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Pride Parade in Vancouver (August, 2015)
One of the biggest pride parades in the world, it attracts more than 600,000 visitors.
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Vancouver’s building pressure to release more industrial land
Region expected to run out of industrial land within a decade, port official warns
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Warm water puts B.C.’s Fraser River sockeye run at risk
Record low river levels and warm water temperatures could have a devastating effect on millions of sockeye salmon headed for the Fraser River to spawn, according to a UBC biologist. If this summer’s unusual weather conditions continue, few salmon will brave the stifling temperatures of the river, and many of those that do will die trying, Tony Farrell said.
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One newsprint mill remains in B.C. after Paper Excellence closure on Sunshine Coast
The timing of Paper Excellence’s permanent closure two weeks ago of its Howe Sound newsprint mill, which put 169 workers off the job, was expedited by B.C.’s drought. But the closure came as no surprise to industry observers. Newsprint demand, following readers’ shift to digital applications on laptops, tablets and phones, has plummeted globally.
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See what a $1,200 apartment rental looks like across Canada
Is the grass really greener, or at least cheaper, in another city or province? New data comparing rental prices from coast to coast reveals how much more, or less, your neighbours are paying every month.
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Windstorm causes power outages, injury in Metro Vancouver
One woman suffered life-threatening injuries after she was hit by tree during a severe rain and wind storm that whipped through B.C.’s South Coast on Saturday.
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Maker Series: Artisanal Firewood
This Is That profiles Smoke & Flame, a Vancouver artisanal firewood company that is selling bundles of kindling for $1000.
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Vancouver Never Plays Itself
Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background.
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In a six-month period, 70% of detached homes sold in Vancouver's west side went to Mainland China buyers
Even more stunning, the study shows that of all declared occupations of owners — on homes worth an average $3.05M — 36% were housewives or students with little income
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Beaver Couple Occupies Man-Made Pond in Middle of Vancouver, B.C.
What? Do they need to ask city officials for permission first?
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Prosecution of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot cost almost $5 million
It cost almost $5 million to process hundreds of people through the justice system after the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver five years ago. The government’s criminal justice branch set up a riot prosecution team that resulted in 284 guilty pleas and nine convictions at trial.
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65 year old B.C. woman gets three years’ probation for sabotaging mountain bike trails and setting up booby traps
In one surveillance tape, a log with a sharp branch sticking out like a spear is placed on the bottom of a steep descent. Tineke Kraal was arrested in January, 2015, after two mountain bikers who suspected the trails were being sabotaged set up hidden cameras. Kraal must also do community service for dragging logs and rocks onto North Shore trails to slow down bikes.
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Vancouver set to approve first legal marijuana shops
Vancouver expects to legalize by the end of February the first 14 of at least 20 marijuana-related businesses now operating within city limits. On Monday, the city said it had whittled down 176 applications for the country’s first legal retail marijuana stores to 14 that will now go before the Development Permit Board for approval. Another six stores could be drawn from 19 applications that are deemed to be clustered too close to each other.
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Convicted animal killer Kayla Bourque granted unsupervised outings
A Vancouver woman convicted of abusing and killing family pets has been granted unescorted outings into the community.
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Severed feet — still inside shoes — keep mysteriously washing up on Pacific Northwest shores
A 16th dismembered foot in a shoe was discovered in Vancouver this week. By Yanan Wang. (Feb. 11)
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China’s Rich Kids Head West
On a crisp Sunday morning in November, Weymi Cho picked me up at my hotel, in downtown Vancouver, in her new car, a white Maserati GranTurismo with a red leather interior. She had slept only two hours the night before. A new karaoke machine had been installed in her apartment, a four-million-dollar condo with a view of the city’s harbor, and she and some friends had spent the night singing and drinking Veuve Clicquot.
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The 11 words of TED2016
If words could dream, they’d dream of being used in TED Talks. These words lived the dream in Vancouver at TED2016.
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China’s Rich Kids Head West
Why the country’s new élite is anxious to get out.
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Millennials Flee Vancouver for More Affordable Cities
Kevin Oke had a Vancouver millennial’s dream job, working as lead designer at a video-game company whose clients included Atari and Ubisoft Entertainment SA, but he still couldn’t afford a house. So he left his native city.
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Two men fined $3,300 for illegal crab fishing in North Vancouver
Crabbers in Metro Vancouver are being reminded by the RCMP about the fines for illegal crabbing after two adult men from Vancouver were caught illegally crab fishing earlier this year.
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