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• Train derailment shuts road access to Deltaport

  10-12-2017 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  A train derailment early Sunday morning knocked out power near Deltaport but didn’t seem to cause any other issues.
  According to GCT Canada, which operates Deltaport, the derailment didn’t cause any issues at their Roberts Bank facility.
  The train went off the tracks about 6:15 a.m. just short of the entrance to the port area.
  The train hit a power pole, disrupting power for about a dozen B.C. Hydro customers in the area. Power was expected to be restored by 7 p.m. Sunday. 
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• Botchford: Boeser continues scoring even with extra coverage, injuries

  10-12-2017 23:31 via theprovince.com
  WINNIPEG — Just when you think Brock Boeser can’t score all the goals, he goes out and does something and you can’t help but wonder.
  Maybe he can.
  It’s becoming increasingly difficult to overestimate what Boeser can do this season. He is still only months into his NHL career and right now he is the Canucks’ most important player.
  He is not only their best goal scorer, he represents their best hope to survive a lengthy stretch of games in which the Canucks will be wi
  
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• Daphne Bramham: B.C. court rules make reporting on polygamy case a tough challenge

  10-12-2017 22:49 via vancouversun.com
  Winston Blackmore’s constitutional challenge to Canada’s polygamy law begins Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court in Cranbrook.
  The outcome has potentially sweeping ramifications for fundamentalist Mormons and other religious groups whose faith allows for multiple wives, and for the larger debate about what limits, if any, the state can place on the guaranteed right to religious freedom.
  I’d like to report on what arguments are going to be made, what remedies are being sought and what
  
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• Barred owls being spotted more often in downtown Vancouver - CTV News

  10-12-2017 22:36
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  Barred owls being spotted more often in downtown Vancouver
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  VANCOUVER -- A spike in owl sightings in downtown Vancouver could be good news for ridding the city of pesky rodents, a wildlife group says, but there's a downside for the birds. Photos of barred owls sitting outside transit stations and on building ...and more »
  
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• Green Leader Andrew Weaver suggests recall campaign of NDP energy minister if Site C approved

  10-12-2017 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  The battle over the Site C dam marks the biggest policy split yet between the NDP and the Greens, whose backing allowed the New Democrats to form government.
  
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• Green Leader Andrew Weaver recall campaign of NDP energy minister if Site C approved

  10-12-2017 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  The battle over the Site C dam marks the biggest policy split yet between the NDP and the Greens, whose backing allowed the New Democrats to form government.
  
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• Report makes 25 recommendations for new B.C. Human Rights Commission

  10-12-2017 22:25 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. has been without a human rights commission since the former BC Liberal government scrapped it 15 years ago.
  
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• Daughter condemns $2,000 extra for mom's memorial park bench in Sooke

  10-12-2017 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  The mayor of Sooke says that she hopes to take “corrective action” on Monday about a letter requesting $2,000 for a memorial bench that had been paid for more than decade ago.
  Mayor Maja Tait said what is in effect a retroactive bill for the bench remembering Brandy Rittaler’s mother doesn’t appear fair.
  Eleven years ago, $1,600 was raised by the community for the memorial bench for Rittaler’s mother Judy Jamieson, who was known and loved in Sooke for her volunteeri
  
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• BC Appeal Court dismisses appeal from Rashida Samji

  10-12-2017 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by former notary Rashida Samji to throw out her criminal conviction for fraud relating to a $110-million Ponzi scheme that resulted in a six-year sentence.
  Samji launched her appeal on the basis that she should not face jail time when she has already been fined $33 million by the B.C. Securities Commission.
  However, in a decision released earlier this month, the Court of Appeal ruled that while the commission had issued a substantial administrative pe
  
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• Canada puts in outstanding shift at Cape Town 7s to finish 4th

  10-12-2017 21:30 via theprovince.com
  To get near the top of rugby sevens, you need to be consistent in everything you do.
  To get to the top, sometimes you just need a little luck.
  This weekend in Cape Town, Canada’s men’s sevens squad showed just how far they’ve progressed under Damian McGrath, making their fourth semi final of 2017.
  But the end result was a reminder of that second thing, how luck can play a huge role in achieving ultimate glory.
  “Small margins” was how Canadian captain Harry Jones sum
  
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• ‘He’s just in constant pain’: Sooke mom’s desperate plea for son’s drug coverage

  10-12-2017 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  "I simply don’t have $19,000 per month for medication, but please tell me; what Canadian does?"
  
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• Man missing after Cumberland fire destroys three houses

  10-12-2017 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  The fire moved so quickly that two homes were already engulfed in flames and had spread to a third house by the time crews arrived shortly after 3 a.m.
  
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• Video shows cabbie refusing to drive a fare from Vancouver to New Westminster

  10-12-2017 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  A cab driver is suspended and fined after refusing to drive a fare from Vancouver to New Westminster. The passenger gets a strong response when he posts the video on social media.
  
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• Sven Baertschi flying home after taking puck to the face

  10-12-2017 20:29 via theprovince.com
  Sven Baertschi is leaving the Canucks’ road trip and returning to Vancouver to be evaluated by the team’s medical staff.
  The Swiss winger took a puck directly to the face partway through Saturday night’s 4-2 loss to the Flames in Calgary.
  Baertschi gets hit by the puck after it bounces off the glass, took him out of the game pic.twitter.com/v2ZxLL4Zkn
  — Wyatt Arndt (@TheStanchion) December 10, 2017Given the velocity and location of where he was hit, Baertschi could have b
  
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• Opinion: Reflecting on 60th anniversary of Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize

  10-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  As Canada looks to reclaim a prominent role in peacekeeping, we can look to the example of Lester B. Pearson, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway 60 years ago this month. 
  Pearson was awarded the 1957 Nobel for his contribution in defusing the Suez Canal crisis. In his capacity then as Canada’s Minister of External Affairs and Representative to the United Nations (UN), he initiated a resolution for the establishment of the UN Emergency Force — the first large-scal
  
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• 5 things to do in Metro Vancouver: Dec. 15 to 21: VanDusen Festival of Lights, Dálava - Vancouver Sun

  10-12-2017 20:00
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  5 things to do in Metro Vancouver: Dec. 15 to 21: VanDusen Festival of Lights, Dálava
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  Well there's no place like VanDusen for the holidays. Whether it's Halloween or the winter season, the garden grounds look spectacular decked out in thousands of lights. Over 15 acres of the park will be lit up for the 33rd annual event. As ever, there ...and more »
  
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• 5 things to do in Metro Vancouver: Dec. 15 to 21: VanDusen Festival of Lights, Dálava

  10-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  VanDusen Festival of Lights
  Until Jan. 7, various times | VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak
  Tickets and info: vandusenfestivaloflights.ca
  Well there’s no place like VanDusen for the holidays. Whether it’s Halloween or the winter season, the garden grounds look spectacular decked out in thousands of lights. Over 15 acres of the park will be lit up for the 33rd annual event. As ever, there will be live indoor and outdoor entertainment, the Dancing Lights Show on Livingstone Lake, sel
  
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• Vancouver taxi driver refuses to drive man home because New Westminster is 'too far' - Globalnews.ca

  10-12-2017 19:55
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  Vancouver taxi driver refuses to drive man home because New Westminster is 'too far'
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  WATCH: A cab driver has been suspended and fined after refusing to drive a fare from Vancouver to New Westminster. The passenger gets a strong response when he posts the video on social media. X. - A A +. Listen. A video of a Vancouver Yellow Cab ...
  Taxi driver suspended after refusing to drive customer homeCTV Newsall 3 news articles »
  
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• Delta farm workers OK, out of hospital after carbon monoxide scare

  10-12-2017 19:52 via vancouversun.com
  After being on “pins and needles” throughout the night, the co-owner of Delta’s Windset Farms is relieved that 42 employees who were exposed to carbon monoxide in a greenhouse are healthy and out of the hospital.
  John Newell said the last two employees to be treated were released from local hospitals at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
  The employees were cleaning the greenhouses using power washers with combustible engines on Saturday when some workers complained after feeling light-headed an
  
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• Poor ventilation at B.C. greenhouse blamed for carbon monoxide exposure

  10-12-2017 19:34
  Workers were inside a greenhouse while a gas-powered pressure washer was running without adequate ventilation, said fire battalion chief Neil Shuster. Approximately 43 people required treatment on site.
  
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• Giants’ Ronning pots pair of goals, keeping him ahead of Kane’s pace in bid for franchise record

  10-12-2017 19:34 via theprovince.com
  December 9 Vancouver Giants vs Kootenay Ice Highlights: https://t.co/IAGsiOFFj9 via @YouTube
  — Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) December 10, 2017With his two goals Saturday night, Ty Ronning is three ahead of Evander Kane’s pace when Kane set the Vancouver Giants’ single-season team record.
  Ronning’s pair in the Giants’ 4-3 come-from-behind overtime win against the Kootenay Ice at the Langley Events Centre put the New York Rangers’ seventh-round draft pick in 201
  
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• Whitecaps add Kei Kamara

  10-12-2017 18:19 via theprovince.com
  The Whitecaps continue to re-shape their attacking lineup for 2018: they’ve have made their second big move of the off-season, bringing in another powerful striker in Kei Kamara.
  Kamara had been playing for the New England Revolution for the past two seasons.
  The signing had been rumoured for a few days; Sunday was the opening of the Major League Soccer trade window.
  Hello Vancouver pic.twitter.com/3moNIStTuY
  — KEI KAMARA (@keikamara) December 10, 2017Signing Kamara fits well with ho
  
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• Jenna Wong and Robyn Tamblyn: It’s time we fixed our system of drug surveillance

  10-12-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  If you take prescription medications, what conditions do you take them for? Are they working for you? Have you experienced any negative side-effects from them?
  It may surprise you to know that answers to these critical health questions aren’t well-documented for most Canadians. Yet the answers would provide the crucial information needed to ensure our medications are safe and worth taking after they’ve been approved for use.
  Before prescription drugs are approved in Canada, they&rsqu
  
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• 30 years ago, this Vancouver doctor pioneered use of Botox for cosmetic purposes - CBC.ca

  10-12-2017 17:00
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  30 years ago, this Vancouver doctor pioneered use of Botox for cosmetic purposes
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  Cathy Swann was around 30 years old and working as a medical receptionist when she first started getting Botox to treat a deep wrinkle between her eyebrows. "It was a little daunting watching the needle coming to your forehead between your eyes," Swann ...and more »
  
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• Retired hairdresser puts down scissors in exchange for sculpting tools

  10-12-2017 16:00
  
  An internationally renowned Vancouver hair dresser has taken his talent for creating sophisticated styles and transferred it to building sensational sculptures.
  
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• One person in hospital after stabbing in Surrey

  10-12-2017 13:54 via globalnews.ca
  The victim was seriously hurt, but his injuries are not life-threatening.
  
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• Calgary Flames singe Vancouver Canucks on the road

  10-12-2017 13:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Calgary Flames came from behind to burn Vancouver 4-2 Saturday night.
  
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• The Provies: Tommy Spun, How to please the Flow, and Radio Wars Reckoning Day

  10-12-2017 09:18 via theprovince.com
  BEST SPIN
  When it was over, Henrik would call it a good game.
  And maybe, all things considered, it was.
  No Horvat. No Baertschi. And no offence. At least, none from the veterans.
  The Canucks were still a few minutes away from getting it to overtime, and that’s with three lines centred by Nic Dowd, Sam Gagner and Michael Chaput.
  I’m unsure how many games a team would win over 82 with that trio at centre, but I’m going to guess the answer isn’t 50.
  Maybe not 30.
  So if you&r
  
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• Dozens Exposed to Carbon Monoxide at Delta Greenhouse

  10-12-2017 08:20 via globalnews.ca
  Over 40 people taken to hospital after being exposed to carbon monoxide at a Delta farm. Geoff Hastings has an update from Royal Colombian Hospital where some of the victims were taken.
  
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• Flames 4, Canucks 2: What we learned

  10-12-2017 07:10 via theprovince.com
  CALGARY — The Vancouver Canucks were had game, just not enough of it.
  Turns out Brock Boeser and Jake Virtanen aren’t enough to win a hockey game.
  Both played well and scored. But the Canucks had no other offence in a 4-2 loss to the Flames.
  This is what we learned …
  CANUCKS MAKE MOST OF RAG-TAG LINEUP
  It sure didn’t look good on paper.
  After Henrik Sedin, Vancouver head coach Travis Green’s centres were Sam Gagner, Michael Chaput and Nic Dowd.
  What chance did they
  
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• Dozens in hospital after exposure to carbon monoxide at Delta, B.C., farm

  10-12-2017 07:04
  BC Emergency Health Services says 13 ambulances responded to "a major incident," and that 42 patients were admitted to hospital —with 10 in serious to critical condition.
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Paying it forward for liver, autism funding

  10-12-2017 07:00 via theprovince.com
  LIVE RIGHT GALA
  It was a record-setting night for the Live Right Gala.
  The 14th edition, presented by Scotiabank, would see its largest turnout of guests help raise $890,000 for the Canadian Liver Foundation. The marquee fundraiser for the B.C. and Yukon chapter, 650 supporters showed up to help the foundation get closer to achieving its mission of a world without liver disease.
  Yours truly, along with Robin Gill, reporter and anchor for Global National, fronted the posh party at the historic Ho
  
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• 42 hospitalized due to carbon monoxide exposure at Delta farm

  10-12-2017 06:26 via vancouversun.com
  More than 40 people have been transported to hospital after carbon monoxide exposure at a greenhouse farm in Delta.
  The incident took place at Windset Farms on 41 B St., where a number of people became ill while pressure washing inside a nursery, according to reports. Police believe poor ventilation may have caused a carbon monoxide build-up. When inhaled, carbon monoxide can interfere with the blood’s ability to absorb and transport oxygen. 
  File photo: An aerial view of a 45-ac
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Dec 9

  10-12-2017 05:33 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 for Saturday, December 9, 2017. For the latest news and video, go to globalnews.ca/bc.
  
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• Carbon monoxide exposure at farm in Delta, B.C., sends over 40 people to hospital

  10-12-2017 05:28 via globalnews.ca
  Forty-two people were transported to hospital - 10 in serious-to-critical condition - after a carbon monoxide exposure in Delta, B.C. Saturday. 
  
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• 42 hospitalized after carbon monoxide poisoning at Delta farm

  10-12-2017 05:04 via vancouversun.com
  More than 40 people have been transported to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after an incident at a greenhouse farm in Delta.
  According to B.C. Emergency Health Services, the incident required a major response, as 13 ambulances were called to the scene to provide care to the 42 people affected by the incident.
  Ten people are in serious to critical condition, they said. 32 are in stable condition.
  Update: major incident in Delta was at a farm where there was exposure to carbon m
  
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• Tearful homecoming for Pitt Meadows mom

  10-12-2017 04:43 via globalnews.ca
  A Pitt Meadows mom who lost both hands and feet to disease, is finally well enough to go home. Julia Foy has more on this incredible story of hope and survival.
  
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• New rules for B.C. renters

  10-12-2017 04:43 via globalnews.ca
  The province has announced new measures to stop the huge rent hikes seen in markets where vacancy rates are near zero. Nadia Stewart has the full story.
  
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• Edmonton places temporary ban on fighting events after a tragic death

  10-12-2017 04:43 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Abbotsford Police thankful for support

  10-12-2017 04:40 via globalnews.ca
  A community appreciation event was held today to thank everyone for their support in wake of one of the darkest times for Abbotsford Police members. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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• Union Gospel Mission dishes up 3,000 meals for annual Christmas dinner

  10-12-2017 03:17 via globalnews.ca
  Staff and volunteers plated up about 2,200 pounds of turkey, along with 800 pounds each of mashed potatoes and stuffing, topped with about 300 litres of gravy. 
  
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• UGM feeds body and soul at 77th annual Vancouver Christmas dinner

  10-12-2017 03:06 via vancouversun.com
  The Union Gospel Mission’s annual Christmas dinner serves thousands of meals each year. But it also serves to connect with those in need, giving them a familiar place to return when they’re ready to seek help.
  Richard Lamarche, 41, entered UGM’s alcohol and drug recovery program after homelessness and despair led him to attempt suicide during Christmas of 2015. 
  “It was relief almost instantly,” said Richard of the decision to get clean. “There was a
  
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• Smartphone pedometers underestimate steps, but valuable health tool: study

  10-12-2017 02:54 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A recent study looking at iPhone’s built-in pedometers as a step toward using the tool as a clinical intervention in improving people’s health, a University of B.C. researcher said.
  Smartphones pose an opportunity for researchers to gather objective data on the public’s health and physical activity but before they can be used, the accuracy of the devices need to be tested, lead author Mark Duncan said in an interview Saturday.
  “This was very much a first
  
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• Ed Willes: Has Russia finally exhausted our ability to be outraged?

  10-12-2017 02:03 via theprovince.com
  Given the familiar sound bytes coming out of the IOC, it’s hard to work up the necessary outrage over the decision to ban, sort of, the Russian Olympic Committee from the upcoming Winter Olympics.
  Russia got caught cheating. There’s a surprise. A bunch of their athletes were doped to the gills in Sochi. Another shocker. As a result, commissions were struck, sanctions were passed, stern warnings were issued and wrists were slapped.
  So why is it any different this time? In light of so
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – Dec. 9

  10-12-2017 01:59 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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• VIDEO: Taxi driver refuses to drive man home because New Westminster is ‘too far’

  10-12-2017 01:52 via globalnews.ca
  "I've been told flat out so many times before I even get in the cab that no, no, no that's too far."
  
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• Some Grinch stole a 100-pound Grinch display from a Port Moody home

  10-12-2017 01:51 via globalnews.ca
  She said "it's truly ironic" that a Grinch stole her Grinch, but did say that if thief has a change of heart, she'd be willing to take it back no questions asked.
  
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• Rudolph the red-nosed TransLink bus shines a light in #fogcouver

  10-12-2017 01:49 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s fog advisory has lifted, even if the fog hasn’t. Patches of fog are expected to persist through the weekend, but nothing close to the heavy blanket of low cloud that turned Vancouver into #fogcouver on Friday. 
  Still, drivers are encouraged to be prepared for areas of near-zero visibility. It might even be wise to leave the car at home and take transit, since TransLink has a bus and shuttle for this exact scenario.
  Like the Rudolph of song, TransLink’s sp
  
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• ART SEEN: John Patkau's sculptures find the curving forms within straight steel

  10-12-2017 01:17 via vancouversun.com
  At first glance, you might think that John Patkau’s sculptures at Gallery Jones were made by pounding them into shape or heating and then bending them. After all, they’re made of thick, hard steel. How else could you create those beautiful curves?
  They’re neither pounded nor heated. They’re pulled.
  Subjected to tremendous force that’s to the point of failure of steel, the plates start changing shape and curving. The moment of transformation from flat sheet to biomor
  
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• B.C. Lions hunting for new offensive coordinator but Buono isn’t sure when one will be in place

  10-12-2017 00:50 via theprovince.com
  Wally Buono didn’t have a schedule Saturday for when the B.C. Lions will start adding assistant coaches for next season.
  The Lions had announced earlier in the day that offensive coordinator Khari Jones, specials teams coordinator Marcello Simmons and defensive line coach Robin Ross would not return in 2018. That confirmed an early report from TSN’s Farhan Lalji.
  The Lions missed this playoffs this season for the first time since 1996, finishing last in the West Division with a 7-11
  
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