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• Metro Vancouver braces for possible flooding ahead of 'King Tide' - Globalnews.ca

  02-12-2017 23:58 via globalnews.ca
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  Metro Vancouver braces for possible flooding ahead of 'King Tide'
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  Metro Vancouver municipalities are gearing up for an anticipated seasonal King Tide that could bring flooding to some low-lying coastal areas next week. King Tides occur when the sun and moon's gravitational forces reinforce each other, in periods when ...and more »
  
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• Metro Vancouver braces for possible flooding ahead of ‘King Tide’

  02-12-2017 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver and Delta are hoping for calm weather ahead of some of the highest tides of the year.
  
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• Whistler Sliding Centre

  02-12-2017 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  Lucinda Jagger and Cassie Hawrysh from Whistler Sliding Centre tell us all about this weekend’s open day and why it’s never too late to take up winter sports.
  
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• SATURDAY SIPS: MULLED WINE

  02-12-2017 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  Katie Ingram L’abattoir shares her cocktail recipe for a twist on a classic mulled wine
  
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• Open House: Dishwasher Tips

  02-12-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Sat, Dec 2: From how to stack your cutlery rack to stacking tips – we solve all the biggest dishwasher dilemmas that will leave your dishware sparkling clean.
  
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• Month of Giving Back: Operation Red Nose

  02-12-2017 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Chris Wilson from Operation Red Nose tells us all about the national campaign that is aimed at helping reduce drinking and driving incidents over the festive season – by offering people free rides home.
  
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• 64 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, December 3 - Straight.com

  02-12-2017 23:04 via straight.com
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  64 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, December 3
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  The Santa Claus Parade features marching bands, dance troupes, and festive floats in downtown Vancouver. Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 64 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, December 3 ...and more »
  
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• Justin Trudeau bound for China to promote trade, tourism, investment

  02-12-2017 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is departing for Beijing for a four-day state visit to China that will begin Monday with a visit to a popular social media company to sell Canada as a vacation destination.
  Joined by several cabinet ministers, Trudeau is to arrive late Sunday, ahead of his Monday morning visit to the headquarters of Sino Corporation, which owns China’s most popular social media platform, Weibo.
  The prime minister is to take part in an event to promote Canada as a tourism desti
  
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• SkyTrain’s Evergreen Line marks 1-year anniversary

  02-12-2017 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  TransLink says the line has spearheaded a 25 per cent hike in weekday transit use in the Tri-Cities area.
  
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• Surprise, awe, intensity: B.C. sculptor offers life-sized stature in the wild as a symbol of our ecosystem

  02-12-2017 22:41 via vancouversun.com
  Artist Guthrie Gloag often thinks back to an encounter in the wild when he was a field student in biology, collecting climate change data with a scientist who studied flowering plants in the alpine. 
  The group had broken camp after an overnight excursion, and were hiking out to their vehicle. There had been a light rain and the wide, clawed impressions of grizzly bear tracks were clearly visible in the soft ground along the trail they followed.
  “We walked about seven kilometres knowin
  
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• Family of missing Alberta pilot pleads for details that could extend search

  02-12-2017 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  The family of an Alberta man who hasn’t been seen since his plane went missing last weekend is making a public plea for information about a survival kit that they believe he had on the plane.
  
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• Daniel Paul sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing mother of 5

  02-12-2017 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  Daniel lived with Rose's decomposing body in an East Vancouver home for more than a month, the court heard during the trial.
  
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• Family, Burns Lake community fear release of accused killer

  02-12-2017 22:17 via vancouversun.com
  Residents of a northern B.C. town are afraid and outraged that an accused killer has been granted bail and allowed to return to his community to await trial.
  “The community is in fear,” said Steven Bishop, the younger brother of Raymond Bishop, who was found shot to death on the south side of Francois Lake in Southbank on May 18. “Everyone feels demoralized. We wonder if this is the system we support. We’re voters, but we feel silent and neglected.”
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• Two Easter Seals camps in B.C. close due to lack of funding

  02-12-2017 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  Two long-running summer camps for kids with disabilities in B.C. will close because of a near million-dollar funding shortfall. 
  In a letter to families, Easter Seals B.C. and Yukon says is forced to close two out of its three week-long camps, which have been running for nearly 50 years.
  The letter says Easter Seals will not run the Shawnigan Lake and Squamish camps  in 2018 because the charity hasn’t received enough donations to make up the $700,000 to $900,000 it costs to
  
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• Drowned off Masset, or disappeared into B.C.'s wilderness?

  02-12-2017 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  Once in a while her mind played tricks on her.
  “Often I’d see him and chase down a stranger only to become disappointed,” explained Christy (Conch) Konschuh, more than two years after her friend Brent Hendren was presumed drowned in Masset Inlet, off the coast of B.C.
  And, while she lived at his cabin after his disappearance, she hoped against hope the authorities were wrong about his death.
  “I often wondered if he was out there, existing as a hermit and I was prepared fo
  
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• Mike Smyth: Drive-by sliming aside, Horgan and NDP made a decent start

  02-12-2017 22:01 via theprovince.com
  The first full legislative session of the new NDP government went pretty well for Premier John Horgan, who didn’t once blow his stack in public despite a famous hair-trigger Irish temper.
  In fact, the guy the Liberals like to bait and berate as “Hulk Horgan” is the happiest I’ve ever seen him. He’s having an absolute ball after taking a job nobody else wanted (leader of the NDP) and parlaying it into the most powerful office in the province.
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• Evergreen Line marks first anniversary in Port Moody

  02-12-2017 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink says transit ridership is significantly up in the Tri-Cities region, as the transit authority marks the first anniversary of the Evergreen extension of the Millennium SkyTrain Line.
  An event was held in Port Moody on Friday to commemorate the 11-kilometre, six-station Evergreen Extension, which opened to the public Dec. 2, 2016.
  TransLink says weekday transit use in the northeast sector (Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Anmore and Belcarra) in September and October of this y
  
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• Justin Trudeau stumps for Liberals in Surrey ahead of federal byelection

  02-12-2017 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  The South Surrey-White Rock seat was left vacant when former Conservative MP Dianne Watts stepped down to seek the BC Liberal leadership.
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs could become NHL’s top team

  02-12-2017 21:17 via globalnews.ca
  The Toronto Maple Leafs have a chance to become the NHL's #1 team on Saturday night.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks snubbed in NHL All-Star nominations - Straight.com

  02-12-2017 20:15 via straight.com
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  Vancouver Canucks snubbed in NHL All-Star nominations
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  Since the 2016 NHL All-Star Game, AKA John Scott Day, AKA the only All-Star Game anyone over 14 years old has ever enjoyed, the NHL has restricted the voting to those that the league designates as “bona fide players.” Because of the massive campaign to ...and more »
  
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• Escape to the Movies at the Whistler Film Festival

  02-12-2017 20:15 via theprovince.com
   
  Early season snow is flying in Whistler, but there’s another reason to head to the mountains. From November 29 to December 3, the town will host the 17th annual Whistler Film Festival. Escape to the movies at Canada’s “coolest” film festival, plus enjoy skiing, après, fine dining and more.
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  The five-day festival features eighty-seven original films, forty-six of which are feature-length. “The Whistler Film Festival celebrates emerging, fem
  
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• Makeover: A little lighter for the holidays

  02-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ashley Westerager is a 32-year-old receptionist and wanted to lighten up her colour for the holidays.
  Ashley has thick and naturally wavy hair. It hadn’t been coloured in roughly a year and she wanted a colour that would look bright, natural and be easy to maintain. I used a technique called “Foilyage” which combines strategic foil placement with hand painted ribbons of highlights to create a blended and natural colour effect. I used a silk infused decolourizer to lighten her c
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Boeser looks to keep roll going against Matthews and Leafs

  02-12-2017 19:44 via theprovince.com
  Watch: @botchford on why @Canucks fans are fine with a 4 o'clock start time … unless it's for the Toronto Maple Leafs. pic.twitter.com/NWkInVmuzp
  — The Vancouver Sun (@VancouverSun) December 1, 2017The Toronto Maple Leafs and all that comes with them are here today (4 p.m., CBC, Sportsnet 650) for their annual trip. Here are some things to consider about the visit.
  THE BIG MATCH-UP
  Brock Boeser vs. Auston Matthews
  Matthews comes into the day tied for 12th in league scoring, with 26
  
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• With Team Canada invites next week, Benson’s hot streak with Giants marches along

  02-12-2017 19:34 via theprovince.com
  Has Tyler Benson done enough of late to get an invite to for the Canadian world junior team tryout camp?
  His extended injury history obviously plays against him, but Benson bagged two goals and one assist in the Vancouver Giants’ 5-3 win on the road against the Prince George Cougars on Friday and now has seven goals and 11 assists in his past nine games.
  The Giants (12-12-2-2) visit the Cougars (9-14-2-2) again tonight (7 p.m., TSN 1410). Prince George is one of the key teams that Vancouve
  
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• Trudeau campaigning for Surrey Liberal candidate ahead of byelection

  02-12-2017 19:24 via vancouversun.com
  SURREY, B.C. — The Prime Minister will be in British Columbia today to campaign for a Liberal candidate ahead of byelection in Greater Vancouver.
  Justin Trudeau will be at a campaign event in Surrey supporting Gordon Hogg, a former member of the B.C. legislative assembly and White Rock mayor.
  The New Democrat candidate will be Jonathan Silveira, a real estate agent and founder of Surrey Kids Matter, who ran unsuccessfully for the BC NDP in the May provincial election.
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• Evergreen Line marks year anniversary in Port Moody

  02-12-2017 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink says transit ridership is significantly up in the Tri-Cities region, as the transit authority marks the one-year anniversary of the Evergreen SkyTrain extension of the Millennium Line.
  An event was held in Port Moody on Friday to commemorate the 11-kilometre, six-station Evergreen Extension, which opened to the public Dec. 2, 2016.
  TransLink says weekday transit use in the northeast sector (Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Anmore and Belcarra) in September and October of thi
  
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• Evergreen Line marks year anniversary

  02-12-2017 18:41 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink says transit ridership is significantly up in the Tri-Cities region, as the transit authority marks the one-year anniversary of the Evergreen SkyTrain extension of the Millennium Line.
  An event was held in Port Moody on Friday to commemorate the 11-kilometre, six-station Evergreen Extension, which opened to the public Dec. 2, 2016.
  TransLink says weekday transit use in the northeast sector (Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Anmore and Belcarra) in September and October of thi
  
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• Amid parking 'nightmare' in East Vancouver, locals give up on city response - CBC.ca

  02-12-2017 17:01 via cbc.ca
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  Amid parking 'nightmare' in East Vancouver, locals give up on city response
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  Every day, twice a day, parking chaos explodes on a particular stretch of Franklin Street in East Vancouver. Cars are parked on the sidewalk, triple parked on the street, blocking intersections and hampering the many delivery trucks trying to get ...and more »
  
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• Palatial Shaughnessy home hits market for $35 million

  02-12-2017 17:00
  
  Highest-priced new listing of Nov. 13 to 19 is a 2016-built, 12,600-square-foot mansion.
  
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• Vancouver police warn of convicted sex offender released from custody - CBC.ca

  02-12-2017 16:26 via cbc.ca
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  Vancouver police warn of convicted sex offender released from custody
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  Vancouver police are warning the public of a convicted sex offender who has been released from custody. Dawson Davidson, 58, is currently living in a Vancouver halfway house. Police say he has been deemed a risk to the safety of women and must follow ...
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• The Home Front: Standout designers on Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl - Vancouver Sun

  02-12-2017 16:06 via vancouversun.com
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  The Home Front: Standout designers on Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl
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  Hand-blown glass ornament by Maria Ida Designs. Photo: Clotilde Orozco for The Home Front: Standout designer makers on Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl by Rebecca Keillor [PNG Merlin Archive] PNG PNG. Share Adjust Comment Print. It's great timing ...
  
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• The Home Front: Standout designers on Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl

  02-12-2017 16:06 via vancouversun.com
  It’s great timing that Vancouver’s Eastside Culture Crawl happens just as we head into the holiday season.
  The annual event, which ran last month, sees over 500 artists, designers and makers open their studios to crowds of over 30,000. It gives Vancouverites a chance to find out about the fantastic painters, sculptors, ceramicists, glass-blowers, furniture-makers and others who are operating locally, and to consider them when looking for gifts or one-of-a-kind pieces for the hom
  
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• The hug that turned a foster child into a son

  02-12-2017 16:00
  
  Nine years after he was adopted, 15-year-old Andrew Teel raises money for those who aren't so lucky.
  
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• Earning industry honours

  02-12-2017 15:45 via vancouversun.com
  The finalist nominations are in for the 2018 Georgie Awards, considered the grand slam of annual honours for achievement in the province’s $23.1-billion-a-year residential construction industry.
  But the firms, which collectively submitted a record number of entries this year, will have to wait until a glitzy gala dinner in Vancouver on March 10 next year to find out who won awards.
  While the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of B.C. doesn’t release figures, the association&rs
  
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• Sold (Bought): Elegant Kerrisdale-area home sells for just under $4.5 million

  02-12-2017 15:24 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  6286 McCleery Street, Vancouver
  Type: Four-bedroom, five-bathroom detached
  Size: 3,991 sq .ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $4,967,000
  Listed for: $4,580,000
  Sold for: $4,498,000
  Sold on: Sept. 8
  Days on market: 30
  Listing agent: Faith Wilson at Faith Wilson Group
  Buyers agent: Ruby Jiang at Thornhill Real Estate Group
  The big sell: This elegant four-bedroom home sits on a beautifully landscaped lot with the amenities of Kerrisdale nea
  
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• Amacon's Juneau to address homebuyer demand in Brentwood

  02-12-2017 14:59 via vancouversun.com
  The Brentwood area in North Burnaby has a lot going for it. There is a multitude of shops, amenities and services in and around Brentwood Town Centre, rapid SkyTrain transit and a growing number of multi-family residential buildings, which provide for more affordable living relative to what one might find in downtown Vancouver.
  Juneau, a new offering in Brentwood from developer Amacon, is a residential tower of 147 homes with one to three bedrooms at Juneau Street and Willingdon Avenue.
  Amacon h
  
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• Surrey firefighters extinguish blaze at vacant home

  02-12-2017 12:14 via globalnews.ca
  There were no injuries in a 2-alarm fire in a vacant home in Surrey Saturday morning.
  
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• Kevin Bacon shocker

  02-12-2017 08:56 via globalnews.ca
  A bomshell court decision to stay charges against notorious gangster Jamie Bacon are not going over well.
  
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• Jamie Bacon shocker

  02-12-2017 08:56 via globalnews.ca
  A bombshell court decision to stay charges against notorious gangster Jamie Bacon are not going over well.
  
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• New trial ordered for B.C. man convicted of sexual touching of preteen

  02-12-2017 08:12 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A new trial has been ordered for a 45-year-old Prince George man convicted of sexually interfering with a person under 16 years of age.
  In a unanimous ruling, a three-member panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal says Paul Veeken’s 2015 conviction should be set aside because the trial judge failed to properly instruct the jury.
  Veeken was sentenced to two years in jail and a year probation for sexually touching a preteen girl, although the defence argued the girl had been coac
  
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• Young Okanagan hockey player steps up for mental wellness

  02-12-2017 07:43 via globalnews.ca
  A junior hockey player in the Okanagan is getting national attention and its for a reason you might not expect. As Travis Lowe reports, the teen is tackling a subject many people don’t even want to talk about.
  
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• West Kelowna celebrates 10 years with downtown light up event

  02-12-2017 07:38 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds came out Friday night to the 10th annual downtown light up event in West Kelowna. Families enjoyed entertainment, free food and games while Santa made a visit.
  
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• Kelowna Rockets beat Spokane Chiefs

  02-12-2017 07:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Kelowna Rockets improved their record to 16-8-2-1 with a 4-2 win over the Spokane Chiefs Friday night. The win is redemption for the Rockets 6-2 loss against the Chiefs on November 22.
  
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• The Happenings: See Dunkirk at Science World's Omnimax this weekend

  02-12-2017 06:27 via vancouversun.com
  Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for the weekend of Dec. 2-3.
  Dunkirk in IMAX at Science World
  If you missed Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk during its original theatrical run, good news: it’s back and bigger than ever. Beginning this weekend and continuing all through the week (except for Monday), Science World will be screening a limited re-release of Dunkirk in IMAX film at its famous OMNIMAX theatre.Dunkirk was apparently pretty goo
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Murder charge stayed in Jamie Bacon case

  02-12-2017 05:54 via vancouversun.com
  Eileen Mohan is calling Friday one of the worst days of her life. She said she feels like she has to bury her son Christopher all over again.
  She learned this afternoon that murder and conspiracy charges against accused Surrey Six killer Jamie Bacon were stayed by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker. 
  Chris Mohan and Ed Schellenberg were bystanders murdered along with four young men – Corey Lal, Michael Lal, Ryan Bartolomeo and Eddie Narong – on Oct. 19, 2007. Corey was the
  
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• New GM Hervey aims to quickly turn Lions back into kings of CFL jungle

  02-12-2017 05:50 via theprovince.com
  Ed Hervey already has an answer to the Vancouver housing crunch.
  He’ll just set up a cot in his office.
  “Yeah, I’ve slept in the office before,” laughed the new general manager of the B.C. Lions. 
  That’s one problem down. There are plenty left.
  Hervey is taking on the task of helping the Lions back into the CFL playoffs, which they missed last season after a 7-11 campaign left them on the outside looking in at the post-season for the first time in 20 years.
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• Girl, 9, dies after being hit by transit bus on busy Abbotsford street

  02-12-2017 05:41 via vancouversun.com
  Parents in Abbotsford are upset that no school crossing guard was posted at the busy intersection where a nine-year-old girl was hit and killed in a crosswalk by a transit bus.
  The girl was on her way to school Friday morning and was hit while crossing five lanes of South Fraser Way at Hill-Tout Street. The young girl attended Ten Broeck Elementary, a kindergarten to Grade 5 school on Abbotsford’s west side. 
  She was taken to hospital with critical injuries, but died shortly afte
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Dec 1

  02-12-2017 05:32 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, December 1, 2017.
  
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• Ed Willes: Sedins’ transition game isn’t lost on impressed teammates

  02-12-2017 05:07 via theprovince.com
  Daniel Sedin stood in the middle of the Canucks’ locker-room on Friday answering questions about his least favourite subject: Himself.
  Sedin, of course, was responsible for his own predicament. The night before, he’d notched career points 999, 1,000 and 1,001 in the Canucks’ 5-3 win in Nashville, a game that couldn’t have been scripted better for the NHL’s newest, er, millennial.
  The milestone, for starters, came in a Canucks win and point 1,000 was a third-period p
  
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• BC government launches overdose response centre at VGH

  02-12-2017 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  "We are escalating our response, not just to prevent overdose deaths today, but to get at the very heart of the crisis so that no one has to lose another loved one," said Mental Health and Addictions Minister Judy Darcy.
  
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