.“Even if she is our last doubler, I don’t want Auntie Radix to have Peristrophe Halliana’s eyes. Auntie Radix took Peristrophe Halliana’s liver a week ago, and one of her kidney’s four weeks before that.”
  Cover of The Tiger Flu.
  This ominous and enigmatic reflection is voiced Kirilow Groundsel, one of the protagonists in Larissa Lai’s resonant new cyber punk/queer/science
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Shelf the fear, B.C.'s wine industry should be just fine

  12-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. grocery stores licensed to sell wine were handed a significant upgrade last week thanks to the new trilateral trade deal between Canada, Mexico and the United States. In what amounts to a side covenant between Canada and the United States, it was agreed that wine sold on B.C. supermarket shelves is no longer limited to local bottles.
  Wine sold on B.C. supermarket shelves is no longer limited to local bottles under the new USMCA deal.
  If you missed the implementation of one of the dumbest B.
  
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• Ticket for driver who went airborne in Richmond parking lot

  12-10-2018 19:46
  
  RCMP say the driver was an 80-year-old woman.
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Lawyers told to get MADD

  12-10-2018 19:38 via vancouversun.com
  The trio of former attorneys general had a tough, hard-to-swallow message for lawyers concerned about the chronic underfunding of legal aid and the continuing crisis in the courts — governments don’t give a damn.
  In Vancouver last week for a conference on pro bono (free) law, the two ex-B. C. ministers and an erstwhile Ontario attorney general told their professional peers to drop their collective we-are-so-worthy lament and get MADD.
  “Be MADD not glad, would be my trite phrase
  
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• Investigation ongoing, but no charges in Surrey civic election fraud probe

  12-10-2018 19:21 via globalnews.ca
  Police have identified and interviewed two persons of interest, but say more investigation will be required to determine if criminal charges should be laid.
  
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• Landlord investors face bidding wars in Kitimat

  12-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  KITIMAT — Residential real estate investors hoping to make a quick buck in Kitimat are running into veteran property owners who are jacking up prices as the largest private investment in Canadian history avalanches onto the town.
  “It has been crazy in the last few days. I have been working 16-hour days,” said Shannon Dos Santos of Re/Max Kitimat Realty, one of only seven real estate agents in the northwest B.C. town of 8,000 that will anchor the $40 billion liquefied natur
  
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• 5 things do to this weekend for Thursday, October 11 2018

  12-10-2018 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.
  
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• Seahawks WR Baldwin looks to put receiving woes in the past

  12-10-2018 18:11 via theprovince.com
  WATFORD, England -— Doug Baldwin wants to catch a few more passes and play a more vital role in the Seattle Seahawks’ passing game.
  As he sees it, the one reception he had in the loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday just isn’t going to cut it.
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  “I just look at it as another opportunity,” Baldwin said. “I’ve got to go out there and do my job and get open, and if the ball comes to me, it comes to me. That’s really what it comes down to. I&r
  
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• Organizers expect full arenas for world juniors in Vancouver, Victoria - Sportsnet.ca

  12-10-2018 18:09
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  Organizers expect full arenas for world juniors in Vancouver, Victoria
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  VANCOUVER — A change of scenery seems like it might pay off for an annual holiday tradition. Ticket demand for the 2019 world junior hockey championship — Dec. 26, 2018-Jan. 5, 2019 in Vancouver and Victoria — has "exceeded expectations," said ...and more »
  
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• Green light for 227-unit Port Moody rental building

  12-10-2018 17:49
  
  Five of the units will be below-market housing, and new tenants will get pre-loaded transit cards
  
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• How to add a tree to your property this season

  12-10-2018 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  HGTV’s Carson Arthur joins Sonia Sunger with tips on how to add a tree to your property this fall.
  
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• Some natural gas flows to curtailed B.C. customers after pipeline blast: FortisBC

  12-10-2018 17:28 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The long process of restoring natural gas service to industrial customers in British Columbia is underway after an explosion earlier this week near Prince George that shut down two pipelines.
  A statement posted on the website of FortisBC, the utility that distributes gas to about one million B.C. homes and businesses, says work to bring industrial customers back online began Thursday night and will continue, on a gradual basis, through the weekend.
  Specific businesses or locati
  
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• Organizers expect full arenas for world juniors in Vancouver, Victoria

  12-10-2018 17:15 via theprovince.com
  VANCOUVER — A change of scenery seems like it might pay off for an annual holiday tradition.
  Ticket demand for the 2019 world junior hockey championship — Dec. 26, 2018-Jan. 5, 2019 in Vancouver and Victoria — has “exceeded expectations,” said Riley Wiwchar, director of the tournament.
  The attendance will be watched closely at this year’s event after disappointing turnouts — and complaints about ticket prices — three of the past four years in Buffa
  
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• Friday freebies: Look for chances to win prizes once a week now through the holidays

  12-10-2018 17:00
  
  Friday freebies: Look for chances to win prizes once a week now through the holidays
  
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• Drink this: Norwegian Wood by Four Winds Brewing Co.

  12-10-2018 16:40
  
  In the ongoing search for new flavours, craft brewers have recently stumbled upon an obscure variety of beer yeast from Norway, of all places.
  
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• Colorado doctor has warning to B.C. parents about dangers of pot edibles

  12-10-2018 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  Wang says in rare cases, the child may slip into a coma.
  
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