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• Oak Bay couple’s $2.5M donation helps launch dementia program

  06-10-2017 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A research project to improve dementia diagnosis and treatment began with a $2.5-million offer from an Oak Bay couple looking for answers.
  With their donation, Neil and Susan Manning have launched a five-year Cognitive Health Initiative in a first-time research partnership between Island Health, the University of Victoria, and the University of B.C.’s Island Medical Program. The project was announced Thursday at Royal Jubilee Hospital.
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• Big Picture: Jewel makes herself at home in Victoria

  06-10-2017 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Jewel Kilcher says she can understand that some fans might jump to conclusions about why she’s starring in Hallmark’s Fixer Upper franchise.
  The actor, singer-songwriter and author known as Jewel plays Shannon Hughes, a contractor who solves mysteries while restoring Victorian homes in the movies based on Kate Carlisle’s bestsellers.
  The Utah-born entertainer doesn’t dismiss assumptions that Fixer Upper might be a wish-fulfilment project for someone who w
  
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• Level-headed rookie Nerwinski validates Whitecaps’ draft-day choice

  06-10-2017 23:45 via theprovince.com
  A consensus was reached, finally, by the group huddled around the table on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center in January.
  After all those muted, clandestine-in-open-view conversations with other team executives on the floor of the Major League Soccer Superdraft, the Vancouver Whitecaps had decided to stand firm and keep their seventh overall pick.
  “So we’re better off staying where we are, picking the guy we want, and getting out of here,” coach Carl Robinson said t
  
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• Volunteers hoping to serve more than turkey on Thanksgiving in Vancouver

  06-10-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  The Union Gospel Mission are getting their carving knives sharpened in anticipation for all of the birds that will be carved on Monday.
  
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• B.C. Ferries advises Thanksgiving travellers to consider early or late-night sailings

  06-10-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  Despite 90 extra sailings added for the Thanksgiving long weekend, sailing waits are likely for B.C. Ferries passengers coming back — or going to — Vancouver Island or the Sunshine Coast during the next few days.
  The ferry corporation says early-morning and late-night sailings offer drivers the best chance of rolling onto a boat without a wait. The best bargains are also on those sailings with passenger vehicle and driver fares starting as low as $39 on select sailings during th
  
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• On Malahat, six months of pain for a wider highway

  06-10-2017 23:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Two lanes of traffic will be squeezed into one on a busy stretch of the Malahat after this weekend — and the bottleneck will last until May. 
  Vehicles will be restricted to one lane in each direction, 24 hours a day, between Aspen and Shawnigan Lake roads to allow work on widening the Vancouver Island highway.
  The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure says that the restriction is possible because traffic volumes have dropped following the busy summer peak
  
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• Port proposes to reduce restrictions on public use at two locations

  06-10-2017 23:04 via vancouversun.com
  The Port of Vancouver is proposing to ease restrictions on public activities such as paddling, sailing, crabbing, anchoring and fishing at two locations near the busy Inner Harbour.
  Currently, these activities are not permitted in the harbour anywhere east of a diagonal line between Ferguson Point in Stanley Park (south of Third Beach and encompassing Siwash Rock) to Navvy Jack Point at the foot of 21st St. in West Vancouver, near the entrance to Burrard Inlet at Lions Gate Bridge.
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• Las Vegas shooting: Nevada victims of crime program could help injured Canadians pay medical bills

  06-10-2017 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  “Anyone who was present at the time of the shooting can apply for assistance,” a Nevada official confirmed to Global News.
  
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• B.C. Conservation Service says nearly 500 bears destroyed in B.C. this year

  06-10-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — There have been more than 20,000 conflicts between humans and wildlife in British Columbia so far this year, ranging from bear attacks to cougar sightings, the province’s conservation service says.
  More than 14,000 of the complaints were about black bears, while another 1,500 involved cougars and 430 were about grizzly bears, said Chris Doyle, deputy chief of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.
  Nearly 500 bears have been destroyed after run-ins with humans, 469 of black
  
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• Douglas Todd: Is China bursting Vancouver’s housing bubble?

  06-10-2017 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  The author of Millionaire Migrants was one the first to provide evidence that the foreign real-estate dreams of China’s wealthy have arguably had more impact than anything on Metro Vancouver’s housing unaffordability.
  UBC geographer David Ley, along with SFU’s Wu Qiyan, told me early this year the city’s real-estate bubble would be punctured when leaders of the People’s Republic of China further restrict money leaving their country.
  Now strong signs are appearing th
  
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• Vancouver looking into new policy to market pre-sale homes to locals first

  06-10-2017 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Vancouver is taking steps to make it easier for city residents to get in on home pre-sales.
  
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• Conversations That Matter: New approach needed to opioid crisis

  06-10-2017 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  The opioid-fentanyl crisis that is sweeping through Vancouver, the province and beyond is growing unabated.
  This week Conversations That Matter features Dr. Evan Wood of the B.C. Centre on Substance Use, says it’s time to re-examine our drug policies and our drug laws. Simply put, he says prohibition hasn’t worked.
  He points to opium as an example. It was the drug that ignited a trade war between Great Britain and China. Since then the transportation of the drug was restric
  
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• Yordy Reyna’s Peru draws with Argentina, putting Messi’s World Cup hopes on the brink

  06-10-2017 21:20 via theprovince.com
  Ok, let’s get it out of the way: Whitecaps star Yordy Reyna was stapled to the bench for Peru in their 0-0 draw with Argentina in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.
  Peru play at home against Colombia on Tuesday.In related news, Reyna took to social media this week to share the news his dog was missing and that he was desperate for the pup’s return. He even offered tickets to whoever might track down his white furball.Crisis averted, his dog has been found. And the tickets? The woman who
  
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• Sam Smith Concert Tour Announced

  06-10-2017 21:09 via vancouversun.com
  Sam Smith
  Sept. 10, 2018 | Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
  Tickets and info: On sale Thurs., Oct. 12, 10 a.m. From $35 at livenation.com
  UK love balladeer Sam Smith releases his new album, titled the Thrill of It All, on Capitol Records on November 3. The multiple Grammy Award-winning singer performs songs from this record and his breakout debut In the Lonely Hour in Vancouver on September 10, 2018. The tour begins on June 18, 2018 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
  With his new single Too Good at
  
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• Todd Stone expected to enter B.C. Liberal leadership race on Tuesday

  06-10-2017 21:02 via vancouversun.com
  Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone is expected to announce his bid for the B.C. Liberal leadership next week.
  The former transportation minister has scheduled a trio of campaign-like stops across B.C. on Tuesday — in Victoria, Surrey and Kamloops — where he is expected to join the race to replace Christy Clark. 
  The former CEO of a Kamloops-based software company was elected MLA for in 2013. He was appointed transportation minister in 2013 and named minister respon
  
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• Town Talk: Writer-director Mina Shum kicks off the festival

  06-10-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  DOUBLE DATING: City-based writer-director Mina Shum’s Meditation Park opened the Vancouver International Film Festival with a screening at the Centre for Performing Arts and a post-curtain gala at the Vancouver Club. The events produced a pair of cinema-style flashbacks as one of the picture’s stars, Sandra Oh, also starred in Shum’s  debut feature film, the million-dollar, East Vancouver-shot Double Happiness. Flashback 2 entailed Stephen Hegyes, who produced Double Happi
  
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• Vancouver mayor will try to limit condo pre-sales to local residents

  06-10-2017 20:50
  Flipping condo assignments has become more popular as condo prices have skyrocketed.
  
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• Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin among four NHLers to bag hat tricks in season openers

  06-10-2017 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  It’s the first time four different players scored at least three goals in his season opener in 100 years, since the NHL’s first two games back in 1917.
  
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• Wally Buono wants more anger out of B.C. Lions

  06-10-2017 20:30 via theprovince.com
  There was a palpable anger in the B.C. Lions’ locker-room following a last-second loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats two weeks ago.
  Wally Buono would like to see a little more of that emotion from his team on the field.
  “After the fact, it’s too late. Maybe go into the game a little more angry,” said B.C.’s head coach and general manager. “Football is an emotional game played by angry men.
  “The anger has to come before the game, not after the game.”
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• Urbanite finds success growing organic choy for Vancouver market

  06-10-2017 20:20
  Entrepreneur fills a gap in the market by producing local, organic Chinese veggies.
  
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• B.C.'s high court rejects discrimination suit from Victoria guide dog owner

  06-10-2017 20:19 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A blind Victoria man has lost his discrimination complaint in British Columbia’s highest court.
  In a unanimous ruling, a panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal finds Graeme McCreath and his guide dog, Adrienne, were not discriminated against when they were refused a taxi ride in July 2014.
  McCreath claimed systemic discrimination when a driver with Victoria Taxi said he could not allow dogs in his car because of his allergies.
  The driver refused to transport McCreath and his d
  
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• Mayor Robertson makes move to give locals first crack at condo pre-sales

  06-10-2017 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  Mayor Gregor Robertson will introduce a motion next week he hopes will stop real estate developers from offering out-of-province buyers first-crack at condo pre-sale opportunities in Vancouver.
  In a statement released on Friday, Robertson say the proposed policy, which he intends to put in place by the end of the year, will prioritize sales of new homes in multi-family developments to local residents as part of the city’s new 10-year housing strategy.
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• Driving it Forward

  06-10-2017 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  Call it good Carma.
  A week Sunday 75 families will have a day to escape the reality of living with a sick child. And it is sure to be a fast escape.
  The inaugural Aidan’s Cup at Pitt Meadows Airport is the brainchild of family and friends of Aidan MacAulay, a young North Vancouver boy who lost his battle to cancer last September at age 14. The daylong event will provide Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada supporters and wish families the chance to get behind the wheel of a select nu
  
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• Vancouver Writer's Festival brings top essayists to town

  06-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Writers Fest
  Oct. 16 to 22 | Various locations
  Tickets and info: writersfest.bc.ca
  Adam Gopnik feels like he is on an endless book tour.
  The award-winning American writer and essayist is out on the road promoting his latest offering, a memoir called At the Stranger’s Gate: Arrivals in New York. The book has been released in Canada, the United States and Britain all at the same time making for a hectic fall for the New York author.
  “The events are fun. It’s the tr
  
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• Fab 5: Plaid is rad

  06-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  By now, we’ve probably all seen the ubiquitous Balenciaga checked blazer (and all the copycats) — if not in person, then definitely on Instagram. It’s the hallmark style, it seems, of fall/winter 2017, and it’s made us fall in love with plaid all over again. Who knew a light grey check could look so cool? Beyond the blazer, though, there are chic shoes, coats, shirts and more. Rebecca Tay shows off five of the best right now.
  PURR-FECT PLAID
  Bringing together the bes
  
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• B.C.: 15 best books of the week, Oct. 7

  06-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations — Richard Wagamese (Douglas & McIntyre). 
  2. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  3. Hello Humpback! — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers (Harbour Publishing). 
  4. The Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary Celebration — Doug Sarti and Dan McLeod (Rocky Mountain Books).
  5. You Hold Me Up — Monique
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Interprovincial wine sales under the spotlight once again

  06-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. wineries are front and centre again with the news that five small wineries have sought leave to intervene in an appeal by a New Brunswick man to the Supreme Court of Canada.
  Gerald Comeau was stopped by the RCMP in 2012 and fined $292.50 for violating the New Brunswick Liquor Control Act that limits personal liquor importation to 12 pints of beer or one bottle of alcohol or wine. Comeau’s crime? Transporting 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor from Quebec into New Brunswick.
  
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• Update: RCMP locate missing Chilliwack teen

  06-10-2017 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  Update: In a media release Friday, Chilliwack RCMP confirm 15 year-old Kusone Shacquor Robinson has has been located, and “he is safe and sound.”  
  Chilliwack RCMP asking the public to help find 15-year-old Kusone Shacquor Robinson.
  The Chilliwack teen was last seen on Sept. 17 in the 45000-block of Wellington Avenue.
  Robinson is described as black male, approximately five-foot-five and weighing about 119 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.
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• Parq Vancouver resort largest private development in B.C.

  06-10-2017 19:23
  
  The 72,000-square-foot casino opened to crowds on September 29 is bookended by two major hotels, operating 24 hours.
  
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• Bulls and Bears: Red Wings open new home in downtown Detroit

  06-10-2017 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the week
  The banners signifying 11 Stanley Cups won at the Olympia (seven) and Joe Louis Arena (four) moved this week to Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit, now home to a 5,100-square foot Daktronics LED video system.
  The world’s largest seamless centre-hung video scoreboard headlined the bullishness around the first official home game at the new rink, an US$863 million public-private partnership between the city of Detroit and the legacy of the late Mike Illitch, the popula
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Hydro president admits cracks in Site C contracts

  06-10-2017 17:33 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — After stubbornly defending the Site C budget and construction schedule for much of the year, B.C. Hydro threw in the towel this week via a confessional letter to the B.C. Utilities Commission.
  “It has been very important to us in this process to be forthcoming with timely and accurate information,” wrote B.C. Hydro president and chief operating officer Chris O’Riley in a letter made public Thursday.
  “Today’s filing provides an opportunity for u
  
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• Movie releases: Blade Runner 2049 and The Mountain Between Us

  06-10-2017 17:18 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee looks at the sequel to Blade Runner and the locally shot The Mountain Between Us – starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet.
  
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• Canadian Cancer Society Wig Bank – A personal story

  06-10-2017 16:48 via globalnews.ca
  Cancer survivor Corrine Schelle explains how the Canadian Cancer Society wig bank program helped her as she battled the disease.
  
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• Daily Poll: Will you be watching the Vancouver Canucks home opener?

  06-10-2017 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Canucks open the 2017/18 season this Saturday on home ice against the Edmonton Oilers but the excitement isn’t what it used to be.
  Ticket prices have fallen from previous years when empty seats at Rogers Arena were hard to come by, according to longtime fans, ticket resellers, and those who usually bank their business on the Canucks’ success.
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  Meat draw, bacon and other Canadiana on offer as Canucks cut ticket prices to open a new season“Forty-seven dollars
  
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• B.C. Conservation Service says 469 bears destroyed in B.C. this year

  06-10-2017 16:30 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service reports more than 20,000 conflicts between humans and wildlife around the province between January and October of this year.
  Environment Ministry spokesman Mike Badry says about 14,000 of those complaints involve confrontations with black bears.
  He says 469 bruins, or approximately one bear in every 30 complaints, had to be destroyed.
  Spring and early summer produced the greatest number of complaints about bears, but Badry sa
  
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• Verdict expected for 3 youths in stabbing death of Luka Gordic

  06-10-2017 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  Friends and family of Luka Gordic are hoping for justice this morning, with the verdict in the case of three people charged in his death set to come down today.
  
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• UFC 216: Punch Drunk Predictions

  06-10-2017 15:45 via theprovince.com
  Hello, old friends!
  After a couple events where I was on vacation — and actually taking a vacation, not “on vacation” where I still write every day and the people I’m with hate me — it’s time to get back to making fight picks.
  UFC 216 is a good card top-to-bottom, but one that hasn’t generated a ton of pre-fight interest and won’t do any great shakes on pay-per-view this weekend — which is too bad because there are a bunch of solid prospects
  
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• Meat draw, bacon and other Canadiana on offer as Canucks cut ticket pr

  06-10-2017 15:06 via vancouversun.com
  It’s debatable who’s the more optimistic: A farmer during seeding or a sports fan at the beginning of a season.
  For Canucks fans, once spoiled by a string of bountiful regular seasons that included reaching 100 or more points seven times from 2002 to 2011, optimism means another fallow year or two in hopes of reaping the rewards down the road.
  “To tell you the truth, my expectations are just to have an exciting brand of hockey to watch, to see the young guys develop,” lon
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Knowledge is the antidote to the perils of globalization

  06-10-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Joseph Stiglitz shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics with George Akerlof and Michael Spence for the big idea that globalization’s success or failure would depend on how it is managed.
  A year later, Stiglitz published Globalization and Its Discontents that expanded on the theory that free-market approaches that minimize the role of government will lead to increased poverty and income inequality.
  Fast forward to 2008. The global economy had crashed, and Rudy Buttignol had been CEO of Kn
  
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• B.C. Government announces members of the Fair Wages Commission

  06-10-2017 11:24 via globalnews.ca
  The NDP government has announced the members of the Fair Wages Commission, that will decide the timing of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
  
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• RCMP detachment in Fraser Valley looking for more Victim Services volunteers in wake of Las Vegas tragedy

  06-10-2017 11:19 via globalnews.ca
  Anybody affected by the tragedy in Las Vegas on Sunday is being urged to call Victim Services for help.
  
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• B.C. environmental group unhappy with how Site C is being handled

  06-10-2017 11:14 via globalnews.ca
  The Wilderness Committee wants the provincial government to not only stop the Site C dam project, but to compensate construction workers who would be laid off.
  
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• B.C. civil rights watchdog concerned with new Angus Reid Institute poll results

  06-10-2017 11:06 via globalnews.ca
  The BC Civil Liberties Association says the new poll shows there's still a lot of work to do to combat racism.
  
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• Sechelt is so dry right now, it can’t put ice on its hockey rink

  06-10-2017 08:45 via globalnews.ca
  That's put the prospect of any hockey games being played there — figuratively — on ice.
  
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• A $2.5-million donation to support dementia research at Victoria hospital

  06-10-2017 08:12 via globalnews.ca
  "It's a very difficult diagnosis to hear," one donor said of dementia.
  
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• IIO called in after Abbotsford police arrest alleged speeder who took a 4-metre fall

  06-10-2017 07:45 via globalnews.ca
  Abbotsford police say the suspect fell four meters, breaking his leg.
  
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• Opinion: We must address housing issues to attract Amazon

  06-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  All across North America, cities are salivating at what may be one of the biggest economic sweepstakes of all time. The winner will play host to one of North America’s largest companies, Amazon, as it seeks a second world headquarters.
  The numbers for this so-called HQ2 project are staggering: A US$5 billion investment, 50,000 new jobs, average annual salaries exceeding $100,000, more than eight million square feet of space.
  Fortunately, Metro Vancouver is one of the regions in the HQ2 Der
  
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• Dwight Newman: Court decisions are hurting Aboriginal communities and their ability to use their land

  06-10-2017 07:00 via theprovince.com
  In recent months several major resource projects across Canada, which would have led to billions of dollars of investment, were cancelled. Another project, the multibillion-dollar Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (which carries oil from Alberta to the West Coast of B.C.), faces an eight-day court hearing that started this week in the Federal Court of Appeal, with many of the arguments focusing on whether or not Indigenous rights pose larger barriers to the project than realized. What these vari
  
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• Global BC’s Thanks for Giving raises over $11,000 for Food Banks BC

  06-10-2017 06:48 via globalnews.ca
  Donors were asked to bring food or cash. They can still donate online.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Oct 5

  06-10-2017 06:21 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Thursday, October 5, 2017.
  
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