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• Nicknames abound for feisty red-tailed hawk in bald eagle family

  21-07-2017 23:55 via vancouversun.com
  A red-tailed hawk chick being raised by a family of bald eagles in Sidney on Vancouver Island has become so famous he’s been given nicknames by birders.
  The chick has been called Stephen Hawking, after the noted British physicist who has beaten the odds and lived with motor neurone disease since the 1960s. He’s also being called Hawklet and Little Eaglet.
  Another nickname is Little Big Man, the title of a Hollywood movie about a European settler raised from childhood in the 19th cent
  
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• Severance packages for fired BC Liberals cost taxpayers millions - Vancouver Sun

  21-07-2017 23:30 via vancouversun.com
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  Severance packages for fired BC Liberals cost taxpayers millions
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  Premier John Horgan's government paid $11 million in severance packages to fire 133 Liberal appointees. CHAD HIPOLITO / THE CANADIAN PRESS. Share Adjust Comment Print. VICTORIA — The new NDP government's transition to power cost taxpayers ...
  BC Hydro president and CEO Jessica McDonald firedStraight.comall 78 news articles »
  
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• RCMP investigating suspicious Okanagan fire that destroyed eight homes

  21-07-2017 23:25 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties in Lake Country say they are continuing to investigate a “suspicious” fire that destroyed eight homes and have set up a dedicated tip line to encourage anyone with information to contact police.
  The fast-spreading fire broke out Saturday and forced people to flee their homes, but residents of 58 properties were allowed to return earlier this week.
  Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said resources from Lake Country, Kelowna and the South East District area have been pooled to conduct an in-de
  
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• BC Hydro president Jessica McDonald fired

  21-07-2017 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  BC Hydro's president Jessica McDonald has been fired.
  
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• Bellingham, Blaine and the Semiahmoo peninsula offer lots of options

  21-07-2017 23:14 via theprovince.com
  You can stay close yet feel far away just 80 kilometres from Vancouver.
  With two interesting and very walkable neighbourhoods to explore—downtown Bellingham and Fairhaven—visitors will find a small-town America allure. Even closer, Semiahmoo Resort, Golf and Spa, has more to offer than its famous golf courses: it’s the perfect getaway for R&R and great dining.
  All we can hear from our beach-front balcony is the call of loons. Close to shore sea lions pop up their heads and
  
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• Foodie Friday: B.C. nugget warm potato salad

  21-07-2017 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  This week we are looking at B.C. nugget potatoes.
  
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• 70 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, July 22 - Straight.com (blog)

  21-07-2017 23:05 via straight.com
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  70 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, July 22
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  Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 70 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, July 22. CONCERTS. Former Murderdolls frontman Wednesday 13 plays the Rickshaw, with guests Invidia, ...
  The Happenings: Three things to do in Vancouver this weekendVancouver Sunall 3 news articles »
  
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• Prince George caring for 'small city' of wildfire evacuees

  21-07-2017 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — Paul Austin and Summer Bifano and their four children fled Williams Lake the day after lightning started fires across the Cariboo.
  They didn’t wait for the evacuation order that would come a week later, concerned that the thick smoke was not good for their children Tiava, 17, Jennelle, 15, Joshua, 11, and William, 9.
  “The smoke was just too bad,” said Austin, noting that one of the boys developed a nosebleed.
  On July 8, they headed three hours north in a t
  
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• Sold (Bought): New Westminster condo big on outdoor space

  21-07-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
   
  A snapshot of residential buying trends in Metro Vancouver
  This home at 401 – 220 Salter Street, New Westminster sold for $890,000.
  The big sell: According to listing agent Karel Palla, this transaction represented the highest priced sale of a resale condo in Queensborough to date. The attraction? A two-level penthouse in New Westminster’s Glasshouse Lofts complex that boasts almost 600-square-feet of outdoor space with a rooftop deck that flaunts sweeping Fraser River views,
  
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• Man punches grizzly bear in the nose in fight for survival during B.C. beachcombing trip

  21-07-2017 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  QUALICUM BEACH — A British Columbia man’s beachcombing trip turned into a harrowing fight for survival as a grizzly bear flailed him around “like a puppet.”
  Fifty-seven-year-old Randal Warnock says he had been walking on the beach on Brown Island on B.C.’s central coast near Rivers Inlet for about 15 minutes when a bear came out of a bush and attacked him.
  Warnock says he tried to reach for his knife but dropped the weapon as the bear started shaking him by his righ
  
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• Medical records sent to stranger in error

  21-07-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Saanich resident Manjeet Manhas, 52, got one of the shocks of his life this week when he learned that his comprehensive medical records since 2000 was sent in error to a stranger in Nanaimo, who telephoned him with the disturbing news.
  His records cover about 85 pages. Another 25 pages with his son’s medical records were also sent to the Nanaimo man, along with those of several other people. Manhas, a Canada Post letter carrier, said he felt violated by the breach.
  Th
  
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• Victoria's Ship Point revitalization a case of unpaving paradise

  21-07-2017 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  Ship Point Revitalization Concept Plan.
  VICTORIA — Like the Joni Mitchell song in reverse, the City of Victoria hopes to replace a parking lot with a bit of paradise as it revitalizes Ship Point.
  Ship Point — the parking lot below Wharf Street at Fort Street — has for years been derided for providing parked cars with some of the best views in the city.
  “A key and potentially beautiful site along the waterfront being used as a parking lot has long not been viewed as the be
  
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• B.C. Education Minister suggests using Vancouver’s by-election to elect new school board

  21-07-2017 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  Rob Fleming said the NDP wants to see the democratic process "restored."
  
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• Destructive Lake Country wildfire may have been deliberately set

  21-07-2017 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  "At this time we are treating this fire as suspicious and believe it to be human caused."
  
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• Vancouver police ramping up efforts to prevent crime with new prediction technology

  21-07-2017 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  The VPD will be the first police force in Canada to use a new computerized crime prediction model.
  
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• Police seeking two vehicles involved in Surrey drive-by targeted shoot

  21-07-2017 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating a drive-by shooting in Surrey that took place Thursday evening.
  Surrey RCMP received multiple calls around 8:30 p.m. reporting gunfire in the 9400 block of 130A Street in Whalley. Witnesses told police there were shots being fired from one vehicle at another, in what they said was probably a target attack.
  Police found evidence the shots fired, but the vehicles were gone when police arrived.
  Investigators believe the shots were fired from a recent-model two-door charcoal
  
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• Chez Christophe: Baking with blueberries

  21-07-2017 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Award-winning pastry chef Christophe Bonzon makes a delicious dessert featuring blueberries (the item is called “Breakfast on the Coast”).
  
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• Baking with blueberries

  21-07-2017 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Award-winning pastry chef Christophe Bonzon makes a delicious dessert featuring blueberries (the item is called “Breakfast on the Coast”).
  
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• False Creek clean-up: How will it work?

  21-07-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Vancouver is looking to improve the water quality of some of the city’s most contaminated locations.
  
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• B.C.'s independent police watchdog clears Port Hardy RCMP officer of fatal shooting

  21-07-2017 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY — An RCMP officer on Vancouver Island has been cleared of any potential wrongdoing following a fatal shooting two years ago.
  The Independent Investigations Office has issued its report into the July 2015 shooting in Port Hardy.
  It says officers encountered the knife-wielding man after he had made threatening comments to others in the northeastern Vancouver Island community.
  Investigators say numerous witnesses describe the suspect as “lunging toward” the two officers as
  
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• First major wildfires begin burning in southeast B.C.

  21-07-2017 21:21 via vancouversun.com
  CASTLEGAR — Firefighters are responding to 18 active wildfires in southeast British Columbia as the province’s state of emergency is set to continue for at least another two weeks.
  Seven of the fires were sparked Thursday and the B.C. Wildfire Service says some of the blazes are visible from surrounding towns, but none is immediately threatening communities or homes.
  The fires include a 70-hectare blaze burning in the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park on the northeast si
  
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• Balmoral stabilized, but advocates concerned building will sit empty

  21-07-2017 21:04
  The City of Vancouver ordered the Balmoral Hotel be evacuated by June 12 because the neglected SRO was at risk of collapse.
  
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• Investigators try to piece together final moments of Marrisa Shen’s life

  21-07-2017 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  It’s still not known if the murder of 13-year-old Marrisa Shen was targeted or if her death was the result of a random act. As Jordan Armstrong reports a memorial is growing at Burnaby’s Central Park – as locals try to make sense of the tragedy.
  
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• Town Tall: Fourth of July event squeaked in ahead of France's Bastille Day

  21-07-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  SO LONG: Had the U.S. Consulate’s usual Fourth of July reception occurred one day later, it would have shared France’s July 14 Bastille Day. “Make America late again,” one attendee joked. With the consular residence in Shaughnessy under renovation and an expected U.S. warship deployed elsewhere, the event took place at the Vancouver Aquarium. In what was her swan song, consul general Lynne Platt congratulated then-incoming B.C. premier John Horgan and aquarium president J
  
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• Daylight shooting at Chilliwack tire store

  21-07-2017 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Chilliwack RCMP were called to the Kal Tire store 43000-block of Progress Way after getting reports of a shooting at 9 am.
  
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• ‘We’re open!’: Okanagan tourism sector says fires shouldn’t stop visitors

  21-07-2017 20:46 via globalnews.ca
  "It's safe to say it's been a challenging year for tourism operators."
  
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• Head-on crash closes down Highway 97 in the south Okanagan

  21-07-2017 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  It's believed the driver of a car was passing another vehicle on a double-solid line when it collided with an on-coming pickup truck.
  
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• Mom bakes breast milk brownies for school bake sale, online outrage ensues

  21-07-2017 20:21 via theprovince.com
  They say breast is best when it comes to nurturing a baby.
  That message doesn’t translate well when it comes to baked goods.
  An unnamed mother has stirred up outrage on Facebook after she made brownies with breast milk for a school bake sale.
  A post on the Sanctimommy Facebook page revealed the mother’s dilemma when she ran out of cow’s milk as an ingredient for her baking and decided to use her own breast milk as a substitution.
  “I didn’t have time to run to the st
  
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• Meet the chef: Wine drives menu of Ashley Chisham at Bacchus Bistro

  21-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Executive chef Ashley Chisham has helped turn Bacchus Bistro into one of the Fraser Valley’s hidden gems. Nestled in the Domaine de Chaberton winery, Bacchus boasts a wine-driven, French- and Mediterranean-influenced local cuisine.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: My family motivates me to be a better person all around. I have a wife and four kids and I want to keep being better for them. As a chef, I get to work with a lot of local producers in the Fraser Valley, and being
  
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• Fab 5: Coat tales

  21-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The sun may be shining, but cool summer evenings (or over-enthusiastic office air con) still mean a lightweight jacket is still an essential. Luckily, this season, the options are aplenty. From embroidered oversized denim numbers to elegant kimonos, consider yourself armed and ready with these five summer jackets.
  DAYTIME SAFARI
  Have safari jacket, will travel? Even if your summer doesn’t include a long-haul, there’s something about a safari jacket that inspires adventure and wanderl
  
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• Drowsy Chaperone’s talent sparkles under the stars

  21-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Drowsy Chaperone
  To Aug. 19 | Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park
  Tickets and info.| $30-$49 at tuts.ca
  A little man in a sweater vest, in love with old musicals, invites us into his home and puts his favourite cast recording on the record player. It’s The Drowsy Chaperone from 1928, back when ” ‘a gay wedding’ just meant ‘fun’.” Then he sits in his chair and conjures the entire show for us.
  Will the glamorous showgirl give up her career to marry the cute rich
  
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• Brian Minter: Appreciate local food by picking it yourself

  21-07-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In today’s high-density living, especially in urban areas, how many folks have actually picked a fresh fruit from a plant and enjoyed its rich natural flavour?
  Let’s face it, most fresh fruits are purchased in grocery stores where the source of the food is often not known, or it comes from some distance away.  At farmers’ markets, you have a sense that the berries and vegetables are locally grown and picked recently but this is not always the case, particularly in larger m
  
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• Support services expand for Princeton wildfire evacuees

  21-07-2017 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  The Princeton wildfire broke out two weeks ago and has partially scorched about 3300 hectares.
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Few have done as much with as little fuss as Sandhill's Howard Soon

  21-07-2017 19:45 via vancouversun.com
  The first time I met Howard Soon he was working in Port Moody at the old Calona Wines facility back in the early 1980s.
  As the longest active winemaker in the country — with 37 vintages under his belt — the affable master winemaker will retire early next week to spend more time with his wife Wendy and his family.
  Soon’s departure on July 24 leaves parent company Peller Estates and Soon’s beloved Sandhill Wines with a terrific legacy, and a huge hole to fill in the Okanaga
  
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• Vancouver seeks approval to spend remainder of $3.5M opioid crisis fund - Vancouver Sun

  21-07-2017 19:43 via vancouversun.com
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  Vancouver seeks approval to spend remainder of $3.5M opioid crisis fund
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  A man walks past a mural about the fentanyl and opioid overdose crisis in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in December. DARRYL DYCK / CP files. Share Adjust Comment Print. Vancouver city staff will seek council approval next week to spend the ...
  Vancouver's request for cash to address opioid crisis would drain budgetMetroNews Canadaall 3 news articles »
  
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• FedEx Canada set to close all retail office locations, more than 200 layoffs expected

  21-07-2017 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  The closures will leave 214 employees without a job.
  
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• Vancouver seeks OK to spend remainder of $3.5M opioid crisis fund

  21-07-2017 19:42 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city staff will seek council approval next week to spend the remainder of the city’s dedicated $3.5 million contingency budget for the opioid crisis.
  Just $601,800 remains from the contingency budget that was approved in January this year. If approved, the remaining funds will go toward five front-line priorities, including anti-stigma programs, outreach, and expanding interventions beyond the Downtown Eastside.
  Of the five areas identified, the largest share is $265,070 that wil
  
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• RCMP hopes video of murdered Burnaby teen will prompt people to share sightings

  21-07-2017 19:33
  
  Video shows 13-year-old Marrisa Shen entering a building on July 18 near Central Park, where her body was found early the next morning.
  
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• Mounties helping B.C. livestock displaced by fires

  21-07-2017 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  Thousands of people have been displaced by wildfires in British Columbia, but the flames have also forced livestock left behind to flee beyond their enclosures.
  
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• FedEx Office stores closing in Canada at the cost of 214 jobs

  21-07-2017 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  TORONTO — Shipping giant FedEx is closing its FedEx Office stores in Canada after 32 years in the country.
  Spokeswoman Stacey Sullivan says FedEx Office will close its 24 stores, a manufacturing plant in Markham, Ont., and its head office in Toronto.
  The move will result in the loss of 214 jobs, but will not affect FedEx’s shipping business in Canada, she said, adding the decision was made after assessing current and future business prospects.
  Eighteen of the stores are in Ontario, f
  
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• Maple Ridge’s Tyler O’Neill traded by Mariners to Cardinals

  21-07-2017 19:14 via theprovince.com
  Maple Ridge slugger Tyler O’Neill is on the move.
  The Seattle Mariners traded their No. 2 prospect to the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday, receiving southpaw pitcher Marco Gonzales in return.
  The 22-year-old O’Neill was a third-round pick in the 2013 draft, 85th overall, being taken by the Mariners right out of Garibaldi Secondary school. The 5-foot-11, 210-pound O’Neill had hit 19 home runs and 56 RBI for triple-A Tacoma of the Pacific Coast League, with a .244 average through 9
  
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• Patrollers checking for sprinkling restriction cheaters in Kelowna

  21-07-2017 19:12 via globalnews.ca
  "The Rutland Waterworks system currently running above normal levels to meet the outside water demands."
  
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• Kingston Company Mobile Kitchens helps firefighters battling BC wildfires

  21-07-2017 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  An employee describes what he saw when we went to Williams Lake BC to help the firefighters
  
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• Q&A with Lions receiver Nick Moore

  21-07-2017 18:55 via theprovince.com
  We talked with Nick Moore earlier this week about how he played through grief last Saturday in Hamilton, lacing on his cleats despite learning of the death of one of his best friends just before game time. Get to know the Lions’ wideout a bit better, and which of his teammates is a big Spongebob fan, in our weekly Q&A.
  Q: Last week, you reeled in 10 passes for a whopping 220 yards and a touchdown en route to the Lions taking down the Tiger-Cats 41-26 in Hamilton. How does that performa
  
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• Police incident in Chilliwack; car on fire under Vedder Canal Bridge

  21-07-2017 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  It appears Chilliwack RCMP are dealing with a major incident Friday morning.
  
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• This week in history: The beginning of the Klondike gold rush

  21-07-2017 18:33 via vancouversun.com
  On July 14, 1897 the steamboat Excelsior sailed into San Francisco Bay after a long journey from St. Michael’s, Alaska.
  Its arrival set off one of the world’s great gold rushes.
  “SACKS OF GOLD FROM THE CLONDYKE,” blared a front-page headline in the San Francisco Chronicle.
  “Half a Million Dollars in Dust on One Steamer. Fifteen Miners Come With Fortunes.”
  The Vancouver World had printed an item on the “Rich Clondyke” on July 9, when it reported &ld
  
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• Three days in Moscow

  21-07-2017 18:14 via vancouversun.com
  “People, not politics!” said the Russian Toronto Maple Leafs fan we met in Moscow, slapping my husband on the back. It was more proof that almost everything we’d heard about Moscow was wrong, as in, there’s not much to see, people don’t speak English and they aren’t partial to Westerners.
  Moscow, the largest, coldest, northernmost city in Europe, wrapped us up in a big friendly bear hug. People went out of their way to point us in the right direction when we w
  
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• Translink refurbishment project on track

  21-07-2017 17:45 via vancouversun.com
  Translink is in the midst of refurbishing all 114 of the Expo-era SkyTrain cars, which represent 40 per cent of the entire SkyTrain fleet.
   
  BC Rapid Transit Company vehicle project technicians Loris Michelin (right) and Jimmy Whitelock dismantle Skytrain cars at the company’s OMC2 maintenance facility in Burnaby. One hundred and fourteen Expo-era train cars, representing 40 per-cent of the Skytrain fleet, are in the midst of being refurbished.
  BC Rapid Transit Company vehicle project
  
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• The ultimate BBQ breakfast sandwich

  21-07-2017 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  Global News Morning BC’s Paul Haysom takes over as pit master to show us how to make a perfect morning meal on the grill.
  
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• RCMP investigating after shots fired in Surrey

  21-07-2017 17:23 via globalnews.ca
  Several people said they heard shots fired just after 8 p.m. Thursday in the 9400-block of 131A Street.
  
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