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• Shane Koyczan finds magic in teen's Make A Wish request (VIDEO)

  09-02-2018 23:59
  
  Spoken word artist invites young poet to Vancouver
  
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• Time travel in Turkey

  09-02-2018 23:54 via theprovince.com
  No trip to Turkey is complete without visiting magical Cappadocia, the majestic ancient ruins of Ephesus and the metropolis of Izmir.
  Cappadocia is other-worldly, like stepping into a fairy tale. Its lunar landscape is best appreciated at sunrise from a hot-air balloon, drifting over fairy chimneys and fertile valleys of orchards and vineyards.
  Hot air ballooning near Cappadocia.
  A few places like Goreme are Disneyesque, its Flintstones streets lined with ATV and scooter rentals (kids love it of
  
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• Germain Belzile: Trans Mountain pipeline — A trade war that benefits no one

  09-02-2018 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  It’s not easy to build pipelines or expand their capacity in Canada. Last fall, faced with obstacles and lengthening delays, TransCanada abandoned its Energy East pipeline project in Quebec and New Brunswick, valued at over $16 billion. Earlier, in the spring, Ottawa had put the kibosh on the Northern Gateway project out west, valued at $8 billion.
  But there are also successes, like the Trans Mountain project, which was approved by the federal government and seemed, up until just
  
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• Canada is taking a ‘feminist approach’ to the military, defence minister says

  09-02-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan: "We've been setting an example ourselves and from day one when the government was elected."
  
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• Denny’s Pink Shirt Day Part Proceeds Campaign

  09-02-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Visit any participating Denny's Restaurants to pick up you Pink Shirt Day cutout for $2 and get a coupon for 20% off any order in March! Denny's is a proud supporter of Pink Shirt Day initiatives across Canada.
  
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• Kelowna man surprised by squatters in his shed; couple arrested

  09-02-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  He saw a padlock had been cut. Then he spotted a person looking out a shed window.
  
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• Jason Kenney urges Ottawa to take B.C. to court over

  09-02-2018 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  The battle between B.C. and Alberta over a pipeline is still simmering. And Alberta’s United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney is joining the chorus of calls for the federal government to take decisive action and end the impasse. Vassy Kapelos reports.
  
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• PharmaCare deductibles for low income families being eliminated by B.C. government

  09-02-2018 23:02 via globalnews.ca
  Adrian Dix: "No parent should have to make the difficult decision between their family's health and putting food on the table."
  
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• The Last Continent: Challenging the unforgiving in search of the unknown

  09-02-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia columnist Daphne Bramham crosses the notoriously rough Drake Passage from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia — known as the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — to Antarctica. Her daily reports from the 18-day expedition will cover issues from climate change and micro plastics in the ocean to Japan’s continuing whale hunt, the antics of penguins and the world’s wild race to tour, and exploit, this last frontier.In mid-December, four weeks into a solo, unsupporte
  
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• Wine industry used as ‘political football’ in B.C.-Alberta dispute, Ontario group says

  09-02-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Echoing concerns expressed by B.C. vintners, the Winery & Grower Alliance of Ontario says the recently announced ban on sales of B.C. wine in Alberta means the industry is caught up in a conflict it has nothing to do with.
  
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• Transit Police nab two fake handguns on SkyTrain passengers in two days

  09-02-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  One man was witnessed dropping a replica gun, the other was allegedly cleaning his on a train.
  
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• B.C. Family Day will shift to third week of February in 2019

  09-02-2018 22:30 via vancouversun.com
  The annual B.C. Family Day holiday will shift to the third Monday of February starting in 2019.
  Premier John Horgan made the announcement Friday that the holiday, which was established in 2013 based on recommendations it be held on the second or third Monday, would be moved to the third Monday to be better aligned with other Canadian provinces and the U.S.
  “Moving Family Day is the right thing to do for businesses small and large, and is better for families who may be spread out across the
  
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• B.C. changes Family Day date

  09-02-2018 22:28
  
  Starting in 2019 B.C.'s Family Day will fall on the third Monday of February.
  
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• B.C.’s Family Day to be moved to 3rd week in February starting in 2019

  09-02-2018 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  Premier John Horgan announcing in a release Friday afternoon that in 2019, B.C.'s Family Day will be moved to the third week in February "so families across the country can celebrate together."
  
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• While Vancouver mopes, Portland celebrates ‘Worst Day of the Year’

  09-02-2018 22:14
  
  If Vancouver needed any more fuel for its Portland, Ore. envy engines, look no further than this this Sunday, when our whimsical, Cascadian neighbours to the south celebrate the “Worst Day of the Year.”
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Mainstream media fights for relevance in democracy

  09-02-2018 22:14 via vancouversun.com
  The media is under attack. While Donald Trump make be the loudest voice in the assault on mainstream media, he is not the most effective. That honour goes to Google and Facebook and Twitter and, and, and.
  The impact social media and search engines has had on advertising revenues is gutting newspapers, radio and television news. There are more news outlets today and fewer journalists. More press releases and less reporting. More sensational headlines and less in-depth content. Consolida
  
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• B.C. court strikes down Vancouver park board's cetacean ban

  09-02-2018 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Supreme Court won’t allow a Vancouver park board bylaw that bans cetaceans from being kept in captivity in parks to apply to the aquarium in Stanley Park.
  Last May, the park board voted to ban the import or display of whales, porpoises and dolphins in city parks, and a month later the aquarium asked the B.C. Supreme Court for a judicial review of the board’s bylaw. The aquarium argued the park board did not have jurisdiction to pass the amendment because of an existing
  
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• Vancouver Aquarium ruled exempt from cetacean ban, but they’re phasing them out anyway

  09-02-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  The aquarium announced in January that it will no longer house cetaceans.
  
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• Vancouver Aquarium ruled exempt from cetacean ban after saying it would phase out whales and dolphins

  09-02-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  The aquarium announced in January that it will no longer house cetaceans.
  
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• Pipeline protesters engage in 'cops and robbers' with terminal workers in Port Moody

  09-02-2018 22:00
  
  Protests against Kinder Morgan’s planned expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline to carry raw bitumen from Alberta’s tar sands to its Westridge marine terminal in North Burnaby landed in Port Moody Thursday morning.
  
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• Dave `Tiger` Williams charged with sexual assault, assault after military trip to Latvia

  09-02-2018 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Former Toronto Maple Leaf and Vancouver Canuck Dave “Tiger” Williams has been charged with sexual assault and assault following a military trip to Latvia in December.
  
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• Liberals' Wilkinson rips reckless NDP 'schoolyard squabble' with Alberta in wine country

  09-02-2018 21:08 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson has brought the Alberta-B.C. trade dispute to wine country, where a byelection is under way for former premier Christy Clark’s seat.
  “What we’ve seen in the last week is essentially a fundamental attack on the B.C. wine industry,” Wilkinson told supporters at Sandhill Wines on Friday. “We’ve seen that the wine industry is now under siege; the wine workers are facing a challenge that is totally unnecessary, that has been cre
  
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• Warning for winter holiday travellers in B.C.

  09-02-2018 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  It’s expected to be a busy travel day this weekend with many enjoying the Family Day holiday on Monday. But anyone heading out onto the roads or into the mountains should be prepared for some dangerous conditions — after this week’s snow storm that slammed parts of the province. Jordan Armstrong reports.
  
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• Town Talk: Gala raises $900,115 for Mount St. Joseph Hospital

  09-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  FORTUNE SMILED: While gamblers’ dreams fizzled in the Parq casino recently, the St. Paul’s Foundation raked in a $900,115 jackpot several floors above. That was at the JW Marriott hotel, where the 11th annual Scotiabank Feast of Fortune gala helped fund mammography equipment for Vancouver’s 97-year-old Mount St. Joseph Hospital. Greeting 650 guests with wife Patricia Yeo, the gala’s founding chair, Royal Pacific Realty senior vice-president Sing Lim Yeo recalled the debut
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week for Feb. 3

  09-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn
  2. Fall From Grace — Danielle Steel 
  3. Origin — Dan Brown
  4. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng 
  5. The Rooster Bar — John Grisham
  6. The Immortalists — Chloe Benjamin 
  7. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate 
  8. The Wife Between Us — Hendricks/Pekkanen
  9. City of Endless Night — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  10. The Midnight Line&n
  
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• Douglas Todd: Immigrants' children and Canadians of colour most educated

  09-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians of colour or who are children of immigrants tend to be far more educated than Canadian whites and aboriginals, according to two studies.
  “Canada’s white males are the least likely to hold university degrees in the knowledge economy,” says a report by Jack Jedwab, president of the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration.
  Only 24 per cent of white Canadian men between ages 35 and 44 have university degrees, according to Jedwab’s research. That is less than
  
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• Foodie Friday: Sesame crusted tuna with wasabi sauce

  09-02-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  So easy, so good, so impressive. Just do it and accept the accolades.
  
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• Indigenous leader, Marpole students among Vancouver Awards of Excellence recipients

  09-02-2018 20:58
  
  Doctors, student activists and transgender rights advocates were among the dozens of Vancouverites celebrated Thursday with one of the city’s loftiest distinctions.
  
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• Strata prices at 3 Vets site expected to surpass $10M per floor

  09-02-2018 20:57
  
  High Vancouver land prices are testing city’s office strata ceiling.
  
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• Pipeline protesters demonstrate outside Justin Trudeau’s California hotel

  09-02-2018 20:53 via globalnews.ca
  Three of the protesters briefly got inside the hotel and demonstrated with their backs up against the wall directly outside the room where Trudeau met with California Gov. Jerry Brown.
  
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• Okanagan fatal crash investigation; RCMP seek possible witness

  09-02-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  An 18-year-old Vernon girl was killed in the collision between a mini-van and pickup truck.
  
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• Don't let Peter Rabbit tempt you to get your own pet bunny

  09-02-2018 20:23
  
  Rabbit rescue society "bracing" for a surge in unwanted pet rabbits following release of new 3D movie.
  
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• This Week in History: 1907 A railway proposes a bridge across the Second Narrows

  09-02-2018 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  If you wanted to get from Vancouver to the North Shore in 1907, you had to take a boat, or swim.
  But the 20-year-old city had no shortage of big schemes. And on Feb. 8, 1907, the Daily Province announced the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway wanted to build a bridge across the Second Narrows.
  The Province didn’t like it.
  “If the scheme goes through that great area of water frontage on both sides of the Inlet to the east of the Second Narrows and on the North Arm of the Inlet m
  
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• Horses helping inmates at Okanagan jail

  09-02-2018 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  "I believe working with horses has the power to really help some of the men in our care."
  
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• The Other Mrs. Smith will shock and move you

  09-02-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Other Mrs. Smith, a novel
  Bonnie Burstow | Inanna Publications and Education
  448 pp., $22.95
  Talk about beginning your story “in medias res!”
  “An eerie smell in the air, as if a tin plate had been accidentally left on a red hot burner. Bloated bodies dressed in white floating over me. Something cold and sticky on my temples. Something rubbery in my mouth. A band pressing in around my head …. Straps wrapped around my legs, shoulders, torso. … Can’t move a
  
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• Climb seven of Vancouver’s tallest buildings for buns of steel and prostate cancer research

  09-02-2018 19:52
  
  Your gym’s stair climber machine? Forget about it. The Grouse Grind? Talk to the glutes.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, Feb. 9, 2018

  09-02-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, Feb. 9, 2018.
  
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• Brian Minter: Flowers still speak volumes on special occasions

  09-02-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  For years now, technology companies have taken shots at the floral industry, especially on holidays like Valentine’s Day.  Their pitch has been this: why buy expensive roses that are going to die when you can get the latest smartphone or tablet?
  While current communication technology has been a great advancement, it has also created a sense of loneliness and isolation for many people.  Emails, text messages, Instagram and Twitter are the fast, convenient ways to say Happy Valenti
  
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• Guilt admitted in plea bargain voyeurism case in Kelowna

  09-02-2018 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  Todd Arthur Peters admitted to his crimes after the prosecutor reduced the number of charges from five to two.
  
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• Flights resuming at Comox Valley Airport after suspicious package found on plane

  09-02-2018 18:04 via globalnews.ca
  It is believed the package was found on an aircraft that had been parked overnight.
  
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• Flight Deal Alert!  Vancouver to Belize for under $500

  09-02-2018 18:00 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver to Belize on sale with April flight prices under $500 (half the normal cost) and special Canadian $ Pricing on Island Expeditions adventures. Visit www.islandexpeditions.com/vs or call 1-800-667-1630 for details.  Free 24 page Belize Guide.  Specialising in tropical sea kayak, paddleboard & snorkel adventures, since 1987.
  
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• Movie review: Peter Rabbit, Fifty Shades Freed, Permission

  09-02-2018 17:22 via globalnews.ca
  Dana Gee takes a look at the new releases hitting the Box Office this weekend.
  
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• The Morning Skate, Feb. 9: So you’re telling me there’s a chance … at a lottery pick

  09-02-2018 17:07 via theprovince.com
  Wake up, kids! The Olympics have started!
  Seems an eon since the Games were here in this beautiful (tawdry), livable (insufferable) city, doesn’t it?
  That really was a moment.
  Memba?
  Memba? We truly invited the world those few weeks, and revelled in all the hokum and flag-waving and “Look at us, we’re Canadians and we’re kind of awesome” of the whole thing.
  Yeah, this time feels a little different.
  We’ll get to the Games in a bit, and I promise I won’t k
  
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• Gordon Clark: Activists as politicians can be an undemocratic disaster

  09-02-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  The escalating tit-for-tat between B.C. and Alberta, ignited by the Horgan government’s ill-conceived and almost certainly unlawful claim to provincial jurisdiction over a federal project, highlights a serious and not-often-discussed problem with modern politics — the increasing usurpation of electoral office by activists.
  Two years ago, the New York Times ran a series of columns on its opinion pages examining the increasing push by activists to win office and thereby use the power (
  
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• Unseasonably early daffodils has one farmer wishing for cold weather

  09-02-2018 16:51
  Spring-like conditions have coaxed out some early blooms on Vancouver Island, leaving a farmer scrambling to hire about 20 workers to cut the still-budding flowers.
  
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• The Morning Skate, Feb. 9: So you’re saying there’s a chance … at a lottery pick

  09-02-2018 16:39 via theprovince.com
  Wake up, kids! The Olympics have started!
  Seems an eon since the Games were here in this beautiful (tawdry), livable (insufferable) city, doesn’t it?
  That really was a moment.
  Memba? We truly invited the world those few weeks, and revelled in all the hokum and flag-waving and “Look at us, we’re Canadians and we’re kind of awesome” of the whole thing.
  Yeah, this time feels a little different.
  We’ll get to the Games in a bit, and I promise I won’t keep you
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Blowing into Raleigh

  09-02-2018 16:00 via theprovince.com
  The Canucks are in Raleigh, N.C., tonight (4:30 p.m. PT, Sportsnet Pacific, SNET 650 AM), a day after losing 5-2 to the league-leading Tampa Bay Lightning. This is the third stop in a four-game road trip that winds up in Dallas on Sunday.
  THE BIG MATCHUP
  Bo Horvat vs. Jordan Staal
  Canucks fans know very well what their team looks like without Bo Horvat in the lineup. Having him back has given the Canucks a chance. Jordan Staal is the kind of centre the Canucks would love for Horvat to become.
  FI
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Feb. 3

  09-02-2018 16:00 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. As A Dog Thinketh: Daily Words of Wisdom — Monique Anstee (TouchWood Editions).
  4. The World’s Most Travelled Man: A Twenty-Three-Year Odyssey to and through Every Country on the Planet — Mike
  
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• Daily Poll: Are you in favour of B.C.'s minimum wage hike?

  09-02-2018 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s NDP government announced a plan to boost the province’s minimum wage to $15.20 by 2021.
  The wage is currently $11.35 and will rise every June over the next three years.
  Related
  B.C. to hike minimum wage to $12.65 in June, and $15 in 2021
  The Fair Wages Commission recommended the following schedule of increases:June 1, 2018: $12.65 an hour ($1.30 increase)
  June 1, 2019: $13.85 ($1.20 increase)
  June 1, 2020: $14.60 ($0.75 increase)
  June 1, 2021: $15.20 ($0.60 increas
  
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• Friends with (economic) benefits: How B.C. and Alberta profit from each other

  09-02-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced a boycott of British Columbia wines following B.C.’s proposed restrictions on Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, she raised the spectre of an all-out trade war between two of Canada’s most economically intwined provinces.
  Banning B.C. wine deals a blow to a business worth about $70 million per year between the provinces, but the stakes are higher if boycotts spread into other sectors. B.C. depends on Albe
  
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