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See unsolved murders in your neighbourhood on our interactive map
I’m usually pretty good about posting links to The Vancouver Sun’s data projects on this blog. But I was so busy actually getting this one done that writing it up here actually slipped my mind. Over...
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Fugitive Hells Angel deported to U.S. after Langley arrest
It was his tattoos that gave American Hells Angel fugitive Troy Andrew Scholder away. An alert Mountie noticed H-A-M-C across the fingers of his right hand, for Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, and...
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Find the vaccination rate at your kid’s school on our interactive map
My colleage Tara Carman has got a hold of the measles vaccination rate for every elementary school in the Lower Mainland. And it turns out half the schools in the region are below the 90% rate required...
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Video: Scientists discover largest dinosaur fossil in Argentina
Scientists may have discovered the heaviest dinosaur that walked on earth in Argentina, reports the BBC. Palaeontologists have estimated the body mass of this new species of titanosaur to be about 77...
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A collector paid one million smackers for a pretty painting at Vancouver art...
Someone with a little money to burn shelled out $1.1 million for this painting at Wednesday’s Heffel auction at the Vancouver Convention Centre. It’s called Pleine Saison and it was painted with a...
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On The Town: Comic Jefferies will shock and awe
Comedy stylings at Vogue Comedian Jim Jefferies isn’t for everybody. If you don’t like biting social commentary mixed with profane humour then he isn’t for you at all. Stay far away. Jefferies, who is...
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What are the best TV shows on U.S. Netflix that Canada doesn’t get?
Netflix has become incredibly popular in Canada over the past few years. But a common gripe among Canadian users is that our version of Netflix isn’t nearly as good as their version of Netflix in the...
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The best TV shows on Netflix in Canada but not in the U.S.
Canadian Netflix users often gripe about how they don’t get a lot of shows that are available on the American version of Netflix. And my analysis of Netflix data shows they are right to complain: There...
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Seahawks star Richard Sherman gets all up in Obama’s grill
Turns out Richard Sherman did more than flash a smile and glad hand for the cameras during the Seattle Seahawks’ visit to the White House last week. The Super Bowl champion cornerback also managed to...
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MLS issues fines, warnings to Whitecaps and Sounders
Major League Soccer’s disciplinary committee waved its finger at and warned both the Vancouver Whitecaps and Seattle Sounders for violating the league’s mass confrontation policy in a 2-2 draw on...
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Ethnic Chinese protest LGBT programs again
Ethnic Chinese residents of Metro Vancouver have again protested efforts to affirm Canadians different sexual and gender orientations. In the latest conflict, ethnic Chinese people, many of whom are...
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Suspect in B&E exchanges gunfire with police: RCMP
A suspect in a Surrey break and enter began shooting at surprised Mounties who arrived at the scene to investigate Thursday night. Surrey RCMP patrol officers exchanged gunfire with the man behind a...
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Notes from the Sun newsroom
Here are some stories we are working on today in the Vancouver Sun newsroom In News WWII crash victims recovered The B.C. Coroners Service says they have recovered the remains of four crew members of...
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Sony studio move to Vancouver gets thumbs down in Hollywood
The storyline surrounding Sony Pictures Imageworks moving of its head office to Vancouver is a lot different in Hollywood than it is in Hollywood North. The Vancouver film industry is celebrating the...
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Stray bullet killed U.S. hunter during bear attack, says dead man’s wife
The wife of a U.S. man shot and killed during a bear hunting excursion on Monday in northern B.C. says the Washington State hunter was struck by a stray bullet after an injured grizzly charged his...
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On The Town: Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer … beer
Let’s see … what’s going on around town this weekend … Oh, there’s this B.C. Craft Beer Week that kicks off tonight at Gossip Night Club at 750 Pacific Blvd in Vancouver. Hip-hop artist Prevail, of...
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Notes from the Sun newsroom
Good morning from the Vancouver Sun newsroom. Here are some stories our reporters are working on today. In News, As the teachers’ contract dispute with the B.C. governments continues to drag on with...
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Translink still not ready to roll-out Compass Cards
Those fancy new toll gates will continue to be just expensive set decorations at SkyTrain stations until TransLink manages to iron out the glitches associated with its expensive Compass card program....
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Family in shock after cyclist shot during Cache Creek 600 race
An RCMP spokesperson calls Sunday’s shooting of a competitive cyclist ‘bizarre and discouraging.” That’s an understatement. Craig Premack, a 59-year-old Burnaby cyclist, was shot on a remote section...
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Five things to watch at B.C. Lions training camp in Kamloops
With players and owners fighting about how they are going to divide their TSN windfall (the league signed five-year deal with the broadcaster, reportedly worth $42 million per season), there is a good...
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