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• B.C. announces urgent care centre in Vancouver set to open on Monday

  25-11-2018 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s health minister has announced the opening of the province’s fifth urgent primary care centre in order to lessen demand on emergency departments.
  Adrian Dix said the facility opening in downtown Vancouver on Monday will provide treatment on evenings and weekends for non-life-threatening conditions.
  The centres are part of the government’s plan to reform primary care through a “team-based” approach that includes a doctor and other health-care provid
  
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• Meet Michael Tan, the man in charge of B.C. government’s pot sales

  25-11-2018 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  Before Michael Tan was hired to oversee cannabis sales for the B.C. government, he borrowed a hoodie from his 17-year-old son and stood outside a Vancouver pot shop.
  The former retail executive then surveyed about 100 recreational cannabis users to get their take on legalization.
  “The biggest takeaway was that consumers thought the government was going to take the fun out of pot and that the government would ‘mess it up,’ ” said Tan, executive director of cannabis operati
  
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• Rob Shaw: NDP and Liberals use the beleaguered Speaker for a proxy war

  25-11-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When Abbotsford South MLA Darryl Plecas defected from the B.C. Liberal party last year to become legislature Speaker, he told his local newspaper he’d work hard to overcome the damage done to his credibility.
  “When I say, gee this is a good job for me, it’s because it’s a direct hit on impartiality, it’s a direct hit on being non-partisan,” he told the Abbotsford News’s Tyler Olsen in Sept. 13, 2017 story.
  “I can make a contri
  
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• Photos to sell cannabis wanted, can't glamorize product. Biz opportunity advertised by BCLDB

  25-11-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Wanted: photographers to take pictures of cannabis products and accessories for marketing materials related to government run B.C. Cannabis Store retail sales.
  Images must be able to navigate a fine line between being attractive, but not be seen to glamorize the product or promote its use.
  That is the gist of a business opportunity that the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch put out to the public recently by way of a request for proposals on the province’s B.C. Bid website seeking photography
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Do the right thing on legal aid, province told

  25-11-2018 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  It’s time B.C. started living up to international commitments and norms for providing legal aid, lawyers affiliated with the United Nations have told a provincial government-ordered review.
  Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada on Thursday delivered an eight-page submission urging the reversal of a generation of neglect documented in scathing reports by UN agencies from 2006 to July 2018.
  The current legal aid plan falls so short of international obligations that the legitimacy of the provinc
  
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• Adopt-A-School: Britannia breakfast program scrapes together funds to feed hungry kids

  25-11-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  By the end of October, the breakfast program feeding hungry and impoverished high school students at Britannia Secondary was on life support and about to switched off.
  “We are out of money,” said principal Alec MacInnes.
  The program, which feeds about 25 students and siblings, has been available to students for a number of years thanks to a grant from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program, but the money ran out at the end of the last school year.
  MacInnes, who is the new p
  
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• How an amazing little Vancouver Island boy saved his mom

  25-11-2018 21:25 via vancouversun.com
  Six-year-old Jax looked down at his mother just after she fell into the frigid ocean water off the Cheanuh Marina in the Beecher Bay First Nation.
  Shannon Burnside, 44, was wearing a life-jacket, but, weighed down by heavy boots and with a crab trap tangled around her leg, she was unable to pull herself onto the dock.
  What Jax did next likely saved his mother’s life.
  Burnside and Jax, who live in Colwood, had been crabbing at the Cheanuh Marina on Dock 7, about 500 metres from the marina o
  
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• DYK the CityCollect App also has a 'What Goes Where' tool to find out how to recycle any item?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-11-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  DYK the CityCollect App also has a 'What Goes Where' tool to find out how to recycle any item?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Chinatown koi evacuation begins as otter rampage claims 10th fatality

  25-11-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver park officials have ordered an evacuation of Chinatown koi after a hungry river otter claimed its 10th victim over the weekend.
  According to a Vancouver Park Board spokesperson, a total of 10 expensive koi fish have now been killed and eaten by the otter as of Sunday morning; there were previously 14 adult koi living in the ponds at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park in Chinatown.
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  Specialist called in to catch elusive Chinatown river otterAre you #TeamOtter or #TeamKoi? Pick a side with one
  
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• Five reason to check out this year's East Van Panto

  25-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  East Van Panto: The Wizard of Oz
  When: Nov. 28 to Jan. 6
  Where: York Theatre
  Tickets: from $24 at thecultch.com
  1. East Van tradition. Now in its sixth year, the Theatre Replacement production is an annual tradition that is also family-friendly. Kids five and up will enjoy the fairy tale aspect, and adults can laugh at the in-jokes and local references: in this modern retelling, a burst pipeline sends Dorothy to the promised land of Nanaimo and Hastings. The British panto format also includes mu
  
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• Denby McDonnell and Yves Tiberghien: Now is the time for a global pact for the environment

  25-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  By 2020, Vancouver expects to be the greenest city in the world. But how does a visionary city continue to define the future of environmental sustainability? Vancouver and Canada should embed their local efforts into the new global negotiations for a global pact for the environment, expected by 2022 or so. This pact, featured at the Paris Peace Forum by world leaders earlier this month, will provide an international legal basis for environmental protection and environmental rights.
  Today, in spi
  
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• 29-storey Burquitlam tower heads to hearing despite falling short

  25-11-2018 19:43
  
  Highrise proposal comes up short on parking, council concerned developer's offer to make up for it still not enough
  
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• Daily Poll: When's the right time to put up Christmas decorations?

  25-11-2018 18:28 via vancouversun.com
  It’s still November but that hasn’t stopped local malls and some homeowners from decking the halls and putting up the lights.
  It’s a long, ongoing debate about how soon is too soon and why can’t some people just let the rest of us enjoy the holidays.
  So chime in – when’s the right time to put up Christmas decorations?Take Our Poll
  For those of you who have already put up your lights, you can submit your display to our interactive Christmas lights map here.
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• Vancouver weather: Batten down the hatches, heavy rain's on the way

  25-11-2018 18:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Nov. 25, 2018 – Sunday’s weather sees the continuation of a special weather statement forecasting heavy rains. Better batten down the hatches.
  Environment Canada’s alert issued Sunday morning warns of an intense front hitting the south coast in the evening, bringing strong winds and heavy rain overnight. Winds from offshore also threaten to scatter thunderstorms with locally intense rainfall.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of show
  
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• A fun video about the struggle of trying to keep your catch basins clear. Who can relate? Please clear them again,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-11-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  A fun video about the struggle of trying to keep your catch basins clear. Who can relate? Please clear them again,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Have you noticed that firefighters have started taking off all their turnout gear and doing more thorough decontami… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-11-2018 17:51 via twitter.com
  Have you noticed that firefighters have started taking off all their turnout gear and doing more thorough decontami… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Woman, 80, found dead in home is Vancouver's 15th homicide of 2018

  25-11-2018 17:31 via vancouversun.com
  An 80-year-old woman found dead in her east Vancouver apartment is Vancouver’s 15th homicide of the year.
  Around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Vancouver Police received a 911 call after the woman was found dead in her home near Kingsway Avenue and Kerr Street.
  According to Vancouver’s major crime investigators and the B.C. Coroners Service, there are signs the death is suspicious and it is now being treated as a homicide.
  “It is still very early in this investigation and our Homicide Uni
  
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• B.C. professor fights ban amid debate on academic freedom at Thompson Rivers University

  25-11-2018 17:25 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A professor who has taken a stand against the publication of research in journals that aren’t peer reviewed says he has been suspended from the campus of the university where he works in the Interior of British Columbia.
  In an article written for a journal published by the University of Toronto Press, Prof. Derek Pyne raised questions about the practice followed by some professors who publish research in so-called predatory journals.
  Pyne, who has taught at Thompson River
  
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• Jason Byassee: Ignoring atheist United Church 'pastor' Greta Vosper is the best policy

  25-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  “All I know is Jesus changed my life and I can’t stop preaching about him.”
  The seminar question in my class was, “Why do you preach?” And the answer above was not from an evangelical American, or a Pentecostal recently immigrated from Asia, though we have such students at the Vancouver School of Theology.
  It was from a young aspiring minister in the United Church of Canada. She is evangelical in spirit, inclusive on social questions and passionate in her manner of
  
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• Moustache Miler shaves taboos by tackling suicide's collateral damage

  25-11-2018 11:55 via vancouversun.com
  A fiery sales manager, who once argued that running full-page ads on the front of a community newspaper was the “big secret” to long-term reader engagement, plunked a full glass of water on my desk, placed her finger in, pulled it out and cackled: “This is how long you’ll be missed” smirking as water quickly refilled the “hole.”
  She also stressed how nobody is irreplaceable. That harsh parting lesson, I suppose, was much cheaper than chipping in for the
  
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• Staff relocating koi away from hungry otter at Vancouver Chinese garden - North Island Gazette

  25-11-2018 09:00
  Staff relocating koi away from hungry otter at Vancouver Chinese garden  North Island GazetteA Chinese garden in Vancouver is relocating its remaining koi after a wayward otter has eaten 10 of the fish. The otter ended up in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical ...
  
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• November storm bringing wind and rain, wind warning issued for North Vancouver Island - My Comox Valley Now

  25-11-2018 08:11
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  November storm bringing wind and rain, wind warning issued for North Vancouver Island
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  VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C- A strong weather system is moving along the West Coast. According to Environment Canada, a series of intense November impulses will arrive on the BC South Coast beginning Sunday night. Strong winds will be the main threat ...
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• Strong winds and rain expected Sunday in Metro Vancouver

  25-11-2018 06:15 via vancouversun.com
  Get set for a wet and windy end to the weekend.
  In a special weather statement issued Saturday afternoon, Environment Canada warned of strong winds and rain expected to begin Sunday night, and lasting until at least Tuesday, as a strong November storm arrives on the south coast.
  The main threat will be high winds, especially for coastal areas, but Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, the Sunshine Coast, and Vancouver Island have been told to prepare for gusts and rain.
  There remains some uncertai
  
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• Winter 2019—What’s New and Happening in Whistler

  25-11-2018 05:44 via vancouversun.com
  November in Whistler is like the night before Christmas stretched over three weeks, but the good news is Whistler Blackcomb opens November 22, so get pumped!
  There’s a lot to be excited about this season, starting with a new ten-person gondola that replaces Blackcomb’s historic Wizard and Solar Coaster chairlifts. Blackcomb’s three-person Catskinner chair (aka the terrain park chair) is also being upgraded to a high-speed Quad so you can add more laps to your day, and over on W
  
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• Here's Mrs. Claus with the scoop on this year's Shipyards Christmas Festival Dec 1st 4-7pm. New this year: pony rid… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-11-2018 02:55 via twitter.com
  Here's Mrs. Claus with the scoop on this year's Shipyards Christmas Festival Dec 1st 4-7pm. New this year: pony rid… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Mother collecting 1,000 paper cranes for daughter struggling with leukemia

  25-11-2018 00:45 via vancouversun.com
  A thousand tiny paper cranes, a gift from five Japanese students, sat in a bowl on a coffee table in Amy Lee Croft’s childhood home.
  As Croft, now 32, recovers from a stem cell transplant in Vancouver General Hospital, her mother is asking strangers to help her make 1,000 origami cranes to encourage her daughter through the Christmas season.
  Croft was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at Victoria General Hospital on March 9. She was airlifted to VGH to begin chemotherapy two
  
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• UBC Okanagan engineering students hope to stop donation-bin deaths

  25-11-2018 00:05 via vancouversun.com
  The death of a woman trapped in a clothing donation bin last summer has prompted UBC engineering students to work on solutions to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
  On Sunday, students of Ray Taheri, a senior instructor at the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus, will present models of their designs for better bins at an annual competition. Advocates for the homeless and poor have in recent years been calling for change to the metal bins after a string of deaths of peo
  
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