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• Heavy rainfall causes flooding in parts of Vancouver - CTV News

  12-10-2017 23:46
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  Heavy rainfall causes flooding in parts of Vancouver
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  Heavy rainfall has flooded several roads and intersections in Vancouver. “I've never seen anything like this before. This happened in like less than two hours,” said Luca Mohamad, an employee at a National car rental location at the Vancouver airport ...
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• Local street paper hosts Vancouver forums on overdose crisis

  12-10-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  "Through the How to Save a Life series we're amplifying the voices of people who use drugs and the community response to the overdose crisis."
  
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• Vancouver fire crews respond to boat blaze in Yaletown marina

  12-10-2017 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Fire Department and the coast guard were called to the scene of a massive boat fire at Yaletown’s Quayside Marina on Thursday.
  The 30-foot pleasure vessel, moored in the marine, was destroyed by the fire that broke at around noon.
  Witnesses reported hearing the blast.
  “It was such a loud bang … My son thought it was thunder, but it was a huge explosion,” said Mary Zilba, whose condo overlooks the marina. “I ran over to the window and there was a massi
  
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• IIO deployed to fatal officer-involved shooting in Qualicum Beach

  12-10-2017 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Mounties were called to reports of a man who had stabbed himself inside his vehicle on the Island Highway.
  
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• Province locks-in $500,000 annual funding for Surrey gang prevention program

  12-10-2017 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  The province boosted funding to the program this summer, and is now pledging $500,000 annually to help keep kids out of gangs.
  
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• Action needed now to restrict vessels in critical killer whale habitat, scientists warn

  12-10-2017 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  Government action is needed now — on an emergency basis — to restrict vessels within the critical habitat of endangered southern resident killer whales, marine scientists warned Thursday in Vancouver.
  “There are some short-term things that can be done — they’re practical, well-supported and cautionary,” Vancouver Aquarium whale researcher Lance Barrett-Lennard told a federally sponsored symposium on the killer whales. “We’d better stop talking abou
  
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• First Nations day students move towards settlement in residential school dispute

  12-10-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  Three First Nations say they have reached a memorandum of understanding with the federal government that could keep their bid to include day students in a settlement for residential school survivors out of court.
  The Tk’emlups and Sechelt bands in B.C. launched a class-action lawsuit in 2012 after a settlement between the government and about 86,000 residential school survivors excluded day scholars, students who attended the schools but did not live at them. They were later joined in the
  
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• Price of Metro Vancouver condos surge, detached homes drop: survey - Vancouver Sun

  12-10-2017 22:01
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  Price of Metro Vancouver condos surge, detached homes drop: survey
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  Metro Vancouver condo prices surged in the third quarter, according to a new real estate price survey released Thursday. Royal Lepage's survey found the median price of a condominium rose by 17.6 per cent year-over-year to $622,392, while the cost of a ...
  Metro Vancouver condo prices continue to skyrocketNews1130
  Canada home prices edge up in August; Toronto, Vancouver pauseBNN
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• B.C.’s next election could include a radically different voting system: Baldrey

  12-10-2017 22:01 via globalnews.ca
  That’s because the NDP government has tabled legislation requiring a referendum next fall on whether or not to move to a proportional representation voting model, and it has signaled it may stack the deck considerably to ensure the referendum result is indeed a shift to PR.
  
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• Travel: Winter getaways

  12-10-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Travel consultant Claire Newell with when and how to book to get the best deals on a winter getaway.
  
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• Granville Island sees massive drop in bike thefts

  12-10-2017 21:47
  
  Vancouver’s premier destination for bike thieves is experiencing a remarkable turnaround.
  
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• New B.C. guidelines unveiled for prescription heroin

  12-10-2017 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. Centre on Substance Abuse has released the provinces first ever set of guidelines for prescribing injectable treatments for opioid addiction.
  
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• Newton businesses call for doubling of Surrey’s community policing unit

  12-10-2017 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  The Newton BIA wants to see Surrey's community policing unit doubled in size.
  
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• ART SEEN: The Shadow that came for a visit to the University of B.C.

  12-10-2017 21:41 via vancouversun.com
  Where does a new work of art come from?
  Is it outside the artist waiting to be found? Or is it in the artist waiting to be discovered?
  With Esther Shalev-Gerz, it was a little of both. When I asked her how she came up with The Shadow, she told a story about walking around the University of B.C. campus one day. Shalev-Gerz, who lives in Paris but spends her summers on Cortes Island in B.C., said she was thinking about the verticality of Jim Hart’s Reconciliation Pole at the south end of the
  
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• More than 1,000 people in B.C. died from drug overdose in last eight months

  12-10-2017 21:36
  
  The statistics continue to border on unimaginable: three and half deaths per day, 113 lives lost in August alone more than 1,000 fatal overdoses through eight months.
  
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• Boat fire at Marinaside

  12-10-2017 21:34 via globalnews.ca
  A boat caught on fire Thursday morning at Marinaside in False Creek. From viewer video, you can clearly see flames shooting from the boat.
  
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• Firefighters called to massive boat fire in Yaletown

  12-10-2017 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Firefighters are on the scene of a fully involved boat fire in Yaletown.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey joins David Foster Foundation charity gala in Vancouver - CTV Vancouver Island

  12-10-2017 21:13
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  Oprah Winfrey joins David Foster Foundation charity gala in Vancouver
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  VANCOUVER - Oprah Winfrey and Goldie Hawn have joined the lineup for the upcoming David Foster Foundation 30th Anniversary Miracle Gala and Concert in Vancouver. Steven Tyler, Jay Leno, the Tenors and Carly Rae Jepsen are among the other stars ...and more »
  
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• KJ Apa, aka Archie Andrews, thinks Vancouver is 'kind of boring' - Vancouver Sun

  12-10-2017 20:57
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  KJ Apa, aka Archie Andrews, thinks Vancouver is 'kind of boring'
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  K.J. Apa, who plays Archie Andrews on The CW/Netflix hit Riverdale, says filming in Vancouver can get kind of boring. Dean Buscher / Dean Buscher/The CW. Share Adjust Comment Print. It takes more than a soda shop to keep Archie Andrews entertained in ...
  KJ Apa, Who Plays Archie Andrews, Calls Vancouver Boring, And Boy, Does He Nail ItHuffington Post Canada
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• Archie Andrews thinks Vancouver is 'kind of boring'

  12-10-2017 20:57 via vancouversun.com
  It takes more than a soda shop to keep Archie Andrews entertained in Vancouver.
  New Zealand actor K.J. Apa, who plays Archie in the dark and gritty teen drama Riverdale, says filming The CW/Netflix series in Hollywood North is “kind of boring.”
  “The food is really good. The only thing is when you live there for a long time, it can get kind of boring. The city is not the biggest city in the world and it could have shuts early, which I guess is kind of good,” Apa told
  
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• Premier announces annual funding for Surrey gang prevention program

  12-10-2017 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has committed ongoing funding of $500,000 per year for a Surrey program aimed at preventing youths from joining gangs.
  Premier John Horgan, along with Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, announced the money for the Surrey Wraparound (Wrap) Program on Thursday during an event at Princess Margaret Secondary School.
  Horgan was following through on a promise made during the provincial election campaign earlier this year.
  Horgan called the Wrap Pro
  
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• Canada’s McMahon, Sanders fly Maple Leaf at world Ironman championship

  12-10-2017 20:36 via theprovince.com
  Two Canadians return to the world Ironman championship seeking to crack Kona’s code.
  The Hawaiian birthplace of Ironman racing — a 3.86-kilometre ocean swim followed by an 180K bike ride and a 42K marathon — continues to be the Super Bowl of the sport almost 40 years after the first race in 1978.
  Victoria’s Brent McMahon and Lionel Sanders of Harrow, Ont., will compete in the world championship for a third straight year Saturday.
  The Canadians own half a dozen Ironman vic
  
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• Premier announces gang prevention program changes

  12-10-2017 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  In light of numerous gang shootings and deaths across B.C. in recent months, the province has announced a new strategy to tackle the problem.
  
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• Surrey to consider parking control instead of evictions in Clayton Heights

  12-10-2017 20:00
  Better transit and residential parking permit system prefereable to evicting renters, say organizations
  
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• More research needed before imposing shipping restrictions to save B.C.'s killer whales: Garneau

  12-10-2017 19:59 via vancouversun.com
  Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday in Vancouver he’s not ready to impose tough new restrictions on shipping to help protect B.C.’s endangered southern resident killer whales from extinction.
  He told reporters at a federally-sponsored killer whale symposium in Vancouver that “we’re gathering the scientific evidence..and then we’ll take the necessary measures” to mitigate the effects on the whales.
  “We’re committed to protect this endanger
  
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• Fentanyl mostly responsible for new height in B.C. illicit drug deaths

  12-10-2017 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — More people died from illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia in the first eight months of this year than all of 2016.
  The coroner’s service says the 1,013 people who died from overdoses from January to the end of August surpasses a record 982 deaths last year.
  The latest figures for 2017 show fentanyl was detected either alone or with another drug in more than 80 per cent of the deaths.
  The province declared a state of emergency last year and brought in a number of ini
  
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• Price of Metro Vancouver condos surge, detached homes drop: survey

  12-10-2017 19:48 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver condo prices surged in the third quarter says a new real estate price survey released Thursday.
  Royal Lepage’s survey found the median price of a condominium rose by 17.6 per cent year-over-year to $622,392, while the cost of two storey detached home dropped by 1.1 per cent to $1,532,849 over the same period. The price of a bungalow, however, went up 3.5 per cent to $1,422,458. 
  The survey shows the biggest jump in condo prices in Metro Vancouver wa
  
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• B.C. has already seen more overdose deaths this year than in all of 2016

  12-10-2017 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  The BC Coroners Service says 1,013 people have died of overdoses this year, up from the 982 people who lost their lives to drugs last year.
  
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• From 2014: Empowered Health – Using chelation therapy to clear blocked arteries

  12-10-2017 19:16 via vancouversun.com
  When Vancouver’s Donald Allchurch discovered he had blocked arteries leading to his heart, he sought alternatives to a bypass operation. He says chelation therapy and an improved diet helped him on the path of better health.
  Story: Bypassing the heart bypass
  
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• Vancouver Island man banned from playing car stereo in Central Saanich - Vancouver Sun

  12-10-2017 19:14
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  Vancouver Island man banned from playing car stereo in Central Saanich
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  Dustin Hamilton, with his girlfriend, Katrina Jourdenais, and their dog, Luna, holds a sheet that was plastered all over the neighbourhood asking people to complain to police about the noise from his car stereo. The ban is "depressing," Hamilton says ...and more »
  
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• Vancouver Island man banned from playing car stereo in Central Saanich

  12-10-2017 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  Dustin Hamilton is not allowed to play his car stereo in Central Saanich. 
  In fact, Hamilton is prohibited from driving his PT Cruiser at all in Central Saanich unless he’s taking his girlfriend to work and back.
  Since May, Central Saanich police have received about 17 noise complaints from residents of West Saanich Road between Keating Cross Road and Wallace Drive.
  “People are saying their pictures are rattling on the wall and coffee cups are falling off the table,&rd
  
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• Premier to make announcement about Surrey gang prevention program

  12-10-2017 18:37 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Premier John Horgan will make an announcement on Thursday morning regarding the future of a Surrey gang prevention program.
  Horgan will be joined at Princess Margaret Secondary School by Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, and representatives of the City of Surrey, Surrey RCMP and School District 36.
  It’s likely the announcement will concern the Surrey Wraparound (Wrap) Program, which is a partnership between the Surrey School District, City
  
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• Police incident on campus at University of B.C.

  12-10-2017 18:27 via vancouversun.com
  A police incident is underway at the University of B.C.
  No details have been released but the RCMP detachment on campus confirmed that all members were on scene at the UBC Recreation Centre.
  The detachment said the media spokesman Sgt. Drew Grainger was not available to answer questions about the incident.
  Major police incident @UBC this morning – about 6-8 squad cars and lots of police tape up pic.twitter.com/n4QrdaRS93
  — Benjamin Perrin (@PerrinBen1) October 12, 2017MORE TO COME
  
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• Home sales, average prices rose across B.C. in September

  12-10-2017 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  It may come as no surprise but both home sales and average prices rose across B.C. in September, according to the latest figures from the British Columbia Real Estate Association
  
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• The Morning Skate, Oct. 12: Sports is fun (again)

  12-10-2017 18:15 via theprovince.com
  Today we start with a reminder: sports, most of the time, are just plain fun.
  The Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights are a combined 6-1 to start the season, just as everyone predicted.
  — James O'Brien(@cyclelikesedins) October 12, 2017It’s early season, yes. But teams starting out with a bang are great but it’s the ones you don’t expect to do so that make it all very interesting.
  Of course, this will come to an end, but forget about that for now.
  The dreams of the playoff
  
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• ISIS sex slave describes horrifying scenes: 'Forced to do things that were disgusting'

  12-10-2017 18:03
  
  Depraved ISIS thugs are little morethanserial rapists who claim sex assaultisa byproduct of implementing teachingsofthe Qur'an.
  
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• Siwash Rock name disrespectful to First Nations says Vancouver Park Board

  12-10-2017 17:52 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Park Board says it has taken a first step toward righting “acts of dispossession and disrespect” in Stanley Park by considering whether to rename a prominent rock.
  The board has voted unanimously to work with Coast Salish Nations to determine if Siwash Rock should be renamed.
  The rock, a massive 18-metre, basalt sea stack, stands on the park’s northwest shore near the entrance to Vancouver’s harbour.
  The word Siwash is a derogatory term for
  
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• Top travel gear

  12-10-2017 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  Travel expert Claire Newell shows us some new gear to make your next trip easier and more comfortable.
  
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• Vancouver's Siwash Rock name disrespectful to First Nations, says park board - Times Colonist

  12-10-2017 17:16
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  Vancouver's Siwash Rock name disrespectful to First Nations, says park board
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  People stop to take photographs of Siwash Rock along the Stanley Park seawall in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday August 25, 2013. The Vancouver Park Board says it has taken a first step toward righting "acts of dispossession and disrespect" in Stanley Park ...
  Vancouver Park Board to consult with First Nations on Siwash Rock name changeVancouver Courier
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• Five things to do in Vancouver: Oct. 13-19 - Vancouver Sun

  12-10-2017 17:00
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  Five things to do in Vancouver: Oct. 13-19
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  A six-time JUNO nominee, pianist John Stetch relocated to Vancouver after years in New York. His 15th album with his crack N.Y. quartet Vulneraville is titled The Vancouver Suite and showcases Stetch's love of everything from Ukrainian folk songs to ...and more »
  
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• Five things to do in Vancouver

  12-10-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  John Stetch & Vulneraville
  Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St.
  Tickets and info: From $25 at opentable.com
  A six-time JUNO nominee, pianist John Stetch relocated to Vancouver after years in New York. His 15th album with his crack N.Y. quartet Vulneraville is titled The Vancouver Suite and showcases Stetch’s love of everything from Ukrainian folk songs to baroque classical and serious, sleeves-rolled up jazz. Backed by saxophonist Steve Krotyka, who performs w
  
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• Breast intentions hijacked by big biz?

  12-10-2017 16:55
  
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• Destination BC: The fun’s not done

  12-10-2017 16:51 via globalnews.ca
  Josie Heisig of Destination BC takes a look at several autumn festivals happening around the province.
  
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• White Cashmere Collection announces 2017 winner

  12-10-2017 16:44 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian designers participated in the Cashmere Collection fashion contest to raise awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Chelsea Cox a Kwantlen Polytechnnic University design student was this years winner.
  
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• B.C. police watchdog releases list of injuries sustained by Myles Gray

  12-10-2017 16:38 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s independent police watchdog has released a shocking list of injuries suffered by Myles Gray in a fatal altercation with eight Vancouver police officers two years ago, including a fractured voice box and fractured sternum.
  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court this week, asking that an officer who witnessed the event sit for a second interview. Gray’s cause of death has not been released, however the IIO included the man’s in
  
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• Indiana students suspended for allegedly filming, disseminating in-school sex video

  12-10-2017 16:37
  
  Students at an Indianapolis charter school are under investigation after an in-school sex video was disseminated using social media.
  
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• Vancouver Park Board votes to work with First Nations to rename Siwash Rock

  12-10-2017 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  The park board has been discussing the possible name change since July 2015.
  
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• The yin-yang theory of Vancouver politics

  12-10-2017 16:00
  
  Vancouverites have long aimed to strike an equilibrium between local government politics and the party holding power in Victoria.
  
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• Plenty of gardening options in the cooler weather

  12-10-2017 15:43 via theprovince.com
  Q. This year has been our first season gardening at the coast, after moving from the interior of the province. My husband insists it’s time to put our new, fairly large garden to bed this month. I would rather keep gardening as weather permits, through the fall and winter. I’d appreciate your thoughts.
  A. How much and when to garden are personal decisions that depend on our individual desires as well as family and work life circumstances. Climate can present limitations. My Okanagan
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with rule prohibiting ferry passengers from staying in their cars?

  12-10-2017 15:43 via vancouversun.com
  As of this week, ferry passengers are no longer allowed to stay in their cars on the lower decks. B.C. Ferries says the new regulations are meant to be an added safety measure in case of fire and smoke erupting in an enclosed area. What do you think of this new policy?Take Our Poll
  
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