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• 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

  02-02-2018 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, Feb. 2, 2018.
  
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• Lions pick up CFL all-star in Odell Willis

  02-02-2018 23:52 via theprovince.com
  The B.C. Lions just made their biggest acquisition of the off-season.
  The CFL club acquired six-foot-2, 255-pound defensive end Odell Willis from the Ottawa Redblacks in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the upcoming draft, as well as a player currently on B.C.’s negotiation list.
  Willis had just been sent to the Redblacks from Edmonton in exchange for defensive lineman Jake Ceresna. Ottawa turned around and sent him to Vancouver.
  “This is the kind of addition to our roster th
  
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• A hunter was accused of shooting and killing a therapy dog, and now charges are pending

  02-02-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Conservation officers are recommending two charges against a hunter accused of shooting and killing a therapy dog in Squamish last September.
  
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• This Week in History: 1924 The Devonshire Hotel ushers in a new era downtown

  02-02-2018 23:37 via vancouversun.com
  It took a few years for the Vancouver economy to recover after the First World War. But things started to pick up in the fall of 1923, when the Vancouver World ran a banner headline across the front page, “Prosperity Begins For City.”
  “The news of the day is crowded with cheerful announcements relating to the return of prosperity to Canada, British Columbia and Vancouver,” said the Sept. 12, 1923 World.
  “Work ordered to start on Second Narrows Bridge to cost $1,450,
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Veteran sports icons Beckham, Federer court success

  02-02-2018 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  A slow-moving, five-year roller-coaster of on-again, off-again ups and downs finally arrived at the announcement that the David Beckham Major League Soccer ownership group was ready to officially unveil plans for its long-awaited expansion franchise in Miami.
  It’s a bullish play for Beckham, who brought star power to MLS in 2007 and was gifted franchise rights for US $25 million as part of his five-year deal with the L.A. Galaxy. With MLS entry fees now pegged at US$150 m
  
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• Ed Willes: By overturning Russian Olympic ban, the cheaters win

  02-02-2018 23:05 via theprovince.com
  Over the course of some two decades on the frontlines against doping, Beckie Scott says she has long since lost the ability to be either shocked or surprised.
  Saddened? Yes. Angered? Absolutely. But, when you’ve seen it as an athlete, as a member of the IOC and as the chairperson of the WADA Athlete Committee, you understand the scope of this fight and the powerful forces in play.
  “One of the reasons I’m still here is it’s never boring,” the Olympic gold medallist s
  
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• Trudeau has hecklers booted from his town hall when they won’t ‘respect anyone in this room’

  02-02-2018 22:57 via globalnews.ca
  "...you think your voice is more important than her ability to listen."
  
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• Crews battling 4-alarm fire in Coquitlam apartment complex

  02-02-2018 22:57 via globalnews.ca
  Twenty-six crew members were on scene.
  
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• Crystal Palace midfielder Jordon Mutch looks to be Whitecaps’ next target

  02-02-2018 22:50 via theprovince.com
  Carl Robinson’s campaign to re-shape his midfield continues apace, with Englishman Jordon Mutch his latest target.
  As reported first by ESPN, talks between the Whitecaps and Mutch, a former England U21 international, are at an “advanced” stage.
  Since scoring seven goals in 35 Premier League matches for relegation-bound Cardiff City in 2013-14, Mutch has spent most of his time as a role player in the English top flight, initially with QPR in 2014-15, then for the past four seaso
  
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• Brian Minter: Plant traditions an integral part of Lunar New Year

  02-02-2018 22:30 via vancouversun.com
  Lunar New Year (the Year of the Dog begins Feb. 16.) is an important cultural event, and it is celebrated with plants and flowers that have significant historical meanings.  
  In the horticultural industry, we tend to think plants of Asian origin such as bonsai, lucky bamboo and money plants are relevant and important to mark this occasion, but that isn’t necessarily so.
  For some clarification, Postmedia news talked to Richmond experts Ming Wu of Garden in Gardens Nursery and Paul
  
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• Avalanche risk high for B.C. Coastal and Interior mountains

  02-02-2018 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  Outdoor enthusiasts heading to B.C.’s Coastal and Interior mountains this weekend are being warned there is a high avalanche risk.
  The warning from Avalanche Canada Friday comes just days after an Alberta snowmobiler died following a slide in east central B.C.
  The man, in his 50s, was snowmobiling in the Clemina Creek area south of the village of Valemount Tuesday when the avalanche hit. He was transported to hospital, where he died from his injuries.  
  The B.C. Coroners Service confi
  
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• Vancouver releases Arbutus Greenway design jam sketches

  02-02-2018 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  From hammocks and meditation zones to bike lanes and bee hives, Vancouverites have a lot of ideas for the Arbutus Greenway.
  On Friday, the city of Vancouver released some of the sketches from the 110 residents who took part in the Arbutus Greenway Design Jam last fall.
  During the weekend-long workshop, the residents brainstormed ideas for the greenway, a  nine-kilometre, 42-acre corridor which goes from False Creek to Vancouver’s west side. 
  The city also held five open houses on
  
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• Todd Stone campaign admits to fake email membership allegations

  02-02-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Todd Stone’s campaign admits it had to cancel 1,349 memberships it signed up with improper email addresses after concerns raised by auditors within the Liberal party.
  Stone campaign co-chair Peter Fassbender said Friday that a social media marketing company the campaign had contracted, called Aggregate IQ, created domain names and email portals to attach email addresses to new members, who were mainly non-English speaking Chinese residents
  
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• Pipeline documentary drills deep at Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival

  02-02-2018 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
  When: Feb. 9-17
  Where: Various venues
  Tickets and info: vimff.orgAbout six years ago Zack Embree decided that he needed to lend his voice to the discussion of climate change, so he picked up a camera and went about making his first movie.
  The result of that decision is the 75-minute documentary Directly Affected looking at the impact of pipelines on communities across the country.
  His quest for knowledge began in Burnaby with the oil spill of 2
  
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• Delicious Super Bowl 2018 snacks

  02-02-2018 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  Angie Quaale from Well Seasoned shows us how to make a number of appetizers to serve during your Super Bowl party.
  
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• Opinion: The 'Internet of Things' explained

  02-02-2018 21:25 via vancouversun.com
  For many people, the phrase “Internet of Things” will produce nothing more than a blank stare. Expand on the phrase with such things as “Industry 4.0” and “smart manufacturing” and you can imagine how much more confused people become. Yet everyone needs to learn more about these concepts as they are already fundamentally changing our lives everyday — and will have even more of an impact in the years ahead.
  At its simplest, the Internet of Things (IoT) is
  
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• January home sales drop after pre-stress-test buying spree

  02-02-2018 21:21
  
  Real estate sales still up versus one year ago, and condo prices rising $10K a month – but detached homes hit buyer’s market
  
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• Opinion: British Columbians deserve to hear the real cost of LNG

  02-02-2018 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  With the prospect of building LNG facilities in B.C. back in the headlines, British Columbians are once again confronted with the question of whether or how LNG should proceed — and the climate change implications.
  Premier John Horgan’s visit to a number of Asian countries with potential interest in buying LNG from B.C. sparked a particularly strong reaction from B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver. This is no surprise, given the premier’s comments focused on the economic asp
  
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• Douglas Todd: Why illicit foreign casino cash often goes straight into Vancouver housing

  02-02-2018 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  It’s almost hard to believe the dismaying stories that Postmedia investigative reporter Sam Cooper has been producing about the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars of East Asian cash through Metro Vancouver casinos and the funnelling of much of it into the city’s pricey real estate.
  Yet Cooper continues to clearly map out, using impeccable high-level sources, the trans-national connections between Chinese drug traffickers, B.C. casinos and the city’s housing market. H
  
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• Kelowna liquor thief caught doing the deed by security cameras

  02-02-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  The surveillance camera images show the suspect crouching down and stuffing the bottles under his jacket.
  
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• Town Talk: B.C. Women's Hospital raises funds for pelvic ailments

  02-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  LIGHT SHINING: Nighttime can be the right time for fundraising events. But those expecting much female attendance do well at lunchtime. B.C. Women’s Hospital Foundation proved that in the Four Seasons hotel ballroom recently by reportedly raising $284,000. That was a $50,000 increase over 2017s total, MC Tamara Taggart told 400 attendees following a speech and performance by Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk. Funds raised will aid programs to counter pelvic pain and endometriosis,  a
  
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• Q& A: VIMFF filmmaker Hannah Maia talks about body image and the endorphin rush of cold water

  02-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  My Big White Thighs and Me
  When: Feb 15, 7:30 p.m.
  Where: CinemathequeHannah Maia decided a year-long cold water swimming adventure would be a great way to get to know herself again. Her film My Big White Thighs and Me is part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival’s Women in Adventure Program. Postmedia News talked to the English filmmaker.Q. Why did you want to make this movie?
  A. To start with, it was a personal project to help me heal from a recent miscarriage
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Does diversity strengthen or diminish democracy?

  02-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likes to say that diversity is our strength.
  Is it? What does he mean when he says that, and does diversity strengthen or diminish democracy?
  The answer is complicated. It starts with an open invitation to full participation in citizenship and a collective willingness to do the necessary work. Work that includes continuing discussions about overarching values, ideals and goals such as human rights, justice, equality, individual freedom and access to opport
  
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• Abbotsford firefighters rescue 12 people from burning apartment

  02-02-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  A frightening early morning wake up call for people living in an apartment complex in Abbotsford. Fire suddenly broke out in their building and firefighters had to come to their rescue. Jennifer Palma reports.
  
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• Transit Police looking for suspect in News Years alleged sexual assault

  02-02-2018 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  The incident allegedly took place around 2:30 a.m. on New Year's Day.
  
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• Trudeau town hall on Vancouver Island set to get underway

  02-02-2018 19:59 via globalnews.ca
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hold his final town hall meeting with Canadians on Vancouver Island on Friday afternoon.
  
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• Plans for Arbutus Greenway experience taking root

  02-02-2018 19:59
  
  City releases outline of emerging design ideas
  
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• Pipeline politics boil over in Trudeau’s Vancouver Island town hall

  02-02-2018 19:59 via globalnews.ca
  Pipeline politics boiled over at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Vancouver Island town hall stop Friday afternoon, with three hecklers who refused to stop escorted from the room and the topic dominating almost all others over the course of the gathering.
  
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• Huge B.C. money-laundering investigation pivots to drugs and guns

  02-02-2018 19:59 via vancouversun.com
  In December 2015, a new leg of the RCMP’s E-Pirate money-laundering investigation delved into Metro Vancouver’s underworld of fentanyl labs, gun sales and violent dial-a-dope gangs.
  It started with undercover officers tracking the movements of a Burnaby man named Ge ‘Gary’ Wang.
  The offshoot investigation, code-named Prophet, grew from extensive surveillance of the many alleged employees of E-Pirate’s primary target, Paul King Pao Jin. In E-Pirate, the RCMP and B.C.
  
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• Q&A: Hong Kong Exile's Milton Lim tackles the meaning of the mall

  02-02-2018 19:50 via vancouversun.com
  No Foreigners
  When: Feb. 7-17, 8 p.m. 
  Where: Vancity Culture Lab
  Tickets and info: From $27, tickets.thecultch.comSince arriving on the Canadian arts scene in 2011, Vancouver’s interdisciplinary arts company Hong Kong Exile has presented acclaimed works such as the music/dance festival Ascension (2012) and premiered work at Toronto’s CanAsian Kickstart Festival (2014), the Seattle International Dance Festival, and elsewhere.
  The members are presently Artists-In-Residence at the
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Surrey municipal corruption case was minimized

  02-02-2018 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  A Surrey municipal corruption scandal was minimized and presented as a one-time bribe taken by a bad apple, even though the city knew other developers were involved and the wrongdoing stretched back years.
  Kelly Rayter, assistant city solicitor, told Postmedia the municipality has collected some of the money from the developers who cheated but would not say how much or how many were involved.
  Rayter said internal and external audits in 2010 revealed the extent of the scheme — which in
  
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• Vancouver man dies after being hit by truck

  02-02-2018 18:55
  
  A 55-year-old Vancouver man was hit Thursday night while crossing the street.
  
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• Two crashes affect traffic on two highways in the Okanagan and Similkameen

  02-02-2018 18:44 via globalnews.ca
  The crash involves a semi-trailer transport truck that is blocking lanes.
  
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• Traffic detoured after two highway crashes in the Okanagan and Similkameen

  02-02-2018 18:44 via globalnews.ca
  The crash involves a semi-trailer transport truck that is blocking lanes.
  
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• Petition launched to help #SaveTheRio

  02-02-2018 18:40
  
  Vancouverites asked to share the love for the Rio Theatre as Feb. 6 deadline looms
  
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• Alberta snowmobiler dies after being caught in avalanche near Valemount

  02-02-2018 18:39 via vancouversun.com
  An Alberta snowmobiler died after being swept up in an avalanche Tuesday in east central B.C.
  The man, in his 50s, was snowmobiling in the Clemina Creek area south of the village of Valemount when the the slide hit. He was transported to hospital, where he died from his injuries.  
  The B.C. Coroners Service confirmed it is investigating the the man’s death but would not release his identity.
  Avalanche Canada says the risk of avalanche is high in the alpine and considerable in the tree
  
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• Note to our Vancouver Sun print subscribers

  02-02-2018 18:31 via vancouversun.com
  Many Vancouver Sun subscribers did not receive today’s newspaper as a result of electrical problems that disrupted production at our printing facility. Anyone who does not receive the paper today will have it delivered with Saturday’s Sun. We apologize for the inconvenience.
  
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• You've no right to be bored: 4 things to do in Metro Van this weekend

  02-02-2018 18:01
  Metro scans the weekend for things to do—from outdoors events to arts festivals and ways you and your family can make a difference!
  
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• Hedley kicks off Cageless tour in hometown Abbotsford

  02-02-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hedleywith Shawn Hook and Neon Dreams
  When: Feb. 5, 6 p.m. 
  Where: Abbotsford Centre
  Tickets and info: From $39, ticketmaster.com
   Far removed from the wild partying rockstars of yore, Hedley is a band driven by an almost lockstep work schedule.
  Lead singer and founder Jacob Hoggard says the two-year new album cycle that the Abbotsford band sticks to is on purpose.
  “As far as the creative process goes for us, I’ve always made it my mandate to stay quite prolific because I f
  
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• Making snacks for the Super Bowl on your BBQ

  02-02-2018 17:41 via globalnews.ca
  Rusty Johnson from Rusty’s BBQ shows us how to make small smoked briskets on the grill.
  
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• Movie Reviews: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Happy End

  02-02-2018 17:17 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee has the drama “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ starring Annette Benning and Jamie Bell, director Michael Haneke’s Happy End and the thriller Winchester.
  
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• Douglas Todd: B.C. mayors start targeting speculators to cool housing prices

  02-02-2018 17:11 via vancouversun.com
  The province’s mayors and councillors brought a sharp new focus Thursday to finding effective ways to cool intense foreign and domestic speculation in housing.
  The Union of B.C. Municipalities announced 32 recommendations designed to fix the home ownership and rental crises that have devastated many residents of Metro Vancouver.
  “B.C.’s housing policies are no longer working,” said Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore, chair of the Metro Vancouver regional district. He emphasi
  
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• Letters to The Province, Feb. 2, 2018: Readers have lots of thoughts on how to fix ICBC mess

  02-02-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  The Insurance Corporation of B.C. is losing huge amounts of cash for one main reason — they insure terrible drivers.
  There are too many crashes because drivers aren’t trained properly, nor are they ready to handle the responsibility of the safe operation of a motor vehicle. They’re not ready to drive in rush hour. I’ve seen so many small fender-benders because people just don’t look, or they panic, because they don’t know what to do. 
  Try riding a mo
  
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• Bag breakdown: How to avoid back and shoulder pain

  02-02-2018 16:45 via globalnews.ca
  Physiotherapist Peter Curtain shows us the right ways to carry bags and purses to avoid back and shoulder pain.
  
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• Canada owed pre-Confederation duty to protect Williams Lake Indian Band lands from being settled

  02-02-2018 16:44 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian government may have to settle with the Williams Lake Indian Band for not correcting breaches made by the colony of B.C. to protect indigenous land from settlement before the province joined Confederation.
  
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• Abbotsford fire crews rescue 12 from burning apartment building

  02-02-2018 16:42 via globalnews.ca
  A dozen people had to be rescued from a burning apartment building in Abbotsford early Thursday.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with the UBCM that more needs to be done to curb speculation in Vancouver's real estate market?

  02-02-2018 16:22 via vancouversun.com
  The Union of B.C. Municipalities has published a report with a list of recommendations to help cool Metro Vancouver’s over heated real estate market by going after speculators. Some of the suggestions include expanding the tax on foreign buyers to include pre-sale contracts for condos, and  expanding the tax to other regions such as the Fraser Valley and Victoria. The report also says there is a need to close a range of tax-avoidance schemes, and recommends the province
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Jan. 27

  02-02-2018 16:15 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. Hello Humpback! — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers (Harbour Publishing).  
  4. Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing — Jack Knox (Heritage House)
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week for Jan. 27

  02-02-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn  
  2. City of Endless Night — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child   
  2. Iron Gold — Pierce Brown  
  4. Origin — Dan Brown  
  5. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  6. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng 
  7. The Immortalists — Chloe Benjamin 
  8. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate 
  9. The Wife Between Us — Hendric
  
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• B.C. mayors call for diverse housing supply, new ownership options

  02-02-2018 16:00
  
  Union of B.C. Municipalities issues 32 recommendations for province on housing policy
  
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