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• Fraser River sturgeon catch-and-release fishery under scrutiny

  16-09-2017 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government is pursuing two new studies of the Fraser River white sturgeon, while First Nations conservationists call for the recreational fishery to be curtailed.
  “We have a longtime moratorium on killing sturgeon that (First Nations) adopted voluntarily back in the ’90s,” said Ken Malloway, chairman of the Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance. The alliance has also called for fishing to be banned on spawning grounds, similar to protections in place on the Columbia Ri
  
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• Rally held in Surrey to protest plan to build road through Hawthorne Park

  16-09-2017 23:02 via globalnews.ca
  The proposed 105 Avenue Connector would cut through a park, school grounds and the front yards of some homes.
  
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• The AIDS Walk to Thrive and Music Festival

  16-09-2017 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  This year the ‘AIDS Walk to Thrive’ featured a live music festival at the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park, Vancouver. The event is held every year to raise money for local AIDS charities and non-profits.
  
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• Neo-Nazi flyers distributed along Vancouver AIDS Walk route

  16-09-2017 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  "You have not affected us. We will continue our fight. We will continue the fight against HIV stigma."
  
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• ‘It’s where we want to be’: Whitecaps aiming to stay tops in MLS West

  16-09-2017 20:46 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Whitecaps like their view from the top. Now it’s a matter of staying there.
  The club moved into first place in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference standings this week thanks to Wednesday’s resounding 3-0 home win over Minnesota United in a game that was never really in doubt.
  “It looks good,” goalkeeper David Ousted said with a wide grin. “It’s what we want. It’s where we want to be.”
  Vancouver and Portland each sit on 44 p
  
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• Missing B.C. filmmaker, activist and mother Twyla Roscovich found dead

  16-09-2017 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  The search for Twyla Roscovich, a 38-year-old B.C. filmmaker, activist and mother, has come to an end.
  Roscovich’s body was found earlier this week, according to a post shared Wednesday by friends and family on her Facebook page.
  “We are deeply saddened to inform everyone that our dear Twyla’s body has been found,” the post begins. “No foul play is suspected. We request that her family’s privacy be respected at this difficult time.”
  Roscovich had been li
  
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• Makeover: How get get sultry glam eyes

  16-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In this week’s makeup tutorial I’m showing you how to go from a fresh minimal day-time look, to soft and sultry glam eyes for evening. To get started, you’ll need to prep your face with the basics: Primer, foundation, bronzer and concealer.Step 1 
  Use a flat eyeshadow brush to apply the light-ivory shade from the Maybelline Nudes Eye Shadow Palette to the inner corner of the eyelid. This helps to open up and brighten the eyes. Step 2 
  To define and add depth to
  
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• Beyond burritos: meet Cesar Madrigal of La Taqueria

  16-09-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  You’d be forgiven for thinking Mexican food is Cesar Madrigal’s favourite cuisine to create.
  The Mexico-born chef, who is the operational lead at La Taqueria, does love to create traditional fare such as burritos and tacos, his true culinary passions lie in something that’s, well, a little more French.
  Madrigal took time out of the kitchen to talk cooking, being Canadian and his family’s favourite summertime meal.
  Q. What and who have motivated you as a chef?
  A. For
  
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• Saturday Chef: Ned Bell unveils new cookbook

  16-09-2017 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Ned Bell unveils his new cookbook. In ‘Lure’ he explores his love and knowledge for sustainable seafood. Bell shows Lynn Colliar and Jay Janower how to make wild salmon with kale and cashew pesto.
  
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• Open House: Pantry organization

  16-09-2017 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  Sat, Sep 16: This week in Open House, Kaitlyn Herbst looks at essentials every kitchen needs and the best ways to store them.
  
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• Gardenworks: Fall inspiration

  16-09-2017 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  Autumn is around the corner. Gardening expert Leanne Johnson from Gardenworks shows off some of her favourite ideas to get you into the spirit of the fall season.
  
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• Police seek suspect in late night double stabbing on Granville Street

  16-09-2017 18:33 via vancouversun.com
  Two men are in hospital following a double stabbing in Vancouver’s Granville Entertainment District early Saturday morning.
  Around 2:30 a.m., police were called to the intersection of Granville and Robson streets. Officers who arrived found two men, 29 and 55, suffering from serious stab wounds.
  The pair was taken to hospital for treatment and their injuries are now believed to be non-life threatening.
  The suspect is believed to have fled the scene following the attack. No further informat
  
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• Douglas Todd: Can we tolerate Bible Belts?

  16-09-2017 18:18 via vancouversun.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. – “You have a blessed day.”
  That’s how the African-American cleaning woman took her leave in the vast hotel complex where I was staying in the heart of America’s Bible Belt.
  In the South — where evangelical Christians handed Donald Trump the keys to the White House ­­— the guitarist in the lobby of the 2,800-room Gaylord Opryland Hotel sang “God Bless the U.S.A.”
  Tennessee, in the rolling green hills of the Appalachia
  
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• Police investigating fatal collision in Abbotsford on Friday evening

  16-09-2017 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating after a head-on collision in Abbotsford left one man dead Friday evening.
  Around 9:30 p.m. Friday, first responders were called to the 2400-block Whatcom Road for a car accident. Police, firefighters and paramedics arrived to find a head-on collision involving a Dodge Charger and Chevrolet Cavalier.
  Early indications are that a southbound Charger, driven by a 21-year-old man, and a northbound Cavalier, driven by a 33-year-old man, had collided head-on. Both drivers were
  
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• 'High-risk' borrowers hit by new mortgage rules

  16-09-2017 17:00
  
  Number of new CMHC-insured mortgages drops following tightening of regulations
  
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• Two men stabbed on Granville strip early Saturday

  16-09-2017 16:15 via globalnews.ca
  The Granville Strip was the site of a double stabbing early this morning.
  
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• Sold (Bought): West Van townhome has far-reaching views

  16-09-2017 15:56 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  457 13th Street, West Vancouver
  Type: Three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 1,836 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,979,000
  Listed for: $1,798,000
  Sold for: $1,800,000
  Sold on: June 5
  Days on market: Two
  Listing agent: Devon Owen at Royal Pacific Realty
  Buyers agent: Devon Owen at Royal Pacific Realty
  The big sell: Ambleside Terrace is a row of three-storey townhomes boasting ocean, Lions Gate Bridge and Stanley Park view
  
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• Heading for Home: Demand for new residential offerings expected to continue to be robust in the months ahead

  16-09-2017 15:54 via vancouversun.com
  Compared to last fall, when dozens of residential towers were launched in Metro Vancouver’s new-home market, real estate observers expect this fall to be a period of lower inventory, with smaller developments playing a prominent role in the marketplace.
  These observers say demand still remains incredibly strong, explaining why prices have continued to rise for condominiums and townhouses this year. They do not anticipate that interest rate increases — there have been two this year &m
  
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• One Water Street takes Kelowna to new heights

  16-09-2017 15:50 via vancouversun.com
  A new two -tower complex that will see the tallest building ever to be built in Kelowna will alter the city’s skyline over the next few years, while offering homeowners unsurpassed views of Okanagan Lake and the surround mountains, says one of the project’s two developers.
  The 36-storey, 221-unit concrete highrise at One Water Street — the first of two towers to be constructed — will also cement the future of the city’s downtown lakeside district as a lively, bustli
  
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• The Home Front: The kitchen's HAY day

  16-09-2017 15:34 via vancouversun.com
  Colour is one of the things that sets Danish design brand HAY apart from other furniture, accessories and lighting producers, and it’s evident in their HAY Kitchen Market collection, which just launched internationally at the MoMA Design Store in New York.
  The collection features 200 “of the most useful and vital pieces for today’s kitchen,” says HAY co-founder and creative director Mette Hay, who selected them in collaboration with Danish chef and restaurateur
  
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• A peek into the trends of fall, courtesy of IDS headliners

  16-09-2017 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  As the summer months slip away for another year, warm up your space with rich colours and textures like vintage leather, embroidery and rattan, say design influencers who will be discussing trends and sharing their decorating insights and inspirations at IDS Vancouver.
  Suzanne Dimma, who has been at the forefront of décor and design in Canada for two decades, including eight years as editor of House & Home and now as principal of her boutique design agency, says she is seeing a trend
  
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• The Grande a 26-storey addition to Port Moody

  16-09-2017 15:22 via vancouversun.com
  As the Onni Group begins development on the final parcel of land in Suter Brook Village, its 22-acre master-planned community in Port Moody, a combination of amenities, views and proximity to the SkyTrain and West Coast Express are driving interest in the 26-storey residential tower, The Grande.
  The Grande will comprise 220 units, including one-, two- and three-bedroom condos, four sub-penthouses and four penthouses. Architect Robert Ciccozzi, principal of Ciccozzi Architecture, says the tower i
  
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• UPDATED: 33-year-old man dead after vehicle crash in Abbotsford late Friday

  16-09-2017 14:13 via globalnews.ca
  Abbotsford Police confirm one man has died after a head-on vehicle collision on Friday night.
  
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• Two people in serious condition after Abbotsford vehicle crash

  16-09-2017 14:13 via globalnews.ca
  Two people are in hospital in serious condition after a head-on collision in Abbotsford Friday night.
  
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• Ridge Meadows RCMP says drivers travelling too fast along Lougheed Highway stretch

  16-09-2017 13:13 via globalnews.ca
  Ridge Meadows RCMP concerned about the safety of drivers along Lougheed Highway stretch.
  
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• Construction of ice complex in Surrey getting underway

  16-09-2017 13:08 via globalnews.ca
  In Surrey work is getting underway on five new sheets of ice.
  
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• This Week in History: 1932 A Sun columnist unlocks the secret to perpetual youth

  16-09-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Eighty-five years ago, syndicated columnist Dorothy Dix claimed she had discovered the “Fountain of Perpetual Youth.”
  But it wasn’t in some swamp in Florida, or in “jars and bottles with a French label on them.” To Dix, the secret to women staying youthful was much more simple: a happy marriage.
  “A famous English doctor says that women who are congenially married not only live longer than old maids and divorcees and fretful, nagging wives do, but that they ret
  
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• Kangaroo Care: The concept for B.C.'s biggest, soon to open neonatal intensive care unit

  16-09-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  High technology equipment has made a huge difference in the survival of the frailest and tiniest of premature babies. But the latest evidence shows that having the proper environment in neonatal intensive care units and lots of old-fashioned skin-to-skin contact between parents and babies provide myriad health benefits for both.
  So in the state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, that opens next month in the new Teck Acute Care Centre on the campus of B.C. Children’s and
  
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• BC wildfire state of emergency ends

  16-09-2017 08:59 via globalnews.ca
  The province wide state of emergency ends at midnight September 16.
  
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• Search for Twyla Roscovich, missing B.C. filmmaker, is no longer ongoing: RCMP

  16-09-2017 08:50 via globalnews.ca
  The decision to end the search was made on Friday night at about 10 p.m.
  
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• Body of missing B.C. filmmaker Twyla Roscovich found, says family

  16-09-2017 08:50 via globalnews.ca
  The decision to end the search was made on Friday night at about 10 p.m.
  
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• Surrey cracks down on illegal suites, pushing 175 households into a punishing rental market

  16-09-2017 07:54 via globalnews.ca
  “If you’re collecting taxes on it, you know about it. So it’s authorized.”
  
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• Opinion: We need to fund fundamental science

  16-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  One day, the research that my students and I are doing at the University of Victoria on a protein expressed in the brain could provide vital insights into the mysteries of conditions like autism and schizophrenia.
  If and when it does, chalk another one up for fundamental science, the curiosity-driven form of science that virtually every major scientific breakthrough is built on.
  Unfortunately, it’s also the kind of science most under threat in Canada right now, losing ground year after yea
  
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• Opinion: Philanthropists should pay more attention to seniors

  16-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  A couple of months ago, James (not his real name) passed away. I would see him near my office door sitting in his wheelchair and watching people come and go in the front lobby at Queen’s Park Care Centre, a residential care facility for seniors in New Westminster.
  I would say, “Good morning Boss! How are you?” We would have a chat about the weather. James was a proud man, who seemed to have lived a rich life. However, hardly anyone would come and visit. I was happy to spend tim
  
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• Opinion: Forest fire prevention forces hard choices

  16-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The area burned by wildfires this summer in B.C. is enormous by any measure. Over 1.2 million hectares as of Aug. 22, and there are still several weeks of fire season remaining. This wildfire season adds to an ever-increasing area burned over the past decade. Will we ever see an end to summers with this much area on fire? According to climate scientists, not likely. Climate predictions include longer fire seasons, more significant droughts (meaning more dead trees and more fuel for fires), more
  
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• Letters: Overprotection yields immature adults

  16-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: Dad investigated after teaching kids to take bus, Sept. 6; and Parents’ choices need to be balanced with child protection, Daphne Bramham column, Sept. 8 
  I am writing to express my deep concern over the recent ruling on what is considered necessary supervision for children, as prompted by the Vancouver-area father who has been allowing his children to use public transportation to get to school.
  I have been a full-time college professor for 14 years, and have watched a shift in my
  
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• Langley rental building tells scooter-assisted 70-year-old she can’t use the elevator

  16-09-2017 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  "Don't they realize she needs her scooter, do you think I have it for fun?"
  
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• Editorial: Budget update showed restraint

  16-09-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  Finance Minister Carole James’s budget update this week was a perfect compromise — it made no one happy.
  For the 40.28 per cent of British Columbians who voted for the New Democrats in the last election, the omission of $10-a-day child care — one of the central planks in the NDP platform — was a major disappointment. Also missing were the promised $400 renters’ rebate, interest-free student loans and more money for parks and culture.
  For the 40.36 per cent who voted
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Sep 15

  16-09-2017 06:03 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, September 15, 2017.
  
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• Drinking water at B.C. schools exceeds safe lead levels: 2016 testing

  16-09-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  More than half of the 60 school districts in British Columbia had unsafe levels of lead in drinking water sources in 2016 and early 2017, according to new water testing ordered by the provincial government.
  An analysis of the test results shows that 26.5 per cent of the 15,000 tests on about 10,000 drinking sources revealed lead levels that exceeded the mandated limit for drinking water, some of them by wide margins. 
  According to the data — and confirmed in interviews with district o
  
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• Let B.C.’s burnt-out forests regrow instead of logging them: UBC professor

  16-09-2017 04:48 via globalnews.ca
  "It's sort of ironic that at [the forest's] most delicate phase we're in the most rush to get the wood out."
  
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• Should egg and sperm donors be paid?

  16-09-2017 04:45 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Sep 15

  16-09-2017 04:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, September 15, 2017 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• The growing lack of affordable housing in Metro Vancouver has forced more people to turn living in RVs.

  16-09-2017 04:38 via globalnews.ca
  Skyrocketing rent and zero vacancies mean more and more people are turning to living on four wheels. Aaron McArthur looks at the impacts of camper living.
  
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• Problems plague BC Ferries’ newest ships

  16-09-2017 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  The Salish Class vessels have been plagued by a number of problems, including the galleys becoming too hot for crew to safely work in. Neetu Garcha has the details.
  
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• B.C. woman convicted of running a $110-million ponzi scheme wins right to appeal the case

  16-09-2017 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  A lawyer for Rashida Samji has successfully argued the judge made an error in law, and an appeal has been granted. Rumina Daya has the latest.
  
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• B.C. teachers now have a good chance to work closer to where they live

  16-09-2017 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  More teachers are now able to work closer to where they live because of the Supreme Court decision that restored class sizes to 2002 levels. But as Jill Bennett explains, it creates more problems in Vancouver compared to the suburbs.
  
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• Should egg and sperm donors as well as surrogates be paid in Canada?

  16-09-2017 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  Doctors and experts are asking whether the ban on compensation should change. Linda Aylesworth delves into that question.
  
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• Hydro will be 'burned' if Site C is suspended or cancelled

  16-09-2017 03:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. Hydro would face payouts of more than $1 billion to cancel or suspend the Site C project, according to an independent review for the B.C. Utilities Commission.
  The Crown corporation would also have to discount or write off the more than $2 billion already spent building the giant hydroelectric dam on the Peace River, before starting from scratch to seek alternatives.
  Those and other considerations loom large going into next week as the utilities commission prepares to
  
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