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• Wanted man arrested in Kelowna in ‘dramatic fashion’

  13-10-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP Cpl. Clayton Wiebe said officers made tremendous efforts to ensure Aronson's arrest was executed as safely as possible.
  
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• Park board commissioner wants more rangers patrolling Vancouver parks

  13-10-2017 23:01
  
  The Vancouver Park Board is looking into increasing park ranger patrols in an effort to increase safety and cleanliness in the city’s parks.
  
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• Search resumes for Penticton senior missing after fire

  13-10-2017 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  The woman, described by neighbours as in her 90s and deaf and blind, has been missing since a Wednesday night fire.
  
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• Inquest to be held into death of Quesnel man who fell out of ambulance

  13-10-2017 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. Coroners Service is launching an inquest into the death of a 36-year-old man who fell while being taken by ambulance to hospital in Quesnel, B.C.
  A statement from the service says Ebony Wood was involved in a vehicle crash on Nov. 5, 2016.
  The document says the RCMP arrived and put Wood in the back of a police cruiser, where he told an officer he was experiencing chest and shoulder pain.
  The service says Wood was transferred to an ambulance and that on the way to t
  
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• Research puts B.C. Children's at forefront of 'precision medicine'

  13-10-2017 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  For Celia Lau, the value of the research at B.C. Children’s Hospital is not hard to measure. She sees it every day in the face of her vibrantly healthy 10-year-old son, Justin.
  Without a personalized genetic treatment developed at the hospital’s research institute, Justin may not have survived his illness.
  Lau gave birth to her first child, Cameron, in 2004. Cameron was a full-term, six pound, 11 ounce baby who appeared healthy and perfect in every way. But shortly after going home,
  
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• Halloween 2017: Top 10 haunted places in Vancouver

  13-10-2017 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  By Mary Frances Hill, Special To Postmedia (Originally published May 13, 2011)
  1. ORPHEUM THEATRE 884 GRANVILLE ST.
  Orpheum Theatre.
  Since it was built in 1927, the Orpheum has played host to a variety of performers, including an acrobat who fell to his death during a vaudeville act. Since then, he’s been a regular fixture at the theatre, with many sightings of him -mostly as an orb of light -reported by staff and performers.
  2. VOGUE THEATRE 918 GRANVILLE ST.
  Vogue Theatre.
  Buil
  
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• Tech Talk: Apple Watches

  13-10-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Mike Agerbo from Get Connected Media has the on latest Apple Watch gadgets.
  
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• Alternative power $2B to $4B cheaper than Site C says international energy consultant

  13-10-2017 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  "On wind farms, the price has gone down 60 per cent over the last five years. I mean that's a hell of a change."
  
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• Ex-All Black Buck Shelford coming to Vancouver for Rugby Canada fundraiser

  13-10-2017 21:40 via theprovince.com
  One of the most famous All Blacks of all time is coming to Vancouver and Rugby Canada wants you to have lunch with him.
  Hours before the New Zealand Maori All Blacks kickoff at B.C. Place against Canada on Nov. 3, Shelford will be the star guest at a “long lunch” held at the nearby Shark Club in downtown Vancouver.
  Shelford played 48 times for the All Blacks in the 1980s and as a long-time captain of the team, he is credited with making the “Ka Mate” Haka a vital piece of
  
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• New spill rules tag transport companies with response, recovery costs in B.C.

  13-10-2017 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — New pollution prevention regulations will hold transport companies and pipeline operators moving petroleum products across British Columbia responsible for spill response and recovery costs.
  Provincial Environment Minister George Heyman says the new regulations apply to pipeline, railway and truck operators transporting more than 10,000 litres of products.
  He says the regulations increase responsibility, transparency and accountability for operators who transport potentially dan
  
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• Big Easy opens up Caribbean routes

  13-10-2017 21:37 via theprovince.com
  Norwegian Cruise Line is sending one of its most popular cruise ships to a brand-new homeport at the end of next year, in a move that will offer guests even more choices in the Caribbean.
  The 4,000-guest Norwegian Breakaway, which has formerly called New York City home during the winter months, will reposition to New Orleans for her winter 2018/19 Caribbean season. She’ll be the largest ship to ever homeport in the Big Easy, and her arrival will make it easier for guests on the west coast
  
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• How to work with people you don’t get along with

  13-10-2017 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  Author Adam Kahane talks about his new book “Collaborating with the Enemy” and gives advice on how to work with people you don’t get along with.
  
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• Buffalo sauce latte? 5 out-there food and drink concoctions from big chains

  13-10-2017 21:16
  The limited-edition drink contains both Buffalo sauce syrup and seasoning. There are plenty of other "interesting" drinks out there.
  
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• First snow of the season for many areas of B.C.

  13-10-2017 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  It was the first snowfall of the season for many areas of B.C. on Friday, and while it was a welcome sight for some, it did cause some problems on the roads.
  
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• B.C. log exporter sues Chinese owned supplier over bad shipment

  13-10-2017 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbian log exporter Northcrest Energy Corp. is suing the B.C. subsidiary of a Chinese company over allegations the company duped the exporter into financing its operations to supply logs to a customer in China and delivered inferior product.
  In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court of B.C. in New Westminster, Northcrest president Baljit Gill said representatives of the supplier, Richmond-headquartered Canada Forest Industrial Group Ltd., led her to believe that it was a su
  
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• Heavy snowfall temporarily closes Coquihalla Highway at Kamloops

  13-10-2017 21:12 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — An early dump of snow turned the Coquihalla Highway into a treacherous trek, especially for drivers unprepared for the weather.
  Environment Canada forecaster Trevor Smith said as much as 10 centimetres piled up on the route Thursday night and the snowfall continued into Friday morning, prompting a temporary closure of the highway at Kamloops.
  Smith forecasts a further five centimetres through the day and says an additional two centimetres of snow is expected Saturday.
  He warns t
  
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• Expo 86 McBarge to become deep sea museum

  13-10-2017 21:03 via vancouversun.com
  The famous Expo 86 floating McBarge will finally have a permanent home, as a deep sea museum in Vancouver.
  The Deep Discovery Centre — which will celebrate the history of Pacific Ocean exploration and conservation — is under development by Howard Meakin, owner of the 57-metre long barge, and Phil Nuytten, the president of the Historical Diving Society of Canada and curator of the new centre.
  Meakin and Nuytten, who have been working together on the project for more than a year, say t
  
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• Town Talk: Gourmet Warehouse's McSherry launches cookbook

  13-10-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  TOO MANY COOKS? Not for Gourmet Warehouse owner Caren McSherry who launched her seventh cookbook, Starters, Salads and Sexy Sides: Inspiring Recipes to Make Every Meal Shine, with city chefs Angus An, Trevor Bird, Margaret Chisholm, Robert Clark, Scott Jaeger and Pino Posteraro serving dishes from it. One recipe, Pickled Vegetable Salad, came from mother Clara who coached then-flight attendant McSherry in kitchen ways. Some launch-goers goggled at sustainable-seafood proselytizer Clark serving s
  
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• Mother in Nanaimo tragedy had ‘such a loving spirit’

  13-10-2017 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Amberlee Scarr and Piper, above, were found dead with ex-husband and father Jason Stephenson after a house fire in Nanaimo on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.
  The family of Amberlee Scarr and her seven-year-old daughter say financial hardship caused by a separation and custody battle drove her back to her ex-husband.
  Scarr, daughter Piper and ex-husband Jason Stephenson were found dead in their Nicol Street home in Nanaimo on Tuesday following a house fire that police have called suspicious.
  The couple h
  
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• Robbo ready to prove Caps’ naysayers wrong

  13-10-2017 20:57 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson doesn’t mind saying I told you so.
  If the Whitecaps defeat the San Jose Earthquakes on Sunday at B.C. Place, Vancouver will clinch first place in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference and secure a bye into the conference semifinals.
  Vancouver (15-11-6) heads into the weekend leading the West with 51 points, three more than second-place Sporting Kansas City (12-8-12). Kansas City’s hopes of catching the Whitecaps were dealt a blow
  
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• Five things about the Vancouver byelection

  13-10-2017 20:40 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouverites head to the polls on Saturday for the city’s first municipal byelection in 25 years as voters will elect an entire school board and a one new city councillor. They’ll be one-year terms as the city will has a full municipal election scheduled for next November. 
  The city says 4,174 ballots have already been cast after two days of advance voting on Oct. 4 and 10. Results will be announced Saturday night.
  WHO IS RUNNING FOR COUNCIL?
  City council was left one seat shor
  
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• Cranbrook B.C. gets first snowfall

  13-10-2017 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  Kids in the city of Cranbrook B.C. enjoyed the first snowfall of the year by making snowmen.
  
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• Thinking in stories, the intersectional art of Angie Abdou

  13-10-2017 20:30 via vancouversun.com
  In Case I Go
  Angie Abdou
  Arsenal Pulp PressAngie Abdou has done it again. After the searing social realism of her masterpiece Between, reviewed in 2014, she has turned her considerable talents not to a simple and perhaps tempting reprise of the genre and approach that produced her last triumph but to a new and risky effort: an odd blend of ghost story, adultery drama, anti-racist consciousness raising, and magical realism.
  In Case I Go not only features a child narrator, à la Emma Donohue
  
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• COMMENTARY: Employee discount tax flip-flop a chicken bone in the voter’s throat

  13-10-2017 20:29 via globalnews.ca
  Threatening employee discounts may have been the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to the Trudeau government's tax reform plans.
  
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• Penticton Indian Band mothers, grandmothers, children march on MCFD office

  13-10-2017 20:22 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of members of the Penticton Indian Band marched on the local Ministry of Children and Family Development office in Penticton Friday afternoon.
  
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• Aliens are invading Stanley Park!

  13-10-2017 20:20
  
  Annual Ghost Train is invaded by creatures from outer space
  
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• Michelle Stillwell on what it takes to be a strong leader

  13-10-2017 19:40 via globalnews.ca
  Michelle Stillwell sits down with Global News Hour at 6 BC anchor Sophie Lui to talk about what it means to be a great leader. Michelle is a former Paralympian and says determination, perseverance and discipline are three qualities that capture her strength and character.
  
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• UBCO research suggests selling marijuana in store-front dispensaries works well

  13-10-2017 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  About 450 therapeutic marijuana users were asked to compare different methods of purchasing their medicine.
  
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• Police seek witnesses in Commercial Drive homicide

  13-10-2017 19:17
  
  Police are looking for witnesses after a man died from a stab wound Thursday night.
  
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• Vancouver, it's time to vote

  13-10-2017 19:16
  All the information you need to vote in Saturday's civic by-election for one city councillor and nine school trustees.
  
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• New lifestyle benefiting Canada’s Christopher Spring ahead of bobsled season

  13-10-2017 19:16 via theprovince.com
  Canadian bobsled pilot Christopher Spring decided at the end of the summer that he was going to dramatically change his lifestyle.
  He sold his car, got rid of the majority of his belongings and purchased a GMC Savannah van, which he now calls home.
  “I just saw how much I don’t need things in my life anymore,” Spring said from Whistler. “I gave away three-quarters of all my Olympic gear from the last two Olympics. I just gave it away to friends, family, whoever. And then g
  
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• Q&A with former Paralympian Michelle Stillwell

  13-10-2017 19:00 via globalnews.ca
  Global News Hour at 6 BC anchor Sophie Lui leads a question and answer session with six-time Paralympic gold medalist Michelle Stillwell.
  
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• Province Sports Radio: Travis Green is very cool

  13-10-2017 18:53 via theprovince.com
  Patrick Johnston and Steve Ewen are back to look at the first week of the Canucks season, ponder the Whitecaps’ playoff hopes, look at the Giants, who can score plenty, and muse about the Lions, who have totally lost their way.http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/provsports_oct_12_17/PROVSPORTS_Oct_12_17Ewen.mp3It’s another episode of Casual Thursdays. Brock Boeser’s debut, is it over hyped? Olli Juolevi, is Finland really the right place? Can the W
  
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• Vancouver's middle-aged exodus raises concerns about city's economic future - The Globe and Mail

  13-10-2017 18:41 via theglobeandmail.com
  The Globe and Mail
  Vancouver's middle-aged exodus raises concerns about city's economic future
  The Globe and Mail
  Barry Burko and Karen McKibbin sold their Whistler, B.C., home and bought an RV park in the north Okanagan. Llisa Bastard Photography. Kerry Gold. Special to The Globe and Mail. 22 hours ago October 13, 2017. Lower Mainland residents in their peak ...
  
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• Thousands join Twitter movement with #WomenBoyCottTwitter

  13-10-2017 17:48 via globalnews.ca
  Thousands of Twitter accounts have gone silent today as celebrities and others rally behind actress Rose McGowan in an online protest of women’s voices being silenced. Online producer Amy Judd explains.
  
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• Vancouver police investigate possible targeted homicide on Commercial Drive

  13-10-2017 17:45 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are investigating a possible targeted homicide after a man was stabbed Thursday night in East Vancouver.
  The VPD were called out to Commercial Drive near East 1st Avenue at around 9:30 p.m. When they arrived they found a man suffering from stab wounds. He was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries.
  Police say the victim appears to be a man in his 30s. Investigators are working to confirm his identity and notify family.
  No arrests have been made in Vancouver&rsquo
  
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• Manslaughter charges possible for fentanyl dealers: B.C. public safety minister

  13-10-2017 17:40 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY — British Columbia’s minister of public safety says dealers whose fentanyl-laced drugs cause death could face a manslaughter charge.
  Mike Farnworth, who is also solicitor general, says the NDP government is considering tougher penalties against fentanyl dealers.
  Speaking at a news conference in Surrey, Farnworth said his ministry believes that anyone dealing fentanyl is, in his words, “dealing death.”
  A manslaughter charge was laid in Edmonton last year in an opioi
  
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• Man stabbed on Commercial Drive in Vancouver’s 16th homicide of 2017

  13-10-2017 17:34 via globalnews.ca
  The man was found suffering from a stab wound last night on Commercial Drive near East 1st Avenue around 9:30 p.m.
  
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• New Movie Reviews

  13-10-2017 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee looks Jackie Chan’s new film “The Foreigner” and a new movie starring Liam Neeson as the anonymous source that led to the Watergate scandal.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think people should be charged for playing a car stereo too loud?

  13-10-2017 17:09 via vancouversun.com
  Self-described audiophile Dustin Hamilton just wants to turn up his tunes. But his Vancouver Island neighbours say his car stereo booms so loud it scares children and rattles pictures on the wall. The Saanich man has been banned from playing his car stereo, and driving his PT Cruiser unless he’s taking his girlfriend to work after 17 noise complaints. The the 24-year-old car-audio installer now faces a criminal charge of mischief. So we’re asking, do you think playing
  
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• City of Victoria joins campaign seeking climate costs from fossil fuel industry

  13-10-2017 17:01 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The City of Victoria is about to become the third Vancouver Island municipality to send what it calls a climate accountability letter to 20 of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.
  A majority of Victoria councillors have approved sending the letter, which asks the companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Shell, to pay their share of the city’s climate costs.
  The motion to send the letter also includes a call for other local governments across Canada to make simil
  
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• Letters: Housing isn’t a right, it’s something you must work for

  13-10-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  Monday’s Province contained a shocking letter to the editor from Sophia Rollke, arguing that shelter is a basic right. She wrote that “if a homeless person had a home, it would be motivation to get a job.”
  This country was founded on the notion that you should get an education so that you can get a good job so that you can buy a home so that you won’t become homeless. In other words, become a contributing citizen to Canada’s high standard of living.
  What R
  
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• Dealing with the emotional impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment

  13-10-2017 16:53 via globalnews.ca
  The BC Cancer Agency’s Patient and Family Counselling Program Practice Leader Sarah Sample explains the emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis and treatment and what family and friends can do to support.
  
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• Systemic racism encourages half of Canadians to fear Islam an

  13-10-2017 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Recently I appeared before the standing committee on Canadian heritage, which is holding hearings in response to the passing of M-103 earlier this year. The hearings are ostensibly about systemic racism and religious discrimination, but some on the committee seem unaware of this.What should be an investigation into systemic hate in Canada often feels like a referendum on one word mentioned in M-103: Islamophobia.From the start of the hearings, witnesses have weighed in, with the active support o
  
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• MARKETPLACE: Too good to be true

  13-10-2017 15:53
  
  Marketplace has received hundreds of emails from viewers who've been stung by surprise credit card charges after signing up for what they thought were "risk-free" product trials endorsed by respected celebrities like Ellen Degeneres, Celine Dion and the stars of CBC's Dragons' Den. While thinking they signed up for a free trial offer, thousands of
  
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• Three arrested in assault of woman in Abbotsford

  13-10-2017 15:47 via vancouversun.com
  Three people have been arrested after a woman was assaulted in Abbotsford Thursday night.
  Abbotsford police spokesman Const. Ian MacDonald says shortly before 9:30 p.m., police received a call about an assault in progress in the 4200-block of Gladwin Road.                                                             
  The man calling told police
  
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• Surrey RCMP investigating shots fired overnight in Newton area

  13-10-2017 15:39 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP officers are investigating in the Newton area of Surrey this morning after a report of gun shots fired late Thursday night.
  Mounties say shortly after 10 p.m., a caller reported shots being fired in the 6100-block of 150th Street. 
  No victims were located.   
  Officers are searching the neighbourhood and speaking with witnesses to obtain information.
  RCMP say two vehicles, a white pickup truck and a dark-coloured sedan, were stopped on the road. Occupants
  
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• 3 people arrested after woman found assaulted in Abbotsford

  13-10-2017 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  Police were called at 9:25 p.m. when a man said he had found the woman near his home, in the 4200 block of Gladwin Road.
  
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• Opinion: B.C. government should keep eye on debt, says accountants group

  13-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s GDP-growth rate, estimated at 3.7 per cent, led Canada in 2016. Economic growth was driven by increased housing activity and service demand, which led to 73,300 new jobs in the province. In addition, private non-residential building investment had favourable gains. These factors, combined with low provincial debt and a strong credit rating, continue to position the province as an attractive place to invest.
  According to the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia&rsqu
  
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