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• The mystery of the man who promised millions to family, friends and a B.C. hockey team

  08-12-2017 23:57 via vancouversun.com
  One night in February, Jacqueline Jordan’s ex-boss showed up at her door in Airdrie, Alta., with an outrageous offer.
  “Jackie, I’m gonna change your life,” she said he told her.
  He announced he was going to gift Jordan $1 million — a portion of the riches he said he had amassed from a lottery win and smart investments.
  Jordan was skeptical. But over the following weeks, she said, he managed to string her along, showing her documents purportedly from various financia
  
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• Edmonton-based Liquor Stores N.A. hires cannabis strategist

  08-12-2017 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton-based Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd. says it has hired one of its directors to map out its future cannabis strategy as Canada moves to make recreational pot legal by next July.
  
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• Two men charged with knife assaults in two Kelowna incidents

  08-12-2017 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  "RCMP set up an area of containment and called out a police canine to conduct a search for the suspect."
  
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• Kuzma: Burmistrov goes from ‘wild card’ to ‘rover’ to confused Canuck

  08-12-2017 23:46 via theprovince.com
  Alexander Burmistrov has been called a “wild card” and a “rover” by Travis Green.
  The versatile Vancouver Canucks forward would call himself something else.
  “Confused,” he said.
  And this was before the National Hockey League made a transaction late Thursday in acquiring centre Nic Dowd from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for defenceman Jordan Subban.
  With Bo Horvat sidelined up to six weeks with a fractured foot, and Brandon Sutter returning next week from
  
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• Gang associate shot dead outside Langley townhouse: police

  08-12-2017 23:45 via vancouversun.com
  A young man is dead after a shooting in Langley and police say the death may be linked to recent gang violence in Metro Vancouver.
  Cpl. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says investigators have confirmed 21-year-old Dai Duong of Abbotsford was the victim of the homicide.
  Police are confirming 21-year-old Dai Duong of Abbotsford was the victim of homicide in Langley on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017.
  Police were called late Thursday to a townhouse complex in the 8100-block of 204th
  
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• Building access over railroad crossings to ease traffic congestion

  08-12-2017 23:38 via vancouversun.com
  On an average day, the safety barrier at the Portside Road train crossing in Richmond comes down 37 times a day for a total of more than two hours each day. Drivers are left fuming in their cars and the ensuing traffic congestion gets backed up into several major roads nearby.
  Similar scenes are playing out in other spots across Metro Vancouver and into the Fraser Valley, according to documents from the Gateway Transportation Collaboration Forum.
  Trains carrying goods and facilitating
  
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• RCMP asking for witnesses in deadly cyclist hit-and-run

  08-12-2017 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  July 2, 2013: Burnaby RCMP is appealing to witnesses after a deadly hit-and-run involving a 72-year-old cyclist who was struck and killed on Sunday night. Grace Ke reports.
  
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• Marpole residents want court to halt temporary homeless housing project construction

  08-12-2017 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  The residents argue, among other things, that temporary modular housing is "not a permitted use" on the property in question.
  
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• Burnaby fatal hit and run

  08-12-2017 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  Mon, Jul 1: RCMP are searching for the driver who struck and killed a cyclist in Burnaby last night, and then fled the scene. Grace Ke reports.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Is it OK to ask, 'Where are you from?'

  08-12-2017 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  A seemingly innocuous question has become contentious.
  “Where are you from?” has turned into a multicultural minefield. What some used to consider a basic curiosity has become politicized. 
  Activists and a number of scholars have added “Where are you from?” to the list of phrases they judge as “micro-aggressions,” which they define as inadvertent slights that can do lasting psychological damage.
  Asking someone about their place of origin seems to be espec
  
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• Dan Fumano: With Nick's final meatball, 'old Vancouver disappearing'

  08-12-2017 23:11 via vancouversun.com
  For half a century, when Jimmy Pattison entertained out-of-town VIPs, he always skipped the swanky spots downtown, and instead took them to a crowded hole-in-the-wall spaghetti joint in an apartment building’s ground-floor on a quiet block in the East End.
  “I’ve been going there for 50 years,” Pattison said this week. “Sometimes, really important people would come to town and I would always take them to Nick’s. I’ve taken premiers of the provinces of Can
  
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• Glasgow and Loch Lomond: Four Days of City Grandeur and Bonny Country

  08-12-2017 22:49 via theprovince.com
  Coming into Glasgow from the airport in a downpour I ask my taxi driver the best time to visit. “Anytime. Glaswegians wear hoodies but not umbrellas, we don’t notice the rain,” says Billy Moore. “Soaked? Just suffer it and bring a spare pair of socks.” Typical Glaswegian no-nonsense attitude.
  Weather aside, I’d signed up for two walking tours and soon discover that Glasgow is no longer a place that would look the same before and after a nuclear attack, as Bill
  
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• Christmas time in London

  08-12-2017 22:35 via theprovince.com
  By Lucy Hyslop
  “So here it is, Merry Christmas / Everybody’s having funLook to the future now / It’s only just begun…”
  If there’s one chorus that heralds the start of the ho-ho-ho holiday season in London, it’s the ubiquitous playing of Seventies’ British rockers Slade’s perennial Christmas hit, Merry Xmas Everybody.
  You’ll hear the time-honoured jingle jovially blasting out from many stores, restaurants and even – most
  
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• Adopt-A-School: Helping refugee children overcome the traumas of their past

  08-12-2017 22:31 via vancouversun.com
  “We’ve all been broken before, but we heal. We do have the darkness still, but we have to learn to live without the darkness.” — a handwritten sign pinned to the wall in Guildford Park Secondary.
  For many refugee students attending Surrey schools, their bodies may be safely in a classroom, but their minds are still inhabiting the dangerous places they fled.
  Surrey likely has the largest population of refugee families of any city in B.C., and the n
  
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• One scoop or two?: Get into the holiday spirits and brews

  08-12-2017 22:24 via vancouversun.com
  If you are the kind of person who slides a scoop of vanilla into your winter ale — and who isn’t? — then Christmas truly has come early for you.
  Red Racer Smore Stout has what you are looking for with a roasted malt body, marshmallow, chocolate and toasty comfort of graham crackers, “the beer equivalent of a fresh s’more bar,” according to ale architect Gary Lohin, Central City’s brewmaster.
  (Despite its dessert-like flavour profile, I do not endorse giv
  
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• Family fun found beyond the parks

  08-12-2017 22:22 via theprovince.com
  From the comfort of my chaise, I watch my feisty five-year old sprint back and forth across the waterpark. After three-days of hoofing it around Disneyland and California Adventure Park, it seems impossible that she could have any energy left.
  My husband’s snoring in the late afternoon sun. I can barely move. Yet somehow our daughter is completely unfazed by the 12,000-plus steps we clocked earlier today. Perhaps it was the ginormous, sugar-dusted churro she gobbled down in Critter County.
  
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• Behind the scenes at The Nutcracker

  08-12-2017 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  The Christmas tradition continues this week with the Canadian School of Ballet production of The Nutcracker.
  
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• Homicide officers called in to investigate shooting at Langley townhouse

  08-12-2017 21:58 via vancouversun.com
  Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate a shooting at a townhouse complex in Langley on Thursday night.
  Langley RCMP confirmed the shooting, which happened shortly before 11 p.m., took place at a residence in the 8100-block of 204th Street.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed on social media that one person is dead.
  IHIT said the shooting is believed to be targeted. The agency is expected to release more information later.
  No suspects have been arrested.
  
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• Pan Pacific Christmas Wish Breakfast 2017

  08-12-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  The 30th annual Christmas Wish Breakfast is taking place at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver on Dec. 13, 2017.
  
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• This Week in History: 1941 Vancouver blacks out after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  08-12-2017 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  The Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong on Dec. 7, 1941 stirred panic in Vancouver. There were rumours that a Japanese aircraft carrier had been spotted off the coast near San Francisco, and that U.S. planes had been dispatched to track it down.
  No Japanese carrier was found. But Vancouver went into a blackout, just in case.
  “Blackout’s Not Play Now, It’s For Keeps,” declared a Sun headline on Dec. 9.
  “When Vancouver’s lights winked out last May, it
  
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• Quick Tips to Maintain Your Health Over The Holidays

  08-12-2017 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Lifestyle expert Natalie Langston gives us some easy and quick tips to maintain your health over the holidays.
  
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• 3 teens arrested for assault after fight near Cowichan Secondary School was caught on video

  08-12-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  And a fourth arrest is expected.
  
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• Okanagan woman meets paramedics who saved her life when she was a toddler

  08-12-2017 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  "I never knew there would come a day when I could stand in front of my heroes and say 'thank you.'"
  
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• Conversations That Matter: The brain that changes and heals itself

  08-12-2017 21:41 via vancouversun.com
  Our brains are so complicated that neuroscientists are still only at the beginning of understanding how that grey matter inside our skulls works.
  For centuries the brain was completely misunderstood. Then, as we started to unlock the myriad regions and elements of the brain, a range of theories emerged about how it worked. Most have been set aside as neuroscientists introduced functional magnetic resonance imaging to map our brains.
  Over the past 25 years, fMRI’s have reshaped ou
  
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• VGH Millionaire Home Lottery

  08-12-2017 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  Friday is the Christmas Bonus Deadline for the VGH Millionaire Home Lottery. Spokesperson Todd Talbot on why buying a ticket early can increase your chances to win.
  
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• Man in serious condition after targeted shooting in South Surrey

  08-12-2017 21:12 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties are investigating after a man was shot and seriously wounded in South Surrey.
  RCMP say on Friday, at around 9:30 a.m., shots were fired in the 17000-block of 21st Avenue.
  A man with from gunshot injuries was taken to hospital in serious condition.
  Investigators say the attacker or attackers fled in a vehicle before police arrived.
  Officers are canvassing the neighbourhood and speaking with witnesses.
  The investigation is in its early stages but police believe the shooting was not r
  
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• 5 things to do for Friday, Dec. 8, 2017

  08-12-2017 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do for Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.
  
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• Guilty verdicts for Kelowna bicyclist who stabbed truck driver

  08-12-2017 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  He returned and stabbed the father in the stomach with a knife during a physical altercation.
  
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• The most-viewed YouTube video in Canada was filmed in Richmond

  08-12-2017 20:51
  
  An infamous video filmed in Richmond, B.C. is the top trending YouTube video in Canada for 2017.
  
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• Shooting in Surrey believed to be targeted

  08-12-2017 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  Surrey RCMP say the shooting happened in the 17000-block of 21 Avenue at about 9:30 a.m.
  
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• Vancouver Lantern Festival turns on, lights up to kick off holiday month

  08-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival
  Dec. 15-Jan. 21, Fri.-Sat., 5-11 p.m.; Sun.-Thurs., 5-10 p.m. | PNE Fairgrounds
  Tickets and info. | From $13.50. Family of four pass, $55 at Ticketleader.ca
  One of the most important events in the Chinese cultural calendar is the annual tradition of the “first-night festival,” or lantern festival. This 2,000-year-old celebration typically falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year celebrations. It is tied to hop
  
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• NHL Accepts Seattle Expansion Application

  08-12-2017 19:47 via globalnews.ca
  Chris Daniels from King 5 in Seattle talks to Paul Haysom about the city’s bid to get an NHL franchise.
  
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• Kelowna woman with gangster connections dies of drug overdose

  08-12-2017 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  "We will miss her spirit, her stubbornness and her energy, and even, in a small way, the constant chaos she brought."
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Friday December 8, 2017

  08-12-2017 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday December 8, 2017
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Bacon's "true love" dies as his charges stayed

  08-12-2017 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  I had heard about Madison Fine’s tragic overdose from several sources and from Real Scoop readers. So I confirmed details of what happened and have written this story.
  Her family obviously saw her differently than police, who believe she has continued to run drug lines and be involved in some of the conflicts that have caused Red Scorpion faction to split apart.
  But it is clear from her obituary, that she had a loving family who is already missing her.
  Here’s my story:
  Jamie Bacon&rs
  
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• PHOTOS: Heavy fog socks in Metro Vancouver, Sunshine Coast

  08-12-2017 18:17 via globalnews.ca
  We've gathered some beautiful and very eerie photos of the fog.
  
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• Creative Gift Giving

  08-12-2017 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  Lifestyle consultant Carey McBeth gives us some unique gift giving ideas for the hard to buy for people on your list.
  
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• Man rushed to hospital after Langley shooting

  08-12-2017 17:30 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP are investigating at a townhouse complex in Langley. An incident happened around 11 pm last night. IHIT has now confirmed they’re involved.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with the NEB's controversial approval of Kinder Morgan's request to bypass Burnaby laws to build a pipeline?

  08-12-2017 17:17 via vancouversun.com
  A National Energy Board ruling Thursday favoured Kinder Morgan Canada’s efforts to bypass Burnaby bylaws to build its Trans Mountain expansion project. The move has many residents outraged, including B.C.’s Environment Minister George Heyman, who said the government will look for ways to fight the decision. The city of Burnaby will also consider an appeal.  
  The NEB ruled the company is not required to comply with two sections of the city’s bylaws as it prepares to be
  
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• Vancouver fire crews responded to more than 6000 overdose calls this year - CTV News

  08-12-2017 17:06
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  Vancouver fire crews responded to more than 6000 overdose calls this year
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  Vancouver firefighters have responded to more than 6,000 overdose calls this year, a 28 per cent increase over last year with almost a month remaining in 2017. Mayor Gregor Robertson says the numbers highlight the magnitude of the "horrific" opioid ...and more »
  
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• Todd Talbot shares his holiday-party planning tips (guys, listen up)

  08-12-2017 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  Todd Talbot’s top tips for the holiday season are refreshingly simple: be genuine and don’t try too hard. 
  While these two tenets could just as easily be applied to that Tinder date you’re setting up for the end of the week, in this case, the Love It or List It Vancouver host is referring specifically to party planning. 
  “I like the word casual. You want your guests to feel comfortable and relaxed,” he explains. “If it’s too overdone, ther
  
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• Holiday recipes: Vancouver chefs share their favourite Christmas dishes

  08-12-2017 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  A hearty meal is the centrepiece of most great holiday memories. 
  Whether it’s feasting on a classic turkey and stuffing, or gathering around a more interesting dish that reflects a family’s unique culture, the festive season is undoubtedly enriched by food. 
  With this in mind, we asked a handful of Vancouver’s top chefs to share their favourite holiday food memories — as well as asking them to serve up a few try-it-yourself recipes to consider feeding to your f
  
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• 'Rooftopping' trend takes viral photography to risky new heights

  08-12-2017 17:00
  While Vancouver's Rooftoppers say the 'rush of fear, excitement and pure joy' (as well as the Instagram fame) is worth the risk, police strongly discourage the dangerous hobby.
  
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• Letters: Banning police in uniform from Pride Parade goes against its ‘all-accepting’ policy

  08-12-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  I can’t believe that Vancouver Pride officials have banned uniformed police officers from future parades. As a gay man who came out in the early 1970s and who has been part of the community who has worked for years to have the cops relate to the community in a co-operative and respectful manner, I’m appalled.
  The Vancouver Pride Society directors should be ashamed of themselves for adopting a policy that isn’t widely accepted by the city’s gay community. If anyone should
  
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• Brian Minter: Decorate patios and balconies for winter with fragrant, fresh-cut branches

  08-12-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  In an earlier article I wrote about planting winter-hardy perennials and shrubs to create interesting living containers. Another hot trend, one that is easier yet equally spectacular, is to decorate patios and balconies for winter with arrangements made from fragrant, fresh-cut green branches.
  About 10 years ago the idea of designing seasonal porch pots by repurposing tired summer patio containers began as an innovative recycling concept that grew into a celebration of winter and a way to create
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Dec. 9

  08-12-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books). 
  2. The Haunting of Vancouver Island: Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side — Shanon Sinn (TouchWood Editions).
  3. Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir — Aaron Williams (Harbour Publishing). 
  4. Harry: A Wilderness Dog Saga — Chris Czajkowski (Harbour Publishing). 
  5. Opportunity
  
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• Month of Giving Back – The Lipstick Project

  08-12-2017 16:45 via globalnews.ca
  As part of our look at charities changing lives in our communities we talk to Leigh Schumann and Amy Parton of the Lipstick Project. The Lipstick Project aims to bring dignity and beauty into the last days of people’s lives by providing free, professional spa services to hospice patients.
  
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• Vancouver's latest tool for housing the homeless getting rough reception

  08-12-2017 16:12 via vancouversun.com
  Construction has hardly begun at the first of Vancouver’s temporary modular housing projects and already pushback is mounting against the city’s latest strategy to house its homeless.
  Vancouver was granted an injunction earlier this week from the Supreme Court of British Columbia to dislodge protesters who were preventing work crews from accessing a construction site in the tony neighbourhood of Marpole.
  Some residents feel blindsided by the move and are critical of a decision they f
  
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• IHIT called in to investigate shooting at Langley townhouse

  08-12-2017 15:31 via vancouversun.com
   
  Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate a shooting at a townhouse complex in Langley Thursday night.
   
  Langley RCMP confirmed the shooting, which happened shortly before 11 p.m., took place at a residence in the 8100-block of 204th Street.
   
  Mounties have not yet confirmed reports that a man was fatally shot, however they did refer all calls to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which has taken over the case.
   
  No suspects have been arrested.
   
  
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• Sorry cake, we might be picking pie this holiday season

  08-12-2017 15:15 via vancouversun.com
   
  The Pie Hole’s Apple Brown Butter Rosemary Pie.
  The holidays are a time to indulge — so, bring on the cookies and cakes. Oh, and pies too, please.
  “Pie has become a staple on many tables during the holidays,” Jenell Parsons, owner of the Vancouver-based eatery The Pie Hole, says. “It is nostalgic and comforting.”
  While crafting virtually any food, be it baked goods or savoury dishes, during the season serves up a good excuse to get family together
  
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