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• Free trip offered for donating toe to legendary Dawson City cocktail

  24-06-2017 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  Want a free trip to the Yukon? It won’t cost you an arm and a leg but it will cost you a big toe.
  Tourism Yukon is seeking volunteers willing to donate their big toe to Dawson City’s Downtown Hotel so that the legendary Sourtoe Cocktail can live on. The winning volunteer will have their toe immortalized post mortem in the cocktail and in exchange get a free trip for two to visit the Yukon pre mortem.
  “The Sourtoe Cocktail is a one-of-a-kind experience that you can only get in D
  
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• The Patcast: Special Draft Day edition

  24-06-2017 23:46 via theprovince.com
  
  This week on The Patcast Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford:
  – Rate the Canucks weekend at the NHL entry draft
  – Go in depth on the Elias Pettersson pick and what the pick means for the future of the Sedins
  http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/patcast_170624-the_province_podcast/Patcast_170624.mp3– Talk about the Canucks taking analytics into account when making selections
  – Talk about losing Luca Sbisa to expansion Las Vegas Golden Knights
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• “Credible” case BC Liberals can pay for Throne Speech promises: UBC economist

  24-06-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  A UBC economist says it’s entirely possible the money is there to pay for more than $1.5-billion in new spending pledged in the BC Liberal Throne Speech.
  
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• 60 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, June 25 - Straight.com (blog)

  24-06-2017 23:05
  
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  60 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, June 25
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  Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 60 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, June 25. CONCERTS. Coastal Jazz presents Nashville-based vocalist-pianist Kandace Springs at Pyatt Hall.
  
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• Bear spotted on Vancouver’s Fraserview Golf Course to be put down by conservation officers

  24-06-2017 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Conservation officers tranquilized a bear that was spotted on a Vancouver golf course on Saturday morning and say the animal needs to be euthanized.
  
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• Bear spotted on Vancouver’s Fraserview Golf Course put down by conservation officers

  24-06-2017 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Conservation officers tranquilized a bear that was spotted on a Vancouver golf course on Saturday morning and say the animal needs to be euthanized.
  
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• Crews fighting out-of-control wildfire near 100 Mile House

  24-06-2017 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  
  Provincial firefighters were tackling an out-of-control wildfire Saturday in the Cariboo near 100 Mile House.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service says the fire was discovered Friday and has since grown to an estimated one-third of a square kilometre in size.
  The fire doesn’t pose a threat to public safety or any homes, but it is burning near a major hydro transmission line.
  The Esketem’c First Nation Territory is also about five kilometres away from the fire, and wildfire service says it&rsquo
  
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• Heat wave forecast for the Okanagan

  24-06-2017 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the valley, with temperatures expected to reach 35 C.
  
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• Young Vancouver guitar maker's niche work shines at international show - CBC.ca

  24-06-2017 22:26
  
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  Young Vancouver guitar maker's niche work shines at international show
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  It's tempting to call Meredith Coloma an overachiever but to do so would likely discount the ambition, dedication and talent that took her from professional musician to internationally-renowned guitar maker before her 19th birthday. The Vancouver-born ...
  
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• Crews contain wildfire burning near 100 Mile House

  24-06-2017 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fire officials say while the flames have been contained, the wildfire is still considered 'out of control,' and could jump its perimiter.
  
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• Powell River SPCA manager allegedly fired for misleading conservation officer

  24-06-2017 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Powell River SPCA manager says she was fired for keeping a pair of baby deer at the organization’s Sunshine Coast Branch – but denying it to conservation officers.
  
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• 'Darth Radar' switches from handing out speeding tickets to helping the defence

  24-06-2017 21:07 via vancouversun.com
  
  From handing out some of the harshest punishments that traffic laws allow to now helping those on the receiving end, Grant Gottgetreu has moved on.
  Known by former police colleagues as “Darth Radar,”  Gottgetreu hung up his speed gun in April after impounding more than 2,000 vehicles for excessive speeding (40 or more kilometres an hour above the posted limit).
  The 48-year-old, who was a traffic officer and team supervisor for 28 years in New Westminster, West Vancouver and
  
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• West Vancouver council threatens to bulldoze $2.6M home

  24-06-2017 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Ferrari could be seen parked inside the garage of the home which, according to a staff report, was built without permits.
  
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• UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee Punch Drunk Predictions

  24-06-2017 20:45 via theprovince.com
  
  Tucked in on Sunday night, long after the NHL Draft has lost steam and in the shadows of Bellator MMA’s debut in New York City, the UFC completes its four-week, four-continent sojourn with a Fight Night card in Oklahoma City that boasts an intriguing lightweight main event and a trio of former champions all hitting the cage at very different points in their respective careers.
  Like most of these FS1 events, we’ve got a six-fight main card to work through here, so I’ll dispense
  
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• Free trip offered for toe donation to legendary Dawson City cocktail

  24-06-2017 20:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  Want a free trip to the Yukon? It won’t cost you an arm and a leg but it will cost you a big toe.
  Tourism Yukon is seeking volunteers willing to donate their big toe to Dawson City’s Downtown Hotel so that the legendary Sourtoe Cocktail can live on. The winning volunteer will have their toe immortalized postmortem in the cocktail and in exchange will receive a free trip for two to visit the Yukon.
  “The Sourtoe Cocktail is a one-of-a-kind experience that you can only get in Daws
  
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• Oklahoma family escapes 'buckle of the Bible Belt' politics to Vancouver - CBC.ca

  24-06-2017 20:02
  
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  Oklahoma family escapes 'buckle of the Bible Belt' politics to Vancouver
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  Katy Stubblefield, born and raised in Oklahoma, thinks of herself as a blue dot in a red state and is escaping up north to Canada with her husband, three boys and two cats. As a liberal family, they feel out of place in the conservative state, she told ...and more »
  
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• From enforcing the law to helping traffic and DUI defendants in court

  24-06-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  From handing out some of the harshest punishments that traffic laws allow to now helping those on the receiving end, Grant Gottgetreu has moved on.
  Known by former police colleagues as “Darth Radar”, Gottgetreu hung up his speed gun in April after impounding more than 2,000 vehicles for excessive speeding (40 or more kilometres an hour above the posted limit).
  The 48-year-old, who was a traffic officer and team supervisor for 28 years in New Westminster, West Vancouver and with
  
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• Top NFL players head to Vancouver for youth training camp

  24-06-2017 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sat, Jun 24: Some of the top talent from the NFL is heading north to help train local youth. The Elite Dreams Football camp comes to BC Place June 30.
  
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• Saturday chef: Lobster and salmon burger

  24-06-2017 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sat, Jun 24: The countdown is on to Canada’s 150th birthday. The team at YEW seafood + bar has come up with a decadent dish for the celebration, marrying the best of each coast. Executive Chef Weimar Gomez show Samantha Falk and Shanel Pratap how to make a lobster salmon burger.
  
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• Exploring BC craft vodka

  24-06-2017 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sat, Jun 24: Using agricultural products grown here in British Columbia, these five vodkas are all made from different things. From wheat to honey, Darryl Lamb from Legacy Liquor Store shares some the best craft vodkas from around the province.
  
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• BC Lions ready for home opener

  24-06-2017 19:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sat, Jun 24: The BC Lions take on the Edmonton Eskimos in their regular season home opener at BC Place. The team’s Business Operations VP George Chayka talks to Shanel Pratap about their strategy for the season.
  
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• Open House: Hometown Heroes lottery prize home

  24-06-2017 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sat, Jun 24: Sit back and soak in the incredible ocean view at the Hometown Heroes Lottery prize home in White Rock. Kaitlyn Herbst takes an exclusive tour of the luxury property.
  
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• Mariners prospect O’Neill celebrates 22nd birthday with two-homer night for Tacoma

  24-06-2017 19:01 via theprovince.com
  
  Tyler O’Neill looked like Tyler O’Neill 2016 Friday night.
  The Seattle Mariners outfield prospect from Maple Ridge was 3-for-6 with two homers, a double and seven RBI in a 13-6 win for the triple-A Tacoma Rainiers over the host Reno Aces.
  Coincidence or not, O’Neill celebrated his 22nd birthday on Thursday.
  O’Neill, who nearly won the Triple Crown in the double-A Southern League last summer and was pegged the No. 31 prospect in the game by www.mlb.com to start this seaso
  
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• Makeover: A special gift for a dedicated mom

  24-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Cherene Bradbury is a selfless and hardworking mom who is taking care of the family while her husband is battling a terminal illness. Her daughter wanted to show appreciation for all that her mom does and nominated her for a makeover.
  When Cherene, who is a security guard, is not wearing her uniform, she lives in her jeans and flip-flops. She has admitted that she never wears dresses because she hasn’t found a style that feels good and looks flattering, and was hoping to incorporate more c
  
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• Beauty Bar: NARS The Orgasm Collection

  24-06-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  What it is: When it comes to blush colours, it doesn’t get much more iconic than Orgasm from NARS. 
  The cult-classic shade, which is a pretty peachy-pink hue with a slight subtle undertone of gold, has inspired dozens of dupes — and more than a few lineups when it was first released. 
  Now the colour has expanded into a curated collection of pink beauty staples with the introduction of an Orgasm Liquid Blush and lipstick. 
  The liquid blush formula provides full colour p
  
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• NHL Draft: McPhee backs out of Van deal, Pettersson perspective, reactions, and highlights

  24-06-2017 18:14 via theprovince.com
  
  Question
  Would the Canucks have ever drafted Elias Pettersson if they didn’t trade Burrows for Dahlen?
  It’s quite fascinating how that deal may have changed the future of the franchise.
  Dahlen and Pettersson had undeniably quantifiable chemistry together, and a Canucks scout — Gradin — who was sky high on Pettersson from the start believed he was the hands at the wheel driving the offence.
  Benning touched on the relationship in a post-draft selection on Sportsnet.
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• On Canada's 150th birthday, journey through B.C.'s past

  24-06-2017 17:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  Silvery totem poles peek through the mists of Haida Gwaii. An abandoned rail track meanders along a Kootenay mountain pass. In Gastown, the perfume of gin lingers in a former bootlegger’s haunt.
  Traces of the past are all over British Columbia, if you know where to look. Luckily, B.C.’s 91 National Historic Sites, 10 Provincial Historic Sites and three UNESCO World Heritage Sites make it easy to journey back through the 150 years of Canada’s history in its westernmost province.
  
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• Canada 150 food: MELA! Festivals serves up melting pot of cultural cuisine

  24-06-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  MELA! Festivals
  July 1, 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; July 2, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. | Granville Island
  Tickets and info: Free at Melafestivals.com 
  Canada has long been praised for its “melting pot” of different cultures. But we don’t always get the opportunity to explore the vast influences that make up the mix. 
  Mashood Max Ali and Ravi Singh wanted to change that — even if for only a day — and they decided Canada Day would be the perfect time to do it.
  
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• Large Vancouver property generates considerable income - Vancouver Sun

  24-06-2017 16:13
  
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  Large Vancouver property generates considerable income
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  The big sell: This sizable property in Vancouver's Cambie Village comprises four levels and more than 4,100 square feet of living space. Listing agent Bob Bracken reports that the 1912 house has been well maintained and currently commands a gross ...
  
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• Large Vancouver property generates considerable income

  24-06-2017 16:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  475 West 19th Avenue, Vancouver
  Type: Six-bedroom, seven-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,177 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $2,478,600
  Listed for: $2,750,000
  Sold for: $2,680,000
  Sold on: March 27
  Days on market: 61
  Listing agent: Bob Bracken at RE/MAX Real Estate Services
  Buyers agent: Franco Diligenti at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: This sizable property in Vancouver’s Cambie Village comprises four levels and more than 4,100 square feet of living space. Listing agent Bob Bracken reports that the 1
  
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• The Home Front: Curating a better home design experience

  24-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Running counter to the increasing quantity of mass-produced home decor and furnishing items on the market, a number of Canadian designer makers are teaming up to offer products for the home that are handmade, from natural materials, and with a focus on originality, craft and sustainability. The Sun caught up with a few of them to discuss what drives them, and how they’re being received.
  Chic & Basta is an online marketplace that offers contemporary goods for the home by designer m
  
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• Polygon's Seven Peaks a stylish addition to Squamish

  24-06-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  With four girls and a boy in a blended family, mother Ashley Dempsey was taking no chances in getting exactly what she wanted in her new home.
  So when she learned that Polygon was releasing another 12 homes after selling out 22 homes in just two hours in May, she set up her chair in front of its Seven Peaks development in Squamish the day before a Saturday release at noon. She had a realtor spell her off Friday night and rode her bike back the next morning from the family’s rented home nea
  
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• North Van's Muir clan traces ancestry back to two Fathers of Confederation

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  When Jack Muir’s mom and dad married in 1930 — he an alumnus of Point Grey Secondary, she a Kitsilano grad — it brought together the bloodlines of two of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation.
  “That’s the neat thing,” Jack’s son Kim Muir said. “They both had roots in Nova Scotia. They came all the way from there and it culminated in a small point where my grandfather met my grandmother in Kits.”
  Jack’s father, George Muir, traced his
  
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• Journey through B.C.'s past

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Silvery totem poles peek through the mists of Haida Gwaii. An abandoned rail track meanders along a Kootenay mountain pass. In Gastown, the perfume of gin lingers in a former bootlegger’s haunt.
  Traces of the past are all over British Columbia, if you know where to look. Luckily, B.C.’s 91 National Historic Sites, 10 Provincial Historic Sites and three UNESCO World Heritage Sites make it easy to journey back through the 150 years of Canada’s history in its westernmost province.
  
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• Historical Northwest Coast works become more than art at Museum of Anthropology

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  In traditional museum exhibitions, historical objects are often put on display and accompanied by pithy curatorial comments that put the works in context. This approach is very much about preserving objects as artifacts in a western-style museum setting.
  The basket is made from the roots of a spruce tree and painted with Wasgo (Sea Wolf) imagery. It was originally made in 1890-1920 by a Skidegate Haida artist and painted by John Cross Neeslant.
  Another, newer approach at institutions such as the
  
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• Canada 150: What will B.C. look like 50 years from now?

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Waves of immigration that have shaped Metro Vancouver in decades past will continue to do so in the future — but by the year 2067 will come with a twist.
  By that time, thanks to climate change, it is likely that many of the immigrants flocking to British Columbia from around the Pacific Rim will be fleeing increasingly inhospitable weather conditions in their homelands as much as anything, according to demographer Andy Yan.
  “The idea of climate refugees will definitely come into play
  
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• Canada 150: Ian Tyson, the cowboy folksinger

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  In the early 1960s, folksinger Ian Tyson was sitting in a bar called the Kettle of Fish in Greenwich Village in New York. A “kind of grubby kid” walked in and announced he had a new song.
  “It was Bobby Dylan, and he sang me, Blowin’ in the Wind,” Tyson recalled on the TV show, The Texas Connection. “He just wrote it. I thought, ‘I can do that.’”
  Tyson went home and wrote his first song, Four Strong Winds. Not bad for a first try — in 20
  
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• Canada 150: Five artifacts representing B.C. on Canada's 150th birthday

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  From the seven million objects in the collection of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, curators have selected five they feel represent B.C. as the country marks its first 150 years. 
  Argillite Chest
  On top of this argillite chest by Charles Edenshaw, a human is caught in a moment of transformation into a raven, the bringer of light to the world. The transforming figure is above a shell out of which human faces emerge. It’s a visual illustration of a Haida creation myth and the in
  
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• Canada 150: 10 books that honour the True North

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Oh, Canada.
  Our home and native land deserves a special kind of celebration for its 15oth milestone. And one way many authors are celebrating this great nation is with a keepsake book.
  From photo books to heartfelt personal stories, there is a wide array of tomes taking over bookstores this year in honour of Canada’s big birthday. 
  Here are a few of our favourites: THE WORLD NEEDS MORE CANADA
  Indigo
  This epic compilation gives the mic to some of Canada’s most influential pe
  
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• B.C.’s immigrants giving voice to their own stories

  24-06-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Lino Coria is a Vancouver engineer who develops computer vision algorithms. But to tens of thousands of YouTube users in his native Mexico and across Latin America, he’s better known for talking about the life of his young family in Port Moody.
  Coria has fans. His wife, Marcela de la Pena, was shopping for Halloween costumes at Value Village in Coquitlam last year when a stranger came up to their daughters, Julia and Emilia, now nine and four-years old.
  ” ‘Are these Lino Coria&
  
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• Canada Day 2017: 150 things to do to celebrate Canada's 150th - Vancouver Sun

  24-06-2017 10:53
  
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  Canada Day 2017: 150 things to do to celebrate Canada's 150th
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  Happy birthday to us! Gather up your friends and family and celebrate at one of the many events and happenings going on around Metro Vancouver and beyond. Festivals, concerts, outdoor fun, stage performances, parades, fireworks and more — there's ...and more »
  
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• Canada Day 2017: 150 things to do around Metro Vancouver ... - Vancouver Sun

  24-06-2017 10:53
  
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  Canada Day 2017: 150 things to do around Metro Vancouver ...
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  Happy birthday to us! Gather up your friends and family and celebrate at one of the many events and happenings going on around Metro Vancouver and beyond ...and more »
  
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• John Horgan meets with protestors

  24-06-2017 08:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fri, Jun 23: Protestors tried to disrupt a fundraiser for the NDP tonight, but instead got a meeting with leader, John Horgan. He talked with them about getting people off the street and about notorious downtown eastside SROs. Catherine Urquhart reports.
  
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• John Horgan meets with protesters

  24-06-2017 08:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fri, Jun 23: Protesters tried to disrupt a fundraiser for the NDP tonight, but instead got a meeting with leader John Horgan. He talked with them about getting people off the street and about notorious Downtown Eastside SROs. Catherine Urquhart reports.
  
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• Peach City Beach Cruise draws tens of thousands

  24-06-2017 07:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  More than 25,000 people are expected to attend the 17th annual Peach City Beach Cruise in Penticton this weekend.
  
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• Ed Willes: Impatient Canuck fans conflicted over Pettersson pick

  24-06-2017 07:29 via theprovince.com
  
  It’s a day of mixed emotions for the faithful and if you’re familiar with the unfortunate history of the Vancouver Canucks, you understand why their supporters are conflicted about the National Hockey League draft.
  On the one hand the draft represents hope and opportunity, the chance at rebirth, the exhilarating possibility that their team has found the next great thing. In 1994, for example, the Ottawa Senators took Daniel Alfredsson with the 133rd pick in the sixth round. He w
  
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• Want to beat the heat in Metro Vancouver? The health authority has some tips

  24-06-2017 07:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tip 1: drink lots of fluids.
  
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• Opinion: Why parks should be a policy priority

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  By the time I turned 17, I had spent a couple of years battling night sweats, heart palpitations, insomnia, and a general sense of impending doom. I finally saw a psychiatrist, who said I had anxiety and gave me a long list of prescriptions.
  I had heard stories from friends about developing dependencies on these drugs, and was generally adverse to medication, so I never went to pick them up. Instead, I found myself drawn to parks, spaces where a sense of calm would descend, and the verge of cris
  
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• Opinion: Proposed cannabis policy doesn't do enough to protect youth

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Canada’s Liberal government has stated that marijuana will be decriminalized by July 2018. This means the removal, or at the least, a lessening of laws and restrictions related to marijuana use and associated pot services.
  While people on both sides of the debate have strongly held and differing opinions, the protection of youth is an area of agreement.
  Marijuana, also known as cannabis, has been illegal in Canada for close to 100 years. Marijuana can’t be produced, sold or even poss
  
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• Opinion: Canada must win exemption from NAFTA's proportionality rule

  24-06-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump is known for tweeting alternative facts. But occasionally, perhaps inadvertently, his tweets conform to real facts. When he approved the building of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, Trump said it would “reduce our dependence on foreign oil.” Given that the pipeline would be filled with mainly Alberta bitumen, Trump revealed that he thinks Canadian oil is American oil.
  Unfortunately, it’s virtually true. NAFTA’s proportionality rule (Ar
  
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