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• Vernon Mounties investigating spate of armed robberies

  12-01-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  "If there is a person or vehicle in the area that looks suspicious take note by writing it down and calling police."
  
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• Sisters found dead on Christmas Day symbolized by butterflies at funeral

  12-01-2018 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Two sisters who were found dead on Christmas Day were symbolized by butterflies at their funeral today.
  Rev. Ansley Tucker of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria says the urn holding the ashes of Chloe and Aubrey Berry was covered with butterflies because they are a symbol of resurrection.
  More than 1,000 mourners filled the church to pay their respects during a service that heard from family members, teachers and friends.
  The bodies of six-year old Chloe and four-year-old Aubre
  
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• Sorry Fraser Valley, the winter wallop isn’t done with you yet

  12-01-2018 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Arctic air is still flowing into the valley as another system approaches the B.C. coast.
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Students give lessons on how to steal TV spotlight

  12-01-2018 23:18 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the WeekIn a weekend in which the NFL playoffs kicked off with four wild-card games last Saturday and Sunday, it was the amateurs — the so-called “student athletes” — who put on the best shows for television audiences on both sides of the 49th parallel.The terrific sports weekend began with the final game of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. TSN and RDS won the night as Canada defeated Sweden to win the gold medal in a hugely entertaining and satisf
  
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• Trio of lost snowmobilers safely rescued from Revelstoke area mountain

  12-01-2018 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  Due to the avalanche conditions and health concerns, the two men were rescued by helicopter long-line.
  
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• No logo: City of Vancouver pulls the plug on rebrand after dumping controversial logo

  12-01-2018 23:04 via globalnews.ca
  Nearly a year after introducing a widely mocked new logo, the City of Vancouver has pulled the plug on a rebrand.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Friday, Jan. 12, 2018

  12-01-2018 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, Jan. 12, 2018.
  
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• Drone demonstration from Candrone in Burnaby

  12-01-2018 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  Fri. Jan. 12: Tyler McDougall, a drone pilot and lead technician at Candrone, gives Global News a demonstration of how a drone could possibly fly a package over a high wall and drop it.
  
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• Hollywood North: Russell Crowe, Dakota Johnson join cast of Bad Times at the El Royale

  12-01-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  They may be in for some “Bad Times” — but at least they’ll have a great cast.
  Academy Award winner Russell Crowe and Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson have both signed on to co-star with Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, in Bad Times at the El Royale, a big budget thriller that is scheduled to start shooting in Metro Vancouver later this month.
  Drew Goddard, whose credits include Cloverfield, The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian and Netflix&r
  
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• Lions’ overhaul continues, Antonio Johnson re-signs for two years

  12-01-2018 22:14 via theprovince.com
  He promised to fix the team from the core on out, and B.C. Lions general Ed Hervey is following through on his plan.
  For the second time this week, the Lions announced they’d re-signed an offensive lineman. It was the team’s outstanding lineman nominee Cody Husband on Tuesday. Friday, it was tackle Antonio Johnson, as Hervey’s plan to address the offensive line issues continued to take shape.
  Johnson, a 6-foot-6, 305-pounder who had starts at both left and right tacklen 15 of h
  
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• The Age of Walter Gage: How One Canadian Shaped The Lives of Thousands: book excerpts

  12-01-2018 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  For some, the name is synonymous with a long-time University of B.C. fixture, the Walter Gage Residences, where students have hunkered down to study (and party) since the three signature towers were built on campus in the 1970s.
  But for thousands of others around B.C. and across Canada, Walter Gage meant so much more.
  The South Vancouver-born Gage was a University of B.C. fixture for five decades, from the moment he enrolled in classes on UBC’s Fairview campus in 1921, earning both a BA an
  
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• Park board to consider more EV charging stations at first meeting of 2018

  12-01-2018 22:05
  
  The year's first meeting is set for Monday.
  
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• Elderly man dies following December assault near Vancouver Costco

  12-01-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  An 86-year-old Vancouver man who was attacked last month near the Costco in downtown Vancouver has died.
  Vancouver police say the victim sustained a head injury during a confrontation he had with a 57-year-old man just after 11 a.m., Dec. 20 on Expo Boulevard. The victim never recovered from his injuries. 
  “This is an isolated and tragic incident and there is no concern for public safety,” said VPD Sgt. Jason Robillard.
  The suspect has been identified but has not been charged.
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• Theatre review: Hot Brown Honeys make some impressive noise

  12-01-2018 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  Hot Brown Honey
  To Jan. 27 | York Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $22 at thecultch.comPart hip hop concert, part pep rally, Hot Brown Honey is a loud, proud evening of consciousness raising; a series of lessons on race and gender that says you can have your revolution and dance to it, too.
  It’s an immensely clever and entertaining show that blatantly sugar-coats, or rather honey-coats, its serious political message. Fighting the power, the Honeys promise, never tasted so sweet.
  The producti
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Is democracy under attack?

  12-01-2018 21:44 via vancouversun.com
  Is democracy under attack? Have we let the people we elect off the hook? Are you involved in the decision-making process or are you merely a compliant customer who is being managed?
  There’s no doubt we are polarized over the role of government in our lives. Is the role of government to create opportunities for markets to thrive or is it to create environments for people to thrive? The tug of war between the left and right rages on while the balance point between these two pe
  
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• How we won't miss you, Gregor Robertson, let me count the ways

  12-01-2018 21:32
  
  Vancouver’s mayor leaves a city divided between us and them.
  
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• Government hires mediator to fix problems with Nanaimo iHealth records project

  12-01-2018 21:29 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s health minister has stripped Vancouver Island’s health authority of decision-making power over a beleaguered electronic health records project in Nanaimo, after an external report was sharply critical of the authority’s bungling of the project.
  Adrian Dix said Friday he will appoint a mediator to handle the future of the iHealth project, a contentious paperless records system at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Doctors, nurses and other health care sta
  
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• Surrey to get 160 units of modular housing by ‘early spring’

  12-01-2018 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  Two sites have already been identified for the temporary homes, and the province says 250 permanent units are also on the way.
  
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• Heritage building near Burnaby Art Gallery damaged by fire

  12-01-2018 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  A heritage building in Deer Lake Park in Burnaby near the city’s art gallery was damaged by fire early Friday.
  The Burnaby Fire Department received a call shortly after 5 a.m. about the blaze which broke out on Deer Lake Avenue at the Fairacres Stables, a building that is used to store the city’s park equipment.
  Barry Mawhinney, an acting assistant fire chief, said the building, which is more than 100 years old, is also used by a local Boy Scouts group to house camping gear.
  When fir
  
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• Jason Botchford: Back end needs to lead the offensive charge for the Canucks

  12-01-2018 21:12 via theprovince.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Canucks head coach Travis Green took the job his eyes were wide open. He understood the biggest obstacle he faced was extracting offence from this roster.
  Since the launch of the 2015-16 season, the Canucks are the lowest scoring team in the NHL, averaging a rather feeble 2.29 goals per game.
  In his introductory press conference, Green said you can’t hide from the numbers and presented a framework to fix them.
  First, make the power play better. His team has done
  
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• Someone used a drone to drop $26,500 of drugs, tobacco over a BC prison wall

  12-01-2018 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Correctional Service of Canada is now investigating.
  
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• Avalanche warning issued for BC’s south eastern interior

  12-01-2018 21:05 via globalnews.ca
  A special avalanche warning has been issued for most of the mountain ranges in the south eastern interior. The weight of new snow is making conditions extremely unstable.
  
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• Fraser Valley winter storm warning continues

  12-01-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  A winter storm warning remains in effect for parts of the Fraser Valley, where schools have been shut down for the day. Jill Bennett reports from Chilliwack.
  
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• Town Talk: Full-size polo field and trophy are ready for 2018

  12-01-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  LITTLE CUP, BIG SETTING: That setting is an eight-hectare Delta property near Boundary Bay for which Jay Garnett, Paul Sullivan, and Tony and Claudia Tornquist paid $2 million in 2016. Last year, they spent another $100,000 levelling, draining, planting and spreading 90 tones of cow manure on 4.8 hectares to accommodate a regulation-size 10-acre polo field and surrounds. Following a mowing, the Vancouver Polo Club they founded will host its first game there in May, likely with a half-dozen club
  
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• This Week in History: 1937 A kidnapping in Tacoma ends in tragedy

  12-01-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son in 1932 was one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century. But it wasn’t the only infamous kidnapping in the 1930s.
  On Dec. 27, 1936, 10-year-old Charles Mattson was abducted from his home in Tacoma, Wash.
  “A lone man, armed with a pistol, invaded the Mattson home through a French window and grabbed Charles before the eyes of his brother and sister and a young house guest,” said an Associated Press s
  
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• Douglas Todd: Five ways to protect free speech on campuses, and elsewhere

  12-01-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Few issues more divide North American campuses than free expression. And conflict over it has further divided the right against the left.
  More exceptionally, free speech is also pitting the left against the left.
  How did North America get to this place, which has weakened progressive voices and allowed the right to make valid accusations that the left is excessively prone to censorship and coddling?
  Many on the liberal-left join conservatives in being appalled by violent antifa (anti-fascist) pr
  
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• Nadia Albano: Red a big hair colour trend for 2018

  12-01-2018 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a big year for redheads. Even though you’re a brunette or blond, there seems to be more requests for warm, deep and vibrant copper and auburn hair. Many brunettes are attracted to chocolate browns with a huge amount of warmth, while blondes are leaning toward a strawberry blond as opposed to the icy cool of 2017.
  Red hair is a stunning colour option for women with blue or green eyes and fair skin tones.  It’s also a lovely way of bringing out the warm amber fleck in h
  
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• Thieves drive off with valuable booty of used tires in Kelowna

  12-01-2018 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  Police say it's possible the suspect of suspects prowled area businesses looking for crime opportunities.
  
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• Funeral held for sisters killed in Oak Bay

  12-01-2018 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  Fri. Jan. 12: Friends of the young girls’ mother, Sarah Cotton, speak to reporters outside Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria ahead of the funeral service for Chloe and Aubrey Berry. The sisters were found dead in their father’s Oak Bay apartment on Christmas Day.
  
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• It’s time to face facts: Vancouver will never have a mayor as attractive as Gregor Robertson

  12-01-2018 20:05
  
  There is one, albeit superficial, fact few will disagree on. Gregor Robertson is and likely will be the most attractive mayor this city has ever seen
  
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• Strathcona Beer Company is built on community — and craft beers

  12-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to running a business, you don’t have to love the community you’re operating in. But, it certainly helps if you do. 
  Perhaps that’s the secret behind Strathcona Beer Company‘s steady success. For the brewery’s partners, Tim Knight and Adrian McInnes, “Strath” is not just a workplace. It’s home.
  “Many of us involved in the business have spent a lot of our lives actually living in Strathcona, in fact, two block
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 7

  12-01-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn  
  2. Origin — Dan Brown  
  3. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  4. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng 
  5. Robicheaux — James Lee Burke 
  6. Unbound — Stuart Woods
  7. Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
  8. Year One — Nora Roberts 
  9. The Midnight Line — Lee Child 
  10. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate HARDCOVER NONFICTION
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 13

  12-01-2018 20:00 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. The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvie: From the Battle of Britain to the Great Escape — Keith C. Ogilvie (Douglas & McInty
  
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• Avalanche danger complicates successful rescue of Alberta men in B.C.

  12-01-2018 19:40
  Revelstoke RCMP say the two Alberta men, aged 39 and 51, were found early Friday, shortly after searchers resumed an air and land search.
  
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• Fire crews save heritage building near Burnaby Art Gallery

  12-01-2018 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  A two-alarm blaze broke out early Friday morning on the outskirts of Deer Lake Park in Burnaby. Crews had to take off part of the roof to get better access to the fire and were able to save the integrity of the structure.
  
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• Poetry comes alive with VPL's Dead Poets Reading Series

  12-01-2018 19:31
  
  Local poetry lovers revisit the works of some of the world's most interesting poets
  
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• Heritage grain flours the next wave in deliciously mindful eating

  12-01-2018 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  Flour is pure culinary magic. It transforms creamy butter into crisp cookies or luxurious sauces. It is our daily bread. It is the main ingredient in the comforting pasta we turn to when times are tough, and the festive cakes we crave when it’s time to celebrate.
  But flour is also problematic, and not just for those who react adversely to gluten, or who think they do.
  “I can speak from my own experience that I have no problem digesting freshly milled whole grain, but I have throughou
  
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• Richmond RCMP looking for witnesses to pedestrian accident

  12-01-2018 19:26 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond RCMP is looking for witnesses to a pedestrian accident that put a 75-year-old woman in hospital.
  The accident occurred just before 5 p.m. on Dec. 30.
  The woman, who was struck by a vehicle in the 6000 Block of Minoru Boulevard, suffered multiple injuries and was transported to hospital where she remains in stable condition.
  Police say the 53-year-old driver remained at the scene and he is cooperating with investigators.
  RCMP are seeking witnesses who saw the events that led to coll
  
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• Alleged arsonist arrested in Kelowna

  12-01-2018 19:13 via globalnews.ca
  Police were able to identify the suspect as someone known to them and take her into custody.
  
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• Elderly man dies following December assault outside Vancouver Costco

  12-01-2018 19:01 via vancouversun.com
  An 86-year-old Vancouver man has died after an assault last month at Costco in downtown Vancouver.
  Vancouver police say the victim sustained a head injury during an altercation he had with a 57-year-old man just after 11 a.m., Dec. 20 on Expo Boulevard. The victim never recovered from his injuries. 
  “This is an isolated and tragic incident and there is no concern for public safety,” said VPD Sgt. Jason Robillard.
  The suspect has been identified but has not been charged.
  Police s
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend – Friday, Jan 12

  12-01-2018 18:57 via globalnews.ca
  Friday, Jan 12: Here are your five things to do for this weekend.
  
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• Vancouver Island iHealth project should not expand until problems fixed, says report

  12-01-2018 18:54 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A beleaguered electronic health records project in Nanaimo should not expand to other health care facilities on Vancouver Island until its many problems are fixed and a brewing rift between doctors and administrators over the technology is resolved, according to an unreleased independent report.
  The report, obtained by Postmedia News, concluded that the iHealth paperless records system at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital should not be broadened to four new Island facilities in
  
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• Big increase in passenger numbers at the Kelowna airport

  12-01-2018 18:41 via globalnews.ca
  Just under 1.9 million people flew in and out of the Kelowna airport in 2017.
  
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• Elderly man assaulted outside Vancouver Costco dies of his injuries

  12-01-2018 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  The 86-year-old man was left with a head injury during an altercation with a 57-year-old man just after 11 a.m. on Dec. 20.
  
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• Brian Minter: Bring birds into your world with backyard feeders

  12-01-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  Make it a buffet! Some specialty feeders offer dual suet and seed holders.
  Winter has certainly made its presence felt.  We can dress warmer and turn the temperature up in our homes, but some of our best garden allies must tough it out in the cold, ice and snow — so let’s provide a little assistance. 
  Local wild birds do so much for us, so now is a great time to return the favour. We asked Cliff Jury, who owns Wild Birds Unlimited in Langley, Abbotsford and Chilliwack, for
  
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• Elderly man assaulted outside Costco last month dies

  12-01-2018 18:27
  
  86-year-old man dies three weeks after sustaining a head injury in an altercation on Expo Boulevard.
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Looking back at 2017, and forward to the future of wine

  12-01-2018 18:15 via vancouversun.com
  Looking back on 2017, I had some experiences that point toward the future of wine.
  I don’t necessarily crave change in wine, just a will by participants to continue to collect experience, store knowledge and explore the nuances that set their wine apart from others. In short, be different and celebrate it.
  Locally there were some big stories in 2017, but while the sale of some wineries at astronomical prices and the fight to sell B.C. wines in other provinces stole most of the news none of
  
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• Funeral for Chloe and Aubrey Berry to be held in Victoria Friday

  12-01-2018 17:56 via globalnews.ca
  It will be an emotional morning in Victoria Friday as the two young girls killed on Christmas Day in Oak Bay will be laid to rest.
  
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• Winter storm warning continues for Fraser Valley following Thursday's snowfall

  12-01-2018 17:36 via vancouversun.com
  A winter storm whipped across much of B.C. Thursday, prompting severe weather warnings, and raising avalanche fears in the province’s Interior.
  On Friday, Environment Canada said the storm warning for the Fraser Valley was still in effect, while snowfall warnings issued Thursday for some areas of Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island were  lifted.
  A WINTER STORM WARNING remains in effect for the Fraser Valley from #Abbotsford to #HopeBC incl #Chilliwack & #MissionBC . A smorgasbord
  
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• Crews battle fire at Burnaby Art Gallery heritage storage building

  12-01-2018 17:18 via globalnews.ca
  An old storage building near the Burnaby Art Gallery went up in flames just a few hours ago.
  
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