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• Rainfall warning issued for Metro Vancouver

  20-10-2017 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  Another fall storm is expected to slam Metro Vancouver on Saturday, bringing 50-70 mm of rain with it.
  
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• Lowly Lions host Edmonton Eskimos as B.C.’s lost season nears end

  20-10-2017 23:11 via theprovince.com
  VANCOUVER — Solomon Elimimian has had seasons end in titles and heartbreak, awards and devastating injuries.
  What he hasn’t experienced is a year like 2017.
  Elimimian’s B.C. Lions have lost four games in a row and seven of eight to tumble down the CFL’s West Division standings as the club lurches toward what will be — barring a miracle turnaround that at this point is a mere mathematical possibility — its first autumn since 1996 without playoff football.
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• Acute care centre designed to distract, soothe young patients

  20-10-2017 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  Medical treatments can be painful and frightening for children, not to mention distressing for their parents, so positive distractions and tranquil environments conducive to healing are core design principles and priorities in the new Teck Acute Care Centre at B.C. Children’s Hospital.
  Studies have shown that viewing art, especially images of nature, can reduce stress and pain, so when the new building opens on Oct. 29, patients will see enhancements intended to lower anxiety, their p
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Howe Sound, canary in the coal mine?

  20-10-2017 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  For more than 30 years Vancouver Aquarium and other groups have been researching the fiord that extends from West Vancouver to Squamish. It has been home to pulp mills, a copper mine, been the gathering site for log booms and the output of sawmills.
  In 1956, B.C. Rail completed its line to Squamish making it more accessible to industry and the people who lived and worked for the major employers that were extracting the resources from the land that borders the Sound.
  By 1959, the Sea to
  
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• RCMP from across Southeast District called in to scour north Okanagan property

  20-10-2017 22:40 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP have launched a "full deployment" of RCMP officers specially trained in search techniques.
  
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• Canucks defenceman Gudbranson suspended one game for hit on Vatrano

  20-10-2017 22:25 via theprovince.com
  NEW YORK — Vancouver Canucks defenceman Erik Gudbranson has been suspended for one game without pay for his hit on Boston Bruins forward Frank Vatrano.
  Gudbranson hit Vatrano from behind at 6:13 of the first period of Vancouver’s game at Boston on Thursday night.
  The Canucks blueliner also received a game misconduct and a fighting major after being challenged by Boston’s Tim Schaller following the hit.
  The Bruins capitalized on the man advantage, scoring three power-play goals
  
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• LISTEN: One-on-one with new NDP leader Jagmeet Singh

  20-10-2017 22:18 via globalnews.ca
  The NDP's new leader is in Vancouver as a part of a tour to introduce himself to Canadians.
  
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• Vancouver General Hospital roadwork starts in late November

  20-10-2017 22:02
  
  The roads around Vancouver General Hospital are about to experience a massive facelift that will stretch until at least June of next year.
  
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• UPDATE: Missing 13-year-old Chilliwack boy found safe and sound

  20-10-2017 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  The missing teen has been found safe and sound.
  
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• Life sentence with no parole for 17 years for man who killed Surrey teenager

  20-10-2017 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  NEW WESTMINSTER — A British Columbia man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 17 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
  Raymond Caissie was sentenced Friday in B.C. Supreme Court for the September 2014 slaying of 17-year-old Serena Vermeersch.
  Her body was found along railway tracks in Surrey a day after she was reported missing.
  Both the Crown attorney and Caissie’s defence lawyer, Troy Anderson, had recommended the 17-year term at
  
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• Home design gurus Colin and Justin

  20-10-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  The legendary Scottish interior decorating duo will be appearing at the 17th annual West Coast Women’s Show in Abbotsford this weekend.
  
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• Abbotsford woman's husband pleads guilty to playing part in her hit-and-run death

  20-10-2017 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Hit and run victim Kulwinder Gill, who died in April 2009 on an Abbotsford rural road after being struck by a vehicle.
  ABBOTSFORD — A B.C. man whose wife was struck by a vehicle and killed nearly eight years ago has pleaded guilty to his part in her murder.
  Police say 53-year-old Iqbal Gill has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.
  Kulwinder Gill was 42 when she died in April 2009, and police say the driver failed to remain at the scene on a rural road in Abbotsford.
  Police say in
  
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• Galiano getaway

  20-10-2017 21:28 via theprovince.com
  With the throngs of summer tourists gone, the beaches less crowded and ferry line-ups shorter, now is the perfect time for a trip to the Gulf Islands.
  From the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, the closest of the Southern Gulf Islands is Galiano.
  With its 26-km eastern shore, white-shell beaches, and miles of forest trails, Galiano is an outdoor enthusiast’s paradise for hiking, mountain biking, walking, bird watching, kayaking, swimming, sailing and beachcombing. But it is also an artists’
  
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• Husband charged with Abbotsford woman’s 2009 death enters guilty plea

  20-10-2017 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  Iqbal Singh Gill was arrested and charged in 2013 for the murder of his wife, Kulwinder Kaur Gill, a mother of two.
  
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• Woman's body found in Langley dumpster

  20-10-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Langley RCMP are investigating after a woman’s body was found in a burning dumpster behind a shopping mall early Friday.
  A section behind the Rio Can shopping centre in Langley City is behind police tape but otherwise all the businesses are open and there are no road closures, said RCMP Cpl. Craig van Herk. 
  Shortly before 6 a.m., Langley firefighters called RCMP after they found the body while extinguishing a blaze in the dumpster. 
  While investigators have yet to identify the w
  
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• Town Talk: Arts Umbrella makes biggest Splash ever

  20-10-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  BEST OF TIME: The recent Gift of Time gala for the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice reportedly raised a record $1.24 million and pushed its 13-year total beyond $10 million. The funds will go toward the $12 million needed every year to support 715 children and their families at the hospice’s Vancouver and Abbotsford locations. Third-time co-chair Emily Lazare and second-timer Shanni Eckford said tickets sold out in two weeks and $107,000 had been received before 600 guests filled the
  
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• Gruesome discovery in Langley dumpster

  20-10-2017 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  A body has been found in a dumpster behind a busy shopping centre in Langley. Jordan Armstrong reports.
  
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• Tree on fire in Stanley Park

  20-10-2017 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  Fri. Oct. 20: A tree has been on fire in Stanley Park for about 24 hours. Firefighters say it is not posing a risk to the public and they are monitoring the situation.
  
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• Body found in burning Langley dumpster fire

  20-10-2017 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  Fri. Oct. 20: A woman’s body was found in a dumpster that had been on fire in Langley. Serious crimes unit is now taking over the case.
  
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• Macdonald elementary poised to be renamed Xpey’ school

  20-10-2017 20:37
  
  An East Van elementary school is on the cusp of a name change that will better reflect its Indigenous student population and curriculum.
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: Once again corporate welfare will end up costing taxpayers

  20-10-2017 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  Bombardier's C-Series deal with Airbus means the idea that jobs will stay in Canada in any meaningful way may just be a pipe dream.
  
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• Woman’s body found following dumpster fire in Langley, B.C.

  20-10-2017 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP were called to the area of 20150 Langley Bypass just before 6 a.m. today.
  
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• Fab 5: White out

  20-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What’s that saying about wearing white after Labour Day? Exactly — forget it. This season is all about eschewing the outdated rules of yesteryear, right down to your toes. After all, there’s nothing like a pair of box-fresh white shoes to cleanse your wardrobe palette. From sleek white pumps to classic sneakers, Rebecca Tay discovers five pairs that steer stylishly clear of old shoe rules.
  PATENT PENDING
  A decade ago, white patent leather shoes would have been the biggest
  
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• Bedbugs crawl out of seat and feast on Canadians trapped on nine-hour Vancouver to London flight

  20-10-2017 19:52 via vancouversun.com
  A British Columbia woman plagued by bedbugs on a nine-hour flight to London is a victim of the explosive growth in the critters globally, but travellers shouldn’t worry they’ll become a common feature on planes, says an entomologist.Heather Szilagyi was on a British Airways flight with her seven-year-old daughter and fiancée Eric Neilson on Oct. 10 when she said they noticed what appeared to be bedbugs crawling out of the seat in front of them.
  She said the flight attendants c
  
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• UBC students learn to care for Indigenous people by understanding racist legacy

  20-10-2017 19:39 via vancouversun.com
  The University of British Columbia is on mission to train future doctors, dentists and other health-care providers to treat Indigenous patients by learning about the pain inflicted by past Canadian policies.
  First-year students in midwifery, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, genetic counselling, social work, dental hygiene and dietetics are required to take an online course and two workshops to help them better serve Aboriginal people. In 2018, students in audiology and speech an
  
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• Grosvenor Pacific takes cautious approach with downtown Vancouver condo - The Globe and Mail

  20-10-2017 19:36
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  Grosvenor Pacific takes cautious approach with downtown Vancouver condo
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  Grosvenor has been building in and around Vancouver for 60-plus years, but their public profile has been near invisible. That's about to change. The British developer is building its first residential tower in downtown Vancouver, on Hornby at Pacific.
  
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• Bulls&Bears: Money talks in the MLS

  20-10-2017 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  With designated players actually worth their exorbitant salaries — US$7.1 million for Sebastian Giovinco, US$6.5 million for Michael Bradley and US$4.88 million for Jozy Altidore — Toronto FC is putting the finishing touches on the most dominant regular season in Major League Soccer history while the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Seattle Sounders FC and Portland Timbers FC go into ‘Decision Day’ jockeying for position in what should be an interesting post-seas
  
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• Brian Minter: Beat nibbling Bambi with these deer-resistant spring bulbs

  20-10-2017 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  Who loves spring bulbs more than we do?  Here are some clues:  They have four legs, are cute-as-a-button, and enjoy visiting every garden for miles around.  I can’t think of any major reason, other than deer, why folks would not plant bulbs for spring enjoyment.
  Before I dare suggest deer-proof bulbs, let’s be honest:  No one ever tells the deer which ones they’re not supposed to eat.  I’ve never felt sorrier for any speaker than I did a few years
  
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• 19 Vancouver concerts this weekend, October 20 to 22 - Straight.com

  20-10-2017 19:01
  Straight.com
  19 Vancouver concerts this weekend, October 20 to 22
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  FRIDAY: Vancouver alt-soul band the Boom Booms plays the Vogue, performing tunes from its new album A Million Miles. FRIDAY: Toronto indie-rock band Broken Social Scene plays the first of two nights at the Commodore, with guests the Belle Game.
  
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• 3 victims in Fernie arena ammonia leak identified

  20-10-2017 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  The three victims in the Fernie arena ammonia leak have now been identified by the B.C. Coroners Service.
  
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• Off-duty paramedic among three men who died in Fernie arena ammonia leak

  20-10-2017 18:45 via vancouversun.com
  FERNIE — The City of Fernie shut down its operations Friday to give staff time to grieve the deaths of co-workers following an ammonia leak at the local ice rink.
  The B.C. Coroners Service said the men who died were Wayne Hornquist, 59, and Lloyd Smith, 52, both of Fernie; and Jason Podloski, 46, of Turner Valley, Alta.
  B.C. Emergency Health Services says Smith was a part-time paramedic who was off-duty and working at his other job with the municipality when he died Tuesday.
  Smith began hi
  
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• NDP leader Jagmeet Singh makes Vancouver stop in get-to-know-you tour

  20-10-2017 18:32 via vancouversun.com
  Newly minted federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will make a Vancouver stop on the Western swing of his cross-country, campaign-style tour as he begins his bid to find political support ahead of the 2019 election.
  Elected Oct. 1 to succeed former leader Tom Mulcair, Singh kicked off his national tour Sunday in Ottawa and will make an appearance scheduled for 10:30 a.m. this morning in Chinatown with NDP Vancouver East MP Jenny Kwan.
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• Science takes a powder on superfoods label

  20-10-2017 17:50
  
  "Energy booster ... sleep aid ... controls blood sugar ... reduces the risk of Alzheimer's ... prevents cancer."
  
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• New Movies

  20-10-2017 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee takes a look at Michael Fassbender in a crime thriller based on a bestselling novel and the world’s first fully painted animated movie.
  
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• B.C. family stuck on 9-hour flight with bedbugs ‘pouring’ out of seat, TV

  20-10-2017 17:08 via globalnews.ca
  It's not surprising bedbugs are finding their way onto commercial aircrafts, one expert said.
  
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• Study involving SFU professor finds pollution is deadlier than war, disaster, hunger

  20-10-2017 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  NEW DELHI — Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
  One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about 9 million — could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday in the Lancet medical journal. The financia
  
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• Letters: De Jong has a lot of baggage as he strives to become new Liberal leader, reader says

  20-10-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  I hear Mike de Jong is unapologetic for the provincial government he represented in the past. While he was on duty as finance minister, gangsters used the B.C. Lottery Corp. to the max and still are. Is he proud about the properties and vehicles most of us can’t afford that they bought with laundered funds?
  The amount of money that flowed to government from the underground economy involving real estate, car dealerships and home improvements isn’t something to be proud of. I hope the
  
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• Daily Poll: Where do you think people should buy their pot?

  20-10-2017 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbians seem to agree that marijuana should be legal, but disagree on where it should be sold, according to an Insights West survey. Most respondents (44 per cent) favoured stand-alone shops dedicated to the sale of cannabis, while 23 per cent want to see it sold in liquor stores, and 22 per cent think drugstores would be best. Where do you think pot should be sold?Take Our Poll
  
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• Meet the police liaison to Vancouver’s LGBT community

  20-10-2017 16:00
  
  Const. Dale Quiring is the Vancouver Police Department’s new full-time LGBTQ2S+ liaison officer
  
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• Wanted: A good home for a singing Surrey pig

  20-10-2017 15:58 via vancouversun.com
  He might have a voice for showbiz, but Lyle the singing pig just wants a loving family.
  The BC SPCA is searching for someone to adopt the two-year-old pig with a lot of personality.
  BC SPCA spokeswoman Leiki Salumets says Lyle has been cared for at the Good Shepherd Barn in Surrey since September 2016, when he was seized with several other animals as part of a cruelty investigation.
  Now, more than a year later, he’s a much different pig, she says.
  “When Lyle first came into our care,
  
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• Raymond Caissie to be sentenced for killing Surrey teen Serena Vermeersch

  20-10-2017 15:48 via globalnews.ca
  In September, Caissie pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 14-year-old's death.
  
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• Raymond Caissie sentenced to life in prison for killing Surrey teen Serena Vermeersch

  20-10-2017 15:48 via globalnews.ca
  Raymond Caissie has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years for killing Surrey teen Serena Vermeersch in 2014.
  
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• Large tree in Stanley Park has been burning for almost 24 hours

  20-10-2017 14:54 via globalnews.ca
  The fire is in an old, 100-foot cedar tree located north of Beaver Lake in the park.
  
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• Heavy rainfall floods Vancouver, Burnaby streets

  20-10-2017 13:52 via globalnews.ca
  A Vancouver man was seen standing on the hood of his truck on Wednesday following heavy rains that left parts of the Metro Vancouver flooded.
  
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• Ballet on the Goh

  20-10-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s like a little jewel box, Chan Hon Goh said, neatly summing up the feel of the Main Street ballet school her father and mother founded almost 40 years ago.
  Her parents, Choo Chiat and Lin Yee Goh, started teaching ballet in 1978 at a W. 12th Avenue basement studio with a ceiling so low dancers were unable to jump.
  Today, Choo Chiat Goh is a decorated dance mentor who put Vancouver on the global ballet map, most recently receiving a lifetime achievement award in the arts from Vancouver
  
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• Vancouver Canucks drop 6-3 decision on the road

  20-10-2017 11:14 via globalnews.ca
  The Canucks fell 6-3 to the Bruins Thursday night, after a devastating first period.
  
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• Mayor of Maple Ridge not seeking second term

  20-10-2017 11:14 via globalnews.ca
  Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read says she's not going to run in the 2018 municipal election.
  
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• B.C. Limousine Association Director says some drivers are breaking the rules

  20-10-2017 11:14 via globalnews.ca
  The director of the B.C. Limousine Association says it's against the rules for limos to offer rides to passengers on the street, but some limo drivers are doing it anyway.
  
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• Woman plagued by bedbugs on nine-hour flight not surprising, expert says

  20-10-2017 10:00
  Heather Szilagyi was on a British Airways flight with her seven-year-old daughter and fiancee when they noticed what appeared to be bedbugs crawling out of the seat in front of them.
  
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