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• Foodie Friday: Wonderful watermelon margarita recipe

  11-08-2017 23:59
  This week we're looking how to make the perfect summer watermelon margarita.
  
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• NEB approves Northeastern BC pipeline expansion project

  11-08-2017 23:47
  The pipeline is currently a loop of the Westcoast Energy Fort St. John Mainline. The expansion would add 27 kilometres of pipeline to the existing route.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Bountiful parents jailed for trafficking 13-year-old

  11-08-2017 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK – For the first time, a fundamentalist Mormon woman has been convicted and jailed for her role in the polygamous marriage of her under-aged daughter.
  Emily Ruth Gail Blackmore, 60, was sentenced Friday to seven months in jail and 18 months’ probation for the removal of her 13-year-old daughter from Canada for an unlawful purpose.
  The girl’s 71-year-old father, Brandon James Blackmore, was sentenced to 12 months in jail and 18 months’ probation.
  Both parents also
  
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• UPDATE: 'Let's go and get him,' witness heard before man killed in Burnaby Starbucks

  11-08-2017 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  About a month ago, a young man died after an altercation inside a Burnaby Starbucks that a witness says left him unconscious and bleeding profusely on the floor.
  It was a shocking incident inside a popular coffee shop, but the public only heard about it from media reports for the first time this week. Police did not issue any statements about the tragedy and no charges have been laid.
  A civil rights group is raising questions about why police kept the man’s death under wraps. And while med
  
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• Vancouver reports 18 overdose deaths in July

  11-08-2017 23:38
  That's down from 26 deaths in the city in June.
  
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• Shapo saves Canada's bacon in rough Rogers Cup

  11-08-2017 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  It was a big week for the accelerating transition from conventional broadcast sport television to video streaming when Disney Corporation announced it had taken full control of BAMtech, Major League Baseball’s impressive digital platform that made “Baseball Advanced Media” the industry leader worldwide.
  Ownership control of the company now valued at $3.76 billion US will not only give Disney a streaming service to compete with the Netflixes of the world, it wi
  
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• Massage therapist bent out of shape over vandalism

  11-08-2017 23:31
  
  A West Side massage therapist was left shaking her heading and sweeping up the remnants of several flower pots after vandals targeted the clinic over the B.C. Day long weekend.
  
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• Her pet project is to set up text warnings about cat-snatching coyotes

  11-08-2017 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  Coyotes snatching cats isn’t new, but a Vancouver cat-lover is hoping to pilot an attempt at thwarting the critters from grabbing some cat chow.
  Judith Webster hopes to set up a group text network to warn neighbours when coyotes are out and about.
  “Please don’t let your cats out early in the morning or in the evening,” Webster urged. “Supervise them and even in the daytime coyotes have been seen stalking backyards.”
  In the East Van area, a cat-carrying coyote
  
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• Vancouver takes another step toward creating permanent plaza on Robson Street

  11-08-2017 23:23
  
  The 800-block of Robson Street will be closed to the public today (Aug. 11) as the city paves the area.
  
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• Vancouver Mural Festival celebration set for Saturday

  11-08-2017 23:14
  
  The second Vancouver Mural Festival will toast art, creativity and community Saturday with the Mount Pleasant Street Party.
  
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• Backcountry access banned in B.C.'s Cariboo region where wildfires rage

  11-08-2017 22:56 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Access to the backcountry has been banned in a large swath of British Columbia’s Interior as wildfire crews gear up for a challenging weekend.
  Kevin Skrepnek with the B.C. Wildfire Service says winds are expected to pick up Saturday with a change in the weather and that risks fuelling fires already burning throughout the Cariboo fire centre.
  The ban starts immediately, covering 103,000 square kilometres in south central B.C., and Skrepnek says it is intended to maintain sa
  
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• Summer gardening plans bring winter vegetable feasts

  11-08-2017 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  Right now we are in the middle of harvesting fresh produce from our summer gardens and containers, so it seems a little odd to begin seeding and transplanting for winter, but if you want to enjoy some wonderful winter crops timing is everything — and now is the time to start planning for some winter produce.
  Growing winter vegetables to enjoy from very late fall until March of the following year is really catching on, especially with people interested in the benefits of homegrown or locall
  
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• B.C. Green leader questions quick rejection of photo radar

  11-08-2017 22:40 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is questioning the NDP’s swift rejection of photo radar and no-fault insurance as possible solutions to the financial crisis at ICBC.
  Weaver said Thursday that Attorney General David Eby was too quick to rule out those options as a way to get the insurance corporation’s skyrocketing costs under control.
  “I was a little disappointed when Mr. Eby started taking things off the table before he’d even taken a step back and looked at it ful
  
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• This Week in History: 1907 The Asiatic Exclusion League is formed

  11-08-2017 22:33 via vancouversun.com
  Anti-Asian hysteria was rampant on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s.
  In San Francisco, whites formed the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League in 1905. Two years later, a Canadian version appeared in Vancouver, the Asiatic Exclusion League.
  “The object of this organization is to work for the exclusion from the Dominion of Canada, its territory and its possessions, all Asiatics by the enforcement of an act similar to the Natal act,” said a story in the Vancouver World
  
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• Wildfire haze to begin clearing this weekend as weather shifts: Metro Vancouver

  11-08-2017 22:30
  "It's going to take a little bit of time for all of the smoke to clear out as it's been pretty persistent and there's still quite a lot of smoke in our air shed."
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Is Site C the wrong energy project for B.C.?

  11-08-2017 22:00 via vancouversun.com
   
  This week Conversations That Matter looks at Site C from the legal perspective of two Treaty 8 First Nations, the West Moberly and Prophet River, who say their rights are being infringed upon. We also have a conversation about B.C. Hydro’s numbers. Do they add up?
  While Gordon Christie, an Indigenous legal rights lawyer, and Eoin Finn, of the NGO Pacific Electricity Ratepayers Association, approach topic of Site C from different perspectives, each argues that Site C is the
  
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• Charges laid after two transit police officers injured in separate assaults

  11-08-2017 21:53
  One of the officers suffered a hyper extended knee, and the other a disfiguring cut to the hand.
  
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• Floral infused cocktails from Babylon

  11-08-2017 21:31
  Babylon Cocktail Director Jacob Sweetapple mixes up some floral infused cocktails.
  
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• Recent visa changes could make Whistler worker shortage even worse

  11-08-2017 21:13
  Aussies Arvid Finlayson and Amanda Larkins are both employed at a popular Whistler bar where 90 per cent of the workforce is from Australia but their working holiday will soon come to an end.
  
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• Man arrested for blocking trail, allegedly waving knife at cyclist

  11-08-2017 21:12
  Police arrested a man for blocking a trail and allegedly waving a knife at a cyclist in Victoria.
  
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• ‘Roller-coaster’ ride of a season thus far for Riders

  11-08-2017 21:08 via theprovince.com
   
  REGINA — The 2017 Saskatchewan Roughrigers are better than last year’s underperforming squad so far, but just barely.
  A third of the way through this season, the Roughriders (2-4) have just one more win than they did at this time last year as they prepare to try and even a home-and-home series with the visiting B.C. Lions on Sunday.
  Quarterback Kevin Glenn, who wasn’t part of last year’s squad that had a dismal 1-5 record at this point, said inconsistency is his te
  
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• Parents from B.C. polygamist community sentenced to jail

  11-08-2017 21:02
  Two parents from the polygamous community of Bountiful are going to jail for taking their under-aged daughter across the border to be married.
  
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• From counter-culture childhood to book-writing present

  11-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Between modelling and authoring careers, Cea Sunrise Person designed and made bikinis favoured by actresses Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and others.
  BUSH TO BOOKS: A counter-culture, backwoods upbringing with glamorous, high-fashion career to follow sounds like any autobiographer’s best assets. Adding a husband-and-three-kids suburban lifestyle would be icing on the best-seller cake. In fact, Cea Sunrise Person signs herself that way: best-selling author. That’s based on the HarperCol
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canada struggling to 'absorb' immigrants: report

  11-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Assimilation? Integration? Absorption?
  There’s nothing like a dispute over words to get Canadians to pay attention – and in this case that might not be a bad thing.
  This month Manitoba responded to two complaints by barring a driver from continuing to use his two-year-old licence plate “ASIMIL8.”
  The word “assimilate” has been used to describe the process by which Indigenous people and immigrants could mix into the larger culture. Some Canadians consider it of
  
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• Big sections of B.C.’s backcountry could soon be off limits

  11-08-2017 21:00
  Bad news for hikers and campers. Big sections of B.C’s backcountry could soon be off limits because of the risk of wildfires. Jen Palma has details.
  
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• RCMP apologizes, settles suit with West Vancouver woman acquitted of human slavery

  11-08-2017 20:57
  "I just want to leave behind everything and think of it as a nightmare and just resume my normal life."
  
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• MINISO sets up shop on Granville Street

  11-08-2017 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  There are two words every shopper loves to hear: affordable and stylish. 
  Whether you are shopping for home accent items or lifestyle goods, finding an item that’s both a good deal and on-trend can be a challenge. 
  A new shop in downtown Vancouver is looking to offer both elements — through a wide range of product categories.
  We chatted with Yi Ma, vice-president of business development for MINISO, in advance of the Aug. 12 launch event, which will include a ribbon-cutting
  
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• Jail sentences for two members of B.C. polygamous sect in child bride case

  11-08-2017 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK – Brandon James Blackmore, 71, was sentenced Friday to a year and prison and 18 months probation for taking his 13-year-old daughter to the United States to be placed in a polygamous marriage with the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
  Blackmore’s estranged wife, Emily Ruth Gail Blackmore, 60, was given seven months in prison and 18 months probation for her part in the removal of their daughter.
  The daughter – now an adult, but
  
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• Robson Street block one step closer to becoming a permanent plaza

  11-08-2017 20:31
  Robson Street's 800 block is one step closer to becoming a permanent plaza this week.
  
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• The Bald and The Beard embrace Amazing Race Canada thrill ride

  11-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  They call themselves The Bald and The Beard.
  To fans of The Amazing Race Canada, they made their mark this season as determined father-and-son team Shabbir and Zed Dhalla.
  It looked like the Vancouver-based pair had a solid shot to win two cars, a trip around the world and the $250,000 grand prize — until their chances were wiped out in an intense challenge at an urban beach club in Bangkok, Thailand.
  It all played out during a recent episode when&nb
  
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• Italian fashion finds in Vancouver

  11-08-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  You don’t have to hop on a plane in order to shop Italian style. In fact, you don’t even have to leave the downtown core.
  Rachel Kapsalis, the owner of the Vancouver-based boutique Vetrina, has curated a selection of unique and stylish threads by Italian brands (and others), in her Georgia Street shop. And she’s been doing it more nearly 20 years. 
  Kapsalis recently chatted with Postmedia News about her store, her love for European brands and why exclusivity is key in a wo
  
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• Q&A: James Hetfield talks Metallica

  11-08-2017 19:45 via vancouversun.com
  Metallica
  Aug. 14, 6 p.m. | B.C. Place 
  Tickets and info: $55.50-$183; Ticketmaster.ca
  Metallica is not alone in having to compete with its own ghost — don’t we all?
  But given the metal icons’ unquestionable influence early on — plus the rabidity of their intergenerational and global fan base — few musical acts have been so scrutinized at such a level.
  While 1991’s self-titled Metallica sold over 20 million copies — one million of those in
  
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• Two get jail time in B.C. child bride case

  11-08-2017 19:36
  A former husband and wife from the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., are going to jail for taking a 13-year-old girl into the United States to marry the now-imprisoned leader of their sect.
  
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• Dwayne Johnson's viral Vancouver video: when life gives you fumbles, turn them into touchdowns

  11-08-2017 18:41
  
  The Rock reflects on shattered dreams and how to keep plugging away at new ones.
  
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• Q&A: New Education Minister Rob Fleming talks improvements

  11-08-2017 18:34 via vancouversun.com
  Another in a series of question and answer articles on B.C.’s new cabinet ministers:
  Rob Fleming, the new NDP Minister of Education, is connected to public education in a very real way: he has two kids in a Victoria-area public school, one in Grade 3 and the other in Grade 6.
  “I’m a parent of two kids,” said Fleming. “To have your own children in the school system, being the parent who interacts with the teaches and learning assistants and school principal, and to h
  
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• B.C. man dies after allegedly being punched in Starbucks over a cigarette butt

  11-08-2017 18:32
  
  A 22-year-old man has died after an altercation inside a Burnaby coffee shop last month.
  
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• New movies: Wind River and The Glass Castle

  11-08-2017 17:22
  Dana Gee looks at the big movies opening this weekend – Wind River, The Glass Castle and Rumble. Are they worth seeing in the theatre?
  
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• Daily Poll: Thoughts on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline?

  11-08-2017 17:17 via vancouversun.com
  On Thursday, the B.C. NDP government announced it had hired high-profile lawyer Thomas Berger to help its case against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The NDP had campaigned on a promise to take action against the pipeline if it was elected.
  “We know with the federal government’s approval of this project that this will be a challenge,” said Environment and Climate Change Minister George Heyman on Thursday, “but we’ve committed to stepping up
  
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• Abbotsford Air Show 2017 starts tonight

  11-08-2017 17:09
  Kaitlyn Herbst is live at the Abbotsford Air Show this morning, checking out what’s new, what’s returning and what you will be able to see if you head down there.
  
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• Three common driving misconceptions

  11-08-2017 16:49
  ICBC Manager of Driver Licensing Training Ben Bowcott joins Sonia Sunger to explain three rules of the road most people don’t know.
  
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• PROULX: Enough millennial moaning about coming out

  11-08-2017 16:28
  
  SHAUN PROULX/ 24 HOURS
  
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• Sentencing expected for man and woman in B.C. child bride case

  11-08-2017 16:13 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK — A B.C. judge is expected to sentence today a man and woman who took a 13-year-old girl into the United States over a decade ago to marry the now-imprisoned leader of a polygamous sect.
  Former husband and wife Brandon Blackmore and Gail Blackmore were found guilty by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in February of the charge of taking a child under the age of 16 out of Canada for sexual purposes.
  The trial heard that in 2004, the girl was secreted into the United States to marry Warre
  
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• Judge to impose sentence in B.C. child bride case

  11-08-2017 15:19
  A B.C. judge is expected to sentence today a man and woman who took a 13-year-old girl into the United States over a decade ago to marry the now-imprisoned leader of a polygamous sect.
  
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• Public could be banned from backcountry in the Cariboo due to wildfire risk

  11-08-2017 15:13
  This closure would hope to reduce the risk of new fires starting in this region.
  
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• Stabbing in Surrey sends one man to hospital

  11-08-2017 14:14
  One man was stabbed and taken to hospital. He is expected to survive.
  
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• Five Things to Know: Burnaby sucker-punch, Berger joins pipeline fight

  11-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  A 22-year-old is dead in Burnaby from a sucker punch, the smoke is on the way out, and the NDP has enlisted the services of aboriginal rights legend Thomas Berger in their fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline. Here are five things you need to know.
  Man dies after coffee shop sucker-punch
  A 22-year-old man is dead after being sucker-punched at a Starbucks in Burnaby.
  According to witnesses, Michael Page-Vincelli confronted a woman who had tossed a cigarette butt out of her car window, report
  
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• Dan Fumano: Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze - Vancouver Sun

  11-08-2017 12:31 via vancouversun.com
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  Dan Fumano: Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze
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  Sensitive patient data supplied to a Vancouver cannabis dispensary has been either mishandled or — according to the shop's owner — stolen, a situation again highlighting the cloud of confusion over the regulation of retail pot. Most people in ...and more »
  
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• Dan Fumano: Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze

  11-08-2017 12:30 via vancouversun.com
  Sensitive patient data supplied to a Vancouver cannabis dispensary has been either mishandled or — according to the shop’s owner — stolen, a situation again highlighting the cloud of confusion over the regulation of retail pot.
  Most people in stereotypically weed-friendly Vancouver, it seems, don’t have a problem with dispensaries. A Nanos poll of Vancouverites last year found only 14 per cent supported banning medical dispensaries.
  But the city’s decision to take t
  
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• Jay Durant flies high with the Snowbirds

  11-08-2017 08:20
  Jay Durant goes on a once in a lifetime flight with the Snowbirds at the Abbotsford Air Show.
  
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• RCMP settle lawsuit, apologize to West Van woman acquitted of human smuggling

  11-08-2017 08:17 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP has settled a lawsuit and apologized for making what they describe as improper comments about a West Vancouver woman accused and later acquitted of human smuggling.
  Police spokesman Supt. Sean Sullivan says the RCMP recognize that public statements made against Mumtaz Ladha over the course of the criminal investigation were improper and they apologize unreservedly.
  Ladha settled a lawsuit nearly three weeks ago against the Mounties for negligent investigation and defamation.
  In a statem
  
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