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• No end in sight for B.C. wildfires

  07-08-2017 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Wildfires are continuing to tear through British Columbia one month after the provincial government declared a state of emergency.
  Chief fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek says the province has seen 904 fires since April 1 and most of the major blazes wreaking havoc are ones that prompted the state of emergency declaration July 7.
  That includes the massive 1,100-square-kilometre Elephant Hill fire near Ashcroft, B.C., that is believed to be human caused and remains un
  
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• Operator of Surrey waste-disposal company fined $28,000

  07-08-2017 23:27 via vancouversun.com
  The operator of a Surrey waste-disposal company has been fined $28,00o in Surrey provincial court.
  Denny Liang, also know as Haowen Liang, a director of Fraser Valley Disposal Ltd., was fined by Judge Paul Dohn for three convictions under the regional solid-waste bylaw related to accepting unauthorized and excessive materials without reporting them from Jan. 21, 2011, to Sept. 21, 2012. 
  The judge found that Liang’s “conduct went on for a significant period of time and on multip
  
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• Vancouver woman to start English Channel swim at midnight in England

  07-08-2017 23:26 via vancouversun.com
  Jessi Harewicz is set to start her swim across the English Channel at 4 p.m. Monday Vancouver time.
  It will be midnight Monday in Dover, England when Harewicz, 34, will leave dry land for her gruelling 32-kilometre swim to France.
  She has been in England for over a week waiting for the right conditions and for the green light from the Channel Swimming Association to take to the water.
  In an email to Postmedia Monday, Harewicz said she’s ready for the endurance test. She has been busying he
  
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• Newcomers jump into cycling culture with bike orientation program

  07-08-2017 23:11
  The 3-month program, hosted by HUB and ISSofBC, introduces immigrants and refugees to the city’s cycling rules and culture.
  
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• After absence of several years, a B.C. premier marches in Vancouver Pride

  07-08-2017 22:25
  “It’s a very public way to acknowledge the importance of the community and why we still need to have pride parades"
  
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• Humble Hollywood bigwig raising funds for victim of B.C. wildfires

  07-08-2017 21:53 via vancouversun.com
  The sight of a couple on TV, talking about the loss of their home because of a wildfire burning in B.C.’s interior, really caught Larry Sugar.
  Sugar, a retired movie executive who lives in Vancouver, said the image threw his mind back 40 years, to when he and his young family lived in Los Angeles.
  He and his then wife were taking sons Michael and JB out for a family dinner; 20 minutes later, some sort of electrical fault sparked a fire and the home was quickly gone.
  “I was watching t
  
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• Expo Line maintenance continues this week

  07-08-2017 21:40
  Expo Line maintenance continues until Thursday this week and riders are being urged to possibly expect some delays after 9:30 p.m.
  
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• UFC Mexico City: Pettis’ progress should not be overlooked

  07-08-2017 21:33 via theprovince.com
  Sergio Pettis collected a very good win on Saturday night in Mexico City, surviving a miserable opening round with Brandon Moreno draped on his back, hunting for chokes before settling in and showing the talent that has made him an fighter to watch in the flyweight division from the outset of his career.
  Early in his career, Pettis tried to emulate his older brother – former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, one of the most dynamic and inventive offensive fighters in the game. They came
  
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• Celebrating BC Day with grilled Okanagan peach salad

  07-08-2017 21:32
  Chef Matt Stowe from the Joseph Richard Group cooks with fresh locally sourced ingredients in celebration of BC Day.
  
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• NAFTA: U.S. dispute over Canadian wine sales restrictions on the table

  07-08-2017 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has an issue with getting agricultural products to Canada, and it might not be the ones you think.
  “It’s an extraordinary problem for those people who are affected,” Lighthizer said June 22 when he appeared before the House of Representatives ways and means committee to talk about trade priorities. “And there is no justification for it.”
  Much of the spotlight on Canada-U.S. trade leading up to the new North
  
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• Freeland says outline of softwood deal with U.S. in place

  07-08-2017 21:11 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the outlines of a deal with the United States to resolve the softwood lumber dispute are in place.
  But she can’t predict whether the persistent trade irritant will be settled before negotiations begin on Aug. 16 to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement.
  “I do think an agreement which benefits both Canada and United States … is absolutely possible and achievable and I can see the outlines of that agreemen
  
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• Deadpool 2 filming underway in Vancouver

  07-08-2017 21:01
  Ryan Reynolds and the crew of “Deadpool 2” is back in Vancouver – shooting the sequel to the successful super hero movie. As Tanya Beja reports filming has resulted in a number of road closures
  
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• Nine people homeless after fire in Surrey

  07-08-2017 21:00
  Nine people are homeless following a fire at their housing complex in Surrey. Apparently the building was equipped with smoke detectors but they weren’t working.
  
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• Teen killed on Friday identified by police; two days later, another teen shot

  07-08-2017 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  Two days after a teen was gunned down in Abbotsford, another young man is in hospital, the victim of a Sunday morning shooting.
  About 4 a.m. Sunday, calls to 911 said shots had been fired in the 2700-block of Mitchell Street; Abbotsford police found an 18-year-old male on the ground, suffering from gunshot wounds.
  He was rushed to hospital and as of Monday morning was in good condition, Abbotsford police spokesman Cst. Ian MacDonald said.
  Carolyn Jorgensen lives nearby and said she heard th
  
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• Cloverdale resident claims home broken into, dog drugged

  07-08-2017 20:30
  "I talked to a senior doctor at the vet and he said he was most likely given pot to shut up."
  
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• Adam Zaruba learning the ropes at Philadelphia Eagles training camp

  07-08-2017 20:13 via theprovince.com
  Adam Zaruba has travelled the world with the Canadian rugby sevens team. On Thursday, he’ll likely mark another tick on his bucket list by playing in Lambeau Field.
  It’s the first NFL exhibition game for the six-foot-five 265-pounder from North Vancouver, who is looking to catch on with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Packers will be his first test.
  “It’s something that I’m having trouble wrapping my head around right now — that I’m going to play the Green
  
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• Beer and music: What's not to love?

  07-08-2017 19:45 via vancouversun.com
  Truck Stop Concert SeriesAug. 12, 4 p.m. | 295 E 1st Ave., Vancouver
  Tickets and info: $35, 19+ only, truckstopconcertseries.com
  These days, it seems breweries are a dime a dozen in Vancouver (not that anyone’s complaining).
  So, what’s a brewery to do in order to make sure it stands out from the rest? Put on a beer-soaked mini music festival, of course.
  “We wanted to offer something different for the city that no one else is doing in Vancouver,” Jim Dodds, the g
  
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• Things to do in Vancouver Aug. 11-17

  07-08-2017 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  St. John Passion
  Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m. | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
  Tickets and info: From $34, tickets.ubc.ca
  St. John Passion is one of J.S. Bach’s ‘s masterworks. Taking text from Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible, and combining it with the work of poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes, the piece calls for orchestra, choir, six vocal soloists and one evangelist. As part of Vancouver Bach Festival 2017, Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Vancouver Cantata Singers
  
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• B.C. wildfire status Monday: cool front could ease fire fight

  07-08-2017 18:47
  The overall number of fires crews are battling has dropped with only about 21 new fires starting this weekend, but the battle is far from over.
  
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• Legal pot may breathe life into small Canadian towns

  07-08-2017 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  DUNCAN, B.C. — In a tree-nestled First Nation community on Vancouver Island, forestry and farming used to be the major industries that kept the economy humming and put food on families’ tables.
  But members of the Cowichan Tribes, like people from so many small and rural towns in Canada, have seen jobs driven elsewhere through dramatic changes to those sectors.
  So when a medical marijuana company moved next door, Chief William Seymour saw an opportunity for his members to get good job
  
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• Man dead in single-vehicle crash in Vancouver

  07-08-2017 18:42 via vancouversun.com
  A Sunday morning car crash has left a 20-year-old Surrey man dead.
  About 6 a.m. the man was driving east down West 4th Avenue when Vancouver police say it appears he lost control of his car and hit a pole near the Trimble Street intersection.
  The man died of his injuries.
  This is the city’s sixth collision-related death in 2017.
  The VPD’s Collision Investigation Unit are working to determine what may have led to the collision, and are asking anyone who may have information about the
  
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• Music reviews: Wolf People, ZGTO, Harald Grosskopf/Eberhard Kraner, and Secret Drum Band

  07-08-2017 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  Wolf People
  Ruins (Jagjaguwar)
  Five albums into its career, Bedfordshire prog/psyche retro-rock act Wolf People keeps on slightly tweaking its sound without losing the original qualities that made its debut so instantly appealing.
  The band continues to make music that would have blared out of stereos in the 1970s but with a decidedly now level of restraint. Yes, Kingfisher is a lengthy guitar workout in a very Traffic-meets-Tull way — right down to the flute bits — but it’s bo
  
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• Wildfire smoke continues to affect Highway 93 for Alberta, B.C. drivers Monday

  07-08-2017 18:29
  DriveBC is recommending people use Highway 93 between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. MT on Monday of the long weekend.
  
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• Wildfire update: Cool front could help fire fight

  07-08-2017 17:43
  Chief fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek gives us an update on the wildfire fight around B.C. We’re now looking at the weather in the hopes it will help ease some of those flames.
  
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• What your swearing says about you

  07-08-2017 17:23
  We all try to control our language, but it's much easier to do that when you understand why it happens in the first place.
  
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• South Coast sill under air quality advisory

  07-08-2017 17:20
  Michael Brauer, a professor of public health at the University of British Columbia, talks to Global News Morning about people facing health issues due to the smokey air in the South Coast.
  
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• Fire destroys Surrey home leaving 9 people homeless

  07-08-2017 17:11
  Nine people have been forced out of their home and one person has been taken to hospital after a fire at a house in Surrey.
  
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• Sai Woo’s neon bird comes back to roost in Chinatown

  07-08-2017 15:00
  
  As owner of the Sai Woo restaurant on Pender Street, Salli Pateman got her moment in the sun Saturday, July 29, when the Chinatown mainstay installed a re-imagined neon sign that harkens back 60 years.
  
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• The Morning Skate, Aug. 7: What’s your favourite summer vacation spot?

  07-08-2017 14:11 via theprovince.com
  Yes, after a week’s vacation, the Morning Skate is back.
  And yes, it is B.C. Day.
  I went to the Rockies. Camped for four nights. It was great. I know not everyone likes camping, but for me, getting out into the woods, pretty much putting the phone away — that was the only piece of technology my wife and I brought on the trip — with nothing but a book and a magazine and a hammock, man that’s great.
  We cooked well. We enjoyed the stars. Sure, there was no campfire, but we d
  
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• Five things you need to know before shopping for a car

  07-08-2017 13:00 via theprovince.com
  Q: We’ve been seeing quite a few ads for new cars and specials on used vehicles, and it has us thinking. We’ve got one teen learning to drive and the other borrowing our car at every opportunity while she saves up for her own car. There’s nothing wrong with our vehicles, but our truck is definitely too big for what we normally use it for, and awkward for a new driver to drive. With our kids’ post secondary costs coming upon us sooner than we’d like, we don’t w
  
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• Clinton, B.C. area ranchers upset with back burning near the Elephant Hill wildfire

  07-08-2017 12:13
  "I went through about two kilometers on burned timber," says a Clinton-area rancher, after B.C. wildfire crews began back burning.
  
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• Celebration of Light organizers says the number of washroom facilities always a concern

  07-08-2017 12:09
  Year after year, bathroom line-ups are a concern at the Celebration of Light.
  
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• X-Files cast back in Vancouver to shoot season 11 of series revival

  07-08-2017 12:00
  The truth is out there," and so is the cast of the X-Files.
  
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• The great British Columbian road trip

  07-08-2017 09:00 via theprovince.com
  Enter: the classic road trip. Forget sweating your socks off in a boiling-hot car with a crackling radio in the background. It’s 2017! These days, consumers are thinking less about spending money on airline tickets, and more about investing in a longer-term travel solution. This means that instead of one big annual holiday, your own ticket to a local adventure is sitting right there in your driveway, just raring to go. “Make sure it’s a decent size though,” said Jami Sava
  
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• Two car collision on the Port Mann Bridge snarls traffic for hours

  07-08-2017 06:18
  A collision in the Coquitlam exit lanes on the Port Mann bridge frustrated drivers for hours on Sunday.
  
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• Shots fired at Surrey homes, RCMP probe turns up weapons, explosives

  07-08-2017 05:35 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP is investigating after bullets were fired at multiple homes and a search of the scene turned up weapons, explosives and drug production materials.
  On August 5th, police received a delayed report of gunshots to a residence in the 6800-block of 196th street. The shots had been fired the previous day. 
  At the scene, police observed that three homes had been struck by bullets. No one was injured.
  Police then located the weapons, explosives and drug production materials.
  Surrey RCMP
  
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• 'Deadpool 2' filming leads to downtown Vancouver road closures this week - Globalnews.ca

  07-08-2017 05:13 via globalnews.ca
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  'Deadpool 2' filming leads to downtown Vancouver road closures this week
  Globalnews.ca
  Sun, Aug 6: Starting Monday morning, a major street and some side streets in Downtown Vancouver will be closed to all traffic for most of the next two days. That's so film crews can shoot scenes of the latest blockbuster Ryan Reynolds movie Deadpool 2.
  
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• ‘Deadpool 2’ filming leads to downtown Vancouver road closures this week

  07-08-2017 05:13
  The filming of 'Deadpool 2' will lead to road closures in downtown Vancouver on Monday and Tuesday.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Aug 6

  07-08-2017 04:57
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 for Sunday, August 6, 2017. For the latest news and video, go to globalnews.ca/bc.
  
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• Shots fired at Surrey homes, RCMP probe turns up weapons, explosives - Vancouver Sun

  07-08-2017 04:44 via vancouversun.com
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  Shots fired at Surrey homes, RCMP probe turns up weapons, explosives
  Vancouver Sun
  Surrey RCMP is investigating after bullets were fired at multiple homes and a search of the scene turned up weapons, explosives and drug production materials. On August 5th, police received a delayed report of gunshots to a residence in the 6800-block ...and more »
  
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• Deadpool 2 filming in Vancouver, expect road closures

  07-08-2017 03:59
  Sun, Aug 6: Starting Monday morning, a major street and some side streets in downtown Vancouver will be closed to all traffic for most of the next two days. That’s so that film crews can shoot scenes of the latest blockbuster Ryan Reynolds movie Deadpool 2. As Kristen Robinson reports, it brings to mind the...
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Aug 6

  07-08-2017 03:59
  The Sunday, August 6, 2017 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• 39th annual Pride Parade Hits Vancouver

  07-08-2017 03:59
  Sun, Aug 6: The 39th annual Pride Parade kicked off Sunday in downtown Vancouver. Equality, diversity and inclusion were centre stage at one of Vancouver’s happiest events. Tanya Beja reports.
  
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• Teen injured in apparent targeted shooting in Abbotsford

  07-08-2017 03:56
  Sun, Aug 6: For the second time in three days, a young man in Abbotsford was targeted by gunfire. Early this morning, an 18-year-old was shot in East Abbotsford, he survived. There was also a shooting on Friday a short distance away that left another 18-year-old dead. Julia Foy reports.
  
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• Long weekend traffic headache on the Port Mann Bridge

  07-08-2017 03:56
  Sun, Aug 6: A long weekend traffic headache on the Port Mann Bridge today. There was a two-vehicle crash on the bridge Sunday afternoon, at least one of them rolled over. There are reports multiple patients had to be treated.
  
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• Clinton, B.C. residents and ranchers calling for apology for controlled burn gone wrong

  07-08-2017 03:55
  Sun, Aug 6: Residents and ranchers near Clinton are calling on the provincial government for an apology and compensation after a controlled burn in their community went wrong.
  
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• 20-year-old dies in Vancouver vehicle accident - News1130

  07-08-2017 03:04 via news1130.com
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  20-year-old dies in Vancouver vehicle accident
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  VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) -A 20-year-old man from Surrey is dead after losing control of his vehicle and hitting a pole on Vancouver's West Side Sunday. Police say the crash happened on West 4th Avenue and Trimble Street. It's the city's sixth ...and more »
  
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• 'Look at all the happy here today': Vancouver's Pride parade lights up the West End - CBC.ca

  07-08-2017 02:56 via cbc.ca
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  'Look at all the happy here today': Vancouver's Pride parade lights up the West End
  CBC.ca
  Equality, diversity and inclusion were centre stage at the city's 39th annual Pride parade on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of people packed into the West End to watch the festivities. Some came from all over B.C. and others from as far as Washington ...
  Famed movie director Lana Wachowski marches in Vancouver Pride ParadeVancouver Sun
  Photos: Behind the scenes at the Vancouver Pride parade before
  
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• Tiny dog still in custody of Toronto woman after ugly abuse video surfaces

  07-08-2017 02:17 via theprovince.com
  By Joe Warmington/Toronto Sun
  It was an ugly incident that’s hard to watch.
  Video posted on YouTube shows a woman who appears to hit — and at one point even bite — a tiny dog while forcibly yanking its leash as the terrified canine tries to move away from her on the TTC subway.
  Shocking and disturbing, the video garnered international media attention.
  But equally as shocking is the abused dog is still in the custody of this woman, who appears to be struggling though her own per
  
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• Photos: Vancouver Pride Parade's sea of rainbows

  07-08-2017 02:05
  There were hugs, dancing, celebrity appearances and glitter - lots and lots of glitter.
  
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