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• Two folding tales — why it's good for women's hockey, bad for football

  05-04-2019 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  How can the suspension of operations for the Canadian Women’s Hockey League be a positive, bullish sport business moment for women’s hockey?By clearing the decks and allowing one unified league to emerge from the ashes.
  Just one week after the Clarkson Cup saw the Calgary Inferno defeat Les Canadiennes de Montreal to claim supremacy of the CWHL, the league announced it would shut down effective May 1, 2019.That’s obviously a bad news story for the proponents o
  
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• Missing North Vancouver man - CityNews Vancouver

  05-04-2019 23:23
  Missing North Vancouver man  CityNews VancouverMounties in North Vancouver need your help finding a missing man. Vincent Che, 60, was last seen April 2, 2019.
  
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• Capilano University announces new satellite campus near North Vancouver waterfront - Daily Hive

  05-04-2019 23:22
  Capilano University announces new satellite campus near North Vancouver waterfront  Daily HiveA Capilano University satellite campus is coming to the North Vancouver waterfront this year, the university announced this week.
  
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• Vancouver piano prodigy off to Texas to take on the world's teenage keyboard virtuosos

  05-04-2019 22:31 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a long way to the top if you want to Bach and Roe.
  Ryan Zhu, 15, won’t be playing any compositions by living English composer Chris Roe when he heads to Dallas for an international youth music competition at the end of May, but Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D-minor is on the menu.
  It’s a ladder the Magee Secondary Grade 10 student started climbing at four and began working his way up in earnest at 10 or 11.
  He’s a little nervous about the 2019 Cliburn Internation
  
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• B.C. man convicted in harassment of ex-wife charged with breaching probation

  05-04-2019 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A man convicted of criminally harassing his ex-wife through a revenge website has been charged with breaching a probation order.
  The RCMP say Patrick Fox was arrested Thursday in Burnaby.
  He was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in 2017 for illegally possessing a firearm and criminally harassing Desiree Capuano, who lived in the United States.
  Fox’s trial heard Capuano was harassed through hundreds of threatening emails and the website, which falsely maligned her a
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Millennials have the means, if not the will, to alter politics and reshape public policies

  05-04-2019 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  No group is better positioned than millennials to dramatically reshape politics and parties’ election platforms in what promises to be a desperate and chaotic federal election in October.
  Yes, them. Born between 1980 and 2000, millennials are frequently described as lazy, self-centred, unfocused and lacking in basic life and workplace skills. They have been blamed for “killing” everything from bar soap to credit cards to Hooters to golf to dating to car ownership.
  These much-ma
  
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• Canada’s major housing markets still at high risk of price drops, says IMF

  05-04-2019 20:30
  
  Metro Vancouver, Greater Toronto and Calgary are highly vulnerable real estate markets, according to global report
  
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• Langara College arson suspect facing more charges

  05-04-2019 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  A 23-year-old student charged with arson and possession of incendiary material in relation to fires that sparked an evacuation at Vancouver’s Langara College Monday is facing more charges.
  The Crown approved charges Friday of robbery and assault against Nasradin Abdusamad Ali. The bail hearing is set for Wednesday.
  The new charges stem from alleged incidents in the weeks leading up to the fires, the Vancouver police said Friday.
  The Surrey man allegedly set three incendiary devices in a bu
  
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• Suspect in Langara College fires facing additional charges

  05-04-2019 20:06
  
  New charges against Nasradin Abdusamad Ali include robbery and assault
  
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• This Week in History: 1919 — Hockey's toughest player dies of the Spanish flu

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  No one knows how many people were killed in the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918-19, but the numbers are shocking. The low estimate is that 20 million people died, but others believe it could be have been 50 million, even 100 million. (Many governments didn’t keep accurate records, hence the discrepancy.)
  Between 30,000 and 50,000 people died from the Spanish flu in Canada, including 4,000 in B.C. The virus was more lethal in the U.S., where 675,000 people died, including 5,000 in Washington s
  
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• Spring fashion: Season a study in contrasts with neutrals, shocking tones

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  This spring, the fashion trend report is calling for a season of stark contrasts.
  “There’s really two camps right now,” Shannon Schafer, the senior fashion director for Nordstrom, says. “There’s the perfectly practical, with lots of utility and suiting and really practical, serious items. … And then there’s the opposite side, with this optimistic exuberance or joyful creativity.
  “It’s this perfect paradox.”
  While Schafer says the utili
  
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• Five fashion MVPs for spring/summer 2019

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A change of seasons ushers in a changing of the guards, so to speak, in one’s closet.
  In spring, for example, cashmere sweaters and nubby knits are supplanted by soft layering t-shirts and (if the weather is on our side) sandals.
  While we all likely have a fair amount of springtime-appropriate pieces already hanging in our wardrobes at home, it’s always fun to update your closet with a few key pieces that you can wear on repeat throughout the sunnier months ahead. With this in mind,
  
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• Fab 5: Pretty pendants

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a new accessory trend in town, and it’s a pretty one. Sure, we’re still loving statement earrings and we’re also stocking up on this season’s coolest hair accessories, but there’s something about pendant necklaces that feel subtler — and more personal as a result. Perhaps it’s because they’re worn about as close to your heart as a piece of jewellery can get, or maybe it’s because it’s generally chosen with extra care: what
  
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• Cristina Pato's passion for the pipes

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cristina Pato Quartet
  When: April 11, 8 p.m.
  Where: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC
  Tickets and info: tickets.ubc.ca
  Spanish piper, composer and pianist Cristina Pato can amaze with her mastery of the Galician gaita (bagpipes). The first female gaita player to record a solo album, she is also an original member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.
  With that group and her own bands, she has spread the sound of her instrument worldwide.
  There may not be another bagpiper in the world w
  
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• Brian Minter: Veggies for cool gardens

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many of us are anxious to begin our food gardening, even if that means planting a container on the 27th floor of an apartment. In fact, I know folks who, despite February’s rude weather, have already planted seeds and early transplants.
  As a longtime fan of Mother Nature, she’s taught me many lessons. The most important one is realizing how little I understand the complexities of her many cycles. One observation that I have clued into is her starting gun for early planting — th
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Cowichan Valley earning high praise as a wine producing region

  05-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Island wines are beginning to make an impact on the B.C. wine map as the region closes in on two decades of production. It’s tiny at 3.5 to four per cent of all the wine made in the province, but size isn’t all that important in the site-driven world of wine where place matters.
  Today the island spotlight is shining squarely on the Cowichan Valley, which lies 45 minutes north of metropolitan Victoria and its 350,000 inhabitants and less than three hours by ferry from downto
  
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• B.C. adds 7,900 jobs in March as losses mount across Canada

  05-04-2019 19:52
  
  B.C. is piling up the jobs even amid the country’s first decline in employment numbers in half a year.
  
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• B.C. schools to provide free menstrual products in schools

  05-04-2019 19:36 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has announced that all schools will provide students with free pads and tampons in washrooms, following a growing call for equal access to feminine hygiene products.
  By the end of 2019, all 60 of B.C.’s school districts will be required to provide free menstrual products for students, said Mitzi Dean, Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity, at a news conference in Vancouver Friday.
  To help the school boards, the province says it will provide $300,000 in a startup cos
  
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• Sooke plumber a champion for women in construction

  05-04-2019 19:26 via vancouversun.com
  Mary-Anne Bowcott is not what you’re expecting, and she’s used to that.
  The 33-year-old owner of Westcom Plumbing and Gas in Sooke still registers the surprise, sometimes shock, in people’s eyes when she walks in the door with her tools.
  But over the past 10 years, the journeyman plumber and certified gas fitter has gotten used to the odd raised eyebrow, and never let it get in the way of establishing her small company as a force to be reckoned with on the Island.
  Bowcott&rsquo
  
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• MEMORY LANE: West Vancouver Fleas keep catching volunteer bug - North Shore News

  05-04-2019 18:49
  MEMORY LANE: West Vancouver Fleas keep catching volunteer bug  North Shore NewsSpring has returned to the North Shore, bringing with it the urge to purge. What to do with items that need a new home? “Bring them to the Flea,” says Joan ...
  
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• Neil Young announces Vancouver show with Elvis Costello - North Shore News

  05-04-2019 18:42
  Neil Young announces Vancouver show with Elvis Costello  North Shore NewsNeil Young returns to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the location of his first solo live performance in Vancouver in 1971, for a special solo show on Wednesday, ...
  
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• Movie review: Movie Minute — Shazam

  05-04-2019 16:14 via vancouversun.com
  Do we all have a superhero inside of us? The new DC film Shazam, starring Zachary Levi,  says we do. See what Postmedia News’s film critic Dana Gee and Arts and Life editor Aleesha Harris have to say about that in this week’s Movie Minute.
  
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• Town Talk: Gotham Steakhouse turns 20

  05-04-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  HOLY BEEFSTEAKS, BATMAN: Just as she did in 1999, Hy’s of Canada COO Megan Buckley welcomed guests to the Gotham steakhouse’s recent anniversary celebration, this one the 20th. As wall-to-wall invitees enjoyed abundant drinks and food, Hy’s president-CEO Neil Aisenstat cracked: “We can still give it away.” They can sell it, too, and have done since 1955 when Neil’s late father, Hy Aisenstat, launched the self-named chain in Calgary. Our Hornby-off-Dunsmuir Hy&
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Organ donation

  05-04-2019 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The impact we make on life is determined by our responses to the events that affect us. Do we crumble, do we rise up, do we determine to change the way of the world to improve the lives of others.
  That brings us to Hailey Cheema, who as a teenage girl, experienced the slow deterioration of her grandfather’s life from failing kidneys. His life was cut shorter than it needed to be robbing Hailey, her family and all of us of the incredible contributions he still wanted to make.
  In r
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy and a cool 13 C

  05-04-2019 15:06 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Friday, April 5. Today’s weather will be wet, with up to 10 centimetres of rain expected, and a high of 13 C. Environment Canada says it will likely be windy by the water, and the rain will continue overnight, with up to 15 millimetres expected. It doesn’t look like there will be much reprieve on the weekend either. The agency says Saturday will be blustery, cold, rainy, with up to 10 millimetres expected and a high of 10 C. Sunday looks cloudy, with a good chan
  
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• Herring not choosing West Vancouver as spawning ground - North Shore News

  05-04-2019 15:00
  Herring not choosing West Vancouver as spawning ground  North Shore NewsWest Vancouver has an acute case of herring impairment. The West Vancouver Streamkeepers Society is wrapping up a project to encourage the herring to ...
  
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• Dan Fumano: The fight for — and against — affordable rental housing in Vancouver

  05-04-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  There’s a word often tossed around Vancouver council meetings lately that might sound odd to the untrained ear: “MIRHPP.”It rhymes with “burp.”It stands for Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, and city staff, politicians and many others hope MIRHPP will achieve what an earlier program could not: produce rental housing that’s affordable for low-to-medium-income households.
  Vancouver City Hall has, for years, tried to encourage developers to build rent
  
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• West Vancouver Foundation offering grants for ideas bringing neighbours together - North Shore News

  05-04-2019 09:00
  West Vancouver Foundation offering grants for ideas bringing neighbours together  North Shore NewsWest Vancouver Foundation has opened their small grants program for its second year. Neighbourhood Small Grants of up to $500 are available to people who ...
  
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• North Vancouver shooting victim remembered as 'sweet' and loyal friend - North Shore News

  05-04-2019 09:00
  North Vancouver shooting victim remembered as 'sweet' and loyal friend  North Shore NewsA childhood friend of a woman identified as the victim in a North Vancouver shooting says friends are shocked and at a loss to understand why someone ...
  
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• ‘His memory is fading’: Family desperately seeks Vincent Che, missing North Vancouver father

  05-04-2019 07:19 via globalnews.ca
  Sixty-year-old Vincent Che's son says his father, who's been missing since Tuesday, suffers from memory issues.
  
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• Son of David Sidoo, B.C. businessman tied up in college admissions scandal, also resigns from board

  05-04-2019 05:45 via vancouversun.com
  The son of Vancouver businessman David Sidoo — who is currently implicated in a U.S. college admissions scandal — has resigned from the board of his father’s B.C.-based company.
  Meanwhile, a planned acquisition deal that had landed the company in default with securities authorities has been pulled.
  Dylan Sidoo’s departure from East West Petroleum comes after his father David Sidoo stepped down as CEO last month. The younger Sidoo will be replaced by Mark Brown, according
  
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• Vancouver's 5 priciest penthouse listings, for the billionaire who covets 5 penthouses

  05-04-2019 05:36 via vancouversun.com
  If you thought Vancouver’s real estate prices were downright ridiculous, allow us to direct your attention to New York City, where things have gone completely off the rails: a condo in Manhattan sold earlier this April to hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin for a U.S. record $238 million, enough to raise the average home sale price in the densely-populated borough by $100,000 all on its own.
  Thanks for that, Ken.
  It’s an absurd amount of money, utterly bonkers even for an ultra-rich h
  
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• North Vancouver shooting victim identified | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  05-04-2019 03:52
  North Vancouver shooting victim identified | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caPolice say the woman gunned down in North Vancouver on Tuesday is 32-year-old Anita Nguyen, a mother of one. As Nadia Stewart reports, investigators ...
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Municipal pushback on housing plan could result in provincial pressure

  05-04-2019 03:41 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Maple Ridge has lately been the scene of angry protests over the NDP government decision to proceed with a 51-unit modular housing project for the homeless over objections from local residents.
  North Vancouver District council recently nixed a 100-unit social housing project, the second to get thumbs down in less than six months.
  Vancouver city is boasting about having so far resisted provincial pressure for increased housing density to help finance a multibillion-dollar SkyTrai
  
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• Vancouver International Airport named best in North America for 10th straight year - Regina Leader-Post

  05-04-2019 03:33
  Vancouver International Airport named best in North America for 10th straight year  Regina Leader-PostIt's quite an accomplishment and it's official: Vancouver National Airport is the best airport in North America for the 10th straight time.
  
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• Pressing U.S. on softwood deal would be sign of weakness, ambassador says

  05-04-2019 03:04 via vancouversun.com
  Canada faces little prospects of getting a deal now to settle the Canada/U.S. softwood lumber dispute, so it’s a bad idea to even try, said David McNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. in a speech Thursday to industry executives.
  “If we were to plead with the U.S. lumber coalition to come back to the table to negotiate right now, I think they would see it as a sign of weakness,” McNaughton said during a discussion with the media after his presentation to the Council
  
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• John Horgan: B.C.’s forest sector has a strong, sustainable future

  05-04-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Communities large and small, rural and urban, depend on a strong and sustainable forest sector.
  We are proud to have tens of thousands of British Columbians working in one of the world’s greenest industries, making products that reduce greenhouse gas intensity while growing our economy.
  Forest companies are the anchor of 140 communities, producing renewable building materials that are in demand around the globe.
  Last year, forestry contributed $1.2 billion in government revenues, wealth th
  
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• New law will tackle properties linked to gangs and drugs, minister says

  05-04-2019 02:38 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government hopes new legislation will give communities more power to combat “nuisance” properties linked to gang and drug crime.
  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Thursday that the amended Community Safety Act will allow neighbours of “crack shacks” and other properties frequented by criminals to make confidential complaints to a new provincial unit.
  That unit, once operational later this year, will work with municipal governments and police across
  
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• Downtown Vancouver's International Village mall is up for sale

  05-04-2019 02:32 via vancouversun.com
  The International Village mall complex and the adjacent plaza in downtown Vancouver is up for sale.
  The quirky mall, which is anchored by a Cineplex theatre and commonly referred to as “Tinseltown”, has been listed on the market for an undisclosed price. It’s unknown currently what would happen to the retailers located at the mall following a sale.
  It is listed as part of a portfolio that includes the circular Paris Square plaza across the street and Coquitlam’s Henderson
  
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• B.C. lags on commercial driver training one year after Humboldt crash

  05-04-2019 02:11 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s antiquated minimum standards for training commercial truck drivers haven’t been updated in at least 15 years and badly lag behind other provinces that have moved quickly to boost safety in the year since the deadly Humboldt bus crash.
  While Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are proceeding with more rigorous mandatory driver training for class one commercial driving licences, B.C.’s entry-level rules haven’t changed since 2004.
  The provinc
  
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• Public consultation underway for Surrey-Langley SkyTrain, rapid transit

  05-04-2019 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is beginning three weeks of public consultation on extending SkyTrain between Surrey and Langley and rapid-transit options for two other major corridors in Surrey.
  It is a process that critics say was not properly undertaken before starting work on an ill-fated light rail line in Surrey, which has since been put on hold indefinitely.
  “With any public planning process or major project, as a matter of due course we always want to know what the public thinks about it,” said Ge
  
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• 'I can't believe this': North Vancouver shooting victim identified as Anita Nguyen - Times Colonist

  05-04-2019 01:39
  'I can't believe this': North Vancouver shooting victim identified as Anita Nguyen  Times ColonistVANCOUVER — Homicide detectives have identified the victim of a targeted shooting in North Vancouver on Tuesday as 32-year-old Ngoc Mai (Anita) Nguyen.
  
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• VPD officers could face charges after man seriously injured in fall from bicycle

  05-04-2019 01:37 via vancouversun.com
  A case involving a man who was being followed by VPD officers when he was injured falling from his bicycle has been forwarded to the B.C. Prosecution Service.
  According to the Independent Investigations Office of B.C., officers in an unmarked vehicle followed a man riding his bike along Hamilton Street around 2 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2018.
  “During the interaction, the male suffered serious injuries when he fell from his bike,” the IIO said in a news release.
  The civilian oversight agency,
  
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• Strange bedfellows: NDP and Liberals team up to defeat Greens on LNG bill

  05-04-2019 01:35 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The New Democrat government passed legislation Thursday to enable the $40-billion LNG Canada project in Kitimat, but had to turn to unusual allies to get the job done.
  Premier John Horgan’s minority government brokered a fragile alliance with the Opposition B.C. Liberals — the party he threw out of power in 2017 — in order to get the liquefied natural gas legislation passed over the objection of the three Green MLAs.
  Together, the Liberals and NDP pushed throug
  
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• Judge sets aside default judgment in case involving gold eagle statue

  05-04-2019 01:34 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has set aside a default judgment in a case in which an insurance claim was denied after the theft of a solid gold eagle statue that its owner claimed had an appraised worth of more than $900,000.
  Forgotten Treasures International Inc. established and operated a global treasure hunt to raise money for cancer research with the main prize being an 18-pound sculpture of an eagle made of solid gold and encrusted with 763 diamonds.
  The treasure hunt involved finding 12 certificates hidden in l
  
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• B.C. government may consider 'relief' from record gas prices, says premier

  05-04-2019 01:24 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan hinted there could be some relief on the way for drivers as gas prices continue to rise.
  Horgan told members of the media that current prices, which are expected to top record highs in Metro Vancouver by the end of the week, should be blamed on “gas companies gouging” rather than provincial taxes. But when asked about prices across the province, the premier said the government will be “monitoring” the situation.
  “We’ll see how it goes
  
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