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• Morgan gets the itch to return to PGA Tour Champion's proving grounds

  09-06-2017 23:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  The inaugural Greater Vancouver Open was 21 years ago, but Doug Morgan will never forget teeing up alongside some of the world’s best golfers at the former PGA Tour stop in Surrey.
  A member of the PGA of Canada since 1991, Morgan specializes in coaching while still competing at the club pro level in local and provincial events. He speaks fondly of his time as an instructor and coach, helping local players like Langley’s Devin Carrey rise to the professional circuits such as the Web.c
  
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• This Week in History: 1940 With the Second World War heating up, Canada bans many left-wing organizations

  09-06-2017 23:18 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Second World War was not going well for the allies in June, 1940. The German blitzkrieg had raced across Western Europe, forcing British forces into a mass evacuation from Dunkirk between May 27 and June 4.
  The fall of France seemed imminent, so Italy’s fascist leader Benito Mussolini decided it was time to enter the war and share in the spoils. On June 10, Mussolini declared war on Britain and France.
  “The hour of destiny has arrived for our Fatherland,” Mussolini declared
  
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• Transgender trailblazer narrowly lost in B.C. election, but vows to continue her activism

  09-06-2017 23:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  As Morgane Oger sits on a sunny café patio, several passersby wave hello or offer condolences to the rookie NDP candidate, who narrowly lost the Vancouver-False Creek riding to a high-profile Liberal incumbent in the May 9 provincial election.
  This friendly banter on the patio would have been hard for Oger to imagine four years ago, when the 45-year-old IT consultant and father of two young children took the daunting step of beginning to live as the gender she has always felt: female
  
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• Man arrested following pharmacy drug robbery in Kelowna

  09-06-2017 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  A man, who gave the impression he had a weapon, demanded prescription drugs and fled on foot.
  
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• 5 of B.C.’s best beaches

  09-06-2017 22:09 via theprovince.com
  
  When people think of British Columbia, they think of rainforests. But since the Pacific Ocean laps the length of the province, there are also miles of coastal beaches to explore­—not to mention islands. A few of these beaches have a pretty high profile, such as Kitsilano Beach, which on a hot day pulses with people swimming and spiking volleyballs. But others offer a more low-key scene as locals spread out to claim their own patches of paradise.
  Here are five gorgeous beaches that will
  
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• As Metro Vancouver's affordability gap widens, a search for answers ... - The Globe and Mail

  09-06-2017 22:06
  
  The Globe and Mail
  As Metro Vancouver's affordability gap widens, a search for answers ...
  The Globe and Mail
  Measures to stem the region's roiling housing market have yet to achieve their goals as the affordability gap becomes a chasm.
  North Vancouver affordability dropping fast: report - North Shore NewsNorth Shore Newsall 3 news articles »
  
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• ART SEEN: If you get the joke, send it to Artspeak

  09-06-2017 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  Q: Why did Vincent van Gogh become a painter?
  A: Because he didn’t have an ear for music.
  If you have any jokes about art that are as good – or as bad – as the one above, now’s the time to do something about it. Artspeak wants to hear from you.
  The Gastown art space has grown up and turned 30. To celebrate being one of the city’s oldest artist-run galleries, Artspeak is looking for visual puns, wordplay, riddles, gags and one-liners. Selected works will be incl
  
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• Southwest adventure tour explores some of America’s natural wonders

  09-06-2017 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  
   
  Perched on the lip of the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, I gaze vertiginously down upon stratum upon stratum of multihued rock lie stacked beneath me, each representing a geological epoch. Dating back over two billion years, they reveal more dramatically than anywhere else on earth how our world was formed, while two miles below, the Colorado River snakes through the gorge, carving ever deeper into this iconic symbol of the American Southwest.
  Tthe stars and Milky Way over Zion Canyon Na
  
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• Flood watches issued for rivers in the Shuswap region

  09-06-2017 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  The agency reports river levels rose rapidly overnight and early Friday because of heavy rain.
  
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• How many ‘Easter eggs’ can you spot in Pixar Studios' Cars 3 movie?

  09-06-2017 21:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  When you’re watching Cars 3, don’t forget to keep an eye out for those Pixar Easter eggs.
  Not the coloured kind, of course. These Easter eggs are intentional inside visual jokes slipped into the background by Pixar animators. The term Easter egg was first coined to describe a hidden message in the Atari video game Adventure that led Atari to encourage further hidden messages in later games, treating them as Easter eggs for players to find.
  Pixar picked up on that game — or hunt
  
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• Pacific Northwest Tour de Fox raises funds for Parkinson’s research

  09-06-2017 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Tour de Fox takes place this Saturday at Trinity Western University in Langley. Hosted by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the tour raises money for Parkinson’s research.
  
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• B.C. man's Facebook page celebrated terror attacks in Western countries: trial

  09-06-2017 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — The trial of a British Columbia man accused of posting terrorist propaganda on his Facebook page has heard the writings appeared to celebrate so-called “lone wolf” attacks in Western countries.
  The B.C. Supreme Court trial for Othman Hamdan is focusing on 85 social-media posts as expert witness RCMP Const. Tarek Mokdad testifies for the Crown.
  Hamdan has pleaded not guilty to charges of encouraging the commission of murder, assault and mischief, all for terrorist pu
  
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• Celebrating the 8th annual Italian Day on the Drive

  09-06-2017 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Celebrating everything Italian! The 8th annual Day on the Drive returns to Vancouver’s Commercial Drive on June 11th.
  
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• Creating a sense of realism a Pixar hallmark

  09-06-2017 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  You’d expect ground effects to be part of the Cars 3 vocabulary, but mud effects?
  Well, for Jon Reisch and two colleagues, mud consumed the better part of half-a-year of their time.
  “It got to the point where I’d find myself staring at my kids’ cereal bowls as they ate to see how the liquid behaved,” said effects supervisor Reisch, who worked on the first Cars movie as an intern, then as an effects artist on Ratatouille and Up.
  Perhaps that was because director Bria
  
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• B.C. political uncertainty causing concern for overdose victim’s mom

  09-06-2017 21:06
  
  B.C. NDP's pact with Greens would create minister of mental health and addictions, but some worry the impasse has hampered overdose response.
  
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• B.C. Blue Jays fans take over Safeco Field

  09-06-2017 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  It’s technically an away game for the Toronto Blue Jays as they take on the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field, but it’s going to feel a lot like home thanks to dozens of die-hard “local” blue jays fans. As Jordan Armstrong reports, they made the trip south today to support “their” team.
  
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• Surrey family unable to replace lost key, forced to leave van in Victoria

  09-06-2017 21:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Higgins family is back home in Surrey after a visit to Victoria, but their Toyota van remains in a motel parking lot on Vancouver Island because no one seems to know how to replace its lost key.
  John Higgins is offering a $500 reward for their return.
  He said the frustrating saga began last Friday after a dinner at Nautical Nellies. The family was walking along Wharf Street and stopped briefly outside SendtoNews at 1111 Wharf.
  Higgins was carrying his keys but put them down to tie his son&rs
  
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• Highway 1 travellers stranded by washout and accident near Revelstoke

  09-06-2017 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  It’s a traffic nightmare for anyone heading to or from southeastern B.C. via the TransCanada this weekend. The highway is closed because of a washout at Camp Creek, just west of Revelstoke. Reid Fiest has the latest from Golden.
  
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• City of Vancouver secures 131 housing units for Balmoral tenants being evacuated

  09-06-2017 20:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  City officials have secured 131 housing units for tenants who have been told to evacuate the infamous Balmoral Hotel by Monday.
  In a media release issued Friday morning, B.C. Housing and the City of Vancouver said the units were ready to begin receiving tenants “immediately.”
  “Pets are welcome in almost all units,” the release said. “The June 12 deadline to cease occupancy of the Balmoral Hotel has not changed.”
  City, housing and health officials have been on
  
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• City finds housing for Balmoral Hotel tenants

  09-06-2017 20:52
  
  The City of Vancouver says it has secured 131 housing units for residents of the Balmoral Hotel, which has been deemed unsafe by inspectors.
  
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• Former sevens star Sean Duke relishes return to Canadian rugby team

  09-06-2017 20:16 via theprovince.com
  
  A bad back and medical school prompted Sean Duke to retire from rugby last fall.
  But the former sevens star from Vancouver is enjoying one more chapter to his rugby career after being summoned by 15s coach Mark Anscombe for Canada’s June test series.
  “I thought it was over,” Duke said. “It’s definitely a bonus. I didn’t think I’d be involved … Super-stoked they’re keeping me around.”
  Duke, 28, is enjoying the ride — wherever it t
  
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• Town Talk: Rick Hansen celebrates Man in Motion tour's 30th anniversary.

  09-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Wayne Gretzky wines were served when CTV anchor Mike Killeen attended and Global rival Sophie Lui was MC at the Rick Hansen event.
  MOTION MAINTAINED: Thirty years after his Man in Motion wheelchair journey around the world, Rick Hansen took the elevator to a Rick Hansen Foundation fundraiser in the Hotel Georgia ballroom. Other than still using a chair, the decades appear to have been good for Hansen. Ditto for wife Amanda, who was called in when Rick needed a physiotherapist for 1984-Olympics-t
  
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• Kalamalka Lake pier wave damaged; users could be fined

  09-06-2017 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  Heavy wave action Thursday damaged the dock, increasing the safety concerns.
  
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• Police look for suspect after boy grabbed at bus stop in Saanich

  09-06-2017 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police are investigating after a 12-year-old boy was approached by a man at a bus stop in Saanich.
  
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• Say it ain’t so, Pirate Joe’s

  09-06-2017 19:38
  
  After years of legal battles with Trader Joe's and a failed crowdfunding campaign the owner of Vancouver's Pirate Joe’s has finally decided to raise the white flag.
  
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• Charges laid after Kelowna man severely beaten

  09-06-2017 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  The 23-year-old victim was found laying on the ground bleeding from his head with obvious and serious injuries.
  
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• Jillian Harris: B.C. design diva, former Bachelorette heads back to reality TV

  09-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Jillian Harris is no stranger to reality television.
  As a former star of both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and a longtime co-host of the home renovation show Love it or List it, the 37-year-old has spent her fair share of time in front of the camera. 
  So, when she and her partner Justin Passuto began seriously tossing around the idea of growing their own family — yes, before marriage, much to the chagrin of some of their fans although the couple has since gotten engage
  
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• Fab 5: Throwing shade

  09-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Maybe you’re one of those people that wears sunglasses all year round — after all, winter ski vacations and snowbird escapes both call for a pair of shades or two. If not, well, ‘tis definitely the season to invest in a new pair of sunnies. Whether you prefer a statement style that everyone else will covet, or a pair you can hide behind (we can all understand the need for a bit of anonymity these days), here are five shady styles that are worth a second look.
  THE DEVIL WEA
  
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• Victoria police board accused of using policing money to pay chief's legal fees

  09-06-2017 18:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — B.C’s director of police services is looking into a complaint that the Victoria police board took money earmarked for front line policing to pay for the ballooning costs of the investigation into former police chief Frank Elsner.
  Retired Victoria police staff sergeant Darren Laur filed a complaint with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner in July 2016, alleging that the police board used money from the operational budget to cover Elsner’s legal fees and to
  
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• Jon McComb

  09-06-2017 18:39 via globalnews.ca
  Jon McComb hosts the Jon McComb show at CKNW.
  
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• B.C. Lions running back Jeremiah Johnson eager for increased role in 2017

  09-06-2017 18:35 via theprovince.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — Jeremiah Johnson understood and accepted the plan. That doesn’t mean he liked it.
  The B.C. Lions running back split time with Anthony Allen last season as the club aimed to keep both players as fresh and healthy as possible at a position that is among the most violent on the football field.
  Johnson would play a few games, watch the next couple weeks while Allen got his chance, and then return to the huddle.
  “It gets you off your groove,” Johnson said of the sto
  
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• Lynda Steele

  09-06-2017 18:25 via globalnews.ca
  Lynda Steele hosts the Steele&Drex Show at CKNW.
  
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• The sign debate is back on in Richmond, B.C.

  09-06-2017 18:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  Richmond has one of the highest percentages of immigrants from China on the Lower Mainland, and once again city council is in the midst of debate over the language on business signs.
  
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• Conversations that Matter: The power of the patient

  09-06-2017 18:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Roni Zeiger, who left his job as Google’s chief health strategist to create Smart Patients, an online network of what he calls, ‘micro-experts’.
  “We believe patients are the most underutilized resource in health care,” he says.
  Far too many patients are uncertain, they don’t fill prescriptions or don’t take the medication.
  Zeiger says patients have questions that keep coming up once they&rsquo
  
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• Charles Adler

  09-06-2017 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  Charles Adler hosts the Charles Adler Tonight Show at CKNW.
  
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• Drex

  09-06-2017 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  Drex is a Radio Host at the Steele&Drex Show.
  
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• Chris Brentlinger-Grant

  09-06-2017 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  Chris Brentlinger-Grant is a Technical Producer with the Charles Adler show at CKNW.
  
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• Amila Bhamji

  09-06-2017 17:29 via globalnews.ca
  Amila Bhamji is a Technical Producer with the Steele&Drex Show at CKNW.
  
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• Greg Schott

  09-06-2017 17:25 via globalnews.ca
  Greg Schott is a Technical Producer on the Jon McComb Show at CKNW.
  
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• Chantal Coschizza

  09-06-2017 17:23 via globalnews.ca
  Chantal Coschizza is a Producer and Programming Assistant at CKNW.
  
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• Emily Lazatin

  09-06-2017 17:17 via globalnews.ca
  Emily Lazatin is a Reporter at CKNW.
  
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• Kyle Benning

  09-06-2017 17:10 via globalnews.ca
  Kyle Benning is a Reporter at CKNW.
  
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• Letters: Mobility pricing won’t fool public as it’s just another tax

  09-06-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  
  Mobility pricing is a smokescreen. It’s just another tax.
  If infrastructure improvements were added to property taxes, where they should be, the mayors get blamed and perhaps retired.
  These guys would rather try to fool us rather than rein in their overall costs and prioritize their expenses. Are we fooled?
  Robert Thompson, North Vancouver
  No new taxes
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and his merry band of tax-and-spend thieves are at it again.
  The public has made it very plain that they d
  
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• RCMP investigate possible sex assault involving Vancouver-area Catholic school teens and social media

  09-06-2017 16:58 via vancouversun.com
  
  The B.C. RCMP is looking into an alleged sexual assault involving teens at a Vancouver-area Catholic school.
  The investigation was first reported by CKNW on Thursday and involves an unknown number of students from one school. It’s believed the alleged incident was possibly captured and shared via social media.
  Dan Moric is the superintendent with the Catholic Independent Schools Vancouver Archdiocese. In an email to Postmedia Friday, he confirmed the investigation was taking place and that
  
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• Sinkhole opens up in New Westminster

  09-06-2017 16:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  The sinkhole is located on the New Westminster and Coquitlam border at the Braid and Brunette railway crossing.
  
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• Daily Poll: Should bilingual signs be made mandatory in Richmond?

  09-06-2017 16:36 via vancouversun.com
  
  The city of Richmond is revisiting a bid to make bilingual signs mandatory, it was reported Thursday by reporter Cheryl Chan.
  The move is the latest in an ongoing tussle in Richmond over Chinese-only signage, which has spurred a number of complaints to city hall over the past four years. It will be the third time the matter will be put before Richmond council, when it goes to debate Monday.
  Related
  Richmond revisits mandatory English or French sign bylawThe city’s population is about half
  
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• Highway 1 closed west of Revelstoke for at least 2 days: Drivers stuck in Golden

  09-06-2017 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  The highway is closed in both directions 25 kilometres west of Revelstoke to Sicamous.
  
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• Conservation officers remove arrow from deer's head on Vancouver Island

  09-06-2017 16:20 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — A female deer on southern Vancouver Island is expected to be fine after conservation officers removed an arrow from its head.
  Officers spotted the doe Thursday and tracked it to Maple Bay, north of Victoria, before catching and tranquilizing it.
  Sgt. Scott Norris with the B.C. Conservation Officer Service says the surgery was quite simple because there was no tip on the arrow so the team was able to easily pull it from the wound.
  Norris says once the arrow was out, the wound was
  
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• How to get rid of ants from your Metro Vancouver house

  09-06-2017 15:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  You’ve got ants.
  It’s nothing to be ashamed of.  
  Every spring in Metro Vancouver, around this time of year, the six-legged scavengers  invade our homes.
  The ants are hungry and have a nest full other ants to feed — and your home is full of food.
  Related
  Ant season in Vancouver: How to win the war against antsAnt scouts enter your home looking for crumbs, spills, oil and grease, and any accessible items in your pantry. Behind them, they leave an invisible trail that w
  
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• Flooding west of Revelstoke closes Highway 1 for at least two days, says RCMP

  09-06-2017 15:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  REVELSTOKE — Flooding has closed Highway 1 just west of Revelstoke.
  RCMP in Revelstoke have issued a release saying the route 25 kilometres west of the city will be closed for at least two days.
  Cpl. Thomas Blakney says Camp Creek overflowed at the Camp Creek Bridge, just after 11 p.m., Thursday.
  He says a build-up of debris at the bridge backed up the creek and sent water cascading across the highway.
  While crews work to repair Highway 1 and the bridge, Blakney says drivers are being dive
  
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