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Speculation about ‘rough ride’ from province

I have a funny habit of buying the occasional lottery ticket and not checking the numbers, knowing full well that winning tickets are worthless after one year. Lotteries foster magical thinking. We like to dream.

A homeless man is pushing an overly-stuffed shopping card along a city sidewalk. He’s trundling under the south side of the Cambie Street Bridge, near the bike path by the Canada Line station.

Bosa Properties and Kingswood Properties want to build a 50 storey iconic building in the plaza next to an equally iconic 38-year-old, green-glass building at 1500 West Georgia Street.

Conservation officers shot and killed a cougar in a North Vancouver backyard Monday morning (June 15) after becoming concerned it could pose a threat to the public.

"We’ve had some not-nice people looking at the penthouse,” Bruce Langereis said in a stage whisper during the elevator ride up to the unsold $18 million penthouse at the top of the Private Residences at Hotel Georgia.

Crews are mopping up after a diesel spill in False Creek. Hundreds of metres of containment booms were set up overnight off Granville Island after the spill was first reported at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night.

This day in Vancouver history: June 14, 1994

Vote-counting continues for the mail-in TransLink expansion funding plebiscite, but details on spending by the Yes side remain sparse despite disclosures. The Mayors’ Council reported June 12 that it spent $5,814,851 on the Yes campaign.

Results of Metro Vancouver's transportation tax plebiscite expected later this month