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• U2/Mumford & Sons ticket-holders offered compensation for BC Place lineup fiasco - Vancouver Sun

  04-07-2017 23:50
  
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  U2/Mumford & Sons ticket-holders offered compensation for BC Place lineup fiasco
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  Fans show their displeasure at the long wait to get into B.C. Place Stadium for the U2 concert May 12. Gerry Kahrmann / PNG. Share Adjust Comment Print. The May 12 U2 concert at B.C. Place Stadium was supposed to be a triumphant kickoff for the ...
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• U2/Mumford & Sons ticket-holders offered compensation for B.C. Place lineup fiasco

  04-07-2017 23:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C. Place and Ticketmaster are offering a measure of compensation to U2 concertgoers who found themselves snarled in lineups for general-admission access that caused them to miss the event’s opening act, Mumford & Sons, on May 12.
  Attendees who registered complaints are receiving $50 gift cards from Ticketmaster for each ticket bought and B.C. Place is offering free admission to either a Vancouver Whitecaps or B.C. Lions game, with a $20 food and beverage voucher for each ticket.
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• Police searching for suspect involved in Prince George mall shooting

  04-07-2017 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP officers are searching for a suspect connected with a shooting at a local mall in Prince George.
  
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• Harrison Lake fire doubles in size

  04-07-2017 23:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  The fire burning north of Harrison Hot Springs has doubled in size and is now estimated at 115 hectares, or 1.15 square kilometres. The human-caused fire, which sparked up on Saturday, is just five per cent contained.
  The fire is about 30 kilometres north of Harrison Hot Springs, on the eastern side of Harrison Lake, near the mouth of Big Silver Creek
  There are now 80 firefighters and additional support staff on scene. There are six helicopters fighting the fire and air tanker support is av
  
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• Victoria police investigating alleged child luring incident

  04-07-2017 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police are investigating after a man allegedly attempted to lure a 12-year-old girl into a secluded part of a park in Victoria Monday afternoon.
  
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• Body of missing Smithers cyclist pulled from the Fraser River

  04-07-2017 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  SMITHERS — A 45-year-old northwestern British Columbia cyclist who was reported missing on a ride from Smithers to Vancouver Island has been found dead.
  North District RCMP Cpl. Madonna Saunderson says the body of Sean Kuntz was pulled from the Fraser River near Lillooet on July 1.
  Kuntz was reported missing in June 18, as he cycled to Saanich on Vancouver Island to visit his mother.
  He was last heard from when he sent a text to his mother as he travelled between Quesnel and Williams Lake.
  
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• Vancouver Councillor Geoff Meggs to be John Horgan’s chief of staff

  04-07-2017 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  Veteran Vancouver City Councillor Geoff Meggs has resigned in order to take a job in the premier's office.
  
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• Kamloops RCMP find teen fugitive who jumped in river to elude police

  04-07-2017 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Kamloops teen who jumped in the Thompson River to avoid arrest has been located safe and sound in Prince George.
  The 16-year-old girl, who was wanted in connection with a Kamloops RCMP investigation into a bike theft, jumped into the river on June 29 while being taken into custody.
  “The girl escaped custody from police and entered the river prior to being placed in handcuffs,” Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said.
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• Adopt a Pet: Tom

  04-07-2017 21:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  4 year old Tom is up for adoption at the Vancouver branch of the SPCA.
  
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• Extreme fire hazard in the Okanagan: what you need to know

  04-07-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) has issued a warning, asking people in the region to be extra careful.
  
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• City of Vancouver and business association open trial plaza at Bute and Robson Street - Straight.com

  04-07-2017 21:42
  
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  City of Vancouver and business association open trial plaza at Bute and Robson Street
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  For those who want to avoid the scorching sun in the West End, there's plenty of shade on the south side of Robson at Bute Street. City of Vancouver. Ever so gradually, Vancouver is becoming a more pedestrian-friendly city.and more »
  
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• Cabinet ministers not the only ones losing their jobs in B.C. government handover

  04-07-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  With the government changing hands in Victoria, it's not just the premier and Liberal ministers who will be losing their jobs when the NDP take the reins.
  
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• How to use garlic scapes

  04-07-2017 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Registered Dietitian Diana Steele tells us what garlic scapes are and what you can do with them.
  
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• Ferrari clocked at 210 km/hour on Lions Gate Bridge

  04-07-2017 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  West Vancouver Police have impounded a Ferrari after the driver was pulled over for excessive speeding on the Lions Gate Bridge.
  
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• Water main bursts in East Vancouver

  04-07-2017 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  A water main burst in East Vancouver, flooding a number of homes along Nanaimo Street. As Jordan Armstrong reports, it could take days to fix.
  
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• Shooting at Prince George mall

  04-07-2017 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Prince George RCMP are investigating after someone crashed a truck into Pine Centre Mall Tuesday morning. The suspect fired one shot at a security guard before fleeing on foot.
  
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• Sears trying to tread water in a sea of retail sharks

  04-07-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  Sears Canada’s shortage of coolness and its middling status in a department store landscape dominated by steep discounters and more luxurious offerings have it on the edge of demise, retail and real estate experts say.
  On June 22, Sears Canada announced it would close 59 stores and shed 2,900 jobs across Canada.
  Here in B.C., the closures include a full-line store at Aberdeen Mall in Kamloops, an outlet store in Abbotsford and hometown Sears stores in Creston, Sechelt and Grand Forks. 
  
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• Q&A: A Queer Love Story, inside the letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

  04-07-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Queer Love Story is a collection of letters written between author Jane Rule and magazine editor Rick Bébout.
  A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
  Edited by Marilyn R. Schuster
  UBC Press
  For this fascinating book editor Marilyn R. Schuster waded through 2,700 pages of letters (most from 1981 to 1995) between the vanguard lesbian author and Galiano Island resident Jane Rule and Rick Bébout, an activist and editor with the Toronto-based LGBTQ publicat
  
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• Fatal crash on Coquihalla

  04-07-2017 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two people have died after an accident on the Coquihalla Tuesday morning. The driver hit a deer and crashed down a ten-metre embankment.
  
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• Don’t have $63 million? That’s what it takes to buy Canada’s most expensive listing

  04-07-2017 20:52
  
  Four of the top 10 most expensive homes for sale are in Vancouver, including the $63-million Belmont Estate, which set a record for real estate listings in Greater Vancouver.
  
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• Former inmates to testify in trial challenging indefinite solitary confinement

  04-07-2017 20:46 via vancouversun.com
  
  VANCOUVER — A civil liberties group that won the right to challenge Canada’s indefinite solitary confinement laws says a trial starting in Vancouver today will hear from former inmates who suffered under “an unconstitutional regime.”
  B.C. Civil Liberties Association spokeswoman Caily DiPuma says testimony will come from a woman who spent 3-1/2 years in isolation and a father whose son took his own life in a solitary cell.
  DiPuma says nearly a dozen experts from around the
  
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• Man dies after suffering heart attack on Shuswap Lake

  04-07-2017 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  An off-duty doctor and nurse performed CPR and used an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to try and revive the him, but were unsuccessful.
  
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• Five reasons to check out this year's Dancing on the Edge Festival

  04-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  29th Annual Dancing on the Edge Festival
  July 6-15 | Various venues
  Info and tickets: dancingontheedge.org
  Beijing Modern Dance Company performs as part of this year’s Dancing on the Edge Festival, which runs from July 6 to 15.
  1. Beijing Modern Dance Company. This year’s Dancing on the Edge Festival features over 80 of the country’s finest dance artists and choreographers. This year’s festival is also showcasing a piece from China’s leading professional modern danc
  
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• Fab Five: All-star bags

  04-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  The sports luxe trend has reached new heights this season thanks to designers like Off-White, Vêtements, and the Supreme x Louis Vuitton collab, which dropped last weekend and promptly sold out (to resellers) everywhere. Yet even if you can’t quite justify dropping your dimes on these brands, you can still dip one stylish toe into the athleisure trend with utility bags. From backpacks to crossbody bags that look good both on and off the court, here are five winning styles.
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• Child has 'life-altering' hand injuries in Canada Day backyard explosion

  04-07-2017 19:59
  
  An 11-year old boy was severely injured in a backyard party on Canada Day after a homemade combustible device exploded.
  
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• Police nab driver racing Ferrari across Lions Gate Bridge at 210 km/hr

  04-07-2017 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Ferrari clocked travelling more than 200 kilometres per hour on the Lions Gate Bridge Monday night has been impounded and its driver charged with excessive speeding.
  West Vancouver police stopped the 2015 Ferrari 458 at the north end of the bridge after obtaining a speed reading of 210 kilometers per hour.
  The posted speed limit on the Lions Gate Bridge is 60 km/h.Driver stopped overnight after hitting 210km on #LionsGateBridge. Car goes to Impound. Driver goes to court. Info at https://t.co/q
  
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• Surrey man drowns in Shuswap Lake

  04-07-2017 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  A 37-year-old man from Surrey drowned in Shuswap Lake while swimming in a designated swimming area. 
  
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• Celebrate Canada with a road trip down its Highway to Haven 

  04-07-2017 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  For more than 800 kilometers, the Crowsnest Highway ribbons along British Columbia’s border with Washington, Idaho, and Montana. This mostly-single lane highway which is today popular with RVs and summer travellers is the modern incarnation of the Dewdney Trail built by the British during the mid-1800’s gold rush.
  The pack road was intended to secure sovereignty over the mythic Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for B.C. But it never quite became a yellow-bricked road to riches. In a fe
  
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• SPCA investigating another case of alleged chicken abuse in Abbotsford

  04-07-2017 19:27 via vancouversun.com
  
  The B.C. SPCA is investigating yet another case of alleged chicken abuse.
  The latest probe was launched after a concerned citizen in Abbotsford filmed footage of a chicken farm, according to a media release from Animal Justice, a legal advocacy group for animal welfare cases.
  On June 28, a woman was walking her dog on a public street early in the morning when she passed a chicken farm and spotted workers picking up chickens upside down and allegedly throwing them into crates and jamming them shu
  
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• Police impound Ferrari clocked at 210 km/h on Lions Gate Bridge

  04-07-2017 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  It’s no longer life in the fast lane for the driver of a Ferrari who was caught going more than three times the legal speed limit on the Lions Gate Bridge. West Vancouver Police say they have impounded the white supercar, after it was clocked going 210 km/h northbound on the bridge in the early...
  
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• Business Report: Stephen Poloz is at it again, this time in Germany

  04-07-2017 19:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has given his clearest indication yet that interest rates will rise this month.
  
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• VSO Sounds for Summer

  04-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
  July 7, 7 p.m. | Orpheum Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $54, vancouversymphony.ca
  Symphony in the Park
  July 9, 7 p.m. | Deer Lake Park
  Tickets: Free
  The VSO @ Bard
  July 10, 7:30 p.m. | Vanier Park
  Tickets and info: From $21
  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert
  July 13-14, 7 p.m., July 15, 2 p.m. | Orpheum Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $28
  You might think that the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, fresh from Canada Day events in Whistler, wo
  
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• Flamenco school closure and new era celebrated with Fin de Fiesta show

  04-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Fin de Fiesta
  July 8, 8 p.m. | Vancouver Playhouse
  Tickets and info: $25-$35, at brownpapertickets.com 
  Rosario Ancer can’t say exactly how many students have danced their way through her Centro Flamenco school, but if pressed she figures “thousands” have passed before her watchful eye.
  Sadly, that tradition will be coming to an end after 28 years as Ancer is closing the Vancouver school and turning her full focus to her Flamenco Rosario dance company.
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• Beauty Bar: Calvin Klein Eternity Summer eau de parfum

  04-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  What it is: A limited-edition fragrance — available in men’s and women’s iterations — that aims to, encapsulate “the serenity experienced by a couple in the middle of a desert; all they can feel is the warmth of the hot sun soaking into their skin mixed with the cool airiness of night fall as they watch the sunset.”
  The floral fragrance features fresh notes mixed with sultry additions to mimic a sun-soaked day. Eternity Summer eau de parfum opens with notes of
  
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• Making Caesar salad with Global News Morning

  04-07-2017 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  It’s National Caesar Salad Day! Watch the Global News Morning team hilariously whip up a salad in under 7 minutes.
  
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• Deadly morning crash on the Coquihalla

  04-07-2017 17:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  There are reports a fatal crash has closed the Coquihalla Highway southbound Tuesday morning.
  
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• Drs. George Carson and Wendy Levinson: Ob-gyns target reductions in unnecessary, pricey care that may harm patients

  04-07-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  
  Here is, perhaps, a surprising fact: Birth is the most common reason that Canadian women are hospitalized each year.
  There were over 350,000 babies born in hospitals across the country last year. And the most common in-hospital surgery is caesarean-section delivery, with about 100,000 performed annually. So obstetricians and gynecologists provide a lot of patient care, both for pregnancies and other aspects of women’s health.
  Here’s another fact: A recent report from the Canadian Ins
  
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• Vancouver firm wins battle for first Internet ‘protected area’

  04-07-2017 16:48
  
  Years-long legal fight for control of the new .eco Internet domain ends with local green victory.
  
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• At least two dead following accident on Coquihalla

  04-07-2017 16:44 via vancouversun.com
  
  At least two people are dead following a single vehicle accident Tuesday morning on the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5) near Kamloops.
  The accident occurred before 6 a.m. near the Logan Lake turnoff.
  CFJC-TV reports a vehicle hit a deer, went off the road and then down a 30-foot embankment.The section of the Coquihalla near the junction with Highway 97D is closed to traffic. A detour is in place.#BCHwy5 CLOSED at junction with #BCHwy97D at #LoganLake due to vehicle incident, detours ava
  
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• Terrace man charged in months-old Calgary homicide case

  04-07-2017 16:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  CALGARY — A man from British Columbia is facing a murder charge in Calgary’s 16th homicide of last year.
  Police say the body of Calvin Timothy Brooker, who was 57, was discovered in a southeast alley by a passerby on Sept. 1.
  Investigators believe he died in a nearby home before his body was moved.
  They also think Brooker and the suspect were known to one another and that a fight inside the home led to his death.
  Dennis Jan Sorge, a 33-year-old Terrace resident, has been charged with
  
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• BC man charged with murder almost a year after body found in Calgary alley

  04-07-2017 16:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary police have laid charges in the death of a man whose body was found in an alley in the community of Dover Glen last year.
  
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• Fatal crash on Coquihalla Highway Tuesday morning

  04-07-2017 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  There are reports a fatal crash has closed the Coquihalla Highway southbound Tuesday morning.
  
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• Crews on scene of burst water main in east Vancouver

  04-07-2017 16:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  A burst water main in East Vancouver has reportedly forced several families out of their homes Tuesday morning.
  The water main broke sometime early Tuesday morning and is located on Nanaimo Street, between 27th and 28th. The extent of damage to nearby homes is unknown at this time.
  TransLink has detoured the 25 along Kingsway, Slocan, 22nd Avenue, and Nanaimo instead. Check online for more updates to the transit service.
  Drivers are advised to avoid the area.
  More to come.
  
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• Crews battling multiple fires in B.C.

  04-07-2017 16:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  For more on the wildfire situation in B.C., fire information officer Noelle Kekula joined Paul Haysom on Global News Morning by phone with the latest details.
  
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• Don’t panic: message from Vancouver mortgage broker on impending interest rate hike

  04-07-2017 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Vancouver mortgage broker says homeowners should not panic in the face of an expected interest rate hike next week.
  
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• Daily Poll: Would you live in a strata-managed complex?

  04-07-2017 15:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  A Richmond man who filed a human rights complaint against his townhouse strata corporation for Mandarin-only strata meetings has moved away from the city.
  Andreas Kargut and six other residents had filed a class-action complaint because they, as English speakers, weren’t able to participate in strata meetings where only Mandarin was being spoken by the strata council for the 54-unit complex.
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• Homes evacuated after water main burst in East Vancouver

  04-07-2017 14:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Water could be seen shooting up from where the line broke just after 1 a.m. in the 4400-block of Nanaimo Street.
  
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• The Morning Skate, July 4: Try not to feel wound so tight

  04-07-2017 14:03 via theprovince.com
  
  Last night at the Nat, legendary pitcher Gaylord Perry made an appearance.
  Note, it’s pronounced Gay-lerd, not Gay-Lord like most of us assume.
  He is most famous for his spit ball.At least, he had batters think that was what he was throwing. He wasn’t caught throwing one until his 21st season, in 1982.
  Also notable: manager Alvin Dark is said to have remarked in 1963, Perry’s second big league season, that “they’d put a man on the moon before that man hit a home run
  
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• Opinion: All it took was one innovative teacher to put me on a better path

  04-07-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  My father passed away a year ago, and I’ve come to learn that he kept every piece of paper and correspondence that came his way. The other day, I was going through some things with my mom and I came across a form letter from my Grade 5 teacher addressed to my parents.
  It was dated May 1, 1981. “Parent, It has become necessary to inform you of a problem (my name inserted) is causing at school.” It went on to say that the students are supposed to eat lunch in their classrooms wit
  
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• Letters: Just ban one-time use cups and the whining will quickly fade

  04-07-2017 12:30 via theprovince.com
  
  Why can’t Vancouver ban one-time use cups? Why are we again putting convenience before the environment? Let’s make our children proud. Let’s not put money and convenience before their future.
  Try us. Ban single-use container and watch how fast habits change. Raise the bar. It’s time. Honestly, this is getting ridiculous. If we want take out, then we can bring our reusable containers. If we want coffee, we can keep some mugs in the car.
  Seriously? Who are we worried about
  
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