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• UBC’s Michael O’Connor excelling in classroom as well as on football field

  31-10-2017 23:46 via theprovince.com
  Take Michael O’Connor’s completion percentage and his grade point average and add them together, and here’s betting there’s not another U Sports quarterback in the country with a higher combined total.
  We’ll come up with a fun name for the fancy stat later.
  O’Connor, the UBC Thunderbirds third-year pivot, has been a well-documented success on the football field, highlighted by leading the Thunderbirds to the Vanier Cup national title two seasons ago. He’
  
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• Glass half empty for Vancouver restaurants and stores importing wine

  31-10-2017 23:44
  
  Wine woes blamed on LDB’s new computer system, distribution practices.
  
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• The Pat-cast: A Canucks Spooktacular

  31-10-2017 23:38 via theprovince.com
  What’s with the love for a team that in the end, lost to the Stars?
  http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/patcast_oct_31/patcast_oct_31.mp3Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford are back to chat about a team has some fans getting excited.
  There’s time to wrap up the road trip, Brock Boeser’s bruised foot, what the deal is with Megna and Rodin, about the job Travis Green is doing and the feedback he’s hearing from the rest of the league.
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• Beauty Bar: Chloé Absolu de Parfum

  31-10-2017 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new, limited-edition iteration of the iconic Chloé scent.
  In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the original fragrance, the Absolu de Parfum iteration is billed as a new, “ultracontemporary interpretation” of the first seductive scent.
  Featuring top notes of damask rose, a heart of centifolia rose and patchouli and a base of vanilla, this noticeably headier scent was once again created by the scent’s original nose, Michel Almairac.  
  
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• Vancouver hasn’t seen the last of rookie running back Tyler Davis

  31-10-2017 23:18 via theprovince.com
  Tyler Davis is used to travelling around throughout his football career. This winter, though, his plans include remaining in Vancouver with his sights set on the 2018 season. 
  The 26-year-old running back from Berkeley, Calif., has been a mainstay on the Lions’ practice roster for the majority of the season after impressing the coaching staff during training camp and the pre-season. 
  With the Lions out of the playoff race, Davis was activated to the roster for last Saturday&rsquo
  
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• Canadian croissant fans protected from butter shortages ravaging France

  31-10-2017 23:16 via vancouversun.com
  Despite startling images of dairy shelves in France bereft of butter, Canadian croissant fans needn’t worry about the quality of their favourite French pastries.
  Vancouver’s French bakeries don’t typically use French butter, despite its superior flavour and higher fat content. A Canadian duty of nearly 300 per cent on butter imports means that, in practice, hardly anyone brings French butter to Canada.
  Local bakeries balk at buying the French product for their croissants, which
  
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• Vancouver ranked third in transportation sustainability index - Vancouver Sun

  31-10-2017 23:15 via vancouversun.com
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  Vancouver ranks third out of 23 North American cities compared for sustainability of their transportation systems, according to the first Arcadis Sustainable Cities Mobility Index. The study highlights the importance of urban transit, a critical asset ...
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• Vancouver ranked third in transportation sustainability index

  31-10-2017 23:15 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver ranks third in North America for the sustainability of its transportation system, according to a new global index.
  The Arcadis Sustainable Cities Mobility Index ranks 100 cities around the world — 23 in North America, three of which are in Canada — and measures of the social, environmental and economic health of their mobility.
  Seven of the top 10 ranked cities are in Europe, though Hong Kong tops the list. The highest ranked North American city (New York) comes in at 23. V
  
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• Dallas Stars bench boss sings the praises of Kelowna and the Rockets organization

  31-10-2017 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  The Dallas Stars are in Kelowna for a couple days of practice and team bonding.
  
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• Students reap benefits of Sun Run participation

  31-10-2017 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  When students from Sir Winston Churchill Secondary cross the Sun Run finish line together next April, they will have earned a lot more than just a mention on the results board.
  They have been walking, jogging and running in the annual springtime road race for well over a decade, and consistently make up one of the largest teams to participate each year. 
  For the 2016-2017 academic year, close to a third of the school’s 2,021 students joined the 40,000-person throng as it mad
  
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• 14-year-old arrested after fight outside Nanaimo school

  31-10-2017 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  The teen allegedly assaulted an officer who was trying to break up a fight between two girls, while 50 students watched.
  
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• Kelowna man convicted of stealing $2 million from former Google executive

  31-10-2017 22:50 via vancouversun.com
  A Kelowna businessman has been convicted of fraud and of stealing US$2 million from a former Google executive.
  The offences committed by Dan Keith Andersen arose from an arrangement in August 2010 between him and a California businessman named Bart Woytowicz.
  The deal saw Woytowicz, who was involved in building the internet search company Google and served as its director of sales and advertising from 1998 to 2005, transferring the US$2 million into a bank account of Danimal Productions Inc., a
  
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• Drone bridge diving stunt in B.C. posted on YouTube

  31-10-2017 22:43 via vancouversun.com
  A first person view drone dive off a B.C. bridge makes for spectacular internet footage, but may be illegal under Canadian law.
  In a video posted on YouTube, a group of American FPV (first person view) multi rotor pilots called Rotor Riot dive the drone down the side of the Alex Fraser Bridge.
  But the stunt flies in the face of Canada’s tough new drone laws introduced earlier this year.
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: UNDATED – These are screengrabs from a Rotor Riot video of a drone completing a b
  
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• Vancouver Twitter account calls out 'illegal' Airbnb rentals - CTV News

  31-10-2017 22:34 via bc.ctvnews.ca
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  Vancouver Twitter account calls out 'illegal' Airbnb rentals
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  A new Twitter account is sharing and shaming what it says are illegal Airbnb rentals available in Vancouver on the home sharing site in an effort to get the city to do more to crack down on short term rentals. The account calls itself VISTRO, which ...
  
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• Answers to missing Vernon teenager investigation may be found in farm property search

  31-10-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP are trying to determine if DNA tests will link a missing woman case to the intense search of a farm property in the north Okanagan. The mother of Traci Genereaux says she has provided a DNA sample to investigators. Genereaux was last seen in Vernon in May. Laurie Nixon says her daughter was likely...
  
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• New Vancouver city councillor makes debut - Vancouver Courier

  31-10-2017 21:50 via vancourier.com
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  Hector Bremner of the NPA was sworn in Tuesday as the city's newest city councillor. He won the Oct. 14 byelection. Photo Dan Toulgoet. The Non-Partisan Association candidate who won the Oct. 14 byelection was sworn in Tuesday as Vancouver's newest ...
  New Vancouver councillor Hector Bremner will be sworn in today in wake of Vision Vancouver by-election horrorStraight.comall 2 news articles »
  
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• New Vancouver city councillor makes debut

  31-10-2017 21:49
  
  The Non-Partisan Association candidate who won the Oct. 14 byelection was sworn in Tuesday as Vancouver’s newest city councillor.
  
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• Vancouver Sun Run InTraining a path to success for all

  31-10-2017 21:47 via vancouversun.com
  Getting running for the first time is always a challenge, but if they can do it in Prince George in January, there’s really nothing to stop you.
  The key to getting running is pretty simple: You’ve got to want to give it a go. 
  The experts can help you with the rest.
  Enter the Vancouver Sun Run InTraining Program, back for a 23rd year. Registration opens Nov. 1.
  Based at more that 50 locations around the province — community centres, fitness clubs and running stores —
  
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• Radiologist with questionable skills was able to skirt scrutiny, B.C. investigator finds

  31-10-2017 21:44 via vancouversun.com
  A radiologist with questionable skills bounced from hospital to hospital across B.C. for six years, but escaped real scrutiny because key patient safety information wasn’t shared by medical colleagues and hospital leaders who were too worried about privacy and other concerns.
  That’s just one of the conclusions made by Dr. Martin Wale in his 52-page investigation report about patient safety and quality incidents pertaining to the work of Dr. Claude Vezina, who last worked in Terr
  
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• Giants missing Bowen Byram and Darian Skeoch for home-and-home set with Blazers

  31-10-2017 21:39 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Giants knew they’d be without Bowen Byram. They found out on the fly they’d be missing Darian Skeoch.
  Byram, the Vancouver rookie defenceman who’d likely lead 16 year olds in the WHL in ice time if the league kept track of such things, left Monday for the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Dawson Creek and Fort St. John. He’ll miss five Giants games, starting with the opener of a home-and-home weekend set against the Kamloops Blazers at the Langley Events Ce
  
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• ANNUAL SIDNEY NATIVITY EXHIBIT

  31-10-2017 21:34 via globalnews.ca
  Our annual Nativity Exhibition “COME LET US ADORE HIM” is officially in it’s 11th year. Come and visit this community exhibit featuring the Christmas Nativity story. Ceramics, art, needlework and crafts depict the birth of Christ through the representation of traditional and non-traditional displays from many countries; Israel, Germany, Norway, Mexico, Japan, France, Italy, Africa,...
  
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• Metro mayors float idea of region-wide water development cost charge

  31-10-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  Two Metro Vancouver mayors say the regional district should impose a development cost charge to pay for growth-related investments in water infrastructure.
  The idea came as Metro’s board of directors decided to approve significant increases to the sewage development cost charge rates.
  “I don’t know why Metro doesn’t have one,” said White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin, who is also a Metro Vancouver director. “It’s only fair for development to pay its own way r
  
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• The People In Pain Networks Presents our Fraser Valley Pain Self-Management Educational Support Group (P.S.M.E.S.G)

  31-10-2017 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  A place where people in any kind of persistent physical pain can meet with others in the same situation, Because people in this situation often end up isolated our support groups off a chance for people to meet others who can actually validate what they are feeling when no one else can possibly understand. We...
  
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• ‘Interventions’ needed to keep overdose victims from dying alone: BC Ambulance Service

  31-10-2017 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  "We need people to stop using drugs alone and we will be there, we're not there to judge, we're there to help."
  
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• Convicted Pitt Meadows councillor to step down in New Year

  31-10-2017 20:54 via vancouversun.com
  PITT MEADOWS — A convicted Pitt Meadows city councillor will resign his position at the start of the new year and the city had announced he will immediately stop any further participation in civic activities until then.
  David Murray was convicted last week of one count of sexual assault involving a young person and is scheduled to return to court in January to set a date for sentencing.
  Murray did not immediately resign his council seat following the conviction for an assault that took pla
  
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• Convicted councillor in Pitt Meadows, B.C., to step down in new year

  31-10-2017 20:43
  David Murray was convicted last week of one count of sexual assault involving a young person.
  
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• Abbotsford man dead following Langley highway crash

  31-10-2017 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  An Abbotsford man is dead following collision on Highway 1 in Langley.
  Langley RCMP received a report about the three-vehicle crash, which happened near the eastbound 232nd Street exit, at about 5:20 a.m. on Tuesday.
  When police arrived, they found two vehicles on the road and a black Acura in the ditch. The 40-year-old driver, and sole occupant, of the Acura was dead. The occupants of the other two vehicles were not injured.
  The incident resulted in the highway being blocked for about five hour
  
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• Variety steps in when families are in need

  31-10-2017 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  Jenna, a 16 year old girl from Prince George, is mobile now thanks to the generosity of British Columbians through Variety – the Children’s Charity.
  
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• Central Okanagan hiking trail shut down because of lingering wildfire dangers

  31-10-2017 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  The trail will be closed until at least next spring while danger mitigation work is done.
  
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• Variety for Tomorrow

  31-10-2017 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  The founder of Variety for Tomorrow, Meghan Luk talks about the Halloween Fair fundraiser and why it’s important for young people to be involved with Variety Children’s Charity
  
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• Halloween safety reminder for drivers

  31-10-2017 20:07 via globalnews.ca
  Police across the province are reminding drivers to slow down tonight, to make way for all the little ghosts and goblins. Jordan Armstrong reports from a spooky location.
  
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• Racist ranter gets conditional sentence

  31-10-2017 20:00 via globalnews.ca
  His violent, racist tirade was caught on camera and caught headlines around the world. Karry Corbett lost his temper at a parking attendant in Abbotsford last October when he was getting a parking ticket, and his tantrum took a violent racist turn.
  
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• Most memorable game: Mike Benson

  31-10-2017 19:46 via theprovince.com
  In each edition of Blitz through the 2017 CFL season, we’ll get a Lions player to recall a memorable game from his past whether in pee wee, high school, college or the pro ranks. We’ll leave it to the player to determine whether the game was noteworthy due to the stakes, the venue, the playing conditions, individual performance or some other factor. Today’s entry: Mike Benson. 
  It never hurts to plan ahead, no matter how unlikely a situation may seem. 
  Take, for insta
  
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• Fentanyl test strips won’t be widely available any time soon: Minister

  31-10-2017 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  Special strips that test drugs for the presence of fentanyl won't be widely available any time soon.
  
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• Crab fisherman’s boat capsizes near Belcarra

  31-10-2017 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  The man's boat flipped on Monday night as he was pulling up a crab pot about 60 metres off the Belcarra Park dock. 
  
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• B.C. changes hunting rules to protect big game following wildfires

  31-10-2017 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia is taking steps to protect big game animals that survived summer wildfires in the southeastern part of the province.
  Hunting regulations have been changed to give wildlife a better chance against hunters in areas that have been denuded of vegetation or criss-crossed by firebreaks.
  Motor vehicles used by hunters are now banned annually between Sept. 1 and June 30, in five fire perimeters around the extreme southeast corner of B.C., including the regions of White River, Linklater
  
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• MEC building new flagship store near Olympic Village

  31-10-2017 19:11 via vancouversun.com
  Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) has broken ground on its new Vancouver flagship retail store at the northeast corner of Quebec Street and 2nd Ave. on the edge of the Olympic Village.
  The three-story, 60,000-square-foot building is going up on land that has been owned by the Beedie Development Group since 2007.
  When construction of the store is completed in mid-2019, MEC will operate the LEED Gold-standard building on a lease from Beedie for 20 years.
  Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson joined Beedie
  
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• B.C. changes hunting rules to protect big game hit hard by wildfires

  31-10-2017 19:09
  The Forests Ministry says the ban will remain in effect until access and visibility return to a state where wildlife is less vulnerable.
  
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• Woman found clinging to life ring, hours after jumping from B.C. ferry

  31-10-2017 19:07 via vancouversun.com
  A woman who jumped from a B.C. ferry was found clinging to a life ring after spending five hours in the water.
  The woman, who is in her 40s, jumped from the Queen of Cowichan at about 5:45 p.m. Monday, halfway through the voyage from Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay, said spokeswoman Deborah Marshall.
  The Queen of Cowichan and Queen of Oak Bay launched rescue boats and passengers moved to the upper deck to help scan the waters.
  Several Canadian Coast Guard vessels and a search and rescue Cormorant
  
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• Finding community and connection… in a cemetery

  31-10-2017 19:04
  
  The weeklong All Souls event honours the dead with music and memorials.
  
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• SFU professor weighs-in on crop circles

  31-10-2017 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  SFU Professor of geography Paul Kingsbury talks to Paul Haysom about crop circles, theories around their origin and the types of people they attract.
  
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• This Just In: Kat von D Everlasting Shimmer Veil Liquid Lipstick, Derek Lam 10 Crosby Parfum Sticks and BareMinerals Blemish Remedy Acne Clearing Treatment Serum 

  31-10-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
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  Everlasting Shimmer Veil Liquid Lipstick 
  They say: A collection of 24-hour wear liquid lipsticks that provide a “mesmerizing glimmer finish.” 
  We say: Admittedly, these full-shimmer lipsticks won’t be for everyone. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t fun to try on. Our tester was blown away by the colour payoff of a few coats of these glittery glosses. With each coat, lips looked more and more like a sparkly jewel that was practically begging
  
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• Style Q&A: VCC fashion students design for Dress for Success

  31-10-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Community College fashion students are designing to give back.
  Using the skills developed over the past 10 months in their program, the students have designed, drafted and constructed a four-piece business suit to be donated to the local initiative, Dress For Success — with a pleasantly surprising twist. 
  Andrea Korens, the school’s fashion program coordinator, chatted with Postmedia News about the program, sizing and why giving back works. 
  Q. How did the s
  
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• Still a smooth-voiced operator, Gino Vannelli keeps moving forward

  31-10-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Gino Vannelli
  Nov. 3 | River Rock Casino Resort
  Tickets and info: starting at $68 at ticketmaster.ca
  Born and raised in Montreal, Gino Vannelli was 22 when he landed his first hit, People Gotta Move, in 1974. In 1978, I Just Wanna Stop, off his album Brother to Brother, hit the Billboard Top 10. Vannelli stopped touring for 12 years, but kept recording; in the eighties, he scored two more hits, Black Cars (1985) and Wild Horses (1987). In 2000, a collaboration with jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky le
  
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• Q&A: Circle Craft Christmas Market brings holiday shopping solutions to Vancouver

  31-10-2017 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Circle Craft Christmas Market
  Nov. 8-12 | Vancouver Convention Centre West, Hall C
  Tickets and info: Adult $15, senior $12, student $12; circlecraft.net
  Like it or not, Christmas is right around the corner. And that means, it’s time to buy presents. 
  Looking for something a bit more unique than a big-box buy? You’re in luck. The annual Circle Craft Christmas Market returns this month for a few days of festive fun. 
  Paul Yard the producer of the annu
  
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• Kelowna in the running for Intelligent Community of the Year award

  31-10-2017 19:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Intelligent Community Forum has named Kelowna one of 21 finalists in its Smart21 Communities of 2018 contest.
  
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• Key themes emerge as B.C. winds down public pot consultation

  31-10-2017 18:58 via globalnews.ca
  About 43,000 people have already weighed in.
  
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• Green trustee Janet Fraser named school board chair

  31-10-2017 18:44
  
  Green Party incumbent Janet Fraser is now the chair of the Vancouver School Board.
  
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• Document shows what a fire-ravaged B.C. town needed, 3 days before flames swept in

  31-10-2017 18:43 via globalnews.ca
  "Do we want to protect south side of Boneaparte Road from North Green Lake Road to Pressy Lake."
  
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• Big-money gravy train comes to a stop for municipal politicians

  31-10-2017 18:31
  
  The B.C. government introduced legislation Monday that imposes campaign-finance limits, similar to the new provincial ones, on local elections around B.C., banning union and corporate donations.
  
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