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• High school update: Terry Fox and New West rematch comes in football semis

  18-11-2018 23:54 via theprovince.com
  The Terry Fox Ravens are getting another crack at the New Westminster Hyacks at B.C. Place.
  The Ravens and Hyacks face off next Saturday in the Triple A football semifinals at the downtown dome in a rematch of last year’s thrilling title game that saw New Westminster score a controversial last-second touchdown to win 15-14.
  New Westminster, who were an honourable mention in the final provincial rankings, upset the No. 1 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers 34-16 in Saturday’s quarter-finals at B
  
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• To get back in the win column, Canucks need to get back to keeping things tight

  18-11-2018 23:42 via theprovince.com
  Yes, the following premise sounds a little batty: the Canucks may have lost five straight but the roof isn’t caving in.
  There are reasons to think that the hot start the team put together wasn’t a mirage and that they still have a (surprising) outside chance at the playoffs.
  In many ways, Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Montreal was the perfect tale of how this season is going to be. Though they lost their way in recent games, Saturday they got back to playing a style that is designed t
  
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• B.C. seeking tips on money laundering with luxury cars, real estate, horse racing

  18-11-2018 23:39
  The anonymous tip portal is a part of the second phase of the B.C. government's investigation into dirty money and organized crime.
  
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• Richmond Mountie injured after being dragged by suspicious vehicle

  18-11-2018 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond Mountie is in hospital with significant injuries after he was dragged by a car.
  Richmond RCMP say the officer had stopped a suspicious vehicle near No. 3 Road and Steveston Highway just after 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. As he approached the car, the dark-coloured Mercedes-Benz sped away, dragging the officer with it. The officer was taken to hospital and is expected to recover.
  The incident triggered a large police presence in parts of Richmond, including near the No. 2 Road Bridge. “I
  
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• B.C. Ferries to revamp reservation fares on major routes

  18-11-2018 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  On the busy Remembrance Day long weekend there was one Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay ferry sailing that had 50 unredeemed reservations.
  It’s one of the reasons why B.C. Ferries is planning “variable-priced fares” for its three major routes between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
  “We might offer variable pricing if you book a discounted fare at our off-peak time and fully prepaid for that,” said B.C. Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall. “And then this issue o
  
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• More than 40,000 people expected at WE Day Vancouver events over two days

  18-11-2018 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  When Jason Cao was a child, he would run free in his neighbourhood, playing with friends. These days, he rarely speaks to his neighbours in Renfrew Heights.
  But a project, inspired by a WE Day workshop Cao attended with his wife and two kids in July, is changing that.
  The family recently built a mini-library out of a used breadbox, then filled it with some of their favourite books, encouraging their neighbours to help themselves to one and leave another for someone else.
  “While I’m m
  
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• Ex-foster kids flocking to free tuition at B.C. universities

  18-11-2018 22:35 via vancouversun.com
  Former foster children are flocking to college and university after the B.C. government waived their tuition fees last year, statistics show.
  The number of former children in care taking advantage of the free-tuition program has more than tripled in a year, the Ministry of Advanced Education reports.
  A total of 687 former children in care are benefiting from the waivers at 25 institutions. That’s compared with 189 students who received free tuition at 11 colleges and universities before th
  
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• Injury-riddled Canucks recall Sam Gagner from Toronto Marlies

  18-11-2018 22:19 via theprovince.com
  Sam Gagner’s time in the American Hockey League is up.
  The Canucks announced Sunday the forward has been recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, where he’d been assigned prior to the start of the 2018-19 National Hockey League season.
  Gagner was the Marlies’ best player: he recorded 15 points in 15 games and was a positive player in shot attempts.
  He played both right wing and centre for the Marlies, who are the Toronto Maple Leafs’ AHL affiliate.
  
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• Richmond RCMP officer dragged by car, seriously injured during traffic stop

  18-11-2018 22:16
  The officer was attempting to stop a suspicious vehicle near No. 3 Road and Steveston Highway.
  
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• Top 20 observations of new Vancouver council’s first full week of public meetings

  18-11-2018 22:06
  
  ‘Friendly amendments,’ more recesses than a primary school and something called ‘spatial justice’ made forinsightful week of council watching at Vancouver city hall.
  
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• Woman killed in Friday evening car crash in Burnaby identified

  18-11-2018 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  A woman who was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Burnaby on Friday evening has been identified.
  A friend identified Nicole Porciello as the woman who died after the crash on Barnet Highway. The death is being investigated by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
  “She was full of gentleness, kindness, beauty and grace,” the friend wrote in a Facebook post shared over the weekend. “And above all, what I remember about Nicole, is her great, big, all-encompassing LOVE for
  
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• B.C. Premier applauded for headway made on housing

  18-11-2018 21:59
  
  Horgan gets standing ovation from housing conference delegates, says he’s very pleased with what NDP has achieved
  
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• Spirited runners in Phantom Run chase West Ghost Express trail talents

  18-11-2018 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  It is early on the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve and playful parking attendants are pointing out how well you can see your breath directing traffic, scraping off windshields and running away from angry bears.
  A slim man, carrying a fishing pole, is headed toward restocked Rice Lake saying he’s looking forward to catching some Rainbow Trout and enjoying nature at its finest. When asked if this is how he spends his Saturday mornings he flashes an ear-to-ear-grin while pointing at my gho
  
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• Recipe: Parisian-style flan pâtissier from scratch

  18-11-2018 21:20
  This recipe will test your mettle in the kitchen, but the result is well worth it.
  
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• Vancouver Giant’s Ron Toigo

  18-11-2018 21:17
  Giants Majority Owner, Ron Toigo, sits down with Jay to discuss his BC Sports Hall of Fame Bennett Award and reflect on his prolific career.
  
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• A fond farewell to Lynn Colliar.

  18-11-2018 21:13
  Jay Janower salutes, and says “thank you” to long time Global BC Anchor Lynn Colliar.
  
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• Ask an Expert – Dr Ayla Wilson

  18-11-2018 21:10
  In Ask an Expert naturopathic physician, Dr Ayla Wilson, discusses the symptoms of brain inflammation and answers viewers calls.
  
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• Cooking 101 – Salad in a Jar

  18-11-2018 21:07
  Caren McSherry, from Gourmet Warehouse, shares her recipe for a salad in a jar – sure to impress your guests at your next dinner party.
  
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• B.C.’s NDP government to introduce ridesharing legislation Monday

  18-11-2018 20:42
  British Columbians will finally get a a road map to the implementation of ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft.
  
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• Regina Pats fall short in Saturday night’s matchup against Victoria Royals

  18-11-2018 20:41
  The Regina Pats (7-15-0-0) are now 0-3 on their current seven-game road trip after falling to the Victoria Royals Saturday night.
  
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• Canada-wide warrant issued for man who walked out of Vancouver halfway house

  18-11-2018 19:29
  Tyler Gagnon, 34, was on parole as a part of a sentence for a slew of crimes, including break and enter and robbery.
  
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• Five 'dirty D's' do in Sikora's Classical Records after 40 years

  18-11-2018 19:12 via vancouversun.com
  Sikora’s Classical Records has been a favourite haunt of local music lovers since it opened in 1979.
  “It was almost a community drop-in centre for (people with a common) musical interest, with some profit on the side,” laughs Ed Savenye, who started off as a customer and became a co-owner. “And not so much profit in recent years.”
  Against the odds, the specialty store survived while waves of larger record stores closed. But Friday, Sikora’s announced it w
  
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• Vancouver police seek man who did not return to halfway house

  18-11-2018 18:55 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver police are seeking a federal parolee who failed to return to his halfway house on Friday evening.
  Tyler Gagnon, 34, is currently on parole for a five-year-and-nine-month sentence for robbery, assault, break-and-enter, possession of stolen property, mischief, theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.
  He is wanted on a country-wide warrant after he did not return to his Vancouver halfway house. He was last seen Friday just before 7 p.m.
  Gagnon is a white man wi
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Eby's quick and dirty review of legal aid blowing up in his face

  18-11-2018 18:51 via vancouversun.com
  Attorney General David Eby is being hoist with his own petard — the fuse lit by UN agencies who for more than a decade complained B.C.’s lack of legal aid services violated binding international human rights law.
  In a letter sent Thursday and obtained by Postmedia, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada urged Eby to extend the looming year’s end deadline and the scope of a review he ordered into new models for delivering legal aid.
  Catherine Morris, UN liaison for the group, and Vi
  
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• Giants suddenly struggling to defend, look to change that today versus Victoria

  18-11-2018 18:44 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Giants have gone from struggling to score to giving up goals galore.
  The Giants came into this weekend with three wins in their past five games despite not tallying more than two goals in regulation in any of them.
  On Satuday, they dropped a 6-5 decision on the road against the Everett Silvertips to follow up a 10-4 win at home over the Regina Pats on Friday.
  The Giants wrap up their three-in-three weekend today (4 p.m., Sportsnet 650) playing host to the Victoria Royals at the Lan
  
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• Recipe: Rice salad in a jar

  18-11-2018 18:40
  The cuteness of presentation and the gorgeous layered colors of this salad are sure to provoke lively conversation among your guests.
  
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• Grassroots video rants and Braveheart spoofs engage B.C. referendum voters

  18-11-2018 18:19 via vancouversun.com
  Homemade videos by a Vancouver filmmaker featuring scenes of his toddler’s escapades and shots of a friend’s Pomeranian named Nacho are fast becoming the indie hit of British Columbia’s electoral reform referendum.
  Joel McCarthy said his four videos in support of proportional representation have already been viewed up to 900,000 times, giving him a huge sense of satisfaction that he may be playing a part in changing the province’s voting system.
  Prof. David Black, who tea
  
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• Stepson of B.C agriculture minister Lana Popham dies of overdose

  18-11-2018 18:01 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s agriculture minister says her stepson has died of an accidental drug overdose.
  Lana Popham posted about Dan Sealey’s death on Facebook.
  She says her partner’s 23-year-old son was caring and smart, and some who knew him may not have realized he struggled with addiction and mental health issues.
  Popham encouraged people to donate to an online fundraiser in Sealey’s honour instead of sending flowers.
  As of Sunday morning, the fundraiser intended to help pe
  
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• Agencies serving B.C.'s homeless need help as more seniors turn to shelters

  18-11-2018 17:35 via vancouversun.com
  Agencies supporting B.C.’s homeless and at risk say there is an urgent need for the public to help them take care of the growing number of seniors and families using their services as the seasons change and the housing crisis rages on.
  During the last Metro Vancouver homeless count, in 2017, volunteers identified 3,605 people experiencing homelessness in the region, up 30 per cent during the previous count in 2014. They found that 21 per cent were seniors aged 55 and over, compared to
  
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• Why this 25-year-old decided to be an egg farmer in B.C.

  18-11-2018 16:30
  
  Meet the millennial farmer... they can control their barns with their phones(if they need to)
  
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• Don’t fear the near beer: The Growler’s guide to non-alcoholic beer

  18-11-2018 16:00
  
  “Near beer” doesn’t exactly have the greatest reputation. For years, there were only one or two options available at the grocery store, and they all tasted like watery garbage. That’s changing, however.
  
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• Patrick Johnston: Good Ship Canuck navigates waves despite pundits’ Titanic expectations

  18-11-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Hands up if you bet on the Vancouver Canucks being a .500 hockey club through their first 20 games.
  If your hand is up, we won’t label you a liar, but we might make a contorted face that includes a furrowed brow and smirk.
  It has been a surprising start for the young National Hockey League squad, picked by most puck pundits to finish at or near the bottom of the Pacific Division.
  Even with their swoon on the road this week, the story, so far, has been about a combination of improved play f
  
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• Patrick Johnston: GM Jim Benning likes progress, process of Canucks at NHL quarter pole

  18-11-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Few observers would have predicted or expected the Vancouver Canucks to be sitting near the top of the Pacific Division one-quarter of the way into this National Hockey League season.
  Even the Canucks’ brass sought to temper fans’ expectations before the 2018-19 campaign started, highlighting the number of younger players on the rebuilding NHL team or close to making the big-league jump.
  But here they are.
  Still, the early run of success hasn’t fazed Canucks general manager Jim
  
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• Late Drouin power-play goal lifts Canadiens to 3-2 win over Canucks

  18-11-2018 06:04
  A power-play goal late in the third period by Canadiens forward Jonathan Drouin, helped lift Montreal to a 3-2 win over the Canucks on Saturday evening.
  
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• Canucks at Night: Bounces, bounces, bounces

  18-11-2018 05:50 via theprovince.com
  Some nights are like this, Travis Green acknowledged.
  “That’s the NHL, you play well, you’re going to lose some games when you play well,” he said after Saturday’s 3-2 home loss to the Montreal Canadiens.
  The coach and his players were frustrated, given how much they wanted to tighten up their game following a couple of ugly losses to the New York Islanders and then the Minnesota Wild.
  But in his post-game press conference, Green was remarkably upbeat. He acknowledg
  
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• Canadiens 3, Canucks 2: Losing skid stretches to five games after Habs crank up the power

  18-11-2018 05:26 via theprovince.com
  With two of the league’s high scoring teams in action Saturday at Rogers Arena, you figured this would be a thriller.
  The last home game for Vancouver was a thriller. Why not more, right?
  Except, the Montreal Canadiens and Canucks had other plans. With both NHL teams giving away little in the middle of the ice and the puck being unwilling to slide flat too often, there wasn’t much action to be had for long stretches, even as the visitors pulled out a late 3-2 victory.
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• Ed Willes: Habs show Canucks what a difference a year, proper personnel can make

  18-11-2018 04:40 via theprovince.com
  As another dreary Vancouver Canucks’ season came to an end last April, Canucks’ owner Francesco Aquilini offered the following during a curious 15-post Twitter storm.
  This isn’t to be confused with the salvo that followed the abrupt departure of team president Trevor Linden in July. Rather, it was a series of tweets that revealed his take on the Canucks’ rebuild, their young core and, most notably, where the team fit in an NHL that was trending toward youth, speed and ski
  
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• Ending the stigma of HIV and AIDS

  18-11-2018 04:24
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Nov 17

  18-11-2018 04:24
  The Saturday, November 17, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Small businesses lay out concerns as Canada Post strike deadline looms

  18-11-2018 04:21
  Canada Post’s unionized workers say they are rejecting an offer on the table as the deadline looms. Jordan Armstrong has more on how it’s affecting local businesses.
  
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• Woman dies under suspicious circumstances after crash in Burnaby

  18-11-2018 04:17
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is looking into the mysterious death of a woman after a single vehicle crash on the Barnet Highway late Friday night. Jill Bennett has more.
  
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• Removal of wheelchair accessible parking spot from Surrey strip mall raises safety concerns.

  18-11-2018 04:17
  Safety concerns are being raised after a wheelchair accessible parking spot was nixed from the lot of a Surrey strip mall. Nadia Stewart explains.
  
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• Cystic fibrosis patient pushes for costly drug coverage

  18-11-2018 04:17
  Orkambi is considered a lifeline for some people living with cystic fibrosis, and now a Vancouver man and his mother are joining the fight to have the expensive drug covered by PharmaCare in B.C. Kristen Robinson reports.
  
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• Fabio da Silva Gomes: Does this headline say what you need to decide whether to read the article?

  18-11-2018 03:00 via theprovince.com
  Supermarkets are crowded with around 40,000 products, yet most shoppers spend fewer than 10 seconds selecting an item. That’s certainly not enough time to review current Canadian nutrition labels, which are on the back or side of packages and contain detailed information that’s often too complex for many consumers to understand.
  But nutrition labelling is about to change in Canada and that’s good news, for our health and for informed consumer decision-making.
  Health Canada is c
  
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• ‘At whose expense?’: B.C. entrepreneur says small business owners caught in postal strike crossfire

  18-11-2018 02:56
  The federal government has set a 9 p.m. PT deadline for striking postal workers to accept its latest deal.
  
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• Vancouver police investigate West End assault

  18-11-2018 02:30 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a person of interest in a West End assault Saturday, who was photographed by a security camera.
  Just before 3 a.m., a woman reported being attacked after she was followed by a man into her apartment building on Bute Street near Pendrell Street. She did not know him and it appears to be an isolated incident, but investigators believe it was sexually motivated, the police said in a news release.
  A person of interest in an ass
  
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• B.C. agriculture minister’s stepson dies of accidental overdose

  18-11-2018 02:07
  Lana Popham shared the news in an emotional Facebook post.
  
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• Vancouver woman attacked in West End apartment building

  18-11-2018 02:05
  
  The woman reported that a man followed her into an apartment building Saturday morning and assaulted her
  
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• Abbotsford grandparents return from Peru after seeking information about missing daughter's kids

  18-11-2018 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. couple that was worried about their grandchildren after the man accused of murdering their mother was released from jail were able to visit with the kids in Peru.
  Earlier this month, Al and Kathy Kasatkin travelled to South America to see their two grandchildren, ages five and eight, after they were unable to make contact with them by phone. The children are living with their paternal grandmother as their father, Christopher Franz Bettocchi, faces charges of femicide in relation to t
  
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• Lessons learned from one of BC’s worst wildfire seasons

  18-11-2018 01:46
  Robin Gill takes a look at how forest management experts are noticing the more they try to prevent forest fires raises the impact of them.
  
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