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• 6 ways you can offer help for B.C. wildfire relief efforts

  10-07-2017 23:59
  
  Hint: almost all of them involve donating.
  
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• Ready for evacuation? How to prepare and where to get information on when to leave

  10-07-2017 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Anyone on an evacuation alert should be prepared to leave their home on short notice, the B.C. government warns.
  
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• An artistic city on the Loire

  10-07-2017 23:42 via theprovince.com
  
  An hour or so after arriving in Nantes, I was stalked by a giant mechanical elephant.
  Strangely, that’s not an uncommon occurrence in this city on the Loire River, a two-hour train ride southwest of Paris. Nantes is home to Les Machines de l’Ile, an exhibition and testing grounds for the mechanical sculptures produced by the innovative company La Machine.
  Think of an amusement park that native son Jules Verne might have built, full of fantastical man-made creatures but no cotton cand
  
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• Flaggers threaten Metro Vancouver bridge shutdown over hit and run

  10-07-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  A group that represents B.C. traffic flaggers is threatening to shut down three major Metro Vancouver bridges if the driver in a recent hit and run isn’t charged.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: Thousands of evacuees seek shelter in Kamloops

  10-07-2017 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  The biggest B.C. wildfire evacuation centre is in Kamloops. It’s about 100 kilometres from the closest – and biggest – fire in the province. Paul Haysom finds out how some of the thousands of evacuees are coping.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: 100 Mile House residents told to evacuate as flames move closer

  10-07-2017 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Residents of the Central B.C. town of 100 Mile House were told to leave as flames got precariously close to their community. Ted Chernecki reports.
  
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• Interior family both fleeing and fighting wild fires at 150 Mile House

  10-07-2017 23:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  Linda Jorgensen was reduced to tears Sunday when one of her sons sent a photo of her 1,650-square-foot, two-storey home in 150 Mile House.Two days after a fire-evacuation order affecting the Cariboo community, south of Williams Lake on Highway 97, the home was still untouched even as others’ homes and structures had burned to the ground.
  Linda Jorgensen, a long-time resident of 150 Mile House, cried to learn her home was spared from the fires swirling around her community, although others
  
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• Smoke from B.C. wildfires blowing into Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and U.S.

  10-07-2017 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in British Columbia is making its way across Western Canada, and even into the United States.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: 10,000 evacuated as crews battle 231 forest fires

  10-07-2017 23:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  More than 10,000 people are under evacuation orders as firefighters battle more than 231 wildfires covering 320 square kilometres in the B.C. Interior.
  Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says 98 new fires broke out within the last 24 hours.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service has an interactive map that lists all active fires in British Columbia. Included on the map — and represented by the large flames — are 17 fires of note that pose a potential threat to public safety.  
  
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• Kendall Waston gets Gold Cup callup

  10-07-2017 23:16 via theprovince.com
  
  An injury to Costa Rica defender Bryan Oviedo has opened a Gold Cup door for Whitecaps captain Kendall Waston.
  Oviedo missed Costa Rica’s opening game on Friday against Honduras after injuring his leg during training earlier in week.
  An MRI has determined he’s suffered muscle damage and will be out two to three weeks. He’s returned to the UK, where he plays in the English Premier League for Sunderland.
  Waston originally missed out on Gold Cup selection because of a broken hand
  
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• Delta Police resort to breaking car windows to save dogs in distress

  10-07-2017 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Delta Police were forced to break the windows of two separate vehicles to rescue two dogs in distress Sunday afternoon.
  
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• B.C. wildfire: How a wet spring might have aided the inferno’s rapid spread

  10-07-2017 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  B.C. declared a state of emergency Friday after about 140 new fires broke out. By Sunday, crews were battling 220 blazes.
  
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• Prison time in deadly Surrey stabbing of Jaylen Sandhu

  10-07-2017 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The person responsible for the 2014 death of Jaylen Sandhu in Surrey has been sentenced.
  
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• Jets, cots, blankets, evacuee tracking: Ottawa steps up to help battle B.C. wildfire

  10-07-2017 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Federal aircraft, cots and blankets have arrived in B.C. following the provincial government’s call for help as wildfires continue to ravage parts of the province.
  
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• School bus drivers on standby to transport wildfire evacuees

  10-07-2017 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mon, Jul 10: Williams Lake school bus driver Al Navra talks about transporting displaced families to evacuation centres
  
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• How Vancouverites can help forest fire victims

  10-07-2017 22:08
  
  Businesses and organizations are providing ways for people to donate directly to the Red Cross's fire appeal to help those in evacuated communities.
  
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• Williams Lake retailers work to provide for evacuees

  10-07-2017 22:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mon, Jul 10: Employees of the Williams Lake Canadian Tire outlet describe their efforts to provide needed equipment and supplies to wildfire evacuees
  
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• B.C. wildfire status Monday: 14,000 residents forced from their homes

  10-07-2017 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wildfires continue to blaze across the province with dozens of communities under evacuation orders and alerts. About 14,000 people have been forced from their homes.
  
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• Ralph Goodale offers blunt advice for BC residents in or near a wildfire zone

  10-07-2017 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  During a press conference Monday, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale outlined these recommendations he and the federal government has for everyone who might find themselves in or near a wildfire evacuation zone in B.C.
  
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• Emotional B.C. family returns to home devastated by wildfire

  10-07-2017 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  British Columbia resident Angie Thorne returned to the Ashcroft Indian Reserve Sunday to see what remained after a fire engulfed the community.
  Thorne says her home, now a blackened pit, was renovated just last year.
  
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• ‘Young brave men and women stayed behind’: Tsilhqot'in unite to fight B.C. wildfires

  10-07-2017 21:38
  
  As wildfires rapidly approach Tl'etinqox First Nation, its leaders among several hundred digging in to protect what they love from 'fires that are literally around our community.'
  
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• From a black belt to home runs, Riley Adams can do it all

  10-07-2017 21:34 via theprovince.com
  
  Riley Adams’ life story currently meshes a little of Bull Durham and The Karate Kid.
  The first foray into sports for the Vancouver Canadians catcher was in martial arts when he was just three. He practised karate for a decade, earning a second-degree black belt. For the past eight years or so, he’s been focused on banishing lazy fastballs into the horizon, but he thinks he could be up to speed quickly again with his initial athletic pursuit if need be.
  “Obviously there a few of
  
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• C’s second sacker Cullen found calling balls and strikes a calling

  10-07-2017 21:33 via theprovince.com
  
  An extended conversation between Vancouver Canadians second baseman Cullen Large and an umpire could be a discussion over a decision on the field, or a swapping of war stories.
  Large, a 21-year-old from Chesterfield, Va., called balls and strikes, safes and outs, for seven years as a summer job growing up.
  He enjoyed it, to the point that he could see himself going back to it as a hobby one day. That would be tied to dates opening up on his summer calendar, and his hope is that it’s going
  
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• B.C. wildfires: Help pours in for evacuees, firefighters

  10-07-2017 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  
  KAMLOOPS — Help from other provinces and the federal government has begun to pour in for firefighters and thousands of evacuees grappling with more than 200 intense wildfires raging across British Columbia.
  About 300 firefighters and support staff from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick were expected to start arriving Monday to help relieve the pressure on roughly 1,000 B.C. firefighters battling the blazes.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he spoke with Premier Christy Cla
  
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• Vancouver Canucks’ Erik Gudbranson suits up

  10-07-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  We go shopping with Vancouver Canucks player Erik Gudbranson as he suits up at TOPMAN.
  
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• Latest on the wildfire situation around B.C.

  10-07-2017 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mon, Jul 10: Chief fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek joins Jordan Armstrong with the latest details on the wildfires burning in B.C. as of Monday, July 10 at noon.
  
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• Fort McMurray donates to BC wildfire evacuees

  10-07-2017 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta donate essentials to families displaced by wildfire evacuations
  
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• Vancouver police investigating after double murder

  10-07-2017 20:42
  
  Police are looking for witnesses after a man and woman in their 50s were found dead, a person of interest is in custody.
  
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• UPDATED: Vancouver police investigating after double murder

  10-07-2017 20:42
  
  Police are looking for witnesses after a man and woman in their 50s were found dead, a person of interest is in custody.
  
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• deadmau5 to play Pacific Coliseum Oct. 24

  10-07-2017 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  deadmau5 lots of shows in a row: pt. 2
  Tuesday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. | Pacific Coliseum
  Tickets and info: On sale Thursday, 10 a.m. from $45.85 at livenation.com
  Electronic music producer deadmau5 (a.k.a. Joel Zimmerman) launched his “lots of shows in a row” tour through the U.S. earlier in the year. The performances brought out fans of the big-eared, big-beat-dropping DJ sets ranging from throughout his career, all pumping out through his new, updated and custom-built Cube 2.1. soundstag
  
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• Update: Vancouver police investigate double murder in West End

  10-07-2017 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  
  A “person of interest” is in custody following a double murder in Vancouver’s West End on Sunday. 
  Vancouver police were called to an apartment at 1835 Morton Avenue, near English Bay beach, at 5 p.m. and discovered the bodies of a 57-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man, both residents of Vancouver.Investigators arrested a person of interest.
  “Based on the information collected so far, there is no indication that the public is at risk,” the VPD said in a relea
  
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• Fire ban extended for all of B.C.

  10-07-2017 20:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  A fire ban has been extended for all of B.C.
  
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• Vancouver police investigate double homicide in West End apartment building

  10-07-2017 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  Homicide officers are investigating a double homicide in a Vancouver West End apartment building.
  
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• Ashcroft wildfire grows to 4,400 hectares: Evacuation orders remain in place

  10-07-2017 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  The B.C. Wildfire Service says structures have been lost due to this fire but it has not been determined how many at this time.
  
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• Jay-Z announces ‘4:44’ tour with 4 Canadian stops

  10-07-2017 19:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jay-Z's 31-date tour will visit Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver.
  
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• Music reviews: Anat Cohen, Astrocolor, ADHD, The Melvins, Dale Crover

  10-07-2017 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  Anat Cohen
  Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Marcello Gonçalves) 
  Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro)(Anzic Records)
  Just in time for caipirinhas on the beach season, Israeli clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen drops two marvellous recordings of Brazilian music.
  Outra Coisa is a sublime collection of of a dozen duets performed with seven-string guitar player Marcello Gonçalves. All compositions are by Moacir Santos (1026-2006), and you can certainly hear his appreciat
  
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• Community cornerstone store goes up in flames near Williams Lake

  10-07-2017 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mon, Jul 10: VIDEO: A heartbreaking look at what was once a landmark, convenience and cornerstone of a community for people living in, and travelling through the Chilcotin. This shows the aftermath at Lee’s Corner left behind by the fire.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: 10,000 evacuated as crews battle 200 forest fires

  10-07-2017 19:11 via vancouversun.com
  
  More than 10,000 people are under evacuation orders as firefighters battle more than 220 wildfires in the B.C. Interior.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service has an interactive map that lists all active fires in British Columbia. Included on the map — and represented by the large flames — are 12 fires of note that pose a potential threat to public safety. 
  Province of B.C. wildfire map.
  B.C.’s LARGEST FIRES (as of 9:30 a.m. Monday)
  Ashcroft Reserve: The interface fire near
  
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• Seven things to do this week, July 14-20

  10-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Theatre Under the Stars: Mary Poppins
  Until Aug. 18, 8 p.m. | Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park
  Tickets and info: From $20, ticketstonight.ticketforce.com
  This Broadway musical — adapted by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh from the 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke — is an enduring hit. When the Banks family children are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are less than excited. But what they get is the magical Mary Poppins, a powerhouse of good advice (A Spoonful
  
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• Vancouver Police Department rolls out new rides

  10-07-2017 18:42
  
  The Vancouver Police Department has added two new electric motorcycles to it fleet.
  
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• Saskatchewan sending crews to help battle B.C. wildfires

  10-07-2017 18:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan is sending crews to B.C. to help with the wildfire crisis.
  
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• New Brunswick firefighters to help battle B.C. wildfires

  10-07-2017 18:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  FREDERICTON — A crew of 21 firefighters from New Brunswick is headed across the country to help battle forest fires in British Columbia.
  At least 220 fires are burning and more than 8,500 people have been forced from their homes, including about 1,500 ordered out of 100 Mile House, B.C., on Sunday night.
  Julien Bourque of Rogersville, N.B., said he’s anxious to provide “boots on the ground.”
  “They have quite a few fires there and seem pretty busy so they need help f
  
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• 1,500 hectare fire north of Princeton remains 0% contained and “out of control”

  10-07-2017 18:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  A 1,500 hectare burning north of Princeton today remains zero per cent contained.
  
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• Past firefighting success has made B.C. more vulnerable: expert

  10-07-2017 18:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  B.C. has been so successful at putting out wildfires in recent decades that it has actually created a situation where its forests are more prone to flames, says an expert.
  Lori Daniels, an associate professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, said firefighting efforts over the last 60 to 100 years have allowed for denser forests with a lot of dead material on the ground.
  Now, when the province has hot, dry weather and lightning strikes or there is a human ignition, the fir
  
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• Ashcroft Reserve fire out of control

  10-07-2017 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global BC’s Paul Haysom is in Kamloops outside the evacuation centre with more on the state of the fire in Ashcroft and how you can help.
  
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• New Brunswick firefighters head to B.C. to assist with wildfire crisis

  10-07-2017 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  At least 220 fires are burning and more than 8,500 people have been forced from their homes, including about 1,500 ordered out of 100 Mile House on Sunday night.
  
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• Williams Lake wildfires continue to rage as evacuations remain in place

  10-07-2017 17:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Numerous large wildfires burning in the Williams Lake area have prompted thousands of evacuations from neighbouring communities. 
  
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• Dramatic images show intensity of wildfires raging in B.C., western U.S.

  10-07-2017 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wildfires raging in B.C. and western United States have forced thousands to flee their homes as winds continue to fuel the devastating fires.
  
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• Fort McMurray helps B.C: 'We know exactly what's needed'

  10-07-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  FORT McMURRAY, Alta. — Seeing reports of the wildfire evacuations in British Columbia has brought back stressful memories for residents of Fort McMurray, Alta., who had to flee a massive wildfire just over a year ago.
  But they’ve sprung into action by collecting donations of supplies for first responders, driving those supplies to B.C., and offering advice and guidance for evacuees through a Facebook page.
  “Last year, everybody throughout our whole country was awesome and the s
  
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• Most British Columbians aren’t ready for an interest rate hike: MNP survey

  10-07-2017 17:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  A new survey by MNP, the insolvency trustee company, has found 73 per cent of British Columbians would have trouble absorbing an interest rate increase.
  
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