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• A BC dog walker is sharing her terrifying ordeal of being lost in the woods.

  28-11-2017 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  Annette Poitras spent two days in the rain and cold. She says she managed to stay alive thanks to the pets who were her protectors. Robin Gill reports.
  
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• Naramata boutique winery sold to big player in the business

  28-11-2017 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Laughing Stock Vineyards has been bought by Arterra Wines Canada.
  
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• Cruising Nootka Sound on the MV Uchuck III

  28-11-2017 23:56 via theprovince.com
  During a two-day maritime cruise to Kyuquot, a remote village on the West Coast of Vancouver Island,  we briefly experienced a different way of life. Our adventure started with a full day’s travel from Vancouver to Gold River where we stayed overnight. This once‑thriving logging town is surrounded by steep hillsides covered in old-growth Douglas fir and Western hemlock.
  The MV Uchuck III in dock.
  The MV Uchuck III departed the wharf promptly at 7:00 am. Since 1982 every week thi
  
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• Kuzma: Arbour’s tough love allowed Green to grow as player, potential NHL coach

  28-11-2017 23:36 via theprovince.com
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This isn’t Uniondale.
  The quirky Barclays Center in a transitioning new district near the Brooklyn Bridge isn’t the venerable old rickety Nassau County Coliseum on Long Island.
  As much as the Islanders are temporarily housed in an odd-shaped, Rubik’s Cube home built for basketball and not hockey — and are far removed from the glory days on Long Island — one adage holds true for anyone who played for the late great bench boss Al Arbour:
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• Santa and his reindeer get in fender-bender in Victoria

  28-11-2017 23:17 via vancouversun.com
  Dude, Santa hit your car!
  That’s what Cordova Bay resident Rick Cochrane was told after the Island Farms Santa’s Light Parade, when he returned to find his car, parked in a parking lot, pushed onto the sidewalk. Cochrane tried to brush the man off, assuming he was on drugs.
  “Ya, cool man,” Cochrane replied politely.
  “No man, Santa and his reindeer hit your car,” the stranger insisted.
  Cochrane might have brushed him off again, but the man said: “I h
  
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• New Westminster police looking for missing 13-year-old boy

  28-11-2017 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  Eli Stoddart was last seen Nov. 27 at 8:55 p.m. in the area of 8th Street and Carnarvon Street at a sushi restaurant.
  
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• New Westminster police find missing 13-year-old boy

  28-11-2017 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  He was last seen Nov. 27 at 8:55 p.m. in the area of 8th Street and Carnarvon Street at a sushi restaurant.
  
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• Ballyhooed Belmont looking to capture Quad A girls v-ball crown for second straight year

  28-11-2017 23:04 via theprovince.com
  The Big Kahuna high school volleyball provincial championships feature 52 teams in three divisions at the Langley Events Centre, and none has a bigger bull’s-eye to deal with than the Belmont Bulldogs.
  The Victoria team didn’t lose a single player to graduation from last year’s squad that captured the Quad A girls title, and they’re top seeds for this year’s event, too, coming in with a 48-1 record. Their lone loss came to the Double A Langley Christian Lightning in
  
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• Police dog helps collar dangerous driver in the north Okanagan

  28-11-2017 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  The suspect was found by the Police Service dog hiding under kayaks.
  
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• Whistler RCMP still searching for missing Aussie Alison Raspa

  28-11-2017 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  Whistler RCMP have been searching underground parking lots, creeks and parks, along with security camera footage, and still have not found any sign of Alison Leanna Raspa.
  The 25-year-old Australian woman has been missing since last Wednesday, 11:30 p.m., when she was spotted leaving the Three Below Bar on Blackcomb Way in Whistler. Her cell phone was recovered at 6:30 a.m. the next day — more than five kilometres away — at Alpha Lake Park. 
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• New American Airlines flights to connect Calgary, Vancouver to Chicago - Globalnews.ca

  28-11-2017 22:40 via globalnews.ca
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  In this May 27, 2015, file photo, American Airlines jets taxi at Miami International Airport, in Miami. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File. X. - A A +. Listen. Calgarians and Vancouverites looking to vacation in the windy city are in luck, as new American ...and more »
  
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• University of the Fraser Valley wrestling team pins hopes on India trip

  28-11-2017 22:39 via theprovince.com
  Six student-athletes from the University of the Fraser Valley’s wrestling team are set to embark on the trip of a lifetime, turning the dream that inspired coaches Raj Virdi and Arjan Bhullar to launch the program into reality.
  This week the group has head out on a 10-day trip to the school’s campus in Chandigarh, India, for a one-of-a-kind exchange experience that will include sightseeing, charity work and plenty of time on the wrestling mat.
  “We had this vision when we first
  
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• New American Airlines flights to connect Calgary, Vancouver to Chicago

  28-11-2017 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  “These new flights, combined with additional capacity across the country, reflect the growing demand for travel over the border in both directions.”
  
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• Notice to Vancouver Sun email subscribers - Vancouver Sun

  28-11-2017 22:29 via vancouversun.com
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  Postmedia experienced a technical glitch this morning that resulted in an email being sent, in error, to a number of Vancouver Sun email subscribers. We have since corrected the glitch, and will do our best to prevent this from happening again. We ...
  
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• Notice to Vancouver Sun email subscribers

  28-11-2017 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia experienced a technical glitch this morning that resulted in an email being sent, in error, to a number of Vancouver Sun email subscribers. We have since corrected the glitch, and will do our best to prevent this from happening again.
  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
  If you would like to unsubscribe from email communications, you can manage your preferences here.
  
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• 2 new pilot programs to be tested in B.C. to crack down on distracted driving

  28-11-2017 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. government, along with ICBC and other officials will be launching two pilot programs to test potential that may help put the brakes on distracted driving.
  
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• Vancouver police say deaths of two people in their 70s are suspicious

  28-11-2017 22:20
  Police say the bodies of two seniors were found on Monday inside their residence near Granville Street and West 5th Avenue.
  
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• Whistler Backcomb Season Opening Is Here!

  28-11-2017 22:18 via theprovince.com
  There’s an excited buzz in Whistler Village these days about the early November 17 opening to the 2017/18 season. “We’re very pleased to have been able to open early,” says Marc Riddell, senior communications manager for Whistler Blackcomb. “Right now we have very favourable conditions so we’ve been able to blow snow constantly.”
  “I’m looking out my window right now and it’s snowing,” Riddell said earlier this week. All of that sn
  
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• Getting into the Holiday Market Spirit in Whistler

  28-11-2017 21:56 via theprovince.com
   
  When the trees start to don fairy lights, and family and friends want to know whose turn it is to cook the turducken, I know it’s time to turn my attention towards the festive season. With a mixture of childish excitement and adult anxiety, I take a look at what needs to be done to make things jolly and bright. The list is long, and unlike a certain someone, I don’t have a bunch of elves in my employ to make the task any easier. I do however have the Arts Whistler Holiday Mark
  
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• Two Vancouver seniors found dead in South Granville home

  28-11-2017 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police are investigating the “suspicious deaths” of a 77-year-old woman and 79-year-old man, whose bodies were found inside their south Granville Street home Monday night.
  In a release, VPD Sgt. Jason Robillard says the bodies were discovered just before 5 p.m. inside a residence near Granville Street and West Fifth Avenue, just on the south side of  the Granville Street Bridge.No names have been released.
  Robillard says police do not believe the public is at risk.&nbs
  
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• Vancouver Island Construction workers add overdose treatment to tool kits - CBC.ca

  28-11-2017 21:28 via cbc.ca
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  Vancouver Island's construction industry wrapped up a series of workshops this week that taught workers about how to save colleagues and others from an opioid overdose. The workshops In Victoria and Nanaimo followed recent reports of higher rates of ...and more »
  
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• Vancouver considers banning foreign buyers amid 'perfect storm' in housing market - Financial Post

  28-11-2017 21:20 via business.financialpost.com
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  Vancouver considers banning foreign buyers amid 'perfect storm' in housing market
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  VANCOUVER — The city of Vancouver is considering restricting ownership of housing to local residents, among other strategies, as it looks to cool a hot real estate market that it says is fuelled by foreign and local speculation. A foreign buyer ban is ...and more »
  
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• New Indian residential school monument in the Okanagan

  28-11-2017 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  The monument is dedicated to Syilx people who attended residential schools.
  
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• Rental housing crunch

  28-11-2017 21:14 via globalnews.ca
  A new report by the CMHC says Vancouver’s vacancy rate is less than one percent and rents have increased significantly in the past year. Jordan Armstrong has the details.
  
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• Ex-Mountie in consensual relationship with woman, defence tells B.C. trial

  28-11-2017 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A lawyer for a retired RCMP inspector accused of sexually assaulting a civilian employee says the complainant consented to a relationship with his client.
  David Butcher told provincial court the woman was motivated by financial gain when she said Tim Shields kissed and groped her in a unisex washroom at the department’s British Columbia headquarters in 2009.
  Butcher says there is no basis for the Crown’s argument that Shields abused his position of authority to coer
  
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• Giants add experience in trade for Red Deer’s Dmytriw

  28-11-2017 21:13 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Giants are a little older, a little more wily.
  The Giants landed 19-year-old right winger Jared Dmytriw (Dih-Meee-Trew) from the Red Deer Rebels on Tuesday in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2018 WHL bantam draft.
  The Craven, Sask., native is expected to join the Giants on Wednesday, meaning that he’ll miss Vancouver’s game Tuesday against the Seattle Thunderbirds. He should debut in Giants garb on the weekend on the road trip to Prince George.
  Dmytriw has 205 WH
  
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• Giving Tuesday a reminder to give all year long: Part one

  28-11-2017 21:09
  
  Ways to give back to your community this holiday season and all year long.
  
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• Giving Tuesday a reminder to give all year long

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  Ways to give back to your community this holiday season and all year long.
  
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• Spending pressures mean smaller surplus for B.C. budget: minister

  28-11-2017 21:07 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Firefighting costs and other financial pressures have forced the British Columbia government to revise its financial forecast, but Finance Minister Carole James says the province is still on track for a balanced budget.
  The second quarter financial update shows a projected surplus is now $190 million, $56 million lower than what was projected earlier this year.
  James says increases in spending to fight wildfires, cost pressures at the Insurance Corporation of B.C., and lower per
  
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• B.C. now the worst destination in Canada for oil and gas investors: survey

  28-11-2017 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  A handful of years ago, British Columbia’s immense natural gas deposits caught the attention of top global investors eager to produce them and export liquefied natural gas to Asia. Now they’d rather put their cash almost anywhere else.
  According to the Fraser Institute’s Global Petroleum Survey 2017, oil and gas investor perception of British Columbia has plummeted since the election of an NDP/Green government last May and the province now ranks as the least attractive jur
  
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• Abbotsford shooting suspect makes first court appearance

  28-11-2017 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  The man accused of killing Abbotsford police constable John Davidson made a brief appearance in court Tuesday morning. 65-year-old Oscar Arfmann is charged with first-degree murder in connection to the November 6th shootout that led to Davidson’s death. Geoff Hastings was in court for the proceeding and has more.
  
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• Kuzma: Al Arbour’s tough love allowed Travis Green to grow as player, potential NHL coach

  28-11-2017 20:57 via theprovince.com
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This isn’t Uniondale.
  The quirky Barclays Center in a transitioning new district near the Brooklyn Bridge isn’t the venerable old rickety Nassau County Coliseum on Long Island.
  As much as the Islanders are temporarily housed in an odd-shaped, Rubik’s Cube home built for basketball and not hockey — and are far removed from the glory days on Long Island — one adage holds true for anyone who played for the late great bench boss Al Arbour:
  You can
  
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• Fluctuating numbers of spawning kokanee for Okanagan lakes

  28-11-2017 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  Kokanee are land-locked sockeye salmon found in all of the Okanagan valley's main lakes.
  
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• Vancouver police investigating suspicious deaths of 2 seniors in their home

  28-11-2017 20:45 via globalnews.ca
  Investigators says they do not believe the public is at risk.
  
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• City targets property speculators, wealthy homeowners

  28-11-2017 20:30
  
  Council is proposing new measures to “stabilize land values” and “level the playing field” by increasing taxation on property speculators and those who sell high-priced homes, the City of Vancouver announced Nov. 27.
  
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• Live: Coquihalla closed in both directions from Othello to Merritt

  28-11-2017 20:27 via vancouversun.com
  The Coquihalla Highway is closed in both directions from Othello Tunnels, east of Hope, to Merritt due to a vehicle fire.
  Emergency Crews are responding to a semi truck fire two kilometres west of the Carolin Mines exit.Drive B.C. says there is no detour available at this time, but Highway 1 or Highway 3 could be used as an alternate route. 
  Check Drive B.C.’s website for the latest updates.
  Meanwhile, Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning this morning for Coquih
  
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• Weather, terrain pose challenges in search for small plane near Revelstoke

  28-11-2017 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  Low cloud and heavy snowfall haven’t stopped the search for a small plane with two people aboard in southeastern British Columbia.
  Victoria Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre spokeswoman Katelyn Moores says the search area has been narrowed to a region 18 kilometres outside Revelstoke.
  Moores says the grid was refined based on more complete information from radar and the cellphone tower that picked up a signal from the pilot’s phone at about the same time the plane was reported missin
  
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• Vancouver school district leases Laurier Annex to francophone education board - Straight.com

  28-11-2017 20:02 via straight.com
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  Vancouver school district leases Laurier Annex to francophone education board
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  The B.C. francophone school board is going to rent one of three Vancouver school annexes that were previously closed. The Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique (CSF) announced in a media release that the Vancouver school board ...
  
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• Man accused in Abbotsford police officer's death appears in court

  28-11-2017 20:02 via vancouversun.com
  ABBOTSFORD — A man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a British Columbia police officer has appeared in court.
  Sixty-five-year-old Oscar Arfmann of St. Paul, Alta., didn’t speak during his brief appearance in an Abbotsford court.
  He is charged in the death of Abbotsford Const. John Davidson, who died Nov. 6 after responding to a report of shots fired.
  The accused has a beard, grey, shoulder-length hair and was wearing a prison-issued red jumpsuit as he sat in t
  
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• Style in the City: Paul Marlow

  28-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Paul Marlow (a.k.a. Tall Paul)
  Occupation: Personal trainer and social media influencer 
  Personal style: Casual 
  Get social: Paulmarlow.ca
  Get the look: Love Paul’s outfit? Here are a few options to help you recreate it. The coat
  The cold months are officially here, so that means it’s time to add a timeless topper to your wardrobe. Looking to update your coat collection with an option that’s as fashionable as it is functional? Consider this Woods
  
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• Beauty Bar: Being by Sanctuary Hibiscus & Coconut Water Body Scrub

  28-11-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new-to-Canada line, Being by Sanctuary offers a collection of delicious-smelling body products created for millennial beauty fans. 
  The range, which is exclusive to Shoppers Drug Mart, includes body lotions, fragrances, scrubs and more, each featuring a unique scent story merging unexpected combinations such as Hibiscus & Coconut, Salted Caramel & Macadamia and Cloudberry & Lychee. 
  The Hibiscus & Coconut Water Body Scrub serves up a “mouth-wate
  
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• LGBTQ2 Canadians get federal apology

  28-11-2017 19:50 via globalnews.ca
  As the federal government apologizes for past discrimination against LGBTQ2 Canadians, we are hearing more about the man who played a role in decriminalizing homosexuality in our country. Natalie Meisner tells us about her play “Legislating Love” and the story of Everett Klippert.
  
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• Coquihalla Highway closed in both directions due to semi fire

  28-11-2017 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  The highway is closed between the Othello Tunnels and Merritt.
  
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• Three envelopes full of cash turned into Coquitlam RCMP

  28-11-2017 19:41 via vancouversun.com
  Coquitlam RCMP are in possession of three envelopes full of cash that were found in public places on three separate days in separate locations.
  The latest incident was on Nov.  22 when an envelope was found at a supermarket at 2929 Barnet Highway, Coquitlam. Other envelopes of cash were turned in on Nov. 18 and Sept. 21. In two of those cases, police say the owners of the money are described as Asian.
  Coquitlam RCMP say they want to return the cash to the rightful owners.
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• Sunshine forecast for this weekend's Santa Claus Parade in Vancouver

  28-11-2017 19:34 via vancouversun.com
  It looks like the sun will come out for this weekend’s Santa Claus Parade in downtown Vancouver.
  But bundle up the kids, it’s going to be chilly, according to Environment Canada.
  The federal weather agency is forecasting a mix of sun and cloud, and highs of seven degrees C.
  Now entering its 14th year, the parade will feature more than 50 marching bands, choirs, festive floats and community groups. The festivities begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday at Christmas Square in front of th
  
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• Snow, 'rough terrain' stymie B.C. crews searching for small plane

  28-11-2017 19:34
  Dominic Neron, 28, from Spruce Grove, Alta., and his girlfriend Ashley Bourgeault, 31, went missing on a flight from Penticton to Edmonton.
  
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• Kelowna fire a warning to be careful installing Christmas lights

  28-11-2017 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  A neighbour used a fire extinguisher to snuff out the flames.
  
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• Marpole housing complex for homeless to open in February

  28-11-2017 19:08
  
  The city has given “conditional approval” for the construction of a 78-unit modular housing complex in Marpole for the homeless.
  
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• Louie, De Genova, Deal to seek re-election in 2018

  28-11-2017 19:02
  
  Raymond Louie, Heather Deal, Melissa De Genova and Gregor Robertson are council incumbents who say they will seek re-election in 2018.
  
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• Office cocktails: Microwaved mulled wine

  28-11-2017 19:01 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for a drink recipe that’s so easy to “craft” you could make it at the office? You’re in luck.
  We tested — and tasted — a recipe for seasonal mulled wine that calls for just a few ingredients, and can be made with the help of a microwave rather than a saucepan and stove. (Spoiler alert: we liked it.)
  While we aren’t saying you should be drinking at work, we are saying these drinks are so simple to make — you might find yourself thinking abou
  
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