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• Foodie Friday: Mouthwatering mixed mushroom medley recipe

  15-09-2017 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Today's mushroom sauté can stand alone as a side, be used as a pasta sauce or turned into a quiche.
  
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• Richmond man loses bid to have sex assault case thrown out due to sentencing delays

  15-09-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond man who is facing a dangerous offender hearing after being convicted in a sexual assault case has lost a bid to have the case thrown out due to delays in sentencing.
  On Aug. 15, 2016, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Pearlman found Novid Dadmand guilty of sexually assaulting five women, four of them by deceiving them into believing he was a modelling agent and that they were auditioning for a position as a model.
  Two of the victims were unconscious when Dadmand sexually assaulted them,
  
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• Cam Tucker: UBC golf team tees up for transition, but talent pool isn’t dry

  15-09-2017 23:41 via theprovince.com
  The term ‘rebuild’ has become a popular buzzword in sports. There are a couple of variations, like ‘rebuild on the fly’ or ‘transitional phase.’
  In a way, you can apply this to the UBC golf program these days, thanks to an influx of first-year student-athletes on both the men’s and women’s teams. 
  That isn’t to suggest the term carries a negative connotation.
  In fact, for the UBC Thunderbirds, it’s quite the opposite because it mea
  
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• Atlantic salmon caught in B.C. waters

  15-09-2017 23:39 via vancouversun.com
  At least eight Atlantic salmon have been caught in the Fraser River and nearly 50 in total in B.C. waters following a fish farm accident in Washington State.
  The Atlantic Salmon Watch program run by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has received “credible” reports of three Atlantic salmon being caught in the Fraser, according to senior aquaculture biologist Byron Andres.
  However, five more Atlantics were caught September 12 by the Pacific Salmon Commission’s gillnet test fisher
  
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• Survey gives mixed grades to B.C. seniors’ care homes

  15-09-2017 22:52 via globalnews.ca
  The survey found seniors feel safe and respected, but many say they aren't getting the care or services they need.
  
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• Cops 4 Cancer arrest Sonia Sunger

  15-09-2017 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  Our Sonia Sunger was arrested by the Burnaby RCMP this morning…all for a good cause.
  
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• Hapa-palooza Festival returns to Vancouver this month

  15-09-2017 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Hapa-palooza Festival, a festival celebrating hapa and mixed heritage culture, is returning to Vancouver this month.
  The festival features music, art, storytelling and dance over three days from Sept. 22 to 24 at various venues throughout the city.
  “Hapa-palooza bridges worlds, gathers community and celebrates diverse ancestry and cultural heritage,” said co-founder and journalist Anna Ling Kaye. “It encourages people to share their stories and be proud of their cultural make-u
  
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• Town Talk: Men drop pants to raise $125,000 for prostate cancer research

  15-09-2017 21:56 via vancouversun.com
  DOWN AND AT ’EM: Trousers descended and $125,000 was raised at the Vancouver Rowing Club recently. That’s where Yongku Jung and Mikhail Zalesky staged the fourth-annual Pants Off night to increase the $370,000 generated earlier for Prostate Cancer Canada. Although spared from an ailment that strikes one in seven Canadian men, several women present adopted their shirt-and-no-britches attire. They may dress more inventively at the Imperial on Oct. 21 when the Boobyball should much incr
  
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• Vancouver Canucks 2017-18 season preview: San Jose Sharks Edition - The Canuck Way

  15-09-2017 21:55
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  Vancouver Canucks 2017-18 season preview: San Jose Sharks Edition
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  The Vancouver Canucks did not manage to earn a single point against the San Jose Sharks last year. Many Vancouver Canucks fans had an interesting experience late last year. When the season officially ended for the Canucks, they became San Jose ...and more »
  
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• New probe ordered into IHealth electronic records system

  15-09-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Health Minister Adrian Dix is ordering a second independent review of a controversial electronic health records system that created a stalemate between Island Health and the doctors refusing to use it. 
  The $174-million paperless IHealth system was launched in March 2016 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Dufferin Place residential care centre in Nanaimo and Oceanside Health Centre in Parksville.
  The system was scheduled to roll out to other Island health facilities this
  
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• Limited edition Star Wars advance battle drones

  15-09-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Mike Agerbo shows us some of the fun Star Wars battle drones.
  
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• Another overdose prevention site opens on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

  15-09-2017 21:48 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Another overdose prevention site has opened in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in an effort to relieve pressure on two nearby sites that have had 120,000 visits since last December.
  The Molson site, named after the former Molson Bank Building where it’s located, will be the seventh overdose prevention facility in the few blocks that make up the impoverished neighbourhood.
  B.C. Addictions Minister Judy Darcy says in a news release there is a great need for each of the
  
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• Langley parents to rally in support of LGBTQ support program

  15-09-2017 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  The rally is in support of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity initiative, which has drawn opposition from conservative parents groups.
  
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• Lunch ideas from the Dirty Apron

  15-09-2017 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  Chef David Robertson from the Dirty Apron shares some delicious sandwich ideas.
  
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• B.C.’s wildfire-driven state of emergency to end at midnight Friday

  15-09-2017 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  It was first declared on July 7 and was extended four times over the nine weeks that followed.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Bleak house, seniors describe life inside B.C.'s care homes

  15-09-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  The picture that B.C. seniors paint of daily life within 292 of the province’s licensed residential care facilities is bleak even though the majority feel safe and believe they are being looked after by qualified people.
  Nearly half are lonely with no friends or even someone within their residence who shares their interests. There is little opportunity for affection, let alone romance.
  Part of the reason is that seniors are housed with others who have “very different physical and cog
  
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• BC Ferries newest ships plagued with problems

  15-09-2017 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  The Salish class of B.C. ferry ships are plagued with problems. Jordan Armstrong explains the issue.
  
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• A historic Chilean city finds new life

  15-09-2017 20:53 via theprovince.com
   
  Like the steep hills on which it is built, Valparaiso is a city that has experienced peaks and valleys of fortune.
  The city of 300,000 residents on Chile’s central coast was settled by Spanish explorers in the mid-1500s, but it gained greater prominence in the early to mid-1800s when it became a major international shipping port, as well as the base for Chile’s navy once the country gained independence in 1818.
   
  Cafés, shops and restaurants dot the historic centre
  
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• Survey finds staffing levels a major concern in B.C. seniors' care homes

  15-09-2017 20:49 via vancouversun.com
  A groundbreaking new survey from the Office of the Seniors Advocate has been met with support from B.C.’s largest industry association representing the seniors-care sector.
  Every Voice Counts found that staffing levels were a major concern of almost 10,000 seniors and family members who responded.
  Staffing in residential care facilities in B.C. needs to be increased so that seniors feel more engaged and have more individual freedom, according to the survey released Frid
  
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• Greyhound seeks further cuts or reductions to bus routes in B.C.

  15-09-2017 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Just weeks after Greyhound Canada asked for permission to cut a number of routes in British Columbia, the company has applied to chop or change even more its bus routes through the province.
  Documents on the B.C. Passenger Transportation Board website show Greyhound has applied to eliminate a total of nine routes, including Prince Rupert to Prince George and Dawson Creek to the Yukon boundary.
  Additional routes that Greyhound hopes to abandon include one from the University End
  
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• Cunard’s plans new routes to Vancouver

  15-09-2017 20:32 via theprovince.com
  Cunard Line is prepping one of its largest-ever seasons of cruises on the west and east coasts of North America in 2019, from the line’s first foray into Alaska in two decades, to an increased presence in the Canadian Maritimes.
  “The 2019 deployment has the best selection of cruise experiences we have ever offered,” said Josh Leibowitz, senior vice president, Cunard North America. “We are thrilled to introduce new itineraries tailored to the North American marketplace. No
  
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• Man charged in string of eight robberies in Surrey, Coquitlam and Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  15-09-2017 20:24
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  Man charged in string of eight robberies in Surrey, Coquitlam and Vancouver
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  A man linked to eight robberies across the Lower Mainland has been arrested and charged. jinga80 / Getty Images/iStockphoto. Share Adjust Comment Print. A man linked to eight bank robberies across the Lower Mainland has been arrested and charged.and more »
  
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• Man charged in string of eight robberies in Surrey, Coquitlam and Vancouver

  15-09-2017 20:24 via vancouversun.com
  A man linked to eight bank robberies across the Lower Mainland has been arrested and charged.
  Jared Mcclure, 34, was pulled over in Surrey on Aug. 30 in a vehicle that had been reported stolen.
  Officers quickly linked Mcclure to an ongoing investigation about a recent string of bank robberies throughout Surrey, Coquitlam and Vancouver. The Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team then handed Mcclure over to the Surrey RCMP.
  Mcclure is now charged with one count of theft of a motor vehicle
  
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• Canucks’ Bo Horvat has a big fan in new head coach Travis Green

  15-09-2017 20:20 via theprovince.com
  Travis Green’s initial up-close look at Bo Horvat came in his first few months as a head coach.
  Green, then in an interim role with the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks, and Horvat, an 18-year-old centre for the OHL’s London Knights, were on opposite sides at the 2013 Memorial Cup.
  Portland beat London in the round-robin portion of junior hockey’s showcase tournament before also taking the semifinal in a game where Horvat had a chance to tie it on a rebound with less than 20 se
  
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• University of British Columbia faces new sexual assault human-rights complaint

  15-09-2017 20:13 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Stephanie Hale remembers jumping up and down and crying tears of joy when she received her acceptance letter from the University of British Columbia.
  Now, she wishes she had pursued her degree anywhere else.
  Hale has filed a complaint with B.C.’s Human Rights Tribunal alleging the university failed to take action after she reported a sexual assault, leading her to struggle in class and take indefinite medical leave. It is the second known complaint the institution is faci
  
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• The gospel according to Ben Heppner (and the Blind Boys of Alabama)

  15-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Blind Boys of Alabama
  with Ben Heppner
  Sept. 23, 8 p.m. | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC
  Sold out: tickets.ubc.ca
  One of the world’s greatest heldentenors (heroic tenors), Canadian vocalist Ben Heppner has scaled the heights of opera, particularly those big Wagnerian roles.
  For decades, he was considered the go-to for such signature parts as Tristan in Tristan and Isolde, or the title role in Lohengrin. A recipient of seven honorary degrees, he has also been promoted from the Ord
  
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• UBC faces new sex assault human-rights case

  15-09-2017 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Stephanie Hale remembers jumping up and down and crying tears of joy when she received her acceptance letter from the University of British Columbia.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks should pursue Drew Doughty in 2019 - The Canuck Way

  15-09-2017 19:39
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  Vancouver Canucks should pursue Drew Doughty in 2019
  The Canuck Way
  Los Angeles Kings star defenceman Drew Doughty recently hinted the possibility of playing elsewhere when his contract runs up. The Vancouver Canucks should be gearing up for a chance to pursue him in 2019. Though the Vancouver Canucks have ...and more »
  
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• Another overdose prevention site opens on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - Times Colonist

  15-09-2017 19:34
  Another overdose prevention site opens on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
  Times Colonist
  VANCOUVER — Another overdose prevention site has opened in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in an effort to relieve pressure on two nearby sites that have had 120,000 visits since last December. The Molson site, named after the former Molson Bank ...and more »
  
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• Bulls&Bears: Cleveland chasing MLB history, DAZN's future a mystery

  15-09-2017 19:19 via vancouversun.com
  BULLS OF THE WEEK
  You know you’re making history when you’re chasing the record set by a club more than a century ago.
  That’s exactly what this week’s most bullish franchise in all of professional sport — baseball’s Cleveland Indians — are doing going into the weekend.After passing the 2002 ‘Moneyball’ Oakland A’s as holders of the longest consecutive game winning streak in the American League (21 games), they one-upped the 1935 Chicago
  
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• Brian Minter: Green space galore in fast-growing Surrey

  15-09-2017 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  A groundswell of all things green is taking place in cities around the world. 
  A couple of weeks ago, I addressed the National Garden Writers’ Conference in Buffalo, New York, about this incredibly important movement that is making a significant improvement in the lives of people living in urban settings. 
  I used scientific data from the World Health Organization to show how green spaces and blue spaces (water) help cool urban heat zones and produce much needed oxygen for us all
  
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• Canadian home sales expected to drop to lowest level in 3 years

  15-09-2017 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Real Estate Association projects sales in British Columbia and Ontario will fall by about 10 per cent in 2017.
  
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• Evan McEneny, the quiet contender on the Canucks’ blue line

  15-09-2017 19:08 via theprovince.com
  The bag skates at the end of Wednesday’s training camp-opening practice came as no surprise to Evan McEneny.
  “Is it heating up out here?” he said he and a couple of his other Comets teammates said to each other towards the end of Wednesday’s first on-ice session, which featured a gruelling end-to-end bag skate for every player.
  It was a hard start to Travis Green’s first Canucks training camp.
  “He’s an intense guy and his practices are intense,” th
  
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• 24 Vancouver concerts this weekend, September 15 to 17 - Straight.com (blog)

  15-09-2017 19:00
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  24 Vancouver concerts this weekend, September 15 to 17
  Straight.com (blog)
  FRIDAY: the Westward Music Festival presents Toronto punk-rock band Pup at the Vogue, with guests Touche Amore, Brass, and Sightlines. FRIDAY: British-born, Los Angeles-based electronica musician, producer, and DJ Bonobo plays Malkin Bowl in ...
  Westward Music Festival, Vancouver BC, September 14Exclaim!all 4 news articles »
  
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• Kekuta comes back as Whitecaps host the Crew

  15-09-2017 18:55 via theprovince.com
  The talk was always about when he was going to be the great big star.
  Instead, he became a key face in a notable trade, one that re-shaped the look of the Whitecaps for 2017 and perhaps beyond.
  Drafted in 2013, Kekuta Manneh was long an intriguing talent for the Whitecaps.
  He scored 22 times in 103 regular season and playoff games, many of the spectacular variety.
  Before the current MLS season, he told Marc Weber he’d been watching Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, Manchester City’s
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Culmina's Hypothesis a worthy flagship red

  15-09-2017 18:40 via vancouversun.com
  Culmina Family Estate Winery has been a no-stone-unturned operation since its inception in 2006.The project is the culmination of a lifetime of work in the wine business for partners Don and Elaine Triggs, but only a starting point for daughter Sara. A decade down the road the family appears to be finding its mojo on the slopes of south Okanagan’s Golden Mile Bench.
  The winery (pronounced Cull-ma-nuh) sits a few metres northwest of the old Domaine Combret property, now owned by Mission Hil
  
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• Some community centres still looking for changes to park board agreement

  15-09-2017 18:35
  
  As the deadline to sign the new operating agreement looms, many of the city’s community centre associations are still pushing for changes.
  
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• Raising funds for Breakfast Club of Canada

  15-09-2017 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  A nutritious breakfast is important to give kids a chance at a successful day in school and today one in five Canadian children will not eat breakfast. This weekend by shopping at Cobs bread you can support Breakfast Club of Canada. Aaron Gillespie of Cobs and Robin Ryan of Breakfast Club of Canada explain how...
  
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• Movie reviews: Mother!, Long Time Running, American Assassin

  15-09-2017 17:21 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee takes a look at the latest films opening in theatres. She dishes on whether ‘Mother!’, ‘Long Time Running’ & ‘American Assassin’ are worth catching.
  
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• Station upgrade expected to snarl traffic near Broadway in Vancouver - CBC.ca

  15-09-2017 16:27
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  Station upgrade expected to snarl traffic near Broadway in Vancouver
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  TransLink is warning commuters to expect delays and traffic snarls starting Friday as work begins upgrading Vancouver's Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station. The work at the busiest station in the TransLink network — which sees 150,000 daily users ...
  
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• Former Vancouver school board chair Patti Bacchus will write about K-12 education for Straight.com - Straight.com

  15-09-2017 15:42
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  Former Vancouver school board chair Patti Bacchus will write about K-12 education for Straight.com
  Straight.com
  One of B.C.'s most outspoken advocates for Vancouver's public schools will soon be sharing her thoughts on education with readers of this website. Patti Bacchus was elected three times to the Vancouver school board, topping the polls in every election ...
  
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• Daily Poll: How should B.C. sell marijuana when it is legalized?

  15-09-2017 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  This week, local leaders are meeting with federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to discuss options on how B.C. might regulate and distribute marijuana when it is legalized next year by the federal government.
  Ontario recently became the first province to establish a framework of how it will handle legalization when it comes down the line. That province plans to open a number of government-run designated shops across the province while cracking down on illegal dispensaries. The shops
  
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• Greater Victoria man dies after weekend fall off 250-metre cliff in Oregon

  15-09-2017 15:33 via vancouversun.com
   
   A Greater Victoria man has died after falling off a 250-metre cliff on the Oregon coast. 
  Joe Lescene, 51, and his wife, Sarah Jones Lescene, were walking near a cliff known as the Devil’s Cauldron in Oswald West State Park on Sunday when Lescene lost his footing and fell down the cliff face into the water below.
  His wife started screaming and other people in the park called 911.The U.S. Coast Guard called in rescue boats and a helicopter to search for Lescene.His backpac
  
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• The evolution of La-Z-Boy: it’s not your parents’ furniture anymore

  15-09-2017 15:25 via vancouversun.com
  For many, when we think of the La-Z-Boy brand we picture an overstuffed reclining chair much like Marty Crane’s duct taped avocado green version on 90s sitcom Frasier. Perhaps it’s time to rethink.
  The iconic American furniture brand has evolved dramatically, and as brothers Tim and Gerald Miller, owners of the four Lower Mainland stores, say, “it’s not your parents furniture anymore.”  Since opening La-Z-Boy stores over the last 17 years in Richmond, Langley,
  
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• Big change coming for Metro Vancouver weather on the weekend - Globalnews.ca

  15-09-2017 15:16
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  Big change coming for Metro Vancouver weather on the weekend
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  “Well really it's going to be a rude shock later this weekend. The sunshine of the past few days will hold today, the warmth as well. Sun and cloud Saturday and still into the low 20s. But wow, Sunday rain sweeping in, it'll become breezy in the ...
  
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• Big change coming for Metro Vancouver weather on the weekend

  15-09-2017 15:16 via globalnews.ca
  The forecast calls for a big change in Metro Vancouver weather on Sunday with heavy rain and much cooler temperatures.
  
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• Salman Rushdie's prescient prose looks at reinvention American style

  15-09-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Salman Rushdie in Conversation
  Sept. 19, 7:30 | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
  Tickets: $30-$50 at tickets.ubc.ca
  For years the main player in his new novel The Golden House has been on Salman Rushdie’s mind.
  Nero Golden is a wealthy, often wretched, real estate magnate who along with his three adult sons and a trunk full of secrets fled India and the Bombay mafia to start new lives with new identities in New York City.
  “The beginnings of the story were in Bombay. I only gradual
  
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• Minimum wage in B.C. goes up 50 cents today

  15-09-2017 14:53 via globalnews.ca
  The new NDP government announced in August that they would carry through with the wage increase promised by the previous Liberal government.
  
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• Motorcycle rider dies in hit-and-run on Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge

  15-09-2017 14:30 via globalnews.ca
  Ridge Meadows RCMP say a group of motorcyclists were heading westbound on the highway when an eastbound vehicle passed a slower vehicle and struck the lead motorcycle head-on at 287 Street.
  
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• 1 person airlifted to hospital after crash on Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge

  15-09-2017 14:30 via globalnews.ca
  The crash happened around 9:45 p.m. Thursday near 280 Street and closed the highway for several hours.
  
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