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• Theatre review: She shoots, she scores

  07-04-2019 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  Glory
  When: To April 13
  Where: Gateway Theatre, Richmond
  Tickets & Info: From $29 at gatewaytheatre.com
  Shortly after the Calgary Inferno beat Les Canadiennes de Montréal two weeks ago for the 2019 Canadian Women’s Hockey League Championship, the league announced that it was folding. The six-team CWHL, founded in 2007, had only recently begun paying its players what its website called “professional salaries”: from $2,000 to $10,000 per season.
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• Ian Mulgrew: Father seeks justice after son's abduction

  07-04-2019 23:37 via vancouversun.com
  Demetri Urella struggled to find words to describe the smell of his son’s hair, the touch of his skin, the pitch of his laugh … the boy’s essence slipping through memory’s fingers like water.
  The 49-year-old helicopter pilot choked up, recalling the tightness in his chest, the shortness of breath, the panic that gripped him Oct. 20, 2016, when his son was abducted from the family home in Langley.
  “It’s like yesterday,” he says, embarrassed at being emot
  
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• Daphne Bramham: The true legacy of Lt. Leslie Miller

  07-04-2019 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a story that reads like a novel and for good reason. It isn’t true.
  Last year for Remembrance Day, I wrote that because of Canadian soldier Leslie Miller, oak trees once again grow on Vimy Ridge, the site of a terrible, four-day battle that began April 9, 1917, leaving 3,598 Canadians dead and more than 7,000 wounded.
  The story that I got from the Vimy Foundation and Vimy Oaks Legacy is that after the battle Miller scooped up some acorns, mailed them home and later planted them
  
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• A twist on house calls: New wave of telemedicine uses mobile phone video to link patients, doctors

  07-04-2019 22:31 via vancouversun.com
  Stick out your smartphone and say AHHHHH.
  Although it’s early days for a new wave of telemedicine, some Canadians can now avoid trips to the doctor’s office by using their mobile phone’s video camera.
  In March, Telus Health launched a new video link between patients and select doctors in British Columbia, the only province with a billing code to pay doctors for such visits.
  Other companies are experimenting with similar services, but Telus has hopes of becoming the main player
  
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• Sikh Heritage Month: The South Asian pioneers of Fraser Mills

  07-04-2019 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  Narain Singh Dosanjh was only 16 years old when he made the gruelling month-long voyage by sea from India to Vancouver in 1907.
  The boy had little more than pocket change but sought a better life in Canada, where he planned to find well-paying work to support his family back home. It took him 22 years to save enough money to bring his wife, Maha Kaur Dosanjh, to live with him in B.C.
  When Narain arrived he was confronted by racism and, speaking little English, struggled to find work and an affor
  
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• Two new cases of Vancouver Island measles have officials urging vaccination

  07-04-2019 21:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Two new cases of measles have been confirmed on Vancouver Island, bringing to 25 the number of recent infections in B.C.
  Officials with Vancouver Island Health say people who may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease at two LifeLabs clinics in Victoria on Tuesday and Wednesday are being alerted, and two health units have been opened to provide vaccinations on Sunday.
  However, officials say exposure to measles may also have occurred at 10 other places between March 2
  
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• Attorney General David Eby says parents with dependent kids should make will

  07-04-2019 20:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s attorney general is encouraging people to make a will, especially because most residents with dependent children do not have one.
  David Eby says that’s the reason the province has proclaimed the upcoming week as Make a Will Week.
  He says in a release that people without a will would have their estate distributed according to the law, not necessarily how they would have wished.
  Eby says important decisions such as who would raise children are part of a will, an
  
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• What's next after completing your InTraining program?

  07-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Great work! I hope you’re feeling proud of your accomplishments. You will likely think of yourself as a different person if you didn’t know before, you definitely know now, if you set your mind to something, you can achieve it. But now that the program is over, you may find yourself asking, “Now what?”
  From a physiological standpoint, your successful completion of InTraining brings both good news and bad. The good news is that the cardiovascular (heart and lung) fitness y
  
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• Sun Run coaching: You've made it

  07-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Woo, hoo. I’m so proud of you! SportMed’s Sun Run InTraining Program has seen us through another winter and you’ve made it.
  I’ve just returned from a First Nations Run/Walk group in beautiful New Aiyansh, an hour from Terrace, and an incredible last workout on those lava fields. Hundreds of people throughout the province are moving and taking steps to better health because of this program, and you are now part of the wonderful vision that began some 24 years ago
  
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• Sun Run coaching: Event day advice

  07-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you spend a few moments planning ahead, you will be in a better position to enjoy the day of the “big event” and have fun. Here are a few simple guidelines that may help you.
  Get organized before the event
  • Visit the Vancouver Sun Run website. Check out the map of the course, or better yet, take some time to drive or cycle it prior to the day. Specifically, having a look at the start and finish are helpful for your mental preparation.
  • Pick up your event package at the
  
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• #Realtalk … What they don't tell you about running a race

  07-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Time for a little #realtalk. So you ran a race, good for you, now what? My first run was very anti-climactic, I trained hard, I crossed that line. A goal was completed that I never in my life imagined I could or would ever complete. Part of me expected fireworks and a band on playing just for me on the grandstand. But turns out I had very unrealistic expectations. There were no fireworks or band playing just for me, it was just over.
  For weeks after, I couldn’t wrap my brain around lacing
  
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• In new Shakespeare adaptation, the women will have their revenge

  07-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  King Richard and His Women
  When: April 11 to 19
  Where: Tyrant Studios, 1019 Seymour St. (above Penthouse Nightclub)
  Tickets: $29 at tickets.tyrantstudios.com
  There have been many versions of Shakespeare’s Richard III over the years. But King Richard and His Women may be the first to focus on the title character and his relationships with the women in his life.
  And they’re a formidable bunch, notes actor Daniel Deorksen.
  They include Richard’s mother, the Duchess of York; Lady A
  
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• An open letter to Sun Runners: Words of motivation and perseverance

  07-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The last week is upon us, we’re getting ready to gather as one massive group on Georgia Street on April 14. Things are getting harder or maybe they’re getting easier! You’re pushing harder than before and you should be, these final weeks truly matter. You’re running longer than when we first started and maybe even a little faster! The path we are on is all about perseverance.
  Pepe Duarte of Britannia said to us one year, “running is the only sport where people clap
  
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• Vancouver weather: Sunday showers start the week

  07-04-2019 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: April 7, 2019 – Sunday’s weather will be grey and wet, a good indictor of what to expect the rest of the week.
  Temperatures remain above 10 degrees most of the week and there’ll be more cloud than there is sun so keep those rain boots handy.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Showers end earlier in the day, followed by a mix of sun and cloud. High of 13.
  Tonight: Cloudy, increasing after midnight. Low of plus 5.
  Tomorrow: Cloudy, high of 13. Chance of showers in th
  
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• Pedal to the metal: Popularity of electric bikes growing on city roads and bike paths

  07-04-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  At first, David Mallory thought riding an electric bike was the equivalent of cheating.
  Things started to change when his wife Deb bought one about nine years ago. She decided it was the best way to conquer the hill to their home on West 10th in Vancouver.
  As she zoomed up the hill, Mallory remembers pedalling on his 21-speed bike as fast as he could, trying to catch her. She won every time.
  So he took her bike for a ride. When he engaged the motor, he felt like he was defying gravity.
  Mallory w
  
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• High winds cause ferry cancellations, power outages on B.C.'s South and Central Coast

  07-04-2019 05:27 via vancouversun.com
  Environment Canada posted wind warnings for parts of the B.C.’s South And Central Coast early Saturday, with winds of up to 110 kilometres an hour expected in some areas.
  B.C. Ferries was forced to cancel several morning sailings, including Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo, Crofton to Salt Spring Island, Comox to Powell River, and Cortes Island to Quadra Island.
  High winds were expected on much of Vancouver Island, including Greater Victoria, the Sunshine Coast, the Southern Gulf Islands and the C
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Hells Angels ride as forfeiture case nears end

  07-04-2019 03:41 via vancouversun.com
  Hells Angels met at the East End clubhouse Saturday for their annual ride to commemorate murdered member Dave “Screwy” Swartz. As the government’s case over the forfeiture of three HA clubhouses nears an end, will this be the last ride from the East Georgia clubhouse? Or will there be an even bigger party next year if the HA wins?Here’s my story:
  Hells Angels hold annual ‘Screwy ride’ to honour
  slain East End bikerKIM BOLAN
  Updated: April 6, 2019
  About 80 Hell
  
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• Growing petition takes full aim at 'wolf-whacking' hunting contests

  07-04-2019 02:49 via vancouversun.com
  Almost 60,000 people have signed an online petition to end hunting contests in B.C.
  Petition creator Lavinia Rojas said she’s shooting for a meeting with Forests Minister Doug Donaldson to deliver her petition, which she started about four weeks ago after learning about the contests.
  “I find it inconceivable that animals are killed, but especially for fun,” she said Saturday. “It’s outrageous.”
  Last month, 54 environmental and animal welfare organizations sent
  
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• Hells Angels hold annual 'Screwy ride' to honour slain East End biker

  07-04-2019 02:35 via vancouversun.com
  Approximately 100 Hells Angels members and affiliated clubs rallied at the HA East End Chapter on Saturday, April 6, 2019, as part of the Screwy Ride. The annual event is a memorial ride for slain Hells Angel member Dave ‘Screwy’ Swartz.
  About 80 Hells Angels and associates gathered at the bikers’ East End clubhouse Saturday morning for their annual ride to pay tribute to fallen comrade Dave (Screwy) Swartz.
  Specialized police officers, who investigate outlaw motorcycle gangs,
  
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