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• Kelowna flood map shows extent of water ingress if protective measures not taken

  06-06-2017 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  A centre spokesperson says much of the potential flooding would happen only if no flood measures were taken.
  
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• Marshawn Lynch decided on comeback after Raiders announced move

  06-06-2017 23:54 via theprovince.com
  
  By Josh Dubow
  ALAMEDA, Calif. — Marshawn Lynch says he made the decision to come out of retirement as soon as his hometown Raiders announced they were leaving Oakland.
  Lynch talked publicly Tuesday for the first time since being acquired by the Raiders in a deal from Seattle in late April.
  Lynch says it was always a dream to play in Oakland, and it became even more important when the Raiders were approved to move to Las Vegas in 2020.
  Lynch says he wants to give kids in Oakland a chance to
  
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• Clark tells NDP, Greens that delaying Site C could cost $600 million

  06-06-2017 23:53
  
  Premier Christy Clark has given the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Greens four days to decide whether or not they'll request the government to issue a "tools down" order to workers and halt the construction of the $9-billion Site C dam.
  
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• Vet college apologizes for 'poisoned relationship' with South Asian members

  06-06-2017 23:48
  
  Tribunal finds that the College of Veterinarians of British Columbia had engaged in systemic racism, including claims that members were "playing the race card."
  
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• Craig MacEwen to be named Vancouver Sportsnet radio program director

  06-06-2017 23:42 via theprovince.com
  
  Three years after he was let go by Rogers Sportsnet as their Vancouver TV head, Craig MacEwen is back — this time in radio.
  The news hasn’t been announced officially, but it’s just about Vancouver’s most-badly-kept sports media secret right now: MacEwen will soon be named program director for Sportsnet 650, the sports radio station set to launch later this summer.
  The sale of CISL, the oldies station which has broadcast for many years at 650 AM, was finalized last month.
  
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• Suspect in East Vancouver sexual assault gets court date

  06-06-2017 23:40
  
  The 69-year old suspect was arrested June 2 in connection with a sexual assault and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 11
  
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• Thousands of chickens destroyed in Abbotsford barn fire

  06-06-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Roughly 7,000 to 10,000 chickens have died in a barn fire in Abbotsford Tuesday. Few details are currently know, but it was a two-level barn located on a farm in the 4100-block of Ross Road that was completely wiped out by the fire.
  
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• Business leaders, activists pore over ten-page deal between NDP and Greens

  06-06-2017 23:34
  
  Social and labour groups are reading the deal from British Columbia's first minority government in sixty-five years very carefully.
  
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• Housing affordability drastically erodes in Vancouver suburbs: Vancity

  06-06-2017 23:26
  
  A Vancity Credit Union report shows affordability dropped 2.9 per cent in Vancouver, but fell by more than 30 per cent in the suburbs.
  
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• BC SPCA seizes 17 badly neglected dogs from Cowichan breeder

  06-06-2017 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Cowhican breeder had 17 badly neglected dogs removed from their care by the BC SPCA.
  
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• Premier visits flood affected areas in the Okanagan

  06-06-2017 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Christy Clark is touring some of the Okanagan's flood stricken areas.
  
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• Housing study shows cheaper suburbs disappearing

  06-06-2017 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  A new report from a Vancouver credit union says home buyers on British Columbia's southern coast can no longer turn to the suburbs to find more affordable housing.
  
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• Dominican sex assault horror

  06-06-2017 22:14
  
  A trip to the tropics turned into a terrifying nightmare of violence and sexual assault for two Canadian women.
  
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• Flood risk downgraded on some B.C. rivers, but Kelowna residents still watchful

  06-06-2017 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — A flood watch is in effect for the South Thompson and Shuswap rivers in B.C.’s southern Interior, but the River Forecast Centre has downgraded the risk on the North Thompson River and on the Thompson River through Kamloops.
  However, the centre says high streamflow advisories remain up for the North Thompson and Thompson rivers and for the Slocan River in southeastern British Columbia.
  The centre says all advisories have been ended for the Kettle River in the Similkameen,
  
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• B.C. Ferries hires Dutch-owned shipyard to build two minor vessels

  06-06-2017 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  This is an artist’s rendering of a new minor-class vessel scheduled to join the B.C. Ferries fleet in 2020. Damen Shipyards Group has been awarded the contract; the ships will be built in Romania.
  VICTORIA — B.C. Ferries has hired a Netherlands-owned shipyard to build two new minor ferries and Point Hope Maritime in Victoria will be responsible for maintaining them under their warranty.
  None of the Canadian shipyards which were shortlisted for the job submitted bids, B.C. Ferrie
  
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• Premier warns NDP, Greens that delays in Site C dam could cost $600M

  06-06-2017 21:57
  
  Last week, NDP Leader John Horgan advised BC Hydro not to sign any new contracts on the divisive Site C hydroelectric dam project.
  
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• Wildfire near Quesnel now 30 per cent contained

  06-06-2017 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  The B.C. Wildfire Service says crews are responding to a wildfire about five kilometres south of Pantage Lake and 40 kilometres northwest of Quesnel.
  Sixty firefighters and four helicopters are working to suppress the 158-hectare fire. As of 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, the BCWS said the fire was 30 per cent contained.
  Officials say crews began fighting the fire Sunday. Winds on Monday helped the fire to grow and although smoke from the fire may be visible from nearby communities, BCWS said there was no &
  
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• Trump hater Reality Winner leaked secret info: FBI

  06-06-2017 21:54
  
  Reality Winner is a good old gal wholikes guns, yoga and animals.
  
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• Hermès celebrates Canada's 150th with limited-edition scarf

  06-06-2017 21:47 via vancouversun.com
  
  French luxury brand Hermès may seem like an unlikely candidate for feting Canada on its 150th anniversary, but that’s exactly what it has done — in its own luxurious way, of course — with the release of a new limited-edition scarf.
  “Canada’s 150th anniversary is an important celebration, and Hermés wanted to honour this milestone,” Jennifer Carter, the president and Chief Executive Officer of Hermès Canada, says. &
  
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• Surrey’s first supervised consumption site set to open

  06-06-2017 21:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  Surrey’s first supervised consumption site is set to open this week.
  It’s not just a first for Surrey, but the first such facility in the Fraser Health region and it follows the recent spike in overdose deaths.
  On Tuesday, media were given a tour of the 135A Street location, dubbed “SafePoint,” which is located directly behind the Surrey Outeach Team trailer.
  Fraser Health announced last December it was proposing the two sites for supervised consumption services in Surrey
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Huge logistics centre going up on Tsawwassen land

  06-06-2017 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  
  A new logistics centre is emerging on Tsawwassen First Nation land that will help to generate skills, jobs and income for band members while also boosting the region’s inventory of industrial space, stakeholders claim.
  Work is underway at Delta iPort, a multi-phase distribution and logistics centre near the Delta Port container terminal.
  The site is being developed by Toronto-based GWL Realty Advisors on behalf of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Realty, which agreed to a pre-pa
  
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• Clark gives B.C. NDP, Greens four days to decide on 'tools down' order at Site C dam

  06-06-2017 21:36 via vancouversun.com
  
  Premier Christy Clark has given the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Greens four days to decide whether or not to issue a “tools down” order to workers and halt the construction of the $9-billion Site C dam.
  That June 10 deadline came in a pair of nearly identical letters sent by Clark to NDP Leader John Horgan and Green Leader Andrew Weaver to defend her party’s decision to approve the project and to warn of what she suggests could be a $600-million, one-year delay in the project’s
  
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• Hemlines: Jonathan Adler, Clinique strike beauty-full collaboration

  06-06-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Home design and accessories guru Jonathan Adler is bringing his trademark pop of colour and pattern to Clinique.
  The American designer teamed up with the beauty and skin care brand to create a limited edition collection of products that boasts packaging that’s as stylish as the products inside. (Think: geometric patterns on lipstick cases and brush sets.) 
  The colourful products in the release — which include Cheek Pop blush, Lip Pop eyeshadow, Lip Pop Colour + Primer and more &
  
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• Home buyers can't count on cheaper suburbs, unless they look to Chilliwack: report

  06-06-2017 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  A new report from a Vancouver credit union says home buyers on British Columbia’s southern coast can no longer turn to the suburbs to find more affordable housing.
  Vancity tracked the markets in 30 municipalities in the Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria over a 12-month period that ended on Feb. 28, calculating the median price of housing in each community and comparing that with the median income of residents.
  Vancouver became only marginally less affordable over the period, but Vancity
  
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• Melbourne terrorist killed by cops was on parole

  06-06-2017 21:25
  
  The suspected terrorist who murdered acathouse employee then shot and woundedthree cops had been acquitted in asuicide bombing plot in 2009.
  
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• Note to mayors: We already said no to new taxes

  06-06-2017 21:03 via theprovince.com
  
  Here we go again. Less than two years after Metro Vancouver voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed new tax to fund the mayors’ transportation plan, the mayors have created a commission to look at how to inflict “mobility pricing” on motorists.
  What part of “no new taxes” don’t they understand?
  Tapped-out motorists — struggling like everyone to afford to live in this expensive region — already pay a variety of taxes associated with driving, inclu
  
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• UBC-bound Dannatt, Dozzi crush 3,000-metres Subway high school track provincials record

  06-06-2017 20:52 via theprovince.com
  
  Tyler Dozzi talked the talk, and then both he and Charlie Dannatt ran the run.
  Dozzi, a middle-distance specialist from Victoria’s Oak Bay, suggested heading into the weekend’s Subway high school track and field provincials — held at Langley’s McLeod Athletic Park — that John Martens’s 1975 meet record in the 3,000 metres was in jeopardy due to a first-rate field entered in the race that would push the pace.
  Dozzi and Dannatt delivered on that discussion,
  
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• America has entered a political Land of Oz

  06-06-2017 20:25
  
  The Britons say, “Keep calm and carry on.”
  
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• Monrovia to the Maple Leaf: Whitecaps Alphonso Davies now officially a Canadian

  06-06-2017 20:02 via theprovince.com
  
  No doot about it. Alphonso Davies is Canadian.
  The Liberian-born, Edmonton-raised Whitecaps prodigy passed his citizenship exam on Tuesday, and was scheduled to be sworn in as a Canadian later in the day in Vancouver.Congrats to @AlphonsoDavies, who passed his citizenship test and became a Canadian today! #VWFC #OurAllOurHonour pic.twitter.com/T7TskOOIDE
  — Vancouver Whitecaps (@WhitecapsFC) June 6, 2017
  The 16-year-old has already played internationally for Canada’s youth teams, at t
  
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• 'We might buy some better food'; Quebec couple win $55M Lotto Max jackpot

  06-06-2017 19:54
  
  For a Quebec couple who’d just won a $55-million lottery prize, Ann-Marie Francis and Ian Warcup sounded like not much would immediately change in their lives.
  
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• At least 2,458 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016: PHAC

  06-06-2017 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  At least 2,458 Canadians died in 2016 from opioid related ovderdoses, but that number could rise.
  
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• Fresh supplies for sandbag brigades as Okanagan Lake rises ever higher

  06-06-2017 18:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Central Okanagan Regional District says the level of the lake could creep to 343.5 metres over the next two weeks.
  
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• Metro Vancouver mayor’s council to release details on charging drivers to use roads

  06-06-2017 17:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Commuting in Metro Vancouver is about to get more expensive as the mayor's council is set to move the region one step closer to road pricing.
  
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• Note telling girls to ‘dress conservatively’ in school goes viral

  06-06-2017 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  A note telling girls to dress conservatively to avoid distracting boys at school is sparking conversation in a small central Alberta community. Online producer Amy Judd explains what it’s all about.
  
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• Gifts for the outdoorsy dad in your life

  06-06-2017 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  HGTV Canada Host Carson Arthur shows us some ideas for Father’s Day for the dad who loves the great outdoors. Turns out the most popular gift this year is drones.
  
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• Coming soon: Stanley Park outdoor film lineup to be announced Tuesday

  06-06-2017 17:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  Get your beach blanket and mosquito repellent ready.
  The Vancouver Evo Summer Cinema schedule will be released Tuesday morning.
  The outdoor movies, which have traditionally taken place at Stanley Park’s Second Beach each summer, will run each Tuesday evening from July 4 to Aug. 22.
  The movies are free and require only that you get to the park early enough to stake out a small square of land for you and your beach blanket.
  Food trucks are usually on hand, providing fare ranging from poutine
  
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• Surrey RCMP ask for help in search for missing senior

  06-06-2017 17:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  Surrey RCMP is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 72-year-old woman.
  Surjit Sidhu was last seen at 4 p.m. Monday in the 8700 block of 144th Street in Surrey.
  It’s believed she was headed to a nearby residence but she hasn’t been heard from since.
  Sidhu is South Asian, five-feet-five and 140 pounds with long dark hair and brown eyes.
  She was last seen wearing a sea green sari, a cream coloured shawl and black shoes.  
  Police say she suffers from a medica
  
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• Date My Dad co-star Lochlyn Munro

  06-06-2017 17:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  Date My Dad and Riverdale co-star Lochlyn Munro talks about his two big shows and the future of the BC film and TV industry.
  
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• Raymond Boisjoly shortlisted for Sobey Art Award

  06-06-2017 17:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  Raymond Boisjoly from Vancouver is among the five finalists for the 2017 Sobey Art Award.
  The winner of the Sobey, considered the country’s top contemporary art award, receives $50,000.
  The five finalists were announced Tuesday in Ottawa by the Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada.
  Raymond Boisjoly.
  Boisjoly, who represents B.C. and Yukon, is an indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent. His photographic and text-based work explores how pop culture f
  
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• #ChrissySentMe: Acts of goodwill honouring Canadian woman killed in London attack reach Vancouver

  06-06-2017 17:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Acts of goodwill in honour of a Canadian woman killed in the London Bridge terror attack Saturday have reached Vancouver.
  Christine Archibald, 30, was walking along the bridge with her fiancé Saturday when she was struck and killed by a van in a coordinated van-and-knife attack.
  Prior to moving to London to be with her fiancé, Archibald had worked at a shelter in Calgary. The social worker “had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be v
  
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• Ian Neville: Canadians Are Ready To Take The Electric Vehicle Plunge

  06-06-2017 16:33
  
  Nationally, electric vehicles still make up only one per cent of new vehicle sales. So how do we get to that electric mobility future? The biggest missing piece is strong government policy at the national and provincial level. Read more: Vancouver, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrids, Climate Change, Canada, Blog,Canada British Columbia News
  
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• Daily Poll: Thumbs up or thumbs down for Salt Spring hitchhiking dispute?

  06-06-2017 16:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  This week, reporter Matt Robinson highlighted the plight of a Vancouver Island community that fears local government and police are cracking down on a “key component of their island culture – hitchhiking.”
  Salt Spring Island residents are now gathering signatures for a petition that will fight what they say is a proposed physical barrier and a ticket-writing campaign.
  Here’s a a peek at the story:
  For decades, locals have relied on the kindness of one another to get from
  
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• Union calls for Canada Post to release theft stats

  06-06-2017 16:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The union representing postal workers wants Canada Post to release the number of community mailboxes that have been broken into across the country.
  
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• MADDEAUX: Girls just want to be taken seriously

  06-06-2017 15:24
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Jun 5

  06-06-2017 15:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Tuesday, June 6, 2017.
  
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• Verdict expected in Luka Gordic stabbing trial

  06-06-2017 14:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Arvin Golic is accused of fatally stabbing Luka Gordic in Whistler in 2015.
  
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• Residents flee as fire rips through Abbotsford home

  06-06-2017 14:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  The huge fire has gutted the home on Marshall Road, near Whatcom Road but the cause is still under investigation.
  
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• The Morning Skate, June 6: Let’s just get rid of offsides altogether

  06-06-2017 14:11 via theprovince.com
  
  I love this idea from The Hockey News’ Dom Luszczyszyn: eliminate the blue line.
  It’s all about promoting offence and giving players more space to work.The entire neutral zone dance changes, restoring much-needed balance to the offensive side. For adding offense, and that should be the goal for this league, taking out the one rule that only helps the defense feels like a no-brainer.
  It would obviously change the structure of hockey and, I presume, lead to new types of specialists. Bu
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Province's top appeal court judges now seized with medicare challenge

  06-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  The constitutional litigation over B.C.’s medicare law has moved into the province’s highest court with an appeal that Victoria fears could create havoc in the trial courts.
  While the civil trial is adjourned in B.C. Supreme Court until at least Sept. 5 to resolve procedural issues, the B.C. Court of Appeal has been asked to reconsider its normal practice and overturn some of the judge’s rulings within the proceedings.
  B.C. government lawyer Jonathan Penner vehemently opposed t
  
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• All creatures great and small: Amateur topiarist creates everything from little chicken to T-Rex in his Burnaby yard

  06-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Four-year-old Wesley Fernandes doesn’t have to be asked twice which is his favourite among animals that his grandpa has carved out of shrubs and hedges.
  “T-Rex! Over there!” Wesley points excitedly.
  Over the past decade, Manuel Fernandes has turned his Burnaby yard into a topiary jungle. One of two: He’s done the same thing at his place in Osoyoos, only on a smaller scale.
  “It’s like one was not enough work, I had to have two,” Fernandes said.
  Always a g
  
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