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• Disgraced B.C. teacher employed by Beijing school

  31-08-2017 23:59
  
  A B.C. teacher stripped of his credentials for a history of sexual misconduct with teenaged students appears to be teaching at a prestigious school in Beijing.
  
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• New B.C. RCMP task force to investigate kidnapping scam targeting Chinese nationals

  31-08-2017 23:53
  
  The B.C. RCMP has created a group to investigate a series of false kidnapping threats targeting Chinese nationals living in Metro Vancouver.
  
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• Disgraced BC teacher employed by Beijing school - Vancouver Sun

  31-08-2017 23:41 via vancouversun.com
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  Disgraced BC teacher employed by Beijing school
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  A B.C. teacher stripped of his credentials for a history of sexual misconduct with teenaged students appears to be teaching at a prestigious school in Beijing. According to his online profile, Robert Robertson teaches Grades 7, 8 and 9 in English ...and more »
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: They won’t match MayMac, but September has some gems

  31-08-2017 23:40 via theprovince.com
  August was all about Conor McGregor and his “money fight” with Floyd Mayweather Jr. that ended up being significantly better than most predicted.
  Following a four-week run without any action in the octagon, the UFC is back in force beginning Saturday with a mid-day event (locally) from Rotterdam, Netherlands that kicks off a stretch of 16 events in 18 weeks, including two Canadian shows, five pay-per-views and a collection of must-see matchups.
  With four events in September, her
  
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• Teacher who slept with students employed in Chinese school

  31-08-2017 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. teacher stripped of his credentials for a history of sexual misconduct with teenaged students appears to be teaching at a prestigious school in Beijing.
  According to his online profile, Robert Robertson teaches Grades 7, 8 and 9 in English, physical education and communications and oversees girl’s softball, soccer and volleyball.
  Robertson’s LinkedIn resume lists Huijia Education Organization as his current employer along with past employers including the B.C. Liquor Distribut
  
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• Detailed route hearings announced for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

  31-08-2017 23:33
  No shovels can break ground in B.C. until the hearings are completed.
  
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• Autism Awareness Walk and Festival

  31-08-2017 23:07
  The World Autism Festival is happening at the Best Western Plus Chateau Granville September 29 - October 4th, 2017
  
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• 29th season of bard on the beach

  31-08-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  Saturday, Sept. 23, is the final curtain call for the 28th season of Bard on the Beach. This year’s offer of a marvellous and inventive Much Ado About Nothing, a haunting period piece in A Winter’s Tale, Two Gentleman of Verona and the Merchant of Venice proved a huge fan and critical success. Heck, there was even a starring role for a dog.
  What better time to announce the 29th season of the annual Shakespeare festival in Vanier Park?
  Running June 6 to Sept. 22, 2018, the plays inclu
  
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• Vernon hopes cigarette tossing message hits home: ‘We want to protect our community’

  31-08-2017 22:40
  Vernon is taking a proactive approach to wildfire prevention and installing signs, reminding people not to discard their cigarettes carelessly.
  
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• What not to do on board an aircraft

  31-08-2017 21:53
  Travel expert Claire Newell explains the ways you may be putting off your fellow passengers on a plane.
  
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• Fentanyl, crack, luxury cars and cash seized in Maple Ridge drug bust

  31-08-2017 21:51
  Ridge Meadows RCMP say this three-month investigation is part of a project developed to target drug dealers in the community.
  
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• Jesus Loves tat on girl, 12, ‘bad parenting’

  31-08-2017 21:44
  
  A tantalizing tattoo has led to aGeorgia mother and her pal beingarrested for inking her 12-year-olddaughter with the words “Jesus Loves.”
  
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• Hubby dumped wife’s body into Lake Erie: Cops

  31-08-2017 21:33
  
  Karen Leclair didn’t know about herhubby’s affair.
  
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• Back to school lunch and snack ideas

  31-08-2017 21:31
  Family expert Tina Barkley is here with some great ideas for snacks and lunches that are healthy and delicious.
  
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• Vancouver School Board byelection shaping up - Vancouver Courier

  31-08-2017 21:19 via vancourier.com
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  Vancouver School Board byelection shaping up
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  Former school board chair Mike Lombardi is one of five school board candidates running under the Vision Vancouver banner. Photo Dan Toulgoet. The ballot for the upcoming school board election is starting to take shape.
  Vision Vancouver appoints five candidates in by-election for school boardStraight.comall 3 news articles »
  
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• Vancouver School Board byelection shaping up

  31-08-2017 21:19
  
  On Thursday morning Vision Vancouver announced its slate of candidates, which includes former board chair Mike Lombardi and former trustee Allan Wong.
  
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• Philpott Road wildfire now 30% contained, some evacuation alerts lifted

  31-08-2017 21:11
  Nearly a week after it first began, the blaze is considered 30 per cent contained.
  
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• Vancouver marks International Overdose Awareness Day - Vancouver Courier

  31-08-2017 21:10 via vancourier.com
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  Vancouver marks International Overdose Awareness Day
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  Close to 250 people have died in Vancouver this year due to the opioid crisis. Those stats climbed past 2016 totals — the BC Coroners Service reported 231 overdose deaths last year — by mid-August. Photo Dan Toulgoet. Communities across Vancouver ...
  Vancouver fentanyl-detecting drug service extendedCBC.ca
  Vigils to be held Thursday on International Overdose Awareness DayVancouver Sunall 12
  
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• Vancouver marks International Overdose Awareness Day

  31-08-2017 21:05
  
  Communities across Vancouver are aligning themselves with international efforts the world over to observe International Overdose Awareness Day.
  
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• Search warrant was executed at home following Surrey teen’s death

  31-08-2017 21:03
  New details reveal police executed a search warrant at a Newton home two days after Surrey teen Kiran Dhesi was found dead in a burned SUV on Aug. 2.
  
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• Wine Guy: Stave off autumn with these summer wine classics

  31-08-2017 21:00 via theprovince.com
  Well, here we are. We’ve arrived at the bookend of August, and the distressing “end of summer” tropes and “back to school” chimes already feel overplayed.
  You know who gets to decide when summer is over? You do, that’s who! Besides, technically speaking, this year summer does not end until Friday, Sept. 22. So get back out into the sunshine and keep on pouring some summer wine classics.
   
  A Sunday in August 2015 Riesling, British Columbia (around $22, ava
  
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• Restaurant review: Oddfish goes for simple and delicious

  31-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Oddfish
  1881 West 1st Avenue | 604-564-6330
  Open Tuesday to Sunday for dinner. oddfishrestaurant.com
  To find a good meal, you can’t go wrong pointing yourself in the direction of the 1800 block of West 1st Avenue, especially since Oddfish opened earlier this summer, making for a hedonistic street. Oddfish is within hailing distance of AnnaLena, Cacao and Koko Monk Artisan Chocolates.
  It’s run by veteran restaurateurs Mike Jeffs, wife Nicole Welsh and partners Brad Roark and Jamie Max
  
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• Judge rejects high risk designation for Allan Schoenborn

  31-08-2017 21:00
  Allan Schoenborn, the man who killed his 3 children nine years ago, will not be designated a high-risk accused. Our Jordan Armstrong is at the BC Supreme Court in New Westminster with reaction to today’s decision from the victims’ family.
  
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• Annacis Island businesses cheer as NDP axes bridge tolls

  31-08-2017 20:54
  Businesses on Annacis Island hope it means the end to bottlenecks and traffic chaos.
  
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• 'Monumental': B.C. non-binary filmmaker wins 'X' gender ID on passport

  31-08-2017 20:48
  Metro lines up with B.C. writer testing new gender law—who may have become the first such approval in Canada.
  
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• Air Canada adds flights from Vancouver to three continents - Business in Vancouver

  31-08-2017 20:41 via biv.com
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  Air Canada adds flights from Vancouver to three continents
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  Air Canada announced two new non-stop routes out of Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on August 31 and revealed plans to add flights to three other cities. The airline's inaugural flights on new non-stop routes to Zurich and to Paris will both ...
  Emergency Landing In Vancouver For Flight Headed To Hong Kong604 Now (blog)all 9 news articles »
  
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• B.C. child-killer Allan Schoenborn not high risk, judge rules

  31-08-2017 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has rejected an application to have a British Columbia man designated a high-risk accused after he was found not criminally responsible for killing his three children nine years ago.
  Justice Martha Devlin of the B.C. Supreme Court said Thursday that Allan Schoenborn does not pose a high enough risk that he could cause grave physical or psychological harm to another person.
  Devlin said based on Schoenborn’s progress, current mental condition and the opinions of experts, there is no
  
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• RCMP task force to probe kidnapping scam targeting Chinese nationals

  31-08-2017 20:16 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. RCMP has created a joint task force to investigate a series of false kidnapping threats targeting Chinese nationals living in Metro Vancouver.
  In July, Mounties issued a public warning after at least six people reported receiving messages that said their personal information had been compromised and that they had been implicated in a crime back in China.
  They were then instructed to contact Chinese officials and that if they didn’t cooperate, their family back in China would be ha
  
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• ‘This crisis does not discriminate’: Kelowna events mark International Overdose Awareness Day

  31-08-2017 20:15
  “Overdose Awareness Day spreads the message that the tragedy of overdose death is preventable. We are in the midst of a major illicit drug overdose crisis here in British Columbia with hundreds of people dying.”
  
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• Young male detainees used as 'sex slaves' by female guards: Lawsuit

  31-08-2017 20:09
  
  Female guards employed by a New York City juvenile detention centre are being accused of using young male detainees as "sex slaves."
  
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• Judge rejects bid to designate father who killed his 3 children as high risk

  31-08-2017 20:07
  Allan Schoenborn was convicted of first-degree murder in 2010 for killing his daughter and two sons, but found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
  
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• Police investigating fourth shooting in East Vancouver neighbourhood

  31-08-2017 19:58
  
  For the fourth time in just over a month, Vancouver police are investigating shots fired in an East Vancouver neighbourhood.
  
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• Child-killer Allan Schoenborn won’t be designated “high risk accused”

  31-08-2017 19:58
  Crown prosecutors have been working to have the high risk accused designation applied to Schoenborn since 2015.
  
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• Does B.C. really need the Site C dam?

  31-08-2017 19:43
  Does B.C. really need the Site C dam? A case for and against the project.
  
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• Ruling finding B.C. Children's Ministry failed to protect kids overturned

  31-08-2017 19:36 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that found the province’s Children’s Ministry failed to protect kids from being sexually abused by their father.
  The appeal court has also dismissed a family court decision that found the father had sexually abused his children and ordered a new trial.
  The three-judge panel unanimously agreed that B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Walker largely relied on evidence from an expert witness who misrepresente
  
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• BC Court of Appeal tosses ruling that found MCFD allowed toddler to be molested

  31-08-2017 19:04
  The BC Court of Appeal has thrown out a BC Supreme Court ruling that found the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) had allowed a toddler to be molested by its father, despite prior reports of abuse by the man.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks: What if they signed Shane Doan in 2012 - The Canuck Way

  31-08-2017 19:02 via thecanuckway.com
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  Vancouver Canucks: What if they signed Shane Doan in 2012
  The Canuck Way
  Long-time Arizona Coyotes captain and star Shane Doan announced his retirement on Wednesday. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Canucks nearly pried him away from The Desert. What if Doan had signed with the Canucks? Yesterday morning, former ...and more »
  
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• Greyhound bus route on B.C.'s Highway of Tears one of five that could be axed

  31-08-2017 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Greyhound Canada has applied to regulators in British Columbia to drop five routes, four of them in northern B.C., as the company deals with plunging ridership.
  Greyhound calls the decision “regrettably unavoidable” in a news release but says there has been a 51 per cent drop in riders since 2010, along with higher costs and increased competition from publicly subsidized services.
  Routes that would be eliminated include a 718 kilometre run along Highway 16, the so-c
  
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• B.C. schools scrambling to hire teachers to meet new class-size standards

  31-08-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — School districts in British Columbia are scrambling to hire thousands of teachers ahead of the new school year to satisfy a court decision that reinstates standards on class size.
  The Supreme Court of Canada ruled last November that legislation implemented by the province’s previous Liberal government in 2002 that prevented teachers from negotiating class size and composition related to special needs students was unconstitutional, resulting in a need for 3,000 to 3,500 mo
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Man shot to death in driveway of Surrey home – UPDATED

  31-08-2017 18:54 via vancouversun.com
  Two years ago, Pardeep Singh was shot in Surrey’s gang conflict, but survived.
  On Tuesday night, he wasn’t so lucky.
  The 22-year-old Surrey man with gang links is just the latest to die in a targeted murder.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a new release that Singh was shot to death in the driveway of his Cloverdale home. He was found inside a vehicle.
  “Mr. Singh was known to police, and was associated to gangs.  Investigators are working to determin
  
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• West is best, the Ti-Cats are a mess: What we’ve learned from the CFL season so far

  31-08-2017 18:37 via theprovince.com
  As long as you don’t live in Hamilton, you are likely viewing this CFL season as one of the most interesting and entertaining in years.
  Of the 41 games played so far this season, 24 of them have been decided in the final three minutes. There have been big comebacks, last-second victories and many highlight-reel plays in what TSN has dubbed the “Year of the Catch.”
  There has also been turmoil in Tiger Town, change at the top of the league, a growing attendance problem in Toronto
  
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• B.C. Liberals change leadership date to avoid Super Bowl clash

  31-08-2017 18:34
  
  The B.C. Liberal Party has changed the dates of its leadership convention to avoid a conflict with Super Bowl Sunday next year.
  
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• Atiba Hutchinson happy to be back in Canadian fold but taking it one game at a time

  31-08-2017 18:28 via theprovince.com
  ALLISTON, Ont. — Atiba Hutchinson’s reason for ending a one-year hiatus from the Canadian national team is simple.
  “I kind of missed it,” he said. “It’s nice to be back.”
  Hutchinson, who last played for Canada in its final World Cup qualifier last September, is due to earn cap No. 78 — tying Mark Watson for No. 5 on Canada’s most capped list — on Saturday when the Canadian men host Jamaica in a friendly at BMO Field.
  The
  
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• Former VSB trustees seek re-election in October by-election

  31-08-2017 17:58
  A number of Green and Vision Vancouver members are throwing their hats in the ring for seats on the Vancouver School Board.
  
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• New BC RCMP task force to investigate kidnapping scam targeting Chinese nationals - Vancouver Sun

  31-08-2017 17:49 via vancouversun.com
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  New BC RCMP task force to investigate kidnapping scam targeting Chinese nationals
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  The RCMP has created a new task force to probe a series of kidnapping scams targeting Chinese nationals. Share Adjust Comment Print. The B.C. RCMP has created a group to investigate a series of false kidnapping threats targeting Chinese nationals ...and more »
  
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• Record-setting heat, strong winds, whip up wildfires around B.C.

  31-08-2017 17:18
  There are now 145 fires burning around B.C. with 17 new fires starting on Wednesday.
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: Canadian GDP growth strongest in 15 years

  31-08-2017 17:09
  Canada's economy is booming, and it could mean another interest hike is on the way.
  
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