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• WestJet says IT issues delay dozens of flights, and cancellations may come

  28-10-2017 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  Dozens of flights out of Vancouver and other airports in Western Canada were delayed Saturday because of “a significant IT outage” at WestJet.
  The Calgary-based airline said Saturday on social media that the outage had affected numerous systems, including check-in and reservations systems and its contact centre.
  By the afternoon, it said it was making progress in partially restoring some systems, but that phone lines in its contact centre and operations control centre were still affe
  
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• Gunfire exchanged before police arrest man in Kamloops trailer park standoff

  28-10-2017 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  Kamloops RCMP said gunfire was exchanged between police and a man who was arrested after a long standoff at the G&M Trailer Park in Kamloops.
  
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• Petition calls for resignation of Pitt Meadows councillor convicted of sex assault

  28-10-2017 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  "It's sickening that he thinks it's okay to continue," said the petition's author.
  
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• One person dead in Friday night shooting in Surrey

  28-10-2017 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  One man is dead and homicide detectives have been called in after a targeted shooting in Surrey on Friday night.
  Mounties responded to reports of a shooting at Crestview Drive and Alpen Place shortly before 9 p.m.
  When they arrived, officers found one man already dead and a second victim suffering from gunshot wounds. The injured person was transported to hospital in unknown condition.    
  Shortly after, firefighters were called out to a car on fire at Wellington and Currie drives
  
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• Canada C3 icebreaker Polar Prince receives jubilant welcome to end 150-day journey in Victoria

  28-10-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  ABOARD THE MV POLAR PRINCE — The Canada C3 expedition ended its historic 150-day, 23,000-kilometre voyage around Canada’s three coastlines with a jubilant welcome Saturday morning in Victoria’s inner harbour.
  Water gushed skyward from the bow of the Victoria fireboat, Protector, while members of the Canadian Navy lined the docks, and the public waved from the shoreline off Wharf Street.
  “I’m thrilled to be here,” Catherine McKenna, Minister of  Envir
  
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• Metro Vancouver looks at cracking down on wood-burning fireplaces

  28-10-2017 22:38 via globalnews.ca
  Metro Vancouver is proposing all wood-burning appliances need to be registered and meet modern emission standards by 2022.
  
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• Kamloops high-risk police operation ends peacefully with one man arrested

  28-10-2017 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — A high-risk police operation at a trailer park in the city that shut down a nearby elementary school and businesses ended peacefully with one man arrested, RCMP said Saturday.
  Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said there was a significant police presence at the G & M Trailer Park on Friday, in an incident involving a suspect who was believed to be armed.
  Police didn’t say whether the man was facing any charges.
  Shelkie said the trailer park remained closed for a police investigation S
  
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• Parents frustrated with pace of new school construction to rally in Surrey

  28-10-2017 20:46 via globalnews.ca
  "We've just got announcements. So announcements and announcements but nothing really happens in our schools. No builds."
  
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• Benson scores in season debut, but Giants lose to Cougars in largely bland game

  28-10-2017 20:39 via theprovince.com
  Here’s what we learned from the Vancouver Giants’ 2-1 loss to the Prince George Cougars at the Langley Events Centre Friday night.
  The Giants (5-6-1-1) are back in action tonight (7 p.m., TSN 1040) on Vancouver Island, taking on the Victoria Royals (10-4-1-0). They’re also meeting Victoria there on Sunday (3 p.m., TSN 1410).
  *The first 50 minutes or so Friday were bland. It was easily the least entertaining hockey we’ve seen in Giants’ action at the LEC through the
  
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• Beauty Bar: Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye Concentrate Matrix

  28-10-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A nourishing moisturizer for the eye area that works to repair, fortify and hydrate eyes, according to brand materials. 
  Featuring a “360-degree Matrix Technology,” this product aims to reduce the appearance of pesky eye-area problems such as lines, wrinkles, puffiness and dark circles. 
  The lightweight formula can be applied morning and night with an included massage applicator to help the product better penetrate the delicate skin around the area. 
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• Pumpkin carving with Ryan Cook

  28-10-2017 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  Professional carver Ryan Cook has shown his artistry, creating incredible wood and ice sculptures on Global News Morning. Now he is back to try his hand at pumpkin carving.
  
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• Fresh peas the bees knees for chef Michael Robbins

  28-10-2017 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Michael Robbins cut his culinary teeth at Earls restaurants in his teens and later landed top jobs at Joe Fortes and Glowbal, among others. He broadened his horizons with a stops in Australia and Asia along the way. These days, as executive chef at Kitsilano’s Annalena, Robbins puts a creative spin on Northwest Cuisine.
  Q: How would you describe the type of food you like to cook?
  A: My food is heavily influenced by the Vancouver I grew up in. My upbringing in East Vancouver expos
  
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• 5 overdose deaths in Abbotsford in less than 10 hours

  28-10-2017 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  All five victims were over the age of 40, according to police.
  
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• Design expert Sarah Richardson

  28-10-2017 19:28 via globalnews.ca
  HGTV star Sarah Richardson is one of Canada’s top designers and she is in Vancouver this weekend to impart her expert knowledge at the Fall Home Show.
  
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• Saturday Chef: Chinese claypot rice

  28-10-2017 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Taryn Wa, owner of Savoury Chef Foods, whips up an easy one-pot meal, perfect for a cool fall evening. This dish is hearty and can be on the table quickly.
  
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• Gardenworks: Air plant wreaths

  28-10-2017 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  Tillandsia, or air plants, are both high impact and low maintenance. Gardening expert Michelle Tornai from Gardenworks uses them to create a beautiful wreath.
  
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• Open House: Vancouver fall home show

  28-10-2017 19:12 via globalnews.ca
  Sat, Oct 28: This week in Open House, Kaitlyn Herbst explores design on either end of the price scale at the Vancouver Fall Home Show.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: More gun violence in Surrey and Abbotsford – UPDATED

  28-10-2017 19:09 via vancouversun.com
  Gun violence in Surrey and Abbotsford Friday left a gangster dead, his brother wounded and another man in hospital with gunshot wounds.
   
   Surrey RCMP Staff Sgt. Murray Henderson said a man was shot to death about 8:55 p.m. in the 11300-block of Alpen Place.
   
  “Attending officers located one victim deceased at scene and a second victim was located, also suffering from gunshot wounds, and has been transported to hospital,” he said in a news release.  The Integ
  
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• Coun. David Murray is under pressure to resign after conviction

  28-10-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The sex assault conviction of Pitt Meadows Coun. David Murray and its messy aftermath has the provincial government pondering an overhaul to rules governing municipal councils.
  Murray was convicted of sexual assault in Port Coquitlam provincial court this week for an incident that occurred about 25 years ago. The victim’s name is subject to a publication ban.
  Murray has not resigned his seat on council.
  “I think it places a huge cloud over us as a council and the reputation of our ci
  
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• 'Absolutely alarming': Five die in Abbotsford in 10-hour period following drug overdoses

  28-10-2017 18:10 via vancouversun.com
  Five people died within 10 hours from suspected drug overdoses in Abbotsford Friday.
  Abbotsford police say between 10:15 a.m. and 7:20 p.m., first responders and healthcare providers attended to dozens of overdoses, of which five were fatal.
  Const. Ian MacDonald says overdoses have become normal in the city with the proliferation of fentanyl and carfentanil in street drugs.
  “But five tragic deaths in such a short period of time is absolutely alarming,” he said.
  MacDonald said of thos
  
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• One person dead in Friday night Surrey shooting

  28-10-2017 17:40 via vancouversun.com
  One man is dead and homicide detectives have been called in after a targeted shooting in Surrey Friday night.
  Mounties responded to reports of a shooting at Crestview Drive. and Alpen Place shortly before 9 p.m.
   When they arrived, officers found one man already dead and a second victim suffering from gunshot wounds. The injured person was transported to hospital in unknown condition.     The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is working with Surrey RCMP Serious Crim
  
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• Vancouver master watchmaker keeps on ticking

  28-10-2017 16:00
  
  Friedrich “Fritz” Irrgang eschews advertising, doesn’t have a website and maintains virtually no online presence.
  
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• Sold (Bought): Spacious Cloverdale townhouse on the market for one day

  28-10-2017 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  58 – 17097 64 Avenue, Cloverdale
  Type: Four-bedroom, four-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 2,168 square feet
  B.C. Assessment: $457,000
  Listed for: $619,900
  Sold for: $640,000
  Sold on: July 26
  Days on market: One
  Listing agent: Scott Moe, Toni Kelly and Joseph Poulin at ReMax Treeland Realty
  Buyers agent: Lina Mincova at ReMax Treeland Realty
  The big sell: West Cloverdale’s Kentucky complex features 90 townhome
  
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• Vancouver's The Property Brothers open the book on themselves

  28-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  There’s really no avoiding the fact that Vancouver-born Jonathan and Drew Scott are a packaged deal.
  They do everything together and they do it successfully. The dynamic duo are best known for their successful TV shows Property Brothers, Brother vs. Brother and Property Brothers at Home. They have topped best-seller lists with their design book Dream Homes, they have had YouTube success with their singing, and most recently Drew has been shaking his groove thing on the American TV sho
  
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• Quality on offer at Viridian — Portrait Homes’ 57-unit townhome development in South Surrey

  28-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Viridian is a project from Portrait Homes in South Surrey.
  “If you don’t build good bones, you won’t have a good home.” So says Robert Grimm, principal and co-founder of Portrait Homes, the company behind a new development of two- and three-bedroom townhomes in South Surrey called Viridian.
  To show what he means, a guided tour of the display home at Viridian finds Grimm jumping up and down in the kitchen to demonstrate the sturdiness of the floor that is provided by extra
  
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• Love holds the answer for mom as she recounts horror of daughter's kidnapping in Somalia

  28-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  It was December 2008, some 114 days into the captivity of her daughter, Amanda Lindhout, that Lorinda Stewart started planning the welcome home party. She bought perfume, pyjamas and pink wrapping paper. There would be pink helium balloons, a pink pinata, and cotton candy to welcome her daughter when, not if, she returned home, Stewart decided. 
  When Lindhout was kidnapped in Somalia on Aug. 23, 2008, her mother also became a prisoner. For 460 days, the length of her daughter’s captiv
  
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• B.C.'s sickest kids to be moved en masse to new acute care centre

  28-10-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  What does it take to move more than a hundred patients and about 4,000 staff from two hospitals to a new building? Planning. Lots and lots of it. 
  After months of preparation, the hospital redevelopment team at B.C. Children’s and B.C. Women’s hospitals is about to tackle the most delicate part of the move to the new Teck Acute Care Centre: transferring approximately 120 patients, including some of the province’s most critically ill children. 
  “For some of these
  
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• B.C. Truckers Association weighs in on how government should handle legal pot

  28-10-2017 12:42 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. Truckers Association has issued 4 recommendations on what it would like to see in legal marijuana legislation.
  
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• Big crowds expected for MLS Western Conference Semifinals at BC Place

  28-10-2017 12:33 via globalnews.ca
  BC Place and local pubs are preparing for fans to swarm Vancouver for Game 1 of the MLS Western Conference semifinals between the Vancouver Whitecaps and Seattle Sounders Sunday.
  
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• One person dead after targeted shooting in Surrey

  28-10-2017 12:21 via globalnews.ca
  One person is being treated for gunshot wounds, and another is dead after what Surrey RCMP believe to have been a targeted shooting Friday night.
  
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• REAL SCOOP: More gun violence in Surrey and Abbotsford

  28-10-2017 08:51 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey RCMP responded to the area of Alpen Place and Crestview Drive about 8:30 p.m. Friday after getting calls of shots fired, according to ScanBC.
  So far there has been no formal release from police, but some are reporting one man is dead and a second was taken to hospital.
  That shooting came just hours after Abbotsford Police received a report of shots fired in the area of Townshipline and Bradner Roads.
  Const. Ian MacDonald said in a released that “the caller indicated that it app
  
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• Violent night in Surrey and Abbotsford communities

  28-10-2017 08:24 via globalnews.ca
  During the supper hour Abbotsford police raced to the area of Townshipline and Bradner Roads where a vehicle was struck by gunfire. Then just hours later, a double shooting in North Surrey that’s left one man dead and another in hospital. Julia Foy reports.
  
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• Kelowna Rockets host Tri-City Americans

  28-10-2017 07:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Kelowna Rockets came into Friday night's game riding a 13 game home-ice winning streak against the Tri-City Americans.
  
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• Okanagan College Coyotes host tailgate party ahead of Saturday event

  28-10-2017 07:19 via globalnews.ca
  The Okanagan College Coyote basketball teams are taking on the Langara Falcons Saturday, Oct. 27 and are hosting a tailgate party ahead of the event. The Coyotes continue to raise funds to support the men’s and women’s teams, which are coached and run by volunteers. The tailgate party takes place in the atrium of Okanagan...
  
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• Opinion: TransLink must save building that houses art spaces

  28-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  We have a citizens’ request for TransLink, as it gets ready to spend billions of dollars on a new SkyTrain route from Clark Drive down Broadway to Arbutus: Please find a solution for the transit line to proceed without demolishing an essential cultural asset — 525 Great Northern Way.
  The building at 525 GNW is a tangible recording of our city’s story that teaches us about our industrial history through its design, scale and materials. This repurposed heritage structure is a pos
  
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• Opinion: Gambling, money laundering and Hawala are key ingredients to a casino stew

  28-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  “I’m shocked, shocked, to find out gambling is taking place here,” says Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) to Rick (Humphrey Bogart) in the 1942 classic movie Casablanca, having been told by the Gestapo to shut down the club and as he accepts his cut of the gaming winnings. 
  Recent stories and op-eds highlight what has always been true of the casino industry, it’s the poster child for money laundering. Arguably, Las Vegas and its casinos were created precisely to f
  
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• Editorial: Census gives us data to address pressing issues

  28-10-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The census data Statistics Canada released this week didn’t tell us much we didn’t already know but it put some hard numbers on the anecdotal evidence that has been building over the last few years. 
  For example, it was apparent from casual observation that the top sources of immigrants to British Columbia were China, India and the Philippines. The census confirmed that between 2011 and 2016 they accounted for 21.7 per cent, 15.6 per cent 15.2 per cent respectively.
  It was
  
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• Surrey salon thinks bylaws need new style

  28-10-2017 06:09 via globalnews.ca
  A Surrey hair parlour says it’s time the city updates its bylaws to allow pets in certain businesses.
  
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• Man hospitalized after brazen rush hour shooting in Abbotsford

  28-10-2017 05:57 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating a brazen shooting in Abbotsford that sent one man to hospital. 
  Abbotsford police received a report at 5:25 p.m. of shots fired near Townshipline and Bradner roads, Const. Ian MacDonald said. The caller reported that a vehicle appeared to have been involved in the gunfire.
  While officers were responding to the scene, an Abbotsford resident in his 30s suffering an apparent gunshot wound checked into the emergency department of a local hospital, where he received trea
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Oct 27

  28-10-2017 05:31 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, October 27, 2017.
  
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• Abbotsford police investigate reports of shots fired

  28-10-2017 05:12 via globalnews.ca
  Abbotsford Police say a victim in his 30s is being treated in hospital for apparent gunshot wounds.
  
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  28-10-2017 04:38 via globalnews.ca
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• He took a bullet to the head in Las Vegas. Now, online conspiracists call him a faker

  28-10-2017 04:37 via globalnews.ca
  "These people have had to contend with surviving a mass shooting, and that's the bottom line."
  
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• Vancouver conference aims to reverse slide in innovation

  28-10-2017 04:34 via globalnews.ca
  A conference in Vancouver next week aims to boost Canada’s declining reputation for innovation and technological change. Aaron McArthur reports.
  
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• Man hospitalized after rush hour shooting in Abbotsford

  28-10-2017 04:34 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating a brazen shooting in Abbotsford that sent one man to hospital. 
  Abbotsford police received a report at 5:25 p.m. of shots fired near Townshipline and Bradner roads, Const. Ian MacDonald said. The caller reported that a vehicle appeared to have been involved in the gunfire.
  While officers were responding to the scene, an Abbotsford resident in his 30s suffering an apparent gunshot wound checked into the emergency department of a local hospital, where he received trea
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Oct 27

  28-10-2017 04:34 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, October 27, 2017 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Hit and run on grounds of Surrey school

  28-10-2017 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  We’re learning more tonight about a hit and run on the grounds of a Surrey School that sent two people to hospital. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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• CTF: B.C. drivers about to pay highest insurance rates in Canada

  28-10-2017 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says drivers in B.C. will soon be paying the highest insurance rates in Canada, and is calling ICBC an ‘outdated monopoly.’ John Hua reports.
  
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• Metro Vancouver looks at cracking down on woodburning fireplaces

  28-10-2017 04:30 via globalnews.ca
  Metro Vancouver is looking at new regulations that would make many woodburning fireplaces across the region illegal. Ted Chernecki has the details.
  
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• Vancouver joins effort to address big city diabetes epidemic

  28-10-2017 04:27 via globalnews.ca
  The city of Vancouver has joined forces with other world cities to address the fact that Type 2 Diabetes is a much bigger problem in large urban centres. Linda Aylesworth reports.
  
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