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• Nothing to worry about here… just a 'shark nursery’ off Vancouver’s coast

  16-02-2018 23:42
  
  Two sharks found on Delta beach might have been juvenile sixgills biding their time in Howe Sound and Strait of Georgia.
  
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• Nothing to worry about here… just a shark ‘nursery’ off Vancouver’s coast

  16-02-2018 23:42
  
  Two sharks found on Delta beach might have been juvenile sixgills biding their time in Howe Sound and Strait of Georgia.
  
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• Brian Minter: B.C. Home + Garden Show changes with the times

  16-02-2018 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Home + Garden Show
  When: Feb. 21- Feb. 25
  Where: B.C. Place
  Tickets and info: bchomeandgardenshow.comMany years ago, the B.C. Home + Garden Show was truly a home and garden show in the traditional sense.
  I know because we used to be there, creating large inspiring floral and garden displays, as were many other great folks in our industry. Times change.
  Gardening was at its peak in the 1970s, 1980s and even into the 1990s. It levelled out in the early 2000s, followed by a worldwide decl
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, Feb. 16, 2018

  16-02-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.
  
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• The data is in: Here are the winners and losers of the new mortgage rules so far

  16-02-2018 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  January housing data offered a first glimpse into the likely impact of the new federal mortgage standards.
  
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• Delta mayor fears Pattullo project means Massey Tunnel replacement ‘dead in the water’

  16-02-2018 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  While virtually everyone says they're pleased to hear the bridge will be retired, the NDP's plan to replace the aging span has earned less universal acclaim.
  
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• 72 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, February 17 - Straight.com

  16-02-2018 23:01
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  72 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, February 17
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  Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 72 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, February 17. CONCERTS. The Chutzpah! Festival and Cap Jazz presents Mexico's Troker, known for blurring jazz, rock ...and more »
  
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• Would you buy a City of Vancouver-branded umbrella? - Vancouver Courier

  16-02-2018 22:48
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  Would you buy a City of Vancouver-branded umbrella?
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  Coun. Andrea Reimer often uses a City of Vancouver-branded umbrella that is currently not available for sale to the public, but given as a gift to visiting dignitaries. Photo Dan Toulgoet. This bag is currently not for sale to the public. Photo Dan ...and more »
  
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• Grandmother may have prevented another school shooting after calling 911 to report her grandson

  16-02-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  Police in Washington State say a school shooting may have been averted after a grandmother phoned 911 to report her own grandson.
  
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• Depending where you go, city swag is a mixed bag

  16-02-2018 22:42
  
  As Vancouver contemplates dipping its stylish toes in the civic merchandising and branding business, let’s look at who’s already doing it and how well they’re faring.
  
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• Would you buy a City of Vancouver-branded umbrella?

  16-02-2018 22:29
  
  When Coun. Andrea Reimer walks around with a City of Vancouver-branded umbrella, people often stop to ask where they can buy one.
  
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• Tojo’s 30 year Anniversary Roll and tuna sashimi salad

  16-02-2018 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  Make these delicious recipes at home.
  
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• High school hoops star Kramer’s destiny to add to family dynasty at SFU

  16-02-2018 22:09 via theprovince.com
  By recruiting Emma Kramer, SFU Clan coach Bruce Langford has landed an athletic shooting guard and someone with whom he can discuss program history.
  The 5-10 Kramer, who has been a key in Surrey’s Sullivan Heights Stars ending up one of the first qualifiers for the Triple-A girls’ provincial basketball championship that tips off Feb. 28 at the Langley Events Centre, has SFU clan — so to speak.
  Mom Lani Kramer (nee Kalutycz) was a guard with SFU during the late 1980s glory days
  
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• Are two dogs twice as nice or double trouble?

  16-02-2018 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Dog behaviour therapist Sandy Yates looks at whether getting two dogs at once is a good idea.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend: Friday, Feb 16

  16-02-2018 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  Celebrate the Year of the Dog! Here are your five things to do this weekend around British Columbia.
  
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• Tojo’s grilled portobello sugomori and tuna sashimi salad

  16-02-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  In advance of his appearance at the Wellness Fair, Tojo shows us how to make grilled portobello sugomori and tuna sashimi salad.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canada's psychologists urge marijuana vigilance

  16-02-2018 21:08 via vancouversun.com
  Apart from the #Metoo maelstrom and the housing crises in Toronto and Vancouver, few things stir up Canadians more than marijuana, which its promoters claim is the cure for everything from glaucoma to brain disease.
  Should private outlets sell recreational marijuana? Is it more enjoyable to smoke or swallow cannabis? Will I get rich on pot stocks? Is it possible to remove the criminal underground from Canada’s $6 billion-a-year cannabis industry?
  With the federal Liberals preparing to lega
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps re-sign top defender Kendall Waston

  16-02-2018 21:05 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed defensive cornerstone Kendall Waston to a contract extension that stretches through 2019 with an option for 2020.
  The imposing centre back is a two-time Whitecaps FC BMO Player of the Year winner in 2015 and 2017, having also finished in the top three in voting for MLS Defender of the Year in both seasons.
  Vancouver Whitecaps’ Kendall Waston celebrates his goal against the San Jose Earthquakes during the second half of an MLS playoff soccer game in Vanco
  
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• Town Talk: Richmond animal hospital opens with Year of the Dog

  16-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  PET PROJECT: The Year of the Dog started off encouragingly for Richmond cats. Dogs, too. What began in the 1990s as the Richmond Homeless Cats organization and grew into the Richmond Animal Protection Society or RAPS, recently opened RAPS Animal Hospital in a place known for horsepower. That’s the Richmond Auto Mall where Applewood Auto Group CEO Darren Graham donated a van and then six years of rent-free occupancy for the 6,000-square-foot hospital on its property. Mayor Malcolm Brodie an
  
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• Replacement Pattullo Bridge will cost $1.37 billion

  16-02-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  The province announced its plans to replace the well-past it’s prime Pattullo Bridge. Jordan Armstrong has details of the time line and what will happen to the old bridge.
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Independent TV's role in democracy

  16-02-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the challenges that mainstream television faces is sameness. We’ve all scrolled through the listings and been presented with an endless array of programming that fits into advertiser-supported shows.
  Advertisers want to speak to as large and as focused audience as possible. They have a product to sell and they want to place their product next to programming that appeals to a broad audience.
  Therein lies the problem when it comes to the production of programming that challe
  
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• Realtor shot in Vancouver's sixth homicide of 2018 - CBC.ca

  16-02-2018 20:55
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  Realtor shot in Vancouver's sixth homicide of 2018
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  Vancouver police say this week's shooting of a man in Kerrisdale was targeted and his death brings the total number of homicides to six so far in 2018. CBC has learned that the victim is a 32-year-old man named Kaminder Rai, a realtor who posted on ...
  UPDATED: Surrey man dies in Vancouver shootingVancouver Courier
  West Side shooting victim was 32-year-old realtor: Vancouver policeCTV Newsall 5 news articles »
  
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• B.C. vet warns dog owners after golden retriever attacked by otters

  16-02-2018 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  Goldie is not small, she weighs almost 60 pounds, but she was no match for the angry otters.
  
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• Notorious Vancouver strip club to host sinful theatre production - CBC.ca

  16-02-2018 20:43
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  Notorious Vancouver strip club to host sinful theatre production
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  David Newham and Daniel Deorksen think it's a fitting choice to perform a play about debauchery and death in a Vancouver den of iniquity. The co-producers and co-stars of A Steady Rain, which opens Friday at the Penthouse Night Club, hope to entice ...
  
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• Richard Wozny memorial service: "What is real?"

  16-02-2018 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  Some people have asked me to post my reflection at the Thursday evening memorial service/celebration of life in Vancouver for real-estate analyst Richard Wozny. I’ve written several pieces in the past few months about him, as he struggled with terminal cancer. It was a privilege to have the family ask me to speak, and to meet Richard’s many friends and family. Here are my notes:
   
  Marlene has asked me to say a few words.
  Unlike most of you, I knew Richard less than a year. It wa
  
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• VPD warns of growth in 'butane honey oil' labs under marijuana legalization

  16-02-2018 20:12
  
  VPD worried about potential proliferation in "butane honey oil" labs, impaired driving, young people's use of cannabis as department prepares for legalization of marijuana
  
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• Pattullo Bridge history: Built in 1937, the span was expected to last 50 years

  16-02-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan announced Friday that the B.C. government will spend $1.377 billion on a new bridge to replace the 80-year-old Pattullo Bridge.
  Built to last 50 years, the old bridge, which connects Surrey and New Westminster, does not meet current wind and seismic standards and may be vulnerable during an earthquake or hurricane-level wind storm.
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  Pattullo Bridge to be replaced with province-owned $1.4 billion bridge
  But as Postmedia’s John Mackie wrote, none of that was o
  
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• Retail-residential building proposed for Granville and 7th

  16-02-2018 19:54
  
  Stepped height of mixed-use, 41-condo building dictated by view cones of city and mountains
  
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• Reflections at memorial service for real-estate analyst Richard Wozny

  16-02-2018 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  Some people have asked me to post my reflection at the Thursday evening memorial service/celebration of life in Vancouver for real-estate analyst Richard Wozny. I’ve written several pieces in the past few months about him, as he struggled with terminal cancer. It was a privilege to have the family ask me to speak, and to meet Richard’s many friends and family. Here are my notes:
   
  Marlene has asked me to say a few words.
  Unlike most of you, I knew Richard less than a year. It wa
  
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• Premier John Horgan to make Pattullo Bridge announcement today

  16-02-2018 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  Premier John Horgan and two of his cabinet ministers will be in New Westminster on Friday morning to make an announcement related to the 80-year-old Pattullo Bridge.
  TransLink, which owns and maintains the Pattullo, has plans to replace it because it has reached the end of its serviceable life. The structure, which opened in late 1937, was not designed to meet current wind and seismic standards and may be vulnerable during an earthquake or hurricane-level wind storm. Its lanes are also narrow an
  
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• LIVE: Pattullo Bridge to be replaced with province-owned $1.4 billion bridge

  16-02-2018 19:26 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government says it will go ahead with the replacement of the aging Pattullo Bridge and construct a new $1.4-billion bridge.
  The new four-lane bridge will be owned and operated by the provincial government, while TransLink will continue to operate the old Pattullo Bridge until the new one is complete in 2023.
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  Pattullo Bridge: B.C. premier to make major announcement todayPattullo Bridge history: Built in 1937, the span was expected to last 50 years
  Premier John Horgan made the ann
  
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• Provincial government to fund brand new Pattullo Bridge

  16-02-2018 19:06 via globalnews.ca
  Premier John Horgan announced Friday morning that the province is taking over operating the span from Translink once it is completed in 2023.
  
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• Flying high on a road trip to the Oregon coast

  16-02-2018 18:58 via theprovince.com
  The small plane banks sharply, and I feel it in my gut. When it evens out, the guy in front of me opens the door, and jumps. My instructor, who is harnessed on my back, motions that it’s our turn.
  After I catch my breath and process that I’m in free fall, 13,000 feet above the ground, I look to my right and see Mt. Hood less than a hundred kilometres away. As we rotate in free fall, I see Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier much further in the distance.
  Skydive Oregon caters to first-time
  
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• Hedley dumped by management, radio stations across Canada

  16-02-2018 18:42
  
  Amid mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, Hedley’s fall from grace entered free-fall mode Friday morning when the band’s management team severed ties with the Vancouver pop-rock group.
  
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• Snow set to hit Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley this weekend

  16-02-2018 18:29 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC meteorologist Mark Madryga says it has been primarily rain across the region on Friday, except for wet snow at higher elevations.
  
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• The Morning Skate, Feb. 16: You otter be careful out there

  16-02-2018 18:16 via theprovince.com
  Oh, sure, they’re chill when you put them in a cozy zoo and feed ’em crab.
  Used to work with a guy here who was petrified, or at least deeply suspicious, of wild animals. Claimed he had good reason every time there was a bear attack or a “pet” wildcat escaped from some crazy loner’s house in Chilliwack.
  (No judging here, Chilliwack, just saying that’s where I’d buy if I needed lots of space for my African serval.)
  Anyway, this guy had an especially
  
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• Surrey man dies in Vancouver shooting - Vancouver Courier

  16-02-2018 18:05
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  Surrey man dies in Vancouver shooting
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  Just before 1 p.m. Thursday, Vancouver police received a report of shots fired in the area of Marguerite Street and West 49th Avenue. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found a man, a 32-year-old from Surrey, on the street suffering from an apparent ...
  Man shot in Vancouver's West Side dies in hospital, police say ...CBC.ca
  Man killed in Kerrisdale shooting identified as Surrey realtor ...Vancouver Sun
  Overall crime do
  
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• 1 hurt in Greyhound bus crash near Prince George

  16-02-2018 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  Fortunately, only one person suffered minor injuries.
  
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• UPDATED: Surrey man dies in Vancouver shooting

  16-02-2018 17:51
  
  Victim has been identified as 32-year-old Kaminder Rai.
  
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• Masters of craft: why old-time trades are all the rage

  16-02-2018 17:45
  Butcher, barber, brewer: "People want to go back to something more solid"
  
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• How to make a Peking BBQ duck hotpot

  16-02-2018 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  Chef David Robertson of Dirty Apron shows us a west coast take on a Lunar New Year meal with his Peking BBQ Duck Hotpot.
  
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• Bici Libre gives B.C.'s farm workers the freedom to ride

  16-02-2018 17:42
  Non-profit aims to improve migrant worker mobility by rebuilding recycled bikes for workers
  
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• 'Not the kind of creature you want to meet in a dark alley': River otters bite dog going for a swim

  16-02-2018 17:39
  A golden retriever had an unexpected tiff with some otters during a walk on a popular beach in Victoria, B.C.
  
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• Hedley's management agency drops band amid sexual misconduct allegations

  16-02-2018 17:04 via vancouversun.com
  There’s more trouble for B.C. pop-rock group Hedley, which has already been dropped from performing at the Juno Awards amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
  On Friday, the band’s managers, Watchdog Management and the Feldman Agency, issued a statement saying given the multiple allegations against Hedley, they will be terminating their business relationships with the band “effective immediately.”
  Corus Radio, and several  other radio stations, have also suspended pla
  
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• B.C.: 15 bestselling books of the week, Feb. 10

  16-02-2018 17:00 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. On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney (TouchWood Editions).
  5. You Hold Me Up — Monique Gray
  
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• Daily Poll: Would allegations of sexual misconduct stop you from listening to your favourite band?

  16-02-2018 16:45 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. pop-rock group Hedley has lost radio airtime, a performance at the Juno Awards, and now its band manager because of online allegations of sexual misconduct. Many of the allegations concern entertaining underage girls after shows. Hedley calls the allegations unsubstantiated. None of the allegations has been proven in court. Do you think the measures against Hedley are fair? Would serious allegations of sexual misconduct stop you from listening to your favourite band? Take the poll and leave
  
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• B.C. premier set to make major Pattullo Bridge announcement

  16-02-2018 16:15 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government will make an announcement Friday morning about the aging Pattullo Bridge.
  Premier John Horgan has said the province needs to get rolling on the Pattullo project, which is slated to be replaced by 2023.
  Horgan will be joined by Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Claire Trevena and Minister of Municipal Affairs Selina Robinson at 9 a.m. today at Westminster Pier Park to make an announcement related to the bridge.
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• Vancouver Weather: Rain/wet snow for Metro Vancouver, snow alert for Whistler

  16-02-2018 16:13 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER – Friday’s weather for Metro Vancouver will likely be rainy in the morning, and then taper off to a mix of sun and cloud, and highs of 7 C. That might seem chilly, but it’s going to be warm compared with the next few days when the temperature is expected to plunge to zero on the weekend.
  Some higher elevations of the region like Port Moody or North Vancouver may see more snow falling Friday night. Environment Canada says the weekend evenings are going to be frosty. It
  
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• Province to make Pattullo Bridge announcement Friday

  16-02-2018 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. government is set to make an announcement on Friday, which will likely be a replacement plan for the Pattullo Bridge. Richard Zussman has a preview along with a ride-sharing report and ICBC.
  
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• Training staff in overdose prevention the new norm at Vancouver venues

  16-02-2018 16:00
  
  The vacationing Texan was having a night out on the town and looking to extend his party beyond pints and pizza.
  
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