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• Photos of B.C. firefighters ignoring campfire ban posted to social media: ministry investigating

  12-07-2017 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  The photos show a group of workers in Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations uniforms gathered around a campfire near Adams Lake in B.C.'s Shuswap region.
  
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• Ed Willes: Lions’ man in the middle a constant in the middle of something new

  12-07-2017 23:43 via theprovince.com
  
  He would have been awfully thick to have missed it, but when the B.C. Lions lined up for their first game of this CFL season, Solomon Elimimian was aware things had changed dramatically in his work environment.
  Adam Bighill, his teammate of six years and alter ego at linebacker, was gone. Ryan Phillips, the COO of the secondary and an 11-year vet, was gone. There were, however, five new starters, including a safety, Louchiez Purifoy, who was a linebacker last year and a linebacker, Chandler Fenn
  
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• Residents return to scorched village of Ashcroft, BC

  12-07-2017 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  One of the communities hardest hit by the BC wildfires is the village of Ashcroft, and the devastation is evident. Paul Haysom hears from one resident who sprang into action to help douse the flames.
  
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• Weather is the biggest problem for BC’s firefighters

  12-07-2017 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  The weather in British Columbia is getting milder, so there are fewer new fires – just 12 broke out yesterday. But as Paul Johnson reports, BC is not out of the woods yet.
  
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• BC wildfires show no signs of slowing down

  12-07-2017 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  As the wildfires in British Columbia rage on, Lynn Colliar has an exclusive look at one community that’s had to endure the destructive nature of these fires.
  
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• Taxing the rich is Seattle's plan for preserving affordability

  12-07-2017 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  Amid the mansions of tech billionaires and millionaires, the luxury stores and upscale eateries, Seattle is having an existential crisis.
  There’s a deepening wealth gap and housing costs are soaring beyond the reach of many working people, including software engineers whose salaries average $120,000 a year (and those are U.S. dollars). And the question that’s being asked is: Is this a city only for the wealthy?
  Sound familiar? Well, yes. But the solution that Seattle’s city cou
  
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• B.C. wildfires’ impact on animals ‘to be horrific’: wildlife rehab facility

  12-07-2017 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  A major wildlife rehabilitation facility is bracing for the devastating impact of the B.C. wildfires on birds and mammals.
  “It’s going to be horrific,” Angelika Langen, co-founder of non-profit Northern Lights Wildlife Society in Smithers, said in an interview Wednesday.
  “We’re expecting a storm in the aftermath of the fires. It’s pretty horrible for the wildlife with this huge area affected. It’s all over. It’s going to have an impact on numbers.
  
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• B.C. First Nation under evacuation order vows to fight off police if they try and remove children

  12-07-2017 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  A B.C. First Nations chief in the province’s fire zone is vowing to stay and fight the flames – along with anyone who tries to take the community’s children away.
  
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• Vancouver General Hospital to buy new robot to help with surgeries

  12-07-2017 23:11
  
  The old robot, Jack, has already helped surgeons perform 1,000 operations in the past 10 years
  
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• Lions middle linebacker still on top of his game

  12-07-2017 23:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  He would have been awfully thick to have missed it, but when the B.C. Lions lined up for their first game of this CFL season, Solomon Elimimian was aware things had changed dramatically in his work environment.
  Adam Bighill, his teammate of six years and alter ego at linebacker, was gone. Ryan Phillips, the COO of the secondary and an 11-year vet, was gone. There were, however, five new starters, including a safety, Louchiez Purifoy, who was a linebacker last year and a linebacker, Chandler Fenn
  
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• Seaboard does Alaska cruising differently

  12-07-2017 23:08 via theprovince.com
  
  The vast majority of cruises to Alaska are more or less the same: weeklong sailings that call on the “big three” ports of Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway, plus a day’s cruising at either Glacier Bay National Park or Tracy Arm Fjord.
  Ultra-luxury line Seabourn is doing things differently. This year marks the line’s first return to Alaska (and British Columbia) in 15 years, and Seabourn is pulling out all the stops to differentiate itself.
  This starts with the 450-guest Seabo
  
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• Vancouver apartment building double homicide victims identified

  12-07-2017 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police believe the homicide was targeted and an isolated event.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Weather improves near Williams Lake

  12-07-2017 22:59 via vancouversun.com
  
  A spate of wildfires in the Interior have lead to province-wide state of emergency being declared in British Columbia. Follow along for our latest updates on the efforts to combat the blazes that have forced some 14,000 from their homes.
  THE CANADIAN PRESS — Fire officials say they’re relieved by a slight reprieve in the weather forecast that had been calling for strong winds where dozens of fires are burning.
   B.C. Wildfire Service chief information officer Kevin Skrepnek
  
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• Tallio Day 2: The hours following the 17-year-old's arrest for murder

  12-07-2017 22:50 via vancouversun.com
  
  Second in a seven-part series
  Court documents paint a picture of a remote coastal B.C. village racked by horror and confusion in the hours after the discovery, in 1983, of a murdered child.
  In the early morning of April 23, 1983, 17-year-old Phillip James Tallio found his 22-month-old cousin not breathing, and sprinted in a grief-stricken panic to wake up family members and relay the terrible news. That’s the account he has been telling for the past three decades.
  Within three hours of tha
  
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• Trump profits as taxpayers foot $15K USD hotel bill for Secret Service

  12-07-2017 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  In what appears to the first evidence of the Trump brand profiting from Donald Trump’s presidency, freedom-of-information documents show that the U.S. State Department spent more than US$15,000 to book 19 rooms at the Trump Vancouver hotel in February during the grand-opening festivities.
  The highly redacted documents were obtained by the Washington Post and reported Wednesday.
  For the hotel’s grand opening on Feb. 28, Trump’s two sons Donald Jr. and Eric, his daughter Tiffany,
  
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• Cyclist Florenz Knauer proposes to girlfriend after winning Grand Prix

  12-07-2017 22:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  The winner of this week’s New West Grand Prix is walking away with more than just a podium finish — he’s also walking away with a new fiancée.
  After placing first in the men’s division on Tuesday, German cyclist Florenz Knauer, 28, borrowed a mic while still at the podium and invited his girlfriend Alisha Lundgren onstage. The pair met when Knauer came to B.C. in 2012 and stayed with a host family while he raced in that year’s B.C. Superweek series; Lundgren&
  
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• Police identify victims in West End murder

  12-07-2017 22:46
  
  Police say murder was targeted and the general public is not at risk.
  
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• Photos capture B.C. firefighters having campfire despite fire ban

  12-07-2017 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  A group of firefighters from the B.C. Wildfire Service are taking heat on social media for holding an apparent campfire — despite a province-wide fire ban.
  The photos, posted Tuesday night to a Facebook group for residents of Clearwater, show a group of five people, clearly dressed in the red and black uniforms of the B.C. Wildfire Service, standing around a burning campfire.
  Rusty Clark, who posted the photos to Facebook, said he took the photos at Gordon Bay near the northern end of Adam
  
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• Vancouver police release names of West End murder victims

  12-07-2017 22:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Vancouver police have identified the victims of Sunday’s double homicide as 57-year-old Sandra McInnes and 51-year-old Neil Croker, both of Vancouver.
  Their bodies were discovered in a West End apartment at 1835 Morton Ave., near English Bay beach.
  Vancouver police arrested two people but they have since been released pending further investigation.The cause of death was not released.
  “The information collected so far suggests that this was a targeted, isolated event and that
  
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• Charges laid after Burnaby flaggers hit by SUV

  12-07-2017 22:34 via vancouversun.com
  
  Charges have been laid after a white SUV struck two flaggers in Burnaby two weeks ago, seriously injuring one.
  Brenda Ouma Aregay, 38, of Surrey, was charged Wednesday with two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of fail to stop at the scene of an accident and two counts of assault, according to an RCMP Burnaby news release.
  The charges relate to the hit and run of two flaggers that occurred on June 28 on 10th Avenue near Kingswa
  
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• 'Targeted' victims in Vancouver double homicide have been identified

  12-07-2017 22:28
  
  Sgt. Jason Robillard says the bodies of 57-year-old Sandra McInnes and 51-year-old Neil Croker were found in an apartment in the city's West End on Sunday evening.
  
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• Vancouver philanthropists' home sale funding health research, including that of this rat researcher

  12-07-2017 22:19 via vancouversun.com
  
  The $5.2 million sale of an important mid-century modern home in the UBC Endowment Lands has helped create a $9-million health research endowment.
  The 1953-built home was owned by Constance Livingstone-Friedman and Sydney Friedman, who left the home to UBC upon their deaths. Proceeds from the sale of the house, designed by modernist movement architect Frederic Lasserre, were combined with funds already in the Friedman Foundation endowment fund.
  The Friedmans were among the founders of the facult
  
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• B.C. investigation finds prison guards have 'discrepancies' in explaining lack of video in inmate attack

  12-07-2017 22:18
  
  An inmate at Kent Institution in Agassiz, B.C. has alleged that guards burst into his cell ahead of his prison transfer and assaulted him.
  
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• New Vancouver theatre company to bring roaring twenties’ stories to life

  12-07-2017 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  This Is Our Youth
  July 14-17, 19, 22-23, 7 and 3 p.m. | Red Gate Revue Stage
  Tickets | $20 at brownpapertickets.com
  Beau Han Bridge hopes the new theatre company he has founded will not only employ millennials, but entertain them as well.
  Formed this spring, the non-profit Midtwenties Theatre Society’s plan is to get younger audiences into live theatre seats by offering plays that depict a world familiar to them.
  “It’s for people who are not necessarily emerging but are not ful
  
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• Wine Guy: Summer wine lovin’

  12-07-2017 22:00 via theprovince.com
  
  It’s summer time, and (hopefully) the living is easy. Or if it’s not quite yet, then expectantly soon! There’s no denying that the prolonged stretch of sunny weather points to summer’s embrace, which requires a quick rethink of general wine pairing strategies. So as you ease into the summer state of mind, consider the following summer-approved wine matches.
  SpierHead 2016 Pinot Gris, British Columbia ($18.99, #746776)
  The kickback patio white. It’s not rocket scienc
  
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• B.C. Health Ministry prescribes remedy for low staff morale

  12-07-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  Five years after the firings of several researchers and contractors, the Ministry of Health is introducing a plan to boost low morale within its ranks.
  In a memo sent to staff on Monday, deputy minister Stephen Brown introduced a “reconciliation program” aimed at improving productivity, morale and engagement.
  The move was a recommendation from B.C. ombudsperson Jay Chalke, whose 487-page report on the firings found the effects of a crusading investigation and wrongful firings have be
  
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• Cool tech toys

  12-07-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mike Agerbo of Get Connected Media brings in the latest toys from Sphero including a talking spiderman and the ultimate Lightning McQueen.
  
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• Fort McMurray donations arrive in Kamloops

  12-07-2017 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wed, Jul 12: Kamloops Food Bank welcomes much-needed donations and messages of hope from Fort McMurray
  
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• Call for volunteers to help wildfire evacuees

  12-07-2017 21:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  City of Prince George urgently needs volunteers as more wildfire evacuees arrive. Nadia Stewart reports.
  
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• Lightning threatens more Cariboo region wildfires

  12-07-2017 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wed, Jul 12: Cariboo Regional District Chair Al Richmond discusses the potential for more lightning in the area and warns pleasure boaters to avoid water bomber supply routes
  
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• Wildfires smoke blankets much of British Columbia, part of Alberta

  12-07-2017 20:21
  
  Authorities in B.C. and Alberta say the smoky conditions won't improve for some time as 198 wildfires chew through just under 400 square kilometres of land.
  
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• West Vancouver police impound another car speeding on Lions Gate Bridge

  12-07-2017 20:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  Another driver has been caught shattering the 60 km/h speed limit on the Lions Gate Bridge, but this time, it was not a Ferrari.
  
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• B.C. wildfire evacuees receive touching note and gift from Fort McMurray residents

  12-07-2017 20:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Wednesday morning, a donation arrived at the food bank in Kamloops from Fort McMurray. Not only did it include 100,000 pounds of donations; it included one special gift.
  
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• Surrey woman facing numerous charges in flagger hit and run

  12-07-2017 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  A 38-year-old Surrey woman is facing several charges in connection with the hit and run of two flaggers last month.
  
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• B.C. Wildfires Live: Williams Lake residents ready to flee at moment's notice

  12-07-2017 19:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  Last week, a spate of wildfires quickly caught on and began spreading in various places across B.C., due to hot weather and tinder-dry conditions. Within days, some fires multiplied in size, leading to evacuations and a province-wide state of emergency being declared.
  Follow along for our latest updates on the efforts to combat the blazes that have forced some 14,000 from their homes.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service’s list of “fires of note” grew by three on Wednesday with the additi
  
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• Anti-poverty advocates to protest pot dispensary linked to SRO owners

  12-07-2017 19:49
  
  Sahota family—who own condemned Balmoral Hotel and other Downtown Eastside residences—face new controversy over link to City Hall marijuana shop appeal hearing.
  
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• Driver who struck Burnaby flaggers charged with driving offences

  12-07-2017 19:45 via vancouversun.com
  
  The driver of the white SUV who struck two flaggers in Burnaby two weeks ago, seriously injuring one, has been charged with a long list of offences.
  Brenda Ouma Aregay, 38, of Surrey, was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of failing to stop at the scene of an accident and two counts of assault.
  “As this matter is now before the courts there will be no further information provided
  
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• Whitecaps’ Alphonso Davies named to MLS Homegrown Game

  12-07-2017 19:24 via theprovince.com
  
  Alphonso Davies is the player for the new millennium.
  The Vancouver Whitecaps FC midfielder became the first player born in 2000 or after to score in any senior national team game worldwide. The 16-year-old scored two goals for Canada in last week’s 4-2 win over French Guiana in the opening game of the Gold Cup, making him the youngest goalscorer in Gold Cup and Canadian men’s national team history. He then followed that up with another goal in Tuesday’s 1-1 draw with Costa Ric
  
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• Drone video shows devastation in Boston Flats after wildfire rips through region

  12-07-2017 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  A drone video taken on Tuesday in the Boston Flats region, near Ashcroft, gives viewers an idea of the devastation from the wildfire that ripped through the region.
  
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• Blue Jays send another first-rounder to the Nat, assigning Warmoth to the C’s

  12-07-2017 19:08 via theprovince.com
  
  The Toronto Blue Jays assigned shortstop Logan Warmoth, the 22nd overall pick from last month’s amateur draft, to the Vancouver Canadians today. No word yet on whether the Longwood, Fla., native will  be in the line-up for tonight’s series opener at Nat Bailey Stadium against the Spokane Indians.
  He played yesterday for the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays, a rookie-league team based in Dunedin, Fla.
  This evening’s contest at the Nat kicks off an eight-game homestand for the C&
  
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• Getting those jams and jellies just right

  12-07-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Blueberry jam spiked with Pinot Noir, upper left, is one of several preserves Tom Douglas teaches you to make in his Dahlia Bakery Cookbook.
  I never go to Seattle without a visit to chef-owner Tom Douglas’s Dahlia Bakery to pick up jars of his seasonal jams and jellies. At his 16 restaurants, Douglas cooks the food most of us want to eat.
  “We want you to know, when you eat here, that you’re in the city of Seattle,” he says. No one does that better than he does.
  In his Dah
  
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• Staying at Trump Vancouver? Your credit card info may have been hacked

  12-07-2017 18:49 via vancouversun.com
  
  If you made a booking sometime last November for a future stay at Trump Vancouver, you too may be the victim of hacking.
  The latest comes just months after the luxury chain paid a $50,000 penalty related to a previous security breach that resulted in fraudulent charges being made on customers’ credit cards.
  According to a notice posted to the Trump Hotels website recently, a digital security breach has compromised the names, phones, emails, addresses, and credit card information — in
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: Is the stage set for another interest rate hike in October?

  12-07-2017 17:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  In the wake of the Bank of Canada interest rate hike this morning, the stage may be set for another increase in October.
  
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• City of Prince George urgently needs volunteers as more wildfire evacuees arrive

  12-07-2017 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  The City of Prince George is putting out an urgent call for volunteers as more wildfire evacuees arrive in the city.
  
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• What the Bank of Canada interest rate hike means to you

  12-07-2017 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Credit Counselling Society of B.C. says today's interest rate hike shouldn't be a big problem for most consumers, however if they continue to go up, a lot of people could quickly get into financial difficulties.
  
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• Canadian Country Music Association Awards Nominee Announcement

  12-07-2017 17:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Country music star Aaron Pritchett announces the five nominees for the CCMA’s Group or Duo of the Year. He also reacts to his nominations for Video of the Year and Male Artist of the Year.
  
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• MADDEAUX: Selfies can kill you

  12-07-2017 17:19
  
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• Daily Poll: How prepared are you for an emergency evacuation?

  12-07-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  In recent days, some 14,000 people have been evacuated due to wildfires across B.C. and for many, there was no time to prepare.
  On Wednesday, the city of Williams Lake was expected to find out if its residents would be ordered to evacuate. Residents had earlier been placed on alert and told to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice if weather conditions on Wednesday forced flames closer towards the city.
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  B.C. Wildfires Live: Resources mobilized from across B.C. and AlbertaThe Hance
  
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• Appeal for volunteers to help evacuees heading to Prince George

  12-07-2017 17:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The City of Prince George is appealing to the public for volunteers to help the influx of wildfire evacuees entering the city.
  
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