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• Giants: Plouffe proof positive that first goals give you confidence

  08-11-2017 23:44 via theprovince.com
  We pushed the Vancouver Giants into feeling sentimental.
  Spurred on by the idea of Vancouver 16-year-old rookie winger Aidan Barfoot bagging his first-ever WHL goal in a 5-4 road win over the Kamloops Blazers on Saturday, we asked several Giants about their initial tally in the league. They were all keen to tell their stories. They all had kept the lucky puck and knew exactly where it was stashed.
  Here’s a sample of what was said.
  Ty Ronning
  Age: 20
  Position: Right wing
  Career WHL games: 2
  
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• Emergency winter shelter in Penticton nearing capacity

  08-11-2017 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  A new low-barrier emergency winter shelter located at the former Super 8 motel on Main Street in Penticton opened its doors last Wednesday
  
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• Nanaimo 15-year-old arrested after allegedly posting online threats

  08-11-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  A 15-year-old has been arrested in relation to online threats involving Nanaimo's Cedar Secondary School.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: The welfare challenge isn't the price of food, it's housing

  08-11-2017 23:24 via vancouversun.com
  My grandmothers knew all of the tricks for stretching a tiny bit of food a long, long way. They had grown up as homesteaders and were mothers with families to feed during the Depression.
  A few years before she died, one grandmother predicted that all of that accumulated knowledge would be lost before it would be needed again. But she was certain that during my lifetime, people — maybe even her grandchildren and great-grandchildren — would once again need to know the secrets of the pr
  
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• B.C. government puts a freeze on B.C. Hydro rates

  08-11-2017 23:06 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – The NDP government is freezing B.C. Hydro rates for one year, fulfilling an election promise but leaving questions over how exactly the cash-strapped public utility will cover the costs.
  Energy Minister Michelle Mungall said a planned three per cent rate hike set for April 1, 2018 will be cancelled while the government launches an operational review of Hydro.
  “We committed to British Columbians to make life more affordable to them,” Mungall said. “This is going
  
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• 67 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, November 9 - Straight.com

  08-11-2017 23:02 via straight.com
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  67 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, November 9
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  Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 67 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, November . CONCERTS. Australian metal band Ne Obliviscaris plays the Rickshaw, with guests Allegaeon, Dead ...
  
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• Herdman hoping this movie has happy ending for Canadian soccer, B.C. Place fans

  08-11-2017 22:54 via theprovince.com
  John Herdman took the hype train down another track.
  Looking to help sell Canada’s women’s soccer game with the Americans on Thursday at B.C. Place Stadium, event organizers have given it this tagline: The Fiercest Rivalry in Women’s Sport.
  It’s catchy. It sings. The #WNTRivalry works on Twitter. The problem with it all is that Canada hasn’t beaten the U.S. since 2001, when they took a 3-0 decision at the Algarve Cup. They’ve gone 0-27-5 versus the juggernaut
  
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• RCMP scale back search of Salmon Arm farm

  08-11-2017 22:35 via vancouversun.com
  The RCMP has removed tents and heavy equipment from a Salmon Arm-area farm where human remains were found, but insists the investigation of the property continues.
  “The search of the Salmon River Road site remains active and ongoing,” RCMP spokesman Cpl Dan Moskaluk said. “Our investigative efforts and resource requirements are being continually assessed and, as a result, various resources are no longer required and are now being removed from the property.”
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• ‘Beardo’ Kleeberger gets the call to help coach Canada’s next rugby generation

  08-11-2017 22:27 via theprovince.com
  Former Canadian international Adam Kleeberger, who won 38 caps for his country and drew worldwide attention as one of Canada’s “beardos,” is looking to help others follow his rugby footsteps.
  The 34-year-old former flanker from White Rock has been appointed lead development strength and conditioning coach at the Rugby Canada Academy.
  Based out of Belmont High School near the Canadian Rugby Centre of Excellence in Langford, Kleeberger will lead a high-performance program of 12 u
  
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• Remembrance Day 2017: Metro Vancouver guide to honouring Canada's veterans

  08-11-2017 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  On Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m., the Armistice of Compiègne went into effect, ending hostilities between the Allies and Germany — and marking the end of the First World War, then known as the war to end wars. 
  Every year since, Canadians have honoured their veterans and war dead with a ceremony and moment of silence on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
  In the years after the Great War, the gatherings were small and unofficial.  On March 18, 1931,
  
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• iPhone X & Accessories

  08-11-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  Get Connected’s Mike Agerbo takes a look at the new iPhone X and some accessories that can be used to keep it safe.
  
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• Ryan Miller finds healthy balance between hockey and family

  08-11-2017 21:42 via theprovince.com
  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ryan Miller was pressed for time.
  Getting his game back in order after a lingering wrist injury delayed his debut with the Anaheim Ducks until late October remains a maintenance priority.
  Getting better acclimated with frantic Southern California freeways — so those treks between his Los Angeles home and Anaheim area rental are manageable to maximize family time — requires day-to-day diligence.
  Amid all this, Miller still finds time to talk. He always did. He
  
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• Julie and Colin Angus’ Virtual Expedition

  08-11-2017 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  BC based adventurers Julie and Colin Angus won’t need to leave their home for their next expedition – a virtual voyage in which they will send an unmanned boat across the Atlantic.
  
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• RCMP to update Salmon Arm farm search soon

  08-11-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  People who live near the Silver Creek farm being searched by the RCMP for human remains say investigators have started to remove tents and police vehicles from the property. 
  “So I happened to be driving out that way today and just drove past the property, it’s all packed up. No tents, command centres, nothing. Just a couple of squad cars,” local Jasmine Lane posted on Facebook Tuesday evening.
  Grade 7 grad photo of Traci Genereaux, provided by Traci’s grandmother Da
  
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• Marpole murder charges

  08-11-2017 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  25 year old Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam arrested and charged with 2 counts of 2nd degree murder in connection to murders of Dianna Mah-Jones and her husband Richard Jones. Jordan Armstrong reports
  
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• Body cameras on chicken catchers not reasonable: B.C. privacy commissioner

  08-11-2017 21:24 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s privacy commissioner says a chicken-catching company was not authorized to use video surveillance on staff in response to an animal cruelty investigation.
  Elite Services in Chilliwack said in June it would require one supervisor and two staff members to wear cameras on their vests after an animal advocacy group released an undercover video that allegedly showed workers hitting, kicking and throwing chickens.
  Drew McArthur, the province’s acting information and privacy commissi
  
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• Wild ride in stolen lumber truck ends with dog bites near Kamloops

  08-11-2017 21:20 via vancouversun.com
  A 33-year-old man is facing kidnapping and firearms charges after a lumber truck driver was held hostage at gunpoint for more than four hours on Monday near Clearwater.
  The alleged kidnapping was the final leg of what was a wild ride along Highway 5 that started at a rest area near Avola where a Clearwater RCMP officer spotted a driver slumped behind the wheel of a running minivan.The driver, who the officer suspected was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, was placed in rear of the po
  
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• B.C. company reprimanded for use of body cameras following chicken cruelty video

  08-11-2017 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  This comes after Elite Services made it mandatory for some workers and supervisors to wear body cameras after a video showed employees allegedly abusing live chickens on several B.C. farms.
  
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• Blob of Lost Lagoon is dead, long live blob of Lost Lagoon

  08-11-2017 21:10
  
  The blob of Lost Lagoon is dead.
  
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• Ed Willes: Intense Markstrom savouring teaching of fiery Cloutier

  08-11-2017 21:07 via theprovince.com
  Jacob Markstrom has seen the video in which his coach — the man who stresses the need to stay calm and composed in the net — appears to lose his mind.
  There’s Dan Cloutier, then the Rangers’ rookie goalie, charging the length of the ice to join in a line brawl with the Islanders. There’s Cloutier going medieval on Isles goalie Tommy Salo. There’s Cloutier, now without his jersey, challenging the Islanders’ bench.
  “That was a Swedish goalie he
  
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• Angelina Jolie expected to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summit

  08-11-2017 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  A draft program for the two-day meeting leaked to The Canadian Press says Angelina Jolie will deliver a keynote address at the event.
  
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• Deer with hammock in antlers a popular presence in Prince Rupert

  08-11-2017 21:03 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE RUPERT — A deer with part of a purple hammock laced around his antlers has inspired a Facebook page, popular line of T-shirts and tremendous public interest in a northern British Columbia city.
  But the buck’s bonnet won’t last much longer.
  Hammy, as he has been dubbed, rose to notoriety during the summer when he got stuck in a backyard hammock in Prince Rupert.
  RCMP officers freed him but Hammy raced away before the hammock fringe could be tugged off his head.
  Since then
  
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• Farm search near Salmon Arm still active and ongoing despite removal of resources

  08-11-2017 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP say the search of the Salmon River Road farm near Salmon Arm remains active and ongoing despite the removal of some resources from the property.
  
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• Public toilets at future Broadway subway system sought by Vancouver civic advisors - Straight.com

  08-11-2017 20:51 via straight.com
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  Public toilets at future Broadway subway system sought by Vancouver civic advisors
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  They want city hall to work with TransLink to ensure that the planned subway line underneath Broadway will have washrooms. Other than the toilets at SeaBus terminals and West Coast Express, TransLink has no lavatories for riders. The Seniors' Advisory ...
  
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• New service looking to help renters build their dog's resumé

  08-11-2017 20:51 via vancouversun.com
  With pet ownership too often being a challenge for British Columbians looking to rent a home, one Canadian company thinks their service may be of help.
  The man behind MyDogsResume.com says the service is a way for renters to show themselves as good pet owners to landlords.
  “There is this massive challenge for pet owners,” Garry Bradamore said.
  “MyDogsResume offers dog guardians a three-step program to educate and prepare them to be responsible pet-friendly tenants, so
  
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• Facing Canucks prospect Lind a litmus test for Giants

  08-11-2017 20:23 via theprovince.com
  There’s a part of James Malm that’s intrigued in seeing what Kole Lind is all about up close.
  Malm is a third-year centre with the Vancouver Giants. He has hopes of playing pro hockey one day.
  Lind, a third-year right winger with the Kelowna Rockets, would seem to be on the fast track to that. A second-round pick in the NHL Draft last summer by the Vancouver Canucks, Lind starred for Team WHL earlier this week in the CIBC Canada Russia Series, highlighted by scoring two goals an
  
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• Wine Guy: B.C.’s icon wines

  08-11-2017 20:00 via theprovince.com
  What exactly is an icon wine? It’s a roving target, to be sure. By definition an icon is “a widely known symbol,” or “a person or thing regarded as representative.” Thus an icon wine typically connotes a benchmark, an example of the best quality and typicity showcasing a wine region. Practically, this bears out as a limited production, top-of-the-wine-line offering from a winery. Of course, not all wineries will bother to release an icon wine, but in the relatively
  
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• Opinion: Proportional representation a timely and urgent fix for our political future

  08-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  “Winner takes all” is no basis for trust. On the contrary, any governance system that gives all the spoils to a single winner — especially a winner who is not even in the majority — is more likely to breed acrimony and disaffection. How much better it would be to implement a system that could draw out the best of everyone, in our organizations and in our country, liberating the creative and productive possibilities of collaboration.
  That is why we need to replace our firs
  
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• NOW Society Turns 40

  08-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  NOW Society 40th Anniversary Celebration Installation and Performances
  Nov. 15 to 18, 8 p.m. | Roundhouse Community Centre
  Tickets and info: From $10 for students and musicians; $25 general; $30 pass at nowsociety.org
  New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) formed in 1977 with a clear mandate that has been key to its longevity: “To provide focus for the creation of original Canadian music by advancing the ideas, values and practices of creative improvisational music through performance, colla
  
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• From the Fonz to Fan Expo Henry Winkler keeps things cool and hot

  08-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fan Expo
  Nov. 10-12 | Vancouver Convention Centre
  Tickets and info: $30-$40 at fanexpovancouver.com/tickets
  Probably one of the most telling signs that you are a star is if you open your front door on Halloween and there stands a bunch of versions of yourself.
  That is a scene that actor/producer/director/writer/author Henry Winkler, a.k.a. The Fonz, certainly recognizes.
  Winkler, 72, delivered the all-powerful Zen greaser on the hugely popular 1950s-set sitcom Happy Days, which ran for a decade
  
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• Five reasons to check out 2017's East Van Culture Crawl

  08-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  East Van Culture Crawl
  Nov. 16-19 | Various locations (80 buildings in the area bounded by Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive and the waterfront)
  Info: culturecrawl.ca
  1. Bigger than ever. The Crawl keeps getting bigger. This year’s features the annual event’s largest lineup of artists, venues, and events to date. More than 500 new and returning artists are opening their studios, workspaces, and garrets to art-lovers, furniture-buyers, and the merely curious.
  2. Lee Roberts.
  
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• B.C. woman sentenced to two weeks in jail after spitting in bus driver’s face

  08-11-2017 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  The 22-year-old Port Moody woman spat in the driver’s face when she was ordered off the bus for swearing repeatedly.
  
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• Most B.C. residents favour of moving Family Day to 3rd week in February: poll

  08-11-2017 19:52 via globalnews.ca
  Moving it to the third week would align the holiday with Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan.
  
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• Trail Appliances Jr. Chef Challenge – Team #3 Vienna & Stefan

  08-11-2017 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  Coming from Victoria our third Jr. Chef Vienna Brown teams up with Tacofino’s Regional Executive Chef Stefan Hartmann to put their spin on the mandatory ingredients in the Trail Appliances Jr. Chef Challenge.
  
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• Suspected Abbotsford cop killer had mental health issues, says family

  08-11-2017 19:34 via vancouversun.com
  The man accused of fatally shooting an Abbotsford police officer struggled with mental health issues, his family said in statement released Wednesday morning.
  Relatives say Oscar Arfmann, 65, was never the same following the death of his wife Patricia in 2013.
  The statement released by his sister-in-law on behalf of the family says Arfmann continued to struggle with mental health issues after being released from hospital in 2015. 
  Oscar Arfmann, 65.
  “He has struggled with mental
  
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• Port Moody woman gets jail time for spitting at bus driver

  08-11-2017 19:33 via vancouversun.com
  Spitting in the face of a bus driver has earned a Port Moody woman 12 days in jail and 12 months probation.
  Lakota Morningstar Kakakaway, 22, was convicted of assault in February and sentenced Nov. 1 in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court in connection with an incident that took place June 22, 2016 on a Coast Mountain bus.
  Metro Vancouver Transit Police said Kakakaway boarded a bus at the Lougheed Station bus loop and began swearing repeatedly.
  She spat in the driver’s face after bei
  
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• Angelina Jolie to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summit - CBC.ca

  08-11-2017 19:24 via cbc.ca
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  Angelina Jolie to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summit
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  Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is expected to lend her star power to next week's peacekeeping summit in Vancouver. A draft program for the two-day meeting leaked to The Canadian Press says Jolie will deliver a keynote address at the ...
  Angelina Jolie expected to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summitNational Postall 5 news articles »
  
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• Family of Alberta suspect in BC police shooting says Oscar Arfmann fought mental illness

  08-11-2017 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  A family member of an Alberta man charged with the first-degree murder of a British Columbia police officer say the accused had been struggling since losing his wife five years ago. 
  
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• Vancouver woman crowdfunding for a dog cafe

  08-11-2017 19:16
  
  Four Paws Café will help empower dog adoption and provide therapy for humans through the strong emotional connection animals provide us.
  
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• Sixties scoop revisited in Taylor's Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

  08-11-2017 19:06 via vancouversun.com
  Author Drew Hayden Taylor wrote about ‘the sixties scoop’ when he realized he was meeting a disproportionate number of adopted First Nations people. Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth plays at the Firehall Arts Centre from Nov 11 to Dec 2.
  Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
  Nov. 11 to Dec 2 | Firehall Arts Centre
  Tickets and info: From $20 at firehallartscentre.ca
  Originally produced in 1996, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is one of the first artistic works ab
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: The ganging up of the Canadian dollar

  08-11-2017 19:01 via globalnews.ca
  Analysts are ganging up on the Canadian dollar and if you believe them, and have some U.S. dollars to buy, it may be better to do it sooner rather than later.
  
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• Tears, hugs and salutes as Abbotsford police, community mourn fallen officer

  08-11-2017 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  It has been an emotional 24 hours for Abbotsford police and Const. Ian MacDonald is sharing a glimpse of how the community has come together to mourn a fallen police officer.
  
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• Phil MacKenzie: Rugby out, online fitness guru in

  08-11-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  While Canada got set last Friday to take on the Maori All Blacks, Phil Mackenzie was looking to recruit another Leansquadder.
  Indeed, Mackenzie is looking to recruit at every waking moment.
  Rugby, which was his life, his passion, his profession for so long, isn’t anymore.
  Now, he’s all about helping people get fit.
  Enter Leansquad, Mackenzie’s name for his online gym.
  “It’s really really exciting.”
  His target isn’t other elite athletes, rather your avera
  
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• Delta teen stabbed outside hockey arena

  08-11-2017 16:34 via vancouversun.com
  A teenage boy was sent to hospital with serious injuries after he was stabbed outside the Sungod Recreation Centre in Delta Tuesday night.
  The attack occurred at around 8:30 p.m.
  “The teen was sent to hospital with what appeared to be a very serious stab wound,” said Delta police spokesperson Sharlene Brooks.No arrest has been made.
  “Investigators were working through the night,” said Brooks. “They are looking at what happened, why it happened and who is r
  
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• Hollywood North: What’s filming and who’s in town

  08-11-2017 16:23 via globalnews.ca
  Steven Schelling runs through the latest film and TV projects in production around the Lower Mainland
  
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• Daily Poll: Did Speaker Darryl Plecas overstep his authority with his ban on ministerial name calling?

  08-11-2017 16:12 via vancouversun.com
  Speaker Darryl Plecas has barred the use of mock ministerial titles in the B.C. legislature.
  No longer will opposition Liberals be able to use made-up titles such as “minister of job loss” “minister of intimidation” and “minister of consultation paralysis” to address specific NDP ministers.
  “I conclude that the unofficial and at times mocking or derogatory titles when directing a question to a minister of the Crown is indeed disrespectful to th
  
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• Battle of Vimy Ridge inspires annual Remembrance Day concert

  08-11-2017 16:00
  
  Chor Leoni performs in a Remembrance Day concert, One Last Song, Nov. 11.
  
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• Vancouver warns owners of empty homes to fill out new declaration forms, or face stiff fines - Financial Post

  08-11-2017 15:09 via business.financialpost.com
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  Vancouver warns owners of empty homes to fill out new declaration forms, or face stiff fines
  Financial Post
  ancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is warning homeowners that if they fail to declare their property status by Feb. 2, they will face the city's empty homes tax and a fine.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press. Reuters. November 8, 2017 11:57 AM EST. Filed under.and more »
  
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• Capitalism the root of all evil for band of marauding space vikings

  08-11-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  GWAR
  Nov. 13 | Commodore Ballroom
  Tickets: $32.50 at ticketmaster.ca
  GWAR is a band of misfit space mercenaries who landed on Earth thousands of years ago and populated the planet by copulating with apes. Or, it’s a group formed by Virginia Commonwealth University students in 1984. Whichever creation myth they subscribe to, GWAR’s (fake) blood-soaked fans would agree that GWAR is a legendary concert act, celebrated for onstage celebrity beheadings (a partial list includes every Ameri
  
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• The Morning Skate, Nov. 8: About Roy Halladay

  08-11-2017 14:09 via theprovince.com
  Roy Halladay was the best pitcher I ever saw.
  And the amazing thing, was I was there basically at the beginning.
  When the news broke yesterday afternoon that he’d while piloting his plane, I found myself thinking of that September 1998 afternoon when he toyed with perfection.
  Through 8 2/3 innings, he twirled a gem, not giving up a hit, not giving up a walk.
  Then pinch hitter Bobby Higginson stepped to the plate and hammered a pitch over the outfield fence, ruining an otherwise superb perf
  
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