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• Vancouver Island vet hospital issues warning about deadly dog disease

  05-01-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  The extremely contagious virus is spread through canine feces and without treatment dogs can die within three to four days.
  
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• Complaints hearing underway for transit officer who assaulted a UBC student in 2011

  05-01-2018 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  Video released in 2016 shows Diaz Rodriguez delivering 10 baton strikes to the victim’s head, neck and back – all over alleged fare evasion at the Rupert SkyTrain station.
  
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• B.C. woman who accused ex-husband of abusing their children says appeal court interfered with trial process

  05-01-2018 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  The lawyer for a woman who has accused her ex-husband of abusing their four children, is defending a so-called "expert" whose credentials were panned by B.C.'s top court.
  
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• This Vancouver penthouse might be most expensive condo in Canada

  05-01-2018 23:09
  
  Penthouse 2 at Fairmont Pacific Rim goes on the market for $38 million.
  
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• This $38M Vancouver penthouse might be most expensive condo in Canada

  05-01-2018 23:09
  
  Penthouse 2 at Fairmont Pacific Rim goes on the market for $38 million.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Friday, Jan. 5, 2018

  05-01-2018 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do for this weekend, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
  
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• City intends to build modular homeless shelters near Olympic Village Station

  05-01-2018 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  An empty lot near the Olympic Village SkyTrain Station has been identified as the future site for a 50-unit, temporary, modular-housing project.
  In October, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson promised to build 1,000 new social and supportive housing units before the end of 2018 to address the immediate needs of Vancouver’s growing homeless population.The new homes, which will be managed and staffed by a non-profit housing operator selected by B.C. Hous
  
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• 100-year-old woman caps birthday at Vancouver craft brewery

  05-01-2018 22:33
  
  "They were such a fun group to host," Storm Brewing says.
  
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• TransCanada keeps LNG pipeline to northwest B.C. alive

  05-01-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  TransCanada continues to keep alive its $6-billion Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project to transport natural gas from northeast B.C. by pipeline to the coast despite uncertain market and economic conditions.
  Just two weeks ago, the mega-project received approval from the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office for an amendment to its project certificate for two additional main construction camps, and a standby compressor unit at each of its eight proposed compressor stations.
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• Conversations That Matter: The infrastructure deficit

  05-01-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  We have a $570-billion infrastructure deficit in Canada. Yes, that’s right, a whopping $570 billion. So what do you say? Who cares?
  Well, you should care because that infrastructure is made up of roads, bridges, tunnels, terminals, power generation plants, hospitals, schools and so much more that are related to our ability to care for, educate as well as move products and people. Without them our ability to get our products to market diminishes and in so doing we restrict our abi
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 6

  05-01-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd).
  2. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books). 
  3. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  4. Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing — Jack Knox (Heritage House).
  5. The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvi
  
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• Failed guide dog trainee gets new gig as Vice Regal Greeter

  05-01-2018 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  "Fortunately for us, her forte is her friendliness," said Guichon, the 29th Lieutenant Governor.
  
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• Winter books

  05-01-2018 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Samantha Fraenkel from Book Warehouse tells us about the best books to read during the winter months.
  
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• Transit Police assault public hearing

  05-01-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  A violent assault at a skytrain station seven years ago left a UBC football player bloodied and battered. The accused were transit cops, and they are the focus of a police complaints commission hearing that got underway in Vancouver Friday. Jordan Armstrong reports.
  
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• Town Talk: Reflections on a busy 2017

  05-01-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Many are photographed, not all are chosen to appear in this column. Those seen here all hit 2017’s cutting-room floor but have been retrieved to get 2018 started.
  AFTER JACK: A usual, many journalism students attended the Jack Webster Foundation’s awards banquet in October. Some may have echoed past student-attendee Marina Percy’s opinion of big-time journalists at the microphone who “stood up and told us how good their careers were.” More likely hoped that today&rs
  
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• B.C. government hiring people for province's marijuana retail business

  05-01-2018 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government will soon be weeding through resumes as the province looks to hire the right people to run its marijuana sales business.
  The province will be the sole wholesale distributor of recreational marijuana through the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch when cannabis becomes legal across the country, which is expected to happen sometime this summer.
  The B.C. Public Service Agency is advertising two jobs — executive director and director of merchandising — for the BCLDB&
  
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• The Pat-cast: Canucks at 40

  05-01-2018 20:20 via theprovince.com
  Happy New Year! It’s the first Pat-cast of 2018, powered as ever by Eagle Ridge GM.http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/pat_cast_jan_5/pat_cast_jan_5.mp3
  This week, Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford dial in on what Trevor Linden had to say — and didn’t say — this week in his state of the franchise media session. And related: Jim Benning’s future.
  What do JPat and Botch think of how Travis Green has handled the goalies of late?
  Who is the
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Wines of Spain flourishing under new rules

  05-01-2018 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  The 40th Vancouver International Wine Festival returns next month for an eight-day celebration of wine and food (Feb. 24 to March 4 at the Vancouver Convention Centre).
  A total of 173 wineries will participate in 51 events across Metro Vancouver, and in 2018 the focus is on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, highlighting Spain (38 wineries) and Portugal (20 wineries).
  There will be big interest in the wines of Spain and Portugal, and special event tickets are sure to sell out quickly when they go
  
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• Tea time is all the time in Canada it seems

  05-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Once upon a time in China (around 3,000 BC or so), someone had the brilliant idea of pouring boiling water over the cured leaves of the Camelia sinensis plant, thus infusing a new beverage. So began our love affair with tea.
  Initially seen as a medicinal drink, today, it’s said to be the most widely consumed beverage on the planet, after water.
  Tea’s spread from Southwest China to the rest of the world shaped global trade and economics as well as developing entirely unique cultu
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 6

  05-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Origin — Dan Brown  
  2. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  3. Year One — Nora Roberts 
  4. The Midnight Line — Lee Child
  5. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng 
  6. The Wanted — Robert Crais
  7. The People vs. Alex Cross — James Patterson
  8. Artemis — Andy Weir 
  9. Tom Clancy: Power and Empire — Marc Cameron
  10. Hardcore Twenty-Four — Janet Evanovich  
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Friday, January 5

  05-01-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Friday, Jan. 5: Here are your five things to do for this weekend.
  
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• Passenger ferry would link Sidney, Gulf Islands

  05-01-2018 19:40 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — An inter-island passenger ferry between the Southern Gulf Islands and Sidney could be coming soon.
  The Capital Regional District has issued a request for proposals, looking for a business case for a pilot project.
  “The results of the pilot project will be evaluated to determine if a multi-route passenger-only ferry service is viable and how it could be funded,” the request says.
  The service could include Salt Spring Island, North Pender Island, South Pender Isla
  
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• ‘King Tide’ responsible for flooding around Metro Vancouver

  05-01-2018 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  Some sections along False Creek and around David Lam Park in Yaletown are under water.
  
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• Province Sports Radio: Benning’s future

  05-01-2018 19:34 via theprovince.com
  Just what chance does Jim Benning have of coming back as Canucks GM?
  http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/prov_sports_jan_4-the_province_podcast/prov_sports_jan_4.mp3
  Patrick Johnston and Ed Willes get together to look at the state of the Canucks as 2018 opens.
  The good news: Elias Pettersson has been sensational at the World Juniors. Olli Juolevi was pretty good too.
  But there’s a lot still to be done to right this ship and all eyes, inevitably, are falling on
  
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• King Tide threatens False Creek shoreline

  05-01-2018 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  Extreme high tides rise up along Yaletown’s False Creek shoreline Friday morning.
  
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• Brian Minter: Check for AAS designation before testing new plants

  05-01-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  With so many new plant introductions coming at us each year, it’s difficult to know how any one of these plants will perform in our particular region. Unless new plant trials are carried out, with impartial critiquing, we can’t be sure of a plant’s cold hardiness, tolerance to heat, performance in wet weather, disease and pest resistance and a wealth of other criteria that would help us decide if a plant will do well in our gardens.
  Back in 1932, Ray Hastings, president of the
  
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• Foreign buyers ‘dominate’ high-end house sales in Vancouver

  05-01-2018 18:42
  
  National study also finds the city leads in luxury condo prices
  
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• B.C. family OK after ice falls and hits their truck on highway

  05-01-2018 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  Thu. Jan. 4: A B.C. family is grateful they are OK after a massive chunk of ice fell from a sign on Highway 1, smashing the truck. Catherine Urquhart reports.
  
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• BC family’s truck destroyed by falling ice

  05-01-2018 17:51 via globalnews.ca
  A massive sheet of ice crashed through a pick-up truck's windshield on New Year's Eve as a family was driving on Highway 1 near Chilliwack.
  
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• Rethink your resolutions

  05-01-2018 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  Dietitian Jess Pirnak has tips on how to break down common New Year’s resolutions into achievable goals.
  
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• The Morning Skate, Jan. 5: Junior joy; Canucks’ hard road begins; a ‘perfect’ season, um, celebrated?

  05-01-2018 17:28 via theprovince.com
  Just back after taking a walloping from the flu (wash your hands, people, this one plays rough), and have jumped in to give Patrick a break from Skating today.
  Have you seen how many hats PJ’s wearing around here lately? His legs are tired. The year is still young. Dude needs to pace himself.
  So sit back, relax, and let’s go for a leisurely Skate while we get that man a Gatorade …
  “What’s that feeling like, Kev? You know, hope?”
  The home team
  The Canucks
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you think Canada can win world junior gold?

  05-01-2018 17:12 via theprovince.com
  Team Canada and Sweden will battled today (4 p.m. PT on TSN) for the gold medal at the world junior hockey tournament in Buffalo.
  The Canadians breezed into the championship game with a 7-2 win over the Czech Republic in their semifinal, while Sweden, led by Canucks’ bluechip prospect Elias Pettersson, defeated the hosts and defending champion United States 4-2 in Thursday’s other semi.
  Canucks prospects World Juniors tracker: Day EightWorld juniors: Sweden knows Canada wil
  
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• Letters: Meat-tax activists should ‘just mind their own business and stay out of ours’

  05-01-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  So self-righteous PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — are contemplating a new tax on meat.This is just a tax and won’t help anyone choose what to eat. People will still eat meat as food is required for people to survive. Just because PETA members can get by on cucumber sandwiches doesn’t mean everyone else can.
  Maybe they should just mind their own business and stay out of ours. It’s already tough enough to pay bills without having special-interest
  
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• Dr. Danyaal Raza: Why is Health Canada aiding a private firm instead of safeguarding blood supplies?

  05-01-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  As the snow begins to fall and the mercury begins to drop, Health Canada has found itself in some hot water. The trouble has been years in the making — since at least 2013. That was when Canadian Plasma Resources, a profit-seeking company that pays individuals for their blood plasma, sought to open its first location. 
  A recent media exposé has raised some troubling questions, not just about CPR’s business model and what it means for the health of Canadians, but also abou
  
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• Richmond, Coquitlam soldier on with decades-old ban on self-serve gas pumps

  05-01-2018 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  Two B.C. cities that mandate gas stations employ attendants to pump fuel are outliers in a nation where most citizens are accustomed to do-it-yourself fill ups.
  Richmond and Coquitlam have prohibited self-service stations for decades and against multiple waves of industry pushback, including a recent salvo by Chevron Canada Ltd. for Coquitlam to revoke its regulation.
  Their choice is once more in the spotlight as Oregon shifted this week to permit some gas stations to allow drivers to refuel the
  
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• East vs West side: Which was Vancouver’s real estate winner in 2017?

  05-01-2018 15:00
  
  Home prices on Vancouver’s two “sides” performed very differently – so which came out on top?
  
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• British Airways plane with 315 aboard sustains 'total system failure' in engine while landing at YVR

  05-01-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A British Airways Boeing 747-400 with 315 passengers and crew on board experienced an engine “total system failure” while landing at Vancouver International Airport, Transport Canada files on aviation incidents in 2017 reveal.
  The passenger jet was arriving from London, England, on Nov. 30 and preparing for landing when the crew informed air-traffic control of a “progressive loss of the number-one hydraulic system fluid.”
  The crew executed procedures outlined in the Quick
  
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• How much are Vancouver's best-known properties worth?

  05-01-2018 09:39 via vancouversun.com
  With property assessments for 2018 revealed this week, let’s take a look at what some of B.C.’s most notable properties are worth.
  The Marine Building 
  Marine Building – 355 Burrard Street
  Built in 1930, the iconic Marine Building sits on a 21,266 square-foot property at the foot of Hastings Street. 
  In 2017 the building and property are worth $99,487,000 ($82,928,000 is the land itself).
  That’s a rise of over $9 million over 2016, when it was valued at $90,025,
  
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• Memorial scholarship established in the name of Oak Bay girls killed on Christmas Day

  05-01-2018 07:39 via globalnews.ca
  Students at Christ Church Cathedral School will soon get a scholarship boost from the Chloe and Aubrey Berry Scholarship Fund.
  
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• Flu cases are on the rise, and Fraser Health is worried emergency rooms will fill to bursting

  05-01-2018 07:39 via globalnews.ca
  Fraser Health is worried the rising number of flu cases are going to overwhelm hospital emergency rooms.
  
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• American border officials are reminding Canadians to not cross the border with their pot

  05-01-2018 07:39 via globalnews.ca
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection says despite some states legalizing marijuana, it's still illegal at the federal level
  
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• Five Whitecaps games to get excited about this coming season

  05-01-2018 07:10 via theprovince.com
  The 2018 MLS season schedule was released today and there are some salivating match-ups for Vancouver Whitecaps FC fans to look forward to.
  “This coming season is about building on what we did last season and taking aim at MLS Cup,” said president Bob Lenarduzzi in a release. “This is going to be a team that gives everything they have for this city.”
  The Whitecaps made some strides last year, winning their first ever MLS Cup playoff game 5-0 against the San Jose Earthquak
  
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• UBC study says scent of romantic partner can lower stress

  05-01-2018 06:15 via globalnews.ca
  New research out of UBC says stress can be lowered simply with the scent of a romantic partner. Jennifer Palma has the details.
  
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• Peak flu season has arrived

  05-01-2018 06:15 via globalnews.ca
  Health officials say the peak of this year’s flu season has arrived. Linda Aylesworth tells us how things stand this year, and where officials are most worried.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Jan 4

  05-01-2018 05:24 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Thursday, January 4, 2018.
  
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• The Flu Has Arrived

  05-01-2018 05:10 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Twisted path for China-to-B.C. funds revealed in real estate deal

  05-01-2018 05:06 via vancouversun.com
  The CEO of a Chinese company moved $750,000 from China to Metro Vancouver for a real estate deal with the help of nine strangers who each brought $50,000 into Canada for “tourist purposes,” according to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment.
  The judgment sets out the method through which Hong Jie “Anita” Wang, an executive in Shandong, China, transferred money for the purpose of buying a five-acre Port Coquitlam property with a B.C.-based partner.
  The B.C. realtor who acted as th
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Jan 4

  05-01-2018 05:06 via globalnews.ca
  The Thursday, January 4, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Opinion: Opioid crisis seen through the lens of adverse childhood experiences

  05-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The opioid epidemic is the biggest public health crisis to hit B.C. in decades. Upwards of four people a day are dying of overdoses, usually due to fentanyl poisoning of the street drug supply.
  To date the B.C. government has committed $322 million to address the crisis, including opening more supervised consumption sites, providing naloxone kits, urging people not to use alone, and trying to stop tainted drugs from coming into B.C.
  Another potential response, in addition, could deepen our publi
  
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• Opinion: I should be allowed to live in a tiny home if I want to

  05-01-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  I want to live in a tiny home. It may not be everyone’s dream to live in less than 400 square feet, but as a university student studying environmental science in Vancouver it is my dream. I believe it’s the ultimate way to live sustainably and affordably in this city. There are many benefits to living a minimalistic lifestyle from decreasing your carbon footprint and utility bill to spending less time cleaning. Unfortunately, it is not currently possible to live in a tiny home in Van
  
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