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• Candlelight vigil planned for Oak Bay sisters found dead on Christmas

  30-12-2017 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  The vigil will take place Saturday night at Willows Beach, not far from the apartment where the girls were discovered.
  
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• Mission pizza shop a haven in the storm

  30-12-2017 23:22 via vancouversun.com
  Through the ice-battered windshield, John Welsh could see a faint glow emanating from the only pizza shop open in Mission on Friday night.
  All around, the city was dark.
  “Like a scene from the Walking Dead,” he said Saturday, recalling the ice storm that blew through the city. “The stoplights were black — not even flashing. It was eerie.”
  After a detour around a fallen tree, Welsh and his cousin pulled up to Mission City Pizza. Inside, warmed by the pizza oven, doze
  
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• Kuzma: Nic Dowd better for tough love from former Kings coach

  30-12-2017 23:13 via theprovince.com
  Players are products of their environments and Nic Dowd is better for crossing hockey paths with the polarizing Darryl Sutter.
  The former Los Angeles Kings coach could be cold or warm — depending on the locale and the conversation — and Dowd was pushed to be better at both ends of the rink.
  If the Vancouver Canucks depth centre can harness the confidence gained in playing and surviving under Sutter and current Kings bench boss John Stevens — before being traded here for diminut
  
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• Fred Lee: Top parties and party-makers of 2017

  30-12-2017 23:01 via theprovince.com
  In the midst of plenty, the need to provide and help others remains high. And without hesitation, thousands annually step up, giving of their time, talent and treasure to help those in need and to build a better tomorrow for all. As we give thanks for their efforts and prepare to usher in a new year of hope and promise, here is another look back at this year’s top celebrations and those that dared to make a difference.
  MIRACLE CONCERT AND GALA
  This year’s top money-maker saw Victoria
  
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• UPDATE: Burnaby RCMP finds missing woman

  30-12-2017 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  Officers are asking for your help to find a woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and was last seen around 10:30 Saturday morning.
  
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• Saturday Chef: Breakfast sandwich

  30-12-2017 22:24 via globalnews.ca
  We are counting down to 2018 with Chef Bryan Satterford from Juke Fried Chicken. He’s hosting a special New Year’s Day event, where you can dive into a hearty breakfast.
  
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• Saturday Sips: Top bottles of bubbly for New Year’s eve

  30-12-2017 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Ring in 2018 with a bottle of bubbly. Earls Sommelier David Stansfield shares his top five picks at different price ranges.
  
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• Gardenworks: Fresh start for 2018

  30-12-2017 22:17 via globalnews.ca
  Does your home feel empty without holiday decorations? Try filling the void with this low maintenance project from the experts at Gardenworks
  
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• Open House: Asbestos warning

  30-12-2017 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  Dec. 30 – If your home was built before 1990, you could be at risk of having asbestos in your walls. This week in Open House, Kaitlyn Herbst explains what you need to know before you begin to renovate or demolish your house.
  
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• Vancouver's homicides rise in 2017, while Surrey reports decrease

  30-12-2017 21:43 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver recorded more homicides in 2017 than recent years, while Surrey reported fewer than its 10-year average.
  As of Friday, the City of Vancouver had registered 19 homicides in 2017, said Vancouver Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Robillard.
  That tally is about 40 per cent higher than Vancouver’s 10-year average of 13.4 homicides per year, according to VPD crime statistics. The last time Vancouver recorded 19 homicides in a single year was 2009. There were 20 homicides in 2
  
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• Coroner's Reports: The people behind the overdose crisis on Vancouver Island

  30-12-2017 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  A 30-something man told his wife he was going to meet friends for a few drinks just before midnight in the spring of 2016. She saw that he was a bit drunk, but didn’t worry until after 2 a.m., when he hadn’t returned.
  It’s not clear what led her outside, but she found her husband unconscious in the crawl space under their house. She also found used needles, lighters, spoons and small empty packets with white powder. He’d been in drug treatment before, but she didn’t
  
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• Canucks prospect Will Lockwood could miss rest of World Juniors

  30-12-2017 21:37 via theprovince.com
  The news isn’t good for USA forward Will Lockwood.
  The Canucks prospect got tangled up with a Canadian defenceman early in the third period of Friday’s 4-3 shootout win for the USA.
  He spun around, caught his leg on the left pad of Canada goalie Carter Hart and the fell awkwardly to the ice behind the net.
  He appeared to jar his left arm, which he had injured in the final pre-tournament game against the Czechs last weekend.
  ESPN’s Chris Peters reported it appeared to be a shoul
  
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• Snow warnings end but travel advisories remain for mountain passes

  30-12-2017 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  According to Environment Canada, as much as 30 centimetres of snow fell along some parts of the Coquihalla since Thursday.
  
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• IN PHOTOS: Storm transforms Fraser Valley into land of snow and ice

  30-12-2017 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  Heavy layers of ice have brought down trees and power lines.
  
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• Winter storm knocks out power in Fraser Valley; Highways to B.C. Interior now open

  30-12-2017 21:11 via vancouversun.com
  Friday’s hairy weather has wreaked havoc in the Fraser Valley, leaving many without power.
  Saturday morning, BC Hydro reports more than 27,000 customers between Langley and Hope are still without power after freezing rain, snow and ice caused damage to the region’s electrical infrastructure. (At one point on Friday, that total was more than 100,000.)BC Hydro says they’re making “steady progress” and have called crews in from around the province to assist.
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• Makeover: Going for a vintage, but modern look for New Year’s Eve

  30-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In this week’s tutorial, I’m showing you how to achieve a modern looking vintage hairstyle for New Year’s Eve, in a few easy steps.
  Step 1To start the style, you’ll want to spray the KMS — ThermaShape 2-in-1 Spray. This primes the hair for heat protection and provided up to 72 hours of hold.Step 2Next, you’ll want to take 2-inch sub-sections, starting from the part side, and wrap the hair around a 1.25 inch curling wand or curling iron. Be sure to curl the hai
  
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• Fraser Valley digs out from ice storm as downed power lines lead to outages, road closures

  30-12-2017 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  BC Hydro crews are working to restore power to thousands of customers.
  
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• Tens of thousands still without power after British Columbia ice storms

  30-12-2017 18:26
  BC Hydro says Mission and Abbotsford were the hardest hit communities.
  
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• Giants rally from Everett blowout loss by edging same Silvertips on their home turf

  30-12-2017 18:20 via theprovince.com
  Which Vancouver Giants team will fans at the Langley Events Centre get tonight against the Prince George Cougars?
  The one that was shellacked 11-0 by the Everett Silvertips at the LEC on Wednesday? Or the one that beat the Silvertips in Everett 2-1 on Friday?
  Vancouver rebounded from Wednesday’s epic loss, getting a 34-save effort from David Tendeck and goals from Dawson Holt and Tyler Benson on Friday against Everett (22-14-1-1). The Silvertips were missing star goalie Carter Hart (Team C
  
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• Stealth stumble in fourth quarter on road, fall to 0-3 to start NLL campaign

  30-12-2017 18:15 via theprovince.com
  With their 0-3 start, the Vancouver Stealth can use the fact that the Calgary Roughnecks made the 2015 National Lacrosse League playoffs after beginning the campaign 0-6 as a rallying cry.
  They know that story all too well, though. A Stealth collapse in the second half of the 18-game regular season played a role in Calgary advancing to the postseason.
  This Vancouver team will need to improve in various facets if it’s going to have a chance at catching anyone in front of them in the standin
  
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• Winter storm knocks out power in Fraser Valley, closes highways to B.C. Interior

  30-12-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Friday’s hairy weather has wreaked havoc in the Fraser Valley, leaving many without power.
  Saturday morning, BC Hydro reports nearly 37,000 customers between Surrey and Hope are without power after freezing rain, snow and ice caused damage to the region’s electrical infrastructure.
  The power outage situation in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley as of 7:45 a.m. Saturday.
  BC Hydro says they’re making “steady progress” and have called crews in from around the provin
  
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• iPhone pedometer is off the mark

  30-12-2017 16:00
  
  If your New Year’s resolution is to exercise more, don’t rely on your iPhone for perfectly accurate physical activity stats.
  
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• 2017: The Year in Quotes

  30-12-2017 16:00
  
  Courier reporters are a talkative bunch. Over the past year they talked with hundreds if not thousands of people in the community.
  
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• Looking homeward in 2018

  30-12-2017 15:36 via vancouversun.com
  It is with a combination of satisfaction and embarrassment that I offer my 2018 Metro Vancouver housing outlook.
  Satisfaction, since predictions made over the past 11 years came true in 2017. Most notable was the proposal to provide temporary housing for the homeless using relocatable modular housing. In Vancouver, a demonstration project was completed at Terminal and Main streets; thousands of units are now being planned throughout Metro and the province with financial support from the federal
  
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• North Van noteworthy for extensive renos

  30-12-2017 15:19 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  451 West 23rd Street, North Vancouver
  Type: Four-bedroom, three-bathroom detached
  Size: 2,305 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,253,000
  Listed for: $1,598,800
  Sold for: $1,598,800
  Sold on: Sept. 26
  Days on market: Six
  Listing agent: Devon Owen at Royal Pacific Realty
  Buyers agent: Jim Pilkington at ReMax Crest Realty
  The big sell: This 2,300-square-foot home in North Vancouver’s Central Lonsdale neighbourhood has undergone
  
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• The Home Front: Giving back with home decor

  30-12-2017 15:04 via vancouversun.com
  Conscientious home design is always worth a mention — and particularly at this time of year, with the blow-out sales and blown budgets. Vancouver designer Ami McKay of  PURE Design has just released a new pillow collection, PURE Pillows, which she created in collaboration with Syrian refugee and tailor Salma Mohammad, whose family McKay has helped sponsor through the Lions Bay charity It takes a village.
  “I’ve been collecting fabrics for years,” says McKay. “An
  
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• Canucks’ Game Day: Doughty, all the Kings’ men look to reign at Rogers

  30-12-2017 14:00 via theprovince.com
  The Los Angeles Kings, 3-2 overtime losers Thursday to the surprising Vegas Golden Knights, sport the third-best record in the NHL’s Western Conference. They’ll be in Vancouver tonight looking to spoil the Canucks’ plans to end 2017 on a winning note (7 p.m., Rogers Arena, CBC, SNET 650 AM):
  The Big Matchup
  Brock Boeser vs. Drew Doughty
  Boeser is having a remarkable rookie season and Doughty is having a bounce-back campaign. As a Calder Memorial Trophy contender, Boeser is adep
  
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• Wave Season’s perks may mean better deal picks for 2018

  30-12-2017 13:00 via theprovince.com
  Returning from a recent cruise, I sat in the busy terminal in Miami International Airport and decided it was time to answer some reader emails. Most were quite nice, but there were a handful that made me glad I don’t write about politics.I mean, this is cruising! Surely, this is supposed to be fun?
  The interesting thing is that I started out just like you: reading Ports and Bows in the newspaper every Saturday. One day, after years of taking cruises as my preferred vacation, I left my care
  
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• UPDATE: Surrey RCMP locate missing senior safe and sound

  30-12-2017 12:03 via globalnews.ca
  Police say Goldsmith stopped at a gas station near the highway in Chilliwack to ask for basic directions, which is unusual.
  
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• Surrey RCMP asking public’s help to find missing senior with vehicle

  30-12-2017 12:03 via globalnews.ca
  Police say Goldsmith stopped at a gas station near the highway in Chilliwack to ask for basic directions, which is unusual.
  
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• 2017: A look back at a crazy year in B.C. politics

  30-12-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — In the long, extraordinary, and at-times wacky history of B.C. politics, there has never been a year quite like 2017.
  The closest election in provincial history, followed by the first minority government since 1952, and then the first time in 114 years that an opposition party defeated a government on a confidence vote in the legislature and assumed power without having to go to a new election.
  It was a year that saw the office of the lieutenant-governor flex its little-used pow
  
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• Breaking down how four types of precipitation fell across B.C.’s south coast

  30-12-2017 07:43 via globalnews.ca
  The forecast has kept some British Columbians on their toes with the weather varying from city to city in the metro region.
  
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• Snowy roads make for tricky driving in Kelowna

  30-12-2017 07:27 via globalnews.ca
  A four vehicle crash may have been caused by icy conditions Friday afternoon in Kelowna. RCMP say two people were sent to hospital.
  
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• Kole Lind’s hat trick earns Kelowna Rockets win over Kamloops Blazers.

  30-12-2017 07:27 via globalnews.ca
  The Kelowna Rockets’ Kole Lind got his twentieth goal of the season Friday night, as well as a hat trick, to beat the Kamloops Blazers.
  
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• 14 flights canceled by wind, low clouds at YLW Friday

  30-12-2017 07:27 via globalnews.ca
  Heavy snow wasn’t the problem at the Kelowna International Airport as much as the low clouds Friday. YLW saw 14 flights canceled, leaving many travelers stranded for the New Year’s Eve long weekend.
  
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• Lions Bay woman devastated by “clear cut” on her property

  30-12-2017 05:15 via globalnews.ca
  Dispute erupts in Lions Bay after man cuts down numerous trees on his neighbours’ properties. Aaron McArthur has more on what the tree cutter describes as a “misunderstanding”.
  
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• Final preparations underway for what will be Vancouver’s biggest New Year’s party

  30-12-2017 05:15 via globalnews.ca
  Large crowds expected for New Year’s celebrations at the Vancouver Convention Centre. John Hua with what Vancouverites are planning and what you can expect to see at the big bash.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Dec 29

  30-12-2017 05:12 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, December 29, 2017.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Dec 29

  30-12-2017 05:12 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, December 29, 2017 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Sandwich Recall Expanded

  30-12-2017 05:05 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Editorial: Are we up to the challenge of keeping our resolutions?

  30-12-2017 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  History tells us that the Babylonians are probably responsible for the tradition of New Year’s resolutions, going back about 2,500 years with a custom to return borrowed farm equipment at the start of a new year, which began in March or April in the lunar calendar. 
  The Romans introduced the practice of giving gifts, and changed the date to January in honour of Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings and transitions, who could look forward and backward at the same time. The Christian C
  
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• More than a dozen people evacuated from homes in Mission amid ice storm

  30-12-2017 04:47 via globalnews.ca
  The evacuations were specific to individual homes, due to downed live wires, blown water mains and fallen trees.
  
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• Ice storm leaves thousands without power in Fraser Valley

  30-12-2017 04:39 via globalnews.ca
  Freezing Rain Warning in effect for Metro Vancouver while BC Hydro crews scramble to restore electricity to the Fraser Valley. Nadia Stewart has the latest from one of the hardest hit areas; Abbotsford.
  
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• With membership closed, BC Liberal leadership race enters home stretch

  30-12-2017 04:24 via globalnews.ca
  New membership signup is closed, as the BC Liberals begin the final battle over who will replace Christy Clark as leader.
  
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• Opinion: Vancouver in 2018: 10 New Year’s resolutions for reclaiming our city

  30-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  We adore Vancouver. But, for many of us, living here has become a daily battle. With affordability levels reaching unconscionable levels, we’re left wondering whether the City actually wants us here at all. Vancouver residents deserve better than the status quo politics at City Hall.
  With several candidates vying for one council seat during October’s byelection, it became clear how much Vision Vancouver’s misguided policies have angered various constituencies. As members of the
  
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• Opinion: Ten environmental success stories and indicators in 2017

  30-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Nature conservation and current issues, from climate change to protecting north Atlantic right whales, can seem overwhelming. However, there were some positive areas over the past year.
  Here are 10 stories from 2017 in Canada and around the world that show progress:
  1) Protected areas continues to grow
  Many countries are edging closer to international targets to protect 17 per cent of lands and inland waters by 2020. Globally, the amount of protected area has just reached 15 per cent, and in Can
  
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• Opinion: Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers

  30-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Most Canadians were stunned and dismayed to learn that the country’s leading grocer was caught up in a price-fixing scheme with bread-maker George Weston Ltd., which is owned by the same company.
  The scheme lasted from 2001-2015. As a result, Loblaw Companies Ltd. fired several people and gave $25 gift certificates to millions of Canadians who may have been affected.
  The Competition Bureau, in return, offered not to lay criminal charges. That’s a precious gift for a firm for whom ima
  
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• Opinion: Is getting a PhD worth it? Absolutely

  30-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The following was written in response to a recent column from Aly Kamadia entitled A PhD is not all it’s chalked up to be, published Saturday, Dec. 23.
  Recently, I received a big envelope in my mailbox which contained my PhD diploma. I had defended my thesis a few months ago. Looking back, the decision to pursue this diploma was the best choice I could have made, back in 2010. Not only have I doubled and almost tripled my salary in seven years, but I was able to obtain knowledge, skills an
  
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• Opinion: Canada about to lose its edge on taxation; PM must respond to Trump cuts

  30-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once famously quipped that living next to the U.S. “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant.”
  By this, he meant that developments in the U.S. often have an oversized effect on Canada. Canadians, like it or not, must always be mindful of what’s happening south of the border, and be flexible enough to respond.
  This is particularly true with our comparative standing on taxes. Unfortunately, Trudeau’s observation seems completely lo
  
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• Concern grows for homeless population as ice storm pounds Fraser Valley

  30-12-2017 02:49 via globalnews.ca
  "Their shelter is desperately inadequate in weather like this, I mean there's really no way to protect against this well, living outside."
  
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