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• NHL Entry Draft set for Vancouver in June 2019

  28-02-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver hosted NHL drafts in 1990 and 2006.
  
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• South Asian Fashion Week looks to break into mainstream

  28-02-2018 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  South Asian Fashion Week
  When: March 2-4Where: Hard Rock Casino Vancouver
  Tickets and info: $35-$175, safw.caBindis, saris, lehengas and maang tikkas have been making waves in the fashion world, be it on the runway or at music festivals. We’ve all heard about cultural appropriation and, yes, it happens. But this time we are talking about South Asian fashion and inclusivity.
  Metro Vancouver has a vibrant South Asian community, making it a prominent South Asian fashion destination. 
  Whi
  
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• Old scams take on increasingly digital twist

  28-02-2018 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  As consumers increasingly flock online, so are scam artists.
  At the top of the Better Business Bureau scam list for 2017 was online purchase scams, said the organization’s local CEO Danielle Primrose as she announced March as fraud prevention month.
  Online purchase scams can consist of fake websites, counterfeit goods, “free trial” traps and fake celebrity endorsements, she said.
  The amount Canadians are known to have lost to such pitches, topping $13 million last year, trail o
  
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• Airline grounded after plane skids off Abbotsford runway during snowstorm

  28-02-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Transport Canada has suspended the airline's Operator Certificate "in the interest of public safety."
  
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• Fab 5: Go au naturel

  28-02-2018 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  Espadrilles for spring? Definitely not groundbreaking. But espadrilles, raffia-trimmed clothes, woven straw basket bags, gauzy linens and so much more? Well, now there’s something worth writing about.
  This season, look to au naturel fabrics, textures and hues for some much-needed relief — a reprieve, if you like — from the other dominant trends of the season (logomania and clashing, rainbow brights, we’re especially looking at you).
  Indeed, the nice thing about
  
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• B.C. environment minister unveils oil spill response paper

  28-02-2018 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  The province is seeking public input on its position to beef up oil-spill-response regulations for required response times, response plans and compensation for spill damage, B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman said Wednesday.
  Heyman released a 41-page intention paper on enhanced regulations in four areas, minus the fifth hot-button suggestion of banning increased bitumen shipments through the province until further scientific studies are done.
  Premier John Horgan, last week, said B.C. will s
  
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• Maple Ridge man arrested after allegedly causing two collisions

  28-02-2018 23:33 via vancouversun.com
  A Maple Ridge man has been arrested after allegedly causing two separate collisions on Wednesday morning, one of which involved the police officer attempting to pull him over.
  Just before 11 a.m. Wednesday, a Coquitlam RCMP officer tried to pull over a driver as part of a traffic stop near Kingsway Avenue and the Mary Hill Bypass.
  “Instead of pulling over, the driver is accused of causing a collision with the police car that attempted to pull him over,” said a statement by Cpl. Micha
  
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• Tribute to Gord Downie planned for Juno Awards in Vancouver

  28-02-2018 23:24 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian singer-songwriters Sarah Harmer and Dallas Green will lead a tribute to the late Gord Downie at the 2018 Juno Awards at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on March 25.
  The Tragically Hip frontman died Oct. 17 following a more than year-long battle with brain cancer.
  Green, who performs under the moniker City and Colour, performed with Downie at the 2009 Juno Awards in Vancouver.Downie joined Green on stage to sing the City and Colour song Sleeping Sickness.
  “The last time I perfo
  
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• Parents of cyclist killed in Richmond crash turn to B.C. attorney general for justice

  28-02-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  Michael Fan, the driver who was at the wheel when an oncoming vehicle allegedly hit a group of cyclists, is not being charged criminally.
  
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• Vancouver named host of 2019 NHL Entry Draft

  28-02-2018 23:15 via theprovince.com
  NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson joined Canucks president Trevor Linden at a press conference Wednesday at Rogers Arena to announce Vancouver will be host city for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
  The 2018 draft will be held, June 22-23, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
  “It’s an honour to be hosting the future of the game,” Robertson said, who also noted that Vancouver is co-hosting the 2019 World Junior Hockey Cha
  
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• Tribunal to investigate complaint about Vancouver Island University student with infantilist fetishes

  28-02-2018 23:15 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will investigate a complaint against Vancouver Island University to determine whether female employees and students were harassed by an adult male student who favoured diapers and baby talk.
  Initially, the tribunal did not accept the human rights complaint filed last July by Katrin Roth, VIU’s former director of human rights and workplace safety.
  Roth alleged that the university failed to support and protect professors, staff and students who were threatened
  
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• Giants’ Tendeck trending towards getting taken in NHL draft

  28-02-2018 23:11 via theprovince.com
  Six Western Hockey League goalies have been selected in the past two NHL drafts and Vancouver Giants netminder David Tendeck has statistics on par.
  Lost in the Giants’ run at a playoff spot, the 50-goal season of Ty Ronning and the hoopla around potential 2019 first-rounder Bowen Byram has been the play of Tendeck. The 18-year-old netminder from North Vancouver is third in the WHL in goals against (2.85) and second in save percentage (.916), while fashioning a 23-13-3-2 record.
  The Giants
  
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• Taxpayers could be on the hook as province suspends ICBC capital reserve minimum

  28-02-2018 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  "It is a crisis situation, I'm trying to communicate that to people as best as possible," said Attorney General David Eby.
  
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• Online purchase scams and wire fraud top list of scams for 2017

  28-02-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  Every year the organization releases its 'Top 10 Scams' list with tips on what to look out for if you think you're getting scammed.
  
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• Victoria police chief wants welfare-cheque distribution staggered to ease 911 overload

  28-02-2018 22:48 via vancouversun.com
  Police, firefighters and paramedics are so overwhelmed with drug-related 911 calls in the days after welfare cheques are issued that Victoria’s police chief wants the province to consider staggering distribution of the cheques throughout the month.
  “Generally speaking, we see a spike during the evening of welfare Wednesday and the day or two after of overdose calls, disturbances, drug activity occurring. Sometimes someone has been defrauded or robbed,” Police Chief Del Manak sa
  
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• Guess how many marijuana investigations the VPD conducted last year

  28-02-2018 22:28
  
  Vancouver police releases 2017 statistics showing investigations into sale, importation and production of marijuana
  
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• Vancouver Canucks will host NHL draft for third time at Rogers Arena

  28-02-2018 22:25 via globalnews.ca
  Squire Barnes and Chris Gailus discuss the NHL draft announcement, the 50th anniversary of the Canucks franchise and Gregor Robertson’s hair!
  
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• How Vancouver Canucks will celebrate 2019 NHL draft

  28-02-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Canucks President Trevor Linden on the excitement of hosting NHL draft next year.
  
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• Meghan Agosta already eyeing 2022 after Olympic gold loss

  28-02-2018 22:20
  
  Canadian women's hockey star reflects on silver finish in PyeongChang.
  
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• Mounties issue warning after creepy caller targets women across Lower Mainland

  28-02-2018 22:04 via globalnews.ca
  The caller then demands the woman engage in sexually explicit conversation with him or he will kill one of her family members.
  
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• NHL draft will return to Vancouver in 2019

  28-02-2018 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman makes the announcement that Vancouver will host the 2019 entry draft on June 21 and June 22 next year.
  
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• Small-ship cruise offer Alaska overland tours

  28-02-2018 21:58 via theprovince.com
  One of my favorite small-ship cruise lines is introducing a series of brand-new overland packages in Alaska to complement its Alaskan cruises.
  UnCruise Adventures has a total of seven new land packages on offer for its 2018 Alaskan cruise season, which runs from April through October. The line’s ships carry between 22 and 86 guests and offer up an immersive, casual and immensely enjoyable cruise experience that is 180 degrees removed from the standard big-ship experience in Alaska.
  Now, gu
  
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• Women in Metro Vancouver receiving threatening phone calls

  28-02-2018 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties are warning that women across Metro Vancouver have been receiving a series of threatening phone calls believed to be linked.
  RCMP say the calls started last year, with a male caller accurately identifying the woman by name and address, and then claiming he has been watching her through cameras installed inside her home.
  The caller then demands the woman engage in sexually explicit conversation with him, or the victim or a family member would be killed. Investigators say women have descr
  
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• Week 5: Nearing the home stretch

  28-02-2018 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  As we enter week 5, I am confronted by two very important facts:I am not a morning person.
  Sun Run clinic leaders NEVER cancel training runs.Vancouver’s recent snowmageddon threw us a bit off track last week, literally. Ice and snow on the False Creek seawall made it too risky to run outside. Our Saturday morning run was cancelled and I got the rare opportunity to sleep in. I secretly did a little dance, drank a shake and then headed for the relative warmth of the gym.
  Unlike me, my husban
  
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• Rocker Sam Roberts headlines Surrey's Earth Day party

  28-02-2018 20:34 via vancouversun.com
  Canadian rocker Sam Roberts will headline the city of Surrey’s eighth annual Party for the Planet, B.C.’s largest Earth Day celebration, at Surrey Civic Plaza on April 14.
  The five-time Juno award winner will take the stage for a matinée performance at 3:15 p.m.“We are excited to host Canadian music icon Sam Roberts as our first ever matinee headliner at Party for the Planet,” said Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner. “This year we have scheduled our headline act so it
  
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• Whitecaps trade Tony Tchani to Chicago Fire

  28-02-2018 20:33 via theprovince.com
  Tony Tchani is on the move again.
  The Vancouver Whitecaps announced Wednesday that they had sent the Cameroonian midfielder to the Chicago Fire in exchange for $150,000 in 2018 Targeted Allocation Money (TAM). It will be the fifth MLS team for the 6-foot-4, 185-pound holding mid.
  Tchani joined the Whitecaps at the end of March last season, after being traded to Vancouver for Kekuta Manneh and $225,000 in TAM, and $75,000 in General Allocation Money.
  Whitecaps coach Carl Robinson had said earlier
  
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• Vancouver Canucks ink defenceman Biega to two-year extension

  28-02-2018 20:30 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Canucks and defenceman Alex Biega have agreed on a new two-year contract extension worth $825,000 per season.
  Biega, 29, has six assists in 31 games with Vancouver this season. He also leads the team with 3.1 hits per game and ranks sixth in blocks per game with 1.4.
  “Alex has an incredible work ethic and is always prepared,” said Canucks general manager Jim Benning. “He sets an example for our younger players to follow. We’re pleased to have Alex as pa
  
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• Triple A girls basketball blog: Top-seeded Kelowna cruises to a big win in opener

  28-02-2018 20:22 via theprovince.com
  The top-seeded Kelowna Owls outscored the Heritage Woods Kodiaks 28-6 in the second quarter en route to an 87-51 win in the opener of the Triple A girls basketball provincial championships Wednesday morning at Langley Events Centre.
  Kelowna Owls’ Taya Hanson in a 2016 game.
  Taya Hanson had 28 points for the winners. She’s committed to Arizona State.
  Heritage Woods, of Port Moody, was ranked No. 4 in the province heading into the zone qualifiers, but lost 55-54 at the buzzer to the Su
  
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• DNA registry may put dog-poop deniers to the test

  28-02-2018 20:22
  
  DNA company wants to give building managers the scoop on who's lying when they say, "That's not my dog's poop."
  
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• Star Attractions

  28-02-2018 20:11 via theprovince.com
  VERNON, B.C. — Silver Star has put in its 10,000 hours. And then some.
  Celebrating its 60th year as an unparalleled winter playground, the B.C. Interior resort was decades ahead of its counterparts when it came to envisioning what a winter mountain destination could, and should, be. Never just a ‘ski hill,’ Silver Star set the modern-day template for winter adventure way back in the late-Fifties, offering world-class cross-country skiing trails, epic snowshoe rambles, a big out
  
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• Style Q&A: Vancouver beauty brand set to sweep the Oscars

  28-02-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver sisters Rachel and Sharon Chand are about to find out just how influential celebrities can be. 
  How, exactly? 
  Well, the siblings and business partners’ beauty brand, Inception of Beauty, will be featured in the gift bags at the upcoming Oscars awards show, meaning their offering of cosmetics and tools will be in the hands of some of the biggest A-list actors of the moment.
  Needless to say, they’re confident the strategic product placement will help catapult
  
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• BBB's Top 10 scams of 2017

  28-02-2018 19:49 via vancouversun.com
  If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
  That’s the advice once again from the Better Business Bureau, as on Wednesday it released its annual Top 10 scams of 2017. 
  Topping the list last year were online purchase scams, followed by wire fraud, and online dating scams. The year before, employment scams topped the list but that now sits at No. 4.
  Danielle Primrose, president of BBB serving mainland B.C. says people are still falling for online fraudulent deals that tha
  
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• No one injured after bus fire in downtown Victoria

  28-02-2018 19:41 via globalnews.ca
  The bus caught fire at Fort Street and Blanshard Street around 8:15 a.m.
  
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• Bus fire shuts down Victoria street

  28-02-2018 19:41 via globalnews.ca
  Emergency officials respond after a bus went up in flames at Fort Street and Blanshard Street in Victoria on Wednesday morning.
  
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• ANALYSIS: Even the BC NDP don’t expect much movement on housing prices

  28-02-2018 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  Like the B.C. Liberals before them, the NDP government will rely on a strong housing market for huge revenues ($520 million from the new taxes over a full year, plus $2.2 billion from the transfer tax in the coming year).
  
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• Vancouver skier dies in Okanagan backcountry

  28-02-2018 19:17 via vancouversun.com
  A 51-year-old Vancouver man died earlier this week while on a cat-ski tour in the backcountry near Vernon.
  Vernon North Okanagan RCMP say they received a call on Monday that a backcountry skier had become separated from his cat-ski group of 14 people on a ski run near Keefer Lake Lodge. 
  RCMP say the skier, a 51-year-old Vancouver man, fell into a tree well and was located by the ski group shortly after the report made to the RCMP. The man was unresponsive and was airlifted to a nearby
  
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• Historic Steveston post office saved from closure

  28-02-2018 19:15
  
  The Canada Post office in Steveston’s Museum will remain open for business, thanks to a three-party agreement between the city, Steveston Historical Society and Tourism Richmond.
  
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• Aboriginals gatekeepers for Lower Mainland real estate

  28-02-2018 18:56
  
  Holding hundreds of acres of industrial and residential sites, First Nations are now key players in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley growth.
  
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• New Oak Bay house plan stonewalled by... stone walls

  28-02-2018 18:00
  
  Locals concerned that vacant lot development won't preserve 120-year-old walls, which is denied by developer
  
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• Kayakers find body in Victoria’s Gorge Waterway

  28-02-2018 17:59 via vancouversun.com
  A body was found in the Gorge Waterway Tuesday, sparking a significant police presence adjacent to the Selkirk Waterfront.
  The body was placed on a wharf under a tarpaulin at the Fairway Gorge Paddling Club for about two hours during the afternoon. Witnesses said the body was spotted by kayakers, who towed it to shore.
  Victoria police said only that they responded to a report of a deceased person in the early afternoon near the Selkirk Trestle. No further details were available.
  Forensics office
  
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• Canada's first 'dementia village' to open in Langley next year

  28-02-2018 17:34 via vancouversun.com
  Canada’s first community designed specifically for people with dementia is opening next year in Langley.
  It’s called The Village. Comprised of six, single-storey cottage-style homes and a community centre, The Village will be home to 78 people with dementia, an umbrella term that includes people suffering from Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain diseases associated with aging. Care will be provided by 72 specially trained staff.
  Project leader Elroy Jespersen said The
  
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• Jarrod Bacon wins parole appeal with unique argument

  28-02-2018 17:20 via vancouversun.com
  Convicted cocaine trafficker Jarrod Bacon has won an appeal of his 2017 parole revocation by arguing that he never should have been released in the first place.
  The lawyer for the middle gangster brother argued that the Parole Board of Canada had miscalculated Bacon’s statutory release date, letting him out 16 months too early.
  Most federal prisoners get statutory release after serving two-thirds of their sentence.  
  Bacon got out in February 2017, and was ordered to live in a halfway
  
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• Majority of B.C. business owners oppose new employer health tax: survey

  28-02-2018 17:10 via globalnews.ca
  It replaces individual MSP premiums and comes into effect Jan. 1, 2019.
  
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• Pink Shirt Day: Bullying moves to an ‘unmonitored playground’

  28-02-2018 17:03
  
  The face of bullying is changing. At one point, almost all bullying took place in person. Physical altercations, hurtful comments and even gossip was conducted face-to-face.
  
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• Drs. Nav Persaud and Andrew Boozary: Purdue Pharma given free rein in Canada as it’s sanctioned in U.S.

  28-02-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  Purdue Pharma recently announced that it’ll stop advertising opioids to doctors in the U.S. after pleading guilty to misleading marketing more than a decade ago. This is a major, albeit belated, departure from the company’s playbook of marketing opioids aggressively to physicians. A recent U.S. Senate report excoriated Purdue Pharma and other opioid manufacturers for funding patient-advocacy groups for years.
  Several American states have already successfully sued Purdue and others ma
  
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• ‘Dual agency’ real estate rules booted to June

  28-02-2018 16:38
  Industry concern cited while commercial agents call for separation from residential
  
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• Future and Kygo to headline Surrey's urban music festival FVDED

  28-02-2018 16:35 via vancouversun.com
  American rapper Future and Norwegian DJ Kygo will headline this summer’s FVDED in the Park, billed as Western Canada’s largest urban music festival.   
  The festival, which takes place in Holland Park in Surrey on July 6 and 7, will also feature American house music DJ Kaskade.
  [PNG Merlin Archive]Organizers Blueprint and Live Nation Canada say last year more than 40,000 people attended the festival, which features dozens of big names in dance, hip hop, rap, and modern R&
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you fill up your gas tanks south of the border?

  28-02-2018 15:40 via vancouversun.com
  Many British Columbians are crossing the border to Washington to fill up their tanks with cheaper gas, as Metro Vancouver has some of the highest fuel prices in North America.
  Read Gord McIntyre’s story here.
  Is this something you would consider doing, especially in the summer when gas prices are expected to rise even more? Do you cross the border now in search of cheap gas? Take our poll and leave your comments.Take Our Poll
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Rainy, but sunny weekend ahead

  28-02-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It looks like a return to typical seasonal weather for Metro Vancouver after last week’s cold snap, with plenty of rain and mild temperatures in the forecast. Environment Canada says there’s a 60 per cent chance of showers Wednesday, with highs of 6 C. The rainy weather is expected to last until the end of the week, and then the weekend looks sunny and a bit warmer, with highs of 11 C on Saturday and 10 C on Sunday. Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Cl
  
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