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• A man allegedly groped a teen girl in the woods near Langley’s Walnut Grove Secondary

  21-12-2017 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  The incident happened on Dec. 1. It was reported to police on Dec. 12.
  
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• 5 things to do for Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017

  21-12-2017 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do for Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Thursday Dec 21, 2017

  21-12-2017 22:52 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday Dec 21, 2017
  
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• For months, she said he followed her, before he tried to grope her on public transit

  21-12-2017 22:51 via globalnews.ca
  Transit Police arrested him after they viewed surveillance footage.
  
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• Vancouver’s Brittany Waters retires after distinguished 16-year rugby career

  21-12-2017 22:29 via theprovince.com
  Brittany Waters flew home from the 2010 Women’s Rugby World Cup in England to present the final project in her master’s degree in occupational therapy at the University of British Columbia.
  Then she jetted back to the tournament.
  “I was literally home for four hours,” Waters recalled. “I was happy that I could get back to the (World Cup) games as soon as possible. It was definitely hard on the body — the flight.
  “But at that time it was what I had to do
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: 2017 will go down as the year that wasn’t

  21-12-2017 22:27 via theprovince.com
  After knocking out Eddie Alvarez to become the first dual-weight world champion in UFC history on Nov. 12, 2016, Conor McGregor announced his plans to take parental leave and set his price for returning to the Octagon at nothing short of a stake in the company.
  Six weeks later, Ronda Rousey’s triumphant return turned into another display of the superstar’s shortcomings in the cage as Amanda Nunes handed the former champion a hellacious beating that will likely stand as her final appe
  
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• Housing society starts fundraising page for East Vancouver fire victims

  21-12-2017 22:17
  Around 40 tenants had to leave their homes yesterday after their building sustained extensive fire damage.
  
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• Transit police arrest man for harassing woman on SkyTrain

  21-12-2017 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  A 64-year-old man, accused of stalking a young woman on Vancouver buses and SkyTrains, has been arrested by Metro Vancouver Transit Police.
  Transit police say a 21-year-old Vancouver woman told patrol officers on Monday that an unknown man had been following and harassing her for several months.
  The woman regularly encountered the man on her commute to and from work. She said his behaviour included making inappropriate sexual remarks and gestures.
  “It’s a form of stalking &helli
  
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• Staying healthy on a flight

  21-12-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  Travel expert Claire Newell with travel tips for germaphobes.
  
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• Kelowna man charged with murdering wife, two young daughters

  21-12-2017 21:46 via vancouversun.com
  A Kelowna man has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with deaths of his wife and two young daughters.
  The bodies of Clara Soledad Forman and her daughters, Karina Anne, eight, and Yesenia Kate, seven, were found in their home on Dec. 19.
  Jacob Daniel Forman, born in 1983, was arrested a short time later. He made his first court appearance on Wednesday, during which he was ordered to stay in custody, and is due to make another in B.C. provincial court in Kelowna
  
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• Ed Willes: Vancouver Canucks players open up on their favourite Christmas presents

  21-12-2017 21:43 via theprovince.com
  This project was initially undertaken on Dec. 24, 1999 and the first respondents included Murray Baron, Bill Muckalt, Marc Crawford and, we’re proud to report, Zenith Komarniski.
  The second attempt came a decade later in December of 2010 and featured Jeff Tambellini, Henrik Sedin, Keith Ballard and the always festive Ryan Kesler.
  Seven years later, we now present a new generation of Canucks to tell the stories of their favourite Christmas presents. It’s an eclectic, seemingly dispara
  
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• Woman allegedly assaulted by Nanaimo taxi driver, RCMP investigating

  21-12-2017 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  "She was traumatized, she was scared, but she reacted, she fought back and she removed herself from a very dangerous situation."
  
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• The Dog Lover Unit

  21-12-2017 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  ‘The Dog Lover Unit’ author Rachel Rose is joined by RCMP Cpl. Michelle Onysko to explain the history of police canine units.
  
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• Surrey RCMP investigating alleged assault on student

  21-12-2017 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Surrey RCMP’s Special Victim Unit has been called in and will be canvassing the neighbourhood for any potential witnesses or surveillance video. 
  
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• Mark Washington to return as the B.C. Lions defensive co-ordinator

  21-12-2017 21:16 via theprovince.com
  Mark Washington will return for a fifth season as the B.C. Lions’ defensive co-ordinator.
  The Lions also announced Friday the addition of Randy Melvin as defensive line coach.
  Washington, also the Lions’ defensive backs coach, is entering his 11th season on the club’s coaching staff.
  “Among the reasons why I wanted Mark back are his leadership and work ethic,” head coach Wally Buono said in a statement. “The stability and continuity that Mark brings will allow
  
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• BUSINESS REPORT: The negative effect of U.S. tax cuts

  21-12-2017 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  The question is whether or not Canadian policymakers will have to react by changing Canadian tax laws.
  
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• Remembering Christine: These are who Lights of Hope shine for

  21-12-2017 21:00
  
  Christine Chuk was killed in a car accident. Her colleagues at St. Paul's Hospital raised $20,000 to put a gold star in her memory on annual lights display.
  
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• Citizenship judge highlights Christmas to new Canadians

  21-12-2017 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  A Metro Vancouver citizenship court judge is applauded every time he tells newcomers about Santa Claus and the inter-faith meaning of Christmas in Canada.
  Gerald Pash, who presided over six ceremonies for 360 new citizens this week in Surrey, responds to the season by offering new citizens warm, inspiring comments about the value of Christmas for all.
  “I have used the same words for the past three years for the ceremonies in advance of Christmas.  The new Canadians applaud every time,
  
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• Busiest travel days of the season today and tomorrow

  21-12-2017 20:47
  
  Dec. 21 and 22 are expected to be the busiest travel days of the holiday season at YVR.
  
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• Supreme Court upholds dangerous offender provisions in Criminal Code based on Vancouver case

  21-12-2017 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the constitutionality of Criminal Code provisions for declaring someone a dangerous offender who can be held indefinitely.
  The 8-1 high court ruling came Thursday in the case of Donald Joseph Boutilier, who was branded a dangerous offender and sentenced to an indeterminate prison term.
  Boutilier had pleaded guilty to six offences arising out of an armed robbery of a drug store and subsequent car chase in Vancouver seven years ago. A drug ad
  
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• Woman faces charges in drug-related crash in Abbotsford

  21-12-2017 20:13 via globalnews.ca
  While the male passenger was arrested without incident, the woman driver was quite combative and had to be taken down and handcuffed by police.
  
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• Adopt-A-School: Sidoo family steps up for Maple Ridge Secondary

  21-12-2017 19:56 via vancouversun.com
  When Jordan Sidoo was 14 years old he would sell pen and pencil sets to his friends to raise money for The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign.
  Seven years later he’s a director of the Sidoo family’s charitable foundation with his brother Dylan, 24.
  And on Wednesday the brothers wrote a $15,000 cheque to AAS to be used to feed lunch to students attending Maple Ridge Secondary.
  Earlier this week The Sun ran a story on the problems the school was having feeding
  
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• Metro Vancouver housing prices to rise in 2018

  21-12-2017 19:15
  
  Home sales activity will slow but prices are expected to rise next year, according to the BC Real Estate Association.
  
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• Vancouver police nab four more in break-and-enter sting

  21-12-2017 18:46 via vancouversun.com
  An ongoing Vancouver police investigation into a series of residential break-ins in South Vancouver has led to four more people being charged with break and enter offences.
  The VPD began Project Lookout in early November after several residents reported their homes were ransacked and personal items were stolen.
  “It appears that suspects were circling neighbourhoods looking for potential targets. They would knock on the door, and when no one answered, they forced entry,” VPD Cst. Jaso
  
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• Citizenship judge explains Christmas meaning to new Canadians

  21-12-2017 18:37 via vancouversun.com
  A Metro Vancouver citizenship court judge is applauded every time he tells newcomers about Santa Claus and the inter-faith meaning of Christmas in Canada.
  Gerald Pash, who presided over six ceremonies for 360 new citizens this week in Surrey, responds to the season by offering new citizens warm, inspiring comments about the value of Christmas for all.
  “I have used the same words for the past three years for the ceremonies in advance of Christmas.  The new Canadians applaud every time,
  
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• Light snow expected for B.C. south coast Thursday

  21-12-2017 18:23 via globalnews.ca
  Winter officially began at 8:28 a.m. Thursday.
  
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• Restaurant review: JD Farms Bistro goes big on turkey

  21-12-2017 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  JD Farms Bistro
  24726 52 Ave., Langley | 604-856-2431
  Open: Monday-Saturday (9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.); Sunday (10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.); jdfarms.ca
  If you’ve ever wondered if there are more than 100 different ways to enjoy turkey, there are. And JD Farms proves it.
  “Everything that we sell here is made with turkey,” says Marilyn Morgan, who runs the Langley-based farm with her brother, Jason Froese.
  “We make over 130 products using turkey, from sausages,
  
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• How to Save Money on Flights

  21-12-2017 17:48 via globalnews.ca
  Travel expert Claire Newell explains how to save when booking airfare.
  
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• How to brine a turkey

  21-12-2017 17:46 via vancouversun.com
  I have settled on my approach to roasting turkey over many years, at first watching my father, then as a professional cook and finally in consultation with a number of chefs in Vancouver’s finest kitchens. (If you are impatient, the recipes are at the bottom of this post.)
  Cooks fall into two main camps: Those who aspire to tender juicy turkey by attacking the problem from the outside – basters and fat-strappers – and those who address the issue from the inside – the
  
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• Chance of snow could make for a white Christmas in Vancouver

  21-12-2017 17:42 via vancouversun.com
  Environment Canada has good news for those dreaming of a white Christmas.
  The weather agency’s extended forecast says there is a 60 per cent chance that snow will fall on Christmas Eve Sunday and 40 per cent chance of snow flurries for Christmas Day.
  The mercury is also expected to drop down to a chilly minus 5 C on Monday.
  Today’s forecast is also calling for snow. Environment Canada says there is a 70 per cent chance  of flurries or rain showers tonight.
  
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• Giving Back: St. Paul’s Hospital staff in Guatemala

  21-12-2017 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  A team of medical volunteers from BC with the organization “Health 4 Humanity” travel to South America, performing hundreds of much-needed surgeries there.
  
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• YVR braces for busy travel day

  21-12-2017 17:31 via globalnews.ca
  Thursday is expected to be one of the busiest days of the season at Vancouver International Airport. Jordan Armstrong reports.
  
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• Vancouver airport prepares for busiest time of the year

  21-12-2017 17:31 via globalnews.ca
  Basically, if you are travelling today or over the next few days, give yourself plenty of time for a stress-free journey.
  
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• B.C. engineer develops scanner to diagnose eye diseases early and save vision

  21-12-2017 17:28 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia engineering science professor has developed a high-resolution scanner that he says will revolutionize how eye diseases are diagnosed to prevent vision loss.
  Prof. Marinko Sarunic of Simon Fraser University said doctors currently use low-resolution scanners that can assess the cause of patients’ dead retina cells.
  “Because the resolution is low, they don’t detect small changes, they detect big changes,” he said. “What we want is t
  
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• Man faces three murder charges following deaths near Kelowna

  21-12-2017 17:07 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA — A man in his 30s appears in a British Columbia courtroom this afternoon charged with three counts of murder.
  Court documents show Jacob Forman, born in 1983, made his first appearance before a judge on Wednesday.
  He is facing three counts of murder and the documents say the slayings occurred Dec. 17.
  Kelowna RCMP have released few details, but confirm they are investigating three suspicious deaths at a home in the city’s Rutland neighbourhood.
  “We are not releasing an
  
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• B.C. opioid prescribing under scrutiny as doctor rules reviewed

  21-12-2017 17:00
  Concerns raised amidst worsening overdose crisis, as data obtained by Metro reveals conundrum facing physicians.
  
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• Month of Giving Back – One to One

  21-12-2017 16:44 via globalnews.ca
  As part of our Month of Giving Back we take a look at literacy and a program that helps people struggling with reading. Volunteer Tutor Elaine Hung and past reader Matthew Stevenson explain the One to One program.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you plan on travelling over the holidays?

  21-12-2017 16:19 via vancouversun.com
  Today is the busiest travel day of the holiday season.
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  Get there early: Thursday to be YVR's busiest day of the yearVancouver International Airport, which serve up to 83,000 passengers per day during the holiday season, says Dec. 21 is expected to be the airport’s busiest day of what has been a record year at YVR.
  “We anticipate our busiest days to be when school gets out and the week after Christmas,” YVR spokeswoman Andrea Pham told The Canadian Press.
  WestJet said it
  
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• Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future pay mayor a visit

  21-12-2017 16:00
  
  It was Christmas Eve at 12th and Cambie, and the lights were dimmed and thermostat turned low.
  
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• Ethics Violation: Opposition wants harsher punishment for Trudeau

  21-12-2017 15:11 via globalnews.ca
  Global National’s David Akin on the reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s conflict of interest breach.
  
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• Contact Winter Music Festival heats up B.C. Place

  21-12-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Contact Winter Music Festival
  Dec. 26, 27, multiple dates and times | B.C. Place
  Tickets and info: From $175 at Ticketmaster.ca
  The two day long Contact Winter Music Festival couldn’t arrive at a better time. EDM fans are cold and hungry for a grand dance music spectacle as memories of the Summer season’s events have long ago faded away.
  Massive bass bins booming throughout B.C. Place accompanied by a giant light show is exactly what Dr. Feelgood prescribed to loose the Winter blahs.
  
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• 7 things to do this week in the Lower Mainland: Dec. 22 – 28: Cirque du Soleil, Early Music Vancouver, The Nutcracker and more

  21-12-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cirque du Soleil: Kurios — Cabinet of Curiosities
  Until Dec. 31, various times | Concord Pacific Place
  Tickets and info: From $49 at tickets.cirquedusoleil.com
  Quite simply, this is one of the best shows to come out of the creative minds in Montreal behind the Cirque du Soleil global brand. Set in a very alternate universe with a heavy steampunk theme, the sets, the performances and the music are all top-tier. Even the acts that might seem familiar, such as the balancing chairs routine, ar
  
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• Canucks’ Game Day: Hoping to prosper in tonight’s Shark Trek

  21-12-2017 14:00 via theprovince.com
  The Canucks have one more road dance before the Christmas break, as they head to San Jose to face the Sharks (7:30 p.m., Sportsnet Pacific, Sportsnet 650 AM):Brent Burns vs. Brock Boeser
  The Sharks’ superstar blue-liner has four goals and four assists over his last five games. The Canucks’ super-rookie has three goals in five games — and might have more but for that shot block on Sunday night that most figured would put him on the shelf.
  The Canucks’ defensive play showed
  
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• Youth in detention get another 'mom' for Christmas

  21-12-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  In 1982, the first year Evelyn Florendo volunteered to cook Christmas dinner for kids in custody at the Burnaby Youth Detention Centre, one girl in particular caught her attention.
  “She was only 15. She was very busy, working so hard, helping me, serving the food, cleaning up the food,” said Florendo, now 81. Florendo asked a guard for the girl’s name, and approached her at the end of the dinner. “I said, whatever leftovers you want, you can take them to your room.”
  
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• B.C.'s top slot machine players rake in millions in jackpots, review shows

  21-12-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A review of gamblers placing massive bets in B.C. Lottery Corp. casino slot machines has raised concerns about the “effectiveness and/or existence of controls to monitor slots for money laundering,” documents obtained by Postmedia News show.
  Documents say a B.C. gaming policy and enforcement branch review of BCLC slot machine play was triggered by the 2016 B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office case against Michael Mancini, a Salmon Arm landscaper.
  The case alleged that Mancini — who cla
  
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• His face when he revealed one of Surrey’s most wanted was crashing in his basement

  21-12-2017 07:58 via globalnews.ca
  He had been captured by police. But then he came back.
  
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• Foreign buyers ‘not the problem’ in Canada, says CEO of Chinese overseas real estate portal

  21-12-2017 07:24 via globalnews.ca
  Foreign buyers are "just a straw man for a country that refuses to recognize that cheap credit for local investors is the real reason prices are rising," she said.
  
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• In limbo: Here’s what happened with TAM and David Ousted’s contract

  21-12-2017 07:14 via theprovince.com
  You remember last week, when David Ousted reminded us how confusing, sometimes downright frustrating, Major League Soccer contract rules can be?
  So ridiculous, you may feel like kicking a garbage can across the floor?
  Well, buckle up. I can explain.
  The former Whitecaps keeper, you’ll recall, tweeted with great frustration last Friday about how his contract option was preventing teams from trading for him.
  1. Due to «blacklist of players» TAM rules in MLS, I have not been able
  
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• Death of young beaver in Port Moody draws call for investigation

  21-12-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  The drowning of a young beaver in a Port Moody sewer last weekend is drawing calls for an investigation by a local wildlife group.
  According to a media release from the City of Port Moody, last Friday a city crew was “working to safely remove a beaver family, along with their den and food cache, from a city storm sewer pipe in Pigeon Creek, to prevent a potential blockage that could cause flooding and damage to property in and around Port Moody’s Klahanie neighbourhood.”
  During
  
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• Baby beaver killed in attempt to clear Port Moody storm drain

  21-12-2017 06:46 via globalnews.ca
  "This is a really unfortunate event that everyone who was involved with is deeply saddened by."
  
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